Ke Xue: The thief Cao is actually myself

Chapter 440

"Yeah, I'm curious too." Conan also looked like he was listening attentively.

"I've already mentioned the main reason, which is that the body is his, and I can conclude it's his by the process of elimination. As for the reason that makes me confirm it, it should be Tanaka Kazuyu's temper."

"Temper?" Inspector Megure competently played the role of the supporting actor.

"When you entered the room, the other party's attitude was very bad, and then when you were rummaging downstairs and making noise, you also heard the other party's angry voice.

But when you went into his room to check, he seemed to ignore you. Isn't that strange?"

"But at that time we all thought that the other person was just sleeping soundly..." Officer Megure said helplessly.

"Will you turn off the TV yourself when you are sound asleep?" Bai Ye smiled and said, "During this process, apart from Mr. Tomofumi Tanaka himself, has Mr. Kazuyu ever expressed his opinion?"

"I see!" Conan clapped his hands and said, "No wonder Uncle Shi was so anxious to push us out, and even complained to Inspector Megure despite his questioning.

This is all to facilitate the performance of this play. I think that room must have something set up to automatically turn off the TV!"

"So that's why Detective Bai Ye suspected me." Tanaka Tomofumi said with a wry smile, "I thought this plan was a success, but I didn't expect it to be full of loopholes in the eyes of the detective.

I had set the VCR in that room to shut down automatically, so when I realized the countdown was about to end, I deliberately said that."

"I've already said that this is just the direct cause. Even if you didn't make a mistake, I still suspect you are the murderer." Bai Ye shrugged and said, "After all, you can't get your dead brother to come and testify against the police.

As long as the police detect the bloodstains in the bathroom, the credibility of the corpse seen by the children will be greatly increased.

How will you play the role of your brother when you are under police surveillance? "

"I didn't expect that the plan I had worked so hard on for so long would be so vulnerable!" Tanaka Tomofumi gritted his teeth and said,
"After my scumbag brother discovered the secret of my stock trading, he stayed at my house, eating and drinking for free and doing nothing. How despicable!

Even though he knew I was getting married soon, that guy still wanted me to give him more money. I really couldn't stand this kind of blackmail.

Finally, I used my bare hands and a golf club I had in the house to crack the parasite's head off."

Bai Ye, Conan and the others remained silent and listened quietly to Fan Rao's confession.

Tomofumi Tanaka took a deep breath and said slowly:
“In fact, I love my brother more than anyone else.

He had previously attracted attention in the literary world as a new writer. He is a talented brother!

"My brother...my brother was once my ideal."

"My dream a long time ago was to be able to step onto the literary stage like my brother."

"But one day, my brother fell!"

"Just because he suffered a little setback, he gave up on himself and turned into a parasite! How can I accept this!"

"He's always been my dream! I want the brother of my dreams to appear again!"

"You know what? If this thing succeeds... I will, I will become my brother!"

Hearing such a horrifying monologue, Ayumi and the other two children took a few steps back at the same time and hid behind Bai Ye, trembling in fear.

Byakuya, Conan, and Inspector Megure remained silent, allowing the criminal to express his true feelings in his final moments until the matter was over.

No matter how wronged or justified the other party is, the only thing that can enforce justice is the law...

……

On the rooftop of a department store, parents are taking their children to watch the Kamen Rider stage play.

As Kamen Rider defeated all the enemies, the children cheered. Of course, the Boy Detectives, who are fans of Kamen Rider, also came to watch the stage play.

"Okay, Kamen Rider, catch all the bad guys!!!"

In such a harmonious situation, only Conan seems out of place.

"Why do I, as a high school student (an adult), have to watch this kind of thing with these little kids? Sigh."

The careful Bu Mei noticed that something was wrong with Conan, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Conan, don't you like Kamen Rider?"

"How could that be? I like Kamen Rider the most. Come on Kamen Rider, come on..." Conan shouted out these insincere words.

Finally the boring performance ended, and the children rushed to take photos with Kamen Rider.

Only Conan went up reluctantly, and was dragged up by the three men.

After reluctantly taking a group photo, the Junior Detective Team took the elevator and left the department store. The elevator lady said goodbye to them, "Thank you very much, and you are welcome to visit our company next time."

"Bye-Bye."

As dusk fell, the street lights on the bridge lit up. Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi were still reminiscing about today's performance and sang Kamen Ultraman's songs along the way.

"Kamen Rider...Kamen Rider of Justice..."

Suddenly Yuan Tai seemed to realize something and screamed, "Oh no, I don't know where I put my autographed photo of Kamen Rider."

"Maybe, when Yuan Tai came out just now, he said he was hungry, so he landed at the snack stand where he bought food."

"It must be like this, let's go back and find it."

"Wait a minute, if we go back at this time, it might be closed. Let's try again tomorrow."

"How can this be? If we go there tomorrow, it will definitely be taken away by others. Let's go back now," he said and ran back.

When the group returned to the entrance of the department store, the security guard at the door was shouting inside: "Please hurry up, the security system will be activated in ten minutes."

"Oh no, it's almost too late, hurry up." After saying that, they ran into the building. Conan couldn't keep up with them, so he had to sneak in.

After getting in safely, Conan leaned against the wall, secretly saying "that was a close call", and then chased after them.

The group finally arrived at the stall, and Yuan Tai saw his signature at a glance, "Great, I finally found my treasure."

"Okay, now that we've found it, let's go back quickly, otherwise we won't be able to get out in a while."

When everyone got off the elevator and prepared to go out, the security system was activated, and the Junior Detective Team was trapped in the department store. The lights in the building dimmed instantly.

"What should we do now?" "It doesn't matter. We just need to go to the guard room and tell them the truth. They will definitely let us out. Don't worry."

As expected of a high school student, he is very cunning.

"The guard room is on the second floor underground. Let's go over there."

The group came to the guard room and found that the person who performed the Kamen Ultraman drama in the morning was actually inside. Conan, who has a keen detective sense, felt something was wrong, but the simple Ayumi was not alert at all, "It's Kamen Ultraman..."

Before she could finish her words, Conan covered her mouth. Conan motioned for everyone to observe the situation first. They heard the security guards and the sister in the elevator being tied up with ropes. The people inside were discussing, "The jewelry counter is on the sixth floor, and there are antiques in the special sales area on the seventh floor..."

"It's the sister in the elevator..." Mitsuhiko stopped Yuanta in time, "Okay, let's search slowly before dawn."

"Could it be that they are a gang of robbers?"

"It would be terrible if we were discovered."

"You will be killed. Run away."

"But what about the elevator lady?"

"You don't have to worry about that. I guess that sister is probably in cahoots with the robber gang."

Conan, who had been silent, opened his mouth.

"Why do you say that?" Everyone knew that Conan must have his reasons for saying that.

"Because the ropes on that sister were too loose, even a kid like us could break free easily. This is totally different from the ropes on those security guards."

In this regard, Mitsuhiko and others have different opinions, "It is possible that the robbers were negligent. I still don't believe that such a beautiful big sister would be a robber."

Conan hesitated for a moment and said, "It doesn't matter. Anyway, the most urgent thing now is to escape and tell others about the situation here."

Naturally, everyone would not have too many objections to this, "Yeah!"

Several people came to the pay phone and found that the telephone line had been cut.

Everyone searched all the phone numbers, but found that none of them could be dialed through without exception.

After realizing this, everyone's expressions suddenly became extremely ugly, "Does that mean no one will come to save us?"

"Luckily I ate a lot of eel bento before I was killed."

Looking at Genta and others who were about to give up so quickly, Conan's mouth twitched slightly, "It's a bit too early to give up now." After saying that, Conan picked up the paint and brush.

Conan picked up the paint and painted "SOS" on the glass, hoping that someone in the building opposite would notice them, but after a while everyone in the building went off work and still no one noticed them.

"Damn it, why didn't they find us?"

At this time, the impatient Yuanta had lost his patience and started hitting the glass with a chair, trying to break it. However, the glass in the department store is all tempered glass, which is not so easy to break. After knocking for a while, Yuanta found that it had no effect at all, so he threw a larger table at the glass. At this time, the robber group was looting jewels on the sixth floor. They heard strange noises coming from the seventh floor where Conan and the others were, so they used the intercom to call their accomplice in the guard room and asked him to use the surveillance to check what was going on.

Conan saw the security camera moving towards them and immediately told them to get down, but he noticed the "SOS" on the window and ran out to pull down the curtains. The people in the guard room did not see anything unusual, and the robbers on the sixth floor were urging them to pick up all the jewelry, but the cautious robbers still did not give up.

"No, just to be on the safe side, go and have a look."

On the seventh floor, the Junior Detectives were carefully avoiding surveillance while looking for an exit. Mitsuhiko spotted the robber who came to check and quickly warned the others.

Several people quickly hid, but Yuantai, who was hiding in the closet, was eventually discovered, and everyone quickly fled in all directions.

“So it’s a kid.”

Several people came to a cart. Conan pushed the wall hard, and the cart moved forward quickly, knocking over two people. The Young Detective Team also escaped temporarily.

After escaping to the textile shopping area, several people set a trap and subdued the two men, but all the lights in the building were on.

"It seems that the people in the guard room have discovered us and are doing this to catch us all."

After saying that, they wanted to escape by taking the elevator, but Conan discovered that there was a security camera in the elevator, so he asked them to leave.

Sure enough, when they left, the elevator closed.

"Thank you, Conan." "Haha, you should thank me after we leave here safely."

At this time in the Mouri Detective Agency, Mouri Ran had just returned home and found that Mouri Kogoro had fallen asleep with several beer cans beside him.

Mao Lilan quickly woke Mao Li Kogoro up, "Dad, why hasn't Conan come back yet? It's already dark."

"Oh, it seems they went to the department store with the kids to watch a doll show."

"Then why haven't you come back yet? The department store is closed now."

"How would I know that?" He said and fell asleep again.

Mao Lilan called and found out that it was just a notice that the store was closed.

In the department store, the Junior Detective Team is engaged in a fierce chase with a gang of robbers.

Mao Lilan called the homes of the members of the Junior Detective League again, and found that none of them had returned home. Helpless, Mao Lilan had to run to the police station to find Officer Megure and explained the situation to him.

At this time, the Junior Detective Team was using various props in the supermarket to subdue the robbers one by one. Finally, all the robbers were subdued, and Conan also understood what he had always felt was wrong.

At a corner, the elevator lady was walking with her bag.

"Who is it? Come out quickly!"

Conan came out from the other side, and the elevator lady saw that it was him and said to Conan, "Little boy, it's very dangerous here, there are a lot of bad guys."

Conan sneered, "You don't have to pretend anymore, the big sister in the elevator, or the fifth member of the robber group."

As soon as these words came out, the elevator lady was shocked, "You...what did you say?"

After looking at her deeply, Conan said quietly, "It was the fifth person who moved the elevator at that time. She was waiting for all of us to arrive. And among the people who stayed in the guard room, you were the only one who knew how many people we had. Before, you sneaked into this department store as an elevator girl and conducted reconnaissance and guidance, right?"

Hearing this, the elevator lady knew that she was really exposed. Her face instantly became gloomy. "Who are you?"

Conan's lips curled slightly, "My name is Edogawa Conan, and I'm a detective."

(End of this chapter)