Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

In the kitchen of this building, Dr. A Li stared at the freshly made cream cake and smacked his lips. Seeing that no one entered the kitchen, his appetite whetted for a moment, so he cut a piece of cake with a knife and forked it into his mouth.

not bad……

"Doctor?" Gao Cheng and Xiaoqiao Xianjian followed the maid, Ms. Quan, into the kitchen, and were taken aback when they saw Dr. Ali.

"I'll come over and have a look..." Dr. A Li hid the knife and fork behind his back in excitement, grinning guiltyly on his old face.

"By the way, doctor," Gao Cheng looked at the cream cake strangely, "When we send Yuantai and the others back, let's bring some snacks for Xiao Ai."

"it is good……"

"Miss Quan, do you still have the biscuits from yesterday?" Gao Cheng turned to the maid and asked.

"It seems that there are no more, but I can make some more," the maid turned back while boiling water, "Mr. Kido, help me get some sugar, it's in the upper cabinet."

"granulated sugar……"

Gao Cheng opened the cabinet door strangely to find Granu, and suddenly noticed that there were many electric switches on the wall at the door.

"Miss Quan, is this the main switch of the Grape House?"

"Well," the maid was stunned, "Because I usually deal with things here..."

"Does everyone else know?"

"As long as anyone who has been here knows it?"

"That's it..."

Gao Cheng handed the sugar to the maid, and frowned in a deep voice.

Yesterday, Izawa met Huosai Xingzi who came out of the kitchen. The time was just after 12 o'clock, that is, when the magic lamp in the single room went out. If the magic lamp went out at the beginning, it was just turning off the power switch between the ceremonies. The 5 minutes after Huo Si Xingzi left was very suspicious.

The time Huo Si Xingzi returned to the living room was 12:12, just after the magic lamp was turned on again, which only Huo Si Xingzi could do in terms of time.

During the single room ceremony, Gao Cheng returned to the murder scene.

Huo Si Xingyao's body has been taken away by the police.

An autopsy is planned to determine a more accurate time of death, but other aspects are still as good as possible.

For Gao Cheng, after encountering a crime with a super high IQ, he must avoid taking it for granted, otherwise it will be easy to preconceive and fall into the trap preset by the murderer. Deductive reasoning, and explore the murderer's thoughts and purposes.

And this case seems to be a crime with high IQ, and it has the shadow of the hell puppet master Gao Yuanyaoyi.

The first thing to figure out is the meaning of each of the murderer's arrangements, either to confuse the audience, or to have some profound meaning. The murderer deliberately let people see the cursed doll first, and then let the corpses of the same death method appear in front of everyone, so that the Everyone's attention was shifted to the cursed doll, so that some people ignored the strange way of death of the victim...

Gao Cheng crossed his hands and walked to the magic lamp again.

The doubt now is why the murderer set up a murder scene during this ceremony, and even wrapped wires around Huo Si Xingyao's neck.

Because of this clue, the police judged the time period of the murder through the extinguishing of the magic lamp captured by the surveillance...

"Senior!" Izawa Kentaro and Xiaoqiao Kenjian rushed to the ceremony room together, squinting their eyes and smiling, "I heard that you came here suddenly, senior, did you find anything?"

Gao Cheng collected his thoughts and shook his head at the two: "I didn't find much, but..."

After a pause, Gao Cheng's eyes fell on the wall clock on the wall. The pendulum was swinging normally, but the time on the dial was a bit slower, about 11 minutes to be precise, which coincided with the time when the magic lamp went out last night. .

"This wall clock... isn't it mechanical but electronic?"

"wall clock?"

Xiaoqiao Xianjian looked at the wall clock in bewilderment, was stunned for a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he was so excited that he wanted to hug Gao Cheng.

"I see, Kido! The time is 11 minutes behind, which is the same as the time when the magic lamp was not on. If this wall clock is powered by power, it means that it was not the magic lamp that was unplugged last night, but the entire The electricity was cut off between the ceremonies!"

"Power off?" Izawa Kentaro looked at Xiaoqiao in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"Don't you understand, Kentaro," Xiaoqiao Kenjian said with a calm mind, "During the tea party yesterday, everyone really didn't have time to unplug the magic lamp, but if the light goes out and then turns on again, it's not because the plug was unplugged, but here The power supply has been cut off? The switch is in the kitchen of the main building, but it won’t take long if the power is cut off. Did you see Miss Xingzi come out of the kitchen yesterday?”

"Wait... wait," Izawa Kentaro interrupted anxiously, "Xiaoqiao, are you suspicious of Miss Hoshiko?"

"Don't you think she's hiding something from us?"

Xiaoqiao Xianjian said seriously: "Yesterday, the magic lamp was turned off at exactly 12 o'clock, and Miss Xingzi walked out of the kitchen just after that. Did you see that too? Only she has time to activate the electric switch..."

"But……"

"It's not just that," Xiaoqiao became more and more certain. "The magic light came on again at 12:11, and she was the only one who was not in the living room at that time. She said that it was 12:7 when she went to make tea and returned to the living room. It's 12 minutes, during this period of time, it is very likely that I went to the ceremony to set up the scene, and then went back to the kitchen to restore the switch..."

Izawa Kentaro shook his head: "But it's only 5 minutes, it takes a lot of time to run back and forth, how can there be time to kill people, besides, Hoshiko did make vanilla tea and brought it back to the living room..."

"What if Jiu Yao was killed before this?" Xiaoqiao said in a deep voice, "Isn't the presumed time of death now between 11:30 and 12:30? According to past experience, the specific time will be 11:45 Between 12:15 and before the tea party, you can kill Jiu Yao first, hide the body between the ceremony and then go to the kitchen of the main building...

"Even if we really made vanilla tea, it's possible that the tea bags were prepared in advance, and there was enough time to boil the water temporarily..."

"Impossible!" Kentaro Izawa's expression turned ugly, "Miss Hoshiko is absolutely impossible to be a criminal!"

"Kentaro..."

Xiaoqiao Kenjian chased the beaten Izawa Kentaro out of the ceremony, leaving Gao Cheng alone to call the police to check the wall clock.

As speculated, there is a socket behind the wall clock for power supply, so there is no place to wind it, and it can keep going as long as there is electricity.

Indeed, there is only one maid in such a large place as the Grape House, and the mechanical clock will only increase the workload.

but……

Gao Cheng walked to the window and looked at the villa in the main building.

Is the murderer really Huo Si Xingzi?

Both the motive and the actions are reasonable, but doubts still exist, because as long as the police continue to investigate this kind of reasoning, they will sooner or later realize that Huo Si Xingzi did not leave a way out for herself, and in the end she was the only one who did not have an alibi.

Or does Huosili Xingzi have any other confidence?