Stay away from Conan

Chapter 38 The reasoning between the two

"Do you mean to prepare a bed in the basement for someone to sleep there?"

Mao Lilan probably understood what the two people meant.

"Is it possible that someone wants to imprison someone there?"

Suzuki Sonoko felt that she had thought of the key, and suddenly spoke her thoughts loudly.

"How is it possible? If you want to imprison someone, this empty villa can be used anywhere. Why do you have to dig out a basement?"

Kudo Shinichi retorted.

"Then the problem goes back to the basement."

Gao Yuan shook his head, "Let's put aside the issue of the basement first, and let's discuss the person who is going to sleep on the bed! Think about it, if someone prepared such a bed for someone to sleep there, what do you think? How did the person who came to sleep get in? "

"It must have been brought in by someone. After all, this is an unmanned villa, and no one will come in on their own initiative."

Mao Lilan said.

Kudo Shinichi on the side showed a clear smile at this time, then looked at Gao Yuan and asked: "Mr. Akechi, have you bought beer here in the past two days?"

"No."

Gao Yuan replied somewhat unclearly.

"But did you bring the person in just to let him sleep in the basement?"

Suzuki Sonoko said she couldn't understand.

"Remember half a month ago, Dr. Ali said that the lights in this villa were on one night?"

Kudo Shinichi reminded, "It must have been that day. The person who dug out this basement brought someone to this villa."

"But what can we do if we bring people to this empty villa?"

Mao Lilan asked.

"There are many things you can do, such as drinking and so on."

Kudo Shinichi showed a proud smile, "Actually, I just found an empty beer can in the corner. It seems to have been thrown there recently. Since it was not drunk by Mr. Akechi, it could only be an outsider who came in here. for drink."

After listening to Kando Shinichi's words, Gao Yuan frowned and couldn't help but think.

"So you're saying that that night half a month ago, someone brought someone here to drink beer, and then after he was almost drunk, he let the person who was brought into the basement go to sleep?"

"That's right."

Kudo Shinichi agreed with this statement, which made Gao Yuan even more confused.

"But this is too strange. If that's the case, why put the bed in the basement? And it's unreasonable for people to sleep in this empty villa!"

Suzuki Sonoko retorted.

“And it’s weird to bring people here to drink beer!”

Mao Lilan also cannot accept this statement.

"Perhaps, just to make that person not feel weird, that's why he acted so strangely."

Gao Yuan seemed to have thought of something, and spoke a little uncertainly, but after thinking deeply for a moment, he showed a suddenly enlightened expression, and then replaced it with a face full of surprise - "No way!"

"It seems that Mr. Akechi has figured it out too!"

Kudo Shinichi said, "Except for the impossible, even if the rest is impossible, it is the truth!"

"What the hell are you talking about?"

Regarding the conversation between Gao Yuan and Kudo Shinichi, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko were completely unable to follow their thoughts.

"And what do you mean by 'making that person not feel weird'? Drinking in an empty villa and sleeping in the basement are all weird, okay!"

Suzuki Sonoko said.

"Drinking in an empty villa and sleeping in the basement. This seems very strange to us, but what if it is a very normal thing to the person who was brought here?"

Kudo Shinichi said.

"How could anyone think this is normal! Kudo, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Suzuki Sonoko said.

"For example, the person who was brought here lived like this... No, to put it more directly, the person who was brought here regarded this place as a familiar place to him?"

Gao Yuan explained, but Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko were completely unable to understand what these two people said.

"To put it simply, there are two villas with exactly the same layout! One is here; and the other is where the person who was brought here originally lived!"

Kudo Shinichi put it more bluntly.

"Then digging the basement is..."

"Because of the difference!"

Before Mao Lilan finished speaking, Kudo Shinichi began to say: "Maybe the only difference between the two villas is that there is no basement here, so to make the layout of the two villas exactly the same, a basement must be dug here!"

"If that were the case, the whole thing would make sense."

Gao Yuan began to explain.

"Of course, for the sake of simplicity, let's call the person who dug the basement A, and the person who was brought here B.

“A accidentally discovered that the layout of this unused villa was almost the same as that of B’s villa, so for some purpose, A dug out a basement for this villa to make the layout of the two villas exactly the same. Then one night half a month ago, A brought B here to drink together. But B didn’t know that this was not his own villa. After getting drunk, B habitually went back to the basement to sleep.”

Regarding this explanation, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko showed surprised expressions, as if they were listening to a book from heaven, and Kudo Shinichi continued to add details.

"A's purpose for doing this, I think, is to let B help him create an alibi! A's deliberate digging of the basement here means that what he wants to do is a very important thing. I think it is possible that he wants to He wanted to kill someone nearby, but if that person died, A would be highly suspicious, so he needed someone to create an alibi for him, so B became the best candidate. "

"Because B's own villa is very far away from here, if B proves that A was drinking with him at the time of the crime and did not have time to rush to the scene of the crime, then A's suspicion will naturally be cleared. And afterwards, A Just take the sleeping B back to B’s own villa.”

Gao Yuan said.

"But...but, the layout of the two villas is exactly the same. This is a coincidence. And according to this statement, B's villa should also be empty. Is this possible?"

Mao Lilan asked in disbelief.

"Of course it's possible. For example, B's villa is built according to this villa? As for B's villa, it's understandable that it's empty, because B's villa has just been built and the furniture hasn't been moved in yet!"

Kudo Shinichi said, and now Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko were completely stunned.

"A once saw this villa, and then B wanted to build a villa. A took advantage of this and directly handed over the design of this villa to B, and asked B to build a villa exactly like this one, just because of B's ​​insistence , B’s villa has a new basement. The villa has been built recently, but the furniture has not been moved in yet, so B can only sleep in the basement for the time being.”

Gao Yuan said.

"Wait a minute! Are you trying to say that A wanted to kill someone, so he took advantage of B's ​​plan to build a new villa a long time ago in order to create an alibi for him half a month ago!"

Mao Lilan almost stood up in surprise, and Suzuki Sonoko also looked at the two people who made such inferences in shock.

"A house was built specifically to kill a man!"

Gao Yuanhua used a famous quote from "Crime in the Leaning Room" to summarize this reasoning!

"In that case, let's confirm it."

As Kudo Shinichi said, he took out his cell phone and dialed the number of Officer Mure from the Investigation Section 1 of the Metropolitan Police Department.