If this were in Japan, there would be at least three people with no alibi...

And all three of them had issues with the deceased...

And one of them is the murderer...

In addition, the White Horse Detective also asked about interpersonal relationships.

The deceased Ingalls had a relatively withdrawn personality and basically did not have much contact with others, so he could not talk about having any quarrels with anyone.

Except for Bert, who was in the same office with him, even if they didn't speak to each other, they would never look up or down.

But Bert also has an alibi.

Detective Bai Ma looked at Bert and asked seriously: "Did you find anything unusual about the deceased some time before he was killed?"

"Any little thing can..."

Bert's expression was slightly condensed, as if he was thinking.

Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes lit up.

"I remembered!"

"Just two days ago, a man came to see him!"

Hearing that the case seemed to be turning around, Conan and Kuroba Kaito over there quickly turned their heads and focused their attention here.

"What kind of person?" Baima asked.

A flash of memory flashed in Bert's eyes, "It's a woman..."

"At that time, Ingalls and the woman were talking downstairs. I just looked out the window on the second floor and was not sure what the woman looked like."

"But after Ingles came back, I asked him out of curiosity..."

"He said it was an old classmate of his."

old classmate?

The expressions of Detective White Horse and Conan were shocked at the same time, and they immediately identified him as a suspect in their minds.

Because if it is an old classmate with a relatively close relationship, it would fit the characteristic of knowing that the deceased had a habit of drinking coffee.

Detective Bai Ma seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, with excitement in his eyes, "Then what? Did he tell us exactly when he was a classmate?"

Bert shook his head, "No...but when I looked out of the window, I heard the woman say that she hadn't been back here for a long time."

It’s been a while since I’ve been back here…it’s obvious I’ve been here before.

They are college classmates!

Detective White Horse and Conan immediately reacted in their minds. Detective White Horse waved his hand and asked his police officers to go to the school to investigate the list of Ingalls' classmates during college.

Watching the policemen leaving, Conan still had some doubts in his heart.

An old classmate whom I haven't seen for a long time should have no motive for murder.

It can’t be the motive of holding a grudge for decades, right?

Moreover, the murderer was obviously after the deceased’s hard drive, and he probably had nothing to do with an old classmate whom he hadn’t seen for a long time...

Unless the deceased lied?

That person is not his classmate, but someone else?

…

About half an hour later, the police obtained all the information about Ingalls' university days from the archives of the University of Brightchester.

Including information about his major classmates, class classmates, club classmates, etc.

There are hundreds of women in total.

Such a huge amount of work also made Conan speechless.

When will this investigation be completed?

Not to mention this huge number of people, these people would all be over 40 years old if they lived to this day, which is definitely very different from the information in the data.

Detective White Horse, who is often in the UK, is very accustomed to this method of investigating cases, asking the police to contact each person according to their phone number and address, and then confirm the alibi one by one.

This is not the work field of Conan and Kuroba Kaito. The two of them can only sit on the chairs aside and look at the numerous student materials in a daze.

During this period, Kuroba Kaito quietly took out the diary he had just brought from the drawer and looked through it.

It's said to be a diary, but nothing specific is actually recorded in it.

This is more like a notebook recording a nihilistic dream, telling the illusory dream things in the first person——

I often have a recurring dream on full moon nights.

I dreamed of the full moon rising from the sea, in the middle of the distant sea, and the reflection of the moon on the sea...

After a while, I realized that it was not the moon at all, but a big pale face looking into the sea.

So I panicked and found that I couldn't move at all.

The full moon seems to be pulling something deep in the ocean, trying to wake it up.

The panic swelled in my body, but it could not block my sight. It forced my sight to focus on the ocean.

Deep in the ocean, a city is sleeping.

When the stars are in their right place, the womb of the sea will tap gently on the ancient prison cell.

By then, its huge muscles will be trembling... looking forward to rebirth.

…

Kuroba Kaito looked at these empty words, and an inexplicable feeling of horror emerged in his mind.

These words may seem meaningless, but combined with the current time point, they have a different kind of fear.

It mentions the "full moon night", which seems to lead to the rebirth of something.

And when he first gained insight into the zoo organization's purpose of stealing gems, the bald leader of the organization also mentioned the "full moon night".

Full moon night...

While Kuroba Kaito was distracted in his thoughts, Conan, who was reading the information next to the policeman, suddenly shouted.

"Wait a moment!"

"this……"

Conan raised his hand and pointed to a piece of student information on the table, and said in surprise: "I saw this person on campus this morning!"

Baima's ears twitched and he immediately turned his head when he heard the sound.

"who is it?"

Conan pointed to the girl with glasses on the student profile.

Next to the girl's photo is her name.
Chapter completed!