Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 296 I understand

In the evening, back at the station hotel, Gao Cheng and Meguro walked into the manager's room and talked to Manager Nagasaki alone.

"Mr. Nagasaki," Meguro sat across from Nagasaki, and said seriously, "Can you tell us about what happened five years ago?"

Nagasaki's eyes were almost narrowed, staring at the picture of Reiko Kumiya in the brochure.

"It's been five years," Nagasaki recalled with wet eyes, "Ms. Reiko brought those sinful disciples here to perform like this time. When I heard about the rehearsal, Reiko Already dead on the stage, even the decorative white roses were stained red with blood...

"The police investigated and said that she stepped on a board and fell down when she reached the ceiling for some reason, and it was treated as an accident, but I know it's not...

"Those disciples who were greedy for vanity killed Miss Reiko!!"

"They killed their teacher?" Mu Mu stared, "Why didn't you tell the police at that time?"

Nagasaki shook his head and said, "I only realized after hearing about the magic they performed later. It was absolutely impossible for those disciples to come up with the magic of 'living puppets'. I knew it was Miss Reiko's work at first glance..."

"Is it just like that?" Gao Cheng raised his elbows and thought.

There are two possibilities, someone is avenging for Reiko Kinmiya, or they just want to silence because of disputes over the precious magic left by Reiko Kinmiya.

In this bloody murder case unfolded by magic, who is the real murderer...

"Ah ah--!"

Suddenly, a scream interrupted Gao Cheng's thoughts, and the waiter's shout came from outside: "Quick... come here!"

"what happened?"

Gao Cheng took the lead and ran to the second floor where the waiter shouted: "What happened?"

"It's in this room!" The waiter said anxiously, "It seems that something happened in Miss Shanshen Xihai's room!"

"What did you say?" Manager Nagasaki pushed the door and said urgently, "Get the spare key!"

"It's too late! Just hit it!"

Gao Cheng took a step back, and kicked the door of the room hard without any explanation.

"boom--!"

"Miss Xihai!"

Mu Mu rushed into the room following Gao Cheng.

There was silence in the empty room, unexpectedly there was no one, a gust of wind blew the curtains in doubt, and several rose petals floated in from the open window.

Gao Cheng went straight to the window and opened the curtains, and the mountain god Xihai was hanging on the dry tree branches like that, with disheveled hair and eyes looking at Gao Cheng blankly, as he had lost his life.

The hands and feet of the corpse were drooping, like a marionette that lost control of the silk thread, slowly swaying in the wind, with a bouquet of red roses stuck in the neckline...

"What happened?" The magic troupe arrived late, "It's noisy..."

"What happened to Miss Xihai?"

Gao Cheng turned his head back, gritted his teeth and looked at the flustered members of the magic troupe.

Zanjian Satomi, Takato Yaoichi, Sakuraba, and Zuojinji who came slowly over at the end...

In the successive murders, the murderer seemed to be grinning at him secretly.

"However, what's going on here?" Mu Mu looked at the corpse outside the window and wondered, "Did Miss Xihai be killed outside? Where did the murderer go?"

"The murderer did attack Miss Xihai in the room at that time." Gao Cheng looked at the corpse's bare feet and dirt on his body, "Just like in the theater, the murderer used branches to play a seesaw with Miss Xihai's body. The mud was rubbed, indicating that the body had been placed on the ground."

"I see! That means the murderer should be heavier than Miss Xihai?" Mu Mu came to his senses, turned to the magic troupe with a sullen face, and said, "Now, please gather in the lobby and cooperate with the investigation."

Gao Cheng looked at the members of the magic troupe who followed Mu Mu downstairs with a sad face, but he didn't follow up immediately, and still stayed at the scene of the crime to observe.

From the time the waiter heard the movement to when he came to kick the door, it took only one or two minutes. The murderer should have escaped in a hurry, and no matter how high his IQ was, he would more or less leave some clues.

"Jihu," Xiao Ai looked at the scene with her hands behind her back and said, "Did you notice any difference? This room is a bit strange?"

"strangeness?"

Gao Cheng was taken aback for a moment, his eyes swept over the curtains, the table cabinet and the bed, he paused, and then returned to the table cabinet.

"Raw jadeite... There is no rough jadeite here..."

In the lobby on the first floor, when Gao Cheng walked downstairs, Mu Mu was still interrogating everyone in the magic troupe.

"Then, let me repeat again, Miss Satomi weighs 55 kilograms, Mr. Sakuraba 81 kilograms, Mr. Takato about 50 kilograms, Sakinji 72 kilograms, and the victim, Ms. Yukai, weighs about 53 kilograms...isn't that wrong?"

"right……"

"I have asked Mr. Nagasaki to get the weighing scale." Mu Mu looked directly at the people with his hands behind his back. "If the deviation is not too big, there are three suspects who killed Ms. Yukai, namely Ms. Satomi, Mr. Sakuraba and Sakonji...According to our previous investigation, Yurama, who was killed on the stage, actually died before performing the "living puppet"...

"That is to say, the person who controlled the marionette on the ceiling last night was actually the puppeteer from hell, and the murderer was someone who knew magic tricks!"

"Ah?" Gao Yuan glanced in fear, his voice trembling, "The only one who knows the technique...there is only one person..."

Zuo Jinsi silently smoked a cigarette, and suddenly snorted and laughed, "I knew it would turn out like this, after all, the group leader and I came up with the 'living puppet', but even if the only ones who knew the magic trick were Killing me doesn't mean I'm the murderer, does it?"

Zuo Jinsi didn't panic at all, smoking a cigarette unhurriedly: "Mr. Police, you still have a big mystery that you haven't solved yet? The mystery that the body of the head of the mountain god disappeared in the train compartment and reappeared in the hotel room... ...Let me tell you first, when I got off the train, I followed your instructions and left all the big luggage on the train, and got off with only my wallet...

"Hmph, even if I'm a magician, I can't put the leader's body in the wallet and take it out of the car, right?"

"This..." Mu Mu was sweating profusely.

"Well, when it comes to such a strange case, I also understand how everyone looks like a murderer." Zuo Jinji stood up, waved his hand and left, "Anyway, let's solve the mystery of the disappearance of the body first, and find me. Let's talk about the decisive evidence of the murderer, come on, Mr. Police..."

Gao Cheng frowned slightly, and shouted to Zuo Jinsi: "If it is the mystery of the disappearance of the corpse, I have already solved it."

"What?" Zuo Jinsi paused, and looked at Gao Cheng in doubt, "What did you say?"

Mu Mu was stunned for a moment, and after realizing it, he said pleasantly: "Is it true? Kido brother, have you really solved the riddle?"

"All the mysteries have been solved, including who the real murderer is..."

Gao Cheng and Xiao Ai looked at each other, and walked to the middle of the lobby to meet everyone's gaze.

"The real murderer?" Mu Mu and his party and the members of the magic troupe stared blankly at Gao Cheng.

"That's right, I understand everything," Gao Cheng stretched out a finger, "because the murderer made a fatal mistake..."

(End of this chapter)