"Where are the others?" Mouri Kogoro asked seriously, "Is there anyone else here who resents him?"
Tono Mizuki looked at Hikawa Shogo's body lying in the snow and sighed, "Eight years ago, Hikawa and his parents sold the land for compensation and went to Tokyo with the compensation. They haven't come back in the past eight years.
People in the village don't seem to have much contact, so... I really can't imagine that he would offend anyone in the village."
"Really..." Mouri Kogoro didn't ask any more questions.
After taking a photo of the row of footprints, Koshimizu Nanatsuki straightened up, pointed in the direction of the end of the footprints and asked, "Ms. Mizuki, where does the other side of this row of footprints lead to? In other words, where can it go?"
Conan looked up at Tono Mizuki.
If the murderer used Chi Feichi's method and left here backwards after the snow stopped, then this row of footprints would be the indicator of the murderer's whereabouts...
"Over there is... the hut on the back mountain, where Muto lives." Tono Mizuki hesitated, "But if Hikawa comes to see Muto, or comes with Muto, then they can still use the driveway, why should they?
Going across the snowfield..."
Conan turned to look at the snow with footprints.
A mystery is solved, but there are countless mysteries behind it.
Hikawa Shogo, who had not been back for eight years, suddenly returned and went to the snowfield with someone to be killed. This all shows that Hikawa Shogo still has some secrets about him.
…
In the evening, Xinhuang County criminal police arrived at Beize Village.
The police listened to Mouri Kogoro's reasoning and investigated the body. After the scene, they found Tachihara Fuyumi, Tono Mizuki, Yamao Keisuke, and Muto Takehiko to the village office.
These four people are the people who know Hikawa Shogo best here. At the same time, they may also have some grievances with each other. Therefore, except for Mizuki Tono who has been with Chi Feichi and others, the other three people were asked to provide alibi.
Tachihara Fuyumi said that Fuyuma felt tired after the physical examination, and she stayed with Fuyuma in her room at home, but no one could testify.
Yamao Keisuke said that he did not go out with Hikawa Shogo and went to wander in the woods to the east alone. No one can prove this either.
Takehiko Muto said that he worked in a workshop near the dam because he didn't like others to disturb him while he was working, so no one could prove it.
None of the three people had an alibi, but no one admitted that they were with Hikawa Shogo in the afternoon, and the investigation reached a deadlock.
Yamao Keisuke heard from the police that Hikawa Shogo might have gone to the mountain hut, and that Hikawa Shogo proposed to Tono Mizuki when he was young. Muto Takehiko might have used Mizuki's story to trick Hikawa Shogo into coming over, and he and Muto Takehiko had a huge quarrel.
The police privately believed that Takehiko Muto was a serious suspect, but they could not force an investigation based on the two points that "takehiko had a complaint against Hikawa Shogo" and "the footprints lead to takehiko's mountain hut". After understanding the situation,
Let the four people go back first.
After the police car arrived, the news of someone's death on the snowfield quickly spread. Villagers and tourists in the villa were asking around, understanding, and discussing. After nightfall, the tranquility inside and outside the villa gradually returned to normal.
The five children ran to Chi Feichi's room, where they discussed the case and played cards until about ten o'clock at night.
"Brother Chi, you should also rest early!"
"Watch the sunrise tomorrow morning, don't forget to meet in the lobby!"
"Brother Chi, good night!"
Chi Feichi watched the five little guys go upstairs, closed the room door, turned and walked to the table, picked up the open bottle of red wine, poured half a glass into the glass, sat down on the sofa, and then took out his mobile phone to dial.
"Beep...beep..."
The phone rang twice and was answered.
Chi Feichi glanced at the two cans of beer and a bottle of red wine on the table, "Why do you suddenly ask me to call you back?"
On the other end of the phone, Gin Jiu said in a deep voice, "From last night to tonight, you haven't sent an email to explain the current progress to that person. I couldn't get through when I called you during the day, so I wanted to confirm whether you are still alive.
."
Luck went out to investigate alone. He lost contact for a day. Isn't it normal to call him back when he had time? Luck had the nerve to ask him, 'Why did he suddenly ask you to call back?'
"When I went to play in the snowfield during the day, the signal was not very good." Chi Feichi took out a thumb-sized white bottle from his pocket and slowly twisted the cap with his left hand, "You don't think anyone here can threaten me, do you?"
?”
Gin: "You went to play in the snowfield?"
Chi Feichi: "Is there any problem?"
Gin: "...No."
Chi Feichi: "..."
There was something about the silence before Gin answered.
"Hmph... I thought you would never be complacent and careless," Gin started in semi-taunting mode, "Sauterne, who was under strict surveillance, could almost kill you. That guy at Yamao brought so many bombs back, and you are so...
It’s easy to get into the hospital. I’m worried that you’ll be blown into the hospital by a bomb, so I want you to call me back as soon as possible. Isn’t that normal?”
Chi Feichi had to admit in his heart that Ginjiu's worries were reasonable. After all, he was still during the organization's mission and should not have lost contact. However, it was impossible to admit it verbally, "Look, you should pay more attention to your side of things."
."
"Speaking of which... the second buyer of 'Black Humor' has been a lot more active today. I estimate that they will attack the bank in two days," Gin said as he took advantage of the situation and talked about what he was doing. "After they succeed,
, I'll go find them, but when the time comes, whether to swallow the money or win over them to do things for us depends on their performance in action. I told Rum, if someone performs well, then
You can consider staying.”
Chi Feichi said 'hmm', finally unscrewed the cap of the small bottle with one hand, and poured the fishy-smelling blood into the red wine glass, "Are you going to monitor their robbery the whole time?"
"Vodka has time to monitor their movements, I will check the situation first," Gin said casually without revealing his schedule, and then asked, "Where are you? Have you investigated Yamao's purpose clearly?"
"After arriving in Beize Village, he has been staying in the village, visiting elders and meeting friends." Chi Feichi shook the cup in his left hand for a while to let the blood inside mix with the red wine. "Currently there is no
There was a big noise, and the car carrying the bomb was parked in the yard of a family in the village. The family seemed to have moved away and no one lived there, so it was a good place for him to park his car."
"Tomorrow is the celebration of the fifth anniversary of the founding of Beizawa Village. What he wants to wait for is probably this special day," Ginjiu helped analyze. "Or he wants to gather people in the village and lure someone there.
Create an outbreak, or..."
A smile appeared on Chi Feichi's lips, "I wanted to wait until the staff stationed at the dam came to the village to attend the celebration, then put a bomb on the dam and blow it up."
Gin said in a leisurely tone, "Looking at his previous behavior of bombing the Dongdu subway line, it is probably the latter, so the purpose is still to destroy and retaliate?"
"But in that case, there is no need to raise money to buy medicine," Chi Feichi boredly lured Gin into playing a reasoning game, "He was very financially strapped, so he borrowed the $30,000 from his friends in Tokyo, by the way.
, the friend who lent him money, who had not returned to the village for eight years, returned to Beizawa Village with him and died today, and the murderer should be Yamao."
"So, he had some reason to blow up the dam. At the same time, he and his friend were suspected of forming an interest alliance, and then he killed the other party..." Gin suddenly sneered with unknown meaning, "Humph... under that reservoir
Isn’t there any treasure hidden?”
"I think so too," Chi Feichi picked up the cup and took a sip of the wine-blood mixed drink, letting the scent of grass in the blood and the sourness in the wine spread in his mouth, "Eight years ago, the night before Shanwei's drunk driving accident,
A jewelry store in Shinjuku District, Tokyo was robbed. Nearly one billion yen worth of jewelry was lost. The manager of the jewelry store was also killed. The identity of the prisoner has not yet been determined..."
"One billion yen? That is indeed enough for him to take the risk. Are you going to confirm it?"
"Of course, after all, the original plan was... the thief will never make it empty."
"Oh? Have you actually fallen to the point where you call yourself a thief?"
"If I were a thief, you would be the same."
"Then let's see if we can successfully bring home what we are targeting. I wish you all the best."
"You too, everything goes well."
The phone hangs up.
Chi Feichi put his cell phone on the table and drank the blood wine in the cup.
He and Conan got the map of the dam this morning. Probably because he was attracted by the case that happened during the day, Conan forgot to show him the map. So far, he still doesn't know the route to the dam.
Topography of the Dam Management Office.
This is what he wanted Conan to think - even if someone went to the bottom of the reservoir in advance to intercept that batch of things, that person would not be him.
In addition, after the dam was blown up, the water in the reservoir rushed down the mountain. Who can say that the jewelry was not washed away by the flood?
As for how he gets to the dam...
He wants to go to the dam without a map.
…
In twenty minutes, Chi Feichi sipped his wine and counted the things he had brought.
He is going to walk through the snowfield to the dam tonight. When he comes back, whether it is water stains on his coat or possible tread marks on his shoes, they will become clues for a famous detective to discover that he has been out there.
Those traces must be cleaned up.
Also, although Conan and the others were most likely asleep, during the time he was away, the detective might have gotten up in the middle of the night, went to the first floor to buy something, and then 'happened' to find that he was not there...
Beware of this too.
"Dong...dong dong!"
There was a knocking sound on the glass door leading to the yard, which brought Chi Feichi back from his thoughts. He stood up and walked to the bathroom with a cup in hand.
The tightly drawn curtains blocked the glass door, forming a barrier between indoor and outdoor groups from prying eyes.
Tono Mizuki's voice came from outside the door, "Mr. Chi, are you asleep?"
"Miss Tono? Wait a moment."
Chi Feichi raised his voice and replied. He washed the cup on the sink unhurriedly. When he got to the living room, he put his backhand on the table. He walked to the glass door and opened the curtains and glass door.
There was a lot of snowfall in Beizawa Village. It only snowed once during the day, and it started to snow again at night.
Tono Mizuki was wearing thick mountaineering clothes, gloves and a hat, all wrapped up tightly. He stood on the terrace with his back to the heavy snow. When he saw Chi Feichi opening the glass door, his eyes lit up, and then he looked embarrassed again.
He lowered his head and said, "Mr. Chi, I'm sorry to disturb you so late."
Chi Feichi turned sideways in front of the glass door, "What can I do for you? If you feel it's cold outside and you don't mind, you can come in and talk."
"No need," Tono Mizuki said, with a more troubled look on his face, "I... I was on the snowfield during the day, just before I found the body of the glacier. When I turned around to ask you if there was anything nasty, I seemed to see it.