"Manager, has anyone come to ask about him?" Tang Ze thought of the man in the coat before and asked.
"Ah, indeed," the store manager recalled as he was checking out a customer, "that man said he was the father of my childhood friend Sanqiao."
"kindness?"
Hearing this testimony, which was completely different from Sonoko Zenba's, Takagi quickly looked at the store manager. "What did that man ask? Did he find out Takahiro Mihashi's address?"
“I did ask that question.”
The store manager nodded and said, "He said his son was sick and in the hospital, and he wanted to see Sanqiao so much that he came to see him.
Although I had found the school before, I found out that Sanqiao had moved out. I heard from his classmates that he was working here, so I hurried over..."
"I wonder if you can describe the man's appearance to us?" Tang Ze asked.
"He looks to be in his forties, wearing a suit underneath and a coat outside, he looks..."
The store manager hesitated for a moment and said, "On the surface, he looks serious, but in reality, he's quite confused."
"Is that so?" Tang Ze nodded and continued, "I wonder if there's anything else you're concerned about? Even the smallest things are fine."
"Oh, by the way, he answered a phone call while he was talking to me, and the person who called himself was Mao Li." After thinking for a while, the store manager said a somewhat unexpected name.
"gross profit!?"
Tang Ze and the other man looked at each other and thought of the same person at the same time.
Thinking about it more carefully, the facial features of Kogoro Mouri, who is in his forties and has a small mustache, are indeed consistent with his appearance. Moreover, the suit inside and the coat outside are also consistent with the detective's usual attire when working.
More importantly, the other party's identity is constantly changing. Sometimes he is a person from a student loan company and sometimes he is the father of the deceased's classmate. The constant change of identity is also in line with the characteristics of a detective.
After all, it is normal for detectives to disguise their identities and obtain information from people around the target person in order to obtain information during the investigation.
Compared to Takagi, Karasawa even has an 80 to 90 percent chance of being sure that the other party is Kogoro Mori.
There is no way. With so many characteristics of the detective profession, plus the surname "Mauri", this is almost a confirmed fact. There is no possibility of having the same surname.
Moreover, from a scientific point of view, it seems to be a very common thing that the murder is related to Kogoro Mouri.
"Let's go to the Maori Detective Agency."
Tang Ze invited Takagi to get in the car: "If nothing unexpected happens, the one investigating Takahiro Mihashi should be Detective Maori."
"Perhaps your previous speculation, Detective Tang Ze, was correct."
Gao Mu said seriously, "At least Kusaka Takeyama knows Takahiro Mihashi's address. There's no need to hire a detective to investigate. Perhaps Takahiro Mihashi is involved in other incidents that we don't know about."
"Let's go and ask Detective Maori."
Tang Ze started the car and arrived at the Maori Detective Agency with ease.
After going up to the second floor, Tang Ze knocked on the door, and soon Mouri Kogoro's invitation of "Come in" came from inside the house.
Pushing the door open, before the two could say anything, Maori Kogoro, who was leaning back in a swivel chair with only his head and smoke curling around him, spoke behind the desk:
“There’s only one way to solve the problems that are bothering you, and that’s to hire a good detective.
Congratulations, you got the correct answer. With me, the famous detective Maori Kogoro, all the problems will be solved!"
When the swivel chair turned 180 degrees back to the table, Kogoro Mouri slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, took the cigarette out of his mouth, flicked the ash, and looked up at the customers at the door.
“Eh!?”
Seeing Takagi and Karasawa standing in front of the door, Maori Kogoro, who had been pretending to be serious, suddenly changed from serious to surprised, "Detective Karasawa, Detective Takagi, why are you two here?"
"Here's the situation."
Tang Ze smiled and asked, "We were investigating a student named Gao Hong Sanqiao, and in the process we learned that someone was also investigating him.
When I heard from the convenience store owner that the person who answered the phone called himself "Mori," I wondered if the person investigating him was Detective Mori, so I came to ask him.
"Please forgive my confidentiality on this matter." Maori Kogoro took a puff of his cigarette and said seriously, "The first rule of a detective is to keep the client's information confidential."
"So someone commissioned you to investigate Gao Hong Sanqiao?"
Hearing this, Tang Ze looked at Maori Kogoro and said, "I agree with you about keeping it confidential, but what if I tell you that the Gao Hong Sanbashi you're investigating was murdered early this morning?"
"What?!" Maori Kogoro was shocked when he heard Tang Zhe's words: "How could this happen?"
"Unfortunately, this is the truth. The case is still under investigation. I wonder if Detective Maori could tell us about his client?"
Looking at Maori Kogoro who looked incredulous, Tang Ze said bluntly, "To be honest, the person who has entrusted you to investigate Takahiro Mihashi is very suspicious.
After all, the deceased was just an ordinary college student. I really can't imagine who would specifically ask a detective to investigate a college student. There may be some hidden reason behind this."
"I see."
After hearing what Karasawa said, Maori Kogoro nodded seriously and said, "I will go with you. If Takahiro Mihashi was really killed because of my commission, then I also have the responsibility to catch the murderer and avenge him."
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