Conan's self-cultivation of fake wine

Chapter 514
  It took Lu Ren a moment to remember the appearance of the man with the poisonous tongue on the big screen. Because he always felt that this person would be his potential customer.

As long as this person continues to maintain his current style, they will meet again one day.

But this is all for the future, and it is unlikely in the short term. In other words, today’s case is impossible.

This so-called criminal psychologist is a little bit poisonous in his words. But Lu Ren also recognized his core point of view.

There are only the last three days left, so there is no need to create extraneous matters at this time.

Moreover, how can the prisoner be sure that the person on the big screen is not a police spy? Aren't the police fishing for law enforcement?

According to the information given by the police, the murderer is an extremely cautious person.

Then it is even more impossible to take advantage of the moment and choose to come and kill this poisonous tongue man at this critical moment.

But it will be hard to say in the future, if they don't uncover this serial murderer in the last three days.

Then he will most likely lie dormant for a period of time and then quietly kill the poisonous man on the big screen.

Ok……

If it really gets to that point, the only way is for the police to give this vicious-tongued man a warning in advance so that he can be more careful.

As for sending police officers to protect this person personally, that is purely fanciful. The already tense police force cannot be used to prevent minor incidents.

Just as Lu Ren was thinking, Miwako Sato's call came from behind. He turned around and asked with a smile: "Have you got the information?"

"Yes. We have the contact information and home addresses of the three victims' families. But after all these years, they are likely to move and change their mobile phone numbers."

"Then try to contact them first, and then ask for their current home address. Visit in sequence, first visiting the family members of the victim in the first case."

"Yes." Sato Miwako responded, took out her mobile phone, looked at the information, and dialed the number of the first victim's family.

The first victim, named Tsuiharu Fangchuan, was the director of a private hospital. The person who lived with him and left his contact information was Bokawa Tsuji's wife, whose name was Bokawa Maiko.

When Sato Miwako called the contact person, Takagi whispered to Lu Ren: "We also listed Ms. Fangchuan as a suspect at the beginning. Because she was the first witness to the case, and at the same time, she inherited Mr. Fangchuan after his death. A very rich legacy.”

"A very reasonable guess. What happened next?"

"Later, because no evidence was found, and the victim of the second murder that happened immediately had no contact with her, her suspicion was cleared."

Lu Ren nodded. He felt that the possibility of family members committing the three serial murders was extremely low.

According to his speculation, the murderer should be a person who had close contact with the three victims. The four of them often get together for some sort of activity.

If the above assumptions are not true, then there are two possibilities left.

1. The murderer had unilateral contact with the three people. The three victims had no connection to each other.

2. Indiscriminate killing.

Now let's try to confirm the first possibility and see if there might be some kind of connection between the three victims before they were alive.

As long as we can find this connection, we should be able to find the murderer by following the clues.

Soon, Miwako Sato hung up the phone and said to Lu Ren: "Ms. Maiko Fangchuan is free in the afternoon, let's go there now."

"Ah."

Maiko Hokawa's house is in the 2-chome of Yoneka Town, and it takes about ten minutes to drive there.

Since she had said hello in advance, after ringing the doorbell, Maiko Fangchuan quickly walked to the door of her house and invited Lu Ren and the three of them to come in and sit down.

Then Maiko Fangchuan poured a cup of hot tea for each of the three people sitting on the sofa, "The statute of limitations for the case twenty years ago has passed, so why are you so serious about coming here again?"

Lu Ren: "Strictly speaking, it's not over yet, because the murderer killed another person fifteen years ago. The police are still hunting him."

"That's it." Maiko Fangchuan nodded, her expression very calm, "Then is there anything I can do to help?"

Lu Ren: "I would like to ask, did your husband always stay at home, especially during holidays? Or did he disappear occasionally?"

If the four people back then really had some kind of connection, then this connection must have been extremely hidden and unknown.

If it was on the surface, the police would definitely have found it.

On the way here, Lu Ren thought of another possibility.

The murderer and the three deceased were probably members of the same harmonic cult. They hold fixed ceremonies at fixed times.

There are many flashy sects in Japan, and many of them include harmonious organizations that deceive people and bankrupt them.

This can also be seen from the song that the murderer often sang. There is a line in "Let It Be" that contains the word Mother Mary. Translated, it means Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, which has a strong religious connotation.

If the murderer and the victim were indeed members of the same Harmony cult, then the murderer's humming and carving on the back of the deceased would be explained.

The murderer doesn't even need a conventional reason for killing. The brain circuits of the harmonic madman have long been completely distorted.

Maybe he also feels that his actions are helping the victim to completely transcend.

Of course, whether it is true or not depends on the evidence.

Regarding Lu Ren's question, Maiko Fangchuan thought for a while, "My husband often went drinking every Saturday night before he was alive. But I don't know where he went and who he drank with."

Every Saturday night, drinking.

"He once came back drunk and muttered, 'Damn it, you keep talking about being a crybaby and treating me like a fool.' I had no idea what he was talking about."

Crybaby...

What does it mean? Some kind of code word? Or was Maiko Fangchuan misunderstood?

Seeing that Maiko Fangchuan seemed unable to provide any more information, Lu Ren suggested going to the room where the deceased lived to have a look.

Maiko Fangchuan rejected this proposal, "Twenty years have passed, and I have thrown away everything in that room."

The investigation was hindered, and Lu Ren couldn't say anything. As Maiko Bokawa said, twenty years have passed.

It would have been impossible for him to keep the deceased's belongings intact for twenty years.

So Lu Ren stood up and said goodbye.

After leaving Maiko Shokawa's house and returning to the car, Miwako Sato said: "We got these testimonies twenty years ago, but we really can't figure out what a crybaby means. As for the photos, we I took some pictures, if you want to see them, you can go back to the Metropolitan Police Department to see them."

Riku Ren rejected Sato Miwako's proposal, "Just looking at the photos is basically useless. Let's continue to contact the family members of the second victim."

"Ah."

The second deceased, named Atsunori Umata, was an associate professor at Toto University.

Miwako Sato first tried to contact the wife of the second victim. As a result, the call never got through.

After many attempts to communicate failed, Sato Miwako began to try to call the victim's brother.

The call was quickly answered. After a short communication, the three learned from Maitian Xiubang that his sister-in-law had passed away the year before last. As for him, he was still living in the same place, waiting for the arrival of the police. Hidekuni Maitian lives in 1-chome next door, and it doesn’t take long to drive.

After getting in the car, Takagi added: "This Mr. Wheatfield once bought a huge insurance policy for his brother Wheatfield Atsunori. We suspected that he was a murderer at the time. But just like Mrs. Fangchuan, we could not find him and the first contact with the victim."

"Hmm. How old is he?"

"56 is old."

Fifty-six now, twenty years ago he would have been thirty-six.

The murderer was a man in his forties or fifties. Fifty-six was a little out of range, but still acceptable.

Lu Ren temporarily listed him as a suspect. But after seeing the real person, he quickly overturned his previous guess.

The murderer was between 1.6 and 1.7 meters tall. The victim's brother is nearly 1.8 meters tall and cannot be the murderer.

If the murderer was still a minor at the time, he might have grown ten centimeters taller twenty years later.

But the man in front of him was already thirty-six years old twenty years ago, and the seams in his bones had long since closed, making it impossible for him to grow ten centimeters taller.

After ruling out this person's suspicion, Lu Ren immediately asked, "Do you know what special activities Mr. Wheatfield Atsunori has every Saturday night?"

"Every Saturday night?" Maitian Xiubang recalled for a moment and quickly replied, "I once heard my sister-in-law complain that my brother often stayed up all night on Saturday nights and didn't go home until early the next morning."

"My sister-in-law thought he was having an affair, so she kept calling him one Saturday night. My brother replied angrily on the other end of the phone, 'He is seeing a doctor now and asked her not to call again. .'"

"See a doctor?" Takagi suddenly became very excited, as if he saw the hot spring trip in front of him and waved to him, "Doctor, the first victim, Mr. Fangchuan, is the doctor!"

"No, it shouldn't be him." Maitian Xiubang immediately poured cold water on him, "Your police have investigated this matter, but in the end they found nothing. My brother's name is not on the registration form of Fangchuan Hospital."

"Ok."

Lu Ren: "Did he drink?"

"Isn't that true? He rarely smells of alcohol."

"Well, I'm bothering you."

Several people said goodbye to Xiubang in the wheat field and returned to the car.

Lu Ren: "Based on Maitian Xiubang's testimony, I came to the following two possibilities. First, his sister-in-law heard wrongly. The victim called not to see a doctor, but to do something else. She might have misunderstood. 2. The victim is lying.”

"Lying?" Takagi put away his disappointment and asked doubtfully, "Can't he really be seeing a doctor?"

"Who goes to the doctor all night long? And they go there almost every week. But because this lie is so lame, it will be exposed as soon as it is exposed. So I am leaning towards the first possibility, that the deceased Mrs. Wheatfield was wrong Got it."

Both victims liked to engage in certain activities on Saturday nights, which was consistent with his previous guesses.

This group of people did have a fixed place for communication and gathering during their lives.

But it was not a jungle trip or hunting as I had guessed before. Playing this late at night or even all night long, I really don’t know how to write the word “death”.

And it was hard for Lu Ren to believe that there could be signals in the forest twenty years ago. He is now traveling with Haiyuan and the others, and they often encounter places with no signal, let alone twenty years ago.

As for the theory of Harmony, it seems unlikely now. If they were really holding some kind of Harmony Ceremony, then the phone would logically be unreachable.

So, is it possible that it is a club?
  Brother Maori often goes to the club in Ginza and is very familiar with Mama-san there.

You can drink and have fun there, so you can just spend the whole night relaxing.

However, Mao Lilan generally did not allow Mao Li Kogoro to stay out all night. She would call him after eleven o'clock. If he couldn't be called back, she would go back and pick him up in person.

and many more……

Lu Ren suddenly realized that he had overlooked something.

How did the first victim get home?

If he really drank at the Ginza club, he would have to take a taxi back. If not, wouldn't that mean he drank somewhere nearby?

"Officer Sato, please call Ms. Fangchuan again. I have something to ask her."

"Ah."

After a while, Lu Ren took the phone from Sato Miwako and asked the question in his heart.

"How do you come back? Sometimes you come back by walking, sometimes you come back by taking a taxi."

what?
  The place where you drink is different every time? Sometimes it’s close and sometimes it’s far?

Lu Ren suddenly thought of something, and then asked: "Does he come back drunk every time? Has he ever come back very late, but there is no smell of alcohol on his body?"

"There seems to be some, but very few."

"Okay, I understand, thank you for your cooperation."

The places where these victims and their killers met before their deaths were not allowed to drink alcohol. Fangchuan Jiji found another place to drink after leaving.

And the place where he sometimes drinks is very close to home!

"Officer Sato, let's pause the investigation for a moment. Let's go back to Ms. Fangchuan's home first, and then focus on her home to find out if there are any restaurants or izakayas nearby that have been operating for a long time."

"You mean, the deceased drank there before he was alive?"

"Yes. According to the information obtained so far, it can be deduced that several victims would gather somewhere every Saturday night to carry out some kind of activity. This activity meets two elements."

"First, it is extremely sustainable and can be carried out all night long. Second, it can be interrupted at any time. The first victim often leaves early to go drinking elsewhere. There is a saying that one speaks the truth after drinking."

"If we can find the place where Suiji Bokawa drank twenty years ago, we might be able to find out from the owner of that shop where Suiji Bokawa worked before coming to a restaurant or izakaya to drink. What."

"That makes sense, let's go."

Sato Miwako agreed with Lu Ren's statement and drove back to the area near Fangchuan Suiji's home.

After a two-hour search, the owner of an izakaya recognized the photo of Tsuiharu Bokawa and said that the man often came to his place to drink alone on Saturday nights.

"Then do you know where he stayed and what he did before he came to you?"

The shop owner shook his head and said, "Mr. Police, you are forcing yourself to do something difficult. I run a shop and do business, and I am not a chat companion. I shouldn't discuss the customer's past if I am not interested."

"Then did he complain about anything when he drank?"

"Twenty years have passed. Even if it happened, I would have forgotten it."

"That's right, it's annoying."

ps: The creator of "Let It Be" once said in an interview that mother mary is not the Virgin Mary that everyone thinks, but refers to his mother mary.

But as mentioned before, being misunderstood is the fate of the expresser.

(End of this chapter)