"I came to Nagano Prefecture for a work exchange meeting."
Faced with Okino Yoko's inquiry, Karasawa explained: "After my business trip, I will come to Karuizawa's villa to stay for a few days and entertain friends here."
"So that's it!"
After listening to Karasawa's explanation, Okino Yoko's unreal feeling disappeared, and turned into excitement the next moment: "Great, Karasawa Criminal, you are here at the right time!"
It can be seen that Okino Yoko's original tension suddenly relaxed, and she felt like she had found her backbone.
She came to Tang Ze excitedly and said in a sincere tone: "Please help us!"
"Don't be impatient. What's going on? Please tell me slowly."
After Tang Ze spoke to comfort him, he looked at the attic and said, "I saw two criminals came up just now. Did something happen?"
"Mr. Kanyasu was hit by an arrow in the back and died unfortunately!" Yoko Okino said with a frightened look.
"Go up and have a look!"
After hearing Okino Yoko's words, Karasawa glanced at the people around him and said immediately: "Anyway, let's go over and check out the situation. Could you please lead the way?"
Hearing Karasawa's words, Okino Yoko nodded, and then took the lead leading Karasawa towards the attic upstairs.
After arriving at the attic, the criminal who entered through the window had opened the closed attic exit and lowered the ladder, allowing everyone to go up the stairs.
"Hey, who are you?"
The two criminals had seen several people in the villa before going up to the attic, and were a little stunned when they suddenly saw a stranger coming up.
"I am a criminal from Tokyo. I came here for an exchange meeting and then ended my vacation in a villa next to it."
While explaining, Tangze took out the criminal certificate and showed it to the two of them.
"Police watch!?"
When the criminal who took Tang Ze's ID saw the ID handed over by Tang Ze, he was surprised when he opened the column and saw the position. After all, the position was a bit too high for the other party's age.
"Karasawa"
When another criminal came up and saw the name on the certificate, he remembered what Tang Ze said before, and immediately looked at Tang Ze in surprise and said: "Are you Tang Ze criminal!?
The one who recently came to Nagano Prefecture for an exchange meeting!?"
"it's me."
Tang Ze was not modest, he nodded and admitted his identity.
In this situation, it is obviously easier to control the situation by revealing your identity.
"I didn't expect to see you here!"
One of the young criminals said excitedly: "I heard about you coming to attend the exchange meeting before. It's a pity that none of us had the chance to attend. I didn't expect to see you here!"
"The exchange is mainly for scientific research and research, not criminal investigation, so the meeting was not held with great fanfare."
After Tangze explained, he immediately brought the topic back: "Anyway, let's focus on the case in front of us first.
Obviously, this is a homicide case and it needs to be taken seriously."
"Of course!"
After hearing Tang Ze's words, the two young criminals nodded quickly, and then looked at him and waited for Tang Ze to give orders.
"Let's go down from the crime scene first."
Tang Ze naturally took over the command and said: "First find out the identity information of the relevant personnel, and then ask them to tell what happened before.
After we understand the situation, we will decide what to do next."
The two criminals naturally had no objection to this, and after Karasawa went down, Okino Yoko had already introduced Karasawa's identity to several people around him.
So at this moment, when faced with Tang Ze's inquiry, several people cooperated honestly.
In addition to Okino Yoko and the producer Mr. Hatejima, there happened to be someone else coming to the villa.
They are Mr. Hatajima's brother-in-law, Nayasu Baba.
There is also the other party's younger brother, Baba Kazugo. The other party is a tall man. His left wrist was dislocated and fixed with a plaster.
The last woman is Baba Fugo's wife, Ms. Baba Himi. She is currently in a wheelchair because she has a hernia, and it is obvious that her mobility is not convenient.
As for the producer, Mr. Hatajima, he was also injured. He was wearing a cane on his right hand because of a sprained foot.
In other words, after excluding Okino Yoko, the three suspects at the crime scene were all injured.
Seeing this, Tang Ze was not surprised.
After all, "choose one of the classic three", naturally you must meet the same conditions to be listed as a suspect.
But this time, the conditions were that all three of them were injured, so there was nothing surprising about it.
After knowing the identities of several people, Karasawa asked Okino Yoko to recount the scene when the crime occurred, and the other party naturally told the truth.
According to Okino Yoko, after they had dinner together, they returned to their rooms to rest.
But when she was half asleep at midnight, something suddenly happened.
Okino Yoko heard painful groans in her sleep, and soon the sound of "ta-ta-ta-ta" rapid footsteps came from the corridor.
She was very concerned at that time, so she got up, turned on the flashlight function on her mobile phone and went out to see what happened.
Then I found blood stains on the corridor floor.
When she walked along the blood trail to the corner, the blood trail suddenly disappeared and there was no one in the corridor.
"It smelled like blood, and it disappeared right at the entrance to the attic."
After following Okino Yoko to the location at that time, Karasawa sniffed the smell in the air and immediately judged.
"But there was only one room with a bathroom, so I went to check the situation, but I didn't find anyone."
Okino Yoko said: "While I was wondering, everyone came out one after another after hearing the noise.
Then after I told them what happened, everyone realized that Mr. Guan Kang did not show up.
Because Mr. Guankang's wife disappeared two years ago, we were very nervous and quickly split up to look for him.
However, among the four of us at that time, I was the only one who was not injured, and Mr. Feng Wu was able to move normally because of his injured arm.
In addition, we considered that if a gangster breaks in, a person will be in danger.
So we went looking for it in pairs.”
"It is indeed a reasonable arrangement." Tang Ze nodded and said: "Then what happened after that? What happened again?"
"Just as we were preparing to find Mr. Guankang, Mr. Fengwu's cell phone suddenly received a text message from his brother, Mr. Guankang."
As Okino Yoko spoke, he looked at Baba Kazugo, who immediately took out his phone and pulled up the photos to show to Karasawa and others.
Above this photo are groups of playing cards.
Each set of playing cards has a different number, number, and suit.
"It looks like a secret code."
Looking at the pictures on Baba Kazugo's phone, Karasawa asked Okino Yoko to send a copy of the pictures to his phone.
In order to solve the puzzle while searching, they asked Baba Fugo to send a copy of the picture to each of them.
Among them, Okino Yoko is a good friend of Karasawa, so it saves some complicated details.
Looking at the playing card code on his mobile phone, Tang Ze suddenly became convinced that he had encountered the case in advance.
This case was originally going to be solved because Okino Yoko was looking for Mouri Kogoro, but it was finally solved by Conan and Rum who took the initiative to come to the door.
He never imagined that when he went to Nagano Prefecture on a business trip and then came to Karuizawa for vacation, he would encounter this case.
Originally, when he listened to Okino Yoko's retelling, he felt more familiar with it, but now he saw the code and was immediately sure of it.
Of course, even if he immediately cracked the code, he didn't say it directly.
After all, he has not yet learned the complete story of the case from Okino Yoko, so it is naturally inappropriate for him to directly identify the murderer.
Tangze's consistent style is prudent.
If he can't get all the credit in one battle, he won't be able to scare off the enemy easily.
So Karasawa put away his phone, looked at Okino Yoko and asked, "So what did you do after that?"
"Because it was easier for Mr. Feng Wu and I to walk at that time, we went to search in the woods around the villa, but we couldn't find anyone."
Okino Yoko's face turned ugly when she said this: "But Mr. Hatajima and I cannot just walk away from the situation before us.
So we canceled many work schedules and continued to help find people.
Then on the morning of the fourth day, Mr. Feng Wu suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he and his brother would hide in the attic room and play cards.
But when we tried to open the attic, we found that the attic door on the ceiling could not be opened at all.
So we called the police and found Mr. Guankang’s body.”
"Yes, I understand the situation."
Tang Ze nodded and said: "When we first entered the attic, we broke the window to get in.
In addition, the attic door cannot be opened, and it is obvious that the entire attic forms a secret room.
When they were waiting for his body, they found that the deceased had been hit by a crossbow arrow in his back, which meant that the other party had been attacked by someone.
A secret room murder case?"
"Judging from the current situation, we can only think so," Okino Yoko said with a somewhat frightened look.
"Please, you two, please search carefully around the villa, mainly to see if there are any footprints or discarded clothes."
After Tang Ze asked the two criminals for help, they agreed quickly.
As for him, he looked at Okino Yoko and said, "By the way, you said Mr. Nakayasu's wife also disappeared in this villa, right?"
"That's right."
Okino Yoko nodded and said: "Miss Baohua disappeared in the summer two years ago.
At that time, her husband, Mr. Guankang, was originally going to go to the villa to spend the summer together, but due to something unexpected, only Miss Baohua went to the villa alone.
But when Mr. Guankang and Fengwu's family arrived at the villa, he was not found.
Afterwards, they called the police to search, but in the end they still found no trace of Miss Baohua."
"Excuse me, do you have any photos of Miss Baohua?"
Tang Ze opened his mouth to ask and guide, and began to give his reasoning phone enough foundation for reasoning.
"I have a photo of my sister here!"
After hearing what Karasawa said, Mr. Hatajima on the side quickly took out his mobile phone and called up the photo album: "This is what I took with my sister and his wife when they came to the villa to spend the summer together."
"let me see."
After taking the phone in his hand, Tang Ze looked at the photos and pretended to be strange: "Looking at the other three's outfits, it must have been summer, right?
Why is your sister the only one wearing long sleeves and sunglasses?”
"My sister also wore sunglasses before she disappeared. She also wears sunglasses at ordinary times."
After hearing Karasawa's words, Mr. Hatajima said, "But I don't think he ever wore sunglasses when he was in college, right?"
As Mr. Hatejima spoke, he looked at the two people next to him.
"Well, yes," Baba Himi nodded after hearing this.
"I haven't seen her take care of her in college either," Baba Fuwu also agreed.
"But does this have anything to do with the case at hand?" Okino Yoko on the side asked with some confusion.
"Since something happened to both of them in this villa, we cannot simply treat the two cases separately, but we must also consider whether they are related."
Tangze explained: "Of course, it is possible that the two cases happened in the same villa by coincidence. Everything depends on the clues."
"So that's it." Okino Yoko suddenly said after listening to Karasawa's explanation.
"As my younger brother, Mr. Hatshima wants to ask you, could it be that you are college classmates?" Karasawa asked immediately after hearing what the two said.
"It's amazing. Sister Feimei and the others are indeed classmates in college, and not only that, they are also classmates from elementary school to high school!"
Mr. Hatejima saw that Karasawa had guessed the relationship between the two and his sister based on just a few words from them. He couldn't help but excitedly said: "Karasawa Criminal, please help me find my sister!"
"In other words, the relationship between the three of you is very close?" After hearing what Mr. Obejima said, Karasawa looked at Fengwu and his wife and asked.
"Yes." Baba Himi nodded and admitted.
"And my sister was Mr. Fengwu's first love, but later she ended up with Sister Feimei.
But that didn't affect their relationship."
"Then I understand everything."
When Tang Ze said this, he looked at Feng Wu and his wife and said, "Why is it that one of you wants to kill him, while the other one has most likely seen through the code, but still refuses to save his brother?"
After the words fell, everyone present was shocked and looked at Tang Ze.
"Karasawa Criminal Justice, do you think you already know the truth?" Okino Yoko said in surprise.
"Do you know about my sister too!?" Mr. Hatshima was even more excited when he heard Karasawa's words: "Where is my sister!?"
"Don't get excited yet, let me start from the beginning."
After Karasawa signaled Mr. Obejima to calm down, Karasawa slowly said: "To be honest, at the beginning I was just in case, so I wanted to know something about Ms. Baohua.
But when I saw Ms. Baohua's dress on Mr. Hatejima's cell phone, I connected the story.
No one would wrap themselves up so tightly in the summer, and Ms. Baohua had no habit of wearing sunglasses when she was in college.
So, I guess maybe Ms. Baohua was domestically abused by Mr. Guankang."