Early in the morning, Xiunian arrived at the door of the guest room.

He opened the squeaky wooden door, listlessly pushed the glasses that had slid to the tip of his nose, and saluted decently, "Four donors, breakfast is ready." ”

The four of them got up from the bed, washed briefly, and followed him to the living room.

In the living room, as last night, there were several small tables, and Mu Nian sat at the table farthest from the door, and the fat monk served himself a large portion of the meal, and was enjoying it.

Several people sat down in turn, and the meals on the small table were all the same, and after they were full, there were two tables empty: the old monk and Kuan Nian did not come.

In the morning, everyone was in no energy.

Bai Shu ate a few mouthfuls of food, and when he saw that no one else spoke, he had to pretend to look around, and then asked, "Why didn't you see the abbot and the little master Kuannian?" ”

"Senior Brother Kuan Nian is looking for Master." , Mu Nian took a sip of soup and said slightly vaguely, "Master must have been hiding somewhere to drink......

"Ah——!!h

“…… Finish. ”

Mu Nian stopped talking, turned his head and listened for a while, "It seems to be Kuannian's voice?" ”

Xiu Nian reacted faster than him, and he pushed the table away and stood up, "It's from the confinement room." ”

"Check it out!" , Mori Kogoro and Conan moved the fastest, and when Xiunian spoke, they had already run to the door and rushed to the source of the sound in no particular order.

Kuan Nian was indeed in that small confinement cell.

He sat on the ground in embarrassment, his monk's robe stained with mud, but he had no time to care about it, only stared up at the top with a pair of eyes that were about to fall out of his eyes, looking like he had seen a ghost.

The few people who chased him subconsciously looked up with him and saw a person hanging on the beam high above his head.

The man was illuminated by the sunlight streaming in from the rooftop window, he was dressed in a black robe, his beard and tongue hanging limply, and the folds of his face overlapping made him look stiff and lifeless.

Kuan's trembling voice sounded, "Tengu...... It was the foggy dog who did it! It's here again! ”

……

A few hours later, the Twilight Police Department arrived at the Sanniji Temple with a group of policemen.

"The one who hanged himself was Tianyong, the abbot of this temple, and the time of death was about 10-12 o'clock last night."

Twilight flipped through the information and confirmed the situation:

"The person who found the body was a cultivator here, Master Kuan Nian, and the ...... who rushed over after hearing Kuan Nian's screams"

He looked at Maori Kogoro who was sneering next to him with a numb face, "Sure enough, it's you." ”

"Why add 'sure enough'? I just happened to be passing by, police department. Mori Kogoro laughed dryly without confidence.

Conan didn't feel guilty about anyone else taking the blame for him, he observed the confinement room, and suddenly pinched his throat and said in an innocent childlike voice:

"Master Kuannian's sense is so keen, the old monk is hanging there—what a high place, if it were me, I really wouldn't want to look up!"

As soon as these words came out, Mori Kogoro and the Twilight Police Department suddenly looked at the beam above.

After confirming that this place was indeed difficult to find, he simultaneously turned his gaze to Kuan Nian, and his expression gradually became suspicious.

Kuan Nian didn't seem to have recovered from the fright, poking into the corner like a stake, bowing his head and saying nothing.

Instead, Mu Nian squeezed in from the door and defended his senior brother, "Of course he will notice!" Because two years ago, something similar happened in this room! ”

"Two years ago?" At the mention of this, Twilight suddenly had a little impression, "Ah, that's it! I also investigated that time, and the deceased seemed to be a ...... A monk named Zhongnian? ”

"Yes, it's Senior Brother Zhongnian."

Mu Nian was obviously not as tight-mouthed as Kuan Nian, and he had no resistance to this topic that was explicitly forbidden by the master, and took the initiative to tell everyone:

"It was the rainy season two years ago, and Chung Nian was sent to the confinement room to think, and when I came to deliver food in the evening, I found that he did not respond to me. When I opened the door, I found that there was a big hole in the wall opposite, and Senior Brother Zhongnian was gone.

"We searched for him for three days and three nights but couldn't find him, and just when we gave up looking for it for the time being and were about to mend the hole in the wall, I inadvertently looked up and found Zhongnian hanging from the beam above!"

"It's really infiltrating." , Mori Kogoro shook off goosebumps.

He remembered that the walls had indeed been repaired during his previous visit to the confinement cell, and when he looked down at the walls that were now broken, he asked, "Broken here both times?" ”

Mu Nian nodded with palpitations:

"We originally thought that Zhongnian had broken it when he escaped, but then we thought about it, such a big hole, and he didn't have the tools, and it was impossible for him to open it with his bare hands, so ...... This must have been broken by the Kiritengu! ”

Everyone was listening carefully, but when they heard his conclusion, the corners of their mouths twitched, and they changed the topic, feeling that they couldn't communicate.

At this time, the light in the confinement cell began to flicker indistinctly, and Shiraki looked up to find a small police officer with a rope tied around his waist, climbing from the window to the beam.

The little police officer shouted downward, "Police, it's really the same as two years ago!" The ropes are covered with dust on both sides, and there is no trace of anyone being dragged along, will this time also be a suicide? ”

"Also? Was it suicide last time? Bai Shu asked, lowering his gaze as he stared at the two souls who were fighting each other in the corner.

The Twilight Police Department scratched his sideburns, and was not confident enough to be asked by him, "Hmm...... The case was closed by suicide. ”

When a group of people exchanged details, the search at the murder scene was also preliminarily concluded, and the police did not get many useful clues.

The old monk's body was laid down, and the police carried him away.

As soon as I arrived at the hospital, a car stopped at the door suddenly, and a young woman ran out of the car, and she didn't care about closing the door, stumbling into the old monk's body, crying, "Grandpa! ”

Twilight looked at this scene with embarrassment:

"I remember that two years ago, she also lay on the corpse of the little master and cried...... It's really miserable, my husband died, and my only relative passed away so soon. ”

"Shhhhh , Kuan Nian and Mu Nian were startled at the same time, and let him shut down, "Miss Kikuno's husband is the one standing next to her, the heir of a large temple. ”

"As for Senior Brother Zhongnian and Miss Kikuno...... They were originally going to elope before the wedding, but later this incident was discovered by others, and Senior Brother Zhongnian may not be able to let go for a while, so he commits suicide. ”

Conan continued to search the room with his ears pricked up to eavesdrop on them, but he couldn't find any more clues, and eventually, his attention was focused on the hole in the wall.

He crawled out of the hole, and when he looked up, he saw a man in front of him, the white tree, who had slipped out of the house at some point, looking down at the wood chips on the ground.

Conan wanted to habitually ask "what do you think".

But as he spoke, a reflex appeared in his mind with Bai Shu's paddling reply, "I don't know."

Eventually, he paused and said what he thought:

"Hanging suicide is not uncommon, but it is so suspicious to prepare for suicide with such fanfare. In other words, it's not like suicide at all. ”

"Hmm." , Bai Shu copied a soul with one hand with satisfaction, and casually reminded Conan, "Someone is coming." ”

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