At the elevator door.
Looking at the fat woman with her mouth wide open and a look of fear on her face, Hattori Heiji shouted again, but the other party still did not respond.
Obviously, she had been frightened by the scene of Mr. "Death" suddenly raising his gun and shooting her in the head. She still hadn't come to her senses and could not receive any information from the outside world.
"That's enough, I'll find it myself!"
Hattori Heiji cursed at this, but just as he was about to leave, Tang Ze held his shoulder and said, "Wait, the elevator will be down soon!"
Hattori Heiji stopped in his tracks upon hearing this, and everyone's eyes fell on the elevator door.
These few short seconds of waiting made everyone present feel like they were living a year.
Soon, an elevator car painted red appeared in front of the elevator door window.
As the elevator door retracted and opened, the man lying in the elevator appeared in front of everyone.
There was a horrific bullet hole on the deceased's temple, clearly a sign of being shot, and blood was flowing all over his head.
"ah!!"
Seeing the corpse in front of them, Xiaolan and Heye once again acted as the atmosphere group, screaming and opening the curtain for this case.
When things got to this point, Tang Ze quickly calmed down and began to take control of the situation.
Fortunately, there are many people coming together this time, so there is no need to worry about lack of manpower.
After calling the police, Takagi heard Tang Ze say that someone had committed suicide by shooting himself, so he quickly led the police to the apartment where the crime occurred.
"Hey, you said you were investigating a closed suicide case?"
After learning the group's motive for coming to this apartment, Takagi was surprised.
"Yes, mainly because there are some aspects of those cases that I care about, so I took a leave of absence and came here from Osaka."
Detective Otaki nodded and explained, "However, after investigation, we found that it was indeed a suicide case, but the deceased faked it to look like a homicide.
Then, when I was waiting for the elevator with Detective Karasawa and Mr. Maori, who were traveling with us, to leave, we unexpectedly came across this suicide scene...”
"As for the identity of the deceased, I wonder if you have found out?" Takagi looked at Tang Ze and asked.
"The man who committed suicide was Mr. Bupu Walrus, who lived on the second floor of this apartment building." Tang Ze nodded and said, "He was a stockbroker, but he had a very bad reputation. Is that correct?"
At the end of his words, Tang Ze looked at the fat lady beside him to ask if what he said was accurate.
"Ah... yes!!" The fat woman saw Tang Ze looking at her and nodded quickly.
"Um, may I ask who this lady is?" Officer Takagi looked at the only unfamiliar face in the group and asked.
"This is Miss Nami, who's waiting for the elevator with us, preparing to go downstairs." Maori Kogoro said, "She lives on the third floor of this apartment building. She gets her beauty treatments every week at this time."
"In other words, after the elevator door opened, you saw this scene, right?" Takagi looked at the corpse and said.
"To be precise, I witnessed the moment of suicide." Tang Ze said, looking at the corpse.
"Huh?" Takagi was a little surprised when he heard that.
"Look, isn't there an elevator window over there?"
Hattori Heiji pointed to the two rectangular windows on the elevator door and said, "We were in the elevator going up when we saw Mr. Fubu standing in the elevator, holding a gun to his temple and shooting himself."
"That picture looks like he is deliberately trying to commit suicide in front of us." Tang Ze said with a serious expression.
"So that means the elevator was still going up at that time?" Takagi felt a little embarrassed after hearing the description of the two people and recalling the scene.
"Yes." Hattori Heiji nodded and said, "At first, I planned to go up the stairs directly to confirm which floor the elevator finally stopped at.
But Detective Tang Ze asked me to wait a moment, and then the elevator went down.
And when the elevator door opened, it looked like this.”
"So this is completely suicide." Takagi said, supporting his knees with his hands as he looked at the corpse.
"I think so too, and there's a message like that in the elevator."
Detective Otaki in the elevator pressed the door closing button, and the elevator's iron door slowly closed, revealing a line of handwritten words in red spray paint.
The two katakana characters in the middle of the red line were written on the glass of the elevator window, so they saw the deceased inside through this layer of text.
"B-Bye?"
Officer Gao Mu couldn't help but read the words aloud after seeing them, then looked at the corpse and said, "Could this be a last will?"
"There was actually a spray paint can at the victim's feet."
Detective Otaki pointed to the white spray paint can on the ground and said, "I think he probably sprayed a message in the elevator before committing suicide.
So I see these cases as absolutely true..."
"He was murdered." ×3
The unanimous words of Tang Ze and the other two shocked everyone present, and they unconsciously showed disbelief on their faces.
"Is this a murder case?"
If Conan and Hattori Heiji said this, Xiaolan and Kazuha would still feel a little confused, but if even Karasawa said so, they would still believe it.
This is mainly a question of reliability. After all, in their opinion, Detective Karasawa is older than them and his reasoning ability is stronger than Hattori Heiji. If even Detective Karasawa said so, then maybe he really was the one who killed him.
Even Detectives Takagi and Otaki, who were standing next to them, subconsciously believed the judgment of Karasawa and the other two after hearing it.
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