Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

"Da da da!" The man dressed as a baron was quite decisive. He didn't pause when he saw Gao Cheng, but raised his knife while running to knock Gao Cheng unconscious first.

"call!"

The hand knife attack was neat and not sloppy at all, but it suddenly fell through as Gao Cheng turned sideways.

The strange man was stunned for a moment, feeling the danger at the same time as he passed by, he hurriedly stepped aside to avoid Gao Cheng's counterattack, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he quickly became serious.

Just like the reappearance of the elevator scene before, Gao Cheng couldn't touch the strange man, but the strange man who was eager to escape couldn't do anything to him, and the few attacks between lightning and flints fell in the empty space.

Gao Cheng's eyes trembled slightly.

After a few back and forth attacks, he immediately realized that he was no match for the guy on the other side, he was definitely a karate master...

Feeling the scorching pain swept by the strong wind on his face, Gao Cheng calmed down, took the lead to take a step back, and suddenly stretched out his hand to grab the back under the strange man's suspicious gaze.

"Shua!"

Facing the storm-like attack, Gao Cheng instantly summoned Lake Toya and held it in his hand.

Gao Shi, one blow!

"What?" The strange man had already seen Gao Cheng pull out a wooden knife from behind, and before he could be surprised, he found that the opponent seemed to have changed.

With a steady and sharp gaze, it seems that only the figure holding the sword is left in the whole world, and the slow and fast wooden knife blooms with a bright brilliance that has never been seen before.

"Bang!" The strange man was tense and couldn't keep up with the attack at all. He only had time to block the whole person with his arm, and the wooden knife flew straight away, hitting the corner of the wall heavily.

He groaned and straightened his body, the strange man didn't even look at Gao Cheng, and ran away from the other side as fast as the wind.

"Don't run!" Gao Cheng was stunned, and hurried to catch up with the wooden knife, but he lost the strange man near the toilet.

"No, it's gone..."

Gao Cheng looked around again.

He didn't expect the other party to escape so simply, but...

Thinking of the opponent's skill just now, Gao Cheng frowned suspiciously.

This "Night Duke" is very strange, let's not talk about why he appeared here, his skills are too good.

...

In the interrogation room, Gao Cheng almost followed Xiaolan back here, and before he opened the door, he heard Moori Kogoro's loud voice.

"You said the Duke of Night appeared again?!"

"Yes!" Conan described, "When we took the elevator back to the 19th floor together, the moment the door opened..."

"What are you doing?" Mao Li looked at Xiao Lan angrily, "Why didn't you catch him?"

"I'm sorry, I was taken aback..." Xiaolan was preoccupied and did not express her guess.

"Henggou criminal police!" Several police officers entered the interrogation room with Gao Cheng, "Sanze passed out in the mortuary room, it looks like someone knocked him unconscious!"

"What?" Henggou asked in surprise, "Where's the body?"

"The body is fine, but the clothes of the Duke of Night suddenly disappeared!"

"If it's the clothes of the Duke of the Night," Gao Cheng followed behind and said, "it's over the toilet on the second floor now."

"Kido Kido?!" Mori Kogoro said in surprise, "How do you know? Could it be you..."

"How is it possible? I just ran into that guy coming down the stairs, and when I chased him, I found clothes in the toilet."

Gao Cheng glanced at the fainted policeman who was carried in, turned to Henggou and said, "Officer Henggou, I already know who the person who stole the clothes is, can we conduct another investigation?"

"Okay!" Henggou didn't hesitate, and quickly ordered his subordinates, "Notify all suspects to gather in the interrogation room!"

"Yes!"

"Senior Gao Cheng..." Xiaolan looked at Gao Cheng hesitantly, wanting to ask but didn't know how to speak.

After a while,

The members of the tour group regrouped in the interrogation room.

"Really? Everyone stays in their own rooms... Don't you have any witnesses?" Henggou said with a headache, "That is to say, when the three of Xiaolan and the others were attacked just now, none of the others had an alibi... ..."

"Wait! Mr. Police, didn't you tell us to stay in the room? We just followed orders..."

"Yes, yes!" the crowd yelled.

Gao Cheng carefully observed the people who returned to the interrogation room, and found that Satoshi Maeda's expression in the crowd changed obviously when he saw Lake Toya in his hand, and his right arm looked a little unnatural.

Maeda Satoshi is a Japanese karate champion. It would make sense if the Duke of Darkness just now was this person... But this person looks pretty good, is he really a murderer?

Gao Cheng walked aside, pretending to casually bump Maeda Satoshi's arm.

"Hiss!" Satoshi Maeda's face turned pale instantly. Although he quickly suppressed the pain, his strange behavior still attracted everyone's attention.

"Mr. Maeda, are you injured?" Henggou asked doubtfully.

"No, it's nothing." Maeda covered his arm, gave Gao Cheng a complicated look, and forced a smile, "I just accidentally hurt my arm, it doesn't matter."

"Huh?" Conan's eyes fell on Maeda sensitively.

It's too weird for a karate champion to break his arm for no reason.

Conan thought of the fight between the Duke of Night and Xiaolan before the elevator, but it didn't look like he had hurt his arm...

"How about this," Gao Cheng didn't directly expose, and said to Police Officer Henggou and Maeda, "I think it's better to check everyone's room first...Mr. Maeda, is it okay to start with your room?"

"Uh... well..."

Sweat appeared on Satoshi Maeda's forehead, knowing that Gao Cheng had already guessed his identity.

Room 1901, the room of Satoshi Maeda and Akiko Sayama. Mori Kogoro seemed to feel that he was at a disadvantage before, so he rushed to search the room in front of Gao Cheng. Conan was also jumping up and down in the room, writing and drawing with a small notebook , Let Maori burst into flames.

Gao Cheng followed Maori to check the personal belongings of Satoshi Maeda and Akiko Sayama, and then he also looked at the balcony and the windows of the room.

He probably figured out the layout of the room, let alone the balcony. Although there is a window on the side that is right on the right-angled wall below the balcony of his room, it is basically impossible for even the karate champion Satoshi Maeda to come down from above, and According to the testimony of Akiko Sayama, she had been watching TV in the room at the time.

Whether Akiko Sayama is lying will not be mentioned. In this way, the only possible escape route for Satoshi Maeda is to jump to the balcony of his room, but how does Maeda know that he did not lock the glass door...

Gao Cheng tried to poke his head out, but he couldn't see the glass door of his room from below.

Could it be that Maeda escaped from someone else's room?

"Huh? What kind of medicine is this?" Henggou asked suspiciously while holding a pack of pills found in Akiko Sayama's pocket.

"It's my sleeping pill," Sayama Akiko replied, "I've often suffered from insomnia recently, so I always carry it with me..."

"Sleeping pills?" Gao Cheng looked at Maeda Satoshi and asked Sayama, "Did you really watch TV here at 10 o'clock when the incident happened?"

"Well," Sayama nodded, remembering, "By the way, I called the counter at that time."

"Is that so..."

After searching the room, Gao Cheng pinned Lake Toya on his belt and left Room 1901 in thought. He always felt as if he had entered a dead end.

Although he knew that Maeda Satoshi was the Duke of the Night who fought against him, his doubts grew.

If Maeda is the murderer, why did he steal the Duke of Darkness clothes again, why did he appear outside the elevator on the 19th floor and was seen by Xiaolan, and the murder method...