In the Oppei family's mansion, because of Eiyu's fall, he found Mrs. Oppei and asked him to help find suitable clothes that he could wear and change them.
When everyone found a place to rest and the living room environment was no longer so noisy, Conan discovered that Karasawa had disappeared.
"Hey, Sister Xiaolan, have you seen Tang Ze Criminal?" Conan asked.
"It seems that I walked into the house as soon as I entered the door." Hondo Eyou said while putting on his coat.
"What are you going for..." Hearing this, Conan wanted to take advantage of this gap to go to Karasawa to discuss matters related to Eyu and Rena Mizuna.
After all, judging from the current situation, Mizuno Reina was a fake member of the black organization, and he also wanted to discuss preliminary countermeasures with Karasawa.
But before he could take action, suddenly there was the sound of breaking glass in the room.
"what happened?"
Hearing the sound of breaking glass, Mouri Kogoro looked towards the source of the sound outside the door: "It sounds like the sound of a window breaking. Is it an accident?"
"Bang! Bang!"
As soon as Mouri Kogoro finished speaking, the sound of breaking glass was heard in the room.
"No, someone is smashing the glass!" Mouri Kogoro's expression changed, and the alliance ran out the door and approached the source of the sound.
"Uncle, the sound came from the study!" Conan listened to the movement of the sound and immediately determined the location of the sound source.
After hearing this, Kogoro Mori ran towards the study. When he arrived at the door and wanted to check in, he found that the door was closed. He couldn't help but shouted into the room: "Hey, Mr. Oppei, are you in the room!?"
"I'm in the house, nothing's wrong, don't open the door!"
Along with Mouri Kogoro's shouts, Okuhira Kakuzo's somewhat frightened shouts came from inside the house, and something strange in his tone also aroused the suspicion of the two of them.
"Really? Are you sure you're fine?" Mouri Kogoro said suspiciously, hearing Okuhira Kakuzo's somewhat strange tone.
"I was in the house, something happened." Tang Ze's voice came from inside the house, and the door to the study room opened directly the next moment.
After the door opened, Mouri Kogoro and Conan first saw the rope around Okuhira Kakuzo's neck and the rope hanging on the chandelier in the house.
"What...what's going on..." Mouri Kogoro looked at Okuhira Kakuzo in surprise: "What are you..."
"Master, what happened?"
Before he could answer Kogoro Mouri's question, Mrs. Oppei, Xiaolan and two housekeepers, Kikuyo, rushed over.
After seeing Kikuyo, Okuhira Kakuzo's face, which was originally frightened, instantly became angry. He came to the opponent in three or two steps and roared: "You bastard! Why do you do this to me!! You murderer !!”
"It failed..."
Looking at the ferocious old man in front of her, roaring at her repeatedly, Kikuyo's fat face still showed no change in expression, but there was a little regret in his eyes: "What a pity..."
Her reaction and words also angered Kakuzo Okudaira, and he couldn't help but punch Kikuyo: "You stinky bitch!"
"I understand how you feel at the moment, but please don't do anything casually." Karasawa gently choked the opponent's waving fist, stopping Okudaira Kakuzo's impulse to take action.
"Master, what happened?" Mrs. Oppin looked at the hysterical husband in front of her and couldn't help but ask aloud.
"What happened!?" Okuhira Kakuzo snorted, pointed at Kikuyo and said, "I was almost killed by this bastard!"
"What!?"
As soon as Okudaira Kakuzo's words came out, everyone present looked shocked.
"Karasawa Criminal, what is going on?" Mouri Kogoro on the side looked at Karasawa and said, "Why do you appear in the study again?"
"Here's the thing."
Karasawa came up with the words he had prepared long ago: "After we returned to the house, I wanted to ask Mr. Kakuzo about the case again, so I came to the study and found that the door was closed.
I shouted outside my door, and just as I was about to open the door, I heard Mr. Kakuzo yelling in a panic from inside the room not to open the door.
Although I didn't know what was going on in the house at the time, out of caution I didn't force the door open rashly, but asked him what happened.
After all, sometimes we will encounter suicide situations. At this time, the first thing to do is not to stimulate the other party, but to delay the time to stabilize the other party.
And this choice was indeed the right one. Although Mr. Kakuzo did not commit suicide, he was still in a very dangerous situation at the time.
He told me that Ms. Kikuyo wanted to kill him and had arranged a mechanism at the gate that would kill him as soon as he opened the door, so he told me not to open the door."
"So the sound of breaking glass before was caused by you, Tang Ze, in order to save people?" Xiaolan suddenly said after hearing this.
"That's right, because of the emergency situation involving human life, I jumped directly from the next room to the outside, and then broke the glass of the study room."
Karasawa explained: "It won't be until tomorrow after I go in, why Mr. Kakuzo said not to open the door.
Because as soon as the door is opened, the mechanism set by the prisoner will be triggered, killing Mr. Kakuzo directly."
"You are such a vicious woman, you actually came up with such a cruel trick!" Okuhira Kakuzo's eyes were full of anger: "Tell me! Did you kill my son?"
These words once again caused a commotion among everyone, but in the face of the hysterical Okuhira Kakuzo, Kikuyo remained expressionless and responded with silence.
"Mr. Kakuzo, please calm down and leave the rest to us."
After Mouri Kogoro comforted Okudaira Kakuzo, he looked at Karasawa and said seriously: "Karasawa Criminal, please explain the situation clearly first."
"First of all, it is a fact that Mr. Kakuzo was murdered." Karasawa said: "And according to Mr. Kakuzo's testimony, the person who attempted to kill him was Miss Kikuyo, the housekeeper."
"Ah, that's right! She was by my side when I woke up, and she even told me the trick she arranged!" Okuhira Kakuzo said angrily: "If I hadn't encountered Karasawa Criminal, I probably wouldn't have been able to ask for help.
Killed!"
"Can't ask for help?"
Mouri Kogoro was a little surprised when he heard this and said: "Why is this? Didn't Mr. Kakuzo tell you that there is a mechanism in the house that can kill him?"
"The answer to this question still lies in this method."
Tangze asked people to enter the study and stand in the open area next to him, while he closed the door and restored the books on the floor.
Because he was stopped by Karasawa in time, the method of the case was not damaged too much.
Soon, Karasawa placed a book at the door. The book next to the door was a large book bought by Kakuzo Okuhira.
This book requires more printing than other normal books and is almost the size of an A3 paper.
"The books are spilling onto the cart over there."
Xiaolan looked at the books connected from the gate and couldn't help but said: "That seems to be right under the rope."
"That's right, when I rescued Mr. Kakuzo, he was sitting on top of the piles of books in this trolley.
This was originally a tool he used when organizing books, but it was used by the prisoner as a murder method."
Tang Ze pulled the somewhat dazed Eiyu Hondo to the front of the cart and motioned for him to sit on a stack of books: "Look, the height of this book is just enough for a person's feet to hang in the air.
This makes people lack the support of their legs when sitting on it.
Then just put an adhesive-coated rope around his neck, and the technique is complete. All that remains is the question of who will open the door.
As long as the door is opened suddenly from the outside, the books arranged in a straight line will be pushed by the first large book and hit the trolley.
The cart is originally a pulley, so it will definitely shake if it is hit by books on the floor.
Mr. Kakuzo, who has no support for his whole body and is sitting on the cart with books stacked high, will lose his balance and fall down.
The rope hanging from the neck of the boar really becomes a fatal noose, and can also create the illusion of suicide by hanging."
This method is actually very simple to explain clearly. There are books on the back door of the door. If you open the door violently, the cart will move.
Then the person sitting on the pile of books will be hanged directly because his feet are in the air, unable to support him and lose his balance.
After the actual demonstration, everyone has easily understood the full scope of this technique.
"I believe you said it was a secret room murder, but there shouldn't be any way to disguise it as suicide, right?"
Mouri Kogoro raised some doubts: "After all, if you just sit on the book, even if the rope is glued, you can untie it with your hands, right?
In order to avoid this situation, Kakuzo-san’s hands should be tied, so that it would be impossible for us to judge him as a suicide.”
"About this, let Mr. Kakuzo tell us with his own hands." Karasawa smiled and said, "What exactly is "locked" in his hand?"
"It's a vase."
Okudaira Kakuzo said with a gloomy face: “She asked me to hold the vase that I was proud of with both hands behind my back!
But it’s a precious antique worth 50 million that cannot be bought with 200 million now!”
"But no matter how precious this vase is, compared with your own life, it's not worth mentioning, right?" Mouri Kogoro looked at Okuhira Kakuzo in surprise.
"This is the key point of this technique." Karasawa explained: "What do you think will happen if Mr. Kakuzo gives up the vase?"
"Of course it fell to the floor and broke into pieces." Xiaolan replied matter-of-factly.
"There is only one vase in this study, and it is recognized by everyone as expensive. If the vase is broken, how will everyone react?"
Tangze's rhetorical question made everyone realize the problem.
The breaking of the vase will inevitably make a loud noise, and after hearing the sound, everyone in the house will naturally rush over to check the situation.
In order to prevent everyone from opening the door in a panic, Mr. Kakuzo did not dare to make a sound.
Expensive vases can make people lose their cool, and Mr. Kakuzo's own environment will also prevent him from calming down.
In fact, when I arrived at the door, Mr. Kakuzo had no time to explain and just yelled "Don't open the door" in a panic.
And for people who are not calm enough and eager to check the situation, this sentence is a catalyst, making people want to open the door to check the situation.
It can be said that in addition to the practical subtlety of this trick, there is also a psychological trick.
She took advantage of people's rebelliousness and inquisitiveness, making people unable to listen to what Okudaira Kakuzo said, and at that critical moment, they unconsciously wanted to step into the forbidden areas of the other party and understand the situation.
However, this is an absolutely forbidden area, and any slightest offense can lead to fatal consequences.
"But how did the prisoner leave this study after arranging all this?" Bentang Yingyou asked in confusion.
"After putting sleeping pills in the coffee to make me dizzy, Mr. Kakuzo arranged everything. He only needed to put the large book on the door with the door open, and then go out through the remaining crack in the door and slowly close the door.
, this technique is completed.”
Karasawa imitated it practically and explained with a smile: "In the ancient days of flower gardeners, the gates of the tombs of those in high positions had this kind of mechanism called a "gate-sealing stone."
Although this method cannot achieve that effect, the principle is the same.”
"I see..." Mouri Kogoro suddenly realized: "This is really a subtle enough technique."
"It's subtle, but in fact, this method has a lot of loopholes. After all, not everyone will rush in and switch on and off."
Karasawa looked at Kikuyo and said, "I guess Ms. Kikuyo plans to do the last step herself.
Only in this way can the plan be implemented perfectly. If someone else opens the door, it may not be so smooth.
Just like me, I stopped my actions after the other party stopped me and started communicating with the other party outside the door.
And once you understand the situation, this method will make it easier to break the situation."
"It's such a cruel technique. Holding such a heavy vase with your backhand, your fingers can't bear it at all."
Mouri Kogoro took a breath: "It can be said that no matter how hard you struggle, the vase cannot avoid the fate of falling."
This is a great torture both physically and mentally.
"What else do you have to say!" Okuhira Kakuzo looked at Kikuyo with a sinister look on his face and asked, "Did you kill my son!!"
"Mr. Teigo, who was drowned and murdered in the swimming pool a year ago, his method was also very cruel. In terms of style, I am afraid it is also Miss Kikuyo's method." Karasawa said.
"Could it be that there was a special technique in that case?" Mouri Kogoro was surprised when he heard this: "But no one should have been able to get out at that time."
"You don't need to go out. This method is actually simpler."
Tang Ze shook his head and said: "She only needs to tie Mr. Touto's hands and feet, put tape on his mouth, and then throw him into the swimming pool where the water is growing.
I have read Mr. Touto's information in the file. He should be about the same height as Yingyou. I made a visual inspection and found that when the swimming pool was filled with water, it would almost reach between their eyebrows.
If you stand on tiptoe, your nose should be above the water."
As soon as these words came out, everyone present turned to look at Kikuyo, their eyes full of horror.
This chapter has been completed!