Chapter 33: The Scarlet Piano Score
At noon the next day, Gao Cheng waited for the police from Tokyo with dark circles under his eyes, and unsurprisingly, it was Officer Twilight again.
"I knew I was going to meet you again," Twilight glanced at Mori Kogoro who was sleeping soundly, "We're going to investigate and inquire at the village office, you guys have a good rest first, and then we'll come over later, I'll ask Mori about this guy." β
Gao Cheng yawned, found that Conan and the others had also begun to sleep, shook his head and got up and said, "I won't sleep here, let's go to the village office first." β
"Ah, is that good?"
"No problem."
Gao Cheng was not in good spirits and took Toya Lake to the village office, originally planning to follow the investigation and ask, but he sat on a chair outside and fell asleep in a daze.
By six o'clock in the afternoon, Conan and his party also yawned and went to the village office, and found that the investigation had not yet reached them.
"It's not a good place to sleep."
Conan looked listlessly at Gao Cheng, who was sleeping on a chair holding Lake Toya: "Brother Gao Cheng is really powerful......"
The Mori Lan and Narumi Asai on the side also have a deep feeling.
"I sleep with a knife, which is worthy of the modern left text." Narumi Asai looked at Lake Toya curiously.
Nothing special, just an ordinary wooden knife......
"What modern left-hand text?" Mori Kogoro came out of the interrogation room angrily, "This guy obviously said he was going to help, but he has slept alone until now." β
"Dad," Mori Lan rubbed her eyes, saw Mori Kogoro, and hurriedly cheered up and asked, "How is it?" Do you know who the prisoner is? β
"Don't be stupid," Mori Kogoro shook his head weakly, "There are 38 people involved in the ceremony, and it won't end so simply." β
Asai Narumi approached and said, "Excuse me...... When will it be my turn? β
Maori Kogoro looked at his sleepy appearance, and hurriedly said embarrassedly: "I know you're really tired, but it's still last in line......"
"In that case, I'll go wash my face before the interrogation." Narumi Asai got up and left.
"Uncle," Conan asked, taking the opportunity, "how many people are left in the back to be interrogated?" β
Mori Kogoro glanced at the people in the waiting room: "Including Dr. Narumi, almost all of them are here, the village chief's daughter Reiko Kuroiwa, her fiancΓ© Murasawa Monday, village head candidate Masato Shimizu, village chief secretary Hirata Kazuaki, and Ken Nishimoto who is now under investigation. β
Speaking of Ken Nishimoto, Maori affirmed: "But this guy is quite time-consuming, no matter what he asks, he is silent, my intuition, the prisoner is this guy!" β
Conan's face is black: it's intuition again......
At half past six in the evening, Gao Cheng was woken up by the shouting of Reiko Kuroiwa, and found that Asai Narumi was actually sitting next to him.
"Can't you just be polite?" In the interrogation room, Reiko Kuroiwa stood up and yelled at Twilight, "There's no way I have a motive to kill Mr. Kawashima!" It's too much! β
"Miss Reiko is really amazing," Mao Lilan smacked her tongue, "She's been yelling for more than ten minutes......
"I'm sorry," Gao Cheng sat up and looked at the time, "It's so late...... Isn't the interrogation over yet? β
"There are only a few people left," Asai Narumi cared, "are you alright?" β
Gao Cheng smiled: "It's okay, but you don't seem to have much energy." β
"Of course, how can you sleep well in that kind of place?" Conan muttered.
"I haven't slept well."
Gao Cheng listened to the noise in the interrogation room, and he was not interested in helping, so he simply chatted with Asai Chengshi.
"Why did Dr. Chengshi come to such an island? I remember you said you were from Tokyo, right? β
"yes, so I usually go back to Tokyo to visit my parents on weekends, and I feel like a part-time doctor," says Asai Narumi, "but I've been longing for a long time to be able to work on such a small island surrounded by nature, so I decided to stay here, and before I knew it, two years had passed." β
Gao Cheng looked at the complex feelings that appeared on Asai Narumi's beautiful face, and thought of the strange appearance last night.
That kind of grief seems to be more than just not wanting to perform an autopsy......
"That, Dr. Sungsil," Gao Cheng asked hesitantly, "you ...... last night"
"Huh?"
Chengshi's clear eyes looked at Gao Cheng, waiting for the following, but the second movement of "Moonlight" suddenly sounded in the village office, and the light music echoed in the entire village office like a song of death.
"This is ......," Gao Cheng stood up with a change in his face.
"Where does the music come from?"
"It's a radio room!"
Everyone rushed to the second floor with a sense of foreboding, just in time to see the thief-eyed Kenmasa Nishimoto collapse in horror at the door of the radio studio.
Gao Cheng looked into the broadcast room, and his body instantly tightened.
On the radio station in the radio room, the village chief of Kuroiwa was lying on it covered in blood, with a deadly blade stuck in his back, and the blood stained the radio red, looking chilling in the melodious sound of the piano.
"No one is allowed in!" Twilight stopped everyone and shouted at his subordinates, "Call the forensic and coroner immediately!" β
"Officer," the officer reported, "the coroner has gone to Tokyo in the evening because of Mr. Kawashima's autopsy!" β
"What?" Twilight's head hurts, "Damn! ...... at such a time"
"That," Asai said, stepping forward, "I can help if I need to." β
"Dr. Chengshi?"
Twilight was stunned and nodded, "It's okay, then I'm going to trouble you after the identification team comes over." β
Gao Cheng's face was heavy, and while the police were verifying the scene, he followed him into the broadcasting room and looked at the head of Heiyan Village, who had been flattened on the ground for an autopsy.
Like Kawashima before him, this man's eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost before he died......
"I think the deceased was brutally killed a few minutes before the body was found." Asai reported after the experimental corpse.
"Well, that's true," Twilight said, pulling out the cassette of the second movement of Moonlight from the radio, "and there is a blank space of about five minutes and thirty seconds in front of this tape...... In this case, it means that the murderer is still in this village office, and only those few people are suspected......"
"Officer Twilight!" The forensic officer suddenly shouted, "There seems to be something written in blood under the chair here!" β
"Oh?"
Twilight crouched down, "This is the score?" β
A few lines of staves were drawn intermittently in blood on the floor, as if they contained some kind of message as last time.
Maori Kogoro pondered hard: "Could it be that this is also the last words left by the victim?" β
"Not really!" Conan didn't give Maori any face, and while taking out his notebook and jotting down the sheet music on the ground, he retorted, "If I had the time and strength to write these things with my own blood, I would have gone outside to ask for help!" So this should be deliberately left behind by the murderer......"
Mori Kogoro's face became darker and darker, and he couldn't bear to give Conan a big bag on his head.
Boom!
"Stinky boy, give me a side!"
"Hmph." Conan walked to the door unhappily and looked at Gao Cheng, who was also studying the score with a small notebook.
"Joto, did you find anything?"
"Not ...... yet"
Gao Cheng frowned, he had seen the whole scene, but he still didn't have a clue, as for this kind of music score that seemed to be a code, even if he had piano knowledge, he was completely powerless.
I'm afraid he won't be able to solve this poor reasoning ability in a few days......
Gao Cheng silently opened the system light curtain.
One minute is too short to face such a complex case, but now we have reached a dead end, and we must first find a way to break the situation, if we can't find the murderer, maybe the murder will continue......
Gao Cheng crouched in front of the bloodstained score, and as the one-minute detective mode began, all the clues were quickly reassembled in his mind.
The first thing to do was to decipher the code, and it took almost no time for the message in the score to be presented directly.
Starting from the far left of the piano keys, the 26 letters of English are placed in turn, and a unique decryption key is formed against the score......
The score message in the piano room was interpreted as follows: Understand, the next one is you.
And the message on the floor of the radio room is that the resentment of the karmic fire is removed here......
Not too useful information, Gao Cheng's chaotic clues in his mind continued to be arranged, and he suddenly noticed that the blood used to draw the music score on the ground had dried up.
He doesn't know much about medicine, he doesn't know how long it takes for blood to dry up, and his lack of knowledge can't be done even in a minute detective mode......
But not so fast......
Taking advantage of the time there was still time, Gao Cheng looked closely at the corpse of the village chief of Heiyan, and then turned to the broadcasting station, and after his eyes swept over the setting keys on the broadcasting platform, his expression was suddenly shocked.
A bright light flashed in his mind, and almost a moment before the end of the minute, the clues were instantly connected, and an incredible figure emerged.
Gao Cheng's body stiffened and looked at Asai Narumi who was standing on the side.
Although there are still doubts, but the clues found here can be found to lock the murderer is Asai Narumi, the person in charge of the autopsy.
But why?