Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 1386 Evenly matched opponents

"This can't be a coincidence, right?"

Shira looked at the news photos on his phone and murmured.

Qin Zhibo was also a little uncertain and could only answer vaguely: "It doesn't feel like..."

"Looking at it from a bright side, maybe Mr. Kouri wanted to thank the Spirit Detective for helping him find his family's bodies, so he invited the Spirit Detective to make a comeback on the show."

"If you think about it from the worst side..."

That is the traditional program of Mihua.

Qin Zhibo thought about it and decided to park the car on the side of the road and call Gao Mu to ask what was going on.

……

"I have some impression of that case. It was the case that Shiratori's team was in charge of..."

"Later, the police found a suicide note left by the deceased in the computer of the deceased's company. It said that he had the idea of ​​committing suicide because of work pressure and long-term depression."

"So the search for that case has now been dropped..."

Qin Zhibo asked, "But the news said that the body was dug out from the soil in the suburbs. The deceased couldn't have buried himself alive, right?"

Gao Mu replied: "The police have also investigated this matter and believe that someone buried the body of the deceased afterwards..."

"But even though there was a suspect, there was not enough evidence, so the case was left unsolved... Wait a minute! Officer Sato!"

"Sorry, Mr. Qin, we have a mission. Let's talk when we get back!"

"Well, go about your business."

Qin Zhibo hung up the phone and had a rough idea of ​​what was going on.

The soul detective really did as he guessed. He found the body of the person who committed suicide, and then buried it, pretending that he had found it through psychic means.

The police will certainly inform the family of the results of their investigation.

In other words, it is very likely that Kouri Sanpei guessed that the ghost detective buried the bodies of his family members, pretended that he found them himself, and then dug them out again to attract attention.

In this case, there is only one possibility why Furuli Sanpei invited the soul detective to participate in the show.

For revenge.

I didn't expect to meet two detectives who got into trouble for seeking fame and reputation in one day.

Qin Zhibo turned around and said to Shiliang helplessly: "It seems that we have to go back to the TV station again..."

……

Inside the Nichimi TV building, Furuguri Sanpei was discussing possible changes to the program cast with his colleagues from the program team.

Suddenly, his phone rang.

When I picked up the phone, I found out that it was Qin Zhibo who came back. He said he had something important to discuss with him and asked him to come to the reception room as soon as possible.

And, he asked that only he come.

This made Gu Li Canping a little confused.

Did they reach an agreement with Kaito Horida so quickly?

Although he was not clear about the reason why Qin Zhibo took the initiative to join the program team, in any case, Kaito Horita's program quota could not be moved.

Because this is his only chance to take revenge on Kaito Hotta.

Thinking of this, a barely perceptible gloom flashed across Guli Canping's eyes.

Half a year ago, his sister suddenly disappeared.

After searching in vain near the sister's rented house and workplace, the whole family decided to call the police.

However, the wait after calling the police was long. For three full months, no news was received.

During the waiting period, his mother's health deteriorated and the hope in her heart gradually became slim.

But at this moment, the "Soul Detective" Kaito Horida discovered an unknown body in the forest outside Tokyo through psychic means.

Based on the degree of decomposition of the body and the time when the disappearance was reported, the police found the Furuli family and notified them to go to the Metropolitan Police Department for a DNA comparison.

The results of the comparison showed that the DNA was basically consistent, and she was indeed the missing sister of Gu Li Canping.

This result broke Gu Li's family's heart, but it also confirmed that his sister was murdered.

But a week later, the police informed them of the latest investigation results, saying that a suicide note and a large amount of depression medication prescribed by a doctor were found in the company computer.

In addition, a taxi driver had taken my sister to the suburbs alone several months ago, so it can be basically confirmed that my sister committed suicide.

As for the fact that the body was found in a buried state, the police suspected that it was done by the first person who discovered the body.

That is the soul detective Kaito Hotta.

However, since no evidence was found, it was impossible to bring formal charges against Kaito Horida for "insulting a corpse."

After learning the final outcome of this series of events, Furuli Sanpei began to feel a desire for revenge.

It is clear that Kaito Horida discovered the body of his sister who had committed suicide three months ago, but in order to make his "psychic" ability look more magical, he deliberately buried the body in the ground and waited for three months.

In order to create a good effect for the show, Kaito Horida also took away all the identity documents from the body.

When Koriguri Sanpei thought of the ugly-faced Kaito Horita who had molested his sister's newly dead body and left it to rot in the soil, he became furious.

His plan was to use the show to invite Kaito Horida, and then invite another famous detective, and then kill Kaito Horida when they went to the hotel to discuss the details of the show.

So it doesn’t matter who the other famous detective is, as long as he can provide him with an alibi.

The important thing is that there must be Kaito Hotta.

So on this point, he would not give in no matter what.

……

When he arrived at the reception room, Gu Li Sanping saw Qin Zhibo and Sera Masumi who had returned, and put on a smiling face.

"Mr. Qin, have you met Mr. Horita?"

"Mr. Horita?"

Qin Zhibo turned around and closed the door of the reception room. "I guess you feel disgusted every time you call him 'sir', right?"

"Eh?" Gu Li Canping was stunned. "Mr. Qin, what are you talking about?"

Qin Zhibo smiled slightly, put his hands in his pockets, and turned to face Gu Li Canping.

"Mr. Gu Li, stop pretending. I already know what happened to you..."

Sera next to him raised his cell phone at the right time, and on it was the photo from the news, a photo of Furuli Sanpei and his mother just coming out of the police station.

When Gu Li Sanping saw this familiar photo, his pupils dilated instantly and his arms began to tremble slightly.

Qin Zhibo turned around and signaled Shiliang to put away the photos, then continued: "Horita Kaito buried the bodies of your family members, and then dug them out in the name of 'spiritual communication' for show... I already know everything about this."

"You invited him to be on the show, is it actually to get revenge on him?"

Guli Canping stood there with his head lowered and his fists clenched. In a short while, beads of sweat covered his forehead.

He didn't expect that his plan would be discovered by the famous detective before it could be implemented!

"Why?!"

“Why are you stopping me!”

Gu Li Sanping suddenly roared, "I just want to seek justice for my sister and punish the person who slandered her death!" "Stop?"

Qin Zhibo shook his head and said calmly: "First of all, I didn't stop you. I just told you that I know your true thoughts."

"This also means that your plan of killing someone and then hiding it from the public will never succeed with me."

"Besides, there is no way I can stop you. As long as you have the intention to kill, even if you fail once, there will always be a second time, a third time... sooner or later you will succeed."

"I just want to tell you what the consequences will be if you want to take revenge on Kaito Hotta."

"You will spend at least a dozen years in prison, and when you are released, you will be burdened with the guilt of murder and a charge that will never be washed away."

"You may think you killed a bad person, but killing is still killing. The nature of the act will not change just because the target of the act changes."

"And your mother has been left unattended for more than a decade, she has been in tears all day long."

"In other words, you used two lives to exchange for just one person's life."

"And even if Kaito Hotta committed more evil deeds during his lifetime, there would definitely be people in this society who would think that his crimes did not deserve death and would sympathize with him."

"You may get sympathy from some people in society, but the law will not sympathize with you."

"So your 'revenge cost-effectiveness' is really too low."

Revenge price/performance ratio?
When Shira, who was standing by, heard this new word, his eyes were obviously surprised.

Can it still be calculated like this?
Gu Li Sanping's expression gradually softened. "You mean I should do nothing?"

Qin Zhibo smiled and shook his head. "If you don't do anything, you'll probably still be angry."

"Since Horita did all this for fame, the best punishment for him is to completely destroy his reputation."

Gu Li Sanping's eyes changed, "What to do? The police also accused him before, but there was no evidence..."

"evidence?"

Qin Zhibo raised a finger and shook it, "Sometimes you don't need so-called evidence to destroy a person's reputation."

"You're a TV producer, you should know more about journalism than I do..."

……

Two days later, the TV station building was sold.

"Hello, Mr. Tokitsu Junya, welcome to the Nichimi TV building..."

"I'm the director of 'Unsolved Cases', my name is Kouri Sanpei."

In the lobby on the first floor of the TV station, Gu Li Sanping was receiving a long-haired man.

The man was wearing a grey sports suit and carrying a sports bag on his back. His most iconic feature was his long hair covering his cheeks on both sides.

"Hello……"

Tokatsu Junya shook hands with Koguri Sanpei, then asked, "But I heard that the program I was going to participate in was called 'Detective Koshien', why did it suddenly change to 'Unsolved Cases'?"

As Guli Sanpei pressed the floor button in front of the elevator, he turned around and explained, "Ah... because of the length of that show, it conflicted with other shows, so we had to cancel it."

"Oh? That's a pity..."

Although Tokatsu Junya said it was a pity, there was a smile on his face.

Because the four high school detectives who were originally scheduled to appear on the show together, now he is the only one left on the show, and it has become his personal show.

This also indirectly shows that he is the high school detective that the program team values ​​the most.

But for the sake of face, he still expressed regret.

"I was originally thinking about competing with other detectives on the show, what a pity..."

At this time, Gu Li Sanping turned around and said with a smile: "It's okay, don't regret it."

"Our production team has also arranged another detective who is equally capable as you to compete with us. The show will be good too."

"Another detective?" Tokatsu Junya was a little surprised. "Who is it?"

"It's the soul detective, Kaito Hotta."

Upon hearing this name, Tokatsu Junya was visibly stunned.

He had also heard of the name of Kaito Horita. He had disappeared for a while because of false testimony. Is he going to make a comeback now?
Just as he was about to ask, the elevator arrived at the first floor and the elevator door opened with a ding.

"Okay, let's go upstairs."

"Mr. Horita is already waiting."

……

After a while, the elevator rose to the corresponding floor.

In the backstage lounge next to the studio, Junya Tokatsu met another detective invited by the program crew.

Kaito Horida is a tall middle-aged man with a scary face.

He has a nearly Indian face, with protruding upper and lower jaws, thick lips, a broad forehead, and dark skin.

This look, paired with a white suit and a circle of colorful rope on the forehead, looks a bit funny.

The Soul Detective was currently sitting on a chair and receiving makeup from a makeup artist, but his gloomy eyes were looking sideways at this side.

And Tokatsu Junya was also looking at the Soul Detective, but he was not even in the mood to say hello.

He solved 300 cases in his lifetime, and 250 people were sent to prison.

Although he is not the best high school detective in Japan, he is at least well-known.

The other party solved the case in the name of "psychic communication", which is nothing more than a charlatan. What qualifications does he have to engage in a reasoning duel with me?

Just when Jin Runya was about to question the arrangement of the program, Furuli Sanpei beside him immediately leaned close to his ear and whispered: "The purpose of this program is to use science to expose pseudoscience, so please cooperate..."

When Shijin Junya heard this, he immediately became excited.

Indeed, if he were to perform a solo as a serious detective or a shaman, it would be a bit cheap.

But it would be more interesting to have him expose the hypocrisy of the soul detective.

It doesn't take any skill to expose this kind of guy.

Because clairvoyance definitely does not exist.

"Okay then, I agree."

Gu Li Sanping smiled and nodded, then called the two together.

"First of all, on behalf of the program team, I would like to thank you two for accepting the invitation to participate in this program "Unsolved Cases Unveiled."

"Then, I will announce the unsolved case that will be discussed in this program..."

"It was the 'Lavender Villa Case' that happened on Shikoku Island a year ago."

As soon as Furuguri Sanpei finished speaking, Tokatsu Junya's face froze instantly.

As a party involved in this case, he knows the details of this case very well. Obviously, there is a murderer, so why is it still called an unsolved case?

Thinking of this, Tokatsu Junya immediately raised his doubts.

Facing the question, Kouri Sanpei showed a silly smile and explained: "In fact, the police did not announce who the murderer was in the end."

"And today we are not only discussing the young lady who hanged herself, but also the maid who jumped off a cliff about half a year ago..."

"Who killed her?