The Split-Actress in Conan's World

"Could Miss Ayako be in there?" Looking at the terrifying fire, Mao Lilan always felt an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.

“Ayako!!”

Hu Juyan's eyes were bloodshot and he almost lost his mind and was about to rush into the sea of ​​fire.

Rin Chiyu symbolically held him back.

Oddly enough, he just gently pulled his sleeve and Tojuken stopped obediently, trying hard to get rid of it, but unable to do anything.

Tears come suddenly, and people who are not aware of the situation may be easily infected by his emotions.

Lin Chiyu: "......"

You get to be the best actor.

"Ayako!" His voice was full of despair, and his throat was hoarse. No one would doubt the deep love between them.

"Idiot! If you rush in now you will only die!" Kogoro Mouri was afraid that he would really break free, so he also rushed over to hug him.

This time this guy dared to let go and struggled with much greater force.

Glancing at the sleeve he was holding, Lin Chiyu always felt that he was somewhat affecting the performance.

So he walked away silently.

"Where is the fire extinguisher?" Kogoro Mori shouted to the waitress behind him while controlling Tojukento.

"There are three in the store. I'll get them now!" The waitress quickly ran to get the fire extinguisher.

Conan's face turned terribly dark.

The murderer had been identified, but he was still allowed to...

But he had been staying with everyone the whole time, so how did he do it?

bomb?

"Please, put out the fire!" Fujisawa Toshiaki was horrified.

"Otherwise, that book..."

Book?

Hattori Heiji heard him mumbling and had some idea of ​​the murderer's method.

Soon, the waitress came back with a fire extinguisher. After a few sprays, the fire was put out, leaving only wisps of thick smoke.

Toshiaki Fujisawa rushed into the garage first and opened the door of the train.

"Oh my God!" He was startled and saw a charred corpse falling down.

"Aya, Ayako?!" Tojuken finally broke free from Kogoro Mori's restraints and rushed in.

The corpse no longer resembled a human.

But judging from the general body shape, it is definitely Oki Ayako.

The people of Hu Juyan cried bitterly while holding the charred corpse.

"Could it be that the person who killed the master wanted to silence Miss Oki..." The waitress shrank back in fear.

"But all the suspects were in the house when the garage caught fire." Shimizu Nanako appeared behind the waitress like a ghost and said softly.

The waitress almost jumped up.

"Then, there is only one possibility left!" said the flat-headed man Kawazu Ikuo firmly, "Sherlock Holmes once said, 'After eliminating all the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how unbelievable it is, is the truth'!"

"The innkeeper must not be dead yet!"

He said sinisterly, "If in the first incident, the boss who fell off the cliff with the car was just faking his death, wouldn't everything make sense?"

"Wouldn't it be easy to do it if we just used a dummy or something?"

"Impossible!" Hattori Heiji and Conan retorted in unison.

"The person sitting in the car is the real boss!" Hattori said firmly.

Conan also agreed: "Holmes also said, 'It is a terrible mistake to make a guess before getting the facts.' You haven't seen the facts like Hattori, how can you make the assumption that the boss faked his death!"

Hu Juyan, who was holding the charred corpse, looked at them fiercely and shouted, "Who did it? Tell me!"

"Ayako was clearly killed by someone!"

"You are still talking nonsense here!" He clenched his fists hysterically, tears streaming down his face.

The flat-headed man Kawazu Ikuo quickly went up to stop him: "They are still young, and it was so dark at the time, it is possible that they saw it wrong..."

"Isn't it obvious if we want to find the murderer?" Lin Chiyu opened his cell phone and checked the time. It was almost two o'clock in the morning. He yawned and said calmly.

"What?" Hu Juyan was stunned for a moment, not sure whether it was because of his words or the phone in his hand.

"The police will be here in about an hour. Mr. Murderer, do you have anything else to do?" Rin Shakuha looked at Tojukento quietly with calm eyes.

"You have a cell phone?" Hattori Heiji finally realized, a little surprised, "You called the police a long time ago, right?"

"I made the call when Boss Jingu died."

Conan also became much more alert. This means that the murderer committed the second crime when he thought the police would not come, and he must have left obvious evidence of the crime!

The murderer has no chance to succeed!

Because Rinshakuha's words were ambiguous, Tojuken couldn't tell for a moment whether he was talking about Boss Kanaya who had "faked his death" or mocking himself, and his face turned pale and blue.

In the end, he decided to pretend he didn't understand.

"The police are coming in an hour, that's great!"

He gritted his teeth and said, "I will never let the person who killed Ayako go!"

Rin Chiyu nodded without comment, turned around and walked back to the hotel.

Hattori Heiji and Conan followed behind.

"Could it be that there is a timed ignition device in the garage?" Conan touched his chin, wondering how the murderer managed to set fire and kill people when no one was present.

"No, not at all." Hattori Heiji denied his guess.

"The last time I checked in the garage, the car's tank was empty, and besides the spare fuel tank, the only thing left in the garage was the spare tire. There was no condition to build that kind of equipment."

Spare tire......

It seemed that all the clues had been gathered, only the finishing touch was left, but Conan simply couldn't make that final push.

Hattori gave him a calm look.

Hotel lobby.

Mao Lilan leaned against the window: "It's raining so heavily..."

“I don’t know if it will delay the police’s arrival.”

Upon hearing this, Lin Chiyu made a phone call.

Then, facing everyone's worried gazes, he nodded and said, "Don't worry. Considering the traffic problems here, the Metropolitan Police Department is sending out off-road vehicles, so they will arrive on time."

Only then did they feel relieved.

The atmosphere became more relaxed, and the waitress asked everyone, "Would you like me to make some coffee or cold drinks? We originally prepared some snacks for the Ghost Festival, which would be perfect for everyone to have as a midnight snack."

"Ah, let me help." Mao Lilan followed the waitress.

"I'll go too. It might not be safe if there are only girls." The flat-headed man Ikuo Kawazu is a physical education teacher by profession, so he volunteered.

"Then I'll go too." Hu Juyan stood up with the help of the table, looking sad.

"I don't want anyone to be like Ayako again."

They walked out of the lobby together.

Hattori Heiji considered carefully and asked Fujisawa Toshiaki: "Excuse me, the 'book' you mentioned in the garage just now, is it the first edition of "A Study in Scarlet"? "

When he spoke, the remaining people all looked at Fujisawa Toshiaki.

Seeing himself being put at the center of the storm, Fujisawa Toshiaki's expression changed for a while, but he finally chose to confess.

"Look at this card."

He took out a card from his pocket with the following words written on it:

If you want the book, come to the garage at five in the morning. The book is under the back seat.

"I'm afraid, too. I might be the next one to suffer."

Hattori Heiji took the paper.

Five o'clock in the middle of the night?

And it seems that Miss Oki's body fell in this position...

It turns out that this is how the murderer lured the victim to the garage.

But how did he set the fire remotely?

Not long after, the people who went out came back with drinks and snacks.

"Ah, I'm really hungry." Uncle Maori ate and drank without any hesitation, sighing with satisfaction.

Suddenly, all the light disappeared and the surroundings fell into darkness.

"What? Is there a power outage?" asked Kogoro Mouri in confusion.

"Is it because of the thunder?" Mao Lilan's voice sounded a little uneasy.

The waitress was much calmer: "Maybe the fuse is blown."

Click!

"Oh no, I accidentally dropped something!" Kogoro Mouri shouted in panic.

Conan couldn't help but feel ashamed.

But at the same time, he also became more vigilant, after all, the power outage was really strange.

Chi-

With a sound of friction, a faint flame lit up.

"This should be better." Fujisawa Toshiaki murmured in a low voice.

"Well!"

"hiss!"

But soon, two screams of pain rang out at the same time.

Then there was the sound of a heavy fall to the ground.

Damn!

Hattori Heiji realized what happened in the dark, but due to the power outage, he didn't dare run around. He had to wait where he was and wait for the waitress to change the fuse.

Hey.

The lights came back on.

"Mr. Fujisawa!"

Mao Lilan screamed and pointed at the figure rolling on the ground.

"There's no vital injury, just the arm was stabbed by the ice cone!" Conan quickly rushed over to check the situation.

"Don't move, there are broken glass all over the ground." Lin Chiyu kindly reminded.

Only then did everyone notice the broken pieces of glass scattered all over the ground.

"The window was broken!"

Tojuken pointed at the broken glass window and shouted, "It must be the boss who broke the window to come in and commit the crime!"

"Damn, so arrogant!" Uncle Maori hurried to the window and looked out, but he didn't see any figure, only broken glass on the ground.

"Let him run away!"

"Not necessarily, Mr. Maori." Rin Chiyu touched the edge of the window, feeling somewhat gloating.

"Although the murderer had a strong ability to respond and thought of breaking the glass to get away as soon as he stepped on the debris, he ignored the most basic logic."

"Only if you break the window from inside will the debris fall outside." He pointed to the debris on the ground outside the window.

"As for these broken glass fragments, there are more than enough for a window, and there are also these arc-shaped edges."

He picked up a bloody fragment so that everyone could see its shape clearly: "I'm afraid this is the cup that Mr. Maori broke when he was groping in the dark, and was stepped on by the murderer."

As soon as he finished speaking, a dull voice sounded beside him.

Hattori Heiji sat against the wall with his head lowered, one leg crossed and the other straight, looking very stylish.

"This, this is..."

Kogoro Maori always felt that this person seemed familiar.

Rinshakuha said lightly: "Maybe he admired 'Sleeping Kogoro' too much and wanted to imitate him."

Maori Kogoro suddenly realized and laughed: "I see, but not everyone can imitate a famous detective, kid."

Ignoring him, Hattori Heiji spoke up: "I have completely seen through everything about this!"

"Really? That woman Oki said the same thing, but..." Kawazu Ikuo complained.

Hattori Heiji continued talking to himself: "Let's start with the first case. There are four suspicious points in this incident. They are the boss's disappearance for a whole day, the car's sudden acceleration in the middle of the journey, the strange noises in the car, and the blanket covering the dashboard."

"But now there is one more thing, which is why the boss has to hold the steering wheel tightly with both hands, and his body does not move even when the road is bumpy."

"At the time, I was still half-believing and half-doubting whether it was suicide, but a series of events made me certain that the boss must have been in a state of rigor mortis at the time!"

"Rigor mortis?" asked Shimizu Nanako.

Hattori Heiji explained: "Yes, the body usually starts to stiffen 30 minutes to 2 hours after death, and enters rigor mortis 9 to 12 hours later."

"After rigor mortis sets in, the body will gradually soften within 30 hours, and by 70 hours, it will be almost the same as when it was first killed."

"I inferred that the deceased was put into the car at about 12 noon, and we found him at pm, just in a state of rigor mortis."

Tojukento interrupted: "So, the murderer let the body fall into a rigid state with the hands on the steering wheel, then sneaked out after dinner and started the car to fake a suicide?"

"On the contrary, what the murderer wants is not for the body to be in rigor mortis, but for it to recover from rigor mortis!" Hattori Heiji immediately refuted him.

"The murderer wanted to keep the body in a state of rigor mortis so that he could step on the foot brake, so that even if the gear was adjusted to the forward gear, the car would not rush out immediately."

"As the body softened a little bit, the foot brake was slowly released and the car began to slide. By the time we caught up, the body had completely softened and the foot brake was completely released, so the car suddenly accelerated!"

Shimizu Nanako didn't understand his logic: "You also said that it takes a long time for a corpse to soften. How could it be possible to change back in just a short time?"

Hattori chuckled: "This is another trick used by the murderer. In fact, it is very simple to speed up the softening of the corpse. All you need to do is increase the temperature of the environment, just like the murderer turned on the heating of the air conditioner!"

"And the blanket on the dashboard is to prevent anyone from discovering this!"

"As long as he kills the boss on the night we arrive, and then puts him in the car at noon today, there will be almost 10 hours until 25 o'clock in the evening. This can be done!"

"But this is just your guess. Do you have any evidence?" Hu Juyan's face was frighteningly gloomy.

"The body has been destroyed at the bottom of the cliff along with the car. The murderer is certainly fearless, but there must be evidence." Hattori Heiji was not in a hurry and played his cards bit by bit.

"You know, if the air conditioner is on in that model of car, there will definitely be condensation leaking under the car, but when I looked at the ruts, I didn't see any water stains, so I can conclude that the air conditioner is on as a heater."

"Unfortunately, it's raining outside now. I'm afraid this isn't enough evidence to convict you. But don't worry, let's talk about the second case."

He did not push the murderer too hard and moved on to the next part of the reasoning.