Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 974 You Are The Criminal

"Guess, guess it?"

The corners of Yumi Droop's eyes twitched again and again.

"Don't make fun of me at a time like this..."

"I'm not kidding," Gao Cheng said seriously, "Are you sure there are robbers and murderers running into this store?"

"Uh, I don't know if it's a robber murderer." Yumi looked at the three diners who couldn't see anything unusual, and said with a little embarrassment. We ran away when the patrol passed by, obviously we are not good people..."

Naeko Miike went on to say: "I drove around and blocked people, and the police officer Yumei went to chase him. I was chasing him from both sides, but in the end I couldn't block that guy, so I must have run into the only store that didn't turn off the lights. "

"Wait," Gao Cheng asked suspiciously, "Did you just... Yumi keep chasing after the suspicious person?"

"Uh," Naeko Miike said bluntly, "On the way to chase, Officer Yumi fell down..."

"I didn't do it on purpose," Yumi argued. "It's all because the prisoner saw me chasing after me and threw the water pipe towards me, causing me to trip. It wasn't my recklessness!"

"I see."

Gao Cheng didn't touch the annoyed Yumiyu, and turned his gaze to the three diners who didn't seem to know what was going on.

In other words, Yumi was lost for a while, no wonder none of these people panicked just now.

There are 3 diners, a cold woman with heavy makeup, a middle-aged social animal uncle with a sad face, and then the man with coral head and glasses with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks.

If there is no accident, the person Yumi is looking for should be a man with glasses. When he entered the store, he stepped on something like sharp glass under his feet, but he was not in a hurry to deal with it. Instead, he entered the store with the other two like ordinary people. Don't panic, in fact, it shows that time is tight.

The glasses guy doesn't have time to deal with the soles and has to go into the store with everyone else.

In addition, the cuffs and vest of the man with glasses have traces of sweat soaking, and there is a red mark on the tiger's mouth on his right hand that has not completely dissipated, which is in line with Yumi's explanation.

It's just that this doesn't explain the problem. Gao Cheng was more curious about what the glasses man did, why he was waving the pipe and seeing the police fleeing.

"Miwako and the others have news." Yumi left for a while, then suddenly returned to the ramen shop with a gloomy face, "The mistress of that house died at the door, the glass windows of the house were smashed, and the house was turned into a mess... ...It should be the robbers who killed people, and they must have escaped here!"

Yumi stared fiercely at the three diners who had changed expressions, and about seven or eight minutes later, Takagi rushed over from the scene of the crime.

It was also unlucky for the man with glasses, who happened to meet a police patrol, but was not caught up immediately and temporarily escaped.

"The victim was a waitress," Takagi opened the police manual and explained habitually, "It seems that when he came home, he met a prisoner who broke through the empty door at the door. During the dispute, he was pushed down and hit the back of his head on the steps and died..."

"Huh?" Yumi asked in surprise, "Isn't the murder weapon the water pipe?"

"Water pipe?" Takagi was taken aback.

"It's the water pipe that is still on the road," Yumi said angrily, "When we found out, the prisoner was desperately swirling the water pipe in front of that building. Isn't it the murder weapon?"

"This..." Takagi took a step back and laughed dryly, "There is indeed a trace of tape on the end of the water pipe, as if something was tied, but it should not be a murder weapon, and there is no blood on it, and Officer Sato also said that the prisoner did it after the murder. Only then did I go to the kitchen to take out the water pipe, which was not a tool prepared in advance.”

"Miwako said that?"

"That's right, because the victim was still wearing shoes, it was obvious that the criminal was going to leave after bumping into the empty door before entering the house..."

"Then did the victim have any important items stolen?" Gao Cheng asked.

If it was a criminal who broke through the empty door, he might be able to find the evidence soon after investigating the belongings. He himself has the mastery-level "Thief" skill, and he can be said to be an expert in this regard.

"I'm not too sure about this," Takagi shook his head and said, "The safe has signs of being pried, but it hasn't been pried open, and the drawer where the jewelry is kept has been turned over in a mess, but the jewelry seems to be still there..."

The ramen shop manager who had been present behind the counter interjected, "Could it be the earrings? Actually, a waitress named Wenzi who lived nearby came to the shop, and she once showed off her earrings loudly when she was drunk, and said they were earrings. A couple would cost several million, by the way, the three guests seemed to be there that day, and they were all acquaintances of Miss Wen Zi."

Speaking of which, the ramen shop manager couldn't help but look at several diners suspiciously.

This is too coincidental.

"Could it be Miss Wen Zi who was killed?"

The faces of the three suspects changed at the same time, and the drunken woman's triumphant laughter seemed to echo in their ears.

"This pair of earrings was bought for me by a customer, and they have been hidden in the cabinet all the time. Today is my birthday, so I am willing to take them out and wear them!

"These are some unwelcome waitresses, stingy staff who just drink but don't give any gifts, and working boys who secretly stare at me through the window of the convenience store and look disgusting, these are the treasures that you can't get in your whole life ! Haha, it belongs to my baby!!"

Is that woman dead?
Yuna Shono, who used to work as a waitress in the same shop with Atsuko, Osamu Nakanishi, a middle-aged employee of Atsuko's customer, and even the man with glasses who was a freelancer all looked gloomy.

Gao Cheng saw it in his eyes, and he was basically sure that the stolen item was an earring, and the murdered waitress was obviously the waitress Atsuko.

It's not a coincidence that the man with glasses came to this store for the first time, he must have thought about how to deal with the police...

At this time, Takagi had already taken the photo of the victim's body to the store manager to confirm his identity. It was the waitress Atsuko who showed off the earrings on her birthday.

Although Gao Cheng has not had much contact with waitresses, and is not as experienced as Uncle Maori, in fact, waitresses are not much different from cowherds. Most of them are very sad. Even if they are very popular with guests, they will only feel more empty in private.

Ordinary people would not choose to engage in this kind of work. Most of them came to the cities from the countryside to work hard, but they ended up on this road for various reasons, and they didn't even dare to let their parents know.

This time, it might just be that the waitress had a rare emotional release on her birthday, but she happened to meet some unsatisfactory diners, causing disaster, and she died just because of millions of yen.

Gao Cheng remembered the first time he earned 100 million in this world.

It seems that he has been quite low-key all the time. Even the uncle next door thinks that he has just earned money for a villa. Suzuki's family did not publicize his affairs everywhere, and Sonoko never said such things outside.

"Well," Takagi and Yumi inspected the belongings of the three diners, and asked about their identities by the way, "The handbag of the hostess, Ms. Shono Yuna, contains wallets, cigarettes, lighters, mobile phones, chewing gum...

"Mr. Mizuke Zongsuke, a freelancer, brought a coin purse in his coat pocket, a mobile phone, a mask, his house key, and a glasses case.

"Mr. Osamu Nakanishi, a company employee, the wallet in his pocket and briefcase, his house keys, company documents, and handkerchiefs..."

"No one has earrings, and there is nothing particularly valuable."

Yumi frowned and said, "I've searched the store, and there's nothing hidden. Didn't you steal the earrings?"

"Isn't there another place you haven't looked for?"

Gao Cheng noticed the smug look in the glasses man's eyes, walked straight up, picked up the soy sauce bottle in front of the glasses man, shook it, and there was a knocking sound, which directly shocked the glasses man.

"It's a good idea to hide it in a soy sauce bottle. It can be recycled afterwards, because it's a regular customer of this store and it won't arouse the suspicion of the police."

The time wasn't very long, but it was enough for him to judge many things. After confirming that the man with glasses was the prisoner, he still couldn't find the earring.

So far, his criminal psychology analysis has been tried and tested, and the design of a small character can't hide it from him.

In this ramen shop, apart from the toilet for hiding things, there is only the counter here. The police will definitely search the toilet. The only safe and convenient place to recycle is the soy sauce bottle that the man with glasses has been using just now.

Without waiting for the man with glasses to defend himself, Gao Cheng continued: "Generally, few people would bring a glasses case with them, right? Or did you bring a spare pair of glasses? And the glass shards you stepped on on the soles of your shoes, I guess. Could it be that you dropped your glasses and crushed them when you were pushing and shoving the victim?
"After the murder, he went into the house and took the water pipe and waved it at the door. What is more important than escaping from the scene? Probably the only thing to do is to clear the evidence of his own murder.

"You're collecting the fragments of glasses that were crushed, right?" Gao Cheng finally confirmed.

"You!" The pupils of the man with glasses dilated suddenly, and his heart twitched violently.

(End of this chapter)