Chapter 1025 Encounter

"Well...in that case..."

Facing the reality in front of him, Otaki Goro's eyebrows were already twisted into the character "川". He realized that the development of the matter had exceeded expectations. Numagachi Kiichiro, who originally thought he could be captured directly, now He actually ran away without knowing his whereabouts, which makes people feel scared——

This is a cruel serial murderer who has been locked up here for so long by Sakata Yusuke. He will escape. With his character, no one can guarantee whether he will commit another cruel murder. .

Therefore, the most important thing right now is to find out where Kiichiro Numabuchi escaped.

Thinking like this, Otaki Goro subconsciously took out his mobile phone and prepared to call for additional personnel——

"No! We must report it and continue to call in additional personnel to launch a city-wide manhunt! This crazy murderer must not be allowed to roam outside anymore!"

With that said, Otaki Goro had already started to climb down from the ceiling, dialed the phone, and started to contact the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters.

At the same time, Takato and Conan, after Otaki Goro went down, climbed to the ceiling and looked at the items in front of them. Regarding the escape of Numabuchi Kiichiro, who was originally locked here, Hattori Heiji, Takato, and Conan , all nodded with absolute certainty——

"We're in trouble now. Such a vicious serial murderer has escaped. If we don't catch him quickly..."

Hattori Heiji said this, looking at the clues in front of him, he couldn't help but think about how to find him——

"However, he only broke the chain at the other end of the handcuffs that locked one of his hands. Does that mean the handcuffs are still on his hands? In this case, it would be easy to walk outside with handcuffs on. Someone will find him, so he should try to get rid of the handcuffs first, so where will he go... What are you looking at?"

At this time, when Hattori Heiji began to think about what the other party would do next because of the handcuffs, considering that Numabuchi Kiichiro escaped without breaking the handcuffs, he noticed Takato and Conan who were coming up. Shi Zheng focused his attention on the pile of empty lunch boxes piled on the ground, so he couldn't help but curiously asked -

"The sales time of these lunch boxes..."

Muttering, Conan looked carefully at the labels on the lunch boxes bought from convenience stores and couldn't help but start thinking.

"The latest dates are also for the lunch boxes purchased three days ago, and the shelf life ends today. In other words, the last time Officer Sakata came to bring food to Kiichiro Numabuchi was three days ago. and……"

Similarly, Gao Yuan seemed to have noticed the same thing as Conan, so he followed Conan's words and began to analyze.

"And the number of lunch boxes is too small. Even counting the packaging of the lunch box that was burned outside, three days ago, when Officer Sakata came to deliver food to Kiichiro Numabuchi for the last time, Kiichiro Numabuchi ate it. If one of the lunch boxes is lost, then the remaining lunch boxes, as of today, are barely enough for Kiichiro Numabuchi to eat one meal a day! In addition, the water provided is not enough..."

Seriously, Conan analyzed.

"The first time Officer Sakata committed a crime was half a month ago, so he must have met Numabuchi Kiichiro earlier than that. In other words, Numabuchi Kiichiro has been detained here for at least half a month. Time. If we look at the amount of food that Officer Sakata has prepared for Kiichiro Numabuchi in the past three days, I am afraid that in the past half month, Kiichiro Numabuchi has not been full at all and has been thirsty and hungry. …”

Gao Yuan continued.

In this regard, after hearing the conversation between the two, Hattori Heiji looked at the broken chain again, and suddenly said with enlightenment:

"I understand! Officer Sakata has been keeping Kiichiro Numabuchi hungry, so although Kiichiro Numabuchi has been trapped here for at least half a month, he had not succeeded in breaking the chain and escaping until three days ago. . And it takes a lot of effort to break the chain, and it takes a long time. It’s okay if you are hungry all the time, but if you don’t even have enough water..."

"Officer Sakata came here three days ago to deliver food to Miichiro Numabuchi for the last time. He dared to remain so at ease and trapped him here with chains and handcuffs. This shows that during the period three days ago, Numabuchi Miichiro Ichiro has been in a state of hunger and thirst just as arranged by Officer Sakata, and there is no threat at all..."

Conan thought:

"However, in the past three days, Numabuchi Kiichiro broke the chain and escaped."

Conan's expression became extremely serious.

"When he is always hungry and thirsty, even if he doesn't economize at all and eats all the food and water at once, he won't be able to recover his strength quickly. This requires rest, but once time is wasted, it won't take long for him to recover again. Hungry..."

Hattori Heiji couldn't help but think——

“But what if there was enough water?”

Suddenly, Gao Yuan raised his head, looked at the roof of the abandoned cabin, and asked:

"Has it rained in this area in the past three days?"

"rain?"

Immediately, as soon as these words came out, Conan and Hattori Heiji were stunned, and then suddenly said:

"I understand! As long as the rainwater that leaks into here provides him with enough water, he can rely on drinking water to survive after eating and resting at once! In this case, the time for him to escape from here should be within these three days. After it rains one of these days!”

As he said that, Takato, Hattori Heiji, and Conan took out their mobile phones at the same time and began to search for the weather forecast here——

"Last night to this morning?"

Seeing the results, the three of them were shocked, and then they said in unison:

"He can't run far!"

With that said, the three of them climbed down from the ceiling together and told Otaki Goro the analysis just now.

Suddenly, Otaki Goro suddenly realized something and began to order the other police officers to start searching the mountains and forests of the Meiji Forest Minoh Quasinational Park, centered on the cabin near the Minoh Falls.

In this way, regarding the current situation, Takato and others couldn't help but look solemn as they watched the police begin to search the mountains and forests here. Among them, Hattori Heiji said:

"However, even if we know that the time he escaped may not have been long ago, it is a bit difficult to find that guy Numabuchi Kiichiro in such a mountainous forest with thick trees and lush grass..."

In response, Conan also nodded and said:

"Indeed, if it is such a aimless search and this place is so big, he really wants to hide..."

"Officer Otaki! Something has been discovered!"

However, before the police officers who went out to search could get far away, a group of people shouted directly at Otaki Goro near a dense grass.

Immediately, not only Otaki Goro, but also Gao Yuan and others immediately ran up.

I saw a car parked in the grass at this moment——

"What did you find?"

Seriously, Otaki Goro asked quickly.

"We found this car covered by grass. Judging from the license plate number, it was the car in which Kiichiro Numabuchi killed and robbed a victim before! But there was no one in the car."

one of the police officers replied.

"After he escaped from the wooden house, he didn't choose to drive away?"

Seeing this, Hattori Heiji said confused.

"He probably didn't know how to pry the car and then directly connect the circuit to start it. That's why he chose to abandon the car and run away. I thought Sakata wouldn't leave the car keys with him."

In this regard, Otaki Goro said this.

"No, he should have tried to pry the car over! But he gave up..."

However, Gao Yuan walked around the car and after carefully looking at the marks on the car, he suddenly made this judgment——

"He's nearby!"

As he spoke, Gao Yuan seemed to feel something, and looked up at the tree beside him.

I saw, hidden on the leafy branches of one of the thickest and tallest trees, a figure was hiding quietly in it——

"Numabuchi Kiichiro!"