Although the blizzard has stopped, the cold wind still blows from time to time by the pond, and I want to drill into the collar of my clothes.

Gao Cheng tightened his collar and looked back at the mountain village who was talking to several college students, and his eyes fell on the pond again.

The victim's body had been taken away by the police for a forensic autopsy, and it was not possible to determine a more specific time of death in this environment, so the work focused on the cause of death.

Even if you drown, it doesn't have to be drowning in this pond, and then it's just whether you have any drugs or not.

There are two possibilities in the current situation, one is that Shuozi rushed down with the snowboard herself, and the other is that someone got it down.

Judging from the clothing of the corpse, it should have been suddenly called out of the room by someone, so he only wore a ski suit, and the skis and ski boots placed in the shared locker may have been taken out by the prisoner.

All things considered, Shuozi may have lost consciousness or died before falling into the pond.

The key is to wait for the autopsy report, and if it can be found out, the only thing left is to throw Shuozi from the top of the cliff into the pond......

Above the cliff, Gao Cheng and a group of people from the mountain village returned to the edge of the cliff through the bridge.

A section of the fence that was supposed to protect safety was missing, and a "Danger" sign was erected in the middle.

"Probably this is it, where she fell......"

Yamamura cautiously glanced at the pond below.

"Really, is there only such a small sign when the railing is broken?"

"It was broken last week, and it is said that it is going to be repaired this weekend......"

"Well, it doesn't look like there's any sign of a snowboard."

"It's so snowy, if anything, it's gone, right?"

"That's right," Yamamura Cao nodded deeply with his hands behind his back, and then looked at Gao Cheng inquiringly, "What should I do next, Detective Joto?" ”

Gao Cheng's head was full of black lines, and he inadvertently looked at the face of the shoehorn who had been standing on the side, and saw that the face of the shoehorn dodged to avoid the line of sight before leading everyone to the snowman on the edge of the hotel.

"Has Mr. Itabashi been building a snowman here all along? Have you ever heard any sounds? ”

"Well, I'm here until 1 o'clock because I made an appointment for lunch at 1 o'clock...... However, I have been engrossed in this work, and the wind and snow are also very strong, and the wind is very loud, so I didn't hear anything......"

"Really?"

Gao Cheng put his hands in his hands and didn't ask any more questions, turned to the mountain village and said, "Let's protect the scene first, everyone will go to the lobby and wait for the autopsy results." ”

"Huh? Isn't it an accident? Yamamura said excitedly, "Can the detective from the city also come to sleep and reason?" ”

“……”

"Well," Shoehorn Face begged, "I can't stay here, I'm running out of time, so I want to finish this work quickly......"

Yamamura approached the snowman curiously: "What is this?" ”

"It's the Snow Man......"

"It's just a semi-finished product, so let's wait for a draft of the Banqiao design, and then we'll discuss it."

"Then again," Gao Cheng chimed in, "it doesn't seem to be the same as when we first saw it......"

"Uh," the shoehorn face said embarrassedly, "I haven't thought about it yet, maybe I'm in too much of a hurry." ”

"Oh, let's go back to the lobby and rest first, maybe inspiration will come later."

"Huh?"

Back in the lobby of the hotel, everyone had different faces, Ayumi and the others gathered around to discuss who the murderer was, and Conan was leaning on the side alone frowning and pondering, looking at Gao Cheng from time to time.

Gao Cheng stayed for a while and then left the lobby and asked the police to search the room of the shoehorn face itabashi, especially to check the drain.

Because it is very likely that the murderer drowned Miss Shuozi in the room first, and then transported the body to the pond, in this case, it should also be the hot spring water in the pond.

The hot spring water is much better than the regular water composition checked, and it can be done on the spot......

"Does Detective Joto already know who the murderer is?" The mountain village was both surprised and delighted.

"I didn't say it, but at the moment, it's just that the murderer is the most likely person in Itabashi." Gao Cheng rolled his eyes.

"Why?"

"Regardless of the method and evidence for the time being, Miss Shuozi will be wearing a ski suit to indicate that she was called outside at the beginning, so Banqiao, who has been staying outside, is the most suspicious, and then there is the snowman, who has been studying the work in such a big snowstorm, and it happens to be on this side of the cliff, if the murderer has someone else, will he choose to do it here?"

Gao Cheng looked at the stupid mountain village and shook his head.

"And it's definitely not like it's not doing nothing here."

"Huh?" Yamamura was in a trance, "Isn't it a research work?" ”

"It's just a façade."

Gao Cheng walked next to the half-finished snow man.

"The reason why the lower half of Yukio doesn't move is not because he is uninspired, but because he can't move, Itabashi needs this big snowball below, which is used to stuff Miss Shuozi into it and then push it off the cliff, after the snowball rolls to the pond, because the water in the pond comes from a hot spring, it will melt soon, and Miss Shuoko's body will naturally float on the water like when it was found......"

"Even if you're a detective, you can't talk nonsense!"

Several college students suddenly came over, and the students of Benshan said angrily: "Shuozi is small, yes, but it is absolutely impossible to roll down the cliff in this kind of snowball, if the snowball is not strong enough, it will fall halfway, why did it just fall into the pond?" ”

"Yes, if you don't disintegrate, you need to have a diameter of at least 2 meters, and you can't push it at all......

Gao Cheng looked back and saw several people frowning.

He didn't want to reason until he found absolute evidence, because there was a chance in everything, and he could make mistakes, and if he wasn't careful, it might be the second time.

With his current reputation, the consequences of getting the case wrong are much more serious.

"What if the snowball hardens?" Gao Cheng groaned and said, "I already checked here when the police came, and there was still a salty smell on the snow, which should be residual salt." ”

"Salt."

"Generally speaking, salt can be used to melt snow, because adding salt to the snow will lower the freezing point and cause the snow to melt, but before melting, it will absorb the surrounding heat, so that the surrounding snow will freeze and harden, and this principle is usually used in ski resort tracks and snow room reinforcement......

Gao Cheng looked at the confused crowd and paused.

"Anyway, just know that salt can be used to make snowballs hard......"

"But," Motoyama came back to his senses, "isn't the snowman still here?" ”

"It's time to do it in a hurry, of course, only the body part needs to be done, which is why only the head is carved beforehand."

Gao Cheng reached out and directly picked up the snow man's head, revealing the big snowball below.

"Now only the head is reinforced, and the bottom can be redone at any time......"

"What's the joke?"

"It takes time and stamina to remake such a big snowball, right? Itabashi, who was eating with us, didn't look like it was after work at all......"

Benshan defended his classmates: "And it doesn't have to be Banqiao. ”

Only he could do it, because even if he only needed to make a big snowball that served as a body, not everyone would be able to do it, because only Mr. Itabashi, who made the snow man, could do the details of the connection between the head and the body...... It's almost exactly the same as what I saw before. ”

Gao Cheng chuckled and looked at the face of the shoehorn whose face had changed drastically.

And only Mr. Itabashi made it easy for Miss Sakuko to put on her ski suit again, but unfortunately he ignored the ski goggles and gloves and hat...... Or does Mr. Itabashi want to change his tune and say that he is not in this place at all, and that someone else has committed a crime? ”

"Itabashi?"

Benshan and Mahua refused to believe it, looking at the face of the shoehorn.

"Is it ......?"

"Detective Joto, where's the evidence?" Motoyama gritted his teeth and said, "The snowman thing can't be evidence that Itabashi is a prisoner......"

"There's no evidence yet."

Gao Cheng's gaze turned to the direction of the cliff.

"Of course, this is just my reasoning, but will the evidence not be found? It's just a matter of time, after all, judging from the method, the murderer should have killed Miss Shuozi in his own room, and it was not so easy to deal with the traces. ”