Conan's other me

Chapter 173
Uncle Mori still doesn't understand why Hattori Heiji is so sure that this is the message of death.

Hattori Heiji explained to him:

"The president's hands are tied behind his back, right? It's impossible to look at and choose the building blocks you want... The reason why the six sides are full of fingerprints is because the president used his fingers to feel for the notches on the words. Judging...judging which side to get ink on...

However, these four blocks were found in a pile of building blocks. The other building blocks did not have too many fingerprints. That is because these building blocks have all the pseudonyms of the same consonant engraved on one piece. Just touch it a little to know if it is right. ..."

"So that's why only these four pieces are full of fingerprints..."

"That's right. Fingerprints mainly rely on the sweat and oil on the fingers to leave traces. They will no longer be secreted after death. So even if a dead person holds the building blocks, only the earliest one or two blocks will be stained with fingerprints. No. Maybe it’s all over the place like this…

The traces of the rope stained with ink on the floor are also evidence. I am afraid that the president secretly selected these four blocks from behind, and put it back into the pile of blocks after the selected side was stained with ink...

Because he doesn't know when he will be killed, his hands are sweating with fear... That is to say, he is eager to leave a message before the prisoner finds out, maybe he will get the case wrong..."

After thinking for a while, Hattori Heiji continued, "But this is the toy company, does he really want to leave information about the toy?"

"It's amazing..." Xiaolan showed an expression of admiration, "I just arrived here, and I already understand so many things..."

"Yes, yes! Is it Hira—" Kazuha agreed, and then his face suddenly changed, "No, Xiaolan! You can't be led away by Heiji! This is Heiji's deduction contest... the bet is Koshien And Takarazuka!"

"Uh…"

Xiaolan just reacted.

She glanced at her teammates.My father was still following Hattori Heiji, without giving any useful information, and Xiao Ai followed Xiao Sora, I don't know what he was looking at...

I feel like I have no hope of winning...

"In short!" He Ye tried to force himself, "If you want to solve the incident first than Heiji, you must first solve the mystery of the death message [toy]..."

"Yeah, maybe there are some hints in the toys here..."

"No, there are no suspicious toys." The Mumu police department who heard their conversation said.

"Hey?"

"really?"

"Hmm. We thought that these four building blocks might be clues to the news of the death, so we searched the entire office carefully..."

"Maybe there are other meanings..." Conan said.

"Other meanings?"

"Does it mean that there are other combinations of these four words?"

He Ye and Xiao Lan hurriedly tried to make new permutations and combinations in the notebook, but soon found that no other effective information could be combined.

Hattori Heiji obviously organized it in his mind and asked directly to the Megure Police Department: "Is there really nothing else suspicious?"

"Ah, here we come..."

At this time, a police officer just came over with two plastic-wrapped evidences, and the police department showed them to everyone, "The murder weapon found here is the golf club used by the prisoner... and the clothes the prisoner wore when committing the crime." This high-end fur coat stained with the blood of the president..."

"But," Megure Police Department paused, "both the golf club and the coat belong to the president himself, and it is said that he put them in the inner room. No information about the prisoner can be found from these two items...

What's more, people don't understand why the prisoner wears this coat, and the president's room has not been turned over..."

"It must have been while the president was out, the prisoner sneaked in here and saw this high-end coat, and wanted to try it out to see if it suits him, so he put it on?"

Uncle Mao Li said, "Then the president came back. The prisoner tied him up and killed him after asking the password of the safe. Of course he couldn't wear the coat with blood on it. He took it off and ran away..."

"Huh?" Hattori Heiji, who took over the coat from the Megure Police Department and inspected it, questioned, "The blood stains on this coat are only blurred on the left shoulder... as if it was wiped by something..."

"This is another mystery," Megure Police Department said, "Nowhere in this office can I find a place that matches this bloodstain..."

"Maybe I touched my hands when I took off my coat..." Uncle Maori said, "Did you find the gloves used by the prisoner or something?"

Mu Mu Police Department shook his head.

"Speaking of bloodstains," Conan was lying on the ground to check the bloodstains that had dried up, "There are also strange bloodstains here!"

"Ok?"

"Look, this is it." Conan pointed to a bloodstain near the side of the table, "You can't see it unless you look carefully. There are a little traces of being cut... What was there once?"

"Yeah..." Hattori Heiji leaned over to agree, "But in this kind of place, what exactly is there..."

As they said that, they noticed the TV on the side the next moment.

Hattori Heiji picked up the remote control from the table, turned on the TV, and found that the TV was in the external input state.

"In other words, maybe the video camera is placed here..."

"Camera? There's one in the president's room..." Police Department Megure said.

"Then let the forensic officers check if there is any blood on the camera?"

The Mumu Police Department went to make arrangements immediately, while Conan was lost in thought.So far, he and Hattori Heiji had basically the same idea, but he always felt that something was not quite right.

For example, why did the criminal take the camera away after the crime...

And the other self doesn't seem to be interested in the news of death at all... This is the key to solving the case...

"That, Conan..."

While thinking, he heard Xiaolan's voice, looked up and saw Xiaolan approaching him.

"Conan, please do one thing..." Xiaolan showed a pleading look.

"Eh?"

"Can Kazuya win this reasoning competition? Kazuye has been looking forward to seeing Takarazuka with us...So, can you tell us what you thought of? After Dad heard your discovery, Maybe we can solve the case as usual..."

After a pause, Xiaolan clasped her hands together,

"Please forgive me - can't you?"

"..."

"Can not be done!"

Just when Conan's heart was already shaken, Hattori Heiji suddenly appeared behind Xiaolan, stretched out his hand to lift Conan aside, "This kid belongs to me! Don't try to trick him!"

"..." Xiaolan looked at Hattori Heiji angrily.

Hattori Heiji pulled Conan aside and looked at Conan with a bad expression, "Hey, you don't intend to abandon the friendship between men and go to women, right?"

"Friendship? Didn't you draw me in by talking about yourself..." Conan said angrily, "Besides, why don't you take care of Fengyuan..."

"That's right! Where's Kudo?"

Hattori Heiji whispered, then looked around, "Oh... he has been whispering to his new woman since just now..."

"Hey...don't say such strange things..."

"Forget it! That guy didn't even watch the scene, so there must be no progress... The two of us are enough!" Hattori Heiji said, "I definitely want to win, and then go to Koshien!"

His side was imposing like a rainbow, while Xiao Lan returned to He Ye's side a little bit disappointed.

He Ye was still writing and drawing in her notebook, hoping to get the answer to the death message, but because she didn't have any ideas, she couldn't concentrate.

"Xiao Lan, are you going to inquire about the news?"

"Hmm..." Xiaolan was a little embarrassed, "But there is no useful news. Heiji didn't let Conan say..."

"Hmph, idiot Heiji..."

"However, it's okay!" Xiaolan cheered up and looked at Fengyuan and Huiyuan Ai on the other side, "Xiaokong is also very smart, if he finds something, he will definitely tell Xiaoai..."

"Oh..." That's what I said, but after all, they are just two children, and He Ye didn't have too much expectations, "Speaking of which, the relationship between the two of them is really good..."

"Yeah yeah, I'm telling you..."

The two suddenly started gossiping for no apparent reason.

Fengyuan, who heard everything, couldn't help but look back at them, but the two people quickly realized that they were still in a reasoning duel and stopped.

Fengbara then looked at the calendar on the wall.

The picture on the calendar is a swimsuit photo of a beauty idol.

"Does it look good?" Hui Yuanai asked.

"...I wasn't looking at her. Didn't you notice? This isn't the only picture of her in the room."

Haiyuan Ai thought for a moment, "The pen holders on the table seem to have photos of this person on them..."

"Well, so this person is probably the idol of the murdered President Tsujitani...but the strange thing is not this..."

Said, Feng Yuan glanced at the month on the wall calendar, "Don't you find it strange? This is the wall calendar for July, and the one for June has been torn off..."

"It's July now..." Hui Yuan Ai realized halfway through the sentence, "Oh...the crime happened on June 29..."

"Almost every day's schedule is written on the calendar. There is no reason to tear off the June calendar two days in advance..." Fengyuan said, "Maybe it was torn off by the prisoner for some reason..."

Feng Yuan looked back at the coat that was put aside.

At this time, the Memu Police Department happened to get the news and confirmed that the camera was indeed stained with the blood of the deceased.

Immediately afterwards, Officer Takagi, who went to investigate the alibi of the four people, also rushed back.

(End of this chapter)