"Ah, it's so hot..."
In the lobby of the guest house, the police had not yet arrived, and the reasoning of the case had not yet progressed. Among the several detectives on the stage, one of them who was observing the corpse suddenly straightened up and tugged on his collar.
"Huh? It does seem a little hot..."
After hearing what he said, Mouri Kogoro noticed that a thin layer of sweat had appeared on his forehead at some point.
"Strange, isn't the air conditioning in the hall turned on?" Mouri Kogoro asked as he pulled open his collar to dissipate the heat.
"No, the air conditioner in the hall is always on." Igarashi Kiyoko replied.
"No, why is it so hot?"
"Wait, is it these spotlights?"
Suddenly, a detective noticed something unusual.
When everyone entered the hall and found the deceased Mr. Todo hanging on a banner, all the spotlights on the stage were kept fully turned on, focusing the light in the center of the stage.
In order to find the murderer as soon as possible, everyone did not pay too much attention to the spotlight. After hurriedly removing the body, they placed it directly on the stage directly below.
The corpse has been under the spotlight from just now to now, and so are the detectives who are observing the condition of the corpse.
The heat they feel now is actually the result of being constantly illuminated by the dozens of spotlights on the stage.
"What?!"
Realizing this, Mouri Kogoro's brain exploded. He turned his head suddenly and looked at the body lying quietly under the light.
In this case, wouldn't it be...
"It seems that you have finally discovered the problem."
At this moment, a figure walked out from the back of the stage.
The figure is that of a man. His clothes are very simple and there is nothing special about him.
The male voice was very young, sounding no more than 20 years old.
He wore a sunhat on his head, and the shadow of the brim obscured his face, making it difficult for people to see his true appearance.
【who is he? 】
Looking at this male figure that suddenly appeared, Haiyuan Ai suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart off the stage.
Qing Shuijing, who was sitting not far from her, trembled slightly after hearing the male figure's voice, but in just a moment, he returned to normal.
【finally come……】
"Who are you?" Mouri Kogoro asked on the stage.
"Don't worry about the name. It's just a detective who happened to be passing by and came to solve the case." The male figure smiled and walked directly to the body of the deceased Mr. Dongtang.
[Let me go, this guy is so good at pretending! 】
Suddenly feeling a little unhappy, Mouri Kogoro immediately asked: "So it sounds like you have found the murderer?"
Too lazy to ask the other person's name, Mouri Kogoro just called him "boy".
Anyway, judging by his voice, the other person couldn't be older than him, so there's nothing wrong with shouting like that.
"certainly."
The male figure raised his hand to press the brim of his hat, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
"The murderer is on this stage right now."
"What?!"
"But before revealing the identity of the murderer, I need to explain to you the real time of death of the deceased."
Hearing his words, Mouri Kogoro fell silent. Not only him, but also several detectives around him fell silent.
Before, everyone had originally inferred that the death time of the deceased would not exceed two hours at most, but just now, they made an unexpected discovery that broke this speculation.
"That's right, two hours ago was not the real time of death of the deceased. Normally, people will start to have joint stiffness about three hours after death. It was based on this point that you made the calculation of the time of death of the deceased. There was speculation.
However, our murderer is very cunning. She made full use of the environment at the scene and used these spotlights to continuously heat the body of the deceased, which greatly delayed the rate of rigor mortis and caused everyone to make wrong judgments.
In other words, the real time of death of the deceased should actually be calculated from the beginning of this banquet, because since then, the deceased has not really appeared in front of you. "
"This is impossible!"
As soon as the male figure finished speaking, a detective immediately retorted:
"Even if our initial guess of the time of death is wrong, it cannot be so far in advance! Don't forget that during the reasoning activities, the deceased who played the role of the Phantom Thief appeared twice on the screen! The deceased was not in the guest house at all at that time !”
"It's very simple. The videos you saw several times and mistakenly thought were the videos taken by the deceased at other places were actually videos that had been recorded in advance in the past.
This is also the reason why the murderer deliberately broke the portable camera. After all, if the camera was still intact, you could easily find the flaws in those videos, and her little trick would be discovered immediately. "
"etc!"
Just then, another detective shouted.
He took out his mobile phone, pulled out a photo, and asked loudly: "If you say so, how should you explain this photo?"
The photos on the detective's cell phone are a little blurry, but it can basically be seen that the photos captured are exactly the images of the deceased Mr. Todo that everyone saw on the screen in the tower after solving the first puzzle and heading to the clock tower.
In the photo, the deceased, Mr. Dongtang, was standing in front of a stone bridge.
Of course, what the detective wanted to say was not the stone bridge, but the tree with a broken branch behind the deceased Mr. Dongtang.
"I asked the staff before because it rained heavily last night and the branches of this tree were broken by the strong wind last night.
If, as you said, these videos were really recorded in advance, why are the branches of the tree broken in the videos? "
"That's a good question."
After taking a look at the photo, the male figure nodded and asked with a smile: "But I wonder if Mr. Detective has noticed a detail, that is, the shops in the background of this photo... are all closed?"
"What's the problem?"
As soon as he asked this question, the detective was suddenly stunned.
He suddenly realized that this problem was huge.
Because during the previous event, all the shops around the stone bridge were open. Not only that, but the surrounding area was densely populated and very lively. It was not like the situation in his photo where all the shops were closed and there were no pedestrians on the street.
"But, but that tree..."
"Mr. Detective, I just said that the video was recorded in the past, not yesterday.
For example, the murderer could actually have officially opened his business in Mihua Edo Street this morning, and before everyone arrived here, he could have used the rehearsal as an excuse to let the deceased record these videos himself, and finally use these The video faked the fact that the deceased was still alive during the event...am I right? "
As he said that, the male figure turned around and looked at Xue Dingying, who was standing aside, his face already pale.
"Host Xue Ding wants a lady?"
As his words fell, Hui Yuan Ai subconsciously clenched his hands off the stage.
【Who is this person? 】
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(End of chapter)
