Chapter 704: The Sonoko Confessed

On Sunday, July 25th, near the Sea House Hotel, in a forest next to the railway.

Lan took Conan to hide behind a thick tree, and waited for the follower, only to find that he was followed by a middle-aged fat man, and when he got nearby, he jumped out and shouted loudly: "Stop, who are you? Why are you following us?"

The middle-aged fat man was startled by the sudden appearance of the two people, stepped back a few steps, stepped on a sharp branch, and fell to the ground in pain.

"Who told you to run into the woods wearing a pair of slippers?" Lan said gloatingly, then stepped forward and asked, "The person who attacked Yuanzi in the hotel yesterday and let the car fall off the cliff just now is you, right?" ,right?"

The middle-aged fat man quickly waved his hand and said, "Ah, wait a minute, that's..."

"Stop quibbling." Lan grabbed the middle-aged fat man's hairy arm, "It's useless to explain it, the hair on your hand is the evidence."

"Ah?" The middle-aged fat man raised his triangular eyes.

"The tooth marks Yuanzi left on your arm last night are the best evidence." Lan lifted the middle-aged fat man's sleeve and looked carefully, but found that there was nothing, so she said, "It must be the other hand. "As he spoke, he went to check the middle-aged fat man's other hand, but found nothing, and said to himself in disbelief, "Liar, how could there be no tooth marks, how could it be?"

"I'm not a murderer now, am I?" the middle-aged fat man said angrily.

"Then who are you?" Lan asked.

"I'm a criminal police officer from Chiba County Police Station." The middle-aged fat man showed his police officer's card.

"Don't think that if you show this kind of certificate, I will easily believe you." Lan said, "I can tell you, my father was a policeman before, and I know it very well. If it is necessary to show police identity At that time, you must declare your identity, and turn over the first page, so that others can see the content clearly, that is the correct approach.”

"My name is Serabayashi Shoji." The middle-aged fat man turned to the first page.

Lan took a closer look and exclaimed, "It's actually true."

The middle-aged fat man stood up, "I will be here because the Henggou Police Department asked me to come."

Lan asked, "Aren't you a criminal police officer from Chiba County?"

"Because we are working on the same case." The middle-aged fat man said, "I followed a suspect."

"You mean the serial killing incident?" Conan asked with a changed face, "Could it be that the suspect you're talking about is..."

"Yes." The middle-aged fat man nodded.

"Mr. Daowaki, can't you?" Lan exclaimed.

"In short, we need to find them quickly." The middle-aged fat man said.

"It's not all about you, if you make it clear earlier, it's over." Lan complained, then immediately shouted Sonoko's name, and ran to Sonoko and Masahiko Michiwaki, Conan and Shoji Terabayashi hurriedly followed. ...

In the woods, Yamazaki and Mei Daizi, who were following the police, stopped suddenly.

"Is it Lan's voice, and is it still calling Sonoko?" Mei Daizi listened carefully for a moment, frowned and pointed in one direction, and asked Yamazaki.

"It sounds a bit like it to me," Yamazaki said, "Let's go and see."...

On the other side, in the woods.

At this time, the sound of a tram passing by came over, and Conan found that this was the woods where the murder happened yesterday.

That is, the woods that I, Lan and Yuanzi passed by the day before yesterday. Hearing the sound of the hook rubbing against the electric wire, he suddenly realized that the murderer would think that the photo taken by Sonoko might be a misunderstanding caused by the light from the rubbing hook when the tram was running. When he committed the crime, he found a light coming from behind, which made him think it was the flash of the camera. After the murder, he saw Yuanzi passing by the woods with the camera, so he believed that Yuanzi took a photo of his back when he committed the crime.

Then he approached Yuanzi with the mentality of giving it a try, trying to find out the photos. As a result, he successfully established friendship with Yuanzi, and then deliberately made up a ghost restaurant, hoping that Yuanzi would take the camera to take pictures. On the grounds that he knew acquaintances who could help develop the photos, he asked Yuanzi to give him the negatives. But because of Lan, the camera was left in Yuanzi's room, so he went to steal it while we were waiting at the door, but was caught by Yuanzi who was going back to the room to get the wallet. Because the film was not found, he was hesitant to kill Yuanzi immediately, and with this hesitation, Lan went to find Yuanzi, so he escaped from the balcony, then went around to the main entrance, and came in for the appointment.

Thinking of this, Conan straightened his triangular eyes. Sonoko should have bitten his leg, and he should have taken off his pants to check. Then he thought, yes, he said that he had seen Sonoko in his bathrobe, he must have been in the woods the night before, and it seemed that he was indeed the murderer.

So what did he do this morning? Sonoko would want to catch up on sleep in the car is completely accidental. Wait, in such hot weather, the car is always on in order to turn on the air conditioner. By the way, it is ice. When the air conditioner is turned on, there will be water stains near the front wheels. can not tell. By the way, I heard that he has a box of iced drinks in the car. He must have taken some ice from the box and put it under the front wheels. In this way, the car will not slide until the ice melts. He's been in the restaurant all the time. By the way, there was no one else in the restaurant except us at the time, and it didn't look like it was running breakfast, that is to say, he specially ordered expensive kaiseki, which made the restaurant open early.

I understand, this plan has actually been there from the beginning, but it is not aimed at Yuanzi. He heard that we were going back, so he proposed to send us back, the purpose is to let us take our luggage, the goal is the roll of negatives in Yuanzi's hand.

Thinking of this, Conan straightened his triangular eyes again, Sonoko, he knew that the photo was not easy for outsiders to print, so he didn't print it out yet. It's really good, but what are you doing with that kind of photo. However, I... can't, I can't think about it, I have to concentrate.

Conan continued to think, but Sonoko unexpectedly wanted to catch up on sleep in the car, which was in his favor. I watched from the car window that he brought the iced drink box to the front, and opened it to take a bottle of mineral water for Sonoko. He must have taken the opportunity to take out the prepared ice cubes, I couldn't see them from outside the car, and Yuanzi, as long as the big box was placed at the right angle, it would be enough to block Yuanzi's sight and prevent her from seeing the situation ahead, including Is the handbrake on?

I saw that he came around from the front of the car afterwards, and he must have taken the opportunity to stuff the ice cubes under the tires at that time. Because the restaurant doesn't open until noon, no one will come in the morning, no other cars in the parking lot, his car has ice cubes under the tires, someone is sleeping in the car and the handbrake isn't on, these things won't happen He was discovered, and his car would not be blocked by a car in front of him, so that he could slide down the slope smoothly until he fell into the sea.

But now, Conan worriedly thought, he must not want to go to the police to take notes, he must think that Sonoko might have seen his back from the camera when taking pictures, and he was afraid that Sonoko would remember it one day, so he wanted to take Sonoko...

At this time, Lan shouted in horror: "No!"

Conan came back to his senses and followed Lan's gaze. Under a tree in the distance, Michiwaki Masahiko pressed Sonoko to the ground with his legs, raised a knife with both hands, and stabbed Sonoko in the abdomen.

At this moment, the black-skinned waiter rushed to the garden, took the knife with his right arm, and knocked Masahiko Michiwaki out at the same time.

"Let's go." Lan breathed a sigh of relief and hurried over there. ...

On the other side, time moves forward a bit, in the woods.

Sonoko was running well with Michiwaki Masahiko, but Michiwaki Masahiko stopped suddenly and pulled hard. Sonoko lost control and was brought to the ground.

"What's the matter, Michiwaki-san?" Sonoko asked while sitting on the ground.

"Kill you." Masahiko Michiwaki said.

"What?" Yuanzi suspected that he had heard wrong.

Masahiko Michiwaki took out a knife, "Because women with brown hair are all damned." He said and walked towards the garden step by step.

"Ah? No, no..." Sonoko hurriedly backed up with both hands and feet, but bumped into a tree, was caught up by Masahiko Michiwaki, and pressed down with his legs.

"I told you that I was dumped by my girlfriend, and she has beautiful brown hair, so when I see your brown hair, I get angry." Masahiko Michiwaki grinned, "Although you are a You're a rich lady, but you'd better die." He raised his knife and stabbed at Yuanzi.

"Why is this happening," Sonoko cried out in despair, "I still have a lot of things to do."

At this moment, the black-skinned waiter rushed over, caught Masahiko Michiwaki's knife with his right arm, knocked Masahiko Michiwaki out, and asked Sonoko, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah." Yuanzi nodded in response, sat up at the same time, pointed to the knife on the arm of the black leather waiter and said, "It's you..."

"You said this." The black-skinned waiter pulled out the knife expressionlessly and threw it on the ground.

At this moment, Sonoko noticed that Masahiko Mowaki was rushing up wielding a stick, and immediately shouted, "Be careful."

"What!" The black-skinned waiter looked towards the garden, then heard movement behind him, and quickly dodged, but his glasses were still scraped off by Michiwaki Masahiko's stick, but the black-skinned waiter kicked back on Michiwaki Masahiko with his right leg Masahiko Mowaki hugged his stomach and stepped back.

The black-skinned waiter did not retract his right leg, but used his right leg as a support, and kicked Michiwaki Masahiko's right arm with his left leg.

With the sound of "click", Masahiko Michiwaki was kicked out and hit a tree before falling to the ground. He didn't move, and seemed to have passed out.

"It's amazing." Conan who was rushing over exclaimed.

"I remembered." Lan said a little excitedly, "He is a black belt in karate, Kyogoku, who is known as the "Kicking Noble Master"."

While speaking, Lan and Conan rushed over, while Shoji Terabayashi was still running behind.

"Lan!" "Yuanzi!" Yuanzi and Lan shouted and hugged each other.

Conan asked Jing Jizhen: "By the way, you are not with the police..."

Jing Jizhen looked at Yuanzi and said: "I saw you entering the woods and thought it was wrong, so I ran here. I have the consciousness of being a fugitive."

"Why do you want to protect me?" Yuanzi said, "We don't know each other."

"You may not know who I am, but I once saw you at a karate competition, and you were desperately cheering for your friends." Kyogoku said.

"Come on?" Yuanzi said, "When Lan advanced last time, the one sitting opposite us wouldn't be..."

"That's right, that's me." Kyogoku said, "I just didn't expect you to stay in my hotel by such a coincidence, and to encounter such a thing by such a coincidence." Then he glanced at Yuanzi, then turned his head and said, "This This kind of intentionally provokes men to pay attention to the kind of underwear-like clothing, whether you can wear it or not in the future. Of course, this is just the intention of a boy who has a crush on you among the crowd, even if you don’t appreciate it, it doesn’t matter. "After finishing speaking, he walked to Daowaki Masahiko to check his injuries.

"Ah!" Yuanzi's face turned red all of a sudden.

"Wow, Yuanzi, the hero confessed on the spot after saving the beauty," Lan said with a happy smile, "It's so romantic." Then she found that Yuanzi didn't speak, so she waved her hand in front of Yuanzi's eyes, which brought Yuanzi back to her senses.

"Hey, are you two okay?" Mei Daizi ran over, "Is there blood on the knife in the ground? Is anyone injured?"

"We are all fine and uninjured." Lan smiled.

"That's good," Mei Daizi asked, "Yuanzi, why is your face so red, are you sick?"

"No, nothing." Sonoko said quickly.

"Yuanzi is shy," Lan said with a smile, "Someone..."

"Lan!" Yuanzi protested, and then smiled, "If you talk about it again, I'll take that photo..."

"Yuanzi!" Lan protested.

"Ha, it seems you have a lot of interesting things," Mei Daizi said with a smile, "Then tell me when you get back." Then she looked at the scene, "By the way, I heard that a prisoner ran away." Think about the past as you speak.

"Hey, wait," Sonoko said quickly, "he's not a prisoner."

"He, who is he?" Lan asked with a smile.

"Lan!" Yuanzi blushed in protest.

On the other side, Yamazaki glanced at a young man lying under a tree, a middle-aged fat man sitting on the ground beside him panting, and a man with an injured right arm standing beside the tree, and then he approached Conan, "What happened? "

"Uh, what about this?" Conan said shyly.

Glancing at the standing people, Yamazaki asked, "I heard from the police that a dark-skinned suspect jumped out of the car and fled. Is that the person?"

"Uh, the real murderer is the one lying on the ground." Conan said helplessly.

"Okay, I understand." Yamazaki smiled.

At this time, the Henggou Police Department came with the police. ...

After that, Masahiko Michiwaki and Masahiko Kyogoku were sent to the hospital. Masahiko Michiwaki had a fractured arm bone and many bruises on his body, so he was hospitalized. As for Kyogoku, although the doctor advised him to get stitches, he refused and went to the Numazu City Police Station.

Yamazaki and Mei Daiko accompanied Sonoko to the Numazu City Police Station to make a statement, and Mori also went after being picked up from Awashima by a boat sent by Yamazaki. ...

Later, Michiwaki Masahiko was sentenced to death for killing four people in a row. This lawsuit has been fought back and forth for more than ten years. Masahiko Michiwaki's lawyer first helped him identify it as a mental problem and sent him to a mental hospital. But the ability to be responsible for one's own actions, the breakthrough is the incident of the car slipping into the sea. Fei Yingli said that Masahiko Wakihiko's situation fully showed that he was killing people with a plan and purpose, not because he had mental problems and couldn't control himself to kill people, so he pulled Masahiko Michiwaki out of the mental hospital. Masahiko Michiwaki was then prosecuted again and was eventually sentenced to death. ...