Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 698 Bitter Coffee

Gao Cheng nodded to Somei Shogo, who was quite haggard, and looked at the murder scene at his own pace, because forensic personnel had already taken pictures to collect evidence, so there was no need to worry about destroying the scene.

As soon as you enter the door, you can see a fat middle-aged man lying at the dining table, clutching his throat in pain. Like many previous cases, it is very consistent with the characteristics of cyanide poisoning.

A coffee mug on the table was dumped on the plate, and the coffee flowed down the table onto the chairs, leaving two dried-up coffee stains on the carpet.

The strange thing is the position of the chair. Both feet in front of the chair were covered with coffee, but the right foot did not overlap with the coffee marks on the carpet. It seemed that someone had moved it.

And instead of waiting for the coffee to dry before moving it...

Gao Cheng carefully checked the coffee marks on the table, and suddenly deduced that someone was sitting on the chair when the coffee was spilled, and got up and moved the chair when the coffee spilled on the right chair leg and left traces on the floor. To the left foot of the chair.

This inference is also in line with the direction in which the coffee is spilled, the right side is short and the left side is long...

Gao Cheng looked at the coffee cup on the table again, and even picked up the plate underneath, and found that the traces of coffee underneath did not match the shape of the plate. It would be almost the same after removing the plate, as if the cup was poured directly.

Knowing that it was Shogo Somei who came to him first, Gao Cheng's gaze stopped on Shogo Somei who was explaining to Megure.

According to the testimony of the uncle and the apartment manager, the entrance door was locked and the anti-theft chains were put on, but after breaking through the door, Somei Shogo ran ahead, and went directly to the living room.

In addition, Xiaolan has been guarding the door, and no one else has escaped, and the only one who can do something is Shogo Somei.

In other words, because it was Shogo Somei, many loopholes were left in the rush of time, and the method of hiding any traces was quite rough.

Gao Cheng put his hand in and looked around the scene, and went straight to the locked balcony French windows.

It was still raining heavily outside, and when he opened the door, he could see the parking lot downstairs, and his car directly below.

"Was this floor-to-ceiling window locked from the beginning?" Gao Cheng turned around and asked.

"Yeah," Mu Mu said, "but just in case, I opened the balcony and checked it... In short, there is a possibility of suicide in this case, and it happens to be the same apartment..."

"Please, please wait a moment, officer," Somei Shogo asked anxiously, "There is also the possibility of suicide... Isn't this suicide? Because it's a secret room..."

"It's not the same. If you hang yourself in the secret room or cut your wrists, it should be suicide, but it's not necessarily the case with poisoning. If the criminal brings a cake to visit Mr. Nakame, after poisoning the coffee, he excuses There is something urgent to leave, and when I go out, I tell him that the surrounding area is not safe, and ask him to put on the anti-theft chain, so that it is not impossible to complete the murder in the secret room..."

Megure looked at the plate of cakes placed next to the coffee cup on the table, explained something quite experienced, and asked Somei Shogo: "By the way, where were you around 6:[-] when the incident happened?"

"Me?" Somei Shogo was sweating a lot. Seeing Megure asking himself, he hurriedly replied, "I haven't been in good health recently, so I didn't go to the company, so I slept at home, and then I received Mauritius at about 6:7." Mr.'s confirmation call, I remembered that I had an appointment with Mr. Nakame at [-] o'clock tonight, so I came over..."

"Is that phone number at home?" Mumu continued to ask.

"No, it was answered by mobile phone..."

"So can anyone prove that you slept at home all day?"

"No..." Somei Shogo said nervously, "Are you guys doubting me?"

"Just in case..."

"Ah," Conan suddenly pretended to be surprised, "it's weird under the coffee cup and saucer..."

"What's so strange?"

"It's the trace of coffee being overturned. Generally, if it was overturned on a saucer, there should be a circular mark underneath...there is no coffee on the saucer..."

Gao Cheng walked into the room from the balcony, and when he heard Conan's exaggerated voice, he felt chills, and checked the curtains in front of the French windows blindly.

He had noticed just now that the curtains on both sides were wet. Obviously, the French windows had not been closed when Shogo Somei found the body.

Seeing Shogo Somei who was suspected by Conan, Gao Cheng frowned slightly.

Taking advantage of being the first to find the corpse, he did so many hasty tricks, except that he himself is the murderer, there is only one possibility...

"Although I don't know the purpose, but do you know who did it?" Conan smiled confidently in the face of the doubtful eyes, "The only person who can do this kind of thing in the room after the coffee dries is You were the first to come in and find Mr. Nakame's body...President Somei, aren't you the only one?"

Uncle Mori stared at Shogo Somei who had changed his face: "It is true that you are the only one. You were the first to enter the secret room to destroy the evidence that was not destroyed in time, right?"

Somei Shogo panicked: "It's just that there are traces of overturned coffee under the coffee cup and saucer. What kind of evidence is this? Do I need to hide it?"

"This is..."

Uncle Maori's head was a little stuck, and he couldn't help but look at Conan, who was usually very clever, but Conan didn't continue to interrupt, but just looked at the coffee stains on the carpet in disbelief.

This time it's not just a homicide, it's an impossible crime...

"Officer Mumu," Gao Cheng's voice suddenly brought Conan back to his thoughts, "Has the woman's identity been confirmed?"

"Not yet." Mentioning the woman who jumped off the building, Mu Mu sighed, "She died on the spot, and I will contact the family members after the identity is confirmed..."

"I think," Gao Cheng noticed Akigo Somei's expression from the corner of his eye, and said softly, "If there is no accident, I already know the identity of the deceased."

"understood?"

"What dead? Anyone else killed?"

Everyone present looked at Gao Cheng together with Mu Mu, only Shogo Somei lowered his head.

Gao Cheng didn't mention the matter of the female staff immediately, but said to Takagi: "Officer Takagi, can you confirm the situation of President Somei's company first? It's best to find the whereabouts of President Somei at 6:[-] when the incident happened..."

Gao Mu, who was standing behind, was stunned, and subconsciously ran out the door: "Okay, I see..."

Mu Mu frowned a pair of thick eyebrows, and couldn't help asking: "I said, brother Chenghu, do you really know the identity of the deceased?"

"It's not just her identity..."

Gao Cheng took the cup that was used as a pen holder on the office coffee table and put it on the dining table, and then told everyone his deduction: "What President Somei wants to hide is actually the existence of another person other than the producer of Zhongmu..."

"another person?"

"The reason why there is no coffee on the plate is because it wasn't a coffee plate in the first place. It should also be used to put cakes, right? It's just that someone put two cakes on one plate..."

Gao Cheng looked at Shogo Somei who was deeply bowing his head, and took out a piece of cake from the plate on the table. Immediately, there was a scene of two people having dessert on the table.

"Because time was limited, President Somei had to pour the coffee from another coffee cup into the flowerpot in the corner, and the empty cup was disguised as a pen holder, but the smell of coffee was still quite obvious..."

"That's not right," Mu Mu looked at the arrangement on the table and said strangely, "There is only one fork for eating cake...could it be hidden in the kitchen?"

"If you have time to hide in the kitchen, you can take the plate and put the coffee cup in the sink." Gao Cheng shook his head and said, "That fork is probably still on Mr. Somei's body, right?"

"Because there is no time..."

Somei Shogo took out a fork from his arms in a little frustration: "Mr. Nakame's body is right in front of you, if I don't yell loudly immediately, I will be the first to be suspected..."

"Then," Mu Mu said in a deep voice, "Mr. Nakame was given by Mr. Somei..."

"Yes..." Somei Akigo bowed his head and said, "I was always angry at him at work, so I pretended to commit suicide in a secret room like you said, police officer. When I left, I also noticed my share of coffee and cake on the table. He told me to clean up before I left, but Mr. Zhongmu said that if there is something urgent, I should leave first and let him clean up. I just came back to check just in case, and the result was..."

"It's a pity, Somei-san."

Gao Cheng interrupted suddenly: "You can't be a prisoner."

"Huh?" Somei Akigo's eyes trembled.

"Because until the time when the producer of Zhongmu was killed by drinking poisoned coffee, the prisoner was still at the scene, and just now I received news that someone saw you in a pharmacy near your company at the time of the incident..."

Gao Cheng got the record book from Takagi who came back, looked directly at Shogo Somei and said, "Even the employees of your company, the clerks in the pharmacy can also testify..."

"I..." Somei Shogo said with a dry smile, "I went to buy medicine today, it was after 5 o'clock, did they get the time wrong..."

"President Somei locked the floor-to-ceiling windows," Gao Cheng said harshly, "to prevent the police from thinking about the jumping incident in the parking lot, right? Your female employee jumped from the balcony and died on the spot. After killing the producer of Zhongmu!"

Somei Shogo's expression changed completely, he was speechless with his mouth open, tears gushed out uncontrollably, and fell to his knees with a thud.

"No...it's not! Maiko is innocent...it must be caused by Zhongmu, both of them are the producers of Zhongmu..."

(End of this chapter)