The next day passed slowly for most people in the hotel as they racked their brains to answer the thousand questions.
When dinner time came, everyone gathered in the restaurant to enjoy the dinner.
Except for Yuan Huaiyu and the murderer, no one knew that a tragedy was brewing during this whole day.
The dinner was sumptuous and everyone had a great time. Good food always makes people feel happy.
"It's great, it's great!"
Mouri Kogoro patted his belly and was quite satisfied with the dinner.
The waitress collected the leftover plates and served tea to several guests.
The station attendant wiped his mouth and asked, "But why haven't you seen the hotel owner?"
"Hurry up and ask him to come out and correct the test papers!" Omu Ayako couldn't wait.
"But...my master wants me to entertain you all until he comes in after dinner..." the waitress Iwai said.
"He must be planning to show up suddenly and scare us!"
"How scary!" Maria Toda said with a smile.
Time passed bit by bit, and everyone chatted, from eight or nine o'clock in the evening until twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.
But the innkeeper Hiroyuki Kanaya still didn't show up.
Even if everyone is a Sherlock Holmes fan and has quite a few common topics to talk about, after all, the main purpose of this trip is still the book "A Study in Scarlet".
The innkeeper didn't show up for a long time, which made them a little agitated.
Except Yuan Huaiyu and a certain murderer.
Yuanhuaiyu knew that the owner of the hotel had already died. No matter how they waited, the owner would not come back to life and come to everyone.
So as soon as he finished eating, he went back to his room to sleep.
After all, there was a big show in the middle of the night, so he had to stay energetic and sleep well.
"Damn it! I can't stand it anymore!" The station attendant slapped the table, "I'm going back to my room to sleep!"
He felt that he had been tricked, and angrily tore his own test paper into pieces and scattered them on the ground.
"Damn it! I spent a whole day writing this test question!"
"It seems that the rumors are true. People say that giving away the first edition book was a big scam."
Maria Toda held her chin and sighed: "Every time, the questions are deliberately made difficult so that no one can get them all right. In fact, the real purpose is just to gather Sherlock Holmes fans here to show off his book.
"
She stood up angrily: "I just didn't expect that the person left before the question came out. Sorry, I'm going to bed too."
"Me too." The physical education teacher and librarian also wanted to leave.
"That's ridiculous! I'm going to sleep too!" Mouri Kogoro pouted and went upstairs.
Conan, who was full of energy, naturally chose to stay. Xiaolan had to wait with him in the restaurant.
During the boring wait, the time quickly came to nearly 3:30.
"Ha-" Hattori Heiji yawned.
"No, I've reached my limit." He looked sleepy in his eyes, holding his head to prevent himself from falling asleep.
If he hadn't been very interested in the innkeeper's so-called reasoning questions and wanted to challenge him, he wouldn't have stayed so late.
Just as he was about to go back to his room and rest first, he heard Kento Toju, the president of the University Reasoning Society, looking out the window and saying in surprise: "Huh? What is that? Wasn't it the car we took when we came here?"
His girlfriend Ayako Oki also wondered: "Who could it be so late..."
Through the glass, they saw a jeep driving slowly outside the garage.
"It's the innkeeper!"
"The innkeeper is driving!"
Soon, the two of them, as well as Conan and Hattori who came over, saw the hotel owner Hiroyuki Kanaya in the driver's seat of the car through the transparent glass.
"Look! It's just as I expected, the reasoning question and answer session is finally about to begin!" Kento Toju showed an expression that said, "It's just as I expected."
"You can do it!" Omu Ayako lay on his shoulder and praised her boyfriend.
Conan and Hattori remained silent, watching the jeep slowly drive forward.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, several people noticed something was wrong at the same time.
This hotel is built on a cliff, and the direction the owner of the hotel is driving is the cliff!
Conan and Hattori's expressions changed, they opened the windows, jumped out, and ran towards the jeep.
The jeep began to speed up, and the two rushed to the side of the car. Hattori banged the glass hard, while Conan clung to the rearview mirror, trying to slow down the jeep's progress.
"Uncle! What are you doing!"
"Bang bang bang!"
"Stop! Otherwise you will fall."
Through the car window, they saw a blanket covering the dashboard and heard strange sounds coming from inside the car.
But because the doors were locked, no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't stop the jeep from getting closer to the cliff.
Finally, the front wheels of the Jeep were empty.
In order not to be taken away, Conan and Heiji had no choice but to stop.
The next moment, the jeep fell straight off the cliff.
"boom!"
The sound of the explosion burst out along with the scorching fire, and the jeep fell into the sea and turned into a big fireball.
Looking down the cliff, the faces of the two people standing on the edge of the cliff were full of horror.
Hearing such a loud noise, people in the hotel ran out one after another.
"What?!"
"The hotel owner is dead?!"
a group of people asked in disbelief.
"Well. The store owner dressed as Sherlock Holmes just fell into the sea together with his car in front of my eyes." Hattori Heiji had cold sweat on his face.
"He might have been murdered." Kento Toju suddenly said.
Looking at everyone's puzzled looks, he shrugged: "Before he fell, he was driving very slowly. Just knock him out or kill him first, then put him into the car and shift the gear to D.
It will move forward automatically.”
Kento Toda pointed to the garage: "The murderer probably did it in the garage."
Everyone understood what he meant - someone put the hotel owner into the car under the pretext of going back to sleep, and then pretended to be attracted by the sound after the crash and explosion.
At this time, Hattori Heiji raised an objection: "But the car accelerated while moving forward, although it was only for a moment. And there was a strange sound like wind coming from the car. It was not the sound of the engine."
"Ah! That must be the air conditioner!" the physical education teacher said.
Maria Toda also echoed: "Indeed, it has been very hot recently. When we came here, we had the air conditioner on all the way!"
"Huh?" Xiaolan looked at Conan lying on the ground, "What are you doing? Why are you looking at tire marks?"
"Well, looking for something..." Conan replied.
The next second, his head hit a hard object hard.
"Boom!"
"Ah! It hurts!" "It hurts!"
Xiaolan saw Conan and Heiji bumping their heads together, and couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong, even you..."
"How do I know! I was just checking to see if the air conditioner was really turned on! Then I bumped into him again..."