Kindaichi of Kexue World

Chapter 198 Conan's "Unreal Route"

Kaneda Kazuo introduced Mao Lilan to Mizumu Rena, the girls' friendship is sometimes a bit inexplicable, and Mao Lilan is her fan, the two quickly got closer, walked aside, chatted and laughed.

There were already many policemen in the warehouse, so after being a tool man for a while, Police Officer Takagi looked enviously at Kaneda who could still sit and rest, and was summoned away by the Megure Police Department.

Everyone who was in the way was gone, and Kindaichi and Conan were left alone.

"Hey, Kindaichi, do you have any new discoveries?"

Conan stood beside Kazuto Kaneda, with his hands in his pockets, even though he was getting smaller, he was still playing handsome all the time.

"I'm looking for a way to go back and forth between the fourth floor and the seventh floor in a short time."

"did you find it?"

Kindaichiji said disappointedly: "No."

Next, Kazuto Kinda described all the efforts he had made just now to find the "illusory road".

"What about you?" Kindaichiji asked Conan, "Do you have any new clues?"

"There are some new clues, and I have a new idea, but there is no conclusive evidence to support it."

"Oh? What do you think?"

"You said you have been looking for the [Illusory Road]. In fact, I am the same, but we are looking in different directions." Conan said: "You want to find a road in the whole building that can go back and forth between two places in a short time. , thinking that the murderer followed that shortcut to create a time difference to achieve the effect of alibi, but I don’t think so.”

Conan began to speak his mind.

"There was a suspicious point at the beginning of this murder scene. Since the murderer visited Mr. Suwa with a pistol, he must have maintained great malice from the beginning. After all, this is not the United States. It is not so easy to get a gun. Mr. Suwa is not someone who needs a gun to defend against."

"You mean...the murderer came prepared and wanted to kill Suwa from the beginning?!"

"But if the murderer was prepared, why did he choose such a time to kill Mr. Suwa? The program he produced had just ended at that time, and staff, hosts or guests could come to him at any time, and It was different during the taping of the show, when he was alone and the chance of being discovered was slim. It also seemed like a spur-of-the-moment murder of passion."

"Is it premeditated or a crime of passion?"

"There is another strange thing. Mr. Suwa was killed by the sculpture you sent in the end, and there were not too many signs of fighting at the scene. Except for three bullet holes and four bullet casings, the whole scene was more like The scene left after the passionate murder."

"In this regard, I think what Uncle Mao Li said before is a bit reasonable. Although the murderer came prepared, but his marksmanship was too poor, he had to pick up the [Thinker Alarm Clock] and smash it at the end."

"This conjecture seems reasonable, but it's actually very difficult to operate. Mr. Suwa doesn't look like a ruthless person who pounces on the opponent before the bullet is empty, and you may not know that the most suspicious Matsuo Takashi Very good at shooting, once won the championship in amateur competitions”

"...Uncle Maori is really unreliable."

"So I think this case... wait, you just said... [The Thinker Alarm Clock]?"

"correct."

"Is that thing an alarm clock?"

"Yeah, just touch his head and he'll tell the time."

"Is that so..." Conan pondered.

"Don't think about it yet, you haven't finished your reasoning yet."

"Oh, yes. I thought about it, maybe Mr. Suwa has experienced two murders, one was a long-planned murder, but it failed, so there was another impulsive crime of passion, and this crime of passion finally succeeded. gone."

"You mean the murderer killed two people?!"

"It's very possible." Conan touched his chin: "Remember our reasoning about bullet holes?"

"Are you talking about the theory that [the bullet marks were prepared in advance]?"

Conan nodded, which is why he went to the warehouse on the seventh floor to find clues.

Kazuto Kaneda also thought this conclusion was very reasonable. In this way, people can kill people on the fourth floor, but the pistol is on the seventh floor. It can be regarded as an alternative "illusory road".

But in this case, it has little to do with the clues provided by the system, so he didn't think too much about it at the time.

"If the bullet holes were made in advance, it is a long-planned murder plan. According to you, this is the plan that failed, so the situation of [three bullet holes but four shell casings] was left on the scene. , is that so?" Kindaichiji said.

Conan nodded: "Following this line of thought, combined with some clues I just obtained in the warehouse, maybe I can explain all this!"

"I would like to hear the details."

Conan searched the warehouse on the seventh floor and found some clues.

First, the seventh-floor warehouse where the pistol was found happens to be directly above the crime scene on the fourth floor. The windows of the warehouse are casement windows with a wide field of view. Looking down from here, you can just see the strange-looking gun at the crime scene. Large center hung windows.

Second, the warehouse mainly stores the props of variety shows, and this warehouse happened to be opened because of the show "All Japan's Famous Detective", and has not been locked since then.According to the administrator's statement, the pistol did not exist before he opened the door for the last time, which means that the pistol was put in during preparation, during or after the recording of "All Japan's Detective".

Third, the plastic sheet found with the pistol to block the gunpowder residue that sprayed out when the bullet was fired is very strange.It was found folded, with no signs of excessive rubbing other than neat creases.

Combining the clues from these three aspects, plus some clues found before the crime scene, Conan suddenly had a bold reasoning.

He believed that the murderer had indeed devised a plot to kill Suwa Michihiko.

The murderer made a series of preparatory work first.

He first got an unregistered pistol with a silencer from the black market, then sneaked into Suwa Michihiko's office, fired three shots in a hidden and inconspicuous place, and hid the four bullet casings of the gun. In the corner of the room.

Then he prepared a plastic sheet to block the gunpowder residue.

In the end, this person used some method to let Suwa Michihiko stay alone at a certain place at a specified time, and that place was his office.

After the preparations were completed, the murderer began to implement his horrific criminal plan.

(End of this chapter)