Stay away from Conan.

"Yeah... there's no evidence..."

Facing Gao Yuan's response, Kudo Shinichi nodded and said affirmatively:
"After all, the police have already found something that contained poison in Ms. Wang Hemei and Ms. Zi's personal belongings. The whole thing has basically been determined. If we can't find new evidence, I'm afraid our idea won't work."

As such, Gao Yuan did feel a bit troubled by the current situation. Even though he had figured out the possible reasons for this incident, he still lacked evidence to prove it.

Kudo Shinichi thought about this, and then exchanged with Gao Yuan the different information they had obtained after asking different people, and then based on this, he asked Gao Yuan:
"Then...why don't we go ask the chef first? I think he should know something."

"Of course he should know something, but... I don't think the chef can produce any key evidence. The most he can give is a subconscious guess after seeing something, and then because of this guess, he did that thing. However, this is still not the key evidence."

Shaking his head, Gao Yuan and Kudo Shinichi compared the information they had obtained and had figured out many things, but the key core issue still could not be changed.

So, at this moment, when the two were thinking about their next move, they saw the staff of the Forensic Department hurriedly coming over and said to Gao Yuan and the others:

"I'm sorry... Inspector Megure said he has some new information to tell you."

At this point, they were a little surprised and didn't expect anything else to happen, so they hurried to see Inspector Megure.

So, when Officer Megure saw Gao Yuan and the other two coming, he was holding a cell phone in an evidence bag and said to them in surprise:
"Brother Kudo, Akechi, something has happened. Maybe... there is no need to investigate the truth of the matter. It must be Wang Hemeihezi who did it!"

As he said this, Gao Yuan and Kudo Shinichi looked at each other, knowing that it seemed that Inspector Megure had indeed obtained something very important, so he asked:
"What's wrong, Officer Megure?"

Then, Officer Megure took the phone from the evidence bag, showed it to Gao Yuan and the others, and said:
"This phone belongs to Miss Wang Hemei Hezi. Just now, this phone rang and we received a call. On the phone, there was a woman's anxious voice, and she was asking Mei Hezi if things were going well.

“But when we told her that Miwako had taken poison, she hung up the phone immediately. Now when we called back, no one answered.

"However, based on the tone and words of that person during the phone call, we can basically determine what happened -

"Presumably, the woman named Jing knew that Miss Wang Hemei and Zi were planning to poison her father today, so when she calculated the time was about right, she called to inquire about the situation. However, she probably didn't expect that Wang Hemei and Zi would actually commit suicide by taking poison.

"I think, once we find the woman who called, we'll be able to determine the truth of the matter!"

In this way, Inspector Megure briefly recounted what happened when they received the call just now.

In response to this, Gao Yuan and Kudo Shinichi were both stunned after hearing this, and then they suddenly realized something -

"In this way, things may become clear!"

"Officer Megure, there's no need to look for the woman who called us first. Let's talk to the person involved first about this matter!"

Gao Yuan and Kudo Shinichi said this. In this regard, seeing their reactions, Inspector Megure was obviously confused. Why didn't he go find the woman named Jing?
However, since both of them had the same attitude, Inspector Megure had nothing to say, so he nodded naturally and agreed to the matter, saying that he would talk about it after the two of them finished what they were going to do.

So, Gao Yuan and Kudo Shinichi went to find the chef of Honma first.

The chef was also specially assigned by the police to be kept in a solitary place. At this moment, he was in the room with a depressed look on his face, and no one knew what he was thinking.

When Gao Yuan and the other two went in to look for him, he did not react much, but just asked:

“How long will the police continue to treat us as criminals?”

His tone sounded a little impatient, but there wasn't too much resistance, just a bit of fatigue.

In this regard, Gao Yuan and Kudo Shinichi did not beat around the bush and said directly:
"Mr. Honma, you actually knew that Mr. Wang He Mengyan's cup was poisoned, right?"

"Wh…what nonsense are you talking about!"

For a moment, after being asked this question by Gao Yuan and the others, Chef Honma became completely agitated. He stood up suddenly and refuted Gao Yuan and the others.

In response, Gao Yuan ignored his words and continued to speak:
"At that time, you brought the dish that was already prepared, but was actually wrong and no one ordered, to Wang He Mengyan, with the purpose of deliberately knocking over his cup, right? Because you knew from the beginning that the cup was poisonous, and in order to prevent Wang He Mengyan from being poisoned when he was about to use the cup, you did such an inappropriate thing.

“In the end, although you did knock over Wang He Mengyan’s cup and prevented him from using it, Wang He Mengyan was still poisoned.

"This incident was something that shouldn't have happened to you, so when you saw Wang He Mengyan still wailing, you said 'How could this happen', right?"

After Gao Yuan pointed this out, Chef Honma's face became more and more nervous, as if his thoughts had been perfectly revealed. For a moment he was totally confused and didn't know what to say.

So, taking advantage of the victory, Kudo Shinichi asked:

"Mr. Honma, how did you know that the cup was poisoned?"

In this way, facing this question, Chef Honma couldn't help but feel conflicted, wanting to say something but not daring to, and then Gao Yuan added one more sentence:
"Now things are completely different from what you thought. If you want to find out what's going on, please explain it to me!"

So, after hearing what Gao Yuan said, Mr. Honma, who had been wanting to speak, sighed silently, but in the end he had no choice but to tell everyone what he had seen and heard.

In short, it was just as Gao Yuan had expected before, and the basic situation was still Mr. Honma's own speculation, without any substantial evidence.

However, compared to before, due to the emergence of new information, combined with Mr. Honma's testimony, it is almost time to face the most crucial person... (End of this chapter)