Chapter Forty-Eight: The Real Murderer
"This must be the first time we've met, profiler. I didn't expect it to be in such a way. ”
After Hitoshi Terauchi finished speaking, he turned to look into the shadows: "You can come out now." ”
The figure stepped out.
He was carrying a black iron box in his hands and wearing gloves on his hands.
Although I haven't seen her, I know it just by thinking about it-Yoshiyo Terauchi.
"I didn't expect the prey to walk into the trap by itself."
Yoshiyo Terauchi looked at his hands, then looked up at Qinghai Chuantang, and said with a smile: "If you can promise not to scream, maybe I can consider tearing the things off your mouth." ”
Qinghai Chuantang naturally chose to nod.
Yoshiyo Terauchi gestured, and the man stepped forward to remove the tape from her mouth.
He stood behind her, silently. The body looks a little tall and muscular, and it's no wonder that he wields a stick so hard.
"It turns out that the two people Hideki Oi refers to are your husband and wife?"
Yoshiyo Terauchi smiled, as if to laugh at her innocence.
"What you have to think about now is not who is to blame, but who is going to die. After all, you're about to die, and you should worry about yourself. ”
"Still, I admire your courage. The other guys have given it, and maybe it can give you a chance to live. ”
"Really?" Qinghai Chuantang smiled.
"If we can make us feel more pleasure than killing someone directly, we can spare your life."
Yoshiyo Terauchi smiled and began to count the past with his hands: "A certain guy is dancing, and a certain mother-in-law is just crying...... However, there was one guy who did a good job before, and we spared her life. ”
The husband and wife looked at each other and smiled, looking like they were full of tacit understanding.
"Akimoto...... Tomoko? I was almost killed by you not long ago. ”
"Will luck last forever? One time is enough. ”
"It's a pity that you actually contacted the police to set up an ambush, but we also happened to find a little, so we only let Dazhu go."
"It's very funny when I think of the guy who killed his friend in order to protect himself."
The temple smiled well, making Qinghai Chuantang feel creepy.
"You won't live long anyway, because you're about to smile at death. After killing you, we'll go and kill her again. ”
"Maybe those stupid guys will think that they have found the 'truth'."
Hitoshi Terauchi walked towards her, and then raised the utility knife in his hand.
Seeing that the knife was about to fall.
At this critical moment, the sound of sirens suddenly sounded outside, and a person leaned on the window and shouted her name.
Hitoshi Terauchi retreated a lot with Yoshiyo Terauchi.
"What are you doing in a daze!"
The big man in the back reacted, hurriedly stepped forward and picked up the black box on the ground, and then picked up the temple and left.
Conan shouted, "Hey! Don't try to escape! ”
But after running down the stairs, Conan paused, or hesitated.
Qinghai Chuantang's forehead was hit hard, and the blood flowed down the river, falling a few drops on the collar.
Eventually, he chose to stop.
Scissors were found and the rope that was bound to her hand was cut open.
When Qinghai Chuantang and Conan ran out of the back door, they stood on the street, only to see that they were empty and did not exist at all.
"Damn! Let them escape. ”
Conan clenched his fists, if only he could go faster.
"Thank you, Detective."
Conan was stunned for a moment, only to see that the other party was staring at him.
He seemed to have guessed something.
With a serious expression, he said: "For detectives, there is no way to ignore life." If you leave an injured person alone and only care about the murderer, that's not what a detective should do at all. ”
"Are your injuries alright, though?"
"It's fine. Now that they've arrived, they hope to find something useful in the warehouse. ”
Fingerprints, footprints, ...... Traces of crime.
But under the luminol reaction, none of this was found.
When the lights were turned on, Qinghai Chuantang instantly understood such a reason.
There was a large piece of plastic sheeting on the ground, covering almost the entire floor.
It seems that they are really a diligent couple, and they will be replaced with a new one after each crime.
"I didn't find anything...... Isn't it here? ”
Twilight Thirteen touched her chin and fell into deep thought.
Qinghai Chuantang pointed to his forehead, "Dusk Police Department, the evidence is conclusive, that couple almost killed me." ”
"Miss Tang, you misunderstood, I didn't mean that."
Twilight explains, assuming that the other party thinks she is calling a false alarm.
"I think it's because of the plastic sheeting on the ground. As long as you put on a new one, the traces of the previous one will not be found in any way. ”
"Ke, Conan?" Twilight Thirteen looked at the speaker in surprise, "It's so late, why are you here?" ”
"This ......"
Conan laughed and scratched his head, and came up with a very lame excuse: "Because I was playing hide and seek with Sister Xiaotang, I didn't expect it to be so late all of a sudden." ”
Twilight Thirteen looked at him with suspicion in her eyes and a face full of "I don't believe it".
"Dusk Police Department."
Qinghai Chuantang tried to divert the other party's attention, so he asked, "How did Dazhu get adopted by that couple, have you investigated?" ”
"When I was trapped here before, in addition to the two of them, there was a strange man, and I suspect that he was also adopted by them."
It turns out that Hitoshi Terauchi used to work for a disability organization, and Ozu was the child he knew at that time.
Later, the obstacle organization was abolished due to the loss of support.
Dazhu had nowhere to go, so Hitoshi Terauchi took him in and usually asked him to help with something.
And that handicap institution is called the Maple Leaf Welfare Institute.
Qinghai Chuantang found someone who had worked in that welfare home.
"At first, it was a welfare facility for the disabled, and then it was a mental disability for the disabled, and it was for the homeless, and everyone was accepted."
After Kaoru Mochida finished speaking, he opened the drawer on the side and took out a photo album from it.
"This is a picture from thirty years ago."
Kaoru Mochida said, opened the album, found one of them, pointed to someone on it and said, "He is the big pillar." ”
"Although I can't remember my face clearly, when I saw the news, I immediately remembered the name that appeared on it."
I saw that next to Dazhu in the photo, there was a man and a woman standing, and they looked a little familiar.
"These two are ......"
"They. One is called Renshi Terauchi, and the other is called Shiba Kashi. Shiba Jiashi was a nurse, and we were working together at the time, and in the temple, I was the cleaner in the hospital at that time. ”
Qinghai Chuantang felt a little strange, "Then were the two of them husband and wife at that time?" ”
"How is that possible?" Kaoru Mochida smiled: "As far as I know, there is a lot of difference in education between the two, and the age gap is quite large. ”
It's not the temple Yoshiyo, but the Shiba Kashi.
They were never husband and wife.
Thirty years ago -
A child was running and jumping when she accidentally bumped into Shiba, causing the tray in her hand to fall to the ground and spill water on the ground.
The boy was terrified, for fear that the other party would blame him.
Unexpectedly, Zhi Jiashi hugged him and comforted him: "Even if the world has abandoned you, at least you still have me now." ”
In the dead of night, the children fell asleep.
Zhi Jiashi quietly walked in, came to the previous child's side, grabbed his neck, and tightened it hard.
"It's all because of you, the ground is dirty, it would be nice to be careful."
When the young man in his hand stopped struggling, Zhi Jiashi showed a strange smile.
Just as she inadvertently raised her head, she noticed that in the opposite room, there was a person looking at her.
The next morning, the child was taken away.
On that day, Hitoshi Terauchi happened to be called to paint the walls, but he didn't expect him to paint the walls red, which made the dean very unhappy.
It was also at that time that Kaoru Mochida and Kayoshi Shiba learned that he was colorblind.
It is impossible to distinguish between blue and yellow, and can only see red, which is commonly called: blue-yellow blindness.
Someone dies almost every day.
In the Maple Leaf Welfare Home, most of them are patients, which also leads to no one will investigate the cause.
Suddenly, one day, the dean disappeared.
At that time, the grants that had been granted disappeared along with them.
Because of the large amount, everyone thought that the dean had absconded with the money.
After that, something happened, and the Maple Leaf Welfare Home was closed.
After the closure of the orphanage, a small number of them were taken away by their families, and most of them were not recorded to have been relocated to another residence.
"Because you can only see bright red, that's why you get excited when you see blood, so let's scratch it with a knife......"
At this time, Qinghai Chuantang has returned to his home.
While she was thinking, she suddenly received a message that someone had sent her a video.
I saw that the man in the video was the one who knocked him unconscious before.
His expression was a little painful, and he had multiple scratches on his body, as if he was going to die at any moment.
The camera slowly descended, and I saw a sign hanging on his body, which read: Give you two hours. If you don't arrive within two hours, one person dies every hour, and you are only allowed to come by yourself.
Then the camera continued to move, and she saw many children sitting on the ground.
Then the camera continues to move again, and the timer on the table is counting down.
This is the end of the video, which doesn't seem to give much information.
Something seems to have been written on the wall with a pen.
After enlarging the screenshot, I saw that the text on it was "Maple Leaf".
Qinghai Chuantang hurriedly searched for the location of the Maple Leaf Welfare Institute: Jinnan Mountain.
"It's going to take at least an hour to drive from here, damn it!"
Hopefully, it's still too late.
This is the first thought of Qinghai Chuantang after getting on the car.
Otherwise she would have felt guilty if the person really died because of herself.
Qinghai Chuantang is now a little regretful, why didn't he buy a sports car or something.
Even though the throttle was full and the tires were burning to the point of taking off, she still felt that it was too slow.
Hurry up, hurry up a little more-