"What!? Someone died again!?"
The roar of Mouri Kogoro came from the receiver of the phone: "Where is my daughter! How is my daughter?!"
"...She is fine, don't worry."
Hattori Heiji's half-moon eyes had no choice but to give up the idea of sharing clues and calmed down the tool man first.
"..."
Before I knew it, it was already late at night.
The rain was still falling outside the window, but the interior of the villa became extremely quiet because most people had fallen asleep.
Where is Tokura Sakuya hiding?
The most suspicious place is undoubtedly the equipment room.
After Hattori Heiji made the call, he ran there with Conan to collect clues.
Ye Gengyi did not follow him because he knew that the body was not there.
Go through the corridor and come to the opposite side of Tokura Sakuya's bedroom.
Ye Geng turned the handle, pushed the door open and walked in.
This is a study room that is only half the size of a bedroom.
There was no carpet on the floor. Apart from a few rows of bookshelves, a table, and a sofa chair, the only decorations in the room could be called a few landscape paintings hanging on the walls.
After the head is chopped off, important blood vessels and tissues will be broken and destroyed, and the blood flow will be very large for a short time. However, once the heart stops beating, the blood flow will be significantly reduced and gradually stop within a minute at most.
But even so, it would be unwise to take such a headless corpse away from the villa.
So... the hiding place should be the equipment room, Torakura Sakuya's bedroom, and nearby rooms...
However, judging from the layout, there is no secret room here...how could it not be?
While thinking, Ye Gengyi quickly checked several rooms, but still found nothing.
Have you overlooked something...
For example, Hanekawa Johei also has a storage space that can accommodate objects?
Hmm...then there is no solution.
Think about it again.
What would you do if you had to store the body and head of the deceased separately?
The head is still needed, so it can be placed in a secret passage or coffin first.
The body is too obvious, so it should be placed in a place where it is not easily noticed, and then...
Yes, it's a chair.
Ye Geng thought of the delivery truck, and also thought of Tokura Sakuya's condition and occupation.
It turned out that this was the idea...
The body water content of an average adult accounts for about 60% to 65% of body weight. However, an elderly person, especially an elderly person with a serious illness, will have a relatively high body water content due to low body fat.
In addition, because his head was chopped off, you only need to apply chemicals such as potassium nitrate on the body to complete dehydration in a short time, reduce unnecessary weight, and then seal the body into the sofa and pull it away for destruction. .
Even if someone resells these pieces of furniture and the 'sufferer' buys them home, it will probably be N years before he finds out there is a skeleton inside.
They should have moved outside...
Ye Gengyi took his umbrella, walked out of the villa, and went to the security guard's duty room to confirm his suspicion.
The door to the villa was closed and seemed to have been locked.
Bright lights shine from the windows of the duty room.
A security guard yawned and looked in the direction of Tokura Mamoru and the body in the rain. He sometimes became distracted and sometimes swayed a few times.
Suddenly, from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a figure holding a black umbrella and wearing black clothes in front of the window, looking at him, and he was suddenly startled.
"who?!"
I would have died a hundred times if I wanted to kill you... Ye Geng pointed at the conspicuous alarm on the door.
This is an electronic anti-theft device. The other end is connected to the gate of the villa courtyard. If someone opens either side without unlocking it, the alarm bell in the duty room will be triggered.
The security guard cheered up and unlocked the door.
Immediately, Ye Gengyi walked in, looked around the room, and asked, "Why are there only two people?"
At this time, the security guard who was taking a nap on the bed also sat up from the bed after seeing someone coming in.
One of them said: "Oh, the captain took the driver of the truck to rest in the back. We were arranged to stay here in shifts and stare at the corpses over there... Huh?"
He said softly, remembering that Ye Gengyi was one of the 'criminals' who went to check the body in front of the villa before, and asked:
"Is there any progress?"
...After all, staring at a corpse all night is quite scary.
"It is still under investigation and needs to be kept confidential."
After Ye Gengyi gave a simple answer, he said, "Where are the old furniture replaced by Mr. Tokura?"
The security guard pointed to the side of the villa through the glass, "It should be the warehouse in the backyard."
"Do you know when it was moved there?" Ye Gengyi asked.
"This...should be after noon, right?"
The security guard was not sure. He hesitated for a moment and then added: "The captain must know."
"Yes." Ye Gengyi nodded slightly, "Which one of you will take me there?"
He didn't like repeating the same question several times, and he had previously observed the security guard's surprised reaction when he saw him. In order to avoid trouble, he simply let someone act as his mouthpiece.
"I!"
"I go!"
Two security guards scrambled to raise their hands.
It would be great to go to the backyard. It happened to be raining outside. If the detective had anything else he needed to know, he might be able to go into the villa and have a sip of hot tea. No matter how he thought about it, it would be much better than staying here and continuing to stare at the corpse.
"Come on one."
Ye Geng walked out of the duty room directly without making a choice for the two of them.
The two men in the room argued for a short while.
Soon, the security guard who opened the door for Ye Gengyi put on his raincoat and walked out.
…
Everyone will be in a mood when disturbed late at night. At this time, you should not be too businesslike. You can give priority to asking the other party's name to establish a social connection and facilitate the completion of what you want to do...
Ye Geng thought for a while and said, "What do you call it?"
"Oh, my name is Yamazaki Masao." The security guard said.
"Well, Mr. Yamazaki," Ye Geng nodded and asked, "What is your captain's name?"
"Ichiro Muraoka." Masao Yamazaki said.
"leaf……"
Um?
Ye Gengyi was about to say his name when he suddenly frowned and looked towards a shadow in front of him.
An indescribable rotten smell mixed with the smell of wet earth came to my face.
The nanorobot's stream of light flashed in his pupils.
In Ye Gengyi's sight, the black curtain with the night as the background gradually faded, and the color changed from dark gray to light red.
I saw that under a big tree at the corner of the wall and the road, the raindrops that kept falling formed a small pool on the ground.
And deeper inside, where even Ye Gengyi couldn't see clearly due to the limited viewing angle, there was an unknown object that was constantly squirming, appearing and disappearing in the rain.
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