Chapter Seventy-Four—The Truth of Epiphany

"I still mind," Chiba told Conan his unrelieved doubts as he walked down the hallway of the hospital. "That woman, is she really an alcoholic?"

"I'm more confused than you are," Conan said helplessly. "I also talked to Dr. Gregory, but he said that as long as the intravenous alcohol works, everything is clear at a glance. Perhaps, we should trust the judgment of professionals? ”

"Sir, you can't go in!" The anxious voice of the nurse suddenly appeared around the corner in front of her, and Chiba and Conan did not hesitate and immediately ran over to check the situation. I saw a red-eyed man preparing to rush into a room, and the nurse was desperately trying to stop him.

"I want to see Tianzi!" The man banged on the door as hard as he could, but he couldn't exert his strength even when the nurse was holding him tightly.

"Qianyu, can you solve him?" Conan immediately raised the anesthesia table and asked Qianyu.

"Do you think it's possible?" Thousand feathers with white eyes. "Hurry up and anesthetize him!"

"Okay... Conan pouted and threw the man to the ground. "Why can't you get rid of him?"

"The way I can stop him is basically going to hurt him?" Thousand Feathers was speechless. "I don't think it's better to hurt him than to anesthetize him in order to stop him."

"Okay... Conan shrugged.

"Children, you guys..." The nurse was startled by the man who suddenly fell to the ground, and only whispered after realizing that it was Conan's handiwork.

"Chiba," Conan's face suddenly turned strange. "Look at the door number."

"House number?" Hearing this, Qian Yu looked at the sign on the door. "Here it is—huh? Stop... Stop... ”

"Hey, hey..." Chiba whispered to Conan in surprise. "How can it be a morgue? The man just now... Is it possible? ”

"Just ask." Conan motioned for Chiba to ask the nurse directly.

"Excuse me, is he?" Chiba chose to change the subject.

"It is a patient who died a few days ago, and it is said that it is the deceased of the explosion of a pharmaceutical company on Tsukima Road."

"The dead?" Qian Yu was slightly stunned, and then remembered the scene he had seen before.

—————— when the pharmaceutical company exploded

The pharmaceutical company building, which was a complete building a few minutes ago, was now badly damaged and began to burn!

Qian Yu looked at the scene in front of him and froze in place - the explosion that caused the serious damage to the building and the flames that quickly burned the entire building, if it was an accident, then hell!

"Ah!!h A heart-rending cry came from across the road, and a woman with a burning flame was seen wailing and running away from the building, while not far from her, a burning man was lying on the ground, apparently out of her mind. But if it's the woman who is wailing ...

—————— thoughts suddenly cleared

"It's the guy who was burned on the spot... Qian Yu sighed and shook his head. "She's really unlucky to be involved in such an incident."

"But the appearance of that corpse is really miserable, the whole body is scorched, and the human form can't be seen at all, I'm afraid that the necklace is easier to identify." The nurse said with palpitations. "When the man saw the necklace, he was like crazy, trying to break into the morgue to make sure his girlfriend was really dead."

"Necklace?" Conan wondered. "The necklace should burn black, right? How did he identify it from the necklace? ”

"That's right," the nurse said quietly to Chiba and Conan, looking around. "Don't tell anyone! The necklace seemed to be quite valuable, even the earrings on her ears were burned, and her necklace still maintained a metallic luster, but the shape was very strange, like a three-way intersection (author: that is, 'Ding' shape). ”

"How did you know she was wearing earrings when they were burned?" Conan wondered.

"Pierced ears, no earrings?" The nurse asked rhetorically.

"Hmm..." Conan fell into thought. "Thank you, sister, let's go first!"

。。。

"Conan, what the hell did you come up with?" Qian Yu asked again.

After coming out of the hospital, Conan asked Qianyu to go with him, and the two actually got on a bus that didn't lead to the office or Qianyu's house, and finally came to Tsukima Road!

"Is it a suspicion of the company's explosion?" Conan asked again.

"Part of the necklace is gone, indicating that the temperature of the fire has reached the melting point of the necklace, and the necklace is once in the process of melting. However, the necklace still retains its color, that is, her necklace is a precious metal. Conan explained. Considering the metallic sheen of the metal, her necklace may have been made of platinum. The melting point of platinum is as high as nearly 1,800 degrees, and the normal fire temperature is only less than 1,000 degrees, how can it burn the necklace? ”

"What do you mean?" Qianyu asked.

"If it is artificially set on fire with materials with high calorific value, then it is completely possible to reach this temperature." Conan continued. "For example, using acetylene as a material and burning it in the air can create a high temperature of about 3,000 degrees, and the combustion of coal gas in the air can also have a temperature of about 2,000 degrees. The combustion of butane gas in a lighter is also capable of producing a high temperature of 1800 degrees. ”

"You suspect that it was arson?"

"Yes," Conan nodded. "I guess the necklace was supposed to be a beautiful symmetrical pattern, like a cross or something."

"Cross?" Thousand Feathers were surprised. "Wait a minute...

"What's wrong?" This time it was Conan's turn to be curious.

"Miss Junko Mitsuhara also has a platinum necklace around her neck, and it is also a cross pattern!" Qian Yu said in confusion. "Probably a coincidence...

"Cross motif?" Conan was shocked. "Wait a minute, can you describe the physical characteristics of the deceased?"

"It's about the same as Miss Junko Mitsuhara?" Qian Yu thought about it and said helplessly. "When I saw her, she was burned to the point that she couldn't be humanized, and I couldn't confirm it."

"Let's go back to the hospital! Fast! Conan only hesitated and flagged down a taxi.

"Hey, Conan, what's wrong?" Qian Yu was dragged into the taxi by Conan and hurriedly asked.

"I need you to testify!"

。。。 Rice Flower Central Hospital

"Boy, what's in your hand?" Gregory asked, tilting his head as he saw Conan walking into his office with a pamphlet. "If you failed the test, do you need me to help you imitate your parents' signatures?"

"Look at this medical record," Conan said, handing the pamphlet to Gregory. "Then you'll understand why I'm coming to you."

"Oh?" Grigory took the medical record, read only a few pages, slapped the book on the table with a gloomy face, and then stood up.

"Hurry up, let's go to the ward!"