The unscrupulous detective in Conan

Chapter 1257: Northeast China is a place of outstanding people and beautiful scenery
"..."

Fujino looked at the people present, who all stood up and applauded, just like the scene where Shinji Ikari was surrounded by a bunch of people. He secretly complained in his heart: "So, this is a bit abstract, right?"

"Let's just say, is it possible that this person is really dead?"

Fujino looked at Bandai lying on the ground, and recalled the plan given by Naruto Fuwa - to take advantage of the police's position to act behind the scenes, and poison the other party to death during the scene in the script where the wine glass was picked up.

Obviously, Narumi Fuwa succeeded.

And the audience at the scene did not realize that the person was dead.

I even thought it was acting.

Everyone was impressed by Bandai's superb acting skills.

The curtain on the stage was lowered, and the applause from the audience continued.

At first, the people at Fujino's table didn't notice anything unusual.

Brother Maori even stood up and cheered for Bandai.

It was not until Xiaolan, who was full of doubt, spoke up that everyone realized:
"By the way, I remember that the first person to die should be Mr. Clown, right?"

"what?"

"Then Bandai..."

"Could he really be dead?"

Conan was the first to jump up from in front of the table, followed by Hakuba Tan and Uncle Maori.

By the time everyone arrived backstage, the scene was already full of police officers.

Having been prepared in advance, Naruto Fuwa, who arrived at the scene first, went up to check the situation.

She reached out and touched Bandai's pulse and shook her head: "The person is dead."

"hateful!"

Conan clenched his fists and cursed inwardly. His expression became extremely serious and he was shaking with anger. He thought to himself, "How dare you kill someone so blatantly in front of me! Don't you take me, the high school detective Kudo Shinichi, seriously?"

Bai Ma Tan also frowned, feeling provoked.

Seeing this, Fujino walked up slowly and asked Fuwa Narumi, "Officer Fuwa, what's the condition of the body?"

"A poison with cyanide properties."

Fuwa Narumi slowly stood up, turned her head after hearing this, looked at Fujino, and explained in a deep voice: "It can be seen from the state she showed when she died."

"It looks like the poison was put into the red wine..."

Maori Kogoro frowned and looked at Bandai's body, "He almost died of the poison immediately after drinking the red wine."

Bai Ba Tan echoed, "Besides this, there shouldn't be any other explanation. However, Ms. Bandai said before that she wanted to take medicine..."

"It's possible that the poison is in the medicine."

Several girls also came over at this time.

Sonoko swallowed her saliva and looked at Bandai's body lying on the ground. She originally thought it was a real act but was completely frightened: "She is really dead!"

Xiaolan still looked a little bit unconvinced: "How could this be... Could it be that red-bearded Santa Claus?"

"But if it was Santa Claus with a red beard, how did he sneak in?"

Hongye touched her chin and was not frightened. She expressed her doubts after being trained by books. "Logically speaking, this place has been blocked by the police a long time ago, and not everyone can come in from the backstage. If someone wants to poison the wine, I'm afraid the only way is..."

Having said that, she glanced around at everyone in the troupe and didn't continue.

Fujino finished her words and added: "If that's the case, then only someone present could have poisoned her, and the murderer is probably among us."

"Yeah!" Hongye nodded repeatedly in agreement, "That's it!"

Haibara Ai put her hands behind her back and watched quietly.

She felt that Hongye, the woman whose head seemed to be in the wrong place, had some point.

She also felt that the only people who could have committed the crime this time were the few actors present.

So, is it a choice to find the murderer from among the five suspects?
Conan Hakuba and Brother Maori also think so.

I can only say that their imaginations are not that big.

If it's a little more hellish, I guess only Kennedy could think of it...

Fuwa Naruko was very satisfied with the result and thought to herself, "This is just the best detective ever."

"It's a good thing, otherwise it would be troublesome."

"Although the plan of that red-bearded Santa Claus has been arranged for me, if it is exposed in advance, I am afraid I will have no way to deal with it..."

Fuwa Narumi collected her thoughts and said to everyone, "Now is not the time to make random guesses. Everything depends on the test results."

As she spoke, she called out to Nishimura, "Officer Nishimura, ask the forensic experts waiting outside to come in and conduct a forensic examination of the scene!"

"Yes!"

…………

Naruto Fuwa quickly cleaned up the scene, and then immediately ordered the forensic department to begin investigating.

Even though she was the one who killed the person, she still had to save face.

The detective was, of course, also cleared out.

After all, she had said at the beginning that it was okay to let the detective come and take a look.

But if something really happens, the detective can't just get involved blindly.

However, Nishimura was still happy to let these detectives help.

He held up the investigation report from the forensic class and said, "The drug used to poison people is indeed a cyanide poison."

"I'm going to question Miss Wen Yue next."

"Of course, if you want to eavesdrop, there's nothing I can do about it."

Nishimura said this, and he was almost about to mention convenience directly.

After all, his immediate boss doesn't want these detectives to participate in the investigation of the case.

He couldn't just break the rules.

The detectives present were all bad guys, so they naturally heard the hidden words.

The questioning of Wen Yue Hua Lian was mainly because of the role she played, that of a maid who pushed a cart carrying poisoned wine.

In addition to the maid she played, there was also Bandai who played the old lady who owned the family property, the announcer Henmi Mako who played the eldest daughter, a clown who failed in business and owed a lot of debts and coveted the old lady's inheritance, a puppeteer whose hopes and dreams were taken away by the old lady, and a novelist played by Nijikawa who has always been greedy for the maid's body.

If anyone among these people were to poison someone, she would be the easiest to do it.

Wen Yue Hua Lian looked heartbroken at this time. It was obvious that she couldn't accept that the role of the mother was suddenly killed.

The interrogation went smoothly as expected.

The cart was placed in the side hall of the stage before she pushed it up.

Everyone went to the backstage side room to prepare before the performance.

In other words, everyone has the opportunity to poison.

After hearing this, Nishimura immediately wanted to interrogate everyone and find out about Bandai's usual interpersonal relationships.

But Bai Ma suddenly interrupted at this time: "No, I don't think the murderer is targeting Ms. Bandai."

"What do you mean?" Facing the puzzled Nishimura, Conan added at this time: "The wine glasses on the cart are not fixed. It's possible for anyone to take any wine glass."

As he spoke, he took out a script and said, "It only says to pick up the wine glass. There is nothing else..."

Fujino: "..."

So when did you take the script away?

How come I didn’t notice it?

Corgi, it’s a pity that you don’t become a thief!

"If someone else had taken the wine glass, wouldn't they have been poisoned to death?"

Maori Kogoro didn't react to Conan stealing the script. He just nodded in realization after taking the script and said, "If that's the case, then the murderer is not just God who is indiscriminately killing people against Bandai!"

"That...that means if I hadn't been careful, I would have died!"

At this time, the actor who played the clown couldn't hold it anymore and started to panic: "That...that guy, that red-bearded Santa Claus, must want to kill us all!"

"He must still be here, he must still be alive!"

"Clap!"

Before he could finish his words, a chaotic noise was heard. Everyone looked and saw Hongchuan overturning a prop box, yelling something like "What an accident" and "Who put this thing here" and then dragged the actor playing the clown away.

"The two of them..."

The white horse looked at the two of them and frowned slightly: "It seems that he knows about the red-bearded Santa Claus..."

"And it seems like he is hiding something." Conan narrowed his eyes and realized something was wrong.

"But if you want to ask, he definitely won't tell you."

Fujino crossed his arms and said, "If they really have some special, hidden relationship with the red-bearded Santa Claus."

"Things are really becoming more and more complicated..."

Kogoro Mouri scratched his head and felt a little anxious.

Fujino listened to everyone's speculations without saying a word.

Of course he knew that Hongchuan was hiding something. After all, Red Bearded Santa Claus was the drug dealer before him and Bandai, and he and Bandai had killed him with their own hands.

If this is said out loud, will anything good come of it?

However, the problem is not too big.

After dealing with Hongchuan, today’s affairs are almost over.

As for detective games or something like that...

Well, that is a physical confrontation with the red-bearded Santa Claus.

…………

Afterwards, people who thought that the red-bearded Santa Claus might be up to something began to investigate.

Conan immediately thought of the red-bearded Santa Claus and the hotel owner's behavior when he mentioned it, and found the owner.

The boss immediately told everything he knew.

He knew Santa Claus with a red beard, and the room full of red was also rented by Santa Claus with a red beard for a long time.

About ten years ago, Santa Claus with a red beard came here. He was dressed in red, even his beard was red. Since he came on Christmas Eve, the waiter called him Santa Claus with a red beard.

At that time, the red-bearded man was rich and powerful, so he rented room 315 of the hotel for ten years and painted it red.

Then he disappeared one day a year ago (killed by Bandai and Nijikawa).

Then, three months ago, someone suddenly came and wanted to rent room 315 (it was Narumi Fuwa who came with the drugs for the deal).

Afterwards, some people who were sneaky and afraid to show up were assigned to Room 316 next door.

As the hotel owner spoke, he also mentioned something that happened a hundred years ago.

But after thinking about it, he still didn't say it.

Yuanzi was a little curious when he heard this: "Old man, what did you say happened a hundred years ago?"

"Well...it's actually not that important."

Fujino looked directly at the hotel owner and said, "If possible, I still hope you can reveal it. After all, someone died because of the red-bearded Santa Claus."

"Well..."

The hotel owner looked at the people who were staring at him with burning eyes and sighed: "I'm telling you, don't tell anyone."

"no problem."

Fujino casually pulled out a piece of contract paper and a pen from his pocket: "We can just sign a confidentiality agreement. After all, we are detectives, so we naturally have a sense of confidentiality."

The hotel owner took a look at the contract paper. Although he didn't understand why the other party would carry such a thing with them, he felt that it was quite professional.

So, after signing the contract, he explained: "In fact, a hundred years ago, the first owner of this hotel, the person who built this villa, committed suicide in room 315."

"That man was a capitalist from the UK. He made a lot of money through import and export trade. But because he made too much money, he offended a lot of people. In the end, he got his head blown up in room 315."

"No one knows whether he committed suicide or was murdered, but since then, there have been legends of ghosts in Room 315. No one lived there for a long time."

"Until ten years ago, the red-bearded Santa Claus came and even dyed the room red, making it even more eerie."

"In other words, this villa is also a house for strange people?" Hongye mentioned it and recalled some bad things.

"That's it." The hotel owner nodded. "This house has passed through many hands and finally came into my hands."

Brother Maori couldn't help but ask at this time: "So, what is the Ijinkan?"

“It’s a house built by foreigners.”

Hongye explained again: "During the Meiji period, the residences and villas built by foreigners who came to Japan were all called Ijinkan."

Bai Ma Tan naturally knew this, and at this moment he was thinking: "If that's the case, then there must be something strange about that room..."

"Yes."

Conan groaned and said, "If he didn't have any special purpose, that red-bearded Santa Claus would not have chosen that room so casually."

"In that case, let's go to that room and take a look."

Fujino responded after hearing this, and said thoughtfully, "Maybe we can find some unexpected surprises."

"Ok!"

Several people had this idea.

Fujino silently glanced at the new system task that he had triggered while the hotel owner was telling the story:
[System Task: Alien House, Hotel, and Drugs! ]

[Task Summary: The ancient Alien House hides a secret that cannot be told. On the surface, the Alien House seems to be involved only because of drug trafficking. What deeper secrets are hidden behind it? Find out the truth that has not been discovered for a hundred years! ]

[Mission objective: Find the hidden drug storage room]

[Mission Reward: 1000 million yen, 1000 detective reputation, 10 detective coins]

"Drug storage room huh..."

Fujino looked at the system task in front of him and didn't know what to complain about.

There is the Aomori drug manufacturing village next to here, and there is also a drug storage room in Hakodate in southern Hokkaido!

Northeastern Japan is truly a place of outstanding people and beautiful scenery!
(End of this chapter)