"Ah, it's so hot......"

In the lobby of the State Guest House, where the police had not yet arrived, and the reasoning of the case had not progressed for a long time, one of the detectives on the stage suddenly straightened up and pulled his collar.

"Huh? It does seem to be a little hot......"

Hearing him say this, Maori Kogoro noticed that a thin bead of sweat had appeared on his forehead at some point.

"Strange, isn't there an air conditioner in the hall?" Tearing off the collar to dissipate some heat, Kogoro Mori asked.

"No, the air conditioning in the hall is on all the time." Kiyoko Igarashi replied.

"No, how can it be so hot?"

"Wait, are these spotlights?"

Suddenly, a detective discovers an anomaly.

When everyone entered the hall and found the deceased Mr. Todo hanging from a banner, all the spotlights on the stage were turned on, converging the light in the center of the stage.

In order to find the murderer as soon as possible, everyone didn't care too much about the spotlight, and after hurriedly taking the body down, it was placed directly on the stage directly below.

The corpse has been exposed to these spotlights from just now to now, even the detectives who took them to observe the corpse's condition.

The heat they feel now is actually the result of being constantly illuminated by these dozen spotlights on the stage.

"What?!"

Realizing this, Mori Kogoro's brain exploded, and he jerked his head to look at the corpse lying quietly in the light.

Wouldn't that be the ......

"Looks like you've finally figured out what's wrong."

At that moment, a figure walked out from the back of the stage.

The figure is a man, and his clothes are very simple, and there is nothing special about it.

The male voice is very young, sounding no more than twenty years old.

He wears a sunhat on his head, and the shadow of the brim obscures his face, making it impossible to see his true face.

Who is he? 】

Looking at this suddenly appeared male figure, Gray Yuan Wai under the stage suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

And Qing Shuijing, who was sitting not far from her, trembled slightly after hearing the voice of the male figure, but in just a moment, he returned to normal.

[Finally here......]

"Who are you?" On stage, Mori Kogoro asked.

"You don't care about the name, it's just a detective who happened to pass by and came by to solve the case." The male figure smiled and walked straight to the body of the deceased, Mr. Todo.

[I'll go, this kid is so pretending! 】

Suddenly feeling a little unhappy in his heart, Maori Kogoro immediately asked, "So it sounds, boy, you seem to have found the murderer?" ”

Too lazy to ask the other party's name again, Maori Kogoro directly called him "kid".

Anyway, listening to the voice, the other party's age can't be older than him, so it won't be wrong to shout like this.

"Of course."

The male figure raised his hand and pressed the brim of his hat, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

"The murderer is on this stage at the moment."

"What?!"

"But before revealing the identity of the murderer, I need to explain to you the real time of the deceased's death."

Hearing his words, Maori Kogoro was silent, not only him, but also several detectives around him.

Previously, everyone had originally assumed that the time of death of the deceased would not exceed two hours at most, but just now, an unexpected discovery of theirs had shattered this speculation.

"Yes, two hours ago is not the actual time of death of the deceased, and it is usually about three hours after death that a person begins to experience joint stiffness, and it is on this basis that you have made a guess about the time of death of the deceased.

However, our murderer was cunning, and she made full use of the environment of the scene, using these spotlights to constantly heat the body of the deceased, thus greatly slowing down the rate of stiffening of the corpse and making you make a wrong judgment.

In other words, the real time of death of the deceased should actually be counted from the beginning of this banquet, because since then, the deceased has not really appeared in front of your eyes. ”

"It can't be!"

As soon as the male figure finished speaking, a detective immediately retorted:

"Even if we had been wrong in the first place, we couldn't have advanced that much earlier! Don't forget that during the mystery event, the deceased who played the strange thief appeared on the screen twice! The deceased was not in the guest house at all! ”

"It's very simple, what you saw a few times at that time, mistakenly thinking that the video taken by the deceased at the scene in other places was a video that had been recorded in advance in the past.

This is also the reason why the killer deliberately broke the hand-held camera, after all, if the camera was still intact, you would be able to easily find the flaws in those videos, and her little tricks would be immediately recognized. ”

"Wait!"

Just then, another detective shouted.

He took out his mobile phone, flipped out a photo, and asked loudly, "If you say so, how should this photo be explained?" ”

The photo on the detective's phone is a little blurry, but it can be seen that the photo is the image of the deceased Mr. Todo on the screen inside the tower after solving the first puzzle and heading to the clock tower.

In the photo, the deceased, Mr. Todo, is standing in front of a stone bridge.

Of course, the detective was not talking about the stone bridge, but about the tree behind the deceased, Mr. Todo, with a broken branch.

"I asked the staff before, because of the heavy rain last night, the branches of this tree were also blown off by the strong wind last night.

If, as you said, these videos were really recorded in advance, then why did the branches of the tree in the video also break? ”

"That's a good question."

Glancing at the photo, the male figure nodded, and asked with a smile: "But I don't know if this Mr. Detective has noticed a detail, that is, the shops in the background of this photo...... It's all closed? ”

"What's wrong with that?"

As soon as he finished asking this sentence, the detective was suddenly stunned.

It dawned on him that the problem was huge.

Because at the time of the previous event, all the shops around the stone bridge were open, not only that, but the surrounding crowd was dense and very lively, and it was not at all the situation where the shops were closed like in his photo, and there were no pedestrians on the street.

"But, but the tree ......"

"Mr. Detective, I just said that the video was recorded in the past, not yesterday.

For example, the murderer could have started the official opening of this rice flower Edo Street this morning, and before you even arrived, he used the rehearsal as an excuse for the deceased to record the videos himself, and finally used these videos to fake the fact that the deceased was still alive during the event...... Am I right? ”

As he spoke, the male figure turned around and looked at Xue Ding, who was standing aside, already pale.

"Host, Miss Xueding?"

As his words fell, off the stage, Gray Yuan Wai subconsciously clenched his hands.

[Who is this person? 】

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(End of chapter)