Chapter 580: Shadow Magic
"Where's the switch?"
"I think it's in the kitchen......
Seeing things clearly in the dimness, Hattori hurriedly went out along the corridor with Conan, turned on the flashlight and went downstairs to the kitchen, and vaguely Gao Cheng heard the sound of the door closing softly.
Well?
Gao Cheng looked at the stars in the dark.
"Found the switch!"
Hattori's shouts came from downstairs, and with a snap, the light bulb outside the corridor lit up again, and the end was like a slide, and suddenly the figure of Himenomiya Zhanzi appeared in the light, and she fell in front of the end cabinet with wide eyes and blood.
"Zhan, Zhanzi?" Xinghe Tongwu took a step back in a trembling voice, "What the hell is this ......"
"The body is already cold," Gao Cheng stepped forward to check, "Looks like ...... It's been more than half an hour since he died. ”
Gao Cheng's fingers moved away from Himenomiya Zhanzi's neck.
It's almost what happened after he met Himenomiya Zhanzi before, and he was fatally wounded in the head......
Gao Cheng stood up beside the corpse, looked back at the entire corridor and the door of the Shadow Master next to the light bulb switch, and the sound of Xinghe Tongwu calling the police and calling an ambulance came from the room.
Walking into the room, there was not much change from when he came before, only the window next to it was open, and the curtains swayed in the wind.
"Joto," Hattori and Conan rushed back down the hallway, quickly discovering the situation as well, "what the hell is going on?" I didn't have anything before......"
"I didn't know, the corpse suddenly appeared after the call."
Gao Cheng looked at Xinghe Tongwu who had finished the call, and his eyes fell to the door again.
He was sure that Togo Hoshigawa had been on the side when the power went out, and the faint sound of the door closing was something the magician had done, like a switch that cast a magic spell.
It should be said that from the beginning of taking them upstairs, he was performing magic, the magic of the Shoying genre......
"Was the window open just now?" Hattori leaned out of the window and said, "If you use the bushes below as a buffer, you can jump down and escape through the back door." ”
"What's going on?" The two of them found Mrs. Zhengying and Fan Tianli, and were frightened by the corpse of Himenomiya Zhanzi.
"Why did Zhanzi ...... her?"
"I'll talk about it when the police come, but it's ......"
Gao Cheng returned to the hallway fluorescent light switch, and looked up at the light bulb on the ceiling again.
"This switch seems to have been short-circuited," Hattori followed, "The light bulb on it has been tampered with beforehand......
"Brother Heiji," Conan shouted on the other side, "come and see, this room. ”
"This is the database."
Fan Tianli explained: "It is full of magic materials collected by Teacher Zhengying when he travels around the world. ”
"It's all turned into a mess."
The database is at the end of the corridor, next to the corpse of Himenomiya Zhanzi, and Gao Cheng was not able to go in to see it before.
There were rows of bookshelves placed side by side, but the books on them were scattered all over the floor, looking a mess.
"Is there anything important here?" Hattori asked.
"No," Fan Tianli said uncertainly, "Basically, there are books and magazine clips on the market, and the teacher often asks us to read ......."
"Speaking of which," said Mrs. Masaki, "there may be a document that even my wife is not allowed to see, and my husband will record it in time every time he has a new idea, so I have a notebook full of original magic tricks, "Shoying Notes......"
"That is to say......"
Hattori touched his chin and thought, "Is it the murderous hand of the person who wanted to steal this "Shadow Notes" that Miss Zhanzi just happened to bump into?" ”
"Stealing "Shadow Notes"?"
"Yes, judging from the short-circuit power outage, it may be that the person arranged it in advance, because if someone happens to come over, pressing the switch will short-circuit the power outage, and then you have to go to the kitchen on the first floor to pull the electric switch, and the prisoner can take advantage of this time to sneak away through the window of Teacher Zhengying's room......
"But the prisoner's plan didn't work, usually there was only the wife in the house, but today there were 9 guests, and Miss Zhanzi entered this room without touching the switch, and she also saw the prisoner's appearance, so she was silenced......"
"Isn't that weird?" Xiao Ai rolled her eyelids, "How do you explain Miss Zhanzi's corpse?" ”
Hattori smiled: "The prisoner may have been looking for something in the database, but we came up at this time, and the prisoner should have taken advantage of the power outage to move Miss Zhanko's body to the end of the corridor and then escape from Teacher Masakat's room, in order to delay time......"
"It's impossible," Gao Cheng interrupted, "Master Zhengying's door was right next to us at the time, if the prisoner came, we would know about it, right?" And how can anyone dare to steal in such a place knowing that there are many customers? Kill someone and continue to stay here for half an hour? ”
"Haven't I finished yet?" Hattori snorted, "Normally, you can only think about it this way, but if Mr. Xinghe, who went to turn on the switch and caused the power outage, is a prisoner, the situation is different. ”
"Huh?" Xinghe was stunned.
"That's right, when the power goes out, you stay here, you can completely discredit and drag the corpse of Zhanzi hidden in the database to the corridor, and return to the city before the lights turn on......"
"Hattori," Gao Cheng interrupted with a shake of his head, "I was on the side at the time, so I'm pretty sure that Mr. Xinghe didn't leave, and the movement of dragging the body out of the data room in the dark was not small, and there was already moonlight in the window, so I couldn't have noticed it." ”
"That's right," He Ye followed, "When the power went out, Xiaolan and I hugged Mr. Xinghe's arm tightly, so I'm pretty sure he didn't leave!" ”
"Hug?" Hattori's face stinked a little, as if someone owed money.
"Let's not talk about this for now," Gao Cheng asked Xiao Ai about Mrs. Zhengying's situation at the time of the crime, and turned to Fan Tianli and said, "Mr. Fan Tianli, where were you when the power went out?" ”
"I've been sleeping in the room downstairs from this database, and then Madame came and called me to dinner, oh, and this little girl was there." Fan Tianli looked at Xiao Ai, who was close to Gao Cheng.
"Just downstairs in the database?" Hattori looked at Fan Tianli with some suspicion, "Could it be that you escaped through the window after killing Miss Zhanzi?" ”
"Didn't you say it all?" Fan Tianli said a little angrily, "When the power went out, Mrs. just came to call me, I happened to be lying on the sofa, waiting for a minute or so before the call came, and the window of the database is so small, it is impossible to enter and exit!" ”
Conan whispered Gao Cheng: "Joto, do you think Hattori is weird today?" ”
"No," Gao Cheng glanced at Fan Tianli's Hattori, "Maybe it's because you're eating Waye's vinegar, right?" ”