"Okay, as long as you don't do strenuous activity until the injury is healed, it's fine. ”

The young doctor obviously didn't know about Nao's previous injuries, but only re-stitched up the open wound for her, and gave her a few words of advice. Fortunately, Nao's wound was not a large wound, although it was very deep but also very short, the strictest was the two-centimeter wound above the vein, but the wound on the blood vessel was not affected, and it didn't look like a big injury after re-stitching. But just in case, she asked the doctor to wrap the bandage tightly around and around it.

"Thank you. Nao smiled at the sweaty doctor, catching a glimpse of a coat and shorts piled on the ground out of the corner of her eye, "That's ......"

"Oh, that's it, it's this child's clothes, so I took it off for a while so as not to affect the first aid. ”

"That's right......" Nao narrowed her eyes, thinking of the unnatural marks she had seen on the trunk of the tree, and turned to the doctor to pretend to be obedient and asked, "Well, can I take this dress away?" Officer Sato told me just now, 'There should be some clues in the clothes'. ”

"Did the police officer say that? Then you can take it, but remember to sue him when the child's family comes. ”

"Hey—"

Nao smiled and showed a mouthful of white teeth, picked up his clothes, bowed to the young man, and jumped out of the car.

As soon as I got out of the car, I met a pair of eyes with a narrow smile.

"Eh, that's what the officer said!" the black-haired boy picked the corners of his mouth, revealing a handsome smile that made people want to punch him, "I seem to remember that the officer also said, 'Ask the victim what kind of drug he was stunned by.'" ”

"No need to ask, it should be sleeping pills or something, and it's very potent. Seeing that it was him, Nao instantly withdrew the expression of the well-behaved girl, put the clothes in his hand aside, turned around and raised an eyebrow at him, "Then again, how do you know that the victim is stunned?"

"Nonsense, can anyone see it?" the boy rolled his eyes, "suffocation is painful, and the boy couldn't move when he was hanging, obviously unconscious." And there are no external injuries on his body, which means that he was not stunned, so he can only be stunned by drugs. But......" he paused, looking at Nao a little puzzled, "Why do you say it's sleeping pills? I remember that this technique is the same as the attack on Ice Emperor Elementary School yesterday, why can't it be ether?"

"Although they are all hung by ropes, the method is completely different. Nao's expression became gloomy, "Yesterday's victim was stunned and hung up in a short period of time, but today's child has been in the tree all day. When I gave him first aid, I noticed that the surface of his hair was damp and he had apparently been in the woods for a long time. Unless ether is poisoned, it can only make people unconscious for a short time, and his respiratory tract does not represent the large amount of mucus secreted by ether poisoning. So ......"

"So it's completely different from the previous attacks. The young man also straightened up and picked up Nao's words, "Moreover, today's incident is obviously planned and targeted, and the victim this time is probably the target that the 'choke man' really wants to kill, or it is simply a murder incident that imitates the 'choke man' attack." ”

"Hey, you can deduce this from the pattern of the crime alone," a glimmer of appreciation slipped into Nao's eyes, "You're quite capable." ”

"New, New ......"

Behind the two of them came the cries of Maolilan from far to near. The boy known as Shinichi turned his head and smiled at the girl who was hurrying in from nowhere, still gasping slightly, "Oh, Lan, has it already been changed?"

"What! I didn't say anything about it, I pushed people to change their clothes, and I always looked so arrogant!" said Mao Lilan, who puffed out his cheeks, but there was no reluctance on his face. Her short skirt has been replaced by neat trousers, changing her previous weak appearance, and finally bringing a trace of the heroic spirit that a martial arts cultivator should have, which makes people look sideways.

Nao was a little surprised, and looked at the teenager on the side, "You don't want her to ......"

"That's no way!" The young man seemed to know what Nao wanted to say, and put his hands behind his head and pouted, "My feet are like this, you seem to have old injuries, and you can't ask the police to go to the scene of the crime, so you can only let this guy lose weight." ”

"Who should lose weight!!Shinichi, you stupid!" Mao Lilan yelled in annoyance, turned his head and said to Nao with some embarrassment, "Don't pay attention to what he says! ”

"Ahaha......" Nao laughed dryly twice, not knowing how to answer, in fact, he liked this reasoning boy quite a bit in his heart. This case is still a bit difficult to investigate with her injuries alone, and it would be great if these two people could help with the investigation, but given the lack of understanding of the two, she had better keep her mouth shut. Because she really doesn't want to offend any of them right now!

"Hey, come and see!" Kudo Shinichi spoke up at this time, and rescued Nao from her embarrassing situation in a timely manner. I saw him half-crouching in front of the pile of clothes that Nao had just put on the ground, picking up the dark red plaid shorts and studying them carefully. Nao and Ran glanced at each other, and quickly walked over to look at the clothes in his hand.

There is nothing unusual about the shorts, but the belt worn on them is in an unnatural state: the edge of the belt at the back of the waist is upturned, the two edges are curved upwards in a U-shape, and the lower edge is particularly tightly curled. Nao frowned, took the shorts and reversed the belt behind the waistband, and a cross-cut mark appeared in front of everyone.

"This is ......" Nao raised the corners of her mouth, but she didn't know that the young man next to her had the same expression as her. The two of them were reciting the same sentence in their hearts at the moment, that is, "Sure enough!". Nao lowered her shorts and looked sideways at the uniform top that Kudo was looking through, and Fuer slowly stood up, her eyes sparkling with the sea.

"What's going on? What's going on?" Mao Lilan looked at Nao, and then at his childhood sweetheart, not understanding why the two suddenly fell silent. Nao chuckled, turned her head and shrugged at a dazed Maoliran, "It seems...... You're still going to have to climb trees, Maori. ”

Two to one, Maoriland has no choice.

The three of them crept around the police who were pulling the cordon, and slipped through the shadows under the fence to the big plane tree. It seems that the officers of the Forensic Identification Division have taken pictures of the tree, and the rope loops on the branches have been removed. Maolilan walked up under the expectant gaze of the two, rolled up his sleeves and began to fight the tree with all his strength...... But after all, unlike Nao, who grew up climbing trees and picking coconuts, even if she used her strength to eat, she couldn't climb the tree that she could go up with a kick and jump after Nao's eruption. Helpless, Kudo Shinichi could only sacrifice his life, let his childhood sweetheart step on his shoulder, and climbed the tree with her.

"Ah, I found it!" said Maolilan, delightfully shouting to the two men under the tree, "There really is a line!"

"Is there only one, Lan?" the sweaty young man raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, "Let's take a closer look and see if there are any other traces!"

"Any other traces...... Lan nodded, lowering her head and searching carefully through the thick branches. She saw a concave line on the branch, as thin and deep as if it had been cut by a very thin blade, and there were a few other thin lines that were not very obvious, and she really didn't notice it if it weren't for Kudo's reminder. The thin lines were around the deep crack, and the part facing the crowd was much more obvious than the part facing the wall.

Nao listened to Maori's instructions on the tree, and gently gnawed on the nail of her thumb in thought. If it was as she thought, then there must be traces of the same zài on the branches somewhere. She looked up at the crimson wall, her eyes flashing at the top of the wrought iron spike.

(Words there...... ）

"Maori, the deepest line, where is it heading?"

"Eh, in the direction...... "Maolilan held out a finger, "and straight to the building behind the wall." ”

Behind the wall is a three-story bungalow, but it looks completely different from the Nakagawa family mansion that Nao has been to before. Unlike the homogeneous residential area where Matsuda Jinpei lived, the Yonehanamachi 2-chome residence was supposed to be rebuilt by private individuals, so all the buildings were very different in size and style.

"Hey, Ran!" Kudo Shinichi seemed to think of something, "which window is that line pointing to?"

"I think it's a bedroom...... There is a balcony. ”

"Balcony, balcony ......," Nao said softly, "If you have a balcony, you can do it." But the iron thorns on the fence should leave that kind of trace...... "She walked directly below the fence, looked up at the distance between the branches and the wall, and spoke again, "Maori, there is half a meter between the wall and the branches, you walk slowly to the front, and then go to the fence and have a look!"

"Hey, you're going to the wall?!" Moriran looked at the shiny spikes on the wall, and his face turned pale, "Okay, okay......"

Listening to Ran's trembling voice, Kudo was a little worried, but more annoyed. He also thought that the important clue should be on the iron thorns of the wall, but he didn't want to let Maolilan suffer any damage. He looked at his sprained foot, then at Nao's bandaged arm, and finally made up his mind.

"Lan, don't you go over, I'll ......" Before he could finish his words, he saw a red shadow flash from his side, jumped up to the trunk of the tree in two or three strokes, and then jumped straight towards the spiked wall. He opened his mouth wide to look at the figure that had landed steadily on the wall, and the "I'll just go" in his mouth changed his tone stiffly.

"-Stupid, what are you doing!!"

"Nai, Nao?!" Mao Lilan was also startled.

"It's okay, it's okay, my balance is good!" Nao stood in the gap of the iron spike with one foot, shook the red hair draped on his back, and bared a mouthful of white teeth at the two of them, and the heroic Okinawan breath instantly filled the air. At sunset, the two points of golden green against the light are simply incredible.

"You guy...... Don't tie it up!" Kudo Shinichi laughed as if he was infected, shook his head and left her alone, turned his head and stretched out his hand to Lan, who was kneeling on the branch and didn't dare to move a step, "Hey, Lan, you can come down!"

"But......" Lan looked at Nao, who was already looking for clues, and finally nodded after seeing that she really didn't have anything abnormal.

Nao couldn't help but smile when she saw that Maoriran had come down from the tree. Even though her face turned white with fright when she proposed to go to the wall, she didn't see the slightest flinch in her eyes. This girl, I really don't know if she's timid or brave.

"It's better to see the clues with your own eyes......" Nao muttered as she looked back at the thorns. Each of them is pitch black, and with the projection of leaves, it's really not easy to see the difference without looking closely. But she already had a rough idea in her mind, and soon found the iron thorn that was facing the traces on the tree.

There was indeed a thin line on the one-foot-long iron thorn facing the branch, and although it was not as deep as the branch, it was also a very obvious mark.

"Did you find that?" shouted Shinichi Kudo from under the wall. He didn't say what "that" was, but in his heart he vaguely felt that Nao understood what he meant. But Nao didn't disappoint him, she looked up at the window across the fence, facing the mark, narrowed her eyes, and raised her fingers.

"Sure enough, the prisoner lives in this neighborhood. Nao jumped off the wall and walked over to Kudo Shinichi and Moriran as she spoke, "Although there is an inference, it is still the last step away. ”

"Evidence...... "Kudo thought ...... lightly touching his finger to his lips, "I do know the general direction of the prisoner, but the scope of the suspect and the key evidence are lacking. ”

"If you want to read the information, let's go to Nakagawa's house together. Nao pursed one lip and smiled confidently, "If I'm not mistaken, Officer Sato should have already found the three suspects according to that information, and we just need to go and listen now." And ......"

――If you go to find that crucial evidence, you just happen to be on the way!

**

Walking out of the woods and turning the street, there stood the people Nao had thought of in front of a building. The Twilight Police Department has arrived, and they are interrogating the three women with Sato, both of whom have extremely grim faces, thinking that the three women should be suspects related to the sky-high heels.

Nao took a cursory look over, one of them was Nakagawa Kunzi, whom she had met not long ago, she still looked like she was so neat, standing with her arms crossed, and the other two Nao had not seen it, but according to the description on the data, she guessed that it was not far from ten - wearing a delicate dress, but the body was so strong that people did not dare to compliment, it was the popular opera artist Inoue Yona, who often appeared on TV recently, and the other was thin and weak, The woman with a haggard face and can't hide the cyan under her eyes even with heavy makeup is the third suspect, Nana Maruyama. Inoue Yona stood aside and didn't speak, but Nana Maruyama said something to the Twilight Police Department with an indignant expression.

Nao and the two beside him glanced at each other and walked up together.

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