Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 65 The Phantom of the Opera
"Jingle Bell!"

In the early morning, Gao Cheng was awakened by a sudden ringing of the phone.

"What's the matter?" Gao Cheng picked up the phone in the guest room at the head of the bed, and when he heard Nanase's voice, he rubbed his eyes and said, "Why are you calling at this time?"

"It's not good, Kido, that weird guy has appeared again!"

"what?"

Gao Cheng got dressed in a hurry, just in time to bump into Nanase who came upstairs to look for him: "Where's the weirdo?"

"outside!"

"Huh!" Behind the villa, Harumi Kiryu was hung from a tree by a steel wire under the wind and rain. Her body was already cold, and the thin steel wire creaked in the wind.

Gao Cheng and the others stood under the tree with umbrellas, looking at the slowly swaying corpse with a heavy expression.

Haru Kiryu's white shirt and pajamas were soaked in rain, and they clinged to his body, which was both seductive and shocking.

"How did this happen... Didn't everyone close the doors and windows?" Gao Cheng glanced over, and Kiryu was only wearing a pair of underwear on his lower body, showing his fair thighs, wearing one shoe on his feet, and the other fell under the tree on the grass.

"Could it be that Kiryu-senpai committed suicide?" Nanase tremblingly looked at Kiryu's sad face.

"Fool," Xiaoqiao Xianjian sneered, "the place is so high, there is no place to step on, can I hang myself? Obviously, she was forcibly brought out by the murderer and hanged on this tree outside her room ..."

"It's not that simple," Gao Cheng pondered. "Senior Kiryu was indeed strangled to death by the murderer, but where did the murderer get into her room, and how did the murderer bring her here? It's so strange..."

"What's so strange about that, the door is locked from the inside, of course from the window..."

Xiaoqiao Kenjian looked back at the open window of Kiryu's room, and the row of footprints extending in the mud under the window, and suddenly his words froze.

"Right?" Gao Cheng squatted on the edge of the muddy ground and continued, "Whether you enter the room from the window or walk from the room to the tree where Kiryu-senpai was hanged, you have to pass through this muddy ground, but there is only one row on the ground. footprint."

Xiaoqiao Xianjian narrowed his eyes slightly to look at Gao Cheng, frowned and said, "In this case, although I don't know how the murderer entered the room, he was the one who carried Kiryu out of the window..."

"The problem is," Gao Cheng picked up the shoes under Kiryu's body, and meditated, "These are the shoes that Kiryu-senpai wore, and there is still mud on the shoes... It is exactly the same as the footprints. This row of footprints belongs to Kiryu-senpai... "

"what?"

"Could it be that she was hanged after she walked under the tree?" Everyone shuddered, "No way?"

Xiaoqiaoxian saw a trace of cold sweat on his conceited face, and looked closely at Gao Cheng, who was thinking on the side of the mud: This, this guy... Who the hell is he?

"Could there really be ghosts?" Gao Cheng suddenly asked uncertainly.

Seeing a stagger, Xiao Qiaoxian wiped off his cold sweat and shouted coldly: "How could there be a ghost?! The murderer must have played some kind of trick!"

As he spoke, he turned to Nanase and asked, "Did you see the masked weirdo?"

"Well," Nanase said with lingering fear, "dressed like a weirdo in an opera house, and even knocked on my window with a weird smile..."

"Weird at the opera house?" Xiaoqiao Xianjian touched his chin and asked intently, "Where do you put the props?"

"Just backstage at the theater."

In the other building theater, Xiaoqiao Xianjian took the lead and hurried to the backstage, but only saw props that had been turned over in a mess.

"The mask and costume of the opera freak are all gone!" Busch Guangyan exclaimed in surprise.

"Sure enough," Xiaoqiao Xianjian took a glance, and then asked in confusion, "But why did that Geyue pretend to be a weirdo in the opera house?"

"It's like in the drama," Yuji Arimori said in horror, "Hidaka and Kiryu... It's exactly the same as the plot of the drama we acted. This is how the weirdo in the opera house kills people. The first incident is to let the steel rope fall and crush them to death." Actress, the second is to strangle the person who sees her, and the third is to let the man who catches up fall into the water and die..."

"The crossbow gun I brought as a prop is also gone! The fourth case in the script is that someone was shot to death..."

Busch Guangyan tremblingly said: "It's Li Jia, that Geyue is indeed the incarnation of Li Jia! It must be a weirdo who imitated the opera house and wanted to kill us all!"

"Is the murderer following the script?"

Seeing the silence for a while, Xiaoqiao Xian suddenly laughed softly: "Hmph, interesting, let me catch this serial killer!"

Gao Cheng silently looked at the young man with excited eyes. It is normal for some detectives to be excited about a confrontation with a criminal. The more complicated the case, the more excited they become. But is it really okay for this guy to set a flag casually like this?

If there is no halo of the protagonist, maybe the next one will die...

Gao Cheng left the theater and thoughtfully walked outside Kiryu Harumi's room on the first floor. The door had been opened by a maid from the outside, but the inside was locked with an anti-theft chain.

As a detective, he will also be excited about solving the case. The more difficult the case, the higher the sense of accomplishment, but he is not only for this sense of accomplishment when he is a detective.

Of course, it's not just for money. After experiencing more incidents, more people still don't want to see tragedies happen.

"Boom!" The rain outside the villa was a little less, but the dull thunder still sounded from time to time.

Gao Cheng held a map of the villa that he had asked for from the maid, on which everyone's room was marked. Nanase's room was next to Kiryu, and the prisoner drew attention after intentionally killing someone.

But how did the criminal kill Kiryu?

Everything at the scene looked as if Kiryu himself walked from the window to the tree and was hanged...

Putting away the drawings, Gao Cheng walked to Hidaka Ori-e's room on the second floor.

This room is directly above Kiryu's room. If you use a rope, you can enter Kiryu's room.

"Huh?" Gao Cheng looked downstairs, and suddenly noticed a clear strangle mark on the window sill, which was deeply sunken, as if it was strangled with a steel wire.

In addition, there were also rubbing marks on the foot of the bed. It seemed that the murderer had indeed gone downstairs with the help of a steel wire.

"Kiroto," Nanase asked excitedly as he followed, "Do you know anything?"

"If there's nothing wrong, that Geyue is hiding in this villa," Gao Cheng murmured, "In short, let's look for it in the villa first."

"Where is the hiding place?" In the restaurant of the villa, the boss Kurosawa asked the maid to pour a glass of milk. After being questioned by Gao Cheng, he mused, "There should be no convenient hiding place in this villa, and besides, there was no place to hide when checking the doors and windows yesterday." Have you looked around?"

Nanase nodded: "Yes, Hajime, I also checked."

Gao Cheng continued to ask: "But maybe there are some secret rooms?"

"I don't know about this..." Boss Kurosawa stood up and looked at the cliff outside the window with a sigh, "I once acted in a play, and my first role was that of an opera freak, that's why I named this hotel a song Theater Pavilion, I didn’t expect the incident of the weirdo in the opera house to be staged here, it’s really surprising..."

"Boss played the opera geek?" Gao Cheng and Nanase said in surprise.

"Yes, but it was many years ago."

Boss Kurosawa seemed to be back on the stage again, facing a doll at the dining table that looked like a stage actor, he said solemnly: "I am a weirdo from the opera house, and I am uglier than you imagined, right? Such an extremely ugly monster, although The karmic fire of hell is burning, but still longing for heaven!"

Gao Cheng looked at the selfless Boss Kurosawa in embarrassment, with that affectionate look, as if he really regarded the doll as the heroine in the play, indeed very powerful, but it seemed a little strange at the scene.

"Sorry, I lost my composure." Boss Kuize came back to his senses, noticed Gao Cheng's strange eyes, turned and left the restaurant with a blushing face.

"Hey, Nanase, did he read the wrong lines just now?" Gao Cheng turned to Nanase and said, "Isn't it 'burned by the flames of hell'?"

"It's a recent thing to read the flames of hell. In the past, it seemed to be karmic fire," Nanase said uncertainly, "Probably..."

"Really? I think karma sounds better."

"Forget about this," Nanase said eagerly, "What should I do now? If Geyue can't be found, maybe someone will be killed!"

"Well, actually, I still don't quite understand why the murderer wanted to kill Hidaka and Kiryu..."

Gao Cheng asked again: "Nanase, is the matter of Rika's disfigurement related to them?"

"Riga-senpai didn't say that."

"I do know a little bit." Teacher Ogata appeared at the door quite charmingly in his pajamas.

"Teacher?" Nanase blushed again, worried, "Teacher, why are you here? It's too dangerous!"

"Just can't sleep."

Ogata-sensei smiled, looked at Gaocheng several times and said meaningfully: "If you want to know the motive of the murder, Tomoyo might know something."

(End of this chapter)