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"Yes, it happened right in front of me. Both the man and the car fell into the sea."
Maori Kogoro yawned continuously, rubbed his eyes and looked speechless: "He must have committed suicide. I think he just couldn't bear to let you get that rare edition of Sherlock Holmes."
Chu Ming nodded and said to Conan and Hattori behind him: "Okay, uncle has helped us rule out the option of suicide. It seems that this is indeed a homicide."
"......?" Hattori Heiji was confused.
Chu Ming once again promoted the uncle's theory of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger to Hattori: "Do you know that the uncle looks so nonsensical, but he can still be called a famous detective?"
Hattori Heiji rolled his eyes secretly. Who else could he rely on? It must be Kudo Shinichi who was hiding behind him!
When Conan saw Chu Ming starting to promote Uncle Mao's method of elimination again, he broke out in a cold sweat and went to look for clues alone.
Chu Ming saw Hattori's disdain and continued to explain to him: "Because the uncle's reasoning is to suppress first and then praise, first give the murderer hope, and finally throw the murderer into the abyss!"
Hattori became interested: "How do you say that?"
"If you don't believe me, you can look at my reasoning today. All my previous reasonings are the same. I always use all kinds of seemingly reasonable but easily overturned reasons to incriminate suspects other than the murderer, making the murderer think he has escaped. Then, when the murderer lets down his guard, he identifies the murderer in a lightning speed and produces decisive evidence! So before the uncle finally identified the murderer, all the murderers he identified before were 100% innocent. I call this the Mao elimination method! The strongest murderer elimination method!"
Hattori Heiji was stunned by Chu Ming's trick and blinked: "Is this true..."
He was skeptical, but thinking that solving the case was important, he put his doubt aside and went to observe the tire tracks carefully.
"Why are you looking at the tire marks?" Xiaolan asked puzzledly while looking at Conan and Hattori lying on the ground.
"I'm looking for something, eh——" Conan turned his head and bumped into Hattori again.
Hattori Heiji looked at Conan who bumped into him again, and wanted to say something, but he was stunned for a moment, looked at Conan with a strange look, and didn't speak for a long time.
"What are you looking for?" Chu Ming couldn't help but ask when he saw that no one responded for a long time.
"I was looking for water droplets dripping from the air conditioner. After all, it would be very helpful for the case. I didn't expect this little devil to suddenly come over..."
Chu Ming asked in surprise: "Air conditioning, what air conditioning, there is no air conditioning in the car?"
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Not only Conan and Hattori looked up in surprise, but the people who were discussing nearby also gathered around: "This guy said that when he was chasing after the car, he heard the sound of wind whirring in the car in addition to the engine sound. We are wondering if it was the air conditioner. How do you know it wasn't the air conditioner?"
Chu Ming blinked and said, "I broke the car window to rescue the boss. When I reached in to pull the boss out, I felt the wind blowing on my hand was warm. The heater must have been turned on."
"...Brother Chu Ming, why didn't you tell me earlier!" Conan jumped up from the ground. Such an important clue!
Ignoring the little detective who was jumping up beside him and was not even as high as his knees, Chu Ming turned around and looked at the people who had gathered around him: "Didn't you say you were going to get the phones that were put away to call the police? Why aren't you going?"
"Oh oh - yes, yes, let's go get the phone and call the police."
However, when everyone arrived at Boss Jingu's room, they found that the mobile phones they had handed in and the cell phones in the room had been smashed.
"Oh no, the treasured book is missing too!" The waitress said in horror.
"I can't stand it anymore. I want to leave here. Is there another car in the garage?" Mr. Fujisawa couldn't help but roar. He was fed up with this crappy place and wanted to leave now.
"It's useless. The car in the garage has a big hole in its fuel tank, and the battery is missing. In short, the car is now just a pile of scrap metal and can't be moved at all."
"Aren't we trapped here then?"
Chu Ming took out his cell phone from his pocket and shook it: "Don't worry, I just called Officer Megure."
"Really? That's good. Now let's go find the murderer who killed the innkeeper. Once the police come, they can send us back directly."
Knowing that they had a way out, everyone's tense nerves suddenly relaxed. Everyone was a fan of Sherlock Holmes and began to take an interest in solving the case.
"Yeah, yeah, why don't we go see what the surveillance camera captured? Maybe there are some clues there?"
The waitress apologized: "I'm sorry, the camera is fake. It's a fake device installed during the annual event."
Hattori pondered for a while: "I originally thought that the murderer asked the hotel owner to get in the car at around 3:30, and those of us who were in the living room a few hours ago should not be suspects. However, Chu Ming said that the heater was on in the car, which means that the murder was not necessarily committed at that time, so all of us present are suspects!"
Oki Ayako suddenly laughed and lit a cigarette: "I already know who the murderer is, the method he used, and I also have decisive evidence."
Facing the shocked crowd, Ooki Ayako exhaled smoke gently: "I'll give you ten minutes to think about it. If you don't want to hear your name from my mouth, you should bow your head and plead guilty!"
She took the cigarette and went straight out the door.
Toba Kento's eyes flickered: "Ayako, where are you going? Don't act alone!"
"Hmph, you will protect me--" Ooki Ayako's voice came from outside the door, and Toba Kento hurriedly followed.
Watching the two people go out, Chu Ming put his hands behind his head and leaned against the wall: "She should have some clues that we don't know. Did anyone of you see Miss Oki during the day?"
Xiaolan thought for a moment and said, "I seem to have seen it. Miss Ayako was a little strange during the day. When I returned to my room after lunch, I saw Miss Ayako in the corridor. When she saw me, she hid something like paper behind her. It seemed like the 1000 Questions of Sherlock Holmes' test."
"Is she trying to cheat?"
As they were talking, Kento Toba opened the door and came in, and several people asked him questions.
"Who is the murderer?"
"Have you asked her secretly?"
"Tell us now."
Kento Toba felt a little overwhelmed in front of the group: "I don't know either. She said she wouldn't tell me even if I told her, so she hid in the bathroom."
"Brother, did Sister Ayako come to see you during the day?" Conan started to act cute again to get clues.
Toba Kento shook his head: "No, I was in my room writing tests during the day, and no one came."
After discussing for a while, Chu Ming looked at his watch: "It's been 20 minutes, hasn't Miss Oki come out yet?"
"Could it be..." Kogoro Mouri hurried to the bathroom door and knocked on it hard.
"Ms. Ohki! Are you still there?!"
The door creaked open, and Ooki Ayako said proudly: "A group of people gathered at the door of the ladies' room, how rude—"
Maori Kogoro was also a little speechless: "You haven't come out for so long, we are worried about you...Okay, Miss Oki, can you tell us now, who is the murderer?"
Oki Ayako suddenly retorted: "Well, it seems I made a mistake, I'm really sorry..." Then she turned around and left.
"That's not right, why did her attitude change suddenly?" Conan pulled his hair and squatted in the corner. Hattori Heiji next to him also squatted in the same posture.
Chu Ming moved between them and curled up like a mushroom. "I think there are only two reasons for her to suddenly change her mind. One is that she found out her reasoning was wrong after thinking about it in the bathroom. The other is that someone told her something that made her give up the accusation. For example, her boyfriend who just came back from a long time ago."
Conan and Hattori both nodded, it was indeed possible.
After squatting for a long time, Chu Ming felt that it was not a good idea to squat at the door of the ladies' bathroom. These two guys had no regard for their face. He still had to live on this earth. If he was discovered, wouldn't he be regarded as a pervert?
I dragged the two of them back to the hall, but found that Oki Ayako was gone.
"Hey, where's Miss Ayako?" Conan looked around.
"She went for a walk outside and I tried to stop her but she said there would be no more incidents."
Harm, one of Conan's iron laws: If I walk alone, I must be dead.
It seems that Miss Ohmu is really hopeless this time. I can only bear the pain and absorb another magnetic field.
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Chapter 64 Oh, it’s over
Conan and Hattori both frowned, feeling a little uneasy, but seeing that everyone was in the hall, they didn't say anything.
Suddenly, there was a loud explosion. Everyone was startled and looked in the direction of the garage.
When I rushed out the door, I saw a raging fire in the garage in the distance, with flames shooting up into the sky.
"Could it be that Miss Ayako is in the garage?"
“…Ayako! Ayako!” Kento Toba widened his eyes, his face full of grief.
He rushed towards the fire quickly, looking like he was going to jump into the flames to save people.
Maori Kogoro took a quick step forward and tried to pull Toba Kento, but found himself being held by Chu Ming. He looked at Chu Ming in confusion, a little anxious: "Let me go, I want to--"
Chu Ming gestured for him to look at Kento Toba.
Kogoro Mouri looked over and saw Kento Toba running two steps towards the fire scene. He found that no one tried to stop him. He turned back stiffly and asked, "What's the matter? Aren't you detectives all passionate? Why don't you stop me? This is so embarrassing."
You should have cooperated with the performance but turned a blind eye to it. Is this a lack of humanity or a decline in morality?
When Chu Ming saw him turn around, he nodded towards the fire, indicating that if he wanted to go in, he should rush in quickly, because no one would stop him.
No one took over the role, and Kento Toba didn't dare to really rush in. Wouldn't that be courting death? He continued to stagger forward two steps, then fell to his knees, his face full of pain: "Ayako!!!"
Tsk, your acting skills are pretty good. It would be a pity if you didn’t become an actor.
Everyone looked at him with disdain and turned to look for a fire extinguisher.
"Yes, yes, yes, go put out the fire quickly, otherwise the book will..." Fujisawa shouted from the side.
"Book? How do you know the book is in there?" Chu Ming asked curiously. He remembered that the murderer in this episode didn't seem to be this person. It had been too long. He could only vaguely remember some of the plots after many cases happened. For some cases, he only remembered who the murderer was. As for other detailed evidence, he would have to wait until he saw it before he could remember it.
After all, who could have thought that I would travel to the Conan world overnight? If I had known I would come here, I would have watched this anime a hundred or eighty times.
Fujisawa didn't answer. He just stared at the fire without saying a word.
Gradually, the fire was put out by water guns, leaving only wisps of smoke.
Fujisawa took the lead and was faster than Kento Toba who was worried about his girlfriend. He was the first to enter the garage.
While everyone was looking for Oki Ayako, he secretly went to the back seat of the car and opened the door. What came into his sight was a charred corpse.
He yelled in fear, staggered back a few steps, and sat down on the ground.
Chu Ming also came over to take a look. A burnt smell came towards him. He quickly absorbed the magnetic field and took two steps back.
Don’t detectives have noses? How can they communicate there without any expression and without any change in such a strong smell?
"Why? We were all in the hall, and Miss Ayako was the only one outside. Who killed her?"
"No, there is another person whom you all forgot."
"?" Chu Ming was also a little surprised. There was someone else, how come he didn't know?
"It's the innkeeper! If the innkeeper who fell off the cliff with his car and people didn't die, but faked his death and escaped and hid in a corner, then everything makes sense!"
...This guess is even more outrageous than the judgment usually made by Kogoro Mouri. How could there be any accidents when the magnetic field has been sucked away by himself?
"Impossible. I reached out to grab the boss. It was definitely him, and he was already dead."
"Yes, we have seen it too, right kid." Hattori agreed with Chu Ming and quietly cue Conan.