"But how can you tell it was homicide..." Takagi couldn't help but ask.
"Look at the monitor above the elevator." Tang Ze pointed at the elevator buttons. "There's red spray paint on them, right?"
"It's true..." Detective Otaki said after taking a look.
"Before you came, I asked Hattori-kun to check the surveillance." Tang Ze said, "Let him tell you the details."
"I just asked the apartment manager to check the surveillance footage, and I saw that shortly before the incident, a hand holding a spray can suddenly appeared and sprayed the surveillance camera.
This is the criminal. He didn't want the police to see what happened in the elevator during the investigation, so he deliberately extended only his arm and blocked the camera with spray paint."
"But is it possible that the deceased didn't want the surveillance camera to see the scene of his suicide, so he deliberately sprayed away the camera?" Takagi couldn't help but speculate.
"It's not impossible, but the spray paint can was held in someone's right hand." Hattori Heiji said with a smile.
"Isn't it normal to use your right hand?" Maori Kogoro couldn't help but say impatiently after hearing what Hattori Heiji said: "After all, most Japanese people are right-handed."
"But look at the deceased's hand holding the gun." Tang Ze pointed at the deceased: "He held the gun with his left hand, so he should be left-handed."
"Everyone who lives here and has dealt with Mr. Bu Pu knows that he is left-handed." Miss Mingbo heard the conversation and spoke quickly.
"Is that so!?" Takagi suddenly realized, "And he's still holding the gun with his dominant hand..."
"So in this case, do you think he would deliberately switch to his non-dominant hand and then write the words?" Hattori Heiji asked back.
"In addition, this person is wearing a watch on his left hand..." Conan squatted down and said.
"Hmph, it's normal for left-handed people to wear watches on their left hand." Kogoro Mouri snorted coldly.
"No." Conan shook his head and pointed at the dead man's watch. "I mean, the dead man's watch stopped. It stopped at the time we found the body."
"It's probably broken or the battery is dead." Kogoro Mouri said disapprovingly.
"But this watch is a self-winding model. It's not a watch that winds itself automatically just by walking."
Conan put on the watch that Tang Ze handed him, raised it up and shook it slightly, and the minute hand began to move again: "Isn't this strange?"
Because Conan is now Tang Ze's apprentice, and it was Tang Ze who gave him the gloves, even though Conan got the evidence, he did not suffer the usual "hammer of love".
Looking at the watch Conan held up, Takagi took a look and said, "Really?"
"This is probably because the murderer wanted to disguise the death as suicide, so he deliberately put the watch on his wrist after killing him."
Tang Ze smiled and said, "Although we don't know why the criminal did this, we can be sure that he has not escaped and is hiding on the third floor or above."
"Huh?" After hearing Tang Ze's words, Gao Mu was both surprised and astonished: "Why do you say that?"
"Because after the incident, Detective Tang Ze immediately arranged for me to contact the apartment manager and check the surveillance footage of the first-floor exit."
Hattori Heiji smiled and said, "After that, I also stayed at the stairwell on the third floor to make sure no one left through the stairwell."
"So that's how it is." Gao Mu said in surprise, "Then the criminal is hiding on the third floor or above."
"In that case, let's question them room by room," said Detective Otaki.
"Then let's start from the fourth floor." Takagi nodded.
Although he didn't bring many people with him, Tang Ze and others could also help with the investigation, so everyone got busy.
Before they knew it, it was already dark, but everyone had finally checked all the residents on the 4th to 7th floors.
"Are there only three suspicious residents in total?"
After everyone gathered the information from the search, Maori Kogoro said in disbelief, "There are only three rooms on so many floors. This building clearly has seven floors..."
"This is because someone died in the room last month, so many people moved out." Takagi explained the reason.
"It's not that I don't understand."
Tang Ze smiled and said, "After all, those who can afford to live in this kind of apartment should be considered well-off.
In this case, it is understandable that someone might move because of a death in their place of residence due to taboos or other reasons."
After all, good conditions mean more money, and naturally more choices.
Of course, there is another important reason. It is probably because most of the people in Japan do not buy houses but rent them. Therefore, after something like this happens, they can easily run away.
And taking a step back,
"That's the situation anyway."
Takagi said, "The only people left who live alone and don't have an alibi are those three."
"In that case, let's go ask those three about the whole story." Hattori Heiji straightened his cap and put on a playful smile. "I'm afraid the criminal didn't expect that he would be singled out as a suspect so quickly."
When Toyama Kazuha saw Hattori Heiji's actions, she felt a pang in her heart and had a bad premonition.
"Oh no! Heiji has completely turned on his deduction switch..."
Toyama Kazuha pulled out her phone and said in panic, "But the Shinkansen is about to depart! What should I do?!"
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