The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

"Beard?"

"What are you talking about?"

Some people in the crew still didn't understand Conan's logic and asked in confusion.

Seeing this, Conan gave a look to Hattori Heiji.

The latter connected the screenwriter's mobile phone to the monitor screen with a data cable and played the death video recorded in it.

When the screenwriter drank the "poison" and turned his face to the camera, Hattori Heiji quickly pressed the pause button.

"Look, Mr. Harawaki's chin is smooth and he has no beard."

"But Mr. Harawaki actually has a beard today..."

"That is to say, this video was actually prepared in advance by the murderer in order to create the illusion of suicide."

"Of course, judging from Mr. Harawaki's expression, he probably filmed this video for some purpose, but the murderer used it..."

"But since the murderer knows about the existence of this video, I think the other people in the crew should know something about it."

"So, have you ever seen Mr. Harawaki film such a video?"

After Hattori Heiji finished speaking, the crew members in the room all looked thoughtful, and the atmosphere was silent for a while.

After a while, the slightly plump woman in charge of photography looked around at her companions and said, "I have some impression of the scenes in this video..."

"This is a movie clip we filmed in this villa 8 years ago."

When Conan and Hattori Heiji heard this, their eyes changed immediately, and they hurriedly asked what was going on.

Under the explanation of the photographer, the crew's past experience surfaced.

8 years ago, except for the director, all the members of this crew were members of the university horror film research club.

The president at that time was the director's younger brother, and he organized everyone to come to this villa to shoot a horror movie to be shown at the school anniversary.

At that time, the president and Harawaki had some disagreements over the movie script.

"Harawaki wanted to add some scenes based on the original script where the characters didn't want to be killed easily by zombies, so they committed suicide by taking poison, and became zombies and came back to life and started attacking their companions."

"In order to convince the president, he asked me to cooperate with him to shoot these scenes..."

"One of the contents is exactly the same as this video."

When the crew heard this, they were surprised to varying degrees.

The girl with glasses was surprised and asked, "Is there such a thing?"

The sound engineer who had been silent all this time also murmured, "I've heard about this, too."

"But the president didn't adopt Harawaki's idea in the end, and no one knows who still has the videos from that time..."

"It's not hard to find~"

At this moment, Conan, who was standing low, looked up at everyone and said in a childlike voice, "In fact, the video is in the mini tablet in Mr. Harawaki's backpack~"

"After killing Mr. Harawaki, the murderer took Mr. Harawaki's mobile phone and took the video footage in Mr. Harawaki's mini tablet."

"As long as you play it close and adjust the clarity a little lower, you can still make it look real."

"Then when the video is played to a black screen, put the phone in Mr. Harawaki's hand and wait until the body is discovered by others."

"But..."

Conan suddenly changed the subject and restrained the pure expression on his face.

"The disadvantage of this method is that the specific time of death can be deduced from the time of the video recording."

"At that time, as long as you look at who left the filming site, you can know who the murderer is..."

After Conan's voice fell, the brains of the crew, Mao Lilan, and Toyama Kazuha reacted.

Then, the glasses girl turned to look at the actress and whispered tentatively: "Riya, it seems that you suggested taking a break at that time..."

The actress whose name was pointed out was shocked, and she took a step back with a hint of tension in her eyes.

"How, how can this be?"

"Although I suggested taking a break, it seems that everyone has left this room more or less, right?"

Seeing that the actress wanted to share the suspicion on herself, the eyes of others also changed slightly.

But Conan and Hattori Heiji had already stood in front of her and said solemnly: "It's useless to deny..."

"In fact, there is another piece of evidence. In order to facilitate the operation and recording, you must have swiped directly on the screen of the mobile phone and tablet without wearing gloves."

"In other words, Mr. Harawaki's mobile phone and tablet are still clearly stained with your fingerprints."

Hattori Heiji's words were like a cannonball with real damage, hitting the actress's body slightly shaking and leaning back.

But fortunately, the window with curtains behind her supported her back, so she didn't really fall down.

Seeing her reaction, the other people in the crew also understood the truth.

"Riya, why do you do this?" The glasses girl stepped forward and asked.

Riya lowered her head slightly, slowly closed her eyes and began to explain.

It turned out that in the filming of the movie 8 years ago, the president at that time did not adopt the idea proposed by Harawaki, but proposed a new model of zombie + suspense.

He planned to design a trick that seemed to be a zombie killing, but was actually a human killing.

The method to achieve this trick is to hide in the drawer under the wardrobe with the body curled up, creating the illusion of disappearance.

In order to build confidence among the members, the president personally demonstrated the feasibility of this method, and asked the glasses girl, the screenwriter man, and the photographer girl to guard the door.

But in fact...

"That technique actually requires the assistance of a person. The president asked me to be his assistant."

"After his body got into the drawer under the wardrobe, I helped him pull up the outside drawer and then left through the window."

"But when Harawaki and the other three went in to check, they accidentally pressed the front of the wardrobe against the wall while searching."

"They didn't find the president in the closet, and I didn't take it to heart. I thought the president could come out on his own, so I returned to the city with everyone."

"I caught a cold for the next two days and stayed in the hospital."

"On the fourth day, when I heard everyone said that the president had not come back, I worried that something might have happened to the president, and asked everyone to go back to the villa to search for him."

"But by the time we found the president, he was already dead..."

"But the president wrote curses on me densely in blood on the top of the drawer, and called me a murderer..."

"Recently, Harawaki seems to have accidentally discovered the bloody book that I didn't have time to clean up, so he threatened me to come over and help him film."

"Because I was worried about being blackmailed by him for the rest of my life, so..."

The actress lowered her head slightly and explained the motive for the murder.

When they heard the truth about the accident eight years ago, the film crew members present also opened their mouths in shock and didn't know where to start.

Conan and Hattori Heiji put their hands in their pockets and stared at the actress with stern expressions.

This is another case that started with a misunderstanding.

If everyone had told the story 8 years ago, there would not have been the blood splatter today...

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of breaking from the window the actress was leaning against.

Click!

A head broke through the barrier between the window and the curtains, opened its bloody mouth, and bit the actress on the shoulder with lightning speed.

This sudden change made everyone's pupils shrink suddenly, and they were stunned for a while.

I saw that the man's body should be standing outside the window, only his head smashed through the window, and he was biting the actress's shoulder and wouldn't let go.

"ah!"

It was the actress's scream that made Heiji Hattori and Conan come to their senses first and rush forward to help.

Hattori Heiji wanted to separate the mouth and the actress's shoulder with his hands, but with just a little force, a large amount of blood flowed from the wound, and even the skin and flesh tended to be torn apart.

"ah--!"

The actress's screams of agony were also louder.

"hateful!"

"Let go! You bastard, let go!"

Hattori Heiji yelled and cursed while pulling the man's head hard.

Conan, who was standing nearby, saw that the man seemed to be suffering from rabies, so he could only open the cover of the watch and prepare to knock him out with an anesthetic needle.

But when he took aim, he found that the man's face was darkened, even a little purple, and there were corpse spots on his face that proved that he had been dead for a long time.

Also, although his eyes were open, the pupils inside were like those of a dead person, having completely dilated.

"Hey! Kudo!"

"Quick!"

At this time, Hattori Heiji next to him urged Conan to inject the anesthesia needle.

The latter didn't care so much and just aimed a needle at the man's neck.

The flying needle went straight into the purple skin, but had no effect at all. The other party still bit the actress.

Hattori Heiji:?

At this moment, Yuan Shan and Ye handed over a big sword from the side with an upright look.

"Heiji!"

"Give!"

Hattori Heiji turned his head and was stunned for a moment after taking the sword.

Because this is a prop used for filming movies. Although it is not edged, it is still made of genuine metal.

Although you won't kill someone with this, it would probably be quite painful if you hit a vulnerable part like the neck...

But at this time, Conan next to him realized that something was wrong, and quickly shouted: "Cut it quickly! Hattori!"

"There's something wrong with this guy!"

Seeing that his good friends said this, Hattori Heiji could only turn his head and swing the big sword in a circle behind him.

"I don't care what happens then!"

"ah--!"

Hattori Heiji swung his big sword and slashed hard at the man's neck. It was simply the standard execution posture of ancient executioners.

However, when the unedged metal blade struck the man's neck, it only left an imperceptible bruise.

"What?!"

Hattori Heiji suddenly looked shocked.

As a master of swordsmanship, he knew that even if this sword was not sharpened, it was still much more powerful than a bamboo sword. A cut on the neck would cause unbearable damage to the human body.

But this person is...

Suddenly, the man took the initiative to let go of his mouth and shrank his head outside the window.

The curtains fell, covering the window again.

Although the actress escaped from the "tiger's mouth", the severe pain almost made her unconscious.

"Someone come and take her out!"

Conan greeted her, and the film crew members who had been stunned for a long time came over tremblingly and carried the actress out of the room.

Toyama and Ye Xiaoxin approached Hattori Heiji and asked: "Heiji, who is that person?"

"have no idea……"

Hattori Heiji held the sword in both hands and maintained a standard kendo confrontation posture, ready to deal with another attack by the unknown person at the window.

Conan next to him suddenly said: "That person may not be a real person..."

"What?" Hattori Heiji was stunned.

"Maybe a zombie."

Conan stared at the window covered by the curtain nervously and analyzed: "Just now I saw corpse spots on that person, and his pupils have completely collapsed."

"He has been dead for at least a few days..."

"What?" Hattori Heiji's eyes were completely incredible, "How can a dead person still move?"

But he glanced at Conan's serious eyes and realized that Conan was not talking nonsense.

But it is also possible that someone pretended to be a dead person with makeup, but was actually a thief or something like that.

Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji leaned forward slightly and carefully opened the curtain with the big sword in his hand.

When the curtain was slowly opened, outside the broken window, several figures like zombies were standing hunched on the lawn outside the villa.

Their clothes were tattered, their hair was unkempt, and their dry faces were gray with black and purple, which was no different from the dead.

"It's a zombie!"

Mouri Ran and Toyama Kazuha were so scared that they hugged each other and screamed at the same time.

Hattori Heiji's pupils also shrank to the limit, and he stared at those "people" with gritted teeth.

How is this possible? !

At this moment, outside the door behind him, the crew members who had already fled to the corridor screamed.

"Ah!"

"What's going on! They all broke in!"

Hearing the bad noise coming from outside, Hattori Heiji and Conan hurried to the corridor.

They saw zombies hunched over, breaking through the windows of the room, and getting up one by one.

And facing the locked room, these zombies can also put their hands on the door handles quite skillfully and twist the door open.

"Everyone, hurry up to the second floor!"

"Xiaolan! Go up and wake up Uncle Maori!"

Conan reacted immediately and shouted to command everyone.

He also hurried back to the room where he was filming and picked up a microphone pole from the ground as a weapon.

After hearing this, everyone also hurried to the stairs on the second floor.

During this period, some zombies wanted to catch the fleeing people, but were stopped by Hattori Heiji with a sword.

Everyone fought and fled, and finally escaped to the second floor.

Hattori Heiji and Conan blocked the stairs on the second floor, each holding a weapon, and repelled every zombie that tried to come up the stairs.

"Don't want to die! Just come!"

Hattori Heiji shouted to boost his morale, and then swung his sword with his left and right hands alternately, chopping off the zombies that came up one by one.

But this unsharpened sword did not hurt the zombies at all, and the zombies would get up quickly.

Seeing more and more zombies gathering at the stairs below, Hattori Heiji cursed.

"Damn it!"

"There's no end to this!"

Just as he finished speaking, the zombie in front of him, which was still two meters away, suddenly accelerated, pushed away the zombie in front, and rushed up to Hattori Heiji's right hand holding a knife with a dagger.

A cold light flashed, and the dagger cut a bloody mark on the back of Hattori Heiji's hand.

The pain made his palm twitch, and the big sword slipped from his hand.

Not good!

Conan, who was standing behind him, was shocked and his pupils trembled.

This is a real person!