Conan Rick's Investigator

"Take me there!"

……

In carriage No. 8, the people gathered in the corridor had not left yet.

The conductor reported the incident to his superiors and notified the entire train that all passengers were not allowed to leave their rooms unless necessary.

Conan quickly inspected the scene before Kogoro Mouri arrived, so as to avoid being kicked out later.

Qin Zhibo is not here this time, so there is no one to provide shelter for me...

After a brief autopsy, Conan determined that this was definitely a homicide.

Although the pistol was in the deceased's hand, and the temple is where suicide victims often shoot themselves.

However, there were no burn marks on the temple, indicating that the gun was not fired against the skin.

This pistol is equipped with a silencer barrel and has a longer gun body.

If the silencer barrel is deliberately held away from the skin, the gun-holding posture will be more strenuous, which is unnecessary for a suicidal person.

There was also a bullet hole on the sofa seat opposite the body.

This bullet hole was obviously created by firing a gun so that the cuffs of the corpse would also be stained with gunpowder.

But how did the murderer set up this room as a secret room?

The anti-theft chain on the door was clearly in the locked state...

Conan was holding his chin up in thought when a head suddenly came up to him.

"Conan, what do you think?"

Feeling the breeze blowing past his ears, Conan subconsciously shrank his neck and quickly turned his head to look to the side.

"Sera-nee…what do you mean?"

"It's just a case. What do you think?"

"I……"

Conan's mouth suddenly revealed an innocent smile, "I see with my eyes~"

Hearing this answer, Sera's eyelids drooped instantly and she pouted, looking very dissatisfied.

Conan could only continue to smile foolishly, thinking to himself: What answer does this guy want from me?

Just then, a man's confident voice came from the corner of the corridor.

"You don't need to worry at all..."

"I, Detective Mori Bolang, will definitely uncover the truth behind the Suzuki Express Murder Case with flying colors!"

Chapter 1395: The Dark Mysterious Train (Suspicion)

Kogoro Mouri walked quietly from one side of the corridor and made his opening remarks in a tone full of justice.

Upon hearing this, the conductor was so excited as if he had been granted amnesty that he said, "Great! I'll leave everything to you!"

Hearing the compliment, Kogoro Mouri immediately laughed out loud in ecstasy, making the same tongue-sticking expression as Venom.

Seeing this, Conan, Sera Masumi, and Qin Zhibo in disguise all gave him a half-moon look in tacit understanding.

Masumi Sera knows Conan's true identity, so he roughly guessed that "Sleeping Kogoro Mouri" should be "sleeping" in the true sense.

After a few seconds, Kogoro Mori regained his normal serious expression and asked the conductor about what happened.

Taking advantage of this time, Qin Zhibo stood at the door of Room B at the crime scene, glancing into the room.

Since the body cannot be moved before the police arrive, the body inside cannot be taken out, and my current identity does not make it convenient to enter, so I cannot investigate the body and cannot trigger the prompt for the side quest.

But it doesn’t matter, since I can’t deduce and solve the case right now anyway.

Qin Zhibo just took a quick glance at the situation at the scene and quickly sorted out his thoughts.

This was a homicide, but the murderer planned to disguise it as a suicide.

He had just seen the deceased in the dining car. He was also one of the survivors of the fire five years ago.

Therefore, it is reasonable to speculate that the murderer should also be one of the survivors.

Among the six survivors, there are four left besides himself and the dead.

It would be impossible for the disabled old lady and the maid to commit the crime, so the only two possible murderers were left.

Qin Zhibo glanced at the man with glasses and the arrogant woman standing in front of him without leaving a trace.

Although the murderer has been identified, he should have disposed of all traces and evidence left after the crime.

The gunpowder smoke reaction can be cleaned away, and other tools used in the crime can also be thrown out of the speeding train through the window.

Moreover, while he was talking to the conductor, the deceased in the next room seemed to open the door and look out, with a phone in his hand.

This means that he was still alive at that time, but died soon after.

The person who had the opportunity to commit the crime at that time was...

While Qin Zhibo was thinking, Maori Kogoro, who had just learned about the incident from the conductor, came over.

"Mr. Noto, I have something to ask you about the case..."

"What were you doing in your room when the train entered the tunnel?"

"Oh, that..." Qin Zhibo straightened his back and said with a voice changed by the collar-shaped voice changer, "I was resting in my room at that time, and I heard Murohashi's voice coming from the next room. I was shocked."

Maori Kogoro nodded slightly, then continued, "Since the call bell for your room rang, why did you lie to the conductor and say you didn't ring it?"

Qin Zhibo knew that with Kogoro Mouri's detective skills, he might use this incident as a reason to suspect him of being the murderer, so he immediately refuted it.

"I already told you! I didn't even call him. He came to see me without my permission..."

Conan, who was standing at the back, watched Qin Zhibo's performance and felt that the man in front of him was not lying, so he turned to ask the conductor, "But as long as you press the call bell, the light at the door will light up, so the conductor should be right, right?"

"Hmm..." the conductor murmured, "Actually, in this car, only the call light in Room A is broken. It won't light up."

"So if the call bell suddenly rings and none of the call lights are on, I'll instinctively think it's Mr. Noto's room ringing, so I'll run and knock on his door."

Qin Zhibo had not noticed the situation the conductor described before, because he had not used this service since getting on the train.

However, such a prestigious first-class carriage should not normally have equipment failures, and the situation was not discovered before departure.

"In other words, someone must have deliberately broken the call light in my room.

The purpose is to attract the conductor to my side by the sound of the bell without me ringing it."

"Eh?"

Kogoro Maori was puzzled and didn't react to what it meant.

But Conan and Sera, who were standing behind, immediately understood and their eyes suddenly lit up.

Sera folded his arms and smiled. "It seems the murderer was trying to lure the conductor to this side of the corridor so he wouldn't notice him entering the deceased's room."

"Judging from the location of the rooms in this carriage, the only people who need to do this are those in rooms C, D, and E..."

"Also, the purpose of setting up a false reasoning puzzle is to allow the deceased to return to his original room."

"Because if it weren't for Sonoko's arrangement this time, the deceased would have been the passenger in compartment B of carriage 8..."

Conan felt relieved as Sera said everything he thought of in one breath.

It saves me the trouble of beating around the bush to give hints to Kogoro Mori.

However, just from the fact that the call light was broken, it could be determined that it was a trick of the murderer to "lure the tiger away from the mountain". The uncle in front of him was not simple either.

Conan carefully looked at the burly man in front of him. He looked very rough and his voice occasionally revealed impatience. He didn't look like someone who was so meticulous.

You really can’t judge a person by his appearance…

With the help of Qin Zhibo's suggestion and Sera Masumi's additional explanation, Maori Kogoro finally understood the principle behind it.

He turned to look at the passengers in rooms C, D, and E, but with the same eyes as if he were examining a criminal.

This made Miss Deba in Room E very upset, and she immediately shouted, "Hey! What's that look? I'm not the murderer!"

Seeing someone taking the initiative to talk, Maori Kogoro asked directly, "Just now, the conductor said that the matter in Room A was handled, and then your room was called?"

"yes!"

Miss Izumi crossed her arms, looking very proud. "I called the conductor over because I kept hearing strange noises coming from my room. I wanted to ask him how they conduct their inspections on this train. How could someone leave someone's belongings in a room..."

Shiliang then took the initiative to ask, "Have you found the object that made the sound?"

"Well, it's a watch stuck in the crack of the sofa, and that strange sound is coming from the watch's alarm..."

Miss Izumi's words made Sera and Conan fall into thought.

If we think from the perspective of "luring the tiger away from the mountain", this should also be a trick used by the murderer.

But what is the specific purpose of doing this?

Also, how did the murderer accomplish the murder in a closed room?

"what!"

Suddenly, the conductor screamed and raised a finger, "I remember!"

"While I was talking to Miss Izumi, I saw a suspicious figure peeking out from behind the door."

"What!"

Maori Kogoro's expression immediately turned serious. He stood in front of the conductor and asked, "Who is that person?"

The conductor scratched his head. "Excuse me, I only saw one figure...but the distance of that door made it look like it was at the front end of the car."

"The first end?"

Kogoro Mouri glanced at the five rooms in the corridor and finally stopped at Room A.

"Is this Noto-san from Room A?"

Everyone's suspicious eyes turned to Noto, that is, Qin Zhibo, again.

This also made Qin Zhibo stunned. He had just cleared himself of suspicion, so how come it was turned back on him?

"Hey! I didn't open the door, let alone look outside!"

However, Maori Kogoro seemed to have already determined the murderer's identity. He put his hands on his waist with a confident look on his face. "The conductor definitely couldn't have made a mistake. Besides, your room is right next to the deceased's room. Maybe there's a secret passage between the two rooms..."

"As for you will call

By breaking the light and using the same ringing sound to attract the conductor, you were actually trying to shift the suspicion onto someone else, as you just said, right?

"But as you can see, I, Maori Bolang, will not be fooled so easily!"

“Hahaha~~”

Kogoro Mori, who seemed to be sure of victory, laughed out loud.

Qin Zhibo looked at the complacent Kogoro Mori and felt speechless.

This Maori elimination method is really powerful. The first person to be eliminated is myself...

However, this Maori elimination method is an unspoken rule known only to those who have been through many battles. These new faces do not understand these rules.

At this moment, the other people in the car had shocked expressions and were looking at him.

Anton: "Mr. Noto, are you really..."

Izumi: “But why?”

Compared to others who believed in Kogoro Mouri so much, Conan did not believe it immediately.

Although he did not have conclusive evidence to refute Kogoro Mori's point of view, he always felt that something was wrong.

At this moment, the maid pushing the wheelchair suddenly said, "Detective, my wife and I never opened the door, pressed the call bell, or went out during that time."

"Besides, our room is in Room D, and it's not next to Mr. Murohashi's Room B..."

"So this matter has absolutely nothing to do with us. Can we go back to our rooms now?"

Hearing this, Kogoro Mouri turned to the conductor and asked if it was as she said.

The conductor nodded and replied, "During that time, I certainly didn't see the door to compartment D open..."