In the kitchen of the main building, Dr. Asasa stared at the freshly made cream cake and smashed his mouth, and when he saw that no one had entered the kitchen, his appetite was greatly increased for a while, and he cut a piece of cake with a knife and forked it into his mouth.

Not bad......

"Doctor?" Gao Cheng and Kohashi Kenmi followed the maid Miss Izumi into the kitchen, and they couldn't help but be stunned when they saw Dr. Agasa.

"I'll come and see......" Dr. Asa grimacedly hid his knife and fork behind his back, grinning with a weak face.

"By the way, Doctor," Gao Cheng glanced at the cream cake strangely, "when we send Yuan Tai and them back, let's bring some snacks for Xiao Ai by the way." ”

"Good ......"

"Miss Quan, do you still have the same cookies as yesterday?" Gao Cheng turned to the maid and asked.

"I don't think so, but I can make some more," the maid said back, boiling water, "Mr. Joto, help me get some sugar, it's in the cupboard above." ”

"Sucrose ......"

Gao Cheng unfamiliarly opened the cabinet door to find Sucrose, and suddenly noticed that there were many electric switch switches on the wall at the door.

"Miss Quan, is this the main gate switch of the Grape Pavilion?"

"Well," the maid was stunned, "because I'm usually dealing with things here......"

"Does everyone else know?"

"Anyone who has been here knows about it, right?"

"That's ......"

Gao Cheng handed the sugar to the maid and frowned in a deep voice.

Yesterday, Izawa met the fire worship star who went out from the kitchen, and the time was just after 12 o'clock, that is, when the magic lamp in the single room went out, if the magic lamp went out at the beginning was just to turn off the power switch between ceremonies, and the 5 minutes after the fire worship star left was very suspicious.

The time when Huo Xingzi returned to the living room was 12:12, just after the magic lamp was turned on again, which only Huo Xingzi could do in time.

Between the single-room ceremony, Gao Cheng returned to the scene of the murder.

The body of the Flame Worship Star has been taken away by the police, ready to be autopsied to determine a more accurate time of death, but otherwise it is still trying to maintain its original appearance.

For Gao Cheng, after encountering a super-high IQ crime, he must avoid taking it for granted reasoning, otherwise it is easy to preconceive into the trap preset by the murderer, and the best way to get rid of these is to return to the origin, deductive reasoning with all the clues and details he has mastered, and explore the murderer's thoughts and purposes.

And this case seems to be a high-IQ crime, and there is a faint shadow of the puppeteer of hell Gao Yuanyaoyi.

The first thing to figure out is the meaning of each arrangement of the murderer, either to confuse the public, or to have some profound meaning, the murderer deliberately let people see the cursed puppet first, and then let the corpse of the same death be presented in front of everyone, so that everyone's attention is shifted to the cursed puppet, so that some ignore the strange death of the victim......

Gao Cheng walked to the magic lamp again with his hands in his hands.

Now the suspicion is why the murderer arranged the murder scene between the ceremonies, and specially wrapped an electric wire around the neck of the fire worship star.

It was because of this clue that the police judged the time period of the murder through the magic lights out and the surveillance photographed them......

"Senpai!" Kentaro Izawa and Kenmi Kohashi rushed to the ceremony together, squinted their eyes and smiled, "I heard that you suddenly ran over here, did you find anything?" ”

Gao Cheng gathered his thoughts and shook his head at the two: "I didn't find much to discover, but ......"

After a pause, Gao Cheng's eyes fell on the wall clock on the wall, the pendulum was swinging normally, but the time on the dial was slowed down for a while, about 11 minutes to be precise, which coincided with the time when the magic lamp went out last night.

"This wall clock...... Isn't it mechanical but electronic? ”

"Wall clock?"

Kohashi Kenjian looked at the wall clock in confusion, stunned, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he was excited to hug Gao Cheng.

"I see, Joto! The time was 11 minutes slower, which coincided with the time when the magic lantern was not lit, and if the wall clock was powered by the mains, it meant that it wasn't the magic lantern plug that was unplugged last night, but the power was cut off during the entire ceremony! ”

"Power off?" Kentaro Izawa looked at Kobashi in confusion, "What do you mean?" ”

"Don't you understand, Kentaro," Kenji Kohashi said with a firm mind, "At the tea party yesterday, everyone really didn't have time to unplug the magic lamp, but what if the lights went out and lit again not because the plug was unplugged, but because the power here was cut off?" The electric switch is in the kitchen of the main building, but it won't take long if the power goes out, so you saw Miss Xingzi coming out of the kitchen yesterday, right? ”

"Wait...... Wait," Kentaro Izawa interrupted anxiously, "Kohashi, are you suspicious of Miss Hoshiko?" ”

"Don't you think she's hiding something from us?"

Kohashi Kenji said, "Yesterday, the magic light went out at 12 o'clock, and Miss Hoshiko walked out of the kitchen just after that, did you see it?" Only she has time to move the switch......"

"But ......"

"Not only that," Kobashi said, the more certain he became, "the magic light came on again at 12:11, and she was the only one who wasn't in the living room at that time, and she said that it was 12:07 when she went to make tea, and it was 12 when she went back to ......the living room, and it was probably a time to go to the ceremony to set up the scene here, and then go back to the kitchen to restore the electric switch."

Kentaro Izawa shook his head: "But it's only 5 minutes, it takes a lot of time to run back and forth, how can there be kung fu to kill, and besides, Xingzi did make vanilla tea and brought it back to the living room......"

"What if Jiu Yao was killed before that?" Xiaoqiao said in a deep voice, "The current presumed time of death is between 11:30 and 12:30, isn't it?" According to past experience, the specific time will be between 11:45 and 12:15, and it is completely possible to kill Jiuyao before the tea party begins, hide the body between the ceremonies, and then go to the kitchen of the main building......

"Even if you really brew vanilla tea, it is possible that the tea bag was prepared in advance, and the temporary boiling time is completely ......."

"Impossible!" Kentaro Izawa's face was ugly, "Miss Hoshiko definitely can't be a prisoner!" ”

"Kentaro ......"

Kenmi Kobashi chased the battered Kentaro Izawa out of the ceremony, leaving only Takasung alone to find a police officer to check the wall clock.

As speculated, there is a socket behind the wall clock for power supply, so there is no place to wind up, and as long as there is electricity, you can go on and on.

Indeed, in a place as large as the Grape House, there is only one maid, and a mechanical wall clock only adds to the workload.

But......

Gao Cheng walked to the window and looked at the villa.

Is the murderer really a fire worshipper?

Whether it is the motive or the action, it makes sense, but the suspicion still exists, because this reasoning can be imagined sooner or later as long as the police continue to investigate, Huo Xingzi did not leave a way back for herself, resulting in the end only she did not have an alibi.

Or does the fire worship star have any other confidence?