All in all, this is a case that will happen as a matter of course.
After all, there are too many conditions that trigger the murder, and it has basically reached the full value, which has to make people complain.
But as expected, with Conan here, he couldn't stay idle at all. Originally, he thought that after going with Conan to investigate the information about our father Yingyou's father, he would be able to rest for a few days. Unexpectedly, just one day later, look at the seamless connection here.
There was a murder case.
However, complaints are complaints, and the work that needs to be done still needs to be carried out.
"He died about an hour and a half ago. Counting the time we arrived, he died almost an hour ago."
After inspecting the body, Minoru Aso, who was accompanying the team, gently slapped the mouth of the deceased, Masaki Morokuchi, twice as he spoke: "The smell of almonds in the mouth is probably due to suffocation caused by poisons such as cyanide."
."
"The word "you" is used very spiritually." Tang Ze teased with a smile.
"I'm just confused. Ever since I joined the company, as long as I've been poisoned, nine times out of ten it's been cyanide."
Aso said with a depressed look on his face: "I really don't know where those people got the cyanide poison."
"Who knows."
Tang Ze glanced at Conan and immediately said: "Maybe this is a type of poison that is commonly known to the public, so they all choose this poison to commit suicide or kill someone."
"In addition, there was coffee near the deceased's mouth. It was most likely that the poison was put in the coffee cup."
Aso took a look at the coffee cup spilled on the ground and said, "Of course, more definite news needs to be confirmed by further testing at the Science and Technology Research Institute."
"Well...except for the window through which Conan entered, all the doors and windows in the bedroom are locked."
Karasawa looked around the surrounding environment and then looked at Morokuchi Masuki's left hand and said: "There is a key in the opponent's palm. I'm afraid it is the key to this room. I wonder if there is a spare one?"
"Because Mr. Moroguchi hates people entering his room without his permission, we don't have a spare key." Ms. Anabuki on the side explained aloud.
"Then let's try it."
Tang Ze picked up the key from Zhuguchi Yigui, opened the door and tried it from the outside. Sure enough, it could be opened.
'As expected, it's Ke Xue's routine.'
Seeing this result, just when Karasawa was about to express the opinion he had already guessed, Mouri Kogoro suddenly spoke: "It seems like he committed suicide."
As Mouri Kogoro spoke, he motioned for everyone to look at the surrounding environment, "Look at this situation, it doesn't look like this coffee was poured down by someone, does it?
Moreover, both the windows and doors in the room are well locked. In addition, Teacher Moroguchi has no spare key. Doesn’t it mean that this is a secret room?
In this case, no matter how you look at it, it’s suicide, right?”
'Here it comes again, here it comes again, Kogoro Mori's suicide theory...'
Conan and Tangze looked at each other with helpless expressions on their faces.
It is said that there are no accidents in a secret room, but for Kogoro Mori, any secret room would be considered a suicide.
This has almost become another law.
"why..."
The conclusion of Kogoro Mori also made Takagi somewhat disagree: "If someone had added cyanide poison to the coffee beforehand, wouldn't it be a secret room murder?
Of course, this premise is that the prisoner should know that Mr. Zhuguchi is used to drinking a cup of coffee every morning."
"well..."
After hearing Takagi's words, Mouri Kogoro on the side let out a long sigh and said a little speechlessly: "Do you think a normal person would drink coffee while holding the key to his room?
Of course, when he discovered that the coffee was poisonous after drinking it, it was impossible to grab the key immediately. After all, cyanide poisons quickly.
In other words, the key can only be held in Mr. Zhuguchi’s hand before he drinks his coffee.”
"But, why do you have to hold the key yourself?" Sato Miwako on the side said with some confusion.
"I'm afraid this is a move that Mr. Moroguchi made deliberately because he wanted to convey some message." Mouri Kogoro said with a serious face.
"But Mr. Moriguchi, I also made an appointment to have a formal meeting with you, Mr. Mori, this morning?"
Takagi's words made Mouri Kogoro's expression stagnant, and Takagi smiled and raised a possibility: "That's not the case. It's also possible that Mr. Moroguchi realized that he overslept and hurriedly took the keys and prepared to go out.
And it is entirely possible to drink a cup of coffee first to make yourself sober and end up being poisoned."
"Hey, it's true, please take a closer look."
Mouri Kogoro pointed to the place where the coffee cup fell with his hands on his hips and a look of helplessness: "You see, the cup fell next to the bed, right?
The location of the coffee machine is in the study room on the other side.
If he was really in a hurry, then Mr. Moroguchi would have walked to the kitchen to pour coffee and drank it right there.
And look at the bedside table, is there a coffee cup and saucer?
This shows that Mr. Zhuguchi drank coffee by his bedside at that time, proving that he was not as anxious as you said."
"But, is there another possibility?"
After hearing what Kogoro Mouri said, Miwako Sato also thought of a possibility: "After Mr. Moriguchi got up this morning, someone came to this room.
After mixing cyanide poison into the coffee, she put it in front of him and urged him to go out quickly, and then left the room."
"This is impossible." Tang Ze shook his head and said: "Don't forget, since you are urging Mr. Zhuguchi to leave, it is impossible for him to close the door of the room by himself."
Looking at everyone who was still arguing about this matter, Tang Ze shook his head helplessly and said: "Don't think about this now, baseless reasoning is no different from random guessing.
Let’s conduct an investigation first and then judge the circumstances of the case.”
"really..."
Takagi smiled awkwardly when he heard this, looked at the three people who were standing aside and said little, "I just heard the introduction of you three by Conan and Xiaolan.
Are they Ms. Anabuki, Mr. Moroguchi's editor-in-chief, and Mr. Dejima, a freelance writer, and Mr. Tarumi, the photographer?
The three of you were planning this meeting, so did you stay in Mr. Zhuguchi’s villa yesterday?”
"After all, we had to come here at 5 o'clock in the morning to start preparations for the meeting. We were really pressed for time, so we accepted Mr. Moriguchi's invitation and stayed with Detective Mori."
Chuishui on the side explained with a smile.
"But it's a bit strange." Miwako Sato on the side touched her chin and muttered: "If it is a secret room, usually the door or window will be poisoned.
But now after a preliminary inspection, nothing strange about the person has been found."
"Conan came in through the transom here."
Tangze rubbed Conan's dog's head, pointed to the transom and said, "This should be the only place in the room connected to the outside world."
"But even a child can barely pass through this transom." Miwako Sato said, looking at the window.
"But if it was suicide, then why did Mr. Zhuguchi hold the key in his hand?"
When Takagi said this, he looked at Mouri Kogoro and said: "Detective Mouri, you said before that Mr. Moroguchi wanted to convey some message to us, and he did it deliberately, right?
I wonder if you have guessed Mr. Zhuguchi’s intention in doing this?”
"Right now, I can only think of one possibility,"
Mouri Kogoro touched his chin with a serious look on his face: "Perhaps he did it to prevent us, who have been living in the villa since yesterday, from being suspected of murder.
Like I said before, it's impossible to create a secret room without locking the door with a key."
"Then I would like to ask everyone, did Mr. Zhuguchi show any signs of wanting to commit suicide last night?"
"No." Miss Anabuki recalled and shook her head: "There is nothing unusual..."
"Indeed, Mr. Zhuguchi has a very good temperament when he sees Detective Mori." Photographer Tarui Shui echoed: "I don't see any unusual reaction at all."
"Well, yes, everything is normal." The writer, Mr. Dejima, echoed.
"Well, maybe Zhuguchi-sensei has some troubles that cannot be told to outsiders."
Mouri Kogoro sighed and said as if he knew the other person very well: "This spring, Mr. Moriguchi's former editor-in-chief, Akita-san, also committed suicide, didn't he?
It’s also possible that Zhuguchi-sensei doesn’t care much on the surface, but actually feels responsible in his heart, so maybe he’s still feeling heavy.”
"Okay, let's stop talking about speculation here first. Let's wait until the Forensic Department collects the evidence and sends it to the Science Research Institute for testing and the results are obtained."
Seeing that if he didn't stop it, Kogoro Mouri would clear the criminal's suspicion, Tangze quickly interrupted the conversation of several people and stopped the topic.
Miwako Sato, who was on the side, also began to look around the room.
"Indeed, and if it is a murder case, there will definitely be clues left somewhere in this room."
While checking door handles, window switches and other suspicious places, Sato Miwako said: "After all, this is a secret room, and it is impossible for prisoners to sneak in and destroy evidence after the door is closed.
But having said that, I want to ask you, before our police arrived, you probably didn’t touch anything, right?"
"No." Miss Anabuki shook her head and said, "After we found out that Mr. Moroguchi passed away, Detective Mori already reminded us not to move around."
"Hey, Karasawa Criminal, that ring is a bit strange, isn't it?"
At this moment, Conan on the side suddenly spoke up and gave a clue, but these words were "precisely stepping on thunder", which caused Takagi to become extremely panicked.
"Ring!?" Takagi standing aside quickly leaned down and said with a panicked look on his face: "What are you talking about? Conan-kun...
Of course, if you say you don’t care, you would definitely be lying, but we are investigating the case now, and we will talk about those things later..."
"Eh? What are you talking about?" Conan said with shame, "That's not what I'm talking about."
"You two are not talking about the same topic at all." Karasawa patted Takagi on the shoulder and smiled, then whispered to Conan in a low voice.
"Hey~~"
A playful tone came from Conan's mouth, and the teasing look on his little face made Takagi feel unnatural for a while.
"Wha, what!" Takagi looked at Tang Ze and said shyly: "Tang Ze Criminal, don't tell children everything."
"What's the matter? Even if you don't say it, wouldn't Conan not notice it because of your powers of observation?"
Tang Ze chuckled and patted Takagi on the shoulder to make him accept his fate: "As for your reaction just now, even if I didn't say it, Conan would know it."
Looking at Takagi's embarrassed and sneer expression, Conan still came to the rescue for his tool: "Takagi Criminal, the ring you just talked about was not the ring you imagined, but the ring on Teacher Moroguchi's hand."
"The ring on Mr. Moroguchi's hand?" Takagi looked at Masaki Moroguchi who was standing aside with confusion: "Then what happened to the ring?"
"I heard that the ring is the ring from Master Moroguchi's One Hundred Books. There are many gems inlaid on the front, and the word "100th" is engraved on the ring."
Conan explained while pointing to the ring: "But look at the word "100th" on the ring, it's upside down."
"Oh...so that's it..."
While Takagi was amazed, he couldn't help but blush. He was obviously embarrassed by his reaction just now, and asked quickly: "But maybe he wore the ring backwards."
"That's unlikely."
Tangze on the side shook his head and said: "Don't forget that Conan and Xiaolan said before that Mr. Zhuguchi is a very nervous person.
It is hard to imagine that a person who smashed a magazine in the face of a female editor because his name was made 0.1 mm smaller would wear the ring backwards.
With his sensitivity to fonts, he shouldn't make this mistake."
"Ah, so, this is indeed a murder case!!"
After listening to Tangze's words, Takagi suddenly realized and shouted: "I'm afraid the prisoner's purpose of killing was this diamond ring!
After killing Mr. Zhuguchi, the murderer replaced the real diamond ring on his hand with a fake one.
But because I was too panicked at the time, I put the ring on backwards in a hurry."
Listening to Takagi's reasoning, Karasawa's mouth twitched, and he had to sigh that Takagi was really a logic genius.
But he did not immediately refute it. Although the motive was wrong, it was not important in the early stage of the investigation. The main issue was to turn the case back from suicide first.
So he looked at the three suspects on the side and asked: "Excuse me, in your impression, did Mr. Zhuguchi ever take off the ring?"
"Ah...this..."
After hearing this, Miss Anabuki thought for a moment and said, "Because Mr. Zhuguchi said that he likes this ring very much, he will never take it off whether he is taking a bath or going to bed."
"If that's the case, then this is a murder case."
Tang Ze set the tone for the case. He looked at everyone with solemn faces and said solemnly: "And it was a secret room murder!"
This chapter has been completed!