Hearing Xiao Ai's answer, Fangzheng was already mentally prepared for someone to die.
Therefore, when they returned to the company after dinner and saw a figure fall from the sky and fall to the ground in front of them, Fangzheng looked very calm.
Well, the screaming quartet of Yoko Okino + Shimabuki + Natsumi Kagasaka + Lan was indeed a headache.
By the way, this is not the first time you guys have seen a corpse, especially Lan. Can you not scream so loudly?
When Fangzheng returned to the company, he learned the details of the situation.
There were two dead people. One was the cameraman of the crew, Mr. Uetani, and the other was the actress who came to audition for the second female role, Ms. Mita Masanori. Uetani seemed to have chosen to commit suicide due to her unhappy life, while Mita Masanori was killed in the toilet. Judging from the crime scene, it should be murder for money.
Of course, this was when Conan was not around.
Since Conan was here, it was definitely not an ordinary accident.
In fact, according to Xiao Ai, there were indeed suspects. They were Uetani's girlfriend, Ms. Nakahara, and Mita Masanori's husband, Mr. Yoshino. That was because Xiao Ai and Conan had seen Uetani's small circle arguing with each other. It was revealed that the cameraman Uetani already had a girlfriend, but he also had illicit relationships with many women. Not only that, he was also extravagant and squandered all of Ms. Nakahara's money.
As for Mita Masanori... the reason was very simple. Mita Masanori did not treat her husband as her husband at all, just because she was a popular actress. She ordered her husband around on the set, giving people the impression that her husband was not her husband, but more like her slave.
Although the two had a motive, they did not know when they committed the crime. According to the autopsy results, the time of death of the two did not overlap. Uetani was killed before he was thrown from a building to fake his death. It was less than half an hour ago, while Mita Masanori's body showed that she died half an hour ago.
But during this period of time, both Ms. Nakahara and Mr. Yoshino had clear alibis, and there was no interaction between their social circles. They did not know each other. No matter how he looked at it, it looked like two separate cases.
However, Fangzheng could tell at a glance that the murderers were actually these two people. He did not even need Conan's Inference to guess their methods. To put it bluntly, this was an exchange of killings!
Simply put, Ueda's girlfriend, Miss Nakahara, killed Mita Truth, and Mita Truth's husband, Mr. Yoshino, killed Ueda. In this way, they weren't sure of each other's motives, so it was hard to catch them. Moreover, as long as the two of them moved at different times, the alibi could be guaranteed.
For example, Miss Nakahara went to kill Mita Masanori first, while Mr. Yoshino was with his friends during this time. Then Mr. Yoshino would definitely have an alibi.
Then Mr. Yoshino went to kill Ueda Tanita, and Miss Nakahara was with her friend at this time, which could ensure her alibi.
Oh, you guys are playing tricks, what's going on?
Next, Fangzheng wanted to see how Lan and Conan would solve the case. Speaking of which, this was also the first time he saw Lan and Conan working together. Simply put, Lan had completely replaced her father, Maori Kogoro's work, but compared to Maori Kogoro, Lan was more proactive. She was indeed a karate student, a childhood sweetheart who had seen countless corpses with Kudo Shinichi. Although she screamed quite loudly when she first found the corpses, when she really calmed down and investigated the scene, she really did have the demeanor of her father.
The final inference was also completed by the two of them together. After all, Kudo Shinichi could not show up now, and Maori Kogoro was not around, so Mao Lilan could only complete the inference. Fangzheng also saw that both sides would confirm Conan's inference in advance. Then, Lan would ask questions, and Conan would answer them. After confirming that everything was correct, Lan would stand up to testify, and Conan would supplement the evidence through Lan's "ear-ring earphones". If they encountered a need to restore the culprit's methods, Conan would cooperate with Lan ….
It had to be said that husband and wife had a tacit understanding.
They watched Lan point out the culprit at the scene and find evidence. Fangzheng nodded silently as well. Although on the surface, Xiaolan seemed to be acting as Maori Kogoro, who was good at speaking and cooperating, Fangzheng could tell that Xiaolan had her own strengths and meticulousness. From the looks of it … the cooperation between the two was pretty good.
Judging from the reaction of the onlookers, Lan's reputation as a "high school detective" had almost spread.
By the way, the reason why the killing exchange could be established this time was purely because the two murderers met each other on the Internet. They gradually became closer when they complained to each other. Although they only knew each other's online name, when they learned that the person they hated would also be here to participate in the movie's casting and audition, they came up with this "killing exchange" plan.
In fact, it was not until this time that the two had met each other for the first time. After confirming the plan, they contacted each other through text messages.
After listening to the reasoning in front of him, Fangzheng calmed down. Haha, two guys who have never met each other while chatting on the Internet want to help each other kill people because they are in the same boat, and they both succeeded. Is this even scientific?
Forget it, this world doesn't care about science. I'll just learn from Ke Xue.
Of course, this kind of killing exchange was actually feasible. After all, if the target was an acquaintance, especially a person they had been with day and night, it was difficult to guarantee that they would be able to kill the person — although this problem did not exist in the world of Detective Conan. On the contrary, it was common for acquaintances to commit crimes.
But if it was a stranger, it would be different. If the stranger only knew negative information about the target, then he wouldn't hesitate to kill him. To him, the stranger in front of him was just a damn target, not a lover that he had been with day and night.
But if the stranger thought that he could escape the police's investigation because of this, he would be dreaming.
The reason why Fangzheng asked Conan and Lan to deduce and find the murderer on the spot was simply to make things easier. In fact, even if Conan was not there, this kind of case would not be difficult to solve. After all, there was no contact between the two parties. It was just a superficial conclusion from the police's investigation. But as long as they checked their phone records and found traces of a lot of contact between the two, they would definitely be able to find clues and come to a conclusion through interrogation and investigation.
It was just that it would take some time.
In any case, Fangzheng had achieved his goal of "disinfecting" the crew with the help of the Grim Reaper's aura. He was thankful that only two people died. Originally, Fangzheng thought that with Conan's Grim Reaper's aura, he might blow up a building or something …. But now, it seemed that it was still within an acceptable range.
After all, if the building was blown up, it would be too expensive to rebuild it.
After that, Fangzheng no longer cared about the crew. Since no more deaths were going to happen, all he had to do was choose people, shoot, and wait for the movie to be released.
But for Fangzheng ….
"Gin and the others haven't come out to cause trouble lately. It's so boring …."
While flipping through the company's recently signed contracts and agreements, Fangzheng complained in boredom. Xiao Ai looked at him speechlessly.
"You chased Gin for three streets and even blew up his car. I'm afraid that with the organisation's character, they won't send anyone back to Tokyo any time soon."
Xiao Ai also felt that it was unbelievable. After all, the organisation had always been a low-key, huge, and ferocious monster in her mind. As one of the organisation's most capable subordinates, Gin had left a deep impression on Xiao Ai. He was like the incarnation of the Grim Reaper.
But what Xiao Ai did not expect was that the spokesperson of the organisation, the guy who was like the incarnation of the Grim Reaper, was actually chased by Fangzheng alone for three streets. In the end, Fangzheng blew up his car with an RPG ….
Xiao Ai was like a student who saw the bully who had been showing off for a long time being chased around by a transfer student. Now, even Xiao Ai felt that the organisation was not as scary as she thought.
"I'll be more careful next time. I should've kept a low profile …."
As he spoke, Fangzheng flipped through the proposal again. He glanced at the printed documents on it and spat out a mouthful of coffee.
"What the hell is this?"
"What's wrong?"
Xiao Ai looked at Fangzheng curiously when she saw him lose his composure.
"Go get Ming Mei."
Fangzheng waved his hand. Xiao Ai nodded and hurried out of the room. After a while, Ming Mei also hurried to Fangzheng.
"Mr. Fangzheng, is there something wrong?"
"About this."
Fangzheng put the coffee-stained proposal on the table.
"What the hell is this?"
"What?"
Xiao Ai also came over curiously. She took a look at the proposal.
"A virtual reality game system co-developed with Sindora?"
"Yes, it's a system called 'Cocoon'. It mainly lets the player enter a cocoon-like capsule and play in the virtual world while under hypnosis with a voice recognition system …. I think this is very suitable for our company's future business development. Besides, Sindora is a well-known company in the United States, so it's more suitable for us to expand into the market …."
This is worse than SAO. Sindora is just roasting brains, but you want to roast a whole lamb?
"Give up on this plan."
"Huh?"
"Why? I think this is a good idea. "
Not only was Ming Mei stunned when she heard Fangzheng's request, even Xiao Ai was puzzled.
"Virtual reality technology is usually full of risks when it's just being developed. This system in particular gives me a very bad feeling …."
"But … we've already signed the contract …."
"Terminate the contract and withdraw our investment. The reason is that Umbrella has doubts about the safety of Sindora's virtual reality system, so we cancel the cooperation."
Fangzheng did not have any impression of the name Sindora, but when he saw the egg-like thing in the proposal, Fangzheng immediately remembered …. Wasn't that the thing in the Detective Conan movie "The Revenants of Baker Street"?!
Well, I did it in SAO once, and I have to do it again in the Detective Conan world?
This time, Fangzheng would not make the same mistake as SAO. He knew that the program itself had a backdoor opened by someone, and the artificial AI inside was also a problem. If Umbrella got involved in this, it would suffer the same consequences as SAO in the game world.
He would not do it.
Ming Mei was a little puzzled, but since Fangzheng said so, she nodded and did as he said.
The news of Umbrella withdrawing its investment was not big news in the financial market, but it became big news.
The reason given by Umbrella for withdrawing their investment was that they had doubts about the safety of Sindora's new virtual reality game system!
This time, the media immediately found a piece of meat!
After all, ever since the virtual reality game came out, there had been a lot of debates about virtual reality games. But in the end, it was just a waste of time, just like a keyboard warrior.
But Umbrella was different. They were really withdrawing their investment! And they would rather terminate the contract than continue!
This was different from a normal argument. After all, terminating a contract also cost money.
Could it be that Umbrella had grasped some internal secrets of Sindora?
Was there really a hidden danger in the virtual reality system?
If they dug it out, it would be big news!
(End of this chapter)
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