Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 72 Buying time
In a blink of an eye, it was already night.

Shiraishi spent the entire day giving orders at Dorobiga Park, and even only had lunch in the staff cafeteria... In the evening, he finally accepted an invitation to a banquet from Sera, the director of Dorobiga Park, who arrived later.

In the private room of the high-end Kaiseki restaurant in Ginza, Shiraishi and Director Sera were sitting opposite each other, accompanied by their manager and the director's beautiful secretary...

"Director Shiraishi, thank you so much for your guidance today. Thanks to you, we can feel at ease in Beika Town... This is a little local specialty. It's a token of my respect for your hard work throughout the day." Director Sera said with a smile on his face.

When he saw the other party handing over a gift box of steamed buns, Bai Shi instantly understood what it meant.

Bai Shi was not shy and opened it directly in front of him. There was a layer of wrapped steamed buns inside, but... after taking away the steamed buns, he could see several stacks of ten thousand yuan bills underneath!
When Director Sera saw Shiraishi open the box, he was still smiling, but Shiraishi's face darkened. He took out a wrapped steamed bun and put it next to it. Then he closed the box and pushed it back...

"Eh?" Shira was stunned when he saw this - could it be... this is not enough? You are too ruthless for a director, right? Although you are the current manager, we have people above us, okay!
"I need to maintain my health and cannot eat too many carbohydrates. I appreciate your kindness. This surprise inspection is because we hope that you will pay attention to security issues. Director Shira, please don't think too much about it." Shira said solemnly.

For a moment, Director Shi Luo was also confused - is he really not hinting at me something?
That's impossible! You've been checking this for the whole day!
Just then, some noisy sounds came from outside the private room...

"Sir, wait...you can't go in yet..."

"We need to talk to the manager first..."

"Eh……"

wow-

The restaurant staff tried to stop him but to no avail. A man with a flip-top hairstyle simply opened the sliding door of the private room.

“What’s going on!” Shira asked in a slightly heavier tone - he often comes to this restaurant, it is a great place for high-end banquets...how could such a problem happen?

Bai Shi's expression changed - he really doesn't want to give up...

However, Shiraishi could understand that if a non-professional police inspector had ambitions, he would never give up such an opportunity.

After all, if they don't have a Longmen-level nobleman, they are destined to be cattle and horses all their lives.

Although this opportunity was inherently "toxic", and as a mere grassroots police officer, if he rashly intervened in factional fighting, he might be crushed to pieces, so Chamu didn't want to get involved at all, but... Sakuta was still not as calm as the professional and semi-professional police officers!

Shiraishi originally wanted to hide for a day, but he knew that he couldn't hide forever. If he really made an appointment, Shiraishi wouldn't be able to hide tomorrow - just like Zeden at the beginning, he didn't dare to completely slack off, and just delayed time on the procedures!

But Sakuda didn't want to let this day go...

Shiraishi was like this before, and he "blocked" Zeden more than once.

Sakuda showed his ID and said, "Excuse me, everyone. I have something urgent to do... Chief Shiraishi, I'm from the Second Investigation Division..."

boom--

Shiraishi slammed the low table in front of him and said, "Asshole! Who are you? What do you want to do with the Second Investigation Division? Let Chamu come to see me!"

While scolding, Bai Shi also became more aggressive...

Under the pressure that seemed to be real, Sakuta's pupils suddenly shrank. Under the strong and primitive sense of crisis, his adrenaline surged, and the hair on his body stood on end. Even the "flip" on his head opened automatically, as if he was "blown" by an invisible impact!

The two young detectives who were following Sakuta were originally a little impatient, but at this moment they all froze... Even Director Sera, who was only affected, missed a beat.

"Get out!" Bai Shi stared at him.

Sakuta felt as if he was being stared at by a giant beast that was about to devour someone. He swallowed hard and did not dare to continue speaking.

Seeing this, the male security guard at the side quickly pulled the person away, and then a waitress quickly apologized, knelt down and closed the door properly...

"Hahaha, I'm sorry to have made a fool of myself, Director Shiro. The young police officers nowadays... are getting worse and worse than the previous ones. They are too undisciplined." Shiraishi smiled and broke the somewhat silent atmosphere.

Upon seeing this, Se-ra naturally smiled apologetically - he also realized that Director Shiraishi... didn't seem to be here to "ask for bribes", but rather came to "hide away" because of something. His misfortune today was an unprovoked disaster!
Well, now the "little police officer"...

Not as good as Bai Shi in the past!
It's not about age.

Whenever Bai Shi caught Zeden in the way, he would always achieve his goal on the spot. If Zeden dared to slam the table, Bai Shi would dare to take him back to the police station...

However, Sakuta obviously did not have such courage. Although he had investigated this point, he did not dare to say anything more after being stopped by Shiraishi.

Since he didn't say anything, Bai Shi naturally pretended not to know and had never seen it...

As for Sakuta, after he left, he did not go to see Section Chief Chaki again. Section Chief Chaki's attitude had been very clear before. He did not want to offend either side and did not want to get involved in the matter at all.

Sakuda was anxious to take the suspect away today in order to leave a good impression on the officials of the Ministry of Justice. He did not dare to look for Chaki at this time and could only wait patiently until tomorrow.

At the same time, all the staff of the Criminal Division of the Beihua Police Department are now working overtime...

In the interrogation room, Yuan interrogated Kobayashi non-stop, trying to get into his mind, but there was too little evidence and Kobayashi was obviously the type of person who would only respond to hard tactics and not soft ones, so Yuan was never able to succeed.

A day passed, until the evening, when we finally made a breakthrough!
Originally, because Kobayashi's suspicion had increased greatly, and especially now that time was tight, the mother and daughter of the Sakamoto family could no longer be taken care of for the time being.

After everyone had no results during the day, Hei Mu suddenly had an idea and decided to try his luck...

The result was really rewarding!

There was a reason why Mrs. Sakamoto had behaved suspiciously before—the wheelchair marks on the steps at the crime scene were indeed left by Mrs. Sakamoto.

In the morning, she saw the murderer's back...

The reason why she didn't tell the police, and even kept hiding clues and acting suspiciously, was because when her daughter went out for an interview in the morning, she was also wearing a professional suit and had long hair like Kobayashi, which made her mistakenly believe that her daughter was so angry that she pushed the liar!
It was the first time that the daughter, Ms. Sakaki, heard of such a thing, so she quickly asked her mother to tell the truth.

Although she didn't see the murderer's face, but... Mrs. Sakaki knew that when the murderer left the scene, he went into the grove of trees in the green belt nearby.

Therefore, at nightfall, the Mihua Police Department launched a large-scale mobilization, from criminal police to patrol police, all went out to search!
Although we have searched the surrounding area before, if it is in the woods, there is still a possibility that it is buried. If we don’t know the location and focus on searching, it will be difficult to get results in a short time. This time, both "dog police officers" were also deployed...

Finally... before ten o'clock, the victim's missing cell phone was found!

(End of this chapter)