Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 316 Solving the case with children

In the early morning of the next day, the ski resort mountain hospital.

Gao Cheng and Conan were waiting at the door of the ward, and the members of the ski club gathered on the other side had different expressions.

Last night, he got up just in case to observe the situation, but he didn't expect to find Baifeng's discolored coat in the snow not far from the hotel, and soon dug out a frozen Baifeng in a snowdrift around him.

Someone attacked Baifeng during that time, and it was likely to be one of the members of the ski club...

"Doctor, how is the situation?" One-sensei asked the attending physician.

"Barely out of danger, and is still in a coma," the doctor said truthfully, "Although his life was saved, there is a certain crack in the skull... To be honest, the patient's body temperature dropped significantly. If he was discovered later, he would probably be dead. .”

"Thank you, doctor..."

"Nanase," Gao Cheng said in a deep voice, "you stay here to take care of Bai Feng, and the others will go back to the hotel with me."

Xue Gang looked unhappy: "What do you mean? Why do we have to listen to you?"

Gao Cheng took a look at Xue Gang: "Judging from the wound, Bai Feng should have been hit on the back of the head with a blunt object like a ski, causing him to be unconscious, and then he was dragged to a place where no one was around, took off his coat and buried him in a snowdrift... I think the murderer Among you people."

Everyone on the ski slopes changed their faces, and even Xue Gang, who was not dealing with it, broke out in a cold sweat: "Why do you say that?"

"Because the murderer left a key piece of evidence."

Gao Cheng took out a roll of video tape.

"The surveillance camera at the entrance of the hotel happened to capture the scene of the crime. I asked the hotel just now. Although the picture was black and white and not very clear, I could still see the murderer wearing a raincoat and attacking Baifeng with a ski with a cover on it. ...

"The other is the murderer's footprints. I checked it roughly. There was a snowfall yesterday evening, and only the footprints left by the murderer and Bai Feng are clear. It is obvious that a footprint extends from the place where Bai Feng was buried to the entrance of the drying room. ...

"When I checked, I found that the blood-stained snowboard cover used by the murderer was also in the drying room. It may have been left by a previous customer. The raincoat should also be taken from the drying room."

Xue Gang faltered, "So what?"

"The key is the skis," Gao Cheng glanced at the crowd and continued, "The skis as the murder weapon can't be taken casually like the raincoat and the case, the storage boxes for the skis are all locked, and only the guests who stay have the keys , There are no discarded skis around the hotel, and the front desk also said that no one has seen anyone take the skis from the drying room into the hotel...

"That is to say, the murderer who attacked Baifeng is most likely the person who brought his skis and lived in this hotel."

The hotel cafeteria, including Suzumori who stayed in the hotel because of a bad cold, and Xuegang who went to the hospital to visit Baifeng, all members of the ski club were gathered.

Those who are more familiar are the few people who had a complicated relationship with Bai Feng yesterday, and there are also some newcomers who are also freshmen like Nanase.

Gao Cheng put a schematic diagram of the scene marking the footprints on the table.

"Judging from the footprints at the scene, the murderer started to follow and ambush Baifeng from the drying room. The time was around 10 o'clock last night... Mr. Ogen, why did Baifeng go outside so late?"

"Well," Mr. One explained, "Student Baifeng is going to check the snow quality. He seems to always check at 10 o'clock at night, and then he can adjust the equipment according to the situation..."

"Does anyone else know?"

"Almost all members of the club know it, right?"

"That's it..." Gao Cheng paused, looked at the crowd and said, "Can I ask for your alibi?"

The group had been partying since 8 o'clock yesterday, and it wasn't over when he woke up after 10 o'clock. It shouldn't be too difficult to investigate the alibi.

"I joined the party around 9:40, and I was doing night ski training before," the long-haired woman named Spring said first, "At that time, Suzumori met me and left..."

Suzumori smiled and said anxiously: "Detective Kido, I just left early and went back to my room to sleep because of a cold, and I'm just the manager of the club, I don't have skis..."

Xuegang turned his head away, and reluctantly said: "I am just the opposite of Chuntian. From 9:50 until I found out that Baifeng had an accident, I have been skiing at the ski resort."

Mr. One followed, "I went to the front desk to make a phone call around 10:5, and then went straight back to the room..."

After the questioning, Gao Cheng had a general understanding of the situation of these people.

Except for the teacher One Shizuka, the rest of the time who committed the crime were basically not very friendly with Baifeng.

Suzumori Somi, the manager of the ski club, Yuko Haruta, the women's team leader, and Sohei Yukioka, a member of the club... It seems that Haruta and Yukioka are the two most suspected.

However, it is not yet possible to draw a conclusion, and it cannot be directly ruled out because other people have alibi or other reasons.

After all, the person who is least likely to be the murderer is the murderer. This situation is too common in this world... Moreover, there is indeed something weird about this incident.

Gao Cheng failed to investigate for too long, and soon the Nagano prefectural police rushed to the scene to take over the case. Even the video tape was taken away, leaving only a schematic diagram of his footprints.

The leading police officer is about 40 years old, with a bearded face facing fiercely, blind in one eye, and wearing a cane. He looks very scary, and he is not very cold to him, a famous detective from Tokyo.

In the hotel room, Ayumi and his group were driven back dejectedly: "That uncle policeman is so vicious!"

The corner of Gao Cheng's mouth twitched: It's not normal to have brats wandering around the crime scene...

Conan looked at the schematic diagram with his chin in his hand, and said in thought, "I still feel a little strange. The murderer has been following that white peak for too long, and has been in ambush for a long time after coming out of the drying room..."

Mitsuhiko lay in front of the schematic diagram: "Well... it should be waiting for the opportunity to strike, right? The murderer must have tried to pick an inconspicuous location to strike..."

"This is even more strange." Conan pointed to the row of trees where the murderer was ambushing, "These places are very inconspicuous, but the murderer missed them all, and chose the more eye-catching entrance of the hotel, which happened to be captured by the surveillance camera ..."

"It's not just right," Gao Cheng crossed his arms and said, "The murderer knew from the beginning that he would be photographed by the camera, and he was deliberately photographed."

"Being photographed on purpose?" Mitsuhiko said with a confused smile, "How, how could there be such a stupid prisoner?"

"If the murderer is not stupid, of course there is some purpose, maybe it was deliberately done for me, a detective," Gao Cheng said with a smile, "For example...to let us see that the murderer attacked from behind with a ski. "

Conan looked at Gao Cheng, his face tightened slightly: "Could it be that the murderer..."

"Maybe."

Gao Cheng restrained his smile and didn't let Conan continue: "The rest is just evidence and the real murder weapon..."

Because it was not a big case, after figuring out the key points, the real murderer was about to be revealed soon.

For the time being, it seems likely that the murderer is Somi Suzumori, the only manager of the ski club who does not have a ski, and the timing of the crime can also be matched.

What a crazy world, obviously such a cute girl...

"Detective Kido," Somi Suzumori went upstairs and shouted, "Mr. Police told us to gather in the lobby."

"Did you find anything?" Gao Cheng asked curiously.

"It seems that a blood reaction was detected on Nanase's skis..."

"how is this possible?"

Gao Cheng went downstairs with Suzumori Xiaomei, shook his head and said, "I believe Nanase is not that kind of person, he also admires Bai Feng in private..."

"It's hard to say how hateful it is," Somi Suzumori waggled her fingers and helped to analyze, "A person is not necessarily what he looks like. Maybe Nanase hates Baifeng very much. If this is a mystery novel, the plot That's how it should be...

"Actually, Nanase hated Baifeng for some reason. Nanase didn't attend the party last night. She put on the raincoat she had prepared before 10 o'clock, found a cover to cover her skis, and then lay in ambush in the dry In the snow outside, soon, his enemy——Bai Feng appeared in a red coat! His eyes were filled with red, and he approached Bai Feng quietly from behind, aiming at the back of his head and swinging his skis!"

Suzumori Somi seemed to be telling a horror story, making movements with her hands, as if she was in the scene.

Gao Cheng didn't interrupt, and only sighed softly after the girl finished speaking: "Student Suzumori, do you think I'm just a third-rate detective?"

"Ah?" Suzumori Xiaomei was stunned, staring blankly at Gao Cheng leading a group of children into the hotel lobby.

A lot of people had already gathered in the hall, and the one-eyed and cold-faced police uncle was also there. After seeing Gao Cheng's arrival, he said, "I've checked the matter, and now I'm asking everyone to verify it..."

(End of this chapter)