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Chapter 15 Falling from the Building

Shinichi leaned his back against the wall and let out a long breath. For some reason, he felt a sense of relief.He recalled everything that happened today, and it felt like a dream, not real at all.

Opening the curtains slightly, Shinichi looked at the cars in the yard, and Gin drove out of the garage a very ordinary Nissan car, which was a good choice to hide his whereabouts.

Shinichi's mood is a bit complicated, Gin is indeed protecting him as Vermouth said.Of course, it is not ruled out that Gin acts low-key in order to avoid being followed by outsiders, but if outsiders know that Gin lives with him, it will not have much impact on Gin. He can leave at any time, and outsiders will think that he is with Kudo Shinichi Gin is connected, how can someone as cold-blooded as Gin care about others?He didn't know what was going on in the shootout outside that night, but Gin must have taken care of it, otherwise the police and media would not have appeared for such a big commotion, and even Dr. Ali who lived next door didn't seem to notice it. It made him feel like he could stay here and live with Gin forever, and no one would know he was back anyway.

Occasionally, a few cars pass by in the driveway, and some light shines through the window. Xinyi looks at his own reflection on the glass. What is the difference in the self on the glass? What is the specific point? There are traces, but he knows it's not there, it's a more subtle change.

Xinyi raised his hands and hugged his chest, as if this would make him feel warm in this silent night.

Gin didn't come back until early the next morning, and brought back a lot of hotel-style breakfast.

Xinyi quietly finished breakfast with Gin, Gin went back to the guest room to catch up on sleep, Vodka and Vermouth had a mission and left after breakfast.

Shinichi and Gin were the only ones left in the room for a while, and Gin was resting, which was a great opportunity to search for Gin's criminal evidence.

After these two days of observation, he has a little understanding of Gin's habits. Gin hates paper documents very much. The organization in black has another secret transmission method for information transmission. Occasionally Vodka will bring some documents, but the weight is very small, and these The paper documents are all in Gin's room, and he can't get them.

Usually Gin is either in the lobby, restaurant, guest room or in his room. He can look for any missing information in these places.

Although the living room of his house is large, there are not many places to put things. He searched it all at once. There was nothing in the dining room except some fast food and wine. Finally, Shinichi had a detective novel on the table in his room. I found an invitation card inside, it was a masquerade party held at Mihua Hotel tonight.

Gin ordered Vermouth to hold Rum back today, and here was an invitation card for the same day, so it was clear at a glance who Gin was going to see.

Xin wrote down the time and place, and then put the card back into the book. Tonight, he will find a way to sneak to the Rice Flower Restaurant.

However, at night, Shinichi found himself thinking too much, because Gin and the others were all out, and he was left alone in the villa.

Xinyi took a taxi and went to the Rice Flower Hotel, but he couldn't enter because he didn't have an invitation card. This is a grand ceremony for the upper class, so all the entrances and exits were guarded by bodyguards.He had seen the congratulatory flower baskets of the Suzuki Foundation placed in the aisle, but if he asked Suzuki Sonoko for help, it would be tantamount to telling Xiaolan that he was here, and he didn't want to involve Xiaolan.

Therefore, Shinichi can only call the police officer Meguro, falsely claiming that there will be a murder here, and intends to use them to sneak into the masquerade party.

However, while he was waiting, a murder really happened at the Rice Flower Restaurant!

A masked man in "Zoro" costume fell from the rice flower restaurant. After hearing people's screams, Shinichi rushed to the scene and prevented the security guards from destroying the scene.

"Brother Kudo, long time no see, what case are you working on recently?" Officer Megure patted Shinichi Kudo on the shoulder, and said kindly.

"Um, it's nothing... I happened to be investigating a case around here today, and I happened to find some clues." Kudo Shinichi hesitated for a moment. He couldn't say that he had become Conan Edogawa and had been by their side, so he could only be vague. .

"What's going on with today's case?" Officer Megure saw Officer Takagi walking towards him, so he didn't ask Shinichi any more.

"The victim's name is Sakagami Tamura, 42 years old this year. He fell from the [-]th floor of Mihua Hotel at [-] o'clock tonight and died on the spot. The forensic examination found that the deceased had a high alcohol content in his blood. There were no traces of struggling or fighting on the body, and there were no fingerprints of other people. In addition, the deceased carried a mobile phone with a voice message in the mobile phone, which was the last words left by the victim." Officer Takagi put the report in his hand It was submitted to Police Officer Mumu, and based on the clues, it was judged that the case should be a suicide case.

"It seems to be a suicide case." Police officer Mumu looked at the various clues listed in the report and muttered to himself.

A light flashed in Kudo Shin's eyes, no, this is not a suicide case, this is a murder case!

"Officer Megure, can I have a look at the scene?" Shinichi made a request, he must find out who killed the deceased.

Xinyi, who was concentrating on the case, did not know that among the crowd not far away, Vodka was calling Gin: "Brother, the detective kid is at the scene of the crime."

"Don't worry about him, get rid of those followers first." Gin hung up the phone after finishing speaking. The kid and the police are not in danger for the time being, so they can get rid of those people first.

The man sitting opposite Gin in the shadows raised the cup in his hand and teased, "Kurosawa, you're a little distracted. Where's the wild cat coming over after smelling it?"

"Hmph, it's just a newly developed wolf cub. If you don't take care of it, it will be taken away by other prey. If I don't want to, no prey can smell my breath." Gin also raised his glass to toast with the man, The two drank it down and put the topic behind them in a short while.

The Rice Flower Hotel has 19 floors in total. The deceased fell from the VIP lounge on the No. [-] floor where the masquerade party was held. According to the witnesses at the scene, only the deceased was in the VIP lounge at that time.

The name of the deceased was Sakagami Tamura, the eldest son of the chairman of Sakagami Group, and this masquerade party was proposed by Sakagami Tamura.Tonight, the Banshang Group has contracted the entire [-]th floor of the Mihua Hotel. Except for the VIP lounge, which has closed the monitoring system because it is only for the members of the Banshang Group family to rest, other places are like banquet halls, common lounges, and entertainment rooms. , smoking room, kitchen and other places are in normal operation.The surveillance camera captured the footage of the deceased Sakaue Tamura entering the lounge at [-]:[-] p.m., and no one has entered the room since then.

Thanks to police officer Mumu, Shinichi successfully entered the No. 19 floor of Mihua Hotel. Because of the murder, all the guests gathered in the banquet hall. Shinichi checked carefully, but did not find Gin.

Did Gin take advantage of the chaos and leave?Or is Gin not here at all?

The VIP lounge at the scene of the crime was in a mess, the glass was broken all over the place, and there were even some glass shards by the door.One of the windows in the lounge was completely shattered, the wind from outside was blowing in, and the unbuttoned clothes and coats were blown away by the wind.

Shinichi picked up a shard of glass on the ground with a thoughtful expression on his face.

"Kudou, is there something wrong with the glass?" Officer Takagi squatted down with Shinichi and asked curiously.

Shinichi didn't answer, but went to the window and looked at the fire ax laying flat on the ground.

The fire ax is used to clean up the fire and flammable materials, cut off the spread of the fire, and can also split the burned and deformed doors and windows to rescue the trapped people.

However, it is too complicated for a suicidal person to use a fire ax to break the glass of a building and then jump down.

"The victim's fingerprints are on the fire axe." Seeing Shinichi staring at the fire axe, Officer Takagi thought that Shinichi wanted to ask this question.

"Where can I get to the top floor?" Xinyi unexpectedly didn't ask this question. There were too many unreasonable things in the crime scene, and he had an intuition that the top floor would have the clues he wanted.

The hotel manager standing aside replied: "You can go to the top floor from the safety stairs, please go this way."

Shinichi followed the hotel manager out of the room, went back to the banquet hall and walked through another aisle. At the end, there was a security door. There was a sign for the safe aisle next to the door. Next to the sign was a room with a smoking sign.

"Is this the smoking room?" Shinichi pushed open the door and looked into the room.

"Yes, because the hotel is equipped with a fire prevention system, smoke detectors, temperature detectors, etc., if there are many guests smoking outside the smoking room at the same time, the alarm will be triggered when the smoke reaches the set concentration. Public places smoke, so we specially arranged this room, which is close to the safe passage for easy escape. The room is also equipped with the most advanced fire extinguishing system, ventilation system, and alarm system. Once a fire occurs, it can be directly extinguished." The hotel manager said everything. He said that he had already told the chairman about the homicide in the hotel, and the chairman asked him to actively cooperate with the police investigation to solve the case as soon as possible in order to maintain the image of the hotel.

Xinyi closed the door of the smoking room and followed the hotel manager through the safe passage. He carefully observed that there are cameras installed at every corridor entrance, and the security facilities are complete.

There is a fence on the top floor of the hotel. Xinyi went to the approximate location where the victim fell and squatted down to observe carefully. There was no blood or hair left on the ground. There were no footprints on the railing, and even dry Clean without dust.

"Does the restaurant often clean up the dust on the roof?" Shinichi touched the ground and asked doubtfully.

"The restaurant is usually cleaned, about once or twice a month. The most recent time was before the banquet held by the Sakagami Group, people from the Sakagami family came to inspect, and they asked to clean the top floor, because they will invite guests at the dinner party at twelve o'clock Go to the top floor to enjoy the fireworks." The hotel manager recalled that the last cleaning was probably two or three days ago.

"Officer Takagi, can you please check if there are any fingerprints on the railing?" Shinichi asked, although he knew that the result would most likely be nothing.

Officer Takagi gave his head away in a daze: "Hey, Kudo, what's going on?"

"Sakagami Tamura did not commit suicide, but was pushed down the stairs and fell to his death." Kudo Shinichi smiled confidently, and his deduction was absolutely correct.

"Huh?" Officer Takagi exclaimed in surprise, no matter where it came from, it looked like a suicide case!

"Officer Takagi, I checked the body before you came. The deceased was seriously injured on the upper body, and the place where he fell was about five meters away from the building." Shinichi paused, and then continued, "There is a typical case in the development of forensic science. In the case of Alice Seeger, the forensic doctor proved through rigorous experiments that Alice was thrown downstairs by her husband. If pushed down, the deceased would be farther from the floor, and if he committed suicide, he would be closer to the floor. The postures of the dead people going down the stairs are different. In addition, the feet of those who commit suicide will hit the ground first, and the lower body will be more seriously injured. The head that was pushed down will hit the ground first, and the upper body will be more seriously injured. Officer Takagi, you can do an experiment and do a few If a dummy with the same height and weight as the deceased is thrown from here, it will be possible to know whether Sakagami Tamura was killed or committed suicide."

"If your deduction is correct, why did you throw it from here instead of from the VIP lounge?" Officer Gao Mu became more and more confused, this is not the scene of the crime!

"Because the crime scene downstairs was forged by the murderer to cover up his alibi." Xinyi explained, "Didn't you notice that the VIP lounge is full of glass, even the cabinets, sofas, and doors? have."

Officer Takagi said disapprovingly: "It's not surprising. One side of the glass in the lounge was broken by the fire axe. Of course, there are glass everywhere."

"The VIP lounge has a lot of space. If the glass is broken by manpower alone, the distance of the glass splash will definitely not be very far. The glass fragments at the scene of the crime... are more likely to be blown by something like a miniature bomb, so the glass fragments are also It's relatively small." Shinichi expressed his speculation that the glass at the scene of the crime was made of relatively small pieces, and if it was smashed with a fire axe, the glass pieces would be larger, so he guessed that the glass was broken is something else.

After listening to Shinichi's words, Officer Takagi found it very reasonable.

"Manager Beiyuan, can we go to the monitoring room to take a look?" Xinyi asked the hotel manager standing aside, he wanted to know who had been on the top floor of the hotel.

"Of course, the monitoring room is on the tenth floor. We can take the elevator down." The hotel manager took Shinichi and police officer Takagi down the stairs in the living room, but they went down to the tenth floor in a short while.

Xinyi was the first to get out of the elevator. He habitually looked around to check the environment. Out of the corner of his eye, he accidentally caught sight of a customer in the closing elevator door wearing a black windbreaker and a black hat. Tall, fair-skinned, like... Gin!

Xinyi reflexively pressed the down direction button on the wall several times, but it was too late, and the elevator next to him was going down.

Xinyi, who had no time to explain, pushed away the hotel manager and police officer Takagi who had already stepped out of the elevator, ran back into the elevator, and pressed the door close button.

Gin, we must catch him this time!