"So, now all the Mantian employees present have retrieved their briefcases from the check-in office, but how to determine who is the murderer?"

Under the coordination of the president of Mantendo, all the Mantendo employees present were soon called together, and according to the instructions of Officer Megure, they all took their briefcases with their number plates.

return.

However, looking at the current situation, Officer Megure still couldn't understand it. He turned to look at Kogoro Mori and couldn't help asking with confusion on his face.

"Officer Megure, didn't you notice?"

He quietly poked his face out from behind the pillar and looked at the briefcases held by the Mantian employees present. When he noticed the style of the briefcase in the hands of one of them, he couldn't help but smile, and then changed his voice to the bow.

Qi, continued to speak in Kogoro's voice:

"The briefcases used by employees of Mantiantian Company are all uniformly equipped by the company and bear the company's trademark. But now, the briefcase in someone's hand does not have that trademark..."

Having said this, Conan couldn't help but pause for a moment, and then said in an extremely serious tone:

"Mr. Nakajima, the briefcase you have been holding carefully since just now, can you explain why there is no Mantian Tian Company trademark on it now? When we first deposited it, we could see that it was clearly

It’s trademarked!”

Hearing this, Nakajima Hideaki's expression changed drastically, showing a panicked look, but he still subconsciously wanted to protect his briefcase, and his body couldn't help but take a half step back——

"Nakajima! Could it be you..."

Seeing Nakajima's reaction, President Mantendo couldn't help but asked with a horrified look on his face.

"No, it's not me..."

Quickly waving his hands, Nakajima denied in a panic:

"I'm not a bomb-planting prisoner."

"Then let me check the briefcase!"

Seeing this, Officer Memu naturally saw that something was wrong, and then stepped forward with a serious face and said.

"no!"

Subconsciously, Nakajima held the briefcase in his arms and categorically objected, but looking at Officer Megure's expression, he couldn't help but panic and wanted to explain——

"this……"

"What does this have to do with it? Why don't you just show it to the police officer? There won't be anything important anyway."

Ueda on the side looked at Nakajima's coquettish expression and couldn't help but say.

"But if there is a plan for a new game in it, just take it out like this..."

Takeshita wanted to explain at the side, and then Nakajima immediately continued on the topic:

"Yeah, that's why we can't let others..."

Nakajima tried his best to explain, but Ueda grabbed the briefcase and shouted:

"Idiot! You want to be treated as a suspect!"

But Nakajima still held the box tightly and didn’t want to let go——

"Let go!"

Seeing this, Takeshita looked at them grabbing the briefcase with a horrified expression, and then saw that the lock of the briefcase was not locked——

During the fight between the two, the lock of the briefcase was opened, and the contents inside suddenly poured out——

"ah!"

Subconsciously, Nakajima shouted when he saw this.

Ueda was very puzzled when he saw his excited expression.

As for Takeshita, after seeing the briefcase being opened, his face turned livid and he shouted in horror——

"Help!"

Then, subconsciously, Zhuxia squatted down and held his head, as if he was avoiding something.

——"Hey? Why is it all money?"

Seeing the piles of brand-new banknotes wrapped in paper tape that fell out of the briefcase, Nakajima squatted nervously and hugged the banknotes, as if he wanted to put them in his arms to protect them. Ueda

Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel confused.

When he heard this, Takeshita turned his head to look at Nakajima with a face full of disbelief, and also showed a puzzled look on his frightened expression——

"Hmph... Officer Megure, what do you think? This is really a good show!"

Looking at the current situation, Conan finally figured out all the details, so he said this.

"Brother Maori, what is going on? I am confused by this?"

Faced with the events that happened one after another before him, as well as the unusual reactions of Nakajima and Takeshita, Officer Megure scratched his head and asked completely incomprehensibly.

"What's wrong? Don't you understand this? Mr. Takeshita, you are the prisoner who planted the bomb!"

Conan shouted loudly in Kogoro's voice:

"It was precisely because he thought the bomb he planted in his briefcase was going to explode that he reacted like this."

"Bomb in briefcase?"

Officer Megure became even more confused about this statement.

"Yes, the logo on the briefcase found at the explosion site was curved toward the outside. This means that the impact of the explosion came from the inside, that is, the inside of the briefcase... Let me explain it from the beginning!"

Conan began to explain in Kogoro's voice:

"What I found strange at first was that I heard Conan say that he heard that the number plate used by the murdered man when he picked up the items from the storage room was actually the number '98'. You know, when we were queuing at that time,

The number plate I got in line was number '96', while the number plate Xiaolan got was exactly '100', so based on the situation at that time, the number between the two of us should be the middle number who jumped in the queue at that time.

Mr. Shima, Mr. Takeshita and Mr. Ueda are the right ones.

"In other words, the person with the number plate '98' should be one of the three of you. But if that is the case, then why did the man go to the check-in office to pick up something with the number plate '98'?

"

"Could it be that one of them happened to lose the number plate and the victim picked it up, and then the victim tried to claim it by pretending to have it?"

Officer Megure guessed.

"No, if that's the case, then one of them should have no number plate in his hand, which means it is impossible to withdraw anything from the depository. But the current situation is that they all have number plates in their hands.

, and they all received things. So Officer Megure, what you said may not exist."

Kogoro's voice explained:

"Therefore, it is more likely that the two of them exchanged number plates than they lost their number plates. In other words, the briefcase in Mr. Nakajima's hand was actually the one the victim kept in the storage room.

.As long as you ask the waitress at the check-in office, you will know this!

"After all, the number plate Mr. Nakajima used to pick up his briefcase happened to be the last number among the number plates distributed, and because the victim's height was very distinctive, the waitress remembered it very clearly - the victim was after depositing his things.

After that, I came back immediately to pick up the items.

"So, I think Mr. Nakajima knew the victim who was killed in the bombing, right? You are putting things in the storage room like this, and then secretly exchanging the things you brought by exchanging number plates——

That’s the so-called underground trade!”

"So that's it!"

Officer Memu suddenly realized it, and then he thought about it and realized something was wrong——

"That's not right, Brother Mori. If you think about it this way, then the person who stored the bomb in the briefcase shouldn't be Mr. Nakajima who made the deal with the victim? How can you say that it was Mr. Takeshita who planted the bomb?"

Officer Memu said puzzledly.

"That's another question, Officer Megure."

Conan continued in Kogoro's voice:

"At the explosion site, in addition to the trademark on the briefcase, wasn't there also a key to the briefcase? Officer Megure, which briefcase key do you think it is used to open?"

"Of course it's the briefcase at the scene, otherwise..."

He said it naturally, but when he thought of Kogoro's tone of voice, Officer Megure still changed his words in confusion:

"Isn't it?"

"Officer Megure, won't you know if you try it?"

Conan spoke in Kogoro's voice, but he couldn't explain the reason for his judgment——

The words "can't get in" and "it's open" that I heard on the bug should mean that the key I got did not match the keyhole of the briefcase, but the briefcase was not locked.

But since this was what was overheard, Conan couldn't say it openly, so he could only say it in a roundabout way.

"Technology Section!"

In response, Officer Megure quickly called the technical officers at the scene and asked them to quickly compare the keys at the scene with the remaining keyholes found.

Due to the small size of these two things, they were directly blown away by the impact force when they were exploded, but they did not receive too much pressure and caused obvious deformation.

Therefore, after careful comparison, the police officers from the technical section came to a very definite conclusion:

"Officer Megure, this key cannot open this lock."

In response, Officer Megure quickly asked Kogoro:

"Brother Maori, what on earth is going on!"

"Officer Megure, the format of this key is the same as the key to the briefcase issued by Mantendo Company. Therefore, this key is obviously used to open the lock on the briefcase... I think this is also the key that Mr. Nakajima and Mr.

Was it given to the man along with the number plate? But now, since this key cannot open the lock on site, it can only mean one thing - the briefcase that the man got at the check-in office was not the one that was stolen.

Mr. Shima’s briefcase!”
To be continued...