Saturday, December 23, evening, Gunma Prefecture, Yamanaka.

Yamazaki called the police, and it was a mountain village police officer in Gunma Prefecture, and he seemed to be mistaken and thought that Mori was there.

It took half an hour for the police officer from the mountain village to rush over with a large group of people, and the car usually takes an hour to walk.

As soon as the mountain village police officer arrived, he searched for Mori, but he didn't find it when he looked left and right, and was deeply disappointed to learn that Mori had not arrived.

Lan said: "Officer Shancun, the practice is like this, she watched the TV series "Winter Red Leaves" in the garden......

""Autumn Leaves in Winter?" Officer Yamamura was excited, "I know, I know that, I have watched it, it was recommended by my grandmother in the countryside to watch it, and I was fascinated when I saw it, and now the local TV station in Gunma rebroadcasts it every Saturday night from 9 to 10 o'clock, and I can't take my eyes off the TV, today is Saturday, so you see, in order to be able to watch it secretly, I also brought a portable TV, although there is a timed video set up at home, but I can't wait." ”

After the mountain village police officer was excited, he found that a group of people, including his subordinates, looked at him speechlessly, and embarrassedly put away the portable TV in his hand.

"Ahem," Officer Yamamura said solemnly, "Miss Lan, please continue." ”

Lan said: "After watching the TV series "Red Leaves in Winter", she took us here for a trip, and we met the deceased. ”

Officer Yamamura asked, "This is the first time you've met?"

"That's right," said Yuanzi, "he said that he was the assistant director of the TV series "Red Leaves in Winter", and he was helping fans find real scenes corresponding to the TV series scenes, and then his phone ran out of battery and asked me to borrow it. ”

"Ah, ah?" Officer Yamamura was pleasantly surprised, "Is this the filming location for "Autumn Leaves in Winter"?"

Yuan Zi said: "The rock about 100 meters over there is the place where the last scene of the TV series was filmed, and the last scene of the officer leaned on the rock and said to the young lady......"

"Ah," Officer Yamamura interrupted excitedly, "No, no, no, don't say it, I've only seen half of the TV series, don't spoil it." ”

Officer Yamamura felt a chill behind him, stopped again, Mu Leng turned his head to look, and found that it was the dissatisfied eyes of his subordinates, cold sweat came down, and he turned his head with a dry smile.

"That, what's the name of the assistant director of this TV series?"

Sonoko said, "HOZUMI, THAT'S WHAT HE SAID. ”

"We looked at his pockets and didn't find anything, so we didn't know who he was," Yamazaki said. ”

The forensic officer said in a timely manner that there was nothing on the deceased's body, and the time of death of the deceased was around half past three in the afternoon, the deceased was stabbed twice, and the abdomen was the first to be stabbed, and the cause of death was a knife in the chest, and the angle can be said to be a flat stab.

"That's right. Officer Yamamura said.

Eiyu Hondo said: "Police officer, although he is a katakana, he is the assistant director of the TV series, as long as the police officer calls to check. ”

"Uh-huh, that's right. Officer Yamamura told his men to go down and make a call.

"Oh, by the way, bring your mobile phone," the mountain village police officer stretched out his hand to the garden, "Our police can easily find out who the deceased used your mobile phone to talk to, as long as we know who the deceased called, maybe we will find the murderer, I am really a genius." ”

Yuan Zi slapped the hand of the mountain village police officer, "What is there to check, he called the Red Tree Hot Spring Hotel and asked the innkeeper to leave a message in the guest book, the tree you are looking for has been found, please come to the rock used in the last scene of the TV series." ”

"The tree you're looking for has been found, please come to the rock used in the final scene of the TV series. Officer Yamamura read, then looked around, "This is it?"

"As I said earlier, it's about 100 meters over there. The garden said angrily, "Are you listening?"

Officer Yamamura asked, "Oh, who is he leaving a message for?"

Yuan Zi shouted at the mountain village police officer, "Movie fans, movie fans!"

"Yes, yes, don't be so loud. Officer Yamamura said confidently, and then asked, "So, who is that fan?"

The garden said angrily: "How do I know this!"

Conan said: "The deceased's mobile phone once received a text message from that fan, and that fan will stay at the Red Tree Hot Spring Hotel today, so there is a message." ”

Officer Yamamura high-fived and said, "Okay, then the suspect is at that Akaishu Hot Spring Hotel." ”……

On the road.

Conan approached Yamazaki, "What do you think?"

"You speak first. Yamazaki smiled, knowing that Conan wanted to outperform Eiyu Hondo.

Conan said: "If you are lying down, it is impossible for the blood to flow to the hem of the trousers, and now it is winter, wearing a lot of clothes, after standing with the knife, the blood will be absorbed by the clothes, and it will be difficult to flow to the hem of the pants for a while, so it must be after the knife and escape." ”

"From a hundred meters away from the scene of death, at the rock of the last scene, I ran all the way to the bottom of the tree, and finally I couldn't run, and I was killed by the murderer who came after me. ”

Yamazaki shook his head, rejecting some of Conan's speculations in his heart.

Because it was winter and I was wearing a lot of clothes, the knife in the abdomen was not completely pierced, so 100 meters should not be the end.

And now the deceased is there, there are only two possibilities, one is to be caught up, but that should be injured in the back, but now there is none, so it is not.

The only one left is that it is blocked by other people, and although there is no road in the woods, it is too little to say that it is accessible in all directions, it is completely 360 degrees, and you can run wherever you want.

Therefore, it is not one who blocks people, this is definitely a gang crime.

Conan didn't notice Yamazaki's shake, it was dark and he couldn't see it at all.

"Judging from the time, there is no doubt that the murderer should be the fan that the deceased wants to meet, but what they are looking for is not a TV series scene, but something buried in the ground. ”

"I saw that the deceased had dirt in his fingernails, but there were no scratches on the ground at the scene of the death, so he must have scratched it somewhere else. ”

Yamazaki said, "Agree with that, they're digging for something. ”

Conan said: "It's just that I checked the Internet on my mobile phone, and there is nothing special here. ”

Yamazaki said, "Let's see what evidence there is, I haven't found much at the moment." ”……

Akaki Onsen Inn.

The mountain village police officer revealed his identity and asked the boss about it, and learned that there were more than 50 people staying today, and he didn't know who had seen the guest book.

The village police officer asked the boss to invite the people out, revealed their identities to them, and then asked for their alibi one by one.

Since it was half past three in the afternoon, it was still tea time, most of the people in the hotel were able to testify to each other, and some people who were out of the house also reported the location of the operation and went to the police to investigate and confirm.

There were three people who could not give an alibi: a young man with a nose ring in a very poor tone who said he was sleeping in his room, a short and stocky man in his fifties with glasses who said he was taking a bath in his room, and a middle-aged foreign man who was very stiff in Japanese and said that he was walking in the woods nearby without meeting anyone.

And under the questioning of Motota, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko, Hondo Eiyu, Ran, and Sonoko told them about the incident.

Midaiko, the three Tarhan sisters, Dr. Asasa, and Ashbara can also be heard. ……

The police officers who investigated the alibi came back one after another, and in the end, only the three people did not have an alibi.

Motota, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko looked at the three of them and whispered.

"Hey, don't you think that man with a nose ring is suspicious, it must be because he doesn't know many kanji, so he asked someone to write his name in katakana. ”

"Well, that old man is also very suspicious, probably because the Chinese characters are too complicated to read clearly, so he asked someone else to write it in katakana. ”

"Maybe it's the foreigner, who doesn't know kanji, but he also knows katakana or hiragana. ”

Gray Yuan laughed and said, "You three, how many Chinese characters do you know?"

The three of them laughed dryly and stopped talking.

Yamazaki looked at the three people who didn't have an alibi, wondering if the prisoner would be the short and fat old man.

Because of the three, he is the only one who can't kill the dead with one sword, because the difference in stature between the two sides is too big.

The deceased was stabbed in the front, and the murderer could not have held the knife to the deceased from the beginning, so it was strange that the deceased did not run.

So, the murderer didn't have a knife in his hand at first.

It's winter, and it's inconvenient to draw a knife from your back and waist, so you should hide it in your arms or in your sleeves.

But no matter which one they were, the other two could stab the deceased in the chest with a knife and kill him with a single sword.

Only this short and fat old man, holding a knife, could only stab the deceased in the abdomen, and wanted to raise the knife to stab the deceased in the chest, which was not convenient, and the angle was wrong.

However, these are only speculations and there is no evidence for the time being.

At this time, a police officer reported, "Officer, the production company has replied, there is no assistant director named HOZUMI, they don't know the deceased on the photo at all." ”……