Conan Rick's Investigator

"I don't!"

"It wasn't me! I didn't kill anyone!"

Kubota shook his head in defense as a matter of course, but Kogoro Mouri took out the note that Qin Zhibo had just thrown away and showed it to everyone.

"Stop quibbling. I've found the death message left by the deceased."

"That's your name, Kubota, written on it!"

Kogoro Mouri held the note in his right hand, his body in a handsome and charming posture for identifying the murderer.

But Conan just rolled his eyes at Kogoro Mouri.

It was clearly the evidence Qin Zhibo found...

Uncle, you will be punished for stealing other people's credit like this.

Chapter 20 This old man is a bit fierce (confused)

Faced with Kogoro Mori's accusation, Kubota naturally refused to admit it, but the police from both sides had already surrounded Kubota.

At this time, Inspector Megure said seriously: "It doesn't matter even if you don't admit it now."

"Let's check the footage from the security camera and everything will become clear."

After saying that, the police, detectives, and case-related personnel began to withdraw from the Hell Exhibition Hall in an orderly manner, leaving only a small number of forensic police to guard the scene.

Qin Zhibo did not tell the police that he had found the bloody armor in Kubota's employee locker, otherwise Kubota would have been confirmed as the murderer.

On the one hand, the investigation and evaluation of the note in the deceased's hand made Qin Zhibo feel that the murderer might not be Kubota.

On the other hand, Qin Zhibo wants to find out the truth on his own so that he can get a higher mission evaluation.

Now that there is surveillance footage from the murder scene, Qin Zhibo will of course go and take a look. Maybe he can find a clue to the last investigation point.

But at this moment, Qin Zhibo saw Director Ochiai at the end of the crowd squatting in a dark corner beside the armor, and the movement of his arms looked like he was tying his shoelaces.

After Director Ochiai tied his shoelaces, he stood up and left the dark corner as if nothing had happened.

But just like a hen laying eggs, a white dot of light suddenly appeared in the dark corner where there was nothing just now after Director Ochiai left.

Investigation point!

Qin Zhibo hurried over to investigate.

【Survey√】

This is a ballpoint pen with the words "50th Anniversary of the Rice Art Museum" on it.

[Has the investigation of all investigation points at the crime scene been completed? Will a scene reconstruction be conducted?]

Qin Zhibo had confirmed before the police arrived that there was absolutely no investigation point here.

But just now, Director Ochiai was squatting here tying his shoelaces, and the investigation point appeared.

There is only one answer...

Director Ochiai is the murderer!

However, even though he confirmed this idea in his mind, Qin Zhibo had no way of telling the police this nonsensical answer.

Qin Zhibo still needs to use the [Re-enactment] function to sort out the entire process of Director Ochiai's crime.

【Re-enactment√】

In the field of vision, a "little black" was bending over and lying on the display cabinet next to him. Judging from the movements of his fingers, he seemed to be writing something.

Then, Xiao Hei stood against the wall and waited motionlessly.

Suddenly, "Xiao Hei" showed a fierce look and stared at the forensic officer who was standing in front of the corpse and taking pictures.

From the information floating next to the forensic officer's head, Qin Zhibo knew that his last name was Dengmi.

The next second, "Xiao Hei" suddenly jumped up, raised the things in his hands with both hands, and chopped the Dengmi Forensic Officer's head with all his strength.

At this moment, Deng Mi just pressed the shutter of the camera, but his body suddenly shuddered.

This cold war was known to Tomi.

The photo is blurry...

Then, as if he stumbled, "Xiao Hei" stood in front and waited for a while, then turned around and slashed at the void behind him.

Judging from the body of Boss Manaka hanging on the wall, "Xiao Hei" grabbed Boss Manaka's neck with one hand and lifted his body up, and with the other hand he pierced Boss Manaka's head with a big sword, nailing Boss Manaka's body to the wall.

Afterwards, "Xiao Hei" turned around and left the Hell Exhibition Hall. Qin Zhibo followed him all the way to the staff lounge.

In the staff lounge, "Xiao Hei" performed a non-physical performance of taking off clothes, and then put all the things he took off into Kubota's locker.

Seeing this, Qin Zhibo also understood.

It turns out that what Director Ochiai wore when he killed someone was the armor in Kubota's cabinet.

Director Ochiai is an old man in his sixties. Wearing metal armor, he can lift the fat boss Manaka with one hand, and with one hand he can pierce through a person's skull and wall with a sword.

I have to say, the old man's physical fitness is really strong...

At this time, a new prompt appeared in Qin Zhibo's vision.

【Do you want to fast forward? 】

This is the fast-forward function in the scene re-enactment, which can quickly skip the meaningless fragments in the process of "Xiao Hei" committing crimes.

【Yes√】

Qin Zhibo confirmed the fast-forward option in his mind, and all of "Xiao Hei"'s actions seemed to be at ten times the speed.

When Qin Zhibo returned to the Hell Exhibition Hall again, "Xiao Hei" just walked to the dark corner next to the armor.

He squatted down, took something out of his pocket and put it on the ground, then picked up something on the ground and put it into the inner pocket of his left chest.

[End of reenactment]

……

In the Hell Hall, Kubota was being treated coldly by the police and other museum staff.

In the video that just finished playing, everyone saw that it was the armored man hiding behind Boss Manaka who killed Boss Manaka.

"You wore armor to avoid being captured by security cameras, but you were still recognized by the deceased, who then left this death message on the note."

Kubota was speechless in response to Maori Kogoro's reasoning and could only shout, "But I have no motive at all!"

At this time, a square-faced employee nearby stepped forward to make up the matter, "It's useless even if you want to hide it, Kubota!"

"Artworks have been disappearing from the museum recently. You're the only employee with a history of stealing artwork and selling it for profit. It was only because you knelt down and begged for mercy before the director that we gave you this chance."

"But after Boss Manaka found out about this, isn't he demanding a huge amount of compensation from you?"

After hearing this, Kubota broke out in a cold sweat and quickly denied it.

"This incident has nothing to do with the murder case! I didn't kill anyone!"

"And the artwork that recently went missing from the museum wasn't stolen by me!"

"I swear!"

At this time, the police brought another piece of news that made Kubota despair.

"Inspector, blood-stained armor was found in Kubota's employee locker."

The evidence was now irrefutable, and it was useless for Kubota to deny it.

According to the procedure, Inspector Megure can arrest the person and leave work in one go.

But at this moment, a voice stopped Megure from leaving get off work.

"Actually, he's not the real murderer..."

Hearing this voice, Kogoro Mouri immediately looked around and found the person who made the voice.

It turned out to be the colleague who stole his business.

But before Kogoro Mouri could refute, Megure had already asked a question.

"Brother Qin, are you trying to say that the real murderer isn't Kubota?"

"Yes." Qin Zhibo nodded as a matter of course.

"Who is the real murderer then? And why is Kubota's name written on the note in the deceased's hand?"

In response to Inspector Megure's question, Qin Zhibo did not give any confident reasoning, but turned directly to look at Ochiai Juzen, the director of the art museum.

"Director Ochiai, just now when everyone was leaving the exhibition hall to go to the monitoring room, I saw you squatting by the armor, right?"

"May I ask what you were doing at that time?"

Director Ochiai's heart skipped a beat, but he pretended to be calm and explained, "I was just tying my shoelaces."

But the next second after he said that, Director Ochiai's eyes, which were hidden under his thick eyebrows, widened and appeared, and then he slowly lowered his head and looked down.

Today I am wearing leather shoes...

Chapter 21 Humans die when killed, but demons cannot be killed

Ok?

Everyone heard the museum director's explanation and saw that he was wearing a pair of shiny leather shoes.

"Director...you..."

Although no one, including Conan, knows why Director Ochiai lied in such a place, everyone has turned their suspicious eyes to Director Ochiai.

"Director Ochiai, could you please explain?"

Facing Inspector Megure's questioning, Director Ochiai's eyes widened, and his hands, which had been so powerful just now, were now trembling as if he had Parkinson's disease.

In fact, at this time, Ochiai Juzen's mind was not completely without explanations for reference.

For example, you may be old and forget, or you may be organizing your socks and insoles and just say the wrong thing in a hurry.

But the most troublesome thing now is that Ochiai Juzen doesn’t know what Qin Zhibo saw.

If Qin Zhibo really saw what he did at that time, then he would only make things worse until the police and detectives completely discovered his methods.

But before squatting down, I had clearly made sure that no one around could notice my little movement. How did this detective named Qin see it?

When Director Ochiai was so conflicted that he remained silent, it was Qin Zhibo who broke the deadlock.

"Since Director Ochiai is old and has 'forgotten' what he just did, let me explain it."

"You put this on the ground, then picked it up and put it in the left inside pocket of your suit."

As he spoke, Qin Zhibo rolled up his handkerchief and showed the ballpoint pen he had brought from the crime scene.

Director Ochiai: My ballpoint pen!

Conan: My handkerchief!

Director Ochiai was extremely surprised at this moment.

Director Ochiai's original plan was to let the police find the ballpoint pen themselves and then confirm the authenticity of the death news through video footage.

But unexpectedly, not only was this important ballpoint pen picked up by Qin Zhibo, but Qin Zhibo also saw the whole process of his "substituting one thing for another", and he even knew that the replaced ballpoint pen was placed in the left pocket of his suit.

In fact, Director Ochiai didn't know that if there hadn't been an additional investigation point suddenly appearing in his field of vision, Qin Zhibo would not have paid any attention to Director Ochiai's little action at that time.

As for why Qin Zhibo's description was so accurate, it was as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

This is of course because Qin Zhibo actually saw it...

"Excuse me, I need to check your belongings."

Inspector Megure didn't hesitate to reach into the left pocket of Director Ochiai's suit and pulled out a ballpoint pen of the same model as the one found at the crime scene.

"Another ballpoint pen?"

"How is this going?"

Inspector Megure originally thought that he could find some valuable evidence or murder weapon, but in the end all he found was a ballpoint pen.