Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 161: Of course the mastermind can predict everything!
"Where are the fire emergency lights in the corridor?" asked Kudo Shinichi.

"We have checked it. Basically, everything was sabotaged, but we don't know when it was sabotaged." Megure Jusan looked at Director Fukuda who had gotten up overnight and rushed over. "When was the last time the hospital had a fire inspection?"

"Three weeks ago. Just three weeks ago!"

Dean Fukuda, a middle-aged, balding man, answered hurriedly while wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"Add to that the incident in the power supply room, and it's basically certain that someone secretly planned this." Megure Jusan pondered, "Thinking this way, there was one person fighting with Mr. Amuro and Xiaolan, one person supporting Brother Mori, and one person in the power supply room. The other party must be a gang of at least three people."

Kudo Shinichi shook his head. These were just guesses. Evidence was necessary to confirm them. He looked at Maori Kogoro:

"Uncle Maori, what did that nurse look like? What were her characteristics? Can you recall?"

"She's wearing a pink mask, she's short, she has black hair, and..." Maori Kogoro hesitated for a few seconds, then gritted his teeth and said, "She has big breasts!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

Everyone was speechless, especially the passers-by who were watching the fun. Masayo Aida was even wondering if Kogoro Mori was hallucinating after watching the Victoria's Secret show?

"Ahem! We don't have such a nurse in our hospital!"

Dean Fukuda spoke quickly, and the two nurses and doctors present nodded in agreement.

Kudo Shinichi nodded: "Uncle Maori, you said you didn't know when the cane was replaced with a knife. When you hurriedly adjusted your posture, it looked like you were stabbing someone with a knife. Then before you tripped for the last time, can you be sure that you were holding a cane?"

"can."

Maori Kogoro nodded. "My left crutch has a wide range of motion. The nurse supported my right side. I was running very naturally, and the sound of the crutch hitting the ground was very clear. I was definitely still using the crutch before I tripped."

Kudo Shinichi frowned slightly: "If you are running fast, what's the point of the nurse supporting you?"

"She is very fast and she holds on very steadily." Kogoro Mouri said quickly.

"Then when you tripped, your left hand subconsciously opened for a moment, and at that moment the cane was replaced by a knife. Then, when you realized that you should use the crutch, you quickly tightened your grip on what you thought was a cane, but it was actually the handle of a knife?"

"This……"

Maori Kogoro looked up at the people around him, and what he saw was full of doubts. Finally, he hung his head dejectedly: "I think it may be like this, but I can't be sure."

At this time, even he himself had a feeling that he was playing a double act with Kudo Shinichi to make excuses.

Kudo Shinichi didn't pay attention to this, but looked at the cane in Kogoro Maori's hand:
"The crutch fell next to you, Uncle Maori. According to you, everything happened in a very short moment, and neither Mr. Amuro nor Xiaolan saw the nurse. So, was she wearing gloves?

If not, she would not have had time to wipe off the fingerprints left by taking the cane.”

Maori Kogoro's eyes lit up: "No! She wasn't wearing gloves! And I touched her hands, they were very natural and soft, not like they were coated with glue!"

"..."

Megure Jusan was speechless for a second: "Then let go of it, Maori brother, and let me take the cane for inspection to see if there are any other people's fingerprints on it." "And the same goes for the knife."

Kudo Shinichi reminded: "The nurse wanted to replace the crutch handle with the knife handle without being noticed by Uncle Maori, so she must not touch her hand. And the knife was stained with blood, so the range she could hold was very narrow, probably near the blade, or even pinched with two fingers."

Megure Jusan suddenly realized: "Okay, let's test them together!"

Testing takes time. Kudo Shinichi pondered for a few breaths, then turned to look at Amuro Toru:
"Can you find any traces of your previous battle on Dr. Eto's body?"

Amuro Toru sighed: "Not only the traces left by me, but also the traces left by Miss Lan, most of them can be matched.

This is also why I think it is unlikely that someone will change players. Could anyone have predicted that Miss Lan and I would fight him at the same time and beat Jiang Teng Shengli to that state? "

Kudo Shinichi was puzzled: "But didn't you also say that it was just the majority of the traces?"

"That person's moves were very flexible. The light was dim at the time, and there was no video for us to review. It was good enough that we could confirm most of it." Amuro Toru shook his head, "And I've already looked around there, and I didn't find a good place to hide the person."

He paused for a moment. "There are two shoe heel prints on the left wall, a little below the ceiling. That's the only suspicious point, but there are no other fulcrums nearby. It's impossible for Jiang Teng Shengli to stick directly to it."

"Could it be that he has his hands on the wall at the other end?" asked Kudo Shinichi.

"Assuming there really is a person behind the scenes, and he beat Eto Shengli like that, no matter how stupid Eto Shengli is, he should have realized that something was wrong. Why would he actively cooperate with him?" Amuro Toru asked back, and continued:
"Also, almost at the moment when I hit Eto Seungri, the lights in the corridor came on. There were only Mr. Maori and Shirai Mitsuo in front of me, and no one behind me. The doors of the wards on both sides were closed. There was no third person. How did the person behind the scenes disappear?"

"Didn't you hear the door opening and closing?"

Kudo Shinichi frowned. He felt that this was very illogical and impossible.

"Someone was screaming at the time, but the sound was not clear, but there were patients in the two wards, and they were all awake at the time. I have already asked them once, and they did not see any strangers enter." Amuro Toru looked at Megure Jusan:
“The police can also ask again.”

Megure Jusan nodded and quickly sent someone to ask. His eyes became quite serious when he looked at Amuro Toru:
"So, Mr. Amuro, you killed someone accidentally."

Amuro Toru smiled bitterly: "I don't want to, but there's nothing I can do. This is how things seem to be..."

"No!"

Kudo Shinichi looked at the window swaying in the wind and suddenly thought of something. He ran out and went straight to the place where Amuro Toru said the heel print was found. Except for Mouri Kogoro, who could not move without a crutch, everyone else followed quickly.

"Mr. Amuro, please hit the ceiling above the footprints, at the very edge!"

The ceiling in the hospital corridor was quite large, about 1m×1m, white with bright silver stripes. Kudo Shinichi looked at one of the stripes with a burning gaze.

Amuro Toru's heart moved, and he immediately did as he was told.

Wow——! ! !
That piece of ceiling pulled the one next to it with it, and it didn't fall down, but just flipped down suddenly, connecting with the ceiling behind it, and it kept shaking.

Amid the creaking sounds, everyone saw what was drawn on the back of the ceiling.

It is a pattern with two simple lines.

A smiling face,
A crying face.

(End of this chapter)