Some people in the film crew still didn't understand the logic of what Conan said and asked in confusion.
Seeing this, Conan glanced at Hattori Heiji.
The latter connected the screenwriter's mobile phone to the monitor screen with a data cable and played the death video recorded inside.
When the broadcast showed the screenwriter male drinking the "poison" and turning his face to the camera, Hattori Heiji quickly pressed the pause button.
"Look, Mr. Harawaki's chin photographed above has a smooth chin and no beard."
"But actually Mr. Harawaki has a beard today..."
"In other words, this video was actually prepared by the murderer in advance to create the illusion of suicide."
"Of course, judging from Mr. Harawaki's expression, he probably shot this video himself for some purpose, but was used by the murderer..."
"But since the murderer knows about the existence of this video, I think other people in the film crew should also know something about it."
"So, have you ever seen Mr. Harawaki shoot such a video?"
After Hattori Heiji finished speaking, the faces of the camera crew members in the room all looked thoughtful, and the atmosphere fell silent for a moment.
After a while, the fat woman in charge of photography looked around at her companions and said: "I have some impressions of the scenes in this video..."
"This is a clip from a movie we shot in this villa eight years ago."
When Conan and Hattori Heiji heard this, their eyes immediately changed and they quickly asked what was going on.
With the photographer's explanation, the past experiences of the film crew came to light.
Eight years ago, in addition to the director, this film crew was also a member of the university's Horror Film Research Association.
The president at that time was the director's brother, and he organized everyone to come to this villa to shoot a horror movie that would be shown on the school anniversary.
At that time, the president and Harawaki had some differences over the movie script.
"Based on the original script, Harawaki wanted to add some scenes in which the characters did not want to be easily killed by zombies and committed suicide by taking poison, as well as scenes in which the characters came back to life after becoming zombies and began to attack their companions."
"In order to convince the president, he asked me to cooperate with him in taking these shots..."
"One of the contents is exactly the same as this video."
When everyone in the film crew heard this, their faces were filled with varying degrees of surprise.
The girl with glasses asked in surprise: "Is there such a thing?"
The sound effects engineer, who had been silent all this time, also murmured: "I've heard about this too."
"However, the president did not adopt Harawaki's idea in the end, and I don't know who still has those videos from that time..."
“This is not hard to find~”
At this moment, the short Conan looked up at everyone and said in a childlike voice: "Actually, the video is in the mini tablet in Mr. Harawaki's backpack~"
"After killing Mr. Harawaki, the murderer took Mr. Harawaki's mobile phone and took pictures of the video footage on Mr. Harawaki's mini tablet."
"As long as you play it closer and adjust the resolution to a slightly lower level, you can still make it look real."
"Then when the video went black, he put the phone into Mr. Harawaki's hand and waited until the body was discovered by others."
"but……"
Conan suddenly changed the topic and suppressed the pure expression on his face.
"The disadvantage of this method is that the specific time of death of the deceased can be deduced from the time of the video."
"At that time, just by looking at who left the filming scene, you could know who the murderer was..."
After Conan finished speaking, the brains of the film crew, Mao Lilan, Yuanshan and Ye reacted.
Immediately, the bespectacled woman turned to look at the actress, and whispered tentatively: "Lea, it seems you were the one who suggested taking a break at that time..."
The actress' body trembled when her name was pointed out, and she took a step back, with a trace of nervousness in her eyes.
"How, how could this be possible?"
"Although I proposed the break, everyone seems to have left this room at one time or another, right?"
Seeing that the actress wanted to share the suspicion on him, the eyes of others also changed slightly.
But Conan and Hattori Heiji had already stood in front of her and solemnly said: "There is no use in denying..."
"In fact, there is another piece of evidence. In order to facilitate the recording operation, you must have swiped directly on the screens of mobile phones and tablets without wearing gloves."
"That is to say, Mr. Harawaki's mobile phone and tablet are still clearly stained with your fingerprints."
Hattori Heiji's words were like cannonballs with real damage, causing the actress's body to shake slightly and lean back.
But fortunately, the curtained window behind her supported her back, so she didn't really fall down.
Seeing her reaction, other members of the film crew also understood the truth.
"Lea, why are you doing this?" The bespectacled woman stepped forward and asked.
Lea lowered her head slightly, slowly closed her eyes and began to explain.
It turns out that during the filming of the movie 8 years ago, the president at the time did not adopt the idea proposed by Harawaki, but instead proposed a new model of zombies + suspense.
He plans to devise a trick that looks like zombies are killing people, but is actually killing people.
The way to achieve this trick is to curl up and hide in the drawer under the wardrobe, creating the illusion of disappearing.
In order to build confidence in the members, the president personally demonstrated the feasibility of this technique and asked the girl with glasses, the screenwriter, and the photographer to guard the door.
But actually...
"That technique actually requires the assistance of a person. The president asked me to be his assistant."
"After his body got into the drawer under the wardrobe, I helped him pull up the outside drawer and then left through the window."
"But when Harawaki and the other three went in to check, they accidentally pressed the front of the wardrobe against the wall while searching."
"They didn't find the president in the closet, and I didn't take it to heart. I thought the president could come out on his own, so I returned to the city with everyone."
"I caught a cold for the next two days and stayed in the hospital."
"On the fourth day, when I heard everyone said that the president had not come back, I worried that something might have happened to the president, and asked everyone to go back to the villa to search for him."
"But by the time we found the president, he was already dead..."
"But the president wrote curses on me densely in blood on the top of the drawer, and called me a murderer..."
"Recently, Harawaki seems to have accidentally discovered the bloody book that I didn't have time to clean up, so he threatened me to come over and help him film."
"Because I was worried about being blackmailed by him for the rest of my life, I..."
The actress lowered her head slightly and explained the motive for the murder.
When they heard the truth about the accident eight years ago, the film crew members present also opened their mouths in shock and didn't know where to start.
Conan and Hattori Heiji put their hands in their pockets and stared at the actress with stern faces.
This is another case that started with a misunderstanding.
If everyone had told the story 8 years ago, there would not have been the blood splatter today...
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of breaking from the window the actress was leaning against.
Click!
A head broke through the barrier between the window and the curtain, opened its bloody mouth, and bit the actress' shoulder with lightning speed.
This sudden change made everyone's pupils shrink suddenly, and they were stunned for a while.
I saw that the man's body should be standing outside the window, only his head smashed through the window, and he was biting the actress's shoulder and wouldn't let go.
"ah!"
It was the actress's scream that made Heiji Hattori and Conan come to their senses first and rush forward to help.
Hattori Heiji wanted to separate the mouth and the actress's shoulder with his hands, but with just a little force, a large amount of blood flowed from the wound, and even the skin and flesh tended to be torn apart.
"ah--!" The actress's screams of pain became louder.
"hateful!"
"Let go! You bastard, please let go!"
Hattori Heiji pulled the man's head hard while shouting curses.
Conan, who was standing nearby, saw that the man looked like he was suffering from rabies, so he could only open the cover of the watch and prepare to knock him out with an anesthesia needle.
But when he took aim, he found that the man's face was darkened, even a little purple, and there were corpse spots on his face that showed he had been dead for a long time.
Also, although his eyes were open, the pupils inside were like those of a dead person, having completely dilated.
"Hey! Kudo!"
"Quick!"
At this time, Hattori Heiji next to him urged Conan to inject the anesthesia needle.
The latter didn't care so much and just aimed a needle at this person's neck.
The flying needle penetrated directly into the purple skin, but it had no effect at all. The other party still bit the actress.
Hattori Heiji:?
At this moment, Yuan Shan and Ye handed over a big sword from the side with an upright look.
"Heiji!"
"Give!"
Hattori Heiji turned his head and was stunned for a moment after taking the sword.
Because this is a prop used for filming movies. Although it is not edged, it is still made of genuine metal.
Although you won't be able to kill someone if you use this to chop someone, it would probably be quite painful if it was chopped on a fragile part like the neck...
But at this time, Conan next to him realized that something was wrong and quickly shouted: "Cut it quickly! Hattori!"
"There's something wrong with this guy!"
Seeing that all his good friends said this, Hattori Heiji could only turn his head and swing the big sword in a circle behind him.
"I don't care what happens then!"
"ah--!"
Hattori Heiji swung his big sword and slashed hard at the man's neck. It was simply the standard execution posture of ancient executioners.
However, when the unedged metal blade struck the man's neck, it only left an imperceptible bruise.
"What?!"
Hattori Heiji suddenly looked shocked.
As a master of swordsmanship, he knew that even if this sword was not sharpened, it was still much more powerful than a bamboo sword. A cut on the neck would cause unbearable damage to the human body.
But this person is...
Suddenly, the man took the initiative to let go of his mouth and shrank his head outside the window.
The curtains fell, covering the window again.
Although the actress escaped from the "tiger's mouth", the severe pain almost caused her to fall into a coma.
"Someone come and take her out!"
As soon as Conan called out, the film crew members who were already stunned came over tremblingly and carried the actress out of the room.
Toyama and Ye carefully approached Hattori Heiji and asked: "Heiji, who is that person?"
"have no idea……"
Hattori Heiji held the sword in both hands and maintained a standard kendo confrontation posture, ready to respond to another attack by the unknown person at the window.
Conan next to him suddenly said: "That person may not be a real person..."
"What?" Hattori Heiji was stunned.
"Maybe a zombie."
Conan nervously stared at the window covered by the curtains and analyzed: "I just saw corpse spots on that person, and his pupils were completely dilated."
"He has been dead for at least a few days..."
"What?" Hattori Heiji's eyes were completely incredulous, "How can a dead person still move?"
But he glanced at Conan's extremely serious eyes and realized that Conan was not talking nonsense.
However, it is also possible that someone used makeup to pretend to be a dead person, but was actually a thief or something.
Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji leaned forward slightly and carefully opened the curtain with the big sword in his hand.
When the curtains were slowly opened, outside the broken windows, several zombie-like figures were standing hunched over on the lawn outside the villa.
Their clothes were in tatters, their hair was unkempt, and their dry faces were gray and purple, making them indistinguishable from dead people.
"It's a zombie!"
Mao Lilan, Yuan Shan and Ye were so frightened that they hugged each other and screamed at the same time.
And Hattori Heiji's pupils shrank to the limit, gritting his teeth and looking at those "people" attentively.
How is this possible?!
At this moment, outside the door behind them, the film crew who had fled to the corridor screamed.
"ah!"
"What the hell is going on! They all broke in!"
Hearing something bad coming from outside, Hattori Heiji and Conan hurried to the corridor.
I saw zombies hunched over, smashing through the windows of the room, and getting up one by one.
When facing a room with a locked door, these zombies can quite dexterously put their hands on the door handle and unscrew the door.
"Everyone, hurry up to the second floor!"
"Xiaolan! You guys hurry up and wake up Uncle Maoli!"
Conan reacted immediately and shouted to command everyone.
He himself quickly returned to the shooting room and picked up a microphone pole from the ground to use as a weapon.
After everyone heard this, they quickly ran away to the stairs on the second floor.
During this period, zombies tried to catch the fleeing people, but Hattori Heiji stopped them with his sword.
Everyone was fighting and running away, and finally made it to the second floor.
Hattori Heiji and Conan blocked the stairs on the second floor, each with a weapon, and fought back every zombie that tried to come up the stairs.
"You don't want your life! Just come over here!"
Hattori Heiji shouted loudly to boost his morale, and then swung his sword with his left and right hands alternately, slashing away the zombies coming up one by one.
But this kind of unedged sword will do no harm to the zombie's body at all, and the zombie will get up quickly.
Seeing more and more zombies gathering at the stairs below, Hattori Heiji cursed.
"hateful!"
"This will never end!"
The moment he finished speaking, the zombie who was still two meters away in front of him suddenly accelerated his movements, pushed away the zombie in front of him, rushed forward and struck Hattori Heiji with a dagger in his right hand that was holding a knife.
A cold light flashed, and the dagger drew a bloody mark on the back of Hattori Heiji's hand.
The stinging pain made his palm twitch, and the big sword slipped from his hand.
not good!
Conan, who was standing at the side and behind, suddenly looked shocked and his pupils trembled.