Chapter 6: Hidden God (I)Conan looked up at the doctor, and said, "Doctor, what did you find out? You looked so ugly and called me over so late. What's the matter?" Standing next to the doctor, I looked up at the computer screen and saw two large words. Shenyin! Kamikakushi? Conan frowned. Kamikakushi is a Japanese legend, which means that a person is hidden by gods or ghosts, and this person disappears from the human world from then on, similar to evaporating from the face of the earth. In modern society, it usually refers to those strange and bizarre disappearance cases. Conan got angry and stood on tiptoe to slide the mouse and pull down the file. 【The disappearance case at the Mountain Stream Hot Spring Hotel】 [On April 1987, 4, Miss Iida Kazu called the police and said that her father, Mr. Iida Inoue, who was away on a business trip, had no news and had not been contacted for nearly a month.] [It is reported that Mr. Iida opened a restaurant. On March 3, he went to Hokkaido to purchase ingredients. On March 1, Ms. Iida called him because of trivial matters at home, but found that his phone was turned off and could not be contacted. ] 【Since food procurement is not a simple task, you first need to find suppliers according to the procurement needs, inquire about prices, compare prices, bargain, sign a contract after negotiation, and after delivery and acceptance, put them into storage and plan reconciliation, and finally conduct financial settlement.】
[Therefore, Miss Iida and Mr. Iida only thought that it was because of the tedious work and did not think about it. However, when the procurement period ended and Mr. Iida did not come back, Miss Iida finally realized that something might have happened, so she called the police.] [Based on the information provided by Ms. Iida, the police found the Sankei Onsen Hotel where Mr. Iida lived in Hokkaido.] [According to the hotel staff, Mr. Iida checked in on March 3 and paid the full 1-day room fee. On March 20, Mr. Iida did not check out to take the deposit. According to the cleaning staff who went to check, the room was empty, all personal belongings were taken away, and the hotel's items and facilities were neatly arranged, with no signs of a fight.] [The hotel believed that Mr. Ida had something urgent to do and forgot to pay the deposit, so he left immediately. This kind of thing is quite common, so it was not taken seriously.] [According to police investigation, the hotel is a U-shaped building with 12 floors, two elevators, two staircases, and only one entrance and exit at the counter on the first floor. There are no surveillance cameras on the floors, only one at the entrance and one in the elevator.] [After checking the surveillance footage, we found that Mr. Iida entered the hotel at 3:17 pm on March and never left since then - because this was the last time he appeared in the surveillance footage.] [The police checked the room where Mr. Iida lived and found a lot of blood splatter in the bathroom of Mr. Iida's room through luminol reagent. Based on this, it can be inferred that Mr. Iida was probably murdered there.] [On the one hand, the police sent additional police officers to search for possible bodies in the hotel, and on the other hand, they began to check all people who entered and left the hotel around March 3. ] Seeing this, Conan stopped clicking the mouse. Instead, he began to organize his thoughts and try to figure out the case. Before watching the investigation process, he must first have his own ideas. "Doctor, you have finished reading this case, right?" "Yeah, I finished reading it before you came." Conan held his chin up, pretending to be thoughtful, and asked: "Did the police find the body in the hotel?" Dr. Agasa looked at him and swallowed the words "It's in the file, you can't look for yourself". He complained in his mind that the detective was really weird and replied, "No, the police searched the hotel inside and out and found nothing." "That means the body was taken away!" Conan asked again: "Among those who entered and exited the hotel around March 3, did anyone carry a large luggage bag?" Dr. Agasa thought for a moment: "There were five people. Two of them were couples who came to Hokkaido for a tour and carried large luggage bags. The remaining three each had one. But in the subsequent visit and investigation, no blood was detected in their bags." Conan questioned: "Could it be that they disposed of the bag and bought another identical bag?" Dr. Agasa shook his head: "The bags of the five of them all show obvious signs of use, and even if they deliberately replaced them with old bags of the same model, there is no evidence to prove it." Conan scratched his head irritably and asked again: "What about the motive? Who among the five of them has a motive?"
"The five of them had never met Mr. Ida before... However, there was one person, Mr. Ueno, who left the hotel on March 3th. He had a grudge against Mr. Ida. Mr. Ida's restaurant originally belonged to Mr. Ueno's father, but it was taken away by Mr. Ida in an dishonorable way. The two of them had many conflicts over this." "Then the police didn't investigate him?" Dr. Agasa smiled bitterly: "Of course he investigated. Not only that, he was also listed as suspect number one and summoned by the police... However, whether he entered or left, he did not carry anything that could hold the body. He only brought a small shoulder bag." Dr. Agasa slid down the document and two photos appeared. One is a surveillance screenshot of Ueno entering the hotel on March 3. The photo is blurry and his specific appearance cannot be seen clearly. All we can see is that he is wearing a dark black long trench coat and carrying a black shoulder bag across his body. The other one is a screenshot of leaving the hotel on March 3. It is no different from the previous one, with the same dark black coat and black shoulder bag. The shoulder bag was not big, and could only hold some sundries at most. It couldn't even fit a four-year-old child, let alone Mr. Iida, a fat man with a bloated figure. Conan's mind wandered as he looked at the photo. Because of what happened today, he was now somewhat sensitive to black coats. Suddenly, it occurred to him that this black outfit was meant to make it difficult to be detected even if blood was spilled? I don’t know if it was because of this, but his suspicion of Mr. Ueno increased sharply. "Did the police check his clothes?" If blood is found during the examination, it can be confirmed that Mr. Ueno is the murderer. Or maybe the disappearance of the clothes could prove his guess (the incident happened too long ago and there are too few clues, so he can't deduce and can only guess), which means that there must be something wrong with Mr. Ueno. He can apply to extend the detention limit and interrogate him with all his strength, which might reveal something. "Of course, but we still found nothing! Moreover, he has four more sets of the same clothes in his closet. Mr. Ueno said that he liked this set of clothes very much, so he bought a few more sets when he bought it." Conan smiled bitterly when he heard this. In this way, even if he suspected that Mr. Ueno destroyed the clothes he wore that day, there was no evidence to prove it. Suddenly, Conan was stunned: "Wait a minute, what does this have to do with Su Beixun?" Wasn’t the information he asked the doctor to look up related to Su Beixun? Dr. Agasa's expression became serious. He continued to slide the mouse, and another photo appeared: "On March 3, not long after Mr. Ueno left, Su Beixun was photographed entering the hotel." The photo shows a little child, wrapped in a dark blue coat and carrying nothing. Conan showed half-moon eyes: "Doctor, isn't this too far-fetched?" Dr. Agasa said seriously, "When I saw this before, I didn't understand why this case was included in Su Beixun's investigation file... The police investigating the case at the time would not suspect an 8-year-old child. It was not until later when Su Beixun was involved in more and more cases that this case was linked to him." Looking at Conan's puzzled expression, Dr. Agasa said: "Keep reading, Shinichi, this is just the beginning!" (End of this chapter)