——No matter how cowardly Conan is, he will never ask Lie to help call the police in such a humble manner.

But to Zaiyeol, this is what Conan meant.

So Lie happily made a phone call to the Metropolitan Police Department under Conan's "begging".

Apart from him, others were not so happy, especially the employees of Libera.

Obviously the press conference will be held in a while, why did a murder happen at this time?!

For a while, except for the first witness, Ryutaro Minamoto, almost no one else was paying attention to how the deceased died or why the murderer killed. Instead, they were more worried about what to do with the press conference later.

Fortunately, Togen Mikami was a sensible person and decisively ordered the press conference to be suspended and announced to the public that it would be postponed.

"Conan~What are you looking at?"

Lie followed Conan around the stage with a curious look on his face.

"I'm looking for clues... The corpse was probably dead no more than half an hour ago, which coincides with the time we came here, but at that time Mr. Bochi was still standing on the stage." Conan, who was focused on solving the case, had a basic perception of the surrounding environment.

Zero, I guess even if Mouri Kogoro asked him this, he would answer correctly, "We sat in the lounge after that and didn't come out at all, so the murderer must be someone who approached the stage after we came to the lounge today.

"

"But it's strange. There are security guards and photographers at the door, but no one noticed the murderer..."

"Na na~ Conan, Xiaolan is looking at you~"

"?!"

Conan, who had just entered the reasoning mode, got excited and immediately exited the state, looking at the audience with a silly and cute expression on his face to see the results...

Xiaolan was talking to Yuanzi with a worried look on her face, not looking at him at all.

Conan: I'm hard again!

Don't get me wrong, he means fists.

However, Conan soon corrected his attitude: "Mr. Lin, can you help me ask what they were doing before?"

He stretched out his little finger and pointed at the three people standing under the stage.

They are Minamoto Ryutaro who is still trembling, Mishima Shouhei who brought them here, and...Tsuchimoto Mikami who has been supervising the on-site work here.

Lie glanced at a few people, and after making eye contact with Tugen Mikami among them, he chuckled, directly picked up Conan, and said with a smile: "Hey, questioning is the responsibility of the police. We passers-by just need to

Just wait for the police to come~"

While speaking, Lie's eyes accidentally glanced in the direction of the door.

Just this one glance almost made Lie Rumu's expression collapse.

Fortunately, he just paused for a moment, and then suddenly took Conan around in circles in the venue with great joy.

Conan:……

Mr. Lin's behavior today is so strange...

Something fishy!

…

Matsuda Jinpei didn't know whether Lie had something fishy about him.

He just felt a little unlucky...

Can't we just let him go to work? Why is it that every time we encounter him in the class, we either look for him as a spy in the dark night or meet Lie?

'There is definitely something wrong with this case.'

Arriving at the scene of the crime, Matsuda Jinpei had this idea reflexively as soon as he saw Lie.

Of course, the problem may not be the case itself, but what role Lie himself wants to play in the case, or how Lie hopes the case will develop... just like how John was used to avenge his son's murderer.

but……

Matsuda Jinpei glanced at his two superiors.

Police Officer Memu is leading the team today, Lie should not be so blatant...

After routine inspection and maintenance of the scene, the situation of the deceased was judged, and the on-site inquiry work started naturally:

"The deceased, 41 years old, was a mid-level network engineer at Libera Company... The cause of death was a fruit knife inserted directly into the heart from behind. Judging from the traces on the surface of the body, there were obvious marks on the cheeks. It should have been a sneak attack from behind by the murderer.

, covered the other person’s mouth to prevent him from making any sound, and then stabbed him with a knife.”

Officer Megure finished reading the record written by Matsuda Jinpei, and looked seriously at the three people who had been eliminated during the time of death of the deceased, "Three of you, can you please state, from the time they entered until now, you

Have you done anything?"

As soon as Officer Megure arrived, he had already learned from Ran, Sonoko and the eager Conan that when they passed the stage and entered the lounge more than forty minutes ago, Bochi Honan was still a living person.

The first person to speak was the first witness to the corpse, Minamoto Ryutaro.

"I, I have been on the stage, adjusting the position and angle of the laser anchor point."

This tall, thin man was probably still trembling a little as he was probably seeing a corpse for the first time. He pointed tremblingly at the curtain behind them.

Only then did Conan notice that there were many bumps and dimples of different sizes on these dark blue curtains, and the same was true for the curtains on the ground.

"These are the anchor points... Because the press conference was originally intended to show the characters and scenes of the game in a holographic way, this new projection method was adopted." Seeing the confusion on the faces of Officer Megure and others, Minamoto Ryutaro also

He explained very insightfully, "When the projected lights are turned back and fixed by anchor points, a virtual game portrait can be formed on the stage. It looks as if the characters in the game have stepped out of reality..."

"Well... I probably understand."

Officer Megure pretended to understand seriously and nodded, "Have you been on stage during this period?"

Minamoto Ryutaro hesitated for a moment, looked at Domoto Mikami and Mishima Shakuhei, and said in a slightly lower voice: "No, no..."

"Huh? When did you leave?" Officer Megure narrowed his eyes, as if he had caught something, and picked up his notebook and pen to write it down.

"Just, probably..."

Genryu Taro couldn't remember the time for a while, so he could only use the time when Conan and the others came over as the node, "Just a few minutes after they entered..."

Wait a minute, officer! I didn’t kill the person! I had finished the adjustment at that time, so I went to the main control room and asked them to drive it for a test..."

Midway through his words, Minamoto Ryutaro noticed the way Inspector Megure looked at the prisoner, and immediately trembled and defended himself:

"After I went in, it was Mr. Mishima who came out with me! At that time, Bochi was still fine!"

Officer Megure frowned and turned to look at Mishima Chippei: "Is that so, Mr. Mishima?"

"Yes, indeed."

Mishima Shouhei calmly argued with Tomoto Mikami, "After confirming, I told them and returned to the central control room, while Genryu seemed to have gone to the toilet."
Chapter completed!