Stay away from Conan

Chapter 72 Three people

"Why would you go to a place like that alone?"

Kudo Shinichi walked up to Wakura Kotomi and asked.

"I was called out."

Somewhat helplessly, Kazumi Wakura replied.

"Being called out? Who is it?"

Kudo Shinichi continued to ask.

"have no idea."

Wakura Kotomi said, "I just accidentally found a letter in my pocket."

"Letter? What's the content?"

Gao Yuan stepped forward and asked.

"Tell you how you can keep your inheritance to yourself."

Wakura Kotomi thought for a while and said.

When Wakura Yoichi heard what she said, he said with some disdain: "What? It turns out it's not me who wants the inheritance, but Kotomi!"

"No! I never thought of such a thing!"

Wakura Kotomi retorted loudly, "But if you call me out, will you be the murderer of Ryouji? I have clues about the murderer."

"What clue? Don't you just want an inheritance?"

Wakura Yoichi said.

"Wait a minute you two!"

Misa Wakura couldn't stand hearing it anymore, and said angrily: "Heritage, inheritance, dad is not dead yet!"

"Ha! I understand!"

Kogoro, who heard their conversation, suddenly stepped forward and said, "Miss Kotomi, the murderer is you!"

In response, Gao Yuan shook his head helplessly.

"In order to monopolize the inheritance, you killed other heirs and then faked the scene of your victimization!"

Kogoro said confidently, "The proof is that you are the only one still alive!"

"Please wait a moment. If it's for inheritance, how do you explain that the first deceased is Mr. Kosaka Sho?"

Kudo Shinichi said.

"Humph, what's so difficult to explain?"

Wakura Yoichi sneered and said, "After all, dad wanted to give all the inheritance to that Kosaka Sho!"

After saying this, Wakura Yoichi and Wakura Kotomi walked away unhappy.

When Gao Yuan heard this, he was a little curious and asked Wakura Misa who was still in the living room: "Excuse me, what did you mean by what you just said?"

"My father once threatened to invest all his property to investigate the legend of Otori. My brother and sister were very opposed to this. My father said at that time that it would be great if Mr. Kosaka was his son, and he did not intend to leave his property to We. Something like that.”

Wakura Misa said.

Before entering Fifteen Nights Village, Gao Yuan had a general understanding of the first deceased, Kosaka Sho, and knew that he was a student who assisted Wakura Yonghai in investigating the legend of Otori. Now that he heard this again, Gao Yuan was a little curious and asked.

"In other words, your father is very interested in the legend of the big bird in this village. What are the results of the investigation?"

"I don't know. But there may be some information in father's study."

Wakura Misa said.

Kudo Shinichi was also very interested in this, so under the leadership of Wakura Misa, Gao Yuan and Kudo Shinichi entered Wakura Yonghai's study.

This is the second time Kudo Shinichi has come to the study. Last time, in order to investigate the symbolic meaning of the fragments, he only looked at the books here. After Gao Yuan came in, after a rough scan of the books on the bookshelf, he went straight to the desk and began to rummage through the desk drawers.

"Mr. Mingzhi, what do you have in mind?"

Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but ask when he saw Takato acting with such purpose.

"The murderer used legends to kill people, and the deceased were all people related to the Wakura family. Chairman Wakura happened to be very obsessed with legends. Don't you think there is some connection between them?"

As Gao Yuan spoke, he opened the drawers one by one from bottom to top, and then found something unusual in the top drawer - an ancient mirror!

Gao Yuan took it out. After Kudo Shinichi saw the style of the ancient mirror, he suddenly became very shocked, and then took out the three fragments he found at the scene.

The three pieces Kudo got were just enough to form a three-quarter disc, and there was a protruding buckle-like thing in the middle of the back of the disc.

Gao Yuan looked at the ancient mirror in his hand and found that there was a recessed place in the center of the back of the ancient mirror.

Gao Yuan and Kudo looked at each other, and tacitly put the things in their hands together, only to find that the fragments fit perfectly on the back of the ancient mirror!

"This is a complete ancient mirror!"

Kudo Shinichi said in surprise, and immediately went to find the book that contained relevant symbols that he had read before. He compared the symbols on the ancient mirror and began to interpret them.

At this time, Gao Yuan saw that in the drawer, under the ancient mirror, there was a stack of paper handwritten reports, with "About the similarity between the Fobina ruins and Fifteen Nights Village" written on the cover. So Gao Yuan took it out and started reading.

Soon, Kudo finished interpreting the information on the ancient mirror, and Gao Yuan, who was still reading the report, asked.

"What did you find there?"

"Because there is still a piece missing, the information is incomplete. The only things that can be deciphered are: man, betrayal, big bird, revenge, these keywords. Mr. Mingzhi, where are you?"

Kudo said.

"No particularly useful information."

Gao Yuan looked at the contents written in the report and said helplessly, "There is nothing particularly useful. Most of them are interpretations of the texts left in the shrine ruins, and they are incomplete."

With that said, Gao Yuan had already turned the report to the end, but on the last two pages of the report, he saw two unexpected things - one was the underground waterway map of Fifteen Nights Village, and the other was the map of Fifteen Nights Village.

Looking at these two drawings using the same proportions, Gao Yuan suddenly had an idea. He stacked them up and put them under the light. Then he discovered that the location of the sacred perch in the village overlapped with the nodes of the underground waterway!

"So that's what happened!"

Gao Yuan suddenly stood up and said, "This is actually possible!"

"Mr. Akechi, what did you find?"

Kudo Shinichi asked, so Takato handed the two drawings to Kudo.

"The method of killing! I found the last piece of the puzzle!"

Gao Yuan said.

After Kudo looked at the picture carefully, he understood immediately and blurted out: "Air pressure!"

"That's right, the murderer cleverly used underground waterways and the principle of Bernoulli's equation to lift up the round stone manhole cover that the deceased stepped on, and pushed the person onto the sacred perch!"

Gao Yuan said.

"However, if the force on the lifted manhole cover is deviated and cannot fall back to the original point, this trick will be seen through on the spot!"

"So the murderer wants to install a brushless motor on the manhole cover! Use the principle of conservation of angular momentum to keep the posture of the manhole cover lifted into the air stable! Just like the gyroscope used in aircraft!"

Kudo raised a question, and Takato immediately answered, "And under the manhole cover over the waterfall, I found a brushless motor that the murderer had no time to remove! But why did the murderer fail to attack Wakura Kotomi?"

Kudo thought for a while, and then thought about last night, when he and Xiaolan ran to the entrance of the village, Xiaolan tripped over something while passing the sacred perch in front of the waterfall!

"I know! It's Xiaolan! When Xiaolan was passing by there last night, she tripped over the manhole cover, which caused the manhole cover to shift a little, causing insufficient pressure when attacking Miss Kotomi!"

"So that's it."

Hearing what Kudo said, Gao Yuan was a little surprised, "However, if all the cases were committed by the same person, it would be obvious who the murderer is!"

"Well, that's right. This method requires you to see the target step on the manhole cover, and for the first time in the shrine, there were only three people present except the deceased, me, Xiaolan, Sonoko, and the lawyer Fei! "

Kudo Shinichi said.