The first floor of Master Zhengying's house.
Bathed in green and white lights.
Ye Gengyi sat at the dining table. After swallowing the food in his mouth, he wiped his mouth with a napkin and answered the call from Haihara Ai.
"Bang..."
Before he could speak, a familiar explosion sounded through the receiver.
Is the doctor making an invention?
The little radar was hit by a bomb?
"Hello?"
Ye Gengyi walked to the window and opened it, letting the wind outside blow in to judge the situation nearby.
"Sorry, someone happened to be setting off fireworks..."
Hui Yuan Ai's voice sounded along with the rustling footsteps.
fireworks?
Ye Gengyi looked up into the sky again and made a simple logical judgment:
"You and the Doctor are hanging out together again?"
"That's right, but it's just me and the doctor," Haihara Ai said, "What about you? You should have gone back after watching the magic show, right?"
"Not yet, eating at someone else's house."
Ye Geng paused for a moment, and before Hui Yuan Ai was about to bring up the next topic, he added: "There was a murder case."
"..."
There was apparent silence on the other end for a few seconds.
Haiyuan Ai sighed silently and asked with complicated emotions:
"Edogawa should still be next to you, right?"
"No," Ye Geng turned his head and glanced at the stairs, "He was solving the case at the scene, and I was eating in the restaurant."
Haibara Ai:"……"
Wait, let me explain it first...
"What's the matter with calling?" Ye Geng brought the topic back.
"Oh," Haiyuan Ai came back to his senses, "Actually, it's about camping. Didn't we meet a treasure hunter with a bad personality yesterday? The doctor felt guilty for not being able to bring the police there in time because he got lost. , in order to make up for it... I decided to take everyone out to camp tomorrow, so today is considered an early inspection."
Still going camping? Are those three little devils so mentally capable? No shadow left at all?
Ye Gengyi said "Oh" and did not answer.
Haibara Ai continued: "The doctor also prepared a surprise for the children, but the words he planned to use as codes were too difficult for the children, so I wanted to ask you if you have any good ideas."
"What is the gift?" Ye Gengyi asked.
"The unicorn fairy and the stag beetle," Haibara Ai explained: "The doctor plans to wait until the festival in this village is over and then paint the sap on the pillars of the torii gate."
"Oh, this is not simple," Ye Gengyi said casually: "Just encrypt the hiragana of the answer with symbols, and then encrypt the algorithm and number of digits twice to form a hint for solving the puzzle."
Simple...simple? So what on earth was I expecting just now...
Hui Yuan Ai sighed after hearing this:
"Hey, the doctor and I will think about the code again. By the way, the festival seems to be going on for a while. I forgot to look at Sydney's rice bowl when I came out in the afternoon. Remember to feed it when you go back after handling the case. .”
"You may not have to go back early." Ye Gengyi yawned, "As for Xue Li... it won't be a problem if you go hungry."
"Huh?" Haiyuan Ai was stunned, ignoring the second half of someone's sentence and asked, "Is the case complicated?"
"Fortunately, this is a case where mirror refraction was used to create an alibi."
Ye Gengyi said: "But after that, I have to go back to the Metropolitan Police Department with Memu Police Department and the others to make up the transcripts from the last time at the Domoto Concert Hall."
Mirror refraction?
An idea flashed across Hui Yuan Ai's mind, and he seemed to have thought of something. After leaving a cursory sentence, "Then don't forget to go camping together tomorrow," he hung up the phone.
Ye Gengyi: "..."
So the way to get rid of the shadows and stay safe is to bring me along?
Well, to a certain extent, if I had gone camping with them yesterday, the treasure hunter would not have appeared.
But then again, the speed of solving crimes here is a bit too slow.
Calculate the time, save the tedious reasoning and on-site restoration, it’s time to end...
Thinking about it, Ye Geng walked towards the stairs.
…
"...Police Department, you have all seen the effect. Mr. Xinghe used the magic mechanism designed by the missing Master Zhengying to give himself an alibi in this murder case."
The second floor of the mansion.
After Takagi Wata restored the scene according to Ye Gengyi's description, he turned to Mrs. Zhengying, who also looked a little pale, and said:
"The police officers I sent to the nearby convenience store to collect evidence have confirmed that you did go there to buy seasonings at 7:25. However, although you are not suspected of murder, you covered up the murder case. Mr. Xinghe...is that right?"
"The reason why my wife did this is probably because she wanted to give me time to surrender. I'm sorry to disappoint you."
Seeing that the matter had been exposed, Xinghe Tongwu bowed directly to Mrs. Zhengying to prevent the people who loved him from being implicated by him.
He took a deep breath and confessed the process of killing Himemiya Zhanzi:
"The 'Witch's Resurrection' should actually be called 'The Demon King's Resurrection'. The stage setting and content of the performance are all the same, so I knew immediately that the magic was the teacher's magic..."
Hearing this, Mumu Shisan couldn't help but said: "Just because of the similarity? Is this the reason why you killed someone?"
"No... because the teacher who took notes never left his side. However, on that day 10 years ago, the teacher said that he had forgotten his notes somewhere, so he went out to look for them and never came back..."
Xinghe Tongwu said in a deep voice:
"At first, I wasn't sure whether the teacher had secretly told Zhanzi, so I called her here to ask. As a result, that woman... that woman actually said without any guilt that she had stolen the notes, and she didn't have the slightest hint of it. He didn’t take the teacher’s disappearance to heart, and mocking the teacher for being so upset because of a notebook is just asking for trouble!”
"Ah……"
He laughed bitterly and covered his forehead with one hand:
"My mind went blank at the time. When I came to my senses, she was already lying motionless on the ground with her head covered in blood. Then I thought of the teacher's Christmas magic and created the illusion of outsiders committing the crime. Illusion..."
"The murder weapon should be the vase, right?"
Hattori Heiji's eyes were empty, and he told a clue that he discovered while checking the room, but had not had time to tell Saraichi and Kudo:
"There are still some blood stains in the groove at the bottom that have not been cleaned up. If you haven't changed your clothes, Miss Zhanzi's blood should also be detected on the black shirt."
"Well...it's all flaws."
Xinghe Tongwu looked at Takagi Wataru with a bitter expression, "And the teacher has performed magic for so many years, but it fell into my hands and was seen through so easily. I am really an incompetent magician."
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