Stay away from Conan.

Chapter 1690 Core Technique

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At this moment, after hearing Gao Yuan say that the murderer was Asabuki Ken, Osuga Wei put the clothes he was wearing aside, took a step forward, and asked Gao Yuan what he meant in a questioning manner.

At this time, as for Chaobuki Xian himself, after hearing this, he just smiled casually, as if he didn't take Gao Yuan's accusation to heart at all.

  There was no need for anyone else to ask back. After hearing Gao Yuan's words, Officer Megure couldn't help but ask:

"But, Akechi-kun...although according to the order of appearance, Asabuki Akira was the last to appear after all the band members had appeared, the problem is that even if he appeared later, he would have already appeared at 7:15, and Kusuda would not have entered the theater until around 7:30. In this case, no matter what, Asabuki Akira would not have had time to commit the crime!"

"Yes! That's right! Mr. Akechi, don't get the most basic question wrong!"

At the same time, Yuanzi also echoed.

Moreover, after Inspector Megure said this, the rest of the audience present also stood on the side of Asabuki Akira, and discussed a lot about Gao Yuan's current accusations against Asabuki Akira.

  But this had no effect on Gao Yuan. He just calmly and confidently continued:

"Inspector Megure, this is actually very easy to explain.

"Because, Asabuki's so-called alibi is actually unreliable... Or, to put it another way, the judgment that Kusuda Rikuu arrived at the theater around 7:30 is actually problematic."

At this point, Gao Yuan looked at Chao Chuxian meaningfully. Seeing that he was still confident, Gao Yuan did not pause for any more and continued:

  "Inspector Megure, don't you realize that from the beginning of the investigation until now, apart from the name on the sign-in book and the body at the crime scene, no one has ever seen Kusuda Rikuu appear in the theater?

"In other words, the only basis for us to conclude that Kusuda Rikuu arrived at the theater at around 7:30 is his signature on the sign-in book. And the staff member in charge of the sign-in book at the time, Miss Shigeno Haruna, was not at all focused on receiving guests, so she never saw Kusuda Rikuu himself sign the sign-in book, right?"

As he said this, Gao Yuan focused his sight on Miss Shigeno Haruna, who was standing not far from Asabuki Akira and wanted to get as close to him as possible.

For a moment, when this person was mentioned, Inspector Megure and Osuga Hidehei were both impressed by her, because it was this receptionist's absence from her post that made it so difficult to determine when Kusuda Rikuu arrived at the theater.

At this moment, when everyone's attention was focused on Shigeno Haruna because of Gao Yuan's words, Invisible felt the pressure, so he couldn't help but retreat towards Asabuki Xian with some fear.

So, before anyone else could ask, facing this situation, Asabuki Xian chose to stand up, as if to share the pressure for Shigeno Haruna, and walked forward to face Gao Yuan, smiling smugly and said:

"Haha, I understand what you mean. You just want to say that someone forged Kusuda's signature and misled everyone about the time when he entered the theater, right? In that case, handwriting identification..."

"That's not necessary, because the handwriting definitely came from Kusuda Rikuu himself."

Seeing that Chaochu Xian finally took the initiative to come forward and talk to him, Gao Yuan also responded with a smile.

This reaction confused Akira Asabuki, Inspector Megure and others. After all, if the handwriting was real, then that meant...

"The handwriting is real, that's why we can fool everyone."

Gao Yuan said with a smile, and then turned to Shigeno Haruna again. After all, the topic just now was about her.

"However, in order to explain things better, Miss Shigeno Haruna, I have a question that I need to verify with you. There are three sign-in books at the door, one of which is -

  “The first one was fully signed, but the second one had four or five blank pages at the end with no one signing them. And the third one had only the first few pages signed and no new guests showed up, right?

"Then, I want to ask you, was this something someone deliberately arranged for you to do?

"For example, someone told you that in order to distinguish late guests, after the show starts at 7 o'clock, the new sign-in book will be used for guests to sign, so that it can be distinguished which guests are late."

"Is that right?"

Although he still didn't understand Gao Yuan's intention, Inspector Megure couldn't help but ask about Shigeno Haruna.

Hearing this, Shigeno Haruna was startled. At the same time, facing the serious gaze of Officer Megure, she trembled and wanted to look at Asabuki Akira, but she saw Osuga Yui looking at her with a serious expression. In the end, the woman could only nervously say softly:

"Yes... yes. Officer, you should also know Mr. Asabuki Xian's personality... He is a perfectionist. He is strict not only with himself, the members of the orchestra, but also with the audience. Therefore, for an important concert like today, he is very dissatisfied with those audience members who have obviously obtained VIP tickets but are late. Therefore, Mr. Xian specifically asked me to wait until the concert opens and use a new sign-in book to record the late guests separately in a sign-in book, so as to distinguish the late guests..."

Having said this, the girl who admired Chao Chuxian didn't seem to feel that there was anything wrong with speaking out about this matter. But after all, at this point, Gao Yuan was already infinitely close to the truth of the matter, and there was no point in hiding it. Moreover, in this situation, she really couldn't stand the look of the police.

At this point, after seeing Shigeno Haruna say "I asked her for help", Asabuki Ken looked at Gao Yuan with a slightly serious look. After all, he even guessed this situation, so it was obvious that this person's analysis -

it's not finished yet……

"So, Officer Megure, the situation is now very clear. The sign-in book with Kusuda Rikuu's name was placed there specifically to record late guests. Therefore, we believe that Kusuda Rikuu is one of the latecomers..."

  At this point, Gao Yuan continued to speak:

"But, Officer Megure, please take a look at this sign-in book. If you rotate the metal part of the binding, you can easily replace the inner pages. So in this way, in a sign-in book that records latecomers, add a page that has already been signed by someone else and put it inside. Wouldn't it be easy to create the illusion that the signer is the latecomer?"

At this moment, Gao Yuan pointed out the core trick of this matter...