“There are so many sounds that can replace gunshots. Did you see anyone shooting across the street? And there were so many people in the Garden Restaurant at the time. Would anyone really risk being discovered at any time to kill someone?”

Tian Yuan Liming sneered: “Detective Mao Li didn’t say anything, but you, a young boy following behind, couldn’t wait to pretend. You said I was the murderer, so why don’t you tell me how I killed him?”

Chu Ming waved his hand: “Don’t use such rhetoric. Don’t you know how you did it? Why are you asking me?”

“Such groundless words as these, but——”

Looking at Tian Yuan Liming who was still stubborn even when facing death, Chu Ming’s eyes revealed a hint of pity.

“Do you know where the last person who spoke to me like this went?”

Tian Yuan Liming looked at Chu Ming’s appearance and felt inexplicably panicked. He turned around and yelled at Officer Yokogawa.

“Officer! Are you just going to let this man intimidate and threaten me?”

Officer Yokomizo was a little embarrassed: “Mr. Chu Ming, this…”

Chu Ming’s eyes were full of teasing: “What intimidation? I’m telling the truth. The last person who spoke to me like this was arrested by Officer Yokogawa!”

Officer Yokomizo nodded. Chu Ming was telling the truth, but why did it sound so wrong?

“Mr. Tian Yuan, I was following you just now, and I kept hearing a very strange sound coming from the bottom of your feet. And just now at the scene, I also saw a very deep scratch.”

Tian Yuan Liming looked impatient: “What does this mean? Everything——”

Halfway through his words, he realized what was going on and silently closed his mouth.

Unfortunately, he didn’t say it, Chu Ming wanted to say it.

“How could you have broken glass from the window on your feet when you were not near the crime scene? And how could there be scratches on the floor of the room from the glass under your feet? Don’t be so quick to deny it. These traces can be found through inspection.”

Tian Yuan Liming sat down on the ground. “How could this happen? I wanted to write a complete crime script that the police, detectives, and everyone else couldn’t figure out…but just because of this piece of glass, I failed!”

His face was filled with despair, as if he had fallen into madness: “I don’t accept it, I don’t accept it, you are just lucky, you can’t beat me, my script is perfect!!”

Chu Ming looked at Tian Yuan Liming who was immersed in his own world and snorted disdainfully. Instead of feeling ashamed, he felt proud of it.

“So what? It doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches the mouse, it’s a good cat! No matter how perfect your script is, didn’t I still catch you?”

Seeing Tian Yuan Liming’s eyes full of madness, Chu Ming added fuel to the fire and made a slight face at him.

“you–“

Seeing that he was showing signs of attacking, Officer Yokomizo immediately had him taken away.

He shook hands with Chu Ming and Mao Li Kogoro with a look of joy on his face: “Fortunately, Mr. Mao Li and Mr. Chu Ming are here! Thank you so much, this efficiency is really great!”

“Hahaha, no, no, Chu Ming has gradually become so outstanding under my training, hahahaha——”

“Really, Conan, don’t run around next time~”

Xiaolan was teaching Conan a lesson as she walked, but she didn’t pay enough attention and Conan actually ran to the other side. That’s where the murderer lurks, it’s too dangerous!

“Hey~ I understand, Sister Xiaolan~”

Conan was held in Xiaolan’s arms and answered sweetly.

He had just gone out and discovered some flaws. Although there were guns and ropes hanging down the cliff on the other side of the river, they were all wet.

This means that these things were placed there by the murderer in the afternoon!

If he guessed correctly, the murderer was among those three people!

Then the next one is him – huh?

Huh???

Conan’s eyes were full of question marks as he looked at Tian Yuan Liming who was captured, and then at Chu Ming who was being stared at by him.

No, that can’t be. It seems like he has experienced this scene before… ?

Chapter 193 Shanni Temple

“Brother Chu Ming?” Conan stood at the door with an incredulous look on his face, looking at Chu Ming.

You stole the questions from me again?

Chu Ming took Conan out of Xiaolan’s arms and said, “Xiaolan, leave this kid to me. I’ll take him to bed.”

Then he turned around and smiled at Conan: “Being a detective is just like this~ So simple~”

Conan wanted to go crazy in his arms: “No, this is not right! This is not how detectives work! You are a cult! Aren’t detectives supposed to find clues and use reasoning to find evidence to identify the murderer? Don’t skip steps!!”

Chu Ming took out a pair of sunglasses from somewhere and put them on his face: “All roads lead to Rome. As long as I get there, why would you care if I went there by plane~”

Conan clenched his fists: “Next time! Next time I will definitely prove to you what real detective reasoning looks like!!”

Chu Ming looked at the indignant little detective. It seemed that after his body became smaller, Conan’s mind also changed unconsciously, becoming gradually childish. Was this the effect of the drug, or –

——His own character problem?

Chu Ming directly plagiarized the line that Conan said to Hattori: “There is no true or false in reasoning, because there is only one truth.”

Conan stared in amazement at Chu Ming who shamelessly borrowed his words, and was dumbfounded and speechless.

Shameless, so shameless!

Who told him the truth? They were obviously discussing why they didn’t deduce the murderer’s crime process!

———-

The next afternoon, Kogoro Mori prepared to take a few people directly back to Tokyo.

“This is too weird. Every time I go out, I encounter a murder case. Am I really cursed? Do I have to go and pray?”

Maori Kogoro muttered while driving: “Hey, I remember there are a lot of cherry blossom trees on the mountain ahead, shall we go take some pictures?”

Without waiting for the other three people in the car to respond, he stepped on the accelerator and the car was already driving over there.

“Really? Dad obviously didn’t want to ask for our opinions, so why did he even ask us…” Xiaolan muttered.

“Sakura? It’s April now?”

“Yes, the cherry blossoms in April are the most beautiful. Although the ones in the city are also good, they are nothing compared to the wild cherry blossoms growing in the mountains~”

Kogoro Mouri stood under the tree where petals were flying, his face full of intoxication.

Chu Ming leaned against the tree trunk, slightly tilting his face up. The wind blew the treetops, lifting the dancing petals. The petals fell, tiny and light, onto the tips of his hair.

‘Crack–‘

Xiaolan captured this scene in time and then handed the camera to Chu Ming.

“Brother Chu Ming took a really nice picture of this.”

In the photo, the boy is standing under a tree, with light and shadow interweaving, like an elf who has fallen into the mortal world.

Chu Ming held the photo happily: “Oh, which boy is so handsome~——It’s me~”

“…”

Conan looked at Chu Ming with dead fish eyes. Why did he say there was a face on the ground just now? It turned out that Chu Ming threw it down because he didn’t want it anymore.

Noticing Conan’s look, Chu Ming picked him up and put him next to Xiaolan: “Can I take a picture for you too?”

Taking a few steps back, Chu Ming carefully looked for the position and light. It took him a long time to take a picture and then walked over to show it to Xiaolan.

“Wow——” Xiaolan’s eyes were filled with joy, “Brother Chu Ming took such a nice picture of me, but why does Conan look so…small?”

Upon hearing this, Conan quickly jumped up to look, and sure enough, in the photo, Xiaolan was looking at him gently with her head slightly lowered. He didn’t know if it was intentional by Chu Ming, but Xiaolan in the photo looked gentle and beautiful, and the light and shadow matched well.

But why! He was photographed like a short melon!

This must be intentional, right?

Facing Conan’s questioning eyes, Chu Ming looked particularly innocent.

“After all, you are really short now~” Chu Ming touched Conan’s head and fooled him irresponsibly, “Why not let your sister Xiaolan hold your arms and uncle Maori hold your legs every night, stretching both sides, maybe you will be taller.”

??? Are you a devil? ?

“Doesn’t your conscience hurt for deceiving a child?” Conan replied expressionlessly. “Forget it, you have no conscience.”

Chu Ming looked at Conan who was asking and answering his own questions, and didn’t speak for a long time. Was he saying that his words left him speechless?

Impossible! He will never be at a loss for words!

Chu Ming leaned close to Conan’s ear and whispered, “I have a conscience, but you are not a child.”

“…”

“Okay, let’s go, it’s getting late.”

Kogoro Maori finally took enough photos and decided to go back.

Chu Ming lay drowsy on the back of the chair. He would easily fall asleep when he was bored, especially when he was in the car or when he had to stay in one posture for a long time.

“Crack—Ziz—”

The car suddenly jolted a few times and stopped.

Chu Ming was shaken awake and rubbed his eyes: “What’s wrong?”

Maori Kogoro got out of the car and checked it, his face heavy with sorrow: “The tire is broken, and there is no spare tire on this car.”

“What should we do? Let the towing company come and tow it?”

Maori Kogoro shook his head. “We are in the mountains. The nearest trailer will probably come up tomorrow. It’s getting dark. It looks like we will have to sleep in the car for the next few days.”

Conan suddenly came over and pointed to the hillside not far away: “Uncle, look over there, there seems to be a temple, we can stay there for a night——”

Chu Ming nodded in agreement: “Indeed, it would be very uncomfortable to sleep in the car.”

He had experienced this deeply before, when he slept in the car during a mission with Gin. Gin’s old car was not flat for lying down, and he couldn’t even straighten his legs. It was too uncomfortable, and he never wanted to experience it again.

“Okay, let’s go take a look.”

Following the mountain road, the group slowly walked up, and a fairly neat temple appeared before them.

“Sanni Temple–” Kogoro Mori looked at the name of the temple at the door.

Chu Ming, who had been following behind, was excited. Shanni Temple? The one with Mist Tengu?

Chapter 194 I will burn it for you later