Chapter 3098 3110 [Case Live Broadcast]
"What's wrong with these reporters? Why are they standing at the door? Go in and see who's dead!"
Organize logistics.
The capable subordinate hid in the office with his supervisor, secretly watching the real-time situation on the front line.
After waiting for a long time, the shaking camera was still at the door. The right-hand man shook his head and said, "Will he become a reporter? If the police don't let him in, he will go to the side door or climb through the window. He is so hesitant. It's frustrating."
The supervisor tapped on the keyboard and called up the information that his subordinate had submitted before: "The residents of that apartment building include the landlady, her grandson, another college student, and Calvados who just moved in. A 1/4 probability?..."
The two men looked at the scene in front of them, praying that the reporter would move forward as quickly as possible, and at the same time, they couldn't help but break out in a sweat of excitement, as if they were betting on horses.
…
In the apartment.
Although the material of the key was a little strange, Maori Kogoro still adhered to his down-to-earth principle and insisted on his point of view: "But this is a secret room. If it wasn't suicide, this person couldn't have been killed by a demon."
Conan couldn't stand this troublesome uncle anymore, so he raised his hand and pointed: "Who said it was a secret room? Isn't there an air vent there?"
Just as he finished speaking, there was a bang on his head.
Maori Kogoro retracted his fist from hitting the fake elementary school student and snorted, "That air vent is only as wide as a palm. Let alone an adult, even a baby can't get through it under normal circumstances."
Conan's eye twitched, and he wanted to refute, but when he caught a glimpse of Calvados nearby, he had to swallow the words that were on the tip of his tongue: "..." He could still use the words "children are good at observation" to get away with pointing out the air vent, but if he said more and the organization discovered his abnormality, things would be bad.
Fortunately, there was a very reliable classmate nearby who seemed to see the dilemma of the mini detective. While Conan was looking at his savior, Jiang Xia said to Inspector Megure: "There is one thing that is a little strange. When we found the body, all the lights in this room were off."
"I heard that the deceased had only one wound on his body - although it was not completely dark when he died. But the bathroom is in the middle of the room and has no windows. Even in the daytime, it would be very dim without turning on the lights.
"It's not easy to accurately cut the artery in your arm in that environment."
Inspector Megure nodded repeatedly after hearing this: "Now that you mention it, it is indeed a bit strange... Maybe the murderer killed someone in the bathroom, got distracted when he went out, and habitually turned off the light."
“…”
Maori Kogoro thought about it and gradually felt that something was wrong. He moved closer to Jiang Xia and asked quietly, "Is it really murder?"
Jiang Xia nodded and whispered, "The murderer is..."
Conan, who was standing on tiptoe to eavesdrop on their conversation: "!!!"
He grabbed his noise-isolating headphones, but it turns out that everyone has the habit of answering questions quickly. Before he put the headphones on, Maori Kogoro suddenly realized, "I understand, I understand everything!"
Conan: “…”
Very good. According to Jiang Xia's character of respecting the elderly and loving the young, since Uncle Mao Li said so, he should politely let this old neighbor have some time to play. And he can brainstorm and come up with the answer during this time...
While thinking, he slapped his forehead: Brain, stop thinking about those messy things, move quickly!
Next to him, under Calvados's impatient yet slightly curious gaze, Maori Kogoro began to reveal the truth: "This is actually a homicide!"
Inspector Megure looked at him, then at Jiang Xia: "..." Don't think I don't know why you changed your mind. You peeked at the answer, didn't you?
But no matter what, it's a good thing to solve the case. A tired old police officer said, "Oh? Then tell me."
Kogoro Mori laughed and led everyone back to the entrance.
He pointed to the open mailbox and said, "After killing Mr. Zhen, the murderer left the room and locked the door. Then he used the opening of the letter slot to put the key into the model pool from outside the house.
“All you need to do is use a long piece of steel wire, pass it through the horizontal bar in the water of the building model, and then pull the other two ends of the steel wire all the way to the entrance and through the letter slot. After closing the door, you can hang the key on the rope loop and then send it into the water by turning the rope loop.
"After entering the water, the toilet paper strip on the key was melted and broken by the water, and it remained in the water, while the steel wire was taken away from outside the door by the murderer. In this way, a murder scene in a closed room was formed!"
"So that's it!" Inspector Megure was about to applaud, but at this moment, Officer Takagi next to him suddenly thought of something.
This young policeman, who had almost lost to Officer Shiratori in the last public toilet case, had long ago worked hard to learn a lot of knowledge about solving cases. After listening to Maori Kogoro's reasoning, he whispered, "But from this room to the entrance, there is a door frame that is almost at a right angle. The key could easily get stuck there."
"This..." Maori Kogoro choked, but soon an idea flashed in his mind and he snapped his fingers. "When the key is stuck, just loosen the rope and throw it far away, and the key will pass through the door frame. Then tighten the rope again, and I can implement the plan I just mentioned."
Conan: “…” He actually came up with this trick to close the door… Is this confused uncle smart or stupid?
Next to him, Jiang Xia pointed to the messy crayon graffiti on the wall: "These crayon drawings may seem chaotic, but if you look closely, you can see that they were deliberately painted on the edges and corners of the door frame - so that if a key or steel wire passes through the door frame, it will scrape off the crayon painted there beforehand."
"But now, the crayon drawing is intact - that is, the murderer anticipated that someone would make the same inference as Uncle Maori just did, so he used the crayon method first, so that we can abandon this idea and turn our attention to suicide."
"What?" Maori Kogoro was surprised, "That person actually predicted my thoughts?"
He thought about it carefully, thinking of a new strategy, and gradually looked at the door lock: "That is..."
Jiang Xia interrupted before he could embarrass himself for the second time: "Also, there happened to be traces of crayon on the inner door lock and knob - so the murderer did not tamper with the door lock."
Mouri Kogoro: "..."
Who is the murderer? He is a veteran detective, but he was predicted twice!
Beside him, Calvados watched this scene, and his heart gradually became disturbed: "..." It turns out that there are such unreliable detectives. Fortunately, when he was involved in the case before, the person he met by chance was Jiang Xia, otherwise...
(End of this chapter)
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