Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World

Amuro Toru stood up and looked at Maori Kogoro and the police, interrupting their conversation: "Would you like to ask directly about the three people who came to the other villa at the beginning? I think only those people might have the motive to kill."

Kudo Yuki looked at Conan who was thinking silently, and smiled: "Conan, are you wondering how the criminal left the room?"

Conan came back to his senses and looked at Kudo Yuki: "Sister, do you have any clues to remind me?"

Kudo Yuki calmly placed her hands on her chest and said, "You guessed it all."

Conan raised his head confidently: "Of course."

Kudo Yuki shook her head helplessly: "I will remind you, but not now. It won't be too late after the interrogation."

In the makeshift living room, everyone watched the police interrogate Taoyuan Qinyin. She answered, "I went to Ishikuri's room and I just wanted to ask him if he really didn't plan to eat the Chinese cold noodles prepared for lunch. But he told me that he just wanted to eat the leftover ice cream cake from last night."

The police asked: "What happened next?"

Momozono Kotone responded: "After I had lunch with everyone in the kitchen, before I went to check on Ishikuri with Machi, I went to the bathroom with the two of them to take a shower."

The police asked, "When did the spare key to Mr. Ishikuri's room disappear?"

Taoyuan Qinyin thought for a moment and answered, "I remember I put the spare key in the drawer of the table."

After answering the question, Momozono Kotone noticed that Kudo Yuki had been staring at her, as if she saw through everything. Momozono Kotone avoided Kudo Yuki's gaze in panic, trying to ignore Kudo Yuki's sharp gaze.

Conan and Amuro Toru noticed something was wrong with Momozono Kotone, but they kept silent. Amuro Toru's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was thinking of something else.

Later, Umejima Machi admitted that he and Momozono Kotone went to check on Mr. Ishikuri's condition.

Meidao Machi thought for a moment and responded, "I looked at him once more before I went to take a shower, but I just told him that I would use the bathroom later because I had been spied on before."

Maori Kogoro quickly asked, "Did you use the bathroom after Kotone took a shower?"

Umejima Machi nodded and continued, "Ishikuri didn't respond to me at all at that time, but he should be in the room because I felt the air conditioning in the room was very cold."

The police asked: "What do you do before and after taking a shower?"

Umejima Machiko said calmly, "I was either helping to prepare lunch for everyone or repairing the rackets used by the girls. At that time, I was always working with others."

Finally, Takanashi Noboru confessed that he had an argument with Mr. Ishikuri before lunch and went to Mr. Ishikuri's room to apologize to him.

The police asked: "Did you go there before Miss Zhenzhi took a shower or after she took a shower?"

Takanashi Noboru shook his head and said, "I don't know when Machi went to take a shower, but I went there after she finished packing her lunch and before throwing out the trash."

Amuro Toru interrupted and asked, "So, the quarrel between you two is because of your dead club partner?"

Takanashi Noboru nodded, "Because this winter, Ueyu died here. He was a partner of our club, and was buried in the snow behind the wooden house next to our skiing activities.

At that time, there was a pile of snow about two meters high behind the wooden house. Ishikuri joked that with such a high pile of snow, I don’t think I would die even if I jumped from the second floor, and Uesugi believed it and jumped.

Since it was the idiot's birthday yesterday, everyone decided to get together to celebrate his birthday. After all, he had a terrible birthday last year. "

Maori Kogoro was puzzled: "Bad birthday?"

Takanashi Noboru continued to explain: "It was around this time last year when everyone gathered together at this villa for a vacation. It just so happened that that day was Uroyuki's birthday. At that time, Ishikuri proposed to scare Uroyuki.

So we sneaked up along the balcony and climbed into the room where Guasheng was sleeping. We used a firecracker to scare him by the side of his ear. Unexpectedly, he was so frightened that he started crying on the spot. As a result, Shili filmed Guasheng's appearance and put it on the Internet for people to watch. "

Maori Kogoro expressed his guess: "So, all three of you should have a strong motive to kill Mr. Ishikuri."

Maori Kogoro's words made Takanashi Noboru very angry: "I only went to Ishikuri's room once, and after that I have been with you guys all the time, right?

Not only am I chatting with you two detectives here, I also used this tone to tell the child that the air conditioning in the living room is not very cold, why don't you go to Shili's room and lie down to rest for a while. "

Maori Kogoro looked at Conan and asked, "Really?"

Conan nodded seriously: "After that, I saw Mr. Ishikuri in the corridor and he took me to his room."

Takanashi Noboru shouted angrily: "How could you kill someone when there is a child sleeping in the room?"

Takanashi Noboru's words made everyone silent. Takanashi Noboru left the living room.

Kudo Yuki reminded: "Mr. Takanari Noboru said that Mr. Ishikuri scared Mr. Ueyu and Mr. Ishikuri joked that Mr. Ueyu would not die if he jumped from the second floor, but Mr. Ueyu died in the end. Could Mr. Ueyu's death be related to this case?"

Kudo Yuki's words woke Conan up. Conan looked at his sister and said, "Sister, do you have anything else to say?"

Kudo Yuki hooked Conan's nose and said, "You are a little adult."

Kudo Yuki stood up and looked at the police officer who was assisting in the investigation, and asked, "Have you found the spare key to Mr. Ishikuri's room? And check the progress of other cases."

The police officer nodded and asked his subordinates to follow up on the clues. He responded: "We can't find the spare key to Mr. Ishikuri's room yet."

Amuro Toru asked: "What kind of key is that?"

The police officer said while showing: "This key is exactly the same as the key in the body's pocket. There is no report of finding any key so far."

Maori Kogoro asked: "Could it be thrown away with the garbage?"

Suzuki Sonoko responded: "As for the garbage, Xiaolan and I also helped to take it out. And at that time, it was Takanari who drove the truck to take it out first."

Mao Lilan thought for a moment and said, "Mr. Takanashi Noboru also told me that I would take the garbage out and throw it away."

Amuro Toru frowned slightly, looked at Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan and asked: "May I ask if anyone has asked you to do anything else?"

Mao Lilan thought for a moment and answered, "And Miss Kotone asked us for help. She told us to put the sports drinks in the freezer, and we did so."

Suzuki Sonoko also echoed: "She likes to drink frozen drinks."

Maori Kogoro was puzzled: "Put the sports drinks in the freezer?"

Suzuki Sonoko immediately responded: "It seems to be because she likes to drink frozen drinks."

Mao Lilan recalled something and said, "Oh, there was a little commotion here. Mr. Ishikuri was in the room, and Miss Kotone happened to be holding a plastic bottle of drink that had melted, so she wanted to put it back in the freezer."

Suzuki Sonoko continued: "She also said she would help re-roll the anti-slip tape on the handles of our tennis rackets."

Mao Lilan continued to explain: "I gave it to Miss Machi at that time. In addition, she also helped us replace the new wires of our tennis rackets."

At this moment, the two investigators who went out to investigate the clues came back and reported to everyone: "We have made some important discoveries.

First, the tennis racket strings that were placed under the body were bent in several places.

Secondly, after comparison, the shape of the copper vase with blood on it was exactly the same as the wound on the head of the corpse. And, strangely, there seemed to be water in the vase. "

Another investigator continued, "As for the estimated time of death of the body, we determined it based on the room temperature at the time, which is about two or three hours before the body was found. However, there may be a difference of about 30 minutes."

Suzuki Sonoko suddenly remembered something, and she whispered to Mao Lilan: "I remember Xiaolan seemed to say something very strange at that time."

Suzuki Sonoko turned her head and looked at Mao Lilan: "Why do you know that the air conditioning in the room is very cold? We are all outside the door, aren't we?"

Mao Lilan looked at Suzuki Sonoko and answered, "Because I felt cold air blowing out from the tip of my toes. I think it was the cold air in the room blowing out from the gap under the door."

When Conan heard what Mao Lilan said, an idea flashed through his mind and his thoughts became clear.

The three suspects were brought to the living room, and everyone was discussing the last few doubts. Conan saw Maori Kogoro sitting on a chair, secretly picked up his watch, and pointed the anesthetic needle at Maori Kogoro.

The next second, Toru Amuro's voice rang in Conan's ears: "What are you doing, Conan."

Conan explained in a panic: "The watch...the cover seems to be broken." After that, Conan scratched his head awkwardly, and ran behind Kudo Yuki with a smile.

Kudo Yuki looked at Conan's actions and couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh. Amuro Toru looked at Kudo Yuki with his peripheral vision, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

During the discussion, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko talked about ice.

Conan ran up to the two and asked, "Does Chinese cold noodles use ice in their cooking?"

Mao Lilan nodded and replied: "Yes, we will use ice water to quickly cool down the cooked noodles."

Maori Kogoro looked at Conan and reminded him: "Don't say irrelevant things."

Kudo Yuki murmured: "I remember when I asked Miss Momozono Kotone, she mentioned Chinese cold noodles, and Xiaolan just mentioned ice.

So, if we put it together, the answer to the question I asked Conan before, "Why did the blood-stained vase fall?" is revealed."

Everyone looked at Kudo Yuki, who continued her analysis: "First, pile a large amount of ice inside the vase on one side, then place the vase in the corner of the bookshelf, almost where it will fall off. Once the ice melts, the vase will lose balance and fall off the bookshelf."

Kudo Yuki paused, then continued: "Ordinary ice cubes will turn into water after melting, but if the ice cubes are replaced with dry ice, the situation will be different.

When a large amount of dry ice melts, it turns into carbon dioxide and releases cold air. Therefore, during the time when the dry ice melts, people passing by Mr. Ishikuri's room will feel the cold air. "

Amuro Toru also responded: "Men's tennis pants are usually made with extra-large pockets to fit tennis balls, and the same is true for women's tennis clothes. And those three people were all still wearing tennis clothes without changing clothes."

Suzuki Sonoko excitedly raised her hands and clenched them into fists, saying, "I know the answer. Isn't there a racket under the corpse's buttocks?

As long as there is dry ice under the racket, you can use it to slide the racket and move the body. The twisted racket net is the evidence of this trick, under the body's buttocks."

Amuro Toru put his hands in his pockets: "It was Mr. Ishikuri who brought the dry ice in. He brought the whole box of ice cream to his room for lunch. And there was dry ice in the box.

I think the criminal probably hit Mr. Ishikuri with the copper vase first, placed several pieces of dry ice on top of the racket, then passed a thin rope through the outer frame of Mr. Ishikuri's racket, and finally placed the racket under the corpse's buttocks.

After the prisoner leaves the room, he only needs to pull the string to pull the body to the door. In order to retrieve the string smoothly, the prisoner did not tie the string into a knot.

Maori Kogoro thought for a moment, then looked up at the three suspects and said, "You are the murderer of Miss Taoyuan Kotone."

When Momozono Kotone heard what Maori Kogoro said, her pupils shrank and sweat broke out on her cheeks. Seeing her reaction, Kudo Yuki blurted out, "Have you ever heard of cold water?"

Amuro Toru's eyes instantly became clear: "In order to cool it evenly, we will first wrap the plastic bottle with a towel and put it in a freezer at about minus five degrees Celsius. It will only take about four or five hours.

If you then vibrate the PET bottle again, the supercooled water will slowly freeze from the top to the bottom along the surface of the PET bottle. Ms. Kotone must have thrown the key into the sports drink that had turned into supercooled water, and then vibrated the PET bottle.

When the plastic bottle starts to freeze, immediately turn the drink upside down. This way, the key will stay in the center of the plastic bottle. Wait until it is completely frozen before giving it to Miss Sonoko. Sports drinks are darker in color, and they freeze into a gel state, so the key in the plastic bottle will not be seen.

Kudo Yuki looked at Momozono Kotone and said, "As long as we find that plastic bottle, we will find the traces left by Ms. Kotone after she killed Mr. Ishiguri."

Taoyuan Qinyin smiled bitterly and said, "No need to look for it. There is a spare key with my fingerprints on it. I was very panicked at the time and the key fell into Shili's blood."

Umejima Machi asked, “Why do you do this?”

Taoyuan Qinyin said while crying: "Of course it is to avenge Guasheng, because I like Guasheng very much.

The night when Guasheng's body was moved away from the scene, I walked to the balcony and found Ishikuri digging in the snow below. Later I found out that he was looking for the scarf around his neck. The smile on his face when he found the scarf told all the facts.

Guasheng was pushed down by Shili. When he was pushed down, he unconsciously grabbed Shili's scarf. But he didn't expect that the two-meter-high snow was like a bottomless swamp, swallowing Guasheng's physical strength. By the time we found him, it was already..."

Kudo Yuki looked at Momozono Kotone and murmured, "When you avoided my gaze in panic, I knew that the murderer might be you, but I didn't guess that you would seek revenge for the person you love."

Taoyuan Qinyin looked at Kudo Xue in disbelief: "Your sixth sense is very accurate. I also want to thank you. I can be free now."

Eventually, Taoyuan Qinyin was taken away by the police to face her own trial.

To be continued...