Chapter 354: I don't understand this thing at all
"Don't you know yet?" Yamamura smiled, "He's ......"
"Detective Joto?" An exclamation suddenly sounded among the residents watching from the outside of the room, "Is it really you, Detective Joto?" β
"Huh?"
Gao Cheng turned around and found that Reika Rushui, who had not been seen for a long time, was actually in the crowd, wearing a colorful yukata, which was very eye-catching.
"Miss Reika? How did you end up here? Gao Cheng said in surprise.
"I'm here today to shoot the location!" Reika Hasamizu flushed with excitement, and looked at the room curiously, "I heard that there was a murder case, so I ......"
"Officer Yamamura!" An forensic officer suddenly shouted, "We found a mobile phone in the victim's coat pocket, and there is only one call record in it. β
"Of course." Officer Yamamura took the phone and called it back.
Gao Cheng turned his head and saw that the mobile phone rang for a while, and he was successfully connected.
"Hey, Duff? What about that opportunity to make a lot of money? If it goes well, let me know...... By the way, your landlord called, and he said that if you don't pay the rent again, he won't renew your contract and just blast you out! Are you listening? β
On the other side of the phone was a man's voice, and before the mountain village could ask, a person said to himself: "Ah, I'm sorry, there is a guest coming to the door, you might as well call later!" β
Yamamura opened his mouth wide and held his mobile phone, looked at Gao Cheng with a dry smile and said, "He, he hung up...... But at least we know that the deceased's name is Sendaf......"
Uncle Maori asked, "How do you know his name is Sendaf?" Didn't the other party just call him Duff? β
"There's a sticker on the phone," Yamamura pointed to the back of the phone, "Look, there's his last name on it." β
Uncle Maori snorted: "It's not a child, he still sticks this kind of thing?" β
"It's not just children who put stickers," Xiaolan interjected, "I have stickers too!" β
"You're still a kid, of course it's okay."
"What?"
"Stickers?" Gao Cheng looked at the Maori father and daughter, and his expression was a little dazed.
If the murderer is among the hotel staff, maybe the other party is the person who is really related to the man in red, and the mustache who was killed this time was just hired......
If you think about it this way, the contents of the suitcase are very important.
"Officer Yamamura," one officer reported, "has searched and found nothing suspicious." β
"Really?" Yamamura looked through the newspaper in distress, "Could it be that there was only one sports newspaper in the suitcase in the first place?" Is there anything special about this newspaper? β
"If you want to say that it is special, it is that there are more reports on Akagi Maru......"
"Ahh It's a top 5 written in front of Akagimaru's name. β
Uncle Maori took the newspaper and explained, "That's the meaning of the first 5th place!" Because Akagi Maru was a team in the east at the time, it was the fifth place in the east front! β
"What's ahead?" Conan continued, "Does this have anything to do with the Alpha Forest?" β
"How can it be related?"
"What about the Bodhisattva who fell to the ground before?"
"No, no! It doesn't matter at all! Uncle Maori yelled impatiently, "Stinky boy, where are there so many problems? β
Yamamura wiped his sweat and helped explain, "The front refers to the sumo wrestlers in the lower divisions of Yokonet, Daiseki, Sekiwaki, and Kotsu, and the top five are the fifth in this division. β
Gao Cheng asked the forensic staff next to him to carefully check the fingerprints at the scene, and then followed to the newspaper.
He doesn't understand sumo wrestling in Japan at all, and he feels like two fat men in the Roshan type are pushing and wrestling each other in crotch pants.
However, if there is any code in this newspaper, Conan must be easy to see......
Seeing Conan pretending to be a child and innocently asking, Gao Cheng looked at the gray plain next to him who didn't speak with his hands behind his back as if asking for help.
Gray Yuan collapsed his eyelids, looking at the battle information that occupied a large space in the newspaper, except for the rankings, each name was followed by a black and white circle.
White represents victory, black represents defeat, and only the eighth game of the Akagi Maru is black.
"It's like playing flying chess?" Gray Plains coldly interrupted Conan's questioning.
"Huh?"
"The first five means five steps to the east, and the eighth circle is black, which means eight more steps to the right......"
Noticing that Uncle Maori was looking at him dumbfounded, Gray Yuan calmly walked to Gao Cheng's side, and grabbed the corner of Gao Cheng's clothes like a little girl: "That's what Brother Chenghu said." β
"Uh......"
The corners of Gao Cheng's eyes twitched, and he was a little overwhelmed by suddenly pretending to be a little girl like this......
"But," Yamamura looked at Gao Cheng suspiciously, "if this is a code in the newspaper, what does that mean?" β
"This," Gao Cheng looked at the gray plain hiding behind him, and coughed lightly, "I think it's better to ask the staff in the hotel to gather first, and then talk about it carefully." β
"Okay, okay," Yamamura said to the innkeeper, thinking the same thing, "then it's troublesome, let's all go to the lobby, and I'd like to ask you for your alibi." β
"Officer Yamamura," Gao Cheng called out to Yamamura and asked in a low voice as everyone went to the lobby, "Was there a body found here four years ago?" β
"Huh?" Yamamura was stunned, "Yes, just like this time, it was also found by picking wild vegetables at the end of the staff trip, near the former fallen Tibetan Bodhisattva in the Toushen Forest." β
"And what about the man who found the body?"
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In the lobby of the hotel, the mountain village interrogated the employees one after another, and Gao Cheng took a few photos to look through.
Squished milk cartons, broken red bean bread and cigarettes, and a receipt from a convenience store...... These are all clues that determine the time of the death of the man in red.
At the same time four years ago, the body of a suicide victim was found, and the man in red was wearing a sweater that did not match the season, and his driver's license had disappeared...... These discords usually hide the truth of the case, and not only him, but Conan also noticed it early.
He had just learned from the Yamamura police officer that the body had been found four years ago by Masao Kamibo, a staff member who was in charge of picking wild vegetables at the time.
If there is no accident, Masafu Kamibo is the murderer of this murder, and it is also very likely that he was the one who killed the man in red.
Gao Cheng looked at Masafu Kamibo, a tall horse-faced young man standing beside the innkeeper.
This clerk is the one who helped the uncle and others park the car in the first place......
"Where's Conan?" Gao Cheng looked around, but he didn't look for Conan's figure, and even Uncle Maori didn't know where he went.
"I went out with that uncle just now," Xiao Ai fiddled with the computer and showed it to Gao Chengdao, "I found out that five years ago, two men intimidated a candy manufacturer to extort 100 million in cash, and then disappeared without a trace, and it seems that they fled to Gunma Prefecture." β
"So that newspaper is a treasure map?"
Gao Cheng was a little helpless, and Conan started to act without saying anything.
However, even if the treasure is found, it can only be used as evidence, and five years is too long to find evidence that Masao Kamibo killed the man in red, and it is difficult to even prove that Masafu Kamibo was one of the two intimidators back then.
Let's solve the case in front of us first......
"Hmm," Yamamura looked at the information written on the notepad with a headache, "I have generally asked, and almost no one has an exact alibi at the time of the crime......
"Of course," said the innkeeper, "everyone is working, going back and forth, and I don't hire some strange staff who watch the time all day to monitor other people's movements!" β
"Well, that's ...... too"
"Officer Yamamura!"
Gao Cheng called Conan and looked at the confused mountain village Cao.
"If it's just the murderer in this case, I already know who it is?"
"Huh?"
"Already know?"
Before the mountain village could react, it was Masao Kamibo who changed his face first, and the innkeeper and his party were at a loss, looking around but not finding Uncle Maori.
"Where's Mr. Maori?"
"Do you really know who the killer is?" The mountain village finally reacted and looked at Gao Cheng in surprise.
Not to mention that the first time he took over the case was solved with the help of Gao Cheng, Gao Fei himself is a detective with the same name as Maori Kogoro, the only regret is that it is not as enjoyable as the sleeping Kogoro reasoning, this time I thought I could see the legendary sleeping reasoning......
"Huh?" Gao Cheng felt the regretful gaze of the mountain village, and his face darkened slightly.
Is there no one left with the Gunma Prefectural Police? Is this guy really okay?
"Detective Joto," Reika Hasami squeezed to the front despite her agent's dissuasion, looking at Gao Cheng expectantly, "Have you solved the puzzle?" β
"Well, the murderer was obvious from the beginning, and the difficulty in this case is not who the murderer is......"
Gao Cheng sank down, and his eyes swept over the many hotel employees present one by one, and finally landed on Masafu Kambo.
"In fact, the results of the forensic personnel's examination just now have come out, and toe lines were found on the table and chessboard at the scene of the crime, and none of them belonged to the victim...... Mr. Jimbo, could you please cooperate in checking your toes? β
Kamibo Masafu's face turned pale: "YouβWhat do you mean by this?" Do you think I'm a murderer? β
Gao Cheng said calmly: "The forensic personnel have already tried, if you want to lift a person to the height of the victim's hanging, you must stand very close to the ceiling, and the things used to raise it at that time are chessboards and tables...... Mr. Jimbo, you probably didn't think that in addition to fingerprints, toe lines can also be used as evidence, right? β
A trace of sweat ran down his forehead: "Wait, wait, it's normal to leave my footprints on it, because I paddled my feet when I changed the lights in the room...... I'm not lying, I don't believe you can look at the electric light, it must have my fingerprints on it! β
"It does have your fingerprints on it," Gao Cheng chuckled, "but the fingerprints are covered with a thick layer of dust, so when did you change the lamp?" β
"This ......"
The innkeeper looked at Masafu Kamibo in disbelief: "Jimbo, is this true?" You ......"
"But...... Isn't that weird? Masafu Kamibo met everyone's eyes, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and smiled dryly, "Why did you just think of me as a murderer?" I think I'm sure of it......"
Gao Cheng looked at Masafu Kamibo, who was almost collapsed: "At the beginning, Xiaolan forgot her mobile phone in the car, and after you helped take it back to the hall, you directly found Uncle Maori without thinking about it, and said, 'This is Ling Yuan's, right?' 'Isn't that right?' β
"Haha, what's wrong with that? I ...... because I saw a sticker on the back of my phone that says 'Maoriland'."
Masafu Kamibo argued, but his face changed suddenly.
Gao Cheng paused and helped answer: "That's right, you knew from the beginning that Uncle Maori was the real Maori Kogoro." β