Disqualification on earth x2

Yakusho used to get off work at [-] o'clock every day. In order to work more conveniently, except for holidays, he would go back to his family who lived in Binsheng. On weekdays, he lived in an apartment rented by the consortium near the company.

Leave from the right exit of the building every day, and you can reach home in about 15 minutes by bicycle.

On the way, he will pass a handmade doll shop.Doll shops are already old. Even though Yokohama has developed rapidly in recent years, it has given some living space to the old shops left by these times.The doll shop sandwiched between high-rise buildings is like an old photo in the silhouette of time, living in a corner amidst the hustle and bustle, quietly making people miss the old childhood.

Luanbu pressed the timer when Huajiang rode here, he looked up and said, "You took 23 minutes."

Huajiang was a little out of breath. She got out of the car and said to Luanbu: "Yakusho Yuanichi's speed may be a little faster than mine, but not much faster. Converting the mileage, it's almost 15 minutes."

"It took him 15 minutes to go home, but the time of his death was after 07:30—something must have happened in the blank hour or so."

She looked at the store and hesitated, "Are you choosing a gift?"

Luanbu sat outside the shop, and the shop owner kindly gave him a small stool.

He smiled at Huajiang's guess, noncommittal.

The old store owner saw Huajiang coming by bicycle, and kindly opened a bottle of ice soda for her, and said kindly: "Are you playing some detective game? It's a good game, but you must also pay attention to safety." oh."

Huajiang originally wanted to ask the owner if Yakushohara had committed suicide, but Ranpo said, "Yes. It's a very interesting game."

"By the way," he seemed to ask casually, "Can your dolls be customized?"

The shopkeeper nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, this is the biggest selling point of my house. Last time a man ordered it with a photo of his daughter. It was taken from me just two days ago."

Huajiang paused when he heard this, the gift prepared by Yakushohara was custom-made, that is to say, he did not spend time in this shop.That more than an hour of blank time is still blank.

Ranbu continued: "Has anyone asked about this?"

The owner nodded and said, "The police came to ask me if this person bought a doll here. I answered yes, and they left immediately, as if they were very busy." She looked confused, "What did this person do? Is it? He still looks like a good father."

Luanbu said: "Ah, no. It's just unfortunate that he was involved in the case, and his suspicion has been cleared now."

He stood up, looked at Huajiang who was holding a soda and didn't drink it, raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "Don't you like it? If you don't like it, I can drink it for you."

Huajiang immediately protected the soda in his arms: "Mr. Luanbu has already drank a bottle, and this bottle was given to me by grandma."

Luanbu sighed, and complained: "But Huajiang, you still owe me twice as much bread, and I haven't asked you for it yet."

Seeing this, the shop owner quickly said: "Oh, I still have soda. But what this little girl means is that you should stop drinking it. The weather is not too hot now, and drinking so much ice is easy to get sick."

Grandma's doll shop is the same as the old shop many years ago. In addition to dolls, it also sells some gadgets, such as soft drinks and ordinary red bean bread.

She took two and gave them to Luanbu: "If you are hungry, take this."

Luanbu looked at the red bean bread in his hand, but thanked him, and when he touched his pocket, he remembered that he didn't bring any money.

He opened his eyes and looked at Huajiang.

Huajiang immediately thought of the second time the two met, he stood in front of the milk tea shop.

She couldn't help laughing, paid for the bread for the two of them, and thanked the old man for the orange soda.

After drinking the soda, the two were about to go to Yakusho Yuanichi's house to check the situation. Hua Jiang said to the somewhat boring Ranpo: "Mr. Ranpo, the murderer of the case, do you already have the answer?"

Luanbu hooked the corners of his mouth, put his hands behind his head, and slowly said: "Well, my case can only be said to be speculation, and there is still no conclusive evidence that can directly convict. So I am still looking for it. "

Hua Jiang looked at him and asked, "Do you think the answer is in my case?"

"Maybe, maybe one more thing is needed." Luanbu said leisurely, "But my guess has never been wrong. Now, I just need to prove that there is such a thing in your case, and the result is basically settled."

Huajiang: ...But I haven't found the similarities yet?

The case in which Mr. Ranpo was entrusted was an office worker who committed suicide at home.The police believe that the reason for his suicide was that he could not accept being fired.His home is far away from Yakusho Haraichi, and even the content of his work is completely different.Yakusho Hara had a family and a daughter, but he was alone and had a withdrawn personality.

Looking at Huajiang, the two cases have almost nothing in common except that both are suicides and the motives are fictional.

If there is the same and decisive evidence in these two cases, she has not been able to discover it until now.

Huajiang was a little distressed.

Seeing that she stopped pushing the cart, Luanbu turned around in confusion.

Ranbu asked, "Didn't you notice?"

"Well, do I need to tell you who the murderer is?"

"No, thank you, Mr. Ranpo." Hua Jiang politely declined, "This is my exam question. Although cheating is the fastest way, that person probably won't accept the answer obtained by cheating."

Huajiang said seriously: "I still want to try it myself."

Luanbu looked at her, he really wanted to say, but you haven't found the key point yet?

If you continue to investigate, I'm afraid there will be no progress until tomorrow.

Luanbu can't wait until tomorrow.

The direct answer is no, then you can only——

"Well, since my case is closed, yours is not yet." Luanbu stroked his chin and made a new suggestion, "Then let me be your assistant—"

Huajiang was a little surprised: "Really?"

Luanbu childishly said: "There is no other way, let's make an exception."

He reluctantly nodded: "Let's take it for a while."

"With me as your assistant, you will definitely be able to solve the case before sunset." Luanbu said confidently, "As a reward, I want an ice cream toast tart for today's dinner, and you are responsible for buying it for me."

"Now, let's talk about your understanding of the case."

Huajiang: Thank you, I was touched.So you are confident in me until dusk?Peng Gelie Yunshou gave me nine days.

She thought about it, but couldn't help laughing.

"Thank you so much, Mr. Ranpo."

Huajiang began to talk about his reasoning to Ranpo: "According to the file, Yakushohara had never been to other places except this unmonitored doll shop. The surveillance in the residential area showed that he never went back home. He didn't go out, and no one came to his home during this period. All the evidence has proved that he did shoot himself and killed himself."

"The case of Mr. Ranpo is the same. Today's deceased committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills at home. There were no outsiders. It was as if ghosts possessed them and committed suicide."

"It seems that the most confusing thing in the case is their 'true motive for suicide', but for this case, the motive is no longer a necessary condition for solving the case. The key to unraveling the mystery should be how the 'reason' appeared of."

"What method the prisoner used to threaten them is the key."

Ranpo didn't refute.

Huajiang continued: "I have thought about computer mail, or the Internet, but there is no trace. Yakusho Hara never used the computer or opened the mail after he got off work that day. Or he received a threatening letter, and the letter was blocked. He burned it down before committing suicide. Ashes are something that you just have to throw out the window to disappear."

"This is just speculation that cannot be verified."

"The method of crime is too clean."

Hua Jiang sighed, "It's like a ghost, even if you know his existence, you can't reach out and catch him no matter what."

Ranbu said, "There are no ghosts in this world."

"Deliberately erasing traces will leave new traces instead. No matter how subtle a crime is, it's just a trick."

He threw the marble in his hand, tilted his head, pointed at Huajiang with a smile and said, "Once exposed, the truth is very simple and childish."

Huajiang blinked and said with a smile, "You're right! I need to keep working hard. Okay, let's continue investigating the case. Maybe there are still ashes left on the edge of the window?"

Ranpo: ...Actually, I want to say that getting an answer to a "trick" from me is not considered a complete cheating.

But Huajiang didn't seem to want any answers from him at all.

She even got on the bike, trying to get to the scene of the crime faster.

What can I do with random steps?

Since he promised to be an "assistant", he seemed to have to cooperate.

Huajiang brought Ranpo to Yakushoharaichi's apartment.

His house is vacant.

People from the Fengji Consortium knew that Huajiang was investigating this case, so they opened the house and conducted a second inspection on Huajiang.

Humanity from the Disciplinary Foundation: "This house has been kept as it is since the police left. According to the chairman's request, we have inspected it many times, but we really can't find any other clues."

The house was indeed clean.

Huajiang looked around carefully, but found nothing that looked like ashes.

She fell into a blind spot of thinking, but found that Ranpo hadn't entered the house from the beginning.

He just stood at the entrance and looked at it for a while, and at the moment he was so bored at the entrance that he tore open the bread and ate it.

As he ate, it seemed that because of the mediocre taste of the bread, he wanted toast tarts even more.

But Huajiang seems to be very obsessed with finding out the truth by himself.

Even if Luanbu hinted that he could reveal the detailed process so that she could hand in her homework—she didn't accept it.

But Master Ranpo really wants to eat some snacks.

Edogawa Ranpo saw that Huajiang was still inspecting places like the kitchen that might destroy evidence, so he had to stand at the right key point and coughed hard.

When Huajiang heard the cough, at first he thought Luanbu had caught a cold, and thought about closing the window.

But as soon as she walked towards the window, she coughed again.

Huajiang looked back.

Luanbu frowned rarely, he looked at Huajiang, and really could only write "Come and see this way" written on his face.

Huajiang: ...Sorry, I didn't pay attention to the entrance.

The entrance was a place she had already observed as soon as she entered the door, and there was nothing special there except for some old courier boxes that hadn't been disposed of in time.

However, after seeing the entrance, Luanbu did not enter it again.

He said that he deduced the criminal, but the decisive evidence must be found in Huajiang's case.

At first, Huajiang thought that it was because Luanbu judged that the two cases were committed by the same person, and the clues of the previous case might have been destroyed, so he wanted to come here to check.

But think about it carefully, it shouldn't be.

This case was almost three days ago, and the case that Mr. Ranpo took over was more than seven hours ago.In terms of the integrity of the clues, the latter should be stronger than the former. How could one find clues to the latter's case from the former?

unless--

What he was looking for was the only connection!

Huajiang finally reacted.

She walked back to the entrance in two steps, buried her head and began to rummage through the pile of courier boxes, and she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this.

Mafia members and office workers, these two people seem to have nothing in common, but they will all come into contact with couriers.

The deceased was threatened with suicide.

There is no doubt about this, the only unsolvable mystery is how they were threatened by this invisible "ghost".

The courier, this ghost who can be seen everywhere in life and does not even make anyone think he is "suspicious", is also the only "killer" who can ensure accurate delivery of information without contact with the dead.

Huajiang checked the courier, stroked the courier's name, and asked Luan Budao: "Is the courier with the same name also responsible for delivery over there?"

Luanbu nodded, squinted his eyes and said, "Well, not bad."

He pointed to one of the express boxes: "There is this person over there too."

Huajiang completely understood.

As Ranpo said, the invisible "ghost" is just a trick. Once the "reason for non-existence" is seen through, the truth is so simple and clear that it is childish.

Holding the courier box, Huajiang hurried downstairs to check the monitoring.

On the day that Haraichi committed suicide, there was indeed a courier who delivered the courier, and he also took the courier from the courier cabinet after returning home!

"There is no express box." Huajiang said excitedly, "The express boxes from the previous time are all there, only the one from that day is gone!"

"It's so weird, it's almost as if I burned it on purpose that day!"

"In order to completely hide himself from the case, the prisoner simply asked the deceased to destroy the courier. After all, there are so many couriers coming and going every day, no one will be suspicious of the courier who appears in front of the courier cabinet!"

"Leaving traces in order to erase traces, so that's what it means—"

Hua Jiang pointed to the monitor and turned back: "Mr. Luanbu, I found the prisoner!"

"Next, you only need to go to the courier company to verify the courier, and everything will come to light!"

Luanbu was communicating with the police, he informed the police of his conclusion and evidence, when he suddenly heard Huajiang's voice, he turned his head slowly.

The girl who tried to solve the case for the first time looked so excited, her eyes were twinkling.

Luanbu paused, and said, "I won't go from now on, well, I made an appointment with someone else to eat toast tart."

The police said something, probably a word of thanks, before Luanbu finished hanging up the phone, Huajiang had already walked over with the courier box in his arms, and suggested, "Let's go to the courier company next!"

"When the murderer is caught, go eat toast tart."

Ranbu: "..."

Luanbu puffed up his cheeks, and he said, "No way! The case has been solved, and the rest of the arrest is just boring. Toast Tower is more important."

Hua Jiang, who is still immersed in the success of solving the case, is pitiful: "Oh..."

Luanbu refused to budge: "I don't agree!"

After all, the most important tip to solve the case was given by the other party.

Even if you still want to continue the game, you still have to respect the GM's opinion.Huajiang was a little bit reluctant, she took the express box and said to Luanbu: "Okay, let's eat toast tower first."

Luanbu was satisfied.

but--

"Are you still taking this box with you?"

Huajiang flattened the box and put it in her bag, she said, "Yes, keep it as a souvenir."

"This is the first time I've reasoned about a case, and it's great to be able to come to a conclusion."

Judging by her appearance, she almost wanted to decorate the express box with flowers.

Chaos is not very satisfied.

He said: "Shouldn't the biggest memorial be me? I'm working as your assistant, Huajiang."

Without hesitation, Huajiang praised with all his strength: "Mr. Luanpo is the number one assistant in the world!"

“Worth the unlimited toast towers!”

Lord Ranpo is satisfied.

Huajiang took Luanbu to eat various flavors of toast tarts, and when it was time, he did not forget to send Mr. Luanbu home.

Just after the two said goodbye, Ranbu received a communication from the police.

The police officer said to Luanbu: "The prisoner was caught, but he committed suicide."

"The same as the previous case, except for the motive of suicide, there is no trace."

"His motive is to plead guilty." The police officer said, "The method of murder is the same as you told me, and he even kept the evidence of the crime."

"How should I put it, it feels like I've been tricked."

Facing his friend, the police officer couldn't help expressing his deepest feelings: "These few suicide cases make me feel like our police are just puppet performers in his play. He has fulfilled his purpose and returned Laugh at us again, use 'death' to escape capture, and truly become a 'ghost'."

Ranpo opened his eyes.

His emerald pupils stared at the night in Yokohama, and said slowly: "He didn't 'confess'."

Officer: "What?"

"This is a new case, Inspector."

Luanbu squinted, and the corners of his mouth deepened: "The real 'ghost' has finally appeared."