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A true warrior has the courage to warmly invite Death home and let him stay for one night.
While having dinner, Chu Ming looked at the secretary Sakuraba Yuichi who followed behind Kensuke Tachibana, the villa's housekeeper Kameda Yaeko, Kensuke Tachibana's wife Axue, and the law firm's accountant Sugimura Noriko who came to visit him halfway through the meal and delivered a threatening letter, and began to blindly guess who the murderer this time might be.
According to the rule that whenever a handsome guy appears, he is either the murderer or the deceased, the murderer this time is most likely the secretary; but when they came in, they saw a dog, and Xiaolan interacted with it for a long time. It was said that the dog was rescued by the housekeeper. Dogs are usually key clues in Conan, which means that the murderer is most likely the villa's housekeeper.
Well, it seems that the murderer this time is probably one of these two people.
To determine who is not the murderer, we will have to see who Kogoro Mouri eliminates when he performs the process of elimination.
The next day, even though he was staying there temporarily, Chu Ming still slept until noon and then got up to eat lunch.
Looking at Chu Ming, whose hair was sticking up from sleeping, Conan ate his lunch while looking at Chu Ming dimly: "Brother Chu Ming, don't you get up at five or six every morning to exercise? Why did you get up so late today?"
Looking at Conan who was keen on exposing his past, Chu Ming remained calm and said, "Conan, you are still young. You don't know that too much is as bad as too little."
"Tsk, it's obviously Brother Chu Ming who is sleeping in."
Chu Ming threatened Conan with a smile, his words hinting at something: "Yeah, didn't Conan say anything about sleeping in? I heard that you stayed in your sister Xiaolan's bed this morning and didn't want to get up?"
Speechlessly looking at Chu Ming who was using his identity to block him again, Conan chose to lower his head honestly and took a big bite of the cake angrily, and the cream even rubbed against his nose.
Xiaolan held her chin up and watched the two bickering. Seeing Conan being frustrated, she held back her laughter and took out a handkerchief to pinch Conan's chin to make him turn his head. She carefully helped him wipe the cream off his nose and said with a smile: "Conan, go slowly. Brother Chu Ming won't snatch it from you. In the past, I saw you sometimes act like a little adult, but only occasionally in front of Brother Chu Ming, you really act like a child."
Conan looked at Xiaolan who was approaching suddenly, and his face instantly turned red, like a red-hot teapot, with steam coming out of his head. He said softly: "Xiaolan sister, I, I can do it myself..."
"You are still young, you don't have to do it yourself, I will do it!" Chu Ming retaliated maliciously, took the handkerchief from Xiaolan, lifted Conan's chin, and rubbed it back and forth on his face: "Xiaolan, you are too gentle, Conan is a little uncomfortable. You don't have to be so delicate with a little boy, just rub it with a little force."
Maori Kogoro nodded with deep feeling: "Yes! Xiaolan, you don't have to be so gentle to the boy!"
What is right?! Conan said that he has ten thousand dirty words to say.
He struggled to break free from Chu Ming's clutches, his face already a little red from being rubbed by Chu Ming: "Brother Chu Ming, you are murdering me, I just got a little cream on my face, it's not like I have makeup on my face!!!"
That's too much. You're just teasing him for getting up late. Is it necessary to treat him like this?
Because Xiaolan volunteered to take the dog out for a walk during dinner, the four of them took John out after dinner.
Chu Ming stood on the shore and saw from afar the villa's housekeeper wearing a red hat driving a motorboat to the other side. He took out his camera and took a few careful pictures of the beautiful scenery. He also called Conan and the others to take a photo together.
Although the butler is just an inconspicuous dot in the photo now, if the photo is put on the computer and special techniques are used, the photo can be continuously enlarged. In this way, when he touches the magnetic field, the murderer can be directly identified, saving Conan from wasting time looking for clues and evidence to find the murderer.
Although this might dampen Conan's desire to explore, they still have more than a dozen filming locations to rush to. After seeing various methods of committing crimes over the past few days, he can finally come into contact with the organization he has been dreaming of. Chu Ming feels that he is simply too good to Conan.
——Emmm, at least it’s better than Bourbon.
Chapter 313 The Second Day of Death's Outing
When Kensuke Tachibana's body was found, Chu Ming was sitting on the balcony of his villa having afternoon tea.
I have to say that the housekeeper's craftsmanship is excellent. The cakes he made are neither sweet nor greasy, and are soft, dense, sweet and delicious in the mouth. Paired with warm milk tea and admiring the beautiful scenery of the seaside in the afternoon, it is simply a heavenly day.
Having already stayed here for a day, Chu Ming had already planned to turn the table tonight. Fortunately, the car had been repaired, so he could have a good sleep tonight and go to the next location tomorrow.
By the time Kensuke Tachibana's body was salvaged and the police completed a series of investigations, it was already evening.
It was already late, and there was a lack of clues. Lawyer Tachibana was salvaged from the sea, so Conan had no way of obtaining information under such circumstances and had to go back.
Chu Ming sat in a chair and looked at the photos taken today, preparing for his next step. He planned to start his performance when the police arrived in the evening.
Outside the door, John suddenly shouted loudly. Conan went to open the door and saw that it was Officer Inoki and his colleagues standing in front of the door. They said they wanted to appreciate Kogoro Mouri's wonderful reasoning show.
According to their rumors, Maori Kogoro would listen to Okino Yoko's songs, dance and reason at the same time, so people called him Dancing Kogoro...
Chu Ming resisted the urge to complain. The rumors were getting more and more outrageous. After the sleepy Kogoro, the uncle had a new nickname - the dancing little dancer.
Looking at Officer Ma Chang telling the most outrageous rumors with the most serious face, Xiaolan didn't know what expression to use to respond and could only let them go in first.
"The police have found that Lawyer Ju had sleeping pills in his system. He must have taken the sleeping pills and then fell into the water and drowned. I wonder how Lawyer Ju's mental health is doing recently? Has he ever thought about committing suicide?"
Xiaolan quickly added: "No, we talked for a while at the door when Lawyer Ju went fishing this morning. He said he was going to catch a big fish and told us to wait for a feast! So Lawyer Ju would never commit suicide!"
Chu Ming listened to Xiaolan's decisive inference and supported his chin with his other hand. Why not? What if he didn't catch any fish and felt embarrassed, and then committed suicide out of grief, leaving everyone without fish to eat or a meal... Tsk, thinking about it this way, he is really a good man who is willing to sacrifice himself to feed the eagle.
At this time, Conan was already taking advantage of the police's presence at the scene and pointed out that Lawyer Tachibana had received several threatening letters.
So at the request of the police, Lawyer Ju's secretary went to the study and handed the threatening letter to the police.
"If you don't want to be deprived of your qualification as a lawyer, prepare 300 million. -TK"
Chu Ming looked at the signature. TK...top killer? Got it. It was Gin←_←.
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As the night deepened, everyone had discussed the matter but could not come to any conclusion. When Chu Ming took out the photos and was about to demonstrate his ideas, a police officer came to the door and handed a hat to Officer Inoki, saying that this was the latest evidence they had found.
After discussion among several employees of the law firm, it was finally discovered that the hat belonged to one of Attorney Tachibana's former defense lawyers, named Tatsuya Kumada, whose abbreviation is KT.
Chu Ming silently took back the photo in his hand. As a scapegoat, this Kumada Tatsuya was also 100% killed. Isn't this a magnetic field delivered to the door? Don't rush to overturn the table. Turn it over after the midnight snack.
That night, the police planned to arrest Tatsuya Kumada as the main suspect. Chu Ming and Conan squeezed into the police car under the speechless gaze of Kogoro Mouri.
Seeing that Chu Ming and Conan were about to go, Xiaolan hurriedly got on the car.
"This is a job for the police and detectives, what are you little brats doing following us?"
Chu Ming looked innocent: "Maybe there is something that needs our help, uncle, don't worry about us, we are not afraid of hardship, and not sleeping for a night is nothing for us young people!"
"I'm not afraid either. I can also stay up all night!" Kogoro Mouri, who was misled by Chu Ming, inexplicably developed a strange desire to win.
But when they arrived, Tatsuya Kumada had already hanged himself, and the clues were lost from then on.
The police were ready to close the case by saying that Kumada committed suicide out of fear of punishment after killing someone, but Conan felt something was wrong and went out to knock on his neighbor's door to look for clues.
Inside the room, Chu Ming took out his phone, opened the photo album, and turned to the police and said, "I think this gentleman may not be the murderer. When Detective Maori and I were taking photos at the beach, we took some photos of the murderer."
"Look at this picture. The man seems to have turned his face around. I feel that the outline of this face does not look like that of Kumada. I wonder if the police can provide me with a computer so that I can enlarge this picture. Although it may not be completely clear, at least I can get a rough idea of it."
Officer Inoki quickly asked the police officers to bring a laptop over. Everyone gathered around and watched Chu Ming's ten fingers jumping on the keyboard. The photo on the screen was constantly enlarged, and then gradually became clear from the mosaic.
Finally, a blurry face was identified.
"It's Butler Kamei!!!" Maori Kogoro shouted in surprise, "How could it be her?"
Officer Inoki's eyes flashed with surprise, and he patted Chu Ming's shoulder vigorously: "Good boy, you are quite capable. You really helped our police a lot this time. Officer Bachang, take people to arrest Butler Kamei immediately!"
Conan had already returned from Kumada's neighbor's house at this time. Seeing that the police were about to withdraw, he hurriedly quickened his pace.
He just got a very important clue. At around seven o'clock in the evening, the neighbor heard the sound of the washing machine starting.
How could a person who was about to commit suicide think of washing clothes! This must be homicide! The murderer of Lawyer Tachibana was someone else, and Kumada definitely did not commit suicide!
He had to quickly tell Brother Chu Ming about this and ask him to help stop the police!
Chapter 314: The Third Day of Death's Outing
"Brother Chu Ming, why are you here? I've been looking for you for a long time!" Conan hurriedly pulled Chu Ming over, "Why did the police withdraw their forces? I just found evidence that proves that Mr. Kumada did not commit suicide!"
Chu Ming glanced at Conan and said to him ambiguously: "Didn't you hear what Uncle Maori just shouted? He said that the real murderer is Butler Kamei. The police are not withdrawing, but are preparing to arrest Butler Kamei."
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Conan fell into deep thought after hearing this. Did his uncle say that? That couldn't be right. Butler Kamei couldn't be the murderer. Although he didn't have any evidence, Uncle Maori's judgment...
After verifying so many cases, Conan completely agreed with what Chu Ming said before. When there are many suspects, the wrong answer chosen by Maori Kogoro can be eliminated first, which will make it easier to find the murderer!
Conan walked out with a frown, completely unaware of the malicious and cunning smile on Chu Ming's face.
After he went out, he looked at the evidence searcher who was taking photos and collecting evidence. Da Da Da ran over and looked up, looking for additional clues from the police: "Uncle evidence searcher, did you see anything when you were searching for evidence--"
The investigator smiled and patted Conan on the head: "Little brother, stop hanging around here. This is not a place for you to play."
After all, they were unfamiliar police officers, not as easy to talk to as the familiar police officers in Tokyo. Conan blinked and began to falsely convey the emperor's order: "Uncle Maori asked me to come. He said that although he had deduced who the murderer was, there were still some details he wanted to see..."
However, this time, the method that had always been successful suffered a Waterloo. After all, the police officers all knew that this time Kogoro Mouri did not make any reasoning, but found the murderer directly because of Chu Ming's hard evidence. Therefore, the police in the forensic department believed that Conan was making trouble, and they picked him up helplessly and sent the confused Conan to Xiaolan.
"This little brother may have been following Mr. Maori for too long and wanted to be a little detective. He has been refusing to leave the scene and has disturbed our progress in collecting evidence. Please keep an eye on him. It is better not to let the child run around the crime scene."
Xiaolan quickly picked up Conan, apologized to the police officer, turned around and sternly taught Conan not to disturb the police work. Then, during Conan's joke, she told Conan that this case was solved because Chu Ming took the key evidence...
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It was not until the next morning that the few people returned to the villa and rested for the night and said goodbye to Lawyer Tachibana's wife. Even when sitting in the speeding car, Conan was obviously still not recovered from the anger.
Chu Ming held back his laughter as he sat in the back seat, looking at Conan's face full of doubts about life, a complex expression that he didn't know whether it was mostly embarrassment or anger. At the same time, he received a steady stream of emotional values and felt that he had found a new way to make a fortune.
Maori Kogoro looked at Conan's angry expression from the rearview mirror, not knowing whether he was trying to comfort or mock him: "Don't be so mad. I told you to pretend to be a detective and hang around crime scenes all day long. Now you know it's not that easy to be a detective. You still have a lot to learn. I don't mind you using my name to get information all day long, but you're still so angry."
Conan looked at Chu Ming who was obviously laughing at the side, and his fists hardened with anger: "Brother Chu Ming, did you do that on purpose? You deliberately teased me!"
Chu Ming's face showed an innocent smile that Conan was very familiar with: "How can I tease you? Didn't you think I ruined your fun of solving the case before? Now, can't I leave you with a suspense?"
Chu Ming looked at Conan, who had nothing to say but actually contributed countless emotional points to him, and he knew that Conan must be muttering bad things about him in his heart. However, he did not take Conan's little emotion to heart. After all, Conan would definitely get used to it later.
After paying attention to the second target marked on the system, Chu Ming should be not far from here. He pressed the car window and rested his elbows on the window sill, ready to release the small robot at any time.
"Crack—woo—boom—"
Before Chu Ming could take any action, the car stopped again with black smoke coming out.
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Chu Ming silently retracted his hand. Could it be that his passive skill had been updated? Could it be that his wish came true?
"How did the people in the repair shop repair the car! Why did it break down again? I must complain to them!" Kogoro Mouri pushed open the car door angrily and got out to see what was wrong with the car.
Chu Ming, who rarely felt a little guilty, pushed the door and got out of the car silently, helping Maori Kogoro with the work. "Don't worry, uncle, you will get used to days like this in the future, and there will be many more times."
Just as the two were busy, a car stopped by the roadside and a man leaned out silently: "Are you... the famous Maori detective? What's wrong? Do you need help?"
Maori Kogoro was overjoyed: "Yes, I am the famous detective. We came out to travel, but the rented car broke down on the road again..."
Chu Ming looked at the person who looked exactly like the one on the kill list and smiled in surprise.
Oh my God, could he be the legendary invisible European emperor?
I thought the destination was some distance away and I needed to find a way to lure Kogoro Mori and the others to the villa on the mountain, but we ended up running into them here?
Sure enough, I wasn’t so lucky before. It must be because I was influenced by the famous black gin in Science. After all, even the name of gin sounds very black.
"My name is Shohei Kusaka, and I'm the president of a financial company. My villa is on the mountain. I've heard of Detective Mori's name for a long time, and I've invited a few friends to my villa tonight for wine tasting. If Mr. Mori doesn't mind, why don't you join us tonight? This place is right on the border of Tokyo, so you can contact a car rental company to come and tow the truck and replace it for you. As for tonight, you can just stay in my villa." Shohei Kusaka was particularly enthusiastic.
"Why would I dislike it? It's us who disturbed us, hahahaha..."
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