Chapter 443 Suicide in the Snow

Chapter 443 Suicide in the Snow

4 Of course, Ran Mouri didn't know that Conan's accidental heartwarming behavior was learned from another boy when he was flirting with a girl.

Of course, it's not that Conan doesn't care about Ran Mouri. But given his personality and emotional intelligence, he would probably rush to get medicine for Ran Mouri only when she has caught a cold.

Maori Kogoro glanced back, then looked at Sankaku Atsushi and asked, "Did you two really meet at a ski resort deep in the mountains?"

Sanjiaodu, who was in charge of driving, said quickly, "Yes, but to be precise, it should be near the woods ahead."

"I was driving to the ski resort when I met my girlfriend and her classmates. Their car broke down and I helped them."

"At the same time, I also met my girlfriend, and then we gradually started dating..."

Sanjiao Du briefly recounted how the two met.

Conan pouted and felt it was a bit cliché, but Mao Li Ran thought it was not bad.

The car broke down in the snow, and there was no village or store nearby. After waiting for a long time, they got help from a passerby, and then they fell in love...

Conan laughed dryly and managed a small smile.

Hondou Eisuke agrees with her idea: "If I were so unlucky and met someone like that, she would definitely be my lucky goddess!"

Conan's mouth twitched slightly. You two are talking about completely different things, okay?

Sanjiaodu suddenly said, "We're here. It's right in front."

Several people looked up.

The car drove along the road and soon turned a corner, and then we saw a car covered with snow parked on the snow on the side of the road.

Sanjiao Du saw the car and said in surprise: "That's my car!"

He pulled the car over to the side of the road, then quickly opened the door, got out and ran over.

"Sure enough, his girlfriend is waiting for him here." Mao Lilan said while looking out the window.

Hondou Eisuke said with some regret: "If this happens, won't we be able to see the reasoning of 'Sleeping Kogoro'? I don't want this!"

Conan couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows, thinking to himself, you'd better give up this idea, otherwise...

"Anmei! Anmei! Wake up!"

Suddenly, Sanjiaodu's anxious shout came over.

The others looked over in confusion.

Conan's heart sank, he opened the door, jumped out of the car and rushed over, before leaving, he didn't forget to say "I'll go take a look!"

When I ran to the side of the car, the snow covering the glass had been swept away by a triangular sweeper. I could clearly see a woman sitting in the driver's seat, with her head lowered and not moving.

Conan took a step forward, leaned on the car door and looked inside, and found that the gap in the door was sealed with a circle of tape, and there was a charcoal stove for heating on the passenger seat.

Conan looked solemn: the person was motionless, the car door was sealed with tape, and there was a charcoal stove inside. Was it suicide?

But the signs of suicide were too obvious, especially the tapes, which seemed to deliberately remind people who found the scene that it was a suicide.

Sensing that something was wrong, the Mori father and daughter and Hondou Eisuke also trotted over.

At the reminder of Kogoro Mori, Atsushi Sankaku used the electronic key to open the damaged car door. However, the gap in the door was tightly sealed with tape, and due to the air pressure difference between the inside and the outside, the door could not be opened at all, as if it was welded shut.

Sanjiaodu took out the baseball bat from the trunk and yelled, "Anmei, I'm here to save you!" while hitting the windshield of the car hard again and again.

Soon, spider-web-like cracks spread across the glass. Sanjiaodu threw away the bat, pushed away the broken glass and crawled in from the front of the car.

"Anmei! Wake up!" Sanjiaodu shook his girlfriend and kept calling her name.

Unfortunately, the person in front of him would no longer respond to him.

Sanjiao Du carried his already cold girlfriend out of the car and stood in the snow crying bitterly.

Kogoro Mouri sighed, but after all, he had experienced many such scenes, so he quickly calmed down and asked his daughter to call the police.

Mao Lilan habitually reached for her phone, but Hondou Eisuke suddenly appeared, pointed at herself and said, "I've called the police and an ambulance."

"By the way," Hondou Eisuke raised a finger and said with a smile, "It seems that a police officer who claims to be a golden partner with Detective Mori is coming."

"Ah?" Kogoro Mouri was a little confused, but he immediately thought of something.

This is Gunma Prefecture, and he knows the person, so there is no need to guess who is coming...

Kogoro Mouri rolled his eyes, with an expression that said, "As expected."

As we all know, you will definitely see Inspector Megure in cases that occur in Tokyo, but what about cases that occur in Gunma Prefecture?

That’s right, it’s our enthusiastic but somewhat confused mountain village police officer!

"I say, when did you and I become a golden partner?" Kogoro Mouri asked speechlessly.

Shancun Cao wiped the snot from his sneeze and said with a smile: "Don't be so cold, Mr. Maori. The case-solving rate of our cooperation is 100%!"

Maori Kogoro squinted his eyes and said, "What about other cases?"

Shancuncao immediately showed an embarrassed expression: "Well, that's another matter."

Kogoro Mouri leaned back slightly, and Conan also drooped his eyes.

It looks like the case couldn't have gone unsolved without him, right?

That shouldn't be the case, right?

Yamamura Cao laughed dryly and changed the subject. He took out a camera from somewhere and pointed it at Maori Kogoro: "Come on, Detective Maori, let me see your reasoning this time!"

Maori Kogoro curled his lips and said, "It's a pity that it won't work this time."

Shancun Cao was so disappointed that he couldn't help asking, "Why?"

Maori Kogoro pointed at the car with a smashed windshield and said, "Look for yourself. The car driven by this woman has the gap sealed from the inside with tape, and there is an extinguished charcoal stove on the passenger seat."

He raised his hand and pointed to the shattered windshield: "As you can see, there is no way to get in or out except by breaking the windshield."

"So she died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a confined space. It was clearly an act of suicide."

If it's not suicide, there's no need to seal the gap in the car door.

Yamamura Sou and Hondou Eisuke shouted in unison: "Huh? Doesn't that mean I won't be able to see 'Sleeping Kogoro'?!"

The next moment, both of them looked at each other in surprise.

Yamamura Cao: "Who is this boy?"

Maori Kogoro said: "This is my fan, who just happened to follow me here."

Yamamura So asked tentatively: "A fan of Detective Mori?"

Hondou Eisuke excitedly introduced himself: "Yes, my name is Hondou Eisuke, and this is my first time meeting a real police officer! It's so exciting!"

"Oh!" Yamamura Cao was also a little excited. He pointed his thumb at himself and made a deep look. "I'm Yamamura Cao from Gunma Police Station. You can call me Brother Shan!"

"Yes!" Hondou Eisuke responded excitedly, with stars in his eyes.

Suddenly, they both narrowed their eyes at the same time, leaned back slightly, and then...

"A-choo!" X2

Conan stared at the two people sneezing at exactly the same frequency, and couldn't help but complain:

These two people are really a perfect match!

The forensic officer who was inspecting the vehicle ran over with an evidence bag and said, "Mr. Yamamura, we found sleeping pills in the coffee can in the car."

"Sleeping pills?" Shancuncao was a little confused.

Maori Kogoro said disapprovingly: "Maybe she is worried that she can't commit suicide with the charcoal stove, so she took it as a safety precaution, just like the tape."

Many people who want to commit suicide will back down at the last moment. This woman named An Mei might have been worried that she would escape at the last minute, so she used tape and sleeping pills as double insurance.

This is what Kogoro Mori thinks.

Yamamura Cao nodded in agreement: "I see."

Conan suddenly said: "In that case, that sister must not be very good when sleeping, right?"

"What do you mean? Isn't she sitting in her seat well?" asked Kogoro Mouri in confusion.

Conan tilted his head and said, "I just noticed that there is a very obvious crease at the waist of that sister's clothes. If she had noticed it normally, she would have straightened it out immediately, right? Then it must have been formed when she moved around after falling asleep."

Maori Kogoro nodded slightly: "That's indeed possible."

"And the driver's seat is a bit strange too." Conan trotted over and pulled Mouri Ran over, letting her stand next to the driver's seat of the car.

"Sister Xiaolan, stand over here and squat down, pretending to hold the steering wheel."

Mao Lilan took a horse stance, stretched out her hands as if holding the steering wheel, and finally asked Conan for confirmation: "Is that so?"

Conan nodded repeatedly: "That's right." Then he pointed at her and said to Mouri Kogoro.

"Look, that sister's figure is about the same as Sister Xiaolan's, but isn't the driving seat too far back? Can she really drive properly like this?"

Kogoro Mouri and Sou Yamamura leaned over to the glass and looked inside, and found that just as Conan said, the seat was indeed too far back for Anmei's body size.

Maori Kogoro frowned slightly: "Indeed."

Sanjiao Du had been watching the conversation between the two people, and when he saw this, he quickly explained, "I think she might have moved the car back after parking in order to put the charcoal stove next to her feet to keep warm, right?"

Shancun Cao clapped his hands in sudden realization: "I see, it was placed at my feet when it was cold, but then it was moved to the passenger seat because it was too hot."

Hmm? Shancuncao came up to Sanjiaodu and asked suspiciously, "Who are you?"

Sanjiao Du explained: "I was dating a woman who committed suicide in a car. Her name was Sanjiao Du."

Shancun Cao hurriedly comforted him: "Please accept my condolences."

Sanjiao Du showed a sad expression on his face when he heard this.

Maori Kogoro put his hands in his pockets to keep warm, walked over and asked, "So, she really doesn't sleep well?"

Sanjiao Du nodded and said, "To be honest, it's a bit bad..."

His expression was a little forced, but Yamamura So and Mori Kogoro didn't think too much about it for the time being and just thought he was too sad.

Maori Kogoro said with a relaxed look: "That's right, it was indeed suicide."

Yamamura So and Hondou Eisuke sighed at the same time, lowered their shoulders in disappointment, and closed the cameras in their hands.

Conan's mouth twitched slightly, and he looked at the two of them speechlessly - Yamamura Cao is fine, but where did Hondou Eisuke get the camera from? He glanced at Sankaku Atsushi - this guy's emotions were a little too calm, not like a man whose girlfriend just died.

He put his hands in his pockets and turned to look at the car.

This was undoubtedly a murder, and a very cleverly planned murder, and the murderer was undoubtedly that man.

But how did he get out of the car that was sealed with tape?

Unlike the pensive Conan, although Yamamura Cao felt a little regretful that he could not see the "sleeping Kogoro" again, he was also very happy to finish work early and go home.

So he smiled and said, "Since it's suicide, you can all go back first. I'll ask you to go to the police station to make a detailed statement another day."

As he said this, he walked towards the police car, but before he took two steps, his foot suddenly missed a step and he fell into the snow with a plop.

Maori Kogoro's eyes twitched: "Hey, are you okay?"

This confused police officer is still as reckless as usual, just like this little devil.

He couldn't help but glance at Hondou Eisuke, but he didn't expect the other's eyes to light up and look at him expectantly, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly.

Shancuncao propped himself up, spat out the snowflakes in his mouth, and just as he was about to get up, he unexpectedly discovered that the snow on the ground felt a little strange.

He said with some confusion: "I was wondering why I fell down out of nowhere. It turns out it was because of the snow. How come there is a dent in the snow?"

I reached out and touched it, and found that some parts of the snow were compacted very firmly.

Maori Kogoro also noticed this place, observed it for a while and said: "Looking at the size, it seems like there is a car parked here?"

Shancun Cao was even more confused: "Who parked the car here?"

Conan was cheered up. He had noticed this place a long time ago. He was originally thinking of using some low-key way to draw their attention to this place, but he didn't expect that Oh Yamamura Cao would take the initiative to assist.

He said in a very childish voice: "It looks like it's as big as the car we just took!"

Sanjiaodu’s expression froze.

Maori Kogoro looked sideways at him and asked, "Excuse me, when did you rent the car?"

A drop of cold sweat ran down Sanjiaodu's back, and he said stiffly, "It was last night. After we had a fight last night, she said she must use my car today, so I went to rent a car overnight because I also needed to use the car for something."

As he spoke, he lowered his head with a sad expression: "I didn't expect that she would use a car to do this kind of thing."

Conan looked at him sideways: "But uncle, you are really careless. You knew that big sister would use the car today, why did you put important documents in the car?"

Sanjiao Du was shocked: "Oh, that's right, I wanted to get it after I got up this morning..."

Shancuncao came over and asked: "What are you talking about? What important documents?"

Maori Kogoro explained: "It is an important document to be handed over to the company. He asked me to help find his girlfriend who disappeared with the car because of this matter..."

Yamamura Cao looked at Sankaku Atsushi and said, "What about the documents? Did you find them?"

Sanjiao Du shook his head: "Not yet. After something like this happened, I'm in no mood to look for documents." As he said that, he ran to the side of the car and asked the forensic officer who was inspecting the car.

"Excuse me, did you see any documents or anything like that in the car?"

The forensic officer said: "There was a document bag on the back seat of the car."

Sanjiaodu said happily: "That's it, there's no doubt about it."

"Now that we have found it, it's good."

Kogoro Mori and Sou Yamamura also came over.

"Speaking of which," the forensic officer opened the tool box at his feet and took out a transparent plastic evidence bag, "we found this in the victim's bag."

Maori Kogoro took a look and said, "Is this the electronic cigarette lighter for the car? Why is it in her bag?"

The forensic officer shook his head: "We don't know either." He was only responsible for investigating the items in the car. "In addition, we also found a novel that was released today in the car. It must have been put in today. There are scorch marks on it caused by the cigarette lighter."

"One thing that's weird is we didn't get any fingerprints on it."

Shancuncao exclaimed: "No fingerprints?"

Even Maori Kogoro showed a thoughtful expression: "This is weird, it's getting more and more confusing..."