Back mountain.
Conan and his group missed Afupo perfectly and followed the mountain road to the rock wall.
"Wow, the scenery here is so beautiful!" Ayumi looked around.
Mitsuhiko walked to the edge of the cliff and looked at the entire village and the endless woods at the end of the village. "You can see the entire village!"
Dr. A Li hurriedly said, "Pay attention to safety and don't go to the cliff!"
"But why did we come here?" Genta looked at Conan in confusion.
They came here with Conan.
"It must be another guy who came to a place like this for no reason and needs to pay attention to safety." Conan's half-moon eyes walked towards the big tree on the edge of the cliff.
Along the way, he also felt that he was childish. He knew that Chi Feichi was joking with everyone, but he still acted like a child, and other people on the road also apologized to him, so he was embarrassed to keep a straight face.
"Another guy?" Dr. Ali didn't understand.
"That's Brother Chi. There is rock ash instead of soil on the sides of his shoes, and there are no scratches on the legs of his trousers caused by shrubs and branches. It means that he did not go to the forest, but to the rock wall behind the village. Just follow the direction he went back to find Come here and observe the traces along the way. It's easy to find where he went before." Conan looked at the tree trunk and pointed to a shallow dust mark. "There are traces of climbing on the tree trunk, and the footprints should also be left by him. , he should have climbed to the tree on the edge of the cliff alone before."
Even if Chi Fei didn't say anything, he still had a way to know where that guy had been before, hum!
"What are you doing climbing a tree?" Dr. Ali looked at the big tree.
"Maybe he came to see the golden eagle. Golden eagles like to nest in the rock walls." Conan complained in his heart that Chi Fei was too ambitious. He looked up at the steep rock wall above. "Look, there are golden eagles building on it." 's nest."
"Really!" Ayumi looked up.
Mitsuhiko's eyes lit up, "What a big nest."
"There are a lot of golden eagle feathers here. Judging from the roots, they should not have fallen off for a long time. However, these feathers are too many and don't seem to have fallen off naturally. He didn't come to see the golden eagle and then fight with it. One..." Conan squatted down, maliciously guessing what Chi Feichi had done, picked up a feather on the ground, and suddenly saw a shallower footprint under the cover of the grass, "Huh?"
"What's wrong?" Dr. A Li leaned over and bent down to look at the footprints. "This footprint is not big. It doesn't look like it was left by Fei Chi. Did Fei Chi meet someone here in the village?"
"It's the prints of straw sandals," Haihara Ai also came closer, "The only people here who know how to wear straw sandals are the villagers, but under normal circumstances, the villagers don't wear straw sandals, and the people who always wear straw shoes... …”
"Only the priestess!" Conan said firmly, "And the size of the footprints is almost the same as her feet."
Mitsuhiko bent over and observed, "Could it be the footprints left by the priest's mother-in-law before?"
"No, the view here is wide, the wind is strong, and the soil is dry. If the footprints had been left before, they would have been invisible." Conan squatted in the grass, looked around, and reached out to pull away a clump of weeds. "Moreover, the feathers here have been trampled close to the ground. It seems that the footprints were left by the priest mother-in-law. Judging from the position of the toes, they should have been stepped on when leaving. In addition, the footprints of the golden eagle feathers that Brother Chi stepped on were not They were all left behind when I left..."
Yuan Tai was confused, "W-what do you mean?"
"In other words, Brother Chi came here first and climbed the tree, and then the golden eagle came here, so he didn't step on the golden eagle's feathers in his footprints," Haiyuan Ai concluded, "After that, the golden eagle came here Maybe they had a fight here, maybe they attacked him, leaving far more feathers on the ground than would fall off naturally. After that, the priest and mother-in-law came over, and they didn't know what they talked about before leaving. In this way, That priestess is the one who steps on the golden eagle feathers every time she goes back and forth."
"Brother Chi came here. Maybe he knew that the priest mother-in-law would come here to see the golden eagle, so he came here in advance to wait..." Conan stood up and walked down the mountain.
After much deliberation, he still didn't think that Chi Feichi simply came to see the golden eagle. If he wanted to see it, there was no need to come alone without telling them.
Chi Feichi ran away from them and ran here alone. He must have some purpose!
He was more inclined to think that Chi Feichi was secretly investigating. As for why he didn't take them with him...
Chi Feichi is not the kind of person who likes to show off. He doesn't like to explain or reason with others, and he has no desire to compete with others in reasoning. He usually doesn't want to reason when he has the chance, so he doesn't want to win against him. He mostly thinks that he can win. The murderer this time is more dangerous. I want to find out first and be sure before letting them get involved.
After all, we don’t know who the murderer is or where he is hiding. There are so many people in the village who may have committed the crime. We can’t keep an eye on them or prevent them. There are so many of them running around making noises. If you alert the snake, you will be targeted by the murderer. Trouble.
Well, that should be it.
Dr. Agasa and others followed Conan.
Yuantai asked, "Why does Brother Chi want to meet that fierce priestess?"
"It should be to find clues about the murderer," Conan said. "When we went to the Sacrificial Tree to investigate in the morning, I told you that Brother Chi speculated that the murderer's method of committing crimes was to use the cave air pressure. Although we were told by the priest at that time My mother-in-law stopped me, but when we returned to the villa later, Brother Chi reminded us that the tree where the gods resided was in a straight line with the tree of sacrifice. We went to verify and found the mechanism under the tree where the gods resided, which confirmed what brother Chi had speculated. The method of committing the crime is correct, and based on the method, he should be looking for someone to know who can get the switch controller of the reservoir gate, or who can install that kind of thing, and who has bought a large amount of cement into the village in the past month, saying Maybe I want to ask about the situation of the girl who was sacrificed more than 20 years ago, but the only people who know about the big and small events in the village are the priestess who presides over the village affairs and the local police officer stationed in the police station. However, the local police officer is only in his twenties. , he probably doesn’t know what happened more than 20 years ago, so he probably chose to ask the priest’s mother-in-law..."
"Ah, does Brother Chi already know who the murderer is?" Guangyan asked hurriedly.
Conan Shen suddenly laughed out loud.
"Probably not," Haiyuan Ai guessed why Conan was laughing, and glanced at Conan, "That priestess is not very easy to talk to. There were feathers that the golden eagle had unnaturally shed at the scene, not when Brother Chi went back. No. He is willing to talk to us more and point out that someone is a black sheep. It seems that he is not in a good mood and there should be no gain. Moreover, if he knows who the murderer is, he has no reason to hide it for the murderer and will tell everyone and discuss it. How to get in touch with Officer Megure and the others from the outside world? At least it is deduced that Edogawa will come."
"Hey, I'm talking about you..." Conan was speechless.
"Why do you want Conan to come?" Mitsuhiko asked.
"Because Edogawa is a reasoning tool." Haibara Ai said seriously.
Conan: "..."
I understand, Haiyuan just couldn't figure out that Chi Feichi didn't tell them anything, so he was a little unhappy, right?
But Haiyuan can just go and confront Chi Feichi, why take it out on him...
Forget it, he found it funny when he thought that Chi Feichi might have complained about him because the investigation was not going well and he was in a bad mood. That guy could still act like a child, which was quite cute.
Since he is in a good mood, just let Haiyuan go.
These two childish ghosts who usually look cold and arrogant!
"Then we are going to find the priestess?" Ayumi frowned, "What if she refuses to tell us the clues?"
"No, let's go find the local police officer. Maybe Brother Chi has passed away," Conan said firmly, "First find out who the murderer is. As for whether the murderer's motive is related to what happened more than twenty years ago. , and what exactly happened that year, let the murderer himself tell us!"
…
In the Wakura family villa.
Fei Eri, Wakura Ryoji, Tendo Haruka and others still stayed together, each holding a mockingbird cocktail.
Fei Yingli wanted to go out to investigate, but the Hecang family couldn't be left unattended, and Chi Feichi went downstairs to mix drinks and then went back to the room. As a teacher's wife, she had to help take care of Tiantang Qinghua, who was currently An old classmate who is helpless and is her husband's only apprentice.
In the room on the second floor, Chi Feichi was sitting at the table drinking. He didn't go to the local master Issei as Conan suspected, and he wasn't 'cute' at all as Conan suspected.
Koizumi Hongzi had secretly hid it from the others and went to Chi Feichi's room. She dipped her fingers in ice water and drew pictures on the table. "According to your idea, you plan to make this village disappear from the public's sight and block the mountain road." The entrance is very simple. When I came here on a broomstick, I saw the mountain road in the air. As long as I build a road at this corner, open it to the back of the bend, and then set up a magic circle at this intersection, people passing by will be led to the village. They regard this intersection as a cliff, and what they see is a cliff, so they will only pass by the newly built road."
That is to directly build a replacement road and then block the original intersection.
Chi Feichi also dipped his fingers in ice water and drew a horizontal line next to the original intersection, "Dig a deep ditch here and build a suspension bridge. We know the location of the suspension bridge and will not fall, but if someone doesn't If you know the location of the suspension bridge and rush into the intersection leading to the village, you will most likely fall into a deep ditch or a real cliff, after all, the original road is right next to the cliff."
Koizumi Anko was speechless, "Then should we destroy the original road and only connect it with a suspension bridge?"
"It's okay if you think it's convenient," Chi Feichi calmly took a sip of wine. "If there are people who want to commit suicide by jumping off the cliff, let them do it. I don't want them to accidentally break into the village before they can die." , I saw something I shouldn’t have seen, and I don’t want the police to be unable to find the body of the person who should have fallen off the cliff.”
Koizumi Anko complained in her mind, 'evil nature' It is already the limit, and I will continue to repair the magic circle and replace magic materials in the future. If the area from the intersection to the three mountains disappears from the world's sight, my magic power will not be enough to do it, and the magic materials in my hand will not be enough. It’s not enough. Even if Mr. Shinnosuke helps collect all the magic materials that still exist in the world, it may not be enough for us to shield such a large area of land, and we will have to replace some of the lost magic materials after a year."
