Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

A few thin clouds drifted past the full moon, and in the quiet night, the sound of monks chanting scriptures and the sound of wooden fish knocking continued to be heard from the public hall.

Gao Cheng was leaning on the steps bored, still thinking about the piano just now in his mind, when suddenly a melodious piano piece reverberated, suppressing even the sound of the ceremony venue.

"This song... is "Moonlight"?!"

Gao Cheng and Conan hurried into the public hall. Many people in the aisle were already looking at the piano room where the sound came out. After pushing open the door, a wet corpse suddenly appeared in front of everyone.

Amid the beautiful music of the Moonlight Sonata, Kawashima, the candidate for village chief on the island, sat down in front of the piano, with his head pressed against the piano, his arms hanging weakly on the ground, dripping with water...

already dead!

Even if he didn't get close, Gao Cheng instinctively felt the body's fear of the dead.

Mori Kogoro stepped forward to check Kawashima's breath, took his pulse again, shook his head helplessly, and said in a deep voice, "It's too late, he's already passed away..."

Everyone gasped: "Why, how could this happen?"

"Xiao Lan, report the case to the police!" Mori Kogoro shouted back, "Other people present don't leave!"

Compared with Gao Cheng, Mao Li, who used to be a criminal policeman, was obviously more professional. After his daughter Xiaolan left, he turned to Asai Narumi and said, "Miss Cheng Shi, can I trouble you to be in charge of the autopsy?"

"Oh, okay." Asai Narumi nodded and walked to the corpse to start checking.

"It's a curse!" Hirata backed away in panic, "This is the curse of that piano!"

"Where did the curse come from?" Gao Cheng followed and stood next to the corpse. The moonlight song was not a supernatural phenomenon, but a tape recorder on the piano playing the tape.

After pressing the stop button to stop the music, Gao Cheng turned his gaze to the corpse.

The dead man's eyes were wide open, and his mouth was opened as if he had seen something terrifying. His jacket went somewhere, and his white shirt was wrinkled and covered with sand.

Judging from the water stains and drag marks on the ground, it seems that the murderer dragged in through the back door of the room facing the sea...

"Anyway, judging from the incident that happened here two years ago," Mori Kogoro glanced at Gao Cheng, his aggressiveness increased, "This is clearly a well-planned murder!"

"murdering case?"

"Hey, don't keep talking nonsense," someone looked at Mao Li dissatisfiedly, "Who are you?"

"Me?" Mori Kogoro chuckled, straightened his clothes and said proudly, "I'm a famous detective from Tokyo, I'm Mori Kogoro!"

"Oh!" Everyone suddenly realized, "It's that space pilot!"

"No, he often appears in mystery novels, doesn't he?"

"Is that person Akechi Kogoro?"

"Eh? Then who is this person?"

The words of discussion reached Kogoro Mori's ears, and he was hit hard. He felt a little unable to lift his head, and the corners of his eyes twitched. He thought depressingly: Kido must have thought of it a long time ago, so he didn't open his mouth. Damn it , the next step is to solve the case first.

Gao Cheng ignored Mori Kogoro, but followed the water marks to the back door leading to the sea.

He has been meeting with Conan, and he still has nothing to do in terms of reasoning, but his observation skills have improved a lot, at least he will not miss some obvious clues.

Directly outside the door is the undulating sea water under the moonlight. You can see that the coat of the deceased is still floating on the sea surface. The murderer must have killed someone at the seaside and then moved the body to the piano room, and the back door and windows here have all been locked from the inside. ...

In other words, the murderer is still in the venue?

Gao Cheng looked back at the crowd.

After all, he stayed in front of the front porch before the incident, and the back door and windows were locked. With so many clues,

It doesn't take a strong reasoning ability to judge that the murderer is someone in the venue.

At this time, Asai Chengshi had also experienced the corpse, and explained to everyone: "Based on the corpse spots and the degree of stiffness of the corpse, the time of death should be 30 to 60 minutes... It seems that the cause of death was suffocation, Mr. Kawashima should be drowned at sea, but an autopsy is necessary to determine the true cause of death."

"Doctor Cheng Shi is right."

Conan also observed the whole scene like Gao Cheng, and after telling the same details, he walked to the tape recorder.

"In the "Moonlight" tape, several minutes of blank space was deliberately left at the beginning... The murderer should have calmly arranged the tape, pressed the switch of the tape recorder, and escaped calmly from the corridor..."

As he was talking, seeing everyone's surprised eyes falling on him, Conan reacted, and hurriedly smiled at Maori with an innocent face: "Is that so, uncle?"

"Ah, yes, that's right!"

Leaving the follow-up reasoning to Maori, Conan looked at Gao Cheng who was standing aside depressedly: Damn it, when can I compete with this guy in a dignified way...

Gao Cheng shivered for no reason, looked back at Mori Kogoro and Conan strangely, walked to the piano again, and observed carefully when he suddenly found a piece of paper sandwiched between the lifted piano key covers.

"This is... the sheet music?"

Gao Cheng took out the music score from the gap in doubt, and the faces of several people present changed instantly, and a skinny young man with a mischievous eyebrow ran out in horror, yelling as if he saw a ghost.

"who is he?"

"He is Mr. Nishimoto," the village chief's secretary Hirata introduced. "He used to be quite powerful, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, and he was always extravagant. However, after the death of the former village chief two years ago, he seemed to be frightened by something. Hiding at home all day..."

"By the way, the village chief and him should be childhood playmates, right?" Hirata turned to the current village chief Heiyan and said.

"Ah, that's right..." The village head, Hei Yan, was sweating, and his face was not very good-looking.

"Hey, Kido," Conan thoughtfully approached Gao Cheng, and whispered, "Do you think these people are strange? Ever since I saw the corpse, I felt something was wrong."

"A little bit," Gao Cheng's gaze fell on the people in Heiyan Village, "Maybe there is something else we don't know."

...

There was only one old policeman in the police station on the island. When Mao Lilan called him to the public hall, it was already very late. The old policeman just recorded some information and then released everyone at the venue. The investigation plan was to wait until the next day Days to proceed.

"Where is murder, it is clearly the soul of Mr. Aso!"

The villagers left in twos and threes, talking about the incident, and the monks kept chanting scriptures.

Gao Cheng looked at these people speechlessly: "How could there be any soul? It's just the murderer's design..."

If there are ghosts, why do they need detectives? Just ask the ghosts.

"Well, Kido-kun," Asai Narumi walked behind, and turned to Gaocheng a little tiredly, "Can such a murder case be solved quickly? I really don't want to do autopsies anymore..."

Gao Cheng noticed that Cheng Shi's expression was slightly sad, and he was stunned: "I..."

"Don't worry, Ms. Chengshi." Without waiting for Gao Cheng to respond, Mao Li rushed forward, and the guy smiled while holding his back, "As long as the matter is handled by me, a famous detective, it's very simple." !"

"Really?" Asai Narumi's complexion returned to normal, and he smiled sweetly, "Then please."

"Senior Gao Cheng," Mao Lilan said strangely seeing that Gao Cheng didn't seem to want to leave, "Aren't you going back to the hotel with us?"

"That's right, I'll spend the night here with the old policeman." Gao Cheng silently watched Asai Narumi leave.

There are still too few clues to the incident this time, and it is also related to the case a few years ago. There are so many mysteries that he can't figure it out for the time being.

However, once he has enough clues, he will definitely find out the murderer...

"Really, what are you thinking?" Mori Kogoro stared at Gao Cheng suspiciously, paused, and said to Mao Lilan, "Xiaolan, you go back with Conan, I'll stay here too."

"dad!"

In the piano room of the public hall, the old policeman moved the corpse to the ground without authorization, because it was not so permeable because of the cloth wrapping.

Gao Cheng sat down in front of the piano, and picked up the score that was in the crack.

With piano knowledge, he could easily see that it was the score of "Moonlight", but there was a section in the middle that didn't quite match.

I tried to play it on the piano, and it turned out to be a familiar tune from "Moonlight", but in the fourth paragraph, there was a sound that was completely out of tune, which immediately destroyed the melody of the tune.

"What are you doing?" Mori Kogoro was startled by the harsh noise, "If you can't play it, don't play it!"

"It's a problem with the music score..." Gao Cheng looked at the fourth paragraph of the music score again, and frowned, "It seems that someone left a message..."

"message?"

Conan's voice sounded from behind, Mao Li was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that Xiaolan and Conan had also followed: "Didn't I tell you to go back first?"

"Because we are worried about Uncle." Conan looked closer at the music score, and innocently turned to Gao Chengdao, "Brother Gao Cheng should already know that the entrustment letter is the notice letter, right?"

"You are really not an ordinary child..." Gao Cheng glanced at this guy.

This guy is always fooling around by being a child, but he didn't arouse too much suspicion.

"Announcement letter?" Mao Li hadn't reacted yet.

"That's right, it said that the shadow disappeared, which means it was shrouded in light. Didn't the murder scene happen to have the song "Moonlight"?"

Conan looked at the score while talking, "Maybe the incident is not over yet."

"If you say that," Mori Kogoro's expression turned ugly, "is the commission letter actually a letter of challenge from the murderer to my famous detective Mori Kogoro?! Damn it!"

After cursing, Kogoro Moori looked at Gao Cheng who was still studying the score: It's so dangerous, this kid knew it from the beginning, and the murderer is likely to return to the piano room...

"Are you really going to spend the night here?" Gao Cheng shook his head and put down the music score, and asked instead, "Xiao Lan, aren't you afraid of ghosts? There is a dead body next to it..."

"Ahhh, I hate it!" Mao Lilan curled up and hugged Conan with a look of fear, "Why did you mention this suddenly?!"

"I thought you weren't afraid anymore," Gao Cheng glanced at Conan, who was huddled in Mao Lilan's arms, blushing, his teeth itching, "Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with it."

"But you seem to be afraid of corpses..."

"illusion!"

After a while, the old policeman brought the bedclothes for sleeping, and Gao Cheng was startled by his strenuous appearance, fearing that something might happen to the old policeman.

"Let me help."

"Thank you," the old police officer wiped his sweat, "I thought you were the only one, why did you stay here, and you brought a child..."

"I'm sorry," said Asai Chengmi suddenly appeared at the door with a bag of things, "I called the hotel and I heard that you are still here, so I brought you a midnight snack."

"Hearing you say that, it seems that you are really hungry."

Smelling the fragrance, everyone's stomachs groaned, only to realize that they hadn't eaten since noon.

"Thank you so much, Dr. Chengshi."

When Cheng Shi spread out the tablecloth and put out the sushi rice balls, Gao Cheng and the old police officer had already moved all the bedding to the piano room, and sat around to eat together.

It was really weird to eat next to the corpse, but he couldn't care less about it anymore. He didn't eat much all day today, but he exhausted a lot of energy.

"Doctor Chengshi," Gao Cheng took a bite of the rice ball and asked, "You did the autopsy on the former village head two years ago, right? How did he die?"

"It's a heart attack," Asai Chengmi nodded and recalled, "It's just that his face was quite tense, as if he saw something terrible..."

"Isn't that the same as Kawashima this time?" Gao Cheng paused.

"There are no real ghosts, right?" Mao Lilan became frightened again when she thought of the villagers' comments before.

"Go back if you're so afraid, really," Mori Kogoro put the problematic piece of music in his arms, "In short, the murderer may come back, and we will take turns to watch the night here tonight!"

Then he looked at Gao Chengdao: "Hey, aren't you some modern Zuowen? Why don't you bring that Lake Toya over?"

"Who would wander around with a wooden knife for nothing?" Gao Chengbai glanced at this guy, "I also heard that you are a master in judo. If the murderer comes over, I'll leave it to you."

"Damn, where did you hear that?"

In the middle of the night, Gao Cheng was lying in his sleeping bag but couldn't fall asleep at all. Next to him was Asai Narumi, Mo Lilan, and Conan, who were similar, but Mori Kogoro and the old policeman slept soundly.

I really convinced Kogoro Mori, this made it even more difficult for him to sleep. Although Mori Lan is good at karate, she is almost like an ordinary girl when encountering ghosts and monsters, only the screaming is loud enough...

scream?

"Call me if you have any questions. I'll squint my eyes for a while, and I'll take over your vigil later." Gao Cheng reminded Conan and the others. Heavy eyelids.