Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 581 Positive Shadow Magic
"Where's the switch?"

"It seems to be over there in the kitchen..."

Unable to see things clearly in the dark, Hattori hurried out along the corridor with Conan, turned on the flashlight and went downstairs to find the kitchen, Gao Cheng vaguely heard the soft closing sound of the door.

Ok?
Gao Cheng looked at Xinghe Tongwu in the dark.

"Found the switch!"

Hattori's shout came from downstairs, and with a bang, the light bulb outside the corridor turned on again, and at the end, like a slide, suddenly, under the light, the figure of Himimiya Zoroko appeared, his eyes wide open and his head full of tears. The blood fell in front of the cabinet at the end.

"Zhan, Zhanzi?" Xinghe Tongwu took a step back tremblingly, "What the hell is..."

"The body is already icy cold," Gao Cheng stepped forward to check, "It seems...it has been dead for more than half an hour."

Gao Cheng moved his finger away from Ji Gong Zhanzi's neck.

It was almost the same thing that happened after he met Jigong Zhanzi before, the fatal injury was on the head...

Gao Cheng stood up next to the corpse, looked back at the whole corridor and the door of Master Zhengying's room next to the light switch, and the sound of Xinghe Tongwu calling the police and an ambulance came from the room.

Walking into the room, there was not much change from when he came here before, only the window next to him was open and the curtains swayed in the wind.

"Kiroto," Hattori and Conan rushed back to the corridor, and soon discovered the situation here, "What's going on? There was nothing before..."

"I don't know, the body suddenly appeared after the call."

Gao Cheng looked at Xinghe Tongwu who had finished the phone call, and then his eyes fell on the door.

He was sure that Xinghe Tongwu had been by the side when the power went out, and the slight sound of closing the door should be the magician's manipulation, just like a magic switch.

It should be said that Xinghe Tongwu has been performing magic since he brought them upstairs, the magic of Zhengying style...

"Did the window here be open just now?" Hattori leaned out of the window to check, "If you use the bushes below as a buffer, you can jump down and escape through the back door."

"What, what's going on here?" He and Ye found Mrs. Zhengying and Fan Tianli, and were terrified by Ji Gong Zhanzi's body.

"Why did Zhanzi..."

"I'll talk about it when the police arrive, but..."

Gao Cheng went back to the fluorescent light switch in the corridor, and looked up at the light bulbs on the ceiling.

"The switch seemed to be short-circuited just now," Hattori followed, "The light bulb on it was tampered with beforehand..."

"Brother Heiji," Conan called from the other side, "Come and see this room."

"This is the database."

Fan Tianli explained: "It contains magic information collected by Teacher Zhengying from traveling around the world."

"It's all turned upside down."

The database is at the end of the corridor, next to Jigong Zhanzi's body, and Gao Cheng hadn't been able to go in to see it before.

There are several rows of bookshelves placed side by side, but the books on them are scattered all over the floor, which looks messy.

"Is there anything important here?" Hattori asked.

"No," Fan Tianli said uncertainly, "It's basically books and magazine clips that are sold on the market, and the teacher often let us read..."

"Speaking of it," Mrs. Zhengying said suddenly, "there may be a document that even my wife is not allowed to read. Every time my husband has a new idea, he will record it in time, so there is a document full of original magic tricks." The technique notes "Zhengying Notes"..."

"That is to say..."

Hattori stroked his chin and thought, "Is it because the person who wanted to steal this "Zhengying Notebook" was hit by Ms. Zhanzi just in time?"

"Steal "Zhengying Notes"?"

"Yes, judging from the short-circuit power failure, it may be that the person arranged it in advance, because if someone happens to come over, the short-circuit power failure will occur when the switch is pressed. At this time, it is necessary to go to the kitchen on the first floor to pull the switch. For a while, I sneaked away from the window of Teacher Zhengying's room...

"But the prisoner's plan didn't work. Usually there is only one wife in this house, but today nine guests came, and Ms. Zhanzi entered the room without touching the switch, and she saw the prisoner's face, so she was silenced." ..."

"Isn't this strange?" Xiao Ai rolled her eyelids, "How to explain Miss Zhanzi's body?"

Hattori laughed and said, "The prisoner might have been looking for something in the database, but we came up at this time. The prisoner probably took advantage of the power outage to move Ms. Zhanzi's body to the end of the corridor and then escaped from Teacher Zhengying's room. It's to delay time..."

"It's impossible," Gao Cheng interrupted, "Master Zhengying's room door was next to us at that time, if the prisoner came over, we would know about it anyway? And no one would dare to steal things in such a place knowing that there are many guests What? Killed someone and continued to stay here looking for half an hour?"

"Didn't I finish?" Hattori snorted, "Generally speaking, you can only think about it this way, but if Mr. Xinghe who went to turn on the switch and caused the power outage is a criminal, the situation will be different."

"Huh?" Xinghe was stunned.

"That's right, if you stay here during a power outage, you can completely discredit Zhanzi's body hidden in the database and drag it to the corridor, and return to Kido and the others before the lights turn on..."

"Hattobu," Gao Cheng shook his head and interrupted, "I was on the side at the time, so I'm sure that Mr. Xinghe didn't leave, and the movement of dragging the corpse out of the reference room in the dark was not small. There is moonlight, there is no way I can't find it."

"That's right," He Ye followed, "During the power outage, Xiaolan and I hugged Mr. Xinghe's arms tightly, so we are sure that he didn't leave!"

"Hug?" Hattori's face became even more stinky, as if someone owed money.

"Let's not talk about this now," Gao Cheng asked Xiao Ai to find out about Mrs. Zhengying's situation at the time of the crime, and turned to Fan Tianli, "Mr. Fan Tianli, where were you when the power went out?"

"I have been sleeping in the room downstairs of this database, and then my wife came to ask me to eat, oh, this little girl was there at that time." Fan Tianli looked at Xiao Ai who was close to Gao Cheng.

"Just downstairs in the database?" Hattori looked at Fan Tianli suspiciously, "Could it be that you killed Miss Zhanzi and escaped from the window?"

"Didn't you tell me everything?" Fan Tianli said angrily, "During the power outage, my wife just called me, and I was lying on the sofa, and I waited for about a minute before calling, and the window of the database is so small, it is impossible In and out!"

Conan pulled Gao Cheng in a low voice: "Kito, do you think Hattori is weird today?"

"No," Gao Cheng glanced at Hattori who interrogated Fan Tianli, "Maybe it's because he's jealous of He Ye?"

(End of this chapter)