Chapter 377: Water and Tears
Once again, Conan triggered a shocking reversal with one sentence.
There was silence.
In the silence, I saw Gray Yuan Wai holding his chest with both hands, and leaning on the seat next to the aisle boredly, as if he was about to say something coldly.
"You might want to ask..."
"Why did I say that Mr. Zhang Tian committed suicide?"
Before Gray Yuan Wai rolled his eyes, Conan, who already had cold experience, reacted quickly and said a stand-up with self-amusement:
"Because I found a call log in his phone:"
"Before he had an accident, someone had called him."
"Therefore, Mr. Zhang Tian may have put his mobile phone there to charge it at that time, and then a call came in, so he walked there and picked up the mobile phone and stood to answer the phone."
After answering the phone, he found that the phone was charged enough - now the phone is 60% charged, probably because it has been charged for a while.
Then he was ready to unplug the charging cable.
"When he plugged in the power supply to charge before, Mr. Zhang Tian was lucky not to be electrocuted."
"But when it came time to pull out the charging head of the mobile phone, his hands were stained with water, and his skin was soaked with water, which increased the risk of electric shock, so..."
"Unfortunately, it caused an electric shock."
"The charger of the mobile phone, the internal circuit is mostly a switching power supply type, when its internal components are damaged, it will automatically stop working without output, and the charged mobile phone will not be affected and damaged."
"So even if the charging head is scorched due to an electric shock, the phone is still intact."
"In the end, Mr. Zhang Tian survived the electrocution."
He thought he would be safe when he broke free of the wire, so he picked up his phone and walked back to the theater to watch a movie.
Conan's analysis pointed out another completely different possibility.
Miss Gray Plains didn't have time to give a speech before.
At this time, he pouted very unceremoniously:
"If there is a record of answering the phone, it doesn't mean that he didn't commit suicide, right?"
"He could have answered the phone and then committed suicide, and there is no contradiction between the two."
"Actually, it doesn't matter."
It was not Conan who refuted this question, but Lin Xinyi.
He shook his head and said to Gray Plains:
"The important thing is that this speculation has overturned Conan's previous reasoning."
"Those few drops of water can be left by Mr. Zhang Tian when he was in a daze, or it can be said that he left them when he answered the phone - in short, we have no way to prove that Mr. Zhang Tian committed suicide on this basis."
"According to the principle of 'no doubt of guilt':"
"If we can't find strong evidence, we can only give priority to determining that Mr. Zhang Tian's electrocution was an accident, not a malicious 'suicide insurance fraud'."
"Hmm," Conan nodded.
But then he added with a complicated expression:
"Actually, I still have evidence that he didn't commit suicide."
"No... It can't be considered evidence. ”
"Strictly speaking, it can't be said to be reasoning, it can only be said to be... My personal feelings. ”
Conan held up Mr. Zhang Tian's mobile phone and said:
"The person who called him before his accident was his daughter."
"I think, as a father, after receiving a call from his daughter and hearing the voice of a loved one.... I'm afraid it's hard to make up your mind to say goodbye to this world, right? ”
Such inferences are entirely emotional.
It's not so much that he's got the answer.
Rather, he prefers to believe that the man is not desperate enough to leave his daughter who has just passed the word and leave this world.
But after glancing at the mobile phone, Gray Yuan Wai shook his head helplessly:
"Detective, I'm afraid you're wrong this time."
"Didn't you notice... The call record of that mobile phone was only 10 seconds. ”
"And you have done experiments before, to naturally form those few droplets of water when you are still and still, Mr. Zhang Tian has to stand there for at least 2 minutes."
"If Mr. Zhang Tian was standing next to the power socket to answer his daughter's phone at that time, those water droplets would be formed..."
"Time doesn't seem right, right?"
Gray Plains raises a fatal question, and it seems that he is about to overturn all of what Conan said before.
But Conan shook his head: "No. ”
"Mr. Zhang Tian did only talk to his daughter on the phone for 10 seconds."
But he hung up the phone and continued to send several text messages to his daughter.
"If he is also standing in place when he is texting, charging and sending at the same time, then the time can be right."
Conan's finger quickly pulled up the text message sending record from the phone:
I saw that after the end of the call, it didn't take long for Mr. Zhang Tian and his daughter to chat again through text messages.
"This..."Gray Yuan Ai and Lin Xinyi were faintly puzzled: "Since Mr. Zhang Tian has already connected the phone, why did he hang up the phone after only 10 seconds of talking, and instead text his daughter?" ”
"It's simple."
"Just read the text messages of Mr. Zhang Tian and his daughter, and you can roughly think of the reason."
As he spoke, Conan clicked into the detailed text message sending interface:
I saw that the text message sending record was like this:
Daughter: "Dad, why didn't you move at all, and the phone suddenly hung up?" Is the phone microphone broken? ”
Zhang Tian: "It's okay... I'm watching a movie in the screening room right now, and the phone calls affect people, so we text and talk. ”
Daughter: "Dad, are you watching a movie?" What are you looking at? “
Zhang Tian: "I'm looking at Gomera, haha..."
Daughter: "Gomera, which one?" ”
Zhang Tian: "Gomerra's Counterattack"
Daughter: "This one is the most exciting!" ”
“......”
What follows is a few inconsequential sentences about the plot of the movie.
Finally, Mr. Zhang Tian ended this conversation with one sentence:
"Tell your mom that I'll go home after watching the movie today, and we'll talk about Gomera then."
"Hmmm! (*^▽^*)”
The conversation ends with her daughter's happy emoji.
"This...."Lin Xinyi and Gray Yuan were silent for a while.
They all faintly discovered the strangeness revealed in this conversation:
"Something isn't right."
Zhang Tian said that he was watching a movie in the screening hall at the time, so it was inconvenient to call, so he could only send text messages.
"But if that's the case... How could he be in the break room, charging and answering the phone?"
Gray Yuan was aware of the contradiction between the content of this conversation and Conan's reasoning.
So, she turned her puzzled gaze to Conan.
And Lin Xinyi immediately raised the doubts in his heart:
"And the explanation given by Mr. Zhang Tian himself is still very far-fetched."
"Because 'talking on the phone in the screening room affects others,' he doesn't call and texts his daughter."
"For this reason..."
He paused slightly, and asked with a strange expression:
"According to Mr. Zhang Tian's character and character, is he really worried that talking on the phone will affect others watching movies?"
"When did this guy's moral qualities become so high?"
"Of course he didn't suddenly become polite."
Conan shook his head and explained in detail:
"Actually, the explanation that Mr. Zhang Tian sent in the text message is just an excuse he made up randomly."
"He was actually answering the phone in the lounge, not in the screening room, and not watching a movie at all."
"Otherwise..."
Conan pointed to the call time record and said:
"At the time he was on the phone with his daughter, the movie was showing intense footage of Gomera destroying the city."
"The sound in the screening room was loud."
"If Mr. Zhang Tian was watching a movie in the screening hall at that time, it would be impossible for his daughter not to hear the sound effects of the movie during that 10-second call."
"But she said, 'There's no movement from there?'"
"They even asked, 'Is the phone microphone broken?'"
"It can be seen that during the 10 seconds she spoke to Mr. Zhang Tian, she did not hear any sound."
"In that case, Mr. Zhang Tian was definitely not in the screening hall at that time."
"He's lying to his daughter."
"But..."Lin Xinyi was still a little puzzled: "Why? ”
"He was obviously in the lounge, but he had to find such a lame reason to hang up the phone and communicate with his daughter by text message."
"Is it any good for him to do this?"
"Because—" Conan's tone became more and more complicated.
He sighed lightly and said with emotion:
"Because Mr. Zhang Tian can't talk to his daughter normally."
"Because he had just experienced the failure of the acquisition at the time, he was very emotional."
"Because at that time... I'm crying. ”
"He doesn't want his daughter to hear his cry, and he doesn't want his family to know the despair they're going through at the moment."
"So Mr. Zhang Tian remained silent for the 10 seconds he answered the phone."
"At first, he probably wanted to suppress his crying and talk to his daughter in a normal voice."
But after finding that he couldn't control his choking and was about to cry, he had to hang up the phone in a hurry, so as not to let his daughter hear the crying and worry about his situation.
Soon, my daughter sent a text message with some concern to inquire about the situation.
Mr. Zhang Tian took advantage of the situation and responded to his daughter's greetings with a text message.
Conan spoke his guess.
"If I'm not mistaken..."
"Mr. Zhang Tian probably didn't wash his hands before answering the phone."
"The water stains on his hands, the water droplets on the ground, probably not the water we imagined at the beginning."
"It's... Tears of sorrow. ”