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The person with a motive for committing the crime was not at the scene when the crime occurred, and the person at the scene not only had no motive, but was also full of doubts. Inspector Megure could not help but scratch his head silently through his hat.
Masumi Sera looked down at Conan. When she saw that his face showed a thoughtful expression that was not like that of a child, his eyes gradually became deep. She stood aside and suggested: "Why don't we go to the annex to check it out first? Since the rooftop may be a decoy, then the actual place where Mr. Kamizumi died may not be there, right, Conan?"
Conan was suddenly cueed and was stunned for a moment, then nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes."
Maori Kogoro pulled Conan away and said, "What are you talking about? You little brat, what do you know? Don't disturb the police. If you want to play games, go play them somewhere else."
At this time, a police officer came to report that a wheelchair with a long fishing line wrapped around it was found on the second floor of the annex and was suspected to be related to the case.
Officer Megure immediately led a few people downstairs. Chiba was collecting the overlong fishing line in front of the wheelchair. Seeing Officer Megure and his group coming over, he handed him the photos of the scene just now and said, "When I found this wheelchair just now, it was still hitting the wall, and there was a long fishing line dragging behind it."
Hirukawa Reiko's face suddenly changed, and she shouted exaggeratedly: "It's a ghost! It must be the ghost in this annex that killed Mr. Kamizumi!"
Sonoko and Xiaolan turned back tremblingly, their faces pale: "Ah? What? A ghost???!!!"
The man who was traveling with Hirukawa Reiko also seemed to remember something: "Yes, it must be a ghost. Someone was in this annex before. There was an unoccupied wheelchair sliding alone in the corridor!"
Xiaolan and Sonoko hugged each other and trembled. Even Vodka widened his eyes. Then he quietly moved a few steps towards Chu Ming until his elbow touched Chu Ming's arm, which made him feel a little more at ease.
Chu Ming looked back at the burly Vodka speechlessly, secretly sighing that he had such a wasted body of muscles.
Officer Chiba explained quickly upon seeing this: "It's probably not a ghost. I've just asked the staff at the annex. This wheelchair was borrowed by the deceased, Mr. Kamizumi. He liked to ride around in this wheelchair. But the strange thing is, Mr. Kamizumi has no problem with his legs and feet. So the so-called ghost you're talking about is most likely created by Mr. Kamizumi to scare you or the media."
Chu Ming looked at the position of the wheelchair, roughly gestured with his hand, and thought: "When I came up just now, I found that the front and back doors of the elevator in this villa can be opened. Can the murderer use this wheelchair and elevator to set his own murder trap?"
Shira's eyes lit up when he heard that: "Oh, now I remember, after Conan and the others went upstairs, the security guard and I were waiting for the elevator, and we found that the elevator stopped briefly on the sixth floor and the second floor when it came down! Now the wheelchair is on the second floor, maybe the crime scene is on the sixth floor!"
Upon hearing this, Inspector Megure immediately took a few people to the sixth floor. As soon as they got out of the elevator, they felt a gust of wind whistling past them. Chu Ming looked along the corridor and saw an empty window frame at the end of the corridor. The glass in the window frame had all disappeared, and the tape at the edge of the canvas that had covered the window had also fallen off and was hanging aside, rustling in the wind.
Chu Ming walked over quickly, leaned forward slightly and looked down. Right below the window was where Shangzhu Zhenwu fell. He took a step back and carefully examined the traces around the window. Compared to downstairs, there were more traces left here.
Chu Ming squatted down and looked at the large areas of paint that had been splashed on the floor and walls at some point. He touched them with his fingers and rubbed them gently, then turned around and looked at the two round paint cans scattered nearby. There were obvious signs of dents on the outer shells from being hit.
It seems that the matter is very clear. The murderer should be that——
"The aunt named Hirukawa is the murderer." Sera Masumi pulled down his hat, the corners of his mouth naturally raised, outlining a confident smile.
It seemed that there was no need for him to say anything. Chu Ming stood up, took out a handkerchief from Vodka's pocket, carefully wiped the marks on his hands, and then stuffed the dirty handkerchief back into his pocket. His movements were so smooth that Vodka didn't react at all. He could only stare at Chu Ming with his round eyes, looking confused.
Chu Ming ignored his reaction and turned to see that Sera had asked Chiba and Takagi to prepare a dummy, intending to demonstrate it directly to everyone. At the same time, he also asked the police to bring Reiko Hirukawa and others over.
After Hirukawa Reiko and the others came up from the second floor, they immediately focused their attention on Officer Megure standing at the side of the corridor: "Has the case been solved? Does that mean they have found out that he actually committed suicide?"
"No, this gentleman just said that the murderer used the elevator and wheelchair to commit the murder." Officer Megure gestured to everyone to look at Sera who was standing by the window.
"Ah?" Shiliang's expression of being fully prepared suddenly turned into something indescribable. "You actually called me Mr.?"
Takagi quickly tried to smooth things over: "Hahaha, should I call him Sera-kun?"
"No, that—"
Conan blinked and interrupted Sera's unspoken explanation: "I'm very interested in Mr. Sera's reasoning, tell me quickly~"
Masumi Sera glanced at Conan and stopped explaining. Instead, he began to demonstrate the method used by the murderer. It was actually very simple. He just used the elevator and wheelchair to create an alibi for himself.
As she described and demonstrated, the wheelchair carrying the dummy moved from the second floor to the sixth floor through the elevator, and moved forward step by step to the window. Everyone's eyes were focused on whether the dummy in the wheelchair would really be thrown off and fall to the ground.
The wheelchair hit the wall with a thud in full view of everyone, but the dummy remained firmly in the wheelchair.
"Ah, how could this happen?"
Sera deliberately expressed her surprise, but her eyes fell on Conan inconspicuously.
She had seen Kudo Shinichi on the beach when she was a child, so she had her suspicions when she saw that Conan looked exactly like Shinichi when he was a child. So she deliberately left a flaw, pretending that she had not been able to solve the last step of the puzzle, to see how Conan would react.
Hirukawa Reiko was already sweating profusely as she watched Sera demonstrate step by step, fearing that her plan would be exposed, and her alibi would be completely ruined.
But at this moment, seeing Shiliang scratching his head with no clue, he immediately felt relieved.
This so-called detective doesn't look very smart, so this is probably a sure thing.
Chapter 694 I've seen it before
Conan saw that Sera's previous reasoning was extremely reasonable, but he unexpectedly let it slip at the most important part, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes.
Is this so-called detective reliable?
You were so confident before, why do you sound like a replica of the old man now?!
There are only a few police officers present, the detective named Sera, Granburch, Vodka and several suspects. Because they are afraid of the ghost mentioned by Hirukawa Reiko and others, Xiaolan and Sonoko refuse to go upstairs. Mouri Kogoro originally wanted to clear his good friend Uozuka of suspicion, but after hearing that it was suicide, he lost interest and did not follow.
It would be too deliberate for him to call the uncle again at this time. In addition, with two members of the organization present, he could not use Kudo Shinichi's name to solve the case. After all, although Granburch knew his identity, Vodka didn't know. What if Vodka found out and told Gin, wouldn't that be the end?
He was so anxious that he turned around in a circle.
Sera frowned slightly as she looked at his somewhat anxious expression. In her opinion, Conan was equivalent to Kudo Shinichi. Even if he wanted to conceal his identity and not come out to reason on his own, he should at least have some reaction, such as hinting at things like he did when he was with Mouri Kogoro before. But looking at Conan, it seemed that he had no such intention?
Did they all guess wrong?
But the moment she and her mother saw Conan appear on TV in a London hotel, they both felt that this familiar little boy who said he was Sherlock Holmes' apprentice was exactly the same as Kudo Shinichi whom they had met on the beach.
Yes, this was not the first time Sera had seen Conan. As early as on the live TV broadcast of the Wimbledon tennis tournament, she had seen Conan deliberately acting cute and saying that he was a disciple of Sherlock Holmes.
In addition, because Sera Mary had her own personal experience of becoming smaller after being fed medicine by Vermouth, she was even more certain that Kudo Shinichi might have also turned into a child.
They checked the entry records and found that there was indeed a record of Kudo Shinichi. If that was the case, he must have medicine that could restore him to normal.
Therefore, Sera followed her mother to Japan, ready to lurk beside Conan, ready to verify her guess, and by the way see if she could secretly get the antidote used by Conan.
But just after taking the first step in the test, Conan completely ignored it. Could it be that her acting skills were too poor and she was discovered?
The scene fell into a long silence for a while, and this silence seemed to give Hirukawa Reiko a lot of confidence. She said arrogantly: "This kid did put on a wonderful acrobatic show, but it's a pity that all his accusations were made up. You police actually believed such unrealistic remarks. I am so disappointed in your police's ability. You actually took the jokes of such a young boy seriously-"
Chu Ming couldn't stand it any longer, so he kicked the paint can on the ground. The paint can hit the wall with a bang, and the dried paint chips inside flew out of the bucket and fell to the ground. "There's nothing wrong with her reasoning, except for this one."
Everyone present was startled by the sudden noise. Looking at the can kicked out by Chu Ming, Gao Mu had an idea. He placed the paint can against the mark left on the wall, then dragged the wheelchair back and made it move forward again.
Sure enough, the moment the wheelchair touched the paint can, it suddenly fell forward. The dummy on it was thrown out of the window under the action of this force and fell on the rescue net that the police downstairs had already set up.
Everyone's eyes silently returned to Hirukawa Reiko's face. At this moment, the smug smile on her face drooped at a speed visible to the naked eye, and she pursed her lips tightly together without saying a word.
Officer Megure looked at her seriously, "Ms. Hirukawa, you still don't admit it?"
Hirukawa Reiko's face gradually became hideous. She suddenly raised her head, her mournful eyes swept across the people in front of her, her voice sharp: "So what if I did it! This devil! He deserves to die! Even if he does it again, I will still kill him! You police are useless. He is obviously a fraudster, and we are all witnesses. Why did you let him go because of insufficient evidence? ! ! My parents died because of him, why is he still alive and well to exploit my father's death?"
As she spoke, she covered her face and slowly knelt on the ground, crying: "When I came up to find him, this devil actually demonstrated this method to me just now, and told me that this was the old man's wheelchair battle plan he came up with to scare those reporters! He used the name of my deceased father to scare people, and he has no remorse at all! Then I will let him die in his own design!"
Officer Megure sighed softly, walked up to her and pulled her up: "Come with us, we will do our best to solve Mr. Kamizumi's fraud case."
Seeing the case come to an end, Chu Ming said, "Mr. Officer, now that the real murderer has been found, can my colleagues leave? Most of our security department is out on business. Yu Zhong and I are the only ones in charge now. The company still has a lot of things to do."
Officer Megure looked back, nodded in agreement, and said, "You can leave now, but if Mr. Uozuka is free, please come to the Metropolitan Police Department."
Vodka's eyes widened: "Do we need to go to the Metropolitan Police Department? The murderer has already been caught, why do we need me to go?"
Officer Megure waved his hand: "I'm just going to fill in the blanks. It won't take too long."
Vodka glanced at Chu Ming subconsciously. Going to the Metropolitan Police Department? Is it so exciting? He has been in the organization for so long, but he has never been to the Metropolitan Police Department openly. I guess even the eldest brother has never had this experience?
Chu Ming noticed the excitement hidden in Vodka's eyes, glared at him unhappily, stood up and kicked him: "Let's go."
Seeing that Chu Ming seemed to be in a bad mood, Vodka followed him obediently. It was not until they entered the elevator that he stammered, "It was just an accident this time. I don't usually have this kind of situation..."
Chu Ming looked at him with disdain, and said, "Let's not talk about whether it's unexpected or not. Why do you usually follow behind Gin with such a haughty attitude? Before I came, why did you act like a little wife and didn't say a word when people pointed at you?"
Vodka said aggrievedly: "There are so many people here, and I can't pull out my gun in public. Besides, they called the police downstairs, and when they came up, they also said that the police would be here soon. If I take action, what if the police just treat me as a murderer and arrest me?"
Chu Ming rolled his eyes in annoyance and said sarcastically, "Why, are you afraid that your elder brother will go to jail to get you out? Isn't this good? Maybe thanks to you, your elder brother can also go on a one-day trip to the Metropolitan Police Department."
Vodka grunted a few times, but had nothing to refute. He could only lower his head and pick his hands silently.
"Okay, let's go downstairs and have dinner later. As a reward for letting me make this trip, you treat me."
Chu Ming looked at the eight-foot tall man shrinking timidly, and he truly felt again the itching feeling that Gin had when he faced him before.
Chapter 695 Transfer Million to Me
Although Vodka looks useless, there is nothing he can do. He is the younger brother entrusted to him by Gin. He just needs to wait until Gin returns home and then return him intact.
Chu Ming turned his eyes away from Vodka and silently stuffed sushi into his mouth to comfort himself.
He opened the system interface and learned from his previous lesson. Now, whenever he saw a character in the plot, he would throw a nano-positioning device at him to avoid the same situation as Akai Shuichi's previous situation, where he searched the whole world for the person but couldn't find him.
This way, when the boss needs a guinea pig again, he can follow the clues and find Sera Mary to take over.
Currently, there are only three cases of people becoming smaller after taking APTX4869, and Conan is the only one the organization knows about. As for Haibara Ai, although Gin had suspected him before, he was fooled by Chu Ming.
So when Conan is not researched enough, Haibara Ai definitely cannot be sent to replace him, it can only be Sera Mary.
Alas, after doing so much for the BOSS, how could it be that he and the BOSS were running towards each other?
Thinking of this, Chu Ming directly changed the name of his group and @ed everyone in the group.
[Transfer me 5 million and listen to my plan to seize power and usurp the throne]: @Everyone, why are you back from your business trip? I'm so bored in Japan.
When Vodka heard his cell phone ringing, he subconsciously opened it and took a look, then suddenly looked up at Chu Ming. He was almost scared to death that the sushi in his mouth fell out, but when he saw Chu Ming looking at him with raised eyebrows, he silently stuffed the sushi back into his mouth and put the cell phone in his pocket, pretending that he saw nothing.
Granburch just took advantage of the fact that the boss was not in the group and tormented them all day long! !
Big brother, please come back soon!!
He couldn't handle Granburch's outrageous actions alone.
【White Elegance】: Your name is really nice...
[Thousand-Faced Witch]: That’s great! How about I pull the boss in to listen to your little plan?
[Transfer me 5 million and listen to my plan to seize power and usurp the throne]: It’s not impossible. If you really want to, when the boss comes in, I will say that everyone in the group is my accomplice.
[AAA Detective Agency]: If that’s what you mean, then I’ll leave the group as a sign of respect.
[Transfer me 5 million and listen to my plan to seize power and usurp the throne]: Don't be in a hurry to quit. You have been very happy recently. Don't you have no tasks to do? Did you hear anything with the eavesdropping device you installed before? Why didn't I see you share it with me?
[AAA Detective Agency]: No problem, but this is the biggest problem. No sound has been heard since the bug was placed there.
[Transfer me 5 million and listen to my plan to seize power and usurp the throne]: It can basically be concluded that there is a problem.
[White Elegance]: What are you guys talking about? Are you going to cause trouble again? Take me with you. I will return to China the day after tomorrow.
[Thousand-Faced Witch]: Although I am in London now, you can take me with you if there is any good thing. Of course, if it is not a good thing, just take Lafitte with you.
[Transfer me 5 million and listen to my plan to seize power and usurp the throne]: It’s not a big deal. Bourbon and I just found someone who looks like Shuichi Akai.
【White Elegance】: Wasn’t he confirmed dead?