Ke Xue: The thief Cao is actually myself

Chapter 472: It’s all because of obsessive-compulsive disorder! (Please give me a monthly ticket!)

"..."

Hearing his question, Conan, who was hiding at the door, was startled.

Hiss, I said it so easily that I almost forgot that his current identity is the high school detective Kudo Shinichi, not the elementary school student Edogawa Conan.

No, I must think of a way to remedy the situation. Otherwise, if people notice that something is wrong with him and start to doubt his identity, that would be bad.

Thinking of this, in order to prevent himself from getting into trouble, Conan decisively pretended not to hear Maori Kogoro's questioning and directly changed the subject: "Everyone, please take a close look at the photos on the wall..."

Seeing that he didn't answer his question, Maori Kogoro couldn't help but frowned, "Hey..."

Damn it, how dare you ignore him?
This brat is really becoming more and more rude!

However, Conan ignored him and continued to talk to himself, "First, the Kurokawa family, the Mizushima family, the Yasuda family, and the Akutsu family. Then, please take a close look at the bridge."

At this point, Conan paused, "Although it is also a building mainly in the British classical style, I wonder if you have noticed one thing."

Several people were stunned for a moment, looking at the photos on the wall carefully, wanting to know what the discovery that 'Kudo Shinichi' mentioned was.

After looking at it for a while, Inspector Megure expressed his opinion, "I think every piece of work here is an excellent building!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Officer Shiratori noticed something, leaned closer to the photo of the bridge, and exclaimed, "Ah! This bridge is not a completely symmetrical building!"

If Conan hadn't reminded him, he wouldn't have noticed it. But after this reminder, he instantly noticed the difference between the Sumida Canal Bridge in the photo and other works of Teiji Moriya.

"That's right!"

Conan nodded slightly, confirming his guess. "This bridge is indeed not completely symmetrical. In my opinion, it may be the builder's request, or because of the building standards law and other factors, he had to compromise at the time."

Japan is characterized by frequent earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, high urban population density, and high density of wooden houses in old urban areas. For a long time, Japan's building technical regulations have been committed to improving the disaster prevention performance of buildings (especially earthquake resistance and fire resistance).

Learning from disasters and promptly formulating and revising construction technical regulations are the characteristics of the development of Japan's construction technical regulations. In the year after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, Japan promptly revised the law implementation regulations and introduced earthquake-resistant design and structural analysis methods. It was the first country in the world to require that structural calculations take into account earthquake forces.

-- The Building Standards Act protects people's life, health and property safety by establishing minimum standards for site, construction, equipment and use of buildings.

The Building Standards Act has both methodological and performance-based clauses; it applies not only to all buildings, but also to structures such as chimneys and towers; it not only includes requirements with green characteristics such as indoor air quality and energy conservation, but also stipulates requirements for the entire life cycle from the beginning of construction to demolition, including regular inspections during the building operation and maintenance stage.

The Building Standards Act applies nationwide, but considering the different climate and environmental conditions in various parts of Japan, the law allows each region to add additional requirements that meet regional conditions without affecting building safety. For example, the numbers used in structural calculations are based on actual data on local snow accumulation, wind pressure, and earthquake forces.

Japan has given legal status to building technical regulations through the National Parliament and the Cabinet, and has enforced them with specific government orders, provincial orders, local regulations and other documents. At the same time, the Building Standards Act has been amended to increase the penalties for illegal acts. For those who do not obey the dissuasion and carry out illegal construction, the person responsible will be fined 300 million yen, and the prison sentence will be increased from 1 year to 3 years, and the legal person will be fined 1 million yen; when the building design does not meet the regulations, the punishment for the person responsible will be increased from a fine of 50 yen to a sentence of 3 years in prison and a fine of 300 million yen, and the fine for the legal person will be increased from 50 yen to 1 million yen.

Of course, a small fine is nothing to a well-known architectural designer like Teiji Moriya.

But the key point is that he is just an architectural designer, not a builder.

Therefore, if the builder is unwilling to build according to his design in order to avoid being punished by law, even if Moriya Teiji is a professor of architecture at Touto University and a famous architectural designer in Japan, there is no good way to force the other party.

"But this was unbearable for Professor Moritani, who advocated perfectionism. At that time, the smooth life of an architect finally began to be overshadowed."

Teiji Moriya spent his time in England until high school, so he was fascinated by British-style architecture. He was particularly particular about the symmetry (left-right symmetry) of British classical architecture. The buildings he designed must be symmetrical. For this reason, he even changed his name to "Teiji Moriya" which means left-right symmetry.

For a person who is so obsessed with symmetry that he can be said to be paranoid, there is actually such a shadow in his perfect resume. It is conceivable how unwilling and angry he must be in his heart.

"In addition, the plan to build a new town in Nishitama City, which took him a long time to complete, was suddenly suspended due to the mayor's unexpected arrest."

The series of setbacks made Teiji Moriya, who already had an extreme personality and an almost paranoid perfectionism towards the buildings he helped design, even more paranoid and perverted.

In the end, this obsession with symmetry turned into a madness that made him willing to blow up all the "asymmetrical" buildings he designed when he was young in order to achieve perfection.

Hearing this, everyone was slightly startled. Officer Shiratori subconsciously ran to the building model on the table and looked at it. "So this is also the work of Professor Moritani!"

Although he knew that Teiji Moriya was a well-known architect who had designed many architectural works, he never expected that the new town of Nishitama City was also designed by him.

Regarding this point, he did not collect information when he went to collect intelligence before.

Of course, this may also be because the new town of Nishitama City was not successfully built in the end, so this matter was not made public, and naturally, the public did not know about this.

"Yes, the new town of Nishitama City is also his work, and it is probably his most proud work. Unfortunately, because I uncovered the incident of Mayor Okamoto causing the accident, Mayor Okamoto stepped down, and the Nishitama town-building plan was suspended, so he could not complete this perfect work."

Conan nodded gently. "So, he declared war on me so that I, a high school detective, would have my reputation damaged and get revenge on me. This was one of his goals. At the same time, he also achieved another goal, which was to cover up the arson case of the four families of the Kurokawa family and the explosion of the ring line bridge, so as to achieve the effect of smuggling."

At this point, Conan paused, his eyes dim, "As for this morning, the reason why he paused the timer on the bomb in the pet basket was because he was concerned about the gas lamp in the children's park!"

"Because that gas lamp should be a symbol of his construction of the new town of Nishitama, so the professor does not want to destroy it!" "Because that gas lamp is his favorite design that is closest to London, and it is also his sustenance! Am I right?"

After listening to Kudo Shinichi's reasoning, everyone couldn't help but turn their eyes to Moritani Teiji, their expressions changing.

If everything that a certain "high school detective" said is true, then Moriya Teiji will be spending the rest of his life in prison this time.

Noticing everyone's gaze, Moriya Teiji took a deep breath and pretended to be calm: "This line of reasoning is indeed interesting! But unfortunately, there is no evidence for your reasoning."

With a sneer, Kudo Shinichi's voice once again came from Inspector Megure's phone, "You want evidence? Of course I have it. It's in that model box!"

Of course, he has no real evidence.

After all, if there really was any evidence, he would have called Inspector Megure long ago and asked them to arrest Teiji Moritani directly. Why would everyone have to go to the exhibition room again?

But it doesn't matter if there is no real evidence, he can just forge it and deceive Moriya Teiji!

I believe that if he is caught off guard, Moriya Teiji will definitely be fooled. If he is lucky, he can even trick Moriya Teiji and make him admit his crimes.

Hearing this, Officer Shiratori and Officer Megure looked at each other and hurried to the model box to get the evidence mentioned by "Kudo Shinichi".

When he saw what was in the model box, his brows furrowed immediately. "This... this is... is this the transformation tool used by the bombing suspect?"

Looking at the wig, fake beard and sunglasses in his hand, Moriya Teiji was shocked and blurted out in confusion: "Impossible! I put it in the safe in the study!"

Why did this set of transformation tools appear here? He clearly remembered that he put it in the safe in the study and kept it well!
"So the bombing suspect used this tool to transform himself..."

Conan hung up the phone and walked out of the door of the exhibition room where he had been hiding.

Conan looked at the panicked Moriya Teiji and said meaningfully, "It's hidden in the safe in the study!"

Very good. Originally, he had no real evidence to prove that Moritani Teiji was the real culprit behind the arson and explosion. But now, a certain architect has blew up the location of his transformation tool, so he doesn't need to produce more evidence next.

This is because, as long as the police go to the study room to search according to the information that Moriya Teiji accidentally revealed just now, the disguise tools hidden by Moriya Teiji will be exposed without a doubt.

"what?"

As soon as these words came out, Moriya Teiji was a little confused.

Because, from Conan's tone, the other party, or the high school student detective behind the other party, actually didn't know about it. Then what about this disguise prop...

Could it be that……

In his confusion, Conan took the sunglasses from Officer Shiratori and laughed: "Hey, actually, these are my glasses!"

As he spoke, he wiped the lenses with a handkerchief and explained to the confused Moriya Teiji, "I used a water-based pen to paint the lenses black!"

Conan put on his glasses and continued to explain: "As for the wig and the beard, I cut the feathers off the armor in the study and glued them together with tape."

However, thanks to these props, he was now able to successfully deceive Moritani Teiji and make him admit what he had done.

When he said this, Conan paused and silently transferred the credit to his own brother, "These are all ideas that Shinichi-nii thought of!"

He is a little kid. If he is too smart, whether others will believe him or not is one thing. On the other hand, it will easily arouse other people's suspicion.

But if such an operation was thought up by his big brother Kudo Shinichi, then there would be no problem.

Because Kudo Shinichi is a high school detective known as the "savior of the Japanese police" and the "Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era"!
Isn't it normal for a nationally renowned detective to come up with such an idea?
After listening to Conan's words and looking at Teiji Moriya whose expression changed drastically, Officer Shiratori stepped forward without hesitation and said, "Professor Moriya, please come with us to the police station!"

The brilliant reasoning of a certain high school detective, coupled with the subconscious self-explosion of Teiji Moritani, all of this undoubtedly proved one thing.

That is, the real culprit behind the arson and serial bombings, as Kudo Shinichi deduced, was the architectural designer Teiji Moriya!
Noticing his movements, Moriya Teiji's eyes flashed with a fierce look, and he took a few steps back. Suddenly, he took out a lighter and shouted, "Don't move! If anyone dares to move, the bomb I installed in this room will explode!"

He didn't want to go this far.

After all, doing so would not only mean that he admitted his crime and completely broke off relations with the police, but it would also mean that he might never have the chance to destroy his previous imperfect works.

For him who is always pursuing symmetrical perfection, such a thing is really hard to accept.

But Conan and others forced him to this extent, and the police also knew the hiding place of the disguise tools used to disguise his identity. Things have developed to this point, and it is difficult for him to deny it even if he wants to.

In order to avoid being caught by the police and ruining their plans, now she and he can only take risks and see if they can use bombs to delay time so that the police cannot ruin their elimination plan!
(End of this chapter)