Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"Discussing something?" Mao Li looked at the intimacy between the young man and woman and asked suspiciously, "Are they really just ordinary classmates?"

"Well," Gao Mu laughed dryly, "I heard from her that Mr. Shirakawa's father seemed to be very opposed to his relationship with the murdered Miss Duohui..."

"Anyone would object to someone dressing so extravagantly for a meeting," Maori shook his head and asked Xiaolan, the first person to discover the body, "Xiaolan, did you see any suspicious people before you found the body?"

"There weren't any suspicious people. Only a guard passed by me."

"Guard? Is that the guard here?"

Xiaolan nodded and said, "Well, I just saw a security guard in his forties at the entrance of this parking lot..."

"I think she was talking about me." A security guard walked out of the crowd and said, "I left my post because I needed to go to the bathroom. The criminal must have taken advantage of that time to commit the crime..."

"Humph!" The owner of the department store, a short middle-aged man wearing glasses, said coldly, "I think you are the one who committed this crime. I remember you were working as a security guard in our rival department store half a year ago... Could it be that the other party sent you to destroy the image of our company?"

The guard said anxiously: "I didn't! It happened half a year ago..."

"Who knows?" The middle-aged man turned to his son Shirakawa Noriyuki with a stern face, "Now you know how powerful it is. You must find a good girl with no bad record in the future!"

Shirakawa Noriyuki gritted his teeth and shed tears: "Dad!"

Maori glanced at everyone present. If this was the only incident, the suspect would be quite obvious.

There are possible motives for murder, including the owner of the department store who is dissatisfied with his son's girlfriend, Shirakawa Noriyuki's college classmate and colleague, and the waitress with whom he has an ambiguous relationship, Shirakawa Noriyuki himself is also a possibility, and finally the guard...

In previous cases, the police did not disclose the characteristics of the victims. In addition, the victims were all customers of this department store, so the murderer was likely the same person.

Contact with or witnessing the victim, and related to the car...

The most likely suspect and the one who could have easily committed the crime was the underground parking lot guard, but judging by his height, he did not meet the suspect's 150cm height requirement...

"Excuse me, what does he mean by bad record?"

The waitress replied, "I think it's about the car accident that happened a year ago when Duohui was in this parking lot. She was fired because she hit a little boy with her car..."

Maori's eyebrows twitched.

A year ago, there was a car accident. A year later, 109 hot girls were attacked while driving. The person involved in the car accident was killed directly...

"Can we find out who was the one who hit the kid a year ago?" Mao Li asked.

"I remember the little boy's name seemed to be Sakurai Akira," Sato recalled. "I heard from Yumi from the Ministry of Transportation that the boy was waiting for his mother to come back from shopping when he and the football suddenly rushed in front of a car from a blind spot and was unfortunately hit. Although the car was not going fast, he was injured in a vital part and died a few days later..."

Takagi volunteered, "I'll ask Yumi about the accident."

Mao Li glanced at the guard and asked Megure, "Also, is the murderer really only 150 cm tall? Is it possible that they are mistaken?"

"Yes, he should be about 150 centimeters," Sato replied. "Except for the second girl who was knocked unconscious before she saw the man, the other two saw the gangster with his head covered. They said he was about the same height as them. We measured them at the police station and they were all around 150 centimeters."

Maori frowned slightly.

Even if the guards were suspicious, the 150cm height issue would still be a mystery...

Sure enough, the best way is to try to lure them in. Catching the criminal in the act is simple, rough and more direct.

……

"Idiot! Didn't I tell you?!" In the underground parking lot, Megure yelled at Sato with a scary look on his face, "We no longer need to use bait to lure out the murderer!

"I feel like the murderer should still be nearby. If we search carefully again, we will definitely find clues!"

Maori stood beside the corpse with his hands in his hands, quietly looking at Megure's fat face covered in sweat.

Officer Sato is the best person to trap the murderer here. All he needs to do is put on some black makeup on top of the blonde girl, and the car is ready too...

But this time, Inspector Megure was determined not to carry out the entrapment plan. His expression changed at the mere mention of it, and he would rather spend more time searching the surroundings.

Inspector Megure joined the Metropolitan Police Department earlier than Mori, and the Metropolitan Police Department does not encourage people to ask about their predecessors, so Mori does not know the reason, but it seems that he cannot convince Inspector Megure...

……

"Strange," Sonoko looked around at the crime scene, "Where's the uncle?"

Xiaolan at the side said in confusion: "I don't know, Dad was here just now, he should be investigating something, right?"

Yuanzi looked at her watch and said, "It looks like this will take some time. I want to put my luggage in the car first and go to the restroom in the department store..."

"Then you'd better hurry up, the department store should be closing soon..."

……

In the department store building, Mao Li, who was looking around trying to find some clues, suddenly stopped. Several photos of the victims and the victims killed in the parking lot appeared in his mind again.

The photos are all half-body shots, and it is unclear whether they were wearing thick-soled shoes or not. The victim this time was wearing a pair of ordinary women's flat shoes, which seems a bit weird when I think about it now.

The words of the shop assistant just now echoed in Maori's ears again: "109 hot girl said that thick-soled shoes are fashionable..."

If the murderer changed the victim's shoes, and if the height of the previous victims did not include the height of the thick-soled shoes... everything would make sense...

The guard, who was about 1.6 meters tall, had lost his last support and could definitely be the murderer. If the case from a year ago was related to the guard again, then the motive and conditions of the crime would be very consistent, and all that would be left would be evidence.

"How could this happen?" Outside the restroom of the department store, Yuanzi looked at the cleaning sign at the door in frustration, "They're cleaning here too? Can't they wait until after closing time to clean it? The next restroom is on the eighth floor... I have such bad luck even when it comes to using the restroom..."

"Thank you for your patronage today," the mall broadcast suddenly sounded, "The department store will be closing soon, welcome to visit next time..."

"Is it time?"

Mao Li looked at his watch and hurried downstairs - he was now on the eighth floor, a place that specialized in selling women's cosmetics.

Maori just turned the corner--

"uncle?!"

"Garden?"

Mao Li looked at Yuan Zi who came out from the toilet in confusion, "You... you went to the eighth floor just to use the toilet?"

"There's nothing I can do. I only know there's a toilet on the eighth floor!"

Yuanzi stuck out her tongue a little embarrassedly.

At this moment, the lights in the mall suddenly went out and it became dark, with only a little light in the direction of the escape stairs.

"Oh no," Yuanzi looked around anxiously, "Wait, don't turn off the lights yet, we are still here!"

"There's no one on this floor anymore," Maori said, "Let's go down the stairs first."

"Stairs?" Sonoko looked at the darkened mall and leaned towards Maori with some fear. "I remember there's a restaurant on the tenth floor. It should be open yet. Let's go up and take the elevator."

Mao Li was somewhat helpless: "...Okay, I'll listen to you."

Although he thought it would be faster to take the stairs, since Sonoko was a little scared, he couldn't refuse her suggestion.

"Boom."

Maori walked to the escape stairs and moved his ears. He vaguely heard some movement between the floors, which sounded like the sound of metal being dragged on the floor.

The silent and dim floor seemed to be filled with a faint smell of danger, as if a wild beast was hiding in it...

"What's wrong?" Sonoko looked at Maori who was standing still in confusion.

"Nothing," Mao Li frowned, "Wait for me here for a moment, don't make any noise and don't move."

"Oh."

Sonoko stared blankly at Maori walking back to the mall, not understanding what Maori was going to do.

There didn't seem to be anything unusual in the mall. Maori looked around and took out his cell phone to call Ai, but after a pause, he sent a text message.

"Huh?" At the underground parking lot, the phone in Ai's pocket vibrated. She took it out and found that it was a text message from Maori.

"What the hell is going on, uncle? Guard?"

Xiao Ai looked at the crowd around her solemnly, but she couldn't find any trace of the guards. A trickle of sweat dripped down her forehead.

"No, that person is gone!"

After sending a message to Mao Li, Xiao Ai anxiously found Takagi and asked, "Officer Takagi, were the previous victims wearing thick-soled shoes when they were attacked?"

"Ah?" Gao Mu was stunned for a moment, and said uncertainly, "It seems so... Is there any problem?"

"The murderer may specifically target people who drive while wearing platform shoes!"

Seeing that the attention of Megure and the others had also been drawn, Xiao Ai simply pointed at the flat shoes on the corpse's feet and said, "It's popular to wear thick-soled shoes now, especially a fashionable sister like this, she wouldn't wear this kind of shoes!"

Inspector Megure was surprised and asked, "Are you saying that the murderer deliberately changed her shoes?!"

Sato next to him suddenly thought: "Oh, right, the heights of those girls were measured at the police station, because they were going to take statements, so they didn't wear thick-soled shoes!"

"That means the murderer's height is not 150 cm!" Inspector Megure responded with a serious expression, "Did you change the victim's shoes this time because you were afraid of being discovered?"

Chapter 131: The Young Detectives Are Interviewed

Xiao Ai raised her phone and said, "Uncle Maori just said that the murderer specifically targeted people who drove their cars while wearing thick-soled shoes, and that those who were attacked were all customers here, so the guard who was in this parking lot every day and could see customers getting on and off the car was most likely the murderer!"

"Guards?"

Officer Megure was startled and looked around, shouting, "Bring him back quickly!!"

In the shopping mall on the 8th floor, Mao Li frowned and put away his phone.

It was very strange. The police did not start to lure them. It was impossible for the guard to come over. What was that sense of danger just now?

Garden?

Maori raised his head, and the image of Sonoko's thick-soled shoes flashed through his mind.

"Brought up from the garden?"

"Ah——!" Suddenly, Yuanzi's scream and the sound of heavy objects crashing were heard in the stairwell.

On the stairs, the guard was holding a metal baseball bat, wearing a long coat, scarf, hat... These attire were originally used to hide his identity, but now they revealed his terrified face.

"I was seen. My face was seen..."

The guard covered his face with his hands, his expression trembling.

……

"Can't run anymore?" In the container aisle, a guard in a coat dragging a long metal baseball bat chased after them. He had completely removed his disguise and had a twisted and dangerous smile on his face. He looked at Sonoko fiercely.

"You are also a devil, a little devil who pretends to be a little girl and then commits evil deeds one day..."

"Demons have no value in survival..."

The guard raised the metal rod, smiled like a zombie, and said grimly: "I just wanted to teach you a lesson, but you saw my face... You will die if you see my true face!"

"Is this your true face?"

Mao Li, who came from the other side of the container aisle, faced the guard who was swinging a stick, and slightly dodged amid Sonoko's exclamation.

"boom--!"

The metal rod smashed the window glass heavily, and the Go pieces scattered all over the floor.

"I say, this is your true face? A murderer?"

Mao Li looked at the grinning guard and said, "My son was hit and killed in the underground parking lot here a year ago, so you want to avenge him?

"But why involve innocent people?!"

Maori took the initiative to walk towards the guard who was gritting his teeth. The guard subconsciously took a step back, his face distorted and huddled together, and he roared and swung the metal baseball bat at Maori again.

"You are just venting your anger by playing with human lives!" Maori grabbed the bat with one hand, his face darkened, and he raised his leg like lightning and kicked the guard out.

"boom!"

The dazed Sonoko woke up and looked at Maori in a daze. The metal baseball bat was thrown aside, making a crisp sound on the ground.

……

In the shopping mall on the eighth floor, the lights came on again. The scene was in chaos. The guard fell in fear among the scattered chess pieces, his teeth chattering as he looked at Maori.

"Evil, devil..."

"Here!!"

At the other end of the shelf, Officer Megure heard the noise and rushed over. He quickly handcuffed the seemingly dumbfounded guard uniform with a sullen face, and yelled through gritted teeth: "Asshole! Do you know what you are doing?! This little girl is just a high school student who put the luggage into the car! Do you want to kill her?!!"

"I..." The guard came back to his senses, collapsed to the ground, and cried, "I just want that girl to apologize... I want her to change into proper shoes and apologize to my son in heaven... I really only had this thought at the beginning, it's true..."

……

Ai and Conan are in Class B of the first grade at Teitan Elementary School. Their homeroom teacher is Ms. Kobayashi, Sumiko Kobayashi, who looks almost the same as Officer Sato when she doesn't wear glasses and is still single.