Stay away from Conan.

"Hey, what's going on? Did anyone see it?"

After squeezing into the crowd and seeing someone clearly fallen to the ground and apparently dead, Kogoro Mori immediately became serious and began to ask people around him about the situation as usual.

As a result, among the onlookers who were already surprised by what was happening before their eyes, some people did not react to the sudden question from Maori Kogoro and explained nervously:
"I was jogging and was walking down this street when this person suddenly fell down from above."

"I, I saw that too."

After the first person started talking, another person next to him started talking, a little flustered by what he had just seen, and said:
"This road happens to be the route I take my dog ​​for a walk..."

So, seeing the other party say this, Kogoro Mouri also looked at the puppy that was currently being held in the other party's arms, confirming what the other party said.

At this point, with the clear statements of these two people, it can be basically confirmed that the old man fell from above. It seems that it is indeed consistent with the shouts I heard just now, saying that someone fell from the building...

So, the other person fell from this apartment building in front of us?

Thinking of this, Kogoro Mori couldn't help but look up.

At the same time, Hondou Eisuke and the disguised figure of Takato also followed Mouri Kogoro to the scene. Since Hondou Eisuke wanted to get closer to see Mouri Kogoro's actions, he forced his way into the crowd. But Takato was different. He just stood on the periphery of the crowd, listening to the occasional conversation of the people in the crowd while observing the actions of Mouri Kogoro and others in the field.

At this point, Maori Kogoro, after confirming that the old man lying in a pool of blood had fallen to his death, could not help but squat down to confirm whether the other party still had any vital signs, and then asked the people around him:

"Does anyone know the man who fell from the building?"

After asking this question, no one in the crowd responded. Instead, they seemed to be avoiding it and didn't want to have too much contact with this matter.

Seeing that no one responded to him, Maori Kogoro also looked solemn and could not help but feel angry for a moment.

"Damn it... eh?"

At this moment, after confirming that the deceased was dead, seeing that no one around responded to him, Maori Kogoro turned his attention back to the deceased, and then saw the deceased lying face up in a pool of blood, with a flip phone in his front pocket. So after a little doubt, Maori Kogoro took out a handkerchief he carried with him from his pocket, and prepared to use the handkerchief to prevent fingerprints from getting on the phone, and tried to open the flip cover of the phone to see what was inside -

Since it was an ordinary flip phone and there was no encryption, as soon as Kogoro Mori opened the flip cover of the phone, the phone directly displayed the contents.

Therefore, Maori Kogoro glanced at the contents above, and then his expression was surprised -

"I sent a strange text message not long ago... and it was sent to a group..."

Therefore, for the current situation, Maori Kogoro couldn't help thinking about what to do. Then Gao Yuan, who was observing the situation on the side, looked at the scene in front of him, thought for a while, and then asked the people around him:

"Excuse me... have you called the police?"

It seemed that no one around had called the police yet, so Gao Yuan casually borrowed a cell phone from someone nearby and called the police, then continued to observe Kogoro Mouri's further actions in the crowd.

As a result, at this moment, Hondou Eisuke, who also squeezed into the crowd, came close to Maori Kogoro. Seeing Maori Kogoro's embarrassed look in the face of the current situation, he couldn't help but suggest: "Hey? Then... how about sending it again and taking a look?"

After being reminded by Hondou Eisuke, Maori Kogoro suddenly felt that he was right. Now he could resend the message to confirm to whom the other party sent the message, and then find out who the deceased had contacted before falling from the building.

Just like that, Maori Kogoro pressed the redial button on his phone, and then he suddenly came to his senses. He looked at Hondou Eisuke who came over to give him advice, and then said, feeling a little angry because he was disturbed like this:

"You kid..."

As a result, before Kogoro Maori could finish his words, he heard text message alerts from several people in the crowd suddenly sounded at the same time, as if they had received the text messages at the same time.

As a result, the onlookers who heard their phones ringing couldn't help but take out their phones to check -

As a result, because of this, when I looked in the direction where the mobile phone alert sound came from, I saw that on one side of the crowd, three onlookers standing together took out their mobile phones at the same time. They were the people who had just received the text messages at the same time.

In this regard, facing such a result, since he had just sent out three text messages to the group, three people in the crowd happened to receive the text messages, and those three people happened to be standing together. This situation inevitably made Kogoro Maori's expression fierce, as if he had basically confirmed that these three people must have known the deceased.

Then, Maori Kogoro stood up and looked at the three onlookers who were about to hang up their cell phones and asked:

"So... you three, you knew this deceased person, right?"

In this way, facing such questions from Kogoro Mori, the three people in front of him all looked unhappy and seemed very nervous.

From the reactions of these three people, Maori Kogoro was sure that what he thought was right, so he continued to question:
"Why didn't you respond when I asked you just now?"

"That, that..."

When Maori Kogoro asked this, one of the square-faced men couldn't help but quickly respond with a little nervousness:

"I just ran over from the room after hearing the shouting outside... so I didn't see the face of the person who fell from the building clearly..."

"Me too..."

Among them, another woman with gray hair also responded nervously:
"Because the scream just now was too loud, I rushed out to check it out, and ended up spilling the coffee I was drinking..."

"Me, me too..."

The last person, a tall and thin man wearing glasses, responded in the same way.

——"Why...it looks so familiar..."

As a result, at this moment, facing the situation in front of him, Gao Yuan couldn't help but feel this way... (End of this chapter)