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

Chapter 522 Lie: Haven’t I ruled them all out?
Lie and Conan basically analyzed the case thoroughly, and the specific trace analysis was finally handed over to the forensic department.

"By the way, Officer Megure, please send someone to guard the door of their three rooms and don't let them have the opportunity to return to their rooms." Lie made another request, "Also, after the three of them get here, please have the police search their rooms."

Conan: "..."

Hey, can't we just let the police do this kind of search secretly? Why is Mr. Lin always so honest?

Under normal circumstances, Inspector Megure would not agree to such an unreasonable request.

But when he looked at Rei, thinking of his ability to solve cases and the favor he had done for the Metropolitan Police Department, Officer Megure nodded vigorously, "I understand, Mr. Lin, I'll have the police officers go over and take a look."

Conan: "??"

Inspector Megure, you weren't like this before!

What happened to the selflessness you promised?

……

Everyone didn't have to wait long before the three suspects named by Lie and Conan arrived at the crime scene, panting.

After questioning, they frowned again.

Nan Kazuo, number 1302, spoke to the deceased yesterday morning.

He met the deceased abroad, and after returning home this time, he planned to take the deceased to a classic tour near his hometown. The appointment was to set off after lunch today, but when he called the deceased today, he found that he could not get through;
Kitaoka Hideto, No. 1127, was a journalist. Since the deceased was a foreign official, he mainly collected all kinds of foreign gossip, so after knowing that the deceased was staying at this hotel, he followed him and wanted to get some first-hand information.
The time that Hideto Kitaoka had agreed with the deceased was this morning.

But thinking that the call didn't go through and no one answered the door, Hideto Kitaoka thought the other party had stood him up, so he decided to stay in the hotel and wait for the person to come back so that he could block him.

Takeshi Sakata, who was staying in room 1291, also met the deceased abroad and returned to China just one day earlier than the deceased. When he heard that the deceased was also coming back, he continued to stay in the hotel.

He had made an appointment with the deceased to go surfing yesterday, but he didn't see him until today. He also made several phone calls, but no one answered.

The three people each said something different, and it seemed that there was no solid evidence from their confessions alone.

"Why don't we compare the shoe prints first?"

Lie pointed to the mark on the window and said, "If no one's shoe print matches the mark on the window, then proceed to the next step."

So, with the three suspects looking confused, the police immediately compared the soles of their shoes with those on the window.

The result is...completely inconsistent.

In other words, no one stepped on that window.

"Who left this shoe print?"

Inspector Megure looked a little solemn.

If the murder was committed by an outsider, the case might be difficult to handle.

Conan stared at the shoe prints on the window with an ugly expression on his face, but no one knew what he was thinking of.

"Well, it's okay, Officer Megure. If they don't match, then it means the shoe prints have nothing to do with this case."

Lie pondered for a while, but suddenly laughed and pointed at Kitaoka Hideto who lived in room 1127, "Hey~ Let me ask you a question."

"...Ah? Me?" Kitaoka Hideto probably didn't expect that he would be called out. He pointed at himself blankly, but there was not much panic on his face.

"Oh, right, right, it's you~" Lie smiled as usual, "I want to ask, if you think the deceased has let you go, then why are you still waiting here?"

Kitaoka Hideto was stunned, then laughed awkwardly: "Well, didn't I just say that? Because I was very angry, I wanted to wait for him to come back here..."

"Oh~"

Lie showed a look of sudden enlightenment, "Then how do you know that he will come back?" Kitaoka Hideto was stunned again.

Then, he saw Lie turned his head and looked at the waiter, "You are in charge of these floors, right? Did this gentleman ask you whether the deceased checked out?"

"Well..." The waiter looked at Kitaoka Hideto and recalled, "I don't think so. I don't have any impression of this gentleman."

Kitaoka Hideto was getting anxious at this time: "Hey! It's not me! I just stayed here because I was angry at the moment, and I didn't even think about the possibility that he might check out!"

"Really?" Lie was quite aggressive at this moment, "Are you sure you didn't stay in the hotel on purpose because you knew the deceased was dead in the room and you were afraid of being mistaken for a murderer?"

"No! It's not like that!"

Seeing Officer Megure taking out handcuffs with a fierce look on his face, Kitaoka Hideto almost cried.

however.

Lie suddenly laughed and grabbed the hands of Nan Hexiong on the other side, "And you..."

Inspector Megure: “……?”

What's going on? Is there more than one criminal this time?
Conan: "..."

What is Mr. Lin doing?
Kitaoka Hideto: “?”

What? What does this person mean?
"Is the time you agreed with the deceased really this afternoon?"

Lie's eyes were burning.

Nan Hexiong's face suddenly turned ugly, "I, I..."

"Tell the truth." Lie smiled, but his tone was unquestionable. "If it was this afternoon, why are there so many records of your calls from yesterday afternoon in your phone records?"

"..."

Nan and Xiong fell silent.

When everyone was waiting impatiently, he finally spoke with difficulty, "Yes, yesterday, I told him that I would go out in the afternoon... Of course, it was yesterday afternoon, not today."

Inspector Megure's expression froze. "I see. You had an argument with the deceased before leaving the house, so..."

“No, no, no!” Nan Hexiong suddenly became anxious, “It’s not me! I was a little worried because he didn’t show up at the time we agreed to meet, so I went to his room to check…”

Officer Megure was shocked: "Have you been here before?"

Nan Hexiong nodded hurriedly, "Because I have a good relationship with him, he gave me a backup card, so I came in... When I came in, I saw him dead here!"

"I was so scared that I hid in my room... I didn't dare to call the police because I was afraid they would think I was the murderer..."

"…What is going on here?"

Inspector Megure is now starting to have a headache. He looks at Rei with a look of despair, "Mr. Rei... who is the murderer?"

Although Nan Hexiong sounded innocent, he seemed suspicious no matter how you looked at it.

After seeing the deceased, he stayed there for a whole day and didn’t think of calling the police?

"Ah?"

Lie blinked innocently, "But haven't I already ruled out the criminals?"

(End of this chapter)