"Suicide?"

Gao Cheng stood next to the corpse with his hands in his hands, and noticed thin marks on the corpse's wrist as the forensic personnel moved the corpse.

It's like a strangulation of some kind of fine thread......

Gao Cheng grabbed the old man's arm and looked at it, his eyes condensed slightly.

"It's too early to say it's a suicide, Officer Yamamura."

"Huh?" Uncle Maori and his party stopped.

"This is," Yamamura said in surprise, "as if he had been tied up by something!" It seems ......"

"I guess it's a rubber band," Akashi interrupted in a cold sweat, "My dad likes to tie everything with rubber bands, and he always has rubber bands on his hands and wrists......"

"Rubber band?"

"Officer," the officer said, "there are indeed a lot of rubber bands under the pillow. ”

"This—That's it."

Yamamura was deflated again: "This old man is really strange. ”

"My dad did have something mentally wrong," Akashi said, looking at the old man's corpse, "and he said something strange during dinner, so I talked to him for a long time before leaving." ”

"Really?"

"yes, he said he would just die, but I didn't expect it to be like this......"

The night was thick, the rain kept washing over the forest and the only old house in the forest, and as the bell rang, the time was unconsciously 1 o'clock in the morning, and the people waiting in the living room gradually yawned, but the investigation was still not over.

Gao Cheng acted as a temporary forensic doctor to help examine the body, and Conan next to him followed like a fart, wanting to speak but unable to make a sound.

"Dumb, huh? Calls you like to be talkative. ”

After checking Conan's throat, Gao Cheng shook his head and said, "It's okay, it's just a temporary loss of voice, just go to the hospital tomorrow to see." ”

Conan looked anxious: "Ahh......hh

"Don't worry, I won't let this incident close the suicide case, and I know who the murderer is......"

Gao Cheng filtered clues in his mind, and his eyes looked directly at Akashi Yanfu's bleeding gums.

"I know better than you about medicine, especially dentists...... Well, I'm so much smarter than you. ”

"......" Conan clutched his throat in silent protest.

"There is one more crucial thing missing," Gao Cheng ignored Conan, and stared around the room, "It should still be in this room......"

……

In the living room on the first floor, Yamamura Cao found the tired people and asked embarrassedly: "Everyone has worked hard, I don't know if you remember anything?" For example, if there are suspicious people around you, or if you hear strange noises, you may hear something strange......"

"Well...... this"

"Speaking of which," Xiaolan recalled in the expectant gaze of the mountain village, "when I went upstairs for the first time, I heard a whining sound coming from the old man's room, as if he was crying......"

"Crying, crying?"

"I must have been crying when I decided to commit suicide," Uncle Maori said with his chin propped up, "Anyway, this incident is already obvious, Mr. Yan Fu in the bedroom on the second floor hanged himself at about half past nine in the evening, when Xiaolan, Conan, Yuanzi, and Kuanren ...... And the city boys are all in this living room, and there is an alibi......

"And I didn't have a motive for committing the crime when I was taking a shower, and I didn't even know where the rope was...... And Xiaolan went to check twice, the first time she waited for it to be on, but the second time the light was turned off, no matter how you look at it, it is suicide, I can only think that Mr. Yan Fu turned off the light in the bedroom by himself, and then hanged himself, so it is better to end the search and go back quickly......"

"It's a murder."

Gao Cheng took Conan to open the paper door of the living room and interrupted everyone's conversation.

"Mr. Yan Fu was murdered by ......"

"What?" Uncle Maori looked back at Gao Cheng, "How could it be murder?!" ”

"Actually, I should have thought about it from the time I met Mr. Kuanto during the day," Gao Cheng looked at Akashi Kanto who was sitting upright, "Mr. Kuanto didn't go to the tennis court entirely because he was nostalgic for his deceased wife, but he planned to invite someone to his house from the beginning, right?" ”

"I'm trying to ask students to ......"

"To be precise, it's to ask someone to do an alibi for you."

Gao Cheng affirmed: "The student who was supposed to be looking for was not on the tennis court because of the rain, so he wanted to come to me, but after I refused, he unexpectedly waited for us in the evening, and the evidence was the curry rice with a particularly large portion......

"I usually make a lot of curry," Akashi said with a stiff smile, "because I often entertain students who have a good relationship with me for dinner, but unfortunately it rained today and no one came to the tennis court......

"Is that so?" Gao Cheng stared at Akashi Kuandao, "I was just about to ask you, you said that Mr. Yan Fu saw a dentist a few days ago, right?" ”

"Yes, yes......"

"You can't eat irritating food after tooth extraction, how can you, who has been an athlete's health coach, prepare spicy curry for your father?"

"That's right, but I don't know if my dad pulled out his teeth," Akashi said sweating, "and the spicy curry was also requested by my dad himself...... Detective Joto, do you suspect that I killed my father? How could I ......"

"Just now the police found a tooth in the leftover curry," Gao Cheng continued to look directly at Akashi Kanto, "And we also checked Mr. Yanfu's mouth, if it was extracted a few days ago, the wound at the root of the tooth would have contracted to a certain extent, and the blood at the wound should have coagulated, but this is not the case, and even the teeth next to it are loose and uneven......

"In other words, Mr. Yan Fu lost his teeth after eating curry, to be precise, he bit the rope with all his strength and caused the final tooth to fall out......"

"Rope?" The mountain village was stunned.

"That's right, Mr. Yan Fu was actually hanging on the beam by biting the rope with his mouth, and when he couldn't bite the rope when his strength ran out, he was officially strangled by the neck and hanged, and his teeth fell out and fell into the curry at that time," Gao Cheng nodded and said, "What Xiaolan heard was not his cry, but a cry for help, just because he couldn't scream because he bit the rope......"

Xiaolan's face turned slightly pale: "How can this be?" ”

"But," Yamamura said, taking out his notebook, "there is no trace of rope left in Mr. Yanfu's mouth!" ”

"This is because of the handkerchief, the murderer wrapped the rope with a handkerchief before letting Mr. Yan Fu bite ......"

"Hmph," Uncle Maori frowned on, "in that case, why doesn't he grab the rope with both hands and call for help with his mouth empty?" And the lights were turned off when Xiaolan went the second time, and no one went to the bedroom during that time......"

"Isn't there a thin binding mark on Mr. Yanfu's wrist? What if it's not a rubber band, but a chandelier drawstring? ”

Gao Cheng walked to the chandelier in the living room.

"Tie Mr. Yanfu's wrists with a chandelier drawstring, tie a slipknot, and then connect this drawstring with the chandelier in the bedroom on the second floor, so that when Mr. Yanfu runs out of strength and falls, the drawstring will turn off the chandelier at the same time, and the slipknot will be torn open......"

Uncle's mustache trembled: "Don't think I don't know, this kind of chandelier is three levels of brightness, and it will be completely turned off when it is pulled three times, and the first time only the fluorescent light on the outer ring is turned off, even if it is pulled twice, the bulb in the middle is still on, just a little darker......"

The uncle pulled the rope that he hated quite a lot, and demonstratively pulled it out and brightened it.

"See? So ......"