Conan: Start with three choices, but sequence potion

Chapter 103 Conan: There’s a cheat!
A murder had occurred, so it was impossible to continue watching the movie leisurely.

An He quickly called the cinema staff, stopped the screening, and isolated the scene.

"This is Mr. Zhang Tian!"

The cinema manager arrived late and recognized the dead man hanging on the wall.

The deceased, Zhang Tian Zhengci, was the owner of a nearby real estate agency. He recently bought this cinema and had made an appointment with the store manager to sign a contract and transfer the land rights tomorrow.

The store manager was an elderly man named Akio Muramatsu. He had gray hair, used a cane, and had a slight hunchback.

Apart from these, the only staff members at the cinema were the young receptionist Ms. Yuriko Tomo who they had seen when they first bought their tickets, and the square-faced man Minoru Furuhashi who was responsible for projecting movies behind the scenes.

Apart from the staff, the only guest left was the college student Iide Toshiyuki.

According to store manager Muramatsu, this young man Iide has been frequenting this cinema since he was very young. He is a real fan of special effects and comes here every week even now that he is in college.

He did it so regularly that the store manager Muramatsu started to treat him like half a son and never charged him for his tickets.

"Mr. Zhang Tian has been coming to the cinema frequently recently. Not only does he often smoke in the screening room despite being reminded by others, but there are also fights among hooligans every time he comes." The projectionist Gu Qiao was a little indignant, but he also sighed when he looked at the corpse.

"Originally, although the cinema's business was not booming, it was still able to continue operating. However, since he came, the number of customers has become fewer and fewer, until it could no longer sustain itself, and the store manager had no choice but to sell the cinema to him."

Listening to his words, Manager Muramatsu also sighed: "In fact, after tomorrow, the cinema will be demolished and converted into a supermarket. After all, there has always been a chain store owner coveting this piece of land behind Zhang Tian."

"Every time he comes here, it's to inspect the progress of the demolition work, not to watch a movie. The reason he makes trouble is to make our business more and more unsustainable and sell this place as soon as possible."

Ms. Yuriko Tori, who works at the front desk, also complained: "Every time he smokes, he deliberately sits in the last row. The rising smoke blocks the light from the projector, causing the movie picture to become blurry. Many guests gradually leave because of this."

It can be seen that they are full of resentment towards the deceased, and even though the person died here, it cannot stop their anger.

In this way, anyone could have a motive to commit the crime.
Conan felt heavy in his heart.

"Let's wait until Inspector Megure and the others arrive and see if we can get more information out of you. Your childish face is still too troublesome," Kudo Shinichi complained in his mind.

Conan's eyes suddenly lit up. There was no need to wait for Inspector Megure to come. Wasn't there an adult with a suitable identity and good reasoning ability right here?
He quickly raised his head to look at An He, and just as he was about to speak, he heard An He say in a calm voice -

"Mr. Guqiao, go and turn yourself in."

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Conan's excited expression froze on his face.

Seeing that Gu Qiaomin's expression was a little stiff, but he still pretended to be stupid, An He continued: "There are cigarette butts and ashes on the ground, which means that Mr. Zhang Tian was still sitting here smoking at that time."

"But during the entire screening of this film, we did not see the 'blurry' that Ms. Yuri described on the screen, which is very unusual."

"This suddenly reminded me of a detail, which is that there are actually two projection windows."

"In order to make the picture clearer and more three-dimensional, and also to prevent projection accidents, the two projection windows should have been used normally during the film, but I looked back and only saw one light source." "This shows that one of the windows was closed or 'blocked' manually."

"If that were the case, the picture would have become dim and blurry, but that didn't happen. So I infer that you used a mirror or something to reflect the light from the other window, so that the picture on the screen did not change."

"The reason you took the trouble to close one of the windows was to create the effect of the body 'suddenly appearing', leaving time for you to commit your own crime."

"After setting up the trap with the projector, you came to the projection room and secretly approached the unsuspecting Mr. Zhang Tian. You strangled him from behind and then hung him in front of the window with a rope. Because it was obscured, the shadow of the corpse did not appear on the screen."

"After doing this, you turn up the air conditioner to make the body shake regularly. This is to make the body look like it has committed suicide by hanging."

"After returning to the projection room, you only need to open the covered window and put away the mirror that you have set up earlier. This will allow the light to be projected out of the window normally, so that the shadow of the corpse will be reflected on the screen, achieving this 'sudden appearance' effect."

"am I right?"

Gu Qiao Minoru's plan was completely seen through, and his legs went weak and he fell to the ground.

"." Looking at this scene, An He felt strange.

Do all the prisoners in this world really have to go through this process?

".I'm sorry to disturb you all." Gu Qiao Minoru sighed, and there was a sense of relief in his eyes.

"Did you really do this?" Store manager Muramatsu looked at him with a complicated expression.

"Yes, I have dismissed this idea several times, thinking that I shouldn't do this kind of thing here." He smiled bitterly, "I really like the job of a movie projectionist."

“Every time I look out of this window and see the audience’s different reactions, it is extremely satisfying for me.”

"But thanks to that man, the number of customers here has decreased one by one. Even on weekends, there are no more people coming. Looking out from this window, there are only large areas of empty seats and indigestible loneliness and sadness."

"That's why I wanted to hang him in front of this window, so that he can experience this feeling of loneliness."

He bowed deeply to the store manager Muramatsu and said, "I am really sorry that this place has been tarnished by my willful choices."

Seeing that the atmosphere was getting low, An He spoke again.

"After all, I'm not a policeman. And in this situation, if Mr. Furuhashi handles the situation more cleanly, it will be more difficult to collect evidence."

"If you can take the initiative to surrender yourself with evidence before the police arrive, it should be considered a relatively minor offense and your attitude of admitting your mistakes is good, so the sentence will be as light as possible."

"Of course, if you want to challenge the level of the Metropolitan Police Department's Forensic Science Division, that's not impossible."

"No need." Gu Qiaomin shook his head, "I will turn myself in."

(End of this chapter)