The Pitch Black Express Train Chapter 171 The Pitch Black Express Train (22)
"Hey, Mr. Captain, what's the difference between this first-class car and a regular car?" Sera posed her own question to the commander, and it was clear that she and Conan had thought together, and since the murderer of Mr. Murohashi had prepared the task cards of these mystery puzzles in advance at such a complicated costume, it meant that the murder method he had come up with could only be used in the first-class carriage. The difference between the first-class carriage and the ordinary carriage is nothing more than two parts: one is that there is a real difference between the carriage itself, which causes the prisoner to only commit murder in the first-class carriage; The second point that may be different is that the passengers sitting in the carriage may be different, that is, the prisoner may not be committed by one person, but similar to one person killing someone, and another person covering for him and giving perjury to interfere with the detectives' sight. Therefore, Shira Zhenjun asked the commander this question in order to distinguish which situation it is, if it is the second case, then the difficulty of solving the case will increase a lot, and it is too difficult to catch the real murderer in the mutual cover of several people.
"What's different?" The commander apparently didn't quite understand what Sera meant, so he repeated her question.
"I've heard that this first-class car is booked by the same guests every year from room A to room E, so why do they have to choose first-class cars?"
"This Suzuki Express was built five years ago, and I heard that this first-class car was specially enlarged by Suzuki Jiroji Advisor at the request of his bourgeois friend, who was a die-hard fan of the Orient Express murder case, so that his family members could ride this mysterious train leisurely." Under Shiliang's questioning, the commander came up with some useful information.
"So, all the passengers just now are the family members of the bourgeoisie?"
"No, the bourgeoisie's family all died in an accidental fire just a month after the express train was built, and among the five passengers, only one of them was a member of that family, and that was Ms. Xiaorong in room D, I remember that she seemed to be the aunt and relative of the deceased bourgeoisie......"
Under the prompting of the commander, Shiliang searched for relevant information with her mobile phone, and sure enough, she found a report about the situation at that time, "There are also reports about that incident on the Internet, on the day of the bourgeoisie's birthday party, a fire suddenly broke out in the villa, and the bourgeoisie's entire family and twelve guests who came to the birthday party died in the fire. It was also written that the only survivors who were rescued from the fire were the lady Xiaoli and her maid who had just spoken, and there were only four guests left. ”
"Do you mean...... Are the four guests the deceased, Mr. Murohashi, and the three passengers in Compartments A, C, and E of Carriage 8? Kogoro Mori also thought of the correlation between the two things.
"Their names are not mentioned in the report, but I think there is nothing wrong with that, the cause of the fire seems to be a fire caused by a malfunction of the power system, but the detailed cause is completely impossible to investigate because the fire is too large......" Sera continued to read the information found on the Internet to Kogoro and Conan.
"So, if this murder in the locked room is a revenge plot caused by the fire that happened five years ago, isn't it more and more like the murder of the Orient Express?" Uncle Maori's mood was a little inexplicably cheerful, "We should ask those passengers now." ”
"That...... Speaking of electricity, why didn't you replace the light bulb in room A when you knew it was broken? Sera's words gave Detective Edogawa some hints.
"At the back of this No. 8 car is the wagon car, which was supposed to have a spare light bulb in the van before departure, but now I can't find it."
Conan heard the captain talk about the wagon, and suddenly remembered what Kazama had said, "I'll go to the wagon compartment behind the eighth car to check ......" 'Before finding out that Mr. Murohashi was killed, he probably hadn't been to the eighth car and the back car, and after Mr. Murohashi's death, he went back to the sixth car with Ashbara until he received a threatening text message from Vermouth, so how did he know that the car behind the eighth car was a truck car? To be able to think of such a question is completely dependent on the excellent detective instinct of Edogawa Conan or Kudo Shinichi, but Conan's own reason tells him that now is not the time to suspect Kazama, and he must quickly solve the case and then devote himself to the duel with Bourbon, "So before the train departs, is it Mr. Captain who is in charge of checking the situation of the train?" ”
"That's right, each of us captains will be in charge of our own car, and we need to check the equipment inside the room, the hygiene, and the situation in the corridor, and the truck car will be checked by two or three of us commanders." Speaking of this, the commander suddenly remembered something unusual, "Speaking of which, the commander's uniform we are wearing seems to be missing an eh......
"Sure enough, this murderer deliberately designed to trick Mr. Murobashi into car eight...... "The detective's thoughts were interrupted by the vibration of his mobile phone, and he took out his phone to check the text message, and it turned out to be from Kazama.
"Huh? Did you find anything that you were concerned about? Seeing that Conan was looking at his phone, Sera lowered himself and leaned over to his side.
Conan couldn't help but be shocked when he heard Shiliang's voice, quickly turned around, and put the phone behind him to cover it, "No... No...... I'm also reading about the fire, but I still haven't figured anything out. ”
"I think let's hurry up and investigate, I guess the murderer must be very anxious now, after all, in this train traveling at 80 kilometers per hour, he has no way to escape." Sera's face came to Conan's side, and he was about to stick to his face, and he was so close to see the subtle expression on Conan's face, 'The sender of that text message didn't see it clearly, but the words Mr. Anton and Dayflower seemed to appear on it, could it be that someone sent him the result of reasoning?' No...... No way, there shouldn't be anyone on this express train who has more reasoning skills than him......
Conan had already read the text message before Sera came over, the sender was Kazama, and the few sentences on it were very simple, but they also had enough weight, "The murderer is Mr. Anton from Room C, and the strange thief Kidd is pretending to be the maid from Room D, Miss Sumitomo Hiyaka, the information is absolutely reliable, but you need to find the evidence yourself." There are indeed a lot of bombs installed in the truck compartment, enough to blow up the entire carriage into ashes in an instant, and I found a receiver, it should be a remote control explosion with a device such as a mobile phone, if you want to use the strategy of making the gray original fake death, this will be the best place, as long as you find a way to separate the truck compartment from the eighth carriage, you can ensure that the explosion will not affect the safety of the passengers, and it is enough to deceive them, Anyway, I don't believe Vermouth and Bourbon would be willing to die with Sherry in the middle of the wagon. ”