Thief Game: Starting with Obtaining the Kidd Card

However, he remained outwardly calm and said to Miwako Sato, "Let's go take a look ahead."

"it is good."

……

Ahead, Inspector Megure walked up and briefly greeted Yukiko and the others before approaching the deceased and examining him.

"What was the deceased doing before their death, or did they leave any messages?" Inspector Megure asked.

Sonoko immediately replied, "He was playing a fighting game with Mr. Shimizu at the time."

"Fighting games? Competitions?"

Inspector Megure frowned immediately: "Which one of you is Mr. Shimizu?"

“It’s me.” Shimizu Takaho stepped forward: “I am Shimizu Takaho.”

Inspector Megure asked, "Could you briefly describe what happened?"

"That's right, Mr. Oto, who was the deceased, invited me to the arcade for a game..."

Shimizu Takaho recounted the entire process to Inspector Megure from beginning to end, but Inspector Megure listened with a furrowed brow and still couldn't find any useful clues in Shimizu Takaho's words.

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Chapter 315 Ran's Guess: Shinichi is Kid?

Inspector Megure frowned as he pondered, glancing around before finally fixing his gaze on "Chen Feng," who was actually Akemi in disguise, not far behind him.

"Brother Chen, what do you think?"

Akemi calmly exited her phone from the messaging app, put it away, and walked slowly to the side of Kengo Oto, who had been dead for some time.

He pretended to examine it for a while, then slowly began to speak:

"His face was rosy and there was nothing unusual about him. He didn't struggle at all, and his eyes were wide open. If nothing unexpected happens, he should have died of suffocation. It is also highly likely that some kind of toxin suppressed his nervous system, causing him to be unable to breathe normally and therefore unable to call for help."

Hearing Akemi's words, Inspector Megure nodded in agreement.

Conan, standing nearby, also cast a surprised glance: "That Chen guy... he actually guessed just like I and that thief did. It seems we really need to find a chance to bring him over..."

Yukiko also glanced in Chen Feng's direction and lowered her voice to say, "That guy thinks the same way as you, you two don't know each other, do you?"

"Perhaps."

Chen Feng smiled and gave an ambiguous answer.

Yukiko, not receiving a satisfactory answer, immediately pouted and said nothing more.

"But... how can we poison Mr. Oto?" Sato Miwako asked, puzzled.

Upon hearing this, Inspector Megure and the others immediately turned their attention to the drinks placed next to the game console.

The poison was added to the beverage, and the victim ingested it naturally when drinking the beverage.

Inspector Megure immediately ordered, "Send this drink downstairs for testing. See if there are any residual toxins in it."

"Yes, police department."

A junior police officer immediately nodded.

"and many more!"

Two voices rang out simultaneously: one was Chen Feng's shout, and the other was Conan's voice.

Seeing Chen Feng emerge first, Conan gritted his teeth again: "That despicable thief, he beat me to it again!"

"And this is...?"

Inspector Megure asked, puzzled.

"I'm a friend of Ms. Yukiko. My name is Arsen, and I'd say I'm a bit of a detective," Chen Feng said with a light smile as he stepped forward.

Yukiko rolled her eyes at these words. He never contacts her when nothing's wrong, only remembers her when he needs something. Men! Humph!

Regardless of what she was thinking, Yukiko still smiled and nodded at Inspector Megure.

Inspector Megure said, "Oh, so you're Yukiko's friend. Hello, is there anything I can help you with?"

"Oh, is that so? May I take a look at that drink?"

Chen Feng's voice came through. Inspector Megure was taken aback. He looked at the half-empty bottle of drink in the officer's hand, hesitated for a moment, and then gestured for the officer to hand the drink to him.

Chen Feng took the drink, sniffed it, glanced at the bottle opening, and immediately said:

"Officer, I'm afraid the problem isn't with the drink."

"If it's not in the drink? Then where else could it be? We can't exactly inject the toxin into him with a syringe, can we?"

Inspector Megure looked puzzled.

"Not necessarily. But poisoning a beverage is too obvious and too risky. Moreover, the poisoner can't be sure if the victim will continue to drink the beverage, so there's a lot of uncertainty. Unless the poisoner is stupid, they generally wouldn't choose such a high-risk, low-reward method."

"Makes sense."

Inspector Megure nodded.

Chen Feng's voice continued: "Holmes said that if you eliminate all the impossibilities, then the remaining one, however unbelievable, must be the truth."

I believe the perpetrator most likely used an extremely fine needle coated with a potent neurotoxin, such as... dolphin toxin, to inject Mr. Oto.

Upon hearing this, one of the people present immediately changed his expression. Although he quickly concealed it, Chen Feng still noticed it.

"Shinichi..."

Watching Chen Feng's deductions on the field, Xiao Lan murmured something.

"What?" Even the garden, which was closest to the ground, couldn't hear what Ran said clearly, so she could only ask.

Looking at Chen Feng's completely unfamiliar face on the field, Ran said with a serious expression, "Sonoko, don't you think this Mr. Arsen looks a bit like Shinichi?"

"Is there...?"

Sonoko tentatively spoke, glancing at Chen Feng's direction on the field, and then thinking about Shinichi Kudo, that reasoning fanatic, and felt that there didn't seem to be any similarities.

"Have!"

Ran nodded earnestly: "Sherlock Holmes's quote, 'After eliminating the impossible, the remaining answer, however improbable, must be the correct one,' is Shinichi's most frequently uttered phrase, and he's also so familiar with Aunt Yukiko..."

"Uh... huh?"

Seeing Xiaolan's serious expression, Sonoko felt a little insecure.

"Arsène doesn't look like that deduction fanatic at all. Could it be that this deduction enthusiast can also disguise himself? And his disguise skills are so good that no one can tell he's disguised. If he really has such strong disguise skills, he's almost as good as Lord Kid, hahaha..."

Sonoko chuckled a few times, but seeing that Ran still had that serious look on her face, she immediately stopped laughing.

"Um... Ran, you don't suspect... that the Deduction Maniac is Lord Kid, do you?"

Xiao Lan didn't reply, she just kept watching Chen Feng on the field.

Chen Feng naturally noticed Xiao Lan's situation as well, and a smile appeared on his lips. He could only say that it was just a spur-of-the-moment thing; he simply wanted to annoy the great detective a little.

With Akemi's help, he could have both the identities of "Kid" and "Chen Feng" appear simultaneously, but as for Shinichi Kudo... that's probably unlikely.

At this moment, Conan was still unaware of what had happened to his superhero, and was still pondering the details of the case.

“But… if the deceased was pricked by a needle, wouldn’t they resist due to the sudden pain?” Sato Miwako raised her question on the spot.

"It's very simple."

Chen Feng turned his gaze toward Kengo Oto, who had been dead for some time, and pointed to his wrists and calves, which were bound to the control chair:

"In order to make the operation more convenient, each player would tie their hands and feet to the control stick after sitting down. In this way, even if the deceased felt pain, they would not be able to make any other reactions."

Furthermore, the surrounding environment was extremely noisy, and unless his shouts were very loud, they would be drowned out by the sounds of the surrounding game consoles. Therefore, apart from the murderer next to him, no one could hear his curses.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"So that means everyone who got close to Mr. Oto at the time could be the murderer."

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Chapter 316 Strange Sounds

Inspector Megure, stroking his chin, asked, "But who was near the deceased at the time?"

"I know I know."

Conan jumped out from the crowd:

"At that time, a few of us were watching Ms. Judy play the racing game machine next to us. The only people close to Mr. Oto were Hitoshi Izujima, who worked at the arcade, Takaho Shimizu, who was playing against Mr. Oto, and the six of us."

"Was I right, Ms. Judy?"

Everyone looked in Judy's direction. Seeing this, Judy adjusted her glasses and nodded.

"That's right, but I think the proof of this would be more intuitive."

Judy pointed to something above her head.

Inspector Megure and the others looked in the direction Jodie was pointing, and upon seeing what it looked like, they were immediately delighted: "It's a security camera?"

He then turned his gaze to Hitoshi Izushima, an arcade employee: "Your shop even has security cameras?"

"Uh...yes."

Izumi explained, "Because our store recently experienced an incident where game consoles were maliciously damaged, the store manager installed security cameras here to prevent such incidents from happening again."

Inspector Megure said, "Then please take us to the monitoring room."

"Okay, this way please."

After leaving the island, he made a "please" gesture and then led everyone towards the monitoring room.

Just as Conan began to walk away from the island, a faint metallic sound of metal hitting the ground immediately caught his attention:

What's going on with this sound?

"Hey! Kid detective, hurry up and keep up!"

Sonoko's voice made Conan stop thinking for a moment and quickly chase after the group.

But the faint metallic clanging continued, causing Conan to frown and look around at everyone, trying to find the source of the sound.