Chapter 2791 2803 [Reimbursement Strength]
The word "coincidence" made Akai Shuichi's eyes twitch slightly, and he couldn't help but look at these people a few more times.
Maori Kogoro felt that the eldest sister-in-law of the Horita family was being unreasonable: "What kind of coincidence is this? She..."
Before he could defend the hitchhiking lady, Fumiko Horita suddenly sighed, "Yes, I hate my father very much - I hate him so much that I almost want to kill him with my own hands."
Mouri Kogoro: "..."
Wait! What are you talking about, beautiful lady? There are already enough beauties in the prison, we don’t need you!
Fortunately, Fumiko Horita only liked to breathe heavily when she spoke. She immediately added: "But I didn't do what happened tonight - although I am grateful to the murderer, I have no intention of taking the blame for that person."
Then she looked at her brother again: "We are all family, no need to pretend in front of me - you hate him too, don't you?"
“…”
The eldest son and sister-in-law looked away at the same time and did not look at her.
——Judging from this reaction, Fumiko Horita was not wrong.
“……” Kogoro Mouri was shocked for a moment, then silently stepped back between the three high school students.
Turning his head left and right and looking at three familiar faces, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief: the children around him were more normal - in comparison, President Horida's children were really scary.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the lounge and the butler pushed the door open and walked in.
Maori Kogoro looked at him and said, "Is the landline repaired?"
The housekeeper shook his head helplessly: "I wanted to connect the cut telephone line, but when I looked closely, the plug was also broken... What should I do now?"
Conan was not in a hurry to call the police this time. He suddenly shouted: "Rye whiskey!"
"!" Akai Shuichi paused.
Conan glanced at his reaction and was moved in his heart: As expected, he has a special reaction to this kind of wine. It seems that "Rye Whiskey" is probably a code name used to refer to a certain cadre, and it is even possible that it is the code name of the person in front of him!
Of course, the more you think this way in your heart, the more you have to keep a straight face.
Conan followed the plan and continued with what he had just said as if nothing had happened: "There was a piece of wine box fragment at the crime scene, and the bomb was placed in the 'rye whiskey' box. The person who made that bottle of whiskey must be the murderer... My reasoning is correct, Brother Jiang Xia."
Jiang Xia nodded: "Today is the deceased's birthday. The bottle of wine containing the bomb must have been delivered to him on this occasion. The deceased thought it was a birthday present and opened the wine box without any precautions, triggering the detonator and killing himself."
"Birthday present..." The expressions of several relatives of the deceased changed slightly, and the housekeeper also thought of something.
"It wasn't given by my husband and me!" the deceased's eldest son said first, "I gave her a watch."
The eldest sister-in-law knew that her proof was useless. She looked at the housekeeper and said, "You follow father every day, so you must remember what everyone gave you. Tell me."
The butler sighed and said, "This bottle of whiskey, I remember it was a gift from the second young master to the master."
Conan: "?" It wasn't sent by this guy who called himself Akai Shuichi? ...But it's not a big problem, maybe the second son is his subordinate or colleague.
Speaking of which…
Conan realized something belatedly. He was just looking at Akai Shuichi: "Where is Uncle Ryoji?"
Others: “!”
When they turned around, they found that Ryoji Horita was not around and they didn't know where he had gone.
Jiang Xia asked the housekeeper: "Where is his room?"
"Ah, over here." The butler came to his senses and pushed the door open.
Several people hurriedly followed and finally came to a guest room. Jiang Xia pushed open the door and saw that the room was empty, with a handbag on the bed.
Jiang Xia took a look inside and poked Conan.
Conan understood, walked into the room, grabbed the bag, and poured the contents onto the bed.
Akai Shuichi saw everything and nodded secretly. It was no wonder that he was so efficient in solving cases since his methods were not pedantic.
Jiang Xia walked into the room, and while trying to stop the naughty child, he looked at the things on the bed.
The suitcase was filled with Ryoji Horita's personal belongings: shirts, wallets, car keys... and among the pile of daily necessities, a sharp dagger flashing with a cold light was particularly eye-catching.
…
The butler brought a few people to the parking lot and pointed at a red sports car: "This is Young Master Liang's car."
"He didn't drive away." Maori Kogoro touched his chin, "It seems that he is still nearby."
Jiang Xia took a few steps closer and suddenly discovered something: "The tires of this car are punctured, and so are the tires of the cars next to it."
“?!”
Maori Kogoro was shocked. He ignored the sports car and ran to his own car. He looked down and saw that the tire was flat.
"This guy is too wicked!" Maori Kogoro was furious. "It's fine if he cut the telephone wires, but why did he damage the cars of passers-by? Is he planning to trap us here and kill us all?!"
Akai Shuichi also glanced at his own car. The car was parked in a corner, with a bumper that was crooked, and it looked extremely miserable. A closer look revealed that the tire was also damaged as expected.
Shuichi Akai: “…” It’s annoying, but not too annoying—after all, the car had already been damaged by the deceased on the road just now, and now it’s just a matter of changing an extra tire.
Moreover, he had discovered earlier that the dagger he found in his second son's room had traces of rubber being poked. At that time, he had guessed that some of the tires of the cars would be damaged, and now... it turned out to be true.
"What should we do now?" The people in the Horita family had never encountered such a thing before. While cursing Horita Ryoji, who cruelly killed his father, they looked at Jiang Xia in panic, "I remember the business card you just gave out said that you are a detective - you must have encountered similar things, think of a solution quickly!"
"Ahem!" Kogoro Mouri cleared his throat: There is such a tall and reliable adult detective standing next to you, but you are just yelling at a minor. What is this?
"It's impossible that all the cars are damaged." The adult detective calmly looked for a solution, "There are only three cars in this parking lot, one is mine, one is Horita Ryoji's, and this one..."
Akai Shuichi claimed it: "This is mine."
Maori Kogoro nodded, looked at the eldest son of the Horita family, and asked expectantly: "So where is your car? Did you park it somewhere else and escape the disaster?"
The couple looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly: "Neither of us can drive, so we took a taxi here."
Mouri Kogoro: "..."
(End of this chapter)
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