Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

"Then who killed my husband?" Mrs. Hirota asked while clutching Henggou, "There is no spare key for this room..."

"Well," Henggou glanced at Gao Cheng, and said with a dry smile, "Calm down, ma'am, aren't we investigating? Has any suspicious person visited the professor tonight?"

"Besides the city detectives, there seem to be two or three people coming over," Mrs. Hirota pointed at Gao Cheng and replied, "Because I happened to attend the township meeting in the town, so I don't know much..."

"Township meeting?"

"Yes, I went with the wives nearby. I left at eight o'clock and came back at eleven o'clock. When I was leaving, Mr. Kido called."

"Then Ma'am, you didn't see the guests who came to see your husband tonight, did you?" Henggou said with a headache.

"I saw the first guest who came here," Mrs. Hirota recalled. "At that time, I happened to go out with the wife next door. My husband said that it was a former student of his, and the surname seemed to be Hoshiya... Others I I just heard him say that there will be two or three students coming to see him..."

"It's gone," Huiyuan said suddenly while checking the computer, "Not only are all the floppy disks gone, but even the data in the computer seems to have been wiped out!"

"Ah?" Henggou was startled when he heard the words, and turned his head to look at Huiyuan who was bumping things, "Who is this kid?"

"She is my assistant." Gao Cheng squatted beside the corpse and said while inspecting the scene.

"Help, assistant?" Henggou pointed blankly at Huiyuan and Gao Cheng, sweating dryly, and said with a dry smile, "Detective Kido... really deserves to be a detective, this kid seems to be pretty good..."

"Officer Henggou," Gao Cheng looked at the upside-down phone with a book on it, "This looks like an answering machine, can you listen to the answering machine first?"

"Oh, it's been verified on-site, and it's okay to flip it now." Henggou reacted, and quickly pressed the answering machine button while wearing gloves.

"A total of 13 messages..."

The investigation was proceeding in an orderly manner, but Gao Cheng thought of those men in black.

Once being targeted by those guys, things will become quite troublesome, not only him, but also the people around him will be in danger.

"You'd better not meddle in this case casually," Huiyuan reminded standing aside, "They are probably still staring at this place..."

"You think those guys did it?"

"It is very possible, as you said before, it is not difficult for them to find the disk, because the records of the disk loss and the records of what I sent out at that time are all left in the organization."

Huiyuan said and looked at Gao Cheng: "Anyway, if you are involved in the case of the organization, it is still too dangerous for you."

"It's too early to say these things," Conan said shaking his head. "It's not sure that it's related to them. This case doesn't look like they were written."

"Excuse me, what happened?" A young man appeared at the door, "I am Bai Cang who made an appointment with the teacher..."

"You are Bai Cang? Professor Hirota has been murdered, maybe by someone who came to visit."

Henggou listened to 12 telephone messages in a row, and said in a deep voice, "Mr. Morioka has 2 calls, but Mr. Shiraicang, you have 10 calls. Isn't that too many?"

"Well," the young man said anxiously, "I came here to take a look because I called many times and no one answered. I didn't expect anything to happen to the teacher."

Henggou looked at the young man suspiciously, then continued to check the message and said, "Next is the 13th message, the last message."

"Drip! Hello...I want to inquire about our company's new...insurance products...to explain to you...can you spare some time...I will call again..."

"It's an insurance salesman." Hengmizo frowned, and turned around to ask the police to find Morioka in the message, and Hoshiya who visited at the beginning.

"No," Conan's face was tight, "Although the voice has changed a bit because of the machine, this tone... this voice..."

"Vodka,

Huiyuan suddenly said, "This is the voice of vodka. It seems that they did not do this incident. If it was them, the first task is not to arrange the secret room, but to retrieve the tape with the sound recording." "

Conan followed suit: "In other words, they haven't arrived here yet?"

"If they find that there is a police investigation here, they will probably have a headache," Huiyuan said with a light smile, "because the tapes can no longer be recovered, and even the floppy disks are nowhere to be found."

"Organization..."

Gao Cheng couldn't intervene at the side, he just muttered about his impression of the black organization in Conan.

It was taken as a joke before, because the main characters seemed to be either undercover agents or unreliable, and there were quite a few who betrayed the organization, but when faced with it, they still felt quite mysterious and terrifying.

The organization in black is hidden in the dark, not as simple as in the anime, otherwise it would have been taken away by the undercover agents long ago.

At least it's not too difficult to deal with him, a little detective.

Gao Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly.

The killers of this organization are not as easy to deal with as the female killer who used steel wire as a weapon...

Huiyuan put his little hands behind his back, and turned his gaze to the silent Gao Cheng, his cold eyes narrowed slightly: "Forget it, lock the door outside the room, and get the key into the middle of the room, and it happened to be pressed in the notebook Next, physically impossible..."

"Impossible?" Gao Cheng came back to his senses.

"Yes, even if you use the tape on the answering machine, you can't do it. Although there are many doubts, considering that you drank alcohol... and fell with the bookshelf and hit the back of your head. It is not completely impossible to cause this accident."

Haibara didn't want Gao Cheng to continue to meddle, so he closed his eyes and said softly, "It's also very dangerous to stay here, Kido, you can't go on like this..."

"No?" Gao Cheng raised his brows, his gaze swept across the murder scene.

Indeed, as Huibara said, this secret room is very different, Professor Hirota’s body is also full of alcohol, which seems to be an accident, but what police officer Henggou said is also very reasonable, he is there...or there is In Conan, the possibility of accidents is still quite small, especially when there are many suspicious points at the scene.

Heng Mizo was still interrogating a few visitors, the young man Shirakura who left too many messages on the phone, Hoshiya, the director of a securities company who was the first to visit, and the veterinarian Morioka who often played chess with Professor Hirota.

All three are suspects...

Gao Cheng stood beside the answering machine with his mouth tightly pursed, and saw that the forensic personnel were investigating the tape on the answering machine.

The suspicious part of the tape is that the sound is intermittent, the murderer may use the tape to do something...

The doors and windows of the room are all locked, and there is only a small gap under the door that allows the key to enter the room from the outside, but it is impossible to press the key under the notebook with the tape alone.

Gao Cheng turned his gaze to the bookshelf and the books scattered on the floor, and closed his eyes silently while frowning.

Opening his eyes again, all the details of the murder scene appeared before Gao Cheng's eyes.

Bookshelves, murder weapons, dead bodies, scattered bookshelves, upside-down phones, intermittent audio tapes, room keys held down by notebooks...

The superfluous details gradually disappeared, and finally only the notebook and the answering machine were left in the line of the door.

Gao Cheng's eyes fell on the chessmen scattered around the notebook, and all the details in his mind began to reverse and reproduce the scene.

"Let's go," Huiyuan urged, "Let's leave quickly through the back door..."

"Let's go first," Gao Cheng withdrew from the thinking space, and said to Conan Huiyuan and Dr. A Li, "Leave this to me."

"Huh?" Huiyuan looked at Gao Cheng in a daze.

"Have you unlocked the murderer's technique yet?!" Conan asked in surprise. He was also sure that it was not an accident, but the secret room technique was stuck and he couldn't solve it no matter what.

"My reasoning is a little peculiar."

Gao Cheng bent down and picked up a chess piece: "These chess pieces are the key. The key and the chess pieces around the notebook are not just randomly scattered without meaning. The truth of the matter..."

Under Conan's enlightened gaze, Gao Cheng picked up the notebook, placed three chess pieces in front of the answering machine to form a triangle, then turned to Mrs. Hirota and asked, "Do you have any spare tapes?"

"Ah," said Mrs. Hirota, "yes, there is. My husband seems to be in the drawer under the computer..."

"This is?" Conan stared at the chess piece in shock, and a bright light flashed in his mind.

Gao Cheng got the spare audio tape, and started to arrange it in the presence of police officer Henggou and the crowd. First, he pulled out the tape inside the tape to a sufficient length, then put the tape into the answering machine, and then straightened the exposed tape. Pull it outside the door and through the key ring.

"Conan, can I help you?"

"it is good!"

Conan, who had reacted, raised his hand, ran to the door facing the suspicious gaze of Police Officer Henggou, pulled the strap that passed through the key ring back to the study, and finally put it on a chess piece near the phone, and finally put the notebook on the triangular placed on the chess pieces.

Huiyuan crossed his arms to see the whole arrangement, and smiled lightly: "Are you planning to use the power of the magnetic tape to pull the chess pieces down? This is only in theory. The base of chess is very stable, so before it falls, the key will definitely fall. Take it out of the notebook with the chess pieces, and it won't just be pressed under the notebook at all..."

"Inverted?" Conan further arranged, "Although the heads of the chess pieces are round, as long as the notebook is made of hard paper, it should be able to hold it stably."

Seeing Conan's arrangement, Haibara narrowed his gaze, and followed Gao Cheng who was looking straight at the door.

Gao Cheng took out his mobile phone: "Let's do an actual experiment now."

After closing the door and imitating locking the door with a key wearing a belt, Gao Cheng placed the key in front of the door, and then used his mobile phone to call the phone in the room to leave a message.

As the answering machine started, the tape automatically rewound, and the key was gradually pulled from the crack of the door to the notebook supported by the chess pieces, and soon hit the chess pieces after reaching the bottom of the notebook...

"Come in, let's go in!" Police officer Henggou and several suspects watched in horror as the key was pressed under the notebook, and three chess pieces fell around the notebook. Everything was similar to the original scene.

Even the remaining tapes were successfully rewound into the tape recorder.

"It's really possible..."

"Of course." Gao Cheng returned to the study, "This technique may seem surprising at first glance, but it's actually not particularly subtle. I'm afraid it's just a temporary method that the murderer came up with in a panic, so it left a lot of trouble behind. There are few suspicious places, and even decisive evidence is left...

"Mr. Bai Cang who left 10 messages, you are the murderer!"

"Wait, wait a minute!" Standing in the crowd, the young man Bai Cang suddenly became the focus, and said with a dry smile on his pale face, "What kind of evidence is this? I just left a lot of messages..."

"Then why did you run back to the scene?" Gao Cheng interrupted.

"Didn't I say that? Of course, I came here because the phone has been disconnected..." Bai Cang looked at Gao Cheng, his voice became smaller and smaller, and his teeth began to chatter involuntarily.

"Is it because you want to get back the tape full of fingerprints?" Gao Cheng continued, "I originally planned to be the first discoverer with Mrs. Hirota, but I didn't expect someone to find out in advance, even the police have arrived. I said Right? As for the murder motive, I’m afraid it’s those disks…”

"All the disks are in my car outside." Bai Cang gritted his teeth with his fists, powerless, "It's all because of that photo."

"That photo?"

"I had plastic surgery when I was a model, and I even changed my name, but the photos of my previous face stayed with the professor..."

"So you killed the professor because of that?"

"How is that possible?" Bai Cang said sadly, "Recently, the magazine company planned an event. I originally wanted to ask the professor to borrow a photo of me dressed as a woman at the university celebration, because the relationship between makeup and wig can't tell the original appearance, and It's also quite special...but the professor said..."

Bai Cang looked at Professor Hirota on the ground: "'I have forgotten which disk to scan the photo of you dressed as a woman into. If it is the ordinary photo sent to you, I can find it immediately. Do you want me to directly Send it to the editorial department?', he teased me drunkenly, and when I recovered, he had already fallen in front of me..."

Bai Cang smiled bitterly: "The next step is like what Detective Kido said, it's indeed a little hasty, but I didn't expect that a famous detective would just come over and see through my tricks all at once. It's really ironic."

Henggou solemnly put handcuffs on Bai Cang: "Let's go, go back to the police station and talk about it."

"Hey, Ah Cheng," Dr. A Li anxiously reminded Gao Chengdao, "I have to get that disk back!"

Gao Cheng nodded and found Henggou alone.

Although the evidence must first be sent to the police station for investigation, it is not without room for negotiation, especially when facing the good old man Henggou.

"Officer Henggou, that disk has nothing to do with the case in the first place. We came here today to ask Professor Hirota to get the disk back. It doesn't matter if we take it away, right?"

"this……"

...

Outside the Kido Detective Office, Haibara silently followed Gao Cheng downstairs, and all the way back from Shizuoka County, Haibara kept his head down and said nothing.

Gao Cheng stopped and looked back at the silent Huiyuan: "Even if I didn't ask for the disk back, I don't have to be so sad, right? I will still find a way..."

Huiyuan slowly raised his head, showing a teary face: "Why? Why didn't you save my sister?"

Gao Cheng's pupils tightened suddenly, and he met Hui Yuan's weeping eyes in a daze: "Are you talking about the 1 billion yen robbery? At that time I..."

Huiyuan grabbed Gao Cheng's trouser legs and wailed loudly: "You guys are so capable of reasoning, it should be easy to see through my sister's affairs! Why...why?"

"It's not that I don't want to save, it's just..."

Dusty memories flooded Gao Cheng's mind again, it was what happened before he traveled.