Chapter 841 Shouldn’t a detective be able to pick a lock?Listening to the voice coming from the other end of the phone, the elegant middle-aged man and the man with a crew cut were both silent.
They all turned their eyes to Fujino.
Fujino put away his phone and shook his head helplessly: "This phone can't be dialed... If it doesn't work, why don't you pay the phone bill and try again?"
"..."
The two were silent for a while after hearing this.
Good guy, I've given you the money, so you should be polite.
This happens at the critical moment?
I see you have tested it in advance. Is this phone out of service?
"..."
Not far away, the few people who were silently watching Fujino's operation were also speechless.
Fujino's technique is a bit too skillful.
This made several people wonder in their hearts: Is this an act or is it real?
"Are you kidding us?"
The man with the crew cut had a hot temper and stood up. "I advise you to give us your phone quickly. Otherwise, if we get angry, you will be in big trouble!"
"Ok?"
Fujino was immediately unhappy, "What do you mean, am I the kind of person who would not return someone else's phone if he found it?"
The elegant middle-aged man was obviously much calmer: "Of course we didn't mean that, it's just..."
"Ugh!"
Before he finished speaking, Fujino sighed and said with a look of deep sorrow: "Good people don't get rewarded. If that's the case, then I can only hand the phone to the police and let them verify it with you."
"My friend has a hot temper, please don't mind."
The elegant middle-aged man shouted, and then showed Fujino a kind and flattering smile: "Let's go back to the communication company to find a solution."
"Please."
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After leaving Columbo's restaurant, the two men returned to their car in the parking lot and started chatting.
The crew-haired man said in a deep voice: "That guy seems to be a detective. What should we do now?"
The elegant middle-aged man took off his glasses and said in a deep voice: "The phone is in his hands now. We are the owners on the surface. If we act too strangely, we will be noticed."
The crew-haired man sighed: "Do we really have to pay for the phone and come back tomorrow?"
"what are you thinking?"
The elegant middle-aged man rolled his eyes at him and said, "I really don't know if you are really stupid or just pretending to be stupid. You are like a reckless man at ordinary times, but you shrink back at the critical moment. Can't you use your usual way to get things done?"
As he spoke, a ruthless look appeared on his face: "He is a student of Teitan High School and a detective with his own detective agency. Why don't you let those bastards from your club go and rob him, or have them take people to his house in the dark and steal his phone?"
"You're right!"
The man with the crew cut suddenly realized what was going on: "Robbery happens every day in this place anyway, so no one will care if there is one more or one less detective!"
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Inside the Columbo restaurant.
After getting the mobile phone number, Fujino made a direct call to the off-field assistance brother Megure for help.
Of course, Megure couldn't step in, so he passed the matter to Sato and Takagi.
Soon, the two of them found out the identity of the owner of the phone number.
According to the information, the owner of the account is a journalist and currently lives in an apartment in Haido Town.
After getting the clue, Yumi Miyamoto's work was completed, and Azusa Enomoto also returned to the Poirot Café as it was getting late.
Fujino asked Yumi Miyamoto to drive him to the Metropolitan Police Department to meet up with Sato and Takagi, and then he found the reporter's home directly according to the address left by the number.
"The last name is Oguri, so it should be this family."
Sato Miwako stood in front of the door of an apartment building, looking at the house number in front of her and muttered: "I rang the doorbell but no one came out to answer. It seems that no one is home."
Takagi followed behind her and suggested, "How about we go ask the administrator for the key?" Seeing this, Fujino, who was standing behind the two of them, silently walked forward and said to them, "That's too much trouble. You two should move aside. Leave this door to me."
"Hey, wait a minute."
Miwako Sato couldn't help but remind her, "This is an apartment, don't make too much noise."
Fujino looked puzzled: "Why make a noise?"
Sato Miwako looked suspicious: "Don't you want to score directly?"
Fujino: "..."
So what do I look like to you?
Fujino was speechless for a moment, then he took out a piece of wire from his sleeve and inserted it into the keyhole: "You think too much, I just want to pick the lock. Breaking the door is simple, but it's not that difficult."
"Can you pick locks?"
Looking at Fujino who was putting his ear to the keyhole in a very professional manner, Sato Miwako couldn't help but look a little strange.
"Huh, what's wrong with picking the lock?"
Fujino kept moving his hands: "Shouldn't picking locks be a skill that every detective knows?"
After saying that, he took out a colorful small card from his pocket and swiped it across the crack of the door. Then, with a click, the door was pried open.
Sato Miwako: "..."
Why does it feel like this detective is getting more and more criminal?
Luckily this guy is a detective. If he had turned out to be a criminal, a policeman like me would have been in big trouble!
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The three entered the room and soon found relevant evidence in the study.
It was a pile of photocopies, containing a large number of account books, on which the names, positions and amounts of bribes were clearly marked.
For example, the presidents of underworld organizations, officials of the Liberal Democratic Party, some bank presidents, or company chairmen, and members of residents' committees.
The owner of the account book evidence is a Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly member named Shuhei Abe.
However, since the case was not within the jurisdiction of Investigation Section 1, after finding the evidence, Fujino and his team transferred the case to Investigation Section 2.
After handing over to Investigation Section 1, the people from Investigation Section 2 decided to cooperate with Fujino's operation tomorrow to first arrest the two people who came for the transaction today, and then launch the operation from there.
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After Fujino handed over his work to the people from Investigation Section 2 and came out of the Metropolitan Police Department, it was already dark.
On the way driving home, he received a call from Haibara Ai.
On the other end of the phone, Huibara Ai explained what she saw and heard during her visit to the imaging laboratory today, and then mentioned that the movie was not ready yet and could not be watched until the evening, so she planned to stay there tonight.
"Okay, I understand. I'll pick you up tomorrow."
Fujino responded, but in his heart he was thinking about the case at the Tokyo Imaging Institute in his memory.
“Crack!”
At this moment, the sound of tires rubbing against the ground suddenly sounded.
Fujino looked up and found that a black van suddenly braked and stopped in front of his car.
"interesting……"
Fujino frowned slightly, stepped hard on the brakes to stop his car, and then put the car in reverse gear to back up.
“Crack!”
But at this moment, another sound of fetal cry was heard.
A black van suddenly stopped behind him, blocking his way.
"boom!"
The car behind had just stopped when the rear door of the black van in front was suddenly opened.
Several figures quickly got out of the trunk and approached Fujino's car.
(End of this chapter)
