Chapter 161 How to sleep at night? (Ch 161)

“Yes, I’m the only policeman on Moon Shadow Island.” The old inspector replied, “I received a call from the Metropolitan Police Department. They said that the wind was strong at sea tonight and the helicopter could not operate, so it would arrive tomorrow. They asked me to come and assist you first.”

Wang Yue thought: It appears! The standard police can’t do the routine…

Kogoro frowned, “What? Not until tomorrow? It will be too late to do an autopsy by then!” After a person dies, phenomena such as rigor mortis, corpse temperature, and livor mortis will change with the passage of time.

Some evidence will disappear over time. The longer the time is delayed, the more detrimental it will be to the investigation.

Seeing this, Mochizuki suggested, “Why don’t you do the autopsy first, Mr. Maori, and we can borrow cameras from tourists on the island to record the scene.” What he did had nothing to do with the plan, he was just going with the flow.

Since the police can’t come anyway, we have to find something to do.

Asai Narimi recommended himself at this time, “I’m a doctor, how about I do the autopsy with you, Detective Mori?”

Kogoro thought it was fine. After all, doing an autopsy alone would inevitably lead to gossip. Comparing the conclusions of two people could also prove that he did not deliberately distort the results of the autopsy. Cheng Shi had been in the funeral hall, so he was definitely not the murderer. So it was okay to let him help by his side. Ahem, the most important thing was that Cheng Shi was very beautiful…

Kogoro had no idea that Asai Narimi was the murderer.

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The villagers helped to borrow a camera, and then Kogoro and Asai Narimi worked together to perform the autopsy. During this time, Mochizuki was also busy, and he helped to investigate the movement of people in the activity center.

Xiaolan couldn’t help much with the autopsy, so she followed Mochizuki to assist him. Conan was not angry because he didn’t see this scene at all. He ran to investigate the trash can.

“Mr. Maori, have you finished the inspection?” When Mochizuki came back, he saw that they had finished the autopsy.

Kogoro nodded. “Yes, the result is the same as before. He died of cyanide poisoning. The next step is to find the poison needle used by the murderer. If the murderer has not left the activity center, then the poison needle should be in the activity center.”

Mochizuki said, “I just asked the reception staff at the door. Because tonight is the anniversary of the death of the former village chief, there are two villagers at the door to take care of the reception. They said that no one has left the activity center since the memorial service began.”

“Oh? So the murderer is indeed still here!” Kogoro was excited. This was good news.

At this time, Conan ran back, holding a small bottle with a handkerchief in his hand, “Uncle, I found a strange bottle in the trash can at the end of the corridor. There seems to be a needle in it.”

Kogoro took the bottle, which was a small bottle that could be held between two fingers, and contained a common hand sewing needle. Although he was not 100% sure, Kogoro estimated that this was probably the murder weapon thrown away by the murderer.

This was almost inevitable, because the murderer could not leave the scene because someone was guarding the door. If the murder weapon was hidden on the body, it would definitely be discovered, so it was wise to throw it away.

And if I’m not mistaken, there won’t be any clues on the bottle or the needle that can prove their identity.

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Next, Kogoro conducted a brief interrogation of the five people who had no alibis.

The villagers all stayed in the activity center. Seeing that there was nothing to do, the old monk simply started to pray for Nishimoto Ken’s soul on the spot.

Originally, he was going to pray for the soul of the village chief of Guishan tonight, but another person died during the process, so they prayed for the soul of the soul together. This time, it was a buy one get one free deal, which was very considerate.

After dozens of minutes, Kogoro finished his questioning and did not find any useful clues. However, he learned from the five people that the deceased, Ken Nishimoto, was not a good person.

Ken Nishimoto, 55 years old, single. Both his parents died, and he has no relatives. He is also an alcoholic, doing nothing all day, and not working, a typical vagrant. But strangely, he never worries about the money for drinking.

You can drink every day without working? You are not a leader… It’s too weird.

“If he could make a living by not working for a few months it would be understandable, but he hasn’t worked for at least a dozen years and he didn’t inherit any inheritance from his deceased parents, so why can he still afford to drink?” Kogoro expressed his confusion.

No one can answer this question.

In fact, Mochizuki knew that Nishimoto Ken did not have a proper job, but he did have an irregular job! He was involved in the drug trafficking gang led by Kuroiwa Village Chief, so he never had to worry about money, but Mochizuki would not say such things.

“Hey, when can we leave?” The villagers who were not suspected were already impatient.

“Yeah, we’re not the murderers, why do you keep us here?”

Everyone expressed their dissatisfaction to Kogoro, who saw that there was really no need to keep them, so he let them go home. However, the five people who did not have alibis were kept, and they could not go back for the time being.

“The five of you should stay at the activity center until the Metropolitan Police Department arrives tomorrow morning.”

Although no one likes to stay here, they have no choice but to stay because of the situation. Wangyue and his friends didn’t have time to find a hotel, so they stayed at the activity center to watch over the five suspects.

Mochizuki knew something was bound to happen tonight, because there was a bag of white powder in the piano, which was the goods that Secretary Hirata did not have time to collect. Since the police will definitely investigate the piano after they arrive tomorrow morning, the white powder will definitely be discovered, so if Secretary Hirata wants to cover up the white powder, tonight is the last chance.

He would definitely come in the middle of the night to steal the drugs.

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In order to supervise each other, Kogoro decided to let everyone sleep on the floor in one room. The old inspector was very capable. When he heard Kogoro’s decision, he moved the bedding from the activity center and spread it on the floor.

Everyone started thinking about sleeping.

“There are eleven people in total, but only nine sets of bedding.” Kogoro suggested without hesitation, “Then let Conan and Mochizuki sleep together, and let Xiaolan and Dr. Chengshi sleep together.”

Others thought this arrangement was fine. Xiaolan and Chengshi were both women, so what was wrong with sleeping together? Conan had only a few objections. He just didn’t like sleeping with Mochizuki.

Even Xiaolan herself doesn’t mind sleeping with Chengshi, but Mochizuki absolutely cannot agree with Kogoro’s arrangement!

How can Xiaolan and Chengshi sleep together? You think Chengshi is a cute girl, but he is actually a crossdresser! Letting a man with a penis sleep with Xiaolan, even if Chengshi does nothing, Wangyue will never accept it.

“No!” Wangyue firmly disagreed.

Kogoro frowned slightly. He didn’t expect Mochizuki to oppose his decision. Hey, you don’t think Xiaolan should sleep with you, do you? If you dare to say that, I will strangle you to death!

Xiaolan was very confused, looked at Mochizuki and asked, “Why not? Don’t you want to sleep with Conan?”
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