Conan: Starting out by living with a divorced older sister

Chapter 96 Shinichi solves the case

After thinking for a while, Shinichi said, "There is one place that has not been searched yet, and that is the deceased's luggage!"

Officer Takagi thought what Shinichi said made a lot of sense, so he opened the luggage rack above and asked, "Excuse me, which piece of luggage is the deceased's?"

As a fellow traveler, he naturally knew the most. Tian Yejian raised his right hand to take down the luggage, but suddenly he was shocked and stopped. Officer Gao Mu asked immediately, what happened? Tian Yejian recovered immediately and said it was nothing, just remembering some past events, and then naturally changed to his left hand and handed the luggage of Daying and Yang to Officer Gao Mu.

However, this scene was captured by Murong Zhen and Shinichi. As an underwear expert, Murong Zhen naturally knew what was going on, while Shinichi could only secretly ask Xiaolan, with whom he had a better relationship. Although Xiaolan was shy, when she heard Shinichi say that it was related to solving the case, she had no choice but to tell him the truth.

After checking, Officer Takagi said: "The deceased's belongings include: passport, camera, film, sunglasses, three packs of cigarettes, wallet, towel, two magazines, watch."

Then he said in surprise: "Oh, I see. I was wondering why it sounded so familiar. It turned out to be him."

Officer Megure curiously asked Takagi why he was so surprised. Takagi explained: "The deceased, Kazuhiro Ohtaka, was the winner of the Nichiuri TV News Report Photography Award three years ago. The photo he took of a mother who didn't have time to escape from the fire and handed her daughter to the firefighters who came to rescue her moved many people at the time, so he won the first prize of the big brand."

Ms. Chizuru Tachikawa confirmed: "Yes, that's right, that person is him! He has become the chief photographer of our department and even the future head of the department."

Listening to Officer Takagi's account of the past, Miss Amano Kan unconsciously clenched her fists.

The murder weapon was also not found in the victim’s luggage, and everyone fell silent again.

"Is the film of Daying still there?" Lu Zhaosheng asked.

Inspector Megure had never seen any film and asked, "What film are you talking about?"

"It's the negative of the intimate photo of the beautiful senator and a woman taken by Daying at the Neon Rice Flower Hotel. The senator said he would spend a lot of money to buy it. I originally had a share, but because of some things, I couldn't participate." As he said the last part, Lu Zhensheng looked at Mao Lilan and Murong Zhen with a little hatred unconsciously.

Speaking of the negative film, another person who also had a reaction was a foreigner named Mr. Edward.

Inspector Megure said: "Then the murderer's motive for killing is most likely to obtain these films. Please cooperate with us, we need to search you again!" Everyone was helpless, but in order to clear their suspicion, they had to cooperate.

When Xin Yizhe went to search the people, he carefully observed the seats of several people and thought about the fat man's testimony. Soon, he found a corner of the film on the seat next to Lu Zhaosheng. After thinking for a moment, he finally solved all the mysteries.

When everyone came back from the body search, they naturally found nothing as well.

Shinichi smiled and said confidently, "I already know who the murderer is and the method of crime she was subjected to!"

Amid everyone's surprise and anticipation, Shinichi began his reasoning show.

"First of all, let's talk about the doubts. Why are there bloodstains on the wall, but not on the back of the deceased? That's because someone moved the body after the deceased died. This is another doubt. Why are the pockets of the deceased wet? Because they are stained with evidence of the person who turned the body over, and the person who turned the body over to find something is you, Mr. Edward. When I searched you before, I found that you smelled of cologne, but not on your hands. That's because when you were searching, you found that the fragrance was on the pockets of the deceased, and then you immediately washed your hands and wiped the pockets of the deceased clean. As for what you are looking for, it is the senator's negatives just mentioned, and the checkbook you carry with you is the evidence you used to buy the negatives. Your seat is in front of the deceased, so you can only hear their conversation, but you can't see where the deceased put the negatives, so you can only search. At the same time, when you were searching, Miss Tachikawa Chizuru came outside and knocked on the door. It was not the deceased who answered her, but you, so you and Miss Chizuru were ruled out."

Ms. Chizuru Tachikawa immediately said, "But the answer was in Japanese. Doesn't Mr. Edward know Japanese?"

Shinichi replied, "Actually, Mr. Edward can speak Japanese, right, Mr. Edward!"

Edward said in Japanese: "Yes, everything you just said is correct. I was indeed commissioned by Senator Dickson to deal with the negatives. I did turn over his body, but I did not find the negatives."

Edward's words confirmed Shinichi's reasoning, and Shinichi continued, "Then excluding Mr. Lu Numa who has been sleeping in his seat, the only murderers left are Miss Amano and Mr. Ukai!"

Mr. Ukai defended himself by saying, “I told you that he left his seat.”

Shinichi: "He has always been there, but some tricks were used to prevent you from seeing him!"

Ignoring everyone's doubts, he pushed Lu Zhaosheng into his own seat, wrapped a blanket around him, and then put a knitted hat from among the crowd's belongings on his head, pulling the hat down very low.

He continued, "Can you tell at this moment whether he is Mr. Lu Numa or Mr. Otaka?"

“I can’t tell…”

Shinichi continued, "So what if Miss Amano is sitting in the seat next to you?"

Everyone was surprised! ! Yes, if it was Ms. Amano next to him, then they would assume that the person next to him was Mr. Otaka.

Shinichi said, "I found a corner of the photo negative next to Lu Numa, which explains why the murderer sat here. I also extracted the hair on the hat in advance, some of which were long and some were short. If we can confirm that the short hair belongs to Mr. Lu Numa, then it can prove the method I just mentioned. At the same time, the fingerprints of Otaka and the murderer should also be extracted from a corner of the film."

"So the murderer is you, Miss Amano Kan!"

[The case is adapted from: 172-173 Kudo Shinichi's first incident in the Flying Chamber]

Chapter 97: Tragic Murder

To everyone's surprise, Shinichi continued to narrate the course of the case: "You first gave Mr. Lu Numa the motion sickness drug with sleeping pills, so that he could serve as strong evidence of your alibi. Then, while everyone was resting, you woke up Mr. Otaka and asked him to wait for you in the bathroom, saying that you had something to tell him. Then you took out the medicine and scissors you had prepared in advance, knocked him out in the bathroom cubicle, and stabbed his cervical spinal cord with the murder weapon, causing him to suffocate to death. Then you found the film on his body, cut it into pieces with scissors, and flushed it down the toilet, but you didn't expect a piece of the film to stick to your clothes. Then you locked the door from the outside and returned to your seat. You pretended to vomit, which woke up Ms. Tachikawa Chizuru next to you, and told her that Otaka hadn't been back for a long time, and asked her to help check it out. Then you called the flight attendant service and asked her to help you. Get the motion sickness medicine. At this time, Mr. Edward was in the bathroom cubicle, searching for Mr. Otaka's body. When Miss Tachikawa knocked on the door, he had no choice but to imitate Mr. Otaka's voice, making Miss Tachikawa think that Mr. Otaka was not dead. Taking advantage of the time when Miss Tachikawa left, you sat next to Mr. Lunuma according to the method just now, so when the stewardess came, she thought that Mr. Otaka was still next to you. I also confirmed this with the stewardess, and she thought she had gone to the wrong seat. And it happened that the seat behind Mr. Lunuma was empty, and this scene was seen by Mr. Ukai, so he said that you, who were sitting behind Mr. Otaka, had left your seat. After the stewardess left, she took off Mr. Lunuma's disguise while people around were not paying attention, returned to her seat, and waited for Miss Tachikawa to come back, so that she completed her entire plan! "

Inspector Megure asked, "What if there is no empty seat next to Mr. Lu Numa? And there are four of them in the group, and there are exactly four seats in this row, so how does she ensure that everyone's seats are arranged?"

"First of all, there were originally five of them, but one person didn't come due to special circumstances. I guess that person has a better relationship with Ms. Chizuru. Ms. Amano and Ms. Tachikawa are good friends, and Mr. Otaka and Ms. Amano may develop a relationship, so naturally Mr. Lunuma will sit alone. As for the empty seat, Ms. Amano can just buy an extra one."

Shinichi's words were well-reasoned, as if he had seen it with his own eyes, and his logic formed a closed loop, leaving no room for anyone to refute.

Ms. Tachikawa, who was a good friend, defended her, "What about the murder weapon? What do you say if they didn't find the murder weapon?"

"The murder weapon is still on the murderer!"

"You're talking nonsense! We were searched thoroughly twice. If the murder weapon was hidden on our bodies, how could it not be found?" Miss Tachikawa continued to defend.

"This is also the clever design of the murderer. Although the murder weapon is made of metal, it can still pass the security check smoothly without being suspected." Shinichi paused, giving everyone some time to think, and then continued: "That is the steel ring inside women's underwear! One end of the steel ring is sharpened, and with the weight of an adult, it can be inserted 5 to 6 centimeters behind the neck to reach the cervical spinal cord. The scratches on the victim's neck were caused by the other end of the steel ring!"

"These are all your guesses! How could you possibly know?" Tachikawa Chizuru still didn't want to believe that Amano Ken was the murderer.

"When Miss Amano reached out to take Mr. Otaka's luggage, she subconsciously raised her right hand, but because she used too much force, the steel ring was deformed and pierced her skin, so she switched to her left hand, which she was not used to. Am I right, Miss Amano?"

Chizuru Tachikawa wanted to say something else, but was stopped by Amano Kan. Things had come to this point, and she had no way to refute it. She admitted: "The detective is right, I killed Da Ying, and the way I killed him was just as he said!"

Tachikawa Chizuru hugged Tian Yejian with pity and asked: "Xiao Jian, why did you do this?

Tian Yejian seemed to recall some bad memories, and said sadly, "Because today is the anniversary of my mother and brother's death! Yes, that's right, it was the fire three years ago, the fire where Daying won the photography award. It was that fire that took away my mother and brother, and the instigator of all this was him, Daying Heyang! There was a dinner party once, he drank too much, and I found out when I sent him home that before the photo that won the award, there were many more photos taken, even photos of when the smoke started. I took advantage of his drunkenness to get him to talk, and he admitted it, and also said: How can there be so many touching moments? "Ah, if not, I will create it myself! So he set the fire on purpose. I can never forgive a demon like him! I also want to thank Mr. Murong. It was he who told me about the ugly faces of Daying and Yang. That's why I didn't agree to become Daying's girlfriend early, but kept dragging it on. It was during this period that I discovered the truth about the fire that year! If I really let myself commit myself to this demon who set fire to my mother and brother, then I can't forgive myself even if I die! So I sincerely thank you, Mr. Murong Zhen!" After saying that, he bowed deeply to Murong Zhen.

Everyone expressed their disgust at what Daying and Yang did, and they also felt sympathy and regret for what happened to Amano Kan. After all, she really killed someone, even if the person she killed was an unforgivable criminal, but the law is cold.

Chizuru Tachikawa hugged the crumbling Amano Ken tightly, trying to comfort her wounded heart. The deep sisterly love was displayed to the fullest at this moment without any pretense.

One person in the crowd smiled triumphantly.

Just when everyone thought that everything was settled, Murong Zhen stood up from the crowd and said shockingly: "In fact, the murderer is not Miss Tian Yejian, but someone else!"

Kudo Shinichi also looked at Murong Zhen's words with a sidelong glance. The case has formed a perfect closed loop. All the evidence points to Amano Ken. The method of murder, the motive for murder, and even the murder weapon have all been found. It can be said to be an ironclad case. He wanted to see how this man would overturn the verdict. He didn't say anything, but looked at Murong Zhen meaningfully, as if to see how he was trying to attract attention!

Ran Mouri, his childhood sweetheart, is also in a dilemma. She hopes that Shinichi's reasoning is correct, but she also hopes that Miss Amano Kan is innocent. She is kind-hearted and can empathize with Miss Amano Kan!

Someone always has to raise questions, and Inspector Megure played that role: "Brother Murong, tell me about your inference!"

Chapter 98: Killing with the Wind

Murong Zhen said confidently: "Okay! Let me, the famous detective Murong Zhen, complete this gorgeous reversal!" Looking at Murong Zhen's confident expression, those who sympathized with Tian Ye Jian's experience looked at him very much with anticipation, to see how he would overturn the case for Miss Tian Ye Jian.

But as if he wanted to continue to shock people, Murong Zhen changed the subject and said, "Before overturning the verdict, I need a little encouragement, a beautiful woman's kiss as encouragement!"

Inspector Megure and Inspector Takagi covered their faces. As expected, they still couldn't miss this step. If they didn't really know Murong Zhen's abilities and character, they would have kicked this shameless pervert out long ago.

This scene was very familiar to Mao Lilan. She sympathized with Tian Yejian and naturally hoped that Murong Zhen could overturn her case. She didn't care about her childhood sweetheart and quickly kissed her on the face. Shinichi was so angry that he almost jumped up! The cannibalistic look seemed to want to kill Murong Zhen!

Miyano Shiho, who found it very interesting, did not hesitate to kiss Murong Zhen on the other cheek.

Yabuki Mika, who had kissed Murong Zhen before, naturally did not want to be left behind.

When she heard that Murong Zhen wanted to overturn Amano Ken's verdict, Tachikawa Chizuru, who was like a sister to Amano Ken, kissed Murong Zhen directly on the lips!

Inspector Megure thought to himself: This is not a famous detective, he should be a romantic detective! At this point, Murong Zhen has been defined.

Murong Zhen, who knew when to stop, did not keep the secret any longer and asked, "Ms. Amano, did you hear any subtle sounds when I told Daying and Yang to leave their seats?"

Tian Yejian tried hard to calm down and recalled the past, but this question also made one person in the crowd feel nervous and a bad premonition arose.

"There seemed to be a popping sound, very small, I didn't pay much attention to it at the time."

"Did he stop on the way to the bathroom? Even if it was very short?" Murong Zhen continued to ask.

"Yes, he stayed next to Mr. Lu Numa for a short time."

Officer Megure asked, "Brother Murong, what can this sound and action mean?"

Xiaolan on the side seemed to be lost in memories. She felt that she had heard this voice somewhere before, but she couldn't remember it for a moment.

Murong Zhen did not answer Inspector Megure immediately but continued: "In fact, the deceased did not die of suffocation, but poisoning!"

Hearing this, Shinichi couldn't help but say, "How could it be poisoned? There is no sign of poisoning on the deceased's lips, and there is no smell of bitter almonds."

"What you said is very true! But these are just the symptoms of poisoning. The absence of these symptoms does not mean that he is not poisoned!" As he spoke, he took out a long silver needle like a magic trick. There was a black section at the tip of the silver needle. "This is what I detected when I inserted the silver needle into the stomach of the deceased just now. If the body is taken for autopsy, it will definitely be detected. Although it is very faint, you can still smell the smell of bitter almonds. So the deceased died of cyanide poisoning. Moreover, the deceased's face is very peaceful. He does not have the symptoms of red eyes, bulging eyeballs, and purple lips like those of suffocation. As for why it is different from other cyanide poisonings, I think it must be a specially made cyanide poison!"

"When and how was the deceased poisoned?" Shinichi continued to ask;

Murong Zhen did not answer him immediately, but asked Mr. Edward: "Mr. Edward, when you were looking for the film on the body, did you find anything abnormal?"

Edward also tried hard to recall, without any reservation, and said: "If there must be something unusual, it is that the deceased was in an erection at the time. Although there was clothing between us, I could still feel the temperature of the deceased. It didn't seem like a dead person's temperature."

"That's right! This means that the deceased had taken Viagra before, and that's where the deceased was poisoned!"

"Viagra?" Officer Takagi was a little confused.

"It's the bottle of sildenafil citrate tablets you found in Mr. Lu Numa's luggage. The murderer is self-evident! Right, Mr. Lu Numa!"

Although he had prepared himself mentally, when Murong Zhen called his name, he still felt nervous and stuttered, saying, "How could it be me? I was sleeping the whole time! I have no motive to kill him. We are good colleagues."

"You are indeed colleagues, but whether you have a good relationship is another matter. To be more precise, you are probably just bad friends! That was the "puchi" sound that Ms. Amano heard. It was the code you two agreed on a long time ago."

Xiaolan finally remembered and said, "Oh, I remember now. I heard the puffing sound just now when I was in the coffee shop. That was when they were taking pictures of me."

Murong Zhen continued, "It was then that you secretly gave the poisoned Viagra to Daying Heyang. Your purpose was to encourage him to use despicable means against Miss Amano. And why did he definitely take it? It was because Daying Heyang was sick. He had erectile dysfunction, so he would definitely take it."

"How do you know he has this disease?" asked Officer Megure curiously.

"That's because when I was teaching them a lesson in the waiting room, I felt his pulse. I could also tell from his face that he had overindulged himself. Don't be fooled by his tall stature, but that's just appearance. His body is almost hollowed out. Mr. Lu Numa's condition is not as serious as his. This may be one of Mr. Lu Numa's motives for murder."

"One of the motives for murder? Are there any other motives for murder?" asked Officer Takagi.

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"And it should be caused by the incident of secretly photographing Xiaolan in the cafe last time. The two of them said last time that there was an important photo shoot. I think it should be the photo of the senator secretly taken on the film. Mr. Luzhen was supposed to go, but he was taken to the police station because of the secret photo shoot, so he missed it. Da Ying and Yang took photos that may be worth 100 million. Although they may have promised to give Mr. Luzhen some money, it is estimated that it will not be too much."

After talking about the motive for the murder, Murong Zhen continued, "To sum up, I said that Miss Tianye Jian was not the murderer. She could only be considered to have destroyed the corpse at most, because when she killed the deceased, the deceased was already dead. As for why the deceased was still alive when Miss Tianye knocked him unconscious, but he was dead when she killed him, this should be just a coincidence. Mr. Lu Numa must be the one who knows best what Daying and Yang did before. Maybe it was the result of the two of you colluding with each other. Naturally, you also knew Tianye Jian's revenge method in advance, so you thought of this hitchhiking murder method."

"Since he already knew that Miss Amano Kan was going to kill the deceased, why didn't he just stand by and watch and stay out of it?" Shinichi asked.

"This may be due to his personality. He must hate Taiying and Yang so much that he cannot get rid of his hatred unless he kills them himself. Mr. Lu Numa needs to explain this to us! What do you think? Will Mr. Lu Numa continue to quibble?"

Lu Zhaosheng seemed to have given up struggling, and said with relief: "It seems that Mr. Murong is really my nemesis. I have done so many bad things with him, and each time I succeeded. Every time I met Mr. Murong, I failed. It was the same when I took the secret photo last time, and it was the same when I killed someone in a car this time."

"That's right, I was the one who killed that bastard Daying and Yang!"

Chapter 99 The Troubles Resurface

Lu Zhaosheng seemed to be relieved when Murong Zhen pointed out the identity of the real murderer. After a brief contemplation as if recalling a memory, he slowly told his past.

It turned out that he and Da Ying and Yang had accidentally come into contact with some gray industries and were deeply involved in them. With many cooperative experiences, the two of them were successful in everything they did and became the real legendary bad friends. However, Da Ying and Yang always put themselves in the position of a big brother, and Lu Zhuo played the role of a little brother. There was no big conflict of interest. Lu Zhuo Sheng didn't care much about this matter. It was nothing more than playing less. However, this also accelerated the pace of Da Ying and Yang being hollowed out. Gradually, they found that secretly photographing girls was not as good as secretly photographing some public figures, so they slowly shifted the target group. As for the last time they secretly photographed Xiao Lan, it was because Xiao Lan was too beautiful.

During the cooperation between the two, Lu Zhaosheng often took Daying and Yang home to drink. At that time, Lu Zhaosheng had a girlfriend, but after getting drunk one time, he broke up with Lu Zhaosheng for some reason. Although sad at the time, he chose to let go. Until later, Daying and Yang got drunk and told him what he had done. In addition to deliberately setting the fire that year, he also learned that he took advantage of his drunkenness that day to bully his girlfriend, which led to his girlfriend breaking up with him. He was completely collapsed at the time. Later, he accidentally came into contact with an organization and became a reserve member of the organization. When he learned that his colleague Amano Kan had a crush on Daying and Yang because of the photos of the fire scene, he came up with a plan, which was to let Amano Kan accidentally see the photos in front of the fire scene, and then secretly follow her to understand her movements, until he successfully obtained Amano Kan's plan, and he himself completed his plan to kill people based on Amano Kan's plan. In this way, he not only achieved his goal of killing his enemies, but also had someone to serve as a scapegoat. At the same time, he could also show his genius criminal talent to the organization, so that he could be officially converted and his treatment and status would be improved. Hereby, he applied to the organization for a newly developed poison, which has the toxicity of cyanide, but does not have too obvious symptoms of cyanide poisoning.

Just like that, Lu Zhaosheng explained everything that happened before and after. Just when everyone thought that the matter was settled, there was a "bang" and a gunshot was heard from the front. Then Lu Zhaosheng was shot in the head and fell to the ground.