Out-of-control players in the world of Detective Conan

Chapter 254 There is only one truth

Do they see each other as prey in a hunting ground?

Conan stroked his chin, immediately ruling out this possibility.

After all, now that the second person to die here has died, the hunter's rifle was fully loaded, and not a single bullet had been fired.

"Ok?"

The bullets in the guns fired at each other...

A sudden thought flashed through Conan's mind, and he took off running.

He returned to the vicinity of the first corpse, but this time he did not focus on the corpse. Instead, he squatted down and examined the traces of dirt.

Conan suddenly remembered something else that was rather strange.

That is, the gun of the first victim was still missing a bullet.

So where did that bullet go?

"This is?"

In a patch of grass, Conan gently parted the blades and discovered a bullet casing.

Sigh, are all these police officers really this unreliable?

How could such obvious evidence not be found?

Conan mentally scoffed as he lay prone on the ground.

Besides the cartridge case, there was one more thing he needed to confirm.

After searching for a while, Conan quickly found two relatively old footprints.

He stood up and followed the footprints forward.

After estimating that it was about ten steps away, Conan stopped.

He crouched down and gently touched the two footprints, one large and one small, stuck in the mud. Conan silently stood up.

Conan peered through the leaves at the crowd gathered in front of the second corpse, discussing the Dark Forest Theory, and finally looked at Qi Ming.

Then there's only one truth.

"This liar—no, what he said was indeed the truth, but he was hiding a lot of things."

Conan muttered to himself, then sighed deeply.

It's connected now, everything is running smoothly.

He already knew the cause of death and the killer of the second body, but the killer of the first body...

He knew it too, but probably no one would believe him if he said it.

After sorting out his thoughts for a while, Conan walked back to the group.

By this time, Takagi Wataru had finished listening to the two hunters' hunting methods and, after some hesitation, decided to close the case by saying that the two had misjudged each other as wild animals.

At that moment, Conan suddenly stood up and spoke.

"Officer Takagi, I already know who the murderer is."

"what?"

Upon hearing what Conan said, everyone's eyes involuntarily turned to look at him.

Normally, when Conan is solving a case, he will use a tranquilizer dart to knock the person unconscious, and then use a voice changer to transform himself into someone else's voice to help him solve the case.

After all, it's really illogical for a primary school student to be so smart.

However, given the people gathered here, Conan doesn't need to disguise himself.

Qi Ming, Ai Haibara, and Professor Agasa already knew his identity.

The other group consisted of three children and a dazed Takagi Wataru.

I can do whatever I want without arousing any suspicion.

Although there were still two hunters and some police officers.

But it doesn't matter.

"Conan, what do you mean by finding the culprit? They shot at each other, so they're both each other's killers?"

Takagi Wataru asked Conan with some confusion.

Conan shook his head.

"No, Officer Takagi, you also noticed this during your investigation, didn't you? The second victim's shotgun was fully loaded with bullets; he didn't fire a single shot."

"Yes, it seems so!"

Takagi Wataru was taken aback, then clapped his hands in surprise.

"..."

That's too hasty, too hasty, officers!

"Then Conan, how exactly did those two die?"

Upon hearing Takagi Wataru ask the question again, Conan put his hands in his pockets and slowly replied.

“Officer Takagi, let’s start with the body we’re standing on right now. The person who killed him was the first body we found. That’s what that person did before he died.”

"what?"

Not only Takagi Wataru, but everyone around him was also somewhat confused.

Isn't this just coming full circle? It's about two people shooting each other to death.

Oh, the bullets on the person's gun at your feet haven't moved, so it's fine.

Conan glanced at the expressions of the people around him, then reminded Takagi Wataru.

“I think Officer Takagi, you should know this too. Didn’t we already have evidence? The bullet casing in the victim’s pocket, and the footprints on the ground.”

"Okay, I get it now!"

Takagi Wataru's mind cleared up instantly after Conan's nudge.

"After killing the second person, the first person reloaded his bullets, then picked up the spent cartridge cases from the ground and put them in his pocket!"

"Finally, there were his footprints on the ground, because he killed someone and tried to escape, but encountered another murderer on the way!"

Upon hearing this, Conan clapped his hands.

"Officer Takagi is amazing!"

"hey-hey."

Officer Takagi scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly, but then he rubbed his chin.

"But what's the reason? Why would this person want to kill him?"

Upon hearing this, Conan shook his head.

"...I don't know."

Officer Takagi frowned in thought, then looked at the remaining two hunters.

So, does that mean one of these two is the murderer?

The two hunters swallowed hard in unison.

Conan stopped talking and walked up to Qi Ming, smiling as he said:

"Brother Qi Ming, can you answer a question for me?"

Qi Ming nodded.

"No problem, Shinichi Kudo, ask me anything."

"!!"

Ok?

Kudo Shinichi?

Upon hearing Qi Ming's address to Conan, Takagi Wataru suddenly turned his head to look at him.

Conan's heart skipped a beat. Noticing Takagi Wataru's gaze, he scratched his head awkwardly.

"Haha, Brother Qi Ming, you're joking again. I just look a bit like Brother Xin Yi, hehehe."

This person has such a twisted sense of humor.

Conan mentally scoffed, then asked Qi Ming:

"Brother Qi Ming, if I'm not mistaken, when you saw the dead man with a gunshot wound to the head, he wasn't actually dead, was he?"

"That's right, he was still alive at that time."

Conan nodded, then slowly said:

"Judging from the footprints at the scene, you should have all seen each other, and then that person fired a shot somewhere for some unknown reason."

"Because that person's shotgun was missing a bullet, and I also found a spent cartridge case lying in the grass near the body."

As Conan spoke, he took a spent bullet casing out of his pocket.

"Brother Qi Ming, that should be right, right?"

Conan didn't deliberately lower his voice, so Takagi Wataru also heard what Conan said.

Takagi Wataru walked over to Qi Ming with some surprise and asked:

"Mr. Qi Ming, is that really true? You saw that person fire a gun?"

Qi Ming nodded.

Takagi Wataru touched his forehead with a bitter expression.

“Mr. Qi Ming, you should have told us about something so important.”

"Forehead."

Upon hearing this, Qi Ming replied quite confidently:

"You didn't ask, did you? Isn't that how murder mystery games are done? Who would just mention things marked in red for no reason?"