Chapter 42: A Detective in the Wind
In the hotel hallway, Gao Cheng looked at Conan who was walking in front, and the pressure in his heart surged, he did not continue to investigate other people's rooms, but returned to the origin of the incident, the room of the deceased Ehara Shinan.
Up to now, he has encountered a lot of cases one after another, and he has become more and more aware of the difference between himself and the detective, and the only thing he can rely on is his own efforts, as well as the detective mode of the system in just one minute.
However, the system mode can only be used once at a time in the released case, and this time the Duke of Night incident was only involved in him for a free vacation from the beginning......
Gao Cheng walked past the forensic personnel to the balcony of the room, facing the cold wind and pondering.
Think again, think about it again, even if you are an idiot of reasoning, there will always be only one truth......
Gao Cheng took the small notebook used for recording and filtered the clues in his mind again.
At 10 o'clock in the evening, Tokio Ehara dressed as the Duke of the Night fell and fell to his death on the bronze statue, and among the members of those tour groups, the old Mr. Kaneshiro and the servant have been in the open-air restaurant, Hideko Uejo is also with Mori Kogoro, Shiro Konno said that he was using a computer in his room, and Akiko Sayama was watching TV in his room.
Although the remaining Maeda Satoshi said that he would leave the top floor at 10 o'clock, he was watching the time at the time, and he was using the identity of the Duke of Dark Night just now......
The question now is whether Maeda was the murderer of Ehara, how he escaped from the secret room, and why did he deliberately steal the clothes of Duke Night from the morgue......
That's pretty much all he knows now...... I don't understand it at all.
"No...... Is that the end of it? ”
Gao Cheng sat on the balcony with his back against the railing, his hair fluttering in the wind, and he sighed softly with a bitter smile on his face.
Soon Conan will probably still solve all the mysteries of the case, but why is he so unwilling?
Thoughts flew to distant memories with the wind, the days of silently watching Kudo Shinichi reasoning in the crowd, and the days and nights of fighting for the detective agency left by his grandfather, but everything came to an abrupt end with a live TV broadcast, and the detective's dream came to naught and fell into a pile of wine bottles......
Grasping his heart tightly, two lines of clear tears flowed down unconsciously, and dried up in the wind.
Outside the room, the forensic staff glanced at Gao Cheng on the balcony strangely: "Hey, what's wrong with that teenager?" ”
"I don't know, I heard Officer Yokozo say that he is a detective who is not inferior to Maori Kogoro, maybe he is investigating the case, right?"
"It's just a high school student, but it's actually a detective......"
"There's a lot you don't know, Kudo Shinichi, you should have heard of it, right? A famous high school student detective! ”
In the whirring wind, the voice of the forensic personnel was not clear, but it still woke Gao Cheng up from the memory of the original owner.
You can't just give up......
Gao Cheng stood up with support, he said that he must become a detective, and this time is just one of the countless cases that he will face in the future.
He hasn't lost yet, and if he gives up like this, he won't be qualified to be a detective at all......
"Whew!" The wind was a little stronger, and suddenly a strange feeling came to Gao Cheng's heart, as if something was ignored by him, something was very wrong.
"Wind?"
"It seemed to be windier than it is now...... Is it so windy at night? ”
Gao Cheng returned to the room full of confusion, was stunned, and suddenly rushed to the railing again to look down.
At that time, Gangwon fell along the right-angled wall, and the position of the bronze statue was indeed directly below the balcony......
However, if you are pushed down from the balcony, why is it not affected by the wind? Can a person really fall straight below in such a strong wind?!
The balcony was bulging outward, and the wind on both sides was particularly strong, and he remembered that the wind was much stronger than it was now......
Gao Cheng grabbed the balcony railing with both hands, his eyes flashed, the whole world in front of him fell silent, the sound of the wind disappeared, and only all the clues kept emerging around.
From the time of the crime, I watched Ehara fall straight down to the secret room with an anti-theft lock on the inside......
Gao Cheng's brain was running rapidly, his thinking ability was improved to the extreme, and he stretched out his hand to move the clues floating in the air again and again.
Clothes scattered at the door of the secret room and room key...... White gloves are clipped to the railing...... Gangwon's corpse was dressed in the costume of the Duke of the Night by someone else...... There are also strong winds......
Gao Cheng closed his eyes slightly, and the three-dimensional structure of the entire Princess Hotel was quickly built, simulating the wind speed and direction and height, and finally showed the possible fall trajectory of Gangwon being pushed down from the balcony.
The landing point does not coincide with the bronze statue directly below, but deviates from it in a short time after leaving the balcony, and finally falls at a distance from the bronze statue......
The place of the crime is not the balcony of the Gangwon room!
Gao Cheng opened his eyes suddenly, and the layout of Satoshi Maeda's room in Room 1901 flew out of the surrounding picture, and finally locked onto the window below the balcony window.
This is the only place where it fits best, because the right-angled wall is exactly at the dead end of the air current, and the strong wind can't blow at all, so Gangwon will fall straight on the bronze statue, and when you look up from below, it looks like it has fallen from the balcony, and combined with the gloves left between the balcony railings, it naturally gives people the illusion that Gangwon really fell from the balcony.
He hadn't seen the other people's rooms yet, but none of them could have the same effect......
Is the prisoner Satoshi Maeda?
No, if Akiko Sayama had called the counter at 10 o'clock, she would have been in her room at the time......
Partnership?
No, there is a conflict between the testimonies of the two......
Gao Cheng's eyes searched for many clues.
Why did Satoshi Maeda take the risk of stealing Duke Night's clothes afterwards, and he happened to appear outside the elevator on the 19th floor, and happened to be seen by Conan?
In the elevator at the time: Conan, Xiaolan...... And the ...... who has just finished the interrogation
Akiko Sayama!
Many clue pictures revolve rapidly around Gao Cheng, and the reasonable and unreasonable successive arrangement and reorganization lead to the truth.
"Wow!" A bright light flashed in Gao Cheng's mind, and all the clues were connected in a line.
"That's all that's left next......"
Gao Cheng looked back at the sawn security lock of the door, and the moment he vaguely thought about the secret room technique, the surrounding clue space suddenly disappeared, and the whirring wind returned to his ears.
"Just ......"
Gao Cheng came back to his senses, and only after being slightly dizzy did he realize that he had solved the case at once just now.
The strange feeling was similar to that of a detective in the system, but it seemed to be a little more tired......
Turn on the system light curtain, and see that the one-minute detective mode is exactly at the end of time.
"It's really a minute...... What's going on? ”
Gao Cheng rubbed his forehead, which was still a little dizzy with his brain, and in confusion, he heard that the forensic staff in the corridor seemed to have found some clues. "This looks like a piece of a security latch."
"Is it from Room 2101? Strange, there seems to be something in this front part......"
"Don't worry about it, just take it back for testing anyway."
"Can you show me?" Gao Cheng panted lightly and leaned against the wall and walked to the aisle.
He seems to have consumed too much and has low blood sugar, so he must replenish sugar when he goes back......
"Are you alright?" The police officer looked at Gao Cheng worriedly, and still handed the broken door latch to Gao Cheng.
"It's scotch tape...... I see. ”
Gao Cheng took a closer look, and a clear smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "I know everything!" ”