Chapter 88

Forensic personnel sent by the Metropolitan Police Department arrived at the welfare home quickly and immediately conducted a further examination of the deceased's body.

The deceased did die of poisoning, and the time of death was between 8:00 and 10:00 last night.

After investigating the welfare home, we learned that the students all live in a unified dormitory and rarely go out at night. Even if they go out, they will go out with their roommates.

Last night, only one dormitory had children go out together. They were older children who went to the cafeteria to find food together. They even played a confession game during the trip. There were also several teachers who happened to overhear and could testify to this. Xingchuan and Ming had heard about this incident in the cafeteria before.

As for the staff, the director is too old to walk and rarely goes out. The deputy director has been taking care of the old director and went out to find someone to help prepare the welcoming props for the next day. Someone can also testify for her.

Most of the other faculty and staff live in separate dormitories and are almost always alone at night.

The deceased's dormitory is located on the east side of the ancient tree forest, and the closest place is another staff dormitory on the west side of the ancient tree forest. However, because of the ancient tree forest in the middle and the remote location, generally no one will pay attention to this place.

The welfare home occupies a large area, and there is a certain distance between the independent dormitories, so it is difficult for them to testify for each other.

"So, most of the orphanage's teachers and staff are suspects? In that case, the safety of this orphanage is really worrying."

Maori Kogoro stretched out his tone. It was just a normal sigh, but because he was in the orphanage and near the crime scene, his words immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of other people in the orphanage, especially the older children who were easily excited.

"What nonsense are you talking about, you filthy-looking guy? It's you with the mustache who is more likely to be the one with bad intentions. You guys died as soon as you arrived in Sakai. Maybe this incident has something to do with you."

"Don't talk about it for now. Don't forget that they are the dean's guests."

"But they are also guests of Xingchuan and Ming. How can anyone related to Xingchuan and Ming be a good person?"

"Yes, maybe Mr. Sakai was killed by that unexpected returnee Hoshikawa Kazuaki!"

"Silent!"

Suddenly, a high-pitched female voice was heard, instantly suppressing the discussions of everyone present, and the originally chaotic scene quickly quieted down.

The children who were originally furious stopped talking and turned to look at the vice-president who had just lost his temper. Some looked surprised, some were indignant, and some even had a subtle contempt, but no one was dissatisfied. Everyone shut up tacitly.

Ida Ko rubbed his head, which was messed up by the noise, and expressed his gratitude to the vice president who helped him a lot. The vice president still had a serious and cold expression on his face and just nodded politely.

However, Kogoro Mouri, who had just been collectively mocked, was getting more and more angry. At this moment, he finally couldn't help but burst out:

"Damn it! I'm the famous detective Maori Kogoro! I've been keeping a low profile all this time just to cooperate with you, the dean, and to give everyone a surprise when I meet with fans at noon. And this is your attitude?"

Ida Hang felt his head begin to hurt again, and he had to whisper:

"Mori-senpai, how about you calm down first and meet your fans after the case is solved? For now, let's focus on controlling the situation."

Maori Ran also stopped Maori Kogoro in panic, fearing that he would anger these hot-blooded big kids again.

However, what was unexpected was that this time the children were very obedient and did not make a fuss again. Instead, the teachers who had remained silent before could no longer sit still.

They were all surprised that a famous person like Maori Kogoro would come to their welfare home, and some even planned to ask this famous detective to sign. Their enthusiasm shocked Maori Kogoro, who was originally filled with indignation, and then he happily prepared to sign on the spot, but in the end it was still the vice-director who spoke up and stopped everyone.

During this time, Conan kept running around in the crowd until the riot ended, when he finally stopped in front of a man who looked very young.

Because among the whole crowd of people in the orphanage, except for Miss Lihua who had led the way for him and Mao Lilan, only this person had sticky mud on his shoes. The mud had dried up long ago, so it was obviously not left there today.

As Conan stared at his face in thought, the man yawned slightly.

At the same time, after discussing quietly with Hagiwara Kenji, Date Kou announced in public:

"In fact, we have found traces left by the murderer. The murderer passed through the ancient woods on his way to commit the crime, and left some evidence in the ancient woods without even noticing it. We will now follow these traces and search your dormitories."

Most people were disgusted with Ida Ko's decision, and as more and more people were disgusted, they were bound to complain in low voices, and a small commotion immediately broke out in the crowd.

Hagiwara Kenji, who had been silent the whole time, quickly scanned everyone present with his sharp eyes, and then fixed his gaze on a person who looked very young but sleepy.

Hagiwara Kenji's gaze stayed for only a moment, and he quickly looked away before the other party noticed. Then he said to everyone in a soothing manner:

"Please don't panic, everyone. We will only search the necessary areas according to the regulations, and we will search every dormitory in the welfare home. There is no need to sort them out in order. So, let's start with the teachers who also live near the ancient forest?"

Kenji Hagiwara casually walked up to the sleepy-looking young man and said with a smile:

"This, I remember you are Mr. Bei Dao, right? The dormitory you just reported is located on the west side of the ancient tree forest. How about we start from your side?"

After saying this, he lowered his head and suddenly found Conan standing next to Mr. Kitajima, so he was surprised:

"Conan? Why are you here too?"

Conan immediately gave a sweet smile, pointed at Mr. Kitajima beside him and replied:

"Because I felt sorry for the teacher. He kept yawning and looked very sleepy. So I wanted to ask him if he didn't get enough rest last night."

Bei Dao waved his hands in embarrassment and denied it:

"Haha, how could that be? I had a good rest yesterday. I just have a slight cold and took medicine this morning. It's probably the effect of the cold medicine that makes me yawn all the time."

Hagiwara Kenji smiled even more brilliantly:

"Since Mr. Bei Dao is not feeling well, we should start the search from Mr. Bei Dao's dormitory first. This way we can finish the search earlier so that Mr. Bei Dao can rest earlier."

"Ah, yes, yes. Then please follow me."

So everyone followed Kitajima towards his dormitory. Along the way, Hagiwara Kenji chatted with him casually:

"What time did Mr. Bei Dao go to bed yesterday? Was he always alone in the dormitory?"

Bei Dao smiled a little stiffly:

"Oh, yes. I went to bed at eight o'clock because of a cold. I was the only one in the room."

However, after hearing this, Conan immediately looked up at him. Just as he was about to speak, his eyes suddenly stopped when he glanced at Hagiwara Kenji who was following him, and the words on his lips were taken back.

Officer Hagiwara's insight is truly amazing.

In the situation just now, I was able to identify Mr. Kitajima so quickly because of the clues from Niba, but Officer Hagiwara relied entirely on his sharp insight to directly identify the suspect.

My previous behavior has already attracted the other party's attention. If I don't hide it this time, I might really be discovered.

So he turned his little head, passed Mori Kogoro who was walking with Date Kou, and his eyes fell directly on Hoshikawa Kazuaki.

Uncle Mori was accompanied by Officer Date, so it was not convenient for me to guide him. But if it was Xingchuan who had cooperated with me several times, he would definitely understand what I meant, right?

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