The Split-Actress in Conan's World

"You mean, these squashed cigarettes are a message of death?"

The three little ones looked at him in surprise, somewhat unbelieving.

Conan patiently explained: "Look, these cigarettes are weird, right? Only the two short ones have the mouthpieces, while the four long ones have their mouthpieces broken off."

"and......"

He reached out and turned over the stone: "There are a lot of broken cigarettes underneath, which proves that Mr. Kawano deliberately messed up the cigarettes in the box like this."

Dr. Agasa quickly took out his cell phone to call the police, but found that there was no signal.

So he thought about going back to the hotel to inform others: "Then let's go back and tell others about this."

"No, no one else can know about this before we call the police and let them come." Conan interrupted the doctor.

"Ah, why?"

Dr. Agasa asked blankly.

"Not long ago, invitations were sent out to invite everyone to come, but soon after, the bodies were found here... Those people are very suspicious, right? Maybe the murderer is hiding among them." Chiyoko took out the terminal, operated it for a few times, and then plugged in the phone.

"Look, it's connected to the satellite frequency band and can be used as half a satellite phone." He handed the phone to the doctor.

Conan nodded, "And it's still unclear whether that strange invitation was sent by Mr. Kawano himself."

"Ah?!" The three little ones widened their eyes.

"Could it be that it was actually the owner of the hotel, Mr. Amato, who called everyone here?" Ayumi looked worried.

"That's right, only that uncle didn't receive the invitation!" Yuantai grasped the key clue and said with certainty.

However, this reasoning was not recognized by Conan.

"No, even if someone received the invitation, he could be the murderer, who deliberately sent the invitation to himself to pretend to be an uninformed person."

Huiyuan Ai also came over and provided the three children with a new idea: "As the owner of the hotel, even if Mr. Amado was not invited, he would still show up here, right? So the murderer must have considered this and did not specially send him an invitation."

Dr. Agasa had already called the police and hung up the phone.

Conan looked over and said, "Doctor, what did the police say?"

"Ah, the one I contacted was the Gunma Prefectural Police. They said that a case had happened elsewhere not long ago, and they are short on manpower. Plus, our signal is poor and our location is hard to find, so they might not be able to get there until the evening."

"Police, police?" A surprised voice suddenly sounded from behind them. Everyone turned around and saw the hotel owner, Mr. Amato, wearing an apron and standing there anxiously.

"Yes, what happened?"

"Mr. Amado?" Dr. Agasa didn't expect to be heard. "Why are you here?"

"I just remembered that I forgot to put this in the telescope bag I rented to you..."

Mr. Amado wiped his hands on his apron and took out a round black part from his pocket. It was the calibrator of the astronomical telescope.

"That's not important. Anyway, what happened? Should we call the police?" There was a hint of worry between his brows.

Dr. Agasa was about to explain, but halfway through he remembered Conan and Chiyoko's instructions, and stiffly changed his words with a dry laugh: "No, nothing..."

However, he subconsciously took a half step back, allowing the already tall Tian Tulingsi to pass over him and see the white bones on the ground.

His expression suddenly changed and he screamed: "Bones, bones?!!"

Then he stepped back with a look of horror, turned around and ran away without hesitation, shouting incoherently.

"Wait..." Dr. Agasa wanted to stop him, but he couldn't stop him. He could only watch helplessly as he ran down the mountain while shouting.

"It's broken." Conan sighed.

In this case, I'm afraid everyone in the hotel will know about this, and the murderer will definitely be mentally prepared in advance. In this way, it will be difficult to get an effective response if he tries to test them again.

Conan was silently worried, while Chiyoko was looking at Amato Ryoji's back, seeming to be thinking about something.

"That's really weird." Huiyuan Ai walked over with her hands behind her back, stood tall, gently bumped him with her shoulder, and raised her eyebrows. "The skull and torso bones are not here. I just saw an arm bone. Are you so scared? Or would a normal person connect to the corpse so quickly?"

Chiyoko smiled. Haibara Ai's words of advice after every thought always made him feel comforted.

Conan is a standard academic reasoning expert, good at logical reasoning, but he is often relatively insensitive to people's emotional changes and behavioral details. To put it simply, his emotional intelligence is relatively low, so his ability to read the air in daily life is also relatively poor.

But Haibara Ai is different. Perhaps it is the result of living in an organization for many years. She is particularly sensitive to people's emotional changes and psychological activities. If Conan can often find a breakthrough from some inconspicuous details, then she can accurately grasp the abnormality that someone reveals in an instant, and then work backwards to crack the root of this abnormality.

If we have to summarize, one is the "formula system" and the other is the "intuition system".

"Ah, the association process was too fast, and the fear reaction was too exaggerated. It was too much of a performance."

Chiyomitsu continued to speak, "The innkeeper probably knew about the existence of this skeleton a long time ago, so he took the initiative to recommend us to the back mountain in the inn just now."

"If nothing unexpected happens, those invitations might really have been sent out by him."

Huihara Ai thought for a moment and added, "But the murderer may not be him, right?"

"That's right." Chiyoko nodded. "As an innkeeper who is familiar with the terrain and environment here, there are simpler and more practical options to destroy the body than this method. There is no need to come up with any conspiracy and deliberately lure us to discover the body."

“Although it is unclear what this person’s intention is, it is highly likely that he is an innocent person.”

As he was speaking, Huibara Ai beside him suddenly couldn't help laughing, and poked his shoulder with squinted eyes, with a strange look in her eyes.

"Now that we have eliminated one suspect, there are only three people left, right?"

"If you think about it carefully, there seem to be too many such three-choice incidents to be outrageous."

Chiyoko also raised the corners of her mouth, widened her eyes exaggeratedly, and applauded her: "Congratulations, Huibara Ai, you have seen through one of the truths of the world!"

Huiyuan Ai couldn't help but roll her eyes at him, but the next second she became curious about the "one of" he mentioned, so she asked, "What kind of truth is this...but what are the other weird things?"

“Here.” Chiyoko pointed with her finger, “For example, the one over there is actually the god of death who was reincarnated as an elementary school student.”

Conan fiddled with the skull and even picked up the teeth to examine it carefully. Suddenly, he felt a chill on his back and saw Chiyoko pointing at him with a sinister smile. Next to him, Haibara Ai had a curious look in her eyes.