Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

Chapter 224 Cursed Mask IV

In the dining room on the first floor, all the residents in the villa gathered at the dining table with different expressions, and the twin maids leaned together in fear.

"I would like to ask you a few things," Mu Mu asked, "The time of the murder was around 2:30 in the morning. I would like to check and understand everyone's actions at that time..."

Gaocheng and Haibara stood next to Meguro, all of their attention was on Aichuan Fuyuya.

The most popular rock singer after Kimura Tatsuya, there is nothing unusual on his face at the moment.

If he had to say that there was something wrong, it would be that he was too calm. There was no trace of sadness on his face, but an expression of eagerness to get rid of suspicion.

"So Mr. Lanchuan appeared after Ms. Su Fang was killed?" Gao Cheng looked at Lanchuan Dongya after listening to the uncle's narration.

Lan Chuan said unhappily: "Because I slept soundly in the first floor room, and although I heard them waking Su Nami to wake up later, I thought it probably wouldn't be a big deal. I didn't expect it to get louder and louder later. , I was worried so I went up to the second floor to check the situation." \u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

Gao Cheng nodded: "That is to say, Mr. Lan Chuan didn't have an alibi at the time of the case?"

"Hey, what do you mean?" Lan Chuan frowned dissatisfied, "Is it suspected that I killed the teacher? Shouldn't Ms. Inaba and the others be more suspicious? When they reached the third floor, other people were much slower than me Already!"

Mu Mu turned to the people in the west wing: "Is what he said true?"

Minaho said anxiously: "I was woken up by Suo Nami using the internal line, and then went up to the second floor with the key to help them open the door of the mask hall."

Masaki Katagiri explained: "I was already asleep in the room at the time, and I was awakened by the noise outside. When I went to the corridor to check the situation, I happened to see Minaho coming to the second floor."

"I only looked at the situation when I heard the sound of glass breaking."

"Speaking of which, Detective Kido was the first to arrive at the scene, right?" \u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

"I did arrive at Ms. Su Fang's door right away," Gao Cheng calmly faced everyone's gaze, "because I have been guarding the stairs."

Lanchuan Fuyuya's complexion changed slightly: "You..."

"That's right, unless the murderer is me, no one in the West Wing can kill Ms. Su Fang." Gao Cheng looked at Lan Chuan Fuyuya and said, "Mr. Lan Chuan, were you really sleeping on the first floor during the murder?"

"Hey, hey," Lan Chuan smiled with cold sweat, "Didn't I say that? At that time, I heard the voices of Miss Xiaolan and this little ghost called Suo Nami...

"Ah?" Conan asked strangely, "At that time I obviously didn't say a word, how did Big Brother know that I followed Elder Sister Xiaolan?"

"This..." Lan Chuan hesitated, "Because I opened the door a little and looked out at that time, so I..."\u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

"Really?" Conan raised the corner of his mouth and stared at Lan Chuan triumphantly, "That's even more strange, because at that time I wasn't with Sister Xiaolan at all, although my uncle did let me go with Sister Xiaolan It’s Honami-san, but I ran to check the condition of the door lock!”

Lanchuan Fuyuya's complexion changed suddenly: "W-why..."

"Yes, you were not in the room on the first floor at all at that time, but you heard the uncle's words elsewhere, and you planned to use this as your alibi." Gao Cheng stared at Lan Chuan closely.

Although Conan was not flat when he was pretending to be cute, his mind is indeed strong enough to spot even the slightest loopholes in Lan Chuan's words.

"Then, Mr. Lanchuan, may I ask where you were at that time?"

"Wait," Lanchuan Fuyuya waved his hands with a dry smile, "isn't this strange? No one in the west wing can kill the teacher, so can I do it? How do I get to the teacher's room when I was in the east wing? Let's not talk about it you have been there,

The passage between the east and west rooms is locked. "\u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

"That's right," Uncle Mao Li nodded in a deep voice, and helped to prove, "Because I received an internal call from someone claiming to be the messenger of the cursed mask, I went to see it right away. The hall of masks was indeed locked at that time."

Mu Mu followed and said: "Yes, brother Chenghu, the east and west doors of the mask hall were locked at that time, Mr. Lan Chuan was right in the east wing when Ms. Su Fang was killed, how on earth did he want to open the door? Entering the West Wing? Not to mention going around you and killing Ms. Su Fang before returning to the East Wing..."

Gao Cheng interrupted: "What if you don't need to go to the West Wing at all?"

"Eh?" Everyone in the villa looked at Gao Cheng in doubt.

"But only the west wing can enter the teacher's room..."

Gao Cheng shook his head: "Even if I don't guard the west wing, you can't get in, and you don't need to enter the bedroom to kill Ms. Su Fang."\u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

"What did you say?"

Mu Mu was startled and said, "Could it be that the murderer didn't go in?"

"Hmph," Lanchuan Fuyuya said with a smile, "How can you kill someone without entering the dormitory? Detective Kido, don't you suspect me deliberately because you want to exonerate yourself?"

Gao Cheng glanced at Lan Chuan quietly, and said to everyone: "Officer Gao Mu should be ready, everyone will follow me to the third floor to have a look."

"Ready?" Mu Mu asked in a daze, "Are you ready for what?"

...

On the third floor of the villa, the bedroom next door to Su Fanghongzi connected to the East Wing.

After everyone walked into the room, they were surprised to see the exact same decoration as Su Fanghongzi's bedroom. Except for the difference in direction, it was almost the same as the crime scene.

Standing by the nail-sealed door, Gao Cheng shouted to the opposite side: "Officer Gao Mu, you can start now."\u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

"Yes!" Takagi's voice came from the next door, and Mu Mu was puzzled.

The subordinate was kidnapped again...

"Now I'm going to practice the murderer's method of committing the crime," Gao Cheng explained next to him, "First put the elastic band on the end of the knife handle, and then throw it into the bedroom through the gap between the wooden boards, and then pass another elastic band through the eyes of the mask. holes, and the elastic band that carried the murder weapon went through the mouth of each mask..."

Matsudaira and the others watched in amazement as the knives and masks connected by elastic bands were continuously thrown into the room through the gaps in the planks, while Aichuan Fuyuya was constantly sweating.

Gao Cheng glanced at Lan Chuan who was gritting his teeth: "The key to the mask hall is in the kitchen on the first floor. People who come here often should be very clear. After everyone fell asleep, the murderer stole out of the mask hall with the key. After locking the door and taking the key back to the kitchen, I went to this room, and after making all the preparations, I called Uncle Maoli on the second floor." \u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

Uncle Mao Li's expression changed slightly: "Could it be that Lan Chuan was here to kill Ms. Su Fang?!"

"Shua!" After all the masks were placed, Gao Cheng tightened the elastic bands, and the loose and loose masks immediately began to gather, piled on top of each other, twisted and swayed like a long snake as if they had come to life, and finally all tightened Hover over the dummy's throat on the bed.

It looked like a human-faced snake monster biting a dagger and staring at the dummy's throat.

Gao Cheng calmly watched the changes of the two hundred masks.

After the forensic personnel collected evidence at the scene, he carefully inspected the scene from beginning to end, especially the cursed masks scattered around the corpse.

The first mask was covered with blood, and only a little blood was stained around the mouth of the subsequent masks.

In addition, because the murderous knife was bitten by the mask, the handle of the knife was also stained with blood...\u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

The thickness of the mask, the gap between the wooden boards, the distance from the wooden board to the corpse on the bed, the weird bloodstains... These clues are enough for him to use the one-minute mode to perform a backward simulation.

After having a general direction, we soon found traces of the murderer using the elastic band.

"The distance from the lattice plank to Ms. Su Fang's throat was about 3.5 meters, and all the masks were stacked together at least 3 meters," Gao Cheng continued, "In fact, the tip of the murder knife was only 10 centimeters from the victim's throat. Pushing the mask with something like a stick is enough to get a knife in the throat."

"This..." Uncle Mao Li stared wide-eyed as the dagger pierced the dummy's throat.

Facts speak louder than words, it is actually possible to kill people outside the door...

"In the end, as long as you cut the elastic band that goes through the knife and the mask, the mask will naturally bounce everywhere," Gao Cheng turned to Aichuan Fuyuya, "Am I right, Mr. Aichuan?"

Lan Chuan watched in horror as the reappearance masks scattered one after another, his face turned pale: "You..."

...

At the entrance of the villa, Lan Chuan was silently taken into a police car.

"However," Xiaolan couldn't help but said looking at Lan Chuan's back, "Mr. Lan Chuan is actually quite pitiful."

"Pitiful?"

Gao Cheng touched his nose but didn't make a sound.

Why does it feel like he's a big villain?

According to Lan Chuan’s confession, Mr. Katagiri’s wife died in a car accident 20 years ago. The culprit at that time was actually Su Fang Hongzi, but Su Fang Hongzi blamed Lan Chuan’s mother and killed Lan Chuan’s mother to create the illusion of suicide. Even the charitable activities over the years have been aimed at enriching private pockets.

Su Fanghongzi is indeed despicable, but the crime of murder is not much better...

"By the way," Gao Cheng came back to his senses, looked at the dejected Uncle Mao Li on the other side, and said strangely, "What's wrong with him? Isn't it just that I solved a case? It shouldn't be like this?"

"He," Conan said helplessly, "isn't it because 2 million wasted."

"2 million? What 2 million?"

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