Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 855 Deceiving Eyes

"It's really strange."

Gao Cheng was lost in thought.

I don't know which case this time is, I took the initiative to send a letter and performed tricks in the bathroom, and added the reminder-like message, "It is only my body that disappeared, not the words."

It didn't look like the sender was a criminal. If it was a prisoner who announced a murder, there was no need to send that kind of letter ten days after committing a crime, and there was no need to provoke a high school student detective.

On the contrary, it's a bit like someone sent a letter to lure Hattori over after knowing the truth.

So, what is the secret of tiles?The house remodel in Osaka must have something to do with the secret...

"Kirodo!" Hattori said angrily, "What do you think?!"

"what?"

"I asked you just now, do you want to go to Mr. Wakamatsu's house in Tokyo to investigate together!! I told them that 5 people would go there, but the uncle seems to have no time..."

"If it's about investigating the case," Gao Cheng said calmly, "Then I'll go to the scene of the Karuizawa crime. You haven't been there, have you?"

"I haven't been there before," Hattori said in a daze, "Even if you want to see it, you can't see it. It belongs to Nagano Prefecture. It's impossible for you, an irrelevant person, to go in, right? Eh... wait, the Nagano prefectural police in charge of Karuizawa... ...You don't want to ask the one-eyed police officer for help, do you?"

Gao Cheng smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about it."

Although it is a bit troublesome, there should be no problem with his relationship with Dahe Ganzhu to assist in the investigation across regions.

Shiliang Zhenchun pointed to himself: "In this case, I will be with you..."

"I'm sorry," Hattori interrupted apologetically, "This is Tokyo after all, so it's more convincing to bring an uncle."

"Me?" Mori Kogoro said blankly holding the newspaper, "It's not impossible to go, but at night..."

"It might be easier to investigate if the legendary famous detective Mori Kogoro came to the door, right?"

"That's right."

The uncle was aroused interest, and felt that it came to his heart all of a sudden.

Rather than playing mahjong and drinking, maybe it would be better to investigate?

……

In Nagano County, Yamato Kansuke just planned to go to the villa where the crime happened to investigate at night, and immediately agreed to it after receiving a call from Gao Cheng, and asked Uehara Yui to pick up Gao Cheng in Karuizawa.

"It turns out that Detective Kido also has a villa in Karuizawa!" Yui Uehara was quite surprised when she saw the lakeside villa where Gaocheng settled.

Unexpectedly, Gao Cheng is still a little rich man, and he can't tell it at all.

I bought it when I came here to handle a case before. I originally planned to open a branch, but it was still idle, and I only come here occasionally on vacation.

Gao Cheng has always been very satisfied with this lakeside villa. Although it is not big or spectacular, it is exquisite and poetic, and it is rare in Karuizawa.

The original owner of the villa was the combined family that had a black magic incident nearby. Now they are all dead, and the rest are in prison, but Gao Cheng has no interest in that big villa.

"Is this the first time for Miss Yui to be at the scene?" Gao Cheng asked when he got into Uehara Yui's police car.

"Yes," Uehara Yui drove, "Although I have read the report, Xiaogan still wants to see the scene and find out the murderer's methods."

"A method?"

Gao Cheng looked out at the night.

"Investigators didn't do a blood test on all the tiles, did they?"

"Yes, yes, just checked around the body...is there any problem?"

"What you see may not be the truth. I don't know what trick the prisoner used, but I think the blood-stained tiles should not have been taken away by the prisoner." Gao Cheng definitely speculated.

"Why?" Uehara Yui looked puzzled, "Kiroto, haven't you ever been to the scene?"

"Actually, just today, I heard from Hattori in Osaka that a guy who was suspected of being a criminal sent him a letter, and he also specially demonstrated a crime technique. The tiles with engraved letters also disappeared, and he left a message saying that the text was not there. Disappeared," Gao Cheng explained quietly, "Although I couldn't see the scene, I heard that there were many scratched tiles in the corner..."

Wakamatsu's villa.

Yamato Gansuke waited until the two of Gao Cheng were in the bathroom together, and when he saw the diamond-shaped tiles on the floor and the wall, his expression changed instantly.

"Hey, Uehara! I've never heard of this! The tiles on the scene are like this!"

"Is there any problem?" Uehara Yui asked in surprise, "As written in the report, the overall color gradually fades from top to bottom..."

"No, the overall feeling is an illusion of the eyes!"

Dahe Gansuke touched the tiles and said in a deep voice: "This should be a diamond-shaped illusion with shadows, and it is a human-made visual error..."

"That's right," Zhu Fu Gaoming said after coming in from the outside, "For the strange oblique, the angles of the upper and lower acute angles of each rhombus are between 30 degrees and 40 degrees, and they are all slightly angled from top to bottom. Color changes.

"When the human eye observes the shade of the color at the junction, it will capture each point separately..."

Gao Cheng stood on the side in a daze. He didn't understand the specifics of visual errors and brain loopholes, but he could understand that visual deception was never uncommon.

In general, each tile here is actually the same color, because it was originally from the same batch of tiles.

On the way here, he had a similar guess...

Because all clues point to visual errors.

The combination of the notches on the corner of the wall that He Ye saw was likely to be those English letters, but they were replaced by someone through a power outage, so it is said that the text has not disappeared, and the clicking sound should be the sound made by prying tiles.

"Gao Ming!" Yamato Gansuke scolded, "What are you doing here? Isn't the headquarters taking over this matter?!"

"Oh?" Zhu Fu Gaoming said unexpectedly, "Haven't you heard? I was transferred back to the county police headquarters today, and thanks to the help of the city detectives last time, I also spent a lot of effort..."

"Beep beep!"

Gao Cheng's cell phone rang suddenly in the bathroom, and he hurried outside to answer it, ignoring the two Nagano policemen who were fighting each other.

"Yes, I was at the scene in Karuizawa... What? The president's son was killed?! Hey, hey..."

"We still don't understand the situation," Hattori looked at the police officers investigating the scene with a heavy expression, "When everyone shared the Baumkuchen, that guy was poisoned and killed right under our noses! The strange thing is, except for the growth ring he ate, none of the other cakes seemed to be poisoned..."

"Then how do you know that the cake was poisoned?"

"Because someone threw the poison capsule into the black tea nearby to dissolve..."

Hattori's dark face was dripping with sweat.

"There are only two pieces of Baumkuchen in 8 equal parts. That guy just chose the poisonous one. I don't know how the prisoner did it... What's the situation with you?"

"I already know the method of disappearing the text, and I still have to wait for the forensic personnel to come and investigate. The problem now is..."

Gao Cheng raised his head, turned to look at the bathroom and asked, "Officer Yamato, who was the first to find the body?"

"It's the maid of the Wakamatsu family," Uehara Yui said, "It's the maid who said that she saw the president's blood writing with her fingers."

"Only her?"

"It seems that Mrs. Wakamatsu is still there. The maid called Mrs. Wakamatsu over, but Mrs. Wakamatsu didn't notice the blood..."

"Really?" Gao Cheng frowned, "In this case, the case may not be over yet."

"Eh?"

(End of this chapter)