Kindaichi of Kexue World

Chapter 132 It's All Shijian's Problem

"It seems I have a good eye. The two detectives I hired saw through my plan."

"Uncle Mao Li saw through you, how could you still escape here?"

"I escaped while everyone was listening intently to Mr. Maori's reasoning, including the police. The funny thing is that no one noticed me."

"Mr. Mori didn't notice it either?"

"He reasoned through the live broadcast in the studio, not at the scene."

Kinda Kazuo knew in his heart that it was probably Conan who stunned Mouri Kogoro again and used a voice changer to reason on his behalf, otherwise he wouldn't have caused such trouble.

"Don't talk about them. Mr. Mori has read the music scores left by Aso Keiji, mastered the key evidence about me, and followed the clues to catch a little mistake I left on the scene, so he found me. Now you I just appeared, probably because I didn’t have the chance to see the sheet music, and you have never been to the scene of the murder, so I’m curious how you knew I was the murderer?”

"How should I put it? I haven't been to two of the three crime scenes. Most of the details of the case have been told by others, so I may not have many preconceived notions, so I found some flaws in you."

"All ears."

"Can we change places..."

"No!" The man firmly rejected the request.

"..." Jin Tianyi was silent for a while: "Okay, I will chat with you here for a while, but I still hope you can think about leaving here with me."

"There was something I couldn't figure out before. I clearly saw a figure escaping from the warehouse in a hurry, but judging from the time of Ken Nishimoto's death, this person was not the murderer. Why? It was because Takeshi Nishimoto died. Half an hour before it was discovered, the evidence was the tape recorder that had just stopped and could only run for half an hour. If the figure who fled in a hurry was the murderer, he actually stayed in the room motionless for half an hour for no reason. , which is almost impossible.”

"But if the murderer is not that figure, there is still a problem. Judging from the layout of the scene, the murderer made an obvious mistake. He forgot to put stepping stones. Could the murderer who has always been very meticulous in his actions actually make such a low-level mistake? I don’t think so, unless he did it on purpose or forgot in a hurry.”

"The murderer's purpose is to put all the blame on Nishimoto Ken, and he will not deliberately leave the footings to reveal flaws. It is meaningless to do so, so he may only be in a hurry and didn't take care of it."

"Why was he in such a hurry? Obviously no one disturbed him at that time. Speaking of disturbance, it could only be when Saburo Aida came to open the door half an hour later. At that time, there was indeed a figure running away like a frightened bird. But in this way, the reasoning returned to the original point, and there was an extra half an hour in the middle!"

"At this moment, I thought, what if it wasn't for this half an hour, then everything would be perfect. The murderer was setting up the scene after killing Nishimoto Ken, but it happened that Aida Saburo came, and he had to run away in a hurry , so I forgot to place the stepping things.”

"Time, time, the problem is time. This reminds me of another very confusing thing."

"In the case of Heiyan Tatsuji's murder, the murderer first made an appointment with Heiyan Tatsuji, killed him, and then asked Nishimoto Ken to arrive at the scene at the appointed time to take the blame."

"The post-processing work he needs to do is: use Kuroiwa Tatsuji's blood to draw a musical score on the ground with a code within 5 minutes, then play the prepared tape, and then escape calmly within 5 minutes. But here There is a problem. The success of this strategy is based on the fact that Ken Nishimoto is a serious and punctual person. But everyone knows that Ken Nishimoto is crazy, his mind is not very clear, and his behavior is unpredictable. Conan also said that Ken Nishimoto should go The time to go to the studio is not exactly on the hour, which means that he may arrive early at any time. Furthermore, according to the known music score information, this music score requires two rows of staffs, a total of more than 20 notes and each I tried several times to copy the diacritical marks. Even if I copied it with a pen on paper, it would still take three or four minutes to draw the score so neatly, not to mention using my fingers dipped in blood on the ground. Write."

"The time limit for this plan is too tight. No matter which link goes wrong, it will be a disaster for the murderer."

"At this time, I thought, it would be great if the time was longer, half an hour, no, just 10 minutes longer!"

"Time, time again! Why does the problem always appear in time?"

"Let's go back to the case of Ken Nishimoto's murder."

"In fact, it's not troublesome to put a stepping object. There are a lot of messy cardboard boxes in the warehouse. It doesn't take a few seconds to move one. Did the murderer forget it in a panic, or is there something more important than a fake suicide? "

"Let's see what the murderer did. He put down the fake suicide note used to frame the crime and played the third movement of "Moonlight Sonata." It didn't take even a second to put the suicide note. It must not have delayed putting the stepping stone. Then the only possibility is to play music. But to play music, you need to press a button, and it doesn't take a second?"

"Thinking of this, I suddenly opened my mind. What if the murderer spent time playing tricks on the tape recorder!"

"We judge the time based on the playback time of the tape recorder, but if the tape recorder is tampered with, then the extra half hour before can be explained. The murderer only needs to spend a few seconds to fast forward the tape to the end. Already!"

"Just like that, the extra half hour disappeared, and everything made sense. The figure who climbed out of the window was the murderer!"

"Since this tape recorder can be manipulated, what about the previous one? This reminds me of the 10 minutes that are not enough."

"What if the murderer made the tape recorder turn itself over?"

"One side is half an hour, plus the reverse 5-minute blank, that is 35 minutes! At this time, there is no need to worry about Ken Nishimoto's appointment in advance, and there is no need to worry about not finishing the score."

"The reason why the murderer played "Moonlight Sonata" was not entirely to commemorate Keiji Aso and cause panic. The most important thing was to cause everyone's thinking inertia. The murderer escaped for the first time in the five blank minutes of the tape. , as long as a similar situation occurs after that, everyone will think that the murderer used this method to escape again. However, it is not like this every time after that. The second time was a few hours longer, and the third time was half an hour longer. , the murderer then had a perfect alibi.”

"But there is a fatal problem with this reasoning."

"It's not just the tapes and video recorders that prove the time of death, there's another crucial piece of proof."

"That's the autopsy!"

"The results of the autopsy and the tape recorder matched perfectly, which made everyone convinced of the time of death of the deceased. That's why the previous investigation went into a maze, and it was impossible to find a murderer who met all the conditions!"

"If my previous reasoning is true, then the results of the autopsy are completely untrustworthy."

"If the autopsy results are not credible... When I think of this, I start to doubt you, Dr. Narumi Asai!"

As time went by, the full moon rose higher and higher, and a ray of moonlight sneaked into the piano room and shone on the black shadow.

Narumi Asai was playing with a lighter in his hand, and looked at Kazuto Kaneda with a smile.

(End of this chapter)