Maori Kogoro's daily life in the science harem

"grandfather……"

Chapter 139: The Shocking Changes of the Stone Lion

Inspector Megure's tone sharpened: "Since there are no lights on here, why did you say there were lights on? Are you hiding something? Please tell the truth."

Douyuan Jiusaku was silent for a moment, and finally sighed: "I just don't want the shrine to be involved in these troubles..."

Inspector Megure frowned and said, "Old sir, if you are hiding any important information, it will affect our progress in solving the case. Please tell us the truth."

Douyuan Jiusaku took a deep breath and seemed to have made up his mind.

He looked at Inspector Megure, his voice trembling a little, "Actually, I did see Anzai Morio and Nachi Shingo arguing tonight. They seemed very excited, and I was afraid that something might happen, so I stopped paying attention."

Inspector Megure frowned. "Argument? Why were they arguing? Did you hear anything specific?"

Douyuan Jiusaku shook his head: "I didn't dare to get close. I just took a look from a distance and went back. They were very loud and seemed very angry."

At this time, a police officer found some photos on Anzai Morio and walked up to Inspector Megure and handed them to him: "Inspector, we found these photos on Anzai Morio. It looks like they are used to threaten Nachi Shingo."

Inspector Megure took the photo and looked at it carefully.

The photo clearly shows Shingo Nachi traveling with a wealthy woman.

Inspector Megure's expression became serious and he handed the photo to Kogoro Mouri.

"These photos can indeed be a motive," Inspector Megure said, "It seems that Anzai Morio may be using these photos to threaten Nachi Shingo."

Mao Li nodded, with a sharp light in his eyes: "Well, now we need to find Nachi Shingo and ask him about his explanation for these photos and the reason for his quarrel with Anzai Morio."

Just then, Nachi Shingo just walked out of the crowd with a little panic on his face.

He looked a little uneasy when he saw Inspector Megure and Kogoro Mori.

"Mr. Nachi Shingo," Inspector Megure held up the photos, "Can you explain these photos?"

Nachi Shingo's face turned pale instantly. He swallowed and stammered, "These photos...these photos are fake! Anzai Morio...he has been threatening me!"

Mao Li looked at him coldly: "Threatened you? Why would he threaten you?"

Nachi Shingo wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said hurriedly: "He wants money... He knows about my relationship with that rich woman, so he used these photos to threaten me, saying that if I don't give him money, he will make these photos public."

Inspector Megure nodded slightly: "So you had an argument with him?"

Nachi Shingo nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes! But I didn't kill him! We just had a quarrel and then he left. I didn't even know he would be killed!"

Maori and Megure looked at each other, and Maori's eyes became sharper: "You'd better tell us everything clearly. Otherwise, you will be our primary suspect."

Nachi Shingo nervously wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and began to describe his alibi: "I couldn't have committed the crime!"

"I stayed there after I left the crew and went to the hotel. I even went to the bar and sat there until ten o'clock in the evening. I didn't come here until I heard that something happened at the shrine. You can send someone to verify it. I really didn't leave!"

Inspector Megure nodded and immediately sent someone to verify Nachi Shingo's statement.

Maori Kogoro stroked his chin and fell into deep thought: "The alibi can indeed be used as a basis for eliminating suspicion. This Nachi Shingo is probably not the murderer."

Conan also touched his chin and fell into deep thought like Maori. He even began to change the order and direction of the death information, trying to find some new ideas.

At this time, Mao Li heard Hoshino Terumi and Okino Yoko discussing the stone lion: "Yoko, do you think that stone lion looks new?"

Okino Yoko tilted her head in surprise. "New? Shouldn't the stone lions at the Beika Shrine be very old? The Beika Shrine has been around for a long time, right?"

Hoshino Terumi nodded and continued, "Yes, could it be that someone is always cleaning and maintaining it?"

Mao Li reacted immediately, and an idea flashed in his mind: "Yes, the stone lion is so new, someone may have deliberately cleaned it. Moreover, according to the traces of blood splatter, there must be blood on the stone lion."

He quickly walked towards the stone lion and examined it carefully.

However, he found that there was no blood on the stone lion, and it looked extremely clean, just like new.

"Stone lions..."

"Why did Anzai Morio leave behind a stone lion as a message of death..."

Maori frowned and looked at the stone lion, then immediately reacted.

Eliminating all the impossible and all the interfering options, combined with Anzai Morio's bad character of speaking his mind, he definitely wouldn't have any metaphors.

In other words, what Anzai Morio was talking about was the stone lions!

There is a big problem with this stone lion!

Kogoro Mori frowned and examined the stone lion carefully, his fingers gently groping inside the stone lion's mouth.

Suddenly, he felt a mechanism the size of a grain of rice.

His heart moved and he pressed his finger down.

"Click."

Following a slight mechanical sound, the pair of stone lions actually began to vibrate slightly.

Maori stared at the pair of stone lions nervously. Suddenly, a crack began to appear in the ground.

Under the surprised gaze of the crowd, the new pair of stone lions were slowly replaced, and at the same time, the old pair of stone lions were slowly raised.

This pair of old stone lions were covered in blood and were obviously real stone lions from the scene.

Looking at the pair of stone lions, Maori immediately turned to look at the shrine's abbot, Mamegaki Hisasaku.

"Mr. Douyuan Hisasaku, can you explain to us the situation of this pair of stone lions?"

"And what's your reason for killing people?"

Douyuan Jiusaku's face turned pale and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

He stammered, "I...I don't know. The stone lions in the shrine have always been like this. I really don't know!"

"Well, let me reason it out."

Maori clapped his hands and walked in front of Douyuan Taeko under Conan's surprised gaze, "This is what happened."

"A long time ago, Ms. Douyuan Taeko, that is, you, was a delinquent."

"At that time, you met Anxi, who was also a gangster."

As soon as these words came out, Douyuan Taeko's face turned pale quickly, and she asked tremblingly: "You...how did you..."

"Although you have changed a lot and even deliberately used this old-fashioned makeup to dress yourself up, I can still see it from your every move."

Maori said calmly: "After dyeing it black once, the best it can do is wash it to gray, it's impossible to turn it completely white."

Chapter 140: A Man Like a God

"Let's get on with it."

Maori looked at Mamegaki Taeko calmly: "At that time, you were hanging out with a group of hooligans all day, and you accidentally told them that there were some very valuable things in the shrine, such as..."

"Sacrificial supplies."

"After Anxi and his gang learned about this, they came to the shrine to steal, which eventually led to something happening to someone in the shrine!"

"Do you think my guess is reasonable?"

With every word Mori spoke, Mamugaki Taeko's face changed, and even Mamugaki Hisasaku looked at Mori Kogoro in disbelief.

He was clearly not at the scene and didn't even have any information, yet he was able to guess the answer out of thin air as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

This man is simply like a god!

"Taeko?"

Mameko's fiancé Shimazaki Yuji stepped forward to protect Mameko, who was about to collapse, and said to Maori with some dissatisfaction: "Mr. Maori, you can't make some guesses without any basis..."

"Yuji...Mori-san is telling the truth."

Mamegaki Taeko stopped Shimazaki Yuji and said bitterly: "Just as Mr. Maori said, I accidentally revealed to Anzai that there were a large number of previous sacrificial supplies in the shrine warehouse."

"Anxi stole these things after he found out, which eventually led to the warehouse manager of the shrine hanging himself out of self-blame! Because someone died, I still dare not admit it. Anxi has been blackmailing me with this matter..."

Shimazaki Yuji looked at Douyuan Taeko in disbelief: "So... you left before because of this, I thought..."

"I'm sorry, Yuji, I don't dare to tell you..."

Douyuan Taeko cried and threw herself into Shimazaki Yuji's arms, "But fortunately, Anxi is dead, he can't blackmail me anymore!"

Shimazaki Yuji hugged Douyuan Taeko with a complicated expression: "Taeko..."

"So the two of them didn't go out to have sex?"

The director muttered something and Conan scratched his head in distress.

Maori's imaginary creation was so outrageous, but I didn't expect it to be right.

This made Conan not know where to start.

"Wait, I'm confused, Maori brother..."

Inspector Megure scratched his head and said, "In short, Ms. Douyuan Taeko and Anzai Morio have a grudge against each other, and there is a motive for murder, right?"

"That's right, but she's not the criminal." Maori nodded, turned his gaze to Shimazaki Yuji, whose face was full of complexities, and said calmly: "Do you feel a little regretful, Shimazaki Yuji?"

Shimazaki Yuji's face turned pale in an instant, and his eyes flickered.

"You suspected your fiancée was hiding something from you, so you followed her out secretly,"

Maori continued, his voice sharp, "but unexpectedly discovered Anzai Morio's body."

"In order to protect your fiancée, you deliberately returned to the hotel, put on his clothes, came out to cover for her, and even deliberately found a knife to serve as the murder weapon."

"Do you feel that you are doing something unnecessary?"

Shimazaki Yuji's face turned paler and his body trembled slightly.

He gritted his teeth and finally couldn't help but speak: "I... I just want to protect Taeko and don't want her to be implicated. Anzai Morio has been pestering Taeko, and I don't want her to get hurt, so I... did all this."

What the hell!

Conan connected all the previous details and exclaimed.

Can you deduce this?

"But thank you for your extra effort, Shimazaki Yuji." Mao Li said with a smile, "It is because of this that we can perfectly preserve the evidence."

Everyone was surprised by Mao Li's reasoning again, and their eyes were focused on him.

"Shimazaki Yuji's sudden arrival startled the real murderer, so he could only throw the murder weapon into a place where it could be hidden the fastest and retrieve it later."

Maori glanced at the people present and stopped his gaze.

"And there is only one place in the entire shrine that is least likely to be searched, and that is the coin box in the shrine!"

Everyone suddenly realized what was going on and their eyes turned to the coin box at the shrine.

Mao Li stretched out his hand, pointed at the shrine's chief priest, Mamegaki Hisasaku, and said in a firm tone: "Therefore, the criminal is you, Mamegaki Hisasaku!"

Douyuan Jiusaku's face suddenly turned pale, his beard trembled slightly, and his eyes flickered.

"grandfather?!"

Mameko looked at her grandfather in disbelief.

"You're talking nonsense! I have no idea what you're talking about!"

Douyuan Jiusaku forced himself to remain calm, but his voice was trembling.

"is it?"

Maori sneered, "Then let's see if there is a murder weapon in the coin box."

The officers sprang into action and opened the coin box at the shrine.

Sure enough, a blood-stained knife appeared in the coin box, and everyone was shocked.

"Do you still need us to check fingerprints, Mr. Mamegaki Hisasaku?"