Conan: Goodbye, Brewery, I'm running away
Chapter 164 The Hunter Smiles from the Darkness 23
Bottom cargo hold.
This is one of the cabins for storing cruise ship supplies. Normally, no one comes here except the staff. However, at this moment, dozens of people gathered here because of a sudden unexpected situation.
Officer Megure looked at the staff member who had called Hayakawa Keisuke earlier, "Mr. Taguchi, please tell us in detail the process of discovering the deceased."
The middle-aged man called Mr. Taguchi by Inspector Megure did not speak directly as Inspector Megure requested. He first looked cautiously at his big boss Ishihara Yuki, whom he could only see on certain important occasions, and asked with his eyes whether he wanted to cooperate with the police and tell the police what had happened before.
Ishihara Yuuki, who was trying hard not to faint, saw the look in his employee's eyes. His tone was full of fatigue. He raised his hand and waved it gently, "Go ahead."
This cargo hold is filled with ordinary supplies for daily use. There is nothing shameful, and there is no need to worry about offending those on the ship.
So at this moment, Ishihara Yuki, who had lost his only son, no longer cared about his previous thoughts of concealing the matter and not making it public. He just hoped that the detectives and the police could quickly find the murderer who killed his son.
After hearing the boss's permission, Taguchi sorted out his thoughts and said, "According to the rules on the ship, in addition to taking things out in the morning, there is only one inventory in the afternoon. I am here to be responsible for the routine inventory work of this warehouse today."
Maori Kogoro glanced at the time, "So early? It's not even three o'clock in the afternoon yet."
In response to Maori Kogoro's question, Taguchi explained: "The materials stored here are not important. Basically, they are only taken out in the morning every day, so this is usually the first space to be counted every day."
After hearing his explanation, Amuro Toru took a look around and asked, "Do you have a fixed time to start taking inventory of the warehouse every day?"
Taguchi replied, "The time is more or less fixed, but not so strict. After all, we have other work, and work like inventory needs to be prioritized compared with other temporary work."
Conan at the side said, "Uncle, uncle, from what you said, you have a fixed schedule, right?"
Taguchi nodded, "Yes, the employees on the ship are all employees of the company. We have basically worked together many times. For us, working on different cruise ships is just changing a ship.
Therefore, work such as scheduling is only slightly modified according to the specific situation of the cruise ship."
Amuro Toru glanced at Ishihara Yuki and Hayakawa Keisuke who was supporting him, "From the time we pick up the daily necessities in the morning until someone comes to count the warehouse in the afternoon, will anyone else come during this time?"
Taguchi shook his head. "No one usually comes to this warehouse unless there are special circumstances. The supplies here are not completely necessary, so there is rarely a need for additional supplies."
Listening to the two people's questions, Kogoro Mouri rarely did not scold Conan, but instead held his chin and thought about something.
Seeing that the few people did not continue to ask questions, Taguchi continued: "When I just came to the warehouse, I smelled a bloody smell. But the things here are basically daily necessities, not food ingredients, so there shouldn't be such a bloody smell.
At first I thought the morning staff had accidentally brought in something, so I followed the smell.
Then I saw Executive Manager Ishihara lying in a pool of blood on the warehouse floor. I ran in and discovered that he was no longer breathing.
I immediately called Secretary Hayakawa and asked him to contact the president and tell him about this matter."
It was very difficult for him to contact Secretary Hayakawa directly at his level.
Officer Megure looked at Taguchi, "Mr. Taguchi, did you call Mr. Hayakawa as soon as you found the body?"
Taguchi nodded quickly, "I called as soon as possible."
Without waiting for Inspector Megure to continue asking him, he continued as if to shake off suspicion: "I noticed something was wrong and found the managing director. The process should have taken no more than two minutes, because we hadn't started the inventory yet, so I didn't check the exact time."
The record sheet they use to check inventory records the time to the minute.
As he spoke, he took out his cell phone, which showed the time of his last call with Keisuke Hayakawa, which was 2:20 in the afternoon.
No one doubted this, after all, everyone was present when Hayakawa Keisuke received Taguchi's call.
They arrived at the scene of Ishihara Chaoyang's death at 2:35 in the afternoon, which was the tentative scene of death.
It only takes fifteen minutes to get from Tomoki Miyagawa's room on the 22nd floor to this warehouse.
Conan and Toru Amuro, who had carefully calculated the time it would take to get there, walked towards the corpse while thinking this in their minds.
The two of them squatted beside the body, and Toru Amuro took out a handkerchief and carefully examined the condition of the body.
The wound on the body was very obvious, with a bullet wound right in the middle of the eyebrows, but this bullet wound in the middle of the eyebrows was not necessarily the cause of death.
Toru Amuro and Conan looked at the left side of Ishihara Chaoyang's chest, where there was also a bullet. Judging from the state of the deceased's clothes and skin, the bullet in the chest was fired with the muzzle close to the deceased, and the bullet in the center of the eyebrows was fired from a long distance...
There was a lot of blood around the deceased's mouth. Amuro Toru pried open his mouth and saw that his tongue was missing. The cross-section of the remaining tongue showed that it had been cut directly off by a sharp weapon.
The deceased's eyes were sunken, and it was obvious that someone had gouged out his eyes.
His clothes were intact and he had not been violated like Shintaro Kikuchi had been in the morning.
There were no signs of struggle or fighting on the body, so the deceased was not necessarily conscious before death.
There were no bullet shells left at the scene...
So was there one murderer or two murderers who killed Ishihara Chaoyang?
Logically speaking, if there are two or more fatal wounds on the deceased's body and the methods of inflicting the fatal injuries are different, it can basically be concluded that there are two murderers.
But these cases that happened on the ship were a little different. The murderer liked to torture the dead and insult their bodies.
So if it is still the same criminal, then Ishihara Chaoyang’s death may not necessarily be caused by two murderers.
Conan carefully leaned over the corpse and sniffed, confirming that apart from the smell of blood, he did not smell any other smell similar to anesthetics.
He looked at Toru Amuro, who was checking a gray windbreaker stained with blood that was thrown on the ground not far away. The windbreaker was obviously a commemorative windbreaker of the "Tlaloc".
Maori Kogoro, who was thinking, saw the windbreaker on the ground, and his eyes lit up, "Officer Megure, can you check everyone's windbreakers? The person without a windbreaker can be included in the range of criminals first!"
"Uncle, I'm afraid not."
Conan's voice interrupted Maori Kogoro's innocent fantasy, "Look here."
He placed his handkerchief under his hand and opened the lid of the box which had not been completely closed before.
Inside were a row of unopened grey windbreakers of the same model, and in an inconspicuous place next to the box was a windbreaker packaging bag.
It is obvious that after the murderer threw away his blood-stained windbreaker, he took another windbreaker from here, so it is impossible for Kogoro Mouri to find the suspect by this method.
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