The man in Conan is the mastermind behind the scenes

"Could it be something like a rope?" Megure Jusan made a guess.

"When a person struggles desperately, the force is very strong. If it is a physical restraint, there must be traces on the body." Kudo Shinichi rejected it without looking up.

The thing that made Tojo Shunda incapacitated must be chemical. What can have such an effect and not be detected at all?

Could it be dissolved in water?

The evidence was destroyed after he fell into the water?

No, it must be detected in the nasal cavity. It is more likely to evaporate into the air!

It will evaporate and will not react with the human body. Is it an inert gas or carbon dioxide?

Although this kind of thing cannot directly cause a person to fall into a coma, if it is sprayed on the face in high concentration, it is likely to cause short-term suffocation, especially since Tojo Shunda was deeply drunk at the time. The combination of the two is entirely possible.

If we continue to think about it, this kind of thing must be placed in a sealed container. Where is that container? Will it be taken away by the murderer?

In theory, this is indeed the best choice.

So there was another person here at the time?

Kudo Shinichi expressed his guess, and the police immediately began to look for clues about another person around.

Not long after, a passerby reported that he had found a young woman with suspicious whereabouts, but the clues were vague, and he turned off his phone directly because he was afraid.

Please, this passerby is too fake.

He looks like a guy with ulterior motives!

Kudo Shinichi almost instantly determined that the murderer must want to divert the police's investigation, or frame someone else.

So he continued to search near the crime scene, and only asked the police to check the surveillance, plus Maori Kogoro, who was upset at the time and could not do much.

As he expected, there was nothing found in the surveillance, and he only encountered Xiaolan who came back late from a distance.

Speaking of Xiaolan, she was with Mizuki in the afternoon...

"Brother Kudo!"

Chapter 52 This is the savior of the Metropolitan Police Department!

After searching around the lake for the umpteenth time, Megure Jusan walked back with a heavy face.

"We can't find any clues. We have verified both Xuesong Kiyoko and Xuesong Nami indirectly. They both have alibis during that time. Brother Kudo, is this another unsolved case caused by the mastermind behind the scenes? You can't find any evidence?"

Kudo Shinichi turned back to his thoughts and shook his head:

"Tojo Shuntatsu is related to the case of Xuesong Masato. The suspects may indeed be the mother and daughter of the Xuesong family, and the mastermind who has been hidden until now, but if the latter did it himself, he would not leave such a loophole as the river bank."

"Then is this a new case that is not related to the past? Mr. Tojo didn't have much involvement in the case of Xuesong Masato. He just gave some testimony, and there are others who can verify it."

"Maybe it's in other directions."

Kudo Shinichi replied casually. He had taken off his coat. The weather was a little cold, so he simply took off his white shirt. A series of dense goose bumps appeared on his arms, but he just stared at the lake with burning eyes.

He wanted to throw his clothes on the ground, but Megure Jusan caught them quickly: "Brother Kudo, what are you doing?"

"The clue may be at the bottom of the lake, sinking."

"Why is this?"

Plop!

Kudo Shinichi did not answer, took a pair of white gloves from Megure Jusan's pocket, put them on, and dived into the lake.

Hearing the movement here, many people looked over in surprise. Megure Jusan waited on the shore with his clothes in a daze, and suddenly felt that the moonlight tonight was really bright, falling on the sparkling lake, like the broad back of some big fish rolling.

I don't know how long it took, the water surface surged, and the first thing that came up was a little crystal reflecting the faint light under the moonlight, and then the white gloves that held it tightly.

Megure Jusan widened his eyes.

He didn't know what kind of reasoning Kudo Shinichi had made, but watching him break out of the water, watching the bright light in his eyes that almost penetrated the night.

Megure Jusan felt that he saw hope!

The savior of the Metropolitan Police Department is not an empty promise. When Kudo Shinichi was wrapped in a blanket and warmed himself by the electric stove to explain to them, all the police fell into a kind of confusion that they felt they were mentally retarded, and it quickly evolved into a feeling of worship.

"We asked the homeless people who were familiar with Tojo Shuntatsu, and he was dressed much more formally today than usual.

He has not tried to find a formal job for a long time to get out of homeless life. It is reasonable to speculate that he took care of his image in order to meet someone of the opposite sex he likes.

The fact that he was drunk can also be used as evidence. If he was meeting a friend... Well, I'm not sure about this part. I feel that I have put the cart before the horse. After all, the first suspects are Xuesong and her daughter, and the way they hanged Tojo Shuntatsu out is obvious.

In short, those two people have alibis, and I believe that this matter is not the work of the mastermind, so it must be a method of remote destruction of evidence."

"Wait, brother Kudo."

Megure Jusan interrupted, "Why can't it be someone else? Maybe there are many men willing to work for Xuesong and her daughter."

"It is indeed possible, but I think killing is still a very serious matter after all. If it is just for beauty, most people will not be able to make this decision." Kudo Shinichi wrapped himself in a quilt and said with a smile: "And Wouldn’t it be more reasonable to go into the water to confirm first, and then change the direction of investigation if it is not found?”

Megure Thirteen sighed softly and said nothing. He just turned around and looked around. Who was buying hot soup for Brother Kudo? Why was he so slow?

“And the most important thing is professionalism.”

Kudo Shinichi continued: "Although it is strange for me to say this, killing is indeed a technical job, especially if you want to leave no traces. No matter how many people the Cedar mother and daughter can command, as professional as the previous one , a second one is unlikely.

In that case, rather than letting novices increase the exposure risk of the plan, it is better to use more sophisticated methods. "

Kudo Shinichi looked around, and Megure Thirteen hurriedly said: "I have sent that glass bottle to the scientific search department. There are photos, Kudo brother, do you want to see it?"

While he was talking, he had already placed the printed photo on the electric stove.

The glass bottle has a large body and a small mouth. It is a very common gift bottle. The kind used to hold folded paper stars is very common in middle schools. There were some black embers inside, but due to water erosion, their original appearance was no longer visible.

But it still left a corner after all.

Above the second photo, there is a bit of a broken corner of the notebook that has not yet been burned. On it is a love heart drawn with a red pen. Half of it is intact, and half of it is hidden in the edge of the dark ashes, along with the word "love" in it.

Kudo Shinichi pointed to the second picture: "Is it coated with white phosphorus?"

"Well, we need to wait for the test results."

"Then let me tell you my reasoning first."

Kudo Shinichi looked at the remnants of love and sighed inexplicably: "With this as evidence, my previous conjecture has been completely closed. Drinking with Tojo Toshida, or what he expected in his heart when drinking, and for The person who went to the lake alone was definitely a woman.

But after he went to the lake, he didn't see the man. He only saw a drift bottle on the lake.

That drift bottle may have a light on, or it may not. Anyway, the moonlight was bright tonight, and he saw it.

There was a note in the drifting bottle. We don't know the content now, but the part exposed and seen by Tojo Toshita is definitely very tempting.

I guess that the position of the drift bottle must be quite extreme. Tojo Toshita needs to lean out to the lake to reach it. But he was already impatient, so he probably opened it directly in that unstable posture. Drift bottle stopper.

The sealed gas in the bottle immediately hit him in the face and poured into his nasal cavity, causing an instant lack of oxygen. He lost his balance and fell into the lake, far away from the shore.

After the air in the bottle interacted with the outside world, the white phosphorus smeared on the note immediately began to spontaneously ignite, destroying the evidence, and finally fell to the bottom of the lake together with the glass bottle, leaving no trace. "

"!!!"

Kudo Shinichi's reasoning made everyone dumbfounded, and then they felt shocked in their hearts.

If Kudo Shinichi hadn't keenly discovered the problem, who would have thought that a random glass bottle at the bottom of the lake would be a key clue to the case.

Isn’t that kind of garbage everywhere? !

And the speed of discovery is also the key. If it were later, the ashes in the bottle and even the corners of the paper had been washed away by the lake water, then there would really be no breakthrough in this case.

Kudo Shinichi did not consider the mood of everyone, but immediately pointed out the next step.

"Immediately compare the handwriting on the text on the remaining page, and then carefully search for fingerprints on the glass bottle."

"clear!"

Chapter 53 Moriarty in the Eyes of Holmes

In the past, when Kudo Shinichi helped the police solve cases, he always came and went in a hurry, so the perception of the three departments was not very clear.

But after spending a week together this time, Kudo Shinichi really made them realize in every aspect of the investigation,

What a gap!

There may be some slight jealousy, but when I think of Kudo Shinichi working so hard just for the sake of justice, all those jealousies turn into admiration.

No wonder people accuse them of being incompetent. In comparison, they are indeed tax thieves.

In the early hours of Saturday morning at the Metropolitan Police Department, Megure Thirteen felt that his brother Kudo actually had a bad nature, so in order to prevent the situation from escalating, he rejected his request.

Now it seems that it was really a big mistake.

If the police had set up defense around Tojo Toshita early in the morning, wouldn't it be possible to catch the real culprit directly?

"Brother Kudo, do you think there will be a next time?"

Megure Thirteen planned to make amends, but Kudo Shinichi thought for a moment and shook his head.

"I felt like something wasn't right."

He clicked on the two photos on the electric stove: "If it is not necessary, do not add entities. Such a crime modus operandi is indeed very sophisticated, but if someone takes away the evidence, it will be more hidden. Just like the previous incidents, there is no No head or tail at all.

The mastermind behind the scenes wouldn't have thought of this, and we haven't found out his identity so far. He doesn't need to worry about his alibi, so why not do it himself? "

"Well, maybe he happened to have something busy today?"

"Then he can wait until he is free to kill Tojo Toshita. Even if our eyes are not on this person, he can do it even if he doesn't kill. I don't understand why they are so unnecessary."

"Silencing?"

"Of course the answer is this, but I feel it is not what we think. In the case of Masato Yukimura, the logic of the method has been closed, and there is no need for someone to deceive the police with false testimony, which would just be superfluous."

"In other words, Tojo Shuntatsu was silenced because of other things? But... this..."

"I don't know, Officer Megure.

But just looking at this incident, I have a feeling that the real murderer among Yukimura's mother and daughter... Alas, Yukimura Kiyoko and Yukimura Nami, with the issue of the distribution of the insurance money, to be honest, I can't tell them apart completely.

But Yukimura Kiyoko is younger and prettier, so I still prefer her.

I think her relationship with the mastermind is not completely seamless."

"Hiss——"

Megure Jusan took a breath and said suddenly : "Brother Kudo, are you saying that she did it alone, without the help of the mastermind?"

"Maybe, otherwise some things don't make sense."

Kudo Shinichi pondered for a moment: "By the way, compared to the methods here, I feel that the person who called the police before is more like the mastermind. He tried to divert the police's attention, just like trying to make up for someone's reckless behavior."

"But he was talking about a young woman, pointing to Xue Songqingzi, and you saw through it at a glance."

"Maybe he just did it casually. Anyway, he didn't have to pay anything, and who knows if he had other purposes. Maybe he was around at that time, and through our reactions, he verified some things he wanted to know."

"This..."

Megure Jusan didn't know what to say at all, he just felt his head buzzing.

These smart guys, calculating every word all day long, aren't they tired?

Kudo Shinichi is certainly not tired.

On the contrary, he is now more excited than ever.

After so many years of countless events, he finally met a troublesome opponent. Oh my god, just like Holmes finally met Moriarty, every nerve in his body was cheering and shouting for challenge and glory.

He said it, he will definitely win!

"Brother Kudo, brother Kudo!"

A shout came from a very far place. Kudo Shinichi opened his eyes in a daze and found himself lying on a sofa. The room was dark. Except for Megure Jusan who was calling him in front of him, everyone else had left.

Megure Jusan walked to the window and opened the curtains. The sky outside was not very bright. The moonlight had just faded and the east was not yet white. Everything was still in a haze.

"It's just past six o'clock. This is the Metropolitan Police Department lounge. Brother, you fell asleep while talking last night, so I moved you here."

Kudo Shinichi patted his dizzy head hard and let the thin blanket covering him fall to the ground.

"Have the results of the scientific investigation department's test come out?"

"Haha, I knew you would be most concerned about this, so I didn't take you to the hotel and called you up now." Megure Jusan picked up a document from the coffee table and handed it over, "The handwriting comparison results are out, it's Yukino Nami."