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Chapter 657 The mysterious woman

Watercolor, acrylic, oil paints.
  The cabinets are filled with bottles and cans of various colors, which are the most familiar and painful things for an art dog.

After all, these things cost more than each other, and they are also consumables. It can be said that each painting consumes not only hard work, but also paint (gold) and materials (money).

But besides these gadgets, there was something that Tangze was not familiar with but knew about.

Spray paint.

In the cabinet of the deceased, in addition to those professional courses for art students, there are also things other than professional courses such as spray painting.

But this is normal. After all, it is a form of art, and spray painting is convenient and interesting. It is normal for art students to like it.

In Tang Ze's previous life, several of his classmates also liked to play with spray paint, so even though they had never been exposed to it, they were quite familiar with it.

But from the current point of view, this is just a normal hobby of art students, nothing special.

And just as the two were checking each other's room, the old lady next to them who thought they had some gray hair suddenly came over: "Well...I suddenly remembered something..."

"Ah, it's the administrator's mother-in-law." Takagi looked at the other person and introduced to Karasawa: "This is Tanaka's mother-in-law, who is also the apartment manager."

"Hello."

Tang Ze walked up to the other party and said hello politely before asking: "I wonder what you just remembered?"

"It's like this. About four or five days ago, a man came to see Gao Hong."

Mother-in-law Tanaka looked at the two of them, as if she was afraid that they might get the wrong idea, she quickly waved her hand and said, "It's not the ex-boyfriend who comes to make trouble every day. I still know him when he comes here every day. He is another man."

"What does it feel like specifically?" Tangze and Takagi looked at each other and then asked: "Mother-in-law, do you still remember the other person's appearance?"

"Well... I think he's a little older. He looks like he's in his forties, with a mustache."

Granny Tanaka recalled: "At that time he was wearing a coat, said he was working at Mihua University, and asked me if Gao Hong lived here."

"A teacher who works at the university came here specifically to confirm the address?" Takagi's tone was full of suspicion: "It feels very suspicious."

"There is indeed something fishy about it."

After Tangze finished speaking, he thanked Granny Tanaka: "This information is very useful, thank you very much."

"I hope I can help you." Granny Tanaka smiled and then walked slowly downstairs.

"Let's go too."

Karasawa looked at Takagi and said: "There is no useful information here. You call Sato to see how the situation is on her side. If we find Shanba Yuanzi, we will go there."

"Yes." Takagi nodded and took out his cell phone to talk to Sato. After a while, he put away his cell phone and nodded towards Karasawa.

When the two arrived at the coffee shop near Mihua University, Miwako Sato stood up when she saw the two people entering the door and waved: "This way."

The two of them walked to their seats and greeted Shanchang Yuanzi before taking their seats.

After the two parties briefly introduced themselves, Sato Miwako told them about the information about the ex-boyfriend whom they had asked about before.

Kusaka Takeyama, 9 years old, unemployed, his address is No. 304, th Street, Yoneka-machimo-ku. This is the specific situation of the suspicious suspect.

"I still can't believe this." Shanchang Yuanzi looked at Tangze and the two of them and asked in disbelief: "Two criminals, is it really Zhushan who killed Mihashi?"

"It's not clear yet." Tangze shook his head and immediately asked: "But do you know anyone who has been in contact with Gao Hong recently?"

"A man in his forties, wearing a coat and a mustache." Takagi described: "Probably a staff member of your university."

"The person you are talking about should be the staff of the student loan company."

Shanchang Yuanzi was a little unsure and said: "He said that he just reached a cooperation with the school last week and is responsible for the loan business on campus."

"Listen to what you said, have you met him before?" Hearing this, Tang Ze confirmed.

"He came to see me." Shanchang Yuanzi explained: "He said that Gaohong Sanqiao had borrowed money. He wanted to confirm the situation, so he asked me for Gaohong's contact information and address."

"Listening to what you said, it seems like you didn't tell him any information about your boyfriend?"

"Well, I did not tell him."

Hearing Tangze's words, Shanchang Yuanzi nodded and said, "Because we are afraid of causing trouble to Sanqiao, and we have not heard of any loan cooperation with the school.

However, he kept chasing me and said that he must see Mihashi no matter what, so I had no choice but to tell him where Mihashi worked. "

"Part-time job?" Takagi asked quickly: "I wonder where it is?"

"In a convenience store near Yoneka University."

After Shanchang Yuanzi told Tang Ze and others where Takahiro Mihashi worked during his lifetime, Tang Ze and others went to the convenience store for questioning.

As for Miwako Sato, she followed Enzi Shoba and continued to interview people who had a good relationship with the deceased.

"Mihashi does work here."

After driving to the convenience store and stating his intention, the store manager looked in disbelief: "That kid would actually be killed. This is something I never thought about.

He is just an ordinary college student. The key is that he worked the night shift last night and didn't get off work until two in the morning."

"That's right."

The two of them, Tang Ze, looked at each other and finally understood why the other person was killed outside in the middle of the night.

It turned out that Gao Hongsanqiao was just returning home from get off work after a normal job, and when he was returning home, he was attacked and killed by the inmates who were waiting for him.

"Store manager, have you ever heard of anyone asking about him?" Tangze asked, thinking of the man in the coat before.

"Ah, there is indeed one." The store manager recalled while paying the customer: "That man said he was the father of Mihashi Fa when he was a child."

"kindness?"

After hearing the completely different testimony from Shouchang Enzi before, Takagi quickly looked at the store manager: "What did that man ask? Did he ask about Takahiro Mihashi's address?"

"That question was indeed asked."

The store manager nodded and said, "He said that his son was ill and hospitalized, and he wanted to see Mihashi, so he ran over to him.

Although I had found the school before, I found out that he had moved out to live in Mihashi. I learned from his classmates that he was working here, so I hurried over."

"I wonder if you can describe that man's appearance to us?" Tangze asked. “Looks like he’s in his forties. He’s wearing a suit and a coat, so he looks...”

The store manager hesitated for a moment and said: "It looks serious on the surface, but actually it feels very confusing."

"That's right." Tang Ze nodded and continued to ask: "I wonder if there is anything else you care about? No matter how small it is, it will do."

"Ah, by the way, he answered the phone while talking to me and claimed to be Maori." After thinking about it for a while, the store manager said a somewhat unexpected name.

"gross profit!?"

Tang Ze and the two looked at each other and thought of one person at the same time.

Thinking about it more carefully, the forty-year-old and mustache do match the facial features of Mouri Kogoro, and the suit inside and coat outside also match the usual look for detective work.

More importantly, the identity of the other party is also constantly changing. Sometimes he is a person from the student loan company, and sometimes he is the father of the deceased classmate. This constant change of identity is also in line with the characteristics of a detective.

After all, during the investigation process, it is normal for detectives to disguise their identities and obtain information from people around the target person in order to make a story.

Compared with Takagi, Karasawa even has an 80-90% chance of being sure that the opponent is Mouri Kogoro.

There is no way, with so many characteristics of the detective profession, plus the surname "Maori", this is almost a stone hammer, there is no possibility of having the same surname.

And from a scientific point of view, it seems to be a very common thing that the murder case is related to Mouri Kogoro.

"Let's go to the Maori Detective Agency."

Karasawa asked Takagi to get in the car: "If nothing else happens, the person investigating Takahiro Sanqiao should be Detective Mori."

"Perhaps Tangze Criminal's previous speculation is correct."

Takagi looked serious and said: "At least Kusaka Takeyama knows the address of Takahiro Mitsuhashi. There is no need to ask a detective to investigate. Maybe Takahiro Mitsuhashi is also involved in other incidents that we don't know about."

"Let's go, just ask Detective Mori."

Karasawa started the car and arrived at the Mori Detective Agency with ease.

After getting to the second floor, Karasawa knocked on the door, and soon came the invitation from Mouri Kogoro to "come in."

After opening the door, before the two of them could say anything, Mouri Kogoro, who was leaning on a swivel chair behind the desk with his back to the two of them, only revealing his head and the smoke, spoke:

“There’s only one way to solve the problems that bother you, and that’s to hire a good detective.

Congratulations, you have made the correct answer. With my famous detective Mouri Kogoro here, all the problems will be solved! "

When the swivel chair turned 180 degrees back to the table, Mouri Kogoro, who slowly blew out a smoke ring, took off the cigarette from his mouth and flicked the ashes, then looked up at the customers at the door.

"Eh!?"

Seeing Takagi and Karasawa standing in front of the door, Mouri Kogoro, who had been pretending to be serious before, instantly changed from serious to stunned, "Karasawa Criminal, Takagi Criminal, why are you two?"

"Here's the situation."

Karasawa smiled and asked, "We were investigating a student named Takahiro Mitsuhashi, and in the process we learned that someone was also investigating him.

I heard from the convenience store owner that when the person answered the phone, he called himself "Mori", and I was wondering if the person investigating this person was Detective Mori, so I came to ask. "

"Please forgive me for keeping this confidential." Mouri Kogoro took a puff of cigarette and said seriously: "The first rule of detectives is to keep the client's information confidential."

"So someone has commissioned you to investigate Takahiro Mihashi?"

Hearing this, Karasawa looked at Mouri Kogoro and said, "About keeping secrets, I very much agree with this, but what if I say that the Takahiro Mitsuhashi you were investigating was killed early this morning?"

"Nani!?" After hearing Tang Zhe's words, Mouri Kogoro looked shocked: "How could this happen?"

"Unfortunately, this is the fact. The case is still under investigation. I wonder if the Maori detective can tell us the client's news?"

Karasawa looked at Mouri Kogoro who looked in disbelief and said bluntly: "To be honest, the person who entrusted you to investigate Takahiro Sanbashi is very suspicious.

After all, the deceased was just an ordinary college student. I really can't think of anyone who would specifically ask a detective to investigate a college student. There may be some hidden secret behind this. "

"I see."

After listening to Karasawa's words, Mouri Kogoro nodded seriously: "I will go with you. If it is really because of my commission that Takahiro Mihashi was killed, then I also have the responsibility to catch the murderer for him and avenge him." .”

Regarding Moori Kogoro's request for some investigations, Karasawa and the others directly agreed.

If there were other strangers who wanted to search together, that would obviously not be possible, but Mouri Kogoro was an old acquaintance.

Of course, this acquaintance was not that Kogoro Mori had ever been in the Metropolitan Police Department, but that after he became a detective, the Metropolitan Police Department was "forced" to work with this guy to solve too many cases.
  Therefore, searching together is really not a big problem.

So, the three of them went to a company called Star Entertainment based on the client information provided by Kogoro Mouri.

Relying on the criminal status of Karasawa and the others, they soon met the propaganda minister named Morihira Mihara.

"male?"

However, when he saw Mihara Morihira, Kogoro Mori was dumbfounded: "Are you Mihara Morihira?"

"Yeah, I don't know why the criminal came to see me?" The middle-aged man nodded and looked at the three people with a confused expression and asked.

"Um, I would like to ask, is there any woman with the same name as you in your company?" Mouri Kogoro asked in a panic.

"No, it's just me." Morihira Mihara became even more confused after hearing Mouri Kogoro's question.

"Damn it. I was fooled!" Mouri Kogoro gritted his teeth and cursed secretly, then bowed to Morihira Mihara and said, "I'm so sorry, we found the wrong person."

The three apologized and walked out of the company. Takagi immediately asked: "What's going on? Detective Maori, you said you found the wrong person?"

"I'm afraid Detective Maori was also deceived." Karasawa looked at the business card handed to him when he greeted him and said, "Perhaps the other party has disguised his identity from the beginning."

"That's right. The woman handed me this business card at that time, so I believed it. After all, the name was too neutral, so I didn't doubt it."

Mouri Kogoro clenched his fists and said angrily: "Now it's confirmed, there is definitely something wrong with that woman!"

"Now, tell us about Detective Mori's meeting with you."

Karasawa patted Mouri Kogoro on the shoulder, and after the other party calmed down, the three of them sat in the car together.

After that, the two of them also learned the whole story from Mouri Kogoro.

(End of this chapter)