Conan: I can see keywords

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Conan glanced at Lingchuan before leaving.

Lingchuan had no intention of hiding this little detail from Hattori Heiji, but he didn't ask any further questions and Lingchuan didn't explain.

But no one expected that Mao Lilan and the others had only been gone for a few minutes when suddenly, a high-pitched soprano voice came:

"what--"

"Xiaolan!"

Hearing the familiar voice, Kogoro Mouri rushed out immediately.

The rest followed closely behind.

When they arrived near the bathroom, they saw Mouri Ran covering her face in fear, and Conan was standing beside Iwai Hitomi's body with a serious expression, not saying a word.

The inn owner who left with Iwai Hitomi is nowhere to be found.

Chapter 120 Something is wrong with Conan

"died."

Maori Kogoro's expression was serious, "It should be poisoning."

"How, how could..."

When it comes to poisoning, everyone panics.

The word "poison" is one of the most difficult means to defend against.

No matter what someone wants to do, it's impossible to defend against this.

"Can you tell what kind of poison it is?" Fujisawa Toshiaki, the middle-aged man who came in the same car with Maori Kogoro, asked with a very ugly expression.

Maori Kogoro shook his head. "There are no particularly obvious signs on the body. So far, it is not clear what the poison is."

"However, there are no obvious external injuries on the body, so I guess the poison was taken orally. Everyone should stop gathering here and go back to check the food or tableware in the kitchen."

"Lan, go call the police." A murder has happened. Even those who looked down on Kogoro Mouri before have to follow his advice.

Compared to him, who had experience as a police officer and had dealt with sensitive issues personally, the others were just ordinary people who had read a few mystery novels.

Soon, the people who returned to the living room stood together in twos and threes.

Ooki Ayako and Toba Kento still looked aloof and indifferent. Astrologers Toda Maria, Shimizu Nanako and Fujisawa Toshiaki were closer to each other.

Kogoro Mori and his companions are together.

Lingchuan and Hiroki thought about it and decided to move a little closer to Hattori Heiji's position.

Only Ikuo Kawazu and Yuju Tsundo are left as completely independent individuals.

But the situation at the moment didn't care about this.

At the suggestion of Kogoro Mori, everyone began to carefully check whether there were any problems with the food and drinks in the kitchen.

There was no discussion among the crowd's actions, but no one paid much attention to them either.

At this time, everyone was still thinking about leaving everything to the police after they called them.

When Mao Lilan came in panic with a box of things in her arms, everyone started to get restless.

"Dad, we seem to be..."

Mao Lilan's face turned pale and she couldn't finish her words.

Kogoro Mouri fell silent as he looked at the box of destroyed communication equipment.

"No, I want to leave here!"

Maria Toda found her own broken cell phones from a pile of broken ones, and then prepared to leave without looking back.

But he was interrupted by Hattori Heiji, "It's no use."

He leaned against the door frame coldly. Lingchuan turned his head and understood when his eyes met Hattori's.

"All the cars' tires were deflated."

"What, what do you mean?" Maria Toda's chubby face was covered in cold sweat.

"It means that we are trapped here." Hattori Heiji said calmly. He glanced at everyone and smiled. "It seems that the murderer does not intend to stop!"

"What?!" Ikuo Kawazu looks tall, but he is surprisingly timid.

After hearing what Hattori Heiji said, he was the first to ask tremblingly, "You mean to say that the murderer is among us and is planning to continue committing murders?!"

"Obviously," Hattori walked over slowly and fiddled with the damaged phones in the box that Mao Lilan was holding, "He destroyed the phones because he didn't want us to call the police too early."

"And they let the air out of the tires because they didn't want us to leave the hotel."

"Yes," Conan couldn't help but analyze it at this time, "The murderer's target was not Iwai Hitomi. He killed Iwai Hitomi perhaps because she discovered something."

Conan recalled the scene of squatting beside the corpse and carefully observing Iwai Hitomi's lips, mouth and nose.

The more he thought about it, the tighter his brows furrowed, but he didn't say anything shocking.

Hattori Heiji glanced at Conan, then at Lingchuan, and said with a smile, "That's right, after killing Iwai Hitomi, the murderer had to destroy the cell phone and tires in order to prevent his real target from leaving the hotel."

"The purpose is to trap us so that he can achieve his goal!"

"But weren't we all in the living room when the incident happened?" Shimizu Nanako said, "No one left at that time, right?"

"Would it be too arbitrary for you to say that the murderer is among us?"

"That's right," Fujisawa Toshiaki also agreed. No one wanted to be next to a murderer. "If we have to say that one of us did it, then the only possibility is Kento Toba who returned halfway."

Being named, Kento Toba was not flustered, "But don't forget, I was also in the living room when the incident happened. The people who were not there at that time were the innkeeper and the one who had died, right?"

Kento Toba's attitude is very frivolous, revealing a casual feeling of not caring or not caring everywhere.

This attitude made Hattori Heiji and Conan very concerned.

Kogoro Mori was even more unhappy.

It felt like he was the murderer, but no one could do anything to him because there was no evidence.

In this regard, Kogoro Mori was so eager to point his finger at Kento Toba's nose that he could only point his finger at him, but in the end he endured it.

"So the murderer is the innkeeper?" Maria Toda exclaimed, "By the way, could it be that he was murdered because of the first version..."

"No," Hattori Heiji interrupted, "The innkeeper said before that he has to exchange the first version before 7 o'clock this morning, and then he will be forgiven."

"It's only a little after five o'clock now. If the innkeeper had been planning to kill us all, he wouldn't have gathered everyone together and notified us of the time to return the books."

"That's right," Lingchuan had to step forward and continue to add under Hattori's gaze, "The first version disappeared, and the innkeeper was attacked. Since he is very sure that one of us did it, it is the best choice to do it quietly and then find the book."

"After all, there are so many of us. If we really want to resist, the innkeeper will be helpless."

After saying this, Lingchuan fell silent again.

He condemned Hattori Heiji's behavior of dragging him into the water with his eyes, but only got a harmless smile from the latter.

But Lingchuan was happy to see all this happen.

Hattori Heiji is too young, just a seventeen-year-old high school student.

Even though he is quite famous in Osaka, this is Tokyo and not everyone recognizes him.

Otherwise, there would not be a comparison between 'Kanto and Kansai'.

However, Kogoro Mori couldn't tell the key points of the case analysis, so he had to do it himself.

But everyone present had some basic reasoning skills, whether they learned from books or were just interested in it.

No matter how reasonable what he says as a high school student is, others will not believe it completely. They may even make their own inferences in their minds and only believe the "truth" that they have reasoned out.

In order to calm everyone down, he needs a 'comrade-in-arms' who stands on the same side as him.

And Lingchuan became this person.

The herd effect applies whether there are many or few people.

Even if Lingchuan is unwilling to cooperate, Conan will continue to analyze according to Hattori Heiji's reasoning, because this is the most reasonable explanation.

But Lingchuan cooperated and was happy to cooperate.

But he couldn't show that he was happy.

After saying that, Lingchuan fell silent and looked at Conan quietly, feeling a little nervous.

Conan is a little abnormal today.

In the past, when there was a case, Conan would come to find me first, but today... ?

Ever since Oki Ayako said those words in the living room, Conan's behavior has been a little strange.

This made Lingchuan unsure of what Conan's plan was for a moment.

Are you starting to doubt him? Or...are you trying to pretend to be an innocent child?

No matter which option is chosen, Lingchuan's silence is the best solution.

If it is the former, Lingchuan's silence at this time can be explained as being reminded by Oki Ayako's words, so he deliberately hides his true identity in front of Hattori Heiji to avoid being confirmed by Hattori.

If it is the latter, Lingchuan's silence at this time can also be interpreted as thinking the same thing as Conan - pretending to be an innocent passerby.

In short, the scene when he and Conan were alone together when they first arrived at the hotel was secretly observed by Hattori Heiji. Lingchuan discovered it, but he had to act as if he didn't notice it!

Chapter 121 Accident

"But now the innkeeper is missing!" Maria Toda was a little anxious, "Maybe he is hiding somewhere and watching us secretly..."

As she spoke, she looked around suspiciously.

Seeing this, Hattori did not force her to not be afraid. The disappearance of the innkeeper was a fact, and before he disappeared, he was indeed with Iwai Hitomi.

Now that Iwai Hitomi is dead and he is missing, it is understandable that everyone suspects him of being the murderer.

But would the innkeeper really do such a thing?

Hattori lowered his head and thought. Because Conan was small, no one paid attention to him, so he sneaked back to the crime scene and concentrated on observing the corpse without being noticed.

This time, because he observed more carefully, he finally discovered something unusual.

'This is……'