Chapter 022: When Reasoning Goes On
"That's the case........."
Katayama looked at the wreckage of a box of broken mobile phones and sat back on the couch in frustration.
All the phones were vandalized, probably by hitting them with heavy objects.
All I can say is...... In terms of hardness, Nokia had won too many of them.........
But the problem now is that they can't contact the outside world anymore.
Moreover, as far as this Blizzard Mountain Villa model is concerned, it is estimated that the garage has also been .........
………
Hattori and Conan tacitly walked to the garage, because the mountain road here, it is impossible to walk on their own, and if they want to leave, they can only drive.
They didn't quite think that the fall was a suicide.
“……”
The two walked to the garage in silence, in fact, the two of them had guessed in their hearts, but they still had to go to the garage to check it out for 100% certainty.
"The door is open...... Did you really drive out of here......"
Hattori smelled a strong smell of gasoline, probably because the fuel tank had been destroyed, and all the gasoline in the car had leaked.
Gasoline volatilizes so badly, it's better not to get too close.
Conan, however, had already lifted the hood of the car and looked inside.
"Hey, it's dangerous!"
Hattori lifted Conan up, what's the matter with this little ghost, actually doing such a dangerous move.
"Hey...... Brother Hattori, it seems that it was broken there......"
Conan touched the back of his head and pretended to be stupid, then pointed to the battery under the hood, and Hattori immediately looked over, only to see that the battery was completely shattered, and the fragments were scattered inside the hood.
The car probably couldn't be driven, which meant that the gang was completely trapped in the hotel on this cliff.........
………
"Humph! I think it's the innkeeper's prank! ”
Toshiaki Fujisawa sat in the hall with his hands on his chest, expressing disbelief in the scene they had described by Ran and Katayama.
Regardless, the innkeeper had no motive to commit suicide.
He and the boss are old acquaintances, and he also helped the innkeeper when he first published the Sherlock Holmes fanbook.
As far as he knew, the guy was quite wealthy, and the inn was built entirely for hobby and for party with Sherlock Holmes fans.
The two vehicles used to pick them up and drop them off were also specially bought to pick them up.
At least financially, he had no motive to commit suicide.
And how could someone who had proudly shown them his love of books the night before commit suicide the next day without logic!
So he preferred to believe that it was the innkeeper's deliberate show to scare them, or that it was part of some reasoning question.
"Oh yes, I'm going back in another car!"
He was already irritable, but he was even more irritable because of these things, which made him not want to stay in this place for a second.
"I'm afraid we won't be able to leave."
Hattori and Conan had also finished checking the garage and returned to the hall here.
Hearing Hattori and Conan's words, everyone was obviously stunned, and Fujisawa Toshiaki asked them even more in a panic what was going on.
"I went to check just now, and the remaining car in the garage, the battery part and the fuel tank were destroyed."
"What!"
Hearing Hattori's words, everyone's expressions changed from surprise to panic.
There were no other buildings on top of the cliff, which meant that they were trapped in the wilderness.
In addition, the mobile phone has also been destroyed, and it is impossible to contact the outside world for the time being.
Conan was silent, he also had a mobile phone as Kudo Shinichi, but he didn't want to expose it now, and he thought that this case might not be as simple as suicide.
"Damn, does that guy want to trap us here and force us to play his deduction game?"
Toshiaki Fujisawa sat back on the couch with a visibly angry expression.
"Say it a few times, the innkeeper is dead!"
Tojuken was also not good-tempered, and he repeatedly reminded that the innkeeper had fallen off a cliff and died.
"Maybe it's just a dummy in the driver's seat, and then put forward gear to give you the illusion that he's falling off a cliff."
Maria Toda also said that she didn't believe such a thing could happen either.
"Impossible, impossible! I chased it to the car door and checked! The one in the driver's seat was definitely the innkeeper himself! ”
Hattori said as he mentioned Conan
"That's right! Gremlin. ”
"Hmmm! My brother and I saw it. ”
Conan immediately nodded in agreement.
"Isn't he afraid that we will get that precious book, so he jumped off a cliff with the book and committed suicide.........
Nanako Shimizu also guessed.
Conan and Hattori, on the other hand, were already deep in thought.
They didn't think the innkeeper had committed suicide, and perhaps the innkeeper had died while he was in the car...... However, now that the car is wrecked and people are killed, even the body cannot be found, and there is no way to compare it.
"Isn't it, the innkeeper was already dead when the car started......
Tojukento raised the suspicions that Conan and Hattori were thinking about, as if he had just thought of it.
"Like the young lady said, put the innkeeper's body on it, and then put the car in gear to move forward......"
"Then how do you explain that the car suddenly accelerated when Conan and I caught up?"
Hattori also raised his own suspicions, and now he couldn't figure out what was here, if the innkeeper at the time was dead, why did the car suddenly sped up......
"But......... The car and the phone were destroyed! Someone must be trying to trap us here! ”
Ayako Oki makes other points on the sidelines, and it is clear that she does not believe that the innkeeper is committing suicide.
"That's right, this is clearly trying to put us in an environment like Blizzard Hills."
Conan also answered on the side, and he also thought that he was right to kill this incident, and the murderer was in the middle of this group of people.
Moreover, he did it for one purpose, and that was to say...... There's one more target between us that he wants to kill, so we must not be allowed to leave the inn. ”
Conan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said his conclusion, of course, he didn't realize that he had already made everyone look at him in surprise when he said this.
"Ah...... If it was Maori Shu, I would definitely say so, hahahaha........."
Seeing Conan, who had quieted down around him, he realized that he had talked too much...... Only then did he pretend to be stupid again.
"What, it's imitating Dad........."
Xiaolan breathed a sigh of relief, she almost thought of Conan as a mini version of Shinichi just now.
Katayama was looking around, and from just now, Zorro's guy was gone...... Damn, what is this guy running around!