Chapter 178: The Crime of Light and Shadow

Twilight did not take it lightly as a suicide case, and still interrogated everyone.

"We've talked about him several times, but he's still smoking here and deliberately provoking guests," complains Yuriko, an employee of the woman, "and he's always sitting in front of the back row of windows." ”

"That's right, the smoke from the cigarette makes the picture appear unshadowed......"

Gao Cheng looked back at the people in the movie theater who were being interrogated, and recalled the time when the movie was shown.

After Zhang Tian came, the movie picture was really weird, the guy not only smoked unscrupulously, but also drove away a couple watching a movie......

"Wait, I remember that time......"

Gao Cheng took a step back and looked at the screening window, feeling as if something was not quite right.

There are several screening windows, and there is also an observation window that is slightly higher, and now Zhang Tian's body is hanging in front of the rightmost screening window.

If the murderer was the projectionist Mr. Furuhashi......

No, there is another problem that I can't figure out, at that time, the black shadow suddenly appeared on the screen, whether Zhang Tian hanged himself or someone else hung him, the action should be obvious.

But at that time, the black shadow appeared and was hanging, just shaking back and forth, and the process of hanging disappeared unbelievably......

Gao Cheng frowned and lifted his chin.

It's not a short time since the last system case, usually four or five ordinary cases are intervened, and this time the case has to be solved, maybe it's just such a case.

"Officer," one of the officers reported, "according to the aunt at the ticket office, there were only these people in the cinema at the time of the crime, except for the Detective and the children, there were only these four people. ”

The officer pointed to the owner and several staff members to the side.

It takes a lot of strength to hang Zhang Tian up, and on the surface, it seems that the female employee Yuriko and the elderly and frail owner Muramatsu Boss are not murderers, and the sturdy projectionist Furuhashi is the most suspicious, and there is also a thin glasses brother.

Gao Cheng's gaze turned to the glasses brother.

He doesn't judge whether there is a suspicion or not by his physique.

Generally speaking, it is indeed difficult for women, old people and thin little men to hang Zhang Tian to death, but this is just a general situation, and you can't treat the case without suspicion because of this, just look at the original director of the Ochiai Museum of Rice Art Museum, not only can he wear armor and act flexibly, but he can also lift a fat man with one hand and stick a sword into the wall.

"There's no way I'm going to kill someone," the glasses guy confidently handed a digital camera to Twilight, "I have a full alibi, I was always taking pictures from my position when Zhang Tian was hanged." ”

"What is this?" Twilight looked at a photo of a black shadow on the screen, "Is this a picture of a black shadow when it appeared?" ”

"Yes, I happened to photograph it, too."

"By chance?"

Twilight wondered, "It's easy to wait until you hang him before taking pictures, right?" ”

"Look at the first few photos," the glasses guy said, pointing to the digital camera, "Those are all continuous images I took from the same angle, and I don't have time to kill at all." ”

Twilight still has a headache, "But it's too coincidental, isn't it?" I took so many photos, it felt like I was intentional......"

"I watched this movie in this place when I was a kid, and this time I'm here to remember."

"Can you show me?" Gao Cheng took the digital camera and looked at it without waiting for Twilight's permission.

There are really a lot of photos, but unfortunately they are all taken on the screen, and even he and Conan who were sitting in the front row were also filmed.

Looking at the photos at the time of the crime again, I feel that it is a lot blurry compared to the previous ones, to be precise, the screen in the photos is a lot blurry, which is quite strange.

Could the prisoner be a glasses guy? A person with an alibi in a murder case is not necessarily not the murderer, and as Officer Twilight said, it is too much of a coincidence......

There is also the boss of Muramatsu, and the old man was photographed leaving the audience in the photo, just before the crime.

He remembered that the studio owner had been watching movies in the screening room, as if he was cherishing the last day of the cinema's closing......

"Boss Muramatsu," without waiting for Gao Cheng to ask, Twilight brought up the photo of the boss leaving his seat with a serious face, "This photo was taken of you, why did you leave halfway?" Even if you go to the bathroom, you should go to the other side, right? ”

"Well, this," Muramatsu said, squinting his eyes closer to the camera and remembering, "I wanted to go and see the condition of the air conditioning in the computer room at that time, because the wind seemed to be a little stronger than usual, and it suddenly became colder. ”

"Is that so?" Twilight Fox wondered.

"It's true," Mitsuhiko explained, "I felt so cold at that time, so I went to the bathroom." ”

"Where's the air-conditioning room?"

"Walk outside at the end of the hallway."

"Hmm," Twilight asked, looking out and turning to the two remaining Yuriko and Furuhashi, "what about you?" ”

"I was in the screening room with Yuriko." Furuhashi explained.

"At that time, I bought a bento box and made tea and came back to Mr. Furuhashi, and then something happened to happen." Yuriko nodded and followed.

"Anyway, it's impossible for everyone to commit a crime, it should be that guy who committed suicide, right?"

"Let's go to the screening room first."

Twilight looked at Gao Cheng, who was thinking, and did not draw conclusions easily, and continued to lead the way from Furubashi to the screening room.

Gao Cheng was about to keep up, when he suddenly noticed a clear footprint on the back of the seat in the back seat, and a cigarette butt was lost underneath.

It seems that the victim Zhang Tian was sitting in front of him, but the seat was directly in front of the observation window, not in front of the projection window.

This is strange, shouldn't Zhang Tian be sitting under the screening window?

He remembered that Zhang Tian was indeed sitting under the screening window at that time, otherwise smoking would not affect the movie picture......

Gao Cheng's puzzled gaze turned to the projectionist Furuhashi.

Regardless of the specific reason, when it comes to the screening window, Furuhashi is too suspicious, although he was in the screening room at the time of the crime, he was actually closest to Zhang Tian because of the window, and it is possible to do anything.

Even if the murderer is not Furuhashi, it must have something to do with him......

To get to the screening room, you have to go through the stairs next to the counter corridor, Gao Cheng followed into the messy lounge, and then into the screening room inside, and you can see that there are two projectors.

Gao Cheng approached the screening window and the observation window, knocked on the window glass but found nothing unusual.

"The windows here are completely sealed and can't be opened," Furuhashi smiled when he saw Takasei's inquiry, and explained to Twilight, "I was here when the dark shadow appeared, and Yuriko was making tea for me in the lounge next door, so this alibi is sufficient, right?" ”

"What if Mr. Zhang Tian had been killed a long time ago?" Gao Cheng suddenly said in the shocked eyes of everyone, "What if Mr. Zhang Tian was actually hanging there before the black shadow appeared?" ”

"Huh?"

Furuhashi was stunned, and laughed: "How is this possible, if it's like you said, how could the black shadow appear at that time?" ”

"It's easy," Conan said in a childish tone, checking the projector for a moment, "if the tape was divided into two parts, the front half and the back half, it should be possible, right?" It would be nice to use the other side of the projector to show the first half and switch it to the second half. ”

"That's right!" Twilight was surprised, "In this way, the first half of the film can be broadcast normally without being affected by the corpse, and when it switches to the second half, the corpse will suddenly appear......"

"Some movie theaters do use this kind of projection," Furuhashi interrupted Twilight with a smile and looked at Conan, "But, little brother, there will be traces of engagement on the tape, which I rarely do, just look at it, there are no traces of that on the tape." ”

"Yes, little brother," Yuriko continued, "I came in to see it when I bought the lunch, and the only thing running was the projector by the door. ”

"Really?"

Gao Cheng was noncommittal on the side.

Even if Conan's method is wrong, it is certain that the prisoner made a move on the screening.

As long as the modus operandi is figured out, this case can almost be solved......

"Joto," Conan noticed Gao Cheng's expression, approached and pushed Gao Cheng, and whispered curiously, "Did you find anything?" ”

"Nope."

“……”