Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 4 The Detective Runs on the Wrong Path

Even if you have encountered a lot of pain, you still choose to forgive because of that trace of warmth.

Sad, pitiful.

Everyone turned to look at Xue Song Nami. The layer of putty on her face seemed to solidify, and her expression was extremely stiff. But after only a short moment, the mask slowly moved and she forced a smile that she thought was gentle.

"That gambler is dead, and you still have 100 million. You can live a good life from now on. Don't be depressed."

This man is hopeless.

Megure Jusan pressed down the brim of his hat and said in a deep voice, "Ms. Xuesong, please come with us to the crime scene. The vagrants there said that they had seen a suspicious person."

"Damn it! You must have received money! This is totally made up!"

Nami Yukimura continues to go berserk, her 400 million!
"Please cooperate with the investigation. The police will never wrongly accuse a good person."

Megure Jusan spoke in a low voice and turned to look at Kiyoko. Even a good guy like him was feeling quite annoyed.

"Qingzi-kun, please come with me."

Qingzi nodded weakly and tried to stand up by supporting herself on the sofa, but it seemed as if the successive blows had taken away all her energy and spirit, and she was unable to stand up for a while.

The policewoman hurried over to support him, and Yingsheng patted Kudo Shinichi on the shoulder.

"Can I go over and take a look?" Yingsheng asked.

"It should be OK, as long as it doesn't destroy the scene."

Kudo Shinichi looked at Megure Jusan, and Megure nodded. Just like in previous cases, it was normal to have passers-by like Xiaolan and Hotaru watching.

"Is Shuiyue also interested in the case?"

Kudo Shinichi was eager to try and planned to introduce the way of detective to his new friend whom he had just become familiar with.

"I'm just curious. After all, it's a case close to me." Yingsheng walked at the end of the group and took out his phone to check. The connection was successful. After entering the elevator, he casually said, "The signal is pretty good."

Kudo Shinichi looked at Yuzuki Nami with sharp eyes. Yuzuki Nami glanced at her cell phone and saw that the signal was at two bars. She was immediately filled with anger.

Even the cell phone is against her, right?

What exactly is going on? !
The atmosphere in the elevator was depressing. After arriving at the underground parking lot, before Xuesong Nami could look at her phone again, the phone rang. She was stunned for a moment, and when she was about to say something, she heard the female police officer in front of her speak coldly.

"Take it and try."

Xuesong Nami hesitated for two seconds, gritted her teeth and pressed the answer button. She didn't do anything in the first place, so these corrupt police officers shouldn't try to slander her!
"Hey, can you hear me?" she called out.

The policewoman turned on the speakerphone, and the sound coming out of the speaker was intermittent, with some slight electrical noise.

The police and Kudo Shinichi both frowned, while Yuzukatsu Nami was ecstatic.

"Look, this is the call quality. My phone is always in my bag, so the signal must be worse. This is Motorola's problem. What does it have to do with me?"

"Let's go to the scene first." said Kudo Shinichi.

Mihua Central Park covers a large area. There is a corner of the woods where few people pass by, and some vagrants gradually gathered there.

They have lost their stable housing for various reasons and therefore have difficulty finding proper jobs. They can only make a living by doing odd jobs, living in cardboard houses, and wandering around all day.

When the police came over, there were a few homeless people doing nothing, lying on cardboard and basking in the sun.

Kudo Shinichi frowned slightly, he couldn't understand.

These people are obviously healthy, so why don't they make progress, work hard and get back on track?
Megure Jusan was accustomed to this. He glanced at the vigilant vagrants and waved to one of them.

"Mr. Tojo, come here for a moment."

The homeless man, who was dressed in a barely tidy manner, ran over quickly. Megure Jusan pointed at Xuesong Nami and Yamada Okao behind him and asked, "You said before that you saw some suspicious people jumping into the leakage site with their legs together. Was it them?"

Tojo carefully identified him for a moment and shook his head: "That person was dressed in black, with a mask and a cap. I really couldn't recognize him."

Megure Juzo frowned, but before he could say anything, a police officer ran in from outside the woods, holding a large transparent plastic bag in his hand.

"Inspector, we found the pair of yellow thick-soled insulated shoes that Mr. Tojo mentioned!"

Anyone who dares to enter the leakage area must have special equipment. The police had learned this information before and searched everywhere nearby. Finally, they found a clue in a trash can near the park. Megure Jusan immediately wanted to compare the two of them. Xuesong Nami snorted coldly and took a step back with Yamada Okao.

"What does shoe size mean? Anyone can fake it. You should go and get your DNA tested. We dare not touch you, lest we can't explain it clearly later."

She has already determined that the police have definitely received money from the insurance company!
Xuesong Nami sneered, "And you also said before that when the suspicious person went in, Xuesong Masato was already dead. If I killed him to defraud insurance, my goal has been achieved, why did I have to go through all the trouble of going there?"

"Maybe he has evidence pointing to you, you have to go over and clean it up."

The crime scene was not far from here. Megure Jusan raised his hand and pointed over there, saying in a deep voice, "Didn't you say he stole something from your house last night? But except for the hairband he was holding tightly in his hand, he had nothing on him."

"He's a gambler, he must have lost everything!"

Xuesong Nami became annoyed. What on earth were these policemen talking about?

"This is the key. We visited the underground gambling den that Xuesong Masato often went to, and the people there said that he didn't go there to gamble last night." Megure Jusan's eyes were sharp. "And the izakaya he used to go to every night, he didn't go there yesterday either!"

"Tsk..." Xue Song Nami said disdainfully: "It's just a change of venue, what does that prove?"

"Do you think it's such a coincidence?"

“But that’s the way it is.”

Megure Jusan remained silent. He had to admit that even though this woman, Yukina Nami, looked suspicious no matter how you looked at her, the police did not have any clear evidence given the current situation.

He could only look at Kudo Shinichi expectantly, hoping that his younger brother would be as supportive as always.

Kudo Shinichi is wandering in the woods, hoping to find some clues.

To be honest, he is also in a fog now.

Although he was addicted to gambling, Xuesong Zhengren was relatively stable. He suddenly went to his estranged wife's house to rob her last night. After that, he did not go to familiar places to have fun. He died unexpectedly in the park at noon the next day. There was a smell of conspiracy no matter how you looked at it.

But where is the breakthrough?

Because of the hairband, Yukina Mi seemed to be the most suspicious, but she hurried to Ian's apartment to move things. This stupid act actually reduced her suspicion a lot.

Kudo Shinichi had a vague feeling that he seemed to have been misled, and that the direction of his and the police's investigation had been wrong from the beginning...

Huh? !

In a corner of the homeless cardboard house, Kudo Shinichi suddenly caught a glimpse of something worth noting on the edge of a cardboard box.

A pair of orange long insulated gloves!

"Officer Megure!"

Kudo Shinichi immediately called someone over and asked who the homeless person who originally lived here was. Tojo thought for a moment and pounded his hands and said, "Yes, that guy Itahara told us about him when we were chatting. He used to be an electrician!"

"what?!"

Megure Jusan was shocked. Could it be that the suspicious person near the corpse was just a vagrant? !
He immediately had someone search the cardboard house for hair and sent it for testing along with the shoes, while also trying his best to contact the company that Itahara worked for before he was fired.

As the sky gradually darkened, information from all sources was gathered. The pair of shoes did belong to Itahara, and his former company even found the corresponding number on the purchase order.

"Now everything is clear!"

Xuesong Nami was delighted, "It was all just a misunderstanding. Xuesong Masato died of an accidental electrocution. The vagrant named Banyuan was tempted by the money and stole something from the body with strict protection. It has nothing to do with me!"

Yingsheng yawned and continued playing with his phone. It would be nice if the case could be closed here.

But the police and Kudo Shinichi were not willing to give up, they still felt there was a problem.

"Ms. Xuesong, can you tell me everything that has happened to you since yesterday noon?" Kudo Shinichi looked at Xuesong Kiyoko.

Yingsheng raised his eyebrows slightly, how amazing.

Can we go back to yesterday and see if the police had already conducted an autopsy?
Qingzi nodded gently, "Of course."

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