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Lafitte raised an eyebrow, "There's no way I'll fail... But it's a deal!"

He decided that today he would follow President Domoto closely! He would not allow this president to do anything wrong today!!

President Domoto is going to bring guests to try out the Tenbusan Sky Cable Car. Chu Ming and Lafitte follow closely behind, especially Lafitte, who stares at the guests with sharp eyes. Then looking at Chu Ming, he looks like a bodyguard captain, more competent than President Domoto's formal bodyguards.

The cable car entered the tunnel inside the statue of the goddess, and the lights inside the cable car suddenly went out.

Lafitte suddenly became alert and began to grope towards the position of the president in his memory.

Conan yelled to the reporters, "Press the spotlight!"

The pale light flashed by in an instant, and President Domoto suddenly let out a miserable cry.

After a long period of baptism in the magnetic field, Chu Ming could still see clearly even in the dark. After President Domoto finished shouting, he lifted the lid of the stool and lay down in it with a cunning smile.

After waiting for 30 seconds, the cable car drove out of the tunnel and the light illuminated the cable car again. Everyone was shocked to find that the president had disappeared in the cable car!

Conan looked around. The windows were sealed, two reporters were standing at the emergency escape door, Secretary Yoshino was standing at the right side door, and there was only a small air vent at the ventilation hole. Conan felt that even he could not get out. The emergency escape equipment was also well placed. The only change was that the words "Karma" were posted on the window.

"What exactly is going on?"

"This sticker...isn't it really the curse of the goddess?"

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People in the cable car were talking about it. How could such a healthy person suddenly disappear?

Domoto Rina was leaning against the window, searching carefully. Suddenly, her eyes swept across the statue of the goddess: "Dad is there!!!"

Following Rina Domoto's finger, everyone suddenly discovered that the president was lying in the hands of the goddess statue, his life or death unknown, with his head hanging low and a dagger deeply stuck in his chest.

Seeing the body of President Domoto, Lafitte, who was originally a little anxious because of the president's disappearance, was now exceptionally calm among the panicked crowd.

"Don't be nervous, that's not President Domoto."

Chapter 251: Grooved Coral?

Lafitte stood in front of the window, holding a telescope hidden somewhere. After a careful look, he said calmly, "Although he is wearing clothes, you can see from the exposed parts that the skin of 'President Domoto' in the statue's hand is too shiny and the color is too rigid. Looking at the posture he is lying in, the details are very stiff. Even if a human body is lying there, it is impossible to be in that posture. So this must be a puppet. If you don't believe me, let's go over and take a look."

Lafitte felt refreshed. Although he didn't know how President Domoto got out, seeing the fake panic on the vice president's face and the corpse pretending to be a puppet in the hand of the statue, he felt that the president must want to use this drama to slap the faces of those who have always said there is a curse.

He dared to guarantee with his decades of medical experience that the corpse was definitely a fake!

Seeing Lafitte's confident words, everyone felt a little relieved and ran towards the booth after getting off the cable car.

Lafitte, whose legs are still strong despite his age, ran in front and led everyone to rush towards the booth.

Chu Ming looked at Yoshino Reika who stayed behind due to illness, and then looked at Lafitte who was full of energy. After holding it in for a long time, he still couldn't help but smile. He had already anticipated the look on Lafitte's face when he arrived there and found that the puppet he thought was a doll suddenly turned into a real corpse.

It must be embarrassing, right?

No, he also had to hurry over, and he happened to have brought a camera with him, so he wanted to record his dark history!!

Thinking of this, Chu Ming no longer followed slowly behind, but exerted force on his feet and quickly chased forward. Soon he met Conan, the short-legged man at the tail end of the group. He grabbed his collar from behind and threw him into his arms, then caught up with Lafitte with him.

Conan was running when he suddenly found himself hanging in the air. He was startled. He covered his neck which was strangled by the collar and coughed twice: "Brother Chu Ming, you are murdering me!"

Chu Ming brought someone with him, still climbing the stairs easily behind Lafitte. Hearing Lafitte's somewhat rapid breathing, he laughed and said, "La--cough, la, too lame. I haven't seen you for a while. You are getting weaker and weaker. How far have you run? You are out of breath like this? Look at Conan, his legs are so short, but he is still following us without blushing or breathing hard."

Lafitte glanced at the two people who were right behind him, and saw Conan hugging Chu Ming's neck, snuggling in his arms and baring his teeth at him. He was so angry that his face turned black: "Shut up! He - huhu, he didn't run away at all! Huhu, I can run with you if you hold me in your arms!"

"You wish." Chu Ming could have easily surpassed Lafitte and gone to the booth to wait for him first, but he was afraid that Lafitte would see the real body of President Domoto lying there and would cheat and insist that he killed him. Wouldn't that be a waste of the bet?

It would be better to let him be the first person to discover it.

When everyone arrived breathlessly, they found Mr. Watanabe Wada, who claimed to be a doctor, standing next to the palm of the Buddha statue with a look of doubt on his face, while Chu Ming and Conan were examining the corpse.

The vice president stopped in shock, his face full of disbelief: "How could it be, how could it be possible..."

Domoto Rina let out a painful wail: "Dad!!"

Then she seemed to have thought of something, turned around and yelled at Lafitte: "It's all your fault!! You were the one who said it was a puppet!! How did it suddenly become my dad! You bastard, you——"

She rushed towards Lafitte as if to hit him. Chu Ming's eyes fixed, and he grabbed her hand that was about to scratch Lafitte and threw it back: "It wasn't Hetian who killed him, why are you blaming him? Don't you have eyes to see? What do you believe in what he says? He also said that he was the reincarnation of the goddess statue, do you believe it? Stupid X."

Ignoring Miss Domoto who was crying on the ground, Chu Ming patted Lafitte who had just reacted and said, "Stop doubting your life. Let's do an autopsy."

He likes to bully Lafitte, but not just anyone can bully members of the organization. This is why Lafitte fell into self-doubt and didn't react, otherwise Rina Domoto would have been stabbed with a row of scalpels.

Lafitte was a little depressed. He was sure that he was not mistaken. Someone must have killed the president and left him here during the time they were rushing here.

The first person he suspected was Chu Ming, but Chu Ming had been following him just now, so it couldn't be him. Otherwise, if he lost the bet, it would be too bad to have to destroy the evidence for him...

Who is the murderer? He lost the bet, and he will never forgive the murderer! ! ! !

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Soon, the police arrived at the scene. The forensic personnel began to move the body and take photos. When everything was almost done, Officer Yokomizo climbed the last step of the stairs, panting, and sat down on the ground.

Kogoro Mouri had a solemn expression on his face. When he heard the panting sound, he turned around and saw, "Oh, it's an old acquaintance again."

"Officer Yokomizo, it's you—"

Officer Yokomizo jumped up and pointed at Kogoro Mori with a frightened look on his face: "Mr. Mori! Why is it you again?!"

After being complained about so much by Inspector Megure, seeing Inspector Yokomizo like this, Maori Kogoro's face darkened: "What, you think I'm the god of death too? Then I'll leave? You can let the angel statue help you solve the case!"

Officer Yokomizo quickly comforted Maori Kogoro: "No, no, I actually want to hear Mr. Maori's famous reasoning too!"

Then he leaned on Maori Kogoro's shoulder and whispered, "It can't be a curse. When I went up the mountain just now, I heard the residents at the foot of the mountain say that it was a curse from the goddess."

Maori Kogoro said seriously: "Impossible, this is a murder case. You are a policeman, how can you exaggerate!"

Officer Yokomizo scratched his head and glanced at the people present: "So, the suspects are the group of people who were on the cable car at the time of the incident? Let me see, several people from the Domoto family, two reporters, ah - Mr. Chu Ming!!"

Officer Yokomizo immediately abandoned Maori Kogoro and rushed to Chu Ming's side: "Hey Mr. Chu Ming, we meet again. Have you figured out the murderer today?"

The abandoned Kogoro Mouri stared at him with resentful eyes.

Chu Ming shook his head and introduced to Lafitte: "This is Officer Yokomizo, and this is my friend, Dr. Watanabe Wada from Beihua Hospital. He just took over the autopsy work temporarily while the police were not here."

Chu Ming forgot Officer Yokomizo's name for a moment and simply skipped it.

Officer Yokomizo looked at him dimly: "Mr. Chu Ming, have you actually forgotten my name..."

Chu Ming looked at his coral-like hair, and an idea flashed in his mind: "I didn't forget, Wada, this is Officer Yokomizo Coral."

"Yokogoni Cango!!! It's Yokogoni Cango!!! Don't guess the name based on the hair!!"

Chapter 252 Willing to admit defeat

Chu Ming apologized repeatedly, which made Henggou Chanwu's expression look a little better.

Just as Chu Ming was chatting with Officer Yokomizo, the three siblings of the Domoto family began to blame each other humorously again.

One said that the eldest brother was the happiest because his father had died, another said that his sister must have gotten what she had longed for, and another said that none of you are good people, and only I am as pure as ice and jade, a white lotus, which stunned everyone around.

At this time, Lafitte pointed to a house below and said, "What is that place? Why is there still smoke?"

The vice president of Domoto Kanko poked his head in and looked over. "That's the small room where the workers rested when we were digging the tunnel. Hey, that's strange. That house should have been vacant for a long time. Why is there still smoke coming out of the chimney?"

Hearing their conversation, Chu Ming leaned over to take a look and said seriously, "Don't miss any information related to the case. Officer Yokomizo, quickly send someone down to see why the smoke is coming out."

Officer Yokomizo nodded and signaled the police beside him to go down and check quickly.

After a while, the police came up quickly with an evidence bag. In the bag was a puppet that had been burned and only had a fake hand left.

The moment he saw the evidence, the smile on Lafitte's face disappeared. He almost snatched the evidence bag, read it, and then stared at Secretary Yoshino with a gloomy face: "Miss, did you kill President Domoto?"

Secretary Yoshino's smile disappeared: "Sir, please don't talk nonsense, I--"

Lafitte pinched the evidence bag with two fingers and turned it over to show her: "There is a pearl on this burnt fake hand, exactly the same as the pearl on your clothes, which means I was not mistaken at the time. It was a puppet. The president should have cooperated with you to perform a play, but you turned the fake play into reality? Then you killed the president and burned the puppet and came to reunite with us?"

Lafitte was heartbroken as he spoke: "Damn it! I should have been more careful! I shouldn't have run so fast, I should have stayed and kept an eye on you!"

When Lafitte thought that he lost the bet because of his carelessness, he felt his heart aching. His Naai - bah, his Venus!!!

Conan looked at Dr. Watanabe, whose face was filled with grief, and sighed slightly in his heart. Although Chu Ming's friends were a little annoying, they were all people who hated evil.

He just doesn't like to talk about the details of the reasoning, which makes him very sad and suffocated.

Secretary Yoshino lowered her head. The evidence was irrefutable and there was no room for her to deny it.

"I don't regret it." She said with some stubbornness, "They killed my brother, I just made him pay with blood!"

"Your brother?"

Chu Ming didn't want to listen at all, but the detectives and police at the scene seemed very curious and took the initiative to pick up Yoshino Reika's words.

"My brother died accidentally during the tunnel excavation process. At that time, Domoto Tourism was arguing with the villagers over the goddess statue. In order to prevent the outside world from thinking that it was all the goddess' curse, they actually used money to silence the relevant personnel and only gave my mother a large sum of compensation! Ten years ago, my father and mother divorced, and I went to live in Tokyo with my father. During this period, my brother and I often contacted each other and encouraged each other, but last year my mother was seriously ill. When I went to visit her, my mother kept crying, saying that my brother died too tragically and she would never forgive the Domoto family, so I decided-"

Chu Ming felt something was wrong the more he listened, and couldn't help but interrupt her: "Did the Domoto family give compensation?"

The vice president said hastily, "Yes, we gave her compensation. At that time, the compensation was ten times the market price because the president hoped that she would not make it public."

"After receiving the compensation, she still wants you to take revenge... Although the president shouldn't let people keep silent about your brother's death, he didn't evade responsibility, right? Why did your mother ask you to take revenge after receiving a high price of compensation and promising not to pursue the matter... And your brother wasn't murdered with malicious intent. Accidents are unforeseen, right? What do you think?"

Chu Ming's mind was full of doubts. It was really difficult for him to empathize with these murderers. He felt that their minds were full of something... This was also the reason why he didn't want to listen to these murderers narrating their mental journey, because he couldn't understand their thought processes and was afraid that he would become stupid after listening.

Xiaolan was originally sympathizing with Yoshino Reika, but after hearing what Chu Ming said, she felt like something was wrong.

Yoshino Reika was stunned for a long while, then fell to her knees on the ground, crying sadly, but unable to utter a word.

Yokomizo Sango had her captured, then waved goodbye to Chu Ming and Mori Kogoro excitedly and left.

Lafitte looked so lost that his hair seemed to have lost its luster. He followed Chu Ming slowly with dragging steps.

"Are you willing to accept defeat?" Chu Ming stood on tiptoe, hooked his neck, and laughed at him.

Lafitte pushed Chu Ming's hand away and said, "I know, you don't have to keep reminding me."

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Carrying the luggage, Chu Ming invited Lafitte to get on the return train together. The interaction between Lafitte and Xiaolan gradually became normal, and they no longer had the same showy aura as before, like a peacock spreading its feathers.

After separating from Maori Kogoro and the others, he changed his previous calm expression and slumped in the driver's seat as if he had no bones: "Wuwuwu - my Venus, I'm going to lose you wuwuwu..."

Chu Ming rolled his eyes: "Why on earth did you suddenly fall in love with Xiaolan? How did she suddenly become your Venus?"

Lafitte turned his head and said, "What do you know if you have no artistic talent?"

His eyes were full of longing: "Her skull top and back of the head are round and full, her forehead is flat, her brow bones and nose bridge are high, her facial features are very three-dimensional, and her chin is in a good position, forming a full forehead and a square chin. I have never collected such bone structure in all these years, and I am also very interested in the horns on her head..."

"..." Chu Ming was dumbfounded. "You pursued her just to collect her bones??? Then why don't you just kill her and remove her bones? Why are you pursuing her in such a complicated way?"