Conan: I really don't want to be near the god of death

Chapter 315 Psychological Murder

Kogoro Mori sat on the chair and expressed his guess, "Could it be that the tiles have been exchanged with other places?"

"The tiles under the wall did leave a lot of scratch marks, and I thought so at first." Yuan Shanheye's face became a little embarrassed when he recalled the scene at that time, "But those tiles started from the top of the wall The color at the bottom becomes lighter and lighter, if you really use the tiles below and the tiles above, the difference in color will definitely be found quickly.”

After listening to Toyama Kazuha's narration, Conan turned to Hattori Heiji and asked, "Brother Hattori, have you seen that tile too?"

"Yeah." Hattori Heiji's face was full of depression, "But because the house is going to be rebuilt, the workers are very concerned about it, and they don't want me to see it at all."

Conan asked Yuan Shan and Ye, "Do you know how long the power outage lasted?"

"Well, maybe five minutes."

Kogoro Mori sat with his hands together, "In this way, it is possible that someone took advantage of the power outage and replaced the tiles that were prepared in advance with the tiles with the lettering."

"I think most people will definitely think so." Hattori Heiji's face was still serious, "but the most important thing is that when Mr. Wakamatsu was killed in Karuizawa, there were the same tiles in the bathroom. And when the body of Mr. Wakamatsu was found, there was obviously a message of his death, but after the police arrived, it disappeared."

"So I think the same technique should be used in the two places, so when I came here, I asked my mother to greet Mr. Wakamatsu's house, and we will go there in a while."

Sera Masumi heard Hattori Heiji's words, leaned forward, pointed at her and asked, "Then can I go together?"

"Sorry." Hattori Heiji smiled and looked at Sera Masumi, "I've already agreed, five people in the past."

After Hattori Heiji finished speaking to Sera Masumi, he ran to Conan, "Is this all right?"

"Ah."

Conan didn't expect Hattori Heiji to directly reject Sera Masumi. Seeing Sera Masumi dissatisfied with his arms akimbo, his face was a little helpless, but Hattori Heiji was also for his own good, and he couldn't say anything else.

"By the way, what are you going to do, Miyano-sensei, after you reject her so much?"

Hattori Heiji's eyes suddenly turned into peas, and he looked at Conan in embarrassment, "I forgot, what should I do? Is it not good if you don't let Miyano-sensei go?"

"What do you think?" Conan looked at Hattori Heiji speechlessly, "Forget it, Mr. Miyano should not be interested in this case, right?"

Miyano Hashi glanced at Hattori Heiji and Conan talking face to face, then looked at Mao Liran who was persuading Sera's innocence, and shook his head, "Hatori-san, since you have agreed with the other party, you should hurry up , I still have something to do."

Hattori Heiji got up and scratched his head in embarrassment, "That... I'm really sorry, Miyano-sensei."

"It's okay." Miyano Hashi waved his hand, "I'm leaving first, I still have something to do when I go home."

Conan watched Miyano Hashi walk out of the office, looked teasingly at Hattori Heiji, covered his mouth with his hand, "Hey, Hattori, it seems that you have offended Miyano-sensei."

"Crow's Mouth." Hattori Heiji looked at Conan who was not tall from the corner of his eyes, "Let's go there too, I think it's getting late."

Just when Hattori Heiji and the five went to Wakamatsu Kohei's house, Miyano Hashi returned home, got in the car directly, and drove out.

On the way, he called Sakurako Yonehara, "Sakura, are you still at the publishing house?"

Yonehara Sakurako was about to get off work, but just after locking the door, she received a call from Miyano Hashi, "Mr. Miyano, I'm about to go back. Is Mr. Wakamatsu's case any progress?"

"Well, that's it." Miyano Yushi drove the car towards the publishing house, "I'll be downstairs in a while, wait for me there, and then we'll go to Mr. Wakamatsu's house together."

Seeing that Miyano Hashi was going to take her to Mr. Wakamatsu's house, Yonehara Sakurako was very excited. Since Mr. Miyano said so, it must have made great progress, and she quickly agreed.

After waiting for a while, Yonehara Sakurako saw Miyano Hashi's car parked in front of her.

So she quickly got into the car, fastened her seat belt, and quickly asked Miyano Hashi, "Miyano-sensei, have you already contacted the police officer in Nagano Prefecture?"

"No." Miyano Hashi started the car and went to Wakamatsu Kohei's home, "I got some clues from other places. Just now on the way back I ran into Hattori classmate who came to Tokyo. Coincidentally, he received a letter. , the content of the letter is about Mr. Wakamatsu."

"Ah?!" Yonehara Sakurako looked at Miyano Yushi in surprise, "Miyano-sensei, are you a student from the persuasion department? Yes, I remembered. When I was a housekeeper, Mr. Wakamatsu often chanted Hattori classmate, talk about how smart he is, if only he had such a powerful son."

Miyano Hashi thought that Hattori Heiji's family and Wakamatsu Kohei were just acquainted with each other simply, but he did not expect that the relationship between the two families was not bad.

"Is Mr. Wakamatsu's family on good terms with Hattori's family?"

"Probably." Sakurako Yonehara put her finger on her chin, "Could it be that old...ah no, Mr. Wakamatsu knew that someone was going to kill him, so he wrote to Hattori-san in advance?"

Miyano Hashi's expression tightened, "No, the content of that letter looks more like it was written by the murderer."

"Written by the murderer?" Sakurako Yonehara opened her mouth wide, "But why did the murderer write a letter to Hattori-san? Could it be that the murderer was a member of Wakamatsu's family? No, no way."

Miyano Hashi glanced at Sakurako Yonehara, and continued to explain, "Although the content of the letter seems to be written by the murderer, I don't think it should be the murderer who killed Mr. Wakamatsu, but it seems to be a reminder."

"Send a reminder?" Yonehara Sakurako's face was full of confusion, "Miyano-sensei, I'm a little confused, I don't understand what you're saying."

Miyano Yushi smiled slightly, "It's okay, you just need to show me the way. I think Hattori-san and the others should be arriving at Mr. Wakamatsu's house soon."

Seeing that Miyano Hashi assigned her a task, Yonehara Sakurako was full of energy, "I see, Miyano-sensei, turn left ahead and go straight."

Miyano Hashi followed the route that Yonehara Sakurako said, "Sakura."

"Ah? Miyano-sensei, what's the matter?"

Miyano Hashi stopped the car and waited for the traffic light, "Is the bathroom in Mr. Wakamatsu's house all the kind of tiles that gradually become lighter from top to bottom?"

"Bathroom?!" Sakurako Yonehara blinked, "Yeah, Mr. Wakamatsu seems to like that kind of tile very much, and often replaces it himself. I have also seen that kind of tile with my own eyes, and the visual effect is very good."

Seeing the green light, Miyano Hashi started the car and continued to drive along the route Sakurako Yonehara said, muttering slowly getting lighter.

"Sakura, maybe I already know why the death message disappeared."

"Ah?!" Yonehara Sakurako was extremely excited when she heard Miyano Hashi's words, "Miyano-sensei, is it true? But haven't you been to the scene yet?"

"You know the shadow diamond trompe l'oeil? It's also known as the crazy diamond."

Hearing Miyano Yushi's words, Yonehara Sakura was even more confused, "I don't understand, what is this? Is it related to the case?"

"Of course it's related." Miyano Yushi drove the car quickly on Mihua Street, "And it's very important. The murderer used this thing to hide the news of Mr. Wakamatsu's death."

Seeing Sakurako Yonehara's confused face, Miyano Yushi smiled, "Let me explain briefly to you."

"The upper and lower corners of each rhombus are between 30 and 40 degrees. A little lightening method is used on the tiles. The human eye will regard the shades of the borders of adjacent rhombuses as visual focal points."

"Because I only look at one part of it, the whole thing is visually reflected. The upper rhombus and the lower rhombus seem to have changed into other colors. In short, it is a subconscious calculation error of the brain."

"Due to the deviation of the angle between two rhombuses of the same color, the overlapping of light reflection on the color results in visual confusion. The brain automatically performs fuzzy calculations, so the boundary parts connected by several rhombuses will have different shades of color."

After listening to Miyano Hashi's explanation, Yonehara Sakura finally understood what is called the shadow diamond illusion, "Mr. Miyano, you mean, those tiles are all the same color, and it is only because of the illusion that the color gradually becomes lighter. ?”

"Yes." Miyano Hashi once again stopped the car and waited for the traffic light, and at the same time took out his phone to find out the phone number of Yamato Gansu, "The murderer must have used this method. I was worried about calling the Nagano prefectural police rashly." In the past, whether the phone call would arouse their dissatisfaction, but in this situation, if the murderer can be found, it doesn't matter so much."

Yonehara Sakurako saw that Miyano Hashi had almost broken through the method of disappearing the death message, so she turned her body slightly, her eyes fixed on Miyano Hashi's phone call.

Yamato Gansuke's call was quickly connected, and Yamato Gansuke's rough voice came from the phone, "Hey, Miyano-sensei, why did you call me?"

"Officer Yamato, are you busy now? I have something to ask you."

Yamato Kansuke looked at Uehara Yui who was driving beside him, and said to Miyano Hashi, "Miyano-sensei, just say what you want."

"It's like this. A vice president of my publishing house. Her former employer was killed in Karuizawa last month when she was a housekeeper. That person is Kohei Wakamatsu. Do you have any impression?"

Hearing Miyano Hashi's words, Dahesuke's expression changed, "Miyano-sensei, even though there is a rule not to disclose the case casually, but if you ask Miyano-sensei, I will definitely tell you. But this There's really nothing I can tell you about."

Miyano Hanshi frowned, "Officer Yamato, what's the matter?"

"Probably." Dahesuke continued, seeing that he was still far away from the villa, "This case has just been transferred to the headquarters, and it used to be in charge of the jurisdiction. So after Uehara and I took over the case, we immediately drove to the villa. , is on the way now. I can’t confirm whether those things are really in line with the situation based on what I know from the case file, and I can’t tell you now.”

It was only then that Miyano Hashi realized why the case had not been resolved even though it was in Nagano County. It turned out that the case was not in the hands of the Nagano trio in the first place.

"It turned out to be like this. However, Officer Yamato, because Sakura used to be a housekeeper at Mr. Wakamatsu's house, I would like to communicate with you about some clues. Although I think Officer Yamato will know what happened when he went to the scene, but I will give you some clues now." As you said, you can search directly when you arrive at the scene.”

Yamato Gansuke heard what Miyano Hashi said, and was very interested in the clues that Miyano Hashi said, "Miyano-sensei, since you got the clues, just say it."

"Yeah." Miyano Yushi told Yamato Gansuke something while driving, "Officer Yamato should have known that the deceased had left a death message, but after the police went, the death message disappeared, right?"

"Well, I'm also very puzzled by this matter, but I don't think the death message could just disappear like that. It must still be hidden in that bathroom."

"Officer Yamato, I guessed the same. I also thought so after hearing what Sakura told me about the case at the beginning." Miyano Yushi paused, "Just now I got another clue about the dead man's bathroom. The tiles in the bathroom are diamond-shaped, and the color gradually becomes lighter from top to bottom, Officer Yamato can understand what I mean."

"Crazy diamond!" Yamato Dasuke's face became serious, "Mr. Miyano, this clue is very timely. There is no description about this tile in the case file we read. Now that we have this clue, we will go directly to it in the future." Just check it, and I'll notify the forensics class to come over."

"Thank you, Officer Yamato. Mr. Wakamatsu is a person that Sakura respects very much. He once helped Sakura get out of trouble when she was most helpless. Please pay more attention to this matter."

Hearing what Miyano Hashi said, Yamato Gansuke pretended to complain, "Mr. Miyano, I am a policeman. It is my responsibility to solve the case and arrest the murderer. I am very concerned about every case. of."

"That was my fault. I'm sorry, Officer Yamato." Miyano Yushi hurriedly corrected his mistake, "But I still hope that Officer Yamato will notify me as soon as he finds hopeful news. I am currently heading to Mr. Wakamatsu's house. on the way."

"Don't worry, Miyano-sensei, I will notify you as soon as I find the news of the death." After speaking, Yamato dared to help and couldn't help sighing, "Miyano-sensei, I am really happy for your subordinates, having such a boss as you."

"Haha, Officer Yamato was joking." Miyano Yushi glanced at Yonehara Sakurako, "Since I come to work in our company and encounter difficulties, I, the boss, must help if I can. What's more, I also You're a detective, aren't you?"

"That's right. I really appreciate Miyano-sensei's reasoning ability. Miyano-sensei, I still have to call the forensics class, so I'll hang up first."

(End of this chapter)