After knowing that Conan decided not to call the police, Dr. Agasa suddenly became happy and cooperated by calling Nanyang University to ask for Hirota Masami's contact information.
With the cooperation of Haibara Ai, they gained the trust of Hirota Masaki, and their identities changed from strangers to friends of Miyano Akemi. They also agreed to meet at Hirota Masaki's home in three hours.
The group arrived at their destination safely without any accidents along the way.
At the doorstep of Hirota Masami's house, Haibara Ai was looking around carefully. It was very likely that the people in the organization also knew that there was leaked drug information here. If the other party was smart, they might wait here.
At this time, the special abilities that Haibara Ai has honed in the brewery need to come into play. As long as there are people from the brewery nearby, whether it is Gin or not, Haibara Ai can sense it.
However, what surprised Haibara Ai this time was that her sensing ability had not responded at all. She didn't know if there was something wrong with her ability or if there were no winery staff nearby.
"What are you looking at?" Conan asked in a low voice. He had been paying attention to Haibara Ai for a long time and always felt that there was something wrong with this person's actions.
"Someone in the organization may also know that the drug information is here, and may be hidden nearby." Haibara Ai replied while remaining vigilant.
"Well, if they come, we will catch them in a jar." Conan spoke with confidence, and it seemed that he had made preparations on the way here.
After communicating with Hirota Masamichi's wife, several people walked into the room together and came to Hirota Masamichi's study. They knocked on the door many times but there was no response, and the door was locked.
Conan's detective instinct immediately kicked in and he jumped up. Through the window on the door, he saw Professor Hirota Masami trapped under a huge bookshelf.
"Is there a spare key here?" Conan jumped down and asked in surprise.
"We don't have a spare key." The lady had a bad feeling.
"Doctor, please help me break the door open now!" Conan said to Dr. Agasa.
Bang, bang, bang, the two men broke open the shoddy door in a few strokes. With the lady's scream, Hirota Masami's body appeared in front of them.
Although the police in the Detective Conan world are not very good at solving cases, their response speed is still good. After more than ten minutes, the police in charge of this area have arrived at the crime scene and began to investigate the situation on the scene.
"It looks like the cause of death was this ornament." A policeman picked up the blood-stained trophy on the ground and said, "Maybe he was hit when he fell."
"I see." The police officer looked as if he had suddenly realized something.
"Did he fall?" Dr. Agasa noticed something was wrong and reminded.
"What happened is that the deceased Hirota Masami was trying to get something, so he stepped on the bookshelf and lost his balance. The bookshelf fell down and a decoration on the bookshelf happened to hit him." The detective said, looking at the glass window above the door. "The best evidence is that this room, including the window above the door, is locked, and the only key to the room is under the book."
When this man began to reason, Conan had already looked at the entire scene. At present, the most suspicious object here is the overturned phone, and the microphone on the phone is even placed very neatly.
Just as Conan was about to make a deduction, a righteous man in a suit walked in from outside the door.
"How can you conclude that this was an accident so easily, Officer? I think you need to think about it again." Lin Zhengying said.
"Who are you?" The police officer thought the man looked familiar.
"My name is Lin Zhengying, and I have a nickname recently, the psychic detective." Lin Zhengying handed a business card to the police officer and said.
"I know! So you are the psychic detective who has solved many locked-room murders recently!" the police officer said loudly.
Conan looked up at Lin Zhengying. Is he also a detective? Solving a murder case in a locked room? It seems I don't need to do anything this time.
"Don't be so surprised." Lin Zhengying looked at the police officer and felt very satisfied. The feeling of pretending to be cool was really great. This kind of fun would make people happy no matter how old they were.
"I heard that whenever there is a closed-room murder case, you will appear nearby, so everyone calls you the psychic detective!" The police officer was still saying what the narration should say.
He turned to look at Hirota Masayoshi who was lying on the ground, "Could this be a murder case in a closed room as well?!"
"That's right!" Lin Zhengying put on gloves and came to Conan's side, "Little friend, please make way."
"Okay, uncle." Conan took a few steps back and looked at the man curiously.
"Even the children noticed something was wrong, but you didn't. This is really wrong." Lin Zhengying flipped open the book on the landline and said, "The phone was already upside down, why was the microphone still intact? This is totally against common sense."
"Yes, if the phone fell, the microphone should have moved away from its original position." Dr. Agasa seemed to have discovered something extraordinary.
"Then this really is a murder in a closed room!" The police officer opened his mouth and looked around.
"Murder in a secret room?! Who is it? Who killed my husband!" The lady asked Lin Zhengying loudly.
"Madam, don't get excited." Lin Zhengying put the book back to its original state. "Madam, are there any outsiders coming today?"
"Including this gentleman, there are three or four people in total." The lady pointed at Dr. Agasa and said.
"You're talking about me. It's because a friend of mine accidentally made a mistake and sent her floppy disk to Professor Hirota. I just came here to get the floppy disk back. I think the floppy disk must be next to the computer." Dr. Agasa said, turning his head to the computer in the study.
Haibara Ai was standing on a chair, and this was the only way for her small body to reach the table. Her hands were typing on the computer keyboard.
"All the data in the floppy disk is gone. It seems that the data in the computer may be gone as well." Haibara Ai said.
"Who is this little girl?" The police officer felt puzzled. Are kids nowadays so brave? This is a murder scene!
While Dr. Agasa was explaining, Lin Zhengying's eyes swept over Haibara Ai and then glanced at Conan. These two people were the most out of place here. Both their behavior and the way they spoke were like adults. Encountering two weirdos on a side quest, the people in this world were indeed as unreliable as its timeline.
"Officer, don't worry about these things for now. Call everyone who has been here today and ask them to come over." Lin Zhengying reminded them. He still had things to do later and didn't have much time to waste here.
"Oh, okay." The police officer nodded, went out to make a phone call, and took Haibara Ai and Conan out with him.