A moment later, after approaching a certain area, Conan felt something vaguely. He suddenly turned his head and found a door embedded in the floor, which was now glowing with a brilliant fluorescence.
How to say it, it’s just like an RPG game, where the key interactive mechanisms shine brightly to tell players that this is the plot trigger point.
"In this new world line, this is the only setting I like. It saves a lot of trouble!"
Conan didn't hesitate, opened the door embedded in the floor, and jumped in.
After jumping down, what came into view was an office that was not particularly large but was luxuriously decorated. It should be the president's office.
At the end of the office, the black-hearted president was leaning on the boss chair with blood all over his body. Even without getting close to check, Conan knew that the black-hearted president should be dead.
The knife wound that almost completely severed the neck, and the large amount of blood on the ground, were enough to make it clear from a medical point of view that the person was definitely dead.
There is no doubt that this is the first crime scene, and the clues should be here. Conan went over and tried to look for it.
And when he got closer, the dead black-hearted president suddenly moved. At that moment, Conan felt his hair stand on end. He subconsciously thought that in addition to the setting of universal substitutes, the sixth world line also innovatively added a supernatural and horror setting.
But fortunately, Conan's guess did not come true. The black-hearted president did not turn into a zombie. He just slowly raised his hand in a weird posture, as if an invisible hand was lifting his hand.
Then, the black-hearted president's hand, stained with blood on the desk, slowly wrote:
"My murderer is..."
This turned out to be a death message. Although Conan was still in shock, he subconsciously held his breath and watched it. Then he found that the black-hearted president stopped writing after writing the word "yes".
"Hey, hey, hey, who is the murderer? Can you please finish writing it? Do you know that you will easily get beaten if you do this..."
Even with Conan being so rational, he couldn't help but get furious!
The next moment, beside the dead Black-hearted President, a blurry shadow slowly turned from virtual to real. It turned out to be a fat, big-eared, greedy human-shaped pig. However, this human-shaped pig had more serious injuries than the Black-hearted President, but its expression seemed very calm. Then, this human-shaped pig looked at Conan deeply and slowly disappeared!
But before it disappeared, through eye contact, Conan inexplicably understood a lot of things, as if this human-shaped pig was narrating to him in an indescribable spiritual language.
This humanoid pig is the stand-in for this black-hearted president!
When the murderer attacked, even though the substitute tried its best to fight, it was still no match for the murderer and was defeated. Then its host was also killed, and the substitute also died at that moment.
However, the death of a Stand is somewhat different from that of a Stand User. Unless the murderer possesses special powers and deliberately causes additional destruction, there will be a continuous dissipation process and the death will not be so quick.
Friends who often kill people should know that killing someone and completely destroying the body after killing someone are two different levels of difficulty and concepts.
However, the murderer did not possess this special power and skill. In addition, he was planning a serial murder case and was in a hurry. Therefore, he left immediately after the successful attack, seizing the time to carry out the next murder, which gave the substitute some opportunities.
The door that continuously glows brightly is not a natural setting, but a mark given by the disappearing stand-in, with the purpose of allowing the detective or police to find himself as soon as possible.
Then, the death message left by the black-hearted president was also done by this substitute.
However, in this barrier shrouded by the fog of crime, everything favors the murderer. Even if the substitute uses up all of his remaining strength, he cannot break through the blockade of the fog of crime and tell the truth directly.
But just because you can’t say it directly doesn’t mean you can’t do something.
After the substitute completely disappeared, Conan looked down and found that although the black-hearted president had not finished writing the death message, the hand that wrote the death message made a special gesture, with the little finger and thumb raised, and the middle three fingers contracted, faintly showing a posture like "six" or "sheep's head", hinting at the identity of the murderer.
If you ask Conan why he is so sure that this gesture is a hint of the murderer's identity, rather than a naturally stiff posture when writing a death note, the reason is very simple, because the right hand of this black-hearted president is glowing with a faint fluorescence at this moment.
Just like the door, for fear that others might not notice it, a highlighted mark was added to indicate that this is the core plot trigger point.
Conan felt a little complicated, because he couldn't help but think of the various cases he solved when he was Shinichi Kudo. The victims left behind various death information. If there were no stand-ins at that time, Conan would have suspected that all those death information were left by stand-ins.
But no matter what, the key clue was obtained.
Then, Conan fell into thought.
Before being brought into the maze of corridors where murder was lurking by the murderer's substitute ability, he felt a sense of disobedience with someone, and then he caught a glimpse of Xiao Hei.
Conan's intuition kicked in, and he vaguely combined the two factors of the sense of disharmony and Xiao Hei, and then came to a conclusion.
The murderer hidden among the crowd existed in the form of Xiao Hei, making his presence difficult to identify. Then at that moment, he made some rather special moves, causing Conan to subconsciously feel that something was wrong.
who's that person?
What did he do at that time?
What does the death information left behind by the substitute of this black-hearted president point to?
Mystery after mystery lingered in Conan's mind, and then he used logic as his weapon to solve them.
Let’s solve the first problem first!
That mystery enthusiast who wants to study criminal methods (!?) is very suspicious!
What's suspicious is that the onlookers actually wanted to hide at that moment, but he was encouraging everyone to rush together. If this can be explained by the reason that he is a super reasoning enthusiast, then it is a bit difficult to explain why he took the lead and rushed towards Inspector Megure.
Is the clue in Inspector Megure's hands? And Inspector Megure shouted "Don't come over here", but he still rushed over there, so isn't that a suspect?
But these reasons can only serve as the basis for speculation and suspicion, and it is a bit far-fetched to use them as evidence. Perhaps, the mystery enthusiast thinks he is the protagonist, or has special stand abilities, and plans to rush up and blow up the criminal's stand?
Conan could only think further about what the gesture left by the black-hearted president's substitute, which looked like "six" and "sheep's head", actually pointed to.
The brain is moving at high speed and sparks of wisdom are bursting.
But at this moment, a ray of light suddenly flashed over Conan's head.
Then Conan fell to the ground as if he had been hit hard. When he got up, he covered his head and grimaced in pain.
Then he turned around and found a materialized light like a light tube falling to the ground. This was the thing that hit Conan on the head just now.
Conan looked up, not knowing where this thing fell from. Then he walked over and picked up the column of spiritual light. Then, some knowledge that came from nowhere suddenly appeared in his mind.
[The Six-Six-Six Beasts Corps: A secret criminal organization in Beika Town. It is said that its purpose is to revive a certain legendary existence. Its criminal style is quite unique. Its slogan is "We are a group, we are the masses, we are the beasts of the group..."]
Conan couldn't help but tilt his head. He really didn't understand where this thing came from and why it contained such scientific knowledge.
But no matter what, this thing comes at the right time!
It was just like when he was still Kudo Shinichi. Whenever he got stuck in reasoning, he would always get information that he didn't know before from other people's casual words, and then he would have a flash of inspiration and get the key inspiration.
The knowledge carried by this column of spiritual light happens to play a similar role.
However, Conan vaguely felt that this thing should have other uses.
But now is not the time to explore these things. After identifying the suspect and his motive for committing the crime, the next step is to deduce his method of committing the crime.
Conan observed the death of the black-hearted president, and then tried hard to observe all the details of the crime scene.
Although Conan also knew that the murderer's stand ability was most likely the one who killed the black-hearted president, he also knew that people leave traces and wild geese leave voices. Even if it was a stand ability, as long as the murderer appeared at the scene, there would definitely be clues left, thus exposing a lot of information.
After observing for a while, Conan discovered that perhaps the murderer relied too much on the ability of his stand, which led to too much information being exposed when implementing his specific criminal plan.
131. Exchange Crime
How many were there? So many that Conan just looked around and was able to easily deduce the murderer's specific method of committing the crime. In other words, the murderer's specific method of committing the crime was not very sophisticated.
There is a large cabinet for storing wine in the office, which is close to the table. It is half open at the moment, and the space inside is just enough for one person to hide. Conan also found some clues and traces at the bottom of the cabinet, proving that someone had hidden inside.
The following process was very simple. When the black-hearted president entered the office and sat on the chair, the murderer rushed out and used his stand ability. The spider silk inlaid with blades flew out, then wrapped around the neck of the black-hearted boss and slashed it fiercely.
Of course, the black-hearted president may have struggled, and his stand-in may have taken action at that time, but it all meant nothing.
Then the murderer's murder plan officially began at this moment.
A knife was placed not far from the black-hearted president. It was estimated that the murderer wanted to disguise the illusion that the black-hearted president had committed suicide by slitting his throat. Then he put some documents on the table. These documents showed that the capital chain of this black-hearted company was about to break recently and was very tense, which paved the way for some motives for the black-hearted president's suicide.
Conan couldn't help but be silent, because this method, this trick, had no criminal spirit at all, it was neither elegant nor tasteful, it was really too crude. If it were the fifth world line, when he was still Moriarty, if he met this kind of criminal, he probably wouldn't be able to help but slap him.
Conan thought about it and felt that this might be caused by changes in the world line. After the version update, the proportion of intelligence in criminal behavior decreased, while the proportion of other aspects increased greatly.
Just like now, although this trick does not have any criminal spirit, the knife that fell to the ground and the document exude a strange power, as if they have merged with the criminal fog that shrouds the entire space.
When looking at him, my eyes and attention were involuntarily attracted by him, and then influenced by him, the thought arose in my mind: "Maybe, no, this guy must have chosen to commit suicide because the company's capital chain broke."
The mysterious power interferes with the mind, gradually changing cognition in the direction desired by the murderer.
Conan thought it was okay, as he could still clearly distinguish what was the truth and what was an illusion. However, if it were an ordinary police officer or detective, he might really fall into the trap.
However, Conan couldn't tell how the case would develop after being tricked.
This is a serial murder case, and the victims are not just this black-hearted president. After checking and making sure that he has missed nothing, Conan crawled out of the crime scene with the glow stick and planned to look for other crime scenes.
Although Conan has roughly identified the murderer, and his methods and schemes are almost the same, there are still some things that Conan cannot figure out.
This case has an obvious tendency towards vendetta, which is very clear and there is no doubt about it.
But the problem lies here. Generally speaking, the murderer should be someone who has a close relationship with the black-hearted president, whether he is his relative, his subordinates, or a friend who has been harmed in the past. There is a more direct causal relationship.
But that mystery enthusiast (!?) has problems in this regard. Conan also heard him when he was recording his testimony. According to what he said before, his only connection with this black-hearted president, no, even with this building where the crime occurred, was that he had been to this building once a long time ago to apply for a job at the company next door, and when he left, he saw the nameplate of this company, and that was all. He basically never came here on weekdays.
He had no hatred towards the victim, no intersection in their daily life, and they didn't even know each other. In this case that was clearly a vendetta, it can be said that he had no motive for committing a crime.
This is actually very important, because this is not a random attack without purpose, but a hate-driven serial killing case with a clear target. The victims are not just the black-hearted president, but possibly two other senior executives of the company. If you want to kill them, you have to know where their offices are. At the very least, you have to know what they look like. If you know nothing, how can you kill them?
Of course, the possibility that the guy lied cannot be ruled out, but the possibility is not high, because Conan is quite confident in his ability to observe details. The guy was very frank, or full of confidence, when recording the confession.
If this is really the case, then the murderer's real trick may not be the crude suicide disguise that is put on the surface, but a deeper trick. But no matter what, it is useless to just guess, and evidence is needed to prove it.
Walking in the disordered corridor, Conan felt something was wrong. The fog of crime became more and more violent, which caused the disordered corridor to become more and more chaotic, even spinning, and the office doors embedded in the corridor were constantly reorganizing. As far as Conan felt, the number of doors hiding murderous intentions was increasing!
Criminals are getting stronger and that's a terrible thing.
After walking for a long time, Conan finally found the second crime scene. It was still an office door with glowing fluorescent light. He pushed the door open and found that the decoration inside was far inferior to the president's office.
Then, inside, Conan found the company executive hanged on the wall by spider silk.
Before Conan could go over to check, the stand-in of the company executive also appeared at this moment. It was unable to identify the murderer, and before disappearing, it pointed to a certain area in the office.
Then, a photo on the desk suddenly lit up!
Conan walked over and found that they were photos taken during the company's team-building event. The leader was naturally this executive, but among the employees behind him, Conan found a familiar face. It was the real estate agent among the onlookers who lamented that the building would depreciate rapidly after the murder.
This photo should have been taken not long ago. In the photo, the executive is smiling happily, but the real estate agent has an extremely ugly expression!
Putting down the photo, Conan looked at the table. As usual, there were decorations used to disguise suicide. This was a suicide note. It said that he felt guilty about his previous workplace bullying, which led to the death of an employee in the company, so he chose to die to atone for his sins.
Conan did not comment, just thinking about it, but at this moment, the office door was pushed open again, and the bruised Mouri Kogoro, the real estate agent, and two police officers rushed in.
"Damn it, I didn't expect this case to reach Class B. The criminals were able to use the crime fog to perform criminal activities. There were so many traps along the way that I was almost doomed. Now we have finally found the crime scene. You all should hurry up and look for any clues. Pay special attention to whether there is anything strangely glowing. This is usually the last death message left by the deceased..."
Maori Kogoro shouted twice, and then he also found Conan. He looked slightly relieved, but still said:
"Little ghost, I have been looking for you all the way. I didn't expect that you were so lucky that you actually hid directly in the crime scene. From now on, you stay beside me and don't run around. It's very dangerous here..."
Conan still felt the kindness of Maori Kogoro, so he chose to return the favor and shouted:
"Uncle, this photo has a bright light, and I picked this up."
Seeing the magic stick in Conan's hand, Maori Kogoro was delighted:
"It's actually a spirit stick. No, this thing can only appear after the crime mystery node at the crime scene is triggered. How did you pick it up? Forget it, you are really lucky."
After getting the spirit stick, Maori Kogoro seemed to be accustomed to the strange information contained in it. He just sensed it silently and then muttered:
"It's the Six-Six-Six Beasts Corps, huh? This criminal organization seems to be quite active recently. Its criminal ranking in Beika Town seems to have risen a lot. I remember what the characteristics are. Yes, each member must have a specific element of six or beasts to highlight their existence..."
Hearing this, Conan was stunned for a moment, then asked: "Uncle, are there many criminal organizations in Beika Town now?"
Maori Kogoro was still immersed in understanding the information and thinking, and replied casually:
"Criminals are also human beings, so it's only natural for them to stick together for warmth. In addition, Japan has the Freedom of Associations Act, so various criminal associations have emerged. This Six-Six-Six Beasts Corps has only recently emerged. I remember that it seems to have ranked above the top 20 of the Beika Town Crime Rankings..."
Conan was shocked to hear this. In the field of criminal associations, the criminal organization that planned such a serial murder case with more than three lives was not even in the top 20.
After the sixth world line change, is Beika Town such a wild crime city?
Afterwards, Maori Kogoro came to his senses and looked at the photo again. He found that there was a real estate agent in the photo. Then he turned around and looked at the real estate agent's dress. Finally, he suddenly pointed his finger:
"Ahaha, it turns out that the murderer is you..."
The real estate agent was stunned, then quickly waved his hands and said, "No, no, the murderer is not me, definitely not me..."
Maori Kogoro swore, "Humph, don't quibble. According to the photos, you used to be an employee of this company, but now you work as a real estate agent. You must have been fired. You must be holding a grudge, so you found a chance and killed these people. The evidence is that the clothes on your body have the characteristics of beasts. You are a member of the Beast of the Six Six Six Legion..."
Conan looked at the T-shirts circulating in the middle of the property. There were indeed characteristics of beasts on them, but after all, Mickey Mouse is also a beast, so the logo of the members of the Beast Legion is really quite broad.
The real estate agent suddenly became anxious: "No, no, Detective Maori, although I did work in this company before, and I was also a good friend of Kiritani who died due to workplace bullying, and my salary was constantly deducted, and I was forced to work overtime day and night. The longest time was that I slept in the company for half a month. The president and senior executives also insulted and bullied me in various ways, and maliciously fired me, causing me to be unable to pay the mortgage. My wife also divorced me and took my son and daughter back to her parents' home, but I am really not the murderer..."
It would have been fine if he didn't say anything, but once he started explaining, even Conan couldn't help but look at him sideways, thinking that if this guy didn't have a few lives on his hands, he would be unworthy of being a resident of Beika Town.
The real estate agent was still explaining: "I have an alibi..."
"Hehe, don't quibble. Your alibi is definitely fake. No crime can escape the eyes of the famous detective Maori Kogoro. Come out, my stand [Confused Wine Bottle], and then, with my stand ability, kneel down and repent..."
At this moment, Maori Kogoro made a handsome pose and pointed at the real estate agent. Behind him, the wine bottle stand-in with hands and feet also appeared and activated its ability. This stand-in also pointed at the murderer and said in a muffled voice:
"For some reason or another, I think you are the murderer..."
The next moment, a beam of light appeared out of nowhere above the real estate agent's head, covering him and making him glow all over. The real estate agent was terrified, thinking that he was really being accused of being the murderer. Just as he was about to explain, Kamori Kogoro put away his pointing hand and patted the real estate agent on the shoulder:
"Don't worry, I was just joking. After my careful reasoning, you are definitely not the murderer in this case!"
