Chapter 12141214【The joy of acting】

 “This has nothing to do with cartoons.”

Conan interrupted: "Actually, I saw Miss Ichikawa poisoning me in the luggage storage room before. But when I was going to tell others, someone used a handkerchief stained with anesthetic to numb me from behind - so this murder case , there must be another insider. The case may not be over yet."

Hearing these words, Dr. Utsumi breathed a silent sigh of relief:

It seems that I am overthinking it, the matter has nothing to do with me, and I don’t know which guy is responsible for this.

 In this case, there is no need to rush to kill Jiang Xia and the child.

 …

The police were hesitant after hearing what Conan said.

 He ​​looked back at the items that everyone had laid out: "But we just checked, and there is no 'handkerchief stained with anesthetics' as you mentioned, and there are no similar drugs..."

Just next to him, several police officers carried out the body of Kotaro Ichikawa.

 The moment the stretcher lifted off the ground, as the body's posture changed slightly, a key slipped out of his pocket and clattered to the ground.

Jiang Xia lowered her head and looked at the housekeeper: "Where is the key?"

"This style..." The housekeeper took a closer look and looked puzzled: "It should be the key to the basement. However, the master never goes to the basement. He thinks it is too cold and cold. If there are necessary things, we are always given. Go and get...why does he have the key there with him?"

Conan hesitated and said: "I was locked in the basement just now..."

 Could it be that the person who stunned him was actually Ichikawa Kotaro himself?

This person knew the wine was poisonous, so why did he still drink it? He doesn't look like he wants to commit suicide. Could it be that he became obsessed with being the Riddler, so...

 …

Conan instinctively felt that something was wrong, and looked around carefully, trying to find the problem and solve the mystery.

 At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the side.

"I seem to know why Mr. Ichikawa always doesn't let me enter the house." Jiang Xia looked at the wall on the side and fixed his eyes on a portrait.

It was a portrait of Ichikawa Kotaro himself, a large one, mounted on the wall made of staggered wooden edges. The man in the picture has a majestic face and terrifying eyes. One look at him makes people feel chilled.

“Right eye.” Jiang Xia pointed to the eye of the portrait, “There is a mini camera hidden behind his right eye.”

"Camera?" The police officer's eyes lit up, and he was a little unbelievable - there was surveillance at the crime scene, which is really rare... No, we can't be happy too early. What if it's a bad one.

After discovering that something was wrong, those hidden mechanisms were no longer so hidden in the eyes of everyone.

 A group of people soon discovered that there were wires hidden on the picture frame. It goes all the way up from the mini-monitoring room and connects to the room upstairs.

 The police, detectives and the crowd immediately ran upstairs with a cheer.

Doctor Utsumi looked at this scene with an unwavering expression:

The content captured by the surveillance camera was planned to be used to identify the real murderer in the future. If this matter is discovered by the police and detectives, he will lose a useful tool in the future... Tsk, nosy detective.

 …

  It is a pity that the murderous intention in Doctor Utsumi's heart cannot prevent what will happen next.

 Even added a little motivation to some detectives.

 When we got upstairs, we saw that there was indeed a TV set here. It's in standby mode and looks tuned and ready to play.

The police quickly set up a video recorder and pointed it at the screen, preparing to record any evidence that might appear.

 The technician tries to adjust the play button. Soon, the scene that had just happened in the living room reappeared.

ˆ Referring to various clues collected previously, the playback progress was adjusted to after Ichikawa Kazushige poured red wine for his father.

 …

 Ichikawa Kotaro took the wine from his daughter, with a flash of pride that "everything is under control" flashed in his eyes.

 He pretended to taste the wine, but he did not drink it immediately. Instead, he found a topic and started chatting with his daughters, while chatting and pacing in the hall.

When he walked to the standing cabinet, Ichikawa Kotaro secretly poured the wine into the flowerpot while no one was paying attention. Then he raised his head and "drank" a few sips from the empty wine glass.

　　I immediately covered my chest and fell to the ground with a look of pain on my face.

A group of people ran over in panic, and some even screamed.

 Further on, it is something that everyone knows.

—Detectives and doctors ran over, attempted first aid, failed, and called the police with tears in their eyes.

 …

“Quick, go check that flower pot that has wine poured into it!” the police officer shouted quickly.

　　After that, he touched the back of his head and was a little confused: "Since he didn't drink, why did Mr. Ichikawa suddenly become ill? Could it be that he found out that his daughter had poisoned him and he was so angry that he died?"

Beside him, Jiang Xia seemed to be still watching the surveillance camera carefully.

 He ​​looked at the screen and said abruptly: "After Mr. Ichikawa fell to the ground, Dr. Okano rushed to give him a 'heart booster' when he rushed to give him first aid."

The police officer from Mie County was startled and quickly understood what Jiang Xia was talking about.

He called to his subordinates again: "Go and check the ingredients in that tube of 'heart booster'!"

 “Oh, no need.”

Dr. Okano stared at himself in the surveillance camera, his face ashen.

　　It seems that if he continues to quibble, he will only appear cowardly. He simply retained his last dignity and said to himself: "I was the one who killed him, but I don't regret killing him!"

The police officer liked this kind of straightforward criminal the most, so he quickly struck while the iron was hot and motioned for him to elaborate:

 “What exactly is going on?”

Dr. Okano looked at the direction where the body was taken away and sneered mockingly:

“A while ago, Kotaro Ichikawa suddenly had the idea to test his two daughters. He planned to pretend that he had a ‘sudden heart attack’ to see what their daughters’ attitudes and reactions would be.

“Inviting a famous detective to stand guard at the banquet hall is also to make the two eldest ladies tense up outside and relax their vigilance when they return to the living room, revealing the true scene.

“In practice, it was probably because he discovered that Ms. Ichige had poisoned the red wine, so he temporarily changed the word ‘heart attack’ to ‘death by poisoning,’ and there was no subsequent change.”

Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan were silent for a while.

They didn't expect that things would develop like this: "..." Why should they perform such an unlucky and dangerous play? Will this give Mr. Ichikawa extra happiness?

The police officer understood: "So you plan to take advantage of the situation and inject poison to kill Mr. Ichikawa while giving him first aid, and then blame Ichikawa?"

"That's right." A flash of resentment flashed in Dr. Okano's eyes, "Ichikawa, a **** who only cares about money, deserves to die!"

 (End of this chapter)