The Advent of the Infinite King

Mao Lilan still couldn't help it, she covered her stomach and laughed, looking gloating.

Kogoro Moori just picked up his rice bowl and muttered, "That's why I don't want to tell you."

Xie Chen twitched the corners of his lips, looked at Kogoro Mori, and thought to himself: Uncle actually fell asleep halfway through drinking, but he was still awake before nine o'clock, still chatting with Sachiko Shimamura.

The murder happened around nine o'clock, and she had a good alibi.

Thinking of this, he suddenly said, "You seem to have forgotten to take your watch out yesterday, so how did you know the time afterwards?"

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Mori Kogoro thought for a while and said, "I'm looking at the clock in her car."

Xie Chen then asked, "What about before the car ride?"

Mori Kogoro said: "There is also a clock in the hotel, just look at the clock at the station at Shibahama Station."

"What time was it?" Xie Chen put down his job.

Mori Kogoro said, "Seven thirty."

"Seven thirty..." Xie Chen nodded, and began to calculate that it would take fifteen minutes to ride from Zhibin Station to Mihua Station, and it would take about ten minutes to walk from Mihua Station to Mihua Middle School.

"That's what you say." Thinking of this, Xie Chen said, "When Uncle met Miss Sachiko..."

Mori Kogoro seemed a little impatient, and said loudly, "I told you it was exactly eight o'clock, because I just heard the bell ringing nearby."

After breakfast, Xie Chen came to the school.

There was a physical education class in the morning, and Xie Chen took the children of the Boy Detective Team to run around the playground as usual. Since they want to be detectives, they must not only have enough brains, but also have enough physical strength.

After school in the afternoon, Xie Chen rejected Yoshida Ayumi's invitation to play at her home.

After returning to the detective agency, I found Mori Kogoro sitting on a chair watching TV. It seemed that Police Officer Megure didn't ask him for yesterday's case. It was probably handled as a robbery case.

Xie Chen put down his schoolbag, and suddenly remembered that Kojima Motota ran an extra lap because he wanted to eat eel rice at night, so he raised his head and asked Mori Kogoro: "Did you take the subway to circle the ring railway yesterday?" .”

"A circle around the railway?" Mori Kogoro asked doubtfully.

Xie Chen nodded and said, "Uncle, after you got on the tram from Zhibin Station, would you fall asleep right away?"

Mori Kogoro hesitated for a moment, then nodded blankly.

"It takes one hour to go around the circular railway. If the tram circled around when uncle was asleep, then the time to arrive at Mihua Station would not be seven forty-five, but eight forty-five gone."

"Impossible!" Mori Kogoro slapped the table, stood up and said loudly, "I only slept for a short fifteen minutes. It is absolutely impossible for me to sleep a full circle."

Xie Chen said: "Then let's try it out."

"What?" Mori Kogoro asked suspiciously.

Xie Chen said: "Tonight we will take the circular railway together, and we will take the same tram from Zhibin Station to the [-]:[-] departure."

Mori Kogoro sat down on the chair, thought for a while and agreed, "It doesn't matter."

At half past seven, they boarded the subway at Shibahama Station.

Mao Lilan asked softly: "How is it, Dad, do you remember anything?"

Mori Kogoro sighed, "No, it looks like I slept soundly last night, but..."

Having said that, he suddenly cheered up, "Miss Sachiko will definitely not be the murderer."

Xie Chen smiled wryly and said, "Let's sit around for a while before talking."

About half an hour later, the subway arrived at Fujimi Station, which is the farthest station from Shibahama Station.

At Fujimi Station, three elementary school students came up, and when they saw Moori Kogoro, they hid aside and covered their mouths for fun, but Xie Chen still found out, and he lightly touched Mao Lilan who was sitting beside him.

Mao Lilan got up and walked to the three elementary school students, leaned down and asked, "What's the matter with you guys, do you know that uncle?"

"Candy," said the little boy in the red hat.

"Ah?" Mao Lilan didn't understand what it meant.

The little boy in the yellow jacket said: "Yesterday that uncle was sleeping in the car with his mouth wide open, and then he threw candy into his mouth."

Mori Kogoro showed a surprised expression as if he had just remembered something in vain.

Xie Chen got up quickly and asked, "What time was it?"

The little boy in the purple shirt said, "It's the same as today, around eight o'clock."

Mori Kogoro's pupils shrank suddenly, he raised his head, and looked at the subway timetable.

"So, it was almost nine o'clock when I got to Mihua Station, so it was nine o'clock when I met Miss Sachiko."

"Yes." Xie Chen said, "Then we arrived at the scenic spot of the Beach Bridge at [-]:[-]. After chatting for [-] minutes, it was [-]:[-], and it was [-]:[-] when we were woken up."

Xie Chen calculated the correct time in an instant, "Actually, Uncle, you only thought you slept for an hour and ten minutes, but you made a mistake. In fact, you only slept for ten minutes."

Afterwards, they returned to Mihua City and went directly to the back door of Mihua Middle School.

Mori Kogoro stood at the place where he met Sachiko Shimamura yesterday, and said slowly, "In other words, she set the clock forward by an hour, so she can use me as an alibi for her."

He took two steps forward, and then continued: "Last night, in order to avoid people's eyes and ears, she deliberately parked her car in this place, and then went to kill her roommate."

"After entering the house through the gap that opened the window in advance, she deliberately made some noises. After the victim was woken up, she created a scene similar to the robber's murder."