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Chu Ming didn't say what the specific reason was, but he continued to reply to the messages directly and firmly.
"Just tell me whether you will help me or not! If you don't, I will kill him and you will never see your godson again. - Granburch"
"……help."
Vermouth was not even in the mood to sign. She sat in the room, rubbing her forehead with a headache. She didn't know what trouble Granburch had caused again. But even if he didn't say it clearly, it was most likely that he was provoking Gin again. Now that Gin was back, he was going to be beaten, so he started looking for help...
However, Vermouth was still very curious about what kind of trouble Granburch could have gotten into that he had to ask her for help, which was one of the reasons why she agreed.
She also loves to eat melon.
However, no disaster can be bigger than blowing up Gin's beloved car, right?
She was already shocked when she heard that Granburr and Vodka went on a mission and ended up blowing Gin's Porsche into pieces, but were still able to walk around the organization alive and well.
Not only her, but everyone in the organization who received the news was shocked. Some people in the organization were even saying: Gin is old, can he still fight?
However, that rumor was dispelled by the idiots who thought Gin couldn't hold a gun and then jumped in front of him. It turned out that Gin was able to hold a gun, and those who jumped in front of him died miserably.
This made Granburch, the only one who got into trouble but acted as if nothing had happened, become so legendary that there was even a rumor that he might be Gin's illegitimate son.
……
Hiss, thinking of this, Vermouth took a breath of cold air, could it be that Granburrch... blew up Gin's car again???
Last time, Granburch made up for it in time and at least found a replacement car. If it is gone again this time, where can they find a car?
Thinking of this, Vermouth paused while painting her nails. No way? Could it be that Granburch was looking for her just for this?
Wouldn’t Gin go crazy then?
On the other hand, Chu Ming had no idea what Vermouth had planned for him in her mind, and was still thinking about who he could call upon to be his rescuer.
At this moment, a faint light flashed outside the window. Chu Ming looked outside and it seemed that fireworks were being set off on the other side of the mountain.
Tencho Haruka signaled to Fukuura Reiji to open the skylight, and then Iago Takuto held Ayumi and stuck his head out of the skylight. In the distant night sky, colorful fireworks bloomed, and the flickering flames illuminated Ayumi's face.
"Wow, it's fireworks, so beautiful!!"
Yuan Tai rushed over anxiously: "I want to see it, too. I want to see it, too. Uncle, hug me. I want to see it, too."
Fanhe Takuto looked at Yuanta's chubby appearance and hesitated for a moment. Just as he was about to put Ayumi down and use his great strength to lift up the little fat boy, he heard Ayumi's disappointment: "The fireworks are blocked by the mountain, and we can't see them..."
Fango Takuto breathed a sigh of relief and quickly put Ayumi down: "Okay, we'll be there soon. We'll be able to see clearly when we get to the top of the mountain."
Just as they were talking, Fukuura Reiji, who was driving, seemed to see something and slammed the brakes in panic. The wheels left long tire marks on the ground before the car stopped.
Fan He Takuto, who had just stepped on the chair and leaned out of the sunroof, had just retracted his body and almost fell off the chair. He turned his head towards the driver's seat and complained in a bad mood: "Reiji, what are you doing? Drive carefully, it's very dangerous."
Fukuura Reiji didn't bother to pay attention to him. He looked panicked, staring at the area in front of the car that was dimly illuminated by the headlights, where a long shadow was lying on the road.
"Just now, I think I just ran over a long object that was across the road... and it flew in front of me..."
Everyone came forward and looked out the front window. There seemed to be something lying in the middle of the road. Thinking of Shirafuji Taimi who had been missing, everyone suddenly had a bad feeling and quickly opened the car door to check.
After getting out of the car and walking closer, I realized that I had made a mistake. What fell on the ground was just a piece of wooden fence, which probably fell from the top of the mountain.
Takuto Iigo shone the flashlight in his hand towards the top of the mountain. He could vaguely see that there was a broken fence at the top of the mountain. There was a gap. He turned back to comfort Fukuura Reiji: "It's okay, it's just a piece of wood, don't worry."
"I was so scared, I thought I ran over Taimi..." Fukuura Reiji let out a long sigh and asked everyone to get in the car, "Then let's continue on our way, otherwise we will miss the fireworks."
When a normal person runs over something, would their first reaction be to see the body of their companion? What kind of intuition is this? It's too accurate...
When we got to the top of the mountain, Chu Ming took a few selfies during the fireworks. Such a beautiful scenery deserves a beauty to go with it. When there was no one around like Kotoko, the mood was even better.
Conan seemed to have discovered something, and he walked to the place where the fence was broken. There was a deep bicycle rut there.
"Brother, there are traces of bicycle wheels here where the fence is broken!" Conan squatted on the ground, looked at the traces on the ground carefully, and called out to Fukuura Reiji and others.
"No way, could it be that Taimei fell off her bicycle?"
???
Is it that cursing your companions is a trend these days?
Why do you always think of your companions first when something bad happens...
Chapter 443 What title to choose? No need to choose
No one took this unexpected episode to heart, only Conan looked at the gap in the wooden fence in deep thought.
On the way back, because Chu Ming had already put away the bodies, everyone had a smooth journey back to the camp.
Along the way, Tiantang Qinghua's expression changed from pretending to be calm at the beginning to a look of doubt and surprise in her eyes now, and Chu Ming saw it all.
Another person who noticed that something was wrong with her was Conan, who had been observing everyone's expressions on the way back.
Fukuura Reiji and Fango Takuto were a little worried about Miss Taimi who had disappeared, and suggested that everyone go look for her after dinner to see if she had encountered any trouble after riding her bike out.
Chu Ming ate the curry rice in his hand with an elegant posture. The doctor made standard Japanese curry with carrots, onions, potatoes, apples and tomatoes. The sweet and sour taste neutralized the spiciness of the curry, and it tasted pretty good.
However, he was the only one among those sitting around the table who had the energy to carefully comment on the taste of the food; everyone else seemed to have no appetite.
"Sister Qinghua, you seemed restless since the car came back just now. Why?" Conan started to make trouble while eating.
Tiantang Qinghua was suddenly startled. She forced a smile and said, "I'm worried about Taimei. I don't know where she is."
"Eh? Really?" Conan stretched out his voice, "But just now, Sister Qinghua was looking out the window, and she looked disappointed to be back at the camp. Was she hoping to see something outside the window? For example, Sister Taimei?"
Tiantang Qinghua's mental state was obviously not good. She forced herself to calm down and said, "Of course, we just thought Taimei went to the top of the mountain alone. Maybe she missed us because it was too dark. I'll see if I can meet her on the way back..."
"Then Sister Qinghua should have looked out the window when she came down from the mountain, but she started turning her head to look out the window frequently after she turned the third turn, which is the intersection where Ayumi and the others leaned out to watch the fireworks. Is there something that should have been there but didn't appear?" Conan stared at Tiantang Qinghua, his eyes seemed to be able to see through her heart.
"Little brother, what do you want to say?" Tiantang Qinghua was already nervous because she didn't see the corpse. When she heard Conan's questioning, her brows frowned.
"What he meant was that you probably killed your companion a long time ago, and then planned to use some method to let everyone see her body on the way back. But now it is beyond your expectations. The body that should have appeared is gone, or there is a problem with the method you set up, and the body has not appeared yet."
Chu Ming wiped his mouth and translated for Conan.
Conan's expression froze when he heard Chu Ming's voice. When he encountered a case, he forgot that there was someone who was suspected to be from that organization around him...
Tiantang Jinghua stood up suddenly, angry and embarrassed: "What nonsense are you talking about? How could I kill Taimei, I——"
"Ms. Qinghua, calm down." Chu Ming sat upright with a calm expression. It was already night, and the moon was as cool as water. His long silver hair shone in the moonlight, like Princess Kaguya sitting on a cloud platform. "In fact, even if I don't tell you, you know that he hasn't shown up so late, and no one answered the phone. It's most likely that there was an accident. And this accident is unlikely to be caused by a few outsiders like us. It is most likely caused by your own people."
Chu Ming spoke in a gentle tone, and his delicate features looked particularly sacred under the moonlight, which stunned the people around him. They all sat quietly and listened to Chu Ming finish.
"Or just from the alibi, I was at the foot of the mountain with this little brother in the afternoon. According to what Mr. Agasa said, the children were with him the whole time. You three are the only ones who don't have a clear alibi. Besides -"
"Then why is it me?" Tiantang Qinghua interrupted Chu Ming, she pointed at Fukuura Reiji and Fanhe Takuto, "Isn't it impossible for them two?"
"Maybe it's because..." Chu Ming glanced at her lightly, "You are the most suspicious, and you have a more complete motive for murder, right?"
Conan nodded subconsciously, but stopped halfway. He looked at Chu Ming's beautiful profile. She was worthy of being Gin's sister. Her analytical ability was on par with Gin's.
The last time Conan faced Gin because of the disk, he had already experienced Gin's reasoning ability.
Are the people in the organization so powerful?
Conan has made the organization even more difficult to deal with.
"Then tell me, what exactly can I do wrong? We have been going out to play in the mountains and the sea for several years in college, what kind of conflict can there be? We ourselves don't even know it, but you will know it when you see us for the first time today?" Tiantang Qinghua's face was ashen, and her eyes were filled with anger, as if this could make her more confident.
"Ms. Qinghua, are you really a rich girl?"
Chu Ming's light words made the faces of the three people change drastically.
"You--" Tiantang Qinghua's eyes flickered, her breathing became a little rapid, and she didn't know what to say.
Chu Ming continued to drop a big bomb: "Do your companions really not know where your money comes from?"
Fukuura Reiji and Fango Takuto glanced at Tencho Haruka subconsciously and didn't respond.
"Finally, do you two think Miss Qinghua doesn't know that you already know the truth?" These slightly awkward words hit the two of them like a bolt from the blue.
Several children were completely confused. They gathered around Dr. Agasa and quietly tugged at Conan's clothes: "What did Kotoko-sama mean? Why don't we understand?"
Conan took a step back. Since Miss Kurosawa already knew the truth, there was no need for him to step forward and reason, and he didn't find any evidence either.
However, it would be too sad to deduce the truth but have no one to share it with. Fortunately, he could still tell it to the children. He squatted down and quietly told the children the truth he deduced like a story.
"Haruka..." On the other side, Fukuura Reiji was the first to react. He asked in shock, "You know everything?"
Tiantang Qinghua's hands were trembling slightly. She looked at her boyfriend in front of her and suddenly sneered, "What do you know? You know that you have already discovered that I am not really a daughter of a rich family, but I am working hard to make money, but you still lie on me and suck my blood with peace of mind?"
"Qinghua, please listen to my explanation, I--" Fukuura Reiji took a few steps forward and tried to comfort his girlfriend.
"Stop talking. I heard everything you said last time. In your eyes, am I just a clown who makes fun of you? I work everywhere and take odd jobs just to maintain our friendship, but what about you?" Tiantang Qinghua clenched the corner of her clothes, tears falling drop by drop.
"I don't think they think you're a clown." Chu Ming looked at her, his tone lacking emotion. "Maybe they think you're an ATM machine that automatically spits out money."
She was pitiful, but Chu Ming couldn't feel any sympathy for her.
You can do anything with money? Why do you have to find some ungrateful people to play with?
Chapter 444 Wuwuwu
After being ridiculed by Chu Ming, Tiantang Qinghua wiped the tears from her face, but still refused to admit it: "Yes, I am really angry with them because of this, but can you say that I killed Taimei just based on this? Do you have any evidence?"
Chu Ming shook his head: "No."
"Ah?" Everyone who had pricked up their ears to listen was stunned. Even Tiantang Qinghua paused to wipe her tears, but she reacted very quickly. When she heard Chu Ming say that there was no evidence, she felt relieved and her face was full of grievance of being wronged: "I am also worried about Taimei's disappearance, but this does not mean that you can wrongly accuse me!"
"If you say so, I have no way to refute you. Just treat it as nonsense I was just talking." Chu Ming did not insist at all. He just couldn't hold back his words. As for whether he could make the murderer confess?
It’s none of his business, he’s not a detective.
Tiantang Qinghua was choked and felt that her rebuttal was like a punch on cotton.
Conan was just about to hear what evidence Chu Ming had found, but after he finished his reasoning, he faced Tiantang Qinghua's question and said bluntly that he had no evidence and gave up the pursuit of the truth!
He was full of disapproval, but he couldn't find any evidence. After all, even the body couldn't be found, and there were too many clues missing.
"My suggestion is - call the police, at least try to find the body first. As for those of you who don't have alibis, go back with the police for investigation." Chu Ming yawned lazily, his body languid, and his eyes were moist due to sleepiness, adding a touch of charm.
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The police arrived at the scene quickly. It was already late at night, and they searched everywhere for the missing Taimei with flashlights. They even dispatched a helicopter. The carpet search only found a stone stained with Taimei's blood, which should be the murder weapon.
The stone was thrown not far from the campsite, and according to forensic testing, the blood coagulation occurred about 4-5 hours ago, around two or three in the afternoon.
At that time, Chu Ming was at the supermarket at the foot of the mountain where Conan was, and Dr. Agasa was collecting firewood with the children, so the police decided to take the three people who had no alibi back to the Metropolitan Police Department for investigation.
Conan was also unwilling to accept the result, but without any evidence and even unable to find the body, it was difficult for him to deduce. Although he had some guesses about who the murderer was, guessing alone would not do.