Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 860 Uncle Takes an Apprentice

"I've figured it out, Kido," he went up the stairs with a dripping umbrella, "Not long before the letter was interrupted, Mr. Xindao was confirmed to have a very serious disease during his medical examination in prison, and there may only be half a year left Could life be interrupted for half a year because of this?"

"It is indeed very possible," Qianye turned to Gao Chengdao after hearing this, "So, after half a year, he continued to send letters to Miss Mio while still alive? There should be no problem, right?"

"It's still not quite right," Shiratori interrupted. "Even when he was released from prison, his condition was still very serious. The prison authorities even recommended him to a specialized hospital for further treatment, but he didn't seem to have been there yet."

"It should be because she is in a hurry to find Miss Meio who has moved," Chiba said in a daze, "Because I don't have a good life for a few days, I want to take revenge on Miss Meio first..."

"Why didn't you want to apologize to Miss Mio before you died?"

Gao Cheng put down his umbrella and entered the room.

"The last letters can actually be seen. Although at first glance it seems to be threatening, in fact, looking at it from another angle, it is true that you want to confess your crime. Because I am running out of time, I want to get Mio Miss forgive..."

"But," Qianye said anxiously, "The situation at the scene is that Xin Dao attacked Miss Mio!"

"Is this really the case? Chiba, you must always remain rational and not act emotionally when investigating a case, so that you will not blind yourself due to prejudice... I seem to have told you this last time."

Gao Cheng faced the entire murder scene, with his back turned to Chiba who lost his composure, and reasoned: "In fact, many things can be seen to be wrong. Even if you hold Miss Mio's umbrella, there is a big difference in body shape, and there is a big difference for a short-lived man. As far as the criminals are concerned, there is no need to make a special disguise so that people can't see their faces..."

"This is because……"

"There is still a lot of evidence. I asked the re-examinees downstairs that the TV had been playing in this room before it rained. In other words, Xin Dao had already arrived in this room. The most obvious evidence is that his clothes It's dry, and it's impossible to go from parking in the vacant lot downstairs to sneaking into the apartment without being wet."

"Is that because he held an umbrella?" Qianye said hastily, "And his shoes are indeed wet..."

"Didn't you see? There is only one umbrella in this room, which is the one Miss Mio brought back, and it's even more strange that his shoes are wet. It is logical that his pants and socks are not wet."

Gao Cheng looked at the soaked leather shoes and continued: "What's more suspicious is that there is still rainwater left by the umbrella basket in the umbrella basket, but Miss Meixu said that when she opened the door, she was suddenly attacked by the victim who pried the door in and ambushed her. How is it possible to have time to put the umbrella in the umbrella basket?

"It's not just that, the sound insulation in this apartment is very poor, and the re-examinees downstairs heard Miss Mio's cry after the TV was turned off, so I think, when Miss Mio came back, Xin Dao was probably still watching TV. , when she wanted to turn off the TV, Miss Mio attacked from behind with a vase, because the TV remote control didn't have batteries at all, so she had to press the power button on the TV with her hands...

"The two bangs heard by repeat candidates after the TV was turned off were actually the sound of Xin Dao being hit on the back of the head and the bridge of his nose hitting the TV cabinet."

Gao Cheng saw that the room was almost full of brand new daily necessities that hadn't been used much.

"Everything is Miss Mio's plan. First of all, she made marks on the door, and then called Mr. Xin Dao, told him that the door was unlocked, and asked him to wait for her to come back at home. Then I went to the coffee shop to find Officer Chiba to read the threatening letters, showing fear and hinting that I might be in danger...

"The next thing is to deliberately take the wrong Chiba's umbrella and leave, and drive the car pretending to bump into Chiba who came out, which deepened Chiba's impression and believed that someone really wanted her life. The next case that happened here was also her own self-direction. Self-acting."

Gao Cheng turned to Chiba and said, "The simplest evidence is the driver's seat of that car. Ms. Mio didn't adjust it when she got out of the car, so there is still a small space, which is completely inconsistent with Xin Dao's body shape."

"why is it like this……"

Chiba was hit hard. Compared with Mio Toda, who seemed weak, he was still more willing to trust Gao Cheng, but he couldn't accept being deceived like this.

"Is that really the case? Miss Mio..."

"Miss Mio," Sato asked seriously, "do you have anything else to say? It seems that Mr. Xindao really wants to confess to you, right?"

"Impossible!" Toda Mio said painfully, grabbing her fingers, "I don't believe he would want to apologize! And even if it's true, I can't forgive him!"

"Miss Mio..."

"My brother died just like that, my original engagement was also dissolved, my father had to quit his job because of the blow, died of depression, and my mother soon..."

Mio Toda turned her head away, her eyes flushed.

"No one came to help us, because no one believed that my brother was innocent!"

Qianye opened her mouth: "So you asked Xin Dao to take revenge..."

"No, I didn't do anything!" Toda Mio insisted, "What Detective Kido said is only circumstantial evidence, it's just..."

"It's useless," Qianye said with a gloomy expression. "The current trace science is developing very rapidly. If Kido's reasoning is correct, it will probably not be long before we can find direct evidence."

"Anyway," Sato stretched out his hand to Toda Mio who fell silent, "Come with us to the police station first."

"There is one thing I want you to know, Miss Mio." Gao Cheng suddenly called Toda Mio who was about to leave.

"What else?!" Toda Mio turned around angrily.

"If possible, could you please act as Xin Dao for a while? Turn off the TV just like Xin Dao did at that time."

Gao Cheng turned on the TV in the living room, stood aside and made a gesture of lifting the vase.

"is it okay?"

"What exactly are you going to do?"

Toda Mio followed the scene suspiciously, knelt on the carpet and reached out to press the power of the TV, but suddenly froze when the TV was turned off, and stared blankly at Gaocheng who raised his hand approaching from behind in the reflection of the TV screen.

"This is……"

"That's right, Mr. Xin Dao has actually seen you, but he didn't run away," Gao Cheng stopped and said, "This is also evidence that he really regrets what happened a year ago...

"Although it's just my guess, I'm afraid he noticed it in his heart after he noticed the traces of picking the lock outside the door, as well as the almost unused furniture and appliances in this room."

It was raining until the end of the incident, but it was much lighter. When the police car took Toda Mio away, the case in charge of the other police officer Megure happened to be broken.

A pair of couples who are about to get married, the bride accidentally set herself on fire in the car after learning that she and the groom were twins in private.

When Gao Cheng and Xiao Ai went downstairs, he happened to hear Sato talking about the case there when he contacted Police Officer Megure. It was Uncle Mao Li who solved the case, but there seemed to be two private men who were hired by the bride and groom respectively detective.

"Uncle's high school classmate's wedding eve party?"

Gao Cheng passed by Sato, and his brows twitched slightly when he heard the content of the phone call.

In any case, these guys will never be invited to get married in the future.

……

A few days later, there was an additional waiter named Toru Amuro in the Polo Coffee Shop downstairs of the Maori Detective Agency. He had light blonde short-to-medium hair and a healthy wheat complexion. He looked particularly cheerful.

"What?" Mori Kogoro asked in surprise during the meal, "Accept you as an apprentice?! Aren't you a private detective? Do you want to be my apprentice, Mori Kogoro?"

"Yeah," Toru Amuro said with a serious smile, "After hearing Mr. Mori's famous reasoning a few days ago, I felt that I was too immature, so I wanted to start from scratch. If I could work beside Mr. Mori like this, I could How good would it be to go with Maori to solve the incident in a low voice?"

"But I have no plan to take in apprentices." Mori Kogoro hesitated for a while.

Although it seems that he is stronger and more attractive than Gao Cheng, it is true that multiple apprentices seem to be in the way, and he does not know what to teach, after all, most of the cases are not remembered afterwards...

"As a tuition fee," Toru Amuro leaned into Mori Kogoro's ear and said, "I plan to give this amount for each event, what do you think?"

"Hired!" Mori Kogoro said with a smile on his face, "Call me teacher from now on! Amuro!"

"Yes! Teacher Maori!"

Conan ate melons silently by the side, watching Toru Amuro who quickly entered the apprenticeship state secretly complaining in his heart.

No matter how you think about it, it’s much better to go to Gaocheng...

Speaking of which, Gao Cheng seems to have gone to Hakone Hot Spring with Xiao Ai and Sonoko today, which is the place he visited with Dr. Ali last time.

But is this season really suitable for hot springs?

"Really? There have been murders here before?"

Kanagawa Prefecture, Hakone Onsen Lake View Hotel, when Gao Cheng brought Xiao Ai and Sonoko to check in, he accidentally heard Xiao Ai talk about the case.

Although Xiao Ai didn't come that time, she also heard about it from Ayumi who came with the doctor.

"It's true that there was a murder case, but it has been solved," the hotel employee explained helplessly, "and it was a doctor who solved the case. We have many of his inventions here, so don't worry."

Gao Cheng was full of question marks.

The doctor should be Dr. Ali. After all, Conan will use the doctor's identity to solve the case when the uncle is away, but what does this have to do with the many doctor's inventions in the hotel?
Wouldn't there be no more accidents like this?
Moreover, the doctor's invention is really worrying...

"The current water temperature is 41 degrees... This hot spring is a sulfur hot spring, which is effective for skin diseases, arteriosclerosis, skin maintenance, arthritis, gynecological diseases, etc..."

In the indoor bathtub, Gao Cheng rolled his eyelids and looked at the sound-making doll soaking in the water.

"So what's the use of that?"

"And it's easy to break." Xiao Ai continued.

"No," the employee uncle said with an embarrassed smile, "it has been improved...then why don't you try the open-air hot spring on the lake here? It's our signature hot spring."

"Open-air hot spring on the lake?" Gao Cheng was stunned, "Mixed bathing?"

"No, no, men and women are separated... But it is built on the lake, the scenery is very good, if you can watch the sunrise in the morning, it is very popular!"

"I said Kido..."

On the way, Yuanzi couldn't help but secretly pulled Gao Cheng over and asked, "It's hard to come out, why do you come to such a place?"

"I can't help it. The last baseball game prize was the family hot spring coupon here. If you don't use it, it will be wasted." Gao Cheng was looking forward to the open-air hot spring on the lake. "Okay, let's go outside first."

"But……"

Yuanzi looked at Xiao Ai who was yawning like a little adult in front of him.

This is not what she imagined...

The two baths of the open-air hot spring are built in the middle of the lake behind the hotel, connected to the hotel through a trestle bridge, and the left and right are divided into male and female baths.

When Gao Cheng came here, the men's bathhouse was a small bathhouse where a murder case had occurred. It is said that the men's bathhouse will be switched every day when it is cleaned, and the men's bathhouse will be switched to the other side tomorrow morning.

Perhaps because of the impact of the previous murder case, there were not too many guests in the hotel, and the number of people in the open-air hot spring was much less than usual.

"It is said that the murder happened in the small bathhouse..."

Gao Cheng soaked in the empty men's bath, silently looking out at the lake and mountains through the glass.

As a result, no one wants to come here at all, right?

"It looks like this will be remodeled sooner or later."

"In fact, it will be fine after a while, people forget it," a somewhat melancholy young man entered the bathing pool next to Gao Cheng, and leaned on the side of the pool enjoying himself, "But it's also thanks to the fact that there are not many people lately. Come here, so we can use this side to film, and don't you think it's great to enjoy this scenery alone?"

"Ok?"

Gao Cheng looked at the young man.

"Are you an actor?"

"Yeah, because a murder happened here, the director said it was a very suitable place for me to feel the atmosphere of the scene." The young man looked at Gao Cheng strangely while resting his head on his pillow, "How can you come here to take a bath so peacefully? What a weird guy."

"Probably because we often see murder cases, just get used to it."

Gao Cheng learned to put his hands on his head and relax his body.

It's just that there have been murders in the past, and it's not happening now. This doesn't affect him. He bought all the haunted houses, even though he didn't live in them, they sold them to the Suzuki consortium.

"Oh? Are you a policeman?" The young man looked at Gao Cheng carefully.

No matter how young you are, it doesn't look like...

"That's right, but it should be called a temporary worker."

Gao Cheng thought about his status as a special consultant. The reason why he added "special" was because he was really special, not because he had a higher status than ordinary consultants. The people of the police system.

"That's not bad," the young man said with a smile, "I was timid when I was your age."

After a pause, the young man still looked strange and said, "Speaking of which, don't you...don't know me?"

"Huh?" Gao Cheng looked at the young man again, "Sorry, this is the first time we met, right?"

"Uh, I've actually acted in quite a few movies." The young man began to doubt himself.

He is also a hard-working actor. He was able to go to the murder scene to experience the movie for himself. He also won his first Best Actor Award a few days ago. He thought he should be very popular.

"I don't usually watch movies very much." Gao Cheng smiled awkwardly.

When it comes to movies, he seems to have only watched special effects movies, at most, he has watched love movies for some reason, once he was attracted by Sonoko, and once he seemed to play Kudo Shinichi...

"Oh, so that's the case." The young man suddenly nodded, smiled, and soaked in the hot spring more easily.

That's not bad, but if you actually meet fans, you will feel uncomfortable.

Gao Cheng closed his eyes, his thoughts gradually drifted to the women's bathing place next door.

I don't know what's going on over there, and I'm a little worried.

(End of this chapter)