Ke Xue's Kogoro

Chapter 294 Four Messages
After carefully identifying the body, Kobayashi Chengko said: "His name is Masato Sugimori, and he is a freelance writer. The evening before yesterday, he came to the school to find me, saying that he wanted to do an interview for the Detective Boys and publish an article. "

Mu Mu said: "After preliminary research and judgment, the deceased has been dead for more than half a day, so after the day before yesterday, do you still have contact with him?"

"Yes, just yesterday."

Xiaolin Chengzi took out her mobile phone, looked through the call records, and said, "Yesterday at 22:[-] am."

"Okay, time frame narrowed down even further."

Takagi crouched in front of the corpse, muttering words.

Meguro asked curiously, "Takagi, what are you doing?"

Takagi glanced at Kogoro, and said with some embarrassment: "Well, I am learning the analysis method of Master Mori. I am analyzing the murderer based on the three reasons for killing repeatedly mentioned by Master Mori."

Kogoro gave an encouraging look, and Takagi immediately became confident: "The deceased is a freelance writer, and the murderer is probably an acquaintance, so maybe there is a conflict of fame and fortune with someone. I am about to start investigating his friend."

Conan said next to him: "Don't bother, I think there are four people who are suspicious."

With Kogoro by his side, Conan stopped pretending.

Mu Mu asked: "Conan, why are there four people?"

"Because of the answering machine."

Kogoro looked at the answering machine when he heard the words, and saw the answer button with a flashing green light at a glance.There was a bloodstain about one centimeter long on the answer key, but the end above the answer key had been wiped off.

That is, someone hit that answer button.

Megure and Takagi were staring at the answer button, while Kogoro went to the corpse and looked at his fingers, and found that there was no blood on the fingers of the deceased.

In other words, the answer button was pressed by someone else, even the murderer.And the reason for pressing the answer button should be to create his own alibi.

Takagi quickly discovered this, and he said, "I see!"

Mu Mu: You understand, I am confused!

Takagi explained: "First of all, Conan and the others said that the door at the scene was not closed, and the key was on the table, so pressing the answer button must not be to prevent others from calling in and discovering that Mr. Shanmori is dead."

"So, what the murderer really wanted to do was because he used the answering machine as his alibi. Otherwise, the alibi he made would be useless."

Mu Mu said happily: "Brother Gao Mu, you have made progress."

Mu Mu looked at Shiratori again, good guy, he is still hanging up.

Mumu came to Kogoro, and asked in a low voice: "Brother Maori, what did you ask Shiratori to come to the scene? Besides, what happened to him, he has been out of shape."

Xiao Wulang chuckled: "That's him, it's my fate."

Mu Mu had also heard a little about Kogoro's fortune-telling ability, glanced at Kobayashi Chengko, and found that she was very similar to Sato, and was thoughtful.

"Ahem, Takagi, let's listen to what the messages are."

"Yes, Officer Megure. But I suggest that we use recording equipment to record it, so as not to delete the evidence by mistake."

After the technicians brought the recording equipment, Takagi began to play the phone message.

April 22, that is, yesterday.

The first one, at 25:[-] in the morning, a woman named Qinghua left a message, chatting about some trivial matters, with the sound of the TV in the background.

Megure is more powerful, and deduces that the TV program is the TV Grand View Garden of Nikmai TV which starts at [-] o'clock in the morning.Kogoro doesn't know why a policeman who handles various murder scenes every day knows the specific time of the TV program.

The second, at 27:[-], was a man named Higaki.He said he was on his way to the deceased's house.But after knowing that the deceased was not at home, he went back.And said something: I'm sorry about the car.

There is also noise in this message, which is the announcement in the tram.Moreover, the radio just broadcast the voice of the next stop, Okuho Town, which means that Higaki was probably in the vicinity of Okuho Town at that time.

It takes more than 30 minutes to get here by tram from Okuho Town.

The third one, at 29:22, is Inaba of Koeikan.The purpose of his message was to ask about the progress of the document that the deceased was working on.In the message, he also asked the editor-in-chief beside him the date of today, and another man replied that it was April 28, at [-]:[-] am.

At the end of the message, he also mentioned that he no longer cares about the insider report last time.

Kogoro said: "This guy is very suspicious, because he also specifically asked others about today's date and time, as if it was on purpose."

Others also felt the same way. This method of asking a third person to testify for themselves is not new at all.However, there is no definite evidence so far, only doubts.

Takagi said: "However, the Xingrong Pavilion is quite far from here, and it takes an hour to drive. In terms of time, it is unlikely."

Kogoro frowned, he always felt that the recording just now was a bit unnatural.

The fourth one, at [-]:[-], was Chengzi Xiaolin who left a message.

Kogoro thought to himself, well, now it is one of the three classics.

But Mu Mu still asked as usual: "Mr. Xiaolin, can you tell me, do you want to ask about the deceased?"

"That, it's about the children's interview. And I called him at the time, and he said that someone would come to him. It's just specific and didn't say much."

Mu Mu frowned: "That is to say, the time of death of the deceased was within 22:8 when Teacher Xiao Lin called, and within [-] minutes of the time Teacher Xiao Lin left a message?"

Takagi corrected: "It should be within 22 minutes from 25 minutes to 3 minutes of the first message."

That's right, after pressing the answer button on the phone, all calls will be transferred to the message, and Takagi's statement is correct.

Kogoro said: "As far as the current situation is concerned, those two men are the biggest suspects."

Mumu asked: "Do you have any explanation, brother Maori?"

"The first woman's message said that she wanted to come to the deceased's house, but the deceased did not agree. You can see that the deceased's house is very simple. But look at the key on his waist."

"key?"

Conan said: "Ah! Is this the key of the BMW?"

Takagi corrected and said: "Conan, this is the car key of Ferrari. This is a luxury car, and it is very valuable."

Kogoro said with a smile: "Obviously, the deceased used this car and his identity as a writer to trick a girl, but he didn't dare to take her home because he was afraid of being exposed. And this is not enough to kill her." point."

(End of this chapter)