"Game over!"
After Hattori Heiji fell asleep due to the effect of the anesthesia needle, Conan immediately took out the bow-tie voice changer and adjusted the knob of the voice changer to change his voice to that of Hattori Heiji. Then Conan hid behind the door. Then he said in Hattori Heiji's voice, imitating Hattori Heiji's Osaka accent as much as possible——
"I already know completely who the murderer is! And what method the murderer used to commit this incident!"
"ah?"
Suddenly, everyone present who was still surprised because they had just learned that Fujisawa Toshiaki and Oki Ayako had known the store owner Hiroyuki Kanaya for a long time, couldn't help but look even more surprised after hearing Hattori Heiji's words. , all turned their heads to look at Hattori Heiji, who was leaning against the door.
"That's right, the first one who killed the owner Mr. Kanaya in this hotel and made him fall off a cliff in his car, and the one who tried to use the gasoline that volatilized in the garage to harm Ms. Oki and Mr. Fujisawa..."
As he said this, Conan lifted Hattori Heiji's drooped right hand from behind the door and pointed Hattori Heiji's hand towards someone in the room——
"It's you!"
Ling Ran, Hattori Heiji said firmly in his voice.
"Huh? Me?"
However, looking in the direction pointed by Hattori Heiji's finger, Mouri Kogoro, standing in front of everyone and looking at the candidate pointed by the finger, looked surprised, pointed at himself, and asked blankly.
At the same time, everyone present was shocked.
In response, Conan leaned out from behind the door and looked at the situation in the room. He looked helpless and continued to explain in the voice of Hattori Heiji:
"Wrong! I was referring to the man behind the uncle who is sweating coldly...Mr. Kento Toba! The murderer is you!"
As soon as these words came out, Toba Kento couldn't help but be startled, and was stunned on the spot for a moment.
At the same time, after hearing Hattori Heiji's voice saying this result, Oki Ayako on the side looked slightly disappointed, and finally lowered her head helplessly and sighed——
"W-wait a minute!"
However, when everyone turned their attention to Toba Kento in shock because of Hattori Heiji's words, Toba Kento immediately retorted in a panic:
"A few hours before the shop owner drove the car, I stayed with you all the time! Aren't you here too? You can tell me what I can do to kill him while staying with you. Where’s the shop owner!”
"Hmph——"
In this regard, just after Toba Kento said this, Kogoro on the side couldn't help laughing proudly, and then slowly walked up to Hattori Heiji, and seemed to be a little intolerable, and hit Hattori Heiji on the head. One punch——
"dad!"
Regarding Kogoro's act of punching Hattori Heiji on the head, Xiaolan felt that this was very bad and couldn't help but advise him.
Noticing the strength of Kogoro's punch just now, Conan, who was hiding behind the door, couldn't help but panic——
"Oops! This won't wake him up..."
But Kogoro was still very unhappy. He glared at Hattori Heiji and vented his anger:
"That's right! You idiot! Stop looking down on me! Why are you speaking in such a weird Kansai accent! When the shop owner started the car, weren't you here with Toba? You should tell me what he would do if he did this Let the car start!"
"Yes, it does seem impossible."
However, seeing that Hattori Heiji did not wake up after being punched by Kogoro, Conan continued to say in his voice:
"However, if we take advantage of the catalepsy state and the performance of the car, it might be possible!"
As he spoke, Conan paused for a moment, and then revealed the core plot behind the murder of shop owner Hiroyuki Kanaya——
"The trick is this: let the store manager who died exactly one day ago sit in the driver's seat and fix him with his foot on the brake. After half a day, when the body begins to stiffen,
, even if the car's engine is running and the gear is switched to D, the car still won't move because the brakes are applied. Then, as long as you open the garage before eating, slowly follow everyone in the house and wait for the body to soften, your foot on the brake will be released, and the car will start naturally! "
"Ha ha ha ha!"
But regarding this inference, Kogoro immediately burst into laughter:
"You kid, don't pretend to understand if you don't understand! A stiff corpse will only start to soften 40 hours after death! If according to what you said, the shop owner was killed early yesterday, then it was nothing more than just More than twenty hours is not enough time at all!”
"But what if the environment where the body is located has a higher temperature?"
As soon as Kogoro finished speaking, Hattori Heiji's voice immediately gave an explanation.
"Why?"
Hearing this, Kogoro was stunned.
"If the temperature around the corpse reaches 35 degrees Celsius, the rate of stiffness and softening will accelerate. The corpse will start to soften in about 24 to 30 hours."
Conan smiled proudly and reasoned in the voice of Hattori Heiji:
"The owner of the shop disappeared after 10 o'clock at night. Assuming that he was killed immediately, the car started around 3:30 this morning, which is about 29 hours later. Doesn't the time match well?
"And at that time, didn't we also hear a sound like blowing wind in the car? It was not air conditioning as we thought at first, but heating! If the air conditioning was on, there should be water dripping next to the front wheels."
"So, you just went back and looked around the tire tracks?"
Xiaolan was a little surprised at this.
"That's right."
Conan continued to answer in the voice of Hattori Heiji:
"When we investigated the rut marks immediately afterwards, we found no traces of water droplets! This means that the air conditioner was not turned on in the car at that time. Therefore, the sound of blowing wind we heard at that time could only be because the heater was turned on in the car. Already!"
"However, this kind of trick only requires investigating the rigor mortis..."
Faced with this situation, Kogoro couldn't help but sigh, and at the same time he understood why the murderer made such an arrangement——
"That's why the murderer drove the shop owner and his car off the cliff! Because unless the body is not found, the rigor mortis cannot be investigated!"
Hattori Heiji's voice continued to explain.
"Why did the car accelerate suddenly?"
After listening to this analysis, astrologer Maria Toda raised some doubts.
Conan continued to analyze in the voice of Hattori Heiji:
"Probably because of the bumps in the road, the feet of the already limp corpse completely slipped off the brake pedal. Since there is no deceleration from the brakes, the speed of the car will naturally increase. And the cloth covering the dashboard is also for Don’t let people who get close to the car find out that the heater is on!”
"I see……"
Very shocked, Kawazu Ikuo couldn't help but sigh:
"Then just watch the car start on its own with anyone in the house..."
"This way, the murderer has a perfect alibi!"
Maria Toda said with some admiration.
"Then... Mr. Toba asked Ayako-san to stay in the house at that time just to create a witness who witnessed the car starting with him?"
Xiaolan asked, somewhat unbelievably.
"That's right."
Hattori Heiji's voice confirmed Xiaolan's words.
But Xiaolan found it difficult to accept this statement, and her eyes couldn't help but look at Oki Ayako who was silently standing aside——
"But...why! If the murderer of the store owner is Mr. Toba, doesn't that mean...the person who wanted Miss Ayako's life just now was also Mr. Toba!"
Xiaolan asked in confusion:
"Aren't they a couple? Why do they do this!"
"Because I want to silence you.
! "
Hattori Heiji's cold voice responded:
"Miss Ayako said it herself - she already knows who the murderer is!"
"What! If you say so, at that time!"
Surprised, after hearing what Hattori Heiji said, everyone present couldn't help but look at Oki Ayako standing aside, a little unbelievable——
"That's right. You should still remember, right? Miss Ogi Ayako suddenly said that she knew who the murderer was. Because at that time, after she learned from me that no traces of water droplets were found near the rut marks, the murderer took advantage of his death The stiff trick used to create an alibi has already been exposed by her!"
Conan couldn't help but say this, recalling the situation when Ayako Ogi asked Hattori Heiji before announcing to everyone that she knew who the murderer was.
"But if that's the case, if she already knew that Toba was the murderer, then why is she still unwilling to tell the truth even after knowing that the murderer also wants her life!"
Kogoro asked loudly.
"Of course this is because Miss Omu Ayako also has her own little plans!"
Conan continued in the voice of Hattori Heiji:
"You still remember, after hearing Ms. Oki Ayako declare that she knew who the murderer was, the anxious Mr. Toba pretended to follow her to the bathroom, but in fact he went to negotiate terms with her. I think Ms. Oki Ayako's This note should have been given by Mr. Toba to Miss Ogi Ayako at that time, in order to let Oki Ayako keep the secret for him on the condition of that first edition!"
"Indeed... Toba was the only one who could be alone with her at that time."
Kawazu Ikuo said suddenly.
"That's why her attitude changed drastically after she came back!"
Maria Toda was greatly surprised and said:
"But he's really amazing, he was able to think of this trick right away at that moment!"
"No, this plan was originally prepared for another person. The most fortunate thing for the murderer is that Miss Ayako Oki has the same habit of carrying a lighter with that person! Yes, the trap in the garage should have been there from the beginning Designed for Mr. Fujisawa!"
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