Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 1199 Yuanzi: Call me sister!

9 pm.

The team members gather at the hotel entrance.

Yuanzi took the bouquets of roses he had prepared and announced: "Now the test of courage has officially begun. Please follow the previous arrangement, and go to the church with the lights on with the flowers in groups of two and two.

We will distribute small flashlights for lighting, so please be careful where you step. "

"The first group is Mr. Onozuka and Ms. Aso..."

Sonoko called out Onozuka, who opened the gas station, and the big-breasted female nurse, and watched them off to the church.

The scaring of ghosts along the way is handed over to the staff of the resort, so she doesn't have to worry about safety...

Gao Cheng took a step back and quietly found the box Yuanzi used to hold the cards.

Sure enough, as he expected,
These cards have been tampered with.

If you look carefully, you can find that they are basically the same person's handwriting.

When the prisoner used the music of "The Phantom of the Opera" to distract everyone, he took the opportunity to replace the original card.

Purpose,

Presumably to group according to your own intentions?
Gao Cheng's mouth twitched slightly.

It seems that someone deliberately wants to be in a group with the person they like...

Indeed, this grouping is clearly for pairing,
In the same group, the chances are of course greater.

Is he thinking too much?
10 years have passed, and the intuition is not working?
Unlike the wax figure city incident, the members of this tour group looked normal, and the possibility of premeditated organization was unlikely.

"What are you doing, Saori?" Yuanzi stared at Gao Cheng from behind for a while, and asked strangely.

Gao Cheng was startled, and hurriedly said in sign language: "The card has been changed."

"Changed?"

Sonoko quickly took the card and looked at it.

"So that's the case. I also said that the matching seems a bit inaccurate..."

"what--!"

Suddenly there was a scream in the night, which sounded like a normal startle,

But after a while,
The nurses with big breasts and Onozuka who went out in the first group ran back with pale faces.

"No, it's not good! Miss Sakurazawa was killed in the church!"

"No way? Something big happened!"

Yuanzi looked a little flustered.

Someone was killed in an event I organized...

She had never encountered such a situation.

Why do I suddenly have the feeling of going from the daily series to the reasoning series?

Ever since I participated in the Wax City event, something has gradually gone wrong...

outside the church,
Sonoko, who barely held up the situation, brought everyone together.

If it is Ah Cheng,
At this time, everyone will definitely gather...

On the one hand, to prevent further accidents, on the other hand, it is also necessary to confirm everyone's alibi and whether there is any suspicious behavior.

"Everyone," Sonoko said bravely, "I am very sorry that this happened. Although I don't know the reason yet, I confirmed it with Onozuka and Miss Aso.
Ms. Sakurazawa indeed fell down in this church, and she had several ropes wrapped around her neck, and her pulse has stopped..."

"What are you kidding?"

The members panicked,

"You are responsible for this kind of thing!"

"Don't worry, everyone, go and have a look first..."

Yuanzi handed Gao Yicheng over to Curacao to take care of him. He swallowed his saliva and entered the church alone, followed by everyone behind him.

"Turn on the lights first."

"Where is Ms. Sakurazawa?" the team members asked in confusion.

"It says it's on the left side of the altar..."

Looking at the empty church, Yuanzi said in a daze,
"Strange, nothing."

"It's gone!" Onozuka and the two who found the body said in shock, "Miss Sakurazawa's body has disappeared!"

"How, how is it possible? It was there just now,"

The busty female nurse Aso said hurriedly,

"I also specifically checked her pulse. Her hands were very cold, and she really didn't have a pulse."

Onozuka nodded and said, "I tried it too, and it's true that I don't have a pulse..."

Gao Cheng climbed up the altar and found a card on the floor.

It is the remaining card in the test of courage activity,
With handwritten text on it.

French?

"I hanged Joseph Bicquet and took him somewhere..."

The inscription is "Phantom".

Joseph Bicquet was killed in "The Phantom of the Opera",
Is the prisoner imitating the crime?

but,

The text on the card is French, yes, but the sentences are a bit problematic,
As if using translation software, Joseph Bicquet's name is misspelled.

"Boom!"

Lightning flashed outside the church, and soon it began to rain heavily.

Overcast clouds hung over the island, and the cold wind howled.

The typhoon is coming...

Gao Cheng thought of the typhoon warning he found before coming here.

Appears to change direction and pass by the waters of the small island.

What a speechless coincidence.

Everyone will be stuck here...

"Everyone," Manager Fuyuki said, "Let's go back to the lobby first, everyone, eat something and calm down first."

The members look different,
Some people are afraid that serial killings may happen as in the past, while others suspect that it is a prank by the resort.

Everyone held the umbrellas in the church and returned to the hotel lobby.

Soon there were only Yuanzi and Gao Cheng left in the church.

"What should we do now?" Yuanzi sat down in distress, looking helpless.

If serial killings really happened,
It is undoubtedly worse for Suzuki Detective Agency.

As for solving this case...

She has no confidence at all.

She is no longer a child, and she is quite aware of her reasoning ability.

Gao Cheng stood by, taking advantage of Yuanzi's inattention, and quietly stole the cell phone from Yuanzi's bag.

There can be no unprovoked cases,

So it is necessary to find out the identities of those members.

Let's see if there is really a murderous maniac coming in...

Try it.

Huh?
Want a password to unlock?

If it's Yuanzi, the password is probably...

Gao Cheng hid aside and studied the unlocking interface, when suddenly the light above his head was blocked.

"I said Saori," Yuanzi put his hands on his hips and grabbed the phone, "Don't touch your phone!"

……

11:[-] p.m.,

People gather in the hotel lobby to drink,
A fruit platter served with black tea, coffee and ice cubes is placed on the table.

Gao Cheng finally found a chance to steal Yuanzi's mobile phone again,

It is more difficult to find information with a mobile phone. Fortunately, he used to often check the information of the police system, and he only needs to operate remotely.

First of all, the details of the members of the blind date tour group...

Basically no one lies,
but……

Gao Cheng frowned in thought.

There are 2 people who are more suspicious.

That handsome blond dentist, used to be a fat man on his driver's license, and just recently renewed his driver's license.

And then there's the busty female nurse Sanae Aso.

The appearance of this woman has also changed dramatically from before,
He was originally a big fat man weighing more than 200 kilograms. He was powerful and had participated in judo competitions. He couldn't bear to look directly at him.

And Aso Sanae is also an important suspect in a case.

"Serial insurance money murder case..."

Gao Cheng swiped his finger to check the case information.

A series of murders of men who formed a lover relationship, to obtain a large amount of insurance money.

If there is a connection,
So Sanae Aso joined this tour group, perhaps to find the next prey.

But how did the corpse disappear?

After the body was discovered, neither Sanae Aso nor the dentist had the chance to act alone.

Accomplice, or...

"Dangdangdang-"

A bell rang suddenly in the wind and rain, and everyone in the hall woke up suddenly.

"What's the matter? Where's the bell?"

"It's the Bell of Venus," Manager Fuyuki explained. "The bell tower is on the cliff behind the church. Normally, no matter how strong the wind is, the bell won't ring by itself..."

"Does that mean someone is ringing the bell?"

"Everyone is here."

In addition to everyone in the tour group, even the staff were present in the lobby.

The only one absent is the murdered Sakurazawa...

"No, can't it?" Someone said with a stiff smile, "Could it be that Ms. Sakurazawa is not dead, and she deliberately joked with us?"

"Manager Fuyuki, can you show us the Bell of Venus?"

"call--"

The island is still stormy,

A group of people arrived at the bell tower wearing raincoats, and they saw a bronze bell hanging above it.

In the strong wind, the bronze bell did not ring like before.

"Under the bell tower, there is a steel wire that can pull the bell. Once pulled, it will ring. The plan is to use it in the wedding ceremony..."

"Where's the key?"

"The door is not locked."

Everyone walked to the bell tower, pushed open the door, and saw Ying Ze suspended by steel wires in the middle.

It is the steel wire of the brass bell that pulls...

"Miss Sakurazawa!"

"If, as expected, he is still dead!"

"But how did this happen? How did the corpse come here by itself?"

"Crack!"

A flash of lightning illuminated the pale faces of everyone, and also illuminated the body of the woman who was hung in the bell tower.

Gao Cheng entered the bell tower from Yuanzi, looked up at the corpse.

The bell tower has two floors, and steel wires hang down from holes in the ceiling...

The second floor where the bronze bell is located can be seen clearly from the outside, and there is no hiding place.

Could it be that the corpse itself rang the bronze bell?

At least the two people he suspects have absolutely no chance to ring the bell here.

Gao Cheng wanted to go upstairs to have a look, but suddenly felt a dangerous peeping gaze from the crowd behind him.

Full of malice and scrutiny...

Are those guys here too?
Gao Cheng thought of Suzuki Detective Agency being under surveillance, and turned his head to look at everyone calmly.

He investigated the members' information,

But it doesn't mean that everyone here is me.

Maybe someone else got in here instead...

Can't wait any longer,
We must find a way to solve these troubles.

Gao Cheng hid behind Yuanzi, poked his head out slightly to observe the status of everyone.

Onozuka seemed to be very concerned about Sakurazawa, and kept crying sadly, while Aso Sanae was comforting beside him.

The handsome blond dentist reacted strangely, as if he had discovered something, looked at Sanae Aso in shock, then turned and left in a hurry.

Except for these few people,

Everyone else is behaving normally.

"Is this a metaphor for murder?" Manager Fuyuki sweated profusely, "The first victim in "The Phantom of the Opera" was hanged..."

"What should I do? Is there a murderer who wants to reproduce "The Phantom of the Opera"?"

"Manager Fuyuki, you should think of a way!" the team members said anxiously.

"The three serial murder cases that happened here," Fuyuki said while wiping his sweat, "Actually, except for the first one that was solved by the famous detective Takano Kido, the remaining two puzzles couldn't be solved. catch..."

"Then contact the famous detective immediately!"

"Impossible, Kido Gaocheng has no news for a long time."

The atmosphere at the scene was heavy.

In the end, Yuanzi broke the silence and said, "Everyone should go back to the hotel first, the police won't be here for the time being, so we have to be careful."

After everyone left one after another, Yuanzi silently began to investigate the scene.

I have never eaten pork, and I have seen pigs run.

Although the Suzuki Detective Agency has basically no crime-solving business,

But 10 years ago, she also often encountered cases, and she was quite familiar with detective work.

"Let's investigate carefully, I'm still a detective after all," Yuanzi cheered.

Gao Cheng glanced at the direction where everyone was leaving, and turned to the scene of the clock tower with concentration.

It can be confirmed that,

Everyone was in the hotel lobby when the bell rang.

Then there is the method of transferring the corpse here...

Gao Cheng's mind flashed the testimony that Aso Sanae found the body.

Why did the murderer move the corpse here?
And why did Sanae Aso happen to be in the first group to go to church?

It is necessary to go to the church to see...

Gao Cheng looked up at Yuanzi who couldn't find any clues, took off his raincoat and hat and walked in front of Yuanzi.

"Shazhi?" Yuanzi was looking for mechanisms around, looking at Gao Cheng with a serious face in surprise, "What's wrong with you?"

Gao Cheng cried out with regret in his eyes: "Yuanzi..."

"Sister Sonoko...Huh? No, Saori, can you speak?"

Yuanzi stared blankly at Gao Cheng, then at Curacao who was guarding outside, and suddenly his tongue got a little knotted.

"you……"

"Listen to me," Gao Cheng said seriously, "I can't reveal my identity yet, but I'm actually..."

"Boom!"

Several bolts of lightning struck down in the wind and rain one after another.

One of the group members looked back at the clock tower thoughtfully.

……

(End of this chapter)