The next morning,
After work, Tang Ze found Sihuayuan and told him that his new book was basically finished.
Let the other party choose the right time to announce the news to maximize the publicity effect.
After spending the day safely, on Thursday night when Tang Ze was about to get off work and thought he could spend another day safely, the case came as expected.
When he drove to the scene, the familiar figure in front of him did not make Tang Ze feel the slightest bit of anxiety.
Xiaolan, Sonoko, and Conan, who works all year round, look like they are destined to encounter a case while playing on their way home after school.
However, when Tang Ze saw the other woman with short golden hair next to the three people, he narrowed his eyes slightly.
Meeting Judy again means that this case may contain some small information from both the red and black sides.
The little information in this kind of case is a valuable piece of the puzzle for Conan, but for Tang Ze it is not something worth taking seriously.
After seeing the other person, he just smiled and greeted him, and then began to carefully check the scene.
Let Conan deal with the little information revealed by the other party in those cases. He just needs to focus on the case.
After questioning Sonoko and others, the general situation of the case has been understood.
Conan and his two friends met Teacher Judy after school.
Because there seemed to be perverts harassing students recently, Judy wanted to find the two to ask about the situation, so she brought the three of them to the mall here to talk while drinking drinks.
While they were talking, the lights in the mall suddenly dimmed, and then they heard a commotion outside.
When they ran out, they found that the deceased was leaning against the guardrail at the escalator entrance, holding his chest and dead.
The deceased was named Katsuzawa Nakajo, 43 years old, and was the president of a detective agency.
As for the cause of death, it was also very simple. He was stabbed in the stomach.
Considering that the crime scene was in a place with huge traffic such as a shopping mall, and the testimony of Yuanzi and others that there had been a power outage before, it can be inferred that the criminal committed the crime in the brief moment when the power was out.
On the file bag that the deceased held in front of his chest with both hands, there was a set of strange death messages that he had tried his best to leave before his death, pointing to the criminal - "○×△"!
After the forensic personnel investigated the mobile phone on the deceased, they found that the last call the deceased made was 30 minutes ago.
And that was exactly the moment when the case happened!!
Yes, you heard it right. It took Tang Ze and others 30 minutes to arrive at the crime scene.
Not only is the distance a problem, but there are also traffic jams...
Half an hour was neither long nor short. After hearing the report from the forensic department, Tang Ze directly took the mobile phone and made the last call of the deceased through the evidence bag.
When the call was connected, a phone suddenly rang out among the crowd of onlookers.
“Ring, ring, ring!!!”
Hearing the shrill ringtone, Tang Ze and others unconsciously looked towards the source of the ringtone, and then saw a middle-aged man with a high hairline taking out his mobile phone in panic.
"Ah...wait...wait..."
Looking at the ringing phone, the man quickly pressed the off button and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
But when he looked up, he found that the criminals had already come to his side.
"It seems that it was you, sir, who called the deceased thirty minutes ago."
Tang Ze's words instantly made the man in front of him panic, and he hurriedly wanted to deny, "No... I..."
"Excuse me." Tang Ze didn't have the patience to accompany the other person's inner struggle, so he simply grabbed the other person's wrist and turned the phone screen towards himself.
Sure enough, the name displayed on it was the name of the deceased.
"Ah, I remember my brother-in-law!" Yuanzi seemed to suddenly remember something when she saw the phone. "He was sitting next to us on the phone, saying he was offering four times the price and asking the other party to come over and pay quickly..."
"Huh? Those are very dangerous words..." Tang Ze stared at the other person with sharp eyes, "Sir, don't you want to explain something?"
"I know! I'll tell you everything!"
Faced with the criminals who were watching him intently, the man, unable to withstand the pressure, quickly begged for mercy.
According to the other party's self-introduction, his name is Lai Sheng Fan Jiu, his company is located on the 8th to 10th floors of this building, and he is the general affairs director of this company.
The reason why he was in contact with the other party was because his company discovered last month that an employee had misappropriated public funds, so the superiors ordered him to find the guy who misappropriated public funds before the president knew about it.
Naturally, he was not a professional investigator and did not have the ability to investigate, so he hired a detective to do so.
This is actually quite common in Japan. Many detectives' daily work is not actually murder cases, but business investigations, finding mistresses and some gray area matters.
But it was obvious that the detective he found was unreliable and had no professional ethics. After finding the criminal, he simply chose to raise the price.
What Conan and the others heard at that time was his conversation with the detective, in which he said that the other party was willing to take double the price, and if he was unwilling to pay a higher price, he would sell the information to the other party.
That's why Conan and the others heard the words in the cafe before.
However, the other party did not show up at the agreed time. Later, when he was looking for him, he was attracted by the crowd and found out that Nakajo Katsuzawa was dead. It was at this time that the phone suddenly rang and he was discovered.
"So, the file bag the deceased was holding contained that document?" Gao Mu speculated. "Now that the information is gone, it means the culprit was clearly after it. Therefore, the person who embezzled public funds is the culprit."
Tang Ze nodded after hearing this, then looked at Laisheng Fanjiu and said, "Well, Mr. Laisheng, I wonder if Mr. Nakajo has found anything to report to you before this?"
"Ah, yes, yes!"
Upon hearing this, Laisheng Fanjiu quickly pulled out a list from the file bag in his hand and said, "A week ago, Detective Nakajo provided me with a list of suspicious employees."
Gao Mu took a look at the densely packed list of names and immediately got a headache. "Hey, this is no joke! It's a huge project to investigate all those names one by one!"
"There are fifty-eight prisoners in total."
Looking at the list, Tang Ze quickly calculated the number of people.
Hearing Gao Mu's words, Tang Ze smiled at him and said, "Indeed, it is too troublesome to investigate so many people one by one.
But if we can decipher the "death message" left by Mr. Nakajo, then everything will be solved."
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