"But that sticker of karma..." Mao Lilan still couldn't hide the look of worry on her brows.
"What karma?"
On the other side of the phone, Chi Feichi heard something.
"Ah, it's nothing," Mao Lilan came back to her senses. She heard faint laughter on the other side of the phone and asked directly, "Brother Fei Chi, where are you now? Are you still at the station?"
"I was just about to get on the train, what can I do?"
"It's okay, then you can go back first and contact us after we get back..."
Mao Lilan hung up the phone and looked relieved.
"Is Brother Chi already planning to take the train back?" Conan asked.
Mao Lilan smiled and nodded, "Well, it seems I've thought too much..."
Conan felt relieved and his eyes became serious. He had to solve this case, otherwise Xiaolan would definitely be left with a knot in her heart.
…
On the top of the mountain not far away, a figure was sitting on the branches of a majestic tree, hidden among the leaves, reaching out and pressing the switch of the recording pen.
The crowd's laughter suddenly stopped.
"recording?"
Koizumi Hongzi walked under the tree, looked up at the branches more than two meters above the ground, decisively chose to ride up on a broom, and stood next to Chi Feichi, "You are really well prepared."
"A must to tell lies." Chi Feichi cleared the recording and put the recorder in his pocket.
It's impossible for him to really go back, at least until Mouri Kogoro and the others leave and 'arrange' Tetsuya Aoyagi.
Since you are lying, you must prepare recordings at the station and on the train to cover up the lie. Regardless of whether you can use it or not, it is always good to be prepared.
Isn’t this useful?
Koizumi Anko sat aside, looking at the mountains in the distance, and said thoughtfully, "Do you think the energy of my ancestors still remains in this place?"
Chi Feichi Youran leaned against the tree trunk, "No."
"Why are you sure?" Koizumi Hongzi asked.
"This is what happened to the Demon of Light, and it needs to be explained using science." Chi Feichi said.
"Then why was Domoto Eizo able to disappear in the closed cable car and reach the goddess statue above within 30 seconds?" Koizumi Anko pondered, "I can probably do it by flying up on a broom, or prepare it in advance. Magic circle.”
"Ropes, piano wires, dummies, mirrors, projections... there are many tricks in magic. I'm not there, so I can't judge." Chi Feichi closed his eyes and rested, "The Demon of Light will solve it."
"Really?" Koizumi Hongzi took out a crystal ball from nowhere, held it and sat aside, remotely monitoring the movements of Conan and others. After watching it for a while, she said, "They are going down the mountain."
no respond.
Koizumi Hongzi turned around and discovered that Chi Feichi was leaning against the tree trunk with his eyes closed, wondering if he was asleep.
Fei Chi stood motionless on the side.
Feimo also squatted on a branch nearby, dozing off with his eyes closed.
The breeze blows slowly, the air is fresh, the leaves block the sun, there is no hustle and bustle of the city, only the sound of birdsong can be heard from time to time in the distance.
Koizumi Anko was silent for a while, holding the crystal ball, found a comfortable place to lean on, and planned to squint for a while.
This is indeed a good place for a nap...
…
An hour later, at Conan's suggestion, the group got on the cable car again.
Conan boarded the cable car with firm eyes.
He has solved this mysterious mystery!
The cable car set off, and Mouri Kogoro was brought down by an anesthesia needle.
On the mountain, Henggou Kango's exclamation came from the crystal ball, "Mr. Mori, could it be said... is that going to start again?"
Chi Fei didn't open his eyes for a long time, but just reminded him loudly, "Hongzi, the reasoning has begun."
"Huh?" Koizumi Hongzi opened her eyes drowsily, hugged the crystal ball, yawned, and continued to lean on the tree trunk to watch the show.
On the mountain, the two people watching the theater were as lazy as salted fish.
In the cable car, Conan was reasoning enthusiastically.
Of course it's not a curse.
These were originally the plans of President Eizo Domoto——
When the cable car passed through the tunnel, he turned off the lights and pretended to be attacked, but actually hid in the empty space under the seat.
After the cable car passed through the tunnel, he saw the 'him' in the hand of the goddess statue. It was the dummy he asked someone to make.
When others were so frightened that they got off the cable car and ran over, Domoto Eizou would take the empty cable car on the return trip, go from the tunnel to the goddess statue in advance, throw the dummy on the goddess statue off the cliff, and stand on it. There he greeted everyone and said words such as there was no curse at all.
The person who helped place the dummy was Vice President Domoto Yasunori.
"I think the time for you to place the dummy should be this morning," Conan said in the voice of Kogoro Mori. "Originally, you left early yesterday afternoon just to place the dummy, right? Why did you change your mind? "
If Domoto Yasunori had placed the dummy in the hands of the goddess statue last night, Chi Feichi would have discovered it long ago. It was really...
I don't know whether Chi Feichi was lucky or unlucky. He almost got another important clue to the case.
"Actually, I should have put the dummy up yesterday," Domoto Yasunori smiled uncomfortably, "But it's funny, yesterday I always felt that something was staring at me on the goddess statue, but I couldn't see it. The closer I got, the more it became like this, so I hurried back and put the dummy up today.”
Koizumi Anko, who was holding a crystal ball and eating melon: "..."
Why are you still involved with her?
Yesterday she was a little unhappy. It would be fine to build an observation tower and develop it into a scenic spot, but it would be too much to drill a hole in the stone statue of her ancestor and let the cable car carry people through it, and then put the statue of the Five Hundred Arhats in it.
Listening to Domoto Yasunori's explanation, Conan suddenly remembered that Chi Feichi had been staring at the statue of the goddess yesterday.
Chi Feichi has always been keen, could he have sensed something? Is there a camera placed by someone on the statue of the goddess?
"I think you have a guilty conscience." Tetsuya Aoyagi couldn't help but sneered.
On the mountain, Chi Feichi opened his eyes and turned to look at Tetsuya Aoyagi reflected in the crystal ball.
Yellow hair that sticks up, two rows of earrings, sunglasses...this guy's exaggerated outfit rivals Odagiri Toshiya's before.
In the cable car, Tetsuya Aoyagi felt as if he was enveloped in a cold atmosphere, but then he didn't take it to heart.
It's an illusion...
"Don't let out murderous intent," Koizumi Hongzi reminded Chi Feichi, "or remind me first and I will block it, otherwise you will be discovered."
"I have no murderous intent." Chi Feichi calmly declared.
Koizumi Hongzi glanced at Chi Feichi and continued to look at the crystal ball, "The same goes for cold air."
Chi Feichi: "..."
Conan's reasoning continues.
The murderer knew Domoto Eizo's plan. Before others arrived, he took the cable car and killed Domoto Eizo who was waiting there. He then ran down, and then came back to join everyone.
The only person who did not follow the main force and might know Domoto Eizo's plan was secretary Yoshino Ayaka.
As for the evidence, it is Yoshino Ayaka’s brooch.
Yoshino Ayaka disposed of the dummy by throwing it into the incinerator under the observation tower. While handling it, a pearl from the brooch fell onto the dummy's hand.
As a result, the dummy was not completely burned, and the pearl remained on the unburned prosthetic hand, which was found by Conan.
Seeing that there was evidence, Yoshino Ayaka did not refute anymore and told the reason for her murder.
Her parents divorced early, and she followed her father to Tokyo, while her mother took her brother to Mount Tianbe.
When the tunnel was being built, there was a collapse accident, and the man who died was her brother. Later, Eizou Domoto was worried about having a bad impact on the scenic spot, so he used money to prevent her mother and related people from telling the story.
It wasn't until last year when her mother was seriously ill that she told her about the incident in tears when she went to the hospital to visit her. She also kept telling her that she would never forgive the Domoto family.
"That's why I abandoned the past and went to work for Domoto Tourism Company, in order to take revenge on Eizo Domoto who killed my brother and even made my mother miserable..."
In the crystal ball, Yoshino Ayaka's sad and tenacious voice came.
The people around him were silent during the projection, with expressions of emotion on their faces.
"This family is sick." Chi Feichi couldn't help but say.
"Huh? The Domoto family?" Koizumi Anko was confused.
"Yoshino Ayaka's house," Chi Feichi explained, "To put it simply, after a construction site accident, the boss said to the family of the deceased, we are private and give you money, but don't tell anyone, and then , the family agreed, took the money, and kept it a secret for several years. Before her death, the mother said that I hated her so much and could not forgive her family, so my daughter ran to kill the boss. Don’t you think something is wrong after I said this? "
Koizumi Hongzi: "Well..."
When I think about it, it’s really...
"Since Yoshino Ayaka's mother was unwilling to forgive, why did she accept the money from the Domoto family? After accepting the money from the Domoto family and not saying anything, why did she instigate her daughter to take revenge before she died?" Chi Feichi said without mercy. , "Yoshino Ayaka is also sick. She is such an old person, and she still doesn't have any judgment? I wonder what her mother's behavior is? Even if she takes the money and regrets it, and comes back to take revenge on others, this is her choice, and others can't control it, then Just don’t talk about your dead brother.”
Wouldn't it make people feel more comfortable to directly admit that 'I am a bad person'?
Also, what are the expressions of Conan and the others?
If Yoshino Ayaka's family didn't take any money from others and were so oppressed by the powerful that they didn't dare to speak out, then this revenge could still be sympathized with, but what's going on now, still sympathized with?
His three views are about to collapse...
Koizumi Anko was silent for a moment again, red light and blue arcs of electricity appeared around her, and she said with a gloomy face, "That girl also said that Yoshino Ayaka is very similar to the goddess statue, right?"
As soon as Chi Feichi raised his eyes to look at Koizumi Hongzi, he saw a barrel-thick arc of electricity rising from Koizumi Hongzi to the sky and then falling on the goddess statue in the mountains in the distance.
"boom--!"
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck the statue of the Goddess. The large stone statue of the Goddess began to shatter, and countless rubbles flew in all directions.
"What does it look like? It doesn't look like it at all! I, the red magic lineage, will not break the contract if I promise, and I will admit it if I do it, and I will never use others as a shield!" Koizumi Anko was shrouded in red light, her face was ugly, After being silent for a while, he turned to look at Chi Feichi with a puzzled look on his face, "How should I put this? Seeking advantage and forgetting one's righteousness? No, breaking one's word... It doesn't seem serious enough..."
Chi Feichi silently warned, "Go back on your word, double-dealing."
"Yes!" Koizumi Hongzi's face returned to the expression of "I'm so angry." She turned to look at the stone statue, drew a few words in the air, and stretched out her palm to slap it.
"Are you sure you want to play this in front of the Demon of Light?" Chi Feichi asked calmly.
Koizumi Hongzi calmed down a little. If she and Chi Feichi belong to different systems, but there is not too much conflict, then the conflict between magic and the 'scientific' concept advocated by the Demon of Light is greater.
It's not that I can't afford to fight that brat, it's much easier than fighting Chi Feichi, but it's just not worth losing both sides...
