My neighbor's name is Conan

Chapter 632

Just as she walked downstairs, Mao Lilan's cell phone rang. After answering it, she found that it was Suzuki Sonoko calling.

"Sonoko, what's the matter?" asked Mao Lilan.

"Xiaolan." Suzuki Sonoko's voice was filled with sadness. "Have you heard?"

"What's the matter!?" Mao Lilan was a little confused.

Suzuki Sonoko said in a crying voice: "What's the matter!!! What are you asking? Locke... Locke is dead!" At the end of her words, Suzuki Sonoko seemed to have burst into tears.

Mao Lilan heard this and said quickly: "I just found out about it on the news... Well, okay, okay, Sonoko, don't be sad and stop crying!"

Suddenly, Mao Lilan seemed to think of something and asked, "By the way, Sonoko, do you know what the relationship is between Itagaki Rock and nails and snakes? The nail pattern looks a bit weird."

Suzuki Sonoko's answer made Mao Lilan suddenly yell, "Hey!!! Sonoko, please repeat it again."

Suzuki Sonoko cried and replied: "I said, when Rock was still an independent band, the logo of their park was a nail snake. It was a pattern of a snake head with a nail stuck in it."

Mao Lilan immediately asked again after hearing this: "Then, is there anyone with that symbol tattooed on their body?"

"Yes! A lot." Suzuki Sonoko answered without thinking, "It seems that there is a band merchandise store that also provides tattoo services. It seems that all their fans will go there to ask them to help with tattoos. I remember it seems to be near the Haido Central Bridge."

Upon hearing this, Mao Lilan immediately said, "I understand, thank you Sonoko." After that, she hung up the phone and hurriedly found Aoki Matsu to tell him about it.

After hearing what Mao Lilan said, Aoki Matsu immediately decided to change his itinerary and go to that store first and then to Haido Chuo Bridge.

The photo of the store is a bit sexy. Not only is there a pink light sign, but there is also a logo directly on the sign.

"Brother Zhugu, is this the pattern you see?" Qingmu Song asked, pointing at the logo on the sign.

"No, it's not this pattern. That's not what I saw." Zhu Gu Qiao immediately replied, "In the pattern I saw, there was no nail inserted diagonally into the snake's head. Instead, there were nails all around."

Qing Musong frowned when he heard this, "Then let's go in and ask."

Then several people walked in.

"Boss, do you have any of the signs with a snake's head pierced by a nail?" Aoki Matsu asked, pointing at the poster.

The boss smiled and said, "You must be a fan of the band Nail Snake. We have already ordered the goods with the new logo, but they will not be delivered until next week. You can come and buy them then." He took out a towel with the new logo and said, "This is it. I can show you a sample, but this one is not for sale."

"Ah, that's the pattern." Zhu Guqiao saw the towel and immediately pointed at it and said loudly, "That's the pattern on that person's hand."

"So, has anyone already got a tattoo of this new pattern?" asked Aoki Matsu.

"Huh!?" The boss was stunned when he heard this, then responded, "Yes, there are a few very loyal fans who heard that the logo is going to be changed, and begged us to let them get the tattoo first no matter what." As the boss spoke, he pulled out a photo album from the bookshelf next to him, then turned to a certain page and showed it to Aoki Matsu and others.

"By the way, why does the band's logo need to be changed?" Aoki Matsu asked thoughtfully.

The boss replied, "In fact, this logo was originally designed by Rock, who left the band to make his own debut. I heard that many fans urged them to change the logo quickly, so... now that it has failed, it has happened. I heard that Nail Snake will hold a memorial concert tonight. Although there were some unpleasant things in the past, Rock is a good friend of the leader after all."

[I think the one who hates Itagaki Locke the most should be the leader. We agreed to venture into the entertainment industry together, but you abandoned us all for fame and money... Tsk tsk, betrayers are the most hated.]

Aoki Matsu complained silently in his heart.

Of course, in this case, some extreme fans are also suspects of the murderer.

Qing Musong looked at the photo album that the boss opened, and there were indeed three people.

Classic three-choice question, very scientific.

"In the photo on the far left, the person behind this person is not..." Ran Mao Li, who was looking at the photo nearby, suddenly blurted out.

Maori Kogoro thought Maori Ran had discovered some clues, so he looked over quickly, but what he saw was - "Ms. Yoko!!!"

Kogoro Mouri's excited smile was immediately met with a glare from Ran Mouri, and seeing this, Kogoro Mouri restrained himself.

"That's not what I want to talk about. What I mean is what she is holding in her hand, which is the coffee pot that I told you about during the day. If you buy filter coffee, you will have a chance to win. So that's how it is. The commercial was shot by Miss Yoko." Mao Lilan said with a look of sudden enlightenment.

Maori Kogoro was a little curious when he heard this: "The problem is that you didn't see the advertisement, so how did you find out?"

"This!" Mao Lilan took out her cell phone from her pocket, opened the picture, found one of the pictures, and showed it to Mao Li Kogoro. "Thanks to this! It's the promotional car! Because it's so cute, I took a picture with my cell phone."

Aoki Matsuya leaned over to take a look. Judging from the logo of Itagaki Rock's previous band that Mouri Ran had just learned from Suzuki Sonoko, Mouri Ran should be the source of inspiration for Conan in this case.

So Aoki Matsu will think twice about anything that Mao Li Ran does or says now.

Aoki Matsu also took a picture of the coffee pot with his mobile phone.

This coffee pot is... a little weird and a little cute.

The place where water is poured is made into a trunk like an elephant, and a face is painted on the body of the pot, as if it were a person with a long nose.

"Wait a minute. Since there is a promotional vehicle for coffee pots, there might also be... a hammer... Well, no, that should be unlikely!" Kogoro Mouri suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and then his IQ suddenly returned, and he refuted his own thoughts.

At this time, Hondou Eisuke, who had been following them silently, suddenly said to Mao Lilan: "Can you lend it to me to take a look?"

Mao Lilan smiled and said, "Of course!"

After Hondou Eisuke took the phone from Mao Lilan and looked at it, he smiled and said, "Hey, this coffee pot is really cute."

Aoki Matsu ignored Hondou Eisuke and focused on the three pictures and took pictures of them one by one.

The picture on the far left, which is the one that shows Yoko Okino, shows a person with a tattoo on his left hand, so he can be ruled out.

The other two were right-handed.

But judging from the photo, the person in the middle is leaning against a car.

Aoki Matsu looked at Maruta Ayumi who was standing beside him and said, "Maruta, come and see what brand this car is."

Aoki Song really doesn't know much about cars.

I couldn't afford it in my previous life, and researching it will only make me more sad. Why not use that time and energy to do something that makes me happy?

He hasn't started researching it in this life. His family bought it for him. There is no need for him to research it. As long as it can be driven and is comfortable to drive, it's fine.

If he doesn't know how to do it, then let someone who knows how to do it. Maruta Ayumi is an expert in cars.

Maruta Ayumi came over to take a look and said, "Inspector, this is an imported car. The driver's seat is different from that of a Japanese car. It's on the left, not the right."

"Oh!" Qing Musong raised his eyebrows.

In any case, this person's suspicion can be ruled out, but... Aoki Matsu is worried that he is doing this on purpose, just like the criminal who is playing with time to create an alibi.

So Qing Musong looked at Zhu Gu Qiao and said, "Brother Zhu Gu, could you please tell me in detail what happened when you noticed the mark on that person's hand."

"Yeah." Zhu Guqiao thought for a moment and said, "I saw it when that person was getting ready to leave in the car."

Upon hearing this, Qing Musong said, "That is to say, you saw the tattoo on that man's hand after he got on the bus and was closest to you."

"Yeah!" Zhu Gu replied cleverly.

"But if he was sitting in the driver's seat, you shouldn't be able to see his hands!" Aoki Matsu looked at Zhuya Takumi and said.

Zhugu Qiao obviously didn't know why, so he could only emphasize: "But I saw it!"

"If I'm not mistaken, that person might have put his hand out of the window on the driver's side." Hondou Eisuke suddenly interjected at this time.

"Is that so?" Qing Musong looked at Zhu Gu Qiao and asked.

"It seems so..." Zhu Guqiao said uncertainly, "I can't remember clearly."

"If that's the case, then the person on the far right is the most suspicious," said Aoki Matsu.

"Then let's go catch him!" said Hondou Eisuke.

Aoki Matsu shook his head. "There is no way to arrest him right now because we only have circumstantial evidence. Especially since the testimony came from a little kid named Zhugu, and Japanese law doesn't recognize the words of children. So we don't have decisive evidence to confirm that he committed the crime."

If the Japanese law recognized the child's words, there would be no incident where Ayumi's favorite female dentist would turn into a devil to avenge her brother.

These clues can only be used as evidence for police investigation.

Afterwards, because the boss was in a hurry to attend the memorial service and he had told everyone what he knew, Aoki Matsu took everyone away and went to the nearby Haido Central Bridge.

Takagi Wataru was guarding here, and when he saw Aoki Matsu coming, he quickly came over to greet him, "Inspector Aoki, you're here."

"Thank you for your hard work. Did you find the lighter?" Aoki Matsu asked.

Compared with the testimony of Takumi Hashitani, Aoki Matsu felt that the lighter used by the murderer to light a "post-offense" cigarette might be stained with the murderer's fingerprints, and was more reliable than the testimony of Takumi Hashitani.

Fingerprints are formed when the sebum secreted by the sebaceous glands adheres to the lines on the skin surface and is squeezed to form chemical traces on the surface of objects.

Sebum is an organic ester, which is not easily hydrolyzed in neutral water but easily hydrolyzed in alkaline solution.

River water is generally slightly alkaline.

Therefore, Aoki Matsu was not sure whether the fingerprints on the lighter were intact or not.

However, this is a clue after all, so after learning about this, Aoki Matsu immediately contacted Inspector Megure and arranged for people to salvage the body along the Tsutsu River from the Haido Central Bridge to the Tsutsu River where the body was found.

"Not yet." Takagi Wataru replied.

But before Gao Mushi finished speaking, his cell phone rang. After answering it, Gao Mushi excitedly said, "Found it!"

Upon hearing this, Qing Musong immediately asked, "Are there any fingerprints on it?"

"Yes, someone has already seen it and it can be extracted." Takagi Shigeru replied excitedly.

"That's good!" Qing Musong said with a smile.

However, even if the fingerprints on it belong to the murderer, this evidence is not strong enough, because the murderer can argue that his lighter accidentally dropped into the river.

So we still have to look for clues. After "blowing up" Zhugu Qiao's place, we can investigate the man named "Tonggu".

Qing Musong looked at Zhu Gu Qiao and asked, "Brother Zhu Gu, look around. Do you remember anything else? Anything will do!"

Zhu Guqiao looked around with a confused look in his eyes.

Maori Kogoro responded: "It seems there is no glowing hammer here!"

Qing Musong looked around and indeed there was no place that looked like a glowing hammer.

But if it is a neon sign, there may be coincidences - for example, the neon sign happened to be broken, or a certain neon sign only appeared on that day.

Therefore, as long as there is something that resembles a part of it, it is possible that it is the "glowing hammer" that Zhugu Qiao saw.

Qing Musong looked around but couldn't figure it out.

In this regard, Conan is still stronger.

He looked at the lights of two rows of elevators in a building not far away and said, "Brother Aoki, could it be that building that brother Zhugu saw?"

"Ah?" Everyone looked in the direction Conan was looking.

"If you connect the lights on both sides of the elevator, it will look like the handle of a hammer, right?" Conan said.

Maori Kogoro immediately retorted: "But a hammer has no head, so how can Conan look like a hammer?"

"What does the head of the hammer look like?" Conan asked without getting angry.

"Eh?" Maori Kogoro was stunned, then said: "There are many different shapes! There are long cylindrical ones, and there are also ones that have one end that can be used to pull out nails and look a bit like an upside-down boat... Speaking of upside-down ones, there are also those that are bulging in the middle, and they feel a bit like an upside-down coffee pot..."

When Kogoro Maori said this, he suddenly realized something.

"Coffee, coffee pot!!!" he and Mao Lilan shouted together.

"Ah, now that Dad said that..." Mao Lilan took out her cell phone, clicked on the photo, and then said happily: "Sure enough, you see, there are small light bulbs around the coffee pot, which means that the hammer is placed upside down, right!"

"Yeah." Zhu Guqiao nodded in response.

[Damn, such an important clue, why didn’t you tell me earlier! ] Qing Musong complained inwardly when he heard it, which prevented him from making the connection.

"So, brother Zhugu, you combined the light bulb decoration of the coffee pot promotional vehicle with the elevator lights of the building and saw it as a big glowing hammer!" said Mao Lilan.