After hearing Xiao Ai's answer, Fang Zheng was mentally prepared for the possibility of death.
So when they returned to the company after dinner and saw a figure falling from the sky and falling to the ground in front of them, Fang Zheng seemed very calm.
Well, but the screaming quartet of Okino Yoko + Shimabukuro Kimie + Kosaka Natsumi + Xiaolan is indeed a headache.
It's not the first time for all of you to see a dead body, especially Xiaolan, could you not scream so loudly?
After Fang Zheng returned to the company, he learned the details.
There were two people who died. One was the crew's photographer Mr. Kamiya, and the other was the female star Ms. Mita Mari who came to audition for the second female role. Kamiya seemed to have chosen to commit suicide because of negative thoughts caused by his unhappy life, while Mita Mari was killed in the toilet. Judging from the scene, it was probably a murder for money.
Of course, this is when Conan is not around.
Since Conan is here, it must not be an ordinary accident.
In fact, according to Ai, there are suspects, and they are Kamiyada's girlfriend, Ms. Nakahara, and Mita Mari's husband, Mr. Yoshino. Because before, Ai and Conan saw Kamiyada's small circle fighting with each other, revealing that photographer Kamiyada had improper relationships with many women even though he had a girlfriend. Not only that, he also spent lavishly and squandered all of Ms. Nakahara's money.
As for Mari Mita...the reason is very simple. Mari Mita relied on the fact that she was a popular actress and did not regard her husband as her husband at all. She ordered him around on the set, making people feel that he was not her husband but more like her slave.
Although both of them had a motive for committing the crime, they did not have the time to commit the crime because according to the autopsy results, the time of death of the two people did not overlap. Kamiya was killed and then thrown from the building to make it look like he jumped from the building, which was no more than half an hour later, while the body of Mita Mari showed that the time of death was half an hour ago.
However, during this period, both Miss Nakahara and Mr. Yoshino had clear alibis, and their circles did not overlap at all, so they did not know each other. No matter how you look at it, these are two independent cases.
However, Fang Zheng saw at a glance that the murderers were actually these two people. Even without Conan's reasoning, he was able to guess their method - to put it bluntly, this was a case of exchange murder!
In simple terms, Uetani's girlfriend, Ms. Nakahara, killed Mita Mari, and Mita Mari's husband, Mr. Yoshino, killed Uetani. In this way, their motives for killing each other are uncertain, so it is difficult to catch them. And if the two people act at different times, then the alibi can be guaranteed to be completely flawless.
For example, if Miss Nakahara went to kill Mita Mari first, and Mr. Yoshino was with his friends during this time, then Mr. Yoshino must have an alibi.
Mr. Yoshino then goes to kill Uetani, and Ms. Nakahara is with her friends during this time to ensure her alibi.
Wow, you guys are having so much fun. What’s going on?
Next, Fang Zheng will watch how Xiaolan and Conan solve the case. By the way, this is also the first time he has seen Xiaolan and Conan cooperate. In simple terms, Xiaolan has completely replaced the work of her father Maori Kogoro, but compared to Maori Kogoro, Xiaolan is more proactive. It should be said that she is a karate student and a childhood sweetheart who has seen countless corpses with Kudo Shinichi. Although she screamed loudly when she first found the body, she really has a bit of her father's style when she really calmed down to investigate the scene.
The final reasoning was also completed by the two of them. After all, Kudo Shinichi cannot show up now, and Maori Kogoro is not here, so Maori Ran can only complete the reasoning. Fang Zheng also saw that the two sides will confirm Conan's entire reasoning in advance, and then Xiaolan will ask questions and Conan will answer them. After confirming that everything is correct, Xiaolan will stand up to testify, and Conan will supplement through Xiaolan's "earring headphones". If there is a need to restore the criminal's method, Conan will cooperate with Xiaolan...
I have to say that the couple has a tacit understanding.
Watching Xiaolan pointing out the murderer and finding evidence at the scene, Fang Zheng nodded silently. Although on the surface, Xiaolan seemed to be just a "talkative and cooperative" Maori Kogoro, Fang Zheng could see that Xiaolan also had her own strengths and attentiveness. It should be said that at present...the two of them cooperated well.
Judging from the reactions of the onlookers around, Xiaolan's reputation as a "high school detective" has almost spread.
By the way, the reason why this exchange killing was possible was purely because the two murderers met online and gradually became closer when they complained to each other. Although they only knew each other's online names, after learning that the person they hated would also come here to participate in the casting and audition of the movie, they came up with this "exchange killing" plan.
In fact, it was not until this time that the two met for the first time. After confirming the plan, they communicated through text messages, which they deleted after reading.
After hearing the reasoning in front of him, Fang Zheng calmed down. Haha, two guys who were chatting online and had never met each other wanted to help each other kill people because they had the same problem, and they both succeeded. Is this scientific?
Forget it, this world doesn’t care about science, so just study science.
Of course, this kind of exchange killing is actually feasible to a certain extent. After all, if the target is an acquaintance, especially someone you spend time with day and night, it is difficult to guarantee that you will do it - although this problem does not exist in the Conan world, instead most of the crimes are committed by acquaintances.
But it is different if it is a stranger. Suppose the stranger only knows negative information about the target, then he will not hesitate to take action. To him, the stranger in front of him is just a damn target, not the lover with whom he lives day and night.
But if you think you can escape the police, you are dreaming.
Fang Zheng asked Conan and Xiaolan to deduce and find the murderer on the spot simply for convenience. In fact, even if Conan was not there, it would not be difficult to solve this case. After all, the police's superficial investigation showed that there was no connection between the two parties. However, as long as they checked their phone records and found that the two had a lot of contact, they would definitely be able to find clues and draw conclusions through interrogation and search.
It just wastes some time.
Anyway, Fang Zheng's purpose of using the Death Halo to "disinfect" the crew was achieved, and he was thankful that only two people died. Originally, Fang Zheng had thought that with Conan's Death Halo, it might blow up a building or something... Now it seems that it is not so bad, and it is still within an acceptable range.
After all, if the building is blown up, it will be too expensive to rebuild it.
After that, Fang Zheng let go of the crew's affairs. Since no one would die anymore, he just had to select the cast, shoot, and then wait for the release.
But for Fang Zheng...
"Recently, Gin and the others haven't come out to cause trouble. It's so boring..."
While looking through the contracts and agreements recently signed by the company, Fang Zheng complained in boredom, while Xiao Ai looked at him speechlessly.
"You chased Gin for three blocks and even blew up his car. I think given the character of the organization, they won't send anyone back to Tokyo in the short term."
At this point, Xiao Ai also felt incredible. After all, the organization had always been in her mind as a low-key, huge and ferocious monster. As one of the most capable subordinates of the organization, Gin left a deep impression on Xiao Ai. He was like the incarnation of the god of death, which was terrifying.
But what Xiao Ai didn't expect was that the spokesperson of the organization, who seemed like the incarnation of the god of death, was chased by Fang Zheng for three blocks alone. He ran around in a panic, and in the end, even his car was blown up by Fang Zheng's RPG...
It's like a student seeing the long-time bully in the class being chased away by a transfer student. Now even Ai feels that the organization is not as scary as she thought.
"I'll be more careful next time. I should have kept a low profile..."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng flipped through the plan again, glanced at the printed document, and suddenly spat out a mouthful of coffee.
"What the hell is this?"
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Fang Zheng lose his composure like this, Xiao Ai looked at him curiously.
"Go call Mingmei."
Fang Zheng waved his hand, and Xiao Ai nodded and hurried out of the room. Soon, after a while, Mingmei also hurried to Fang Zheng.
"Mr. Fang Zheng, what happened?"
"About this."
Fang Zheng placed the coffee-stained plan on the table.
"What the hell is this?"
"What what?"
At this moment, Xiao Ai also came over curiously and took a look at the plan.
"An experience virtual game system jointly developed with Sindorah Corporation?"
"Yes, this is a system called Cocoon. It mainly allows players to enter a capsule similar to a cocoon, and talk to the game with a voice recognition system while playing in the virtual world in a hypnotic state... I think this is very suitable for our company's future business development, and Sindor is also a well-known company in the United States, so it is more suitable for opening up the market..."
This is even more outrageous than SAO. They are just grilling the brain, but you are grilling a whole lamb?
"Abandon this plan."
"Why?"
"Why? I think this is pretty good."
After hearing Fang Zheng's request, not only Mingmei was stunned, but even Xiaoai was puzzled.
"Virtual reality technology is usually full of risks when it is first developed, and this system in particular gives me a very bad feeling..."
"But... we have already signed the contract..."
"The contract was terminated and the investment was withdrawn. The reason was that Umbrella had doubts about the safety of Sindorra's virtual reality system and canceled the cooperation."
If Fang Zheng had no impression of the name Sindorra Company, when he saw the egg-like thing in the plan, Fang Zheng immediately remembered it... Isn't this the thing in Conan's movie "The Phantom of Baker Street"? !
Well, I happened once in SAO, and now I have to go through it again when I come to the Conan world?
This time Fang Zheng would not make the same mistake as SAO, he knew that the program itself was backdoored by someone, and the artificial AI inside was also a problem. If Umbrella was involved, then Umbrella would suffer the same fate as the SAO production company in the game world.
He won't do that.
Although she was a little confused, since Fang Zheng said so, Mingmei nodded and went to do it.
The news of Umbrella's withdrawal of investment was not actually a big news in the financial market, but it became a big news. Therefore, the reason given by Umbrella for the withdrawal was that they had doubts about the security of Sindorah's new virtual game system!
This gave the media an immediate piece of meat!
After all, there have been many debates surrounding virtual reality games since the advent of virtual reality games, but in the end it's just empty talk, just like keyboard warriors, which has no meaning other than wasting time.
But Umbrella is different. They really withdrew real money! And they would rather terminate the contract than continue!
This is different from ordinary empty talk, after all, it costs money to terminate the contract.
Could it be that Umbrella has mastered some internal secrets of the Sindorah Corporation?
Is there really any hidden danger in that virtual reality system?
If this were to be uncovered, it would be big news!