What's wrong? Hattori asked suspiciously.

"Nothing, just ......"

Gao Cheng noticed that the dog Fu Zhihuang, who had been keeping his head down, paused and returned to the room, squatting down beside the old lady.

Although it was not obvious, a tear did flow from the corner of the old lady's eye, but it didn't seem like she had regained consciousness, Gao Cheng looked at it silently for a while, and didn't leave like this, looking for it in the room, especially the cabinet mentioned by Inufushi Zhihuang.

The door of the cabinet was closed, and the tatami mats around it were wide and clean, but there seemed to be a bead falling from the old lady's pillow.

Gao Cheng carefully picked up the beads with a handkerchief and found that it was a rosary.

"Did you have this bead before?"

"Huh?" Inufushi opened his mouth, "I—I didn't pay attention to ...... either."

"I didn't see it when I was helping my mother clean up the bed," Inufushi said strangely, "It seems to be my mother's favorite bead of the rosary, and it should be kept in the cupboard." ”

Gao Cheng opened the cabinet door when he heard this, saw the rosary beads that were also scattered inside, and uncovered the quilt on the old lady's body with a calm face, and found a small string of rosaries that the old lady was dragging in her hand without waiting for a few people in the dog Fu family to exclaim.

It seems that the old lady herself ripped open the rosary and left one of the passages, but the rosary scattered on the ground was picked up.

Gao Cheng's afterglow swept over the slightly changed face of Inufu Zhihuang.

The old lady had eight rosaries in her hand, and the fourth was a black bead smaller than the others.

If it refers to the rosary in "The Legend of the Eight Dogs", the fourth one happens to be the "wisdom" of "benevolence, righteousness, etiquette and wisdom", judging from the old lady's acceptance of these illegitimate children and the renaming of Inufushi Yukihime, it should be known the story of "The Legend of the Eight Dogs", and also know the matter of President Inufushi.

That is to say, the old lady is pointing to the corresponding "wise" Inufushi Zhihuang, for the old man, whether Inufushi Zhihuang has stayed by his side to take care of himself is the clearest, obviously Inufushi Zhihuang lied.

However, these are still not conclusive evidence.

"It's beads again!"

Hattori and Conan, who were originally planning to leave, couldn't move their feet at all, staring at the rosary, and suddenly thought of Gao Cheng's suspicion of Inufushi Zhihuang, combined with the previous clues, the whole case became much clearer.

"Sure enough, it's the legend of the eight dogs," the woke up mountain village yawned, and when he saw the rosary in the old lady's hand, he suddenly said, "I said that it feels very familiar, the eight beads and the magic dog, I heard the grandmother in the countryside tell it, it is the story in "The Legend of the Eight Dogs in Nanzongli"! Sure enough, it's a curse! ”

"Anyway, it's not too early, let's wait until tomorrow to continue the investigation."

Gao Cheng helped the old lady cover the quilt again and stood up from the tatami mat.

He finally understood the reason why the prisoner wanted to leave beads at each crime scene, and also thought about the next steps the prisoner might take.

"Everyone, take care of yourself, and go to that wooden house tomorrow with the officers of the Identification Department, the demon dog should still be around."

"That's all there is to it." Yamamura Cao nodded again and again, anyway, he didn't want to go out at night to find the demon dog, maybe even he would be cursed.

……

"Wow!" In the dense night, Hachi didn't know what he was dreaming of, and called twice in the yard.

In the huge mansion, only Mrs. Suochen's room was still lit, Inufushi Zhihuang went outside and knocked lightly on the door, opened the door to the side and said, "Yukihime, how is your mother?" ”

"I didn't get up again......"

Inufushi Yukihime rubbed his eyes, cheered up and said, "But I always feel that my mother is not asleep." ”

"I'm probably still worried," Inufushi explained, hesitating, "Well, Yukihime, I'm sorry, can you take me to the pond again?" ”

"Huh?"

"I seem to have lost my mother's medicine, probably at that time......"

"Sure enough, it's you, Mr. Zhihuang." Suddenly, Gao Cheng's voice interrupted Inufushi Zhihuang in the corridor, and two large and three black shadows were reflected on the paper door, and soon the figures of Gao Cheng, Hattori and Conan appeared in front of Inufushi Zhihuang.

"W-What do you mean?" Inufushi's lips were slightly dry.

Gao Cheng took out a roll of piano string and a bag of disposable lighters in his hand, looked directly at the dog Fu Zhihuang and said, "I'm sorry, we went in to find it when you left, as a doctor, you shouldn't need to buy so many lighters, right?" ”

"It's ......"

"Could it be that a few people who have been killed asked you to buy it? But why is it still in your room? ”

Gao Cheng's gaze swept over the handbag that Inufushi Zhihuang was holding in his arms.

"There's only one reason, because prisoners need to be used to set up mechanisms, and if I'm not mistaken, you should have prepared mechanisms in your bag right now."

"Organs?" Inufushi Yukihime, who was still in the room, looked dazed, "Detective Joto, what the hell is ......?"

"Miss Yukihime, Mr. Chiaki didn't look for you because he lost the medicine at all," Gao Cheng looked at Inufushi Yukihime and the sleeping old lady, and explained, "I'm very sure that the embankment has been carefully searched, and there is absolutely nothing left, and the reason why I say this is probably just an excuse to find you out and continue to commit crimes......

"Yes, whether it is to continue the trick of the demon dog to kill people, or to play a trick of the murderer committing suicide, Miss Kohime needs to be found, I think it should be to let the so-called demon dog and the murderer self-immolate together, because this can also destroy the evidence and avoid the police from continuing to investigate."

Hattori next to him smiled: "Mr. Zhihuang is probably panicked, because he is sober, and he left a hint, and if he continues, the demon dog will be found sooner or later, and this night is the last chance." ”

"Wait, wait," Inufushi said anxiously, "What are you talking about, I'm just ......"

"There's no need to pretend anymore, Mr. Zhihuang," Gao Cheng affirmed, "Now the tools of the crime are probably on you, just search for it, you will know all the evidence you want to frame Miss Yukihime......"

"Actually, I began to suspect you at the beginning of the investigation, because I heard that Hachi will bark at you all the time, if it weren't for a stranger, it would be very understandable that this situation would occur, if it weren't for the fact that you provoked Hachi, there was only one possibility left, not because you were timid and easy to bully, but because you had the smell of other dogs......"

Looking at Inufushi Zhihuang's face that began to change, Gao Cheng continued in a deep voice: "Then you took the initiative to mention that there is a dog house by the pond, and said that Migako took you to see it before, and it was indeed a dog house, but it was before, probably after being discovered by Migako, you changed to another place, leaving that wooden house as a cover, and there are a lot of black magic books in the wooden house, because you know that there will be police and detectives to investigate."

"When everyone went to the cabin, you deliberately left alone, and then staged a good show of being attacked by a demon dog in front of everyone's eyes, in order to make everyone think that the demon dog was really burning."