Chapter 40: Interrogation, the Duke Reappears
Outside 2101, after the police investigated the scene of the incident, they were taken to the room where Ehara lived by Conan and Mao Lilan, but although they looked for the hotel and got the key, the inside was locked with an anti-theft lock and could not be opened at all.
"Huh?" went to the Emerald Bar to find a gap in Maori, Henggou heard Gao Cheng's identity, and couldn't help but be surprised, "That teenager was a detective just now?" β
Talking about Gao Cheng, it was the pair of detective fans who acted as witnesses, Wen Yan looked at each other and nodded: "I don't know if it's a famous detective, but he's a modern left-handed person!" β
Speaking of modern left characters, Yokozo, who is a fan of Maori Kogoro, had a little impression and suddenly realized: "I remember that I did hear it some time ago, and I was able to be reported with Maori detectives, no wonder I was investigating at the scene of the murder just now, and said it was murder." β
Conan next to him moved his ears: Joto has already checked the scene?!
The group woke up the drunk Maori Kogoro in the bar and returned to the outside of the Gangwon room, when Gao Cheng also arrived here and was a little surprised to see the two detective girls.
"Joto-kun," as soon as he saw Gao Cheng, Yokogou said enthusiastically, "I was recently transferred to Yokozo of the Kanagawa Police Station, and I'm really sorry just now, I didn't recognize you." β
"Hello." Gao Cheng was stunned, after the ditch in front of him was no longer a police shelf, it was almost the same as before, and he felt like a good old man like Officer Takagi.
"Anyway, let's find a way to get in first." Maori Kogoro looked impatient, pushed open the door, and sure enough, he saw that the security latch was fastened inside, and he couldn't get in unless he used violence.
"Officer Henggou!" A police officer hurriedly arrived, "The chainsaw you asked for has been found!" β
"Good! Cut the latch off! β
Henggou was overjoyed when he saw this, and hurriedly asked the police officer to step forward, and with a piercing chainsaw sound, the door latch was broken in a short time.
The group entered the room one after another and found that there was still a pile of clothes on the floor at the door, and even the room card was left next to it.
"This is what Mr. Ehara is wearing today...... I even lost my room card here......"
Gao Cheng glanced around and walked to the open balcony.
It was still very windy outside, but the white glove was stuck in the middle of the railing, hunting with the wind.
Yokozo also walked to the balcony, glanced at the open-air restaurant below, and found that the scene of the crime was directly below, and inhaled: "It seems that Mr. Ehara probably fell from here......"
"That's right," Maori Kogoro knelt on the ground, his face was blue and he didn't dare to look down, but pointed to the white glove and said, "There is still a glove on the railing, it should be a simple accident, he may want to disguise himself as the Duke of the Night to go to the room below to be scary, speaking of the downstairs room......"
"It's my room," Gao Cheng interrupted, "but it shouldn't be possible for ordinary people to do such a stupid thing on the 21st floor, right?" β
"Hmph, didn't you see Mr. Ehara getting drunk before? It's not strange what a drunk man does, right? Mori Kogoro said dissatisfied.
"This kind of inference can indeed be made without examining the condition of the body, but," Gao Cheng looked back at the clothes scattered in the doorway, "There are many things wrong with the Duke of Night's outfit, obviously someone else helped him put it on, someone deliberately dressed Mr. Ehara like that and then pushed him downstairs, making it look like he died accidentally......"
"What?"
"This kid ......" Mori Kogoro gritted his teeth, "Officer Yokomi, I'll go and inspect the body myself!" β
"Okay." Because Yokozo had seen the magical reasoning of the "sleeping Maori Kogoro" before, he trusted Maori Kogoro very much, and immediately left a few connoisseurs and followed him to the open-air restaurant.
Gao Cheng didn't go out, just frowned and stood on the balcony thinking.
If Gangwon hadn't fallen on his own, it would have been a murder in a locked room...... How the hell did the murderer do it? The security latch was fastened from the inside, how did the killer leave the room?
Jump to the balcony below?
Gao Cheng took a look and jumped on the balcony of his room to leave, after all, he was not in the room at the time, and the glass door of the balcony was not locked...... But it's too thrilling to think about.
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In the temporary interrogation room, after Mr. Ehara's body was placed in the hotel office on the other side, all the members of the tour group, including Gao CD, were called over.
Gao Cheng's alibi was quite sufficient, and he was ruled out of suspicion at the first time, and assisted in the investigation with Mori Kogoro.
I don't know if it's because of age, Yokomizo, a Maori fan, actually let Maori Kogoro take the lead like a little brother, and he stood behind Maori with others.
Of course, Maori, who had been a criminal police officer, was really good at interrogation.
"So, at around 10 o'clock at the time of the crime, Mr. Maeda was at the observation deck on the top floor with Xiaolan and Conan?" Maori asked, looking at Satoshi Maeda.
Satoshi Maeda nodded: "Yes, I looked at the time when I was separated from them, and it was already past 10 o'clock......"
"But you were the one who watched the time at the time, right?"
Yokozo was dissatisfied with Maeda's vague testimony and shouted out the door again, "Okay, next, Miss Uejo!" β
The interrogation gradually progressed to the end, and Gao Cheng stood by and watched.
Uejo's alibi is also insufficient, although it is said that he has been at a bar with Mori, but Mori was already drunk at the time.
Shiro Konno said that he had been using the computer in his room, and Akiko Sayama said that he was watching TV in his room, which was also not considered an alibi.
However, the absence of Mr. Jincheng and his servant Lin Jingjiang was very clear, because he had been observing the pair of master and servant at that time......
After the interrogation, everyone had already gone back to their rooms, and Gao Cheng did not accompany Maori to check his testimony in the interrogation room, but thought about going to the Emerald Bar on the second floor.
At that time, he also saw Hideko Kamijo with Mori, but she soon returned to the open-air restaurant, and it was unclear if Uejo had left......
"You said Miss Kamijo drugged Detective Maori's wine?" At the bar counter, Gao Cheng asked the male bartender about the situation, and he looked surprised.
"Yes, if you're talking about the sexy woman, I've seen her drugged," the bartender was impressed, "and the mustachioed man fell asleep right after drinking......
"And after that?" Gao Cheng continued to ask, and he knew that no one would ignore Shangjo dressed like that.
"Hmm...... She stayed here after that," the bartender recalled, "and it seemed like she only went to the bathroom once and came back about five minutes later, and by the way, she came back shortly before the incident......
"That way, she has an alibi."
Gao Cheng walked out of the bar with his hands in his pockets, feeling a little messed up in his mind.
In the hotel elevator, Akiko Sayama entered the elevator with Moriran and Conan in annoyance, and pressed the button on the 19th floor.
"I'm really angry, what is that detective doing with your father? They must have thought I was the murderer! Except for me, everyone else is also suspicious! β
"My dad wouldn't be like this," Xiaolan was embarrassed, "When you were in the room, didn't there be a waiter?" β
"If so, I just said it!" Sayama folded his arms in annoyance, "Speaking of which, I did call the counter once......"
"Did you call the counter?" Conan asked, "What time is it?" β
"It's about 10 o'clock, I'll ask them to call me tomorrow morning to wake me up......"
"Ding!" The elevator on the 19th floor opened, slowly revealing a blood-stained smiling face, Akiko Sayama was stunned, and her face turned pale instantly.
"How, how could it be ......?"
"Duke Dark?!"
The atmosphere in the elevator suddenly froze, and several people looked at the strange man who seemed to be resurrected from the dead in horror, and in the blood-stained strange mask, two cold eyes made people shudder.
"Stand back!" Xiaolan gritted her teeth and did not retreat, and took the initiative to clench her fist in the middle.
Facing the terrifying smiling mask, she was engrossed, and she raised her legs and kicked violently like a dantian: "Drinkββ! β
The strange man was silent, just leaned back ghostly, fluttering around the whirlwind kick that swept across the face of Lan, and then avoided a frontal kick under Lan's incredulous gaze.
"What?" Xiaolan was stunned, gritted her teeth and stepped forward to raise her leg again and kick it with all her might.
"Drink and ββ!"
"Whew!" During the fierce wind attack, the Dark Duke turned sideways slightly, gently pushed Xiao Lan's kick away with one hand, and turned around and ran away while Xiao Lan was stunned
"How is that possible?" Xiao Lan retracted her body with a shocked expression, and looked at the back of the Dark Duke in a daze.
"Sister Xiaolan!" Conan chased out of the elevator and shouted anxiously at Xiaolan who was in a daze, "What are you doing, Sister Xiaolan?!" He ran away! β
"That person ......" Xiao Lan's eyes trembled, and her heart was in chaos.
"The Duke of the Night" saw through her attacks completely, and the only one in the tour group who had this kind of skill was her idol, Satoshi Maeda, the national karate champion...... She couldn't accept this kind of thing, and the person she knew would be the murderer......
"Ahh Gao Chengcai left the Emerald Bar and suddenly sneezed.
"Oops, it can't be because of the cool breeze just now, right?"
Depressedly touched his nose, and was about to go back to his room first, when there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps at the entrance of the stairs, and in a blink of an eye, a black figure rushed down the stairs and ran towards him.
"Huh?!"