Chapter 517: The Incident at Nagato’s House

November 2, Sunday, Nagato Mansion, main house, bedroom of Nagato Dosan.

After Hattori Heizo left, Mori also planned to leave, but Nagato Dosan asked the three of Mori to stay to attend his birthday party, and Mori accepted pretending to decline, and then Mori's mobile phone rang. Yamazaki arrived, but the gatekeeper at the door refused to let him in. Butler Musashinosuke called the concierge to let Yamazaki in.

"I haven't asked yet, aren't you together?" Hattori Heiji asked Conan in a low voice.

"There is a tracing request, and Yamazaki has done this." Conan whispered, "The commissioning firm has been doing this for a long time."

Hattori Heiji smiled and said, "No wonder the uncle's face is so ugly when he hears about the missing person."

After a while, Yamazaki arrived, "Mr. Nagato, hello, I am Uncle Mori's assistant Yamazaki."

"Hello." Nagato Dosan said.

Yamazaki reported the results of today's investigation to Maori, but there was still no result, "Uncle, so far, his colleagues, relatives and friends have said that there is no news about that person, but they don't know if they are not credible. This is not the way to continue the investigation. I think it would start directly with his insurance. We now have his photo and ID number, we can look up his medical insurance number, look up the last hospital he went to, and just pay someone to keep an eye on him."

"Okay." Maori said with some heartache.

"What's going on?" Hattori Heiji asked Conan in a low voice.

"The entrustment fee, the person who ran away owed the client 10 million yen, and the client said that he would give uncle 50% of the money back when he found the person." Conan laughed softly.

"So much? Well, that's not right," Hattori Heiji thought for a while and asked with a smile, "What if we can't get it back?"

Conan shrugged, "Of course I don't have any money."

"No way? It's that bad." Hattori Heiji laughed.

"What's worse is that my uncle has paid at least 400,000 yen for the travel expenses and food expenses." Conan laughed.

"It's so miserable." Hattori Heiji smiled.

"Yes." Conan nodded and smiled.

"I mean you." Hattori Heiji motioned Conan to look behind him.

"Ah?" Conan looked up and found that Maoli's fist was enlarged on his head. Before he could dodge, Maoli planted a big mushroom, and squatted down with his head in pain.

Mori shook his hand, and told Yamazaki about Nagato Dozo's tracing request.

"President Nagato, have you been paying attention to Ms. Akagi Kotomi?" Yamazaki asked.

"No?" Lan asked in surprise.

Yamazaki asked: "Uncle Maori, do you still remember a few elementary school classmates, and what are the names of their marriage counterparts?"

Maori thought for a while and said, "I really don't remember much."

"Yes, I was paying attention to Qinmei, but their family suddenly disappeared." Nagato Dosan sighed, "I thought they went on a trip, but they never came back."

Yamazaki said: "Then, President Nagato, you have to be mentally prepared, they may be killed."

Nagato Daosan was silent for a moment, then said sadly: "There's no need to check, I don't want to know anymore."

"That's good," Yamazaki said to Maori, "Uncle, it's getting late, I'll go back first."

Nagato Dozo said: "Mr. Yamazaki,

You can stay and come to my birthday party too. "

"No, thank you, I still have work tonight." Yamazaki said with a smile. ...

In the evening, not many people attended Nagato Dosan’s birthday party, only his eldest daughter Nagato Nobuko, his second daughter Nagato Yasuko and her husband Nagato Guangming, housekeeper Musashinosuke, secretary Hinata Aoi, Mori Kazuran, Conan Kimonobu Heiji.

At the end of the party, Nagato Dosan announced the marriage of his eldest son, Nagato Hidetomi, and Miss Hinata Kui.

After hearing this, Nagato Nobuko left with a long face. Nagato Guangming stopped Musashinosuke who wanted to call her, "Don't worry about her, she is still single now, and she is the only one left." Then he said with a smile , "How can the protagonist Xiuchen not be here, I'll go and call him right away." Said and left.

Not long after, while Ran was talking to Hinata, Conan pulled Hattori Heiji out of the room, "By the way, Hattori, you brought us here, right? Let your father recommend uncle."

"Actually, I miss you." Hattori Heiji smiled.

"Come on." Conan showed the anesthesia needle, "Quickly tell the truth."

At this time, the cordless phone in the bedroom rang, and Musashinosuke answered the phone. It was Nagato Guangming, "Please let Dad listen to the phone."

Musashinosuke saw Nagato Yasuko, who was beside Nagato Dosan's bed, shook his hand at him, and told Nagato Guangming, "Master is already asleep."

"Xiuchen is gone, and I can't find it anywhere." Nagato Guangming said, and then cried out in horror.

Mori snatched the cordless phone, "Mr. Guangming, what's the matter, where are you now?" Conan and Hattori Heiji also gathered around Mori.

Nagato Guangming said in fear: "I'm in the room directly below you, someone turned off the light and came from behind with a knife...ah!" At this point, there was no sound from the phone.

Mao Li and the others hurried to the balcony and shouted down, only to find a man with a bandage on his face, a knife in his mouth, came out of the room, glanced at them, and returned to the room.

Mori, Ran, Conan, Hattori Heiji, Nagato Yasue, and Musashinosuke ran to the door of the room together.

"Xiuchen!" Hinata Kui sat on the ground weakly. ...

Mao Li and others came to the downstairs room of the third bedroom in Nagato, and found that the door was locked, and there was a cry for help from Nagato Kokari. Musashinosuke immediately went to get the backup key, but before the key was brought, came Nagato Guangming screamed, and Hattori Heiji ran away immediately, "I'll go find the security guards to surround him from the outside."

Immediately afterwards, Musashinosuke brought the spare key, Mao Li and others entered the door, and found that there was no one inside, and the balcony door was wide open, so they ran to the balcony and found a rope still shaking, and Nagato Guangming was in the main room. On the spikes of the fence outside the house, apparently dead.

"Light, my light!" Changmen Kangjiang burst into tears.

"Hey, I didn't find the murderer here," Hattori Heiji appeared downstairs, "What about you?"

"I didn't find it either." Maori said, "He won't go up." Then he said, "No, President." Then he turned and ran, and Lan, Conan, and Musashinosuke followed.

After a while, Mao Li and others came to Nagato Dosan's bedroom door, and when they called the door, they found that the door was also locked, but then the door opened, and Nagato Nobuko came out and said, "What are you doing, keep your voice down, Dad is still sleeping .”

"Why are you here?" Hattori who rushed over asked.

"I heard the screams, so I didn't worry about it, so my father came over to take a look." Nagato Nobuko said, then raised his hand and slapped Musashinosuke, "Where did you go?"

"Yes, I'm sorry." Musashinosuke bowed his head and said.

"Hey, what happened to my family this detective?" Nagato Nobuko asked Musashinosuke.

Musashinosuke said: "Miss, Mr. Guangming was killed by Master Hideomi."

"Really?" Nagato Nobuko asked, "My brother really did that?"

"Yes." Musashinosuke said.

"What do you mean?" Molly asked.

"I thought he would do this one day. Every time those two people met, they would have a big fight." Nagato Nobuko said, "They were friends since childhood, and they seemed to have a good relationship before, but after that incident Fire and water cannot be tolerated."

Hattori Heiji asked, "What does that matter mean?"

"Twenty years ago, a fire broke out in a hotel near here. Hideomi and Guangming, who were both high school students, passed by there. She is today's Hinata Kwai." Nagato Nobuko said, "Hidetomi suffered severe burns on his face. From that day on, he stopped going to school and stayed indoors all day acting as a novelist. There is no girl, this woman took this opportunity to get close to Xiuchen, and even became father's secretary under his recommendation, and even dreamed of marrying Xiuchen."

Hattori Heiji asked, "So, where were you before you came here?"

"In the case of an alibi, I was bored in my room drinking and calling my friends to complain, but because of the drinking, I couldn't remember who I called." Nagato Nobuko said, "But just check the phone number. I understand." After finishing speaking, he returned to Nagato Dosan's bedroom.

Mao Li let Lan go to Nagato Dosan's bedroom, and then called the police, but learned that a security guard had already called the police, so he called Yamazaki. Then Maori, Conan and Hattori Heiji asked Musashinosuke to take them to the security room to investigate the surveillance video, but there were too many surveillances, so Maori had to stay and watch slowly, let Musashinosuke lead the security to search for the murderer, and Conan and Hattori Heiji also went up. ...

At night, around 10:30, Miyamoto's house.

Yamazaki, who just came up from Mei Dai Restaurant and just entered the door, received a call from Maori.

"Another incident?" Miko Miyamoto asked.

"Yes, the murder incident." Yamazaki shook his head and said, "I've passed. By the way, I don't think I'll be back tonight, so don't wait for me."...

On the other side, Nagato's mansion.

While searching with a flashlight, Conan asked Hattori Heiji, "Didn't you find any suspicious people just now?"

Hattori Heiji said: "No, I also asked the two security guards at the gate of the main house. Before and after the incident, only Mr. Guangming had gone out. He was looking for Mr. Hidetomi. He yelled a few times around the bushes and the pool, and then came back. .”

Conan asked, "By the way, why did you ask me to come here?"

Hattori Heiji said: "Actually, President Nagato heard strange noises last night. It seemed to be the sound of someone running in the corridor, and there were several strange noises of something colliding with each other. So I informed my dad, and I I just didn’t want to watch the boring cultural festival, so I followed. At first, my dad and I thought it was just a thief stepping on the spot, and we planned to get the stolen goods by ourselves after the thief got it. But this is not my dad’s jurisdiction, so we can’t keep the police here, dad Dad was worried that I was alone, so I mentioned Detective Maori. It happened that Chairman Nagato wanted to find someone, so my dad recommended Detective Maori. In the end, I didn’t expect..."

Conan said: "I didn't expect that it was a human life that was stolen."

"But don't you find it strange that there is the sleeping Kogoro, a famous detective who has become famous thanks to you, sitting here." Hattori Heiji said, "It seems that the murderer is quite confident in his murder plan."

Conan said: "Or this plan can no longer be changed."

"Also, have you noticed the items left behind by the murderer near Mr. Guangming's body?" Heiji Hattori asked, "The murder weapon is nothing, but since you want to escape quickly, you don't need to take off your hat and bandages, and you don't even need to take off your gloves. If you take it off, isn't the murderer afraid of leaving fingerprints?"

"In other words, the murderer is someone from inside the mansion, as long as the makeup is removed, he can blend in with the crowd." Conan said, "And the murderer deliberately showed us his bandaged face, obviously to put the blame on Mr. Hidetomi. "

"We were the only ones in the main house at the time, and the only one who could have done this was Miss Nobuko who left the dormitory halfway." Hattori Heiji said, "But if it is true as she said, she was talking on the phone If so, she has an alibi."

"Then let's go and have a look," Conan said with a smile, "it happens that she is in the president's room right now."

"No, it's not very good." Although Hattori Heiji said so, his feet followed suit.

Soon after, Conan and Hattori Heiji entered Nagato Nobuko's room. The bed was a little wrinkled, the cordless phone was thrown on the side of the bed, there was a bottle of wine on the bedside table, half of the wine in the bottle had gone, and there was lipstick on the mouth of the bottle. It seems that someone once sat on the head of the bed while talking on the phone, while drinking directly from the bottle.

"It seems that Miss Nobuko was very angry at that time." Hattori Heiji said, and then found that Conan was rummaging through things, so he whispered, "Hey, hey, Kudo, this will be mistaken for a thief."

"Don't worry, don't worry," Conan said with a smile, "I'm just a child."

"That's why I'm worried." Hattori Heiji muttered, "I'm not a child."

At this time, the phone rang, which startled Hattori Heiji, and then found that Conan answered the phone with the voice of Ms. Nobuko, and said in surprise: "You can find the frequency without even trying? What kind of ear are you? !"

Conan glared at Hattori Heiji, signaled him to be quiet, and then pressed the speakerphone. A man's voice came from the phone, "Nobuko, is what you just said true?"

Conan asked in Miss Nobuko's voice, "What?"

"Did you forget? You just said," the man said shyly, "that, you want to marry me."

Hattori Heiji immediately covered his mouth, afraid of laughing out loud.

"When did it happen?" Conan said in Miss Nobuko's voice, "I don't remember."

"Not long ago, you called and talked a lot, and I couldn't get in." The man said.

Conan asked in Miss Nobuko's voice: "Be specific, when?"

"Ah? Let me see," the man said. "The displayed time is from 10:04:31 pm to 10:16:57 pm. It's specific enough."

Conan said in Ms. Nobuko's voice: "That's enough, but something happened to my family, I'm not in the mood to talk about it now." Then he said, "You can call later." After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone.

"The last sentence, well done." Hattori Heiji smiled.

"Ten ten o'clock in the evening is about the time when the crime happened." Conan put away the voice-changing bow tie, "Now I can confirm that the person who is biting a knife on the balcony and pretending to be a Hideo is absolutely impossible to be Miss Nobuko."

"So, Mr. Hidetomi is the only one who can do this incident," Hattori Heiji said, "but after removing the bandage, where can he hide?"

"Could he have undergone plastic surgery?" Conan asked.

"Then let's go to Mr. Hidetomi's room and take a look." Hattori Heiji smiled, "Of course, it's up to you."

"You bastard." Conan rolled his eyes.

Soon after, Conan and Hattori Heiji entered Nagato Hideomi's room. In addition to books, the room is full of books.

Conan flipped through it and found that there was a recording on the phone, so he pressed it to listen.

"Mr. Hidetomi, I am Yamada from "The Age of Literature and Art". The next delivery time is set at 1:00 noon tomorrow. We will still meet at the old place. October 31st at 1:28 pm."

"I'm Yamada, and I've arrived at the coffee shop. It's 1:04 p.m. on November 1st."

"I'm Yamada. I've been waiting for six hours. I don't think you'll come, so I'll go back today. It's 6:55 p.m. on November 1st."

Conan said: "November 1st was yesterday, Mr. Xiuchen didn't go to the appointment, does that mean..."

"Killed," Hattori Heiji said, "If the murderer robbed and killed Mr. Hidetomi yesterday when Mr. Hidetomi was out, then sneaked into the mansion in his appearance, and then made this murder plan at night, and then killed him tonight." Mister Bright..."

"It's very possible that Mr. Hidetomi came over this afternoon and didn't say a word." Conan said, "It's not at all the same as Ms. Nobuko said, as soon as I met Mr. Guangming, I would quarrel."

"Come on, let's go to the kitchen to check." Hattori Heiji said, "Even a murderer still needs to eat."

Not long after, Conan and Hattori Heiji came to the kitchen to inquire about Nagato Hideomi's strangeness in the past two days, and later learned that there was indeed something different. Nagato Hideomi usually doesn't eat breakfast, and usually doesn't eat much, but last night he even ate the dessert that he doesn't usually eat, and he also had breakfast this morning.

Hattori Heiji asked: "By the way, Mr. Hidetomi hasn't changed those bandages around his face all the time?"

"How is it possible?" said the maid, "Miss Kang Jiang will help Master Xiuchen change a new bandage every three days, I remember changing it on the afternoon of the 31st."

Conan said: "There are other strange places, anything is fine."

The maid asked, "Is it strange that a sheet is suddenly missing at home?"

"Hey, you can't count wrong, can you?" asked the cook.

"Probably not." The maid said, "We have counted several times."

After thanking him, Hattori Heiji and Conan left the kitchen. Hattori Heiji said, "Hey, Kudo, this yard is being repaired, and there are pits everywhere. Do you think it is possible for Mr. Hidetomi to..."

"It's very possible." Conan said, "Mr. Xiuchen is buried somewhere in this yard."

"It seems that I guessed right just now. After the murderer succeeded, he took off his disguise and returned to the crowd." Hattori Heiji said, "There are two things now, one is to ensure that no one slips away, and the other is to find Mr. Hidetomi's body Let's go, let's go to the security room to see how the uncle checked the surveillance video."

Not long after, Conan and Hattori Heiji saw Mori in the security room, and learned that no one had entered or exited the gate in the surveillance video, nor had anyone climbed over the courtyard wall. And learned from the security guards that no suspicious person was seen.

After leaving the security room, Hattori Heiji smiled and said, "It seems that the murderer is among these security guards."

Conan stroked his chin and said, "Anyway, first find Mr. Xiuchen's body."

"Why, do you have any questions?" Hattori Heiji asked, "Is there a problem with my guess?"

"No, it makes perfect sense." Conan said, "But I always feel that there is something that we have overlooked, such as the motive for killing."

"Anyway, there is nothing wrong with having a grudge against them." Hattori Heiji smiled, "Let's go, the police will arrive in a while, and try to find Mr. Hidetomi's body before they arrive, and solve this incident."...