Conan’s Corpse Picker

Miwako Sato didn't know why Bupo Narumi suddenly mentioned this, but when a police officer with a much higher rank than her asked the question, she still answered truthfully: "It should be just after 0 o'clock. On the greeting card sent by the 'Red Bearded Santa Claus', Said he would show up at 0:00, but he was a bit late."

   Fupo Narumi exhaled a puff of smoke: "Did you forget that this hotel is very safe, and the door lock data is updated every day—after midnight, all the magnetic cards from the previous day will become invalid, and you must replace the new card to open and close the door."

  Jiang Xia thought for a while: "Are you trying to say that only people with new cards have the opportunity to commit crimes?"

  Inozuka Saburo who eavesdropped from a distance: "?!"

  His gaze froze suddenly, and after two seconds, he slowly moved down and looked into his pocket: "..." The new card...the new card is on him!

   Just now, after changing the card, he encountered "that thing" when he wanted to go back to the room, and then he immediately found a monitor, sat down, and never moved again.

  ...Looking back now, luckily around 12:00, he was sitting under surveillance all the time, otherwise, if he took a step away, the suspected murderer would become himself, and the Inozuka family would really be the last one!

  A cold sweat of fear ran down his face, Saburo Inozuka was very happy.

  However, it didn't take too long to be lucky, on the other hand, Fupo Narumi seemed to have accepted Jiang Xia's question.

  She turned to look at the manager of the hotel: "The new card should still be with you."

  The hotel manager has a good memory. He thought about it and shook his head: "I have a deep impression on that room. If I remember correctly, the new card was taken away by Mr. Inozuka in Room 315 before midnight."

   "Take it away?" Fuba Narumi was thinking, "Then where is Mr. Inozuka now? By the way, since he also lives in Room 315, why didn't I see him at all just now?"

   Saburo Inozuka: "..." Don't look at me, don't look at me, don't look at me...

  The hotel manager raised his hand and pointed there: "Mr. Inozuka went upstairs, and then came back quickly. After that, he just sat there and never left."

  During Saburo Inozuka's prayer, a group of people turned their heads in unison, and their eyes fell on him from afar.

   Saburo Inozuka: "..."

   Under his blank gaze, Jiang Xia walked over: "Mr. Inozuka? Why are you sitting here all the time?"

   Fupo Narumi also followed, with a suspicious look on her face: "Are you really sitting here all this time without moving?"

   Saburo Inozuka nodded resolutely.

  What did the hotel manager think of: "There happens to be surveillance here, if necessary, I will call it out?"

  Jiang Xia responded: "Then I will trouble you."

   Soon, the monitoring was called out.

   Immediately afterwards, a group of people saw the strange appearance of Saburo Inozuka on the screen—

   This person was normal when he took the card, but after leaving the screen for a while, he suddenly rushed back like a ghost.

  He wandered around furtively for a while, looked up at the monitor, suddenly showed a flash of inspiration, ran to move a single sofa at an angle, and sat on the sofa.

  The sofa was right in the middle of the monitoring, and as the manager said, he never moved from there.

   "..."

  Indeed, Saburo Inozuka had a solid alibi around 0 o'clock when the incident occurred, and he would never be the "Santa Claus with a red beard" standing by the window.

but…

"Your behavior is really weird, are you deliberately looking for an alibi for yourself?" Bupo Policeman looked sharply, "You already knew that there would be a murder here, didn't you? - Tell me, are you an accomplice or an abettor , How much do you really know about this case?"

Maya Hashimoto: "..." This kid reacted quite quickly, and the series of operations were breathtaking—except for the fact that the alibi was done too deliberately, he was exemplary in other aspects. Among those who met Uzo for the first time, he was considered exceptionally talented. endowed.

   But unfortunately, I still couldn't escape.

   For a moment, Maya Hashimoto felt a bit of sympathy for him.

  But suddenly remembering to propose to come to this theater, thinking that Uzo was busy with the theater troupe and could not take care of the three of them, it was Saburo Inozuka, and Maya Hashimoto's mood suddenly became complicated again.

Maya Hashimoto: "..." If Inozuka Saburo hadn't insisted, he really wouldn't have taken the initiative to run to a ghostly place like a theater company. If he hadn't gone to this ghostly place, he wouldn't have encountered such a case. Kind of a case... Uh, changing a case, it seems that it won't delay Wu Zuo to make him a suspect.

   Maya Hashimoto: "..."

  So why make things difficult for him, a small peripheral member!

  Hashimoto Maya leaned back in the chair, her eyes lost their highlights.

   Saburo Inozuka didn't expect to go around. Although he escaped the suspicion of "killing the murder", he failed to escape the hat of "colluding with the murderer".

Fupo Narumi rearranged her thoughts, and said to Miwako Sato: "Forget about his weird behavior, at least for this period of time, the new card is indeed not on 'Santa Claus with a red beard'. That is to say, 'Santa Claus with a red beard' 'There is only one old card that can be used before midnight.

"When we arrived, the door was locked again, so 'Santa Claus with the red beard' had already locked the door before 0:00, and never entered or left the room again. But you and Jiang Xia were after 0:00. Santa Claus seen from the window of Room 315.

  "So the criminal process is already obvious—Hashimoto Maya first disposed of the room card outside, then returned to the room and killed his companions, and locked the door from the inside.

"Afterwards he changed into the 'red bearded Santa Claus' costume and called Jiang Xia to ask him to look up at the window. When Jiang Xia saw him, he quietly took off his costume and fell to the ground, pretending that he was killed by the 'red bearded Santa Claus'. Santa Claus' broke into the room and attacked - but he forgot that the key card here will be changed at midnight, which made his plan full of loopholes, which I saw through."

  The process is very smooth.

  Jiang Xia glanced at Hashimoto Maya, and then at his feet, as if thinking.

  However, at this moment, Fupo Narumi suddenly looked at him.

   Then he showed an unkind smile: "Of course, what I'm talking about is actually just one situation. In fact, there is another possibility for this case."

  Jiang Xia: "Huh?"

  Fubuha Narumi: "As long as 'Santa Claus with the red beard' has a new card, he can enter and leave the room even after midnight."

  Suzuki Sonoko felt that she was looking at Jiang Xia in the wrong way, and said vigilantly: "Didn't it mean that the new card has always been on that Mr. Inozuka, and Mr. Inozuka has been sitting in the lobby without moving?"

Fupo Narumi: "But during that time, there was a person who had close contact with him - when Jiang Xia went downstairs, he went to Inozuka Saburo, and he happened to be standing between Inozuka Saburo and the monitor, with his back to the screen. That gap is more than enough for them to do something—such as exchanging a new house card."