Chapter 76: Flying to the Sky Chamber in New York
Chapter 76: Flying to the Sky Chamber in New York (Part )
"what?"
Officer Megure was stunned, and looked at Kudo Shinichi with his half-moon eyes: "Where did you get the camera?"
"Of course, I borrowed this from a passenger. I took about 60 photos, and..."
Kudo Shinichi is smiling, that's probably it(^_^).
The stewardess next to him took over the conversation: "And we also followed his request and monitored his actions from beginning to end..."
"We didn't see him doing anything strange like putting something away or wiping away any traces of the scene..."
Officer Memu: "..."
My goodness, the whole drama has been done, so what do we still need the police for?
Inspector Megure felt that he needed to restore the dignity of their police force, so he put on a nonchalant face and analyzed seriously: "However, casually touching the corpse will cause changes in the muscle state, which will affect the estimated time of death..."
"about this."
Kudo Shinichi smiled confidently, "Based on the corpse spots on the deceased's body and the stiffness of his jaw, the deceased should have died 1 to 2 hours ago..."
In the face of Inspector Megure's shocked expression, he continued:
“I found three suspicious points at the scene…
One was that on the wall against which the body was leaning there were traces of the deceased's blood, but on the deceased's clothes there were none;
Second, there was a scratch on the lower right side of the fatal wound on the back of the deceased's head;
Third, there are traces of moisture in the left trouser pocket of the deceased..."
As Kudo Shinichi was talking, he began to pinch his chin and mutter to himself: "But the dead man's palm is not wet. Even if it was wet and inserted into the pocket, it would not appear like that..."
Inspector Megure was distracted and said seriously, "That means someone got their pockets wet for some purpose... eh."
Inspector Megure finally noticed something was wrong.
Oh my god! The police haven't even finished investigating the scene, how come this guy told everything! ?
"That's enough! Don't interfere anymore!" Officer Megure pushed the man away excitedly, "The rest is our police's business!!!"
After driving away the annoying detective, he turned to look at the stewardess, and his tone instantly calmed down: "Sorry, please call the person next to my seat over, he is also a criminal policeman..."
"Yes! I'll go right away..."
……
"Come on, are you a detective? You're just a high school student, okay?" Mouri Ran rolled her eyes at her childhood sweetheart.
"What can I do? If I didn't say that, how could I have touched the corpse just now..."
Kudo Shinichi also stared at his childhood sweetheart with half-moon eyes.
After a few words of bickering, Kudo Shinichi said that he would go find someone to ask if anyone had seen the victim's movements, and asked Mouri Ran to go back to her seat first.
Kudo Shinichi looked in front and behind the deceased's seat and narrowed his eyes.
Just as he was about to walk over, he suddenly saw a white-haired man leaning against the back of the last row of seats, looking at the bathroom where the crime occurred with interest.
"This person... is so strange."
Kudo Shinichi stayed on the other person's conspicuous hair for a while, and then noticed the other person's light red pupils.
Perhaps because the white hair was too conspicuous, he did not notice that there was a man in a baseball cap writing furiously in the seat behind him...
"Half-blood?"
Kudo Shinichi speculated secretly - he had a problem, which was that when he encountered something that interested him, he liked to analyze it.
However, he didn't expect that he would be discovered after just staring at the other person for a second:
The white-haired man suddenly turned his head, adjusted the sunglasses on his hair, and smiled at him: "Hello! Is there something on my face?"
"Eh? Uh, nothing much, hahaha..."
Kudo Shinichi scratched his head a little embarrassedly when he saw that he was caught secretly looking at others. Then he remembered something and said to the white-haired man seriously, "Excuse me, where were you sitting just now?"
"me?"
The white-haired man blinked, raised his hand and pointed behind him with his thumb, "It's on the last side near the window, on the right."
"Is that so?" Kudo Shinichi's eyes lit up, "Then did you notice anything strange?"
"No, I was bored right away so I fell asleep. I just woke up when I heard someone screaming."
The white-haired man smiled cheerfully.
Kudo Shinichi was a little disappointed when he heard this, but he still smiled and waved his hand: "Then...it's okay, thank you!"
"You're welcome."
The white-haired man also smiled and waved, continuing to stare at the toilet.
Kudo Shinichi was a little wary of him, but his intuition and evidence made him not think that the white-haired man was the murderer.
Because... this man really had never been to the bathroom.
……
About ten minutes later, Inspector Megure and the detective named Takagi who came later also completed the autopsy.
What made Inspector Megure very unhappy was that their result was exactly the same as Kudo Shinichi's result just now...
"Anyway, let's go find out if there are any witnesses..."
Inspector Megure closed the door with a grunt. He had just spoken to his subordinate and assistant, Detective Takagi, when the boy not far away spoke again.
Still confident with his hands in his pockets, he said, "There are four suspects in total."
Inspector Megure: “……?”
I beg you to be kind!
Detective Takagi: “……!”
Sounds so awesome...
"Besides the victim, there were only four people who went to the toilet at the time of the incident. My seat was in the last row in front of the smoking area, so I was very careful about this."
Kudo Shinichi is very confident in his observations.
However, Mao Lilan was stunned, "So, you didn't sleep all night?"
She remembered that Shinichi fell asleep as soon as he got on the plane.
Kudo Shinichi's eyes widened: "...Ah? Ah! Right..."
Please, how can someone sleep with all the air blowing in his ears when he falls asleep!
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While they were talking, Lie came over and sat down next to Tokyo Tenman who was writing furiously.
"Well, did you hear anything interesting?"
"...I think you should have heard it more clearly than me, sir." Tokyo Tenman looked at Rei speechlessly, but still showed what he had recorded to Rei. "A person was killed in the bathroom, and there was only one fatal wound on the back of the neck. The boy and the police both inferred that he was knocked unconscious and then nailed to death with a sharp weapon."
“I heard that…”
Lie touched his chin and said, "He said there are four suspects. Do you remember?"
"...Yes, but I don't know where the seats of those four people are." Tokyo Tenman curled his lips, "After all, sir, my target is him, not the suspect or the victim..."
So Lord Lie, please stop asking him, right? He is only responsible for surveillance, not solving the case!
Lie smacked his lips in disappointment, "Well... I still want to go see what the corpse looks like..."
Tokyo Tenma: “…”
He had heard a little about this lord. Lord Ren had reminded him that Lord Lie was a bomb maniac... Perhaps an unburned corpse was rare for the lord?
Tokyo Tenman was just thinking about it, and when he came to his senses, he found that Lie had already gone to the toilet without him knowing.
Tokyo Tenma: “…”
Lord Lie, please come back soon! He is not responsible for being treated as a suspect!
...When Rei wanted to sneak into the toilet, Officer Megure was about to ask Kudo Shinichi to take him to the seats of the suspects.
He was caught red-handed:
"I say, what are you doing here again!!" When Inspector Megure saw someone trying to enter the crime scene without permission again, he let out a roar like a lion.
Lie was so frightened that his sunglasses were shaken off.
Lie: QAQ
Emma, this policeman is so scary...
Eh? Isn't this the guy I met at the Ferris wheel last time?
When Lie turned around, he had a frightened expression on his face. However, when he saw that it was an acquaintance, he suddenly laughed: "Oh! Why are you so fierce? I just wanted to see what the corpse looked like..."
Maybe the murderer has a bomb?
Officer Megure rolled his eyes: "No, no! No one is allowed to enter the crime scene..."
Lie blinked his eyes, "Then tell me about it~ I can help you find the murderer, I have a very good nose!"
He was so bored on the plane that he almost fainted and urgently needed some entertainment.
Officer Memu: "..."
Is this white-haired thing a dog? Does it have a good nose?
Detective Takagi: “…”
This person's hair is white!
Kudo Shinichi: "..."
Isn't this the strange man from before? Is he also a mystery enthusiast?
Lie saw that several people were looking at him with half-moon eyes, and tilted his head in confusion, "Is it not possible?"
"no!"
Inspector Megure yelled weakly.
He was so tired.
When Lie was feeling very disappointed, Kudo Shinichi suddenly said, "But it's not impossible to show you the photos of the crime scene."
A hash mark popped up on Inspector Megure's forehead: "I say Shinichi..."
"Haha...it's just a photo. Anyway, it's nice to have more people together." Kudo Shinichi laughed and touched the back of his head.
In his heart, he had already assumed that this white-haired man was a mystery enthusiast, and he had some thoughts of a confrontation in his mind.
"By the way, what's your name?" Kudo Shinichi suddenly remembered that he didn't know the other person's name. "My name is Kudo Shinichi, a detective!"
Officer Memu: "..."
Here we go again, here we go again.
Takagi: "..."
I feel like the detective is pretty good, why not...
Lie pulled up his sunglasses with a grateful look on his face, and patted the boy's shoulder with his head-high height advantage:
"My name is Aka en rin, a non-corrupted citizen! Thank you, Shin-chan, you are such a good person!"
"...It's nothing!" Kudo Shinichi felt embarrassed by the sudden enthusiasm, scratched his face with an awkward smile, "Oh, by the way, the camera is here..."
Because of Lie's jokes, they stayed at the toilet door for ten more minutes.
Tokyo Tenma, who was still writing furiously in the seat next to him, burst into tears:
He seems to be the one who is monitoring Kudo Shinichi, right? What is the point of Lord Rei exposing himself?
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Lie held the camera and looked through the photos with relish.
Kudo Shinichi came over and said, "How is it, Mr. Lin? Did you find anything?"
Lie smiled and replaced the camera. "He probably died of suffocation due to some sharp object inserted into his cervical spine, right?"
"I thought so too!" Kudo Shinichi's eyes lit up.
This person is indeed a mystery enthusiast!
He smiled fiercely but said nothing.
He wrote down everything in Dongman's notebook! Although he also had his own opinions...
But now, let's go see what the suspect has to say.
……
The four suspects mentioned by Kudo Shinichi were brought to the bathroom door one after another.
The two women who were originally sitting with Otaka and Hiro couldn't accept the news of his death. His prospective girlfriend, Tsugumi Amano, even covered her face and cried out loud.
The order in which the four people had been to the toilet was roughly:
Tsuyoshi Amano, who had suddenly become airsick, was originally sitting in the first seat to the right of the deceased, but later moved to the window seat;
Chizuru Tachikawa, who originally sat by the window and later moved to the first seat to the right of the deceased, went to the toilet after the stewardess took the medicine;
The foreign uncle who had been reading a book in the seat in front of the deceased;
Tsuneo Ukai, who was on the left hand side of the deceased and was choked by the smoke, was already across the aisle.
"But why? Why did this happen to Da Ying!?"
When Chizuru Tachikawa saw her friend crying so sadly, she immediately asked the police in confusion.
Officer Megure was a little embarrassed: "Well, we are also investigating the cause..."
"Could it be because of those negatives?" Ukai Tsuneo suddenly thought of something, "This man once took out the negatives and said he wanted to sell them to foreign news agencies or something..."
Chizuru Tachikawa was stunned: "Negative? So, the negative is not on Daying?"
Gao Mu nodded, "Indeed, this thing has never been found on the dead..."
On the other side, Amano Tsumemi looked up in disbelief:
"how come……"
"So," Inspector Megure made a reasonable inference, "The criminal is the one who knew about the film?"
Chizuru Tachikawa's expression changed, and she stood up and said, "What do you mean? The matter of the negative film is basically known to everyone in the industry! It's not a secret..."
At this time, their companion, who had been sitting behind the deceased and sleeping with a hat and eye mask, spoke up for the two: "Officer, it's a bit unreasonable for you to doubt their words, right? Didn't you say that Da Ying was killed by a single blow? That should be an expert... The two of them are just photographers, they can't do this, right?"
The person who spoke was a fellow journalist: Saginuma Noboru.
But Kudo Shinichi expressed a different opinion at this time: "No, you are wrong... As long as you master some medical skills and the use of anesthetics, anyone can commit a crime..."
The boy's words made the faces of several suspects and Inspector Megure become serious.
But the next second, Inspector Megure's face fell again:
That’s not right. How come this guy is the one who’s leading the pace again?
Lie watched everyone's expressions change, still smiling: "Why don't we check the time they went to the toilet first? After all, the deceased must have had contact with people who went to the toilet, right?"
"Mr. Lin is right."
Kudo Shinichi also said in agreement, his eyes roaming over the four people.
Officer Megure took a deep breath, turned his head to look at the suspects and the stewardess who had already discovered the body, and said seriously:
"Then please explain now why you went to the toilet and whether you saw the deceased."
I saw the sea!
(After receiving nutrients, a certain grass grows healthier!
（bushi
(End of this chapter)