Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 36 How Do You Know They Are Robbers

The office on the first floor of the Mihua Police Station.

Fujimine Yukiko helped Lin Xiuyi disinfect the wound while asking about the incident.

"Hey, how do you know they're not real EMTs?"

"Remember when we were on the first floor, I asked you if the elevator on the left had more space?"

"I remember," the girl nodded, "you looked up and around, looking for something."

"I was looking for a sign for a stretcher elevator nearby," Lin Xiuyi explained. "The doctor and his attendant pushed the stretcher into the apartment building and, without a second thought, pressed the elevator on the left. Don't you find it strange?"

"Perhaps the elevator on the right is on a higher floor? Would it take longer to come down?"

"The elevator on the right was parked on the third floor," Lin Xiuyi said slowly, leaning back in his chair. "It takes less than ten seconds for an elevator to go from the third floor to the first floor. But the doctor pressed the left elevator button and waited for nearly a minute. This means the left elevator is the one parked on a higher floor."

"The right elevator was obviously faster, but the doctor pressed the left elevator without thinking, and there was no sign for a stretcher elevator nearby. What does this mean?"

"That means..." Fujimine Yukiko thought for a moment, "The doctor is very familiar with the apartment. He knows that the elevator on the right can be used with a stretcher, but the one on the left can't!"

"That's right, there are two possibilities," Lin Xiuyi continued, "The doctor has been to the apartment before and is very familiar with it, or someone told the doctor about the situation in the apartment in advance."

"This doesn't seem to prove that they are fake, right?" Fujimine Yukiko asked doubtfully.

"With just this suspicion, we can't conclude they are bandits," Lin Xiuyi sneered, "after all, they revealed even more flaws later."

"More flaws?" The girl carefully recalled the scene when she encountered the robbers after reaching the tenth floor. "Why didn't I see it?"

"First, the security guard who offered to help was standing at the door of Room 1009, facing outside," Lin Xiuyi asked rhetorically. "There was a patient in the room receiving emergency treatment. When you offered to help, where were you looking?"

"Of course he was watching over the patient..." Fujimine Yukiko was stunned for a moment. "You mean, the tall security guard was actually keeping watch for his companions?"

Lin Xiuyi didn't say anything, but just showed a relieved expression as if saying "You idiot finally understands it."

The girl gritted her teeth in anger and "accidentally" used a little more force on the cotton swab in her hand.

"Hiss..." Lin Xiuyi took a breath in pain, stopped teasing her, and hurriedly continued, "After that, you went into the house to change clothes, and the tall security guard also went into apartment 1009. A moment later, only the doctor and the nurse came out, but the tall security guard was nowhere to be seen. This is the third suspicious point."

"I know that," Fujimine Yukiko answered immediately. "The owner of the apartment, Mrs. Nishikawa, was taken away on a stretcher by the doctors. As a security guard, he must have left the apartment immediately to avoid suspicion. Otherwise, if anything is lost in the apartment later, he won't be able to explain it."

After answering the question, the girl raised her chin and looked at Lin Xiuyi with her blue eyes blinking, as if waiting for his praise.

Seeing Fujimine Yukiko like this, Lin Xiuyi raised his hand and patted her head skillfully, and praised her with his mouth: "Good boy, you did a good job."

"Hehe..." Fujimine Yukiko smiled complacently, and then she realized something was wrong, "Hey, what do you mean by 'good boy, well done'? And your actions just now, why do I always feel weird!"

"You really can't blame me," Lin Xiuyi said innocently, "You looked just like Wangcai waiting for my praise, so I subconsciously..." Wangcai? Isn't that Lin Xiuyi's dog?

Yukiko Fujimine suddenly remembered what happened during lunch break today. She misunderstood what Lin Xiuyi said and thought that he had a miserable life. Not only did his parents die, but even his adopted dog died. She cried sadly because of this!

"You bastard, how do I look like a dog!" The girl frowned and shook off Lin Xiuyi's arm. She was so angry that she almost bit her lips.

The female police officer and several colleagues not far away looked at Lin Xiuyi and the others with an aunt's smile, obviously thinking of something wrong.

"...The way he bites his lips makes him look even more like a dog," Lin Xiuyi muttered. Seeing that Fujimine Yukiko was about to get angry again, he quickly continued, "There is a fourth suspicious point."

"Hey, is there anything else?" The girl's attention was immediately diverted.

"A tall security guard was lying on a stretcher pretending to be Mrs. Nishikawa," Lin Xiuyi said. "Although he tried to bend his body so that no one would notice his height problem, he still accidentally exposed his feet."

"foot?"

Yukiko Fujimine looked down. She was in such a hurry to go out that she was still wearing indoor slippers. Her white and tender feet were only as big as Lin Shuichi's palm. Each of her delicate toes was painted with pink nail polish, making her look even more cute and lovely.

“Are there differences in people’s feet?”

"The biggest difference is, of course, size," Lin Xiuyi explained. "Generally speaking, a person's height is about seven times the length of their feet. That security guard is very tall, so his feet would normally be large."

"I see. No wonder you came into the apartment and asked me about Mrs. Nishikawa's height," Fujimine Yukiko finally understood. "Mrs. Nishikawa is only a little over 1.5 meters tall. She's petite, so her feet are definitely not that big either."

"Yes, I discovered four suspicious points in a row, which made me immediately certain that there was something wrong with this group of people," Lin Xiuyi shrugged. "Then I ran to Apartment 1009 to check the situation. I don't need to tell you what happened next, right?"

"How did you open the door with the card?" Fujimine Yukiko said, still looking incredulous. "How could the apartment door be opened so easily?"

"This involves the structure of the lock. If you want to learn, I can teach you."

Lin Xiuyi finished speaking casually, but the girl nodded excitedly immediately.
"You said you would teach me! But it's not about picking locks. It's useless for me to learn this. I can't become a thief in the future."

"Not lock picking? Then what do you want to learn? Deduction, that's a bit..."

Lin Xiuyi didn't say the following words, but with the contemptuous expression on his face, the meaning was obvious: With your IQ, you'd better give up on reasoning, you can't learn this.

"Squeak!"

Fujimine Yukiko gnashed her teeth until they made a sound, but thinking about what she wanted to learn, she suppressed her anger and forced a sweet smile on her face.

"Lin Jun, I want to learn how to drive from you!"

(End of this chapter)