My neighbor's name is Conan

Aoki Matsu has no idea how Rokuda Takuer will be sentenced, and this is a headache for the judges.

This case is not easy to judge.

The next day, Aoki Matsu felt that Conan, the god of death, was targeting him.

Because I had to report the case at night the next day and I had to work overtime late at night.

hateful!

Aoki Matsu arrived at the murder scene and asked his men to follow the procedures first. Then he looked at Maori Kogoro standing next to him and asked, "Detective Maori, can you tell me what happened at that time?"

Maori Kogoro nodded, organized his words, and then said, "It's like this. I bought something from the store and saw Mr. Mikami running in a hurry, so I chased him and asked him. As a result, I learned from him that he called Mr. Umezu, but he didn't answer the phone.

Mr. Mikami was a little worried about Mr. Umezu, so he came to check on him. Unexpectedly, when we arrived at Mr. Umezu's house, we rang the doorbell but no one answered, and the phone call was still unreachable. Then we called the administrator, opened the door with a spare key, and when we walked in, we found that Mr. Umezu was dead.

Then I took a quick look and found white powder next to the coffee cup and words written on the computer. There was also blood on the edge of the trash can. Then I checked the back of Mr. Umezu's head and found blood there. So I concluded that it was murder and called the police immediately. "

Qing Mu Song nodded upon hearing this.

The trash can was not knocked over, and if someone was determined to die, he would not hit the back of his head to make it bleed, so it is indeed possible that someone knocked the deceased Mei Jinxiu unconscious from behind and then fed him poison, causing his death.

"Oh, there's another clue." Maori Kogoro pointed to the key on the table next to the computer. "I visited Mr. Umezu this afternoon and saw three keys on it. But when we came in earlier, there was only one left."

"I understand. Mr. Mikami and Conan, do you have anything else to add?" Aoki Matsu looked at Toru Mikami and Conan and asked.

Toru Mikami and Conan both shook their heads, indicating that they had nothing to add.

"By the way, did you open this window, or was it closed at that time?" Aoki Matsu asked.

"It was open when we came in, but only about 10cm. I opened it and checked, and found that it was impossible for someone to sneak in through the window." said Kogoro Mouri.

Aoki Matsu nodded, then looked at Mikami Toru and asked, "Mr. Mikami, who do you think took the two keys that were placed here?"

Mikami Toru thought for a moment and said, "It could be Miss Araki, another disciple of the teacher, or it could be Mr. Long, the teacher's son. When I left here, Miss Araki and Mr. Long were still here with the teacher."

"Go and summon these two people." Aoki Matsu said.

With these two people plus Toru Mikami in front of them, the classic three-choice team is complete.

At this time, Maori Kogoro added: "Both of them have a very close relationship with the deceased. So they may find an opportunity to poison the deceased, and they may also have the key to this place."

At this time, Maruta Ayumi came over and said, "Inspector, the deceased is named Umezu Osamu, male, 60 years old, and a popular novelist. I just looked at the manuscript on his computer desk, and there is no clue in the article that may lead to the criminal.

However, he wrote this paragraph in it: "It can be said that it is the writer's secret enjoyment. In the eyes of ordinary people, it is just a ridiculous mechanism that is not worth mentioning. Everyone sees it, but no one discovers it. I always hide my own pleasure in my works."

Qing Musong frowned. "Is there a hidden mechanism in the book? Mr. Mikami, do you know what kind of mechanism it is?"

Mikami Toru shook his head and said, "I don't know. I just found out about this now."

At this time, a lady wearing glasses walked in from outside, accompanied by a police officer.

As soon as he walked in, he shouted, "Teacher," and then ran towards Mei Jinxiu's body.

Seeing this, Qing Musong quickly stopped her and said, "Wait a minute, please don't touch the body."

This person is another disciple of the deceased Umezu Osamu - Chika Araki.

"Ah!" Araki Chikaka looked at Umezu Osamu's body and her whole body trembled.

Then Qing Musong looked at her and asked, "Excuse me, do you have the key to this house?"

"Yes." Araki Chika replied, then took out a key from her pocket and showed it to Aoki Matsu. "Here."

At this time, Maori Kogoro interrupted and said, "Ms. Araki, I have a question for you. When you saw that Mr. Umezu's "The Road to the Thirteen Steps" was a big hit, you were actually feeling bad, right?"

Araki Chika asked in confusion: "What do you mean by that?"

"Just tell me the truth!" Maori Kogoro looked at her and said, "Because the real author is you, Ms. Araki Chika, right?"

Araki Chika was stunned when she heard this, and then she said very seriously: "No, no, that book was not written by me."

But Maori Kogoro didn't believe it. "You feel very unwilling because Mr. Umezu took away your work..."

Before Maori Kogoro could finish, Araki Chika interrupted him and said, "No, all the novels are written by the teacher himself."

Seeing this, Qing Musong frowned.

It is hard to explain this matter now. Even if "The Road to Thirteen Steps" was really written by Chika Araki, and Umezu Osamu is dead, she would never admit that she wrote it.

Conan also looked at Araki Chika solemnly and thought silently in his heart: "If the murderer is Miss Araki, then why is the window open?"

Maori Kogoro obviously still thought that Araki Chika was the murderer, and continued to ask: "Ms. Araki, have you ever heard of such a thing as a pre-death message?"

Araki Chika nodded, "Yeah, I know."

Seeing that Araki Chika knew, Maori Kogoro walked to the body of Umezu Osamu, looked at what he was holding and said, "The scepter in Mr. Umezu's hand contains the message he left before his death."

"There is a message before death hidden in the tablet?!" Maruta Ayumi was shocked. How come he didn't notice it at all?

Looking at Aoki Matsu, he saw that he also had a frown on his face, and Maruta Ayumi felt a lot more at ease.

"It is said that the material of this scepter comes from a tree called yew fir. I found out this by looking up the dictionary here while waiting for Inspector Aoki to arrive. It turns out that this tree called yew fir is also known as 'alolo wood'." said Kogoro Mori.

"Alorogi?" Maruta Ayumi was puzzled.

Maori Kogoro said seriously: "'Araki' and 'Aroromu', the neon pinyin is very similar, isn't it?"

Aoki Matsu was speechless when he heard this. "Detective Mori, your reasoning is too far-fetched. Also, why did he hold the scepter upside down?"

Maori Kogoro said without thinking: "It has no special meaning."

"It's meaningless." Qing Musong rolled his eyes when he heard it.

Everything on the scene cannot be meaningless.

According to Aoki Matsu, the tablet in Umezu Shu's hand seemed to have been deliberately placed in his hand by the murderer after his death, with the purpose of framing someone.

Because in Japan, the sceptre is held by people like priests.

Most people will never use this thing in their lifetime. It is just a ceremonial tool with no practical value.

Even if it's because Mei Jinxiu is a writer and likes to collect materials, shouldn't this thing be placed in a cabinet or on a bookshelf?

If Mei Jinxiu had thought of this thing as a death message before he was killed, and had gotten it and had the time, it would have been easy for him to just dip his hand in the blood on his head and write the murderer's name directly on the ground.

Maori Kogoro explained: "He must be grabbing at something to relieve the pain, just like a drowning person will grab at a straw."

At this time, a police officer walked in with a man who looked a little unruly and was wearing earrings.

When he just walked in, he said with a somewhat happy look, "I heard that my dad died. I'm so lucky."

Everyone looked at him subconsciously.

This should be Mei Jinxiu's son - Mei Jinlong.

Mei Jinlong walked in with his hands in his pockets, not showing any sadness, and said happily: "Royalties, property, all of them are mine now."

Qing Musong curled his lips when he heard this [What a loving father and filial son! ]

Maori Kogoro was a little angry when he saw this scene and said, "When you heard that your father passed away, you actually said lucky."

Speaking of lucky, Kogoro Mori seemed to suddenly have an idea in his mind, "lucky..." and then he held his chin and started thinking.

Aoki Matsu looked at Umezu Takashi and asked, "Mr. Takashi, do you have the key to this room?"

"Yes." Mei Jinlong took it out of his pocket and handed it to Qing Musong, saying calmly, "I took it away just now when my father wasn't looking. I wanted to come in and take some valuables when he was not around, but now I don't need it."

Maruta Ayumi stepped forward and said, "Mr. Long, I would like to search you. Do you mind?"

"Sure!" Mei Jinlong opened his arms in cooperation and said in a good mood: "Today is my lucky day, I can agree to anything."

Maruta Ayumi searched Umezu Takashi's body very carefully, and unexpectedly he actually found a transparent sealed bag on Umezu Takashi's body.

“This, this is…”

"Ah?" Mei Jinlong was also confused when he saw the transparent sealed bag.

Kogoro Mouri had already figured out what "lucky" meant. Seeing this, he immediately took it from Maruta Ayumi's hand and asked, "Is it medicine?" and looked at Umezu Takashi.

Umezu Takashi felt a little uneasy at the look in Maori Kogoro's eyes, and subconsciously took a step back and said, "What's going on? I don't know, it's not me. I wasn't the one who killed my father."

But looking at the look in Kogoro Mori's eyes, Umezu Takashi became more and more unsure, and he stepped back again, and then bumped into Toru Mikami who was behind him.

When Umezu Takashi saw Mikami Toru, he quickly turned around, grabbed his collar and said, "Mr. Mikami, please help me say something too!"

"Ah..." Toru Mikami was a little confused and didn't know what to say.

At this time, Maori Kogoro stepped forward and looked at Umezu Takashi and said, "It can't be wrong, Umezu, Takashi. In the message before Umezu's death, he told us that the murderer was you."

Maruta Ayumi on the side was confused, "Didn't they say that Miss Araki was the murderer?" Why did it suddenly change?

"It's because he created that illusion." Maori Kogoro said confidently, "In fact, there is another meaning, and I, Maori Kogoro, successfully judged it."

Upon hearing this, Aoki Matsu immediately felt that if Kogoro Mori said this, all three suspects would be eliminated.

"What other information?" Aoki Matsu looked at Maori Kogoro and asked.

It would be good to use the gross profit elimination method to reduce the suspicion of one or even two suspects.

Maori Kogoro explained: "Although the material of this hu is purple, when it is written in Chinese characters, it will be a wood with a music character added. And Mr. Umezu will hold the hu upside down. That's because the way of holding it is also a message before death. Reversing the wood and music, that is, from music to wood, isn't it the pronunciation of lucky? That is Mr. Long's catchphrase lucky."

"What nonsense are you talking about! Is this a joke?" Mei Jinlong was shocked when he heard this, and he quickly stood up and shouted loudly.

Aoki Matsu was speechless after hearing this. "Detective Maori, there is also a statement by Ku in the middle. Your explanation is completely different. Okay, stop talking here. Let me check it carefully."

Although Kogoro Mori's reasoning is wrong.

But it also reduced the suspicion of Takashi Umezu and Chika Araki.

After all, there are only a few cases in which Kogoro Mouri identified the murderer correctly. In the vast majority of cases, the person he identified was not the murderer.

Choose one of three classics.

Maori Kogoro has already eliminated two of them, so the remaining one...

Qing Musong checked the house carefully and suddenly found a calendar stuck on the wall where the keys were placed on the table, and there was something wrong with the tape on the lower left corner of the calendar.

In theory, the tape should be close to the wall and paper. When people use tape to stick to the wall, they will usually press the tape with their hands to make it fit better.

But it was different here. The tape on the lower left corner had been torn off and put back on. Not only that, there was a gap in the middle of the tape that was not tightly attached, and it was bulging, like a trace of a rope passing through it.

Fishing line!?

This was Aoki Song’s first reaction.

After all, fishing line is a veteran in the world of science.

If it was fishing line, then it makes sense that the window was open. It is very likely that someone pulled a rope such as fishing line through the window into the house.

Aoki Matsu observed carefully and found that given the angle and position of the lower left corner of the calendar, he could not do anything to Umezu Shu's body and could only tamper with the table.

Thinking of this, Aoki Matsu turned his eyes to the keys on the table.