Chapter 369 Transporting Corpses on the Subway

Unable to wait for Nobushige's answer, Hattori Heiji didn't take it to heart. He seemed to cheer himself up and said: "There is no perfect crime. As long as Kubota Yumiya did kill someone, he will definitely leave evidence!"

He did what he said, and Hattori Heiji suddenly felt as if he had been given a shot of blood. When the police followed Kubota Kyouya home to investigate, he also took Nobushige to the place where the body was found.

The place had been blocked by the police, but Hattori Heiji's face was the pass, and they entered the factory area smoothly.

The factory looks like it has been abandoned for many years, but a company recently bought it and started rebuilding it. There are construction materials and garbage everywhere, and you have to be careful about nails on the ground when walking among them.

It’s hard to imagine how the murderer could transport the victim’s body from somewhere else and dump it here.

"He must have a car." Hattori Heiji said firmly. "The police did a luminol reaction test from the beginning and determined that this was not the first crime scene. In order to transport an adult woman here, if there is no car, the target It’s just too big.”

Xin Fan had paid attention to the surrounding geographical environment on the way here, so he had a second guess: "The subway station is not far from here. If the murderer packed the body into a larger suitcase, and then transported it to Here, it’s not impossible.”

Hattori Heiji shook his head in disapproval and said: "How can an average prisoner have such a good psychological quality and dare to drag a corpse through the market just after killing someone? Besides, he still needs to prepare a lot, such as gasoline, which is strictly controlled. I’m afraid it’s not that easy to take on the subway.”

"Do you think people who use this method of throwing corpses can still be regarded as ordinary prisoners?" Nobushige took out something wrapped in a handkerchief from his pocket and showed it to Hattori Heiji.

"What's this?"

"Plastic fragments." Nobuhiro said, "Based on the material and curvature of the fragments, I have every reason to suspect that they belong to the wheels of the suitcase."

Hattori Heiji finally began to seriously think about Nobushige's hypothesis, but the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became: "Isn't this prisoner too calm?!"

Including the police, they originally thought that the murderer strangled the victim out of excitement, and later adopted such a frenzied method of dumping the body in order to cover up the facts of the crime. But if Asano's hypothesis is true, then the murderer may have a complete plan for the murder.

The murderer most likely inspected the factory early in the morning. He clearly knew the location of the cement and iron barrels, and had made disguises to purchase gasoline in advance. On the day of the incident, after successfully strangling the victim, he transported the victim here via public transportation in a suitcase he had prepared early in the morning. Use iron barrels as containers, burn, pour, and discard.

It's simply... so heartbreaking and crazy to the point of being outrageous!

"Of course the suitcase doesn't mean anything." Nobushige added, "The murderer might have been transported in a private car."

But despite saying this, Nobuhiro's expression clearly said "I don't think so."

Hattori Heiji actually laughed when he saw this: "You must have found evidence to prove that the murderer came by subway, right?"

His keenness surprised Nobuhiro a little. He nodded very lightly and said: "It's not really evidence, but I saw a lot of rut marks at the factory door. Most of them belonged to police vehicles, and there were only large trucks transporting construction waste." Trucks have been here recently."

Hattori Heiji immediately answered: "The target of the big truck is too obvious, unless the murderer is actually a truck driver and uses his own car to transport the body out of convenience. This possibility is easy to verify. As long as the police investigate whether he knew the deceased, and The truck driver working at this construction site will know. And the rest is for the murderer to transport the body on rail transit!"

"Individual sections of Tokyo's rail transit and individual vehicles are monitored, but it's hard to say whether the murderer's whereabouts can be recorded."

"It doesn't matter, this is good progress anyway!" Hattori Heiji immediately took out his mobile phone and called Officer Megure.

Officer Megure was surprised that the two young detectives had mastered new clues in a short period of time. While sighing at the efficiency of the detectives' work, he quickly arranged the work.

Hattori Heiji put his phone into hands-free mode again and asked: "How is the situation over there? Have you found Kubota Airi's skin flakes or hair?"

Hearing this question, Officer Megure breathed a heavy sigh of relief, and his mood improved a lot: "Fortunately, Mr. Kubota did not throw away the comb they had been using before. Mrs. Kubota's hair is still on the comb. We I’ve seen it, and there are well-preserved hair follicles that can be used for nucleic acid testing.”

"That's great!" Hattori Heiji couldn't help but high-fived.

But immediately, a strong doubt climbed into Hattori Heiji's heart.

Nobushige spoke up for him: "If Kubota Yumiya is the well-planned murderer, then he shouldn't make such a low-level mistake after moving. Unless..."

"Unless the hair on the comb was deliberately left to the police, it probably does not belong to Kubota Airi at all!" Hattori Heiji gritted his teeth in anger, "What a cunning criminal!"

Nobushige leaned closer to the phone and said to Officer Megure opposite: "In addition to Mr. Kubota being suspected, Kubota Airi's lover whom he mentioned before is also suspected of committing the crime."

"Well, we already have the specific situation." Officer Megure said, "Thanks to Brother Mori, he has investigated the whereabouts of Kubota Airi's lover Mitsuha Tadao, and we are preparing to pay him a visit."

It has to be said that Kogoro Mouri is really good at finding cats, dogs and mistresses.

In just a few days, he could easily find the cheating partner of Airi Kubota.

"We won't know what to do until Airi Kubota's nucleic acid test results come out." Nobushige looked at the time and asked Hattori Heiji, "I'm going to the hospital to see Conan in a while. Do you want to go with me or go back to the hotel?"

"I'll go with you." Hattori Heiji said while adjusting his hat. "I also want to know what Conan will think of this case."

Xinfan is silent.

I don’t know what happened, but it seems that Hattori Heiji has shown great interest in Conan since he found out that Asano Nobuhige was not Kudo Shinichi. If this continues, Nobushige feels that Conan's identity may not be concealed.

Is this the great power of plot to bring order to chaos? Even if there are more accidents, Gosho Aoyama's will can still dominate Hattori Heiji and get his thoughts back on track.

Tsk, I hope there will be more good things like this, and don’t let the butterfly wings continue to flap.