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Before Huihara Ai could finish, Conan interrupted her and said, "Are you saying that you saw a man in a black windbreaker?"

Huihara Ai blinked blankly and emphasized: "No, the point is that I met Vodka and Granburch..."

Conan said seriously: "They are not important now."

After all, Granburch had visited his uncle's detective agency openly with vodka, so what if he showed up here?

Moreover, Granburch was holding his lifeline in his hands. Even if he knew what they were doing here, it would be useless as he couldn't stop them.

"Ah?" Haibara Ai thought for a moment that there might be something wrong with Conan's brain. The person who usually wanted to pounce on the organization when he heard some news about it, now told her that it was not important?

"Have you forgotten Officer Sato and Officer Takagi we just met? The murderer of the serial killings was the one wearing a black windbreaker and whistling! And Ayumi also said that Pingdong Tangci lives in her building! The man who passed by you might be the murderer." Conan spoke very quickly and hurried to the door. "You said Granburch and the others were looking outside. Maybe it's because people like them are very sensitive to murderous intent, so they noticed that there was something wrong with the man in the windbreaker! I'll go up and take a look. You call the police immediately and don't go up."

Before Haibara Ai could stop him, the man had already disappeared at the door. Haibara Ai had no choice but to quickly call the police using Ayumi's home phone.

On the other side, the moment Chu Ming saw Huibara Ai, he knew that there was probably another murder in this building.

It seems that the one who can attract the case is not Afu, but Conan in this building.

Chu Ming sighed softly, feeling sad that he had lost a points generator, and then quickly walked to Ping Dongtangci's house with vodka.

As soon as he reached the door, Chu Ming felt the magnetic field being pulled in. He put on gloves and threw a pair of Vodka: "Ping Dongtangci is probably dead. I smell blood. Let's go in and take a look."

Vodka pushed the door open carefully and walked in through the entrance hall, just in time to see Ping Dongtangci lying on the computer desk, already silent. A letter 'Z' was carved on his back. His right hand was holding the mouse, while his left hand was pressing 'Ctrl' and 'c' on the keyboard, as if implying something.

Vodka curiously picked up his hand that was hanging naturally at his side, and took out the mouse to study it himself. He couldn't figure out what it was, so he turned around and asked habitually: "Brother, why is he holding a mouse in his hand?"

When he turned around, he remembered that he didn't go on the mission with his elder brother this time. Behind him was the little devil Granburch. He immediately laughed awkwardly and tried to change the subject: "Haha, that... the murderer also carved words on his back. Is he imitating the murderer who committed crimes more than ten years ago? But wasn't the murderer of those cases Pingdong Tangci himself? How come another murderer suddenly appeared?"

Chu Ming took a look at the scene that had been messed up beyond recognition by the vodka, and silently lit a candle for Conan.

All the crucial intelligence clues were destroyed by Afu. Can Conan still solve the case successfully?

It should be possible...right?

"Why do you think so much? Isn't it enough to complete the task? Wouldn't it be nice to get paid without doing anything yourself?" Chu Ming stretched his body with a happy look. "As for who the murderer is and why he was killed... that's the business of the police and detectives. What does it have to do with us?"

"Let's go, retreat, maybe the police will be here soon."

Chu Ming walked behind Vodka, looked around, and after confirming that Vodka had not left any traces this time, he took Vodka and left Ping Dongtangci's house directly, closing the door for him.

Just as the two were preparing to retreat, Conan, who rushed out of the elevator in a hurry, bumped directly into Vodka's leg. The impact force knocked him over, but Vodka did not move at all.

Vodka looked at Conan who rushed out and gave him a headbutt, but was knocked out instantly, with a confused look on his face.

What is this for?

Are all the kids I met today so weird?

Chapter 691 Suspect Vodka

"Are you the Conan from the Maori detective family?" Vodka was a little confused, "Why are you here?"

"Hahaha Uncle Uozuka, I... I came to my classmate's house to play." Conan rubbed his head which hurt from the collision, laughed foolishly a few times, and started to change the subject by making up an excuse, "Are you and Uncle Shochiku here to work?"

Chu Ming sighed and interrupted, "Why call him uncle? Call him brother. You make him look old."

Vodka nodded rapidly: "Yes, I am still quite young——"

Chu Ming slapped him on the back of his head: "I'm talking about me!"

Vodka immediately shrank his neck and kept silent.

Conan watched Chu Ming and Vodka communicating as if they were alone. If they were not members of the organization, Conan felt that he should laugh at Vodka's sense of humor.

Chu Ming turned his head to look at Conan, and thought that when they passed by the man in the windbreaker, Haibara Ai and Ayumi were right behind them. Conan might have known that Ping Dongtangci lived here and was worried that he would be killed by the murderer because he shouted at the murderer. Unfortunately, the crime scene had been almost destroyed by Afu.

Chu Ming didn't plan to chat with Conan for too long. He just said a few words to him and left with the vodka.

As for whether the case can be solved?

He didn't care. He had already obtained the magnetic field and the case had nothing to do with him.

Chu Ming stretched as he walked and said with emotion: "It's finally over. The assassinations are all done. You can handle the rest of the extortion transactions by yourself. If the other party changes the transaction location without authorization or something unexpected happens, don't just agree to it. Remember to come to me."

Vodka breathed a sigh of relief and nodded quickly.

Who understands? Doing the mission with Gin is not as depressing as doing it with Granburr.

After separating from Vodka, Chu Ming changed his disguise and went back. During this period, he followed Afu to help him with support, which was more tiring than doing the mission himself.

When Gin comes back, I have to let him compensate me. After all, he helped him train his younger brothers. I can't just do nothing but show some appreciation, right?

For the next few days, Chu Ming stayed at home and didn't go out until he received a call for help from Vodka.

"The target of the mission died? What happened? He refused to obey you and you killed him?" Chu Ming chewed the lollipop in his hand into pieces, then raised his hand and threw the lollipop into the trash can, then turned over lazily on the bed.

"It's not me. I made an appointment with him to meet, but when I went upstairs, I found that he suddenly jumped off the building and committed suicide. Then a group of people rushed up, apparently thinking I was the murderer." Vodka wanted to cry but had no tears. Normally, his luck was not so bad. How come he ended up in such a state just after his elder brother left?

Chu Ming vaguely heard Conan and Maori Kogoro's voices in the background of his phone call, and asked: "Those people rushing up, could they be Maori Kogoro's family?"

Is this the Grim Reaper coming out again to boost performance?

"Yes, it's them, and a few others who should be the deceased's friends..." Vodka's tone was full of distress, "Big brother is not here, and they have called the police. Although it was not me, it is difficult to prove my identity, and the situation is not good for me, so it is difficult to prove myself. And there are too many of them, and it would be difficult for me to break through directly, so I hid in the corner and called you. What should I do now?" Vodka stomped his feet anxiously.

Chu Ming climbed up from the bed resignedly, and after asking for the address, he instructed: "If Maori Kogoro is here, there shouldn't be a big problem. I have reinforced your identification documents before, and the police can't find any problems. Since Maori Kogoro is here, you should stick to your previous statement and say that you are an employee of the Venieri Security Company. I will now hack into the official backend database and add this company. Let the intelligence team complete the rest of the company's information. You hold on for now, I'll be there soon."

Seeing Chu Ming's instructions in an orderly manner, Vodka's somewhat uneasy heart settled down: "Okay, okay, I understand."

Chu Ming quickly turned on the computer, his fingers leaping across the keyboard, typing out a series of commands. Suddenly, he seemed to remember something and asked, "Who is the deceased?"

"Kamizumi Sadago is the son of the owner of the Beihu Restaurant. He was previously arrested as the mastermind of a fraud gang, but was later released due to insufficient evidence. The organization has decisive evidence that is enough to put him in jail, so we have negotiated a price for exchanging evidence with him. We are here to trade today..." Vodka scratched his head, feeling quite depressed. "We agreed to meet on the rooftop at 2:30, so I planned to come a little earlier to check out the place. As a result, when I arrived, I found clothes and shoes placed on the railing of the rooftop. I looked down and found that he had just jumped to his death. I might have been seen by the people downstairs before I retracted my head, and then they all rushed up."

Chu Ming had figured out the general ins and outs of the matter, and then he checked the relevant information on the Internet, and then he told Vodka: "Remember, since you are an employee of the security company, you should tell the police that Shangzhu Zhenwu was annoyed by the media following him, so he took the initiative to contact you and hoped that our company could provide him with security services. You should meet on the rooftop at 2:30 to discuss the details of the security service, and you just need to tell the truth about everything else."

Vodka felt extremely secure and nodded rapidly, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."

After hanging up the phone, Chu Ming had also sorted out all the data. He turned around and drove to Beihu Hotel, and on the way he casually put a layer of disguise on his face.

When Chu Ming stopped his car in front of the Beihu Hotel, he bumped into a police car that had driven in hastily. Officer Megure reached out to stop Chu Ming from going in, frowning and reminding him, "Sorry, this place is temporarily blocked by the police. No one is allowed to enter for the time being. Hiss, have I seen you somewhere before?"

Chu Ming's face was filled with just the right amount of urgency: "I met you, officer, when my colleague and I were involved in an emergency case. I am not an irrelevant person this time. My colleague just called me and said that he was accidentally involved in the case, so I came to see what was going on."

Officer Megure hesitated for a moment, but still let Chu Ming go: "Then please come up with us, don't run around, and tell me everything you know while you're going up."

Chu Ming nodded and followed Inspector Megure upstairs. He "inadvertently" mentioned his own company and Kamizumi Sadago's commission in his conversation, laying the groundwork in advance. This way, when Inspector Megure investigated later, he would subconsciously believe Vodka's words.

"You were the one who pushed him down, weren't you? This annex is under renovation, and only Shangzhu Zhenwu lives in it. At that time, all of us were downstairs, and you were the only one on the rooftop. And right after he fell, you popped up on the rooftop. Who else could it be but you?"

Chu Minggang followed the police to the rooftop, where he saw a curly-haired woman pointing at vodka and pouring out liquid vodka like a machine gun.

As for Vodka, he was so angry after being accused that his face turned red and his nostrils flared. He wanted to refute but couldn't get a word in.

It looked so pathetic.

Chapter 692 Are you an accomplice?

Conan also thought at first that it was Vodka who killed someone. After all, Vodka was a member of an organization. Isn't it normal to think badly of him?

But when he saw the neatly arranged clothes and shoes on the railing, he knew that the murderer should not be Vodka. After all, people in that organization usually kill people with one shot. Even if they want to set it as suicide, they won't do such a stupid operation. It's obvious that he has watched too many TV dramas. Who would jump off a building and commit suicide without laying out their clothes and shoes...

So he ruled out vodka as a suspect at the first opportunity.

However, the aunt who blamed Vodka spoke too fast and he could not get a word in at all. Even Kogoro Mouri was stunned.

Reiko Hirukawa became more and more excited as she spoke, pointing her finger at Vodka's nose and constantly accusing him.

In fact, she was the one who killed Kamijuma Sadago. This swindler had committed many evil deeds and cheated her mother of a large amount of money, causing her to be devastated and bedridden. After her father knew that Kamijuma Sadago lived here, he dragged his sick body to knock on his door every day, saying that he didn't need him to pay back the money, as long as he was willing to apologize in front of his wife.

Unfortunately, it was impossible to pin her hopes on a swindler. Kamizumi Sadago didn't want to see him at all, so her mother died not long after and her father committed suicide.

She came to see Sadago Uezumi this time, originally wanting him to apologize to her parents, but she saw Sadago Uezumi using the wheelchair that his father had borrowed from the hotel due to his mobility problems to create a horror atmosphere and try to scare the media that were chasing him. This behavior of not caring about the victim's death at all led her to kill him and send him to hell using the method designed by Sadago Uezumi himself.

At the beginning, she pointed to the rooftop from downstairs and said that she saw someone peeking out from the rooftop. In fact, that was just her excuse. She just needed someone to follow her upstairs to help her set up the scene. But she never expected that there was really someone on the rooftop.

When she heard that Vodka was commissioned by Kamizumi Sadago to provide him with security, she couldn't help but vent her anger and put all the blame on Vodka.

She thought that anyone who was willing to help such a bad guy must not be a good person, so she couldn't be blamed for framing him.

The first thing Chu Ming did when he went upstairs was to grab her finger that was about to poke Vodka's eyes. Considering the police were behind her, he didn't break her finger, but just shook it off. Vodka was really good-tempered. She didn't argue or fight back even though she was almost poked on the forehead.

Chu Ming blocked the vodka behind him and said in a cold tone: "Auntie, you are so excited. Are you eager to shift all the responsibility to my colleague?"

Hirukawa Reiko's hand was a little painful from being slapped, she hissed, looked at Chu Ming unkindly, and said with disdain: "He is your colleague, so you are an accomplice?"

Chu Ming sneered, his cold eyes fixed on Hirukawa Reiko: "Aunt, I usually don't hit women, but if you keep talking so mean, I don't mind breaking the rules."

Hirukawa Reiko was startled by Chu Ming's eyes and took a step back. She looked around and saw Officer Megure following Chu Ming. She quickly stepped forward and grabbed his hand: "Mr. Officer, look, he actually threatened me. When Mr. Kamizumi died, the man was alone on the rooftop. We also found Mr. Kamizumi's clothes and shoes on the rooftop. Isn't this catching him red-handed?"

"Really? Do you have to do a ritual before you kill someone these days? Help him take off his clothes and shoes before pushing him down?" Chu Ming didn't even look at her. He turned to look at Officer Megure, "Officer Megure, this is clearly an obvious false accusation. I suggest that you investigate this lady. There must be something wrong with her."

Hirukawa Reiko seemed to have been touched on a sore spot, and she almost jumped up when she heard the words: "How can it be a false accusation? Everyone can testify for me at that time. We were all downstairs when Mr. Kamizumi died!"

Chu Ming's thoughts were clear and he was neither hurried nor slow: "That was the first suspicious point. Second, ma'am, before accepting any security work, we will generally investigate the employer's situation. If I remember correctly, your relationship with Mr. Kamijuma doesn't seem to be very good. Your parents died because of his evil deeds. Apart from the deep hatred, you and him should not be on good terms, right? Then why are you so excited to find the real murderer for Mr. Kamijuma today, and even eager to put the blame on Uozuka?"

Chu Ming raised his hand to stop Hirukawa Reiko from saying anything, and continued: "Third, Uozuka only came to discuss business with Mr. Kamizumi. Even if the deal fails, he has no motive to kill him. On the contrary, you are different, especially you, Ms. Hirukawa. I heard that you were the last one to see Mr. Kamizumi? In this case, aren't you the biggest suspect? You can't say that Uozuka is the murderer just because he happened to come to the rooftop, right?"

Hirukawa Reiko was so confused by what Chu Ming said that she had no words to refute. She could only repeat over and over again that she had no time to commit the crime. She was in the car downstairs when Kamizumi Sadao died.

Officer Megure watched this scene with a headache. He felt that both sides had their reasons. The security guard named Uozuka Saburo had no motive to kill, and there were no signs of a fight on the rooftop. Although Hirukawa Reiko had a motive, she was not there after all...

"Could it be... that Mr. Kamizumi committed suicide?" Inspector Megure thought for a long time and came up with his own speculation, "Ms. Hirukawa also said that he cried bitterly for his crimes. Maybe that's why he felt that he was guilty of a heinous crime..."

"Impossible. People who commit suicide will not take off their shoes and clothes. Especially since Ms. Hirukawa just said that Mr. Kamizumi was drunk when she left. How could a drunk person put his shoes in such an orderly manner?"

A voice came from behind Kogoro Mouri. Chu Ming looked in the direction of the voice and saw a handsome figure wearing a hat coming out from behind.

Hey, isn't this Akai Shuichi's cool sister, Sera Masumi? Why is she here?

Chu Ming raised his eyebrows and listened to Shiliang continue: "Many people have preconceived notions about suicide because of the TV series, when they see neatly arranged shoes and clothes, but in fact this is just a way of expressing it in the TV series, which makes it easier for the audience to understand."

Inspector Megure looked at the chattering Sera Masumi and seemed to have thought of something: "You are not a detective, are you?"

Sera Masumi turned around happily: "Is it so obvious?"

The corner of Inspector Megure's mouth twitched. Of course it was obvious, too obvious.

This familiar tone of voice and the attitude of being eager to help him are exactly the same as Kudo Shinichi.

Chapter 693 It’s Sure

After confirming that Reiko Hirukawa's car had not been tampered with, the situation was at a stalemate for a while.