Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Yuanzi said as he took out a stack of photos: "Look, they have all been developed."

"Let me see."

Maori took the photo and started looking at it with Conan at the dining table.

They were just some ordinary photos, nothing special, and most of them were photos of couples that Sonoko took secretly.

Could it be that the murderer mistakenly thought that Sonoko had taken a picture of something when she passed by the crime scene last night, but she had just returned from the fireworks display and did not turn on her camera, or did Sonoko accidentally take a picture of the murderer and the victim together before?

But there seems to be no dead people in the photos...

"Are these all your friends?"

Daoxie was looking at the photos next to him and said curiously, "There are so many photos of couples..."

"No," Xiaolan said with a smile, "She was in a bad mood before she met you, Mr. Daoxie, so she was venting her anger by secretly taking pictures of couples everywhere."

"Xiaolan!"

Sonoko blushed and turned to Maori, at a loss, and asked, "By the way, uncle, aren't you helping Officer Yokomizo with the case? Have you found any results yet?"

"Not yet," Mao Li shook his head, "We are still looking for witnesses. If anyone has seen the victim with someone, maybe there will be some results."

"Investigation?" Daoxie looked at Mao Li in surprise after reading the photo, "What investigation?"

"Mr. Daoxie, you don't know yet?" Xiaolan introduced with a smile, "My father is a famous detective in Tokyo. If the police encounter a difficult case, they usually ask him for help."

"Ah?" Daoxie laughed dryly, "Really? No wonder I felt that he looked familiar..."

Mao Li glanced at Daoxie.

Although it was only for a moment, Daoxie's hand still trembled and his face looked a little ugly.

Would a normal person react so strongly upon hearing his identity?

“Are these the only photos?”

Mao Li did not show any doubt in front of the Taoist Association and continued to ask, "There are only 34 of them..."

Yuanzi hesitated and blushed, "There are two more pictures that you can't look at, uncle!"

"What can't I see?"

Maori was confused when he saw Xiaolan's face also turned red.

"In short, you can't watch it!"

"By the way," Daoxie suddenly asked, "Are you going back tomorrow at noon? How about we go up to the luxurious restaurant on the beach for dinner?"

"Okay," Sonoko said excitedly, and asked Maori, "Uncle, do you want to go with us? Or..."

"Oh, no,"

Mao Li glanced at Daoxie and declined, "I may have to help Officer Yokomizo tomorrow, so you guys go ahead and don't worry about me."

The next day, Daoxie drove to Wawu Hotel early to take Yuanzi and others away. Maori watched the car go away before following it out of the hotel.

Although he only suspected the Taoist Association, he had no choice but to be cautious when it came to the safety of his daughter Xiaolan and his younger generation Sonoko.

He intuitively felt that there was something wrong with the Taoist Association, but he had no evidence, so he could only wait and see, waiting for the other party to expose themselves.

It's a pity that Kuroba Kaito, who disguised himself as a woman to help Maori ambush people last time, is not here, otherwise Maori could have asked him to disguise himself as a brown-haired beauty and then go to hook up with the Daoxue to see if there is anything wrong with this guy...

……

The luxurious restaurant mentioned by Daoxie is located on the edge of a cliff, just near the track woods. The woman who was killed a year ago was killed on the way to the restaurant.

It is unknown whether this is related to the Daoxie group. Anyway, Mao Li, who tried his best to disguise himself, came to the restaurant and sat down as naturally as possible. Soon, he saw the Daoxie group and Xiaolan ordering food at the window of the hall. The strange thing was that Yuanzi was not there.

Have you gone to the toilet?

"Wow, it's so rich," Xiaolan asked in surprise as there were many delicious dishes in front of her. "Is this for one person?"

"Yes," Daoxie said, looking like a regular customer. "It's both delicious and cheap. This is the secret of this restaurant's popularity."

"Hello," the waiter walked up to Mao Li, "Would you like something to eat?"

"what,"

Mao Li retracted his gaze and pointed at Xiaolan's table and said, "Just give me one of their dishes, thank you."

"OK, just a second."

The waiter left and Mao Li sat at the next table.

"what?"

Conan noticed Maori, and a trace of confusion flashed across his eyes, and then this trace of confusion turned into three parts of surprise and seven parts of understanding.

(I knew it, uncle...)

……

Maori waited until the end of the meal, but still didn't see Sonoko appear.

Even if she went to the toilet, it wouldn't take that long, but Xiaolan didn't seem to be worried...

"What's going on?" Maori stared at Daoxie who was chatting and laughing with Xiaolan.

"How is it?" Daoxie drank a sip of tea after dinner and asked Xiaolan, "Is the food here good?"

"Yes, it's delicious," Xiaolan said with a smile, "Thank you for treating me. I feel a little sorry for Sonoko."

"Click."

The inner private room was opened, and the dull hotel owner walked into the lobby. His eyes paused on Maori, and he glanced at Xiaolan and the others intentionally or unintentionally.

Xiaolan noticed the tall boy and asked curiously, "Huh? Are you helping here too?"

"No, this is my first time here..." The innkeeper sat down at the bar, still glancing around, "By the way, where is that brown-haired girl? Why can't I see her?"

Xiaolan smiled and said, "You are talking about Yuanzi. She didn't sleep well last night and is now catching up on her sleep in the car outside."

"Catch up on some sleep?"

Maori pricked up his ears and looked outside the restaurant. He could see a sloping winding mountain road on the other side of the cliff.

"Ah, that's..."

"Is that Daoxie brother's car?" Conan exclaimed and stood up, watching the car actually sliding.

"Why is the car moving?"

"Oh no! There's a cliff ahead!"

On the inclined cliff road, a car slowly slid down the road. There was nothing in front of it except for the guardrail surrounding the cliff at the end of the corner.

Maori picked up the napkin on the table and ran out of the hall following Conan and the others.

"Thank you for your patronage, welcome to come again next time..."

At the restaurant entrance, the waiter habitually bowed to Xiaolan and Conan who ran out first, and after reacting, he hurriedly stopped Maori behind him: "Wait a minute, you still have to pay!"

Mao Li was in a hurry and pushed the waiter away: "Please put it on the bill of the last two people!"

"what?"

Daoxie and the hotel owner who came running over were stopped in the restaurant in a daze. They shouted in confusion, "Hey, sir, who are you?"

"How could there be such a person?"

"Sonoko! Wake up, Sonoko!"

The car outside the restaurant was sliding down faster and faster. Conan and Xiaolan, who had gone ahead, hurriedly caught up with the car and kept knocking on the windows.

"Step aside!"

Maori rushed to the car window and saw that Sonoko was still sleeping inside, and no matter how Xiaolan shouted, she couldn't wake up. So he wrapped his hands with a napkin and tried to smash the window with punches.

But it was obvious that although Mao Li's strength was far beyond that of an ordinary adult male, it was not so easy to break the car window with his fist. As he watched the car go further and further away -

"Dad! Conan! Get out of the way!"

Xiaolan's loud shout suddenly came from the other side.

"what?"

Maori was stunned for a moment, and then he saw Xiaolan grabbing the handrail on the roof and jumping high up, standing upside down, with her hair flying. She took advantage of the momentum to bend her knees, spun with all her strength and fell down, heavily breaking the car window glass.

"Aha--!"

"boom!"

Xiaolan's already powerful kick, coupled with the potential energy of gravity, caused the car window glass to shatter instantly, waking up Sonoko who was still a little confused about the situation in the car.

"Xiaolan?"

Yuanzi sat up in a daze.

"Catch me!" Xiaolan opened the car door anxiously and jumped out of the car holding Yuanzi before the car crashed off the cliff.

"Boom!" The car, which was completely out of control, crashed through the guardrail and fell high onto the rocks below, exploding with a loud bang.

Maori stood on the edge of the cliff, looked at the thick smoke rising from the explosion below the cliff, and looked back with a serious expression at Xiaolan and Ran, who were safe and sound.

I can only say that she is worthy of being my daughter. She is more violent than me in breaking the window...

……

At the scene of the car crash off the cliff, Officer Yokomizo received a report and led a team to investigate.

"Officer," the policeman reported, holding a hooked iron rod, "we just dived to the bottom of the sea and found the car. The parking brake was indeed down, and we also found this on the road..."

"This is a tool for picking locks," Yokomizo took a look at the iron bar, "Are there any other suspicious spots?"

"No, I just found a pool of water leaking from the air conditioner on the ground where the car was parked."

"It seems that when Miss Sonoko was sleeping in the car, someone unlocked the car and released the handbrake, causing the car to fall off the slope and onto the cliff..."

Yokogo stroked his chin in a deep voice and asked Sonoko, "Ms. Sonoko, did you see anyone suspicious near the car?"

"Ah? No, I was sleeping soundly..."

Yuanzi was still a little confused.

"wrong……"

Mao Li looked at everyone and squatted at the place where the car was originally parked to check the situation.

If someone wanted to kill Sonoko, why did they go to all that trouble? They could have killed her quietly, but they chose to make such a big noise.

To create an alibi?

Thinking about it this way, it is strange that the murderer would leave the lock-picking tools at the scene, as if he wanted others to see them on purpose. Wouldn't it be better to take them away or throw them directly into the sea?

There are so many unreasonable things that I can't believe Officer Yokomizo's judgment.

He still felt that Daoxie was suspicious, even though he had been staying in the restaurant at that time.

But how did the Taoist Association do it?

Accomplice?

If Maori hadn't known the inn owner who always appeared around the garden, and knew that he was Kyogoku Makoto, whom Xiaolan admired very much, he would probably have thought that he was an accomplice of the Dokkyo. But in fact, the other party had also been staying in the restaurant's private room at the time of the crime, and arrived at the restaurant even earlier than Xiaolan and her group. It was easy to be seen when entering and leaving the restaurant, and he had no time to commit the crime...

"Anyway,"

After questioning the inn owner, Henggou looked at everyone and said, "We'll tell you the details when we get to the office. Let's get in the car first..."

"what?"

Yuanzi looked at the police car and said anxiously, "Do we need to take a car? But I really don't want to take a car right now... I'm a little scared..."

Daoxie suggested, "In that case, Yuanzi, why don't you walk to the police station with me? It's not far anyway, and seeing the scenery can change your mood."

"Isn't this bad?" Yokomizo said worriedly, "What if we get targeted again? Miss Sonoko's hair is brown, and the criminal this time is very likely the same person as the murderer in the previous case."

"Officer," Daoxie said with a smile, "you don't have to worry too much. I don't think he can do it in broad daylight, no matter how bold he is."

Yuanzi beside her held Xiaolan tightly and said, "If anything happens, Xiaolan is still here."

"But……"

"I'll go with them, Officer Yokomizo."