Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"really?"

"real."

Xiao Ai sat with her eyelids drooping next to the two playful girls like a mascot. She paused and glanced at the packages hidden in the shopping bag next to her.

I don't know what's going on over there...

……

On the way out of the Metropolitan Police Department.

"Although I don't know why Officer Yumiya believes in Genda so much, but," Conan said in a deep voice, "this case is indeed too strange. The criminal surrendered himself just after we started investigating the other side..."

"Don't you understand, Kudo?" Hattori said, "It's too similar. The incidents happened in a certain order. The cowardly criminal was arrested without any suspense. And only in one incident did someone get killed... What was it?"

"Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders, right?"

Conan continued, "I know that this incident was set on fire from 1st to 4th chome and left the symbol of the red horse, making it look like a serial arson case, and the real target was killed in the fourth time... plus the self-confessed criminal thrown out, it is indeed very similar to the scam in it."

Maori continued to ask Hattori: "Besides Mr. Genda, are there no other suspicious people?"

“That’s not the case,” Hattori lifted his chin and said, “After Genda, there were three other people who entered the Morokaku family, the Feng Shui master who had an affair with Mrs. Morokaku, the male owner of the Morokaku family who looked very strange, and Mrs. Morokaku’s sister, who was a fortune teller who set up a stall in the building in front of Haido Station. She went to Mrs. Morokaku to borrow money during the day and left with a grim look on her face…”

"They all have alibis?"

"That's the problem. The fire started right next to the window where the red horse was placed. According to the neighbor's child, the shadow of the red horse was cast on the curtains at 7:7, which means the fire started at :..."

Hattori pondered, "But the Feng Shui master and Mr. Morokaku went out for a drink together at 7:20. I heard that they rushed back to the scene after someone nearby called to inform them of the fire. As for the fortune-teller sister, she was also setting up a stall. Only Mr. Genda has no alibi..."

Mao Li drove silently, thinking about how to find the real murderer and help the cowardly middle-aged man get rid of the crime.

The idiot who was used but turned himself in, the real murderer must know him very well and have had contact with him, right?

We should find some clues if we investigate in this direction...

Thinking of the cowardly middle-aged man who was crying loudly and Officer Yumignaga with his weird attitude, Maori shook his head secretly.

……

The next day, Kazuha's long-awaited trip to the tropical paradise did not take place, so he had to follow the Morokaku family to the burned-down ruins.

"It's so scary," Xiaolan looked at the fire scene with some fear, "Did someone get burned to death again?"

"Yes," He Ye pulled Xiao Lan, not daring to get close to the scene, "I don't know what that guy was thinking, to come to such a scary place..."

Hattori, who was walking behind, said speechlessly: "If you are afraid, don't come!"

He Ye said as a matter of course: "There's nothing I can do. I want you to solve the incident as soon as possible so that we can go to the tropical paradise together..."

"Why are you still thinking about going to Tropical Paradise at this time?"

"Strange, uncle didn't come?"

"Huh?" Hattori looked around and noticed that Mori was not there.

Metropolitan Police Department.

Mao Li did not go to the fire scene first, but went to the police station in advance, intending to meet Genda again.

Officer Gong Chang seemed to have interrogated the police for another whole night without leaving, but he still didn't gain much.

"Officer Gongchang, still no clues?" Maori found Gongchang who was kneading his brows.

"It's Maori," Yumachi raised his head, "According to your suggestion, we called in the other three suspects for questioning this morning. The psychiatrist that Genda found was Morokaku Akira, the husband of the deceased Morokaku Ryoko. He prescribed some sedatives for Genda to stabilize his mood...

"There is also the Feng Shui master Mr. Soga. He also knows Genda and they often meet at the antique market. I heard that he recommended his college classmate Morokaku to Genda."

"That Feng Shui master and Ming Zhujiao were college classmates?" Mao Li felt it was becoming more and more interesting. The relationship between the suspects seemed to be not simple and much more complicated than "The ABC Murder Case".

"I dropped out of medical school and turned to Feng Shui," Yumiya explained. "Yesterday, Genda visited the Morokaku family because he said, 'The houses in that area are in a lucky location, and going there can improve your fortune...'"

"So I am also suspicious. Where is the fortune teller?"

"It's not clear yet, but that woman is also very suspicious."

Gong Chang took out a small cushion wrapped in an evidence bag, which had traces of burns on it.

"When Mrs. Ryoko's body was found, she was holding this cushion tightly in her hand. When we questioned the three suspects this morning, only the fortune teller Goto changed his face and hurried back... As long as they have an alibi, there's nothing we can do no matter how suspicious they are..."

Mao Li took the evidence and examined it.

According to the fortune teller, this kind of mat seems to be used to place things like crystal balls. No wonder the fortune teller changed his expression.

But the deceased held on to this in the end, was he trying to say that the murderer was a fortune teller?

In any case, the most important thing now is the alibi, which is another trick of time and space. According to Hattori and Conan, the witness was a neighbor's child.

At 7:, Chi Ma's shadow was cast on the curtains... This testimony is probably the only thing worth investigating.

As long as we didn't see someone setting the fire at 7:, it means there are other possibilities in between...

……

After meeting with Officer Yuminaga, Mori got the chance to meet with Genda.

In the interrogation room, Xuantian sat alone with his head down, looking depressed as if he had given up on treatment.

A policeman stood outside in distress and reported to Yumachi who brought Mao Li over: "He still can't explain anything, but insists that it was another self who set the fire."

"Well."

Yumachi nodded and signaled the police to leave, and with a heavy face he looked through the glass at the exhausted Genda in the interrogation room.

"If we can't find any other clues, we'll just have to send him to trial..."

After a pause, Gong Chang sighed and turned to Mao Li: "Maoli, do you know why I believe him?"

Mao Li was also a little curious: "Is it because of Genda's firefighter father?"

Gongchang neither denied nor nodded, but just recalled, "When I was investigating Xuantian, I once called him to the park and talked to him once. After 30 minutes, the guy didn't say anything. He just sat on the bench with a sad face, just like now...

"But when I left, I looked at him from a distance and saw him leave the bench and desperately search for something in the surrounding grass. He gave up when it started to rain. Seeing his relieved look, I understood that he was looking for my cigarette butt, which was the cause of the fire that killed his father..."

Gong Chang silently put out the cigarette in his hand with an earnest look in his eyes.

"I can't imagine a guy like him setting fire to someone else's house, and I don't want to think about it... Can you help Genda this time, Maori?"

Maori looked at the silent Genda in the interrogation room, and his understanding of this cowardly middle-aged man deepened.

The death of his father may have become a knot in Xuantian's heart, so the real murderer found his weakness and exploited it. In this way, the suspects, whether they are psychiatrists, feng shui masters, or fortune tellers, may be able to control Xuantian mentally.

"Let me talk to him first."

Maori nodded and walked into the interrogation room. Genda thought it was another police officer who was interrogating him, but when he looked up, he found it was Maori. He couldn't help but look surprised.

"Detective Maori?"

"I believe you are not the real murderer," Mao Li chuckled and stood in front of Xuan Tian, ​​"Do you need me to help you prove your innocence? No commission fee is required."

……

Rishon Town, Genda family.

When Mori arrived at the door in Officer Yuminaga's police car, Conan and Hattori also came from the other side. After seeing Mori, Hattori hurriedly greeted them with a smile.

"How's it going, uncle? Have we figured out how the criminal lit the fire?"

"I've heard what Officer Yumio said," Maori gave the boastful Hattori a cold look, "So, how did you create an alibi?"

Hattori did not continue to be complacent, his eyes were piercing as he said: "We checked the scene again. There were fragments of white light bulbs at the fire point, with brown scorch marks and black round marks on them. There were also ashes from burning paper towels everywhere in the scorched areas. The criminal should have wrapped paper towels around the 100W light bulb and then inserted a match. Once the surface temperature of the light bulb is high enough, the match will automatically ignite..."

Chapter 159: Camping! Camping!

"The surface temperature of a 100W bulb can reach 218 degrees, which makes it easy to ignite a match. The criminal must have tampered with the bulbs in the warehouse beforehand, and then sprinkled oil on the floor. He then placed the red horse with the base removed next to the window. The ignition time can be adjusted by the amount of paper towels wrapped around the bulb..."

Hattori looked at the Genda family and smiled: "This is the criminal's automatic ignition device. The most obvious evidence is the faint light of the white woven lamp in front of the shadow of the red horse printed on the curtain next door! The next step is to find out how the criminal manipulated Genda and the final evidence..."

"I see," Gong Chang thought, "According to what you said, it seems that it can indeed ignite automatically, but the marks on the light bulb could also have been formed accidentally during the fire. Moreover, if such a device was used, then wouldn't all three people be possible?"

Mao Li took out the key and opened the door of the Genda family: "No matter what, let's check it out first..."

"Uncle, where did you get the key?"

"Mr. Xuantian lent it to me, and I accepted his commission."

Mao Li pushed open the door and walked into the entrance hall first. He was attracted by the shoe prints in the corridor at first sight. He took out the shoes from the shoe cabinet in the entrance hall and tried them on. The shoe prints of Genta were about the same size.

"Xuan Tian lives alone in such a big house..."

"Well, he lived with his mother after his father died. I heard that his mother also passed away last year."

Gong Chang put on slippers at the entrance and looked at the shoe prints with a frown.

"Are these shoe prints all from Xuantian?"

"Just as I thought..."

Maori watched Conan take out the muddy socks and the burnt shirt from the trash can nearby, "Maybe these are also the hands and feet of the real murderer..."

Now the most crucial alibi has been explained, which is the automatic delayed ignition.

In addition, he has roughly figured out the motives of several suspects. Feng Shui master Soga was threatened by the deceased Ryoko's wife with a love video, and female fortune teller Gondo was going to get a large inheritance from her recently deceased father after Ryoko's death. The will left the inheritance to the person who inherited the Morokaku surname, so originally only Ryoko, who had a son-in-law, could get the inheritance...

As for the son-in-law who married into the wife's family, the psychiatrist Zhu Jiaoming, although he would not get the inheritance due to his wife's death, he was not without motives.

I heard that Zhu Jiaoming has always wanted to demolish the house to build his own hospital, but Liangzi, who owns the house, disagrees. In addition, Zhu Jiaoming is likely to know about Liangzi's affair...

There is no doubt that the real murderer is one of these three people.

Maori tapped his brow with his finger, and the details of the whole thing flashed through his mind quickly.

There are a few strange doubts.

At the beginning, Mrs. Ryoko commissioned Kusukawa to investigate suspicious persons. When Conan and others went to the Morokaku family on behalf of Kusukawa, Mrs. Ryoko suddenly changed her tone.

Another thing is the small cushion that Mrs. Ryoko was holding tightly in her hand before she died. It seemed to be a fortune teller's thing...but these things cannot prove that the murderer is a fortune teller.

Wait a moment……

Mrs. Liangzi should not have seen the murderer set up the automatic ignition device. Could it be that she knew who the arsonist was in advance and that was why she suddenly changed her mind?

"Hey, uncle," Hattori shouted after looking through the shoe cabinet for a while, "Come here quickly!"

"Ah?" Conan followed Mori to Hattori in confusion.

"Any questions?"

"Look, this is the phone bill receipt on the shoe cabinet. Isn't it strange that he spent 30,000 yuan in one month? It doesn't seem like Xuantian would call often."

"Well," Conan nodded, "Ran often talks on the phone with Sonoko, but the phone bill is not that high..."

"Now that I think about it," Hattori stroked his chin and recalled, "It's the same with that fool Kazuha, who often makes long phone calls. Why do women like to make phone calls so much?"

"Yeah...why...?"

Maori suddenly felt the atmosphere became a little colder and subconsciously moved away from Hattori and Conan. He immediately saw Kazuha and Xiaolan standing at the door with stern faces and fierce eyes.

"Oh, yeah!" He Ye stared at Hattori dangerously, "It's all my fault, this fool..."

"Conan," Xiaolan also put her hands on her hips, "Explain it to me clearly!"

"what?"

Hattori swallowed and said, "Please, are you standing outside the entrance and eavesdropping?"

"We would never do such a despicable thing!"

"Yeah, there was your voice suddenly on the car radio!"

"radio?"

Hattori was stunned for a moment, not caring about the two women who were still angry. He hurriedly looked around and turned his attention to the vase placed in the shoe cabinet.

"Yes, there is a bug in the vase!"

"This vase seems to be the same type as the decoration in the entrance hall of the Morokaku family..."

"Eavesdropping device?" The two girls stared at each other blankly. "Just now we heard something like a trash can..."

"Are there any other places?"

Maori and Officer Yuminaga stood together, silently watching Hattori and Conan rush into the inner room to empty the trash can as if no one was around.

These two guys are still the same, once they get into the mood, they are like attacking dogs...