Conan: The Mechanic

"Hmm..." Chiba pondered while looking at the ledger of the lost items provided by the store manager.

The content of the records is very detailed and there are many entries.

June 21st - 4 instant bentos, 2 DVDs, 3 bottles of oolong tea, 4 udon noodles.

May 24th - 3 instant lunch boxes, 2 DVDs, 3 bottles of oolong tea, 3 udon noodles.

May 21st - 3 ready-to-eat bentos, 2 DVDs, 5 bottles of oolong tea, 5 udon noodles.

……

From about the end of March to now, the scale of things lost has been very regular, basically maintaining six to eight meals every three to four days, plus a few bottles of oolong tea, and finally two DVDs.

If my estimates are correct, so many foods should barely be able to maintain a calorie balance for such a long time, and DVDs should be used to sell money...

However, there is still the same problem. There is absolutely no need for a thief to do this. Completely stealing food or completely stealing DVDs can also satisfy his needs.

Wait a minute, there may not be many channels for DVD monetization. If you can find out if there is any place nearby where you can **** this kind of thing, you may be able to catch who did it.

Well... this idea may not be a good idea, because it is entirely possible for a thief to sell it through private channels, such as selling it to a friend. He may even sell it directly.

Then, if we start from the other side—why do you steal these things every time Miss Qichuan is on duty alone? Judging from the amount of food, this person deliberately stole the food that could last until the next time Miss Qichuan was on duty alone.

In other words, he deliberately chose Miss Qichuan to steal while she was on duty alone. Why?

There are two possibilities - the first possibility, the thief himself planned to put all the blame on Miss Qichuan and let her take the blame for him. The second possibility is that Miss Qichuan on duty alone has a certain quality compared to when others are on duty, and this quality allows the thief to steal easily.

At this moment, Conan asked Qichuan a question.

"Sister Qichuan, have you found any special guests?"

"For example?" Qichuan tilted his head.

"People who only watch but don't buy," Conan reminded. "Since they are thieves, it is very likely that they are just here to hang out on the surface."

"Well..." Qichuan thought for a while. "There are two people who only read but don't buy. One of them is a fat game house, who reads game books in the game area from morning to night every day, and then leaves without buying anything. The other is a person who comes every day. The old lady here..."

"I'm also very impressed with that old lady," the store manager seemed to know who Qichuan was talking about. "I often take some bento that is about to expire and ask for a cheaper sale, and let us learn the prices of other stores. However, this old lady is not a bad person, because she often asks me to turn off a few unused lights, and then Let me know how many degrees to adjust the temperature of the air conditioner to save some electricity bills.”

"A lamp you don't need?" Qianyu looked around, but found something strange in a position where there might be a lamp. "Wait a minute, you have an anti-theft camera here?"

"What?" The rest of the people were stunned.

"Yes," the store manager nodded. "That's why I can confirm that no customer has stolen anything. But the camera will be turned off after the closing time of the store every day. After all, the consumption of electricity bills is not small, and the existence of the camera after the shutter door is closed is of little significance; The anti-theft camera was installed after the first time I lost something, and I asked if this guy did it - I was just trying to make sure it was the guest who took the lost merchandise."

"In other words, if someone sneaks in here through some means, this anti-theft camera will be useless?" Qian Yu asked.

"The way?" The store manager shook his head. "Impossible. Except for the entrance sealed by the rolling door, the rest of the store is built with concrete walls, and there is no way to pass."

"Do you have any place to hide here?" Conan asked suddenly. "Is it possible that someone was hiding somewhere before closing the store and then swaggering out until the store opened the next day?"

"There shouldn't be such a place here." The store manager shook his head. "I decorated this store with my own hands. If there is such a place, it is impossible for me not to know."

"Even if the thief may have hollowed out a place and then hid it?" Conan asked rhetorically. "If he thinks it's possible for you to find this place, he obviously wouldn't be hiding there, would he?"

"Then how do you prove this?" the store manager asked.

"We need to check this place carefully," Chiba replied. "If the thief wants to leave the shop, he has to make sure he's not out of his hiding place where he's coming out of his hiding place and that he can't be questioned as to why he's there, and he can't come out of his hiding place. At the same time, one question he can't avoid is what to do with the food he stole - given the existence of these anti-theft cameras, he can't take it directly out, only after eating Hide the rest here somewhere, and it takes a certain amount of space to do that. A space that can hold over 70 leftover lunch boxes and over 70 oolong tea bottles."

"Is there a basement here?" Conan asked. "If not, are there any vents? People who are thinner and smaller may be hiding in the ventilation ducts where it seems unlikely that there are people."

The store manager immediately looked at the ceiling above his head subconsciously. "It's true that there are ventilation ducts, and there is indeed a place where the entrance is wide open so that it is easy to drill in and check if there is a problem."

"Where?" Qianyu asked immediately.

"In the bathroom." The manager brought everyone to the place where he reprimanded Qichuan just now, and then pointed to a door not far away. "There's a bathroom over there."

"In the bathroom, there is another person who is very strange..." Qi Chuan suddenly thought of something. "That's a very modest white-collar worker. He always gives up his seat when queuing to go to the toilet~www.readwn.com~ let others go to the toilet first."

"It should be that person," Qianyu nodded. "He gave up his seat to make sure he was the last to use the toilet so no one would see him using the toilet - and of course no one had any doubts as to why he disappeared after entering the toilet."

"Is there really such a thing!?" The store manager was stunned, and then his face showed anger. "I gonna go see!"

Saying that, the store manager aggressively picked up a steel pipe from the side and walked to the toilet.

"Oh..." Qianyu raised her eyebrows. "Whoever it is, someone will be beaten within a minute."

"Huh?" The store manager stopped and looked at Qianyu.

"If there is someone above, the store manager, you may suffer a loss if you go up like this." Qian Yu shrugged. "The opposite is also an adult man. Can you guarantee that you will not miss the store manager?"

"Then what should I do?" the store manager asked.

"Remove the ventilation window, and then give him an ultimatum, telling him that if he doesn't come out, he can only call the police." Qian Yu suggested. "Even if the thief didn't hide here, let them check it out. Take a step back, even if the thief is not found, you can call the police, can't you? (If the thief is not found) If you do, then you can only assume that Qichuan is suspected, and then ask Qichuan to go to the Metropolitan Police Department for tea)”

At this moment, Qianyu suddenly raised her head, showing a look of astonishment, but it quickly turned into a smile - the analysis system of the auxiliary unit filtered out the sound of the shoe sole and the metal pipe colliding, and the direction was theirs. Directly above.

"Well, it looks like Mr. Thief is hiding here."

"Then don't bother you," the store manager sneered. "This kind of thief, just hand it over to the police."