"Granny Mi," Gao Cheng suddenly asked, "What time is the power outage?" ”

"Time," Granny Mi thought for a moment, "it seems to be half past twelve, because soon the lights will be on, and I will look at the time." ”

"...... at 12:30"

Gao Cheng raised the remote control in his hand: "Has anyone set the air conditioner to turn on regularly?" ”

"No, you don't need to ...... it regularly," Granny Mi said confusedly, "but speaking of which, at that time, I just felt a warm breeze blowing, and the lights went out......"

"Detective Joto, what's the problem?" Osamu Gojo asked.

"It shouldn't be a coincidence, but someone deliberately set a timer to turn on, as for the reason......"

Gao Cheng thought about it and walked up to the second floor, checked the remote control of the air conditioner in other rooms, and found that it was a coincidence that all the remote controls were set to time, and they were all at the time of the power outage at "12:30".

"It's not certain yet, but if there are no accidents, that's why the circuit breaker tripped and the power went out...... In other words, Miss Lihua is not an accomplice......"

Gao Cheng looked at the heavy rain outside, and said in a deep voice: "Miss Lihua is very likely to have been killed, now we can only wait for the police to come over tomorrow and search in the forest." ”

There are too few useful clues now, and the only thing he is sure of is that the murderer is among the four people, Rokuta, Takashi Ichieda, Osamu Gojo, and Mifune, and it is unclear whether the murderer is one or two of them.

Gao Cheng looked at Takashi Ichieda and Osamu Gojo, who were left in the living room.

Because of his relationship as a detective, the prisoner will undoubtedly be several times more cautious, and it is difficult to show his feet, and it is already the limit to narrow the scope of the murderer to a few people in Liuda.

Without going back to the living room immediately, Gao Cheng closed his eyes and tried his best to recall all the details.

From the beginning, Miss Lihua disappeared, everyone searched for it, and then Nikaido was drowned...... Sleeping pill...... Blackout......

The surrounding space quickly shifted, and clues emerged, entering the one-minute thinking space again.

"Huh?" Gao Cheng was stunned, and reacted that after turning on the mode for one minute, he didn't delay time, and his fingers flicked quickly between the details.

The accident 2 years ago is obviously not so simple, after all, the party Nikaido and Rika Shijing are one dead and the other missing......

The murderer deliberately put sleeping pills in the coffee instead of poison and the like, and deliberately carried him to the kitchen sink, which is quite unreasonable...... Apparently there is some kind of purpose.

This is not a random killing, but a motive and premeditated killing, including sleeping pills and the murder of him......

Gao Cheng stood in the thinking space with a tight expression, and all the details, including all the words that Liutian and the others had said, flashed in front of him.

Someone must have lied......

One of these people must have misled the minds of the people, but it was very subtle and very subtle.

It's a pity that he drank sleeping pills and wasn't present at the most critical time, otherwise he might be able to dig out clues from the other party's words and deeds.

The one-minute time limit was approaching, and Gao Cheng frowned and continued to think about the details of the case.

The murderer deliberately hid Shijing Lihua somewhere, and then took the opportunity to go to the forest to find it to kill Nikaido, and all the telephone lines in the villa were cut off, indicating that the murderer still had some unfinished purpose, either he still needed to kill, or there was still some trick to complete.

The most likely purpose is undoubtedly to forge an alibi.

So what was the murderer's purpose in attacking him?

"Water, drowning......" Gao Cheng muttered as he propped his chin up.

The key point of the case is on the "water", one possibility is because the Yaeko also drowned 2 years ago, and the other possibility is ......

"The murderer hopes to form an inertia of thinking and hide his true method of killing Rika Shijing."

Gao Cheng's eyes moved, and once again filtered the words of Liutian and the others quickly.

If it is the second possibility, then the clue to solve the case may be on Lihua Shijing.

Where is Reika Shijing?

It's obviously not realistic on the forest side, and the trunks of the cars with flat tires are very likely, but there are still a lot of problems with that.

The rest of the possible place is the villa, although everyone has searched it, but since the murderer is among the four people in Liutian, it is also very convenient to make small actions, such as searching a place in front of others, pretending not to find it.

In any case, Shijing Lihua should not be far from the pool or sink to facilitate the murderer's disguise of murder modus operandi and create an alibi......

The picture in front of Gao Cheng is sharply reduced, showing several possible places.

First of all, there is the fountain in front of the villa, where Nikaido was drowned, not far from the parking spot, then there is the villa kitchen, which is where the murderer intends to use the same method to attack him, there are several other toilets, and then there are bathrooms......

"Wow!" The one-minute mode came to an abrupt end, and the thinking space surrounding Gao Cheng suddenly disappeared, and everything returned to the way it was.

Gao Cheng was dizzy for a while, and hurriedly held on to the wall next to him, and it took a while to ease up.

Unlike the one-minute mode used in the system's release cases, the one-minute mode in daily cases is passively activated and seems to consume a lot of stamina.

Gao Cheng walked to the living room with a pale face: "Granny Mi, can you help me prepare a glass of sugar water?" ”

"Detective Joto?" When Granny Mi saw Gao Cheng's appearance, she was stunned, and hurriedly got up and went to the kitchen, "You better rest, don't hold on, your body will be weak." ”

"It's nothing, I'll just drink some sugar water."

Gao Cheng smiled awkwardly and followed Granny Mi into the kitchen, waiting to check where people might be hiding in the kitchen, but nothing came of it.

"Mother-in-law," Gao Cheng took a sip of sugar water, feeling a lot more comfortable, and saw Granny Mi put the sugar back in the cupboard, and asked by the way, "Didn't you find anything wrong when you were making coffee here before?" Like who has come in. ”

"No," Granny Mi shook her head, "I was looking for sugar everywhere after I made my coffee, and I bought this jar of sugar five years ago, and I forgot where to put it, so I looked for it for a while......"

"Five years ago?"

Gao Cheng's fingers trembled, and he almost couldn't grasp the cup.

Hey, how long is the shelf life of sugar?

……

It was still raining outside the villa, Gao Cheng walked to the fountain with an umbrella, I don't know if it was a psychological effect, I always felt a little uncomfortable after drinking sugar water.

Nikaido's body was still placed by the pool, but it was covered with a cloth to prevent it from being washed away by the rain.

Gao Cheng took a closer look around the fountain, and after not finding anything unusual in the pool, his eyes turned to the parking spot not far away, and the six cars with flat tires were still in the rain.

He looked around, if he hid the Shijing Lihua in the car and moved it to the fountain, it would be easy to be seen by the people on the other side of the living room, and it was a bit possible to move into the villa through the side door, but not to mention the trouble, there was also a possibility of being discovered.

"Let's keep it for now."

Gao Cheng returned to the villa after observing the surroundings, this time not alarming the others, just quietly checking around the bathroom.

After checking several toilets, he felt that the possibility of the murderer hiding Shijing Lihua here was not too high, it was easy to be discovered, and it was not convenient to arrange the toilet.

In the end, there is only the bathroom......

"Click!" The corridor on this side of the bathroom was very dark, and Gao Cheng fumbled to open the doors one by one.

A small storage room, a toilet, and finally a dim bathroom, Gao Cheng pressed the light switch, but found that there was no response, and the light bulb seemed to be broken.

Strange to say, the lights were on in other places, except for the dim hallway.

Gao Cheng's expression tightened, this side is undoubtedly the most likely place, it is very suitable for the murderer to do tricks, and even the murderer broke the light bulb here in advance.

The bathroom is not very big, and the only things that can be hidden are the washing machine, the cabinet under the sink, and ......

Gao Cheng checked the washing machine and the cabinet one after another, and finally walked to the bathtub covered with a cover, and after reaching out to open the cover, his eyes suddenly tightened, and then the corners of his mouth rose to reveal an inexplicable smile.

"I see......"

In the bathtub, Miss Lihua was fixed by tape and lying in the water, it seems that she was also given sleeping pills, this eldest lady is still asleep, but the water in the bathtub is up to her neck, and it continues to increase slowly, I am afraid that it will rise to the point of drowning Lihua Sijing in about an hour.

Gao Cheng looked at the shower head floating in the bathtub silently, paused, and turned off the water valve.

The whole case is undoubtedly very clear, the reason why the murderer did so many tricks and feet is all for the purpose of the method in front of him, the only thing that is not clear is who the murderer is.

This is either to wait for Rika Shijing to come to her senses, or to wait for the murderer to show his feet, because the murderer will inevitably come to close the scene after Rika Shitsui drowned naturally......

Gao Cheng looked at the sleeping Miss Lihua in the bathtub with a complicated expression, and after reclosing the lid of the bathtub, he clutched Toya Lake and turned to leave the bathroom.

The effect of the sleeping pills still hadn't completely faded, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.

This eldest lady is not a good person, but the murderer who may be trying to avenge is also a bastard who has committed a crime, and he wants to have a good encounter with the other party......