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"Maybe his phone ran out of battery and he borrowed it from a friend. Did he forget to reply to the message just now? Or did he reply to yesterday's number? So the client thought you didn't agree to change the location, so he went to the office to wait for you." Conan suddenly thought of a possibility.
"Impossible, he immediately replied to his message, but he didn't reply. And I just sent several text messages to both of his numbers, but he didn't reply..."
Chu Ming tapped the table with his fingers, thinking: "Uncle, is there a possibility that there is something very important in that locker, so someone doesn't want the client to find it, and then sent us all away from the office to lure the tiger away from the mountain?"
Finally, I went to the office to steal the house while they were away...
Chapter 713: Filming at Home
After hearing Chu Ming's speculation, Kogoro Mori made a prompt decision and immediately took everyone back to the office.
After pushing open the door of the office and looking at the empty room, Maori Kogoro breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand: "Oh, it was a false alarm. I guess the client forgot the time or hasn't arrived yet? How about I send him a message to ask."
Chu Ming didn't think so. He noticed that things on the table were slightly shifted, and he couldn't help but squint his eyes and exchanged glances with Amuro Toru. Conan also looked around and found something wrong.
Maori Kogoro held his phone and walked to the toilet while sending a message: "I've been waiting in the cafe for a long time and drank half a pot of black tea. I have to go to the toilet first."
But just as his hand was on the bathroom door handle, his cell phone suddenly buzzed and he received a message.
"Hey, the client got back to me. He said he just arrived at Columbus Cafe and asked me to come over as soon as possible if possible."
Conan's eyes changed slightly, and he looked at the dragging marks on the floor at the bathroom door and said, "Then uncle, wait for me, I want to go to the bathroom too, let's go together after I finish~"
Just as he finished speaking, Maori Kogoro's mobile phone received another text message: "Please hurry up, I hope everyone can come together."
With Chu Ming's previous guess, even Maori Kogoro felt something was wrong this time: "Why does everyone have to go there?"
Chu Ming also walked to the bathroom door: "It's really strange, why does this client know that there are so many people in the office? Could it be--"
Amuro Toru answered immediately and came over, pressing his hand on the door handle: "Could he be hiding here——?"
Before Toru Amuro could finish his words, he heard a gunshot from the toilet.
The smile on his face paused, he opened the door and walked in. From the door, he could only vaguely see a girl tied to the ground, her mouth sealed with tape, sitting on the ground and struggling desperately.
In the bathroom inside, a man was sitting on the toilet, holding a gun in both hands, his head leaning against the wall, with a large amount of blood splattered on the back of his head. It seemed that he had committed suicide by swallowing a gun.
Chu Ming lowered his head to look at Conan at his feet. Great, great, after being the God of Death for so long, he finally filmed an episode in his own home.
Chu Ming placed the back of his hand against the bathroom wall to absorb the magnetic field. It was impossible for a person who committed suicide to have so much magnetic field. It could only be a proof problem.
Chu Ming's eyes fell on the kidnapped woman. Xiaolan was helping her untie the tapes that bound her. There seemed to be some fear in her eyes, but it was obviously a disguise.
Chu Ming did not expose her immediately, but followed her leisurely to see what she was up to.
Hearing that it was a murder case that happened in the detective agency, Inspector Megure quickly rushed to the scene. He looked at Maori Kogoro with a particularly meaningful look, stepped forward and patted Maori Kogoro on the shoulder: "I knew that with your - ahem, this day would come sooner or later, as expected..."
The vague words made Maori Kogoro confused: "My what? What do you mean sooner or later? Officer Megure, what exactly do you want to say? Why don't I understand?"
Inspector Megure shook his head and walked straight in without explaining to Kogoro Mouri. At this time, the kidnapped woman was sitting on the sofa in the office, holding the cup of tea handed to her by Xiaolan, crying uncontrollably.
Without bothering to comfort her, Gao Mu whispered an apology, and then brought the police officers from the forensic department to test her reaction to the gunpowder. After confirming that there was no problem detected on her body, he asked her to sit back and asked her related questions.
"Ms. Kei Katatsuka, what you mean to say is that you came to the office because you wanted to ask Brother Mori to help you find the key to your locker, but you were knocked unconscious by someone who claimed to be Brother Mori's assistant. When you woke up, you found yourself tied up with tape and trapped in the bathroom until Brother Mori and his men noticed something was wrong and opened the bathroom door. He found himself with no way to escape, so he stuffed the gun into his mouth and committed suicide, is that right?" Inspector Megure looked at the transcript and repeated the confession he had just recorded to prevent any omissions.
"That's what happened. In order to prevent me from running away, he even took off my shoes." Kenzuka Kei covered his face and cried. "He kept asking me about the key and asked me which locker it belonged to. He even pointed a gun at me and said he would kill me if I didn't tell the truth..."
Because they failed to detect any gunpowder smoke reaction, and her testimony did not have any major loopholes, Inspector Megure nodded and believed her. He touched his chin, a little puzzled: "But it's strange, why did the kidnappers have to tie you up in the toilet of the office? They could have taken you somewhere else and interrogated you slowly..."
Kenzuka Kei shook his head and explained, "Maybe he's very anxious. I saw that he seemed very anxious and even said that if he couldn't find it, he would be in big trouble."
Maori Kogoro also boasted at the right time: "I guess the kidnappers didn't expect that I, Maori Kogoro, would react so quickly and come back from Columbus Restaurant. So there was no time to move Miss Kenzuka away. They could only hide in the toilet temporarily, hoping to trick us out of the office. In the end, they failed and had to give up everything in despair."
Inspector Megure couldn't think of any better explanation, so he could only nod his head in reluctant agreement. He turned back to look at Kei Kenzuka and said, "Ms. Kenzuka, you really don't know that man? You've never seen him before? Because if that man's goal is to get the key in your hand, maybe he is an acquaintance of your brother?"
Kenzuka Kei tried to recall, but still shook his head: "I have never seen him, and I don't know many of my brother's friends."
Amuro Toru walked around the scene twice and finally stopped at the right side of the sofa. He bent down and asked, "Sorry, I want to ask how your brother died?"
Kei Kenzuka lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking, and did not respond at all to his questions.
Amuro Toru tilted his head, looking puzzled, and continued to ask in a louder voice: "What was the cause of your brother's death?"
Kei Kenzuka finally gave some reaction. She raised her head and looked at Toru Amuro blankly, still without saying a word.
Amuro Toru patiently asked for the third time: "May I ask what was the reason for your brother's death?"
Kei Kenzuka was visibly nervous, and she stammered, "It's because of an accident four days ago..."
Thinking that she was going to describe it in detail, Chu Ming and Conan could not help but sit up straight and prepare to listen to the story, but Kenzuka Kei took out his mobile phone from his bag and showed the screen saver to them: "Look, this is my brother."
???
Chu Ming was a little confused. He looked at the phone screen and then at Jianzhong Kei.
This girl's answer is irrelevant to the question. There must be something wrong.
I clearly asked her how her brother died, but she ended up being vague and talking about some nonsense.
Moreover, the name Kenzuka Kei doesn't sound like a girl's name at all.
Chu Ming guessed that the man who died in the bathroom was Kogoro Mouri's real client.
Chapter 714 Met
"Speaking of cell phones, there seems to be something wrong with the phone of the man who committed suicide." Officer Megure opened the phone screen through the evidence bag and flipped through the messages in the phone. "Except for the message sent to Brother Mori to change the meeting place, there is nothing else."
Chu Ming looked over and said meaningfully, "Tsk tsk, that's really weird. It's as if he knew in advance that he would fail and his phone would be seen by others, so he cleared all the messages."
Conan already had some suspicions, and now when he heard Chu Ming's sarcastic tone without naming any names, he became even more suspicious that there was something wrong with Miss Kenzuka.
Officer Megure continued to express his doubts: "What worries me even more is that there are nearly 5,000 yuan in coins in the man's wallet. In addition, there are two 10,000 yuan and five 5,000 yuan bills in his bag. What's even more outrageous is that there are 47 1,000 yuan bills. This is too strange..."
"Maybe the money must be spent in some way." Chu Ming touched his chin, got up and sat on the chair in front of the window, turned on the office computer, and pulled up the news that Maori Kogoro and others saw at noon and turned to everyone, "For example, in order to break down these consecutive banknotes into small amounts through the vending machine..."
Maori Kogoro was the first to object: "How is it possible? How can it be such a coincidence? Moreover, he just robbed the money and didn't hide well. Why did he come to my territory as a famous detective and threaten my client? I think he might just want to break the money."
Okay, according to Mao's Law, Chu Ming felt that his guess could almost be confirmed as a fact. It was such a coincidence that the robber the police wanted to catch delivered his body directly to their door.
Toru Amuro and Conan also had guesses in their minds at this time, but they were different from Chu Ming. Chu Ming came to a conclusion directly based on guesses and observations, but they wanted to find evidence to support their point of view.
So Toru Amuro said to Officer Megure, "Excuse me, can I see what the man who committed suicide had with him?"
Conan chimed in: "Yes, yes, Uncle Kogoro must want to know too."
Maori Kogoro was stunned by this question and nodded: "Yes - right..."
Officer Megure did not refuse. This was more than the first time that the police and detectives had cooperated. He simply put the evidence bags on the table. Chu Ming took a quick glance at the cigarettes, lighters, wallets, stun guns and other items on the table and then looked away.
Inspector Megure again questioned Kei Katsuka about some questions at the scene, such as the towel that fell in the toilet seemed to be wet, and he wanted to ask her if she saw what the man who committed suicide did with these things, and also that the laces on her boots seemed to be tied with some strange knots.
However, Kei Kenzuka only said that she was too scared to look up and didn't know what he had done, and the knot on the shoelaces was her own habit.
As she spoke, she seemed to break down again and cried out loudly, covering her face.
Maori Kogoro saw that she was not very emotional, so he advised: "Officer, you can see that Miss Kenzuka's brother passed away not long ago. She was frightened today. Why don't we stop here today and let her calm down tonight, and then talk about it tomorrow."
Officer Megure was not unkind. He nodded and agreed, "Okay, then we'll ask you about the case again tomorrow. Can you please tell me your contact information and address?"
Kei Katatsuka wiped her tears, took the pen and paper, and silently wrote down her contact information and address. But when Inspector Megure asked her for identity documents, she said that she had just graduated, had no business cards, and had no habit of carrying documents with her, but she could find her insurance card tomorrow.
Inspector Megure didn't think much about it and just asked her to bring all these things with her tomorrow.
After everything was over, Kenzuka Kei was about to say goodbye when Amuro Toru appeared from nowhere and pointed downstairs with a worried look on his face: "If you want to go back, I can drive you. My car is in the parking lot next to you. The man might have other accomplices who are lying in ambush near your house."
Toru Amuro's face was still very deceptive, his eyes were solemn, his brows were furrowed, his eyes were filled with the reflection of Kei Katsuka, and his face was full of worry for her.
Faced with such sincere concern, Kenzuka Kei had no way to refuse and could only nod: "Thank you very much."
"No, no, you're welcome. It's my honor to serve a beautiful lady." Amuro Toru stood up straight, his bright eyes curved into crescents, warm and bright.
Inspector Megure nudged Kogoro Maori's arm and gossiped, "By the way, isn't this the detective hired by the bride who committed suicide last time? How come he is here with you?"
Maori Kogoro puffed out his chest and said proudly: "Hey, Amuro is my apprentice now~"
"Then doesn't that mean you have one more detective by your side?" Inspector Megure's gaze swept from Kogoro Mori to Chu Ming, and then to Toru Amuro, silently calculating how much workload these detectives together would add to him.
"Another one?" Amuro Toru's first reaction was Akai Shuichi, and he quickly asked, "Are there other detectives around the teacher?"
Inspector Megure nodded heavily: "Yes, recently it seems that there is often a female detective following Brother Maori to the crime scene."
"Female detective?" Amuro Toru unexpectedly got new information and raised his eyebrows, "Then I really want to meet her."
Chu Ming tilted his head. Bourbon should have met Sera, right?
At that time, Morobushi Kagemitsu had not died yet, and Akai Shuichi had not defected yet. When the three of them went on a mission together, they should have met Sera who came to look for her brother.
Scotland also taught Shiliang to play bass.
However, Bourbon should have gone there after he had coaxed Sera in Scotland, so he should have only seen Sera's back. Moreover, Sera had just entered junior high school at that time, so he probably had forgotten about her long ago.
Chapter 715 Professional counterpart
Toru Amuro originally wanted to drive back with Kei Katsuka to investigate what was going on. After all, her story was full of loopholes.
But he was not the only one who was curious. Chu Ming had already packed up and was waiting downstairs.
Conan was originally a little scared of Toru Amuro, but seeing that Chu Ming had already gone up, he naturally didn't want to be left behind, so he also pulled Kogoro Mouri, who was already eager to join the ranks of sending Kenzuka home.
Xiaolan was supposed to be responsible for staying in the detective agency, but she was afraid of these ghosts and spirits. Someone had just committed suicide in the toilet of the agency in the afternoon, and she didn't dare to stay alone, so she insisted on going with them.
Therefore, the small back seat of the Mazda RX7 carries too much weight that does not belong to it.
Fortunately, Xiaolan and Chu Ming are relatively thin, and Maori Kogoro is not a strong man either. Conan was directly stuffed into Xiaolan's arms by Chu Ming, so they were able to squeeze in even though they were so crowded.
Toru Amuro looked at the scene in the back seat, his mouth twitched slightly, and he drove silently.
Fortunately, he was the owner of the car, otherwise he would be the one being pushed to the back.
"It seems that Officer Sato also has a car of this model, but the color is different." Xiaolan looked at the decorations in the car curiously. Conan was even more eager. He touched the glasses he was wearing, as if he wanted to put a bug and a tracker in the car, but he gave up in the end.
Maori Kogoro was squeezed in the middle, with nowhere to put his legs: "Why did you all follow us?"
"I'm scared when you're not here!" Xiaolan silently hugged Conan tightly, "Then why did Dad come with us? Mr. Amuro said he can do it alone."
"I am also worried about Miss Kei's safety! After all, she is my client. What if that man really has accomplices lying in ambush near her home? Wouldn't one more person be more helpful?" Maori Kogoro turned around and accused Chu Ming, "But you, kid? I just saw your car parked in the parking lot over there. How did you squeeze in?"
Chu Ming said confidently: "Why do you want to drive yourself when there is a car available?"
Seeing that everyone was right, Kogoro Mouri turned his head silently and said nothing.
The car stopped in front of a high-end apartment. Chu Ming and his companions followed Kenzuka Kei up to the seventh floor. After they stepped out of the elevator, Maori Kogoro looked around and said with some emotion: "The environment here is really good. The rent is not cheap, right?"