Chapter 781: The Pearl in the Darkness

April 9th, Sunday, evening, International Trade Building Viewing Restaurant, Table 10.

Looking at Lan and Kudo, Heye asked in a low voice suspiciously: "Although they are chatting while eating, why do I feel that the atmosphere is not right?"

"It's a bit strange." Yuanzi asked in a low voice, "Mei Daizi, is what you said true?"

Mei Daizi swallowed the food in her mouth and whispered, "My brother said it was my mother."

"Then it can't be wrong," Yuanzi whispered, "but it really doesn't look like it now."

He Ye asked in a low voice: "Could it be that Kudo flinched?"

"Maybe he hasn't brewed it yet." Yuanzi asked in a low voice, "By the way, Mei Daizi, can you hear me?"

"A little bit, incoherent." Mei Daizi whispered.

Hattori asked, "Hey, hello, what are you muttering about?"

"It has nothing to do with you, eat your food." He Ye said angrily.

Table number seven.

Lan asked, "By the way, Shinichi, why did you come here for dinner with me?"

Kudo hesitated for a moment, and said hesitantly, "Lan, that, actually, I have something I want to tell you."

"What?" Lan asked suspiciously.

Kudo blushed a little and said, "That..."

At this time, there was a faint scream, and then there was a scream.

Kudo stood up, hesitated for a moment, sat down again, and said with a dry smile, "Maybe I saw a cockroach."

Seeing Maoli and Hattori leaving, Lan smiled and said: "Go, I will wait for you here, I will not be like someone, I will not hide or escape here."

"Sorry." Kudo got up and ran, but was stopped by someone as soon as he went out. ...

Table ten.

Hearing the screams, Mori laughed loudly and said, "Ha, ha, it's finally time for my detective Mori Kogoro to appear again." Then he ran away.

"I'll take a look too." Hattori also left.

Mei Daizi asked with a smile: "Isn't it, is there another incident?"

Seeing Kudou stand up, Haibara's heart is also raised, he can't go, it will be photographed by reporters, then sees Kudou sitting down again, he breathes a sigh of relief, and then sees him leaving again, he becomes worried again.

Yamazaki noticed Haibara's anomaly, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, it's fine."

Seeing Kudo leave, He Ye said: "Lan is really, even the days of proposing marriage are not peaceful."

"Cough, puff!" Dr. A Li sprayed the wine he just drank into the glass, "Proposal, marriage proposal?"

"That's right, that table is where Mr. Yusaku and Ms. Yukiko made love," Sonoko said, "Such a romantic thing was disturbed like this."

At this time, Oda Sakurako came over, greeted everyone present and said: "Mr. Yamazaki, Haruko has caught Mr. Kudo, and is sending him back to the lounge to change clothes, and then he will be sent back to Mihua Square."

"I see." Yamazaki said, "Then you send Lan there too." Then he said to the others, "If you want to go there, go together, and we will go back after we resolve the matter." After finishing speaking, he left.

Afterwards, Lan, Sonoko, Kazuha, Mei Daiko, Conan, Dr. Ari and Oda Sakurako left.

...

The scene, the staff elevator room on the restaurant floor with a view.

Mao Li stood in front of the elevator to maintain order, and a middle-aged man fell in the elevator disheveledly, with a small hole in the middle of his forehead.

Seeing Yamazaki approaching, Hattori asked suspiciously, "Are you alone? What's going on? Where's Kudo?"

Yamazaki said: "The reporter will arrive soon. Kudo is a celebrity, so it is not suitable to show up. I will send him off. Others have returned to Mihua Square."

"It's a pity, I still want to compare with him." Hattori said.

Yamazaki said: "The scene should be like this. The murderer stood outside the elevator door and waited with a gun. When the elevator door opened, he shot and killed, and then let the elevator run up."

"The question is how did the murderer know he was inside," Hattori said.

"And which floor was he killed on?" Yamazaki said. ...

On the other side, Yamazaki's lounge.

With the consent of Oda Haruko who was guarding outside, Dr. Ari took Conan into the lounge, and then took out a box and handed it to Conan.

Not long after, Kudo came out of the room after changing his clothes. Seeing Huiyuan fiddling with a blood drawer, he shivered immediately, "Blood draw again? Didn't you have it this morning?"

"It's been twelve hours." Haibara said, "I will go to you tomorrow morning before you leave, and have another blood draw. I will teach you how to draw blood. You will have to draw blood for 48 hours, 72 hours, and 96 hours Blood, when the time comes, you send the blood sample back to me, and then we can talk about it according to the situation."

"No, isn't it?" Kudo said with horror.

Huiyuan said expressionlessly: "Actually, blood should be taken every hour today, and then..."

"Stop, stop talking." Kudo rolled up his sleeves as if death was at home, "Come on."

After the blood was drawn, Huiyuan put the blood drawer into the box and handed it to Dr. A Li to install it. ...

On the other side, the scene.

Ten minutes after the police arrived, Police Department Megure and Officer Takagi led the team over.

"Mao, Maori!" Mumu Police Department raised its triangular eyes, "Why are you here?"

"Coincidentally, it's a complete coincidence." Maori laughed dryly, "We're here for dinner."

"Really? That's really a coincidence." Mumu Police Department said angrily, then looked at the scene and said, "Elevator shooting, detective, it's really strange, I have a feeling of deja vu."

Yamazaki said: "The police department, there was an incident here 20 years ago. If it is according to what you said, there may be clues after checking."

Megure Police Department said: "Then, Takagi, you call the person on duty to check."

"Yes, the police department." Officer Takagi went to call.

Mu Mu Police Department asked: "Who found the scene?"

Maori pointed out a building employee who was trying to use the elevator and found out about the scene when some guests stopped by to prove he was telling the truth.

The deceased did not have a wallet or ID on him, but someone recognized the deceased as Taiji Tatsumi, the president of a company called Chentai Advertising Agency. The office is in this building. They held a party on the banquet hall floor today.

The Megure Police Department asked Officer Takagi to go down to inform them, and after a while, a young woman ran over calling "Dad", accompanied by some members of the club.

After questioning, the woman's name was Tatsumi Sakurako, the only daughter of the deceased. The last time the person who saw the deceased was a director named Oba Satoru of Chentai Advertising Agency and his two subordinates Hamada and Yokoo. The location was on the banquet hall floor. The three of them sent Taiji Tatsumi to the elevator.

According to what they said, Chentai Advertising Agency had a party to welcome the new mascot tonight. Before the party officially started, Taiji Tatsumi suddenly said that he was not feeling well and left, saying that he wanted to go back to the company for a while and then went home.

Ohba Satoru, Hamada, and Yokoo sent the president Tatsumi Taiji to the elevator together. When they were about to go back, they ran into Tatsumi Sakurako. She came to look for Oba Satoru, so Hamada and Yokoo went back first, and then Tatsumi Sakura Satoru and Oba Satoru chatted for a while.

Ballroom floor, in front of the elevator.

Mao Li asked: "So, you were in front of this elevator room at the time, did you pay attention to which floor the elevator stopped at?"

Tatsumi Sakurako said: "I didn't pay attention to this."

Oba Satoru said: "I didn't pay attention at first, but I took a look when I left. The number displayed on the elevator is the fortieth floor where the viewing restaurant is located."

Hattori asked: "Miss Sakurako, your father is in the elevator, why didn't you pay attention?"

"I just came from the shop downstairs, and I didn't know my father was in there." Sakurako Tatsumi said.

Maori asked, "Were you in the shop downstairs?"

Tatsumi Sakurako said: "Yes, when I came here, I found the pink pearl earrings at Mimotogi Pearl Shop very beautiful, and I bought a pair on a whim, the ones on my ears."

Hattori asked, "Then how did you know Mr. Oba is here?"

"It's a mobile phone." Sakurako Tatsumi said, "Mr. Oba notified me through his mobile phone that he has a gift for me."

Maori asked, "What is that gift?"

Tatsumi Sakurako said, "I'm wearing this pink pearl necklace now."

Megure police department asked: "Where did you go after that?"

Tatsumi Sakurako said: "Later, I went to the bathroom to touch up my makeup, and Mr. Oba also went, and he kept talking to me outside the bathroom."

Maori asked, "You touch up your makeup because..."

"Well, we kissed." Tatsumi Sakurako said.

"Then, the time when the incident happened is the time when you were standing in front of the elevator." Mumu Police Department asked, "Excuse me, do you know what time it is?"

Tatsumi Sakurako said, "Between 7:55pm and 8:05pm."

The Mumu Police Department asked, "Why are you so sure?"

Tatsumi Sakurako said: "Because I heard the sound of the party salute after the kiss, the party started at eight o'clock sharp. And I also saw Mr. Oba's fluorescent watch, and the time on it was just past eight o'clock in the evening."

"Party salute?" Maori asked, "Police, have you found the murder weapon?"

The Mumu Police Department asked seriously: "Do you suspect it is a pistol with a silencer?"

"Yes." Molly said.

Hattori asked Tatsumi Sakurako: "You mentioned the fluorescent watch just now, was it dark in here at the time?"

Tatsumi Sakurako said, "Yes."

Hattori asked: "Then under what circumstances did you see the watch on Mr. Oba's left wrist?"

Tatsumi Sakurako said: "At that time, he was touching my earrings with his left hand and said he would give me a gift, a pink pearl necklace that matched my pink pearl earrings."

"I see." Hattori smiled, and then asked, "Then do you know what his right hand was doing at that time? Did it hold anything?"

Tatsumi Sakurako said: "It was very dark at the time, I didn't know."

Hattori asked: "The lights here are not broken, so they were dimmed on purpose?"

Hamada said: "Yes, it's what the president meant."

Hattori asked, "Do you know why?"

Yoko said, "I don't know."

Hattori asked, "Then why did you turn it up again?"

Ohba Satoru said: "Because the president has gone back, I don't think there is any need to dim it anymore."

Megure police department asked: "Hattobu, why are you asking these things?"

Hattori smiled and said, "The purpose of dimming the lights is to prevent Miss Sakurako from seeing something."

Maori asked, "Could it be a silenced pistol?"

"That's right." Hattori asked Tatsumi Sakurako, "You must have had your back to the elevator door and closed your eyes, right?"

Tatsumi Sakurako said: "Yes, you suspect that Mr. Oba killed my father? This is absolutely impossible. He has no reason to kill my father."

Ohba Satoru said: "That's right, and the president was leaving at that time, how could the elevator stop here? Also, don't forget, the president's clothes are disheveled now, I think he must have been robbed."

"A robber?" Hattori said, "It can't be a robber. A robber can't be waiting at the elevator door with a gun. He doesn't know how many people will be in the elevator, and he doesn't know when they will come."

"That's right." Mumu Police Department said, "What happened to Mr. Tatsumi's clothes? His wallet is indeed missing."

Hattori said: "His cuffs are also loose, it should be for changing clothes."

"Changing clothes?" Molly asked. "In the elevator?"

Hattori said: "Today, their club held a party to welcome the new mascot. The president will definitely like the style of the mascot. It's not a big deal to pretend to be your favorite club mascot and have fun with the club members."

Mumu Police Department asked: "If that's the case, the elevator was left on this floor at that time?"

"Yes, so the time of death was when the party salute started, and the murderer deliberately used the party salute to cover up the sound of the silenced pistol firing." Hattori said, "And in this way, dimming the lights can also explain it, it must be Mr. Tatsumi I want to surprise the members, and let people see me when I don’t want to act as a mascot.”

"That does make sense," Maury said.

Hattori smiled and said, "So the murderer is Mr. Ohba Satoru."

"Hey, hey, what nonsense are you talking about, young man?" Oba Satoru shouted, "I was with Yingzi at the time, how could I kill the president?"

Hattori smiled and said, "I forgot to introduce myself, I am Kansai high school detective Hattori Heiji."

"Hattori Heiji?" Oba Satoru was taken aback, pointing at Maori and asked, "Are you..."

Mori said proudly: "Yes, I am the famous detective Mori Kogoro."

At this time, the police came over with a silencer pistol, saying that it was found in the garbage passage.

The Mumu Police Department took a look and found that the magazine was full and only one bullet was missing.

"This is obvious. The murderer didn't take the gun away, which means he wants to stay here. There is only one bullet missing in the gun, which means that this is targeting Mr. Tatsumi." Hattori said: "The whole incident should be like this Yes, Mr. Tatsumi told Mr. Oba that he would dress up as a mascot, and asked Mr. Oba to help prepare the costume for the mascot. Mr. Oba became malicious, and then planned this event. Mr. Oba invited Ms. Sakurako to do it. The witness testified that he opened the elevator door while kissing, killed Mr. Tatsumi with a silenced pistol, and then clicked the elevator control panel to let the elevator drive away. Then he went to the bathroom with Ms. When it was time, the murder weapon was thrown into the garbage passage."

The Mumu Police Department had people test the smoke reaction of Oba Satoru, but nothing was found. However, a member of the Chentai Advertising Agency said that he saw a gloved Oba Satoru in the mascot that Oba Satoru was going to play today. plastic bag.

Hattori said: "It turns out that he put the pistol in a plastic bag and fired the gun in the plastic bag, so there was no smoke reaction."

So, the Mumu Police Department asked people to take the big plastic bag for testing and found that there was a gunpowder smoke reaction.

Mori asked, "Mr. Oba, how do you explain this?"

Ohba Satoru said: "I believe it is not just my fingerprints."

The Mumu Police Department had someone check it. There were several sets of fingerprints on the plastic bag, and Satoru Oba was just one of them, but no fingerprints could be detected on the gloves at all.

Ohba Satoru asked, "Is there nothing to say now?"

"You are too happy." Hattori smiled, "Mr. Oba, you have unconsciously exposed your flaws."

Maori asked, "What flaw?"

Hattori smiled and said, "Police, please dim the lights here first."

"Okay." The Mumu Police Department sent someone to go.

When the lights dimmed, Hattori asked: "Miss Sakurako's pink earrings were just bought today, please look at Miss Sakurako's earrings now, can you see that they are pink?"

"No," Mumu police department understood, "ah, so that's how it is."

Maori smiled and said, "By the way, Mr. Oba opened the elevator door at that time. He saw that Ms. Sakura's earrings were pink through the light in the elevator."

Hattori asked: "Excuse me, Mr. Oba, if there is no light, this pink pearl that cannot be seen in the dark, how do you know it is pink?"

"If this is your hole card, then I'll tell you." Ohba Satoru said with a smile, "I heard on the phone that the clerk asked Sakurako if she wanted pink pearl earrings."

"What?" Hattori was taken aback.

"If you don't believe me, you can check it out." Ohba Satoru said with a smile. ...