Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

How can these guys be normal kids?

"Uncle," Conan thought as he found Maori alone, "Do you know what's going on?"

"I don't know yet, but," Maori gathered his thoughts and looked intently at the college students who followed Megure upstairs, "the criminal should be among them."

I have experienced countless cases, big and small, and I am often involved in incidents and sometimes feel helpless.

Maori stood beside the corpse for a while with his hands in his hands, paused, and walked to the corner of the winding mountain road.

I remember seeing the fireworks at this bend, and then a camper truck suddenly braked and moved sideways on the road ahead...

Maori walked over to where he had found the fence pieces and looked down.

If the body was in the car at the time, maybe it could be thrown down...

"Hey, the bicycle seems to be there!" Detective Takagi nearby led the police officers to search in the grass outside the safety fence and found a bicycle hanging in the middle.

"So it's really just an accident?"

"That's right," several college students confirmed as the bicycle was brought to the observation deck, "This is the portable bicycle on the camper..."

Gao Mu compared the tire tracks and said, "The tracks match perfectly."

Officer Megure stroked his chin and said, "Well, that means that Shirafuji Taimi may have accidentally crashed through the fence while riding her bicycle because it was too dark around her, and then got hung outside the guardrail with her bicycle, and fell into the middle of the road after you passed by..."

"I think it's impossible," Maori and Conan came over and said, "This bicycle has headlights, so it's hard to break through the fence because it can't see clearly. And most importantly, the brakes are still in good condition. There are no signs of braking or other attempts to stop the car here on the fence, and there is no bloodstain underneath..."

"what do you mean……"

"This is not the first crime scene."

Maori glanced at the three college students.

"The criminal is probably one of you who can take out a portable bicycle from the camper at any time..."

Several people's faces turned pale. "How, how could it be? Detective Maori, did you make a mistake? Why would we kill Taimei?"

"We'll talk about this later," Officer Megure said solemnly, "Now could you please cooperate with me in investigating my alibi?"

……

The night wind was blowing and the coolness was noticeable. The fireworks display on the other side had ended and the surroundings became quiet again except for the sound of police cars.

Everyone gathered in the camper van to ask questions, while Maori checked around the vehicle and finally climbed onto the roof from the ladder at the rear of the vehicle.

He checked the place where the bicycle was found, and there were no special traces anywhere. As expected, it was more likely that the body was thrown out through the body of the car. And since this was not the place where the murder took place, the camper van was very suitable for transporting the body.

In this case, Reiji being the driver is suspicious...

"Hmm?" Maori walked to the skylight and noticed a strange mark on the edge, a thin straight line about a few centimeters away from the edge.

I touched it and found it was solidified blood.

Inside the car, several college students who were being questioned looked uneasy and somewhat at a loss.

"5 to 6 o'clock? We were all doing our own things at that time, and then those kids came to call us to eat..."

"Well, I'm fishing alone."

"It's impossible to camp while looking at the watch, right?" Reiji complained.

"Anyway, we were free to move around in the end, and it was almost 7 o'clock when we realized Taimei was missing..."

"Does that mean any of you could have killed Shirafuji Taimi and brought the body here?" Officer Megure frowned and asked, "Another question, is there anyone who can't drive this camper?"

"If it's just about driving, we all know how to drive except Taimei, but the best driver is Reiji from the speedster clan, so after we got to the mountain, it was almost always Reiji who drove, and it was him just now..."

"Hey, hey, I'm the best driver, what's the problem?" Lingzhi's face tightened, "Officer, why are you asking this?"

"Because it would be difficult to transport the body without this car."

Inspector Megure turned to the nervous Reiji.

"If they put Taimei's body in the middle of the road first, pretended not to see it and drove past, then pretended to find it when they came back, isn't that possible? There are no people coming here. If the driver is the criminal, and if there was someone sitting in the passenger seat when they started going up the mountain..."

"Yes, indeed," Reiji argued, "I was the only one in front at that time, but it would have been impossible to pass the body without changing lanes. Even if I did acrobatics, I wouldn't have been able to do it, right?!"

Mao Li heard the sound inside the car and looked around thoughtfully.

There is only one possibility for the trace at the skylight.

The skylight must have been opened a crack before, and when the blood flowed to the edge of the skylight, the murderer failed to wipe off the bloodstains in the dead corner in time, so when the skylight was completely closed, the originally shrunk section stretched out, and the bloodstains naturally appeared outside.

Come to think of it, when I examined the body just now, I saw that there were many long tassel decorations on the deceased's belt, and one of the tassels was tied in a knot.

Is it to clamp the knot in the gap of the skylight?

This way, the body can indeed be temporarily fixed...

Maori walked quietly down the ramp guardrail and stopped near the ramp where the accident happened. He turned on the flashlight of his watch to illuminate a bloodstained plastic sheet. The sheet fell beside the guardrail grass, about 50 meters away from the location of the body.

It turned out to be like this...

Maori looked back at the many policemen who were still checking around the corpse. Feeling the cold wind blowing in his face, his brows gradually relaxed.

He probably knew what was going on.

"Do you have any clues?" Xiao Ai followed at some point, leaning against the guardrail and brushing away her messy hair. "You look like you've found something."

"I have a rough idea of ​​who the murderer is, but I'm just missing some evidence..." Mao Li squatted down beside the tarpaulin, "and a motive..."

……

Inside the camper, several college students who were being interrogated gradually became impatient.

"We've said this several times, officer!"

"Around 7pm, we drove our camper up the mountain to look for Taimei. When we passed here, there was nothing on the road..."

"Yeah, when I came back I saw Taimi lying here with blood all over her head, and the gap in the wooden fence was right above her," Fatty Fanhe looked at Takagi and said, "Didn't you guys investigate that too? The gap in the fence, the place where the wood fell, and the position of Taimi and the bicycle were almost in a straight line from above... So Taimi could only have accidentally crashed through the fence while riding her bike and fell down."

"Detective Maori must have made a mistake. Maybe Taimei just wanted to commit suicide..."

"If it was suicide, it would be even more strange. Would your friend come here quietly and ride a bicycle through the fence to commit suicide?" Maori interrupted the conversation and walked into the car with Ai.

"Detective Mori?" Tiantang Qinghua and the others looked surprised.

"I have been looking for clues nearby since a while ago, and finally found a place that might be the first murder scene..."

Maori looked up at the skylight.

"The reason why we didn't see the body when we arrived was because the body was actually placed in the car at the beginning. The criminal pretended to go look for Taimei and got in the car with us, and then threw the body out of the car here..."

"Hey, detective Maori," Lingzhi couldn't help but said anxiously, "If Taimei was in the car when we got here, everyone would have noticed it, right? And weren't you in the car at the time?"

"What if it's on the roof?"

"The roof?"

Lingzhi was stunned for a moment, then laughed dryly: "Even so, no one would go to the roof of the car to dump the body, and I was driving the whole time..."

Fatty Fan stared at Lingzhi with sweat dripping down his face: "At that time, it seemed that you stepped on the brakes suddenly to avoid the wooden block in the middle of the road after passing the upper bend, and the car even swung sideways..."

"So, so what?"

"Isn't it possible? Taimei was thrown out of the guardrail and fell here because of the sudden braking. The fence wood blocks placed on the road might be the mark left beforehand..."

"Wait, wait a minute!" Lingzhi said with sweat on his forehead, facing everyone's suspicious eyes, "Please, there are many sharp turns before getting here. If there is no use to fix the body, it should have slid down a long time ago, right? Taimei doesn't have anything to fix her body..."

Inspector Megure said sullenly, "We have already checked this. The deceased's belt was wrapped with a lot of tassels..."

"That kind of thing can't be used to fix it, right?"

"The criminal used tassels to secure the body," Maori looked at Reiji, who looked grim, and explained, "but the body was definitely not thrown down from above."

"what?"

Megure said in confusion: "Brother Maori, they were all in the car at the time. If the bodies were not thrown out by sudden braking, what else could have been done?"

"Of course, the answer is in the skylight."

Maori walked under the skylight.

"Although I don't know the specific circumstances, the criminal should have killed Taimei on the skylight. The evidence is that there are red and black stripes on the skylight glass. This is because the blood splashed and remained in the gaps..."

"Indeed," Officer Megure approached the skylight, "but there is still a little distance between the bloodstain and the gap at the edge... Could it be that the skylight was open a little at the time of the crime?"

"This was the criminal's plan to use the skylight to clamp the tassel knot on the belt to secure the body in place in order to commit the crime more smoothly. If the skylight is not opened a crack first, after killing the person, he would have to go back to the cab to open the skylight and clamp the knot... because only the cab has a skylight switch."

Maori paused, looked at Reiji and continued, "When you passed by here, you opened the skylight because you could see the fireworks, right?"

"Yes," Reiji swallowed, "I did open the skylight, but it was Haruka who suggested it..."

Tiantang Qinghua hurriedly explained: "I just want to do it like last year, because we can see the fireworks here..."

"In that case, Reiji, who was driving, is the most suspicious," Megure looked at Reiji fiercely, "Even if no one mentioned it, you could have quietly opened the sunroof a little, removed the knot stuck there, and then thrown the body down when you braked suddenly..."

"Hey, hey," Reiji said defensively, "If we untie the knot here, the body will be thrown off the car when we pass the curve ahead, right?"

"Since we're watching the fireworks with the skylight open, the speed should be slowed down. In this way..."

"Officer," a police officer shouted outside holding a plastic sheet, "The blood on the sheet has been tested and it is indeed from the deceased."

Chapter 162: Helping a Child Star Find His Mother

"Tarpaulin?" Inspector Megure was a little slow to react.

"I found it nearby," Maori nodded to the police officer and took the tarpaulin. "Walk down the slope about 50 meters and you'll find it hanging next to the guardrail. It should have been used by the prisoner to wrap the body..."

"This is……"

Reiji and the others stood up in surprise.

"Isn't this the tarpaulin we often used when we went camping?"

"Yes, yes. Because there was a hole in it, I haven't used it recently..."

Several people looked at each other.

Now it seems more likely that the criminal is among them...

"In fact, you can tell by just going to the roof of the car," Mao Li said with a smile. "The wind is strong when going uphill. If there is a tarpaulin wrapped around the body, the body will slide out the moment the skylight is opened. It is not surprising that the tarpaulin was blown 50 meters away..."

Several college students looked at Mao Li nervously: "Then... who is the murderer?"

"So it can only be Reiji, right?"

"In fact, the location where the fireworks can be seen is fixed. No matter who the murderer is, the timing of opening the skylight is not much different..."

Mao Li walked past Tian Tang Qing Hua with his hands clasped.

"There are two main reasons why I was sure of the murderer... The first is that he took the initiative to invite us to come here in this car, because if our car followed behind, we would have discovered the body..."

Tiantang Qinghua's face turned pale instantly, and his eyes kept trembling.

"Sister," Mitsuhiko reacted and looked at Tiantang Qinghua, "It was Qinghua who let us take this car, but..."

"As for the second one..." Mao Li stood behind Tiantang Qinghua, "It's Miss Qinghua's belt..."

"Ah, my belt doesn't go through the holes on the back of my jeans..."

"This is..." Tiantang Qinghua forced a smile, "Because I was in a hurry when I left home, so..."

"But I saw it clearly at the campsite before," Mao Li took Ayumi's digital camera, pulled out a photo of Tenjo Haruka from behind, and confirmed, "Miss Haruka's belt was still worn through the belt hole at that time..."

Ai glanced at Maori out of the corner of her eye.

"I," Tiantang Qinghua looked at the photos in the camera and opened her mouth, "Oh, I was taking a shower in the car in the evening, it must have been at that time..."

"There's no need to take off the belt when taking a shower, right?" Xiao Ai interrupted.

"I, I changed into a pair of jeans..."

"Changed your pants?" Officer Megure took the camera and looked at them suspiciously. "Aren't the two pants too similar? There's almost no difference between the one in the photo and the one you're wearing... Then can you let us see the other pair of pants? The one you changed..."

"This one……"

"Ms. Qinghua, do you want to continue?" Mao Li looked at the hesitant Tiantang Qinghua, "The other pair of jeans was probably stained with blood when you killed Taimei, and it was thrown away with the clothes you were wearing at that time, right?"