"Watch it carefully!"
Here, Mouri Kogoro, who had walked seven or eight steps on the snow, waved his hand to let everyone appreciate his famous reasoning.
However, if you perform a difficult task without calculation, the final result can be imagined.
In order to keep the footprints of the second step exactly the same as the previous one.
Mouri Kogoro, who was taking long steps, had to turn his head sideways to confirm the landing point of his next kick every time he took a step back.
This was repeated two or three times. Finally, after one step failed to land firmly, he suddenly lost his balance and fell to the snow.
Conan: "..."
The "entertainment program" is over, now it's time to get serious about reasoning...
He squatted next to the corpse and looked carefully, and realized that after he discovered that there was a lot of snow accumulated in Hikawa Shogo's hat.
That's right!
The murderer did indeed leave the scene of the murder backwards, but he did not follow the old footprints. Instead, he took advantage of the previous snowfall to cover up the original footprints, put on the same shoes as Hikawa Shogo, and pretended that the deceased ran alone. Come here and have a fake heart attack.
After figuring out the key, the corners of Conan's mouth curled up slightly unconsciously.
Although based on this reasoning, he is still not 100% sure that Hikawa Shogo's death was homicide, but as long as this possibility exists, he can follow the clues to find more clues!
Next, all we need to do is remind Uncle and Brother Geng.
"that……"
"Mr. Mori, if this is homicide, there is an easier way, and that is to use the previous snowfall to cover up the traces."
Ye Gengyi did not give Conan a chance to start his reasoning. He told the murderer's method of committing the crime in more detail. When everyone looked like "that's what happened", he continued calmly, "In terms of the scope of the suspects, We can assume that the perpetrator was someone who knew that Hikawa Hikawa had a heart condition, as well as the weather conditions and that we would be participating in a snowshoeing session in the afternoon."
"Snow walking?" Mouri Kogoro wondered.
"Oh, that's because..." Conan was about to explain.
"Ah! I understand," Mao Lilan said suddenly: "If we don't find the body immediately and the sky snows again, then the footprints intentionally left by the murderer will disappear."
"I see," Mouri Kogoro nodded, "But who could it be? I knew we were going to pass here in advance..."
Conan: "..."
When did you two become such a tacit understanding? Why don't you always tell the truth before I open my mouth?
Tono Mizuki pondered for a moment and said: "Our route and the approximate time of the place we passed through can be calculated by just reading the activity brochure of snow walking."
"I see," Mouri Kogoro murmured, holding his chin with one hand, "So we should first find out why Mr. Hikawa came here?"
"By the way, Ms. Tono," Conan finally found the opportunity to answer the call. He quickly pointed to the direction of Hikawa Shogo's face and asked, "Continue walking in this direction. Where is it?"
"Um……"
Tono Mizuki hesitated for a moment, "It seems...Muto's cabin built in the back mountain."
"Mr. Muto..."
Conan thought of the rest area of the hotel last night.
The deceased and the other party seemed to have had a very unpleasant quarrel over the issue of relocation of the old village... Based on the relationship between the two, it is impossible to imagine what Hikawa Shogo wanted to do in private with Muto Takehiko.
Could it be that the two of them had another quarrel and Mr. Muto accidentally killed the person?
No...no, it's too much of a coincidence to assume this.
"A person with a weak heart has no reason to hike and add unnecessary stress to the body. If he is looking for someone, he can drive there." Ye Gengyi said.
"correct!"
Tono Mizuki quickly added, "There is a village road where you can drive directly to Muto's cabin... indeed
It's strange, why doesn't the glacier go that way? "
After saying this, she looked at Ye Gengyi and then at Mouri Kogoro.
It seemed that he wanted to hear the two people's inferences about Hikawa Shogo's death from other angles.
However, she regretted it.
Through the details, it was observed that there seemed to be no unusual relationship between Tono Mizuki and Muto Takehiko. Ye Gengyi, and Mouri Kogoro who stood aside and had no idea what he was thinking, had no intention of continuing this topic. .
…
Met fate.
Naturally, snow walking activities cannot be continued.
In order to avoid the scene being damaged by others.
Everyone found a place to rest out of the wind and waited for the police to arrive. After recounting the situation, they returned to the village on foot.
Because there was a possibility of homicide in the case, after some visits and investigations, the police quickly locked the suspects on Yamao Keisuke, Tachihara Fuyumi and Muto, leaving aside those elderly people and children of 14 or 15 years old. Yue Yan's body.
Call a few people to gather at the hotel restaurant.
I learned of the death of Hikawa Shogo.
Several people were also quite surprised.
Subsequently, the Niigata Prefecture criminal police asked the three people for their alibi after 2 p.m.
The first person asked was Yamao Keisuke, who shared a room with Hikawa Shogo.
He immediately said that he did not know why Hikawa Shogo appeared in the snowfield in front of the back mountain, and that he had not returned to the village for a long time, so he went for a walk in the forest to the east.
A man went into the forest. There were no witnesses and it was impossible to tell whether he was lying.
After the Niigata Prefecture detective recorded the confession in his notebook, he asked Tachihara Fuyumi the same question.
"I'm taking care of the kids at home..."
Tachihara Fuyumi explained: "Because there were many people visiting Touma at home in the morning, he fell asleep because he was too tired, so I stayed at home until I just received the call from the police."
"So can anyone prove this?" asked the Niigata Prefectural detective.
"No..." Tachihara Fuyumi shook her head, "In the afternoon, Touma and I are the only two people at home."
"Is that so?" The Niigata Prefecture detective put another question mark on Tachihara Fuyumi's location on his notebook. He looked at Takehiko Muto and continued to ask, "Where are you, Mr. Muto? Where were you in the afternoon? What did you do?"
"I work in a studio next to the reservoir." Takehiko Muto said.
"studio?"
The detective from Niigata Prefecture was confused, "I remember that the location where Mr. Hikawa's body was found was just not far from the hut you built in the back mountain. Didn't you go back there today?"
"yes."
Takehiko Muto looked at Ye Gengyi and explained: "Because I wanted to hone my carving skills, so I went to the studio."
