Years later, Gao Cheng had another caterpillar-like hooded jacket, but it could only be worn as home clothes, and it was absolutely impossible for him to wear it out anyway.

Other than that, everything else is very comfortable, and although there are no new commissions, life is still very fulfilling, especially when the garden becomes a frequent visitor to the office, and occasionally even stays overnight and lives with Xiao Ai.

It's just that......

Gao Cheng has never been able to confirm the relationship with the garden, and has maintained this slightly strange state until a month has passed, but he has also lost the comfortable life of being taken care of.

At the beginning of February, Dr. Asa went to Yamanashi Prefecture to attend a new invention presentation, Gao Cheng was idle and bored, and went to experience it, and went home to find that Xiao Ai had followed Xiaolan and his party to Suzuki's villa.

Since Xiao Ai came, it was the first time he spent the night alone in the office, and he always felt strangely lonely, especially when there was a thunderstorm that night, and there was no taste for watching TV.

Fortunately, Gao Cheng was not left idle, and the next day there were new customers in the office, Officer Yamato Dasuke and Yui Uehara, who had been reinstated, drove all the way from Nagano Prefecture to Tokyo, and brought a box of Nagano's specialty peony cakes.

It's a pity that because he ate too many sweets in Yamanashi County, Gao Cheng didn't eat a bite in the end, and silently put away the peony cake.

"It's a really hard shortcut......"

In the dark forests of Nagano Prefecture, a sedan struggles to drive on a rugged dirt road, and the surroundings are eerily quiet.

It was bumpy all the way, Gao Cheng's head was a little dizzy, and Yamato Dasuke, who was driving silently in front of him, couldn't help but ask: "It's all here, it's time to tell me what the puzzle is, right?" ”

"Preconceived notions can mess with reasoning," Yamato said cautiously, "We just wanted you to see the scene with your own eyes, so we drove to Tokyo to pick you up." ”

"Uh......"

The corners of Gao Cheng's mouth twitched.

It's rare to have this kind of treatment, he still thinks he has such a big face......

The car finally stopped in front of an old bungalow in the forest, and I don't know who would build a villa in such a place, and it looks very magnificent.

"It used to be called the House of Hope, but until three years ago," Yui Uehara said, looking at the old building, "Three years ago, a woman's body was found here, and it became the Hall of Death." ”

The two-storey building has a garden at the entrance, and two policemen stand guard by the entrance door with their hands behind their backs, and the bright lights dispel some of the horrors.

Gao Cheng followed into the villa, first of all, there is a two-story hollowed-out atrium, with stairs on the side to go upstairs, which looks particularly good, although the location is a little biased, ordinary people can't build such a house.

"It's no longer there," Yamato said, "but there used to be a bus stop in front of this house, so it was relatively easy to get around." ”

"How did this place come to be called the House of Hope before?" Gao Cheng asked.

"The rich people who built it moved out because it was old, leaving only a few young people who thought they were full of talent but no money to live here, and the rent was almost equal to free, and they could live here until the day their dreams came true......"

"Yes, the rich man who came back occasionally was also a good man, but unfortunately he died of illness just after transferring the property rights to the young men," said Yui Uehara, "The young people also left the house independently after two or three years, and since five or six years ago, there has only been one couple left, the wife is the woman whose body was found three years ago, and the husband also died this time......"

"Hey, Yui," Yamato Dasuke went straight upstairs, "show the Joto detective the pictures of those people." ”

"Okay, there are 6 people in total, actor Naoki Tsuikawa, fashion designer Shoji Yamabuki, CG painter Takuto Momose, musician Shiro Naoki, and finally the couple, illustrator Shusaku Akashi and Aoi Iekobashi."

Gao Cheng took the photo and looked at it, looked up and asked, "And then, what is the scene?" ”

"It's this room on the second floor."

Yamato Dasuke stood on the second floor.

"When I first found it, the cart full of cardboard boxes was blocked at the door, and it was full of books, and it was stuffed to the brim, because it was pushed outward to open the door, and the people inside couldn't get out, so they starved to death."

Yamato dared to open the door and entered, and said with a serious expression: "There is even more terrifying, that is, this red cliff in the room." ”

Gao Cheng saw the situation in the room clearly and immediately entered the state.

In any case, Officer Yamato personally went to Tokyo to invite him to explain the importance of the matter, after all, Officer Yamato himself is a very capable criminal policeman.

When you enter the door, you can see that the wall next to it is bright red, covered with red spray paint, which looks like a wall of blood, which is very eye-catching, and there is a signature of the suspected deceased in the corner, which is the name of the illustrator.

The room is not big, it looks like a studio, there are some sketchboards and easels in the corner, and there is a table where tools and paints are placed, but both the brushes and paints are gone, and the whole room is only left with red spray paint cans under the "red cliff".

Another eye-catcher is the back-to-back black and white chairs in the center of the room, with the white chairs facing the "red cliff" and the black chairs facing the white wall on the other side.

Gao Cheng took a closer look and found that both chairs were nailed to the floor.

"The body was found sitting on this white chair facing the red wall." Yui Uehara explained.

"Are these sure that these are the death messages left by the victim?" Gao Cheng asked back.

"That's right, we found a bugging device in this room, which should be used by the prisoner to determine whether the victim is dead, since the bugging device is still indicating that the prisoner has not come back......"

"Any other clues?"

Gao Cheng crouched down to the wall to check his signature.

It's hard to draw any conclusions from looking at the crime scene alone, especially the code puzzle he hates the most, which is quite abstract.

If you don't know about the victim yourself, you can't understand it at all.

"Only this signature is a bloody book from the victim's finger that bleeds," Yamato said, taking out a date sheet, "The names of those six people are all colored, so these people usually seem to use colors to distinguish each other, in addition to stickers of different colors on the doors of their respective rooms, they also use colors instead of names on the cooking duty sheets." ”

"I see......"

Gao Cheng carefully thought about the table and found that illustrator Shusaku Akashi was red, actor Naoki Tsuikawa was green, Aoi Iekobashi was blue, fashion designer Yamabuki was golden yellow, CG painter Takuto Se was peach, and musician Naoki was white.

"Does that mean the victim is using color to imply the prisoner?"

"In fact, we have questioned several other people one after another after the incident," Yamato Dasuke's face was not very good-looking, "We pretended to say that there were their fingerprints on the doorknob to test their reactions, and Naoki, a white musician who originally thought that his reaction was strange and quite suspicious, was killed the next day, sat on a chair facing a red-painted wall, and was strangled to death by someone on the night of the question......"

"That is to say......"

"That means that among the remaining three people, the walls were painted red, and the victim died while sitting in a chair, and we only mentioned it to them."

Gao Cheng was a little messy, but fortunately he took out a pen and paper to sort it out.

The situation was roughly clear to him.

But the development of things is a little bizarre, the day after the police have tried it, one of the people suspected by the police was killed, and the scene actually imitated the crime scene of the first incident, and the murderer did not return here, but arranged it through the police's statement.

Criminal Psychology ......

Criminal psychoanalysis is particularly useful at any time, almost every detective is an expert in this area, and Gao Cheng is also accustomed to starting with criminal psychology.

Judging from the situation on the side of the villa, if the color is used to refer to the prisoner, the red wall is opposite the white wall, combined with the black and white chairs and the victim facing the red wall, it is no wonder that the "white" musician Naoki will be suspected.

But the reason why he was killed the next day shows that Naoki has key clues that can threaten the real criminal, and Naoki's strange reaction is also very telling, and it is likely that he contacted the real culprit privately after the police left.

Then there are the prisoners, there are two possibilities to imitate the scene, to provoke the police, or to confuse the police in this way.

Generally speaking, the prisoner will try to avoid the victim's death message being deciphered, and if the latter is the case, it means that the prisoner can prevent the message from being deciphered by copying the "red cliff......

Gao Cheng put his finger on his brow.

I've been idle for so long, and I'm facing such a troublesome puzzle before I start construction, if only Xiao Ai was there, how much can I help share it, and Conan......

Sensing that both Yamato and Dasuke were staring at him, Gao Cheng coughed lightly, looked at a small window near the broken glass on the ceiling and said, "What's going on over there?" ”

"It was broken from the inside, and the victim seemed to have thrown out all the painting tools and painting materials used for coloring, such as spray paint, from the hole."

Yamato Dasuke explained, and asked with an unchanged face, "How is it?" Can you figure out what Chibi means? ”