Chapter 982: Inspector Megure: Beika Town is full of disasters
Everyone ran downstairs quickly and saw a waiter squatting in front of a room, shouting in panic.
"Miss Mizunotsuki, Miss Mizunotsuki, are you okay?"
Yuya ran over quickly, and when he saw the scene inside the door clearly, his eyes narrowed slightly——
On the ground at the door of the room, a woman in a pink bathrobe was lying with her eyes closed. She did not respond to the waiter's call.
It was natural that she had no reaction, because there were marks of being strangled by a rope on her neck.
Yuya squatted down and observed carefully, and found traces of struggle above the marks of strangulation. This is the Yoshikawa line, which refers to the scratches caused by the victim subconsciously pulling the rope around his neck outwards with his hands when his neck is strangled.
There was no doubt that this woman had been strangled to death.
Yuya reached out and tentatively touched the woman's face, and found that it was beginning to stiffen, indicating that she had been dead for 2 or 3 hours.
The waiter was surprised to see Yuya suddenly appear, and when Masumi Sera and Conan appeared again, he asked in surprise: "What's going on with you guys?"
Before Yuya could reply, Hira Kyougo appeared at the door. He turned around and saw the woman lying at the door with a look of shock on his face: "Mizunotsuki? What happened?"
Youye looked back in surprise. This person's appearance was too coincidental. Was he also attracted by the waiter's shouting?
Youya asked, "Teacher Huopu, do you know this woman?"
Huo Pu Jingwu came back to his senses, with a look of fear on his face: "Mizunoe, she is my assistant."
"She was murdered," Sera Masumi said in a deep voice, "She was strangled to death."
Another Mediterranean man ran over shouting Hira Kyogo's name. As soon as he stopped, he heard Sera Masumi's words and exclaimed in shock. When he saw the corpse at the door, he shuddered with fear.
He suddenly thought of something and said to Huopu Jingwu, "Could it be because of that fax?"
"What fax?" Youye asked hurriedly.
The man cried out in horror, "Today the editorial department received a fax saying that if the assistant is not allowed to resign, I will never give up..."
Huo Pu Jing Wu asked angrily: "Why didn't you tell me about this earlier!"
He covered his face and cried bitterly: "When she suffered such misfortune, I was still leisurely writing a romance novel!"
His tears flowed like rain, and people who didn't know the truth might really think that he was sad about this matter.
Unfortunately, this performance seemed too contrived to the three detectives.
There are many people who can act better than him.
As they were talking, Miyano Shiho and a few others came over. Seeing this scene, they skillfully took out their cell phones to report the case.
Miyano Shiho looked at the call from Inspector Megure on the mobile phone screen and couldn't help muttering to herself: No wonder I felt like something was missing, it turns out no case happened.
Come to think of it, when did she start calling Inspector Megure directly to report crimes? Not to mention that people call 110 now, she, a former member of an organization, actually had the phone number of an inspector in her phone...
This was something that was unthinkable before.
Soon, the hardworking Inspector Megure arrived with his men.
He glanced at Yuya resentfully. There had been no cases the whole day and he was sitting in the office drinking tea leisurely, when Miyano Shiho called him.
As soon as he saw the number, he started calling people reflexively and answered the phone while walking. As expected, a case happened.
"Brother Kamiya, um, there are also Conan and Sera." Inspector Megure sighed softly.
A big god of death, a small god of death, and a new big god of death.
Beika Town is really full of disasters.
If You could also hear Inspector Megure's thoughts, he would definitely cry out that he was innocent - it's clearly the case that's calling for a detective!
Death or something like that is not scientific at all! Inspector Megure, you have to believe in science!
The waiter explained how the body was discovered.
As requested by the guest, he delivered champagne at 6:00 in the evening, but found that the door was not closed and the room card was still at the door. When he opened the door, he saw someone lying there.
Then came the appearance of Yuya and the others.
The victim, Chiaki Mizunotsuki, was 30 years old and was an assistant to Kyōgo Hiura.
It was Kyōgo Houra who revealed his identity information before Shigeru Takagi, and he also said that he helped to order the champagne.
Huopu Jingwu's room was just above. He had originally planned to finish the manuscript around six o'clock and had planned to raise a toast with his assistant to celebrate.
But half an hour ago, he just couldn't finish writing the last page, so he went downstairs to buy cigarettes and climbed the stairs to change his mood. As a result, he heard the waiter's call halfway, and when he came over, he saw that his assistant had been murdered.
At this moment, Conan suddenly raised his head and said innocently, "So, Uncle was just wandering around at that time, right?"
"?" Kyogo Hira looked at Conan in confusion, not knowing why he asked that.
Conan continued: "Then how do you know that she was killed while you were writing the novel? Or maybe she was just killed?"
Hmm? As soon as these words came out, everyone except Yuya and Sera Masumi changed their expressions.
Sera Masumi stroked his chin and analyzed in a pretentious manner: "Indeed, we know the time of death of the deceased because the jaw of the corpse began to stiffen, so we estimate that the time of death has passed two or three hours."
She looked at Hira Kyougo, her lips curled up slightly, "But you, who haven't even touched a corpse, can tell me that it would be more appropriate for you to switch from being a romance novelist to a mystery novelist!"
Inspector Megure immediately asked: "What's going on?"
Huo Pu Jing Wu quickly explained: "She was supposed to come to my room with the information two or three hours ago, but she didn't come. So when I saw the body, I thought she was killed at that time and couldn't come."
Inspector Megure pondered for a moment. This reason was a bit far-fetched, but it was barely acceptable. He looked at Takagi Wataru to confirm the time of death.
Takagi Shigeru said that according to the forensic officer's appraisal, the deceased died two and a half hours before the body was found, which was around 3:30 in the afternoon.
After hearing this, Huopu Jingwu immediately said to the Mediterranean beside him: "Isn't that just when you guys are having dinner in my room?"
Mediterranean nodded and said, "Yes, it was just after three o'clock."
Inspector Megure looked towards the Mediterranean Sea: "Who are you?"
Mediterranean said: "I am Mr. Huo Pu's editor-in-chief at Nichimei Publishing House. Because the teacher seemed to have ordered a lot of food, he invited me and two other editors to have dinner together."
Youye raised his eyebrows slightly. Okay, now he suspected even more that the murderer was the bald novelist.
He knew the time of death without having touched the body, and happened to be having dinner with others when the deceased was killed, so he had a perfect alibi - no matter how you think about it, it was intentional.
However, speculation is speculation, and solving a case requires clues and evidence.