Coroner Coroner

"It's because the murderer has no other choice. He can only let the dead man 'fall' in that alley."

"because…"

"The truth of the matter is..."

"Uchida's body has never entered this mall from beginning to end, and it has never been transported to the rooftop."

"The body has always been hidden in that alley and never left."

"what?"

Mao Lilan heard in a haze:

"The body has always been in that alley?"

"But... we clearly heard the sound of heavy objects falling."

"And you just said that Uchida's body fell from a height."

"It's simple."

Kudo Shinichi elaborated his thoughts:

"The murderer used the fire ladder."

"If I'm not mistaken, this deserted alley is the scene of the first crime and where they bullied Uchida."

"Because there are people coming and going outside the alley, after discovering that he accidentally killed Uchida, the three bullies couldn't take the body out of the alley at all."

"So, they thought of using the only thing available in the alley-"

"That fire ladder."

"The top of the fire ladder is four stories high, and the guardrail is still very weak."

"So, the murderer directly transported the body to the top of the iron ladder and leaned on the rusted guardrail."

"Then they came out of the alley."

"Among them, Ishikawa and Aoki were responsible for waiting across the road, while the third murderer walked into the mall disguised as Uchida."

"This third person ascended to the rooftop and first performed a scene of 'Uchida jumping off a building'."

"Then, that fake Uchida stepped back from the edge of the rooftop and walked to the side of the rooftop facing the alley..."

"Finally, he picked up a few bricks from the construction waste piled up on the rooftop using local materials and threw them towards the fire ladder directly below him."

"I see!"

Hearing this, Mao Lilan finally figured out the final answer:

"The brick fell from the roof on the sixth floor and hit the corpse on the outside of the fourth floor, leaning on the iron ladder guardrail."

"Because the guardrail on which the body rested was not strong, after being hit by a few heavy bricks..."

"The guardrail broke, and the body fell from the fire ladder on the fourth floor."

"In this way, Uchida was disguised as a suicide by jumping off a building."

"And Ishikawa and Aoki can use surveillance video to prove that they have never entered a department store, rule out their criminal suspicion, and make investigators more believe that Uchida died of suicide."

"Yes."

Kudo Shin nodded:

"Also, Ishikawa and Aoki deliberately talked about their bullying in front of the vending machine."

"It's actually trying to turn us all into their witnesses."

"On the one hand, it proves that they were not at the scene when the crime happened, and on the other hand, it can be indirectly proved through our mouths that they had bullied the deceased-"

"This way, even if their traces are found on the deceased, they can use physical contact because of bullying as an excuse so that the evidence doesn't point to murder."

"Unfortunately…"

Saying that, the corner of the detective's mouth couldn't help showing a smile:

"Choose a few of us as witnesses..."

"The murderer's luck is really good."

Chapter 25 You are late

"Ishikawa's modus operandi is just like that."

After telling the murderer's tricks, Kudo Shinichi finally concluded:

"It's just that I still lack key evidence, and I have to go back to that alley and search carefully."

He said so, but his expression was not very nervous:

The modus operandi has been thoroughly seen through, and evidence should not be difficult to find.

At this point, the progress of solving the case has reached [-]%.

In contrast...

Lin Xinyi should be slower than himself.

After all, the ability he showed before was only to examine the corpse. I'm afraid it would be difficult to see through the murderer's escape trick using the environment, right?

"This time..."

Thinking about it, Kudo Shin suddenly became confident:

"It should be me who won."

In this way, Ishikawa led the way, and Kudo followed out of the department store in high spirits.

Kudo now feels very stable:

He believes that in this case, his detective skills must be more advantageous than Lin Xinyi's forensic skills.

Ishikawa also feels very stable now:

Even the great detective Kudo Shinichi personally confirmed that the case was a simple suicide, and the incompetent Tokyo Metropolitan Police must have no way to take him as the murderer.

In this way, with a similar self-confidence, the murderer and the great detective returned to the alley beside the department store in tandem.

At this time, it took about 10 minutes for Kudo and the others to investigate, and the Tokyo police, who were dispatched quickly, had already arrived at the scene in time.

Several police cars were parked on the road, and there were several uniformed police officers on the sidewalk maintaining order.

The entrance of the uninhabited alley has been isolated by the emergency cordon, and there are crowds of people outside the cordon, filled with onlookers attracted by the case.

"Give way."

Kudo Shinichi rushed to the front of the blockade.

Ishikawa and Maurilan also returned to the scene.

The police officers who maintained the blockade were trying to stop the three of them, but Kudo Shinichi, as the savior of the Japanese police, his face was the best pass.

Kudo Shinichi walked into the blockade like this, and looked at the police officer who led the team again:

Sure enough, it is still his long-time old friend:

"Mumu Police Department!"

Kudo Shinichi greeted warmly.

When the police arrived, he could just use the power of the forensics class to carefully search the scene and help him find the key evidence that made up the last piece of debris.

In this way, in this reasoning test without gunpowder smoke, he will be able to achieve a real victory.

"Brother Kudo."

"Are you here too?"

The Mumu Police Department was a little surprised, but then inexplicably relieved:

"No wonder I met Mr. Lin Xinyi twice at the crime scene today."

"It's not his fault..."

"With Kudo-san, everything makes sense."

One Death is enough.

If Lin Xinyi, like Kudo, went to die wherever he went, the pressure on the Metropolitan Police Department would be even greater.

As an older middle-aged man, the Mumu Police Department still believes in this kind of metaphysics.

"Ha ha…"

Kudo Shinichi automatically ignored the complaints from the Muki police department.

Detectives are always drawn to cases...and it's normal to be misunderstood.

He smiled and said straight to the point:

"Mumu Police Department, I have some thoughts on this case."

"Forehead…"

The expression of the Mumu Police Department suddenly became a little subtle.

"What?" Kudo Shinichi keenly read the expression of the Megumi Police Department: "What happened to this case?"

"Nothing happened, it's just..."

It seems that it is the first time that the Megumi Police Department has said this to Kudo, and the tone is very euphemistic:

"You're a little late..."

"The suspects have all pleaded guilty."

Saying that, Officer Mumu pointed behind him:

Sure enough, Aoki, who had just been left in the alley, was surrounded by several strong police officers.

He was wearing handcuffs and cried uncontrollably when he was escorted to the police car by the police:

"People, people were killed by Ishikawa!"