Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

"Call the reporter in advance..." Mumu Shisan frowned, "Why would Mr. Dongdongpa do this?"

"Could he be trying to create publicity?" Takagi Wataru pondered. "He wanted to use the news that he had committed murder and surrendered to publicity to increase his popularity..."

two reporters asked.

"But Mr. Dongdongpa killed someone and will be arrested and imprisoned soon, right? At this time, does he still need to hype himself up?"

"Yeah, he's already going to jail, and the hype can't bring him any benefits, right? Or does he just want everyone to know that he is a murderer?"

Mumu Shisan looked at the two reporters, was silent for a moment, and then confessed, "Actually, it doesn't matter if I tell you in advance. Our police have already planned to let Mr. Dongdongpa leave..."

During the time when Chi Feichi took Haibara Ai out for dinner, the police investigated the movements of Liusuke and the victim Hideki Tendo this morning. Forensic personnel also conducted an autopsy on Hideki Tendo's body. and inspected the steel pipe found by the apartment manager.

After police investigation, it was found that at 8 o'clock this morning, Tendo Hideki went to a nearby convenience store to buy breakfast. He bought cup noodles and hamburgers for a bento. He also added hot water to cup noodles in the convenience store and asked the clerk to heat them for him. He had a hamburger lunch, which meant that Hideki Hideki would have breakfast when he got home.

Forensic investigators later found food residue in Hideki Tendo's stomach and determined that Hideki Tendo was killed an hour after eating cup noodles and hamburgers.

In other words, Tendo Hideki's death time should be around nine o'clock in the morning.

But according to what Rokusuke said, he left Akebono Town where he lived at around 10 am this morning and took the tram to Miwa Town. He arrived at Miwa Station at 11 am and arrived at the apartment building at about 11 am. At 10:10, he had a conflict with Hideki Tendo and killed Hideki Tendo. Then at 11:30 in the morning, he surrendered to the police station in front of Mihua Station.

The time Liusuke mentioned that the deceased was killed did not match up with the actual incident of the deceased's murder.

And Takagi Wataru saw Dongdongpa Liusuke's figure from the Mihua Station's surveillance. What is certain is that Dongdongpa Liusuke did walk out of Mihua Station at 11 o'clock in the morning.

"Mr. Dongdongpa doesn't seem to know the actual time of the deceased's murder. Around nine o'clock in the morning when the deceased was killed, Mr. Dongdongpa was visiting a painter in Akebono Town." Mouri Kogoro explained the situation seriously, "About this point , the police have also sent people to confirm with the painter, and the painter can confirm that Mr. Dongdongpa visited her in the studio at nine o'clock in the morning, brought her a cake, and chatted with her for a while."

"In addition, Mr. Dong Dong Pa said that he hit President Tendo on the head with a bat in the house. Our police initially found President Tendo's blood and hair on the bat," Takagi Wataru said seriously He added, "However, the forensics staff found that the shape of the fatal injury to Mr. Tendo's head did not match the shape of the bat. Instead, it was the steel pipe that Mr. Chi and the apartment manager found in the backyard. The forensics staff not only detected the steel pipe on it, but President Tendo’s blood, and the shape of the steel pipe matched the fatal wound on President Tendo’s head. From this point of view, the real murder weapon should be the steel pipe discarded in the backyard, not the bat that Mr. Dongdongba mentioned. !”

"Mr. Dongdongpa didn't have the time to commit the crime, and the murder weapon he identified was not the real murder weapon. He couldn't explain these doubts," Mumu Shisan concluded with a serious expression, "So, we think he is not the real murderer!"

The two reporters were surprised and ecstatic.

This is the latest news, this trip is really the right one!

"Then why did Mr. Dongdongpa surrender?"

"Could he be threatened by the real murderer and help him take the blame?"

"Or is it that he actually knew the real murderer, and in order to protect him, he took the crime of murder on himself?"

"Or is he doing this just to promote himself?"

Facing a series of questions from two reporters, Mumu Shisan replied with a serious look, "Currently, Mr. Dongdongpa has not told the police the true situation. He has not told us the reason why he surrendered, but based on what we know now, Judging from the clues, he is indeed not the murderer, and our police can only try our best to persuade him to tell us the true situation. If he is unwilling to tell us the situation, we will have to let him go back later."

"Ahem..." Mouri Kogoro put his fist in front of his lips and coughed heavily, attracting the attention of the two reporters to himself, "But judging from my experience as a famous detective, after he was exposed by us, he There was no panic or fear of retaliation, and it didn’t look like he was being threatened. Therefore, I think it is more likely that he would voluntarily accept the crime..."

"Officer Megure!"

Chiba and Nobu pushed the door open and entered the room, excitedly saying to Mumu Shisan, "I followed your instructions and went downstairs to get a lunch for Mr. Dongdongpa. He was eating the lunch just now and suddenly said he was sorry for giving it to us. It caused a lot of trouble, and then he looked very hesitant. I was thinking that if we seize the opportunity to persuade him, he might be willing to tell us the truth..."

Dong Dong Bang Liusuke's attitude relaxed, which was good news for the police.

Megure Thirteen and Takagi Wataru immediately returned to the temporary interrogation room, and Mouri Kogoro and Conan also followed with lunch boxes.

The police did not let the two reporters follow them, but the two reporters were very satisfied after getting the latest news that "Dongdongpa Liusuke was not the murderer". They stayed in the corridor and waited for the police to finish communicating with Dongdongpa Liusuke. Call the newspaper.

"Yes, the deceased was killed at nine o'clock in the morning. At that time, Mr. Dong Dong Pa was visiting a painter in Akebono Town. He had no time to commit the crime..."

"The murder weapon that Mr. Dongdongpa identified when he surrendered was also wrong. He may have deliberately protected the other party. Mr. Maoli said that the possibility of him being threatened by the real murderer was very small..."

"Now only our two newspapers know the news, but the police may let Mr. Dongdongpa leave later, and others will know the news by then, so please hurry up and get the online report out! Hurry up , President!”

"Don't worry about that! I'll keep an eye on it here. Please move faster!"

The two reporters in the corridor were talking more and more urgently, attracting the attention of the police officers who were entering and exiting the crime scene. However, the two of them did not care about other people's eyes at all. After hanging up the phone, they paced back and forth anxiously in the corridor. Use your mobile phone to keep an eye on your newspaper’s online account dynamics.

Chi Feichi did not follow the police to the temporary interrogation room. He stayed in the temporary conference room and called the food delivery staff downstairs to learn about the lunch boxes received by all parties and the number of leftover lunch boxes.

Hui Yuan Ai stood at the door, watching the two reporters running anxiously in the corridor. After Chi Feichi hung up the phone, he turned around and asked, "How is it? Do you still have enough lunch boxes?"

"There are more than ten servings left," Chi Feichi stood up and walked to the door, "That should be enough."

Haihara Ai looked at the two reporters in the corridor again and joked, "The two of them really made a lot of money this time."

"We didn't suffer any loss anyway." Chi Feichi responded.

With the involvement of a Shinigami elementary school student, this incident may not be that simple.

Now everything points to Dongdongpa Liusuke not being the murderer, but this may also be a trick of Dongdongpa Liusuke. This incident is not over until the murderer is arrested, so they may still use these reporters in the future. when.

Whether it is making people feel that they are being honest or giving some actual benefits to a small number of people, it will help drive these reporters to take action, take the initiative to investigate, and be willing to provide them with clues, giving them a channel to obtain more information.

He has not yet recalled the truth of this incident. He is interested in participating in today's parent-child reasoning interactive project, but he does not want to run around. It is of course a good thing to find some temporary employees to help with the investigation.

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Less than ten minutes after Mumu Shisan entered the temporary interrogation room, the door of the temporary interrogation room was opened again.

"I'm sorry, it's me who caused trouble for everyone," Dong Dong Liusuke followed Megure Thirteen out, apologizing repeatedly with a guilty look on his face, "I'm really sorry!"

The two reporters in the corridor saw Dongdongpa Liusuke going out and immediately surrounded him, "Mr. Dongdongpa..."

Conan saw Chi Feichi and Haiyuan Ai staying at the door of the temporary conference room. They walked into the temporary conference room with a lunch box, pulled out a chair and sat down, opened the lunch box and ate, and explained the situation of the interview just now. explain.

"Mr. Dongdongpa said that Mr. Tianteng seemed to have caught someone in the circle and extorted a lot of money from him. Some time ago, he inadvertently heard Mr. Tianteng making a blackmail call to the other party. He originally wanted to He persuaded Mr. Tendo to stop, but he didn’t know how to say it. When he came here at 11:10 this morning, Mr. Tendo had already been killed. He felt that the murderer was probably threatened by Mr. Tendo. That person, in order to prevent Mr. Tendo from blackmailing others from spreading, and in order to prevent Mr. Tendo from being accused of bad conduct after his death, he decided to lie that he was the murderer and surrendered, but he did not know that Mr. Tendo was a murderer. Who is the person Mr. Fuji threatened? I don’t know who the murderer is..."

"The reason he gave is too ridiculous," Haihara Ai frowned. "In his opinion, protecting Mr. Tendo's reputation after his death is more important than catching Mr. Tendo's murderer?"

"The confirmation is ridiculous." Conan ate his meal and raised another doubt with a serious look. "If he was just confused for a moment before surrendering, then why did he call the reporter in advance to inform him? Calling the reporter to inform him is such an act. In terms of his goal of protecting Mr. Tendo’s reputation, it doesn’t provide much help.”