Phantom Thief of Heart!but conan

Chapter 902: A Turn to the Anti-Counterfeiting Column

"That guy named Shijin's reaction is very strange. I say, Mingzhi, do you know something?"

After leaving the dressing room and handing the scene over to Tokatsu Junya to prepare his answer, Hakuba Tan suddenly said this out of the blue.

Following his description, several people's eyes turned to the leisurely Goro Akechi.

"Why do you say that?" Tang Ze turned his head to look at Bai Ma Tan and calmly adjusted his tie. "Are you accusing me of cheating at United Daily News?"

Hakuba Tan is a smart man, and Tang Ze is not stupid either. Of course he understood the meaning of his vague accusation, so he fought back without hesitation.

He was not surprised that Hakuba Tanji had discovered something. Among the young high school detectives of their generation, Hakuba Tanji's level was indeed very high. There had not been much comparison between him and Kudo Shinichi in the past, mainly because he lived abroad, and it was a bit like the king never meeting the king. In terms of reasoning and family background, he was not inferior to Kudo Shinichi.

Tang Ze was just simply curious about how he could tell the subtle difference.

"There's nothing we can do. You're treated the best among us. Besides, you always look at Tokatsu Junya from time to time." Bai Ma touched his chin and guessed, "If you're not a traitor arranged by the program team, then you and Tokatsu Junya must have some grudges. But I don't think he has much impression of you."

Just now, before responding to Tokitsu Junya's almost arrogant request, Mizunashi Rena had vaguely observed the reactions of all the detectives present, as if there were other people on the scene who could have a fundamental impact on the progress besides the host who was responsible for hosting the show and maintaining the rhythm.

That look, coupled with the evaluation of Hattori Heiji, made Hakuba's attention suddenly focus on Goro Akechi and Nanatsuki Koshimizu.

As strong as Tokatsu Junya's attack on Hattori Heiji was, the two of them responded with equal strength, and this tit-for-tat posture really made Hakuba smell something unusual.

"Ah, you mean this." Tang Ze narrowed his eyes and shrugged his shoulders lightly, "If you're talking about Shi Jin, yes, it's true that I don't like him very much. I should say that I don't like all those guys who are not good enough but want to push themselves to the position of famous detectives."

Seeing him speak so bluntly, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but widen his eyes, and then lowered his head to look at the microphone on Goro Akechi's chest.

Sure enough, the red light on the microphone was off.

No wonder, if he were to be exposed for satirizing his peers so bluntly, people would say his image would be ruined.

"Ha, so you think he's an incompetent detective." Bai Ma nodded in understanding, "Could it be that the production team arranged a scene for you to go against him?"

Arranging the guests to have conflicts and attack each other in the program to create hot spots does seem to be a normal method of shooting variety shows.

"That's about right." This time Tang Ze chose an ambiguous answer, "If I could really cooperate deeply with the production team, I wouldn't have asked them to invite this guy from the beginning."

"Very strong aggressiveness. What has he done that disgusts you?" Hattori Heiji was really curious now.

In order to maintain his idol-like image, Goro Akechi basically adopts a safer tactic, that is, he leaves room for everything he says to avoid causing anyone's rejection or disgust, except for content that requires establishing his character, such as topics like the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.

"I've heard some rumors... Well, let's not talk about it for now. We have to go to the lounge." Tang Ze made a gesture as if he wanted to say something but stopped. Then he turned around and walked into the lounge with the others.

Intermission chatting is also one of the materials of the show, so even though there are no other staff members in the break room, there are still cameras and microphones.

"Do you think Mr. Shijin has the correct answer?" After sitting down, Tang Ze asked Bai Ba Tan for no apparent reason, as if the previous conversation had never happened.

"Well, probably not." After pondering for a moment, Bai Ma Tan gave an unexpected answer.

"Oh? You seem very sure. Was it somewhere that he revealed the fallacy?" Tang Ze opened his eyes wide, looking curious.

"I think he didn't observe enough of the scene. He came to the conclusion so quickly. I guess he may have come across similar cases before, so he naturally thought of similar answers." Bai Ma shrugged. "If reasoning and crime are so simple and can be solved by reading from the script, then the detective industry should have been eliminated by the times."

"What you said makes sense." Hattori Heiji finally softened his expression - although his skin color made his expression not obvious to begin with, "His conceited look makes people feel uncomfortable."

"Path dependence." Tang Ze used a professional term that sounded impressive, "Whether it's in terms of technique or thinking, forming a fixed pattern in thinking is not a good thing for a brain-based profession."

Nanatsuki Koshimizu knew that the current topic was actually the result of Goro Akechi and Hakuba Tan who discovered the problem. She might not be really criticizing the other party, but she couldn't help but feel secretly happy in her heart.

You cursed well, curse a few more times.

"For a detective, making such a mistake is fatal." So she joined the ranks of those who were saying bad things behind his back without hesitation. "You also said earlier that the reputation of a detective may not be very important, but as long as you make a mistake once, everyone will start to question whether you have similar sloppiness in the cases you handled in the past. It's not completely credibility, but it's almost the same."

"That's right..." Bai Batan nodded meaningfully.

Hearing the music, he could understand the elegant meaning. From these few words, he was very sure that no matter whether they had planned to deal with Tokatsu Junya from the beginning, or Tokatsu Junya acted too arrogantly and recklessly, which just happened to walk into the trap, the direction of this program must be different from what he originally imagined.

Rather than engaging in a detective showdown, the real purpose of this variety show might be to debunk fake news.

After figuring this out, he quickly decided to join if he couldn't beat them.

Just follow the trend and curse the wicked people and noobs, isn't that simple?
He quickly found a suitable topic and continued the chat: "When I was in England, I met a similar detective. He had been handling cases for many years and had great confidence in his intuition and judgment. So when I proposed a plan that was beyond his imagination, he not only completely denied my idea..." While they were happily tickling people behind their backs, the target of the crickets, Tokatsu Junya, was setting up the venue with sweat dripping down his face under the death gaze of the "victim" Mizunashi Rena.

It is not known whether it was intentional by the production team, or whether his remarks just now had somewhat annoyed the hostess, but Rena Mizunashi stood by with her arms folded, wearing a bloody makeup, and she did not even take off the fake knife on her back. She stood there silently like a wronged ghost, silently watching how the detective was going to define her "death".

Shi Jin Runya, who was already not very confident, felt even more guilty.

Compared to his huge case database, this is just an old case, but after all, the case has not been concluded yet. If the design of the program team causes some counter-arguments that he did not expect, it will definitely be dug up by someone with ulterior motives.

By then, his reputation as a detective would be completely lost.

The more he thought about it, the more pressure he felt, and the more Tokatsu Junya's actions became distorted.

So twenty minutes later, when he faced the others who had returned to the dressing room, his facial expression was even more exaggerated than it was twenty minutes ago.

"The crime was committed by an acquaintance. This is my initial assessment of the case. First of all, because the crime occurred in a relatively private dressing room, I think the possibility of a person of the opposite sex committing the crime can be ruled out..."

As he spoke, he made some body expressions, as if he was trying to find some support and courage from his powerful movements, but combined with his unstrong and uncoordinated body, he looked quite like a monkey.

And the four people who had been gossiping about him behind his back for twenty minutes really looked like they were watching a monkey.

Tokatsu Junya's reasoning logic is actually very simple.

Firstly, since the deceased maintained a relaxed posture with his back to the door until his death, he deduced that the murderer in this case should be an acquaintance who had gained a certain degree of trust from the deceased, which was why the deceased was completely defenseless and did not even turn around to pay attention to what the people behind him were doing.

In the original case, this was one of the reasons why he initially narrowed the list of suspects to the one he identified as the murderer.

From the perspective of criminal investigation logic, there is nothing wrong with this judgment, provided that this is not the world of a mystery work.

As a work in the style of neo-orthodox style, The World of Science Fiction has one of the most prominent characteristics of neo-orthodox style, which is that it only considers the logical validity of the core trick, and does not discuss the difficulty of completing such a method in reality, how low-probability events can happen 100%, and other issues.

This development cannot be blamed on the fact that detective works are too unconventional. The truth is that the predecessors of this genre have almost completely described all the techniques and tricks, and there are too many insurmountable classics and pinnacles. The latecomers are like graduate students who have to find ways to create new research directions in the face of mountains of papers.

It is precisely to deal with this dilemma that different directions such as the new orthodox school and the social school came into being. Each prisoner here has several bundles of fishing lines, piano lines, and guitar strings... If you discuss the issue of committing crimes on the spot, it would be a bit too contemptuous.

"Excuse me for interrupting you." Hearing something wrong, Hattori Heiji raised his hand directly, "I don't mean to argue, but are you sure the deceased was conscious when he was attacked?"

"Of course." Tokatsu Junya insisted without hesitation, "Didn't Koshimizu Nanatsuki say that when she left the dressing room, Ms. Mizuno was still sitting in front of the makeup mirror?"

"Just because someone is sitting doesn't mean she's awake." Nanatsuki Koshimizu, who provided the clue, touched his chin and refuted mercilessly, "It's possible that this is also one of the murderer's arrangements."

Tokatsu Junya chuckled twice, believing that the above inference was pure nonsense from his opponents, and pointed to the locker room with the door open at the back: "If you insist that there is a similar mechanism, then explain it in detail."

"So, your argument is that the core of this case is that the scene was not a closed room, not the method of murder." Tang Ze concluded, "You believe that the door was indeed closed at the time, but this state was deliberately created by the murderer."

"Of course. Murder in a closed room is impossible." Tokatsu Junya nodded confidently, "So the key lies in the lock of the locker room. You have just checked the scene. Since the lock is very strong and the damage was caused by a reckless detective in the later stage, rather than at the beginning, most people would assume that the door was always closed like this. But don't forget that the lock itself and the door are just assembled and fixed structures, not integrated."

"Your idea is that the door lock was faked to be locked from the inside after someone left." Hattori Heiji tilted his head.

Tokatsu Junya pointed to the ventilation window high up in the room and said, "This isn't a completely 'secret room' after all. It's impossible for someone to get through there, but with a key or some props stuck in the door, it should be pretty easy to get someone out of there without anyone noticing, right?"

"Indeed." Nanatsuki Koshimizu agreed with his idea, but after looking at the expression on Rena Mizunashi's face, she had already guessed the result. "But with such a cliché trick, I think you are somewhat too contemptuous of the production team."

Regardless of the real purpose of the variety show, this program is, after all, known as a detective showdown.

Designing such a simple and obvious puzzle, such as fixing it with tape first, then pulling the key out through the ventilation duct, using ropes or other items to keep the lever, and cleverly locking it from the outside, are all very old ideas.

It is possible that this could happen in real life. In reality, the relationships between people are complicated, and the true and false information provided by different witnesses may be misleading. However, it is unrealistic for this to happen in a program environment where all unfavorable conditions are removed and only reasoning relies on intelligence.

"You also said that this is just the production team. If they are better than detectives, then let them be detectives." Tokatsu Junya immediately retorted, "Besides, I have evidence. This trick is indeed quite interesting. Please look at the door lock here."

Tokatsu Junya pointed to the screws on the open door that fixed the door lock structure to the door, knocked on them twice with his gloved hands, and said confidently: "Have you ever thought that the screws that seem to be firm may not be really screwed in?"

The smile on Koshimizu Nanatsuki's face faded, and she looked at Tokitsu Junya silently with a murderous look.

She said, why did Mingzhi suddenly bring up such a case to test Tokatsu Junya? After all this time, the foreshadowing is here.

This guy has been unable to get along with broken screws all his life, right?
(End of this chapter)