Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 911 The Second Truth

In the square-faced men's room on the second floor, the forensic personnel checked the bat brought by the other's face, and found no blood, but there were traces of tape.

"Are you going to use this bat against the red girl?" Uehara Yui watched from the side.

"Yeah, but if it's a ghost..."

"How about it?"

Uehara Yui asked the forensics staff.

"Is it the murder weapon?"

"There are no obvious scars," the forensic officer responded, "the luminol reagent did not respond either. It should not be the murder weapon used to beat the victim, but it seems that something has been pasted on it, and it still feels a little sticky."

"I don't think this should be used as a murder weapon. The dumbbell in the bathtub is enough." Gao Cheng glanced around the room and asked, "There is an air conditioner in this room, why is there an electric fan?"

"It is said that the customer who doesn't like the air conditioner dug it out of the storage room," the square-faced man said uncertainly, "and then just threw it here?"

Gao Cheng fell silent.

This room is just above the living room. According to Xiaolan and Sonoko, they also heard the sound of Chengxiang's vacuum cleaner, the buzzing sound, and the sound of hitting the wall.

When I was questioning Minegishi Minegishi who was in the kitchen at the time, she said that she was cleaning up the kitchen and preparing for dinner. Minegishi Minegishi also talked with Sonoko in the living room next door, and they didn't leave the kitchen until they came back.

That is to say, if Ms. Sumika uses some method to make Sonoko and Xiao Ran hear the sound of the vacuum cleaner, there is a chance to go to the bathroom on the first floor to commit crimes.

There is only the sound of the vacuum cleaner, and the sound of thumping, which does not explain anything...

When leaving the square-faced men's room, Gao Cheng called Uehara Yui to stop: "Miss Yui, I want to ask you something."

"Huh?" Uehara Yui looked puzzled.

"Has there been any incidents of breaking through empty doors in the villas nearby?" Gao Cheng asked directly.

The current case has two key parts, the murder of a red girl 15 years ago, and the death of a girl 12 years ago. Combined with the murder of Mr. Bo Gu now, the clues seem to be a mess. There are always doubts.

This is also the reason why he didn't point out even though he doubted Sumika.

The lack of information can easily lead to misjudgment. Now that there is plenty of time, it is necessary for him to resolve all doubts.

After discovering the body, he thought of many things.

First of all, there are traces of the Red Girl Villa. Someone has obviously entered and exited, but that villa cannot live. If someone really lives in this forest, they must go to other villas.

The police might have something.

And then about Chengxiang and the others...

When eating lunch, Bo Gu was very surprised when he heard the woman in red. He didn't think of the red woman, but immediately thought of his classmate Congzi.

The thing is, he asked from Minegishi Tsumomi that Satoko didn't wear any red clothes that day 12 years ago...

Finally, there is Sumika, the first time we met, everyone was there, but without knowing which one was Shiliang Zhenchun, he directly handed the photo to Shiliang, which was different from the others.

"how do you know?"

Yui Uehara looked at Gao Cheng who was seriously questioning in surprise.

"Since more than ten years ago, every time around this time, someone will call the police in nearby rental villas. Unlike pranks such as breaking windows and throwing things, there are signs that someone broke the door lock and sneaked in for a while, occasionally There will also be testimony that suspicious figures were seen in the forest...

Therefore, the Nagano prefectural police have been unable to conclude that the skeleton sunk in the swamp is the red girl. "

"Is it all this time?"

Gao Cheng looked condensed, took out a photo and continued to ask.

"This is a photo taken by Mr. Bo Gu and the others here 12 years ago. It happened to be the noon of the day when their classmate Congzi disappeared. The girl in the middle wearing a short beige coat is that Congzi...

Was it really this girl that the swamp had found? "

"There shouldn't be anything wrong with this," Uehara Yui took the photo and checked, "The one who discovered her was still an intern at the police academy, Xiaogan who was in charge of patrolling, and police officer Zhufu, but..."

Uehara Yui said strangely: "Listen to Xiaogan, when I found out she was wearing a long red coat, just like a red girl."

"One more thing," Gao Cheng asked with bright eyes, "is there any report on the murder of the red woman that happened 15 years ago? After the incident, the forest should have been searched carefully. What if it appears after 3 years? It should be more difficult to find after 3 years.”

"Probably because it was covered by leaves, it was also under the leaves when I found it."

Uehara Yui just heard from Officer Yamato and didn't know the specific situation, so he said in a little embarrassment.

"And it seems that the swamp was not searched 15 years ago. The report said that the policeman at the scene was injured by the red girl with a knife. Maybe he didn't have time to chase it..."

"Wounded by a knife?"

"Yeah, I resigned after that, and now I'm working in a video game city. Xiaogan didn't come here today because he wanted to ask him about the situation, because this murder may be related to the red girl..."

"Miss Yuyi, can you ask everyone to gather in the living room again?"

Gao Cheng was lost in thought.

He probably knew what was going on.

There is indeed a person in the forest. For more than ten years, the door to enter and exit every time during this time, and the traces of going in and out of Chinu's villa. If there is no accident, it should be the staff lover who also witnessed Chinu's murder back then.

The bedroom where the crime occurred was more dusty than other places, which also pointed to this possibility.

Although it is a third party, but watching his lover being brutally murdered, the stimulation should not be small.

However, the red-clothed woman that Ran and Sonoko saw in the forest was not her, but Chengxiang's disguise in order to create the illusion that the red woman was haunting, and only after hearing the conversation did she know who was Sera Masumi.

The lover is probably looking for revenge on the red girl. Now it seems that Satoko, who left behind 12 years ago, was probably attacked as a red girl because she was wearing a red coat.

The truth 12 years ago...

……

"What? Already know who killed Bo Gu?"

After it rained, the electricity in the villa suddenly stopped, but Uehara Yui still asked everyone to gather in the living room with candlesticks and candles. Hearing that the murderer had been found, the square-faced men were all very surprised.

"Isn't it a red girl?"

"Of course not," Gao Cheng walked into the living room with Xiao Ai behind Uehara Yui, "The one who killed Mr. Bogu has always been in this villa, among the people on the scene..."

"That's why I said it," the square-faced man frowned, "The time of the incident was when Chengxiang and the others were cleaning the room on the first floor. At that time, I went shopping and I hadn't come back. Zhumi was also in the kitchen. Do you want to say that the murderer was Zhumi?" ?"

"Miss Zhumei couldn't have committed the crime." Gao Cheng shook his head and said, "To move the tomatoes that covered the entire bath and the dumbbells of the dead body into the bathroom, it would take several trips, and it would be easy to be discovered, because Miss Chengxiang When they clean the rooms on the first floor, they also clean the corridors."

"Then what is..."

"It's very simple. Whether it's tomatoes or dumbbells, they were already in the bath earlier. The real time when Mr. Bogu was killed was before Xiaolan and the others tested the water temperature."

Gao Cheng reasoned.

"Because of the addition of green bath salts, you can't see anything at the bottom of the pool. If Mr. Bogu's body was pressed in the water by dumbbells at that time, you can't touch it just by testing the water temperature.

"The reason why everyone thinks that the time of the crime occurred after that is because of those tomatoes, but this is just a trick played by the prisoner, in order to make people think that the tomatoes were put in after testing the water temperature, so as to obtain an alibi for themselves." Proof of the trick."

"But," Xiaolan said hastily, "when I tested the water temperature, there were really no tomatoes."

"It just didn't come to the surface."

Gao Cheng asked Xiao Ai to hold a tomato and put it into a glass jug to demonstrate how the tomato would sink to the bottom.

"Tomatoes with high sugar content are different from ordinary tomatoes, they will sink underwater, but as long as the concentration of bath salt is sufficient, this tomato will float again,
Dissolve part of the salt in the water in advance, let the tomato reach the critical state of floating, and finally just sprinkle a little more salt to change the balance, and the tomato will naturally float to the surface.

It was the same as what the murderer did in the bathroom. Yes, the murderer was Miss Sumika who entered the bathroom first. You don’t need to bring anything, just add the last bath salt into the bath as soon as possible to complete this trick. "

Minegishi Tamami and the others followed Gao Cheng's gaze and looked at Sumika whose expression changed drastically.

"Cheng, Chengxiang killed Bo Gu?"

"how can that be?"

The square-faced man responded strongly: "Where does Chengxiang have this time?"

"Of course there is. When she is cleaning the room on the second floor by herself, the sound of the vacuum cleaner can be heard as long as it is turned on. As for the sound of hitting the wall, you can use anything to make it."

Gao Cheng said calmly.

"The upper floor of the living room happens to be Mr. Ren Tian's room. He probably pasted thick cardboard on the bat to make it look like wings, then hung it on a pillar, and used an electric fan set to shake his head to blow across the pillar and was blown up by the wind. When the bat falls, it hits a post, and that post has a hook on it."

"How come..." The square-faced man opened his mouth and looked at the silent Chengxiang.

"Even sophistry is useless," Gao Cheng said at last, "I'm afraid you have discovered it yourself. The cuffs that were soaked in high-concentration salt water when the corpse was sunk have salt crystals after drying... because after the incident, there has been The sleeves that were put down are now rolled up."

"But what's going on here?" The square-faced man asked anxiously, "How could Chengxiang kill Bo Gu?"

"I think it's because of Satoko who died 12 years ago."

Gao Cheng paused, and said to Chengxiang.

"Satoko, who was clearly wearing a short beige coat, was wearing a long red coat when the body was found, probably not by accident, but deliberately trying to play a prank.

"Actually, there is a woman moving around in this forest. Every year at this time of the year, she will come here to seek revenge for the red girl. Perhaps Satoko fell into the swamp because of her pursuit.

The evidence is the murder weapon of the kitchen knife that fell on the edge of the swamp. It was not discovered 15 years ago, but 3 years later, it was discovered that the real reason was that it was not the red girl who dropped the weapon, but the woman who was chasing Satoko. "

"But what does this have to do with Bo Gu?!" The square-faced man said painfully, "If what you said is true, isn't it the woman's fault?"

Chengxiang raised her head, and sweat broke out on her face again: "A woman who seeks revenge for a red girl?"

Next to him, Uehara Yui couldn't help looking at Gao Cheng in surprise.

Why does the truth seem so complicated?Have you even found out about this kind of thing?

"Miss Chengxiang should not know, after all, even the police don't know about it," Gao Cheng continued, "The reason why Mr. Bo Gu was killed was because he heard about the strange reaction of a woman in red in the forest. Bar?"

"Yes, that's right..."

Chengxiang looked at Gao Cheng in a daze, feeling as if she was seen through all of a sudden, she didn't expect that someone would find out to this extent, rather than being a detective, it would be better to say that she became a murderer, even stronger than her. clear.

Tears streamed down Sumika's cheeks.

"I only found out after asking the police a few years ago that Satoko was wearing a red coat...

She was planning to pretend to be alone when everyone went to search in the forest, and then pretended to be a red girl, but this prank requires someone to lead us to her, and I only found out today that that person is Bo Gu...

If he had told the truth at that time, maybe Congzi..."

"boom!!"

Accompanied by a flash of lightning, the glass window of the living room was suddenly smashed, and a long-haired black figure slammed open the window, panting in pain, crawled into the living room, stared straight at Chengxiang sitting next to Gao Cheng with wide-eyed eyes, held high He picked up a sharp kitchen knife and rushed over.

"call!"

The candle was blown out by the wind and rain, and Chengxiang, who was facing the long-haired black shadow, screamed in horror. Even though Gao Cheng stopped her, she still staggered and fell off the chair.

"Senior!"

"Detective Kido!"

Sera Masumi and Uehara Yui were the first to react, and almost immediately, Sera Masumi rushed in front of Gao Cheng.

"You bastard!"

Sera Masumi protected Gao Cheng, shouted and knocked off the sharp blade in the long-haired black shadow's hand by sweeping his legs with the light of the lightning, and together with Uehara Yui restrained the long-haired black shadow that was crying shrillly.

"Red, red girl!!" Yuanzi retreated to the corner in fear in the living room, shivering with Xiaolan.

Gao Cheng was stunned for a moment, and quickly explained: "She is not the red girl, but the victim of the red girl incident, the lover of the staff member who was killed, and a suspicious figure who broke into the empty house in the nearby villa and haunted the forest for more than ten years. It's all her."

"That's her?"

Everyone relighted the candles, and only then did they see the long-haired black shadow clearly.

She was an ordinary woman covered in muddy water and crying. She didn't care about the policemen holding her down. She just stared at Chengxiang who was hiding behind Gaocheng, as if she would bite her teeth if she let go of her hand. All in pain.

"Enough is enough," Gao Cheng squatted in front of the struggling woman, "The real red girl died 15 years ago, your revenge should have ended long ago."

The woman turned her head slowly, met Gao Cheng's gentle eyes and finally calmed down, looked at Chengxiang's real face again, seemed to recognize the reality, and burst into tears, including all the pain of more than ten years in the sound.

(End of this chapter)