Independent warehouse, Gao Cheng called the proprietress and prepared to carefully investigate the Weasel incident.

Next to him, Yamato Dasuke and Zhufu Gaoming had already inspected the scene in depth, and it was easy to find a lot of clues.

These two sworn police officers are one of the few detectives in the Conan world, and they have directly raised the level of solving cases in Nagano Prefecture to a higher level, which can be said to be quite weighty characters.

Interfering in a case like the Scythe is honestly a bit overkill, but no matter how inconspicuous the case is, it is a case, and I don't know what kind of sadness there is behind it.

Gao Cheng glanced at the proprietress who was standing quietly at the door, and the snowflakes seemed to reflect the pain in the proprietress heart.

used to be the only daughter of a hotel, but now she lives like a maid, she has no support and is bullied by her father-in-law.

If there was a real murder case, he wouldn't be surprised that the proprietress killed the old man, even if the proprietress looked so gentle at the moment, she wouldn't do such a thing as killing her father-in-law.

"Boss," Gao Cheng asked, "Are you familiar with the two reporters who came here today?" ”

"Huh?" The proprietress who was thinking about something came back to her senses and responded, "Mr. Nakayan is my junior high school classmate and a frequent visitor here, and Miss Koyanagi comes here occasionally, so she is quite familiar...... Speaking of which, I feel that the two of them are a little different from before, Mr. Nakayan didn't have a beard before, and Miss Koyanagi didn't wear glasses. ”

Gao Cheng thought about the picture of the sickle.

"The day Kangping saw the sickle a year ago, were the two of them there?"

"Well, that day I had to take Kangping to the hospital again, and I had to contact the police again, but I was so busy that I didn't even have time to clean the open-air hot spring, and the first thief appeared in the warehouse was also the day, and I specially told Mr. Nakayan......" The proprietress replied.

"Really?"

Gao Cheng had a clue in his heart.

A year ago, the weasel appeared, and then this time, the pictures of the weasel took place in an open-air hot spring, and if it wasn't a way for the inn to solicit business, someone was doing some kind of experiment.

Using the legend of the Weasel to kill people......

Sure enough, it's the right thing, this time it's a murder that is still in progress!

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and a thick layer was piled up on the ground of the hotel, Gao Cheng entered the main house against the wind and snow, and the injured people had been bandaged with the help of Xiaolan and Heye.

As a highly qualified detective assistant, Xiao Wai fully demonstrated his nursing ability and took out his own portable medical kit.

Specialized.

"I've heard that on snowy days, sickles are more likely to appear!" The news of the sickle gradually spread in the hotel, and the fear overcame the curiosity, and no one ran outside, and there was no one in the open-air bath.

Uncle Maori, who has always liked to soak in hot springs, will have a contemplative face.

"There was no blood on that scythe, what was it that hurt us? It's like a yokai......"

"Apparently not a youkai."

Gao Cheng interrupted the uncle.

He inspected the scene carefully afterwards and found chewing gum among the fragments of the broken light bulb, and the more obvious traces were the ashes left by Uncle Maori's cigarette.

"The attack happened when the light bulb burst, and it does look like some weapon is cutting the light bulb and then cutting you, but in fact it was just man-made."

"Artificial?" Uncle Maori exclaimed, "At that time, everyone gathered around to look at the sickle, as if nothing was standing by the light bulb, and Xiaolan and the others were at the door, couldn't they see that someone broke the light bulb?" ”

Gao Cheng said with a smile: "Of course, the prisoner will not break it directly stupidly, but just use some tricks, there are two chandeliers in that warehouse, but only one can be lit in the past today, I saw it just now, and the other light bulb was tampered with, because there is no way to break two light bulbs on the spot at the same time......"

Although it is under the jurisdiction of the hotel Gunma Prefecture, because of the relationship between Yamato and Dare to help at the scene, the uncle did not call the police, but was eager to find out the attacking sickle.

Of course, after knowing that it was the jurisdiction of Gunma Prefecture, even the uncle didn't want to call the police.

Every time I call the police, the mountain village that guy and rushes over......

Originally, I thought that it would be difficult to catch the sickle without being able to search and investigate, but Gao Cheng seemed to have found some important clues.

It's like this every time, and this kid from Chenghu has a special set of investigations.

Maori Kogoro sighed secretly, sat up straight and listened carefully to Gao Cheng's reasoning.

Although he doesn't want to admit it, he has really been cared for many times so far.

The Wespania Kingdom incident helped go abroad to rescue Xiaolan, and even the Yokohama Fantasyland incident last time, Joto, this kid obviously has a young face, but he doesn't look like a teenager at all, and he is old-fashioned, even he has to be convinced.

"Chewing gum," Gao Cheng suddenly threw out a clue, "If the old light bulb is stained with chewing gum, the surface will form a temperature difference, and it will easily break, after entering the warehouse, someone pretended to be hit by the chandelier, didn't they?" ”

Maori Kogoro's face was solemn: "There is chewing gum and there are people who have hit the chandelier...... Isn't that her? ”

Everyone looked at the female reporter with her glasses cut on her cheek.

"How is that possible? Isn't she ...... herself."

"Here's the problem," Gao Cheng quietly stared at the female reporter with glasses who had not yet reacted, "It is difficult to accurately cut people in the dark, the back of the hand, the arm, the cheek...... Even I have a hard time being so precise, and if it's a random attack in the dark, it's strange to just hurt these parts, and the wounds don't do that. ”

"Huh?"

"Then I knew the reason, the reason why Hattori injured his arm was because he was wearing a glow-in-the-dark watch, the uncle was injured on the back of his hand because he was holding a cigarette butt in his hand, and this reporter's cheek was injured because the attacker was herself, so that she could not only clear herself from suspicion, but also hide the evidence with her own blood......"

Gao Cheng continued to reason.

"I don't know what the motive is, but this simple trick can't hide from the detective, I think the murder weapon should be hidden in your fake nails like a blade or something, deliberately cut yourself, and hold down the wound so that your fingers are all stained with blood, right?"

Hattori's face darkened.

And they were kept in hiding......

"The thief who has repeatedly entered the warehouse, and the weasel who appeared in the open-air hot spring," Gao Cheng continued without waiting for the female reporter to respond, "Let's just think that Miss Koyanagi is doing some kind of experiment, and the reason why the magazine society received the photo of the sickle is actually to prevent guests from getting close to the open-air bath and to facilitate the implementation of a certain plan......"

"Hey," the bearded male reporter couldn't help but interject, "what the hell are you talking about?" Miss Koyanagi......"

"That picture of the sickle was sent to you by Miss Koyanagi, and the reason why it wasn't published in the magazine where I work was to avoid suspicion," Gao Cheng swept over the bearded man, "The plan is probably implemented today, so Miss Koyanagi will guide everyone to the warehouse to look for antiques, after all, the more valuable antiques here are the scythes." ”

"So," the bearded boy said angrily, "what the hell is the plan?" ”

"Murder plan."

"What?!"

Gao Cheng's categorical voice startled everyone.

It's just looking for the scythe that attacked, how did it get to killing?

"That's right," Gao Cheng's eyes turned to the direction of the open-air hot spring, "I asked the proprietress that the white-air hot spring is opposite the single house where the old man lives, and in the past, there were two roads, through the hot spring, or through the back door, and the purpose of running through the hot spring with a sickle in a continuous experiment is the old man in the single house."

As for the attack just now, it was just to create a scythe existence that didn't exist, and everything was for the sake of the killing plan afterwards. ”

"But," Mori Kogoro said confusedly, "even then, how do you get through that hot spring?" If the hot spring water is not cleaned......"

"So it's a matter of running over, a large amount of kudzu powder is poured into the hot spring, forming a state between liquid and solid, and the instantaneous pressure under your feet when you run will make the hot spring water like a solid state, and you can theoretically run over.

This is also an experiment conducted by Miss Koyanagi, and the fact that several thieves have stolen a lot of kudzu powder is proof, after all, even if the open-air hot spring is not large, the amount of kudzu powder needed is a lot, and it is of course that it is discovered. ”

Gao Cheng finally said to the female reporter.

"Miss Koyanagi didn't wear glasses before, probably because she wore contact lenses, but this time she changed to this because it would be difficult to wear and remove contact lenses if you suddenly wore false nails, in other words, you wouldn't normally wear fake nails."

The female reporter opened her mouth, looked at the fake nails that still had blood stains on her hands, and silently gave up her defense.

"But why," Gao Cheng asked after a pause, "if it's the boss lady, I can understand, what is your motive?" ”

"My deceased mother," the female reporter bowed her head, "it was the maîtress who was scolded and fired by him before, and for this reason, other hotels were unwilling to hire me, so in order to support me, my mother was forced to go to a restaurant to work, and as a result, she contracted pneumonia and died two years later......

The reason is that the young master here proposed to my mother, but the old man thought that he could merge with the only daughter of another hotel to expand the hotel, and that's because of this kind of thing. ”

The female reporter had tears in her eyes, and she said unforgettablely.

"If it weren't for that, how could my mother have worked so hard and died so painfully!"

Yamato dared to help walk through the snow with a cane, and saw the innkeeper's father-in-law hiding behind the aisle to eavesdrop, and after being discovered, the old man walked away in a panic, and his body was gloomy.

lived to the point that he was almost killed, even his daughter-in-law didn't like him, and the old man was a failure enough.

But......

Yamato Dasuke breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that it was just this case of attempted murder, and he thought too much.