With Tang Ze leading him, Conan easily passed through the police guards.
As soon as they entered the first warehouse, Karasawa and the two found that the four suspects, Dr. Agasa and Officer Megure were all in the warehouse.
"Eh? Why are you all here?" Tang Ze asked after seeing a few people.
"Osomatsu's leg is seriously injured, we have to send him to the hospital." Director Mikami explained.
"His foot is injured like that, I'm afraid he won't be able to play Godzilla for a while..." A Li looked at the painful expression on Asong's face as he was being helped up, and couldn't help but regretted it.
"Don't talk about Godzilla, even ordinary people can't play the role." Anda held Asson's arm, looking annoyed.
I don’t know if he is talking to Dr. Agasa, or if he is alluding to Asomatsu giving up on Godzilla and wanting to play ordinary roles.
Of course, although he looked full of resentment, he still took care of Asong.
Seeing that Asong was about to be taken away with the help of several people, Conan quickly stepped forward and asked: "Uncle Asong, didn't you show us Godzilla's claws at noon? Do they have feet?"
"Of course!" Asong asked with a cold sweat on his head: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"
"It's okay." Conan chuckled and the two fell silent.
Watching several people carrying Asong away, Conan immediately looked for something in the column marked "Knives", but soon felt a pain in his finger.
When he took out his finger, there was a long cut on his index finger.
"Wait...if that's the case, then that person is the only culprit!!" Conan turned and looked at the four people who were walking out of the door, with a solemn look on his face.
"So that's what happened..."
Tangze on the other side also showed a look of understanding, and at the same time lamented Conan's powerful reasoning ability. Although he accidentally reminded the other party, it was the other party who reminded him later.
If Conan hadn't found so many clues later, Tang Ze wouldn't have seen the true nature of the matter.
"It's just that he is too self-destructive...thinking that I have seen through everything..."
Karasawa was amused, but at the same time he was dissatisfied with this situation.
He hopes to have the real strength and confidence to face all this, instead of being a lofty person in the air, otherwise he will be exposed sooner or later.
At this moment, he was even more eager to become a real detective. He didn't want to follow Conan every time and only find the truth through the other party's prompts.
Although his current strength is not as good as that of his opponent, fortunately, time is on his side. This chaotic timeline allows him to continuously learn and enhance his abilities, and the system brings the possibility of becoming stronger quickly.
"It seems that the case can be concluded." Tang Ze said to Conan with a smile.
"Ah, then I'll leave it to you." Conan looked at Tang Ze and said, "With you here, I don't need to appear."
"Well, leave it to me." Tang Ze waved his hand to stop the four people who were about to leave.
"I'm sorry, I can't let you leave just yet." Tang Ze looked at the confused people and smiled: "Because the prisoner is among you!"
"Nani!!" Officer Megure said in shock: "Are you telling the truth? Karasawa-kun!?"
"Of course." Tang Ze nodded and said with a smile: "Why would I talk nonsense about something I'm not sure about."
"As someone who has personally experienced it, Tang Zejun should know that, right?"
Officer Memu looked solemn, "You chased the prisoner wearing the Godzilla holster until he reached the rooftop, but he disappeared.
Only the props and costumes burned and fell to the ground downstairs.
If you know who the prisoner is, you must first solve the mystery!"
"Well, this method is actually very simple. It's just that we fell into inertial thinking for a while and didn't see it immediately."
Faced with Officer Megure's question, Karasawa chuckled and began to explain: "I thought about it again. When we chased the criminal again, Miss Yumi, Conan and I only saw the criminal's tail.
This tail was a real tail, because the opponent was wearing Godzilla's holster, and Godzilla's tail disappeared around the corner.
But in fact, none of us saw the prisoner actually go up the stairs with our own eyes."
"But there are painted footprints on the stairs. This is an indisputable fact. From the corridor to the stairs leading to the rooftop, there are the other party's footprints!" Officer Megure continued to ask questions.
"This is the key point of this technique!" Karasawa looked at Officer Megure and asked: "If I said that those footprints were made by the prisoners in advance in order to pretend to climb to the rooftop, Officer Megure, wouldn't you?
Will you believe it?"
"How can you believe it?" Officer Megure said angrily: "If those footprints had been in the corridor from the beginning, they would have been discovered long ago, right?"
"But what if there are footprints only on the stairs leading to the rooftop?"
Tang Ze asked back: "That's the steps leading to the rooftop. Generally speaking, few people will go to that place. If you don't go to the rooftop specifically, then it's normal for people to miss you, right?"
The reason why I am sure of this is because the murderer made a big mistake!"
"Mistake?" Officer Memu looked at Tang Ze and said, "In other words, do you have evidence that those were the footprints printed by the prisoner in advance?"
"right!"
Karasawa affirmed: "This evidence is that there are traces of Godzilla's tail grazing the paint on the floor in the aisle, and on the stairs leading to the rooftop, there are only clean footprints and no trace of the tail dragging the paint!
I'm afraid the prisoner didn't think of this at all at the time!
In other words, after the prisoner escaped from our sight around the corner, he did not go to the rooftop at all, but quickly came to the bottom of the stairs and took off Godzilla's holster!
Then he took the props and costumes to the utility room at the corner of the stairs, lit the Godzilla holster on fire and threw it to the ground from the window.
In this way, we who are following the footprints will naturally think that the prisoner has escaped to the rooftop.
But there was no one on the rooftop, only the burning Godzilla holster that fell to the ground!
So it became a strange case of "the prisoner disappeared on the rooftop"!"
To put it simply, this is more like another manifestation of "one leaf blinding one's eyesight", where people only see the leaves in front of them but ignore the surrounding affairs.
In this case, those paint footprints not only guided the actions of Tang Ze and others, but also caused them to ignore other very simple possibilities.
Because I was in a chase and pressed for time, I saw the footprints spreading upstairs, so my brain directed my body to follow them without hesitation, but I ignored the stairs and the downward direction.
And this is exactly what the prisoner wants to see.