Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 35 The goal is no longer money

"That's probably what you think, but Mr. Maori has been detained. Even if there are any bad consequences to the incident, it has nothing to do with him."

Yingsheng's words made sense, but Xiaolan was now quite dissatisfied with her unreliable father, so she just snorted.

"After all, it was he who caused the trouble."

"From what he said, it seems like there's something else going on. Let's go check if your SIM card is still usable. I'll have the phone store send a new phone to you at the hospital entrance. By the way, the headset switch is on the back on the left."

"Thanks, but I don't want to hang up just yet."

Xiaolan changed into her usual blue coat, put on the headset, picked up a pair of big scissors, and cut the clothes she was wearing before into thin strips of cloth.

Yingsheng heard the sound of scissors clicking and reminded: "It's better to burn it, or at least find some other clothes to mix in with it as interference."

"understood."

Xiaolan continued to cut the clothes in silence. Ten minutes later, she went out with four black opaque garbage bags, walked two blocks and threw them into different garbage cans.

Continuous discarding will have limited hiding effect.

Firefly thought.

But it was not a big deal, so let it be. He himself had not even thought about dealing with the motorcycle suit.

But he himself doesn't care, but Xiaolan now... well, apart from her lack of experience, it seems that she also doesn't care because of her ups and downs in mood.

To be honest, this was not what Yingsheng expected.

Maori Kogoro, that guy, no, that group of guys, if they want to hide something, they should hide it to the end. Now they are not telling Xiaolan the truth, and it makes her worried...

Tsk, this is really puzzling.

This is all for your good, probably under this banner, it is a little difficult to evaluate.

"The taxi is here." Xiaolan said.

"Okay." Yingsheng turned off the headset.

The night wind on the rooftop was quite chilly. Yingsheng, dressed in a black sports suit, held his hands and blew out air. Each of his ten fingertips was wrapped with a Band-Aid, but there was no faint fragrance of blood in the air, only the smell of burning paper.

When the sound of sirens mixed with flashing red and blue lights finally drifted from afar, Yingsheng used his toes to lift the embers on the ground, turned around, walked down the rooftop, and left the Ginza Hospital.

Three minutes later, Kudo Shinichi rushed into the nurses' station on the first floor, followed by a group of police officers with serious expressions.

"Where is the deceased?!" he asked anxiously.

The nurse on duty quickly took them to the crime ward. Seeing the police arriving, the doctors who had been waiting at the scene hurried forward, but before they could speak, Kudo Shinichi asked a series of questions.

It doesn't matter that the deceased was named Gao Yuanyi.

What’s important is his other identity, the person who was thrown unconscious by Kogoro Mori in the underground shopping mall of Ginza.

He didn't know when he woke up. After the nurse finished his rounds, he stabbed himself in the heart with a fruit knife between 11 and 11:30 pm and committed suicide.

A nurse who was doing her ward rounds dropped a pen and searched along the same path. She found the body and called the police.

"Wait a moment!"

Kudo Shinichi discovered a brilliant point: "Who told Lawyer Hime about this?"

The medical staff in the hospital looked at each other, then shook their heads, saying that this was absolutely not the case.

In addition...

"Lawyer Hime, are you referring to Princess Hime Eri? Could it be that she is also involved in this matter?"

A young male doctor's eyes were filled with excitement. "..."

Kudo Shinichi was speechless for a few seconds and shook his head. It seemed that these people really didn't know about this. Then, Lawyer Hime knew the news first, even faster than the police. There was only one possibility.

"Officer Megure, check the deceased's cell phone."

Megure Juzo immediately arranged for someone to do so, and sure enough, the first call record on the deceased's cell phone was Kisaki Eri's number.

The answer is obvious. Before committing suicide, the deceased called Eri Kisaki and said something to provoke her.

Fei Yingli fainted due to the emotional excitement, and her last words were:
"Don't be impulsive! Kogoro didn't mean it!"

Kuriyama Midori, the assistant who was working overtime with Kisaki Eri, quickly called an ambulance, but then she recalled those words and thought something might be wrong, so she quickly called the police.

Less than ten minutes after the police learned of the incident, a warning came from Shinjuku Hospital that the deceased had been found.

After a simple combing, Megure Juzo looked at the corpse on the hospital bed with a solemn expression.

"This way we can roughly determine the time of the crime. It was around 11:15 after the phone call was hung up. Brother Kudo, I will now thoroughly check the list of suspects that has been tentatively identified. I will definitely be able to find the murderer!"

Megure Juzo turned around and was about to leave, but stopped the next second because Kudo Shinichi sighed softly.

"He really did commit suicide."

The force, direction, angle, death reaction, no signs of struggle... In Kudo Shinichi's analysis, countless details can clearly show that there was no second person involved in Gaoyuan Yi's death.

Soon, the test results of Gao Yuanyi's blood sample came out, confirming that he had not fallen into any degree of anesthesia before his death.

“This…what on earth is going on…”

The evidence from all sides was clear, and Megure Jusan had no choice but to accept the fact that Gaoyuan Yi committed suicide, murmured in disbelief.

They have now basically determined that there is a mastermind behind this series of events, but how did he make a person commit suicide willingly?
Death soldiers or something...

This is not the Edo period anymore!
Kudo Shinichi kept thinking: "From the point of view of the high-interest loan that he borrowed that he could never repay, Gaoyuan Yiben has a certain tendency to be pessimistic about the world. If I can help him achieve a wish that he can never fulfill, it is not impossible for him to commit suicide.

Now the key is to find out what happened, and it is very likely that it happened tonight."

"Tonight... tonight?!"

Megure Jusan murmured, his eyes lit up: "Could it be that there was a gang fight at Watanuki Credit Corporation? Many people died there, and there might be an enemy of Gaoyuan Yi. The person behind the scenes helped him to get revenge, so he committed suicide!"

Kudo Shinichi pondered for a moment and shook his head slightly.

"Because it involves loan sharking, we also went to the search department to ask for details. They said that it was a conflict between a new gang and the Nizan. Even if the computer data has been destroyed, it is estimated that the funds involved are at least 1 billion yen.

Even if Xue Songqingzi received full compensation for the insurance she bought, it would only be 500 million. If she was capable of doing that, why would she bother doing it here?"

Miwako Sato retorted: "What if she wants both?"

“It’s no longer possible.”

Kudo Shinichi's face was solemn: "In fact, this is what I have always been puzzled about. What is her purpose in involving Uncle Maori and Lawyer Hime?
Even if she succeeds in getting the insurance money, and we have already set our sights on that money, how can she get it into her own hands and use it properly? "

The ward fell into silence for a moment, and no one could give answers to these questions.

Buzz buzz! ! !

Megure Jusan's cell phone suddenly rang. He took a look and quickly answered it. Xiaolan's voice came from the microphone.

"My mother is awake and she has something to say to the police."

(End of this chapter)