"No, I haven't seen this directly, but..."
Suzuki Sonoko looked at Hondo Eiyu and said with a serious expression: "My friend should not lie."
The latter immediately nodded sincerely:
"That's right! Just now in the backyard, I...I saw that the window in the villa that was sealed with iron nails was missing a gap, and I accidentally met the devil's eyes..."
"Hey hey hey! What are you doing!"
Kuramoto Yoji came over and grabbed Hondo Eiyou by the collar, "Are you daydreaming?"
"I really saw it!"
Hondo Yingyu is still sure of his words, "Although the light was very dark at the time, I couldn't see clearly what it was, but there is no doubt that it must have eyes!"
Th-thing... is this kid scolding me?
The veins on Kuramoto Yoji's forehead were slightly bulging.
Before he could have a seizure, a calm voice with a hint of coldness suddenly came to his ears, instantly waking him up:
"I advise you not to continue carrying him, otherwise if you accidentally get injured later, it will be difficult to explain to the police."
"Well……"
Kuramoto Yooji's breath was stagnant. Thinking of the previous conversation between several people, his palms suddenly relaxed weakly. He subconsciously took a few steps back. He looked at Hondo Eiyu with some surprise and uncertainty, and said:
"You... are you Kyogoku-san?"
"Ah?" I, Yingyou, looked confused.
"Why do you ask that?" Suzuki Sonoko looked over in confusion: "How could he be A-Zhen!"
"But, he just..."
Kuramoto Yoji looked at Ye Gengyi and Hondo Yingyu respectively, and for a moment he didn't know how to explain.
You can't say that you bully others and fear being beaten, right?
After all, it was Conan who reacted the fastest. While collecting clues around the murder scene, he did not miss the quarrel here. He came over and explained:
"You misunderstood. What Brother Gengyi just meant is that Brother Yingyou's luck is very bad to begin with. If you keep holding on to his collar, you might get him injured."
"So this is ah……"
Yoji Kuramoto was speechless.
Looking at the group of guests who came to borrow the phone out of nowhere, I felt a little more depressed and heavy. After a moment of silence, I apologized:
"I'm sorry, I was a little emotional just now. Although this villa is very cheap and we know the story of the devil, after all, it was only a few of us who raised money to buy it. Besides, Renzi is already dead. So please don’t mention seeing the devil again!”
"But I really..."
"Okay, Yingyou-san!" Suzuki Sonoko saw that the atmosphere was not right, so she hurried over to smooth things over, "Stop talking."
"No! If what he said is true, maybe there is really something wrong in this villa..."
On the side, the expression of the woman with a ponytail suddenly became extremely terrifying, and she said in a deep voice:
"Because this room... is the room where the previous owner, the rich brother's wife, hanged herself!"
Hearing this, Mao Lilan, Suzuki Sonoko, and Hondo Eiyu opened their mouths in a semicircle, and as if they had been rehearsed, they all exclaimed:
"Eh?! Is this true!"
The ponytailed woman nodded slightly:
"right."
She took a deep breath, looked up at the rope hanging from the chandelier, and continued:
"Moreover, even the hanging position is exactly the same..."
"It's natural," Ye Gengyi continued in a calm tone: "This is the only chandelier in the entire room that can meet the requirements for hanging ropes."
"No, Brother Gengyi."
Mao Lilan said with a trembling voice: "Don't you think it's weird? What's more, Yingyou also saw that..."
She did not continue, but looked around the room fearfully.
"Devil, right? If there really is such a creature, I really want to see it."
Ye Gengyi walked to the bookcase near the left wall and took out the stack of books in the bottom row near the center of the bookshelf. As expected, a wooden board with the same color as the bookshelf, but with an extra groove was revealed.
That's a secret door.
Seeing this scene, Kuramoto Yoji's expression changed immediately.
Others came over curiously.
Ye Gengyi reached out and pulled the door handle again. The secret door was not locked and opened with a slight "clatter" sound.
"This..." Conan was inevitably depressed when he saw this, but he quickly returned his mind to the case: "Brother Gengyi, is the murderer still hiding inside?"
No, the real murderer is behind us. I saw it clearly in the backyard just now, but I am not going to expose him yet until I am not sure whether there is a 'medium'.
Ye Gengyi turned around and glanced at a few people, "I'll go in and you stay outside. It's best for no one to leave the villa until the police arrive."
"Well... Then brother Gengyi, please pay attention to your safety."
Conan responded and reminded:
"Even if the murderer is not inside, there might be some mechanism..."
"knew."
Ye Gengyi turned his head and looked at the entrance of the secret passage. His eyes blinked a few times, and his pupils had adjusted to the size suitable for the darkness.
Bend down, lower your body, and step in.
The slightly cold air blew towards my face, and at the same time, there was a smell of moldy wood floating inside.
Xiaobai, check the air quality and toxic and harmful substances...
Ye Gengyi held his breath and controlled a part of the nano-robots to surface and condense into a mask. At the same time, he condensed a layer of filter in his respiratory tract to ensure that problems can be solved quickly when problems are discovered.
[Sir, the test has been completed. The rancid smell in the air is mold spores and sulfur dioxide produced after the oxidation and decomposition of wood and ore. Given your physical condition, inhaling a small amount will not have any adverse effects. 】
Oh, I see……
Walking in this dark passage that was only wide enough for one person to pass, Ye Gengyi kept touching the rough wall with his left hand. His eyes, which could see in weak light, scanned the surroundings for possible traps.
However, the fact is that this narrow secret passage has no such thing.
After walking a few steps, he saw the half window at the end of the wall. Faint light was shining through the gap in the window frame continuously.
Ye Geng reached out and opened it, and sure enough, what he could see happened to be the flowerbed in the backyard of the villa.
"Hmm... It seems that not only the murder scene, but also the bird's nest box can be seen from this angle..."
His expression was slightly strange. He looked at the green leaves and thought of another possibility in his mind.
If the secret code was left by someone else to the rich man's wife, then the previous story about the devil would make sense.
But I still don’t understand their thoughts…
Ye Geng was not interested in the private lives of the wealthy brothers. He just simply felt that since he was living in a villa and had countless opportunities to convey information, why did he have to spend so much effort on the other side? Make a bird's nest in the tree.
Too lazy to think about this issue, Ye Geng turned around and walked to the other side, the stairs leading to the top, and stepped up.
The road is quite straight and the height is about the same as a floor.
Although I was walking very slowly, the distance was too short.
Even with his eyes closed, Ye Gengyi could figure out that the end of the passage was definitely the room directly above the murder scene on the third floor of the villa.
"There's really nothing new..."
Looking at the secret door of the same style on the opposite wall, a certain professor surnamed Ye opened it with a little disappointment.
The method of committing the crime was too crude, and I don’t know what he was thinking. He imitated the devil and committed the crime. It seemed that it was probably not a premeditated murder.
Even if the murderer really had this idea, there was no need to do it when there were guests at the door.
After all, the best outcome for the murderer in this case is that the deceased was deemed a suicide. As for calling the police and investigating afterwards, he had no way of foreseeing how much the criminal police who came here believed in the theory of ghosts and gods, so the secret The window that Dao He can open, the method of committing a crime that can be figured out after careful consideration, it is safer to conceal it as much as possible.
As Ye Geng thought, the nanorobots covering his face also released their mimicry. After a while of squirming, they slowly penetrated into the skin.
He just leaned out half of his body and walked out of the secret door that was obviously installed on the inside of the closet.
Facing me, a bright knife stabbed me...
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