Stay away from Conan.

When Ohba Satoru's body was found, half of his body was outside the elevator and the other half was inside.

In this situation, Gao Yuan subconsciously thought of two possibilities:

First, Ohba Satoru took the elevator to the floor, and when the elevator door opened, he happened to meet the murderer outside. Before he could react, he was shot and fell to the ground in the elevator, resulting in the situation when the body was found.

The second is that Ohba Satoru was already dead when he was in the elevator. He was leaning against the elevator door. After the elevator was sent to that floor, as the elevator door opened, he naturally lost the support of the door and the upper body of his body fell out.

Therefore, for Gao Yuan, the first thing he had to do was to confirm this matter openly.

So, after he finished talking to Officer Megure, he stood in front of the elevator at the scene of the incident.

At this moment, because this elevator, where the body was found, has been shut down by the police, the elevator has remained with its door open and parked on that floor.

Gao Yuan observed the location where the deceased fell and asked the police for photos of the body taken at the scene. After taking a quick look, he went into the elevator first, looked inside the elevator, pointed at the button for selecting the floor, and asked Officer Megure and the others:

"Have you ever investigated the fingerprints on the buttons in the elevator?"

So, after hearing this, Officer Megure was obviously a little confused. He didn't understand why Gao Yuan mentioned this. After all, the fingerprints on the buttons in the elevator must be very messy, and basically based on the situation at the scene, there was no need to investigate the fingerprints here, right?

With the confession of Miss Sakurako Tatsumi, the police basically focused the investigation on finding the woman with brown hair. That's why they called back Miwako Sato and the others and began to make arrangements in the building to prepare for the search.

As a result, when Gao Yuan asked this, Inspector Megure was speechless and didn't know how to respond.

Finally, with no other options, Officer Megure could only reply:
"This... has not been investigated yet... Besides, this is an elevator, and many people use it. The fingerprints must be very messy. There is no point in investigating, right?"

Gao Yuan was helpless in this regard, and just replied to Officer Megure:

"Let's investigate it, especially the button on this floor. Look at the fingerprint on the top of this button. Does it belong to the deceased?"

- After all, if the deceased took the elevator back to this floor, then the deceased coming from other floors must press the button for this floor in the elevator.

This point can basically make a basic judgment about the actions of the deceased.

Therefore, after hearing Gao Yuan's words, Officer Megure was thoughtful, but still called the staff of the Forensic Department and asked them to start collecting fingerprints on each button in the elevator according to Gao Yuan's suggestion.

As a result, there was no need to wait until the forensic personnel collected fingerprints for comparison. Immediately, the forensic personnel gave Gao Yuan an answer at the scene of fingerprint collection.

In this elevator, no fingerprints can be collected on the buttons corresponding to this floor!

At this moment, not only Gao Yuan, but also Inspector Megure and others immediately realized that something was wrong here -

After all, not to mention that the deceased needed to press the corresponding button to take the elevator to that floor, if someone had taken the elevator to that floor before, there should be fingerprints on the corresponding button.

But now, there are no fingerprints, which can only mean that -

“Did someone wipe it off on purpose?”

This is what Gao Yuan thought.

With this in mind, Officer Megure immediately asked the forensic personnel to check the other buttons in the elevator to see if there were any fingerprints on them. Then, at Gao Yuan's suggestion, the up and down buttons outside the elevator were also checked.

As a result, after such an inspection, the police immediately confirmed that there were no fingerprints on the down button outside the elevator. At the same time, inside the elevator, in addition to the button for this floor, there were no fingerprints on the button for another floor.

Suddenly, as the fingerprints on the three buttons were deliberately wiped off, such an action——

"The more you try to hide something, the more obvious it becomes..."

Naturally, Gao Yuan blurted out this comment:

In other words, this situation, on the surface, seems to be an attempt to erase someone's fingerprints, but from such a sudden situation, it actually reveals something...

For example, it is very likely that some important fingerprints were left on these three buttons.

Although it is still unclear what is going on, whether it is a misleading clue or a deliberate clue, at least this is a direction worth investigating at the moment -

In particular, in addition to the current floor, there is another button in the elevator that has been wiped of fingerprints. The floor it corresponds to...

After thinking for a while, Gao Yuan still maintained the solemnity he had when he discovered this clue, but in his heart he was stunned -

After all, if I remember correctly, this floor...

It seemed to be the hotel floor where I chose to hide with Miyano Shiho before!

The so-called "trying to cover up makes it more obvious", in reality, is it to lead the police to the place where Miyano Shiho is hiding?

In this case, it was impossible for Gao Yuan to say that he was not nervous. After all, the police had not found this clue originally. However, due to his reminder, this sudden clue seemed to force the police to go to the corresponding floor to investigate.

At this point, before the forensic staff can immediately compare the complex fingerprints on other buttons, the only clue at the moment seems to be to go to that floor to check.

So, pretending to be serious, Gao Yuan asked Officer Megure:
"Where does that floor belong to?"

——Although it was a meaningless inquiry for Gao Yuan, at least there was some evidence to confirm that it was really Vermouth who was behind this.

She was guiding the police to investigate Ohba Satoru's death, and had them go directly to the hotel guest room floor where Miyano Shiho was hiding to investigate. In this way, the original large-scale investigation of the entire building became a search of one floor, which became much simpler... At this moment, at this point, we can only take it one step at a time...

Moreover, the other key clue he wanted had not yet come out, and he had to wait for the results of the forensic department's appraisal...

Therefore, after asking Inspector Megure, who had learned from other police officers that it was the guest room floor of the hotel, Gao Yuan acted naturally and said to Inspector Megure and the others:
"So...why don't you go over and take a look?"

At this point, Inspector Megure had no reason to refuse, so he took another elevator nearby and went to the hotel's guest room floor together.

As a result, in the corridor on this floor, Gao Yuan saw...

Amuro Toru's figure? (End of this chapter)