"How do I feel, Miss Tang seems to have been infected by her Maori brother"

"It's getting a little unreliable."

Twilight Thirteen and Takagi whispered, and their thoughts coincided.

Perhaps, this is the tacit understanding.

After coughing lightly, Twilight Thirteen said, "Miss Tang, Brother Maori." Although you guess that there is a possibility, this probability is also too low."

"So let's take a closer look, look for more clues, and then make a conclusion. Takagi, you go and find out the whereabouts of that woman, maybe she doesn't know anything. ”

Takagi, who received the order, also became serious.

"Yes!"

Conan came into the courtyard and looked around, but found nothing.

Just as he sighed and was about to return to his room, he faintly heard the sound of running water, not far from here.

So Conan walked over to find the sound, and saw that after the grass was opened, there was a water windmill, and the sound came from here.

"It's!"

I saw that the axle of the water windmill was wrapped with several circles of thin wire.

As if thinking of something, Conan hurriedly ran back to the house and found Tian Liquanmei.

The two crept into a secluded place and began to talk quietly.

"You mean, water windmills? At 7:30 a.m. every morning, it starts to rotate on its own. ”

"But usually at that time, the old man has already come down, because breakfast time is always 7 o'clock."

Conan blinked, and then asked, "Then do you remember, how long did Yuan Jin go up?" ”

After thinking about it carefully, Tian Liquanmei shook his head.

"Sorry kid, I didn't pay attention to that. But it should have been when I was squeezing juice, and Miss Tang arrived just in time, so the young master asked me to squeeze a glass of juice to entertain the other party. ”

"Then he went to the study to tell his father that he was a guest?"

Tian Liquanmei nodded, but shook her head again.

"I can't quite say that."

Then, he explained: "Because when I was squeezing the juice, I don't know why, the house suddenly tripped. ”

The young master went to pull the gate himself, and then told the master the news of the arrival of the guests by the way. It's a pity that the old man ignored it and reprimanded the young master. ”

"But the old man was originally such a character when he was alive, and he was used to it, even the lady"

When it came to the end, Tian Liquanmei paused for a moment, knowing that he had said too much.

"I'm sorry, I accidentally said the wrong thing for a while, please don't take it personally. Mr. Maori asked you to come and ask about these, right? ”

Tian Liquanmei smiled: "I didn't expect you to win the trust of Mr. Maori at such a young age." ”

Conan sneered and scratched his head. "Actually, it's okay."

After leaving, Conan opened the lid of the tranquilizer pistol and smiled confidently: I see. The murderer is that person.

Suddenly, his steps stopped.

I just thought of the modus operandi.

However, how to explain the three pools of blood on the ground?

Is it to deliberately confuse the police's sight and create the illusion of fighting the murderer, and then

"I see. Now, everything can be explained. ”

Conan was stunned, this was not his own voice.

He turned around and saw Qinghai Chuantang standing behind him with a smile.

It seems that the inner narration just now was added by her for herself.

"Conan, please start your show now."

Qinghai Chuantang smiled and stepped aside. But this behavior made Conan a little panicked, as if he had been "prophesied".

Although I am suspicious, the most important thing at the moment is to solve the case in front of me.

"This feeling, here it is again"

Mori Kogoro stumbled, found the most comfortable position, sat down in the recliner, and assumed the posture of a thinker.

Tian Liquanmei showed a surprised expression.

"This, is this the legendary sleeping Kogoro?"

"Yes, that's right."

At this time, Conan was hiding under his desk next to him.

Thankfully, Kogoro Mori has completely covered him up and doesn't have to worry about being seen at a glance.

It's just that Xiaolan saw Conan disappear again, and felt puzzled: Why does every time Conan disappears, he always comes out of some inexplicable place?

"Brother Maori, have you successfully deduced the murderer?"

Twilight Thirteen looked surprised, "Isn't the killer the tall woman, but among us?" ”

"Yes, the Twilight Police Department, so to speak. But before revealing the woman's identity and who the killer is, listen to my reasoning. ”

Handle the juicer beforehand and ask for a glass of freshly squeezed juice at the right time, causing a brief power outage.

The blade of the dagger used was naturally iron.

"In the chandelier in the ceiling, install an electromagnet. After a power outage, the magnetism disappears and the dagger falls. ”

At that time, Mr. Kikumoto was sitting right below. In John Dixon Carr's The Trembling Man, there is a trick to using electromagnets. ”

When the killer walked in, the door was unlocked.

After the killer walks into the room, he uses blood to create the illusion of a fight.

In addition to the three pools of blood, there are actually some small blood spots that are subtle and difficult to find.

And this is what the murderer did in order to make the fight he created look more real.

After all this was done, the murderer left the room and closed the door.

Then, using a strong magnet, the latch of the door was operated from the outside, creating the illusion of a secret room, and the crime was impossible.

"And this method is mentioned in Saito Sakae's book The Dangerous Water System."

There is a water windmill outside, which is fixed at 7:30 a.m. and starts to rotate, and the murderer happens to know and take advantage of this.

Tie a rope to the rotating shaft of the water windmill, pass through the hole of the stone lantern and the bamboo forest, and enter through the slightly open skylight, and tie the dagger there beforehand.

"At 7:30 a.m., the water windmill began to spin. The rope was rolled up and he walked away, and the knife that had been stabbed on Mr. Kikumoto was pulled out and passed through the gap between the skylights. ”

Eventually, the dagger fell into the yard, and the rope was all wrapped around the windmill axle. And this technique draws on the homicide incident of the main formation of Yokozo Masashi. ”

With Twilight Thirteen's nod, Takagi immediately ran to a nearby water windmill to check, and sure enough, he found a rope wrapped around the windmill axle.

"The tall women that Miss Izumi saw before are actually Yuan Jin and Yu Ji."

"Let Yuki sit on your shoulder, and then put on a long wig and a hat, so that after a careful disguise, others will naturally not recognize you."

"And when the police heard the news, the first object of suspicion became a fabricated image of a woman."

"So, the murderer"

Twilight Thirteen looked at him, then at Yuan Jin and Yu Ji on the side.

I think it's incredible.

"Brother Maori, do you want to say that the murderers are these two children? But, how is this possible? The tall woman from before might just be a prank by the two of them."

Twilight Thirteen subconsciously wanted to argue for the two children.

However, the murderer did not even want the slightest chance to quibble.

He exclaimed, "It's none of Yuki's business! I did all of this! ”

Yuan Jin is in his first year of junior high school, but he is only 13 years old.

In other words, he is still a teenager in conflict with the law.

"Mr. Maori, very good reasoning."

Qinghai Chuantang said, closing the book in his hand, which he had extracted from the bookshelf before, a book with a cowhide cover.

However, the murderer is not Yuan Jin. Mr. Kikumoto, in fact, committed suicide. ”

If the result of the 13-year-old son killing his father is already surprising to them.

When Qinghai Chuantang put forward the term "suicide", he was shocked.

"I've tried this before, but it's not enough to kill. And it is full of loopholes and cannot stand up to scrutiny. ”

Theoretically feasible and practically feasible are actually two different things.

"The latch is not horizontal, after all, it is full of European style, and even the door is not the exception."

"Even with strong magnets, it's unrealistic to want to lock the door from the outside."

"As for the method of the water windmill, in fact, when it is pulled back, it will be hindered, and it will not be able to succeed in realizing the expected idea."

"So, the two blood stains at the doorway and on the bay windowsill are well explained."

"And the place in front of the bookshelf is actually Mr. Kikumoto who put the book he was reading back in order to hide the unfavorable evidence."

Qinghai Chuantang opened the book and handed it to Twilight Thirteen.

I saw the cover and inner pages of the book, and in some places there were traces of something inserted.

Twilight Thirteen suddenly realized: "In other words, in the beginning, the dagger actually fell on the book that Mr. Kikumoto was reading. ”

Qinghai Chuantang nodded.

"The wound on Mr. Kikumoto's body was actually stabbed by himself."

"When Yuan Jin came forward with a strong magnet and wanted to lock the door but couldn't lock it, in order to help Yuan Jin improve the secret room, he endured the pain and locked the door latch."

"And when he saw that the rope could not pull the knife out, Mr. Kikumoto came to the bay window sill again, untied the rope, and threw the knife out."

After doing all this, Mr. Kikumoto lay down on the chaise longue as Motojin had hoped.

"In the end, the murder in the secret room of the impossible crime was completed."

Yuki was silent the whole time.

Tian Liquanmei looked at Yuan Jin and seemed to understand something.

"Young Master. Have you been haunted by your wife's death? That's really just meaning."

"Not an accident!"

Yuan Jin interrupted her, "Mother is already in good health, but that man is still strict with her mother and doesn't understand her at all." ”

"Obviously, my mother's body has reached the limit, but I still have to do this to her!"

Yuan Jin blamed his father for all the blame.

has been like this since childhood, and his attitude towards his family is so cold and strict.

Even if he takes the first place in the class every time, as long as the score is not a perfect score, he will still suffer severe criticism and accusations.

My mother was born with heart disease.

In the days when she was getting worse and worse, the requirements for her became more and more strict, even to the point of perversion.

Mother didn't say anything, but Yuan Jin could feel her sadness.

"If it weren't for him, how could my mother have died! And when his mother died, he didn't look at her much and left the room directly! ”

"Young master, it's not like this!"

Tian Liquanmei hurriedly explained: "Madame's heart disease worsened, so she bent her body to take care of the master." ”

"And the lord deliberately treated the lady so harshly in order for her to cheer up. The lord and the lady actually have the same mind. ”

"At that time, I could see that the master was reluctant, but he knew that staying there would make you even more uncomfortable, so he chose to leave."

"And, and"

Tian Liquanmei's voice was filled with tears.

After choking for a while, he wiped away the tears on his face and continued: "Master, he has a stage 4 malignant brain tumor, and his time is running out, but he has been letting me hide it from you and Miss. ”

"His usual harshness towards you is actually for your good. In order for you to be less criticized and blamed when you integrate into society in the future. ”

Yuan Jin felt that his brain suddenly seemed to be empty, and he couldn't think of anything.

Just stumbling and staggering, and finally sitting on the ground on your knees.

"Why? How could it be, how could it be"

Tears ran down her cheeks, slowly wetting the ground.

"Brother, I hate you!"

Yuki finally spoke.

When she finished shouting these words, the tears couldn't stop flowing, and there was no time to wipe them.

For such a tragedy, there seems to be no choice but to lament.