Chapter 35: The Detective in the Flames of Karma
In the public hall, Gao Cheng silently returned to the starting point of the incident.
He didn't know if the killing was right or wrong for revenge, and the prisoner's mood shouldn't have been something the detective needed to care about.
It's just that from the mother and son of the haunted house, Taeko Dougaki to the director of Ochiai, and now to the current Asai Narumi, gradually he also feels that the relationship between the detective and the prisoner is not exactly like the kind of hostility in the fight......
For him, Asai Narumi is no longer just a murderer, although the time spent together is very short, he really feels the sadness in the other party's heart, and he can't forget it in just one day.
From a personal point of view, he didn't think these people were so hateful, but he was uncomfortable because of what happened to these people, and when he watched Conan in the past, he even had the idea of not wanting Conan to solve the case, and he hated Conan for a while.
But now that he has become a detective in the incident, he really understands Conan's complicated feelings.
If he could, he would definitely stop these people from committing the murder so that it would be impossible to turn back, but there was nothing he could do about it, and when he arrived on Moon Shadow Island, he couldn't even remember that Chengshi was the murderer.
The only thing he can do is to use the identity of the detective as much as possible and not let this tragedy continue......
Outside the warehouse, the old policeman didn't seem to bring the key for a while, so Gao Cheng had to take advantage of the moonlight to go outside and go around, then directly broke the window and went inside, turned on the light and began to rummage through the sheet music.
Narumi told him everything, two years ago Kameyama before he died, it turned out that these people had been using the opportunity of Keiji Aso's overseas performance to buy the drug heroin, which was used to transport the piano in the piano room.
The reason why Hirata didn't let outsiders approach the piano casually was because there was a hidden compartment under the piano to hide heroin, which he had already checked.
More than 10 years ago, when Keiji Aso planned to stop helping, the Kameyama Four, fearing that the secret would be leaked, locked the Aso family in their home and burned them alive......
It's just that these things are said by the dead Kameyama after all, and there is no evidence to use them, and the only hope is the music score left at the fire scene that year.
After not having a minute of detective mode, he is only a third-rate detective in addition to his reasonable observation, but fortunately now things are clear, and all that remains is to find evidence.
Outside the public hall, Nishimoto hid in the bushes, and when he saw the light in the warehouse window, his whole face turned blue and became terrifying.
He had planned to destroy the score before the old policeman found the key, but he didn't expect to break the window and go in.
"Huh?" Gao Cheng finally found the sheet music from the full debris, and then hurriedly glanced at it, and suddenly heard a sound of footsteps in the aisle outside.
Listening to the sound, I actually went straight into the piano room......
Gao Cheng jumped out of the window, walked back to the entrance quickly, and when he ran to the piano room, he happened to see a dark shadow groping for a hidden grid on the bottom of the piano in the dark.
"Do you need to clear the evidence at this time?" Gao Cheng held the wooden knife in his hand and smiled, "I have taken out the heroin inside." ā
"What?!" The black shadow was startled, and without thinking much about it, he gritted his teeth and jumped out of the broken window.
Gao Cheng didn't chase after him, he already knew the identity of the black shadow, it was the village chief's secretary Hirata, this guy naturally had the police to deal with it, and now the important thing was to hand over the piano score and heroin to the police.
When he looked at it just now, he found that the piano score was also a message in the form of a code, and the first page said "Give my son Chengshi", although he didn't read it carefully, but he also confirmed that it was a message from Keiji Aso before his death more than ten years ago, which explained everything clearly.
"Whew!" Nishimoto hid in the dark, watching Gao Cheng walk out of the public hall as if he was going to the village office, his breathing couldn't help but become short, and he clenched the wooden stick in his hand with a hideous face, like a drowning man who was desperately struggling before the temporary.
When Gao Cheng passed the intersection, Nishimoto crossed his heart and rushed out from behind with a wooden stick.
"Mr. Nishimoto, even if I kill you now, I'm just going too defensive." Gao Cheng stopped and turned his head, his gaze condensed.
"Uhh Nishimoto looked at Gao Cheng, instantly came to his senses, collapsed to the ground in embarrassment, his legs were wet, and he said in horror, "No...... IāI just want to knock you out! It's true! ā
"Let's go to the village office."
Gao Cheng shook his head, this trip to Moonlight Island should end here, he chose to let Asai surrender, but he didn't regret it at all.
There are some things that may be more important to him than a record on his resume.
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At the village office, when Gao Cheng dragged Nishimoto back here, he found that everyone else had already left, not even Asai Narumi.
"Officer Twilight," Gao Cheng wondered, feeling that something was wrong, "what's going on?" ā
"Oh, Joto-kun," Twilight said, turning back, "doesn't that score say that resentment is gone?" There should be no more killings, so everyone will go back first and wait for tomorrow to continue the investigation. ā
"Where's Dr. Sungsil?"
"She must have gone back already......"
"Went back? What's going on? Gao Cheng said confusedly, "Didn't Dr. Chengshi say anything?" ā
He obviously had the ...... of getting Asai Narumi to turn himself in
"yes, didn't she go out with you?" Twilight said strangely, and looked at the embarrassed Nishimoto, "What's wrong with this guy?" ā
"He was the next target of the prisoners and the murderer of Mr. Aso...... Officer Twilight, I'm going to trouble you next! ā
Gao Cheng handed over the heroin to Twilight and hurried out of the village office with the score.
"What's wrong with him?" Twilight took it in confusion and said in surprise, "This is heroin?!" ā
Outside the village office, the sound of the moonlight sonata suddenly sounded again in the night, and it clearly reached Gao Cheng's ears.
"Is it over there in the piano room?!"
Gao Cheng looked closely at the public hall, and saw that the public hall under the night gradually rose with raging flames, and the firelight was reflected in the distance, and it was red.
In the piano room surrounded by the sea of fire, Chengshi leaned on the piano nostalgically, his delicate face was attached to the keys, and his fingers gently stroked and played, as if he had seen his father again.
A smile of no regrets tugged at the corner of his mouth, and he pressed the last resting note: "It's all over, Daddy......"
"It's not over yet!" Gao Cheng broke into the piano room surrounded by flames with the score, "Doctor Chengshi, look at this, your father's message to you, it also says let you live a good life alone......"
Cheng Shi raised his head, looked at the music score in Gao Cheng's hand, and said with a little sadness in his eyes: "Actually, I also want to know earlier, so that I won't do these things...... Ahem! ā
The smoke was choking, it was becoming more and more difficult to breathe in the piano room, and the outside was completely engulfed by fire, and everyone who rushed here could only stand from a distance and watch......
"Officer!" The officers said anxiously, "It seems that gasoline has been poured on the surroundings in advance, and the fire is so big that it is impossible to approach!" ā
"How so?" Conan's face was ugly, and he seemed to have figured everything out, but he also had nothing to do with the fire, and before he could rush in, Mao Lilan had already hugged him from behind, and refused to let go.
"Don't go over, Conan!"
"Sister Xiaolan, Dr. Chengshi may be inside......" Conan's face was red with flames, and his mood was sad.
"Ahem!" Tears glinted in Chengshi's eyes, "It's too late, Joto-kun, my hands are already covered with blood like Kawashima and them...... Let's go......"
"No kidding! I'm not here to watch you die, wouldn't that mean I'd kill you?! ā
Gao Cheng put the score into his arms and directly memorized it.
"The days to come are still long, how can you die like this......"
"Joto-kun!"
"Gotta live! I couldn't perceive the meaning of the letter of entrustment...... But at least keep you alive! ā
Looking at the retreat that had been engulfed in flames, Gao Cheng held Lake Toya horizontally, gritted his teeth and raised his blade high as he stepped and sprinted.
Call!
The fire was approaching, and the surrounding area was completely blocked, and the only window with a chance to escape began to shroud in the flames......
Gao Cheng's arms tightened, and his gaze condensed, Lake Toya instantly turned into a flash of lightning, gathering all his strength and swinging out, like a substantial wind breaking through the flames and falling on the window.
"Bang āā!"
With the loud cracking sound of the glass, Gao Cheng leaped out with Asai Narumi, and rolled several times outside the fire before stopping his body.
"What's wrong? What was the sound just now? Twilight heard the movement and looked at the side of the public hall in surprise, "It's the piano room window!" Come and check it out! ā
"Yes!"
"Why?" Cheng Shi raised his head with difficulty and looked at Gao Cheng who was holding a wooden knife on the side, "Why do you want to save me?" ā
"Because you are my client, there is nothing strange about protecting the safety of my client, right?"
Gao Cheng was blackened with smoke, and he exhaled lightly before standing up with Toya Lake.
After finding that the police on the other side were rushing over, he looked back at Asai Narumi, who was no longer in serious trouble, wiped the ashes from the corners of his eyes, smiled softly, left the score and walked away: "I have completed the agreement, and you can tell the police the rest yourself." ā