There was a commotion in the streets of the shopping mall in the crowded commercial district, with several police cars parked downstairs and clothing stores on the fourth floor also cordoned off, and many customers stopped outside to watch.

Seeing the scene of the police's close investigation, someone asked curiously, "What happened?" ”

"I don't know, it looks like someone was killed."

"Huh? No way?! ”

"Really, there were still people screaming before, and a lot of people ran out......"

Yuan Zi and Xiaolan stood in the crowd, their faces slightly bulging as they swept over the scene.

Really, why did you run into a case halfway through?

I knew I wouldn't have brought Conan's little ghost here......

In the fitting room inside the clothing store, the short-haired female president who was flying and domineering before collapsed in the middle fitting room, her pupils dilated, a rope wrapped around her neck, a deep strangulation mark on her neck, and a Yoshikawa line scar scratched by her fingers when she struggled.

Just like the demon prophesied, the short-haired female president was indeed harvested by death......

"The victim was Ritsuko Hara, 41 years old, the president of a cosmetics company, and the cause of death was suffocation caused by neck compression.

According to the coroner, the killer put a rope around the victim's neck and in turn strangled the victim on his back. ”

Gao Cheng and Conan listened to Takagi explain the case on the side, their faces strange.

Although it was a murder case, there didn't seem to be much fluctuation in my heart.

It's just that something really happened by accident......

The most common relationships in Japanese homicides, such as superiors and subordinates, colleagues, husband and wife, and friends...... Basically, it happens between acquaintances, after all, there are not so many opportunities for strangers to have conflicts.

But it's not that if there is a conflict between acquaintances, you will definitely kill someone, and there are many people who have a grudge against their bosses, maybe even Takagi has a grudge against Twilight, and choosing to kill is too extreme.

The police will conduct a social investigation as soon as possible, and unless it is an exchange killing, they will be able to find you immediately.

"Who was the first to find the body?" Twilight asked, looking at the corpse.

"I, it's me," the freckles clerk was a little nervous, "I'm the clerk in this store, Nanbu Reya, Miss Zhihara said to let me help look at a few sets of clothes, but I didn't come out for a long time after entering the fitting room, I called her a few times and didn't respond, so I opened the curtain and looked at the ......"

"Hmm," Twilight asked, looking at the two fitting rooms on the left and right of the crime scene, "Was there anyone in the fitting room next door to her?" ”

The short-haired female president's attendant took the initiative to say: "The left is what I'm using, I refer to the former president's subordinates, called Hachimaki, and the president often asks me to accompany her when he comes to buy things." ”

The fat aunt also snorted: "Anyway, you will ask me, so I will say it first, I am in the fitting room on the right." ”

"You are?"

"My name is Futatsuka Asaoyo, and I have nothing to do with the woman who was killed, just an ordinary guest."

The fat aunt faced Twilight with a gloomy face.

"And this fitting room on the right seems to be being used before I go in......"

"Like? Didn't you see that person? Twilight wondered.

"yes, all I saw was a pair of white sandals at the door of the fitting room......"

"I saw those sandals too!"

Following the words of the fat aunt, the female attendant and the female clerk hurriedly testified.

"And me!"

Takagi looked cautious, and there was another suspect present: "How many customers were there in the store at that time?" ”

"There must be four or five of them," said the clerk, "and when I heard that someone had been killed, everyone didn't want to have anything to do with it, so they all went back......

The other suspects who suddenly appeared did not attract Gao Cheng's attention, and he had a hunch that the killing of this annoying female president was most likely among these people.

The biggest suspect is a female attendant named Hachijuan.

The reason is very simple, the female follower who is most sure of the female president's itinerary is the female follower, and the motivation is also the largest female follower.

Whether it's a female clerk or a fat aunt, it's just a verbal dispute with the female president, and I haven't seen it a few times, but the female attendant is different, and it looks like she's not a little resentful.

And then there is the death message that the female president tried to leave before she died......

That's right, the female president left a mysterious message with a gesture.

The thumb and forefinger of the left hand are cocked, and the right hand is clenched into a fist as if to hide the lipstick-stained thumb.

The palms of both hands have clear nail marks, so it can't be forged by the murderer, it must be evidence left by the female president when she was about to lose consciousness.

At first, the left hand was still hidden in the right bosom, as if pointing to the fitting room where the eight rolls were.

Of course, this is not referring to the murderer, after all, if the murderer sees it, he will definitely change the direction of the corpse, and the biggest possibility is that it represents the number, because the female attendant Hachimaki and the fat aunt have numbers in their names.

Gao Cheng subconsciously thought of the number "8", Huaxia's eight is using this gesture, and it happens that there are five stars on the nail of the thumb of his right hand, plus he deliberately stains it with lipstick, which is very similar to referring to the five-star red flag.

Only Huaxia can make gestures with one hand with numbers less than 10.

But these are guesses, and death messages are difficult to use as evidence, let alone gestures.

"Has this female president ever been to China?" Gao Cheng asked back.

"Ahh......h What's wrong? ”

"It's fine."

Gao Cheng smiled and didn't ask any more.

The reason why he is not good at cracking codes is mainly because the code is a bit floating, and the subjectivity is particularly strong, if it is not a systematic code, sometimes it will be very unrigorous.

However, if there is any evidence, it is not difficult to unravel the code, and now he is very sure that the death message of the female president refers to eight volumes.

The question is how exactly it was done, and according to the situation on the spot, the female president did not make any noise.

"yes," Twilight said strangely, "Normally, if someone breaks in during a fitting session, they should shout loudly, at least when they're tied around their necks...... Brother Chenghu, what do you think? ”

Gao Cheng shook his head: "Police Department, let's understand the situation at the time first, maybe we will be able to know the truth after reproducing the process of the crime." ”

"That's right," Twilight turned to the fat aunts, "and you'll go to another room for a separate investigation." ”

The first to be questioned was the freckled female clerk, because she was the only one receiving the female president, Gao Cheng also followed into the lounge temporarily used for interrogation.

After confirming who the murderer was, the direction of the follow-up investigation was quite clear, at least Gao Cheng was much easier than Conan and Shira Zhenjun, who were investigating together.

His reasoning ability has surpassed Conan, and even if he has stepped into the level of Kudo Yusaku, basically there will be no problem with this kind of small case.

Conan lacks reasoning methods, many times he solves crimes with amazing talent, most of the genius detectives in this world are basically like this, and the comprehensive reasoning method of observation and deduction is very rare, so it will seem quite passive, and it is easy to be blinded by the case.

But Gao Cheng is different, because his talent was limited at the beginning, so he attaches great importance to methods, and can not only go deep into the case but also jump out of the case, and the use of the deductive method has been perfected, and he also knows how to deal with difficulties when encountering them.

It's not like Conan, who often needs a certain sentence or something to remind you, and then suddenly has a flash of inspiration.

The more complicated the case, the more obvious the difference, even in the current small case, he determined from all angles that the follower girl Hachijuan was the murderer.

The final decisive thing is the conditions of the crime, as long as the prisoner uses the technique, it must be arranged, and this time the arrangement is the order in which several people enter the fitting room.

"The first to go was Miss Hachimaki," said the clerk, "because she said she forgot where the fitting room was, so I took her to the fitting room." ”

"Were there a pair of white sandals back then?" Twilight asked.

"Yes, it's already at the door of the fitting room on the first and right," the clerk nodded, "and then Miss Hara, who entered the empty fitting room in the middle...... In the end, Miss Nitsuka didn't come out of the fitting room for half a day, and after a while, she found that someone was gone. ”

Gao Cheng looked thoughtful.

Hachimaki chose the fitting room on the far left, and the fitting room on the right was always crowded, so the female president pointed out that she could only choose the middle fitting room......

The white sandals were so weird that it seemed to be just to let the female president enter the fitting room in the middle, and they disappeared in the end as strange, and no one saw the owner of the white sandals from beginning to end.

In fact, it was just a pair of sandals outside the fitting room.

If you don't guess wrong, the crime should have happened during this time, when there were actually only eight rolls and the female president in the 3 fitting rooms.

Since the female clerk accidentally found the body, which means that Hachimaki didn't have much time to deal with the evidence, it wasn't too troublesome to investigate......