The famous criminal in the world of Conan

"Another possibility is what I thought of based on this reasoning,"

Shiratori Renzaburo pinched his chin with his hand and said thoughtfully,

"After I thought of this guess, another question immediately came to my mind."

"How should we recover this body that is left outside?"

"If we retrieve it too early, and the body is already stiff when Kimura and the other two find it, then it will be meaningless; if we retrieve it too late, and the three find the body lying outside, then it will also be meaningless."

"And being able to accurately determine the time of the three people's arrival means that either the murderer is among them, or that person has been watching from upstairs."

"Let's not think about the second guess for now. Assuming the murderer is among the three, then the murderer is likely to have brought the body back after coming here."

Hearing this, Hakuba Matsu and Sato Miwako nodded slightly.

What Shiratori Renzaburo said is right.

The three of them had been together before they came here, and with the testimony of Kogoro Mouri and Conan, they had sufficient proof of their alibi. Therefore, if they wanted to move the body out, they could only do it here.

“So, I was thinking,

Shiratori Renzaburo thought about it and said,

"If the murderer wants to fool the other two, he must have another corpse, or something similar to a corpse, placed on the ground."

"Is it because when you come in from the door, you can directly see Ms. Umeda lying next to the dining table?"

Sato Miwako took over the conversation and asked.

"Um,"

Shiratori Renzaburo nodded.

"It's because you can see the dining table directly from the door."

"But logically speaking, the real body was placed on the balcony by the murderer, so the other 'body' on the ground could only be a fake, or a disguise."

"I see,"

After listening to this, Sato Miwako completely understood what Shiratori Renzaburo had said before.

"So the foundation on the curtain could have been touched by either Ms. Umeda's body or the fake 'corpse'."

"Any other ideas?"

Bai Masong looked at Bai Niao Ren Sanlang and asked lightly.

Shiratori Renzaburo shook his head slightly.

"Nothing."

"Meiwako, what did you find?"

Seeing this, Bai Masong turned his head and looked at Sato Miwako.

Sato Miwako was originally full of confidence, but now she scratched her head in embarrassment.

"I do have some discoveries that can support this conjecture."

She had thought her discovery was great because it could directly overturn her alibi.

Who would have known that Shiratori Renzaburo had even come up with all the techniques.

"Tell me,"

Bai Ma Song raised an eyebrow.

Miwako Sato led the two to the kitchen stove, then opened the cabinet door under the stove, pointed at a device inside, and said to the two,

"Ason, Officer Shiratori, take a look at this."

"This is......."

Shiratori Renzaburo touched his chin, thought for a moment, and guessed,

“Is this thing an earthquake sensor?”

Sato Miwako was a little surprised when she heard Shiratori Jinsaburo say the name of this device.

He originally thought that a rich young man like Shiratori Renzaburo would not go into the kitchen to cook himself, but at least it would be impossible for him to open the kitchen and see what was inside.

Just like when she asked her boyfriend Bai Masong about this before, Bai Masong also admitted that he didn't know what it was.

But in fact, Sato Miwako is different. Shiratori Jinsaburo and Hakuba Matsu are different.

Shiratori Jinzaburo is a native Japanese. The only time he left the island country in his life was to travel. He spent 90% of his life in the country. As an Japanese, it is not surprising for him to have seen this kind of Japanese-style installation.

However, Bai Masong is 29 years old this year, but he has spent half of his time abroad. He only returned to China not long ago, so it is normal that he is not familiar with this device.

"Yes, this thing is the earthquake sensor of the gas tank,"

Sato Miwako smiled and said,

"Its function is to automatically activate when the earthquake reaches level three, and then turn off the stove that is still burning. It is a device that is excellent in theory, but very troublesome in practice."

Hearing this, Shiratori Renzaburo nodded with deep understanding.

In theory, this device can indeed protect residents very well and prevent greater damage caused by stove fires during earthquakes.

But in fact, because earthquakes are very frequent in the island country, a magnitude 3 earthquake may not happen every day, but it is not rare either. This thing always automatically shuts down every once in a while, which is really a headache.

"Is there anything special about this device?"

Shiratori Rensaburo asked Sato Miwako.

Sato Miwako smiled and did not answer Shiratori Jinzaburo's words. Instead, she opened the lid of the pot on the stove and showed the contents of the stew pot to Shiratori Jinzaburo and Hakuba Matsu.

"This is........"

"The meat isn't done yet."

Bai Masong saw the situation in the stew pot at a glance and said it directly.

"That's right,"

Miwako Sato nodded, then put the stew pot back and put the lid on.

Then, she said to the two of them,

"The contents of this stew pot are obviously what Ms. Umeda prepared for tonight's party."

"But the meat in the stew pot is not yet cooked. In fact, it is still far from being cooked. Why is that?"

After listening to what Sato Miwako said, Hakuba Matsu and the others understood what she wanted to say.

"I see,"

Shiratori Renzaburo smiled and said,

"If we follow our initial theory and Miss Umeda died between 5 and 5:30, then it's obvious that the meat here couldn't have been badly stewed, at least not by this much."

"Even the stove should not be turned off. At least before the three of them arrived, the stove should have been on fire. And a stove that is on fire will continue to stew beef."

"So this pot of beef illustrates a problem,"

Bai Masong said lightly,

"This stove has been turned off for a long time."

"The reason..... must be that thing..."

As he spoke, Bai Masong glanced at the place that Sato Miwako had shown them before, the earthquake sensor on the gas tank, the meaning of which was very obvious.