Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 613 Reasoning, Evil Spirits Retreat

"What is certain is that there is another person on the third floor."

Gao Cheng replied to Conan, and continued to check the fat butler's room.

Conan can't solve the puzzle for the time being, in fact, he is not much better.

Although I have a little impression of the Buddha's Extinction Day incident, I don't expect to remember anything. I haven't remembered the complete technique in advance for a long time, and I almost rely on the clues collected by myself to make deductive reasoning.

Just after getting the detective card system, I also have the ability to carry out famous reasoning.

The only advantage over Conan is the reasoning method he learned, and the intuition formed by watching the "Conan" episodes...

Gao Cheng's thoughts were flying.

The collection of clues this time was quite limited, but it was not without gains. After being brought into the criminal's perspective, he almost had some ideas about the case.

Return to origin.

The origin of the incident came from the revenge of the accident 13 years ago. The criminal claimed to be the "soul of the fifth person". Since the day of Buddha's death two years ago, spiritual incidents have occurred one after another, causing one of the three survivors, Guoyou Chunda, to have a heart attack. , and since then, every time before the Buddha's extinction day, Guankou will go to Guoyou's house and have a close relationship with Guoyou and his wife.

Considering that all three were survivors of the accident 3 years ago, they may have colluded to conceal the truth of the accident that year, so they were overly sensitive to what happened on the day of the Buddha's death.

One of the doubts is that there were only 4 known victims of the accident that year, all of whom were relatives of the fat butler, including a maid, a cook, a driver, and Mian Yin’s younger brother who happened to be together. The fifth person’s statement cannot be explained.

Then came the death of Sekiguchi. The four housekeepers who did not have an alibi were excluded from the prisoners because of their eccentricities.

If the murderer didn't want to confuse the public, he just didn't want these people to be regarded as murderers.

The doubtful point of Guankou’s death is how the prisoner entered the third floor. The only people who can ring the doorbell are Guoyou’s family, to be precise, the fat housekeeper, because the newly recruited maids did not have their fingerprints entered, and at that time You can only open the door at the gate on the 3rd floor.

In the second case, the murderer entered the third floor again after the police took fingerprints and asked the statement. This time it was Guoyou Chunda who opened the door. What the inmate saw when he opened the door, died of a heart attack.

"right here……"

Gao Cheng paused when he left after seeing the fat butler who fit the characteristics of a perfectionist.

Guoyou Chunda, who didn't even trust the police, seemed to put the murderer on the third floor quite trustingly. From the tone of the last call, it seemed that he was going to talk to the murderer, so he asked Guoyou's wife to wait.

After Guankou was killed, the only thing Guoyou trusted most was Guoyou's wife who went to the hospital together...

Only Mienhiki was the driver.

The two people who have an alibi are indeed more trustworthy than the police in Guoyou Junda's opinion.

As for the alibi, if there are two people, if Mian Yin's younger brother survived 13 years ago...

Gao Cheng raised his head slightly, his thoughts were running fast, a large number of pictures flashed in his mind, and only two pictures remained in the end.

When Mianyin changed the schedule at Guoyou's house for the first time, and when he drove Mrs. Guoyou to the hospital at night, the two moments of Mianyin clearly appeared before Gao Cheng's eyes.

Mianyin, who has always been wearing gloves, usually only takes off his gloves when driving or writing. It was also at these two moments that Mianyin had a long-lasting scar on his left hand for the second time...

"It's a curse! It must be a curse!!" Mrs. Guoyou, who was being questioned on the third floor, suddenly let out a panicked voice, "This house is indeed occupied by evil spirits!"

"Mrs. Guoyou?"

Gao Cheng and Conan went back to the third floor strangely, and saw Mrs. Guoyou squatting with her head in fear, looking very irritated.

"what happened?"

"Detective Cheng, Chenghu," Shanshantou Henggou also turned pale with fright, and broke out in cold sweat, "The identification results have come out, fingerprints were found on the rope and the medicine bottle, but they are not related to everyone in this family. The fingerprints are all inconsistent, and they are fingerprints that cannot be identified..."

"Unknown fingerprint?"

"How is this possible?" The fat butler stared, his voice trembling, "How did the prisoner get through that door? Is it really an evil spirit?"

"This one……"

Henggou swallowed his saliva. The entrance door on the third floor is indeed only for people from Guoyou's family to ring the doorbell, and Guoyou Chunda personally opened the door. Even if the prisoner colluded with someone from Guoyou's family to enter the third floor, he would have no chance to get out. .

No suspicious person was found on the entire third floor...

"The only thing that can be asserted now is that the prisoner is an unknown person other than us, and he appeared in front of Mr. Guoyou in a very incredible way, and then disappeared from the third floor..."

Henggou said with sweat dripping from the corners of his eyes: "According to the report of the identification department, the other balconies and windows on the third floor are not used frequently, so judging from the state of dust accumulation, there is no trace of being used by prisoners at all. If Conan's testimony is credible, The prisoner did not escape with a rope... I am afraid that only the evil spirits can do it..."

"Sure enough, those people are causing the trouble," Mrs. Guoyou turned into a pitiful wretch, without the temperament of a noble lady, scratching her face in horror, "It has nothing to do with me..."

Gao Cheng had a headache and looked at the panicked woman: "Madam..."

"Detective Kido!"

When Mrs. Guoyou saw Gao Cheng, she seemed to be holding on to a life-saving straw and said happily: "You must have a solution, right? I will give you the commission fee, double it, as long as it can save me..."

"I'm sorry, Detective Kido," the fat butler said helplessly, "Old friend Mr. Sekiguchi and the master were killed one after another, Madam suffered too much..."

The housekeeper supported Mrs. Guoyou, and asked Henggou, "Officer, if you have any questions, can you ask them later? Everyone is very sleepy..."

"At least we know that the prisoner is an outsider. Can we go back to our room to rest? It's almost 3 o'clock..."

"That's true," Henggou looked at the time and said a little sleepily, "But I still have to arrange for the police to guard your door in case anything happens again."

"it is good……"

"I still have a few questions." Gao Cheng stopped the family of Guoyou who was about to leave, and looked at the trembling Mrs. Guoyou, "Is it true that only four people were killed 13 years ago? Ma'am, I don't know Can't help you either."

"I...I don't know," Mrs. Guoyou opened her mouth in fear, trembling even more severely, "I don't know anything..."

"Even if Madam didn't tell me, I can roughly guess."

Gao Cheng glanced at Mrs. Guoyou.

"In addition to the four members of Guoyou's family who were killed, there may be another person who was killed before the shipwreck... I have asked someone to investigate why the gate came to that ship 4 years ago, although the specific information needs to be confirmed. Look for the Yokohama police in Kanagawa, but the former president of Sekiguchi disappeared at that time, yes, and Sekiguchi has replaced the former president since then..."

"Huh?" Mrs. Guoyou looked at Gao Cheng in a daze.

"I've been wondering that Mr. Sekiguchi came here after receiving the 'Fifth Person's Soul' threat card last year, so the fifth person should be something that Sekiguchi cares about."

Gao Cheng calmly walked past the crowd.

"If Mr. Sekiguchi went on a sea trip 13 years ago to dispose of the corpses, the soul of the fifth person would be able to match, and some of the four people who died that year should have survived and knew about Sekiguchi's dumping of the corpses..."

"Speaking of Yokohama," Henggou said in a daze, "my brother is at the Kanagawa Police Headquarters, maybe you can ask."

"It really has nothing to do with me," Mrs. Guoyou stared blankly at Gao Cheng, almost crying when she came back to her senses, "I didn't know at all, it was Mian Yin's younger brother who found out! The boat suddenly broke down, Mian Yin My younger brother dived and found that the propeller was entangled in a bag, and said that someone's hand was in the bag..."

"Is it really throwing a corpse?" Henggou said in surprise.

"Of course I don't know," Mrs. Guoyou shrank back, "When Brother Mianyin told us, Sekikou suddenly pushed Mr. Mianyin who was driving the boat away to speed up the boat, but the boat capsized and everyone fell into the boat. In the sea..."

"You also said that you were woken up by the checkpoint while sleeping in the cabin..."

"That's because...Guankou only saved me and my husband, and then threatened us, saying that we were helpless accomplices..."

Mrs. Guoyou faced everyone's gaze and emphasized: "At that time, there was only one lifeboat that was inflated. I originally planned to go for help first, but Guankou...he told us to keep silent, saying that other people would not survive anyway. Guankou also asked for a lot of money from us..."

"Let's talk about this later."

Gao Cheng saw that Mrs. Guoyou didn't look like a liar, and he suddenly had a bottom line in his mind.

"No matter what the truth was 13 years ago, it can no longer be hidden. The key now is to find the murderer of this case. The murderer who killed Sekiguchi and Mr. Guoyou is still hiding on the third floor..."

"The murderer is still on the third floor?" Henggou said in a daze, "But we have already searched and found no suspicious person..."

"Did you really not find it?"

Gao Cheng once again met the eyes of the fat butler and the others.

"It's not all the police who are involved in the search, is it?"

"Detective Kido, are you suspicious of us?" Moko the housekeeper dissatisfied, "Can we still hide the murderer?"

Henggou said with a wry smile: "I just let them follow behind. If there are suspicious characters, I can't fail to see them..."

"Then how about searching again?" Gao Cheng interrupted directly, "But it's different from before, this time Police Officer Henggou will be at the end."

"Is there any difference?"

"Of course, sending more police over can also find out the culprit. It's just more convenient."

Gao Cheng stood at the door of the bedroom, looked at the other rooms with a chuckle: "Let's start with the study next door, and find out the murderer together, or the murderer will come out by himself, and another Mr. Mianyin..."

"What, what do you mean?"

Henggou was completely confused about the situation, and amidst his doubts, the study rooms next door suddenly opened by themselves, and a young man who looked exactly like Mian Yin appeared in front of everyone with his mouth pursed.

"Keep the change, please……"

"What's going on?" Henggou stared, "Two, two Mianyin?"

"It's the same as you, Police Officer Henggou, just twins."

Gao Cheng let out a soft breath from the bottom of his heart.

There were not enough clues, and he couldn't be sure that it was the twins who committed the crime until the last moment, but this time he didn't run away...

"Mr. Mianyin's habit of taking notes is two years ago, that is, after the car brake accident. If the two brothers share this notebook, which records big and small things, they can take turns playing the role of Mianyin at Guoyou's house, reducing the number of criminals who will be exposed after committing crimes." The possibility of..."

Gao Cheng looked at the almost identical twin Mianyin.

"The same goes for the wall calendar in Mr. Mianbiki's room. It is full of schedules, and they are written by two people in turn, because the circles in front of the schedule will be drawn differently depending on the date. The frequency of alternation has gradually accelerated since two years ago. , The purpose should be to commit the crime this time, I think that unknown fingerprint should be deliberately left by the younger brother, right?
"My younger brother sent Mr. Guoyou and his wife to the hospital to make an alibi, and then my brother found an opportunity to use the fingerprint recognition machine to open the gate on the third floor, thereby killing the gate. The reason why he hung it on the balcony railing was to prevent the others from being suspected. ...

"The purpose of making an alibi is also to gain the trust of Mr. Guoyou, because for Mr. Guoyou, Mianyin, who was with him at the time, was the most unsuspecting security figure..."

Gao Cheng paused, there was no need for him to continue reasoning, the behavior of the twins could be seen, there was no intention of defending.

"Tell the rest to the police station."

"But," Henggou came back to his senses, "I didn't see anyone on the third floor before..."

"Because Mister Mitsubishi doesn't matter whether he enters the room or leaves and walks behind everyone, as long as he stays in after searching the previous room where the accomplice is hiding, and then the accomplice in the next room can finally mix into the crowd, because the identical twins are not caught. Discover."

"Then what's going on with the Buddha's death?" Bo Hua still couldn't accept it, "The shipwreck is obviously the day of great peace on September 9th..."

"Because 13 years ago, October 10 happened to be the day when the Buddha died, that is, the day the master asked the police to stop the search..."

Mian Yin lowered his head and looked at Gao Chengdao: "So the master himself has been very concerned about this day. The nightmares and car brake failure are just coincidences. I also find it strange that it was not until I met my younger brother who had lost his memory for many years that he regained his memory. Where does my younger brother know the truth..."

"Yes," another Mian Yin said, "I swam to the shore and lost my memory after I was rescued. I only remembered it when I met my brother two years ago."

Mian Yin's expression was complicated: "Detective Kido, although it may be a bit late to say it now, I still want to ask you for a favor, at least to prove the evil deeds committed by that guy..."

"Is it a pass?" Gao Cheng looked at the twins and paused for a while, then nodded and said, "Yes."

Another loss-making business, but the investigation of the pass is just a matter of passing...

(End of this chapter)