Chapter 83 A fruitful journey
Let’s go back to five o’clock this morning.
When Conan saw the body under room 1003, especially the familiar rope on the body, he knew that it must have been Mr. Amuro who did it.
If he didn't understand why Oda Hiroshi stood at the door of room 1005 and didn't let anyone in, now he understands that Mr. Amuro must have been in room 1005, and everything Oda Hiroshi did was to protect Mr. Amuro.
Considering that Mr. Amuro was in very bad condition, Oda Hiroshi not only did not add insult to injury, but also helped him in times of need. Such behavior clearly showed that he was a good person.
Although Mr. Amuro was very suspicious of Kazukage Yayoi and Oda Hiroshi, and warned him many times to stay away from them. But in Conan's opinion, they were not as bad as Mr. Amuro said. At least, neither Kazukage Yayoi nor Oda Hiroshi had any murderous intention towards Mr. Amuro or him, otherwise he would not be alive until now.
As for the previous two options, Conan has already made a judgment in his mind.
Seeing that everyone's attention was focused on the corpse in front of him, he quietly tapped his card back to room 1005. However, he was surprised to find that despite the loud noise, Uncle Maori and Sister Xiaolan were not woken up.
He glanced at the balcony door that Amuro Toru had opened to the limit, and thought of how he had also felt sleepy the moment he entered the room. So what was filling the room now was ether?
Conan quickly looked around the room. After all, it would take less than ten minutes for a person to wake up after leaving the ether, so he had to quickly dispose of the things left by Mr. Amuro. Although no one had discovered the problem yet, if someone discovered the problem later and found Room 1005 and dug out the things left by Mr. Amuro, it would be troublesome.
As far as Conan could see, the room was very clean and tidy, except for the slightly full trash can. If Captain Mori said so, Mr. Kanzuki would come to clean the room after the guests left. Uncle Mori had just returned to the room, and Mr. Amuro didn't look like he had time to eat fruit, so there couldn't be so many fruit residues in the trash can all at once.
So, there is something in the trash can that Mr. Amuro wants to cover up.
Conan emptied the trash can and soon found a bloody bandage and two broken syringes inside. All the medicines in the syringes had been injected.
If the syringe was brought by the murderer, he could have taken it away directly and there was no need to leave the evidence of his crime in the room.
Therefore, the syringe could only have been brought by Mr. Amuro. Even more, the person who was injected was Mr. Amuro. After all, if the murderer had honestly let Mr. Amuro finish the two injections, the one who is seriously injured now is definitely not Mr. Amuro, but the murderer.
So the efficacy or side effect of this drug is likely to keep people awake. At that time, Mr. Amuro knew that ether was injected into Room 1005, but it was too late. In order to stay awake, he was forced to inject himself with two injections. But considering Toru Amuro's occupation, Conan had to wonder what kind of "forced awakening" this "forced awakening" meant.
Severe pain can also force people to stay awake.
Although he was thinking, Conan did not hesitate. He immediately took out a bag of potato chips from the snack cabinet, crushed them, and carefully cut them open along the center seam with scissors, and flushed all the potato chips into the toilet. He then put the bandage and syringe into the potato chip bag, taped the seam, and finally put the fake bag into the innermost layer of the snack cabinet.
Conan then opened the closet and found that the first aid kit at the bottom of the closet had indeed been used. Not only was a roll of bandage missing, but also some alcohol and cotton were missing. If he really searched room 1005 later, he would have no way to explain why so many things were missing.
Conan frowned, not knowing how to solve the problem. He even thought about slashing himself with a knife, when he heard an imperceptible knock on the door. "Conan, it's me."
It’s Oda Hiroshi. What is he here for?
However, Conan still quietly opened the door and asked quietly: "Brother Hong, what's the matter?"
Zhu Fushiguri looked over Conan's head and saw the overturned trash can, the scissors on the table, and the open closet door. "Mr. Amuro used the first aid kit?"
Conan nodded. Since Oda Hiroshi had been standing at the door and not letting anyone in, he must have known that Mr. Amuro was in the room bandaging his wound, so there was nothing to hide now.
"Wait a minute, I'll go get 1004's first aid kit. If there's anything else that needs to be dealt with, I'll take care of it together."
Hearing that Zhu Fu Jing Guang was willing to help, Conan's eyes lit up and he handed the potato chip bag and first aid kit to Zhu Fu Jing Guang. Compared with Room 1005, which had a balcony connected to Room 1003, Room 1004, which was definitely not on the same side, was less likely to be searched.
Zhu Fu Jingguang looked at the bag of potato chips that Conan handed over in surprise, not knowing whether to complain about the childish way of hiding things, or whether Conan was really quick to hide it in just a few minutes. However, he still didn't say anything, silently took the potato chips and the box, and quickly returned to room 1004 to open the bag of potato chips to check what was inside.
It's a bloody bandage and an interrogation potion.
And that is the pain that every member of the code name has tasted, and it will never be forgotten in their lifetime.
Zhu Fujing lowered his eyes and pursed his lips, but he could only remain silent in the end, stuffed the bag into the snack cabinet, and then took out the first aid kit from the closet. Then he paused and subconsciously glanced at the first aid kit in his hand.
The weight...something seems wrong?
He reopened the first aid kit in Room 1005, which contained alcohol, cotton, iodine...
Zhu Fujingguang picked up the brown bottle of iodine and shook it gently. A solid substance different from the liquid was swaying in the bottle, so he walked to the sink and turned the iodine bottle over and poured it out. As the bottle turned upside down, a blue object the size of a ping-pong ball rolled out.
Zhu Fujingguang picked up the necklace from the sink. Even he couldn't help but be shocked. This is really a waste of natural resources.
But now is not the time to explore this issue. If he delays any longer, Mr. Maori will wake up. He quickly put the necklace in his pocket, filled the alcohol and iodine bottles with clean water, and hurried back to room 1005 with the first aid kit.
After putting down the first aid kit, Zhu Fu Jingguang looked up again to confirm that there were no other suspicious signs in Room 1005, and then said, "We should go back to Room 1003. If we leave for too long, people will get suspicious."
Hmm? Who would suspect a child and a person with an alibi? Conan glanced at him suspiciously, but did not speak. He followed Zhu Fu Jingguang out obediently.
When they quietly returned to Room 1003, they happened to catch up with Dr. Nancun announcing the autopsy results of the first body. He looked very tired, with dark circles under his eyes, his eyes drooping tiredly, and his tone was quite tired.
"The first person I have dissected is Mr. Tsuchiya. His cause of death was cardiac arrest due to excessive blood loss. The murder weapon is estimated to be a thin wire with a diameter of about 0.5 mm and a length of at least 20 cm. The material is most likely a hard metal with good plasticity, such as iron, nickel, chromium, titanium, etc."
"According to the analysis of Mr. Tsuchiya's stomach contents, the time of death is currently estimated to be between 11pm and 1am the next morning. By the way, in addition to tonight's dinner menu, Mr. Tsuchiya also took an extra capsule."
Doctor Nancun turned his laptop to show everyone. He smiled weakly and said in a weak tone, "I'm sorry, my specialty is not forensic medicine, so I can only speculate here. For the specific situation, we have to return to land and wait for professional forensic doctors to conduct an examination. I have uploaded the photos, videos and text records to the computer, and you can take a look at them directly."
Captain Mori nodded, "Thank you for your hard work, Nancun. There is a second body, please work overtime to deal with it."
Hearing this, Yuanzi looked at Captain Mori in surprise. "Overtime processing", what kind of term is this? Who would call dissecting a corpse "processing"? It sounds like the same as slaughtering pigs and cows in a slaughterhouse.
As for Conan, he was already used to Captain Mori's speaking style. Anyway, with Kazukage Yayoi in front of him, it didn't seem so strange. So he asked, "Capsule? What kind of capsule is it?"
Mrs. Tsuchiya didn't care about a child's question and took out a medicine box divided into seven parts from her bag. Two of the compartments were empty, four contained a capsule and a tablet, and one compartment was missing a tablet.
"It's vitamins. Ah Hui doesn't like to eat vegetables. But as a coach, he has to ensure his nutritional intake, so he takes calcium tablets at 8 a.m. and vitamins at 10 p.m. I said before that Ah Hui doesn't like to carry things, so I keep all his medicines with me."
Mrs. Tsuchiya handed the box to Dr. Nancun and said, "If you are worried, you can take it for examination. The tablets are calcium tablets, and the capsules are vitamins."
Sonoko didn't notice anything unusual. She asked curiously, "Mrs. Tsuchiya, who do you think Mr. Tsuchiya has a better relationship with? Even if this person visits Mr. Tsuchiya in the early hours of the morning, will he not be offended?"
Hearing Sonoko's question, Mrs. Tsuchiya frowned and thought for a moment, then hesitantly spoke, "I'm sorry, Hui doesn't really let me contact his business partners. But there is indeed someone who visits Hui at home almost every month. Every time he comes, he chooses a time when the servants are asleep, such as one or two o'clock in the morning."
"But Ah Hui wouldn't even tell me who it was, and usually made me stay in the bedroom. But they wouldn't meet for long, probably only about ten minutes. One time, I couldn't resist my curiosity, so I followed Ah Hui to secretly see who that person was."
"The man I saw was not tall, a head shorter than Ah Hui, about 170cm. He was wearing a black windbreaker and a black hat. It was too dark, so I couldn't see his face clearly. But from the sound of his voice, he seemed to be a very young man, no more than 30 years old."
"That person was very alert. I looked at him and he spotted me. I didn't think he was a normal person, so I ran back to the bedroom. I don't know how Ah Hui explained it afterwards. After waiting for a while, Ah Hui came back to the room and told me not to follow him quietly next time because it was too dangerous."
"Ah Hui said that if the other party wanted to kill me, he would not be able to stop it. He said that there is a huge organization behind them with influence all over the world. We are a small family and have no ability to fight against them."
"By the way, what did Ah Hui call that guy...something about a foreigner's name, not a Japanese name, but I can't remember it."
Mrs. Tsuchiya was obviously trying hard to think, but in the end she shook her head to indicate that she couldn't remember.
Hearing about such a suspicious person, Sonoko asked, "Did this person get on board? Is he the one that Mr. Tsuchiya is meeting this time?"
Unfortunately, Mrs. Tsuchiya shook her head to indicate that she didn't know.
On the other hand, Conan and Morobushi Keimitsu's attention was obviously not here. Their eyes were fixed on the rather strange-looking medicine box.
"Um, Brother Hong, you noticed it too, right? That medicine box, there's something wrong." Conan asked Morobushi Kagemitsu in a low voice.
Zhu Fu Jingguang nodded, "There are five boxes of pills in the medicine box, and this voyage is exactly five days, so there should be one box per day. The missing tablet should have been taken by Mr. Tsuchiya in the morning on the first day. But if Mr. Tsuchiya took the capsule at 10 o'clock in the evening, then there is no reason for her to replace a single capsule. Therefore, the capsule she gave Mr. Tsuchiya tonight was not the vitamin in the box."
Zhu Fu Jingguang thought for a moment and asked tentatively: "Conan, I heard that you are Kid Hunter. As long as you are here, his crimes will not succeed?"
Conan looked at Zhu Fu Jingguang in confusion, not knowing why the topic suddenly turned to this, "No, that's not the case. It's all nonsense in the newspapers. In fact, the odds between me and that guy are almost the same."
"That guy? It sounds like you guys have a good relationship?"
Conan hesitated for a moment, but nodded and admitted it. Since Oda Hiro suddenly mentioned Kidd, considering the existence of Dream of Hope, and the so-called gentleman from Room 1002 who has not appeared yet, he has every reason to suspect that Room 1002 is Kaito Kidd.
Seeing that Conan said that he had a good relationship with Kid, Morobushi Kagemitsu said with confidence: "In fact, we met Kaito Kid, the guest of Room 1002, in the bar. He told us that during his last theft, someone told him that Mr. Tsuchiya would attend the Suzuki Group Annual Meeting with the Dream of Hope. And that mysterious person gave the invitation letter of Room 1002 to Kaito Kid."
Conan was not happy that his guess was confirmed. He frowned and said, "Not many people know that Mr. Tsuchiya has a dream of hope. What's more, this person knows that he is going to attend the annual meeting and can even be specific about the room number. This person must have a very close relationship with Mr. Tsuchiya, such as the man in black in Mrs. Tsuchiya's story, and Mrs. Tsuchiya herself."
"If there is only one person who has murderous intentions towards the deceased, then once the deceased dies, this person will be highly suspicious. But if there are many people who have murderous intentions towards the deceased, then the tree hides in the forest, and this mysterious person can escape our attention."
"So this mysterious man deliberately lured Kidd aboard because he thought Kidd would issue a warning letter to spread the news of the Dream of Hope, causing more people to have murderous intentions against Mr. Tsuchiya. But he didn't expect that Kidd was very cautious, so he didn't choose to do so this time."
"In this case, the mysterious person must not only meet the condition that he has a close relationship with Mr. Tsuchiya, but also meet the condition that he would be the most suspicious after Mr. Tsuchiya's death. From this point of view, this mysterious person can only be Mrs. Tsuchiya."
Morobushi Kagemitsu nodded in agreement. "However, I don't think Mrs. Tsuchiya is the real murderer in this murder case. But she definitely did something. The capsule may contain ingredients that are enough to kill people. She only found Mr. Maori to serve as her alibi witness."
Conan thought about it and asked in confusion: "But if the Dream of Hope is a trap set by Mrs. Tsuchiya, why did the real murderer take it away?"
Hearing this, Zhu Fu Jingguang paused, and silently took out a corner of the necklace from his pocket and showed it to Conan.
Seeing Zhu Fu Jingguang's actions, Conan's eyes widened. No, what are you doing? One broke into the house illegally, one succeeded in theft, one was an international thief, and finally there was another who was suspected of murder and was being hunted by the police.
Can my teammates still be okay?
Conan looked up at Zhu Fu Jing Guang speechlessly, wanting to say something but stopping himself. Zhu Fu Jing Guang took back the necklace and explained: "It wasn't me who did it. I took it out of the first aid kit you gave me. It must have been hidden by Mr. Amuro."
No, Mr. Amuro, what are you doing again? Conan held his forehead speechlessly, but what else could he do? He could only say that Mr. Amuro must have a deep meaning for doing this.
"Okay, then we can ignore the Dream of Hope. The person who invited Kidd on board is most likely Mrs. Tsuchiya, no problem. However, there is one more thing, although I haven't confirmed it... I want to ask, yesterday afternoon, Mr. Amuro and Mr. Tsuchiya had a conflict, and Mr. Tsuchiya said that Mr. Amuro stole something, right?"
"Since Mr. Amuro was able to obtain the Dream of Hope, it proves that Mr. Amuro entered the room after Mr. Tsuchiya returned, or that he was still in the room at that time. Considering that Mr. Tsuchiya could not have let Mr. Amuro in... So, is the room card on Mr. Tsuchiya's body really for Room 1003?"
If Mr. Amuro wants to enter Room 1003, besides getting a work card, the easiest way is to exchange Mr. Tsuchiya's room card with his own.
Although Conan didn't want to admit it, his reason told him that the room card on Mr. Tsuchiya was most likely Toru Amuro's. So he kept silent, trying to cover up the matter and prevent people from finding out that there might be something wrong with the room card.
Zhu Fu Jingguang nodded and admitted, "Although I haven't tried it, Mr. Amuro did change his and Mr. Tsuchiya's room cards yesterday afternoon. I saw that his injuries didn't look like they had been treated, so I guessed that he probably didn't have a room card to enter the room. And Kidd stole the work card of a bartender, so I took the card and threw it to Mr. Amuro."
Conan rubbed his forehead in pain, "That is to say, Mr. Amuro is most likely a witness to Mr. Tsuchiya's murder. He was ambushed by the murderer when he returned to room 1005, and the last two room cards were not exchanged. Because his room card was left at the crime scene, he was afraid that he would be framed as the murderer, so he didn't dare to come forward."
"However, although no one has mentioned this matter yet, we can't hide it for long. As long as we assume that the murderer is not a staff member on the ship, it will be easy to think that the room card left behind is not for room 1003. When we try it, everyone will know that it is for room 1005. Although we have dealt with the traces, it is inevitable..."
Before Conan finished speaking, he heard Sonoko say, "By the way, is that room card really for room 1003? Have you tried it?"
Garden, you!
Conan thought that anyone could have said this, and he didn't expect that Sonoko would be the first to say it. He widened his eyes, dumbfounded. No, how could they bring their own people to attack their own people?
"What do you mean?" Captain Mori asked in confusion, then realized, "Ms. Suzuki means that this room card belongs to another room?"
Oh no, it’s over... Conan subconsciously held his forehead and took a step back.
Sonoko's eyes met Conan's distorted expression, and suddenly she realized that she seemed to have done something wrong.
"Ah... I just said it casually. Since it was placed inside Mr. Tsuchiya's clothes, how could it be the room card of another room?" Sonoko smiled awkwardly, trying to pretend nothing had happened.
But Mrs. Tsuchiya obviously didn't want to let this go. She immediately shouted for someone to check which room the key card belonged to. "That must be the murderer's key card! He didn't know that his key card was secretly hidden by Ah Hui! Check it out!"
"Guan Yue, please send the room card and the bracelet on the body for inspection." Captain Mori was obviously happier to see that the room card was not from Room 1003, which proved that the murderer was not a staff member on the ship.
After all, the staff can just leave the real room card of room 1003 in the room and use their work card to go out. Only the guests need to use other room cards to pretend to be the room card of room 1003 and use the real room card of room 1003 to go out.
Compared with the autopsy, the information of the room card and bracelet were displayed quickly.
"Captain, Mr. Suzuki, this is the information retrieved. The room card and the bracelet are from the same person, Mr. Toru Amuro in Room 1005." Mr. Guanyue pushed his glasses and said in a subtle tone.
What? Hearing this, Suzuki Shiro and Suzuki Sonoko looked in the direction of Room 1005 in shock. Of course they knew who lived with Mr. Mori, but how could the deceased be Mr. Amuro?
Captain Mori looked at the report and sighed softly, his tone quite regretful: "It seems that the person who left the room card was not the murderer, but another victim. The murderer left Mr. Amuro's room card at the scene and used the room card of room 1003 to leave. It seems that these two cases were committed by the same murderer."
"How is it possible? Mr. Amuro? Is it really Mr. Amuro?" Sonoko frowned and eagerly snatched the report, "How is it possible?"
"Sonoko..." Shiro Suzuki hugged his daughter, not knowing how to comfort her.
Seeing that both Suzuki and his daughter were showing a great deal of sadness, Conan had no choice but to act along. He screamed, "Mr. Amuro... you're dead! How tragic! Wow... you said you would! Buy me... a toy racing car... Wow... Mr. Amuro wow..." He even sat down on the ground and hammered the floor with his hands.
Zhu Fujingguang looked at Conan who was only howling but not crying, and was about to say something, this...isn't the acting too fake? He looked at Yuanzi again. Compared with this person, Conan was so much of an extra that he would be edited out as a ghost animal material.
Unfortunately, no one understood his inner complaints, so he had to put on his mask silently. Forget it, he had no intention of stopping everyone from crying for Toru Amuro, but he also had no intention of crying for Zero. They had already shed enough tears, there was no need to cry over something like this.
So let him wear a mask and stay away from these people whose acting is uneven. As for the real murderer, he already has a suspicion, and Conan must have made a judgment, so it's time to find Jing Yayoi for the answer.
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