The word "coincidence" made Akai Hide's eyes twitch slightly, and he couldn't help but look at these people a few more times.
Mouri Kogoro felt that the eldest sister-in-law of the Hotta family was making trouble unreasonably: "What a coincidence, she..."
Before he could defend the young lady who was riding the bus, Hota Fumiko suddenly sighed: "Yes, I hate my father very much - I hate him so much that I almost want to kill him with my own hands."
Mouri Kogoro: "..."
Wait! What are you talking about, this beautiful lady? There are enough beauties in prison, and you are not missing!
Fortunately, Hota Fumiko only likes to breathe loudly when she talks. She then added: "But I didn't do it tonight - although I am very grateful to the murderer, I have no intention of helping that person take the blame."
.”
After saying that, she looked at her brother again: "We are all a family, there is no need to pretend in front of me - you hate him too, don't you?"
"..."
The eldest son and sister-in-law looked away in unison and did not look at her.
——Judging from this reaction, Hota Fumiko was actually right.
"..." Mouri Kogoro was shocked for a moment, then silently retreated back between the three high school students.
Turning his head left and right, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he looked at the three familiar faces: the children around him were more normal - in comparison, President Hotta's children were really scary.
At this time, there was a knock on the door of the lounge, and the butler pushed the door open and entered.
Mouri Kogoro looked at him: "Has the landline been repaired?"
The housekeeper shook his head helplessly: "I originally wanted to connect the cut phone line, but when I looked carefully, I found that the plug was also broken... What should I do now?"
Conan was not in a hurry to call the police this time. He suddenly shouted: "Rye whiskey!"
"!" Akai Shuichi paused for a moment.
Conan glanced at his reaction from the corner of his eyes, and his heart moved slightly: Sure enough, he has a special reaction to this kind of wine. From this point of view, "rye whiskey" is probably also a code name used to refer specifically to a certain cadre, and it may even be the name of a certain cadre.
The code name of the person in front of me!
Of course, the more you think like this in your heart, the more tense your face becomes.
Conan followed the plan and followed what he had just said, and continued as if nothing had happened: "There was a fragment of a wine box at the crime scene, and the bomb was contained in the 'rye whiskey' wine box. The person who made that bottle of whiskey must be the murderer...
My reasoning is correct, brother Jiang Xia."
Jiang Xia nodded: "Today is the deceased's birthday, and the bottle of wine containing the bomb was probably delivered to him on this occasion. The deceased thought it was a birthday gift, so he opened the wine box without any precautions, triggering the detonation.
device, and then die.”
"Birthday gift..." The expressions of several family members of the deceased changed slightly, and the housekeeper also thought of something.
"It's not from our husband and wife!" the deceased's eldest son said first, "I gave him a watch."
The sister-in-law knew that her proof was useless. She looked at the housekeeper and said, "You are with my father every day. You must remember what everyone gave you - tell me."
The butler sighed and said, "I remember this bottle of whiskey was a gift from the second young master to the master."
Conan: "?" It wasn't given by this guy who calls himself Shuichi Akai?... But it's not a big problem. Maybe the second son is his subordinate or colleague.
Speaking of which...
Conan realized something belatedly. He had been looking at Akai Shuichi just now: "Where's that uncle Ryoji?"
Others: "!"
When they turned around, they realized that Hota Ryoji was not nearby and had gone somewhere.
Jiang Xia asked the housekeeper: "Where is his room?"
"Ah, over here." The butler came to his senses and pushed the door open.
Several people hurriedly followed and finally arrived at a guest room. Jiang Xia opened the door and saw that the room was empty and there was a handbag on the bed.
Jiang Xia glanced inside and poked Conan.
Conan understood, walked into the house, grabbed the bag, raised his hand and dumped the contents on the bed.
Akai Shuichi saw everything and nodded secretly. His methods were not pedantic. No wonder the efficiency of solving the case was so high.
Jiang Xia walked into the house, and while trying to stop the naughty child, she looked at the things on the bed.
The luggage bag was full of Hota Ryoji's personal belongings: shirts, wallets, car keys... and among the pile of daily necessities, a sharp dagger shone coldly, making it particularly eye-catching.
…
The housekeeper led several people to the parking lot and pointed to a red sports car: "This is Master Liang's car."
"You didn't actually drive away." Mouri Kogoro touched his chin, "It seems like the other person is still nearby."
Jiang Xia took a few steps closer and suddenly discovered something: "The tires of this car are punctured, and so are the cars next to them."
"?!"
Mouri Kogoro was shocked. He ignored the sports car and ran to his car first. When he looked down, he saw that the tire was indeed flat.
"This guy is so wicked!" Mouri Kogoro was furious, "Just cut the phone lines, why would he harm passers-by's cars? Is he planning to trap us here and kill us all?!"
Akai Shuichi also glanced at his car. The car was parked in the corner, with a crooked bumper, and looked extremely miserable. A closer look revealed that the tires were also sacrificed, not surprisingly.
Akai Shuichi: "..." It's annoying, but not very annoying - after all, the car was already damaged by the deceased when we were on the road, and now it's just a matter of changing one more tire.
And as early as just now, he discovered that the dagger found in his second son's room had traces of the rubber being poked. At that time, he guessed that the tires of some cars would be damaged, but now... it turned out to be true.
"What should we do now?" Several members of the Hota family have never encountered such a thing. While cursing Hota Ryoji for murdering their father, they looked at Jiang Xia in panic, "I remember that on the business card you just handed out, it says
Since you are a detective - you must have encountered similar things, think of a solution quickly!"
"Ahem!" Mouri Kogoro cleared his throat: There is such a majestic and reliable adult detective standing next to him, but you only yell around a minor. What a big deal.
"It's impossible that all the cars have been damaged." The adult detective looked for a solution steadily, "There are only three cars in this parking lot, one mine, one Hota Ryoji's, and this one..."
Akai Shuichi claimed: "This is mine."
Mouri Kogoro nodded, looked at the eldest son of the Hotta family, and asked expectantly: "So where is your couple's car? Did you park it somewhere else and escape the accident?"
The couple looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly: "Neither of us can drive, so we came here by taxi."
