There are several police cars parked outside the Italian restaurant, and two policemen are guarding the door, and the area has been fenced off, and the store is also busy at the moment.

The first people to be asked were the first people to find the body, Yoko Okino and Takasuke Higo.

"Do you know the victim?" Twilight asked, surprised.

"Asuka is the senior of our Konan High School soccer club," Higo explained, "I came here with Miss Yoko today to make an appointment with him, and I wanted to ask him for something. ”

"Well," Twilight frowned, "you said Mr. Asuka sent an email asking the waiter to take you to the warehouse, so why don't you contact you directly?" ”

"I don't know," Bihu sighed, "Maybe it's because I can't be contacted, I don't know where my phone was, but I brought it here." ”

Yoko Okino followed and said, "I'm not very familiar with Senior Asuka, and my phone just ran out of battery. ”

Twilight's eyebrows twitched.

One by one...... What a coincidence.

It doesn't seem like there's anything to ask ......

With a deep groan, Twilight planned to ask the restaurant staff again.

And then there was the ...... that happened to be on the scene again

Twilight looked angrily at Mori Kogoro who was guarding Yoko Okino next to him, and Gao Cheng, who didn't know what he was looking for since just now.

"Anyway," Twilight said to the staff, "I've already asked you about it, but to be on the safe side, let's ask them separately." ”

Gao Cheng happened to come out of the kitchen with his hands in his hands, and during the time of the police investigation, he had unraveled the criminal modus operandi and found key evidence in the kitchen.

Now it seems that many cases in Conan are actually quite simple, and the murderer is at the scene, which is not only convenient to lock the suspect, but also greatly reduces the difficulty of solving the case.

The most important thing is that there are only a few criminal geniuses among these suspects, and ordinary criminals are just ordinary people in the final analysis.

After the initial questioning, he was able to determine that the fat sommelier was the murderer, mainly because the man asked the waitress to go to the lounge with him to find someone, and asked the waitress to go to the warehouse alone.

Compared with the warehouse with many shelves and many dead corners, the lounge that is clear at a glance actually arranges two people...... No, it's strange to arrange so many people to go to the manager of Asuka itself.

The restaurant is not very big, and the stairs next to the lounge are underground warehouses, and it is enough to go alone if you are looking for someone.

There is a reason for everything, which is why he doubts the taster.

The sommelier's arrangement is to let a few people make sure that the store manager is not in the restaurant first, and go to the lounge with the male waiter, in addition to letting the male waiter follow to confirm that there is no one in the lounge, but also to do tricks in the lounge.

The second time I was looking for someone, the taster went to the warehouse alone, the male waiter went to the toilet, and the waitress found the "store manager" sleeping on the sofa with a blanket in the lounge.

At first glance, there seems to be no problem, and it is difficult to find anything wrong in the game, but it is a big problem when compared in this way.

Combined with the last time, the sommelier spontaneously went to the lounge to wake up the "store manager", just when the waiter received an email to take the two of them to the warehouse, and then found the body.

The most taboo thing for detectives is to have preconceived ideas, otherwise it is easy to fall into the trap designed by the criminal.

For Gao Cheng, the key to solving the case is to grasp the psychology of the criminal.

The trap set by the prisoner in this case is that the "store manager" has slept in the lounge, and from the taster's point of view, he can only go to the warehouse and kill someone a second time, so it is important for the waitress to see the store manager sleeping in the lounge.

It is also because this point of tasting confuses the time of the crime and establishes an alibi for the taster.

As long as the purpose of the prisoner is confirmed, even if it is not clear what tactics the prisoner used, it is still easy to see from the logic alone.

The sommelier arranged to find someone for the first time, went into the lounge with the male waiter, and did some kind of tricking before leaving, and when the second time he was looking for someone, the waitress saw the "store manager" sleeping with a blanket, and he himself went to the warehouse to kill the real store manager.

Finally, for the third time, the sommelier went to the lounge to put the finishing touches on it, and at the same time used the store manager's mobile phone to send an email to the male waiter, so that the body could be found.

Of course, there are still some subtle suspicions in the middle, but none of them affect the whole, and Gao Cheng has cracked the criminal modus operandi, and even found key evidence to prove that the wine taster is the murderer.

Just now, he found the missing mobile phone of the victim's store manager Asuka and the compressed bag used to hold clothes in the kitchen garbage bin, and there was a punctured hole in the bag.

At first, there was actually a compression bag under the sofa blanket, and the taster's hands and feet only pierced the compression bag to inflate and expand.

……

In the lounge, Twilight has already asked a lot of things through questioning, the waitress is the waitress's ex-boyfriend, and the waitress is now dating the manager of Asuka.

In addition, the door to the lounge and the warehouse needs a key to open, and the key is hung on the wall of the hallway entrance, and the staff can see it, and it is said that it is because some employees have sneaked into the backyard to smoke, and the manager of Asuka Store, who has always hated the smell of smoke, changed the door with a lock.

"The police department," Takagi said to Twilight, "there are indeed a few keys hanging in a conspicuous position at the entrance to the hallway, in addition to the lounge and warehouse, there is also the key to the back door, and only the Asuka store manager has a spare key. ”

"Hmm," Twilight said, looking at Gao Cheng who had followed in, and turned back to ask, "Is the spare key on the victim?" ”

"It's in the pocket of your pants, but the phone is missing, and now forensic personnel are looking for it in the warehouse." Takagi said.

Gao Cheng stood quietly in the back, and it wasn't until Twilight asked the sommelier that he moved his eyelids, identified the murderer, and the evidence had been handed over to the forensic personnel to investigate the fingerprints, and the next thing to do was to solve the subtle doubts.

The once famous J-League football player, the seniors of Takayu Higo and Yoko Okino, was killed like this after retiring, and he also wanted to know why.

It may seem like a tragedy at the moment......

"Huh? When I go to the warehouse? The fat sommelier sat down across from Twilight and replied, "The manager wasn't really in there at that time, and I stood at the door and shouted several times......"

Twilight crossed her arms and said in a deep voice, "In other words, it's possible that Store Manager Asuka was killed in the warehouse at that time, right?" ”

"That's right," the taster wondered, "but isn't the manager sleeping in the backyard?" Hongjiang and I also saw it, and the companion didn't lie. ”

"The problem is that I didn't see my face, and maybe I stuffed something under the blanket."

Twilight also doesn't fully believe the testimony of the waitress Ryiko Field, but she can't say that there is anything wrong with it.

"By the way, I heard that you had a fight with the store manager last night?" Twilight asked.

"Recently, the business has not been doing well, and the manager wants to change to a cheaper wine," the sommelier did not deny, but explained, "but our goal is to be an authentic Italian restaurant, so I said that it was not appropriate.

It's true that we had a fight, but this shop belongs to the owner, and I can only do what he wants......"

The fat man was very calm, he couldn't see anything unusual at all, and he only mentioned the male waiter about the police finding cigarette butts in the toilet, saying that the male waiter was scolding the store manager for smoking in the lounge, so he often secretly went to the toilet to smoke.

"In the toilet, it may also be smoked by a guest who comes to eat, so he can get away with it, by the way, he volunteered to go to the toilet to find the store manager, probably because he didn't want us to smell the smoke." The fat man recalled.

Gao Cheng listened to the taster's lies, and walked out of the lounge to greet Takayu Higo and Yoko Okino, who were waiting anxiously outside.

"Detective Joto," Yoko Okino quickly asked when she saw Gao Cheng come out, "What the hell is going on?" Are there any results? ”

Gao Cheng's gaze swept over Yoko Okino, looked at him with a rather solemn expression, and looked nervously at Takayu Higo: "According to the current interrogation results, the police can probably only identify the criminals as Miss Yoko and Mr. Higo." ”

"Huh?!" Yoko Okino exclaimed, "How, how come? ”

"On the surface, that's right," Gao Cheng smiled slightly, "because at the time of the crime, only the two of you had entered that underground warehouse. ”

"It's true that the waiter opened the warehouse door for us, but ......"

"I'm not done yet."

Gao Cheng stopped the anxious two of them, and the calm expression on his face unconsciously calmed down.

"Mr. Higo, can you tell us about your impression of Mr. Asuka? What kind of man is he? ”

"Asuka senior?" Bigo looked at Gao Cheng's serious appearance and was stunned, and responded, "If you are a senior of Asuka, you should say that you are honest and serious, you haven't won a red card in your sports career, you are a dignified person who plays football, and you are also very good to your juniors...... These are well-known things. ”

"I don't pay much attention to the players."

Although they hadn't met, Gao Cheng still had an image of Asuka in his mind.

Not having received a red card on the pitch is not something that ordinary people can do, and he also sensed it when he investigated the restaurant everywhere, and the retired star is clearly a strict self-disciplined person, and he is also very serious about this Italian restaurant, including the strict ban on smoking.

Since the restaurant's turnover has declined, Asuka has been living in the lounge, and the lockers are also stocked with a change of clothes and shoes, but the lounge is very clean and tidy, and it doesn't look like it's occupied at all.

Such a store manager and a fat sommelier are completely two types of people.

If he was not mistaken, the cause of this case should be Asuka Tsuya, who lives in the restaurant, discovering the secret of the fat sommelier.

It's a pity.

Gao Cheng looked outside and came back, and it seemed that he was an identification officer with results.

What he can do is to dig out the truth, find out the real culprit, and never let go of the fat taster.

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