Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"Inspector Megure, we don't have to worry about Murakami taking any more action, because he is not the murderer at all! The real murderer is someone else!"

Maori suddenly spoke, interrupting Inspector Megure.

"What did you say?! Brother Mori, how could Murakami-jo…"

"The reason is simple. Murakami is left-handed, but the person who killed Miss Nana used his right hand!"

As Maori said this, he turned his stern eyes to the side, "I'm right, right? The murderer who killed Mr. Asahi and Miss Nana, and wanted to kill Mr. Hiroki and Mr. Nishina... Mr. Sawaki Kouhei! It's you!"

"what?!"

Everyone looked at Zemu Gongping in surprise.

"Mr. Maori, what are you talking about?" Zemu Gongping said anxiously, "I was almost shot by a crossbow in the wine cellar just now..."

"That was just a mechanism you installed in advance! I'm afraid you installed it after you killed Mr. Xu last night?"

Mao Li shouted, "Everything was arranged by you, including calling us all here and giving Miss Nana the fluorescent nail polish! You arranged this incident under the name of Murakami Jō and disguised yourself as Mr. Asahi's secretary!"

"But what about the motive? What was Mr. Sawaki's motive for murder?"

Xiaolan asked in confusion.

"It's just my guess, but I'm afraid it's a taste disorder,"

Maori said in a deep voice, "Three months ago, you encountered Miss Nana who was speeding, and then had a car accident. The head injury plus long-term stress caused you to lose the sense of taste that a wine taster relies on to survive... This is your motivation for carrying out this murder plan, right?"

"Wait a minute, Maori brother," Officer Megure interrupted hurriedly, "You also saw that he tasted Miss Nana's wine in the underwater restaurant just now. If he has a taste disorder..."

"For excellent wine tasters like Mr. Sawaki, even if they lose their sense of taste, they can still roughly identify wines by some characteristics, such as the aroma and color of the wine,"

Maori said calmly, "But these methods cannot replace the sense of taste after all. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that Mr. Zemu, who has taste disorder, has completely ended his career as a wine taster..."

Conan took over Maori's words and continued: "Detective Takagi has also checked the surveillance. Mr. Sawaki had contact with Murakami Takeru a week ago, just downstairs from Maori's detective agency..."

"So, you got the inspiration for the murder plan from Murakami Jō, and then killed him, right?"

Maori looked at Sawaki Kouhei, and although his words were questioning, his tone was filled with certainty.

"What? Murakami-jo has been killed by Mr. Sawaki?"

Officer Megure looked at Zemu Gongping solemnly, "Mr. Zemu, could you please come back to the police station with us? We have something that requires your cooperation in the investigation!"

"hateful!"

Sawaki Kouhei noticed from the corner of his eye that a police patrol boat was approaching from the other side. He simply gritted his teeth and took a step back, raising his hand and taking out a detonator, "Don't come over, or I will bury all of you with me!"

"Mr. Zemu!"

Megure's expression changed, "Calm down! Aren't the crimes you've committed enough?!"

"This is not the result I want!"

Zemu Gongping shouted coldly, and suddenly took out a folding knife to hold the still lying Yuanzi hostage: "This is far from over!"

"Garden!"

"Let go of the garden!"

Officer Megure said anxiously: "It's no use running away now! Let Sonoko go!"

"Stop talking nonsense! I'm going to take her to kill Hongshu now! Everyone, get back!"

Sawaki and Sonoko retreated to the stairs, and suddenly the sound of helicopter propellers came faintly from above.

"That is?"

"Boom!" Before everyone could see clearly, Zemu sneered and pressed the detonator again. The entire water building suddenly shook in the continuous explosions. The supporting steel columns under the sea broke and the entire platform shattered.

It was as if the world had turned upside down, and everyone hurriedly fled from the collapsed platform. Maori held the short-legged Ai in one hand and Ran in the other. When they reached the slightly more stable steps, they found that Sawaki had already taken Sonoko into the building.

"Uncle! He wants to escape in a helicopter!"

"Ran! I'll leave Ai to you! I'm going to save Sonoko!"

Maori strode after Zemu, and Conan followed closely behind him.

"Dad, we must not let him take the garden away!"

"Maori brother!"

It was too late for Officer Megure to stop the two. Seeing Takagi coming on the patrol boat, he quickly turned to Xiaolan and the others and said, "Xiaolan, leave this place to us. You guys hurry up and take shelter!"

Then he ordered Gao Mu: "Gao Mu, take them away immediately!"

"Yes, Inspector!"

"I see."

Although Xiaolan was very worried about Sonoko, out of absolute trust in Mori and Conan, as well as the responsibility entrusted by Mori, she nodded and took Ai and the others on board.

……

The explosion seemed to have destroyed the balance of the building, and the collapse became more and more serious. The underwater restaurant was the first to collapse, and the collapsed debris sank into the sea like dumplings.

The skyscraper on the sea has a total of 3 pillars and 3 elevators. However, only the middle one leads directly to the helipad on the top floor, while the other two only lead to the sky corridor, and the only way to go up is by stairs.

Maori and his group had no time to notice these things, and were forced to use the elevator on the side because Sawaki got there first.

After a short but long ascent, the elevator stopped on the first floor of the sky corridor amidst continuous vibrations.

"Damn it! Why doesn't this elevator go to the roof?"

Maori hurried out of the elevator. Several thick cables that fixed the building suddenly loosened due to the strong pulling force. One end of the sea surface was thrown high up like a cannonball, smashing the viewing window of the sky corridor with terrifying force and hitting him in front of him like a whip.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Mao Li was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly led the way out of the corridor.

"Hurry up! Get up there!"

"It seems that the explosion just now has destroyed the balance of the building!" Officer Shiratori said anxiously, "I'm afraid this place will collapse soon!"

"It should be too late!"

Maori gritted his teeth and ran onto the helipad. He saw Sawaki Kouhei who was holding Sonoko hostage at a glance. The helicopter was still hovering in the air and had not landed.

"Garden!"

"Uncle!"

Sonoko looked at Maori and others with tears in her eyes, but because the tip of the knife was against her throat, she did not dare to struggle at all.

"Ms. Sonoko!"

"do not come!"

Sawaki pressed the blade a little further into Sonoko's skin, "She'll be dead if you come over here!"

"Stop it, Mr. Sawaki!"

Shiratori gritted his teeth and pulled out his pistol, "Or I'll shoot!"

"Shoot? Hahahaha..."

Sawaki Kouhei showed no fear at all. Instead, he shrank his body as far as possible behind Sonoko with a ferocious look on his face. "Just shoot if you have the guts! Let's see whether you can kill me or this girl!"

"..."

Shiratori tried to steady his breathing and aim well, but his hands were shaking uncontrollably.

Maori saw this and immediately realized that he must not let him shoot, so he winked at Conan and whispered to him: "Give me the gun, Shiratori!"

"..."

Shiratori was a little hesitant - although he had vaguely heard about Mori's excellent marksmanship in the Metropolitan Police Department, he did not dare to hand the gun to Mori easily when the lives of hostages were involved.

Officer Megure noticed Shiratori's hesitation and immediately threw his gun to Maori:

"…It's all up to you, Maori brother!"

- If Mori gives people the feeling of an ordinary middle-aged uncle when he is usually smiling, and gives people the feeling of a real detective when he is serious while solving cases, then at this moment, when he took Inspector Megure's pistol and pointed the gun at Sawaki Kouhei who was holding Sonoko hostage, everyone felt an inexplicable pressure from him that they had never experienced before.

Especially the murderer Zemu Gongping who was looking at him, for the first time he noticed this friend whom he had known for many years, his eyes were so sharp that they made people tremble...

The only person who was left was Inspector Megure - he was perhaps the most relaxed person present. Although it was a little inappropriate, his thoughts somehow drifted back to when he was a police academy student many years ago.

At that time, a sharpshooter emerged among his classmates. In just the initial live-fire test, he set a record of hitting the bull's eye with 20 shots - a record that has remained unbroken in the entire Japanese police system to this day.

It’s a pity that his classmate later quit his job as a criminal policeman and opened a private detective agency in Beika Town. He was known as the famous detective Maori Kogoro!

"boom!"

Chapter 88: The Cross-dressing Pervert Kuroba Kaito and the Stalking Pervert Beika Wolf

In the evening sunset, two helicopters flew away from the Crystal Ocean Entertainment Center which had completely sunk into the sea, and finally landed at the helicopter airport. Sonoko and Officer Megure lay on the ambulance stretchers one after another.

Inspector Megure's clothes on his abdomen were covered in blood because he was injured while operating. He will probably need stitches again and then have a good rest. Sonoko's leg was grazed by a bullet and she was also frightened.

That's right, for a lovely junior and his daughter's best friend like Sonoko, Maori naturally couldn't bear to let her see the cruel scene of a head being blown off and blood and flesh flying so close to her. This might cause her irreversible mental trauma. Besides, even if this point is put aside, Maori would not easily gamble with Sonoko's life with his marksmanship.

Therefore, he still did the same thing as before and grazed Sonoko's thigh with a gun, while Conan accurately hit Sawaki Kohei with a tranquilizer gun.

It is worth mentioning that the anesthetic needle used by Conan this time is a powerful version that Maori specially suggested Dr. Agasa to prepare for Conan. It can be switched freely with ordinary anesthetic needles with one click. The dosage is enough to paralyze an adult Asian elephant. It is specifically used to deal with those vicious criminals-such as Sawaki Kouhei this time.

"But then again,"

Conan looked at Maori with a strange expression, "I didn't expect that your shooting skills are so good..."

Just now, he had learned from Inspector Megure about the deeds of Mori, the once legendary sharpshooter, and also knew the story of how Kisaki Eri was kidnapped by Murakami Takeshi and Mori was forced to shoot.

(He hit all 20 shots in his first live-fire shooting, a record that has not been broken to this day. So cool, uncle…)

"For something like marksmanship, isn't it enough to just have hands?"

Seeing that everything was over, Maori's tense mood relaxed a lot, and he couldn't help but go to the track.

"Hello..."

Conan twitched his lips speechlessly, but soon they rose slightly again - the sharpshooter Maori was indeed very handsome and awe-inspiring, but the pressure he put on people was a bit too much, and he still felt more approachable as an ordinary middle-aged uncle.

On the other side, although Yuanzi, who was being carried into the ambulance, was terrified, she now looked energetic:

"If I am taken away like this, I will definitely be killed. If the hostage's foot is injured, he will become a burden to the criminals who want to escape. Only in this way can we have a chance to save him..."

"You're so handsome, uncle! You've completely surpassed Kaito Kidd-sama and become the No.1 handsome guy in my mind!!"

……

Maori was not sure whether he had become the No. 1 handsome guy in Sonoko's mind, but he was very sure that he was the first choice for most troubled people in Tokyo to seek detective help.

For example, the young woman in front of Mao Li, who had slightly messy long brown hair and a pale face but still looked bright, contacted him on the night he returned to the office and came to his door the next day.

"Hello," the woman stood at the door hesitantly, "Are you Detective Maori? I was..."

"Ms. Nishitani, right? Please come in."

Mao Li poured her a cup of tea and sat on the sofa. "I have a general understanding of your situation during our conversation, but there should be some specific details that you didn't mention before. Can you tell me in detail?"

Perhaps it was Maori's detective temperament that made the woman feel a certain sense of security. She finally relaxed a little from her worried look. She clutched her fingers and said to Maori with red eyes: "Detective Maori, my name is Nishitani Miho. I don't know what to do. Even the police can't do anything about that Beika Wolf..."

……

At the Mori Detective Agency, after Mori sent Nishitani Miho away, he sat at his desk, pondering.

Miss Nishitani had been followed by the "Wolf of Beika" for quite some time - she originally lived in Yokohama, but moved to Beika because of the following, and it turned out that the other party also followed her to Beika.

Miss Nishitani was afraid of not being able to sleep at night, so she found a night job in a family restaurant. Despite this, her mental state was still very bad, and it could be said that she was having a very painful time.

A few weeks ago, Miss Nishitani also reported the case to the police, but it was of no use. Instead, it seemed to have angered the other party. A week ago, the other party not only started to follow her again, but also pushed Miss Nishitani down the stairs at the station exit as a warning...

This kind of thing is indeed very troublesome, and the police can't help much.

Maori picked up a document faxed by Inspector Megure.