Conan: I'm Not a Model Worker in the Winery

Chapter 521 Who is the murderer?

Airport Hotel, Room 1207.

The victim was a European-looking man wearing a suit. He was lying on his back on the ground at the entrance with a fruit knife stuck in his chest and some blood marks from being dragged under his body.

The blood flowing from the wound had already dried up, and solidified into a dark brown color on the body and the ground.

Inside the room, the bed was a little messy, but other furnishings and items were neatly arranged, with no obvious signs of intrusion.

Lie was leaning against the window diagonally opposite the door, holding his chin in a thoughtful manner;

Conan squatted beside the cabinet next to the corpse, staring at the floor, groping with one hand, his expression solemn as if the sky was about to fall;

In front of him, Maori Kogoro pulled his collar with a confident look on his face, as if he had seen through everything, with thousands of stars twinkling in his eyes, as if he was going to tell the truth in the next second...

——The above was the first scene that Inspector Megure saw when he first arrived at the crime scene.

The old police inspector, who had just experienced his immediate boss being replaced by someone else and had managed to keep his current position by chance, sighed tiredly:

"You guys again... So, what's the situation at the scene?"

Every time he goes out on a police mission, he almost always runs into two familiar faces, Kogoro Mouri and Rei...well, maybe Conan too.

Inspector Megure gradually realized that Conan was the frequent visitor at crime scenes.

"This case is very simple, Officer Megure! The situation is very clear." Maori Kogoro coughed twice confidently, "The deceased was obviously not prepared when he opened the door, and was stabbed to death by the person outside the door!"

Kogoro Mouri arrived at the crime scene one step after Rei and Conan.

When he came, Conan was checking the corpse and was almost killed by him. Fortunately, Lie came over to Conan to look at the corpse soon after, thus saving Conan from the tragedy of being shot in the head.

But at the moment, Rei showed no sign of revealing the criminal right away, so Kogoro Mori felt that it was time for him to show his talent.

Inspector Megure looked at the mysterious and confident Maori Kogoro in silence for a long time, and he chose...

Let his men investigate the scene first.

After explaining the police officers' tasks, Officer Megure looked helplessly at his former colleague, "From the situation at the scene, there is no doubt that the deceased was killed by an outsider, right?"

Maori Kogoro smiled confidently, "Humph! That's right, Officer Megure... and the murderer who killed this foreign friend is you!"

"It was the hotel clerk who found the dead man!"

He pointed his finger straight at the terrified waiter who was standing behind a group of policemen.

The latter quickly waved his hands to prove his innocence: "Mr. Mao, Mr. Mao Li, what are you talking about? How could I be the murderer!"

He, the waiter, is so innocent!

It was unusual for Inspector Megure to not believe everything he heard. He looked at the panicked waiter, then at Maori Kogoro, and his eyes were full of dead fish eyes: "Brother Maori, we want evidence... Where is the evidence?"

After a night of reflection, Inspector Megure has now come to a higher level - he has finally realized clearly that when sober, Kogoro Mouri can hardly speak any human language.

Maori Kogoro was still confident, "This is very simple, Officer Megure! This waiter must have had an argument with the deceased when he was questioning him, and in a fit of rage, he killed the deceased with the fruit knife provided by the hotel!"

"…So what I'm talking about is evidence!" Officer Megure held his forehead weakly. "But it really wasn't me!" The waiter was about to cry, "I just received a call from a guest today, saying that the guest in this room had an appointment with him to go out but couldn't get in touch with him, so I came to check it out, who would have thought…"

"A call from a customer?"

As if he had sensed something, Inspector Megure turned to the waiter and asked, "Who is this guest?"

"Yes……"

The waiter was about to answer when the voices of an old man and a young man interrupted him:

"To be precise, there should be three guests, and they are all people living in this hotel." Lie walked from the window to the door without knowing when.

Conan continued, "The three people are Kazuo Kusunoki from room 1302, Hideto Kitaoka from room 1127, and Takeshi Sakata from room 1291."

Inspector Megure nodded in understanding:

"I see. The three of them are located near the dead layer..."

As he was talking, Inspector Megure suddenly realized something and looked at the two people speechlessly, "How did you know that?"

Lie smiled, "Ah~ Of course before you came, Officer Megure, we had already consulted the waiter to understand the situation~ At present, the most suspicious ones are the three people we just mentioned."

Officer Megure looked confused: "This, this is..."

"Phone calls. These three people called the deceased's room yesterday. If you use the internal landline in the room to check the records, the last call records are all from these three people... and before noon yesterday, all three of them called."

Conan said this in a cute way under Mouri Kogoro's dangerous gaze, and then noticed Mouri Kogoro's unhappy look and simply hid behind Retsu.

And then, Rei and Conan didn't give Inspector Megure any chance to speak, and began to analyze the scene on their own:
"From the time of death, it seems that the victim was killed one day or more ago, and the person who had the last phone call with the victim is indeed a strong suspect."

"And judging from the state of death of the deceased, he was stabbed when he opened the door without any defense. However, judging from the position of the deceased in front of the door, the criminal must have killed the deceased after he walked into the door. From this point of view, the other party should be familiar with the deceased."

"besides……"

At this point, Conan and Lie suddenly changed their conversation:
Lie pointed to the edge of the window: "The prisoner may have left through the window. You can see obvious shoe prints here."

Conan pointed to the floor in the room and said, "Also, the criminal may have taken something from the deceased... The wheel marks on the floor here indicate that there should have been a suitcase or something."

Officer Memu: "..."

Qiudou Madai, can you wait a moment for him to finish recording?

His hands are about to cramp!
but……

Officer Megure nodded while taking notes seriously. "I see. That means those three people are highly suspicious, right? Are they still in the hotel?"

His last question was directed to the hotel waiter.

Before the latter could answer, Lie helped out, "Yes, Conan and I have already called them. Of course, we called them. The three of them are having dinner in the restaurant. They should be back soon..."

(End of this chapter)