Famous Detective Conan: Eating and Waiting To Die - Chapter 71

Conan, who was leaning against the door, scratched his hair, “Did Miss Su Fang take the sleeping pills by herself? Is it possible that the prisoner gave him to eat it?”

“Of course it’s impossible. If Su Fang fell asleep before locking the door, who would lock the lock inside? You know, this kind of padlock can’t be locked inside by any mechanism. “…” Maori Hitomi, still feeling a little sleepy, yawned.

Mu Mu came to the door, “The only way the prisoner can get in and out is this door, but as Xiao Tong said, if it’s this dark lock, you can do it with something like a rope. The problem is the padlock. To lock the padlock, you must first close the door so that the keyholes of the door and the door frame are aligned, and then use the lock bolt to pass through the two keyholes. This is impossible outside the door. What did the prisoner use? What about the agency?”

Seeing Mu Mu’s puzzled expression, Conan shook his head, “No matter what mechanism the prisoner used, why did the prisoner put so much effort into disguising her as suicide? And he actually called us before committing the crime. , is simply showing off his crime.”

“Well, does Conan have any clues?” Conan shook his head and told Hitomi Mori of his guess just now.

“Yeah, he’s provoking our big detective… Hehehe…”

“It looks like you’re in a good mood!” Conan looked at Hitomi Mori with a sly look on his face.

“Hmph~ When did I feel bad…”

“Officer Mumu, the murder weapon has been found. It’s scattered among those masks. It looks like this knife.” The inspector handed the murder weapon sealed in the bag to Mumu.

Mouri Kogoro glanced at the weapon in Mumu’s hand, “I’ve seen this knife before, it’s a mask decoration of Masked Curie.”

“However, this knife is a bit strange,” the inspector pointed to the handle. “Look, the pattern on the handle is also stained with blood. If you hold the knife with your hand, even if there is blood on the handle, it will not be this. like.”

“Huh?” Mao Litong walked to Mu Mu and looked at the blood on the handle of the knife, “The blood like this should have been sprayed. Then he turned around and walked to the corpse and checked it. The wound of the deceased was killed by a knife at close range, huh?

“What’s the matter, Xiao Tong, did you find anything?” Conan walked up to Mao Li Tong, and it is necessary to learn some of his words about Mao Li Tong, a professional killer.

“Look, Conan, the blood on the hilt of the knife was sprayed up, so I began to think that the murderer used a flying knife, that is, the knife flew in through the lattice window on the other side, inserted it into the victim’s neck, and then the hilt of the knife was used. There is a thin wire on the top, after plugging it in, pulling it back, and then throwing it into this room, and those masks can also be thrown into the room through that gap.”

“However, I checked the wound of the deceased. This knife wound was pierced at close range, which means that the flying knife conjecture was rejected. When I looked back at the handle of the knife, the blood on it proved that the murderer was a close-range knife. The knife pierced into the neck of the deceased little by little, and pressed the end of the handle with one hand and pierced little by little, but I don’t understand why he did so…”

After finishing her speculation, Hitomi Maori looked back and found that everyone was looking at her in surprise, she scratched her hair in a hurry, and smiled, “This is what Uncle Maori taught me~~~ Hahaha…”

“Hello..” Conan looked at Hitomi Mouri with a displeased expression, “How can you steal my lines…”

But after listening to Mao Litong’s words, everyone also felt a little strange. If the murderer really killed like that, he really had a disease in his head.

“Officer Mumu, we have already inspected these masks. Some of these masks were stained with blood, and most of them fell on the bed,” the inspector took out one of the masks. “This mask has the most blood, it’s the blood splattered at a very close distance…”

“Huh?” Mouri Kogoro looked at the mask carefully, “Isn’t this the mask the prisoner wore when he committed the crime? In this case, if the crime was committed at such a close distance, there should be traces on the prisoner’s body. , is there any other mask with blood on it?”

“Yes, there are a few more, but it’s very strange. The other masks with blood are just blood around their lips.”

“Officer Mumu, in the legend of Shaublu’s mask, it is said that it will **** the blood of its owner, so I wonder if he is trying to use this legend to disrupt the case?” Kogoro Mouri said with a puzzled face.

“Well…” Mu Mu nodded, “I guess that’s the case…”

Mao Litong walked to the **** masks, looked at the bloodstain carefully, closed his eyes, and simulated in his mind, “The blood is splashed, not smeared, and it is a direct shot, not a parabola. , if you shoot it directly, you can only hang these masks above the wound…”

“But… in this case, there will never be only blood on the mouth, unless there is something blocking the front of the mask…” Slowly, in Hitomi Mauri’s mind, when all the masks appeared in a row When above the wound of the deceased, blood spurted, the first one was all blood, the second one. . The third. . All are only sprayed into it through the vicinity of the mouth of the first one. . . .

“Wow~” Hitomi Mori opened her eyes, “The problem of blood on the mask has been solved… But… what happened to the knife? If you put your hand on the end of the knife, blood will splatter on your hand. .Wait!” Suddenly, a flash of light flashed in Mao Litong’s mind, “So that’s it…”

Thinking of this, Hitomi Mouri walked over to Conan, who was leaning against the door, and leaned on Conan’s ear and said, “Conan, I already know how the murderer killed people, but the mystery of the secret room is still unclear…”

Conan’s pupils shrank, “How did he do it?” So Hitomi Mouri told Conan what he had just guessed, “The blood stains on the mask are sprayed in straight lines, and except for the one with the most blood, the rest only have blood on the mouth. , so, the prisoner should stack a row of masks, then put the knife in the mouth of the mask, and finally stab the victim’s neck, so that the blood on the handle of the knife and the blood on the mask can be explained, but the prisoner How he left is unclear.”

After hearing Hitomi Maori’s conjecture, Conan looked at the room again, “But did the prisoner really use a mask to kill with a knife in order to imitate Xiao Bru’s curse? Did the mask spread all over the place? “

Mao Litong shook his head helplessly, “I don’t know either…”

“Officer Mumu!!” At this moment, a policeman ran in from outside.

“Oh~ Xiaolin, how’s the inspection going?”

“Report to the police officer. I carefully searched and wiped the surroundings of the house, and there are no traces of prisoners entering or leaving on the snow.”

“So, the culprit is someone in this house?” Kogoro Mouri said.

Kobayashi picked up the notebook in his hand and looked at it and said, “In addition to Mr. Mori and his party, there are four people in the house, photographer, Mr. Katagiri, professional baseball player, Mr. Matsudaira, fortune teller, Miss Changchun, rock star, Mr. Seiya , The Secret Art of the Beloved, and Miss Dai. There are also twin maids Hoonami and Minaho sisters, a total of seven people.”

“Officer Mumu, I think we can exclude a few people first. To go to Miss Su Fang’s dormitory on the third floor, you must go through the stairs on the west side. When the crime happened, the east and west doors of the mask house were locked. Yes, we have already confirmed this.” Then, Mouri Kogoro pointed to the closed door, “That means the east and west sides of the house cannot pass…”

“Is that so…” Mu Mu squeezed his chin habitually, “That is to say, the prisoners can only be those who live on the west side, so how are the rooms allocated?”

Mouri Kogoro thought back, “First, on the east side, Mr. Seiya and Miss Hoonami on the first floor, the four of us on the second floor, and no one on the third floor, and then on the west side, on the first floor are Miss Hedai and Miss Minaho. , Mr. Matsudaira, Mr. Katagiri, and Miss Changchun on the second floor, and Miss Su Fang, the victim on the third floor.”

“That’s it, then according to the previous reasoning, there should be 5 suspects, that is, the 5 people who live on the west side. Okay~ Now follow me to record the statement.”

“Yes, Officer Mumu!”

“Everyone, I’m a police officer from Tokyo. I know everyone is tired. I’m sorry, but I have a few questions to ask everyone. Because of the uncertainty of the case, everyone present may be The murderer, of course, in order to prove your innocence, I hope you will cooperate.”

“First of all, the crime happened at 2:30 in the morning. I want to confirm what you were doing during that time? First of all, Miss Honami.”

“Oh. I slept soundly in my room before Lan called me. After being woken up by Xiao Lan, I took the key to the second floor to open the door.”

“So… where are the keys?”

“The key is on the wall in the room next door to the dining room. So anyone can get it?”

“Yes, but when I was getting the key, the key was still there.”

“Xiao Lan, is that really true?”

“Yes, Officer Megumi, that’s what Miss Konami said.”

“Oh… Then Miss Honami, do you still have a spare key?”

Konami shook her head, “The key is too old to be a spare key.”

“Also, Officer Megumi, when we opened the door, we found that Shaublu’s mask was gone,” Mouri Kogoro added, “and then Miss Hoonami called and woke up Minaho on the other end. Miss, while waiting, I heard a moan from the third floor followed by a clatter~www.mtlnovel.com~ So we opened the door and hurried to the third floor.”

“Then what about you, Mr. Seiya?” Mumu then asked. “I slept in my own room on the first floor, when I heard the child and the young lady calling Miss Konami, I thought it was not a big deal, but then it became more and more noisy, so I ran out in a hurry, came to the second floor and watched The masks from Masquerade Curie are gone…”

“Next is Miss Minaho, how about you?”

“I was woken up by Hot Nami’s phone call, and I went to the second floor with the key to open the door. Later, I often followed everyone to the third floor. Like Mr. Seiya, I was also woken up by the clutter, so I went out and saw Mr. Mouri and the others.” Me too,” Matsudaira said. “Me too,” Changchun said. . . .

“Then…Miss Hedai, you didn’t seem to be at the scene when the body was found.”

“I… I drank too much red wine last night and slept very deeply…”

“So you didn’t hear the noise outside, did you?”

“Well, yes… yes…” Hedai nodded hesitantly. .

“Speaking of which, Mr. Katagiri, did you know Miss Su Fang before?”

Hearing Kogoro Mouri’s question, Katagiri was surprised at first, then shook his head, “No, yesterday was the first time we met, is there any problem?”

“That’s right. Yesterday, Miss Su Fang asked me to investigate the traffic accident that killed your wife 20 years ago.”

“Miss Su Fang is investigating me? Why is this? I haven’t met Miss Su Fang before!”

Standing at the window, Conan stared suspiciously at Katagiri, whose face changed slightly, “Miss Su Fang asked my uncle to investigate Katagiri’s wife’s traffic accident? It’s been twenty years, why?”

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