Mao Lilan and Fukatsu Harumi played table tennis back and forth for a while, and their dazed minds finally came to life. Seeing that the time had reached 11:30 in the evening, they asked Fukatsu Harumi and Haibara Ai to take a bath.
Conan followed him out without ceremony.
"Huh?" Mori Kogoro, who was lying on the table and almost fell asleep, looked up in confusion, "Where are you going?"
"Women's bathroom." Chi Feichi stood up.
"Ah?!" Mouri Kogoro suddenly became energetic, "Hey, Conan, Fei Chi, you two brats, stop right here!"
At the entrance of the women's soup house, the wooden sign saying "Reserved from 10 to 11 o'clock" is still hanging on the closed wooden door.
Mao Lilan tried to open the door but failed. She lowered her head and saw a kimono paper figure on the ground. Curiously, she knelt down and picked it up, "Why is it so cold?"
There was also a small piece of paper tied to the head of the kimono paper man. Mao Lilan turned the paper square with his fingers, and it turned out to be a small Prajna mask, which fit the paper man's face just right.
"Ah!" Mao Lilan was startled, and the paper man took off his hands and fell to the ground, "What is this!"
Haiyuan Ai murmured, "Kimono Sleeve Hannya..."
Conan's expression changed, he raised his head and shouted to Chi Feichi, "Brother Chi, open the bathroom door quickly!"
Chi Feichi stepped forward, grabbed the door handle with one hand, and the door next to him with the other. With a strong force, he stopped the door and threw it aside.
Even though the situation was urgent, Conan couldn't help but be startled when he looked at the door that was thrown aside. He twitched the corner of his mouth slightly before running to the bathroom.
Sometimes he doubted that Chi Feichi was really not a human being.
The arm strength is really scary.
Chi Feichi, Mao Lilan, Mao Li Kogoro, and Fukatsu Harumi stayed at the door and did not go in.
Haibara saw Conan running to the hot spring and stopped, so he walked in without any scruples.
They are children anyway...
There was mist all around, and in the hot springs, long belts of various colors were soaked in the water, wrapping the motionless Shibazaki Asuka, spreading out in all directions, floating on the water, like a coquettishly blooming piranha.
The breathless Asuka Shibasaki in the middle is the food that the piranha swallowed, and her long black hair is floating in the water in a fan shape.
"Conan, Xiao Ai, is there no one inside?" Mao Lilan asked.
"Yes, yes," Conan looked at the people in the water, feeling his throat was a little dry, "but..."
"Miss Asuka?!"
Mao Lilan was startled when she looked over, and Fukatsu Harumi even let out a scream.
"Miss Asuka? Wake up!" Mouri Kogoro immediately ran forward, jumped into the hot spring, and walked to Shibazaki Asuka. He found that the kimono belt on Shibazaki Asuka's body was somewhat loose. He opened the wrapped kimono belt and saw a
There were wisps of red oozing out of the blood hole, "This is bad, someone stabbed her in the chest!"
Conan remembered the legend of 'Kimono Sleeve Hannya', was startled, then turned around and ran out again.
The others had no choice but to follow. Chi Fei did not enter the door, so he followed.
Eri Akechi, Tokyo Toichi, and Yoriko Honda were playing poker in the saloon. They heard that Asuka Shibazaki was dead, and they heard Conan ask about the location of Ema Anzai. They quickly said that an hour ago, Ema Anzai went out and went outside.
Went to the ancestral hall.
Conan ran over and opened the door to the courtyard. He only found a row of footprints on the ground leading to the entrance of the ancestral hall. He turned on the watch-shaped flashlight and loudly reminded Kogoro Mori who was following him, "Uncle Mori, don't step on those footprints."
, go somewhere else!”
"I got it," Mouri Kogoro put on his waterproof boots and walked through the snow to the ancestral hall, "You don't need to remind me, have you forgotten what I do?"
Conan followed behind, using a watch-shaped flashlight to help illuminate, leaving a string of small footprints next to Mouri Kogoro's footprints.
Mao Lilan noticed that Chi Fei had not gone over and asked aloud, "Brother Fei Chi, don't you go and have a look?"
"It's enough for the teacher and Conan to go," Chi Feichi said with a cold expression as he was not interested in this case where the cause and effect were known. "If more people go, it will be easier to destroy some traces."
Mao Lilan believed it, and worriedly watched Maori Kogoro and Conan enter the ancestral hall.
Not long after, Kogoro Mori and Conan returned.
"Call the police, Xiaolan," Mouri Kogoro said solemnly, "Ms. Anzai was also killed. She was lying on the long-sleeved kimono spread out. She was also fatally stabbed in the chest. A kimono-sleeved Hannya paper doll was also placed on her body.
He should be the same person as the murderer of Miss Asuka Shibasaki!"
More than twenty minutes later, a local policeman named "Okura" arrived.
Although Ogura contacted the prefectural police in Yamagata Prefecture, the prefectural police said that the snow on the road outside was too deep and they would not be able to arrive until dawn tomorrow. Mouri Kogoro also directed the protection of the scene and evidence.
"Houselady, could you please bring ten bath towels?"
"yes."
After the proprietress left to get the bath towel, Maori Kogoro looked at Mao Lilan again and said, "Xiaolan, bring your digital camera here!"
"Okay!" Mao Lilan nodded immediately and sighed inwardly.
She'd better not bring a digital camera next time. She won't be able to take photos of the scenery, so she'll only take photos of crime scenes and corpses.
"Then, Officer Ogura and I will cover the footprints in the snow, and Conan will be responsible for following my instructions and taking photos of the scene." Mouri Kogoro looked at Chi Feichi, "Feichi, you brought gloves and evidence.
Bag? Then help put away the evidence, pay attention to whether there is anything special on the snow, and if so, put it away as well."
Chi Feichi nodded and took out the disposable gloves in a sealed bag from his pocket.
"Then, everyone else should go to the Japanese-style living room and wait," Mouri Kogoro said to the others, "It's best not to act alone!"
The others quickly agreed.
When Mao Lilan brought the digital camera, it started to snow again.
Conan stepped into the snow, walked in front, and took pictures of the footprints with a digital camera.
Mouri Kogoro and Officer Ogura were behind, covering the footprints with pieces of towels.
Chi Feichi had nothing to do for the time being, so he just followed and observed the footprints to see if there was anything that needed to be stored in the evidence bag first.
Conan patted and patted, then walked down the corridor, turned on the flashlight and looked in the direction of the back door. He looked at the snowy field without any footprints leading to the back door, then took out his camera and looked at the footprints that were suspected to be left by Ema Anzai when she went to the ancestral hall.
, vaguely feeling that something was wrong, but unable to put it into words, I ran back to the footprints covered by the towel, squatted down and lifted the towel.
"Hey, Conan, why did you lift the towel?" Mouri Kogoro had already covered his footprints in front of the ancestral hall, and turned around and said, "Be careful that the footprints are covered by snow!"
Conan opened the towel and looked at the footprints below. He still couldn't find out why he felt something was wrong. He frowned, turned around and walked on the snow to follow the ancestral hall.
Mouri Kogoro began to direct Conan to take photos of the scene, corpses, and evidence photos with reference objects for reference. "Okay, Fei Chi, put the evidence in, don't damage it or erase any traces."
Chi Feichi silently began to install evidence.
A kimono sleeve Hannya paper figurine, a piece of paper with a message printed on it, calling Anzai Ema to the ancestral hall.
Conan pulled out a photo of footprints in the snow on his digital camera and stepped forward, ready to show Chi Feichi, "Brother Chi, the footprints in the snow seem a little strange..."
"What's weird?" Mouri Kogoro bent down to look.
"I just don't know what's weird..." Conan pretended to be an ignorant child, "But something just doesn't feel right!"
Mouri Kogoro stared at Conan, wanting to punch him, "You little brat..."
Chi Feichi collected the evidence and handed the evidence bag to the Ogura police station. He stood up and said, "The footprints suspected to be left by Miss Anxi are about five centimeters deep. The footprints left by the teacher and Conan later are about
Nine centimeters.”
Conan lowered his head and looked at the photos in the camera.
It turns out that Chi Feichi also noticed it. Looking at it this way, it is indeed a matter of the depth of the footprints...
"What's so strange about that?" Mouri Kogoro touched his chin and said, "Probably the footprints left by Miss Anzai were covered with a layer of snow, and then we left the footprints..."
"However, the three people in the saloon said that Miss Anxi walked through the saloon to the ancestral hall after 10:30 p.m., and it didn't snow until about 12 p.m. when we went to the ancestral hall and left footprints.
," Conan reminded aloud, "And if the footprints are covered by snow, a layer of snow of varying heights will be left in the footprint pit, and the footprints will not be so clear."
"That means the snow on the upper layer of the footprint pit has melted a little," Mouri Kogoro said again.
Conan looked up at Mouri Kogoro and reminded him again in a childish voice, "In that case, the snow we stepped on should melt to the same level as the footprints in the snow pit, and the footprints we left should be about five centimeters."
ah."
"Hmm..." Mouri Kogoro rubbed his chin and thought, "Well..."
Conan turned to look at the towels covered in the snow outside the ancestral hall door, and then looked down at the photos of footprints in the camera.
The murderer didn't leave any footprints in the snow, so his method should be similar.
First call Anzai Ema here, then cover the footprints left by Anzai Ema with a hard board, and move around by stepping on the hard board. You only need to use two boards alternately to move to the entrance of the ancestral hall without leaving any footprints.
After killing someone, go back in the same way.
In this way, above and around the snow where Anzai Ema left his footprints, the snow was compacted by the weight of the board and people, making it a few centimeters shallower than the footprints they left later...
"Maybe it's because the snow there is shallower," Mouri Kogoro continued to guess, "or maybe it's because the road is tilted, so of course the footprints she left are shallower than the ones we left!"
Conan did not refute, the former was unrealistic, the latter was possible, but there was no obvious slope in the road surface, and the depth of the footprints should not be that much different...
"Okay, let's go to the outdoor hot spring quickly," Mouri Kogoro turned around and walked out, "Don't waste time."
The four of them went to the open-air hot spring where Shibasaki Asuka's body was laid out.
Conan was too short and could handle taking pictures of footprints in the snow, but it was not easy to wade into the hot spring water to take pictures of corpses.
Mouri Kogoro took over the task of taking photos, taking photos of the corpse from all angles, and then waited for the Ogura station policeman and Chi Feichi to find and take photos of the evidence.
At the bottom of the hot spring, there is a knife that has been specially made and processed. There are circles of lines on the handle. After a rough comparison, it should be the murder weapon that killed Asuka Shibasaki and Ema Anzai.
There was also a stapler sunk at the bottom of the hot spring, which was similar to the wound on the back of Asuka Shibazaki’s head that she suffered from the attack.
In addition, there was a printed towel floating in the water with blood stains on it.