Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

Chapter 12 Knights and Demons

At the Mihua Art Museum, Gao Cheng saw the huge words "Medieval Art Exhibition" from a distance, and many police cars parked outside the art gallery.

Sure enough, he came too late, and the police have sealed off the scene.

"Oops, the case that came so long ago, did you just miss it?"

After wandering outside for a while, Gao Cheng gritted his teeth and walked into the art gallery.

When I met a police officer, I said calmly first: "Hi, Officer Megure called me here. Is the officer in there now?"

"Ah? In the Hell Exhibition Hall..." The policeman was taken aback by Gao Cheng's appearance, and nodded before finding Mumu to confirm that Gao Cheng had already entered inside as if it were his own back garden.

Before the policeman at the door could react, Gao Cheng hurriedly said to the policeman on the other side: "Can you take me there?"

"Ah good."

The policeman walked towards the scene of the crime in a daze, but he had no doubts.

After all, no one would make fun of the police like this, and there are a group of police officers inside.

...

"Gao Chengjun?"

In the Hell Exhibition Hall, after seeing Gao Cheng, Mu Mu looked very surprised. He still remembered that he had met Gao Cheng at the Mihua Shrine last time, and he was almost regarded as the murderer, but later he solved the case of the Hatakemoto family.

"How did you get here?"

"Ah, that, Officer Mumu," before the policeman who brought him explained, Gao Cheng hastily laughed, "I heard that something happened here, so I thought maybe I could help."

"Hmph, damn kid," Mori Kogoro muttered dissatisfiedly, and laughed, "I don't think your help is needed anymore, because the murderer has been found!"

"Eh?" Gao Cheng was taken aback, and subconsciously looked at Conan.

Police officer Megure next to him explained with a smile: "It is indeed like what Mao Li said, the deceased wrote down the murderer's name temporarily, and when the armor worn by the murderer is found, the case can be closed."

As he said that, Mu Mu left Gao Cheng alone and continued to order the police officers to pack up the evidence.

"how so……"

Gao Cheng stood silently at the side, regretfully, Conan suddenly came over and said, "Brother Gao Cheng, do you want to watch the surveillance video?"

"Um?"

...

In the guard room, the entire killing process was completely captured by surveillance cameras. When Conan brought Gao Cheng over, many police officers lamented that they were watching it as a horror movie.

"It's amazing!"

"Looks like a movie!"

"Uncle, let's take a look at the part just now, okay?" Conan interrupted, "Officer Mumu asked me to bring Brother Gao Cheng over here."

"Officer Megure?" The police officers were having a good time watching it, and when they heard the order from Officer Megure, they felt a little guilty, fearing that the two would sue, and hurriedly gave the surveillance footage to Conan.

Gao Cheng curled his lips, this little ghost fox's ability to fake tiger's prestige is even stronger than him.

Standing in front of the surveillance video, Gao Cheng followed Conan to watch, and at the same time learned the whole incident from Conan.

For example, the dead Boss Zhenzhong was holding a note with the name "Kubada" written on the back, and there were a few things Conan felt suspicious about.

The owner of the victim, Zhenzhong, is the new owner of the art museum. He originally bought the art museum from the original owner in the name of continuing to operate, but after he got it, he planned to convert the art museum into a hotel. Today, he went to the art museum for future demolition and reconstruction prepare.

Kubota, a staff member of the art gallery who is currently suspected of being the murderer, was asked for huge compensation by the boss of Zhenzhong because he secretly sold artworks in private. The motive is very sufficient.

At about 4:30, the murderer called Boss Zhenzhong to the Hell Exhibition Hall, and killed Boss Zhenzhong wearing medieval armor. The whole process was clearly captured by surveillance cameras. Even Boss Zhenzhong left a death message while the murderer turned his back to him. All scenes are recorded.

Finally, according to the surveillance video, the police found a note with the murderer's name in the palm of Zhenzhong's boss.

It seems that the whole case seems to come to an end here, but there are many doubts in the middle that make Conan worry about it.

For example, the murder method used by the murderer, imitating the image of a righteous knight in armor piercing a demon with a sword in the famous painting "God's Wrath", does not seem like what Kubota would do.

The man doesn't care about fine art at all.

"But..." Gao Cheng looked at Conan who was watching the video carefully in surprise.

It seemed unintentional, but he explained the key points and clues of the whole case, as if to pull the two of them to the same starting line.

"Conan, did he do it on purpose?" Gao Cheng's eyes trembled slightly.

This kid is challenging him!

"Wait a minute, here, play it again!" Conan suddenly shouted while watching the surveillance video.

"What's wrong?" Gao Cheng woke up with a start, followed by looking at the surveillance video in doubt.

The scene was reversed to the time when Boss Zhenzhong was facing the murderer, and the man was surprised to see that the art work was torn off a note from the wall beside him.

"No," Conan said seriously, "Why did he have that expression? Besides, why did he throw away the pen after writing on the label paper? If the murderer heard the voice..."

"Did you find any clues, detective?" Gao Cheng asked intentionally.

"Well," Conan said with a thoughtful look on his face, "The ballpoint pen refill I found at the scene just now... was stored inside..."

While talking, Conan slowly paused, facing the eyes of Gao Cheng and the police officers, touched the back of his head and smiled, "I'm learning from Uncle Mao Li and Brother Gao Cheng, haha, I'm just a little boy." child."

After a few words of dry laughter, Conan left the security room amidst the weird faces of all the police officers.

"The kids nowadays are really weird." A police officer choked out a sentence.

"Is there something wrong with the ballpoint pen refill?" Gao Cheng looked more serious than ever.

Then leave the security room and return to the Hell Exhibition Hall, and at a glance, Conan is observing the note left by the boss of Zhenzhong.

Gao Cheng frowned.

Although Conan said that there are many clues and doubts, but he was only reluctantly drawn into Conan's thinking. There are clues found by Conan but not Conan's ability.

No, don't worry, if it doesn't work, use the one-minute detective mode.

At this time, the police had found the blood-stained armor from Kubota's safe, and further determined that Kubota was the murderer.

Facing the terrified Kubota, Police Officer Mugure reprimanded: "You make an appointment with Boss Zhenzhong in advance, and then lie in ambush in this exhibition hall, and kill him when he is not prepared when he arrives..."

"No, I didn't kill anyone!" Kubota said anxiously.

"Do you still want to quibble?" Mumu analyzed, "Hmph, you deliberately put on armor to avoid being photographed by the monitor? Unfortunately, another very powerful shot was captured by the monitor. The evidence is the words that Boss Zhenzhong wrote on the wall after he recognized you!"

Mu Mu put the "evidence" in front of Kubota: "Judging from the surveillance video, the murderer never touched this piece of paper! Moreover, no one touched the body after it was discovered, so this is the death message of Boss Machinaka! Besides , you don't have an alibi..."

Kubota eagerly explained: "That's because I was alone in the office, doing what the curator asked me to do..."

"Kubata," the curator of the art museum Ochiai said disappointedly, "I did ask you to help with some things, but I didn't ask you to kill people!"

"Curator, curator..." Kubota looked desperate, "No, it's not me..."

"What's wrong? Damn it." Gao Cheng silently walked by with his hands in his pockets.

Some strange traces could be vaguely seen on the label paper under the light, and Conan should have been looking at this just now.

But what does this mean?

Gao Cheng glanced carefully at the scene of the crime. Whether it was the video or the scene just now, it was very bloody. Even if he overcame the weakness of the original owner, he still felt a little trembling...

What a bad bug.

"Oh, what a horrible bloodstain," Mori Kogoro walked up to the blood-stained armor and said regretfully, "A good work of art has become like this."

"It was a replica for decoration," the staff explained. "It was a replica that Kubota used to commit the murder. It seems that other works of art have not been affected. It is very lucky."

Gao Cheng frowned and looked at the armor, and suddenly turned his head as if feeling something while thinking about it, just in time to meet Conan's gaze.

Also staring at the armor, a smile appeared on the corner of Conan's mouth.

As if everything is clear, the excitement from the heart to win the challenge.

"In this way, the murderer can only be that person, and then we only need to find evidence..."

Conan thought about it and looked at Gao Cheng again, slightly confused.

"What's the matter, Gao Chengjun? Don't you understand yet? Could it be that the case of the luxury liner last time was really a coincidence?"

"Those clues should be easy to understand."

Conan's expression was complicated, he was both puzzled and disappointed, completely unaware that Gao Cheng was just a half-detective who relied on his memory and system.

"Sorry, Gao Chengjun, I won this time!"

"This brat..."

Gao Cheng's body tensed up, and he hastily activated the one-minute detective mode.

Can't wait any longer...

All the information cascaded in Gao Cheng's mind, including the clues and ideas provided by Conan and everything he saw on the scene, which were constantly combined into a clear line.

It's just that this time it didn't go as smoothly as before, and he still didn't know many details when he joined in the middle.

Seeing that one minute was about to end, Gao Cheng nervously looked at the scene again.

that person……

Noticing that Conan's eyes fell on someone in the crowd, a light flashed in Gao Cheng's mind.

At the end of a minute, Gao Cheng didn't look away.

There are still places that are unclear, but Conan must have confirmed that the murderer is this person...

There seemed to be invisible energy colliding together in the air, but when Gao Cheng looked over, Conan immediately put on the appearance of an innocent and cute child.

Gao Cheng let out a breath, with a smile on his face.

Conan is indeed very powerful, but there is one thing that this guy can't get around.

Since he wanted to pretend to be a child, he was doomed to have unchangeable troubles. This guy would not reason directly in front of everyone.

"Wait a minute, Officer Meguro!" Gao Cheng calmed down and called to Mumu who wanted to take Kubota away, "Mr. Kubota is not the real murderer!"

"what?"

Officer Mumu and others, as well as Conan, looked at Gao Cheng in surprise.

Conan was stunned for a moment, and soon understood Gao Cheng's plan, and immediately pursed his mouth in gloom. He really couldn't make Gao Cheng doubt his identity, so prompting was okay, but positive reasoning was impossible.

"Forget it, I'll leave it to you to reason," Conan muttered, and quickly said in his heart, "But which one is the real you? You really can't see through."

Gao Cheng put away his competing thoughts, and said seriously to the crowd: "Don't you think it's strange after seeing the scene? Look carefully, not only the armor used for the murder is a replica, but also other works of art seem to have been specially arranged .”

"That said, it's really a little bit," Mori Kogoro looked at the scene suspiciously, "but what can all this explain?"

"There are clearly labels on the walls at the scene of the crime, but there are no paintings on them."

Gao Cheng entered the state completely, and calmly showed the reasoning result to everyone: "I think the murderer took it away in advance to prevent the blood from splashing on the artwork, but I heard from Conan that Kubota is not like that. People who cherish art, is that right, Conan?"

Conan saw that everyone's eyes were focused on him, and quickly nodded obediently: "Yes, yes."

"But," Mu Mu was puzzled, "Gao Chengjun, Kubota's name is indeed written on the note left by Boss Zhenzhong before he died!"

"That's not the note left by the boss before he died, but by the prisoner."

Gao Cheng raised his mouth and continued to explain: "Take a good look at that piece of paper. There are still some marks on it, which should be the traces that the victim smeared with a ballpoint pen that could not write words in order to cross out the name on it... ...In other words, the name was not written by the boss, but the prisoner had written it from the beginning, probably telling the boss that the name of the prisoner is on the label."

Gaocheng walked up to the elderly curator Ochiai step by step.

"The ballpoint pen refills that were left at the scene were stored inside, Director Ochiai, did you take advantage of the chaos to change them?"

"Ah?!" Curator Ochiai was shocked and speechless for a long time.

"Using the monitor without sound and the pen that can't write to create an illusion, this is the trap you set up, Director Ochiai," Gao Cheng said with a final stroke, "Director Ochiai, you can tell us Where was it when it happened?"

In fact, the one-minute detective mode has not fully completed the reasoning, but the suspect has been locked on Director Ochiai.

He can only take a gamble, even if Conan refutes it later, he will admit it.

Under Gao Cheng's close watch, Director Ochiai closed his eyes, sighed for a while and took out a ballpoint pen from his arms: "Mr. Detective is right, I was indeed the one who killed Boss Manaka."

"This..." Mori Kogoro opened his mouth and looked at Director Ochiai, "How could this be?"

"Perhaps you will think it's stupid, but I have to kill the demon Boss Manaka, and I also want Kubota to be punished for ruining and selling art at will!" Director Ochiai seemed to have relieved his burden, and said sentimentally, "Maybe this It is the arrangement of fate, just like the painting of "God's Wrath", although the devil was killed by the righteous knight, but the knight was also baptized by the evil blood, which means that he himself was also polluted by the devil...

"Anyway, I am a murderer, and now I have become the embodiment of the devil."

"Curator Ochiai..." Gao Cheng stared blankly at the old man who was smiling sadly.

He came here after the incident happened. Although Conan told him about it, he was only solving it as a case, a case that could get 100 reputation points.

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