When he reached the door of the room, Mira was just sitting there bored, and Fang Zheng walked up to her, said hello, and handed her a piece of paper.
"Go to Room A and ask these questions again. Just use a tape recorder to record them. Don't worry about what he says. Just ask him to answer the questions. It's simple, isn't it?"
“Leave it to me!”
Mira was a little bored staying here, and when she heard Fang Zheng's mission, she quickly cheered up, took the paper, took a look at it, and then ran away excitedly.
"Mr. Fang Zheng, isn't that the question we asked before?"
When Mira left, Xiaolan also looked at her hands and found that the questions on them were basically the same ones they had asked the short and fat man before.
“That’s called repeated questioning.”
Fang Zheng withdrew his gaze and began to explain to Xiaolan.
"If you only ask once, no one knows whether the other party made it up or not, so you have to repeat the questioning several times. Under this high-intensity repeated questioning, anyone with something to hide will definitely reveal it. And more importantly, this can prevent the other party from changing their testimony in court."
"Changing your confession in court?"
"It's not common, but it does happen."
Fang Zheng shrugged. In fact, many cases in Conan meet the criteria of recanting in court. As a police officer or prosecutor, if you want to nail down a case, you must ensure that every piece of evidence is accurate. Unlike a detective, you can finish the job by finding the real murderer. The police also have to consider arresting the criminal, going to court, and what happens after the trial.
Even if a criminal cries in front of Conan, and suddenly turns hostile in court and says that he confessed under duress and that he did not do it at all, Conan can do nothing to him.
And if the case goes to court, Conan will not succeed in many cases.
For example, the evidence was found by Kogoro Mouri and Conan, but they do not have the power to enforce the law and are suspected of forging evidence, so the evidence will not be accepted.
Or in a secret room like Blizzard Hill, the other party cried in front of everyone, and then when he was caught by the police, he said that he was forced to admit that he was a criminal. Japan has a tradition of collective bullying, and in the case at that time, if the prisoner did not record his testimony and sign his name, then no matter what others said, it would not count.
“…So, detectives and police officers are different.”
Fang Zheng briefly explained to Xiaolan the difference between the two.
"As long as the detective finds the real murderer, he won't worry about other things. But the police have to consider the problems afterwards. It can be said that everything is unknown before the criminal is sentenced."
"So that's how it is..."
After hearing Fang Zheng's explanation, Xiaolan also had a sense of sudden enlightenment. Indeed, when she followed Kogoro or Shinichi to solve cases in the past, she found that they rarely cared about whether the criminals were sentenced afterwards. After all, this was not within their jurisdiction, and caring about it would not change anything.
"Okay, let's continue."
Fang Zheng briefly explained a few words, then opened the door and walked into another room. He looked at the tall man in front of him and smiled.
The following process was no different from the interrogation by the short and fat man. First, they were asked their name, occupation and gender, and then their reasons and motives for rummaging through other people's rooms.
The tall man, like the short and fat man, insisted that he was there to find evidence of a crime.
Fang Zheng was smiling throughout the whole process and looked very peaceful. Then he suddenly asked a question.
"What happened four years ago?"
"!!!"
Hearing this, the tall man's expression suddenly changed, and he could no longer close his open mouth.
"You just said that this is your second time here. I also confirmed with the hotel owner that you have only been to this mountain resort twice, once now and the other time four years ago. Coincidentally, during the time you were here four years ago, an accident occurred. The hotel owner's husband and a tourist died in an avalanche. The body of her husband was found, but the tourist has been missing ever since."
Fang Zheng picked up the accommodation record, shook it in front of the tall man, and then suddenly slammed it on the table with a "bang".
"Tell me! Did you kill him?!"
Fang Zheng's change was quite sudden, without any warning. He was arguing calmly one second ago, and the next moment he suddenly roared, which not only scared the tall man, but also surprised Xiaolan who was sitting next to him and taking notes, and she almost jumped up from her chair.
And the tall man really jumped up.
"No! We didn't kill anyone!!"
"No?"
Fang Zheng patted the records at hand.
"It's clearly written above that the only people staying at Chuidu Villa at the time were you, the two young ladies, and their boyfriends. During that time, an avalanche occurred, and the boss was buried by the avalanche along with one of the male tourists while trying to save others. Although the boss's body was found later, the body of the male tourist was not found..."
Having said that, Fang Zheng narrowed his eyes and looked at the tall man coldly.
"If it were just this, it would indeed end in an unexpected way. But now, four years later, you appear here again, and this time, Mr. Niyuan was also killed. Not only that, after that, you went to the victim's room to search through the boxes even though you knew that he was dead..."
Fang Zheng stretched out his hand and pointed at the table.
"All these doubts indicate that you must be related to Mr. Eryuan's death. Maybe the death four years ago was not an accident, but was caused by you. As a photographer, Mr. Eryuan may have taken some evidence of your crimes at the time, so you killed him to avoid being discovered, and you also want to find the evidence at that time to destroy the evidence... Am I right?"
"No, no, we really didn't kill anyone! It was just an accident...!"
Having said this, the tall man suddenly shut his mouth, but for Fang Zheng, it was enough.
"please."
“…”
Looking at Fang Zheng in front of him, the tall man was silent for a moment, and finally he sighed and told the truth.
"Okay, let me tell you... this is what happened..."
According to the tall man, they did come here to hunt four years ago, and the situation was like this: Eryuan and his girlfriend's brother went out to take photos. On the way, Eryuan's girlfriend's brother was injured, and the husband of the hotel owner who was responsible for leading the way went to help.
The two men were hunting at that time. Initially, they mistook the injured tourist for a wild animal and shot him. However, what they did not expect was that they did not hit the other person. Instead, the gunshot triggered an avalanche, which led to the tragedy.
The photographer Eryuan who was present at the time not only did not help to save his girlfriend's brother, but instead filmed the entire process with a camera, and naturally, the two gunshots were also recorded.
So after that, Eryuan contacted the two people and blackmailed them, demanding that they pay money to buy back the videotape, and the location was set at Chuidu Villa, so the two of them came here.
What they didn't expect was that the photographer died before they met Eryuan, and they were worried that the tape would be discovered by others, so they broke into Eryuan and his girlfriend's room to try to find the tape.
The two of them thought it was no big deal, but they didn't expect there was a policeman among the group...
After the tall man confessed everything, Fang Zheng asked Xiaolan to take notes, have her confirm it, and then sign it. He then took Xiaolan to the room where the short fat man was, and asked Mira to interrogate the tall man again, asking him to repeat what happened at that time. He then took Xiaolan with him to interrogate the short fat man again.
After playing the tall man's interrogation record, the short and fat man suddenly broke down and decisively admitted their crimes. At the same time, he explained to the two of them what happened four years ago. In short, the specific process was no different from what the tall man said. Next, Fang Zheng asked him to confirm his testimony and sign it. The case came to an end.
"Did they really not kill Mr. Eryuan?"
After leaving the room, Xiaolan still felt incredible. After all, the two men had enough motives to kill. When she went out with Shinichi and Maori Kogoro before, she encountered many cases of killing people to destroy evidence. Moreover, Mr. Nigaki came here to blackmail them. It was not difficult to understand that he wanted to kill the person who knew the inside story once and for all.
"They may have had this idea, but they didn't have time to put it into practice."
Fang Zheng shrugged and looked at Xiaolan.
"Then please call Miss Gan Liya over."
"Ms. Ako?"
"Yes, she is the girlfriend of the victim and the sister of the person who died four years ago. We should tell her the truth."
Of course, the truth is not that simple.
In another room, Fang Zheng and Xiao Lan met the short-haired woman in the duo, Gan Liyazi. After playing the interrogation video of the tall man and the short fat man for her, Gan Liyazi burst into tears and cried. Xiao Lan was also very sad. However, just when she was about to go forward to comfort her, Fang Zheng suddenly said something.
"Ms. Gan Liya, you killed your boyfriend, Mr. Nigaki, right?"
"???"
Hearing this, Xiaolan was shocked and looked at Fang Zheng. Before she could say anything, Gan Liyazi nodded.
"Yes, I killed him..."
"???"
This time, Xiaolan was completely confused.
Afterwards, Gan Liyazi confessed her crime. It turned out that she accidentally found the videotape from four years ago when she was looking for clean clothes for her boyfriend the night before. At that time, Gan Liyazi thought that the videotape contained footage of their trip here at that time, so she took it out to check, but she saw the scene of her brother and the hotel owner's husband being buried alive by an avalanche.
This made Gan Liya extremely angry. Her boyfriend did not save her brother, but cold-bloodedly filmed the whole process and even said directly, "Your sister belongs to me." So Gan Liya wanted to kill him. The next day, she pretended to be worried about Piaoxue, went out, found Eryuan, and killed him. Then Gan Liya deliberately took photos with a camera for disguise.
But even so, Gan Liyazi just thought that the avalanche was just an accident. It was not until now that she learned that it was not a real accident...
Fang Zheng silently filmed the entire interrogation process, then took notes, confirmed it, signed, and sealed it.
Done and done.
Just as Fang Zheng and Xiaolan walked out of the room, Conan also ran over excitedly.
"Fang Zheng, Xiao Lan, listen to me. I already know how the criminal committed the crime! I also know who the criminal is!"
"oh."
Fang Zheng nodded.
"Needless to say, Miss Gan Liya has already confessed her guilt, and the record has been completed."
"……Why?"
Hearing this, Conan was stunned.
He just figured out the key points, how come it ended like this?
So what should he do with his mystery show?
"Then why don't you just tell us what's going on with that piece of chocolate?"
Seeing Conan's shocked expression, Fang Zheng couldn't help but comfort him.
"Although Miss Gan Liyako admitted that she killed the man, she did not put the chocolate there. In fact, Miss Gan Liyako herself does not know why there was a piece of chocolate there... So, can you, the famous detective, please explain this to us?"
“…”
Conan said he didn't want to say anything, he just wanted to be quiet.
Don't ask him who Jingjing is.