21. Modus operandi
"What is this?" Officer Meguchi said in surprise: "Do you still need these things to play the mascot?"
"I don't know this either." The female staff member shook her head.
"So that's how it is." Kudo Shinichi smiled confidently.
In the dark elevator, what Chen Xing didn't see clearly had appeared in front of him. And he finally figured out the truth.
When leaving the storage room, Kudo Shinichi's steps were obviously relaxed, and Chenyu also noticed this.
"It seems that the detective has seen through the truth." He said.
"As long as you observe carefully, the truth is not difficult to find." Kudo Shinichi said with a smile, "As long as you have done, there are always traces to follow."
Chen Xing's eyelids drooped, and he didn't answer the conversation.
Then the next moment, the person who was walking around him who was walking hard suddenly paused, grabbed the clothes on his chest, and bent down with pain.
"Kudo?" Chen Xing subconsciously supported him.
Kudo Shinichi's forehead was covered in cold sweat, his face turned pale, and his teeth were clenched, as if he was enduring an indescribable pain.
His eyes were very panicked, and his other hand unconsciously clasped Chen Xing's wrist and exerted force.
This is similar to the last time. Chen Xing doesn't have to ask, but he knows it, but he is not sure whether he fainted like last time or turned back to Conan.
"I can't... Xiaolan is still waiting for me!" Kudo Shinichi stood up with force, panting slightly.
"Do you want it..." Chen Xing spoke.
"No, I'm fine." Kudo Shinichi forced a smile.
Only he knew it, and then he gritted his teeth hard, and there was a faint smell of rust in his mouth.
But he must not fall down at this time.
Chen Xing didn't say anything, but just supported his arm with all his strength.
On the other hand, a police officer reported: "Mr. Otaya did not detect any smoke reaction."
"Then the murderer is a robber with the purpose of money?" said Takagi.
Officer Megumi pondered: "Okay, then investigate any suspicious persons entering and leaving this building."
"Yes!" the policeman responded.
"No need." Kudo Shinichi shook his head and said, "There is no need for that, because the murderer is already in our hands."
"What?" The policeman present was stunned.
"Then now, it's time for us to come out and solve the mystery of the truth." Kudo Shinichi said, enduring his physical discomfort.
...
"Hey, what are you doing? Haven't you investigated it just now?" Oba Gou said unhappily: "I don't have any smoke reaction on me, and I haven't killed anyone. I'm not clear enough?"
He thought nothing was wrong, but he was called over with Chen Yizi.
"Why do you have to treat me as a suspect who killed the president?" Oba Gou frowned.
"Well, don't be angry." Police Officer Megu was not sure, because he really didn't see any suspicious points or clues...
"You can also say something for me, I really didn't kill anyone." Oba Guo looked at Tatsuya with grievance.
Chen Yizi nodded and said, "Yes, he was always with me at the time of the incident. Although he did leave for a while when he was changing to wear a mascot, it was the locker room and other employees were present. He would never escape from there or transfer the bag with anyone."
As she said that, she looked at Officer Meguri angrily, "So you mean, am I lying to you, aren't you?"
Officer Meguchi waved his hand awkwardly.
"We don't doubt you, and we all believe that you are inseparable from Mr. Oba tonight." Kudo Shinichi walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and his tone sank: "You are even by his side even at the moment of the crime."
Chen Yizhu was furious immediately, and his face turned black with anger, "You mean I was conspiring with Mr. Oba and killed my father?"
"No, I just said that the murder happened next to you, and you didn't notice it at all." Kudo Shinichi said: "Because you just closed your eyes and kissed Mr. Oba with your back to the elevator door, you will naturally be unaware of it."
"Kiss him?" Officer Meguru's ear was tilted.
Kudo Shinichi smiled silently, walked to Miss Tatsuya, and naturally reached out and hugged her in his arms.
"Ah, you..." Officer Memu was stunned, and could be said to be a little dumbfounded.
"He held you with his left hand, blocking your ears, and pressed the elevator button while kissing you." Kudo Shinichi perfectly reproduced the scene at that time. Although his posture was ambiguous, his tone was very calm. "Then, the moment the elevator door opened, your father was also killed at this moment."
He let go and looked at Oba Go, "and it was through Mr. Oba's hands."
Chen Yizhu was a little stunned.
Dachangwu's eyes chilled. He knew very well that the young man in front of him was telling the truth, just as if he was standing beside him and witnessing everything.
Officer Meguchi said in confusion: "But even if he blocks her ears and shoots with a pistol equipped with a silencer, a person will at least make a sound after being injured."
"Paper firecrackers." Chen Xing said.
"That's right, that's why Mr. Oba arranged the moment of shooting in the first few seconds of the cocktail party," said Shinichi Kudo.
"What?" Officer Megu couldn't figure it out for a moment.
Kudo Shinichi explained: "At the beginning of the cocktail party, there will be loud noises like paper firecrackers. As long as the left hand covering her ear is moved away at the same time, the faint sound before will not have any special feeling."
Oba Goku sneered, "Your young man's reasoning is quite interesting, but your reasoning still has a big loophole."
"The president was unwell and planned to go home early. He had already taken the elevator downstairs. How could he still stay in this elevator?" He raised his chin and raised his eyebrows and said, "You wouldn't want to say that he was waiting for me to shoot and die, so he stayed in the elevator for me to take action?"
"He actually didn't go downstairs at all, and he was indeed waiting for you in the elevator." Kudo Shinichi said calmly: "And, he was waiting for you to come to see him in this place after you put on the mascot suit."
Dachangwu was shocked.
Kudo Shinichi said: "I think you must have told the president at that time that he would pretend to go home first, secretly wear a mascot here, and then surprise the staff at the venue."
"So the clothes on the deceased are so messy!" Takagi Shibu knocked his palm, "because he is about to prepare to change his mascot's coat."
"So that's it. If the elevator is in standby mode, it will not make a 'ding' sound." Police Officer Megu said thoughtfully.
"And this is the company's special elevator. As long as you have made it special in advance, no one will approach this elevator during this period." Kudo Shinichi added.
After hearing him, Oba Gobu smiled silently and said with a little provocative expression: "What about the smoke reaction? If I were the murderer, there should be a smoke reaction on my body."
Kudo Shinichi smiled confidently and happily thrust his chin.
Chen Xing silently opened the mascot's movable eyes and took out the plastic bag containing gloves and rubber bands from the plastic shell.
"You put on gloves in advance, wrap the plastic bag on the pistol, then tie it tightly with a rubber band, and finally hide it in the pocket of the top."
Chapter completed!