Officer Takagi dialed the second person's phone number.
"Call Shansen? Yes, I called yesterday. It was on the train on the Toto Loop Line, but there was only a message..."
The man's name was Hinoki Higaki and he was a gas station clerk. He seemed very confused about the police calling.
"Who were you with at that time?" Officer Takagi asked routinely.
"No, it's just me. Why would the police ask me such a thing?"
Hinoki Higaki's voice came out.
"Did that guy complain to the police about me smashing the bumper of his Ferrari? I just slightly bumped the car I borrowed from him into a telephone pole, it's not a big deal...although
He was almost going crazy..."
Officer Takagi pondered for a few seconds and could only use the most common words: "No, it's not about the car, it's about Mr. Sugimori... Can you please come to his house to discuss the specific situation? We will pick him up.
Please, may I ask for your address there..."
After ending this dry conversation without any information, Officer Takagi immediately dialed the third person's phone number.
It's just that in the deceased's notepad, the phone number was noted as Xingrong Hall.
Within a few seconds of dialing this number, the call was connected.
"Ah, I am the editor-in-chief, and my surname is Lin. Is there anything the police want to do with Inaba?"
A somewhat familiar voice came, and everyone thought for a moment and recognized that it was the voice of the editor-in-chief who asked about it in Inaba's message.
"Do you know where he was around 11:30 noon yesterday?" Since the other party was not there, Officer Takagi could only retreat and ask the editor.
"Not sure... the editors come in and out very frequently..."
Without a definite alibi, Officer Takagi had no choice but to start asking important questions: "He once left a message on someone's answering machine. Your voice was also heard on the answering machine. You said, 'April 22'
11:28 am’…”
"Oh, in that case, I think he should have been in the editorial office at that time, right? His mobile phone has been having some problems, so he often comes to me to ask the time. As early as more than a year ago, I asked him to get a new one as soon as possible."
When answering the phone, another editor on the other side asked the chief editor: "Chief editor, are you going to watch the night game today? Is that okay?"
The voice on the other end of the phone became quieter. It must have been the editor-in-chief covering the phone with his hand.
"We're not at the Tokyo Dome today, so I'm quite worried..." The editor-in-chief said with worry in his voice.
Officer Takagi and Conan held their breath and heard the editor who just spoke said: "No, I'm not talking about the game, I'm talking about your body..."
The editor-in-chief said: "Oh... my cold was cured after a good night's sleep, and the bloodshot eyes were also cured. It must be because I have been too hard recently..."
The editor-in-chief's voice suddenly became louder: "Ah, Inaba! The police are calling to find you!"
"Huh?" Atsushi Inaba on the other end of the phone seemed quite surprised.
"Police?" Inaba took the phone from the editor-in-chief.
After a conversation with him, Officer Takagi ended with standard words: "...Mr. Inaba, we will pick you up later. Please wait for us in the editorial office."
At this time, Officer Megure had noticed that a heated discussion had begun behind him.
He turned around and looked at the three little ones: "What's wrong?"
"This is the second message..." Yuantai frowned.
Mitsuhiko opened his mouth: "The car radio coming from inside sounds weird..."
Ayumi also said: "I usually say, 'Please pay attention to your feet when you get off the bus...', but the message only said please pay attention without the following paragraph..."
"No... this just means that the second person's suspicion has been cleared." But what everyone present did not expect was that Yuan Huaiyu immediately gave his objection.
"It seems like this is true... Do you think that if you were the robbers who forged an alibi, would you try to reconstruct the entire scene on the phone?" Conan was stunned for two seconds and immediately understood what Yuan Huaiyu meant.
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Haibara Ai also nodded: "In other words, even if the Circular Line Tram failed to finish the following paragraph due to some unexpected problems, the suspect would not have missed this detail... If the second
If he is a suspect, there shouldn't be any problem with his fake background voice..."
"Well, that's it..." Yuan Huaiyu looked at Officer Takagi, "Just in case, please call Officer Takagi to confirm."
Officer Takagi called Osui Station, and sure enough, the other party told him the specific situation.
"The person in charge of the announcement had hay fever, so he didn't finish the last sentence because he was trying not to sneeze?!"
Officer Takagi and San Xiaozhi looked at Yuanhuaiyu with admiration.
"As expected of Mr. Yuan! That's right. A prisoner who prepared a phone message in advance to forge an alibi is unlikely to make such an easily verified omission..." Megure Police Department also nodded.
"The Life Information TV in the first message just now, I also confirmed with my wife just now that the reports about hay fever did start around 11:25..."
The Mumu Police Department also confirmed the authenticity of the first message.
When Officer Takagi heard this, he suddenly felt troubled: "So, these three people all have alibis..."
"No, the only one who can be said to have an alibi is the second Mr. Higaki... His message time was 11:27, even if it was broadcast on the train at Okuho Station, which is more than 30 minutes away from here.
It is simply an impossible task to record the voice and then come here to kill Mr. Shansen and answer the phone... Not to mention the special situation where the announcer made a mistake due to force majeure yesterday..."
"Well, if it's the sister named Qinghua, and the TV recording in the phone message was actually recorded in this room, then it's not impossible..." Conan nodded.
"Yes! You can use the TV in the room..." Others suddenly realized.
"If you press the answering machine after the murder, turn on the TV, and use the sound from the TV as the background sound, it will be as if the call is coming from somewhere else..." Mitsuhiko said excitedly.
Huihara Ai also looked at Yuan Huaiyu: "And no one would think that the murderer would turn on the TV leisurely after committing the crime and then make a phone call to make a recording..."
Yuan Huaiyu smiled but said nothing.
Others are also waiting for his explanation, especially Conan.
At this moment, the harsh and persistent sound of the level crossing sounded outside the window again.