Conan's grammatical investigator

"The murderer should be someone in the hotel"

After Qin Zhibo's words fell, everyone present were stunned.

This made Qin Zhibo a little at a loss.

In the case of a professional team, there is a 99% probability that it was homicide, and the murderer has not yet escaped.

Isn't this basic common sense?
Faced with this inference, if someone else said it, Mao Li and others would ask why.

But it was the counterfeit Qin Zhibo who made this inference. As the real Kogoro Mori, with his strong self-esteem, he certainly could not be "ashamed to ask".

So, Kogoro Mouri looked left and right, and began to look for his own clues.

First, Kogoro Mori saw the mobile phone on the table, which belonged to "Lao Rokuro Mori".

Picking up the phone, there was still a sticker with the surname on it, and the surname was "Sen".

"Cut, it's not a child anymore, and still posting this kind of thing."

Kogoro Maoli complained, which caused dissatisfaction with Mao Lilan behind him, and gave the old father a helpless half-moon eye, "It's not that children can post, I can post too."

"Hmph, you're still a kid so it's okay."

Mori Kogoro returned the same look as his daughter, because in his eyes, Mori Ran was always a child.

I looked through "Sen"'s phone again, and all the call records in it were deleted, leaving no clues.

In this era, there is no data recovery technology, and Mori Kogoro can only give up looking for clues on the phone, and turn his attention to the suitcase on the table.

After an afternoon of hard work by "Moli Lao Liulang", the suitcase was finally pried open, and the broken locks were scattered on the table.

Mori Kogoro snatched the gloves from Yamamura, opened the box, and inside was a sports newspaper five years out of date.

He picked up the newspaper, which had a headline on the front page about a sumo wrestler named "Akagi Maru" who had won his first victory in 18 years.

Mori Kogoro was looking at the newspaper for any clues that could bring down the fake Qin Zhibo, when Yamamura next to him approached from below and saw something in the newspaper.

"What is this. Black silk?"

Shancuncao pulled out the so-called "black silk" and found that it was human hair at all.

"what!"

"what--"

Mao Lilan screamed in fright, and immediately hugged Conan tightly in her arms as a talisman.

Shancun Cao was shocked by Mao Lilan's call.

Mori Kogoro returned a disdainful look, "It's just a few hairs caught in the newspaper, what's so scary?"

Yamamura Cao tremblingly grabbed a lot of hair, "But, these hairs are too long, aren't they?"

"Could it be that this is the curse of the man who wore the red coat and died in the forest four years ago?"

"Hmph," Mori Kogoro snorted coldly, "If curses can kill people, then we detectives and policemen won't have to eat."

Mori Kogoro expressed his materialism with a handsome face, but a different voice came from beside him.

"The curse may really exist, but you chose to turn a blind eye."

It was Qin Zhibo who spoke.

Mori Kogoro was stunned for a moment, and looked at this imposter who didn't even have the basic common sense to be a detective with contempt, "Do you know what you're talking about?" …

Qin Zhibo looked solemn, "I have seen curses before, and I have personally experienced curses."

"That feeling, I don't want to experience it a second time"

The counterfeit Qin Zhibo's tone was deep and his expression was vivid, as if he had really experienced some unspeakable things.

Everyone in the room fell silent.

After all, both Mao Lilan and Shancun Cao are weak-willed, and it is easy to be afraid of gods and ghosts.

And Conan has personally experienced some things that are not easy to understand, such as flying skeletons and huge pink creatures.

Kogoro Mori saw that no one was speaking for him, and he didn't want to spend too much time with this impostor on ideology, so he thought of a good plan to embarrass the impostor.

"Since you think there are curses in the world, then do you judge that someone has cursed and killed people?" Mori Kogoro asked.

Qin Zhibo looked at the investigation point on Shancun Cao's hair, and shook his head, "No, this should be a simple murder, and there is no curse involved."

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Cut~~ After talking for a long time, isn't there still no curse?
Mori Kogoro looked down on the counterfeit, refocused his thoughts on the newspaper, and immediately compiled a set of reasoning that was different from Qin Zhibo and had a self-consistent logic.

"I see! It must be like this!"

"The story started five years ago. The bearded man pretending to be me had a gamble with the long-haired man in red who kept the suitcase."

"The two of them made a bet that Akagi Maru, who was brilliant five years ago, would be what he would be like in a year, and put all his wealth on it."

"I'm afraid that long-haired man said that to the bearded man. My answer is placed in this suitcase. Let's reveal the answer together in a year's time."

Yamamura Cao also stepped out of the shadow of the curse, recalled his responsibilities, and asked, "Who is that bearded man in sunglasses who came here to pick up the box five years ago?"

"I think he should be pretending to be my mustache." Mori Kogoro smiled slightly, "The letter 'May you be cursed and die' is a punishment for breaking his promise and coming to the hotel early to seek answers."

"As for the long-haired man's answer to the gamble, it is the hair in the newspaper, because a sumo wrestler shaving his hair means retirement."

"The long-haired man thought that Akagi Maru would retire in a year, but he didn't expect that Akagi Maru won consecutive games in Nagoya, and even advanced to the level of Ozeki."

"Seeing that Akagi Maru has no hope of retiring, he came to this forest where he made a bet and chose to hang himself."

Yamamura Cao looked back at "Moli Lao Liulang" who had hanged himself, and continued to ask: "But why did this guy commit suicide now?"

Mori Kogoro continued to be serious, "Because he heard that the body of the long-haired man was discovered recently, he couldn't wait to know what was in the long-haired man's suitcase."

"Later, he learned that the hotel owner asked me to investigate through some means, and he thought that if he pretended to be me, he could easily get the suitcase and see the long-haired man's answer back then." …

"The long-haired man's answer was to retire, and Akagi Maru was just as the long-haired man expected. He announced his retirement due to injury shortly after he was promoted to Ozeki."

"The long-haired man won the bet, but he committed suicide before waiting for the result. The bearded man felt that he had committed a serious crime, so he used his life to make an apology here."

Mori Kogoro's thoughtful reasoning immediately won the applause of the audience.

Especially as Mao Li's number one fanboy, Yamamura Cao is even more convinced, "Mr. Mao Li is really amazing! Sure enough, seeing is better than hearing a hundred times!"

"It's nothing, it's just a small trial! Haha——"

Mori Kogoro let out an exaggerated laugh, as if the matter had been settled.

I killed the fake Qin Zhibo righteously!

But Qin Zhibo on the side was deeply skeptical.

From Mori Kogoro's mouth, Qin Zhibo knew the part of the timeline that he didn't know.

Five years ago, a long-haired man in red kept his suitcase and letters at the Aoi House Hotel.

Not long after, a man with a beard and sunglasses wanted to take the suitcase, but got a letter saying "May you be cursed and die".

Four years ago, the long-haired man in red died in the forest, but the body was only recently discovered.

Today, the counterfeit Mori Kogoro came to pick up the box, because his neck was not strong enough, he was strangled to death by a rope.
Everything Kogoro Mori said, although the bystanders still sounded sharp.

But in the eyes of Qin Zhibo, who can see the investigation point, all the hypotheses are self-defeating.

Conan on the side looked at Kogoro Mori triumphantly, feeling a little helpless in his heart.

Although the curse is unlikely, Mori Kogoro's reasoning is simply unconstrained.

There was evidence at the scene of the death that would refute this theory on the spot.

If the real Qin Zhibo was present, Qin Zhibo would definitely be able to tell this evidence on the spot without speaking.

But now there is only one counterfeit here, can we still count on the counterfeit to carry?
Forget it, I can only go out on my own.
Just as Conan was about to say "Ah Lie Lie", "Qin Zhibo" in the room suddenly spoke.

"It really is a curse."

"Huh?" Mori Kogoro, who was complacent, paused for a moment, and turned to look at Qin Zhibo.

This counterfeit delivered himself to our door before we could expose him.

"Don't pretend anymore, in fact, you are not at all."

Before Mori Kogoro finished speaking, Qin Zhibo pinched the long hair in Yamamura Cao's hand and analyzed: "These hairs are of different lengths, some are curly and some are dyed, and there is still some moisture to the touch."

"Smell it." Qin Zhibo put his nose close to his hair, "It smells like shampoo."

"Isn't this a curse?"

Mori Kogoro looked shocked, and looked down at the hair in Yamamura Cao's hand, and it was exactly as the fake Qin Zhibo said.

"This, this, this is."

Kogoro Mori naturally knew what this meant, which meant that these hairs hadn't experienced a five-year time span at all, and it was very likely that they had just been put in.

But if he admits this, all the previous brain holes will no longer exist, and he must admit that the fake Qin Zhibo's reasoning at the beginning is correct. …

At this critical moment when the genuine product is about to be overthrown by the competitor's counterfeit product, Kogoro Mouri had an idea and thought of his own savior.

another me"!
Mori Kogoro knows that he still has a personality. Whenever he speaks outrageous reasoning, this personality will appear with a tingling pain on his neck, helping the building to collapse.

Time to come out, another me!

"This is actually the result of that hippie who dyed and permed his hair and died with regret."

"Huh?"×N
Mori Kogoro uttered unreliable words, which stunned everyone present and surprised Conan next to him.

What is this uncle talking about?

Although Conan didn't understand Kogoro Mori's "distress signal", but in order to save the face of the future father-in-law and the reputation he had built for him with great difficulty, he could only do it himself.

"By the way, Miss Xiaolan's hair got wet just now, right?"

"Of course, because I just went to take a bath."

"But when I went to see you in the evening, you clearly said that you hadn't taken a bath yet."

"Because at that time there was a cleaning sign at the entrance of the bathroom."

Kogoro Mori is inspired by an innocent conversation between Conan and Mori Ran.

"That's it, I understand!"

After asking the hotel owner when the bathhouse was cleaned, Mori Kogoro reasoned again, "In fact, someone deliberately hung a cleaning sign in front of the women's bathhouse in the evening, and then picked up some long and short pieces from the drain of the women's bathhouse. The different hairs are brought here and put between the newspapers in the suitcase."

"The purpose is to deliberately create the illusion of a man with long hair cursing, so as to confuse the police investigation."

Yamamura Cao shrugged his shoulders and said in shock, "That's not to say."

"That's right, this is a homicide case, and the murderer is someone from the hotel."

Mori Kogoro went around and went around, but returned to Qin Zhibo's reasoning.

It's just that Conan went too far this time, and everyone didn't realize the fact that Mori Kogoro was slapped in the face.

Seeing that Mori Kogoro's reasoning would continue for a while, Qin Zhibo went to the window to observe.

The sky gradually darkened, and the bright moonlight shone in the forest, revealing a holy atmosphere.

If Tomonori Yamashita's plan had not changed, he should be in the forest by now.
Qin Zhibo wanted to leave, but looking back at Kogoro Mori's progress in solving the case, he felt a little worried.

Although Mori Kogoro doesn't need to pay much respect, Conan is there after all.

If Conan solves all the cases when he comes back from dealing with voodoo, then he will lose a reward for a side mission.

In fact, Qin Zhibo had a rough judgment on the case the first time he saw the scene of the murder.

The length of the hair, the humidity, and the fragrance suggest that the hair has just been put in.

The fact that the counterfeit Mori Kogoro came to the hotel before Maori and his party on the correct date indicated that there was a whistleblower in the hotel.

There is also the newspaper in the suitcase, which is not an ordinary newspaper, but a treasure map with code words.

【Investigation√】

[A certain place is marked in it, "Dongqiantou Fifth" refers to the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva who fell in front of the God Forest and walked 5 steps to the east, and the victory and defeat of Akagi Maru refers to 8 steps to the right] ...

Qin Zhibo still remembered the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva lying on the ground in the forest, so there must be something hidden nearby.

Obviously, the ghost lurking in the hotel just wanted to find such a thing, and the counterfeit Mori Kogoro was just a hired actor.

To determine who the murderer is, all you need to do is find out who is most likely to call the impostor Mori Kogoro.

Qin Zhibo called the hotel owner outside the scene of the murder and asked, "You haven't seen the real Mori Kogoro, but you know the phone number of Mori's office, doesn't it seem unreasonable?"

"As far as I know, no Māori detective has ever advertised his practice on television or in a newspaper."

Qin Zhibo's fake identity has not been exposed yet, and he is still a detective.

When Qin Zhibo asked him such a question, the hotel owner immediately broke out in a cold sweat, for fear of being suspected.

"I just told about the suitcase and wanted to find a detective to solve the mystery. Someone recommended me the famous Mori Kogoro. I got the phone number from a tourist here."

"Who recommended Maori for you?" Qin Zhibo asked.

"You've seen it before, it's Shenbao Yafu who parks for you."

Qin Zhibo thought for a while, recalling Shenbao Masao's every move in the living room.

In the living room, when he returned Mao Lilan's mobile phone to Maoli Kogoro, he said that the man in front of him who called himself "Echigo Koemon" was Mao Lilan's father.

There is a sticker with his surname on Mao Lilan's mobile phone. Normal people would not think that "Maori"'s father's surname is "Echigo", right?

Unless he knows the real Mori Kogoro.

Qin Zhibo smiled slightly and said, "Boss, please bring an envelope and a piece of letter paper."

The hotel owner wanted to ask why, but when he saw Qin Zhibo's uncoordinated smile, he didn't dare to ask, and hurried to the front desk to get it.

The scene of the death.

The police force from Gunma County arrived late to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the scene.

Although it was determined that the murderer was someone from the hotel, and there was a high probability that it was an employee of the hotel, because only the employees knew the location of the "cleaning" sign.

However, there are more than a dozen employees at the Aoi House Hotel, and it will take a long time to ask for the alibi one by one.

Kogoro Mori was waiting for the results to come out, so that he could do further elimination, but found that the fake Qin Zhibo disappeared at some point.

"Ok?"

"Where did that counterfeit go!"

Mori Kogoro stood up and looked around the customer hall, but Qin Zhibo had long since disappeared.

The hotel owner came up at this moment and asked, "Does Mr. Maori want to ask Mr. Qin?"

"Mr. Qin left an envelope with me 10 minutes ago, saying that he would wait until 11:30 midnight to open it. Inside was the name of the murderer he believed to be in this case."

Mori Kogoro snatched the envelope from the hotel owner, and was about to tear the envelope, but was stopped by the hotel owner.

"be careful!"

"Mr. Qin also said that if the envelope is torn before the specified time, the person who tore the letter will be cursed and die!"