Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 644 Snow's Trick
Although the blizzard had subsided, the cold wind was still blowing by the pond from time to time, and he kept trying to get into his collar.

Gao Cheng tightened his collar, looked back at Shancun Cao who was talking with several college students, and his eyes fell on the pond again.

The victim's body has been taken away by the police for forensic autopsy. Under such circumstances, it is impossible to determine a more specific time of death, so the work mainly focuses on the cause of death.

Even if it is drowning, it does not necessarily mean drowning in this pond, and then there is no medicine.

There are two possibilities for the current situation. One is that Shuozi rushed down with the skis by himself, and the other is that someone got him off.

Considering the corpse's attire, it must have been called out of the room by someone suddenly, so he only wore a ski suit. The skis and ski boots placed in the shared locker may have been taken out by the prisoner.

All things considered, Sakuko may have lost consciousness or died before falling into the pond.

The key is to wait for the autopsy report. If it can be found out, the only way left is to throw Shuozi from the cliff into the pond...

Above the cliff, Gao Cheng and a group of people from Shancun returned to the edge of the cliff through the bridge.

A section of the fence that was originally used to protect safety was missing, and a "Danger" sign was erected in the middle.

"It's probably here, where she fell..."

Yamamura took a cautious look at the pond below.

"Really, if the railing is broken, is there just such a small sign?"

"It was broken last week, and it is said that it is going to be repaired this weekend..."

"Well, it looks like there's no sign of the skis."

"With such a large amount of snow, some of them are gone, right?"

"That's right," Yamamura Cao nodded with his hands behind his back pretending to be deep, and then looked at Gao Cheng questioningly, "What should we do next, Detective Kido?"

Gao Cheng's head was full of black lines, and he casually looked at the shoehorn's face that had been standing by the side. Seeing that the shoehorn's face was dodging to avoid sight, he led everyone to the snowman next to the hotel.

"Has Mr. Banqiao been making snowmen here? Have you heard any noise?"

"Uh, I was here until 1 o'clock, because I had an appointment for lunch at 1 o'clock... But I have been concentrating on this work, and the wind and snow are also very strong, and the wind is very loud, so I didn't hear anything..."

"is it?"

Gao Cheng put his hands together and stopped asking any more questions, turned to the mountain village and said, "Let's protect the scene first, everyone goes to the lobby to wait for the autopsy results."

"Eh? It really wasn't an accident?" Yamamura said excitedly, "Can Detective Kido do some sleep deduction?"

"..."

"That," shoehorn face asked, "may I stay here, because I don't have enough time, so I want to finish this work quickly..."

Shancun Cao leaned over to the snowman curiously: "What is this?"

"It's Yukio..."

"It's just a semi-finished product. Let Banqiao design a draft first, and then we can discuss it."

"Speaking of which," Gao Cheng interjected, "it doesn't seem to have changed from when we first saw it..."

"Uh," the shoehorn said with embarrassment, "I haven't figured it out yet, maybe I'm too anxious."

"Oh, let's go back to the lobby and rest first, maybe the inspiration will come later."

"what?"

Back in the hotel lobby, everyone had different expressions. Ayumi and the others gathered around and kept discussing who the murderer was, while Conan leaned on the side alone, frowning and meditating, looking at Gao Cheng from the corner of his eye from time to time.

Gao Cheng stayed for a while before leaving the lobby, and asked the police to search the room of Shoehorn Zilian Banqiao, especially to check the drain.

Because the murderer probably drowned Miss Sakuko in the room first, and then transported the body to the pond. In this case, the hot spring water in the pond should also be used.

Hot spring water is much easier to check for composition than regular water, and it can be done on the spot…

"Does Detective Kido already know who the murderer is?" Yamamura was both surprised and happy.

"I didn't say that, it's just that Banqiao is the most likely murderer at present." Gao Cheng said with blank eyes.

"why?"

"Leaving aside the technique and evidence for now, Ms. Sakuko will wear a ski suit to explain that she was called outside at first, so Banqiao who has been staying outside is the most suspicious, and then there is the snowman who has been studying the work in such a big snowstorm , and it happens to be on this side of the cliff, if the murderer is someone else, would he choose to do it here?"

Gao Cheng looked at the stupid Shancun and shook his head.

"And Banqiao, who has been here, is definitely not doing nothing."

"Eh?" Yamamura was a little dazed, "Isn't it a research work?"

"It's just a cover."

Gao Cheng walked to the side of the semi-finished Snow Man.

"The reason why the snowman's lower body is not moving is not because he has no inspiration, but because he can't move. Banqiao needs this big snowball below to stuff Miss Sakuko inside and push him off the cliff. The snowball rolls behind the pond, Because the water in the pond comes from a hot spring, it will melt quickly, and Miss Sakuko's body will naturally float on the water as it was when it was discovered..."

"Even if you are a detective, you can't talk nonsense!"

Several college students came over suddenly, and the student called Benshan said angrily: "Shuozi is small, but it is absolutely impossible to roll down the cliff in this kind of snowball. If the snowball is not strong enough, it will fall halfway." It’s broken, why did it just fall into the pond?”

"Yeah, if it doesn't disintegrate, it needs to be at least 2 meters in diameter, and one person can't push it at all..."

Gao Cheng looked back and saw several people frowned.

Before he finds absolute evidence, he doesn't want to start reasoning, because there is a contingency in everything, and he may make mistakes. If he is not careful, he may be the second Tokizuya.

With his current reputation, the consequences of getting the case wrong are much more serious.

"What if the snowball hardens?" Gao Cheng murmured, "I checked the place when the police came over. There is still a salty smell on the snow, which should be the residual salt."

"Salt."

"Generally speaking, salt can be used to melt snow, because adding salt to snow will lower the freezing point and cause the snow to melt, but before it melts, it will absorb the surrounding heat, causing other surrounding snow to freeze and harden. Ski resort tracks and snow houses Reinforcement usually uses this principle..."

Gao Cheng looked at the bewildered crowd and paused in his words.

"Anyway, as long as you know that salt can be used to harden snowballs..."

"But," Ben Shan came to his senses, "Isn't the snowman still here?"

"It was time to do it again in a hurry. Of course, only the body part was needed, which is why only the head was sculpted beforehand."

Gao Cheng reached out and picked up the snowman's head, revealing the big snowball underneath.

"Now only the head is reinforced, and it can be redone at any time..."

"What are you kidding?"

"It takes time and physical strength to make such a big snowball again, right? Banqiao, who ate with us, doesn't look like it after work..."

Ben Shan defended his classmates: "And it may not necessarily be Banqiao."

"Only he can do it, because even if you only need to recreate a big snowball that acts as a body, not everyone can do it, because only Mr. Banqiao, who made the snow boy, can do the detailed modification of the connection between the head and the body... It's almost exactly the same as what I saw before."

Gao Cheng smiled lightly and looked at the shoehorn face whose face changed drastically.

"Moreover, Mr. Banqiao is the only one who can easily make Miss Sakuko put on her ski clothes again to go outside. Unfortunately, she ignores the ski goggles and gloves and hat... Or, Mr. Banqiao wants to change his words and say that he is not in this place at all. There are others What about people committing crimes and framing them?"

"Banqiao?"

Both Benshan and Mahua refused to believe looking at the shoehorn's face.

"Could it be..."

"Detective Kido, where's the evidence?" Benshan gritted his teeth, "The matter of the snowman can't be the evidence that Banqiao is the criminal..."

"There is no proof yet."

Gao Cheng turned his gaze to the direction of the cliff.

"Of course these are just my reasoning, but will the evidence not be found? It's just a matter of time. After all, judging from the method, the murderer should have killed Ms. Shuozi in his own room, so it's not easy to deal with traces."

(End of this chapter)