Tang Ze: Detectives can only follow the culprit's footsteps to catch them, but I can rely on knowledge to foresee the future and prevent cases!
Conan: It seems I need to go to Hawaii for ...
As the four people entered the room, the scene inside the room came into everyone's eyes.
The whole room is not particularly big, but fortunately it is cleaned to a reasonable level and is not one of those sloppy bachelor apartments.
Maori Kogoro looked around and said, "Although the door is open, there are no signs of it being pried open. The room is also in its original state and has not been turned upside down. Could it be that Kusukawa forgot to close the door?
That dusty instruction sheet just now, that guy probably forgot to tear it off and opened the door directly..."
Maori Kogoro's reasoning still seems so "depressed". No matter how inconsistent the place is, he can always make it up in another way by saying "the other party is careless".
This feeling is as funny as if you fired eighteen shots in a row, but every shot missed the bull's eye perfectly. This is also the reason why netizens in the previous life said that Maori Kogoro was a hidden boss.
Because if you get the questions wrong, you can still get about 30 points even if you guessed. If you perfectly avoid all the correct answers, people will suspect that you have the answers on purpose.
However, Karasawa hasn't noticed anything unusual so far. He doesn't know whether Kogoro Mouri's acting has reached Oscar level or he is just a careless person.
This may be the only person that Tang Ze cannot see through so far.
Of course, it is also entirely possible that it is a self-"Di-ization" caused by uncertainty.
Without further ado, Karasawa has always listened to the opposite of Kogoro Mori's "negative reasoning", which to some extent can be regarded as a kind of "scientific law".
Sure enough, not long after listening to what Kogoro Mouri said, Karasawa made a discovery under the cabinet under the computer desk.
I saw a folded piece of paper lying on the ground under the cabinet, and its shape looked like an "L".
Tang Ze tried to insert it into the gap under the drawer and it fit perfectly.
"Is this also a way to find out if anyone has entered the room?" Xiaolan was surprised when she saw Tang Ze's actions: "So someone really broke into Mr. Kusukawa's house!"
"That's right." Tang Ze nodded and picked up the note. "This works the same way as tape. If someone opens the drawer, the note underneath will fall out."
"Hmph...what's there to be afraid of?"
Maori Kogoro looked at his daughter behind him and continued his "depressed reasoning" unhappily: "Maybe it's just like the tape on the door. Kusukawa forgot he set up a trap here and then opened the drawer and didn't retract it."
"Hey! What's this on the table!"
Seeing the three people gathered around, Conan pointed to the marks on the computer desk and said, "Look, there's a pencil mark here. The square in the middle should have been a sticky note, right? It's the perfect size!"
"Someone probably wanted to know what was written on one of the sticky notes, so they used a pencil to erase the writing." Tang Ze smiled. "It's a common plot in mystery novels."
"But Mr. Kusukawa, as the owner of the room, would not use this method." Xiaolan guessed, looking at the table.
"It's likely that Hattori saw that Mr. Minamikawa's door was not locked, so he came in and found the note..." Maori Kogoro scratched his head, "This is troublesome. Those two took the note away. Now we have no way of knowing what was written on it..."
"Let's paint the next layer." Tang Ze took the sticky note from the desk, picked up the pencil and began to paint. "If the pressure of the pen is enough to leave a mark on the paper below, then even the paper below it will be enough to leave a mark."
As he spoke, Tang Ze showed the painted content to the three of them.
"Ito from Kenbashi-cho?" Maori Kogoro took the sticky notepad and looked at it carefully. "In addition to the address, there seems to be a phone number, but it seems that he didn't put much pressure when writing the phone number..."
Maori Kogoro took a closer look at the sticky note and finally gave up, "Damn... I can't see clearly...
"Then let's go look for them. Hattori and the other two probably went there after seeing the news."
As Tang Ze spoke, he took out his cell phone and quickly called Chiba, who was on duty today, and asked him to help find the information of a resident named Ito in Kenbashi Town.
With Chiba's help, information was soon sent to all residents with the surname "Ito" in Kenbashi Town.
There are a total of thirteen families named "Ito" in the entire Xianqiao Town. After Tang Ze got the information, he drove the three of them to the destination.
"I knew it..." Maori Kogoro said, clutching his head with a headache: "This is really just like when I was a criminal..."
"It's not that many." Tang Ze looked at the resident information and smiled. "It's pretty quick to drive over and ask each one."
The first... the second... the third...
Just as Tang Ze said, the group's visit was indeed very quick. The middle-aged bald man, the old woman, the impatient young male resident...
After asking door to door, we found nothing.
"This is already the eighth one..." Maori Kogoro gritted his teeth and said, "That little brat from Osaka who loves to cause trouble for others... wait until I find him and see how I teach him a lesson!!"
"Come on, Dad!" Xiaolan encouraged with a smile, "There are only five more to go."
Fortunately, the weather was clear when they arrived at Kenbashi Town, otherwise Kogoro Mori would probably be even more irritable at this moment.
"You never know." Conan said in a baby voice, starting his backstabbing mode of "adding fuel to the fire", "Even though we've visited so many houses and they all said they haven't seen it, maybe someone is lying.
After all, Mr. Kusukawa is missing. If Hattori and the others follow the clues to find him, wouldn’t they be in danger? The criminals won’t tell the truth then…”
"Huh? What should we do?" Xiaolan said worriedly after hearing Conan's words.
"Well, we'll have to ask Detective Tang Ze about this." Conan glanced at Tang Ze and smiled meaningfully.
"Just keep going."
Tang Ze glanced at Conan, knowing that he wanted him to share information. He kept crossing out the eight families on the list and smiled, "What they said is true. It proves that we haven't encountered the Ito family that Hattori and his men are looking for."
"Huh?" Xiaolan was stunned for a moment after hearing Tang Ze's words, "Detective Tang Ze, how did you know that?"
"Because there's no scent of them in the room." Tang Ze smiled and said, "There's no scent of them either on them or in the room."
Looking at the remaining five addresses on the list, Tang Ze couldn't help but smile.
I have a feeling this case will be very simple.