Conan: The man who rejected the criminal department

"This is what I find strange, or suspicious." Gunda Ikumi said:

“The group of tourists I was familiar with were obviously not the first people to place bets here.

He is very familiar with the situation of village festivals. "

Gunda Ikumi pointed to Sotakuya's notebook and said: "Whether it's the previous Yabusame shooter or this one.

Their skills are all very exquisite, and as expected, the result of Yabusuri Horse today will still be a perfect hit. "

“Originally, the group of tourists were prepared for the very low odds of winning.

As a result, the odds of winning the lottery this year turned out to be 1:2.3. This odds is quite exaggerated. "

Gunada Ikumi gave Sotakuya and Morofuku Gaoming some knowledge:

“Except for six years ago, the odds of winning the lottery in previous years were mostly between 1.1 and 1.2.

This means that after deducting the handling fee charged by the banker, those who win the bet will only make a small profit if they reach a certain amount.

After deducting the round-trip travel expenses, food and accommodation, the rest cannot even be called income, and can only be regarded as unexpected pocket money.

This year’s odds have more than doubled? "

"It stands to reason that the village's second Yabusuma archer, Ryuubi Kei, has not made a mistake at the festival for six consecutive years.

This year, the bookmaker suddenly raised the odds of winning, and there is probably only one explanation. "

Sotakuya followed up what Ikumi Gunada said: "That is, Ryuubi Kei may no longer participate in the village festival this year due to some reasons and serve as a Yabusame archer."

"That's right." Gunda Ikumi nodded.

Now a third party in the case has emerged.

If Ryuuki Kage was the biggest beneficiary after the death of the Kai patrol officer before, now when the casino dealer appears, the biggest beneficiary will become the casino dealer.

Then there seems to be a new direction of investigation in the case of Yoshiro Torada and the beating to death in the case of Tatsuo Koji.

So Takuya immediately picked up his pen and sketched in his notebook: "Let's make a hypothesis.

If there were two parties involved in the Kai Gento case at the same time, and both parties did not know the existence of the other party at the beginning."

Sotakuya drew a circle on the names of the four people, and then added "Banker" next to them.

“These four people just hope that Inspector Kai will be injured in some accident during training, thus handing over the Yabusame archer to Ryūo Kage.

But just as they were taking action, a third party arrived and used their plan to add fuel to the flames.

The third party is different from the four of them. What he wants is that Inspector Kai will never be able to serve as a Yabusuri horse shooter again.

In other words, he wants Kai to die on patrol! "

"The third-party plan was indeed successful six years ago, and Inspector Kai did die in that incident.

However, as witnesses of the incident, Yoshiro Torada and Koji Tatsuo among these four people were aware of the existence of a third party and were either preparing to investigate on their own or planning to contact the police.

Their actions were noticed by third parties who blocked them, and then they were silenced. "

“Yoshiro Torada did not need to silence him when he encountered a tornado, so the third party chose to ignore him.

Then Koji Tatsuo, who was beaten to death, was a third party warning the other two of the four people who participated in the incident! "

When all the clues and information were clarified, the next target that Zong Takuza and the others needed to investigate suddenly appeared in front of them.

It was Tatsuo Ayaka and Torada Shigeji who had not been silenced yet and knew the original situation.

“It looks like we’re in a race against time.

If the dealer in the casino killed two, he would not care about killing two more. If he went there and let him kill, the clues obtained would be lost. "

Zong Takuya didn't like these four people either. If it weren't for the "disruption" of the four of them, a third party alone would certainly not be able to kill Kai Gento without any trace.

It is precisely because there is no absolutely pointing evidence that the police investigation into the Kaito case was shelved.

These four people also unintentionally played the role of accomplices for their own selfish purposes.

So Takuya took out the pistol from the holster and checked it, then looked at the other two people: "Did you forget to bring your gun?"

Gunda Ikumi and Morofushi Takaaki nodded at the same time and began to check their police guns.

The real culprit behind this case is very likely to be a relatively influential person in the village.

It's impossible to be unprepared to deal with such a person.

The casino is located in the village, which also means that it is very likely that they are dealing with the vested interests in the village.

Based on Sotakuya and others' observations of the village, it is possible that at least half, or at most unlimited, of the villagers will be vested interests in the casino.

This also means that once Zong Takuya locks on the final target, the resistance to capture is not likely to be as great as usual.

After inspecting the firearm, Sotakuya immediately contacted the Nagano Prefecture Public Security Bureau and asked them to contact the Mobile Team of the Nagano Prefecture Police Headquarters.

Let them hide and wait not far from the village.

As long as Sotakuya and the others find out who the banker is, they will launch an arrest operation as soon as possible.

At that time, with the absolute advantage of force, even if this group of unscrupulous people prepared to resist stubbornly, it would be easy for Zong Takuya to deal with them.

After the contact was completed, Sotakuya and the two of them had dinner that was almost cold.

After the three of them finished their dinner, the Nagano Prefecture Public Security Bureau called Sotakuya and told him that both the police and the mobile team of the Nagano Prefecture Police Headquarters were in place.

They are waiting in hiding near the village, waiting only for Sotakuya's order to launch operations.

After making all the preparations, Sotakuya took Gunda Ikumi and Morofuku Takaaki to visit Tatsuo's house.

Speaking of which, the Ryuubi family and the rival Torada family can be regarded as the "prominent families" in the area.

If the village really opens a casino to gamble on the festival's horseback shooting, then there will definitely be no way around these two companies.

So Sotakuya determined that the casino in the village must have a deep connection with one of these two companies.

It is even possible that the banker is one of these two, or all of them.

The so-called hatred of "generations" is just gossip that Sotakuya heard from the villagers.

But what the hatred is, the people in the village don't even know.

This kind of inexplicable feud, as long as there is a big enough benefit, both parties can let go of their hatred and earn benefits.

Before enough benefits are obtained, both parties will presumably live in peace and selectively forget about the so-called "feud."

Arriving at the door of Longwei's house, the sky was gloomy and covered with dark clouds.

It looks like it's going to rain heavily soon.

Just when Sotakuya was about to call the door, he happened to run into Ryuubi Kei and Ryuubi Ayaka who were returning to Ryuubi's house from practicing horseback shooting.

"Oh, you are friends with Hattori-san and Detective Mori. Speaking of which, they should still be at home now.

Come, I will take you to them. "After listening to Zong Takuya's self-introduction, Longweijing enthusiastically prepared to lead Zong Takuya and his entourage in. (End of this chapter)