The two tongue-tied women chewed the back of their tongues and walked around the corner holding the sheets, and met Mao Lilan who was looking for Kinukawa and Fai.
"You two, I just saw a little boy with brown hair..." Mao Lilan, who was worried that Kinukawa would be confused, asked the two anxiously.
"Eh? You seem to have seen it, right?" One waitress looked at another waitress.
"Well, just stand behind the wall over there..."
Following the direction of the waitress's finger, Mao Lilan hurried over.
But when he leaned out, he saw that the wall behind the corner was empty.
…
Boom, boom, boom——
In the laundry room, each drum washing machine was operating, making a constant roar of machinery.
Sanzhi Chaoxiang roughly threw the sheets in the big bucket into the last washing machine, turned the knob, and adjusted the washing time to 20 minutes.
After doing this, she pushed open the back door of the laundry room and came to the backyard of the hotel.
Although it is the backyard of the hotel, it is not accessible to tourists. If you want to get here from the hotel, you can only use the kitchen and laundry room doors.
In the dark courtyard, there are sundries that are not used by the hotel for the time being, and brand-new spare parts are placed in a small privately built warehouse.
Sanzhi Chaoxiang came to the small courtyard and saw no one around. He took out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter from the kimono belt around his waist.
According to the regulations of this hotel, female waiters are not allowed to smoke, because the smell of cigarette smoke may affect the mood of the guests, disgust them, and lower their evaluation of the hotel.
However, Sanzhi Chaoxiang has been involved in this stuff since he became an adult. During this period, he tried to quit several times, but all ended in failure.
Every time I quit smoking, it only took a few days, but I was met with a violent counterattack of cravings.
Cigarettes are something that you can't stop smoking once.
Just like that thing...
Whenever she gets addicted to cigarettes, Sanzhi Chaoxiang will take advantage of the break in washing clothes to slip here and take a puff.
Although it is risky to do so, after all, other employees come here often, but no one has ever discovered it in the past two and a half years.
As for the smell of cigarette smoke on your body, you can use the reason that the guests you entertain smoke and your body is somewhat smelly of cigarette smoke.
And the cigarette butts that have been smoked can be thrown into the drain of the laundry room and flushed away, and no one will find anyone smoking here.
Three sticks of morning incense held the cigarette in his mouth and lit it with a lighter.
The white smoke rose up, and she leaned against the wall, quietly enjoying this rare quiet and relaxing moment.
It's now past the hotel's normal business hours, and there are almost no employees coming to this place anymore. It's the most comfortable time of the day to smoke.
After smoking this cigarette, washing the remaining sheets, drying them and hanging them out, it was time for the waitress to rest.
The welfare conditions of this hotel for its employees are pretty good, with three days off and one day off, food, food and accommodation, and good hourly wages. This is an important reason why Sanzhi Chaoxiang chose this place.
Just as Sanzhi Chaoxiang was quietly smoking the cigarette between her fingers, wondering what was going on in her head, a voice suddenly floated from the side.
"What are you doing here?"
It was obviously a child-like voice, but it made the adult Asaka Saegashi look surprised.
She quickly dropped the cigarette in her hand as if on conditioned reflex, and looked to the side and saw that it was Kinukawa Kazuki.
"Yes, it's you..."
"Is there anything you need?"
A stiff smile appeared on Sange Asaka's face to relieve the embarrassment, and she turned around to face Kinukawa Kazuki. Her slippered feet were vigorously spinning the cigarette butts on the ground, wishing she could bury the cigarette butts in the ground with just the strength of her feet.
Although he wasn't caught smoking by the boss's wife, it was quite uncomfortable to be caught by his young son.
But fortunately, this child doesn't know his relationship with him yet.
But just when Saegashi Asaka was thinking this, Kinukawa Kazuki's next words made her heart feel like it was falling into an ice cave.
"You are my mother, right?"
After hearing these words, Sanzhi Chaoxiang's face was startled, her mind was in a trance, and she didn't know how to answer for a while.
Kinukawa Kazuhui took a step forward and said in a calm tone: "I already know everything. You are the one who sent me those postcards."
"It's you, Wenzi..."
Kinukawa Kazuki revealed that the name written on the note when his biological mother abandoned him when he was an infant was also the real name of Sange Asaka.
Hearing this name that no one had mentioned for a long time, Sanzhi Chaoxiang burst into tears and couldn't perform her best acting skills anymore.
"Xiaohe!"
Sange Asaka excitedly hugged Kinukawa Kazuki's body, and tears could not stop flowing from her eyes.
And Kinukawa Kazuki also allowed his body to be hugged by this "strange woman" whom he met for the first time, with a somewhat complicated expression on his face.
"Woo-"
"I'm sorry for you, Xiaohe, wuwu——"
After a while, Kinukawa Kazuki whispered into Sanzhi Asaka's ear.
"Please confess your crimes..."
"Um?"
Sanzhi Asaka took back her crying head, put her hands on Kinukawa Kazuki's shoulders, frowned and asked: "Xiaohe, what are you talking about?"
Kinukawa Kazuki continued to insist on his statement, "Please confess to the police!"
"As long as you sincerely repent of your crimes, you should be forgiven..."
The first words Kinukawa Kazuki yelled out represented his sincere wish that his biological mother would repent.
In the second sentence, his tone gradually became weaker.
He was adopted by the church, and his views on good and evil were greatly influenced by the Western church.
He was still young and didn't quite understand the concept of "surrendering to the police", but as long as he told his crimes and repented to the priest and God sincerely, his crimes would be forgiven by God.
The priest also taught him that if a person commits too serious a sin, God cannot forgive him and he will definitely go to hell after death.
Such as taking the life of yourself or others.
But even though he knew that murder could not be forgiven, he still hoped that his mother would repent and confess her crime to the police.
Just like the priest, who knows clearly that murderers will go to hell, but will patiently persuade murderers who come to confess to confess to the police.
Of course, in fact, the priest had secretly called the police. He just used classic words to hold the person back and let the police come and catch the criminal.
Father, I don’t care about martial ethics anymore.
Saegashi Asaka looked at Kinukawa Kazuki in disbelief. She never thought that the son she had just met would even know about her incident.
"So you know everything..."
"Please, confess to the police..."
"I beg you……"
There was already a hint of pleading in Kinukawa Kazuki's tone, and her pitiful face was touching.
Three branches of morning incense: "..."
After a moment of silence, with tears in her eyes, she nodded.
"Okay, I promise you."
…
In Room 205, the Shizuoka Prefectural Police finally arrived belatedly and were conducting on-site investigation.
Unlike Tokyo, the Shizuoka Prefecture area is relatively peaceful. Generally, only the arrival of Conan can train the dispatch speed of Shizuoka Investigation Section 1.
After quickly understanding the situation at the scene, Sengo Hengo, the Coral Head Police Department of Shizuoka Prefecture, greeted the two famous detectives.
"Oh! I really didn't expect to meet two famous detectives again!"
"Mr. Qin, Mr. Mao Li, then this case depends on your wisdom!"
Unlike his short-haired brother, Henggou Shenwu was very accustomed to the idea of "the police relying on detectives to solve crimes", and there was nothing against detectives in his heart.
In other words, a police officer with mediocre abilities can easily solve the case, and a detective with outstanding abilities can gain a reputation. This is a win-win situation.
And Henggou's words that were almost flattering were very pleasant to Kogoro Mouri's ears, and he immediately felt very happy.
"Haha~ I've got the whole package on my body!"
Henggou was even more excited, "Oh! Then I'm looking forward to this 'Sleeping Mouri Kogoro' show?"
"no problem!"
Mouri Kogoro was convinced, but it was Conan who rolled his eyes.
Please, don't say such big words every time, okay?
If Qin Zhibo was not here, Conan would still have the confidence to break the news and have a double yellow show.
But Qin Zhibo is here, and he really doesn't dare to make mistakes.
I used Mouri Kogoro as a tool to reason and deduct the truth, but others couldn't see it. How could Qin Zhibo's terrifying observation skills not see it?
Although Qin Zhibo would not expose him in public, it is still in line with the rules to tease him a little.
Moreover, with my own reasoning progress, I may not be able to deduce the truth faster than Qin Zhibo...
Conan looked at Qin Zhibo not far away, wandering in the room under the deceased duck.
He started again...
As soon as Qin Zhibo starts to wander, it means he is in the stage of observation and reasoning.
During the process of stretching, the eucalyptus was broken.
On Qin Zhibo, Conan rarely saw an expression with his chin raised and thinking hard.
Often when he is still waiting for a flash of inspiration, Qin Zhibo starts to announce the correct answer.
This time it was relatively slow, because Qin Zhibo had just gone out for a trip and didn't know what he did, which delayed some time.
Okay, I will quickly guide my uncle to solve the problem.
"Uh-huh?"
"..."
…
On the other side, Qin Zhibo was scanning the room, carefully checking if there was anything he missed.
Currently, the three people encountered in the bathhouse are the most suspect.
Not only can hot water help the strangle marks recover quickly, but the duck's head was hit hard and the bleeding spots on his scalp showed that blood had been spurted out.
No matter whether it splashed on the murderer or not, the murderer would definitely wash it off thoroughly with the water in the bathhouse just to be on the safe side.
On the other hand, the photo is also a clue that the murderer is a woman with a mole on her chest.
Unfortunately, when I saw the three people in the bathhouse, the water vapor was quite obscured. In addition, the girls with big braids and short hair were shyly carrying their bodies behind their backs, so I couldn't see their breasts at all.
Just when Qin Zhibo thought that he could only ask the police to look at his breasts to verify his identity, the police forensics personnel opened the duffel bag under the duck, and there was a bright spot lying inside.
Investigation point!
Qin Zhibo walked to the side and started investigating directly without asking the forensic personnel.
【Survey√】
[This is a movie video tape, but the plastic shell of the tape seems to have been pried open]
"Let me take a look at that belt..."
Qin Zhibo asked for a videotape from the forensic personnel, and the title was "The Shock of Xiaoxiaoguan".
The cover shows a ghost emerging from a dark teaching building, chasing a frightened Kinukawa Kazuki.
Minase Youmu Feng Ping was murdered...
But it looks like Kinukawa is making horror movies.
Qin Zhibo was a little surprised about the area where child stars were photographed. Maybe he was born in a church, so he is not afraid of this.
Turning to look at the edge of the plastic casing of the video tape, Qin Zhibo did see a small gap, which looked like a small white crack.
Why did the videotape being pried open become a point of investigation?
Qin Zhibo looked inside the videotape, and what he could see at a glance was the tape wrapped in transparent plastic.
This kind of technological product of a certain age can be regarded as a childhood memory for Qin Zhibo.
In the past, I would pick up tapes that others had thrown away, pull out the tape strings inside, and build a "defense line" on both sides of the road.
Most cars will drive directly over, and the tape will instantly break when stretched to the limit, and the threads will fly towards both sides of the road.
Whenever I see my "trap" working, I feel so happy!
It's like putting a stone on a railroad track and watching it fly away!
Now that I think about it, I don’t know what the pleasure is. It’s just that the length of the tape is wasted over and over again.
Tape...
Wire……
I see!
Qin Zhibo suddenly thought of what weapon the murderer used.
But even if I think of the murder weapon, I still can't identify the real murderer among the three people.
Qin Zhibo returned the videotape to the forensic personnel and asked him to keep it well before walking to Conan and others.
Conan finally completed the prompts to Mouri Kogoro and Henggou Sensou here, letting them understand that the time when the photo was taken can be used as a basis to find women in the hotel who have no alibi to narrow down the scope.
However, Qin Zhibo stood up at this time and said bluntly: "There is no need, just find three people."
"Huh? What does this mean? Mr. Qin?" Henggou said in confusion.
Qin Zhibo was too lazy to explain to him in detail, so he said, "You will know when we find them."
Qin Zhibo handed the names of the three people to Henggou Shenwu, and Henggou Shenwu immediately arranged for his men to call them.
Soon, the boss lady, the girl with big braids, and the girl with short hair all arrived.
"Sanzhi, why are your eye circles red? Did you cry just now?"
The landlady looked at the three branches of morning incense and expressed concern.
Saegashi Asaka did not answer, but looked down at Kinukawa Kazuki.
In her son's encouraging eyes, Sanzhi Chaoxiang solemnly said to Henggou.
"Mr. Police, I confess..."
"I surrender to you."
Henggou Zhenwu was still waiting for Qin Zhibo's next prompt when he suddenly heard these words.
"What? Did you admit it?"
"Yes, I admit it..." Sanzhi Asaka lowered her head, and the boss lady and the short-haired woman next to her also opened their mouths in surprise.
Mouri Kogoro, who was very surprised, rushed over and asked, "Are you the murderer of Kamoshita?"
"Eh?"
Hearing what Mouri Kogoro said, Saegusa Asaka was startled and quickly shook her head in denial.
"No! I didn't say murder, I said gambling!"
"I have been gambling illegally and owe a lot of money...but I have never killed anyone!"