When a few people returned to the hotel along the mountain road, it was already dark.
Ye Gengyi happened to notice the four deflated tires of the commercial vehicle through the light shining from the window.
Pretty good at playing...
A cadre of an organization was in a bad mood and decided to blame all the losses of the rental car on the murderer.
Open the door and enter the house.
Notice the movement.
The drunken woman who was originally arguing with the hotel owner immediately turned her attention to Dr. Ari:
"Hey! I heard what Tiantu said. Is it true? You found Asao's skeleton in the forest!"
Dr. A Li nodded. Worried about being grabbed by the shoulders and shaken again, he quickly took a few steps back and said:
"It is not completely certain whether it is Mr. Kazuno's skeleton, but we did find a ring next to the skeleton with your and Mr. Kazuno's names engraved on it."
"Hey, I don't have to suspect anything, but we just received the invitation letter from Asao Wano two days ago. Now you say he has turned into a skeleton?"
The young man with an inverted triangle face said with a faint smile:
"In my opinion... could it be that Asao Wano killed someone a long time ago, deliberately left the ring, pretended to be murdered, and then disappeared to evade legal sanctions?"
"Well, Erchuan, your guess is not completely impossible." On the side, a balding middle-aged man held his chin with one hand and looked like he was thinking seriously.
(?_?)...So, who punctured my tire...Ye Gengyi looked at the people.
Conan originally wanted to remain silent, but seeing that a certain expert from the Technical Association didn't speak, he had no choice but to step in and say:
"Um...Miss Etsuko, may I ask, does Mr. Kazuno have any cavities? It's the second tooth from the right side of the upper jaw."
"Polar?"
The drunk woman was startled, then she laughed and said: "Hahaha, great, then it's definitely not Ma Xiong. He does have cavities, but it's on the central incisor of his lower jaw."
"Oh my God!" Ayumi exclaimed, covering her mouth.
"Isn't that the same as what we saw?" Mitsuhiko still couldn't believe it.
"It turns out it's really him." Yuantai sighed.
"Huh?! What's going on? Please tell me quickly."
The drunk woman's smile froze on her face, and a very bad feeling surged deep in her heart.
"I'm sorry, the skeleton we found had tooth decay on the central incisor of the lower jaw..."
Conan apologized a little: "I just said that just to test whether you would lie..."
"How could it be...Ma Xiong...Ma Xiong is really dead..."
The drunk woman couldn't bear the blow, so she collapsed on the chair and started crying.
In order to investigate the truth, first give others hope, and then give others despair. Gin really wants to absorb you into the organization after seeing it...
Seeing that he had been persecuted by Conan inexplicably, Ye Gengyi decided to temporarily exclude the drunk woman from the list of suspects for punctures.
"well……"
Conan sighed silently, walked up to the hotel owner, and said with a serious face:
"Now that we have confirmed that the skeleton is Mr. Kazuno, we'd better call the police as soon as possible!"
"Actually, I was going to call the police just after I came back from the mountain, but..."
The hotel owner looked helpless, "There seems to be some malfunction on the phone, and there is no way to make a call."
"Is there something wrong? Something went wrong at this time..."
The young man with an inverted triangle face walked over to help check. After a moment, he said with a speechless face: "Hey, of course there is no way to get through, because your phone has no answering line at all."
Valley
"What?"
The hotel owner showed a surprised expression, "That's strange. I even used it to contact the vegetable shop in the city this afternoon."
"Is there a backup phone line?" Dr. Ali asked.
"Sorry..." the hotel owner shook his head, "I don't have a spare phone line here."
"There is no signal on the mobile phone, and the phone cannot be used. This is really bad..." Dr. Ali glanced at the night outside the window worriedly.
I was a bit confused whether to spend the night here with the children or let Ye Gengyi take them down the mountain first, and then come with the police the next day to assist in the investigation...
"What a bad invitation. I'm going to drive back." At this time, the balding middle-aged man walked towards the entrance.
"Unfortunately, you may not be able to leave for the time being..."
As the only one other than Ye Gengyi who knew the condition of the tires, a certain death god said: "All the cars in the parking lot had their tires slashed. I think someone must have done this deliberately in order to keep everyone in the parking lot." this place."
"What? You actually did such a bad thing!"
The balding middle-aged man gritted his teeth, but his expression didn't look like he was pretending.
The owner of the hotel saw this and quickly calmed everyone down.
When he said that there was no other hotel nearby and the nearest bus station was 20 kilometers away, it would be impossible to catch the last bus at this time.
Everyone realized that they could only stay here tonight.
Just when Ye Gengyi and others were receiving the room keys and preparing to go back to their rooms to rest, the young man with an inverted triangle face was still a little excited:
"What the hell? If all this is really related to the dead Asao Kazuno, isn't there a murderer lurking here?"
"By the way, speaking of Ma Xiong..."
The hotel owner looked at the children of the Youth Detective Team and recalled: "Are the things you were looking at next to his skeleton the six cigarettes placed on the handkerchief, four long and two short?"
(?_?)……oh? Your observation and intelligence gathering abilities are quite good, Tire No. 1.
Ye Gengyi stared at the past.
Looking back, the innkeeper took less than three seconds from the moment he looked past Dr. Ali to turning around and running away.
If you have not received professional training, let alone the length... being able to count the number of cigarettes correctly is already considered very good.
However, this also proves one thing from the side.
Regardless of whether the innkeeper had such powers of observation or not, he must have discovered traces of the skeleton a long time ago.
So what's the purpose of pretending not to know and inducing us to discover the skeleton?
Create panic? Blizzard Villa? And then he killed us all overnight for fun?
Ye Gengyi quickly observed and analyzed the 'Tire No. 1':
Long face, narrow eyes.
Wearing an apron, there are no obvious oil stains on the cuffs and beard. Although the fingers are rough, the nails are very short.
I am still a person who likes to be clean.
Hmm... I am right-handed, and there are no particularly thick calluses on the palms and fingers. To be more rigorous, I cannot rule out whether they are the same as the tissue. During the practice stage, the palms were soaked in medicine, so this feature was hidden.
Thinking about it, Ye Gengyi's eyes fell on the other party's lower body again:
The standing posture is ordinary... it can also be said to be too casual, and there is no way to react immediately to potential dangers coming from oneself.
Um? Did he have something in his pocket?
Although the casual pants cover up more than 80% of the muscle outline of the legs and the shape of the items in the pockets, it is temporarily impossible to obtain more information with the naked eye. However, judging from the posture of the other party when he ran away from the murder scene, this person He had no physical training, and his movement coordination was a mess. It was conservatively estimated that he was not a deadly weapon.
After the evaluation, it seems that 'Tire No. 1' does not have the ability to say 'i want to play a game'...
7017k
