The famous criminal in the world of Conan

Shiratori Renzaburo immediately introduced the three of them,

"This is the head of our third department, Inspector Bai Masong."

After Shiratori Renzaburo said this, the three of them instantly thought of Baimasong's glorious deeds and various introductions based on his name. At once, the three of them came forward to greet Baimasong and shake hands.

However, they were all interrupted one by one by Bai Masong.

We are at our business, and for the moment, we don't have time to engage in meaningless small talk with these unfamiliar people.

"First tell me why you are here, then introduce yourselves."

After Bai Masong finished asking the question, Shiratori Renzaburo immediately answered the first question.

"Officer Hakuba, the three of them were the ones who reported the case and were the first to discover it. Plus, they are all friends of the deceased, Ms. Umeda, so they stayed here."

"Ah."

Bai Masong nodded, but his eyes were still on the three people, obviously asking them to answer the next question.

The only woman among the three spoke first.

"Hello, Officer Hakuba, my name is Nakamura Yoko, and the person next to me is my boyfriend and fiancé Jiro Ishikawa."

Nakamura, who was wearing a princess dress, introduced herself first, and then pointed to her boyfriend Jiro Ishikawa, who was wearing medieval plate armor, and introduced him to her as well.

Bai Masong listened to what Nakamura said, nodded, and then looked at the last person wearing noble clothes.

"I'm Minoru Kijima, please give me your guidance, Officer Hakuba."

Kijima Minoru bowed to Hakuba Song very gentlemanly.

"Um,"

After learning the identities of the three people, Bai Masong nodded.

Well, it’s another classic three-choice session.

Maori Kogoro spoke again at this time,

"I remember you three were talking about going to a party. Could it be..."

"Um,"

Nakamura nodded with a very sad look.

"We came to the party at the invitation of Miss Umeda, but when we got here, we found that she had already..."

"Alas, my condolences."

Kogoro Mori also sighed with a sad look on his face.

Bai Masong did not react to this sad atmosphere, but continued to ask the three people calmly,

"What is Miss Umeda's occupation? How did you three know her?"

"Ms. Umeda is the editor-in-chief of our popular magazine,"

This time it was Kijima Minoru who answered Hakubamatsu's question. He said,

"I'm a makeup artist for a magazine. The magazine was founded by Ms. Umeda. She has been very kind to me, but now she is...sigh..."

"Well, what's next?"

Bai Masong's expression remained unchanged. Before knowing who the murderer was, no one could guarantee whether the emotions expressed by the other party were true or false.

"Next..."

Obviously, Kijima Minoru did not expect Hakubamatsu to be so calm, or rather indifferent, and he did not cooperate with him at all.

He was slightly stunned, and then continued,

"Ishikawa is the photographer of our magazine, and Yoko is the model of our magazine."

"So the three of you are basically colleagues, right?"

Bai Masong concluded calmly.

Minoru Kijima, Jiro Ishikawa and Yoko Nakamura nodded.

While Bai Masong and the three were confirming their professional identities, Conan was looking at the corpse carefully.

He always felt that he had seen this person somewhere before...

"Ah?"

Conan suddenly had an idea and he quickly pulled at Kogoro's trouser leg.

"Uncle Maori, does this sister look like the picture in the email that Sister Nakamura showed us before?"

"The picture in the email?"

Kogoro Mouri was slightly stunned and didn't know what Conan was talking about.

Originally, his encounter with the three people was just a small matter. Afterwards, he went to the pachinko parlor and played pinball for more than an hour. Now he hardly remembers it.

“Oh, that’s the email with the picture…”

Conan was still thinking about explaining something.

Nakamura next to him knew what Conan wanted to say. She rubbed Conan's head and sighed.

"Little brother, you remember correctly. Miss Umeda just sent us the photos of her after makeup this afternoon. I didn't expect that she met with an accident in just one hour."

One hour?

The focus of Bai Masong and others is different from that of Nakamura and the other three.

They noticed that Nakamura had been talking for an hour.

If the time of death is accurate to the hour, a lot of things can be done.

"Ms. Nakamura,"

Shiratori Renzaburo couldn't help but ask Nakamura Yoko,

"How do you know that Ms. Umeda was killed within an hour?"

"Because we received a message from Miss Umeda at 4:30!"

Yoko Nakamura said,

"We arrived at her house at 5:30 and found her lying unconscious on the ground. Wasn't that just an hour?"

"Oh okay."

Shiratori Renzaburo nodded in understanding, and then recorded this information in his police manual.

Bai Ma Song was also listening quietly.

However, after listening to what Yoko Nakamura said, he narrowed his eyes instead.

I always feel that there is a very classic taste of criminal tricks in this.

Thinking of this, he looked at the forensic doctor who was examining the body next to it.

"Can you give an estimate of the body's time of death?"

"It should be fine, Officer White Horse,"

The forensic doctor nodded without hesitation and said to Bai Masong,

"According to my estimation, the time of death of the body should be between 4:30 and 5:30 in the afternoon, or even shorter, between 5 and 5:30."

"Oh?"

Bai Masong raised his eyebrows slightly, walked to the side of the corpse, squatted down, pinched the dead man's hand, and felt the degree of stiffness.

After some hesitation, he asked the forensic doctor,

"Is it based on the degree of postmortem rigidity?"

"Um,"

The forensic doctor nodded and subconsciously wiped the sweat off his forehead. He felt a little bit stressed being next to Officer Bai Ma.