"Excuse me, what happened to bring you here?"
The leading police officer looked over nervously and subconsciously used honorifics.
It's no wonder that he was so vigilant. In addition to being a famous detective, Mouri Kogoro was also a god of plague in the eyes of the police officers who searched the first section.
Relatively speaking.
Other people from the search section, after seeing the relevant personnel from Section 1 at the police scene, would also mistakenly think that a murder had occurred here.
"I am the guardian of these children."
Ye Gengyi's calm voice interrupted the other party's random thoughts: "Can you tell me the clues that the police have already obtained?"
"Let me tell you."
Huihara Ai walked to the young altar, pointed to the niche on one side, and then recounted the story of losing the valuable scroll.
"If you lose a scroll worth at least 40 million yuan, you can get 20 million yuan in insurance compensation..." Ye Gengyi muttered to himself.
Haha, can we confirm our position first... Haiyuan Ai complained secretly and considered:
"That's it. Have you heard any clues?"
Please, even Brother Gengyi can't do it so quickly...
Just as Conan's thoughts came to his mind, the next second he heard the calm voice say:
"If they are not professionals, or have relevant knowledge, it should be difficult for ordinary people to distinguish famous paintings, let alone such a clear goal."
"What do you say?" the leading police officer asked.
"Don't worry, I'll be back soon." Ye Geng turned sideways and turned his gaze to the entrance at the corner of the corridor.
Not long after, a police officer trotted over, "Report, report! I just went to the roof to confirm. There was no suspicious trace on the balcony where the door was suspected to be broken into, and there was no place to fix the rope!"
"I see!"
The leading police officer's eyes lit up: "This way, we can rule out that the thief broke into the house by hanging down from the top floor along something similar to a rope ladder!"
"Where's the door lock at the entrance?" Ye Geng asked.
"No new scratches were found on the lock core, but..."
The young police officer hesitated for a moment, "According to the statistics of cases handled by our third class, there are still very high-level thieves. If they commit the crime, just detecting the traces on the door lock cannot directly deny the possibility of entering through the door." possible."
Are you talking about Kuroba Kaito?
Ye Geng's eyes were closed, and he was about to tell him that suspicion should be treated as suspicion, but don't bring casual cases into daily life.
The rickety-looking mother-in-law suddenly said:
"Sorry, actually I forgot to lock the door when I went out to buy things."
Um? This statement...is the intention to first characterize the loss of the hanging scroll as stolen, and then obtain the 20 million yuan in security deposit afterwards?
But it's too strange. No matter whether the thief invades from the balcony or the front door, the result will be the same for the owner who loses the precious scroll.
Especially after ruling out the possibility of balcony invasion, the old woman actually placed part of the responsibility for the lost scroll directly on herself.
Honest and trustworthy, treating money like dirt?
Or rather, the scroll was not lost... Ye Gengyi was keenly aware that something was wrong.
"Is there any problem?"
Seeing that the expert from the Technical Association suddenly stopped talking and instead looked at the room filled with Dolls' Day dolls, the leading police officer was at a loss.
"Bumi, did you make these dolls?" Ye Gengyi asked.
"Everyone can help me."
Ayumi came close to Conan, and under the burning eyes of Mitsuhiko and Genta, she hugged each other's arms: "Especially the two rows of dolls at the top, Conan put them up because they are too high!"
"It's different from practice." Ye Gengyi said.
Eh?
Everyone was startled, but Conan was the first to react. He took out his camera and started comparing the photos: "It's not just that, although the difference is not big, the positions of the other thirteen dolls are a bit shifted. "
"Really, really." Ayumi also examined it carefully and confirmed that the position of the doll had indeed changed.
"I guess that when the thief was taking down the hanging scroll from the niche, he accidentally hit the altar where the dolls were placed, and the dolls fell down..."
No, that's not right.
If the thief's target was just the scroll, why bother to arrange the knocked-down dolls neatly, wouldn't it be better to let them scatter on the floor?
Unless that person is... Conan's eyes fell on the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the host's house.
Only they have the motivation to rearrange the dolls.
Oops!
Brother Geng must have also analyzed that the person who stole the painting was among the two of them.
Assuming there is some hidden secret here, if the case is solved by Brother Gengyi's violent decryption method that never listens to the suspect's remorse, they might both be put in the police station!
Damn it, I'm not sure about the speed at all. I can sort out the clues faster than Brother Gengyi. I have no choice. Although it's a bit embarrassing, I have to ask him not to be in such a hurry...
After Conan's thoughts changed, just as he was trying to quickly find a solution to the current predicament, he heard from the other side of the barrier, Haihara Ai said to Ye Gengyi:
"If possible, could you please find the thief quickly?"
Hey, we are all members of the Young Detective Corps and are being hunted by a black organization. Can we have some tacit understanding... Conan's eyes widened in shock, and he was caught off guard and was stabbed in the back by the former black-clad cadre.
"Oh, that thief is..."
"Brother Gengyi! Actually, there's no need to be so anxious!"
A certain detective's face changed drastically, and he rushed over in panic. Just 0.01 seconds before he hugged Ye Gengyi's thigh, he was picked up by the back of Ye Gengyi, and he replied calmly with a 'huh'?
"If they don't figure out the situation, they will definitely be taken away by the police for questioning."
Conan covered his mouth with his hands and lowered his voice and said, "There must be something inside of this, and don't we even know where the scroll is now?"
"The scroll is hidden under the blanket covering the baby altar." Ye Gengyi skipped the subject and only talked about the conclusion: "It may not be easy to see from the front and from a high place, but as long as the reference object is turned from the doll above to both sides of the stairs If you look at the opposite corner of the blanket, you can see that the middle of the blanket is slightly convex."
Uh... Conan was stunned.
The leading police officer also showed the same expression as him, and quickly recovered and directed the accompanying police officers to take down the Girl's Day dolls.
When he lifted up the red blanket, sure enough, the missing scroll was hidden underneath:
"It's so, so awesome..." All the police officers couldn't help but sigh.
Haihara Ai's expression was also very complicated.
Recalling the frightened expression on Kudo's pale face when he opened the locker at Xianqiao Station...
Ye Gengyi alone has the power to suppress Kudo Shinichi, who is a detective as his main job. What about the other people in the organization?
