Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 40 Interrogation, Duke Reappears

Outside 2101, after the police investigated the scene of the incident, Conan and Mao Lilan took him to the room where Jiang Yuan lived. However, even though he went to the hotel to get the key, it was locked with an anti-theft lock and could not be opened at all.

"Huh?" Going to the Emerald Bar to find Maoli's vacancy, Henggou couldn't help but be surprised when he heard Gao Cheng's identity, "That boy just now was a detective?"

Speaking of Gao Cheng, it was the pair of detective fans who acted as witnesses. Hearing this, they looked at each other and nodded, "I don't know if he is a famous detective, but he is a modern Zuowen character!"

Speaking of modern left characters, Henggou, who is a fan of Mori Kogoro, had some impressions, and suddenly realized: "I remember that I heard about it a while ago, and I was able to be reported together with Maori detectives. No wonder I just investigated the murder scene and said It's murder."

Conan's ear twitched next to him: Has Kido checked the scene? !

A group of people woke up Kogoro Mori, who was drunk in the bar, and went back to Jiangyuan's room. At this time, Gao Cheng also came here, and they were quite surprised to see the two detective girls.

"Kirodo-kun," Yokomi said enthusiastically when he saw Gao Cheng, "I was Yokomizo who was transferred to the Kanagawa Police Station recently. I'm really sorry, I didn't recognize you."

"Hello." Gao Cheng was stunned, and the Henggou in front of him was almost the same as before without the police arrogance, and he felt like a good old man like Police Officer Takagi.

"Anyway, let's find a way to get in first." Mori Kogoro looked impatient, and pushed open the door, and sure enough, he saw that the anti-theft door was fastened inside. Unless he used violence, he couldn't get in at all.

"Officer Henggou!" A police officer hurried over, "The chainsaw you want is here!"

"Good! Saw off the latch!"

Henggou was overjoyed when he saw this, and hurriedly asked the police officer to come forward. With the harsh sound of a chainsaw, the door latch was broken in a short while.

A group of people entered the room one after another, and found a pile of clothes lying on the floor at the door, and even the room card was left beside it.

"This is the clothes Mr. Jiang Yuan is wearing today... Even the room card is left here..."

Gao Cheng glanced around and walked to the open balcony.

It was still very windy outside, but the white glove was still stuck in the middle of the railing, rattling with the wind.

Henggou also walked to the balcony, glanced at the open-air restaurant below, and found that the scene of the crime was directly below, and breathed in: "It seems that Mr. Jiangyuan probably fell from here..."

"That's right," Mori Kogoro knelt on the ground, his face was blue and he didn't dare to look down, he just pointed to the white glove and said, "There is still a glove on the railing, it should be a simple accident, he may want to pretend The Duke of Darkness is scary in the room below, speaking of the downstairs room..."

"It's my room," Gao Cheng interrupted, "But it shouldn't be possible for ordinary people to do such stupid things in the 21st floor?"

"Hmph, didn't you see Mr. Jiang Yuan drunk before? Isn't it strange for a drunk to do anything?" Mori Kogoro said dissatisfied.

"If you don't check the condition of the corpse, you can indeed make such an inference, but," Gao Cheng looked back at the clothes scattered at the door, "there are many things wrong with the outfit of the Duke of the Night, obviously someone else helped him put it on. Someone deliberately dressed Mr. Jiang Yuan like that and pushed him downstairs, making it look like he died unexpectedly..."

"what?"

"This kid..." Mori Kogoro gritted his teeth, "Officer Henggou, let me examine the corpse myself!"

"Okay." Henggou had seen the magical reasoning of "Sleeping Kogoro Mori" with his own eyes before, so he trusted Kogoro Mori very much. After leaving a few forensic personnel behind, he followed to the open-air restaurant.

Gao Cheng didn't follow out, but stood on the balcony frowning and thinking.

If Jiang Yuan didn't fall by himself, this would be a murder in a locked room... How did the murderer do it?How did the murderer get out of the room when the anti-theft door was locked from the inside?

Jump down to the balcony?

Gao Cheng poked his head and took a look. It was indeed possible to leave by jumping on the balcony of his room. After all, he was not in the room at the time, and the balcony glass door was not locked...but no matter how you think about it, it is too thrilling.

……

In the temporary interrogation room, after Mr. Jiang Yuan's body was placed in the hotel office on the other side, all members of the tour group, including Gao Chengcheng, were called over.

Gao Cheng's alibi proved to be quite sufficient, and he was immediately ruled out of suspicion, and he and Mori Kogoro assisted in the investigation.

I don't know if it's because of his age, but Henggou, a Maori fan, let Kogoro Mori take the lead like a younger brother, while he and others stood behind Maori.

Of course, Mao Li, who had been a criminal police officer, was really good at such things as interrogation.

"So, Mr. Maeda was at the observatory on the top floor with Ran and Conan around 10 o'clock when the incident happened?" Mori looked at Satoshi Maeda and asked.

Maeda Satoshi nodded: "Yes, I checked the time when I was separated from them. It was already past 10 o'clock..."

"But you were the one watching the time, right?"

Henggou was very dissatisfied with Maeda's vague testimony, and shouted out the door: "Okay, next one, Miss Kamijou!"

The interrogation gradually progressed to the end, and Gao Cheng stood by and watched.

Kamijou's alibi is also not sufficient, although it is said that he was in the bar with Mori the whole time, but Mori was already drunk at the time.

Konno Shiro said that he has been using the computer in the room, and Sayama Akiko said that he was watching TV in the room, which is also not an alibi.

On the contrary, the absence of Mr. Jincheng and his servant Lin Jingjiang was very clear, because he had been observing the pair of master and servant at that time...

After the interrogation was over, everyone had already returned to their own rooms. Gao Cheng did not accompany Mao Li to check the testimony in the interrogation room, but went to the emerald bar on the second floor thinking about it.

At that time, he also saw Kamijou Hideko who was with Mori, but soon she returned to the open-air restaurant, and it was not clear whether Kamijou had left...

"You said that Ms. Kamijou drugged Detective Mori's drink?" At the bar counter, Gao Cheng asked the male bartender about the situation, with a surprised look on his face.

"Yeah, if you're talking about that very sexy woman, I did see her drugging," the bartender was impressed, "The man with the mustache fell asleep immediately after drinking..."

"What about after that?" Gao Cheng continued to ask, he knew that no one would ignore Kamijou dressed like that.

"Well...she stayed here afterwards," the sommelier recalled, "it seemed that she only went to the bathroom once in the middle, and she came back about 5 minutes later. By the way, she came back just before the incident happened. how long……"

"In this way, she has an alibi."

Gao Cheng walked out of the bar with his hands in his pockets, feeling a little messed up in his mind.

In the elevator of the hotel, Akiko Sayama entered the elevator with Mori Ran and Conan in annoyance, and pressed the button for the 19th floor.

"It's really pissing me off. What is that criminal policeman doing with your father? They must think I'm the murderer! Obviously, other than me, everyone else is also very suspicious!"

"My father won't be like this," Xiaolan said awkwardly, "didn't a waiter come when you were in the room?"

"I said something just now!" Sayama crossed his arms in annoyance, "Speaking of which, I called the counter..."

"Did you call the counter?" Conan asked from the side, "What time is it?"

"It's about 10 o'clock, I ask them to call me tomorrow morning to wake me up..."

"Ding!" The elevator on the 19th floor opened, and a blood-stained smiling face slowly appeared.

"How, how could it be..."

"Dark Duke?!"

The atmosphere in the elevator suddenly froze. Several people stared in horror at the strange man who seemed to be resurrected from the dead. In the strange blood-stained mask, the two cold gazes made people chill.

"Back!" Xiao Lan clenched her teeth and did not back away, she actively clenched her fists and stood in the middle.

Facing the scary smiling face mask, she concentrated all her attention on it, shouting and kicking violently like a sinking dantian: "Drink!"

The strange man kept silent, but leaned back like a ghost, lightly dodging Xiaolan's kick that swept across the face like a whirlwind, and then avoided the frontal kick under Xiaolan's unbelievable gaze.

"What?" Xiaolan was stunned for a moment, gritted her teeth and stepped forward to kick again with all her strength.

"Drink it—!"

"Huh!" During the fierce wind attack, the Dark Duke turned sideways slightly, gently pushed Xiaolan's kick with one hand, and turned around and ran away while Xiaolan was in a daze.
"How is it possible?" Xiaolan with a shocking expression stopped and stabilized her figure, staring blankly at the back of the Dark Duke.

"Sister Xiaolan!" Conan chased out of the elevator, and shouted anxiously at the dazed Xiaolan, "What are you doing, sister Xiaolan?! He ran away!"

"That person..." Xiaolan's eyes trembled, and her heart was in a mess.

The "Duke of the Night" completely saw through her attack, and the only one in the tour group with such skill was her idol, the national karate champion Satoshi Maeda... She couldn't accept this kind of thing, the person she knew would be the murderer...

"Ah!" Gao Chengcai sneezed suddenly as he left the Emerald Bar.

"Oops, it's not because of the cold wind just now, is it?"

Rubbing his nose depressedly, he was about to go back to his room first, when there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps at the entrance of the corridor, and in a blink of an eye, a black figure rushed down the stairs and ran towards him.

"Eh?!"

(End of this chapter)