Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 65 Fishing
"Now that this case is over, I will give you a good holiday! Now you just have to work harder and handle the case at hand... The murderer must still be in the aquarium, so we have to make a quick decision!" Shiraishi sincerely affirmed the efforts of Akasaka and other detectives.

At the same time... Bai Shi silently decided in his heart that he must take up a few of their rest days to train them on the basic use of office software!

Of course, Shiraishi didn't show it in front of Akasaka.

After all, Bai Shi is the director. How could a big boss ask you to work overtime for training? He is just concerned about your growth!
As for things like working overtime for training classes, I'll leave it to Section Chief Kunikida to arrange later...

……

About half an hour had passed since the incident, which was only ten minutes later than Akasaka and the others. The Metropolitan Police Department had also arrived, and they were old acquaintances of Shiraishi...

"Hey, brother Shiraishi, is your arm okay?" Megure greeted him familiarly.

Following Megure was Takagi Wataru, whom Shiraishi had met before. Seeing the huge Shiraishi, he instinctively bowed: "Director Shiraishi!"

Generally speaking, no matter what the case is, the first ones to arrive are the patrol officers who are on duty most recently. If it is a major case, patrol officers on duty in surrounding areas will also come to support, maintain the crime scene, and assist the forensic department in collecting evidence at the scene. These are the police officers.

If necessary, criminal police will also come, but they are generally slower than patrol police. After all, there are not so many criminal police, and they do not patrol the streets, but come from the police station.

In Toudou, if it is a murder, or other vicious violent crime such as kidnapping or arson, the corresponding "department" of the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division will also be dispatched, but because they come from the Metropolitan Police Department, they are generally slower.

The three departments led by Megure are one of the "departments" that are specifically responsible for murder cases.

"Well, basic exercises are no problem." Bai Shi said and raised his hand.

And with a slight lift, he touched the glass on the roof of the underwater tunnel...

"A murder took place in a place like this... Are there any suspects?" After looking at the bloodstains on the ground and the circled location of the deceased, Megure asked Shiraishi directly about the progress of the case.

The Beika Police Station is a relatively "independent" police station. This is not the case only after Shiraishi came. Since the Shirai era, the Criminal Division of the Beika Police Station has rarely "let" cases go.

Otherwise, for a serious crime like this that is enough to alert the Metropolitan Police Department, the detectives at the police station can just do an initial search and then hand over the case to the detectives in search one.

It is said that the Metropolitan Police Department has recently proposed to set up a "mobile search team" under the "Criminal Department" to be responsible for immediate response and preliminary investigation of the crime scene...

“Not yet. It looks bright here, but it’s just an illusion… The only place that’s bright is the water tank. The passage is still quite dark. Also, when the crime happened, everyone was looking at the fish in the water tank. No one paid attention to the other tourists around them. When the tourists around them found the victim dead, he had already lost a lot of blood.

"Preliminary judgment is that only one or two minutes passed from the time he turned into a corpse to the time his body was discovered. Fortunately, the aquarium was notified in time, and tourists were restricted from entering and exiting after the incident. Even if the murderer was able to leave the underwater tunnel, he must still be inside the aquarium!" Shiraishi introduced the case.

It is said that the case is "not allowed", but it does not mean that a search and investigation is not allowed, it's just... the two parties will not merge the investigation direction for the time being.

As long as a special task force has not been established and under unified command, theoretically each can investigate on their own. This does not mean that the Mihua Bureau will not cooperate in the search...

"Can the identity of the deceased be confirmed? Is this the murder weapon?" Megure asked without hesitation.

Although Shiraishi is two levels higher than him in terms of police rank, Megure has known Shiraishi for six years and knows who he is. He doesn't care about this kind of thing and directly confirms the case with him. "Well, there is a driver's license in the wallet, and the identity has been confirmed... Zhu Benguobo, a gas station employee, no one was found after the crime. The murder weapon is the dagger left at the scene. There is a plastic bag on it, probably to prevent blood from splattering. In addition, there is a mark of electric shock on his neck. It should be that the stun gun was used to make the victim lose the ability to resist, and then the stun gun was stabbed to death." Shiraishi introduced.

"Gas station...are gas stations so unstable these days?" Megure complained.

Well, the one who died last month was also the manager of a gas station, also in Beika Town!

"Maybe it's not peaceful in Beika Town." Shiraishi shrugged. Yesterday, one person died in Tsutsumi Tsugawa Park, and today another one died in the aquarium...

“By the way, let’s help with the preliminary inquiry work!” Megure took the initiative to say.

He didn't care about the "dictatorship" of the Mihua Bureau, and even described Souyi as "help".

Because there are so many tourists involved, even a simple initial inquiry is a big project...

"As for the inquiry...it's just a preliminary investigation anyway. I've asked someone to print out the questionnaire. Except for the tourists who were in the underwater tunnel at the time, everyone else can fill out the questionnaire." Shiraishi didn't plan to ask everyone one by one.

Otherwise, even if we bring in experienced patrol officers to make up the numbers and Megure to help, we can only ask ten people at most at the same time, and there are several thousand tourists in the Beika Aquarium right now!

The workload is too heavy, and it is impossible to force tourists to stay for so long.

"Questionnaire... okay." Megure hesitated a little, but... this is indeed Shiraishi's style.

When it comes to saving trouble, especially when there is a shortage of manpower, Shiraishi never hesitates to use methods that save trouble but are not in line with the process.

What Megure didn't know was that after becoming the chief, Shiraishi had become even more dissatisfied with this aspect - especially when he saw that the detectives of the Beika Police Station were short of manpower while still working on "searching for the immortal"!
"And these questionnaires may not be needed..." Shiraishi said, looking at Kudo Shinichi beside him.

Just now, Kudo provided an important basis for the search!

"Hmm? Kudo-san? You...ah, you and Xiaolan are here too." Inspector Megure also saw Xiaolan standing beside him.

"Inspector Megure, the search range can actually be much smaller... I have just asked Chief Shiraishi to temporarily collect the tourists' cell phones." Kudo said somewhat proudly at this time.

"Cell phone? Why?" Megure still didn't understand.

"Because I just used the victim's cell phone to check his recent call records and called back all the calls...some of the numbers were rejected! I have written down those calls. If one of them has an owner who is in the aquarium, it proves that he knows the victim and wants to conceal his relationship with the victim!" Kudo said with a confident tone.

"I see..." Megure's eyes lit up when he heard that.

This was not the first time that Kudo had helped him solve a case, and Megure's attitude was completely different from what it was like before on the plane.

Takagi, who was standing by, vaguely remembered the scene two months ago when he said he wanted to "cling to Kudo" and was severely criticized by Inspector Megure...

(End of this chapter)