Conan Rick's Investigator

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Next, Qin Zhibo followed "Xiao Hei" from the projection room to the air-conditioning room, then to the seat in front of the projection window, and then returned to the projection room.

[End of reenactment]

……

The police are still conducting inquiries and investigations.

In the projection room, the projectionist was explaining his job content to Inspector Megure to prove that he had absolutely no chance of taking action.

The windows here were also completely sealed, which eliminated Haibara Ai's initial idea, that the cinema owner and the projectionist worked together to kill someone, with one person putting a rope around the deceased's neck and the other hanging the person up.

"If that's the case, then it really was suicide..." Inspector Megure muttered, holding his chin.

At this time, Conan, who was in charge of listening, chuckled and came up with a good idea.

"If we split the film reel in two and projected it alternately, wouldn't it be possible to make the body that was hung in front of one of the projection windows suddenly appear?"

After saying this interesting idea, Conan felt a little excited.

First of all, judging from Zhang Tianzheng's various behaviors before his death, Conan did not believe that such a person would suddenly commit suicide today.

If it was a homicide, the college student had the photos in the camera as an alibi, and the ticket seller and the owner of the cinema were both women and elderly, and they did not have the strength to hang an adult man.

At this moment, Conan selectively forgot about the art museum director who was wearing a knight's iron armor and could stab an adult into the wall with a knife, as well as Soba Sontoku who had been sitting in a wheelchair pretending to be sick, and Mao Li Ran who blew up a telephone pole with one punch.

Excluding the possibility of collaborative murder, the projectionist is the only one who is most capable of killing.

The killing method he came up with was indeed practical and sophisticated enough, and it also proved that only a professional film projectionist could do it.

Conan looked around and found that Qin Zhibo had gone somewhere again.

call--

I won this time.

Just when Conan thought he had found the truth first, the projectionist laughed and said, "This idea is indeed very interesting..."

Fortunately I didn't think of this method...

"But little brother, this technique will leave seam marks on the film."

"The officer can come and check this film. I can guarantee that there is absolutely no trace of that kind of thing on it."

The ticket seller beside him also smiled and said, "You're quite clever, little brother. But when I came back from the convenience store, I noticed that the only projector in the projection room that was working was the one by the door."

Faced with the joint denial of the two, Conan, who had been full of confidence on his face the previous second, was immediately speechless.

This method is obviously very useful...why didn't the murderer think of it?

At this time, Haibara Ai walked over with her hands behind her back, smiling without showing her teeth.

"It turns out the famous detective can also be clever..."

"You're being clever, but don't do it again next time."

Haibara Ai: venomous tongue +1

Conan: Mindset-1

Ai Haibara found Conan's failure both funny and comforting.

The funny thing is that the famous detective's frustrated look after being thwarted is surprisingly cute...

The good news is that Conan solved the case this time without even using a vest, otherwise the news that there was a "child prodigy" on Beika Street would have spread again.

In fact, I didn’t know about Conan after I became smaller, but I learned about Conan’s deeds when Miyano Akemi was still alive.

During a date in a cafe, his sister Akemi told him that there was a kid named Edogawa Conan in a nearby detective agency. Although he was a child, he was surprisingly calm and seemed very mature.

He then recalled that he had recently visited Kudo Shin's family and discovered that all his childhood clothes were missing.

As the only researcher who knew that APTX-4869 had such side effects, Haibara Ai guessed at that time that Edogawa Conan might be Kudo Shinichi.

In other words, if Conan continues to show off and portray himself as a child prodigy, Gin will sooner or later become suspicious.

Although he had changed Kudo Shinichi's status to death on the APTX-4869 dosage list, he was a traitor after all, and the always suspicious Gin might even re-investigate these dead people.

Haibara Ai didn't know that Gin didn't remember the people he killed with his own hands.

Chapter 250 The Law of Conservation of Mentality

At this time, Haibara Ai looked around and found that Qin Zhibo had not come yet.

Just after asking about the air conditioner, Qin Zhibo went to investigate elsewhere on his own.

Where can I go at this time?

If the case is not solved, Conan will...

Although when they first met, Qin Zhibo was the first to solve the mystery of Professor Hirota's death, which made Haibara Ai think that Conan was just an ordinary detective.

But in the few cases that followed without Qin Zhibo, Conan performed very well, living up to his title of high school detective.

Therefore, Haibara Ai is not very sure whether Qin Zhibo can defeat Conan this time and be the first to solve the truth of the case.

At this moment, Qin Zhibo walked into the screening room under Haibara Ai's expectant gaze.

"I already know the truth of the matter."

"In fact, this case was not a suicide, but a genuine homicide. The murderer was Mr. Furuhashi, the cinema projectionist."

Qin Zhibo's words exploded like a thunder in the minds of everyone in the screening room.

What! The murderer is the projectionist?

How did he do that?

Could it be that he had two reels of the film "Godzilla", one of which was split into two parts, and the other was used to deal with inspections?

The ticket seller is actually his accomplice?

After all, if the cinema is gone, both of their jobs will be affected...

The moment Qin Zhibo announced the correct answer, Conan was 100% sure that what Qin Zhibo said was correct, and began to reversely deduce the answer from this.

"Brother Qin..." Inspector Megure on the side raised his usual suspicion, "If it's a method of splitting the film into two parts, Conan has already told us."

"Mr. Guqiao has already explained this, but you weren't here just now, so you didn't hear it..."

Qin Zhibo was stunned for a moment, glanced at Conan, and replied calmly: "Only a child can come up with such a skill."

This level of skill... a child...

Conan: Mindset-1

Huiyuan Ai came over and said calmly, "It's okay. Aren't you just a first-grade kid now?"

Conan: Mindset-1

In contrast to Conan, Inspector Megure, who was standing next to the projector, felt very relieved after hearing Qin Zhibo's words.

It turns out that the only reason I didn't realize that the film reel was divided into two parts was because I'm not a child anymore...

Inspector Megure: Attitude +1

Yup!

How could I, a police captain, be worse than a child?

Inspector Megure: Attitude +1

Qin Zhibo started reasoning before anyone else could say, "Mr. Gu Qiao...so he can't be the murderer."

"Before Mr. Furuhashi took action, he first observed outside through this surveillance window and confirmed that the deceased was still sitting in the same position as before. Then he began to execute his murder plan."

"The first step was to go to the air-conditioning room and turn up the air conditioner to the maximum. Then, he went to the screening room, approached from behind, strangled the victim, and hung him in front of the projection window."

As Qin Zhibo spoke, he pointed out to everyone the window that the murderer used to commit the crime.

"At this time, there was a book behind the projection window where the deceased was hanged as a barrier, so no one could see the projection of the corpse being projected onto the big screen."

As he spoke, Qin Zhibo walked to a cabinet nearby and took out a large blue book.

“That was the book that was used.”

Seeing this, the cinema staff, especially the projectionist Gu Qiao, were stunned.

How did he know that I had checked Zhang Tian's seat through the surveillance window before taking action?

How did he know I was using this book to block out the light?

Such accurate reasoning...

It's like seeing me committing the crime with my own eyes!

Although he was extremely surprised, Gu Qiao still forced himself to remain calm and asked with a slightly trembling voice, "If Zhang Tian had been hanging there from the beginning, and I had covered the projection window with that book as you said, then the movie wouldn't have been able to be shown, right?"

When it came to the "ask for a hammer and get a hammer" phase, Qin Zhibo pointed directly to the employee lounge outside.

"Actually, we can use the mirror in the rest room..."

"As long as the broken mirror is placed in front of the two projectors before the show, and the angle is fixed, the film in projector No. 1 can be refracted and played out of the adjacent projection window No. 2."

"After you finish killing someone, just take away the book blocking Projection Window No. 1 and remove the mirror. Projector No. 1 will then project the victim's body onto the screen."

"You turned on the air conditioner before killing someone, hoping the air from the air conditioner would move the body, creating the illusion that the body had just been hanged."

"By the way, when you were hanging the mirror back in the lounge, you were so anxious that the broken mirror accidentally cut the tip of your left index finger."

"Then you used your mouth to bandage the wound on your finger..."

After hearing Qin Zhibo's last words, Gu Qiao's body trembled and his left hand clenched subconsciously.

Inspector Megure noticed something, walked up and grabbed Furuhashi's left hand, and saw a small wound on the tip of his left index finger.

The wound is so small that it doesn't even need a bandage.

"How do you explain this?"

Inspector Megure questioned him sternly, and Furuhashi, who had already lost his spirit, slowly lowered his head.

At this time, the ticket seller on the side was still trying to defend him, saying, "I remember now, this is the cut that Guqiao got this morning!"

Qin Zhibo smiled slightly, "This method of using light refraction for projection has a drawback."

"The clarity of a film projected through mirror refraction is definitely not as good as that of a normal projection."

"Didn't that college student happen to take photos of the movie during a screening? If you just play it again normally and take photos under the same conditions, you'll notice the difference in clarity."

"Other than that, if you look carefully..."

Before Qin Zhibo could finish his words, Gu Qiao, who had already bowed his head beside him, spoke up, "You'll find that the image projected through the mirror will be narrower than the normal image size. The image will also appear blurry due to the change in focal length when the mirror is switched..."

"I've secretly tried this technique more than a dozen times when no one was in the theater, so I know exactly what the differences are..."

"So you admit your guilt?"

Facing the serious-looking Inspector Megure, Gu Qiao nodded gravely.

"Everyone, I'm sorry for causing such a big incident..."

What followed was the usual moment of explaining the motivation, but Qin Zhibo had no intention of listening to these things at the moment.

Because the more important thing now is the task prompt.

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