Ke Xue: Xiaolan delivers goods to your door at the beginning

"So I've already said, nobody comes here. If someone really did come, there are so many of us here, there's no way we wouldn't see them," Sonoko complained.

"No, wait..."

It was only then that Kogoro Mouri realized what was happening.

"Why are there only the two of you in the hallway? Where is everyone else? Where's Conan?"

"other people?"

After thinking for a moment, Yuanzi spoke in turn.

"Little Ghost Ni Lin's clothes, Shi Qiu and Liang's classmates, and Lin Jiuqi's third brother went to the scene of the incident next door to see what was going on. It seems that Director Gu Li was complained about by the hotel guests for parking illegally, so he went down to move his car. The hotel staff also left because they had something to do..."

"What?! That brat always likes to gravitate towards crime scenes and acts on his own initiative! I'm going to teach him a lesson this time!"

However, Kogoro Mouri had no intention of waiting for Sonoko to finish speaking. He angrily pushed open the door of the adjacent suite and was about to rush in.

Then he almost bumped into Lin Xiaofeng, who was coming out of the door.

"Oh!"

Lin Xiaofeng nimbly jumped back to dodge.

Kogoro Mouri stopped in time thanks to his training at the police academy.

"Detective Mori, have you found anything?" Lin Xiaofeng asked with a smile.

"No!" Kogoro Mouri was in a bad mood and said in a rough voice.

However, Kogoro Mouri's body instinctively bypassed Lin Xiaofeng and instead turned his attention to Conan and Sera Masumi, who were also walking out of the inner room behind him.

Even Kogoro Mouri himself couldn't explain why, when he faced this seemingly sunny young man who was the same age as his daughter, despite having an overwhelming advantage in terms of mental age, he always felt a strange sense of awe rising from the bottom of his heart.

"Hey! What are you two doing? The police haven't even come to collect evidence yet! What if the scene gets disturbed? And the culprit hasn't been found yet. If you wander around like this, it could be very dangerous! Don't you understand anything?!" Kogoro Mouri shouted.

"clear--"

Faced with Kogoro Mouri's seemingly furious but actually caring reprimand, Conan and Sera Masumi both put on endearing smiles, humbly accepting the criticism but determined not to change.

When Sonoko, who was waiting in the corridor, saw Lin Xiaofeng come out of the room, she immediately rushed over to him, while Ran was a beat too slow and Sonoko beat her to it.

"Xiao Feng, what's the situation inside? Do they know who the prisoner is?"

"The situation is, to put it mildly, extremely gruesome. The prisoner looks terrible, blood is splattered everywhere." Lin Xiaofeng's expression and tone were feigned deep sorrow. "The prisoner is still under investigation."

“No…right?”

Sonoko and Ran both covered their mouths in shock.

Lin Xiaofeng's tone returned to normal in an instant, and he shrugged, saying, "Anyway, it's pretty scary~"

"Uh……"

No one noticed that while Kogoro Mouri was scolding Conan and Sera Masumi, and Lin Xiaofeng was talking to Sonoko and Ran about the crime scene, a hook as thin as a fishing line gently hooked onto the balcony railing of suite 3004.

· ······Requesting flowers· ····

The next second, a small and agile figure silently climbed up from the lower balcony.

……

Mary Akai tiptoed into the suite from the balcony. When no one was looking, she slipped into the bedroom and closed the door.

"Cough cough..."

A suppressed cough sounded, and Mary Akai covered her mouth with her hand.

She developed this cough inexplicably after being given that poison that shrinks people, but it seems different from a simple cold. If it were a simple cold, she should have recovered by now, instead of remaining sickly like this.

.. ... ...

Is it the price humanity has to pay for forcibly defying the flow of time...?

She learned from her colleagues who worked in intelligence for MI6 that the drug she had taken would have only two outcomes: either she would turn into the child she was now, or she would die on the spot.

Thinking about it this way, it seems that becoming a child is the best outcome.

Mary Akai chuckled inwardly, as if mocking herself.

She took her phone out of her pocket and glanced at it; the call was still connected.

Mary Akai listened to almost every word of her daughter's conversation with Lin Xiaofeng, even more attentively than she did when she was young and doing listening comprehension exercises at school.

What is certain at present is that this Lin Xiaofeng has skills stronger than Zhen Chun, and may even be comparable to himself. However, he is a relatively straightforward young man who doesn't like to think too much, and... he seems to have a pretty good personality?

After all, she came from MI6 and her arrival in Japan was only recent. If it weren't for the incident at the Howlworth Bridge, she would probably still be a MI6 agent in the Special Operations Department. Therefore, Mary Akai has an extraordinary level of insight.

"This so-called high school detective, Lin Xiaofeng, is very suspicious. I really need to get to know him in person," Akai Mary muttered to herself.

391. Lin Xiaofeng and Conan's charade is about to be exposed.

Following the heinous murder that occurred in the hotel, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department quickly dispatched personnel to the scene to resolve the situation.

Unsurprisingly, it was the hardworking Inspector Megure... and his men.

As a result, the suite, which was originally quite spacious for one person, suddenly became crowded. A large number of forensic officers from the Metropolitan Police Department flooded into the room with their respective forensic tools and conducted a thorough inspection of every corner that might contain evidence of a crime.

During this time, Conan was not idle either. Taking advantage of his rather "petite" physique, he darted around among the adults and successfully collected all the necessary evidence using his own methods.

Of course, he was eventually discovered and kicked out by the forensic team...

However, judging from the satisfied expression on the kid's face when he was thrown out by the scruff of his neck, he had clearly collected all the evidence he wanted.

"nailed it?"

In the hotel corridor, Lin Xiaofeng was squatting on the ground with his back against the wall, his chin resting on his hand. He glanced at a high school student who was being thrown out of the room by the police forensic team and was now standing next to him against the wall.

"Well, I guess so." Conan had a big bump on his head, which was still steaming, but the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and his face was full of satisfaction.

"So, the culprit is that director?"

"Huh? You know?"

Conan was definitely shocked.

To be honest, he originally planned to keep Lin Xiaofeng in suspense.

"Isn't it obvious..." Lin Xiaofeng said lazily.

"Just now in the room, I asked you if you knew who the culprit was, and you said you did. So it's pretty obvious, isn't it? The culprit can't be you, me, Sonoko, Ran, Sera, or Uncle Mori. That hotel waiter doesn't seem like it either... So tell me, who else could it be?"

"Uh……"

Conan's brow twitched slightly, feeling as if his intelligence had been insulted.

"Do you want to know the criminal's methods?"

"I don't want to." Lin Xiaofeng didn't give him any face at all.

Conan's expression froze instantly.

"What you call methods are just clever tricks to cover up your crimes and avoid being discovered. They have nothing to do with real murder methods and are of no reference value to me," Lin Xiaofeng said eloquently. "Moreover, I'm more curious about the director's motives than his methods."

"Why did you commit the crime?"

"Because for any ordinary person, killing someone is not an easy thing."

"Only the person involved knows. These days, there are all sorts of bizarre reasons for murder."

Conan has encountered many cases with bizarre murder motives; there's no limit to how bizarre they can get.

At this moment, the police forensic team finally finished their work and were leaving with their tools and bags of evidence sealed in envelopes.

The lead forensic investigator saluted Inspector Megure: "Inspector, we'll take our leave now."

"Yes, thank you all for your hard work." Inspector Megure nodded solemnly in return.

Lin Xiaofeng, who saw this scene from the corridor, nudged Conan next to him with his elbow and raised an eyebrow.

"Let's go. We should get started."

"Uh... what Brother Xiaofeng means is... that you will cooperate with me."

"Yes. It's just a charade, isn't it? It's very simple."

Since Lin Xiaofeng is willing to play along, Conan doesn't need to risk being discovered. After all, there's a very restless Sera Masumi around today, and no one knows who she is.

The two then went into the room.

"Ahem... I've deduced the culprit's modus operandi and also know the culprit's identity!"

Conan used a voice-changing bow tie to imitate Lin Xiaofeng's voice and spoke to everyone.

Lin Xiaofeng didn't even open his mouth to cooperate, yet no one noticed the flaw.

"Brother Lin, you already know the truth!" Inspector Megure's fat face was full of surprise.

Kogoro Mouri scratched the back of his neck, wondering why no one had given him an injection today, turning him into a sleeping Kogoro.

"Why don't I feel sleepy today? It's so strange. I'm so angry, Lin Xiaofeng beat me to it again."

Meanwhile, in the suite next door, Mary Akai, wearing a mask and baseball cap and with a Bluetooth headset in her ear, changed into an inconspicuous outfit and quietly slipped out of the room.

"First of all, we need to clarify one point: the perpetrator did not kill Mr. Horita Kaito the moment we entered the room, but rather about an hour before we entered. I believe that the professionals at the Metropolitan Police Department can determine the exact time of death after a simple assessment."

"The perpetrator's deception was that after murdering Mr. Horita Kaito, he first covered the victim's body with a white sheet, then placed pre-broken plates and shards of wine glass on the living room floor, and poured red wine on them to make it appear as if the glass had been broken during a meal..."

“But, Brother Lin, didn’t you say you heard the sound of glass breaking when you came in?” Inspector Megure frowned. “If it had been broken beforehand, it wouldn’t have made a sound, right?”

"That's absolutely right, so the criminal used a rather ingenious method..."

Conan and Lin Xiaofeng's charade was flawless.

"The prisoner used salt. If you look closely, you will see that there are still some salt grains on the table that have not been completely dispersed by the airflow. Those are the salt grains that the prisoner used to fix the wine glass. If you try it, you will know that only a small amount of salt is needed to fix the wine glass at a special angle on the table. At this time, you only need to place a bottle of red wine behind the wine glass to ensure that when the door is opened and the airflow disperses the salt grains, the fixed wine glass will fall 100% of the way into the broken pieces of the plate that have been placed under the table and smash to pieces."

"As for the figure we saw, it's even simpler. In fact, there were some traces of tape stuck on the top of the sliding door on the balcony of this suite. That's proof that the prisoner had stuck something on the sliding door frame. I think it was a piece of cloth that was the same color as the hotel curtains."

"The prisoner threaded a fishing line through the cloth, wedged one end of the line into the lock of the door I'm in now, and hung a weight on the other end. When we opened the door, the fishing line would be released, and the weight would drag the line and the cloth down, creating the illusion that someone was flashing across the balcony..."

Inspector Megure scratched his head and said, "Brother Hayashi, if things were really like this (referring to the fourth floor), there should be something falling from the sky, but our forensic team hasn't found what you're talking about..."

"Then we have to mention Director Kuriki's beloved car." Conan continued explaining using the voice-changing bowtie in Lin Xiaofeng's voice.

"Director Kuriki's car is a convertible sports car that can be opened and closed. To destroy the evidence, all you need to do is tie the car's controller to the heavy object and use tape to keep the convertible switch pressed at all times. Then park the car directly under the falling heavy object, so that the heavy object will fall precisely into the car after it falls."

"But because this is the 30th floor, no matter what, if you put cushioning items in the car beforehand, the heavy object that can pull the whole tape off in an instant will generate huge kinetic energy due to its own weight during the fall, causing damage to the car."

"And... only you could have done all this! Director Kuriki!"

The moment the words were spoken, Director Kuriki's knees slammed heavily against the ground, startling Lin Xiaofeng and almost giving him away.

"Damn, do you have to kneel down so fast?"

"Detective Lin, you're right, I killed that man!"

Tears welled up in Director Kuriki's eyes. This obese man, who looked no different from any other middle-aged office worker, angrily confessed to his crimes. He stared at the floor beneath his feet, his ferocious expression as if recalling the moment he killed his enemy, the exhilarating feeling of revenge.

“My younger sister committed suicide because she couldn’t bear the blow of a breakup. But no matter how hard we searched for her body, we couldn’t find it, even though the address on her suicide note was right there. Then, on a TV program, Horita Kaito claimed that he saw the aura of death on a mountain and led a group of people to dig it up. They actually found the body of my sister who had committed suicide. Do you know what that means?”

"This means that Horita Kaito witnessed my sister's suicide, and instead of calling the police, he buried her so that he could put on a show on TV and make people believe in his so-called bullshit spiritual power!"

Do you understand?

The middle-aged director's furious roar echoed in the suite for a long time. The overwhelming pain of losing a loved one and then discovering that the body had been used as material for a show by someone with ulterior motives silenced everyone present.

Conan also let out a soft sigh in his heart, realizing that it was unnecessary to use Lin Xiaofeng's voice to deliver poisonous chicken soup to the criminal.

"No, you're wrong. You think your sister would want to see you like this..."

However, Lin Xiaofeng interrupted him without any politeness: "Don't worry, she will want it."

Everyone looked at Lin Xiaofeng with surprise, including Conan.

"You've been exposed, you've been exposed, Brother Xiaofeng, you're such an idiot."

Conan was panicking.

392. The Female Scoundrel from MI6

Although the matter has been resolved, the person involved still needs to cooperate with the police by giving a statement at the Metropolitan Police Department.

Lin Xiaofeng told Xiaolan and Yuanzi to go home first, and he would go to the Metropolitan Police Department to give his statement alone.

The two women agreed to go home first, and Lin Xiaofeng went to the Metropolitan Police Department alone.

At the foot of the Sakura Hotel building, Lin Xiaofeng walked slowly along the sidewalk with his hands in his pockets. Suddenly, he noticed a small figure following him about twenty meters behind.

"Someone is following me... It's... Mary Akai!"