"Why do these people's names seem so weird..." Mouri Kogoro muttered.
What's really strange is that the rich man just had a bad taste and chose the guests according to similar standards, right?
Ye Gengyi dispersed his thoughts for a while. After writing down the faces of several people, he handed the photos over to the tool man for careful inspection. He then scanned the rooms on the first floor and muttered silently to himself.
...No wonder there are still some papers of the corresponding color on the door panel that have not been torn off.
"Brother Gengyi, are you looking at these strange papers too?" Mao Lilan asked.
"These should be the name tags of their respective rooms. I just don't know if their names were on it before it was torn off." Ye Gengyi said.
"Eh?" Mao Lilan was startled.
On the side, Conan smiled and explained: "Because the names of the six of them all have colors."
"What on earth are you talking about?" Mouri Kogoro retorted: "Their names are on the photo, but there is no color at all."
Conan's half-moon eye: "It's not the word, it's the pronunciation!"
He was reminded like this.
Mao Lilan also reacted:
"Ah! I understand. Mr. Akashi Shusaku's azure is red (AKA), Mr. Naoki Suikawa's emerald is green (MIDORI), Ms. Kobashi Aoi's aoi is blue (AO), and Yamabuki Shoji's Yamabuki is gold. Yellow (YAMAHUBUKI), Mr. Momose Takuto’s Momo, Mr. Naoki Shiro’s SIROU and white (SIRO) have the same pronunciation, so it is white.”
"Yes, that's it." Yui Uehara nodded to indicate that the answer was correct.
Yamato Gansuke was silent for a while.
His eyes swept over Ye Gengyi, Conan and Mao Lilan, and finally looked at Maori Kogoro, who had a stunned expression. He sighed quietly, came to the stairs leading to the second floor and said:
"Not just the room, we found a shift list of their cooking from the warehouse. Everyone on it uses color to distinguish each other. I will show it to you later. Anyway, let's go to the second floor first and take a look. The bloody red cliff..."
…
The corner of the corridor on the second floor.
A trolley loaded with six boxes of books happened to be parked here.
Yamato Gansuke said:
"As you can see, after turning around, this corridor becomes a little narrow, and the width is just enough for the outward-opening door to be completely opened. However, before we came here, the door was blocked by this trolley. It also makes it impossible for the people in the room to come out until they die..."
Until death?
Sure enough, it was a murder case, but the people inside couldn't get out, which doesn't mean the people outside can't get in...
Ye Geng thought for a moment and asked, "What was the cause of death?"
The answer given by Yamato Kansuke is nothing new:
"He was starved to death. When we arrived, the man inside was already emaciated and had no signs of life at all..."
He took out his handkerchief, wrapped it around the doorknob, turned it gently and opened the door:
"In this room dyed red."
The so-called 'red' room is not a metaphor.
Gaze.
The surface of a wall without any decorations was painted with an unattractive red color.
There was no ventilation in the room except a broken window.
After Ye Gengyi finished observing these, his eyes fell on the two seats, one black and one white, placed back to back in the center of the room.
The chair's legs were still nailed to the floor.
strangeness.
You can’t leave your room without these things? Are the people imprisoned inside subject to other restrictions?
Well...it doesn't rule out that the other party doesn't have the skills in this area.
"Wall...is there blood on the wall?"
Here, Mao Lilan, who was still stunned, asked a completely unreasonable question.
"..."
Ye Gengyi was interrupted by his train of thought, but he was too lazy to educate himself. After blood is exposed to the air, an average of about 0.1 ml of blood per minute will gradually turn dark red and begin to coagulate. The volatile components of blood in the air include water, fat, Proteins and other substances that oxidize and break down to produce a faint rusty smell...such basic knowledge.
"It's spray paint."
Conan came to a physical evidence sign on the wall.
The spray paint cans placed here have not been taken away by the police. It was obviously requested by Yamato Gansuke in order to maintain the original condition of the scene.
"Don't make a fuss..."
Mouri Kogoro concealed the fact that he was also frightened by the 'Chibi'. He came to the two chairs, one black and one white, and changed the subject: "The colors on them seem to have been painted deliberately."
If you look closely, you can see that the original dark gray color of the chair is exposed under the paint that has been broken by nails.
Yui Uehara said: "The deceased was sitting on the white chair when he was found."
"Could it be that the murderer is conveying a message to someone?" Mao Lilan subconsciously thought of the serial murder case.
"Not very likely."
Yamato Gansuke explained: "Because we found a bug in this room, we guess it was installed here by the murderer."
"So that's it..." Maori Kogoro analyzed: "Use a bug to monitor the movement in the room. If the murderer cannot hear the sound, he will definitely come back to confirm whether the victim is dead or escaped. No matter what, he will take the opportunity to use the bug Just tear it down.”
"Well, we think so too. After the murderer locked the victim here, he never came back, so this red wall and these two chairs, black and white, are the message left by the victim before his death. .”
Yamato Gansuke said in a deep voice: "How is it? Expert Ye, Detective Maori, did you see anything?"
"What's there to reason about? It's just red," Mouri Kogoro took out a photo of Akashi Shusaku: "He must be the murderer!"
Gross profit exclusion?
Well... ignore the existence of this tool man for now...
Judging from the available information, there is only one female, Aoi Kohashi, among the six residents. Yui Uehara also said before that two residents got married here. However, Aoi Kohashi's surname in the photo has not changed. So the focus now should be to find out whether there is any connection between the two murder cases...
Ye Geng cleared his thoughts and said calmly:
"Okay, Officer Yamato, tell me if you have any clues. We are not here to show you off. If you don't know where to start, let me ask you some questions first... Who was the person who died in this villa three years ago? Aoi Kobashi? Are he and Shusaku Akashi who died in this room married?"
"Ah? One more thing, I mean that Akashi Shusaku is the murderer..."
Mouri Kogoro was startled and was about to continue explaining his reasoning.
Just listen to Yamato Gansuke say:
"Uh... yes, they are a couple. Because when we collected the photos, our police officers went to Aoi Kobashi's hometown to ask for them, so the last name on them was not changed to Akashi."
"What?!"
Mouri Kogoro showed an expression that said, "My reasoning was wrong."
Conan also widened his eyes.
It took a few seconds to understand the content of the conversation between the two... Both husband and wife died in this villa.
Now it is no longer the time to think about whether there is a problem with this matter, but the problem is already huge.
Conan subconsciously wanted to speak.
Here, Ye Gengyi continued: "Were they all killed?"
That's right, that's what I'm asking... Conan quickly held his breath and concentrated.
"No, Miss Xiaoqiao's heart was not very good to begin with. She suddenly fell ill three years ago when she was looking for something in the warehouse of the villa, and she died like this..."
Uehara Yui said: "At that time, her husband Mr. Shusaku was painting in this room. It is said that half a day had passed by the time he found his wife lying in the warehouse."
"Why is this..." Mao Lilan covered her mouth in disbelief.
The time of a heart attack is extremely unstable. In addition to the necessary quick-acting Jiuxin Pills, it is best to have one person accompanying you in daily life to prevent tragedies caused by sudden accidents.
The golden rescue time for heart disease is 4 minutes, but half a day had passed when Akashi Shusaku found his wife...
As his thoughts flashed, Ye Gengyi had already made a basic judgment on the nature of the case and the direction of the investigation. However, he did not explain immediately. Instead, he took out a handkerchief from his pocket and prepared to inspect the items in the room.
At this time, Mouri Kogoro held his chin with one hand and thought for a while, then suddenly said:
"Then, the color red doesn't refer to the name...well, red...the red person...eh! That's right! It's the red person!"
As in Japanese unrelated strangers are also called red people.
Mouri Kogoro thought of his previous pronunciation reasoning about names and colors and said:
"The murderer must be someone who doesn't even know the deceased!"
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