Conan: The Self-cultivation of Fake Wine

As for the police, they certainly cannot be left idle.

"Officer Mumu, go and take the fingerprints on Box 5. Then compare them with the fingerprints of these people."

"Yeah." Everyone started to move separately.

Lu Ren walked to the bathroom. He stood in front of the sink, put on his gloves and began to disassemble the drainage pipe under the sink.

The pipe was quickly disassembled, and then Lu Ren took out a knife and cut the entire pipe directly through it.

The inside of the pipe was very dark, and after it was dismantled, a stench came out.

Lu Ren held his breath and observed carefully. After a simple visual inspection, he saw no traces of blood remaining in the inner wall of the pipe.

Then he took off one of his gloves and took out a bottle of reagent from his pocket.

"Rumilol reaction reagent. Brother Ren, you actually carry a bottle of this with you."

"Xiao Ai? Why are you here? Stay a little further, the smell is very strong here."

"Ah."

Most people really don't carry this kind of chemical reagent with them.

Even Edogawa Conan, who encounters cases every day, doesn't have this idea.

Because this stuff is standard police equipment. Generally speaking, there is no need to prepare another bottle yourself.

Lu Ren has this reagent because he has a wishing ring.

Anyway, there is enough space, so I can bring a bottle with me in case of emergencies.

He had never considered this before. It was only after the "suicide" case at the Cherry Blossom Festival that Lu Ren thought about throwing a bottle into the wishing ring.

That time they spent a lot of time searching for blood stains in the house. If this luminol reagent had been available at that time, there would have been no need for so much trouble.

Lu Ren dropped the reagent on the inner wall of the pipe, and there were obvious reactions quickly in several places.

Blood stains were detected inside the pipe, and the suspicion of Diao Weng could basically be ruled out.

Lu Ren informed Huiyuan of his guess.

"If you look at it this way, Mr. Tamai's suspicion of committing the crime is indeed not high. But this is not necessarily true. Maybe the blood on the inner wall of the pipe does not belong to the deceased. It may also be that someone suddenly had a nosebleed while washing his hands."

Haiyuan proposed another possibility.

"That's true. I'll let the laboratory check it out later."

"Yes." Seeing that Lu Ren was busy with what he was doing, Haiyuan Dao explained his purpose, "I just saw the deceased not long ago."

"Ok?"

"I met Hondo Eiyu and the others in the bookstore. After leaving the bookstore, I found someone following us from behind. Edogawa also noticed this."

"Because his tracking techniques are so bad, we feel that he is definitely not from the organization. Edogawa speculates that this person may be a member of the FBI, sent to monitor and protect Eiyu Hondo."

"Member of the FBI?" Lu Ren thought for a moment, "It's probably unlikely. If the FBI can still be killed by a group of ordinary people, then he will really live like a dog."

"That's not necessarily true. Maybe he was unprepared and was attacked by someone he knew?"

Lu Ren understood Haiyuan's hint, "Sneak attack... Do you suspect me, Yingyou?"

"Yes. When I found out that the deceased was this person, I have been observing the expression of our hall Yingyou. Brother Ren, didn't you notice? He is in a very depressed mood and looks very worried."

Haiyuan paused for a moment and then added, "When I met him in the bookstore, he didn't behave like this."

If you want to say that, this hall Yingyou seems very suspicious.

But Lu Ren still didn't think he would be the murderer.

Is this how Fei Yingli felt yesterday?

Thinking that people you know well are unlikely to commit crimes.

Forget it, let’s follow the original plan and investigate a few other suspects first.

This is not the proof question Fei Yingli faced yesterday, which only gave one option.

The multiple-choice question to be solved now has four options. You can definitely explore other options first.

If all other options are really eliminated, only this Hall Yingyou is left.

There's nothing we can do about it.

Lu Ren left the bathroom and asked Memu about their progress.

Fingerprints are still being collected, and it will take some time for the collection to be completed.

In addition to collecting fingerprints for comparison as Lu Ren said, the police also checked every corner of the crime scene one by one.

If you find it, of course you will. There was a film camera in the deceased's suit pocket.

Chiba has already gone to develop the film, and the results will probably be available in a while.

Apart from this, no murder weapon was found at the crime scene.

No blood reaction was detected on any blunt instruments in the box that could be used to kill people.

Mu Mu: "The murder weapon was probably hidden by the murderer in his box."

Lu Ren could not deny it. He followed Mu Mu and began to check the boxes one by one in order.

Number one, number two, number three, number four.

After checking one by one, the so-called murder weapon was still not found.

The situation was the same as in Box No. 5. No blood reaction was detected on either the items originally in the box or the items brought by the suspect.

Then Megure and his party walked to the bathroom again, trying to find the murder weapon here.

After just some exploration, still nothing was found.

In the bathroom, the most likely place to hide something is the toilet tank.

But the murder weapon was not inside.

"There are no windows in the toilet or the box. It is impossible for the murderer to throw the murder weapon outside. Could it be that the murder weapon was flushed away by him in the toilet?"

Mu Mu couldn't help but look embarrassed. If this was really the case, then all four toilets in this bathroom would have to be dismantled and inspected one by one.

Not only the workload is heavy, but the working environment is also very harsh.

"Brother Lu Ren, what do you think?"

"Don't take it apart just yet."

If the murder weapon can really be flushed into the sewer.

Then it is likely to be soluble in water, otherwise it would clog the toilet.

The first thing Lu Ren thought of was ice cubes.

But if this thing is really used as a murder weapon, even if the toilet is removed, the most you can find is blood reaction. It is difficult to convict the murderer.

But if it wasn't ice cubes, or something of a similar nature.

Where did the murder weapon go?

You can't really beat the dead to death with a pair of iron fists from a muscular man, right?

Not to mention that it is unrealistic. There is absolutely no need for this.

If you can really beat the murderer to death with a pair of iron fists, this power is definitely far beyond that of ordinary people.

If he really had this strength, wouldn't it be easier to just break the dead man's neck?

Hammering the murderer to death would be too laborious.

Among the four suspects present, the only one who has the ability to do this is the muscular man Yuwon.

But he only had less than five minutes to commit the crime...

In this regard, Lu Ren also asked Yingyou, the main hall, if he heard the footsteps of other people in the bathroom during the time he was squatting in the toilet.

The latter nodded in agreement, and there was not only the sound of footsteps, but also the sound of the toilet flushing.

Hondo Yingyou didn't pay attention to how long this person stayed, but he thought it must have been more than a minute.

If the testimony of our court Yingyou is correct, the muscular man's time to commit the crime will only be further shortened.

So even the people he killed definitely used some kind of tool instead of relying on his own fists.

In this reasoning process, it is not actually important whether the testimony of Bentang Yingyu is credible.

If the muscular man is the murderer and Hondo Yingyu is innocent, then there is no need for him to lie.

If this court Yingyou is the murderer, he lied.

In order to avoid direct suspicion, what Yingyou should say is not that the muscular man did come to the bathroom.

Instead, he chose to accuse and slander him, saying that he had never been to the bathroom at all.

While Lu Ren was thinking, Qianye ran over and brought back two pieces of news.

The first is the fingerprint comparison. There are no fingerprints of the four suspects on the handle of box No. 5.

Lu Ren was not surprised by this result.

The second is the developed photos.

Almost all the photos were taken from the back of Mao Lilan and the three of them.

Looking at this familiar shooting angle, Lu Ren subconsciously thought of a certain famous detective.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 486 The stubborn spirit

Mouri Kogoro often does this kind of secret photography work.

Therefore, the identity of the deceased is likely to be that of a private detective who was commissioned to follow and photograph Suzuki Sonoko.

Yes, the protagonist of every photo is actually Suzuki Sonoko. Mao Lilan and Hondo Eyou were both included in the picture incidentally.

As for Edogawa Conan, he is too short to be in the same frame.

Of course, the murderer may also be from other professions.

His purpose in taking these photos may just be to put them on bad websites in exchange for money.

Anyway, no matter what, it seems that this will not be of much help in solving the case at present.

For the time being, it can only be used as an investigation direction.

Riku Ren and Megure told their guesses and asked the police to investigate the major detective agencies in Tokyo.

Let's see if we can use these offices to lock down the identity of the deceased and find out which one of the four suspects had contact with the deceased during his lifetime.

This workload is huge. It cannot be done in a day or two.

Now let's continue to research where the murder weapon might have been hidden.

Could it be that something was overlooked in the previous search?

Lu Ren opened his notebook again.

In Box No. 1, the fisherman only had two personal belongings.

A box for fishing rods and a box for fish.

The police also opened and inspected both items separately.

The box containing the fishing rod is actually an empty box, and there is no fishing rod inside.

According to the fisherman's own account, his fishing rod was accidentally washed away by the water.

Since he didn’t have a fishing rod, he bought most of the fish in the sealed box himself from the supermarket.

Because he and his family promised to catch a lot of fish, but reality forced him to break his promise.

To save face, old man Yujing went to the supermarket to buy fish.

The fisherman finally became stubborn.

He came here to sing because he accidentally bought too many fish.