Chapter Five Hundred and Seventieth Gold Watch in the Fire

Tuesday, March 24, afternoon, Maori Detective Agency.

Lan, who was cleaning, found that only Yamazaki had returned, so he asked, "Where's Conan? Did he stay at Dr. Ali's house?"

"Yes." Yamazaki said.

"Did Conan say he would eat there?" Lan asked.

"Uh," Yamazaki said with a smile, thinking of Conan's current state, "I don't think I'll be back for dinner."

"Oh, then there's no need to prepare dinner for Conan." Lan said. ...

In the evening, Mei Dai Restaurant.

"Conan is at Dr. Ali's place. Why didn't uncle come? Didn't he say he was at home, Lan?" Mei Daizi asked.

"Don't worry about him," Lan said angrily, "I've been celebrating since I came back."

"By the way, Lan, prepare the things of the three of you and go out with us at the end of the month." Mei Daizi said.

"Where are you going?" Ran asked.

"I don't know where to go, my mother didn't tell me." Mei Daizi said.

Lan asked, "Then what should I bring?"

"You should bring a few pieces of underwear." Mei Daizi said, "That's how my mother told me."

"Auntie organized it?" Lan asked, "Who are there?"

"It seems that there are quite a few," Mei Daizi said, "By the way, your mother will also go, I heard them call."

"Really? That's great." Lan said happily, and then asked, "By the way, what about the garden, she still calls us to save her?"

"Of course she is indispensable." Mei Daizi smiled, "But I have to give her a surprise."

"Speaking of which, Yuanzi is in class now, she should have an interesting expression." Lan said with a smile.

"Definitely." Mei Daizi smiled. ...

After eight o'clock in the evening, Maoli's house, the living room.

When Conan came back, he found Maori lying on the ground and sleeping soundly. Looking at the pile of empty beer cans beside him, it seemed that he would not be able to wake up for a while.

Conan touched his stomach. When Dr. Ali ordered takeaway for dinner, he had no appetite. When he had an appetite, Dr. Ali's house could only find instant noodles, so he came back empty stomach.

I looked in the refrigerator, but there was nothing to eat, and I looked in the cabinet where snacks are usually kept in the kitchen, but there was nothing to eat, Conan scratched his head, "Do you remember something to eat?"

When he came out of the kitchen, Conan was speechless. There was a pile of wrapping paper stuffed under the Japanese-style table. The angle was wrong just now. These things were blocked by Maori’s body.

When Conan was going downstairs to eat something but was hesitating between being told a few words, and drinking some water while he could take an early rest, because he was hungry and the balance was gradually tipping towards "going downstairs", Maori's mobile phone rang up.

Conan called Maoli a few times, but Maoli didn't respond at all, so he answered the phone for him.

There was a man on the other end of the phone, "Hey, hiccup, is that Maori detective?"

Hearing the voice, the person must have drunk too much. Conan raised his triangular eyes, and he was a drunk again.

"Hey, talk," the man yelled, "I'm going to be killed, why don't you hurry up and investigate."

Conan said dumbfoundedly, "That..."

The man wasn't listening at all,

Self-servingly reported the address, and then said: "I discovered the big secret of Yanase Ryuichi's bastard's fame, he will definitely come to kill me, you, ah!"

The man let out a scream, then fell silent, and then the phone was hung up.

Conan was taken aback. He thought it was just a drunk man making random calls, but now something must have happened, so he immediately put down his mobile phone and rushed downstairs while recalling the address the man said.

After going downstairs, Conan wanted to call Kamiyamazaki, but a taxi just happened to drive over, so Conan went up to stop him and sat on it, "Mr. driver, something happened to my uncle's house, can you take me there quickly?" .” Then he reported the address.

"Understood, you sit still." The driver said. ...

Before nine o'clock in the evening, a small high-rise apartment building next to the Mihua Sanchome Expressway Bridge.

When Conan arrived, he found someone looking up. After getting out of the car, he looked up and saw a man on fire jumping out from the balcony of a burning room on the seventh floor, screaming.

One step too late, Conan said angrily in his heart, and then found a flashing light, looked around, and saw a person on the bridge of the highway, using a camera to capture the lens.

Looking at the motionless body on the ground, the taxi driver asked concerned: "Little friend, is this your uncle?"

"Uh," Conan froze for a moment, then said, "My uncle lives on the third floor."

"That's good." The driver said, "Then go back quickly."

"Thank you, Mr. Driver." Conan said.

The taxi left, and after a while, fire engines, ambulances, and police cars all came, and of course the reporters were indispensable.

Conan walked around the crowd, and suddenly heard someone mention the surname Yanase, so he ran over and found that two reporters were talking about a reporter named Yanase.

"Really, that guy Yanase is so lucky to be the first to arrive at the scene. He must have grabbed a good photo of the scene again."

"I can't help it. Otherwise, how could I win this photojournalism award?"

"Seriously, the prize should be a real gold watch, right?"

"It should be, it's really rich and famous."

"By the way, this seems to be Nakai's apartment, right?"

"That's right, that guy from Nakai specializes in poaching people's privacy, do you think he offended some big shot this time?"

"Hush! Don't talk nonsense, maybe someone is here to inquire about other intellectuals."

"Yes, yes, let's go back to the club."

Seeing the two reporters leaving in a hurry, Conan went to another place for a while, but got no news, and then stopped a taxi and went home.

Before ten o'clock in the evening, Maori Detective Agency was downstairs.

When Conan got out of the car, he found that he didn't have enough money, so he asked the driver to wait for a while, and then went upstairs to get the money, and at the same time he was grateful that the driver just didn't take the money.

After dismissing the driver, Conan rubbed his stomach and decided to receive a lecture. Then he entered Mei Dai Restaurant and found that Mei Dai Restaurant had entered the closing procedure.

Lan said, "Really, why didn't you come back until now."

"Well, I forgot the time." Conan said embarrassedly.

"Then what are you doing here now?" Mei Daizi smiled and rubbed Conan's hair.

Conan laughed a few times and didn't answer, and then went to work without changing his work clothes. ...

Around ten thirty in the evening, outside Mei Dai Restaurant.

When Yamazaki closed the door of the restaurant and was about to go back, he found Conan coming out of the corridor next door, so he asked, "What's the matter?"

Conan talked about the matter for a while, and then said: "I just saw the name Yanase Ryuichi in today's evening paper."

"Yes, he is the winner of the journalism award." Yamazaki said, "According to you, he is very suspicious."

Conan said: "My intuition tells me that the murderer is Mr. Yanase, otherwise it would be a bit of a coincidence that he was there."

"I see." Yamazaki said, "Tomorrow I will help you tell Uncle Maori about it."...

The next day, Wednesday, March 25, morning, Miyamoto's house.

Looking at the news picture on the front page of the morning paper, the moment a person on fire jumped out of the balcony, Yamazaki recalled what Conan said, and thought in his heart, it seems that the murderer of this incident is indeed him, if he hadn't waited there in advance, If he hadn't known in advance that someone would jump down, how could he have captured this kind of photo? He must have tampered with the door. ...

Morning, Maori Detective Agency.

When Lan went downstairs to get the newspaper, she found an invitation letter in the mailbox. The cover was from Nikmai TV Station.

"Let me take a look." Mao Li took it apart and saw that a person named Yanase invited him to be a special guest on a program tomorrow afternoon, and said that if Mao Li didn't want to go, please call him as soon as possible .

Conan asked, "Hey, Uncle, who is this Yanase-san?"

"Oh, the signature is Ryuichi Yanase." Mori said.

"Isn't that the reporter who won the photojournalism award in the newspaper yesterday?" Lan asked.

"Yes, and he is also in today's newspaper." Mao Li said, and then highlighted the news picture on the front page of the morning newspaper.

Looking at the photo, Conan thought to himself, he can't be wrong, he is the murderer, it's a flaw, he should have tampered with the door. ...

Before 8:30 in the morning, Yamazaki came over, and after listening to Maori proudly saying that he would be on the TV show, he said to Maori with Conan's urging eyes: "Uncle, have you read today's morning paper, I found the front page There is a problem with the incident where he accidentally caught fire and jumped from a building to escape and died instead."

Maori asked, "Oh, why do you say that?"

Yamazaki said: "I think even if I fell asleep and was awakened, and saw that the house was on fire, I would just choose to escape through the door."

"Ah?" Maori stroked his chin and thought for a while, "Could it be a murder case? The door was tampered with? Well, it is indeed possible. Come on, follow me to the Megure Police Department."...

Metropolitan Police Department.

The Mugure Police Department heard the question of Mouri's response, and immediately contacted the Yuzhang Police Department of the Fire Criminal Search Department. Knowing that he had other affairs, he took over the incident and led the team to the scene.

The scene, Nakai's house.

The Megure Police Department asked his subordinates to remove the blockade on the door, and led the team into the room with Mori, Yamazaki, Ran, and Conan.

The Megure Police Department looked at the information collected from the fire criminal investigation department and said: "The deceased Nakai Akira, 44 years old, the cause of death was that his ribs pierced his heart by jumping off a building. The fire started in the sink and spread through the high cabinet in the kitchen."

"Pool?" Molly asked. "How could there be a fire in that place?"

"The cause of the fire is currently unknown," Megure Police Department said.

"It can be burned to the high cabinet in the kitchen," Lan asked, "it should be a big fire, right?"

Looking at the remnants of the high cabinet that was taller than himself, Megure Police Department said: "This is indeed a bit strange."

Conan said: "Police, can you wipe the blackened watch by the pool?"

"That's right, maybe we can know the time of the fire." The Mumu Police Department called the forensic personnel.

The forensic personnel dealt with it, and a golden watch was revealed, and the time on it stopped at 8:43.

Maori stared at his watch, "I don't think the thieves did it."

Conan asked: "This uncle is a reporter, right? Did he also win the lottery?"

"Win the lottery?" Mumu Police Department didn't understand.

Yamazaki said: "It's the photojournalism award. I heard that the prize is a gold watch."

"Oh? That's it." Mumu Police Department called Shiratori Police Department and asked him to investigate.

At this time, the forensic personnel came to report, "The police department, the lock cylinder has been burned out."

"The lock cylinder was burned out?" Maori asked, "Is this normal?"

"This," said the forensic officer, "generally speaking, it's not so easy to burn out. This one also has fire protection standards, but it's hard to say when it comes to inferior products."

The Mumu Police Department asked: "So, is it possible that someone tampered with it?"

"This," the forensics staff thought for a while and said, "If it is sent to a large material laboratory, it may be possible to detect the residue mixed into the metal after burning, and then through comparison, it can be found whether there is any flammable material at that time." Something is in the keyhole."

"Very good." The Mumu Police Department immediately sent someone to send the lock away.

At this time, Shiratori Police Department called again, and he had already called the News Council of Nikbu Group to confirm that they only prepared a gold watch, which was awarded to Ryuichi Yanase the night before, and then reported to the person on the back of the watch. number, but the number is already illegible.

Seeing this, the Megure Police Department asked the Shiratori Police Department to contact Ryuichi Yanase immediately, and told Ryuichi Yanase that they would visit. ...