Chapter 94: The Sherlock Holmes Murder (3)

Here, it is necessary to introduce a little about the Sherlock Holmes fans who participated in this party. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

First of all, Ikuo Kawazu, a long-faced physical education teacher who hasn't spoken much and has a weak sense of presence, and Nanako Shimizu, the librarian.

Toshiaki Fujisawa, who has a short temper and keeps shouting "I can't stand it", is a station attendant at the station by profession.

The fat woman's fortune teller's name is Maria Toda, and unlike Maria, another famous actress that Xingchen likes, the existence of the fat woman is simply tarnishing the name Maria.

In addition, Maori Kogoro, the above five people were sleeping in their rooms at the time of the crime, so they are more suspicious of committing the crime.

Four-Eyed and his girlfriend Ayako are both college students in the Reasoning Club, and the hostess at the inn, Miss Hitomi Iwai.

The three of them were with Xingchen from after dinner until the van fell off a cliff, and they were relatively less suspicious.

"Although we don't know how the murderer used to speed up the car, it can be seen from his behavior of destroying the phone and draining the gas tank to trap us here, that the murderer still wants to continue the crime. Heiji affirmed, "The murderer is one of us." ā€

"No, Brother Heiji, you're wrong! There is another person who may be the real murderer!" Xingchen objected.

"Do you want to say that it is an outsider hidden in the villa? If it is an outsider, there is no need to be a fool. Heiji denied.

"No!" Xingchen took a sip of coffee milk and said slowly, "I want to say that the murderer may be the dead innkeeper himself. ā€

"Xingchen, don't scare me!" Xiaolan's voice trembled a little, she was the least resistant to ghosts, ghosts and other supernatural events.

"Don't be nervous, I didn't say it was a ghost. Xingchen put down his coffee and milk and explained, "Do you remember what we gathered here for in the first place? It was a reasoning contest! Is the man who died really the innkeeper? The van fell off the cliff at 3:25 a.m., when it was darkest, and the light shining from the inn was not enough to see the driver's true face, and it is very likely that Brother Heiji and Conan mistakenly thought that the man was the innkeeper based on the driver's attire and size!"

"It's true that there may be a dummy sitting in the car, which is written in many mystery novels!" Nanako spends all day in the library having nothing to do, so she has time to read a lot of mystery novels.

"No! The innkeeper himself must be sitting in the car!" Heiji and Conan affirmed in unison.

"Okay, let's not rule out this possibility, let's talk about the last time you saw the innkeeper?" Maori saw that the little devils had stolen the limelight, and he quickly stepped forward to take charge of the overall situation.

Among the people present, the former criminal police officer Kogoro Mori is undoubtedly the most suitable person to investigate the entire case, and everyone is actively cooperating with his investigation in order to clear their suspicions.

It's a pity that the people are innkeepers, and they don't see him after introducing the details of the reasoning game to everyone.

Even the maid said, "The boss has been on a diet lately, so he eats diet food in his room." ā€

"Damn, I don't know my whereabouts all day, and I don't know when I was killed. Maori grumbled.

"Isn't there a surveillance camera in the room? Maybe something's going to be filmed. Physical education teacher Kawatsu suggested to everyone.

The maid shook her head and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, it's all fake." These are all temporary props that are installed every year to prevent cheating. ā€

"Hey!" Ayako, who was next to Four-Eyed Boy, walked up to Heiji and asked, "Did you find that thing you were looking for just now?"

"Didn't find it. Heiji replied in a low voice.

Hearing Heiji's answer, Ayako suddenly laughed and said, "Haha, I already know who the murderer is, his modus operandi, and the decisive evidence." ā€

Ayako was in a very good mood after solving the case, she took out a lighter, lit a cigarette, and said, "I'll give you 10 minutes to think about it! If you don't want me to say your name, it's best to bow down and confess your guilt first!"

With that, she left the room and went to the bathroom.

"Hey, Ayako, don't act alone, it's going to be dangerous!" Four-Eyed hurriedly chased out.

"I think it's a bluff. Seeing that a layman girl was stealing the limelight, Detective Mori Kogoro said without cutting down.

Conan shook his head and muttered to himself, "No, she must have found some clue that we don't know." ā€

"Yes, it's very likely. Heiji then said to Conan.

As a result, the two of them looked at each other in surprise, and Heiji felt as if he had grasped something.

"By the way, I remembered. During the day, Miss Ayako's appearance is a little weird. Xiaolan recalled: "After lunch, when I went back to my room, I met her, and when she saw me, she panicked and hid something like paper behind her. ā€

"She doesn't seem to have come to lunch at noon! Did she come into our room while we were eating to peek at the test questions?"

At this time, Four-Eyed returned to the room, and people turned their attention to him again, and asked eagerly, "Did you secretly ask her who the murderer is?"

I asked, but she didn't even tell me, and just hid in the bathroom. Four-Eyed explained to the crowd.

"Who else did you have lunch yesterday besides Miss Ayako?" asked Heiji to the maid in charge of the meal.

The maid thought about it and said, "There are two other people, they are Miss Ayako's boyfriend, and Miss Nanako. ā€

Heiji also wanted to ask Four-Eyed Boy a question, but Conan preemptively said, "At noon, did Sister Ayako come to your room?"

"No, I spent the whole day in my room writing exams, and no one came. Four-Eyed said.

"Conan, Conan, what are you asking me to say about you?" Xingchen thought to himself, "Don't you know that Heiji has begun to doubt you?"

Twenty minutes later, when everyone saw that Ayako had not returned, they couldn't help but be a little worried that she had been murdered.

"Miss Ayako, Miss Ayako. Everyone gathered around the bathroom door, and Maori banged desperately on the door.

Just as Mori was about to break down the door by force, Ayako walked out of the bathroom unhurriedly.

Seeing that Ayako was safe and sound, everyone couldn't help but ask her the most wanted to know question: "By the way, aren't you going to tell us who the murderer is?"

"I thought about it in the bathroom, and it seemed like I had made a mistake. I'm sorry!" With that, Ayako prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute, Sister Ayako, don't you want to know who the murderer is?" Xingchen called out to Ayako, who wanted to leave.

"Xingchen, do you already know who the murderer is?" Pingji felt very strange, Xingchen had been with him all day, why could he be the first to deduce the real murderer.

"Little ghost, don't talk nonsense, now is not the time for you to play a game of reasoning. Maori has always been very fond of Xingchen, and it seems that every time he is with him, he can't smoothly enter the "sleep" mode.

"Let's listen to Xingchen's reasoning first! Anyway, his father is also Officer Twilight. Conan hinted at Maori in the name of Twilight, and he wanted to give the stars a little face.

Conan has a strong attachment to the truth, and although he has reservations about the stars' reasoning, he may be inspired by it.

"Cut, I'm not interested in who the real culprit is, I'm going to sleep. "It is said that women are fickle, and after Ayako came out of the bathroom, her attitude towards the case changed 180 degrees.

"Wait a minute, Sister Ayako, there's no rush to that book, let's listen to my reasoning first!" Xingchen hinted to Ayako that he already knew that she had met the murderer and made a deal.

The smart people present also understood the meaning of Xingchen's words, and everyone would never let her act alone at this time.

Back in the dining room, Xingchen asked the maid to make a cup of coffee for everyone to refresh themselves, and of course add milk to taste it.

After tasting the coffee mixed with milk in his mouth, he began to reason: "First of all, let's talk about a few doubts about the innkeeper's car falling off the cliff. I already know the reason why the van suddenly sped up in the middle of the road. Often, the easiest way to change the speed of a car is to shift gears and apply the brakes. There was no second person in the car, so it was the innkeeper himself who made the car spend. ā€

"But the innkeeper was in a coma or dead at the time, so he couldn't have changed the speed of the car himself?" "Mori Kogoro used his superhuman imagination, and if he wasn't a good enough detective, the case could easily lead him into a dead end.

Xingchen was able to stand up and reason, of course, he was fully prepared, and he said confidently: "Of course, the living innkeeper can't do this, but the dead can. The innkeeper's body was in the process of stiffening until it softened, his feet gradually releasing the brake pedal, and the car shifting gears due to the bumps in the road. This explains the innkeeper's steady health that I mistook for a dummy, and that he had been missing for a whole day, when in fact he had been killed a long time ago!"

"No! Corpses usually stiffen within 30 minutes to 2 hours after death, and completely stiffen within 9 to 12 hours. Remain stiff for the next 30 hours, then gradually soften, and return to its original state after about 70 hours. According to your reasoning, it takes at least 40 hours for the innkeeper to go from death to falling off a cliff, which is not enough time. "Kogoro Mori has worked as a criminal policeman, and he still has a certain understanding of the basic expertise of forensics.

"This is another suspicion that I want to explain, Brother Heiji heard a strange sound coming from inside the car. Xingchen took another sip of coffee milk and continued, "It's summer, and it's a little hot. People will only think that the van is air-conditioned, but in fact the van is heated. The purpose is to accelerate the time for the corpse to stiffen. That's why the dashboard is covered with a thick blanket to demonstrate the air conditioning display light. The evidence is that Heiji's brother did not find traces of water dripping from the air conditioner where the van was driving. ā€

"Well, even if you can make sense, who is the murderer?" asked Maori with a snarl of urgency.

"Speaking of which, Brother Heiji should already know who the murderer is, right?" Xingchen didn't want to steal the limelight from Heiji, and deliberately gave him the opportunity to identify the murderer.

"The murderer set up a cumbersome modus operandi in order to create an alibi, and among the people who had an obvious alibi at that time, Xingchen, Xiaolan and Conan and I were all playing with each other. And the real murderer usually behaves unobtrusively after committing a crime.,Miss Ayako just claimed to know the murderer's behavior.,So rule her out.,So it's all about you-Mr. Tojukento.怂 Heiji raised his hand and stretched out his index finger, pointing at the four-eyed boy.

"Heh, heh. Four-Eyed laughed awkwardly and argued, "These are just your guesses, do you have any conclusive evidence?"

Everyone turned their eyes to Pingji again, expecting him to say decisive evidence, but the result was that Pingji spread his hands and said helplessly: "I have also thought of what Xingchen just said, but so far I have not found decisive evidence. ā€

"Who says there is no conclusive evidence?" Xingchen smiled triumphantly, "Isn't the evidence in Miss Ayako's hands?"

"No! I don't have any evidence! I just said that I knew the murderer, but I was just talking nonsense. Ayako denied it again.

"Don't be in a hurry to deny it, Sister Ayako, I know that when you and Brother Glasses went to the bathroom just now, they must have made some kind of deal, and it is estimated that most of them are the first edition of "A Study of Blood Letters", but do you really think you can get that book smoothly?" Xingchen launched a mental offensive against Ayako: "Brother Glasses has already killed someone, so he is likely to kill you, and even frame you as the murderer of the innkeeper." ā€

"Don't think I'm alarmist, judging by his sabotage of our means of communication, he must have prepared the means and tools to kill at least one more person. Why don't we make a gentleman's agreement, if you take out the evidence that Brother Glasses is the murderer, all of us present will give you the book if they find the first edition of "A Study of Blood Letters". Xingchen was moved by emotion, and he persuaded Ayako with reason, "If you don't want to, then even if you get the first edition of the book, we have reason to think that you are the murderer of the innkeeper." ā€

Everyone had no objection to Xingchen's suggestion, and they were willing to give her the book. People obviously care more about their lives than in the original version of the book, and no one knows if the killer's next target will be themselves.

"That's enough!" Seeing that Ayako was about to identify the murderer, Four-Eyed finally couldn't help but admit, "That's right, I'm the real murderer who killed the innkeeper." The proof of this is that Ayako found out in my room that I didn't do the Sherlock Holmes quiz, because of course I knew that dead people would never correct that set of exercises. ā€

"Ha, ha, ha!" Hearing the four-eyed boy bow his head and confess, Xingchen suddenly laughed heartily and said: "You still have to kill people with this little bit of mental quality, you deserve to be arrested!"

PS: The author's favorite Mary is called Sinemalia, not another more famous and virtuous Mary.