"Miss Meimei."

Shimimi looked at Sumimi and couldn't help but say:

"You also started participating in various beauty contests very early, and although you didn't win directly like Miss Hua Lian, you also got good results. It's just that later, after your sister Miss Hua Lian became a blockbuster, you never participated in any beauty pageants again. ”

Saying that, Shinichi said with some emotion:

"Obviously you have a beautiful appearance, but as Miss Hua Lian's sister, when you are with Miss Hua Lian, your beauty is always ignored, and gradually, you are no longer confident in your own beauty - so you are more like the little girl mentioned in Mr. Amano's story."

Hearing this, Officer Twilight couldn't help but nodded, but still said puzzled:

"But Kudo, even so, what does this have to do with Miss Hua Lian's killing?"

"Of course it does!"

Shinichi couldn't help but say:

"Miss Hua Lian is not such a weak person, for her, in the face of someone writing a threatening letter to her, will she just sit back and wait?"

"What?"

When Officer Twilight heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked.

"Miss Hua Lian was called into the room by Mr. Miura after the wedding dress review."

"Well, we all know that."

Officer Twilight says:

"But what does that mean?"

"Miss Hua Lian is very clear about what Mr. Miura is doing, so at that time, she would agree to Mr. Miura's request to go to his room, don't you think it's strange?"

Shinichi explained.

"Huh?"

Officer Twilight said in surprise.

"She promised Mr. Miura at the time, that she should be testing the other party to see if he was the one who sent the threatening letter."

Shinichi explains:

"Just like Mr. Wise's feelings, judging from the content of the threatening letter alone, the first thing that Miss Hua Lian thought of was that the suspect who sent the threatening letter should be Mr. Miura."

"However, I really didn't send anything like that. Moreover, after I touched my nose at that time, she just left! What I said is true! ”

Seeing that the topic was brought to him again, Daigo Miura hurriedly cleared up the relationship.

"That's right, what Mr. Miura said should be true."

Shinichi continued.

In this regard, Daigo Miura couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Because Miss Hua Lian should have known that Mr. Miura was not the prisoner who sent the threatening letter."

新一 says:

"So after that, Miss Hua Lian went back to the lounge upstairs after coming out of Mr. Miura's room."

As he spoke, Shinichi paused deliberately before continuing:

"But, in this way, there is one thing that is strange. Through the monitoring of the hotel elevator, we can find that Miss Hua Lian, who went to the lounge to change her clothes, came directly to this floor. And there was still a lot of time before the opening performance that followed, why did Miss Hua Lian come here so early? ”

"Could it be that she is still looking for the murderer who sent the threatening letter?"

Officer Twilight followed Shinichi's train of thought and couldn't help but put forward his opinion.

"That's right, that's the most likely point."

新一 says:

At that time, she may have gone to find Mr. Amano, or maybe she was just waiting in this elevator room, waiting for the suspect to appear...... In short, Miss Hua Lian should have finally sensed the mystery on the threatening letter and knew who the person who really wanted to intimidate her was, so when that person also appeared here, the two had an argument, and finally that person killed Miss Hua Lian by mistake. ”

"Having said so much, you just want to say that I was the one who sent the threatening letter, and I was the one who killed my sister, right?"

Hearing this, Shou Meimei said impatiently, and then began to question loudly:

"But what you're saying is just speculation, what evidence do you have to prove it? And, according to you, Hua Lian died in this elevator room when we were looking for her, right? But when we came here to look for the missing Hua Lian, we didn't see her anywhere! ”

"Yes, Kudo, you came here with Miss Meimei to look for Hualian around 8:45, right? You once told me that you couldn't see Miss Hua Lian here at that time, didn't you? ”

Officer Twilight also looked at Shinichi in surprise and asked.

"That's because, when we came here to look for it, Miss Hua Lian's body was always in this room, but it was hidden and invisible."

"Hidden? However, there is no place to hide an adult in this elevator room? ”

Officer Twilight asked, after looking around at the empty lift room.

"I didn't notice anything wrong at the time, but later, when I found something behind this pillar, I understood."

Shinichi said and walked to the edge of the pillar in the elevator room.

"But Kudo, this is a pillar...... It's still too far-fetched to hide the body of an adult completely, right? ”

Officer Twilight looked at the pillar and couldn't help but say:

"Even if there is a person hiding somewhere, just change the angle a little and you can see the person behind the pillar?"

"It's easy to find someone hiding at the time, but it's still easy to overlook something else."

Shinichi said as he walked over to a painting leaning against the wall as a prop in the background of the stage.

And there, there were many paint cans scattered on the ground. Next to the paint cans are three cardboard boxes 40 centimeters square, with the brand logo of the paint printed on them, which appear to be the boxes where the paint cans are placed.

"The killer took out the paint from the carton and put it behind this post, so that the carton was empty......"

Shinichi said, pointing to the three cardboard boxes neatly placed on the ground.

"What the hell is going on?"

Officer Twilight asked, confused.

"At that time, Miss Meimei temporarily hid the body in these cardboard boxes."

Shinichi explained.

"Hey, hey! Such a small cardboard box can't hold Miss Hua Lian's body at all, right? ”

Officer Twilight looked at the cardboard boxes and couldn't help but frown.

"yes, it's not a child, how can you put a corpse in such a small cardboard box?"

Meimei couldn't help but laugh.

"There are three of these cardboard boxes."

Shinichi said.

"What?"

Hearing this, Meimei was suddenly stunned.

"These cardboard boxes look so small at first glance that no one would have thought that there would be a body hidden inside. But the three cartons, when I first saw them, were arranged in a 'convex' shape, and the middle one was slightly protruding forward. ”

In this regard, the new beginning explained, and at the same time, the three cartons were arranged in the shape of the word "convex":

Miss Meimei cut the adjacent sides of the cardboard box, folded it inward, and then placed Hua Lian's body in the shape of a 'く' and hid it in the box. Since mortis does not appear until as soon as an hour after death, it is easy to bend the body at that time. ”

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