"B-but," Yuantai's face turned pale, "Deep in the mountains and with sharp blades?"
"Could it be Granny Shan, the mountain demon?" Bumi's voice trembled.
In the corridor, the old woman called back, "Because it's raining, it will take about an hour for the police and ambulance to arrive."
"Ah!" Mitsuhiko, who was thinking about the 'mountain demon mother-in-law', was startled, turned around and looked at the old woman, and took a step back with a look of horror on his face.
"What's wrong, Yuangu?" Hui Yuan Ai stepped forward in confusion.
Guangyan quickly stopped Hui Yuan Ai and pushed him towards Chi Feichi, "No, it's nothing."
"You won't think of me as a mountain witch again, will you?" The old woman stared at Guangyan.
Chi Feichi pulled Guangyan back, who was on guard, and said in a calm tone, "It was you who sharpened the kitchen knife so late at night that scared him."
Um?
Others looked at the old woman in surprise.
Even Conan became vigilant. So, Chi Feichi and Guangyan went out before and saw an old man sharpening a kitchen knife. Why did he go to sharpen a kitchen knife in the middle of the night without sleeping?
The old woman was silent for a moment before speaking out, "What about sharpening a kitchen knife? He must have seen it wrong."
"Then where was my mother-in-law before I heard Miss Oba Akane's cry?" Conan asked.
"I was in the house all the time," the old woman said without changing her expression. "It was raining outside. If I had gone out to kill people, my clothes would have been soaked long ago."
"Let's not talk about that..." The Andalai man standing in front of the fish tank turned around, stretched out his hand to look at the blood on his arms and sleeves, and said helplessly, "Can you lend me the bathroom? There is blood on my hands. I feel very uncomfortable..."
The old woman didn't pay attention at all and walked into the house with a dark face.
Andalai people: "..."
"As for the bathroom, go out from behind the screen next to the fish tank, and turn left to the end of the corridor," Kahara Fuga said to save her, "It's right next to the kitchen."
kitchen……
As soon as Guangyan heard about the kitchen, he felt bad and looked at Chi Feichi for help.
Run or not? How about running away?
"It's okay, there are many of us." Chi Feichi reassured and saw the Andalai people leaving and walked to the fish tank.
Conan immediately followed and asked in a low voice, "How's it going? You said that my question has been answered, which means it has not been said. Do you have any clues here?"
Chi Feichi looked at Conan. A certain famous detective was very narrow-minded, but he couldn't help but said, "If this is a concern, then don't blame him for flipping the table."
Guangyan decisively pushed Dr. A Li and others closer to Chi Feichi.
Everyone will feel more at ease if they stay with someone in charge of violence!
Chi Feichi knelt down in front of Conan and looked at Conan calmly, "I have a clue. The murderer is Mr. Andalai..."
Conan was confused for a moment.
Wait, wait, this is the rhythm of "The murderer is xx", right? What if we agreed to exchange clues in a friendly manner first?
"When you went out, you either wore slippers casually or with the heels on," Chi Feichi continued in a low voice, "But not only were his sneakers well worn, but the laces were also tied up, which shows that he didn't even wear slippers. He didn’t rush out after hearing the scream, but he had already put on his shoes and went outside.”
"Ah?" Mitsuhiko, who was listening closely, forgot his fear for the time being and turned his head to look in the direction of the bathroom. "Then let him clean it. Won't he get rid of the blood on his body?"
"What if he destroys the evidence?" Ayumi asked worriedly.
"Even if the blood stains are washed away, the luminol reaction can make the blood stains nowhere to be seen, whether it is on his body or the murder weapon, and even if he wants to secretly hide the murder weapon somewhere, or throw it out of the window, and wait for the police to arrive After that, a search will be carried out, and sooner or later we will find him." Conan felt that Chi Feichi's judgment was a bit unreasonable, and stared at Chi Feichi in confusion, "And based on this alone, it cannot be confirmed that Mr. Lai Ren is the murderer, right? He wore the clothes in advance Now that the shoes are gone, it is possible that the real murderer used some method, such as passing a note or making an agreement in advance to let him go to the yard at a certain time, just to make him the most suspicious."
"The murder weapon is," Chi Feichi did not answer Conan's question directly, turning to look at the fish tank next to them, "obsidian was used as a weapon in the Jomon era."
Conan was speechless and turned to look at the fish tank, and then he was stunned for a moment, and everything became clear.
"Obsidian?" Yuantai wondered, "Can this kind of black stone also cut people?"
Hui Yuan Ai looked at the fish tank and whispered, "If the obsidian is smashed into sharp stone fragments, it can cut people."
"And the water level seems to have dropped a bit..." Conan looked up at the water level of the fish tank.
Ayumi lay down next to the fish tank and stood on tiptoe to take a look, "Really, before we went to bed, the water level was still a little higher!"
"Brother Chi discovered Mr. Lai Ren's suspicions. When I was observing him just now, I noticed that the water level in the fish tank had dropped. I thought he might be using obsidian to kill people, right?" Conan sorted out his thoughts, "There were no obsidian smashed in the yard. There were no traces of him, and there were no footprints in the distance. In other words, he took the obsidian and went to the forest before it rained. After smashing the obsidian, he hid a sharp fragment on his body. On the eve of the incident, he tried to find a way to remove it. Miss Oba Akane called to the door to kill, and then pretended to be the first to arrive, picked up Miss Oba Akane, and covered up the blood splashed on her body due to the murder. After that, he was the only one approaching the fish tank. Maybe he took advantage of this moment to kill her. The obsidian fragments used as murder weapons were thrown into the fish tank, because in this case, the fish tank would most likely be ignored during the police investigation, and no sharp weapons that reacted to luminol would be found in the search. Even if there were, it would only be in this home. Or the blood stains left on the meat ingredients on the tableware we brought with us at camping will not lead to suspicion on him..."
After sorting it out like this, there seems to be nothing wrong with it.
The water level in the fish tank has dropped suspiciously. It is indeed possible that the murderer used stones to commit the crime, because the only stones in the fish tank that can be modified and turned into a throat-slitting weapon are hard stones with sharp fragments.
Mr. Andalai, who knew about stones, was highly suspicious. In addition, Mr. Andalai had laced up his shoes and was the first person to discover blood stains on his body. He was also the only person who pretended to have accidentally approached the fish tank.
In this case, the conclusion that the Andalai people are the murderers is not abrupt, but...
The speed of solving the case was so fast that he felt it was unreal. He always felt that the result might be reversed because he ignored a certain clue!
"And..." Chi Feichi looked at Dr. Ali who was bending over to listen, "The doctor put our camping tool bag in the corridor outside the room on the second floor. I accompanied Mitsuhiko to the toilet and came back. At that time, I noticed that compared with before we went to bed, the distance between the bag on the side of the corridor, the lower corner and the wall was about 1 centimeter further."
other people:"……"
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It's one centimeter wider than before going to bed...
Mitsuhiko: "..."
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In such a dim environment, and after seeing the old woman sharpening a kitchen knife with a gloomy look on her face, Brother Chi followed him to the room and comforted him. When passing by the place where the tool bag was placed in the corridor, he actually noticed the tool bag. Is the distance between the side and the corner of the wall 1 cm longer than before going to bed?
Is Brother Chi still a human?
Before going to bed, Dr. A Li just put the travel bag containing tools into the corner casually. They didn't pay attention to how far the lower corner of the bag was from the corner.
Seeing that the others were speechless, Chi Feichi explained, "The doctor didn't put the bag in the right position because he pushed it in with his right hand. The right side was closer to the wall than the left side. The whole bag was a bit off, so I paid more attention. "
"Hug, I'm sorry." Dr. Ali sweated.
Are you sure you don't have obsessive-compulsive disorder?
"And the shape of the bag's bulge is also a little different. When the doctor put the bag in before, the nails used to fix the tent inside probably slipped and tilted in the bag. The ends of the nails pushed the fabric of the bag toward the wall. For a bag, if the distance is due to someone accidentally kicking the bag, the position and condition of the nails inside will change. Unless you pick up the bag or open the bag, it cannot be done," Chi Feichi continued, "The most important thing is One point is that when the doctor put the travel bag, the metal zipper of the bag was vertically downward. But when I accompanied Mitsuhiko upstairs to see it later, the link ring of the metal zipper was skewed to the side of the corridor, which was far away from the locking piece. It’s also different, the doctor had zipped it all the way to the top before, but the zipper I saw afterwards was not as tight as before.”
"That means someone opened our travel bag containing tools at night." Haihara Ai said, feeling a little sympathetic to that person.
The other party should not have imagined that they have a detail maniac, a persecutory paranoid person, and maybe a little obsessive-compulsive disorder...
"We have a hammer in our tool bag. The murderer probably went through our tool bag in order to use the hammer to smash rocks." Conan rubbed his chin and thought, his expression became serious, "Then, the old woman and Mr. Fengya who know this family well It's impossible, they can use something in this house to hit rocks, and only Mr. Laito will take the risk to get our hammer."
"The old lady can still understand," Mitsuhiko paused and turned to look at Xiangyuan Fengya, who was sitting next to the body with his head bowed. "But why is it impossible for Mr. Fengya? If he says he knows this family, then..."
Chi Feichi continued to answer, "He is my mother-in-law's grandson, Xiang Tai."
Conan was about to speak: "..."
Can you leave a message for him?
"Why?!"
The three children made a sound of surprise and turned to stare at Xiang Yuanfengya.
"is that a lie!
"They don't look alike at all..."
When Conan saw Xiang Yuan Fuga looking over, he quickly grabbed the three children and said, "Shh...sh!"
"So that's it, he had plastic surgery," Hui Yuan Ai said in a low voice with a calm face. "He said he was going to be a chef, but he got plastic surgery and became a cowherd. So he kept sending money home, but never came back to see his mother-in-law. , finally created an opportunity, pretended to be a passerby and came back, and his mother-in-law recognized him immediately, so her mother-in-law had been staring at him before, and suddenly said that men should not go to the kitchen, but actually she meant that men should not go to the kitchen. You should rely on pleasing women. As for Mr. Fengya, he just said the location of the bathroom all at once, which can also prove that he is familiar with this home. Mr. Laito and we, who came together, don’t know the bathroom except the bathroom we have been to before. Where is that kind of place?”
"Also, it's also suspicious that he said there were 12 goldfish here at once." Conan looked at the fish tank. "There are so many fish swimming around in the fish tank. It's not easy to count how many there are, let alone all at once." He can give an accurate number, unless these fish were originally bought and raised by him."
