Coroner Coroner

Haibara Ai raised a fatal question, and seemed to overthrow everything Conan said before.

But Conan shook his head: "No."

"Mr. Zhang Tian did only talk to his daughter for 10 seconds on the phone."

"But he hung up and then went on to send a few text messages to and from his daughter."

"If he also stood in place when sending text messages, sending while charging, then the time would be correct."

Conan quickly called up the SMS sending record from the phone with his fingers:

I saw that after the end of the call, not long after, Mr. Zhang Tian and his daughter chatted again through text messages.

"This..." Both Hui Yuanai and Lin Xinyi were faintly puzzled: "Since Mr. Zhang Tian has already connected the phone, why did he hang up after only talking for 10 seconds and send a text message to his daughter instead?"

"this is very simple."

"Just read the content of the text messages between Mr. Zhang Tian and his daughter, and you can probably think of the reason."

With that said, Conan clicked into the detailed SMS sending interface again:

I saw that the SMS sending record is like this:

Daughter: "Dad, why didn't there be any movement on your side, and the phone suddenly hung up? Is the phone's microphone broken?"

Zhang Tian: "It's okay...I'm watching a movie in the theater now. Calling will affect others. Let's chat with text messages."

Daughter: "Dad, are you watching a movie? What are you watching?"

Zhang Tian: "I'm watching Gemera, haha..."

Daughter: "Gomera, which one is it?"

Zhang Tian: ""Gomera's Counterattack""

Daughter: "This one is the most exciting!!"

"..."

Next, there are a few irrelevant movie plot discussions.

Finally, Mr. Zhang Tian ended the conversation with one sentence:

"Tell your mother, I will go home after watching the movie today, and then we will continue talking about Gomera."

"Hmm! (*^▽^*)"

The conversation ended with the daughter's happy emoji.

"This..." Lin Xinyi and Hui Yuanai were silent for a while.

They all faintly discovered the strangeness revealed in this conversation:

"Somewhat something is wrong."

"Zhang Tian said that he was watching a movie in the theater at the time, so it was inconvenient to make a phone call, so he could only send text messages."

"But if that's the case... how could he be in the lounge, answering the phone while charging?"

Hui Yuanai realized the contradiction between the content of this conversation and Conan's reasoning.

So, she cast doubtful eyes on Conan.

And Lin Xinyi immediately raised his doubts:

"And the explanation given by Mr. Zhang Tian himself is still very far-fetched."

"Because 'calling in the screening room will affect others', so he didn't call and texted his daughter."

"This reason..."

He paused slightly, and asked with a strange expression:

"Based on Mr. Zhang Tian's character and personality, would he really be worried that talking on the phone would affect other people watching movies?"

"When did this guy's moral quality become so high?"

"He certainly didn't suddenly become polite."

Conan shook his head and explained in detail:

"Actually, the explanation Mr. Zhang Tian sent in the text message is just an excuse he made up."

"He was actually answering the phone in the break room, not in the screening room, and not watching the movie at all."

"otherwise…"

Conan pointed to the call time record and said:

"At the time he was on the phone with his daughter, the movie was playing an intense scene of Gomera destroying the city."

"The sound effects in the auditorium were very loud."

"If Mr. Zhang Tian was watching a movie in the auditorium at that time, it is impossible for his daughter not to hear the sound effects of the movie during the 10-second call time."

"But she said, 'There's no movement from your side'."

"Even asked 'is the phone microphone broken'."

"It can be seen that within 10 seconds of her talking with Mr. Zhang Tian, ​​she did not hear any sound."

"In this case, Mr. Zhang Tian was definitely not in the screening hall at that time."

"He was lying to his daughter."

"But..." Lin Xinyi was still a little puzzled: "Why?"

"He was clearly in the lounge, but he wanted to find such a lame reason to hang up the phone and communicate with his daughter through text messages."

"Does this do him any good?"

"Because..." Conan's tone became more and more complicated.

He sighed slightly, and said with emotion:

"Because Mr. Zhang Tian can't talk to his daughter normally."

"Because he had just experienced the failure of the acquisition case at that time, he was very emotional."

"Because he was... crying."

"He didn't want his daughter to hear his cry, and he didn't want his family to know the despair he was suffering at the moment."

"So Mr. Zhang Tian kept silent during the 10 seconds when he answered the phone."

"At first, he probably wanted to suppress his crying and talk to his daughter with a normal voice."

"But after he found that he couldn't control his sobs and even cried out, he had to hang up the phone in a hurry, so as not to let his daughter hear the crying and worry about his situation."

"Soon, my daughter sent a text message with some worry to ask about the situation."

"Mr. Zhang Tian took advantage of the situation and responded to his daughter's greetings with text messages."

Conan spoke his guess.

"If I'm not mistaken..."

"Mr. Zhang Tian probably didn't wash his hands before answering the phone."

"The water stains on his hands and the water droplets on the ground may not be the water we imagined at first."

"But... tears of sorrow."

Chapter 378 Useless Reasoning

"Those drops are... tears?"

Unknowingly, Haibara Ai finally became a little curious about Conan's reasoning.

"This reasoning is really interesting."

"But I always feel that, detective, your imagination is too rich when reasoning..."

"From the lies Mr. Zhang Tian told in the text message, the conclusion that he was secretly crying at that time is based on pure imagination."

She unceremoniously pointed out Conan's shortcoming of too much subjective thinking.

Immediately afterwards, he showed a playful smile at him:

"However, if you can confirm that the water drop is tears, it will further support your reasoning."

"Um... what do you mean?"

Conan faintly felt something was wrong.

He felt that Hui Yuanai was looking at him at this moment, as if looking at a weak and helpless mouse.

And Hui Yuanai just replied lightly:

"It's too troublesome to extract those water droplets and then test them."

"Why don't you go and lick it with your tongue."

"If those water droplets are salty, we can immediately confirm that they are Mr. Zhang Tian's tears, not ordinary water."

"..." Conan's face darkened, "No."

He decisively rejected this disgusting proposal.

But Hui Yuan Ai's curiosity aroused by him was not so easy to stop:

"What are you afraid of... This is just to know the truth as soon as possible."

"Sherlock Holmes once asked his friends to taste the taste of plant alkaloids directly with their mouths for the research of pharmacy."

"You should also learn from your idol, Conan."

Haibara Ai quoted the scriptures and encouraged Conan to dedicate himself to reasoning.

"Do not--"

Conan refused with a dark face:

"I have a better way to confirm it's tears than to taste it with my tongue."