My neighbor's name is Conan

Chapter 824 Death message was tampered with?

"Do you really believe in ghosts and curses?" Aoki Matsu asked speechlessly.

Park Zhimu and Xiong said awkwardly: "No."

"This is indeed not something a normal adult would do. Do you have some other purpose in doing this?" asked Kogoro Mouri.

"Well, well!" Park Zhimu and Xiong immediately began to stammer, their eyes evasive.

At this time, Yagawa Hiroshi suddenly remembered something and said quickly, "I remember, Mr. Park Zhimu, you seemed to have said that someone always called you strangely, right?"

"Ah, that is..." Park Zhimu and Xiong hesitated again.

You can tell there's a problem at first glance.

Maori Kogoro quickly asked: "Yakawa, what's going on?"

"Let me think about it." Yagawa Hiroshi said after recalling for a moment, "It was about a month ago. We met in a pub and drank together. Halfway through the drink, Mr. Park Zhimu suddenly received a call.

I heard him say 'Hello, hello', and then he looked very surprised, and then he hung up the phone. He didn't look very happy at the time, so I asked, 'What's wrong?'

Mr. Park Ji-mok said, "Recently, I have received some strange phone calls. Who is it?"

After a pause, Yagawa Hiroshi looked at Park Nobuki and said, "I see you look like you've been threatened by someone?"

"Ah!" Park Zhimu and Xiong immediately retorted when they heard this: "How is it possible..." But he lowered his head again, looking like he was worried about something.

At this time, Ke Erfeng rarely stopped holding the figurine, but looked up and said, "Now that I think of it, I remember Mr. Zenan also received a strange letter."

"Really?" asked Kogoro Mouri.

Ke Erfeng nodded. "About a month ago, I went to the publishing house to discuss the magazine. I walked into the office and asked Mr. Zenan if he knew about the rumor. I saw Mr. Zenan holding an envelope. As I was talking, he opened the envelope.

Then I saw Mr. Zenan opened the envelope and said angrily, "Humph, here we go again!" I leaned over to take a look and saw that it was a photo of Mr. Zenan.

But there was a blurred head of Xiao Huang on the photo, right next to Mr. Zenan's head. Mr. Zenan immediately crumpled up the photo and said it was nothing and must be just a prank.

"He said it happened again, so it happened more than once," said Aoki Matsu.

"Yeah." Ke'erfeng nodded in response.

Hearing this, Aoki Matsu looked at Aihara Yoji and ordered, "Call Inspector Shiratori immediately and ask him about the situation and see if Mr. Zenan has been threatened by anyone."

The case of the death of editor Zenan was previously handled by Shiratori Renzaburo.

"Yes!" replied Aihara Yoji.

"Mr. Zenan must have been threatened and then killed by the murderer." Kogoro Mouri said in a positive tone.

Aoki Matsu looked at Kazuo Parkoki, who was even more frightened by Kogoro Maori's words, and asked, "Mr. Parkoki, have you ever encountered such a situation?"

"Ah, I seem to..." Park Zhimu and Xiong hesitated.

Maori Kogoro immediately said upon seeing this: "Please tell the truth."

Hearing this, Park Zhimu and Xiong lowered their heads and said, "If you want to talk about being threatened, I have been there before."

Upon hearing this, Qing Musong immediately asked, "How did he threaten you?"

"They said that Miss Xiaohuang did not die in an accident, but died in a party held here, and that Mr. Hirasaka hid Miss Xiaohuang's body." Park Zhimu Kazuo said evasively.

But Yagawa Hiroshi looked at Keerfeng and said in a strange tone, "There are similar rumors on the Internet."

Ke Erfeng just smiled.

"That should be spread by some people who spread rumors. Mr. Zenan and Mr. Hirasaka have also been threatened." Park Nomu Kazuo looked up at Aoki Matsu and said, "But, that's just a rumor without any basis. I didn't expect..."

At this point, Park Zhimu Hexiong grabbed his head with both hands and said in a state of collapse: "I didn't expect that Mr. Zenan would be killed like that!"

So when he received the threat, he also became afraid.

"The person who threatened them is the murderer?" asked Mao Lilan.

Qing Musong looked at Park Zhimu and asked, "Are you calling everyone together just to find the person who is threatening you? You are holding a séance to find the person, is that right?"

"Yes, yes." Park Nomu Kazuo responded, "This is what I decided after discussing with Mr. Hirasaka, Xiao Huang's fanatical admirer - Ke'er."

Hearing her own name, Ke'erfeng rarely looked up at Park Zhimu and Xiong.

But Park Noki Kazuo has already continued, "Ms. Akiko, who regards Ms. Xiaohuang as her spiritual leader, and Ms. Izumi. Mr. Yagawa, the assistant director of the TV station, is also a little suspicious, and so is Mifune."

Yagawa Hiroshi was a little angry when he heard this, "That's why we were called here!"

"Is this true?!" Ryuichi Mifune also asked.

Upon hearing this, Izumi Maho's body trembled slightly, and it was unclear whether she was nervous or afraid.

"Hirasaka-sensei thought of scaring everyone at the séance and then seeing how they would react," explained Kazuo Park.

"Since the voice of Miss Xiaohuang that was prepared in advance was secretly replaced, it just proves that the threat maker is among you." Qing Musong said to the five people sitting there.

In other words, the murderer who killed Editor Zenan is most likely among these five people.

Mao Lilan couldn't help but interrupt at this time: "Could it be Miss Xiaohuang's family or lover? They believe in the rumors on the Internet."

At this time, Sanchuan Longyi said: "Xiaohuang has no family. I heard that when she was a child, her family members died in a car accident."

"Ah, that's why Xiaohuang pays extra attention to driving safety." Yagawa Hiroji said with sudden enlightenment.

"It seems so." Sanfunlong responded.

Qing Musong looked at the few people.

There is a possibility that Kazuo Park wrote, directed and acted in the film himself. What if he discovered that Hirasaka Reiki and Masahara Kirei had an inappropriate relationship and turned love into hate...

Although it is not good to make up a dirty rumor about a girl, especially a girl who has passed away, there are too many such relationships that go beyond the boundaries in the entertainment industry. And Qing Musong has handled such cases before, and this is indeed a motive for murder.

Ryuichi Mifune knew everything about Yayuan Huang's childhood, and he told it before his fanatical fan Kaifeng. This friendship seems to be unusual, which increases his suspicion.

Moreover, Ryuichi Mifune is very handsome, and coupled with what Ran Mouri said, and Kazuo Park's comment that he is suspicious, could he be Akira Mahara's boyfriend?

Hiroji Yagawa has always been normal.

Izumi Maho looks like an introverted person, so I didn't find any problems with her for the time being.

Although Ke Er Feng is a fanatical fan and has a motive for murder, from the current perspective, there is nothing else suspicious.

At this time, Detective Tomi came in with two evidence bags. "Inspector Aoki, this key is indeed the key to the Nanjing lock. In addition, the rope found in Mr. Hirasaka's room is indeed the murder weapon of Miss Akiko."

"I understand." Aoki Matsu responded.

Yoji Aihara came over again and reported: "Inspector, Inspector Shiratori said he investigated but didn't find any clues. In addition, he sent me the words Mr. Zenan wrote before he died." As he spoke, Yoji Aihara handed the phone to Aoki Matsu.

Qing Musong took it and looked at it, and was stunned...

There's something wrong with this death message!

Why does it look like someone has tampered with it? There's something wrong with the words.

In addition, the first person to discover Editor Zenan's death was Miss Akiko, who is now dead.

So is it possible that after Miss Akiko discovered this, she tampered with the death message left by Mr. Zenan, and then blackmailed the murderer, but was killed by the murderer instead?

Such cases of people being killed after blackmailing others are quite common in the world of science.

KIRA is the romanization, and the neon character should be: キラ.

But the problem is that the two horizontal strokes of the character "キ" in the photo are not tilted to the left, but to the right. The vertical stroke in the middle should be tilted to the right, but it is tilted to the left in the photo.

Quite the opposite.

For a simple character like "キ", no matter how cursive it is written or how quickly it is written, it is impossible to write the strokes in the opposite direction. And yet, by coincidence, they are all written in the opposite direction.

In addition to this, the character "ラ" has a horizontal stroke on top, which is also right-slanting.

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You may not feel anything when you look at the character "ラ" alone, but in the character "キ", which has a horizontal stroke to the right and a vertical stroke to the left, the vertical stroke presses on the horizontal stroke of "ラ".

No matter how Aoki Matsu looked at it, he felt that the vertical stroke of the character "キ" was added later, and the three horizontal strokes pointing right should form one character, that is, "三"!

three!

There happened to be a person present whose name contained the character three—Mifune Ryuichi!

Is he the murderer?

Aoki Matsu found no evidence, so no conclusion can be drawn.

However, Mifune Ryuichi is more suspicious.

After thinking about it, Aoki Matsu asked Mifune Ryuichi and others to continue staying in the living room. He needed to check the scene again to see if his idea had any chance of success.

But after he came out, he immediately ordered: "Go check the situation between Mr. Mifune and Miss Xiaohuang to see if they are in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship."

Maruta Ayumi was stunned when he heard this, and then immediately responded: "Yes!"

After giving the instructions, Qing Musong walked to the meditation room.

"How is it?" Qingmusong asked.

Detective Dengmi pointed to a certain place and replied, "We knocked on the floor and side walls of the entire meditation room. The echo here is indeed a little different. Based on my experience, it is possible that it is a corpse."

There is empty space beneath the ground, so the echo from knocking is different.

In addition, the echo will be different depending on what is placed inside. If it is empty, the echo will be different.

Detective Dengmi has handled cases involving bodies hidden in walls before, so he has experience with this.

"It seems that the rumor is very likely to be true." Aoki Matsu said.

It is possible that Masahara Akira was killed by Hirasaka Reiki and hid here.

"Inspector Aoki, do you want to dig it up?" asked Detective Tomi.

Qing Musong thought for a moment and said, "Not for now, but definitely in the future."

Qing Musong has already figured out most of the secret mechanism in the meditation room.

According to his guess, pressing the window switch button on the wall could be accomplished by using an easel and a fishing line, so he focused his attention on the area surrounding the switch button.

Then Qing Musong discovered that there was a wall-mounted European lamp on the windward side of the switch button, and a door suction to prevent door collision slightly below the switch button, both of which could fix the position of the fishing line.

Aoki Matsu sorted out the thoughts in his mind.

The first thing is to press the switch of the easel, so the fishing line should be pulled from this side - looking in the direction, Aoki Song found a motor in a corner, with circles of fishing line wrapped around it.

Secondly, after the murderer climbed up to the window, he closed the window, knocked over the easel, and reeled in the fishing line.

This is much simpler. Just tie a fishing line to the support column of the easel.

Following the direction where the easel fell to the ground and looking towards the back, Aoki Matsu found a motor attached to the back of the round table where the body was placed, with a circle of fishing line wrapped around it.

[The secret room puzzle was successfully solved! ]

Then came the windows.

The window was quite high from the ground, and there was no object found inside the room that could allow one to climb to the height of the window.

So after eliminating all the impossible, there is only one possibility left - after the murderer climbed up, he pulled out the thing he used as a footstool from outside the window and took it outside through the window.

For example, a specially made wooden frame that is only one foot wide can be placed at an angle and then tied with a rope and pulled up.

It may not be a wooden frame, but a lighter and stronger steel frame, or even plastic is possible.

Thinking of this, Aoki Matsu asked people to search the area near the villa and the rooms where several people lived, including the room where the Maori trio lived, to see if there was anything abandoned that could be used as a stepping stone.

Then Aoki Matsu went to the master bedroom.

The method of committing the crime in this secret room is even more bizarre. At first glance, scientific analysis is completely clueless.

After locking the door with the key, put the key in the drawer and then close and lock the drawer.

At first glance, this method of committing the crime seems completely impossible, but with Conan here, it seems like an impossible crime.

Qing Musong opened the drawer and was somewhat surprised to find that the drawer was very easy to open and very smooth.

After thinking about it, Qing Musong tried it and just pushed it gently to see if the drawer could close by itself.

I didn't expect it to work.

But it was closed but not locked.

But the drawer lock is very simple, just close it and twist the lock handle.

But it is easy to do it with human hands, but it is difficult to set up a mechanism.

The lock handle needs to be twisted 90 degrees from horizontal to vertical.

In addition, Aoki Matsu had seen with his own eyes that there was a notebook covering the two keys.

[Damn, this case is getting harder and harder the more I think about it. Are everyday cases this difficult?]

Aoki Matsuya couldn't help but scratch his head.

I turned around and checked the three windows of the master bedroom. They were all locked from the inside and there were iron grilles on the outside, so it was impossible for anyone to have tampered with them.

After ruling out other possibilities, Aoki Matsu felt that the murderer could only have tampered with the ventilation fan on the door.