"But," Yuantai's face turned pale, "deep mountains and sharp blades?"
“Could it be Shan, Mountain Demon Granny?” Bumi’s voice trembled.
In the corridor, the old woman called back, "Because it's raining, it will take about an hour for the police and ambulance to arrive."
"Ah!" Mitsuhiko, who was thinking about the 'mountain demon mother-in-law', was startled, turned around and looked at the old woman, and took a step back with a look of horror on his face.
“What’s wrong, Yuangu?” Haiyuan Ai stepped forward in confusion.
Guangyan quickly stopped Huiyuan Ai and pushed him towards Chi Feichi, "No, it's nothing."
“You don’t think of me as a mountain witch again, do you?” The old woman stared at Guangyan.
Chi Feichi pulled Guangyan back, who was on guard, and said in a calm tone, "It was you who sharpened the kitchen knife so late at night that scared him."
Um?
Others looked at the old woman in surprise.
Even Conan was alert. So, when Chi Feichi and Guangyan went out before, they saw an old man sharpening a kitchen knife. Why did he go to sharpen a kitchen knife in the middle of the night without sleeping?
The old woman was silent for a moment, and then she said, "What about sharpening a kitchen knife? He must have seen it wrong."
“Where was my mother-in-law before I heard Miss Otani’s cry?” Conan asked.
“I was in the house all the time,” the old woman said without changing her expression. “It was raining outside. If I had gone out to kill people, my clothes would have been soaked long ago.”
"Let's not talk about that..." The Andalai man standing in front of the fish tank turned around, stretched out his hand and looked at the blood on his sleeves, and said helplessly, "Can you lend me the bathroom? My hands are full of blood.
I feel very uncomfortable..."
The old woman didn't pay attention at all and walked into the house with a dark face.
Andalai people: "..."
"For the bathroom, go out from behind the screen next to the fish tank, and turn left at the end of the corridor," Xiangyuan Fengya said to save the situation, "it's right next to the kitchen."
kitchen……
As soon as Guangyan heard about the kitchen, he felt bad all over and looked at Chi Feichi for help.
Run or not? How about running?
“It’s okay, there are many of us.” Chi Feichi reassured him and saw the Andalai people leaving and walked to the fish tank.
Conan followed immediately and asked in a low voice, "How's it going? You said that my question has been answered, which means it has not been answered. Do you have any clues?"
Chi Fei Chi looked at Conan. A certain famous detective was quite petty, but he couldn't help but said, "This is still a concern, so don't blame him for flipping the table."
Mitsuhiko decisively pushed Dr. A Li and others closer to Chi Feichi.
Everyone will feel more at ease if they stay with the person in charge of violence!
Chi Feichi knelt down in front of Conan and looked at Conan calmly, "I have a clue, the murderer is Mr. Andalai..."
Conan was confused for a moment.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, isn't it right that the rhythm of "the murderer is xx" is wrong? We agreed to exchange clues in a friendly manner first?
"When you went out, you either wore slippers casually or with the heels on," Chi Feichi continued in a low voice, "But not only were his sneakers well worn, but the laces were also tied up, which shows that he didn't have any shoes at all.
I didn’t rush out after hearing the scream, but I had already put on my shoes and went outside.”
"Ah?" Mitsuhiko, who was listening closely, temporarily forgot his fear and turned his head to look in the direction of the bathroom. "Then let him clean it. Won't he get rid of the blood on his body?"
“What if he destroys the evidence?” Ayumi worried.
"Even if the blood stains are washed away, the luminol reaction will make the blood stains nowhere to be seen, whether it is on his body or the murder weapon, and even if he wants to secretly hide the murder weapon somewhere, or throw it out of the window, and wait for the police to arrive
After that, a search will be conducted, and sooner or later we will find him." Conan felt that Chi Feichi's judgment was a bit unreasonable, and stared at Chi Feichi in confusion, "And based on this alone, it cannot be confirmed that Mr. Lai Ren is the murderer, right? He wore it in advance
Once the shoes are removed, it is possible that the real murderer used some method, such as passing a note or making an agreement in advance to let him go to the yard at a certain time, just to make him the most suspicious."
"The murder weapon is," Chi Feichi did not answer Conan's question directly, turning to look at the fish tank next to them, "obsidian was used as a weapon during the Jomon period."
Conan was speechless and turned to look at the fish tank. Then he was stunned for a moment, and everything became clear.
“Obsidian?” Yuantai wondered, “Can this kind of black stone also cut people?”
Huiyuan Ai looked at the fish tank and whispered, "If the obsidian is smashed into sharp stone fragments, it can cut people."
"And the water level seems to have dropped a bit..." Conan looked up at the water level of the fish tank.
Ayumi lay down next to the fish tank and stood on tiptoe to take a look, "Really, before we went to bed, the water level was still a little higher!"
"Brother Chi discovered Mr. Lai Ren's suspicions. When I was observing him just now, I noticed that the water level in the fish tank had dropped. I thought he might be using obsidian to kill people, right?" Conan sorted out his thoughts, "There were no obsidian smashed in the yard.
There were no traces of him, and there were no footprints in the distance. In other words, he took the obsidian and went to the forest before it rained. After smashing the obsidian, he hid a sharp fragment on his body. On the eve of the incident, he tried to find a way to remove it.
Miss Oba Akane called to the door to kill, and then pretended to be the first to arrive, picked up Miss Oba Akane, and covered up the blood splashed on her body due to the murder. After that, he was the only one approaching the fish tank. Maybe he took advantage of this moment to kill her.
The obsidian fragments used as murder weapons were thrown into the fish tank, because in this case, the fish tank would most likely be ignored during the police investigation, and no luminol-reactive sharp weapons would be found. Even if there were, they would only be in this home.
Or the blood stains left on the meat ingredients on the tableware we brought with us at camping will not lead to suspicion on him..."
With this arrangement, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it.
The water level in the fish tank has dropped suspiciously. It is indeed possible that the murderer used stones to commit the crime, because the only stones in the fish tank that can be modified and turned into throat-cutting weapons are hard and have sharp fragments.
Mr. Andalai, who is familiar with stones, is highly suspicious. In addition, Mr. Andalai's shoes were laced up and he was the first person to discover blood stains on his body. After that, he was the only one who pretended to be near the fish tank inadvertently.
In this case, the conclusion that the Andalai people are the murderers is not abrupt, but...
The speed at which the case was solved was so fast that he felt it was unreal. He always felt that the result might be reversed because he ignored a certain clue!
"And..." Chi Feichi looked at Dr. Ali who was bending over to listen, "The doctor put our camping tool bag in the corridor outside the room on the second floor. I accompanied Mitsuhiko to the toilet and came back.
At that time, I noticed that compared with before we went to bed, the bag was on the corridor side, and the distance between the lower corner and the wall was about 1 centimeter further."
other people:"……"
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It's one centimeter farther than before going to bed...
Mitsuhiko: "..."
(っ?-Ⅲ)
In such a dim environment, and after seeing the old woman sharpening a kitchen knife with a gloomy look on her face, Brother Chi followed him to the room and comforted him. When passing by the place where the tool bag was placed in the corridor, he actually noticed that the tool bag was
Is the distance from the side to the corner 1 cm longer than before going to bed?
Is Brother Chi still a human?
Before going to bed, Dr. Ali just casually put the travel bag containing tools into the corner. They did not pay attention to how far the lower corner of the bag was from the corner.
Seeing that the others were speechless, Chi Feichi explained, "The doctor didn't put the bag in the right position because he pushed it in with his right hand. The right side was closer to the wall than the left side. The whole bag was a bit off, so I paid more attention.
"
“Hug, I’m sorry.” Dr. Ali sweated.
Are you sure you don’t have obsessive-compulsive disorder?
"And the shape of the bag's bulge is also a little different. When the doctor put the bag in before, the nails used to fix the tent inside probably slipped and tilted in the bag. The ends of the nails pushed the fabric of the bag toward the wall.
For a bag, if the distance is due to someone accidentally kicking the bag, the position and condition of the nails inside will change. Unless you pick up the bag or open the bag, it cannot be done," Chi Feichi continued, "The most important thing is
One point is that when the doctor put the travel bag, the metal zipper of the bag was vertically downward. But when I accompanied Mitsuhiko upstairs to see it later, the link ring of the metal zipper was skewed to the side of the corridor, away from the locking piece.
It’s also different, the doctor had zipped it all the way to the top before, but the zipper I saw afterwards was not as tight as before.”
“That means someone opened our travel bag containing tools at night.” Haihara Ai said, feeling a little sympathetic to that person.
The other party should not have imagined that they have a detail-mad person, a person with persecutory paranoia tendencies, and maybe a little obsessive-compulsive disorder...
"We have a hammer in our tool bag. The murderer probably went through our tool bag in order to use the hammer to smash rocks." Conan rubbed his chin and thought, his expression became serious, "Then, the old lady and Mr. Fengya who know this family well
It's impossible. They can use something in this house to hit rocks. Only Mr. Lai Ren will take the risk to get our hammer."
"The old lady can still understand," Mitsuhiko paused and turned to look at Xiang Yuan Fengya, who was sitting next to the body with his head bowed. "But why is it impossible for Mr. Feng Ya? He said he knows this family, then..."
Chi Feichi continued to answer, "He is my mother-in-law's grandson, Xiang Tai."
Conan who was about to speak: "..."
Can you leave a message for him?
"Why?!"
The three children made a sound of surprise and turned to stare at Xiang Yuan Fengya.
"is that a lie!
“They don’t look alike at all…”
Conan saw Xiang Yuanfuga looking over and quickly grabbed the three children, "Shh...shh!"
"So that's it, he had plastic surgery," Hui Yuan Ai said in a low voice with a calm face. "He said he was going to be a chef, but he got plastic surgery and became a cowherd. So he kept sending money home, but never came back to see his mother-in-law.
, finally created an opportunity, pretending to be a passerby and came back, and his mother-in-law immediately recognized him, so her mother-in-law had been staring at him before, and suddenly said that men should not go to the kitchen, but actually she meant that men should not go to the kitchen.
You should rely on pleasing women. As for Mr. Fengya, he just said the location of the bathroom all at once, which also proves that he is familiar with this home. Mr. Laito and we, who came together, don’t know the bathroom well except for the bathroom we have been to before.
Where is a place like that?"
"Also, it's also very suspicious that he said there were 12 goldfish here all at once." Conan looked at the fish tank. "There are so many fish swimming around in the fish tank. It's not easy to count how many there are, let alone all at once."
He can give an accurate number, unless these fish were originally bought and raised by him."