Conan's self-cultivation of fake wine

Chapter 484 Unspeakable Hidden
  In the face of decisive evidence, Hayasaka Minyo had no choice but to plead guilty no matter how unwilling he was.

In particular, she tried to fool Fei Yingli into giving her a false alibi.

She was sincerely let down, and Fei Yingli would definitely give her a surprise when she arrived at the court hearing.

Among the people present, only Conan was still very concerned about the murderer's method of dumping the body.

How on earth did a weak woman throw a 90 kilogram strong man from the top of the slope to the bottom?
  Especially during the ten minutes she was out, she ran to a convenience store in the opposite direction.

Conan always felt uncomfortable because he couldn't understand this question.

But this was none of Lu Ren's business. Seeing that he had obtained the lottery number, he took Bei Dao and ran away decisively, preparing to find a restaurant for food.

Although it is already half past ten in the evening, it is already past dinner time in the conventional sense.

But in Tokyo, a city that never sleeps, there is nothing that money cannot solve.

Lu Ren had already had dinner, but he didn't mind having another midnight snack.

Compared to Lu Ren, who was eating his fourth meal, Bei Dao seemed much more restrained. I ate significantly less than usual.

The reason is that eating too late can easily lead to obesity.

"It's a pity that Ms. Ye Ban. Her skills are quite good and she is very careful and conscientious in her work. Once she goes to jail, the concubine will have to find a new hairstylist, which will take a lot of time."

"There's nothing we can do about it. If she does something like this, she won't be able to continue working as a beautician after she comes out. I don't think anyone will dare to go to her for a haircut with a barber who wipes people's necks with scissors."

"Ah."

……

The next day, Rice Krispies Cafe.

This small shop that Lu Ren frequented welcomed a long-lost customer.

"Little sorrow!"

When the wind chime hanging at the door rang, Shiina Hana, who saw who the visitor was, quickly rushed up and hugged Haibara Ai directly.

Huiyuan, who was hugged tightly, couldn't break free and looked at Lu Ren as if asking for help.

[You just don’t care? 】

Lu Ren, who understood Haiyuan's eyes, just smiled back.

Beautiful girls always put people in a happy mood.

Especially after a long day at work.

In the end, it was Shimabukuro Kimie who couldn't bear it anymore and rescued Haibara Ai from someone's 'devil's claws'.

"Brother Ren..."

Haiyuan, who was sitting opposite Lu Ren, had a gloomy look in his eyes.

"Would you like a piece of cake?"

"No."

Haiyuan felt that he should be angry about someone's behavior of 'not saving him until death'.

But looking at his smile, Haiyuan couldn't get angry.

Forget it, as long as he is happy.

"I met this Hall Yingyou today."

"Huh? He hasn't left yet?"

The night before yesterday, after taking Huiyuan home again, Lu Ren, like before, told her everything that happened during this period.

This naturally involves Kiel's younger brother Hondo Eyou.

Lu Ren had the impression that Hondou Yingyou quickly went offline after the red and black chapter and never appeared again.

He also told Haiyuan the same thing, but he didn't expect that he hadn't left yet.

Haibara nodded, "He seems to have returned to school again. The reason for disappearing some time ago was that he was ill and hospitalized for a period of time. To celebrate his recovery, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko took him to sing karaoke. Edogawa Went along too.”

"Conan also followed?" Lu Ren showed a slightly horrified expression. Looking at Huiyuan in front of him, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. "Fortunately, you didn't follow him. Conan is a bit of a loser when it comes to singing."

"I know. Usually when the music class sings, I always ask him to lip-sync directly and not to sing out loud."

Haiyuan obviously also has a deep understanding of the power of Conan's singing voice.

"When school was over today, Edogawa also told me about Hondo Eiyu. He said that he should have accepted the FBI's witness protection plan. But judging from the current situation, he should have rejected this plan and chose to stay in Japan. .”

"Probably." Lu Ren wasn't quite sure what was going on.

Perhaps because of his appearance, some plot changes have occurred. Or perhaps the main hall Eyou just came back to say goodbye to Xiaolan Yuanzi and the others, and then left Japan.

It doesn’t matter anyway. Whether our hall Yingyou goes or stays doesn't affect Lu Ren's business.

"It's just that if he really chooses to stay in Japan, Conan will have a headache. That kid also likes Xiaolan." Lu Ren was a little gloating. He really liked watching Conan become jealous.

Haiyuan declined to comment. Whether Edogawa is deflated or not has nothing to do with her.

"It's almost five o'clock now, almost six o'clock." Looking at the time on the wall, Lu Ren put away the pen and paper on the table, "Let's go eat, Xiao Ai, what do you want to eat?"

"I don't really want to eat out. Let's buy some food and go back."

The home of the Red Witch Koizumi Anko has a large private library.

Haiyuan found a few ancient cookbooks in it some time ago, and she planned to copy them.

Lu Ren is her first diner, or should we say guinea pig?
  There are many reasons why many ancient things are not passed down.

One of them is that they probably don't taste good.

"It works."

Lu Ren, who knew nothing about his future, agreed happily.

After buying two large bags of vegetables at the supermarket, Lu Ren drove Huiyuan home.

As they were approaching home, several police cars roared past and then stopped not far in front of them.

Lu Ren looked over and found that these police cars were parked in front of a KTV.

He couldn't help but hesitate and said: "Xiao Ai, I remember you said that Conan and the others went to sing karaoke."

"Yeah. I guess that's it."

Haiyuan is used to this, "Let's go over and have a look. Just put the food in the car first."

If there really was a murder case, with Lu Ren's speed in solving the case, they would just be late for dinner tonight.

But if you want to stop him from getting involved, then he will definitely not be in the mood to eat tonight.

Haiyuan knew this very well.

"It works."

Lu Ren followed the car and drove over. As soon as he and Haiyuan got out of the car, they saw the familiar Fatty Huang.

"Brother Lu Ren, why are you here too? Oh yes, look at my memory. Your home is nearby."

Lu Ren nodded and asked directly: "Is there a murder case here?"

"Well, not long ago we received a report that a guest died in the KTV box."

"in this way."

Several people walked into the KTV and ran into Mao Lilan's group as expected.

Mu Mu was also used to this, and after a brief chat, they went straight to the scene of the crime.

In the KTV box, an adult male was facing away from the door and fell to the ground with his face covered in blood.

After some inspection, the police determined some basic information.

"The deceased's name was Maoting Tatsumi, male, 46 years old. The cause of death was multiple blows to the head with a blunt instrument. The time of death is estimated to be about half an hour."

Mumu looked at the time and said, "It is now 6:40 in the evening. We received the report at 6:26."

"So the time of death of the deceased was probably between six o'clock and six twenty-six in the evening." Lu Ren looked at the reporter, "What were you doing during this time period?" The first discoverer of the body , that is, the reporter of this case is an employee of this KTV.

Facing Lu Ren's inquiry, the young man seemed relatively calm. He pointed to the counter at the door: "I have always been at the front desk to receive guests. When it was about six o'clock, I came over and knocked on the door to call him. He didn't respond. , I tried to push the door open."

"Is it time for his box?"

"That's right. I came to call him because this guest entrusted me with something."

The clerk looked at where Mao Lilan and the others were, "He asked me to wait until the high school students with their children leave the box, and then notify him as soon as possible."

Mao Lilan and the others seemed very surprised when they heard the clerk's statement.

Suzuki Sonoko was the first to speak out: "We don't know him."

The others nodded in agreement.

"What's the reason? Did he tell you?"

The clerk replied: "He said he had left something in box three. He hoped that after the high school students left, he could go in and search for it."

Lu Ren: "Did he tell you exactly what he lost?"

"That's not true." The clerk was also a little confused about this. "The register book in the store does not show any records of lost items recently. Every time a customer checks out of the box, I go in and clean up, and I basically never find any lost items." .”

Mumu gave an explanation: "I guess it was lost in a relatively hidden place, or he remembered it wrong."

"Well." Lu Ren then asked, "What time did the deceased come to the KTV?"

"It should be around five forty. The specific time is written in the register."

"Let me take a look."

Lu Ren followed the clerk to the counter and looked at the KTV's registration book.

He found that there were no guests leaving from 5:40 until 6:26 when the crime was reported. Instead, several new guests arrived.

In other words, the murderer must still be in this KTV.

The scale of this KTV is not large, with only five private rooms in total.

Excluding the No. 5 box where the deceased was, and the No. 3 box of Mao Lilan and others, there were only boxes 1, 2, and 4 left.

The murderer is hiding in these three boxes.

Obviously, this is another multiple-choice question with three choices.

Lu Ren continued to look at the register and found that Mao Lilan and the others came the earliest, at 5:30.

Deceased at five-thirty-seven.

Box four, five forty.

Box two, five forty-three.

The last check-in time for Box 1 was a little later, at 6:05.

Due to the murder case, the guests in these boxes temporarily stopped singing and walked out of the boxes one after another.

The police are questioning them one by one.

Lu Ren thought for a moment and walked up to a tall, muscular man.

He is a guest in box number four, his name is Arimoto Kenji.

This man is nearly 1.9 meters tall. Lu Ren was half a head shorter standing next to him, let alone everyone else.

The deceased was less than 1.7 meters tall.

Such a strong man could probably knock the deceased unconscious with one punch.

If you really want to be cruel, beating him to death with your fists is not impossible.

After all, fists also fit the definition of a blunt weapon.

"You are closest to the deceased's box. Did you hear any strange noises after five forty?"

The muscular man shook his head: "I didn't hear it. The sound insulation of this KTV is pretty good."

"You came alone?"

"I came here with my wife, but she is not feeling well and is resting in the room."

With that said, the muscular man opened the door.

Another muscular man was lying on the sofa in the box.

Lu Ren's expression became a little stiff for a moment.

What did this man just say? spouse? Also used the word "she" next to the word "female"?
  Is the subject a transgender person?

Seeing Lu Ren's expression, the muscular man seemed to know what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "It's not what you think, Yingmei is a girl, she just works out."

"Oh, so."

"But she has nothing to do with this case. She stayed in the box and never came out. Doesn't this KTV have surveillance? You can take a look."

Is there monitoring?
  Then the case was not solved immediately?

Noticing the gazes of the police and Lu Ren, the clerk hurriedly explained, "There is only one surveillance camera installed at the counter in the store. It can only see the situation of boxes one to four in the corridor facing the counter. Box five is in At the end of the corner of the corridor, there is a blind spot for surveillance."

The overall layout of this KTV is an L-shaped corridor. After entering the door, you can directly see boxes 1, 2, 3, and 4. For box 5, you have to go to the end and then turn a corner.

It is a pity that the murderer cannot be directly identified through surveillance. But some monitoring is better than none.

At least it was possible to determine who had walked in the direction of Box 5 during the time period when the crime occurred.

A total of six people were shown on the surveillance screen.

In addition to the clerk, there is also the old man in the first box, the working man in the second box, the muscular man in the fourth box, and... Hondo Eyou in the third box.

They have all walked into the blind spot of surveillance, which is where Box No. 5 is located.

Naturally, these five people were listed as suspects by the police.

Lu Ren knew in his heart that Bentang Yingyou could not be the murderer. He was just unlucky and happened to be involved in this case.

But that's how it is to solve a case. As long as there is a suspicion, it must be investigated to the end.

Lu Ren recorded the time on the monitor.

The first person to leave his box was a working man in blue clothes. He left the room at 5:50 and soon walked into the blind spot of the surveillance.

He was also the first person the police questioned.

His name is Honma Kyota, he is an employee of a company, and he came to sing alone.

Faced with the police's questioning, Kyota Honma seemed a little excited, "I'm going to use the toilet there. The toilet is next to Box 5."

Then at 6:03, the main hall Yingyou left the box, claiming that he also went to the toilet.

At 6:05, Kyouta Honma reappeared on the surveillance camera.

"Wait a minute." Lu Ren paused the surveillance video and looked at Kyouta Honma, "Aren't you from the second box? Why did you go to the third box?"

"I ran to the wrong place. I thought it was my box."

"Then why are you carrying a bag? Aren't you going to the toilet?"

Kyota Honma: "There is toilet paper in the bag. Although this store provides paper towels, I am a bit of a germaphobe and would rather use my own paper towels."

"Isn't that right? Can't you just put the toilet paper in your pocket?"

The bag this man was carrying wasn't particularly big, it was about the same size as an average lady carrying on the street.

But for women to carry a bag on the street, in addition to some fashion factors, part of the reason is because many women's clothes are not designed with pockets.

But he is wearing a blue shirt and jeans. Do you need to carry another bag?

"Well, I've been having some gastrointestinal discomfort recently." As if he was talking about a topic that he was ashamed to mention, Honma's voice became much softer, "If I don't take enough paper, I'm afraid..."

"Ok."

(End of this chapter)