A group of six people came to the entrance of the hot spring on the lake.
Before he could enter, he was stopped by two employees wearing work clothes who were guarding the place.
One of them said:
"Sorry, guests... please wait a little longer, the hot springs are not open yet."
"As far as I know, hasn't someone already gone in?" Ye Geng asked.
"Yeah yeah!"
Yuantai shouted dissatisfiedly from the side: "That's the old grandpa, we all saw it with our own eyes!"
"Ah... you should be talking about Mr. Tieshan, right? He is our regular customer, so..."
The staff member didn't finish what he said. He obviously knew that he was not making any sense. He looked at his watch and simply backed down and said, "Uh, okay. It will be 5 o'clock in 10 minutes anyway. It doesn't matter if you go in now." .”
"Yeah! Great!"
Hearing this, Ayumi Mitsuhiko and Genta immediately cheered.
Conan and Haibara Ai, like Ye Gengyi, reacted indifferently. It was because they were too old to appreciate the fun of children.
"Sunrise, sunrise, watch the sunrise~"
I heard three children humming the lyrics and music to the same tune as the school song of Didan Elementary School.
Ye Gengyi followed them steadily, continuing to adjust the props in his hands.
Although I participated in the improvement, this is the doctor's prop after all. It is better to avoid explosions and other things...
Men's changing room.
Mitsuhiko and Genta couldn't wait to take off their yukata.
Conan felt helpless as he watched someone still adjusting a prop that he couldn't imagine what its use was.
Take it off... Brother Gengyi, you should take it off quickly... Let me take a look at your arm, just take a look.
"ah--"
At this moment, a scream suddenly pierced the quiet night sky and came from the female soup next door.
It's Ayumi...
Ye Geng withdrew his attention from the temperature measurement props and raised his gaze. Although he did not deliberately observe it, the row of empty shelves in the men's changing room quickly came into view.
...There are no Tieshan Yanji's clothes on it.
I remembered the suggestive statement the other party made to the actress during the day.
Does that old guy have any special hobbies? Ye Gengyi frowned and ran over there.
Conan hurriedly put on the half-taken off yukata and followed closely.
The two hot spring rooms are only separated by a corridor.
It only takes 7 or 8 seconds to run from here to there.
Ye Geng opened the curtain and was startled after seeing clearly what was going on in the hot spring room. He quickly threw the bathrobe and towel towards the two of them.
"What's wrong? Ayumi?!"
Conan then ran in.
Ye Gengyi did not enter the hot spring room. He glanced at the water on Tieshan Yanzhi's collarbone and the soap at his feet, and asked Haihara Ai, who had already wrapped himself in a bath towel: "Did you see anything?"
"ah?"
Haiyuan Ai felt that this question was so strange, and after reacting for a while, she realized that Brother Gengyi was asking about Tieshan Yanji, and whispered: "No, when we came in, we saw him lying on the ground. "
No? Then it will be inconvenient for me to go in...
Tieshan Yanji's head hit the rocks of the hot spring pool, and his chest no longer rose and fell.
Although there is still a case of shock and suspended animation, Ye Gengyi has no intention of further investigation.
and……
"No... the person is already dead." Conan ran in, touched Tieshan Yanji's neck, and issued an ultimatum.
At this time, the voices of Mitsuhiko and Genta asking what happened were heard again from outside.
Conan raised his brows and judged that this might not be an ordinary accident, and immediately shouted: "Don't let people come in yet! And... let people call the police quickly."
They came to soak in the hot springs and did not carry mobile phones with them, so they could only notify the hotel staff outside at this time.
"Xiao Ai, you take Bumei with you." Ye Gengyi arranged directly.
"……oh."
Haibara Ai ran to close the sliding door first, and after putting on her yukata with Ayumi in the changing room, she went outside and informed the staff about the death of Nyutan.
Soon the time came to 5 o'clock.
Tourists who came to experience the hot springs in the lake also gathered one after another.
The environment changes from quiet to noisy.
Mitsuhiko and Genta stood in front of the door to prevent everyone from going inside to explore the situation.
Ye Gengyi was behind them, waiting boredly for the police to arrive.
... He didn't expect to encounter such a thing so early in the morning.
The person who died turned out to be Yanji Tieshan, who had had a conflict with him, and he happened to be the first witness among adults after the death of the other person.
In this way, even if he has the status of an expert from the Technical Association, after confirming with Haibara Ai that he did not see any suspicious persons, he cannot openly conduct a search in the women's bath.
Otherwise, the traces left behind cannot be cleaned up, and it will be very troublesome when the time comes.
About 20 minutes passed.
Yokogawa Shigego from Kanagawa Prefecture led a team to the scene and was startled when he saw Ye Gengyi.
"Expert Ye..."
"Well, here we come."
Ye Gengyi did not say any pleasantries and went directly to work: "The deceased was hit on the head. The initial judgment is that it was a homicide. However, we did not see any suspicious people after we came over. The identification of the traces needs to be confirmed by the forensic officer first. Say it again."
"ah?"
No suspicious person was seen, but it was determined to be homicide... How did you come to this conclusion?
Yokomori Shigego looked at the soles of the deceased's feet and was a little surprised, "But... based on the analysis of the situation at the scene, shouldn't the deceased slip on the soap and accidentally hit his head and die?"
"The water on his collarbone did not accumulate during this period."
Ye Gengyi said: "According to inertia, the water should have splashed out, so it is very likely that someone was trying to wash away the unnatural traces on the body, um... it should be blood stains. Judging from the scene, the murder weapon that attacked the deceased might be It’s the stone next to the hot spring pool.”
He paused and continued: "Also... I hope you can confirm the reason why the other party came to the female bath first with the two staff members outside."
After all, if the deceased or the murderer really had pedophilia or voyeurism, he would not be operating within the scope of the rules in this case.
"Ah...that...I know"
It was difficult for Yokomori Shigego to understand this series of information and requirements. Although he felt a little awkward, he still admired Ye Gengyi, the expert from the Technical Association, compared to the detective Mouri Kogoro.
He first asked the accompanying police officers to bring the two staff members over, and then asked with some confusion: "Uh... Expert Ye, since you know this is a homicide, why don't you control this area first? I'm here." There seemed to be a lot of tourists gathered outside by that time.”
"Oh, because I don't want to become a suspect." Ye Gengyi said.
