Conan: I can hear the murderer's voice

Conan felt heartbroken and clutched his chest tightly.

【That bastard! 】

[Could it be that even the child's admiration for me will be taken away by Lin Xuan? ]

The system reward arrived in the morning.

Solve the murder case of falling objects from high altitude. Lin Xuanxin's ability is [Super Mechanical Engineer]

This ability allows him to handle all kinds of machinery with ease, and as long as he has the tools, he can quickly repair damaged machines in a short period of time.

If there are other murderers who want to destroy the means of transportation and cut off contact with the outside world, it will be difficult for them to succeed in front of Lin Xuan.

……

This day, I sat by the window at the Polo Cafe.

The usually capable police inspector now looked worried.

On the sofa opposite Megure were sitting three detectives: Mouri, Ringen and Conan.

"Inspector, what is the matter that you asked us out for?"

As an old subordinate, Maori was most concerned about Megure's situation and was the first to ask.

Megure adjusted his hat, sighed, and asked:

"A few days ago, a 27-year-old company employee named Shuhei Odawara was murdered at home. Did you know about this?"

Kogoro remembered that he had read related reports:

"I remember the murderer has been arrested."

The police inspector nodded and said:

"Yes, I personally led people to arrest him, and he immediately admitted that he was the murderer."

Conan was puzzled.

[Since the murderer has confessed, why is Inspector Megure still looking for us? 】

The police chief sighed again and explained the reason:

"We may have the wrong guy."

He gave the three detectives a detailed account of the case.

After the forensic autopsy, it was estimated that the victim died between 1pm and 3pm.

Odawara was strangled to death, with obvious marks on his neck. There were also signs of being hit by a heavy object on the back of his head.

Two murder weapons were left at the scene. The baseball bat used to hit the back of the victim's head had clear fingerprints, but no fingerprints were detected on the rope used to strangle the victim.

The glass near the latch of the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room was cut into a fist-sized piece by someone using a tool. There were no signs of rummaging in the room and no property was lost in the house.

"After inspecting the scene, the police initially determined that this was a revenge killing. The murderer first used a tool to cut the glass near the latch of the living room floor-to-ceiling window."

"After entering the room, he attacked Odawara with a baseball bat and knocked him unconscious, then strangled him with a rope."

This was a reasonable guess based on the circumstances at the scene, and several detectives had no objection.

The police officer continued:

"The first person to discover the body was the deceased's fiancée, Ms. Yaguchi. She told us that Odawara was usually kind to others and only had conflicts with his colleague Mr. Kazuki at work."

"Originally, Yaguchi and Kazuki were boyfriend and girlfriend, but she later got together with the victim."

"It was also at this time that forensic personnel confirmed that the fingerprints on the baseball bat belonged to Mr. Kazuki."

"When arrested, Xiangyue not only did not resist, but directly admitted that she was the murderer."

Megure picked up the cup and took a few sips of coffee to moisten his throat, then continued:

"However, when we asked him to explain the crime at the police station, we found that Xiangyue, who admitted to the murder, knew nothing about the details of the case."

"The first time he claimed that he could not forgive the deceased for stealing his girlfriend. On the day of the incident, he was harassed by the thugs from the Nimman Society for several hours at noon. At around 6pm, he used a spare key to enter the deceased's home and beat Odawara to death with a baseball bat."

Maori couldn't help interrupting:

"The range of death that can be confirmed by the medical examiner is between 1pm and 3pm."

Megure nodded:

"And the real cause of death was strangulation. After the interrogating police pointed out these doubts, Xiangyue changed her statement on the spot."

"He changed his story and said that he actually went to kill the victim twice. He used a spare key to enter the victim's home at 2 pm on the day of the crime and strangled Odawara."

"After locking the door and destroying the spare key, he felt unsafe because he was in such a hurry when he left that he did not confirm whether Odawara was really dead."

"So around six o'clock he smashed the French window in the living room with a baseball bat, and then hit the corpse's head with the bat again to make sure the victim was dead before leaving in a hurry."

Maori frowned:

"But the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room was not shattered by a baseball bat, but by a glass cutter that cut open a fist-sized area where the latch would be."

Megure sighed again:

"Xiangyue tried his best to admit that he was the murderer, but the details of the crime scene did not match his confession of the crime."

"We suspect he is actually innocent, but out of some willingness he wants to take the blame for someone else."

Conan still looked at the inspector with confusion.

[This case does take more time to investigate, but there are many complicated and brain-burning cases in Beika Town.]

[Even serial murders won't make the experienced police chief frown]

Without waiting for the detective to ask, Megure told the reason for his irritation:

"Because there are still doubts in the case, I decided to let Mr. Xiangyue leave the police station after 24 hours, and let Gao Mu and Chiba monitor him in secret."

"If he is the murderer and is freed, he will most likely take special actions."

"However, Xiangyue not only shouted that he was the murderer, but also refused to leave the police station. Even if I asked my subordinates to carry him out, Mr. Xiangyue would come back to the police station and ask us to arrest him the next second."

"That guy has been staying in the police station these days, regardless of eating, drinking, defecating, urinating or sleeping."

If his superiors knew that Megure had arrested an innocent citizen and that the innocent citizen was staying in the police station and refusing to leave, Megure would definitely be criticized.

He was even more worried that Mr. Xiangyue wanted to extort money from the police, induce them to make illegal arrests, and then use the media hype to put pressure on the Metropolitan Police Department to demand huge compensation.

That's why Megure is so worried and wants to ask the detective to help solve the case.

Maori's eyes widened in shock.

In all his career as a criminal policeman and in all his years as a detective, he had never heard of anyone begging the police to arrest him.

Conan was already thinking about why Kazuki was behaving strangely.

[When the case was first mentioned, that guy mentioned the Mud Club]

[Remember that the Nicanhui is a mafia organization where some high-ranking officials illegally possess guns and have no bottom line in their actions]

Before he became smaller, Kudo Shinichi often helped the police solve cases, so he had the opportunity to read files related to the Nimicide Society.

[Could it be that Xiangyue offended the top brass of the Nizankai and was afraid of retaliation from the underworld, so she has been staying in the police station? ]

Unlike Kogoro and Conan, Lin Xuan was able to clearly understand the trouble the other party was in shortly after he sat down at the police station with his mind-reading ability.

But Lin Xuan also had a question:

"Since you discovered something unusual when you questioned Xiangyue, why did you allow the reporter to write a report that the case was solved and the real culprit was caught?"

Megure shook his head and said:

"This incident was beyond our expectations. One of the deceased, Odawara, had a childhood friend who was a newspaper reporter."

"He who was summoned by us is also considered a person related to the case. It is said that he only took less than half an hour to complete the report after learning that Xiangyue was arrested."

"When the police officer in charge of the interrogation discovered that there was something wrong with Xiangyue who confessed to the crime, the evening newspaper that published the news of the case being solved and the arrest of the real culprit had already been published."