Conan and Haihara's expressions changed when they saw Ye Ling walk out from behind the police. In their eyes, Ye Ling's identity was suspicious and could even be considered a dangerous person. They could tell from the fact that Xiao Ai threw away the fruit that Ye Ling had given them.
They never expected Ye Ling to appear here.
Could it be…he's following us?
"Eh? It's you!" The owner of the house, Mika Mitsui, was also stunned when she saw Ye Ling. Wasn't this the young man who rang the doorbell last night?
Conan was deeply puzzled by Mika's words and asked," Miss Mika, do you know him?"
"I don't know him." Meixiang shook her head and explained," But I've seen him before. Last night, he came to look for a friend and pressed the wrong doorbell to my house."”
This was the first time Bu Meiyuan, Tai Guangyan, and the other two saw Ye Ling. They asked in confusion,""Conan, who is he?"
Conan didn't say anything. Xiao Ai said expressionlessly,""His name is Ye Ling, a detective. He recently opened a law firm near the doctor's house.”It could be heard that Xiao Ai was very wary of Ye Ling.
"Detective?" Their eyes lit up.
Ye Ling didn't seem to notice her sudden appearance and continued to ask Police Department Mu Mu,""What happened? Why did Miss Mika become a suspect?”
After hesitating for a moment, Inspector Megami finally said," Actually…Mika-san's boss, Mika-san Goshima, was killed in her own salon. Before she died, she wrote Mika's name in blood.”
" What?!" Meixiang was stunned. The boss was dead? How was this possible? She was still alive and well last night. How could she be killed all of a sudden? And why did you write down my name before you died?
Mika anxiously explained,""No, I can't! It wasn't me! I didn't kill anyone!"
Ye Ling could not help but frown. Green Goto? If he guessed correctly, it should be the auntie who had quarreled with Meixiang last night. However, Meixiang had not left the apartment since last night, so it was impossible for her to kill someone.
In other words, someone was framing Miss Mika.
So that was how it was. Even though I had stopped Mika from being killed by Mika Goto, Mika Goto had been killed by someone else. Thus, things weren't over yet, and the error notification in the sky didn't disappear either…
" Auntie Meixiang wouldn't kill anyone!" Bu Mei couldn't help but shout.
Genta and Kazuhiko also shouted,"That's right, she's always with us!"”
Conan frowned and asked Police Department Megure,""May I ask when the manager was killed?”
Police Chief Megami seemed to be used to Conan's random inquiries, so he did not hide anything and said directly,""Just half an hour ago."
"Then Miss Mika can't be the murderer, because she's been with us since nine o'clock.”Conan explained. Police Chief Megami and Detective Takagi also nodded subconsciously. When they first heard that Mika was cutting Ayumi's hair, they realized that Mika might not be the murderer.
……
Although Mika had been eliminated as a suspect, the police still asked her to go to the crime scene as usual, and Mika did not refuse. Ye Ling and the children followed them on foot. As they were all within the area of the rice flower town, they could reach it very quickly on foot.
When she arrived at the hair salon, Ye Ling saw a yellow tape at the entrance from afar. There were also police officers guarding the entrance. Many passers-by stopped to watch and chattered.
With Police Department Mumu leading the way, Ye Ling and the others successfully crossed the yellow line.
There were two anxious women standing in the shop. They were both Mika-san's colleagues and suspects. Through the introduction of Police Department Mumu, Ye Ling learned that the slightly older woman with long black hair was called Keiko, and the young woman with a ponytail was called Sakurako.
When the two of them saw that Meixiang had been brought in by the police, they immediately approached her and cried out emotionally.
"Meixiang, why did you kill the manager?”
"Sister Meixiang, you definitely didn't do this, right?”
Keiko looked very angry, but Sakurako looked very sad.
"Cough cough!" Inspector Mu Mu cleared his throat and said,""You two, Meixiang shouldn't be the murderer because she had an alibi at the time of the crime. At that time, she was with several children.”
Guizi and Sakurako were both stunned. Guizi questioned,"She's not the murderer? But the store manager had written Meixiang's name in blood before he died. How could it be wrong?”
"That should be the real murderer who framed Miss Mika.”Police Chief Megami replied.
Ye Ling and Conan looked at Keiko thoughtfully. When the police mentioned that Mika had an alibi, Keiko's expression was obviously a little strange. If his guess was correct, it should be this female colleague named Guizi who framed Meixiang because she knew that Meixiang didn't come to work today and was alone at home. She definitely didn't have an alibi.
In the end, she did not expect that so many children would testify for her when Ayumi went to get Mika to cut her hair today…
"Wahhh!"
Just as Ye Ling and Conan were deep in thought, the screams of children suddenly came from the inner room separated by a wall. It was only then that everyone realized that the children had slipped into the real murder scene.
Ye Ling and the others ran into the inner room and saw Ms. Mikoto lying on the ground with a knife in her chest. Her expression was twisted and she looked especially scary. The ground was covered in blood from the struggle. Beside the corpse, there was the word " Mei Xiang " written in blood. There was a blood-stained white cloth for hairdressing thrown nearby. It must have been worn by the criminal to prevent blood from coming into contact with it.
The children were frightened by this scene and were sitting on the ground trembling.
Xiao Ai was helpless. These little fellows really didn't make her worry at all…
"You guys! How could he run around the crime scene?!”Officer Mumu was furious and scolded the children. The children were guilty and did not even dare to raise their heads. They could only accept the lesson humbly.
Witnessing this scene, Ye Ling and Conan both came to a similar conclusion-the murderer had killed the store manager while wearing the cloth. Then, he grabbed the store manager's hand and wrote the word " Meixiang " in blood. Then, he took off the cloth and left.
Chief Constable Megamu explained the police's deduction, which coincided with what the two of them were thinking. However, when the police officer was explaining, Ye Ling noticed that Guizi was looking around in the inner room with an anxious expression. He did not know what she was doing.
According to the police, Sakurako was the first person to discover it, and she was also the one who called the police. Although Keiko was also an employee of the hair salon, she happened to be on leave today, so she only ran over after the police arrived.
The police thought that the murderer was Mika the moment they saw the bloody words. They rushed straight to Mika's residence without asking Keiko and Sakurako too many questions. Now that Mika was no longer a suspect, it seemed like it was time to ask these two people in detail.
"Excuse me, where were you between 11:30 and 12:00?”Police Chief Megamu asked. This time period was exactly the time that the forensic doctor deduced the crime.
Sakurako replied,"Because it was lunchtime, I went out to eat."”
"I asked for leave. I was at home."”
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