Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

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 was 11:30 p.m., they called Fukatsu Harumi and Haibara to take a bath.

Conan followed out without hesitation.

"Huh?" Mori Kogoro, who was lying on the table and almost fell asleep, looked up confusedly, "Where are you going?"

"Women's bathroom." Chi Feichi got up.

"Ah?!" Mori Kogoro suddenly regained his energy, "Hey, Conan, Feichi, you two brats, stop for me!"

At the entrance of the female soup, the wooden sign of "Purchase 10:00 to 11:00" is still hanging on the closed wooden door.

Mao Lilan tried to open the door, but failed to pull it open. She looked down and saw a kimono paper figurine on the ground. Curious, she squatted down and picked it up. "Why is it so cold?"

On the head of the kimono paper figure, there was still a small piece of paper tied. Mao Lilan straightened the piece of paper with her fingers, and it turned out to be a small prajna mask, which fit the face of the paper figure.

"Ah!" Mao Lilan was startled, and the paper figurine fell to the ground, "What is this!"

Hui Yuanai murmured, "Kimono Sode Hannya..."

Conan's face changed, and he raised his head and shouted to Chi Feichi who was beside him, "Brother Chi, open the bathroom door!"

Chi Feichi stepped forward, grabbed the doorknob with one hand, and the door next to him with the other. With all his strength, he stopped the door and threw it aside.

Even though the situation was urgent, Conan couldn't help being startled when he looked at the door that was thrown aside, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly before he ran into the bathroom.

Sometimes he suspects that Chi Feichi is really not human.

Arm strength is horrible.

Chi Feichi, Mao Lilan, Mori Kogoro, and Fukatsu Harumi stayed at the door and did not go in.

Seeing that Conan ran to the hot spring and stopped, Haibara walked in without any scruples.

They're kids anyway...

There was mist all around, and in the hot spring, long belts of various colors were submerged in the water, wrapping the motionless Asuka Shibazaki, spreading out in all directions, floating on the water, like a piranha blooming in full bloom.

Shibazaki Asuka, who was breathless in the middle, was the food that the piranha swallowed, and her long black hair was also 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 a little dry, "but..."

"Miss Asuka?!"

Mao Lilan, who was looking over her head, was taken aback, and Fukatsu Harumi let out a scream.

"Miss Asuka? Wake up!" Mori Kogoro immediately ran forward, jumped into the hot spring, and walked to Shibasaki Asuka's side. He found that the kimono belt on Shibasaki Asuka's body was a little bit. Wisps of red ooze from the blood hole, "This is too bad, someone stabbed her in the chest!"

Conan remembered the legend of "Kimono Sode Wisdom", and after a start, he turned around and ran out again.

The others could only follow. Chi Feichi followed without entering the door.

Eri Akechi, Tokyo Ichi Han, and Raiko Honda were playing poker in the living room. When they heard that Asuka Shibasaki was dead, they heard Conan asking Anzai Ema's location. They hurriedly said that Anzai Ema went out an hour ago. The ancestral hall went.

Conan ran over and opened the door to the courtyard, only to find a row of footprints on the ground leading to the entrance of the ancestral hall, turned on the watch-shaped flashlight, and loudly reminded Mori Kogoro who followed, "Uncle Mori, don't step on those footprints , go elsewhere!"

"Understood," Mori Kogoro put on waterproof boots, and stepped on 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 series of small footprints next to the footprints of Mori Kogoro.

Mao Lilan noticed that Chi Feichi hadn't passed by, and asked aloud, "Brother Feichi, don't you want to go and have a look?"

"It's enough for the teacher and Conan to go," Chi Feichi said indifferently, not interested in this case that knows the cause and effect. "If there are too many people going, it will be easy to destroy some traces."

Mao Lilan believed it, and watched Mao Li Kogoro and Conan entering the ancestral hall worriedly.

Not long after, Mori Kogoro and Conan turned back.

"Call the police, Xiaolan," Mori Kogoro said solemnly, "Miss Anxi was also killed. She was lying on an open long-sleeved kimono. She was also fatally stabbed in the chest, and a kimono sleeve was placed on her body. It should be the same person who killed Ms. Asuka Shibasaki!"

Twenty minutes later, a local policeman surnamed 'Xiao Cang' arrived.

Although Ogura had contacted the prefectural police in Yamagata Prefecture, the prefectural police said that the snow outside the road was too deep and they would not be able to come here until dawn, and Mori Kogoro directed the protection of the scene and the evidence.

"Miss Boss, could you please bring ten bath towels?"

"yes."

When the proprietress left to get the bath towel, Mori Kogoro looked at Mao Lilan again, "Xiao Lan, bring your digital camera!"

"Okay!" Mao Lilan nodded immediately and sighed inwardly.

She'd better not bring a digital camera next time, because she couldn't take pictures of the scenery, and only took pictures of the crime scene and the dead body.

"Then, Police Officer Ogura and I will cover up the footprints on the snow, and Conan will be in charge of listening to my instructions and taking pictures of the scene." Kogoro Mouri 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 put it away if there is any."

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," Mori 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 snowing again outside.

Conan stepped into the snow and walked ahead, taking pictures of the footprints with a digital camera.

Mori 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 followed along to observe the footprints to see if there was anything that needed to be put into the evidence bag for preservation.

Conan patted, turned to the corridor, turned on the flashlight to look in the direction of the back door, looked at the snow field where there was no footprint leading to the back door, took out the camera, and looked at the footprints that Anzai Ema left when he went to the ancestral hall , vaguely feeling something was wrong, but couldn't tell, ran back to the footprints covered by the towel, squatted down and lifted the towel.

"Hey, Conan, why did you lift the towel?" Mori Kogoro had already covered his footprints in front of the ancestral hall, and turned around, "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 followed the ancestral hall on the snow.

Mori Kogoro began to direct Conan to take photos of the scene, corpse photos, and evidence photos with reference objects as references, "Okay, Feichi, put the evidence in, don't damage it, and don't erase any traces."

Chi Feichi silently began to install evidence.

A kimono sleeve Hannya paper figurine, a piece of paper with a printed message calling Anzai Ema to the ancestral hall.

Conan found a photo of footprints on the snow in the digital camera, and leaned forward, ready to show Chi Feichi, "Brother Chi, the footprints on the snow seem a little strange..."

"What's so strange?" Mori Kogoro bent over to look.

"I just don't know what's weird..." Conan pretended to be a child who was ignorant, "But it just feels a little bit wrong!"

Mori Kogoro stared at Conan, wanting to hammer, "You brat..."

Chi Feichi collected the evidence, handed the evidence bag to the Xiaocang police station, stood up and said, "The footprints that are suspected to be left by Miss Anxi are about five centimeters deep, and the footprints left by Teacher and Conan after that are about Nine centimeters."

Conan looked down at the photo in the camera.

It turned out that Chi Feichi had also noticed it, and looking at it this way, it was indeed a matter of the depth of the footprints...

"What's so strange about that?" Mori Kogoro touched his chin and said, "Probably the footprints left by Miss Anzai were covered with snow, and we left footprints after that..."

"However, the three people in the living room said that Miss Anxi walked through the living room to the ancestral hall after 10:30 p.m., and it didn't snow until around 12 p.m. when we went to the ancestral hall and left our footprints. "Conan reminded, "and if the footprints are covered by snow, it will leave a layer of snow with different heights in the footprint pits, and the footprints will not be so clear."

"Then the snow on the upper layer of the footprint pit has melted a little." Mori Kogoro said again.

Conan looked up at Mori Kogoro, and reminded again with a childish voice, "In that case, the snow we stepped on should melt to the same extent as the snow pits of footprints, and the footprints we left should be about five centimeters. ah."

"Hmm..." Mori Kogoro stroked his chin and thought, "Well..."

Conan turned his head to look at the towels covered in the snow outside the ancestral hall, and looked down at the photos of footprints in the camera.

The way the murderer didn't leave footprints in the snow should be similar.

First call Anzai Ema here, and then cover the footprints left by Anzai Ema with a hardwood board, and move around on the hardwood board. You only need to use two boards alternately, and you can move to the entrance of the ancestral hall without leaving footprints. After killing, go back in the same way.

In this way, the snow above and around the snow that Anzai Ema left footprints was compacted by the weight of the boards and people, so that it would be a few centimeters shallower than the footprints they left behind...

"Maybe the snow there is shallower," Mori Kogoro continued to speculate, "or maybe it's because the road surface is sloped, so her footprints are of course shallower than ours!"

Conan didn't refute, the former is unrealistic, the latter is possible, but he didn't feel that the road surface has obvious inclination, and the depth of footprints shouldn't be that much different...

"Okay, let's go to the open-air hot spring quickly," Mouri Kogoro turned and walked out, "Don't dawdle."

The four of them went to the open-air hot spring where Shibazaki Asuka's body was buried.

Conan is too short to take pictures of footprints on the snow, but it is not easy to wade into the hot spring water to take pictures of corpses.

Mori Kogoro took over the work of taking pictures, took photos of the corpse from various angles, and waited for the Xiaocang police and Chi Feichi to find evidence and take pictures 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 of the knife. After a rough comparison, it should be the murder weapon that killed Shibazaki Asuka and Anzai Ema.

There is also a stapler at the bottom of the hot spring, similar to the wound on the back of Asuka Shibazaki's head from the attack.

In addition, there is a printed towel floating in the water with blood stains.