Chapter 136 Nishitama City New Town Construction Plan

Nobushige once again sneaked out under the guise of taking Conan to the bathroom.

Photos of Moritani Teiji's proud works hung in the exhibition hall, but this time Conan's attention was quickly attracted to the glass display cabinet covered with velvet cloth at the end of the room.

"This is..." Conan said in shock, "Nishitama City New Town Plan?"

"Remember?" Nobushige reminded, standing beside him with his arms folded, "Kudo Shinichi solved Mayor Okamoto's case and forced Mayor Okamoto to resign. The newly appointed mayor stopped the construction of new towns in Nishitama City. Plans and designs that were about to be completed were abandoned.”

Conan was stunned and couldn't help but sigh: "No way?"

Nobushige continued: "A series of arson attacks destroyed Moritani Teiji's early works, and the Sumida Canal Bridge was one of them. The age of thirty was a huge span for Moritani Teiji, and since then he began to move towards British symmetry. Stylistic development of architecture.”

"But... would he really challenge me for the shutdown plan, and would he not hesitate to harm innocent people just to destroy the works of his youth?"

"Remember what Teiji Moriya said at the tea party? Designers should be responsible for their own works, and...he doesn't like to take advantage of others."

"Then where will he use the remaining three-quarters of the explosives?"

"Now." Nobutushi said, pointing to a prominent photo on the wall, "This is also a 'failure' work."

Conan's expression suddenly changed: "The Rice Flower City Hall! Isn't it absolutely symmetrical? But the Rice Flower City Hall is clearly a late work of Moritani Teiji!"

Nobushige opened the search engine on his phone, found an overhead view of Miwa City Hall, and showed it to him: "Moritani Teiji's original design may be symmetrical, but the actual result is not."

"I see...then the Rice Flower City Hall must be the building that Moritani Teiji wants to blow up the most." Conan looked at Nobushige with a strange look, "If I didn't know that you are always by my side, and you and Moritani Teiji are also If it has nothing to do with it, I would simply suspect that you are the real mastermind behind these bombings."

"Please." Nobuhiro smiled, "Don't doubt someone just because you meet someone smarter than you."

"That's true." Conan acquiesced to Nobutano's somewhat narcissistic words, "Then the only thing left now is to get Teiji Moritani to admit the accusation. I have a good idea. Do you want to listen?"

…

Nobushige called the two or four people who were in the guest room, including Officer Megure, Kogoro Mori, Shiratori Rensaburo and Emperor Moritani, to the exhibition hall.

Conan called Nobutushige using Kudo Shinichi's voice outside the room, and played it simultaneously to everyone via loudspeaker.

"Yes, I asked Asano to call everyone here because I already know who the culprit in the arson and bomb cases is."

Moritani Teiji's eyes became more and more profound, and it was hard to tell what he was thinking.

Mouri Kogoro suddenly shouted: "Wait! I already know it! The culprit is you - Shiratori Rensaburo!!!"

Officer Megure, Shiratori Rensaburo, Conan: "???"

Mouri Kogoro reasoned matter-of-factly: "You admire Moritani Teiji's father very much, and you suspect that Moritani Teiji started the fire fifteen years ago, so you have a grudge against him. After all, Asano is not a policeman. Having systematically studied criminal psychology, his portrayal of criminals at that time was still missing a part, that is, arsonists and bombers often like to stay at crime scenes to admire their works. And you, as a police officer, can easily come in and out In these places, you can know the latest developments of the police at the first time! The last and clearest evidence is that every time the prisoner made a warning call, you 'happened' not to be there!!!"

Nobuhiro stared at the ceiling speechlessly. Unexpectedly, after his interruption, Uncle Maori still firmly doubted Shiratori. However, if you listen to the uncle's reasoning from the perspective of an ordinary bystander, you will find that it makes sense.

"Hey! Shinichi!" Uncle Maori called back to Nobushige's cell phone, "What you want to say is the same as mine, right?"

"totally different."

"I knew my reasoning would work this time...what did you say??"

"Ahem." Conan cleared his throat and retrieved the logic that Moori Kogoro had detoured to. "Actually, this series of events was not a crime committed because of someone's hatred for Professor Moritani. This prisoner It’s Professor Moritani who recently set fire to four houses in a row and also designed that bridge—that’s right him!”

After hearing Kudo Shinichi's accusation, Moritani Teiji seemed very calm. But the other two police officers and a detective could not hide the shock on their faces.

Next, Conan used a calm tone to carefully describe Moritani Teiji's motives from the beginning, as well as how he deduced the results. He also briefly introduced the one-sided resentment between Moritani Teiji and him.

Finally, he used the fake camouflage props he made to induce Moritani Teiji to self-destruct, and completely destroyed Moritani Teiji's last reliance by taking out the battery in the detonator in advance.

As the metal handcuffs in Shiratori Rensaburo's hand cuffed Moritani Teiji's wrists, Mouri Kogoro opened his hands excitedly and said: "This matter has finally been resolved. Congratulations! Congratulations!"

"What's so exciting about this, Mr. Mori?" Shiratori Rensaburo complained, "You actually suspect that I am a criminal!"

Mouri Kogoro scratched the back of his head in embarrassment: "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. As the saying goes, people have erratic behavior and horses have erratic hooves!"

Nobushige looked at Moritani Teiji, who had not shown any signs of depression until now, and felt as if something had been overlooked by them.

It stands to reason that Mao Lilan did not go to the city hall to wait for Kudo Shinichi this time, and Moritani Teiji would not set up a plan against the city hall in order to let Kudo Shinichi taste the loss of his loved one. Now that he is under the control of the police, even if there is a bomb buried in the city hall, there is no way to detonate it...

So, is it a time bomb?

"Mr. Moritani." Nobushige walked up to Teiji Moritani and said coldly, "Can you now tell the police the location of the bomb in the city hall?"

Moritani Teiji raised his eyes slightly and looked over, then laughed wildly: "Did you discover it? You are indeed the friend whom Kudo Shinichi entrusted to help."

"What? There is still a bomb in the city hall??" Mouri Kogoro jumped up in fright at these words, "Why did you want to blow up the city hall?"

"Because that's not a perfectly symmetrical building at all!!!" Moritani Teiji shouted as if he was crazy, "They say that there is insufficient funds to follow the plan on the design drawings... These guys don't understand what it means to be an architect. Let’s talk about how precious the work is!”

Moritani Teiji suddenly laughed softly again. This laughter was weirder than before, and Nobuhiro felt chilled when he heard it.

"It's almost nine o'clock. Remember to tell Kudo Shinichi to go to the city hall to collect the body of his girlfriend! Hahahahahaha——"