Chapter 19: The Cotton Man?

"There's a power outage?"

"Maybe the lightning just broke the line!"

Everyone was talking in a panic in the restaurant, and Ayako Suzuki offered to say, "I'll go to the kitchen and get a candle!" ”

"I'll go with you!"

Mao Lilan followed Ayako closely with worry, and before Gao Cheng could speak, Conan grabbed him and shouted, "I'll go with Brother Gao Cheng!" ”

Not to mention anything else, Conan is very confident in Gao Cheng's kendo, at least he is not afraid of weirdos like Mao Lilan.

deadlifted Gao Cheng, and Conan also whispered: "Brother Gao Cheng, you said you wanted to protect them, right?" ”

"Ahh

Gao Cheng opened his mouth and smiled without refuting.

Maoliland has been attacked twice, and although the cause is unknown, it is indeed dangerous.

In the darkness, Ayako Suzuki quickly found a candle in the kitchen, and after lighting the candle with a match, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "At least this can last a little time......

Gao Cheng stood at the door, waiting for Ayako to walk out of the kitchen with a candlestick, and was about to cross the corridor when there was a sudden sound of glass breaking in the direction of the restaurant.

"It's over there!"

Several people stopped: "Could it be that the bandage weirdo again?" ”

"Wait!" Gao Cheng frowned and listened, followed by the sound of glass breaking, the sound of hurried footsteps on the stairs sounded, and a sharp wind sound came from the corridor behind everyone.

Gao Cheng's eyes were slightly condensed, and the wooden knife in his hand quickly swung behind him, and after smashing away the sharp axe that was slashing at Mao Lilan, he continued to slash at the attacker unabated.

Well?

Feeling the strange touch of the wooden knife, Gao Cheng was slightly stunned, and when he reacted, the figure had already fled out of the corridor in a hurry.

"This guy ......"

"What's going on?"

Ayako rushed to Gao Cheng's side with the candlestick in confusion, and when Conan and Mao Lilan saw the axe that smashed on the floor, they were taken aback: "This is not ......"

"It's the bandage freak!" Conan's face was ugly, and he calmly asked Gao Cheng, "Brother Gao Cheng, have you seen anything?" ”

"I didn't see him, but," Gao Cheng's face was heavy, "it felt weird when I slashed at him, as if I had chopped cotton." ”

"Cotton?"

"Well, that guy can't do it...... Is it the cotton man? Gao Cheng pondered.

Conan had been listening carefully, but he couldn't help but stumble when he heard the words.

"It's really ......"

Holding back his complaint, Conan reminded: "Brother Gao Cheng, let's go to the restaurant first and take a look, wasn't there any noise over there just now?" You might find some clues. ”

"That's right."

Back in the dining room, the villa's electricity suddenly returned to normal, and the room was lit up again, only to find that the windows on the balcony on the second floor next to the restaurant had been broken from the outside, and there were glass shards everywhere.

It seems that he is disguised as coming in from the outside, but this makes Gao Cheng more certain, unless the bandage man is a ghost, otherwise it must be someone in the villa.

And ghosts can't exist in Conan.

Gao Cheng's gaze swept over the villa, and secretly activated the one-minute detective mode, and all the clues and other information found were filtered, analyzed, and sorted out in his mind.

As if incarnated as Sherlock Holmes, the whole event became a clear line connected in the blink of an eye.

All of this has already pointed to the identity of the murderer.

There is only one person in this villa who meets the characteristics of the murderer......

It's just that why did the murderer repeatedly attack Maoriran?

"It's that person!" Conan also solved all the puzzles in the first place.

But he couldn't solve the case directly as a child, and Mori Kogoro was not there......

Conan's eyes fell on Gao Cheng's back, and seeing that Gao Cheng was still thinking, he quietly opened the watch-type tranquilizer gun and aimed.

"I'm sorry, Gao Chengjun, in order to avoid Xiaolan being attacked again, I can only borrow your identity first......"

"Whew!"

The sound of the anesthetic needle emitted by the watch was very slight, and Gao Cheng, who was thinking about it, didn't notice it at all, and almost instinctively turned around and waved his arm, and the wooden knife Toya Lake slashed through a ray of light and lightning to shatter the anesthetic needle.

Gao Cheng had a cold look on his face, and when he saw Conan, who was still holding a watch-type anesthetic gun, he couldn't help but be stunned: "Huh?!" ”

"Liar, deceitful, right?" Conan stared blankly at the broken anesthetic needle, noticed Gao Cheng's gaze, shrunk his neck, and said with a smile, "That, Brother Gao Cheng, I'll go to the toilet......"

Gao Cheng couldn't help but lift Conan, who wanted to sneak away, from behind: "Wait for me!" ”

Good guy, I scared him just now, if it weren't for this magical Toya Lake, it would have really been a sneak attack on Conan.

Since he still relies on himself to open a detective agency, he doesn't want to become a sleeping detective like Maori Kogoro.

Giving Conan a warning look, Gao Cheng put Conan aside for the time being, and shouted to everyone in the restaurant: "Everyone, it's time to expose the true face of the bandage weirdo!" ”

"What?" Yuan Zi was stunned, "Do you already know who that murderer is?" ”

Conan, who was honest, also looked at Gao Cheng in surprise when he heard this: "You already know who it is?" ”

"That's right," Gao Cheng said straight to the point, "Actually, at first I thought it was a ghost, but after finding enough clues, I fully understood that the bandage monster was not only not a ghost, but someone in this villa!" ”

"What did you say?" Several of Ayako's classmates looked at each other, "But aren't we the only ones here?" ”

"It's just a few of you!"

Gao Cheng looked at a few people with a smile: "Don't you think it's strange?" When Conan was attacked by the bandage monster before, if he was climbing a tree from outside to the second floor, why weren't there mud footprints on the balcony on the second floor? Why don't you leave some traces? ”

"This ......"

"That's right, the prisoner actually went to the balcony from another room at that time, and next to that room was the room of Zhijiazi, who had been killed, and it was easy to enter and exit."

Jiaogu eagerly asked, "Who is the prisoner?" I was with you! ”

"It's true that Mr. Kakugu is not a prisoner," Gao Cheng continued to reason, unaffected, "but there are other people, aren't they?" ”

"What are you kidding? Are you suspicious of us? Ota Katsu held a cold sweat and snorted, "When that guy passed by the window with Chikako in his arms, we were all in the villa, weren't we?" How could it be one of us! Don't think you're a detective and just talk nonsense! ”

"Is it really impossible?"

Gao Cheng snorted lightly: "What if that's just using dummies? There were still fresh strangulation marks on the railings, which I thought were left by the prisoner to let the dummy through the window. ”

"Dummy?" Katsu Ota was stunned.

"As long as the prisoner sets up a small mechanism on the balcony on the second floor, I think it is estimated that with the help of the piano line, we can produce the illusion that Zhijiazi has been taken away, and then take back the body of the dummy and Zhijiazi to the balcony through the piano line."

Gao Cheng's eyes turned to the fat man Takahashi who was in a cold sweat beside Ota Sheng: "There is only one person who has the ability to do all this, and that is you who only finished repairing the roof at that time!" Mr. Takahashi, the murderer is you!! ”

"Don't talk nonsense, haha," Takahashi said in a panic, "If it was really me who pulled the body to the second floor, then why did I find Jikako's body in the forest later?" I'm behind you! And I was empty-handed, you won't forget it, right? ”

Gao Cheng had no intention of wasting time with this guy, and interrupted harshly: "So what's in your clothes now?" ”

"What?" Takahashi's face was full of horror.

"At that time, after we chased out, Miss Ayako found a necklace that was supposed to be worn around Zhijiazi's neck in the entrance, which proves that someone passed through the entrance with a corpse at that time," not giving the fat man a chance to quibble, Gao Cheng said one after another, "If it is a corpse, of course, it is difficult to hide people's eyes, but if it is just a human head, it is ......"

Gao Cheng remembered the picture of seeing a person's head rolling down in the forest, paused, and said coldly: "When we saw Zhijiazi being held by a dummy, only her head was exposed, and she was probably already dismembered at that time!" Okay, now please take off your shirt and let everyone see the truth and see if you are really that fat. ”

"Fat" Takahashi froze in place, and did not move for a long time under the puzzled eyes of everyone.

"Takahashi? Don't you ......?"

"When the prisoner attacked Miss Xiaolan just now, my knife slashed like it was on cotton, and that was because the padding on your body helped you block a blow," Gao Cheng finally said, "Although I don't know why you attacked Miss Xiaolan repeatedly, I think Miss Xiaolan inadvertently got a clue about your size, right?" You are afraid that your true body type will be discovered, so that you can see through the means of committing the crime. ”

Conan stood behind and looked at Gao Cheng's back in a daze, and there was a sense of confusion in his heart.

Since the first haunted house incident began to meet Gao Cheng, he didn't know whether to trust his own judgment or not.

After several observations, he looked like a confused detective like Mori Kogoro, but the level of reasoning shown at the end of each incident made him feel shocked.

I don't know if it's an occasional flash, or if it's deliberately teasing him.

"Has this guy discovered my true identity?" A look of horror flashed across Conan's solemn face.