The elevator door opened and Takagi Wataru walked out of the elevator, "That's why the president sent such an email to the three of you this morning after he saw it..."
Conan was walking next to Chi Feichi. He looked up and saw a door nearby. He looked closely and saw that the house number was Room 2602, where Daisaku Katsumoto lived. He shouted a reminder and ran over, "Brother Chi."
, Officer Takagi, the door to Room 2602 is open!"
Takagi Wataru was worried that there were dangerous people like gangsters in the room, so he quickly ran forward and said, "Conan, slow down!"
When Conan arrived at the door, he didn't rush into the house. He observed the situation at the entrance. When Takagi Shiba ran to the side, he stepped inside again and ran to the balcony on the other side of the living room.
Takagi Wataru followed the room anxiously and helplessly, "Conan, wait a moment!"
Chi Feichi led Hagino Keiyu and the others to the door, turned around and said to the three of them, "Please wait here, you three. Don't go in. If you have any questions, just shout outside the door."
As soon as Conan entered the room, he locked the balcony facing the road and went to the balcony to see the situation.
Gao Mushe vigilantly looked at the bathroom, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom indoors. After confirming that no one was hiding in the house, he saw Chi Feichi looking at the indoor furniture. He hesitated and chose to look at the balcony.
When Takagi She walked onto the balcony, Conan had already seen it. Under Takagi She's silent gaze, he turned back to the living room thoughtfully. Seeing Chi Feichi looking at the coffee table in the room, he walked over and took the initiative to talk to Chi Feichi.
Talking about the situation, "Brother Chi, it's not just the entrance door. When I came in, the balcony door was also open and the door lock was intact. It looked like it should have been opened from inside. There were some new scratches on the cement guardrail of the balcony, and there were also some slippers.
One was overturned, and it looked like it had been kicked there in a panic. In addition, on the threshold of the balcony door, there were marks left by the feet that had been kicked hard. The marks were still very new..."
On the balcony, Takagi Sheba sighed softly.
He really couldn't keep up with Conan's speed at the scene, and he had to admit that Conan observed very carefully. The two people in the room communicated information and might talk about very important situations or reasoning...
Therefore, he decided to listen to what those two people had to say first.
"Judging from the current situation, President Katsumoto probably fell from the balcony here, and someone pushed him down," Conan said his conclusion and asked aloud, "What about your side?
Did you find anything?"
"The lock on the entrance door is in good condition, with no signs of being pried. The shoe cabinet at the entrance is fully stocked, only one pair of slippers is missing. The carpet is new and clean, but there is a mark of being kicked hard near the sofa."
Chi Feichi saw the light on the landline phone on the coffee table flashing. He squatted next to the coffee table and reached out to press the button on the landline phone. "It means that the murderer may not have changed his slippers when he came in. As soon as he entered, he had a conflict with President Katsumoto."
"The two sides had a scuffle, pushing, and dragging from the door to the balcony..."
"In the end, the murderer pushed President Katsumoto down!" Conan took the words with a serious expression. Seeing Chi Feichi checking the landline phone, he looked over and asked, "The light on the landline phone just turned on. Is it because there were missed calls?
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"Yes, it was the call that was opened five minutes ago." Chi Feichi turned to the second page of the call record, looked at it, and then returned to the first page. "Look at the email that President Katsumoto sent to them. The email was sent on
At 7:25 this morning, right? We heard the cry of "Someone fell down". At that time, behind Officer Takagi, the TV in front of an electrical appliance store just started playing the Today's Health program. The time was at 7:30.
This missed call number had a call record at 7:26 this morning. It was called by President Katsumoto. The call lasted for more than two minutes and was hung up at 7:29...
"
Takagi Wataru couldn't stay on the balcony any longer and hurriedly walked into the house, "That is to say, this is the last phone call that President Katsumoto made before he died, right? If this call had not been hung up when the murderer came,
The person on the other end of the phone might hear some strange noise!"
"Then give me a call and ask!" Conan reached out and pressed the redial button and the speakerphone, then took out his phone and opened the recording program.
Prepare for recording.
The phone rang a few times and was answered. The man on the phone politely said hello to "President Katsumoto" and immediately promised that he would seriously help solve the problem. His words were somewhat formulaic, like an after-sales service personnel for a certain product.
Takagi Wataru identified himself aloud, reported his warning, and asked the other party about the call made at 7:26. The man on the other side of the phone said that he was an employee of a decoration company, and also gave the name of the company and himself.
name and told the situation.
This company helped Daisaku Katsumoto adjust the interior decoration some time ago. The final carpet was delivered yesterday. However, after Daisaku Katsumoto laid the carpet last night, he found that the carpet was different from the style when he ordered it. This morning, Katsumoto Daisaku
I called and complained while measuring the length of the pile on the carpet.
In addition, employees of the decoration company also said that before the two parties had communicated about the solution, they heard someone from Daisaku Katsumoto ringing the doorbell. Daisaku Katsumoto said he would call back later and hung up the phone.
The ringing of the doorbell heard by the employees of the decoration company was probably the murderer ringing the doorbell outside. This also shows that the murderer arrived here at 7:29, which is one minute before Daisaku Katsumoto fell from the building.
After getting this clue, Takagi Wataru went to the apartment manager to adjust the elevator monitoring.
Around 7:30 a.m. when Master Katsumoto fell from the building, the three people did not appear in the elevator surveillance, and no suspicious person appeared.
After judging that the murderer did not go up and down floors by elevator, Takagi Wataru conducted a stair running experiment by himself. He ran from the 3rd floor to the 26th floor where Daisaku Katsumoto lived, and then turned back and ran back. It took a total of a little more than 7 minutes.
If the murderer is among those three people, judging from the testing time, the murderer should have immediately ran up the stairs to the 26th floor after receiving the provocative email from Katsumoto Daisaku, rang the doorbell, and waited for Katsumoto Daisaku to open the door.
There was a conflict with Daisaku Katsumoto. They pushed and struggled until they reached the balcony and pushed Daisaku Katsumoto down.
Afterwards, the murderer spent more than 3 minutes running downstairs and arrived downstairs at about 7:34. By that time, Takagi Wataru had already rushed to the body and was asking passers-by to learn about the situation.
After sending the email, the murderer and two other people were found...
"After that, we went to the third floor with them to check the room. The time we entered Mr. Hagino's room was about 7:36," Conan touched his chin with one hand, frowning and thinking, "The murderer was at 7 o'clock after receiving the email.
He left the room at 25 minutes, which means that the murderer left his room for at least 11 minutes..."
After the police investigation team arrived, Okiya Subaru and Haibara Ai no longer had to guard the body. They wanted to go upstairs to see the situation, but they found that Chi Feichi, Takagi Wataru, and Conan were downstairs again. Chi Feichi
He and Takagi Wataru went straight to the nearby convenience store, while Conan was stopped by Haibara Ai to ask about the situation.
After hearing what Conan said about the current situation, Subaru Okiya said thoughtfully, "But in their room there is still beer with foam that has not disappeared, coffee that is still steaming, and cigarettes that have just been burned and still give off a little white smoke.
"
Haibara Ai also thought about it, "I don't know about beer and cigarettes, but when it comes to coffee, leaving it for 11 minutes doesn't seem to be too long. It may not be completely hot, right?"
"If calculated based on the time when the coffee was seen, it should be 14 minutes. We are not sure whether the coffee is still hot after being left for 14 minutes, and we are not sure how many minutes the foam of cigarettes and beer can last. Therefore, Officer Takagi and Ike
My brother just planned to go to the convenience store to buy the cigarettes that Mr. Sodezaki smoked and the beer that Mr. Hagino drank. After buying them, he took them with him for experiments. "Conan looked at Ike Feichi and Takagi Wataru who had bought things from the convenience store.
There was no trace of relaxation on his face, and he said solemnly, "As for the coffee, we can use the coffee cup and instant coffee from Miss Yuehara, and let her brew it using the method she used before for experiments, but Brother Chi said
, the normal-sized cigarette usually burns out naturally in about ten minutes. When we arrived at Mr. Sodezaki's room, the murderer should have left his room for about 15 minutes, and the cigarette should have been extinguished long ago...
"
"The beer has been left for 11 minutes and there's still foam. Isn't that a bit of a stretch?
"Okiya Subaru thought about the accident uncertainly, "I usually don't pay special attention to this kind of time, which makes me want to follow the experiment to see the situation..."
In addition to Chi Feichi, Takagi Wataru, and Conan, the people conducting the experiment also included Haibara Ai and Okiya Subaru who were watching.
When a group of people returned to the apartment, Mumu Shisan, who had just led the team to take over the scene, stood at the door of the apartment and arranged for people to investigate the personal information of the deceased. Seeing Gao Mushe running around with Chi Feichi and other familiar faces, he felt a little speechless.
But he didn't say anything.
In order to improve the accuracy, the experimental team took the things to the homes of Hagino Keisuke, Tsukihara Kazuya, and Sodezaki Kazutomo for experiments.
First, at Keisuke Hagino's house, a group of people asked Keisuke Hagino to find a glass of the same size and style and pour the same beer into it. The result was that the beer foam would disappear after six minutes.
After that, there was coffee at Yue Yuanxiang's house. She asked Yue Yuanxiang to find the same coffee cup and brew a cup of coffee. Place it at the same room temperature as when the group first entered the room. It will take about eight minutes for the heat to disappear completely.
Finally, at Sodezaki Kazuto's house, Chi Feichi opened the pack of cigarettes of the same style he had just bought, lit one and put it on the ashtray, and waited for the cigarette to burn out completely. It only took nine minutes.
Megure Thirteen heard that Takagi Wataru arrived at the scene immediately after the deceased fell from the building and started investigating. In order to find out about Takagi Wataru, he took the elevator from the first floor of the apartment to the 26th floor where Katsumoto Daisaku lived, and found Takagi Wataru and others.
When he was not there, he took the elevator back to the first floor and asked the apartment manager. He then found the third floor after being reminded by the apartment manager.