Ms. Moriarty wants to save Beika Town today too.

The Dark Night Duke in front of him seemed to be a tall and thin man who had been immersed in fighting skills for many years. He just stood in place and moved his upper body, and easily dodged Xiaolan's continuous kicks.

From Winnet's point of view, Xiaolan's approach of directly attacking the head is correct, but the premise is that it is aimed at people who have not received professional training. Attacking the head can make the opponent lose balance or lose the ability to resist. However, this kind of bold attack method will not work for people with martial arts skills, as it is too easy to be seen through.

But for someone like the Dark Night Duke in front of him to be so comfortable with his actions, it cannot be explained by just knowing a little bit of martial arts.

Winette remembered that when Xiaolan was in the hall, she called Maeda Satoshi the Japanese karate champion.

Among the people in the tour group, she and Maeda Satoshi were probably the only two who could achieve this level.

After dodging left and right, the Duke of Darkness quickly bent his body and fled like a ninja in an animation, and in a blink of an eye he disappeared into the dark corridor. Just as Winnett expected, he had no intention of attacking at all. From this point of view, he probably didn't want to hurt Sayama Akiko, but he was still very conflicted because he should have known that Sayama Akiko was in the elevator.

Winnet couldn't figure out why he wanted to expose himself.

Because not only she saw it, but even Sayama Akiko and Xiaolan saw it, and both of them had a slightly dazed look of disbelief on their faces.

Only Conan rushed out of the elevator and wanted to chase the Duke of Darkness.

Of course, a martial arts master running at full speed is not something a child like him can react to. Conan saw the murderer running away from him, and his expression was a little excited: "He escaped! Sister Xiaolan..."

But Xiaolan still didn't respond.

He shouted again: "Sister Xiaolan!"

Only then did Xiaolan slowly focus her attention on Conan, but in the end she couldn't say anything.

"How slow." Xiao Ai commented sharply.

"After all, he wasn't interested in karate, and he couldn't understand Xiaolan's sense of disappointment and disillusionment that the karate champion she admired turned out to be a murderer."

Winette whispered back.

……

315 Winnet's Prank

"Why didn't you catch him!?" Kogoro was so angry that he stood up and yelled at Xiaolan.

Xiaolan lowered her head without saying anything. Seeing this, Winette felt a little unhappy. As a father, shouldn't he care about his daughter first? Why did he start questioning loudly?

Even if Xiaolan is quite good at karate, we can't criticize her for this, right?

Xiaolan put her right hand on the back of her head, pretended to be "accidental" and replied: "I'm sorry, I was startled at the time."

Winnet sighed slightly.

In fact, Xiaolan tried her best to fight back at that time, but after realizing the identity of the Duke of Dark Night, her movements froze.

The door was suddenly opened, and three police officers stood at the door. One of the police officers supported a fainted police officer, and the other shouted Yokomizo's name. Yokomizo came forward and asked about the situation. The police officer explained that the police officer who was originally guarding the body placement room had fainted, and seemed to have been knocked unconscious by someone. Yokomizo broke out in a cold sweat and asked about the condition of the body. Fortunately, there was no problem with the body, but the clothes of the Dark Night Duke were missing. Kogoro murmured, and before he had time to reason, another police officer rushed in and brought even more explosive news-the Dark Night Duke was in the swimming pool.

"What!?"

Kogoro and Yokomizo rushed over quickly, but what was in the swimming pool was not the Duke of Dark Night himself, but the Duke of Dark Night's scattered clothes floating in the swimming pool.

Yokomizo took up the wet clothes and said, "Mask, hat, wig, and cape..."

"Then, where is the most important Duke of Darkness?"

No one answered Kogoro's question.

However, Conan immediately knew where the clothes came from. At dusk, he personally experienced the feeling of falling from a building, and it was in this swimming pool that he fell. To drop the clothes here accurately, the other party must have done it from the balcony where he fell.

But he couldn't understand why the murderer appeared in front of the elevator.

If something happened upstairs, they should have chosen a staircase that was out of sight. Moreover, there was no need for the murderer to dress up as the Duke of Darkness, or even take the risk of stealing clothes. The logic was too far-fetched.

Was it really just an accident that he was exposed to them this time?

Yokomizo regrouped the staff and conducted another investigation. Everyone gathered in a temporary interrogation room.

Yokomizo stood in front of the curtains and said, "Everyone was in their rooms at the time of the incident, but no one can prove it. In other words, when Ms. Sayama and the others were attacked in the elevator, you have no alibi, right?"

"Please wait a moment, Mr. Detective. I have been staying inside according to your instructions and have never gone out. Do you need proof?"

"That's right, we stayed in the room too."

"We are not stupid enough to ignore the police..."

"That's it!"

Yokomizo's cheeks were sweating, and he couldn't think of a screening method for a moment. Maori Kogoro asked Sayama Akiko directly: "Ms. Sayama, you and Mr. Maeda were in the same room. Do you have any evidence to confirm whether he was in the room?"

Winnett interrupted, "She didn't have the time. We came down immediately after the encounter with the Night Duke in order to report to the police."

Kogoro was speechless.

Winette wanted to identify Maeda Satoshi, but the two ladies in front of her had no intention of doing so, so it was not her turn as an outsider to speak. Moreover, the actions of the Dark Night Duke seemed too strange to her, and it was too far-fetched to classify the encounter as an attack. Adding to the attack on the police officer just now, the whole thing became even more confusing. This meant that Maeda Satoshi attacked the police officer, changed his clothes, and immediately ran straight towards them, as if he was deliberately trying to facilitate the "appearance of the Dark Night Duke".

Thinking about this, she had an uncertain guess, and the look she gave Maeda Satoshi became more complicated.

Seeing that things were not going well, Yokomizo decided to use a primitive method: "In short, the police must check everyone's room. Can we start with Mr. Maeda?"

"can."

Xiao Ai was a little worried when she heard this. She pulled Winnet's clothes and whispered to her, "You don't have any problematic items with you, do you?"

"Well, there are some bad things. You know I always lack a sense of security, so I am used to carrying some equipment. Let me think, there is a Browning M1935, a dagger, a standard dart, a mask and a coat with a hook. In fact, I also want to bring grenades, but the quality of the goods in the organization's base is hard to say, and I am afraid it will explode inside."

These words made Xiao Ai's heart rise to her throat, and her wrists trembled slightly with nervousness.

"Just kidding, there's nothing."

Seeing that her prank was successful, Winnet revealed it with a playful smile, but was pinched on the cheek by Ai with even greater force than when he stepped on her.

Hey, hey, hey, if you use so much force, it will leave marks on it! What if someone asks about it? She saw "find a way yourself" and "ask for a beating" in Xiao Ai's contemptuous eyes. Winette gently placed her hand on the red and swollen side of her face and grumbled softly. Xiao Ai always teased her like this, and it was just a slight change of position, why was she so fierce!

……

Room 1901.

"You see, there doesn't seem to be anything suspicious here."

Almost all the items in the room had been checked, and even the furniture had been moved to empty spaces. Seeing that things were not making any progress, Kogoro deliberately said this to Maeda, intending to observe his expression.

Suddenly a cold wind blew, stinging his cheeks and making his hair stand up like weeds.

Kogoro looked towards the source, and saw Conan standing in front of the window with a wooden chair under his feet. He ran to Conan angrily and asked, "What are you doing?"

“I just want to let in some fresh air!”

Conan acted like a spoiled brat, and before Kogoro's fist could reach him, he jumped off the stool and ran away. Kogoro closed the window and muttered, "Really, this brat."

Conan did this in order to understand the configuration of the room.

If the murderer left through the windowsill, there should be a place for him to stay.

But he still couldn't figure out the key to the matter.

"To be on the safe side, please take out the things in your pockets."

Yokomizo saw Sayama holding out the medicine bottle and asked, "What's this medicine?"

Sayama explained: "This is just an ordinary sleeping pill. I put it in my pocket because I have been suffering from insomnia recently. Is that okay?"

Conan's detective instincts kicked in, and he immediately rushed over to Yokomizo and asked, "Can you let me see it, too?"

He got the pills as he wished. There were already signs of use on them. Judging from the dosage, it should be enough to make an adult fall asleep.

Before he could figure it out, Yokomizo ordered his subordinates to check the next room, this time it was Jincheng's room. Jincheng was calm and allowed the police to search. Conan checked the layout of the room again, because this room 2001 was just below the room 2101 where Mr. Jiang Yuan died. He asked Jincheng: "Grandpa, is this window always locked?"

Jincheng's servant Jingjiang gave an affirmative answer.

Yokomizo announced that the next room would be Shiro Konno's.

When Jin Cheng heard Jin Ye's name, he suddenly said, "Speaking of Jin Ye, I heard that someone suspected that he used the computer in his bank without permission. I also heard that his behavior has now been discovered. He may be the one among us who most wants to meet the Duke of Dark Night...but this is just a rumor."

Yokomizo collected personnel information and found out that Shiro Konno was a bank employee.

Is it possible that the Duke of Darkness is threatening him?

Yokomizo recounted the incident to Shiro Konno in Room 2002.

"Did that old man really say that... He's really bold to say that? Among all of us, he is clearly the one who hates the Duke of Darkness the most." Shiro Konno said as he tapped on the computer.

"What's going on?" Yokomizo asked.

“Isn’t it?” he said, “Because the son that the old man raised was killed by the virus.”

"Virus? Did his son die from a virus?"

"What does this have to do with the Duke of Dark Night?"

"I don't know about that."

Hearing Konno's ambiguous answer, Mao Li excitedly grabbed his tie and said, "Good boy, you want to act stupid!"

Konno begged for mercy: "Please spare me, but I can tell you a valuable piece of information."

He mentioned Kamijou Hideko.

"She and Jiang Yuan Shinan were originally a couple. But they divorced three years ago."

Conan gradually sorted out the relationships among the people after hearing a series of revelations. He observed the configuration of the windows again and found that the window closest to the victim's room was here, but because of the angle, the murderer could not jump here. The window of room 2001 was locked, and the murderer could not get to room 2001 without destroying the window. So it seems that the murderer probably did not escape from the balcony.

The police immediately went to room 2102 to question Kamijou Hideko.

She generously admitted: "Yes, the man who died this time, Jiang Yuan Shinan, was indeed my ex-husband. But that was three years ago, and I didn't know he was a hacker at that time."

"Hacker?"

"He was a bad guy who stole computer data without permission. Everyone who uses computers hates hackers... Actually, I'm relieved that he's dead. By the way, I remember that Ms. Sayama Akiko's brother also opened a small computer software company. If that's the case, she can't be exempted from suspicion."

Kamijou Hideko concluded: "So, each member of our tour group has a motive to kill him, right, Mr. Detective?"

While they were talking, Conan secretly checked Kamijou Hideko's personal belongings, and found the same sleeping pills as Miss Sayama. He pretended not to know and asked, "Sister, what kind of medicine is this?"

When Kamijou Hideko saw the medicine, her heart started beating wildly. She hurried over to Conan and snatched it away. "Please, don't touch it, okay?"

"Um, is it cold medicine?" Conan asked disapprovingly.

"correct."

"Really? I thought it was a sleeping pill... I was just overthinking it."

His words scared Kamijou Hideko again.

Before Conan could continue his psychological offensive, Kogoro's iron fist arrived at the battlefield, hitting Conan so hard that he gritted his teeth and saw stars.

"Kid, why are you butting in?" Kogoro picked up Conan, opened the door, and threw him forward like he was throwing away garbage. "The child should go back to his room and sleep quickly."

"But I still have a room to check..."

Kogoro didn't care about his "detective game". He showed a sarcastic expression, scratched his hands, and closed the door directly.

Conan sighed and gave up the investigation. After all, this room was similar to Konno Shiro's room, and the murderer couldn't have jumped here. Just as he was about to go back to his room, he happened to see the police officers checking Mr. Jiang Yuan's door. They picked up the broken chain on the ground and observed the surface with a magnifying glass.

"What's stuck on this?" the old policeman said to himself.

Conan was immediately attracted by the scene and quickly ran to them. His experience as a detective allowed him to instantly identify what was stuck on the broken chain - transparent tape.

If you use transparent tape, like the type of lock used in hotels, it is possible to lock it from the outside.

Although the success rate is not 100%, you can use the room key to operate it. Just throw the key into the door through the gap at the end.

Conan returned to the hotel office and asked the police officer guarding the body, and got an answer that surprised him.

"Is what you said true?" he confirmed, "Is the police officer who was attacked really a karate master?"

"Yes, he is a third degree in karate."

"Yeah, I never thought that even he would be knocked down."

Hearing this result, Conan suddenly realized that when they were in the elevator, the Dark Duke easily dodged Xiaolan's kick, and the only person in the tour group who could completely see through Xiaolan's attack was the national karate champion Maeda Satoshi.

No one can do it except him.

Conan also understood why Xiaolan and Miss Sayama did not pursue the Duke of Dark Night. They realized this earlier.

……

"That girl isn't in a good condition, don't you go and comfort her a little?"

In the bathroom, Xiao Ai said as if nothing had happened.

Winnet brushed her teeth in front of the half-length mirror, with no sign of hesitation on her face. She spat the foam in her mouth into the trash can, wiped her cheeks with water, looked at Xiao Ai in the reflection of the mirror, and yawned softly.

Winnett put down the mouthwash cup and said in surprise, "Why should I go? Wouldn't you be unhappy if I went?"