My neighbor's name is Conan

Chapter 606: The classic 3-choose-1 suspect, none of them is the criminal

Inspector Megure's face darkened. "If the person who broke into the house was the robber and murderer, then he must have started your computer and looked at the guest list you invited to the wedding.

Isn't it very likely that he could find one of the people on the list, kill him, steal the wedding invitation, and then pretend to be that person to sneak in here? His purpose is to take revenge on you at this wedding scene!"

Ping Zhenghui cursed in his heart when he heard this. Although he hoped that the police would think in this direction, he did not want the wedding to be terminated, so he said, "But you can't be sure that the body is the guest we invited!"

At this time, there was a knock on the door of the lounge, "Knock, knock, knock."

Then the door of the lounge was opened, and a square-looking police officer walked in with a gift box in his hand.

"Inspector Megure, someone asked me to pass on a message and deliver something for the bride and groom. The other party seemed to want them to open it and have a look right away." As he spoke, he placed the gift box on the table.

"Who gave the thing to you?" Qing Musong asked immediately.

"This... was given to me by the venue staff, so I don't know who gave it to me." The police officer replied somewhat embarrassedly.

"Hey, hey, you actually brought something of unknown origin directly into this room?" Inspector Megure glared at him. Was it because he had not trained them enough in crisis awareness?

"There's nothing I can do, but the things inside..." Before the police officer could finish his words, Ping Zhenghui had already impatiently opened the gift box.

"Wow!" Inspector Megure was startled by Taira Masaaki's actions.

Thought it was a bomb, but it wasn't.

At this time, the police officer said after the fact: "I have already checked it carefully."

"Really?" Inspector Megure breathed a sigh of relief.

There was a camera in the gift box with a sticky note on it.

"Ah, it was sent by Miss Shimizu." Seeing this, Ping Zhenghui took out the camera from the gift box, handed it to Yihu Li, and reminded her: "It's the one in the chat room."

"Well, could this be the recording from last time?" Yihu Li was obviously not unfamiliar with that "Miss Shimizu".

"What chat room are you talking about?" asked Inspector Megure.

"It's like this, the two of us have been super crazy about the hot spring website on the Internet recently, so we also invited a few friends who we met on that website to attend the party scheduled to be held after the wedding tonight." Ping Zhenghui explained.

"This is the videotape that will be shown at the party." Machiru turned the camera over to reveal a small card attached to it. "She asked us to watch it before the official broadcast. It seems that the editing will be completed in time."

"If it's convenient, can you let us take a look?" asked Inspector Megure.

"Sure, we also plan to watch it before the official broadcast." Yihuli nodded, put the VCR on the table and started playing.

"Brother Ping and Sister Li, it's a date day."

The monologue at the beginning is a bit embarrassing.

"Last month, after Mr. Ping successfully drove away the criminals, Xiaoli fell in love with him. Their feelings grew deeper and deeper, and they finally got engaged. Let us take a glimpse of their sweet day."

The video starts at the front door of Ping Zhenghui's apartment. Yihuli stands outside the door and rings the doorbell. Ping Zhenghui opens the door with his hands hanging down. He is a little surprised to see Yihuli, "No way, you're here so early."

Upon hearing this, Yihu Li smiled and nodded.

Then Ping Zhenghui said sorry, closed the door and changed his clothes.

Something's weird here.

They are both an engaged couple, so why doesn't he let his fiancée go into the house and wait?

In the video, the love-struck Yihuli was clearly unaware of this and just smiled and agreed.

Aoki Matsu thought for a moment, then looked at Masuto Rei and asked, "Is the person taking the photo the Miss Shimizu?"

"Yes, we found out that we lived very close to each other when we were chatting, so in real life, he became very close to us," Yihuli replied.

At this time in the video, Ping Zhenghui changed his clothes, opened the door, and walked out. Then he closed the door, and then naturally placed the door key on the lamp next to the door. While putting the key, he looked at Yihu Li and asked, "We are going to Tropical Paradise today, right?"

"Yes." Yihuli replied with a smile.

Inspector Megure obviously noticed this, turned to look at Taira Masaaki and asked, "Put the key on the light at the door. Do you always put it there?"

"Yeah." Ping Zhenghui nodded, "I'm used to it."

"It seems that if Miss Shimizu has that intention, she can easily break into his house." Seeing this, Kogoro Mori expressed his opinion.

Upon hearing this, Yihuli immediately retorted unhappily: "She would never do such a thing! Moreover, she repeatedly advised us to call the police and tell them about the break-in incident."

"You said 'repeatedly'. Didn't you call the police when your house was broken into?" Aoki Matsu asked.

"Yeah." Ping Zhenghui responded, "Because I thought nothing was stolen anyway."

Seeing everyone's unhappy expressions, Ping Zhenghui quickly said, "But just in case, I deliberately wrote the dates on the invitations in my computer one day later. So even if someone saw it when they broke into the house, they wouldn't be able to come to the wedding, so you can rest assured."

Qing Musong rolled his eyes when he heard this. "Since the computer has the addresses and names of the invited guests, as long as he pretends to be your friend and gets in touch with any of them, he can confirm the date of the wedding and also have a way to invite them out, right?"

"In that case, why not ask the bride and groom to meet the guests who come to the wedding ceremony? The bad guy you mentioned might pretend to be someone you two know and come here." Conan suggested.

"Um……?"

Mao Lilan heard this and said worriedly: "We said we were going to meet them, but what if we do this and get attacked instead?"

When it comes to fishing, there is a chance of being killed in return.

"No!" Aoki Matsu interrupted Mao Lilan. "Even if we don't have to meet in person, we can just go to the room next to the lounge for relevant personnel and confirm it secretly."

After saying that, Aoki Matsu looked at Inspector Megure and said, "Since the situation is like this, let's take this action first. If we cancel the wedding hastily, the criminal might take action right then and there."

"That makes sense." Inspector Megure nodded in response, then looked at Taira Masaki and Masuto Rei and said, "Then could you please go and confirm the guest's appearance?"

Ping Zhenghui heard this and said, "I don't care."

Inspector Megure nodded, and then instructed the police officer beside him, "Go and tell Sato and Takagi that the robber and murderer may have entered the building. The two of them, pretending to be the bride and groom, may be attacked at any time, so they must not be careless."

"Yes!" the police officer responded immediately and left the room.

Hearing what Inspector Megure said, Masato Rei became a little scared again, and couldn't help but approach Taira Masaki and said, "Masaki, I feel so scared."

Hearing this, Ping Zhenghui held Yihu Li's hand and said affectionately: "Don't worry, I will be here with you."

No one knew what Conan was thinking at this time, he looked at the bride and groom with a serious face.

Then they came to the room next to the lounge and opened the door a crack, allowing Ping Zhenghui and Yihu Li to observe the guests in the lounge.

After a while, Inspector Megure asked, "What was the result? Did you see anyone you didn't recognize?"

Yihu Li thought about it and said with some embarrassment: "If I were to mention someone who doesn't look familiar, it's the one with the sunglasses, brown hair and dark skin. And the one with the toilet lid hairstyle that looks silly. And then there's the one with the beard and glasses. There are only three of them."

Mao Lilan then said, "I want to say something suspicious, maybe it will be a third person."

"Xiaolan, why is it him?" Inspector Megure asked in surprise.

"Because." Mao Lilan looked at the other person again, and after confirming that he was right, he continued: "He used the excuse that he mistook others for his friends and took photos of many people in the venue."

When Masuto Rei heard what Mao Lilan said, she suddenly seemed to remember something and said, "If that's the case, that person might be the photographer, Uncle Gunji."

"But you don't have any impression of him, right?" Aoki Matsu said.

Mashito Li nodded. "Yes. When we were little, he often played with me, but he was very thin and had no beard. Since he traveled around overseas as a photographer, I hardly saw him anymore."

"So what's your impression of the other two people?" asked Inspector Megure.

Maori Kogoro reminded at this time: "Especially the man who refuses to take off his sunglasses even when staying indoors."

After being reminded by Maori Kogoro, Masuto Rei seemed to remember something. "He might be the instructor named 'Shimabukuro' in the cram school where I used to learn snowboarding. I met Masaaki in that snowboarding class, so I invited him to join."

"Oh, so that's the case." Upon hearing this, Inspector Megure subconsciously looked at Taira Masaaki.

Seeing this, Ping Zhenghui said, "I myself no longer snowboard." So I have no impression of it.

Mashiro added: "The reason why I don't remember him is probably because he usually wears goggles and a hat to cover his face."

Inspector Megure imagined the scene in his mind and said, "I see." Inspector Megure asked again, "Then what about the man with the toilet lid hairstyle?"

Mashito Rei thought for a moment and said, "If you think about it carefully, it could be Mr. Qingbian who is the administrator of the hot spring website."

"Hot spring website administrator?" Inspector Megure looked confused.

"Inspector, he is the website administrator of those pages on the Internet." Aoki Matsu knew that Inspector Megure didn't understand these things, so he quickly explained.

Inspector Megure was a little unhappy when he heard this. He glared at Aoki Matsu but didn't say anything.

Yihuli explained: "He is a very introverted and shy person. He even refused to come to online gatherings. We had to invite him again and again before we finally convinced him to come to the wedding. So this was the first time I saw him."

"But that man seemed to know what you look like very well? Because he even greeted Sato, who was your stand-in." Inspector Megure said.

"When I sent a summer greeting card a few days ago, I attached my photo, so he should know what I look like," Yihuli explained.

Inspector Megure was a little troubled when he heard this, "Hmm..."

At this time, Maori Kogoro said with a serious face, "Inspector Megure, it seems that the only way is to invite the three of them to take fingerprints and then compare them with the fingerprints of the robber and murderer."

"How is this possible!" Yihuli firmly opposed the proposal. "They are guests who came specially to attend my wedding ceremony. This is too rude."

"But there is no other way to confirm it." Inspector Megure said worriedly.

If it were any other time, Aoki Matsu would have to agree to Maori Kogoro's proposal, it would be a classic choice between three.

But now Aoki Matsu knew who the criminal was, so he didn't agree. "This is indeed very rude, but I just saw them all holding wine glasses and drinking beverages. Why not let a few police officers pretend to be waiters and see if we can find a chance to collect their fingerprints."

Inspector Megure's eyes lit up when he heard this. "That's a good idea."

After hearing this, Yihuli no longer objected.

Then Inspector Megure sent someone to make arrangements.

At this time, Conan raised his own question: "Well, how do you know that the fingerprint is the fingerprint of the bad guy?"

"That's because the vicious criminal had committed a crime before invading Miss Yihu's house. In one of the four robbery and murder cases, the criminal's fingerprints were found on the victim's earrings at the crime scene.

Because the fibers of the work gloves were stuck on the body's teeth, the prisoner must have wanted to press the victim's mouth with his left hand to cut his throat when the victim struggled desperately and bit off the glove. The prisoner was forced to press the victim's mouth again with his bare hands and then touched the earring.

This time, when Miss Masuto's house was broken into, we also found the same fingerprints on the kitchen knife left by the criminal at the scene. We also obtained the palm prints of his left hand from the kitchen knife, so we know that the fingerprints on the earrings are the fingerprints of the criminal's left ring finger. "Inspector Megure explained.

"So the criminal was not wearing gloves at the time, right?" asked Kogoro Mouri.

Inspector Megure denied Kogoro Mori's guess, "No, it seems that he was wearing gloves. So, I guess the fingerprints were put on before the crime was committed."

But there is another possibility...


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