Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"So, it was you who really killed Mr. Suwa?"

Inspector Megure looked serious - Matsuo's words were equivalent to an admission of guilt, and he couldn't just let it go.

"Ah, yes, everything is just as Detective Maori said, I performed the impossible four-minute murder."

Matsuo's expression became complicated when facing the camera, and he smiled a bitter smile or something. "But you may not believe it, but Matsuo and I were very good friends before..."

……

Regardless of Matsuo's reasons, his murder was real, and he was taken away by the police. As he was taken away from the mixing room by the police, Maori also took Xiaolan out of here.

but--

"Detective Maori! So cool! What a famous detective's famous reasoning!"

"Detective Mori! What do you think of betrayal by friends like what happened to host Matsuo?"

"Do you have any plans to participate in any other programs in the future? Mr. Maori! If so, please consider our "Daily Focus"!"

……

Accompanied by cameras and flashing lights that never stopped flashing, Mao Li felt as if he had stepped into a noisy commercial street when he walked out of the mixing room. Nichimi TV estimated that all the reporters and gossip people in the building had come here at this moment and surrounded him, blocking the entire fourth floor.

Even the mainstay of Nichimi TV, the super popular idol Okino Yoko, specially postponed her filming plan. She was here at the moment, with little stars twinkling in her eyes, looking at Maori with the same admiration as a fan seeing her idol coming:

"Detective Maori! You are so, so awesome!"

Mao Li, realizing that he was probably becoming famous all over the country, smiled calmly and seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to establish himself in front of the public:

"Thank you for your compliment, Ms. Yoko, and thank you all for your attention to me. But... solving cases is both the fate and mission of detectives. In my opinion, it is nothing to brag about."

……

It turns out that Mao Li's pretense in the national live broadcast was very effective, even too effective - on Sunday night, he and Eri Kisaki had originally planned to check in at the KTV where they had dated that year, but before they even entered the KTV, they created the effect of "a star airborne in a busy city attracting many supporters" in front of the busy train station. After he had finally signed autographs and spoken to the passers-by who had gathered around him, a variety show production crew who were doing a street interview program nearby also heard the news and rushed over.

In desperation, Mao Li could only get rid of everyone as quickly as possible after seeking his wife's consent, and then return to the detective agency with her in dejection - the two of them planned to curl up on the sofa together to watch a movie video, and then drink some red wine and have some midnight snacks.

It's a pity that plans can never keep up with changes. The two had just returned to the office and got everything ready. Before they sat down on the sofa, the phone in the office suddenly rang.

"It's okay, you answer the phone first, Kogoro~"

Kisaki Eri said with a smile.

Mao Li nodded, gave her a look full of apology and love, and then picked up the phone: "Hello, this is Mao Li Detective Agency..."

"Brother Maori, are you free now? I have a case that I really can't handle, so I have to come to you..."

The very familiar voice of Inspector Megure came from the other end of the phone - after solving cases together several times, Inspector Megure has become accustomed to consulting Mori on difficult cases.

Mao Li looked at Eri Kisaki, who nodded slightly at him, so he perked up and responded to Inspector Megure: "I'm free, what's the case?"

"Actually, a library employee suddenly disappeared and couldn't be found anywhere. The surveillance video didn't give any clues."

"Library staff?"

"Yes, it was a staff member of the Beihua Library named Tamada Kazuo. His wife said that he hasn't returned home since he worked overtime the night before yesterday..."

"Rice Flower Library?"

Maori suddenly remembered that when he went out during the day, Conan told him that he was going to the Beika Library with several children from the Junior Detective League. He frowned immediately, "You didn't find it in the library either?"

"No," Officer Megure said with a headache, "Because Mr. Tamada would call his wife in the library before getting off work every day, but he didn't call the night before last, so we thought he might have been taken away while working overtime, or directly killed and hidden in the library... But after searching the library's warehouse, toilets and other less noticeable places, we found nothing..."

"If Mr. Tamada has been murdered, are there any suspects?"

Maori continued to ask.

"Well, I heard that the library director Hideji Tsukawa and Mr. Tamada stayed overtime the night before yesterday..." Officer Megure recalled, "If we talk about suspicion, he is the biggest one. Brother Mori, do you suspect him?"

"We can't tell yet."

Mao Li checked the time and responded, "Officer Megure, I'll go to the library first and contact you if there's anything."

——What he understood in his mind before told Maori that anything strange happening around him, as long as it was related to Conan, was most likely something wrong, so he decided to go to the library first.

Chapter 22: Kogoro Mori Begins His Heroic Appearance

Although she was a little disappointed that Mori could not accompany her for the time being, Kisaki Eri, who had the personality of both a Yamato Nadeshiko and a European and American strong woman, was undoubtedly happier that Mori was valued by the police and was now able to focus on his career. She expressed her understanding and support for Mori with practical actions, that is, an active and long kiss.

"Go ahead, Kogoro, do your best~"

"Oh!"

Mao Li, who had been given a buff by his wife, drove his blue left-hand drive MINI COOPER, carrying a metal baseball bat, and rushed towards the Beika Library with full momentum.

……

"Da da!"

In the dimly lit Beika Library, the director Hideji Tsukawa looked around with a gloomy expression.

"Strange, there was indeed a sound just now... Am I overthinking it?"

In the darkness, Director Jinchuan looked extremely ugly with his skinny face. He stared towards the stairs with wide eyes, then cautiously opened the bathroom door and looked inside. His face, like a deformed monkey, looked around the door for a while, and when he saw nothing unusual, he turned and walked away.

at this time--

"Yeah!"

A slight sound of a door opening suddenly rang out clearly in the dead silence. Director Jinchuan suddenly stopped in his tracks and looked back into the bathroom with a horrible expression.

A trace of cold sweat appeared on his cheek.

It seems like there really is someone hiding here. If that's the case, his secret might have been discovered...

"here!!"

Director Jinchuan walked quietly to the outside of a toilet, pushed the door open suddenly, and when he saw that it was empty, he put away his ferocious expression, closed the door in confusion and walked out of the bathroom, without noticing the shivering children behind the door.

Conan, with an ugly expression, gritted his teeth and covered Ayumi who was about to scream out, his back was already soaked with sweat without him noticing.

He was too careless. Perhaps because he had been so successful recently, he let down his guard and put himself and his children in danger...

"Hey, Conan,"

Yuan Tai had no intention of staying quiet. He touched his round belly and said, "How long do I have to stay in the toilet? I'm going to be starving if I wait any longer..."

"Shh!"

Conan quickly made a gesture to silence, stopped Genta and walked solemnly to the bathroom door. He just saw Director Jinchuan taking out a briefcase from the reading room and walking into the elevator to leave.

"Good, he's back."

Conan let out a long sigh, then looked helplessly at the children around him.

These guys refused to go home when I asked them to, and now that they see the strangeness of the curator, it is even more impossible for them to leave...

"Conan, what are we going to do now?"

Ayumi and the others all looked at Conan.

"Let's look for it first. It seems the curator is hiding some secrets."

"Snapped!"

Downstairs in the library, Director Jinchuan left with his briefcase and a smile on his face. Suddenly, the lights on the third floor behind him lit up.

He froze, and with a frozen smile, he turned to the library and saw that the light on the floor was the children's book section where he had just stopped...

……

"Is this here?"

After a while, Maori drove to the Mihua Library. After parking on the side of the road, he found that the lights on the third floor of the library were still on.

"Sure enough, it must be those naughty kids again."

After reaching out to pick up the specially prepared metal baseball bat from the passenger seat, Mao Li gently closed the car door and walked straight to the library. Just as he was racking his brains to figure out how to get in, he found that the door of the building was not closed tightly at all, and even the key was still on the door, as if someone had rushed in.

"Could it be that those kids stole the key and broke in? Xing, Conan, they've formed a criminal gang..."

Maori curled his lips and walked into the library. After finding the elevator, he pressed the button for the third floor, intending to go to the third floor to meet Conan and the others first.

The elevator door was almost closed when a dark figure suddenly walked out from the stairs. He looked at the elevator going upstairs with horror, then hurried back to the exit, pulled out the key and locked the door.

“Someone actually came…”

Director Tsukawa watched the elevator stop at the third floor with a gloomy face. Without bothering to look for the corpse in the library area on the other side, Conan and his crew immediately turned around and went to the third floor with a steel pipe.

"Ding!"

On the third floor, Maori stood in the open elevator door in confusion.

It was strange. It was just an ordinary elevator, but he could faintly smell the faint smell of blood and corpses...

Could it be that……

Maori looked up instinctively, and even with his temperament, his scalp tingled.

"Up there!"

The body was actually on top of the elevator... No wonder the police found nothing after the search...

"It's really hard for you to find it, the legendary detective."

Director Jinchuan walked out of the darkness and suddenly appeared at the elevator entrance with a ferocious face. "You are much more powerful than the police and those little ghosts! But this is the end..."

Director Jinchuan used his body to completely block Maori in the elevator. Looking at this face that had appeared frequently on TV and in newspapers recently, he sneered and swung the steel pipe fiercely, "Go to hell, Maori-shiro!"

"Boom!"

Two metal collision sounds were heard in succession. Director Jinchuan stared at Maori who was holding a metal baseball bat. As the steel pipe in his hand fell to the ground with a crisp sound, he fell backwards with a groan.

"Have you never read a detective novel? How can there be a detective who rushes into action without any preparation?"

Maori walked out of the elevator with a gloomy face, swung his baseball bat, and looked at Director Jinchuan who was resting on the ground.

"Also, my name is Maori Kogoro, not Koshiro!"

Director Jinchuan's skinny face with wide eyes looked a little scary, like a dead body, but he was just fainted.

After all, Maori has been a policeman and detective for so many years, and he has a lot of experience in how to strike hard at criminals without breaking the law or causing death...

"Let's contact Officer Megure first."

Mao Li took out his cell phone and suddenly heard noise coming from downstairs.

"Was there any noise up there just now?"

Mitsuhiko, who was leading the group, walked to the staircase and looked up the corridor in surprise. “It sounded like something fell to the ground.”

"Could it be that the curator has returned?"

Conan walked forward carefully, "You guys wait here for a moment, I'll go take a look!"

"Conan!"

On the third floor, when Conan quietly walked up the stairs, the elevator entrance was empty and it didn't look like anyone had been there.

There was nothing unusual in the library with the lights on, and elsewhere...

"Um?!"

Walking in the dim corridor, Conan was suddenly startled. Just as he was about to move, a pair of hands reached out from behind, covered his mouth and pulled him into the darkness.

"Well--!"

……

"Conan?"

Ayumi and the others waited at the stairs for a long time, but Conan never came down, and there was no movement upstairs.

"What should I do? Has something happened to Conan?" Ayumi's eyes were filled with tears of fear.

“Shouldn’t, right?” Mitsuhiko’s voice trembled as he forced himself to walk up. “He must just want to scare us. I’ll go find him now.”

"Misuhiko!"

On the third floor, Ayumi followed Mitsuhiko and Genta tremblingly to the stairs and carefully looked out to observe.