A Detective: I Believe in Science

Chapter 241 Self righteous repayment

"Forget it, hurry up, I'll go buy some antipyretics for Xiaolan."

Looking at the back of Noah's departure, Conan's face showed gratitude. At the critical moment, this scam is still reliable.

Then he set his eyes on the scene of the crime again, his expression focused, his eyes swept over the three companions of the deceased, and he bowed his head in thought.

"The murderer must have been among the three"

When did they do it? Conan was puzzled. He was there when the crime happened, but he didn't notice it at all.

"Who called the police?"

A loud shout interrupted the thoughts of the uncle and Conan. Looking up, a muscular man with a short cut appeared at the entrance of the hotel leading several policemen.

What puzzled the two of them was that they seemed to have seen this person somewhere. The problem was that they had never reported to the police in Yokohama, and today was the first time.

Before anyone could ask him an answer, the short-haired man spotted Conan and his party first, and set off to the side of them. After seeing the corpse lying on the table, his expression was calm, as if it was commonplace.

After looking down at the corpse for a while, he waved his hand to signal the police behind him to conduct a site survey, then fixed his eyes on everyone, and asked again in a flat tone.

"Who called the police?"

Seeing the uncle raised his hand to signal, the inch-cut man asked again.

"What is your relationship with the deceased? Did you do it?"

... The uncle was stunned. It's fine that the policeman didn't know him, but he was so sloppy in handling the case. He hurriedly retorted.

"Don't talk nonsense, I have nothing to do with him, today is just the first time we met, and don't you know me?"

The inch-cut man glanced at the uncle with disdain, and said disdainfully.

"Who are you and why should I know you."

The uncle was at a loss for words for a while, and was about to speak to reveal his identity, but someone spoke first.

"Officer Henggou, the cause of death was preliminarily determined to be poisoning. We found a large amount of potassium cyanate on the towels and tableware used by the deceased."

After hearing the word Henggou, the uncle at the side finally knew why he looked familiar to him.

"Henggou Shenwu... Officer Henggou, when did you shave your head and pretend you don't know me, are you worried that I will steal your limelight?"

The uncle looked familiar, and put his arms around the shoulders of the crop-headed man, wanting to make friends with him, but was knocked off by his hands in disgust.

"I don't admire you like that good old brother. I hate you self-righteous detectives the most."

"elder brother?"

The uncle and Conan were shocked at the same time. They didn't know that Henggou Sanwu had a younger brother, and he looked so similar to him.

"That's right, Henggou Shenwu is my older brother, and my name is Henggou Chongwu."

"Wait! You just said I'm a detective, so that means you know me?"

There was a smug look on the uncle's face, his reputation was really extraordinary.

"Sleepy Kogoro, I just heard my brother mention it."

Henggou Chongwu's expression was indifferent, and his tone was still full of disdain for the uncle.

"It's the sleeping Kogoro!"

Police officer Henggou didn't react much to the uncle's rebuttal. On the contrary, the faces of the three people walking with the deceased changed slightly, as if they had heard about the uncle for a long time.

This made Conan even more convinced that the murderer was among them, and he began to keep recalling each other's actions after they met in his mind.

……

Chinatown
Noah looked distressed. This street is mostly restaurants or handicraft stores, and there are very few clinics or pharmacies. Occasionally one or two are closed.

Suddenly, Noah patted his forehead and muttered to himself.

"I'm so stupid, if you can't buy it, you can borrow it!"

Recalling that when he was a child, his parents often prepared common medicines at home, and Noah hurried to a shop with lights on the side of the road.

"Is there anything I can do to help you?"

The familiar voice made Noah couldn't help showing a smile on his face, and picked up the Chinese that he hadn't used for a long time and said.

"Boss, do you have antipyretics at home? I have a friend who is not feeling well. I see that the surrounding clinics and pharmacies are not open today, so I want to borrow some from you. I can pay for it."

Hearing the authentic Chinese spoken by Noah, the boss's face was filled with joy. It is not easy to meet compatriots in a foreign country.

"Yes, yes, I'll get it for you. It's not a valuable item, so what kind of money do you want?"

The boss stepped into the back hall, took out a box of antipyretic medicine and handed it to Noah, not only refused the money offered by Noah, but urged him to rush to deliver the medicine to his friend.

Of course, Noah was embarrassed to take advantage of others, and his eyes lit up when he saw the handicrafts sold in the boss's shop.

He picked up two at random, put down a wad of money, and hurriedly turned and ran out of the shop, ignoring the boss chasing after him.

"Come back, nasty brat, come back to me, this little money is not enough for me."

It's a pity that Noah, who ran away, couldn't hear him anymore. When he turned around, he could only see the boss dancing on the spot.

He thought in his heart that he had given too much, and the boss wanted to refund his money. Anyway, he was rich, and when he was away from home, he deserved help from others when he met such kind-hearted compatriots.

……

Crime scene
"I've told you everything. I saw him for the first time today. How could he be the murderer?"

"So what if we met for the first time. I've seen a lot of murders. All the signs show that you are the murderer."

The uncle didn't want to communicate with the policeman anymore. It was so annoying. Ever since the deceased was found to have died of potassium cyanate poisoning, Henggou Shigeno had always believed that he was the murderer.

He suspects that Yokomizo Shigeno is jealous of his reputation as a famous detective Mori Kogoro, and at the same time afraid that he will steal his limelight.

So in order to show off for himself, he deliberately used small means to disrupt his rhythm of solving the case, and then secretly investigated the murderer.

That's right, it must be so, hahaha, I, Mori Kogoro, have seen through the plot of this annoying policeman.

Henggou looked at the uncle who suddenly burst out laughing with a dazed expression. Is there something wrong with this man's brain? He is so happy to be a murderer.

wrong……

Henggou suddenly remembered what his elder brother once said to him, a legend about Mori Kogoro.

According to legend, whenever Mori Kogoro falls into a deep sleep to solve a case, he will always make puzzling movements or behaviors, then twist a strange dance move, and finally start to reason.

"How is it possible, brother must be talking nonsense..."

Shigeno Yokomizo, who was shaking his head in denial, suddenly opened his eyes wide, because Kogoro Mori, who was still laughing wildly in front of him, really started to perform a weird dance as in the legend.

In the end, he just happened to sit on a chair not far away, lowered his head in thought, as if he had already fallen asleep.

"Here it is, the sleeping Kogoro!"

The onlookers exclaimed in surprise, their eyes widened in anticipation of the uncle's next performance, which made Henggou, who already hated detectives, grit his teeth.

"That's all for joking, and then I will ask Police Officer Henggou to listen to my self-salvation to prove my innocence."

The one who spoke was of course Conan. He had already found evidence in the search just now that the murderer was indeed among the three people who walked with the deceased.

……

When Noah returned to the hotel, the first thing he saw was the uncle swaying down on the chair, followed by Hui Yuan with a worried face and Xiao Lan who was about to fall on the table.

"Xiao Lan! Xiao Lan!"

Seeing that the other party recovered a little bit, Noah hurriedly took out the borrowed antipyretics and handed them to her.

(End of this chapter)