The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

Chapter 1039 Unexpected Node

"Now I am sure you can't recognize those three people, right?"

"Yes, I really don't know who these three people are."

Reiko Masuto raised her hand and pointed out the locations of several people to Ran Mouri.

The one wearing sunglasses, with a very dark complexion, light-colored manly hair, bangs and sister-in-law's, and the bearded man who was taking pictures that they had met before the show started.

"It sounds suspicious." Mao Lilan said, "Do you want me to ask for you?"

It is a little difficult to determine who is the criminal, but it is much easier to screen who is not.

Without a search warrant or other documents, asking the other party to cooperate directly and provide fingerprints also has the possibility of failure. Fortunately, they were all at the banquet.

All you need to do is take some of the items they have touched and hand them over to the forensic department, and you will get the results soon.

"No, if I must say, he matches some of the people on the list." Masuto Reiko, who thought she was really working hard to solve the case, quickly shook her head, "For example, the one who has been taking pictures. He could be Uncle Gunji. He was our former neighbor and family friend, but after becoming a photographer, he often traveled abroad, and we met less often after that. Even if my parents came, they might not be able to recognize him..."

"Really? What about the other two?" Miyamoto Yumi held her arm, "It's weird to wear sunglasses indoors."

"He, he's probably my ski coach." Masuto Reiko smiled embarrassedly, "Actually, I shouldn't have invited him. It's so troublesome. The main reason is that Zhenghui and I met in his class, so I felt it necessary to invite him..."

"So it's hard to recognize that this person usually wears a full set of ski gear?"

"Yes, he seldom takes it off..."

The last person, Qingbian, was the administrator of the website of the hot spring hotel that she and Ping Zhenghui loved to visit, and to which she had received her cordial invitation.

When they asked why Qingbian, an online friend they had never met before, came to say hello before entering the venue, Reiko Masuto's answer was, "I sent him the photo to make it easier for others to attend the party."

"...Did you send your wedding photos with your future husband to your netizens?" Sato Miwako was a little overwhelmed.

"Yes. Mr. Qingbian is a very nice person. He doesn't really want to come to offline activities. We urged him repeatedly. Of course, he will only come if we dispel his concerns." Masuto Reiko nodded happily.

Yumi Miyamoto quickly tugged at her best friend's sleeve, fearing that her best friend, unable to hold back, would say something impolite.

Meeting an online friend for the first time at one's own wedding is one thing, but unilaterally sending real-life photos of oneself to an online friend shows an incredible lack of security awareness.

"This is a victim who survived the robbers..." Yumi Miyamoto added in a low voice.

And it is very likely that she dated the robber for another half a year after that.

Who can say that the Yihu family’s safety education is of this style?

"Then the best way now is to find a way to get the fingerprints of those three people." Mao Lilan quickly changed the subject back, then reached out and patted Conan on the top of his head, indicating that it was time for him to come out.

Conan has probably also confirmed the groom's suspicious nature. With his intelligence, it should only be a matter of time before he comes up with a way to get Masuto Reiko to identify him...

"The left hands of the three people are covered." Conan blurted out as several other faces kept appearing in front of him, "It's like they deliberately didn't show the ring finger of their left hand. By the way, how did the police confirm that the fingerprint was from the murderer's left ring finger?"

The shape of fingerprints on different fingers is slightly different, but this is actually just a vague standard.

How to be sure that it is the ring finger of the left hand is actually a complicated matter.

"I didn't know at first." Sato Miwako shook her head and replied, "The last time the fingerprint appeared, it was on the earring of a victim. I deduced it from the palm print of the left hand found on the kitchen knife found in Miss Masuto's house."

"Oh, palm prints..." Conan nodded, "But didn't the murderer say that he was more cautious when committing crimes and would wear gloves?"

"We detected fibers in the fingernails of the victim that time. We guess that the deceased bit off or pulled off the other person's gloves while struggling, and then the murderer tried to press down the lower half of the victim's face, leaving an incomplete fingerprint on her earring." Sato Miwako gestured with her palms together and pressing down.

"In other words, the left hand is not the murderer's dominant hand." Conan said, making a gesture of pressing one hand down and raising the other hand high.

He was simulating the murderer's action of cutting someone's throat. From this angle, the murderer was obviously right-handed.

If someone is trying to kill someone, they will definitely use all their strength to cause damage. Normally, no one would specially train themselves to wield a knife with their non-dominant hand at this time.

"Yes, he must be a right-handed...man..." Sato Miwako nodded without hesitation, and then as she spoke, she realized something was wrong.

They relied on this fingerprint to link the attempted murder of Yihu's family with previous unsolved cases.

But since it was the same person who committed the crime, why were the fingerprints left on the murder weapon from the left hand?

"And the murderer is used to wearing gloves." Tang Ze added, "In the four previous crimes, only that time did the victim's resistance cause an accident, causing his gloves to fall off. So it's impossible for him to go to the Masuto family without wearing gloves, right?"

This is a very obvious conclusion that does not even require much reasoning knowledge.

Several people looked at Masuto Reiko at the same time, and there was a brief silence.

After leaving her fiancé, Reiko Masuto, whose IQ began to take effect, slowly reacted. She raised her hand to cover her mouth and her eyes slowly widened.

"…Those were not fingerprints left by the murderer who broke in." Sato Miwako lowered her voice and said the conclusion she was reluctant to say, "Those were left by Taira Masaaki who grabbed the murder weapon and fought with the murderer at the time."

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"You mean to say that you happened to be waiting at the door of Miss Yihu's house on the day of the crime, and happened to meet Miss Yihu who opened the door, and happened to wrestle with the murderer for a long time..."

Megure Jusan had an expression that said "Do you want to watch what you are saying?" and looked at Taira Masaki with an indescribable look on his face.

Was it the police officers from the Investigation Division who handled the case? If so, he would have to check the police dispatch records and use them as negative examples for special training.

Can this kind of testimony be used by the police to concede that he is also a victim and there is no reason for him to collect biological samples?

"This is fate, isn't it?" Ping Zhenghui obviously wanted to make another desperate struggle, "It was Reiko who opened the door. It was already open when I came over..."

"Then my wrist and fingertips were fractured, and I had to rest for almost five months?" Takagi Shigeru crossed his arms, obviously not wanting to hear his further excuses.

"That's because the wound got infected... I'm telling you, what's wrong with your interrogation attitude?" Ping Zhenghui also became impatient, his expression revealing some genuine annoyance and dissatisfaction, "This is the Yihu family's wedding..."

"Yes, it's the wedding of the Yihu family, because the protagonist of the wedding is the daughter of the Yihu family." Shiratori Renzaburo said coldly, "You have been relying on the power of the tiger for a long time. You don't really regard the power of the Yihu family as your own, do you?"

The only ones who can really put pressure on the police force and truly influence the investigation of the case are the Yihu family.

But now he is only the fiancé of Yihu's daughter, and even if he becomes her husband, he can still divorce her.

I really don't know where this guy got his dream of soaring to the sky, hoping to achieve class transition through marriage...

When this was exposed, Ping Zhenghui's face flashed with genuine anger.

"I think the wedding should be canceled." Seeing that his expression revealed many flaws, Takagi Shigeru added, "Who knows what you are going to do after marrying Miss Masuto Reiko? Maybe..."

He did not tell anyone about his subsequent speculation, but the other police officers, including Ping Zhenghui himself, understood it.

What Takagi Shigeru meant was that he planned to kill the girl's parents directly after getting married, so that the huge family fortune would fall into the hands of Masuto Reiko, who was easy to control.

At that time, relying on his influence on Yitu Reiko, Ping Zhenghui could safely and easily take the entire Yitu family's wealth into his pocket.

"I have the power to sue for this kind of accusation..."

"You'd better pray that the wedding can go ahead. Without Miss Yihu's support, you two can't even afford the lawyer fees for the lawsuit, Mr. Ping."

"you……!"

It looked like the conflict was about to escalate when suddenly a sob was heard at the door.

The police turned their heads and saw the bride standing at the door of the dressing room with a somewhat broken expression.

The delicate makeup on her face had been ruined by tears. Stains of glitter and brown-black eyeliner slid down her lower eyelashes and fell from the edges of her eye sockets, pitch black, like dried blood.

"I remember now, I remember now, the prisoner had a stye in his right eye." Masuto Reiko said in a trembling voice and in tears.

Ping Zhenghui's eyes lit up when he felt that he was saved, and he quickly took over the conversation loudly: "Did you find a guest who meets this description?! Then I ask the police to arrest him quickly..."

"That was half a year ago. Even if it really happened, it should have healed long ago." Masuto Reiko shed more tears, washing away a lot of the thick foundation on her face. "The real problem is... Masaki..."

She looked at her fiancé with tearful eyes, who was so affectionate with her just a dozen minutes ago.

At this point, even someone as love-sick as her would find it difficult to completely deceive herself.

Removing the filter is like popping a soap bubble through which you have been looking at the world. The colorful lights are just a momentary beauty reflected on the fragile bubble. It is not the true reality.

"Zhenghui, can you tell me how you knew in advance that there would be a power outage in my house and walked into the door holding a flashlight?"

At that time, the power switch of Yido's house was cut off by the criminals in advance. Yido Reiko relied entirely on the fact that it was her own home and she was familiar with the way there, and she stumbled to find the exit.

In such a dark environment, she shouldn't be able to see any features of the robber except his voice.

But she saw it anyway.

Even though the intense emotions and adrenaline at the time made her not remember the specific scene clearly and she couldn't remember how Taira Masaki entered the door, Masutori Reiko should have realized it when she discovered this memory.

The only possible reason that she saw this scene was that Ping Zhenghui was holding a flashlight in his hand at the time, providing a short-term light source.

In this way, he only left fingerprints on the murder weapon, which led the police to mistakenly believe that they were left by the murderer. The reason was also found.

At that moment, a normal person would try to disarm the murderer first. To control the most dangerous threat, he would definitely grab the murderer's hand or the handle of the knife with both hands without hesitation.

The discovery of only one hand was an important criterion for the police to believe that it was left by the murderer.

There is no such question now.

——Ping Zhenghui’s right hand was holding the flashlight, and he was unable to complete the fighting action of holding the same hand with both hands for a while.

"Yes, he was a habitual criminal who had killed many people. How could he commit a crime without wearing gloves..." Masuto Reiko stopped looking at the speechless Taira Masaaki and lowered her head, "It was you who didn't wear gloves at that time, because you didn't come to commit a crime, you came to stop him..."

You have better options.

You are planning to marry the daughter of the Yihu family, so there is no need to resort to violence to seize even a tiny bit of material gain.

"Control him!"

Megure Jusan turned around and immediately gave the order without hesitation.

This is the moment when the prisoner is most emotional, and we must not allow him to take advantage of the opportunity to cause any harm.

The next second, Takagi Shigeru and his companions, who had been on guard for a long time, immediately rushed forward.

Before Ping Zhenghui could react, four or five big men pinned him down, leaving only his head and hands shaking restlessly outside.

"Apply for a search warrant immediately! Call the forensics department to come over and take fingerprints for direct comparison!"

The policemen started to move in a hurry, and finally Reiko Masuto couldn't hold on any longer and slowly squatted down.

The hem of her wide skirt lay in a mess on the floor tiles, like layers of petals, and her tearful eyes mixed with makeup kept leaving small black marks on the white hem of her skirt.

"Why, why do I always encounter such things... Finally, there is someone who is willing to approach me sincerely, but in the end, the result is..." Masuto Reiko could no longer restrain herself and started crying, "I almost let a wolf into the house, I, I..."

Mao Lilan squatted down, patted her shoulders, and said softly: "Meeting enthusiastic detectives and police before the wedding is also a kind of enlightenment and salvation, isn't it? It's okay, it's okay..."

Before she opened her mouth, the familiar face of Suzuki Sonoko and her familiar crying flashed briefly before Ran Mouri's eyes.

"Why do I always meet this kind of people?" or something like that...

An innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. Of course, a good life brings more greed and desire.

"You can't pin your entire future on love and marriage, Miss Masuto." Her voice became gentler. "You still have parents, relatives, friends, hobbies, and a future ahead of you... Love is only a part of it. Don't give up the rest of your life because of it, okay?"

People are complicated, and so is life.

Don't be so quick to put your life on the single track...

Tang Ze, who was originally sipping a bottle of party soda with one hand in his pocket, suddenly choked.

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