Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

Chapter 697: Bitter coffee

Gao Chengchao, who was quite haggard, nodded and looked at the scene of the homicide case by himself, because there are already forensic personnel taking pictures to collect evidence, so there is no need to worry about sabotaging the scene.

   When you enter the door, you can see a blessed middle-aged man lying on the side of the dining table, holding his throat in pain. Like many previous cases, it fits the characteristics of cyanide poisoning.

   A coffee cup was poured on the plate on the table, the coffee flowed down the table onto the chair, and finally left two pools of dried coffee stains on the carpet.

   The strange place is the position of the chair. Both feet in front of the chair are dripping with coffee, but the right foot does not overlap with the coffee mark on the carpet. Someone seems to have moved it.

   And I didn’t wait for the coffee to dry before moving...

Gao Cheng carefully checked the coffee marks on the table, and suddenly inferred that someone was sitting on the chair when the coffee was spilled, and got up and removed the chair when the coffee dripped onto the right leg of the chair and left marks on the floor. After that, there was a part of the coffee dripping. Arrived at the left foot of the chair.

   This inference is also in line with the direction of coffee splashing, the right side is short and the left is long...

   Gao Cheng looked at the coffee cup on the table again, and took the plate underneath. He found that the traces of coffee underneath did not match the shape of the plate. It was almost the same when the plate was removed, which is the appearance of the cup being poured directly.

   Knowing that Shoko Somei was the first to find him, Gao Cheng stopped his eyes for a moment on Shoko Somei who had explained to Meguro.

  According to the testimony of the uncle and the apartment manager, the entrance door was locked and the anti-theft chain was also hung up, but after breaking the door and entering, Shoko Somei ran ahead and found the living room directly.

   In addition, Xiaolan kept guarding at the door, and no one else escaped. Only Shigo Somei could do things.

   In other words, it was because it was Shoko Somei that a lot of loopholes were left under the rush of time, and the technique of hiding any traces was rather rough.

   Gao Cheng put his hands in and looked around the scene, and walked straight to the French windows on the locked balcony.

   It was still raining heavily outside. After opening the door, you could see the parking lot downstairs and his car directly below.

   "Is this floor-to-ceiling window locked at the beginning?" Gao Cheng asked back.

   "Yes," Mumu grunted, "but just in case, I opened the balcony and checked...In short, there is a possibility of suicide in this case, and it happens to be the same apartment..."

   "Please, please wait, police officer," Somei Akago asked anxiously, "There is also the possibility of suicide... Isn't this suicide? Because it's a secret room..."

"It's not the same. If you hang yourself in a secret room or slash your wrists, it should be suicide, but if you kill with poison, you don't have to. If a criminal brings a cake to visit Mr. Nakame, he will make an excuse after being poisoned in coffee. Leaving in a hurry, when he went out, he told him that the neighborhood was not safe, and asked him to hang up the anti-theft chain so that it would not be impossible to complete the secret room murder..."

  Megume saw a plate of cakes placed next to the coffee cup on the table, explained it quite empirically, and asked Somei Shigo: "By the way, where were you around 6:30 when the crime was committed?"

"Me?" Somei Shōgo sweated a lot. Seeing Mumu asked himself and hurriedly replied, "I didn't go to the company recently, so I slept at home and received Maori at about 6:30. My husband’s confirmation call. I remembered that I had an appointment with Mr. Nakame tonight at 7 o’clock, so I came here..."

   "Is that phone number at home?" Mugure continued to ask.

   "No, I used a mobile phone..."

   "Then can anyone prove that you slept at home all day?"

   "No..." Somei Akago said nervously, "Are you suspicious of me?"

   "Just in case..."

   "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh words

   "What's so strange?"

   "It's the traces of coffee overturned. Generally, if it is placed on a saucer, there should be circular traces underneath... There is no coffee on the saucer..."

   Gao Cheng walked into the room from the balcony, heard Conan’s exaggerated voice, a chill, and looked out of sight of the curtains in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows.

   Just now, he discovered that the curtains on both sides were wet. Apparently the French windows were not closed when Somei Shōgo found the body.

   Looking at Shoko Somei who was suspected by Conan, Gao Cheng frowned slightly.

   Taking advantage of the first discovery of the corpse, and doing so many tricks in a hurry, apart from being the murderer, there is only one possibility...

"Although I don't know for what purpose, do you know who did it?" Conan smiled confidently in the face of the puzzled Mumu. "The only thing that can do this in the room after the coffee is dry is The first person who came in to find Mr. Nakame's body... President Somei, is it only you?

   Uncle Mori followed and stared at the changed face of Shoko Somei: "It's really only you. You were the first to enter the secret room to eliminate the evidence that you didn't have time to eliminate at that time, right?"

   Somei Shōgo panicked: "It's just the traces of coffee overturned under the coffee cup and saucer. What kind of evidence is this kind of thing, do I need to hide it?"

   "Well..."

   Uncle Maori's head was a bit stuck, and he couldn't help but look at Conan, who is usually very clever, but Conan didn't continue to interrupt at this meeting, but looked at the coffee stains on the carpet with an incredible expression.

   This time is not just a murder, it is impossible to commit a crime...

   "Detective Megome," Gao Cheng's voice suddenly pulled back Conan's thoughts, "Is the identity of that woman confirmed?"

   "Not yet," Mumu sighed when referring to the woman who had jumped off the building, "I died on the spot, and I will contact the family members after I have confirmed my identity..."

   "I think," Gao Cheng Yuguang noticed Somei Akago's expression and said softly, "If there is no accident, I already know the identity of the deceased."

"Got it?"

   "What deceased? Is anyone killed?"

   Everyone at the scene followed Mumu and looked towards Gao Cheng, only Somei Akago bowed their heads.

   Gao Cheng did not mention the female staff immediately, but said to Takagi: "Officer Takagi, can you confirm the situation of President Somei's company first? It is best to find President Somei where the case occurred at 6:30..."

   Takagi who was standing behind was stunned, and subconsciously ran out the door: "Okay, I see..."

   Mumu twisted a pair of thick eyebrows together, and couldn't help asking: "I said, brother Shiro, do you really know the identity of the deceased?"

   "It's not just her identity..."

   Gao Cheng took the cup that served as a pen holder from the office coffee table and put it on the dining table. Then he told everyone his own inference: "President Somei wanted to hide it, but it was actually another person besides the producer..."

"another person?"

   "The reason why there is no coffee on the plate is that it is not a coffee plate originally, it should be used for cakes, right? It's just that someone put two pieces of cake on one plate..."

   Gao Cheng looked at Somei Shoko, who had his head down deeply, and divided the cake from the plate on the table, and suddenly there was a scene where the two of them were using snacks on the table.

   "Because of the limited time, President Somei had to pour the coffee from the other coffee cup into the flower pot in the corner. The empty cup was disguised as a pen holder, but the smell of coffee was still quite obvious..."

   "That's not right," Mugure said strangely, looking at the display on the table, "there is only one fork for the cake...Is it hidden in the kitchen?"

   "If you have time to hide in the kitchen, you can take the dishes and put the coffee cup in the sink," Gao Cheng shook his head. "That fork is probably still on Somei-san right now, right?"

   "Because there is no time..."

   Somei Akago took out the fork from his arms in a little frustration: "Mr. Nakame's body is right in front of him. If I don't shout out immediately, the first one will be suspected..."

   "Then," Mugure said solemnly, "Mr. Nakame was given to by Mr. Somei..."

"Yes..." Somei Akago bowed his head~www.NovelMTL.com~ I was always angry with him at work, so I pretended to commit suicide in a secret room like the police officer said. When I left, I also noticed my share on the table. Coffee and cakes, I said I clean up before leaving, but Mr. Nakame said that if there is an emergency, he should go first and let him clean up. Just in case, I will come back and have a look. It turned out to be..."

   "It's a pity, Mr. Somei."

   Gao Cheng interrupted suddenly: "You can't be a prisoner."

   "Huh?" Somei Akago's eyes trembled.

   "Because the prisoner remained at the scene until the moment the producer drank the poisoned coffee and was killed, and just received the news that someone saw you at the pharmacy near your company at the time of the crime..."

   Gao Cheng took the notebook from Takagi who had returned, and looked directly at Akago Somei: "It is the staff of your company, the clerk in the pharmacy can also testify..."

   "I..." Somei Akago said with a dry smile, "I went to buy medicine today, it was after 5 o'clock, did they get the time wrong..."

"President Somei locked the floor-to-ceiling windows," Gao Chengga interrupted severely, "to prevent the police from thinking about the car park jumping incident, right? Your female employee jumped off the balcony and died on the spot. After killing the producer of Zhongmei!"

   Somei Shōgo completely changed his face, opened his mouth and couldn't speak, tears could not help but gush out, and he knelt to the ground with a thud.

   "No...no! Maiko is innocent... She must have been the middle eye producer. They are both the producer of the middle eye..."

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