Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

During the party, the gloomy Sukama helped prepare the snacks, and Araki also brought red wine from the wine cellar.

Gao Cheng walked down the stairs after leaving Conan's room, just in time to see everyone gathered around the dining table: "Where's Uncle Mao Li?"

"Dad, he went back to the car to get cigarettes."

"That old smoking gun..."

"Okay," Kuroda Naoko smiled, "Everyone is ready, Kido-kun, let's find a chair and sit down first."

"The remaining two people haven't come yet..."

"They won't come," said Uncle Mao Li, who was wearing a coat, opened the entrance door and walked into the living room with a heavy face, "I went to the other side of the cliff just now, and someone burned down the suspension bridge!"

"Ah? How could this be?"

Everyone in the living room exclaimed in surprise, "That's the only way to go down the mountain!"

"There must be a limit to pranks..."

"It's not a prank," said Uncle Maori with a serious expression. "If my guess is correct, someone is probably trying to trap everyone here."

"But who would do such a thing?"

"This..."

Facing everyone's confusion, Uncle Mao Li couldn't explain why: "Didn't you do it?"

"Come on, why do we have to trap ourselves in a place like this?"

Naoko Kuroda said with a worried face: "The phone has been disconnected, so it must be that the phone line has been cut somewhere?"

Gao Cheng's face changed when he heard that the suspension bridge was burned down. If it was a coincidence that the suspension bridge was also burned down, it would be impossible to justify it. Maybe something will really happen this time...

"Where's Mr. Hamano?" Gao Cheng glanced at everyone and asked.

"He should still be thinking about sideshows in the room." Yuanzi responded.

"Still in the room?"

Gao Cheng frowned, and rushed upstairs without thinking about explaining: "Mr. Huang, which room does Mr. Hamano live in?"

"Room 302... What's wrong?"

Huang Yi and Yuan Zi and others followed Gao Cheng upstairs suspiciously.

"Mr. Hamano! Mr. Hamano?" Gao Cheng found Room 302 and knocked on the door. After no one answered, he turned the doorknob and found that the door was not locked.

Pushing open the door, there was no one inside, only a gust of cold wind blowing in from the open balcony window, and the curtains fluttered with the wind.

"Strange, isn't Mr. Hamano here?" Huang Yize and the others walked into the room, surprised to see Gao Cheng standing silently by the balcony outside.

"It's still too late..."

Gao Cheng looked closely at the center of the wide snow field in the backyard. Under the night, Hamano Toshiya was lying motionless in the snow field, with no footprints around.

"How is this possible? How did it happen..."

"Mr. Hamano!"

Uncle Maori hurried downstairs,

He rushed to Hamano Toshiya in front of everyone, and after checking Hamano's situation, his face changed, and he hurriedly shouted: "Don't come here! He's dead!"

"what?"

"how come?"

Huang Yi and others stopped in horror: "Mr. Maori, this..."

The uncle said solemnly: "From now on, everyone is not allowed to act casually, let alone destroy the scene!"

"on site?"

"Didn't you see it? The body is more than 10 meters away from the villa, but there are only footprints around me, which means this is an impossible crime!"

Uncle Mori put down Hamano's body again, stood up solemnly and looked at everyone.

"I haven't introduced yet, I'm actually a detective..."

"Ah!" Kuroda Naoko reacted, "Could it be that Mr. Mori is the famous Mori Kogoro?"

"Maori Kogoro?"

"No way?"

Huang Yi looked at Uncle Mao Li in surprise: "I thought it was just a coincidence..."

"Cough," Uncle Mori cleared his throat, "I'm indeed the famous detective Mori Kogoro, can I invite everyone to gather in the living room? The one who killed Mr. Hamano is probably someone here..."

"Eh? You mean one of us is the murderer?!"

"Uh, I didn't say that. It may be someone hiding nearby. Of course, the murderer is also very likely to be among you."

Uncle Mao Li led everyone back to the living room of the villa.

"The only thing we know now is that someone strangled Mr. Hamano's neck with something like a thin rope, killed him, and transported him to the backyard in some way. The time of the crime was after Mr. Hamano returned to the room alone. .”

Uncle Maori asked, "Can you tell me what you were doing at that time?"

"At that time, Ms. Kuroda and I were preparing tableware," Doi Tower replied first, "Right, Ms. Kuroda?"

"Yeah," Kuroda nodded, "But after I'm done, I'll go to the kitchen to help Mr. Sukama again."

"help?"

"Mr. Huang asked me to prepare appetizers." The sullen Sukama pointed to the dining table.

"Well, I happened to be going to the suspension bridge at that time," Uncle Maori rubbed his chin ponderingly, and continued to ask Doi Takeshu, "So you were alone afterward?"

Dojing Tower hurriedly explained: "Ah, I went to the room to get the biscuits for the dinner."

"Oh? Take biscuits?" The uncle stared at Doi Tower suspiciously.

"I went to see Conan in the room," Sonoko continued, "and then I stayed with Xiaolan all the time."

Xiaolan nodded vigorously: "I just happened to see Kido-senpai too."

Takahisa Tanaka explained: "As for me, I am in charge of boiling the bath water, and I have been at the woodshed."

"Where's Mr. Huang?"

"Oh, I went to the wine cellar to get some wine."

"It won't take long to get the wine, right?" Uncle Maori asked suspiciously.

"Because I forgot that the wine cellar had a new lock, so I went back to the villa to get the key." Huang Yi said anxiously.

"How long did it take?"

"this……"

"About eight minutes," Sukama helped explain, "Miss Tanaka left the living room to boil water, and it took about eight minutes for Mr. Araki to return from the wine cellar, because I happened to be using the oven."

The uncle frowned when he heard the words: "In this case, I really don't have time to do other things."

"That," Takahisa Tanaka shivered, "It's so cold, can I go to the room and get some clothes to wear?"

Uncle Mao Li eagerly said: "Of course, Miss Tanaka, for the sake of safety, I will go with you..."

The corner of Xiaolan's eyes twitched, she also stood up and said, "Then I'll go too, I'll go see Conan."

"Let's go together."

Takahisa Tanaka and Uncle Mori went upstairs vigilantly, and everyone who stayed in the living room suddenly fell silent.

Since the murderer burned down the suspension bridge, he was likely to kill another person. Everyone was very worried, afraid that they would become the next target.

"A good party turned out like this," Kuroda Naoko said uncomfortably, "Does the murderer want to kill us all?"

Huang Yi comforted, "You should be fine if you stay together. We'll see if we can contact the outside world tomorrow."

"It's all my fault." Sonoko sat alone on the edge, holding his fingers tightly, "I killed Mr. Hamano, because I chose him to perform a sideshow, so he..."

"What nonsense?" Gao Cheng looked at Yuanzi who was in tears, and said angrily, "It has nothing to do with you at all, it's just a magic trick...you just happened to be used by Mr. Hamano to perform magic tricks."

"Eh?"

"What really concerns me..."

Gao Cheng got up and picked up the note next to the phone: "Mr. Hamano seemed very surprised that he was selected. It seems that Doi Tower should be in charge of the sideshow...Why did the magic fail? What happened in the middle? And this magic trick..."

Gao Cheng frowned slightly.

If Doi Tower is Kidd, it is not impossible to tamper with Hamano, but it is impossible for Kidd to kill... Although that guy is annoying, he will definitely not mess around...

"If there is a second person, the magic will be very simple." Hui Yuan's voice suddenly rang in Gao Cheng's ear.

"Xiao Ai?" Gao Cheng was a little embarrassed, "Aren't you sleeping?"

"You guys are so noisy, and someone was killed again, how can I still sleep?" Huiyuan glanced at Gaocheng, and continued to say quietly, "That magic, if it was said that Mr. Hamano and Ms. Tanaka cooperated at the beginning, Isn't the matter clear?"

"You mean Miss Tanaka is the trustee?" Gao Cheng was startled, thinking of something, re-examined the note paper in his hand, and found that there were a few blank pages with very inconspicuous pen marks on the back.

"Could it be a pen that couldn't write at that time?"

Gao Cheng recalled the previous situation. At that time, Hamano deliberately blindfolded Sonoko and asked Sonoko to step aside to avoid the crowd.

At that time, his attention was all on Hamano, but it was Takahisa Tanaka who really did the tricks, and he must have dropped the pen halfway.

If that's right, the reverse side of the note that I handed over to Sonoko might have been marked beforehand...

In other words, the "failure" of the magic is likely to be caused by Takahisa Tanaka.

Is that big beauty the murderer?

Gao Cheng scratched his hair in confusion.

"What's wrong?" Sonoko asked strangely.

"Ah, it's nothing." Gao Cheng came back to his senses and said hastily, "I'm a little worried about Xiaolan and the others, I'd better go up and have a look..."

"Hey!" Gao Cheng was startled by the sudden sound of glass breaking.

"what happened?"

"It seems that the glass is broken somewhere!"

In the bathroom of the villa, the hot water was still steaming, the floor was covered with glass slag, the window facing the outside was broken, and a crossbow bolt was stuck in the cracked mirror directly opposite.

Gao Cheng looked at the crossbow, and his eyes fell on the broken glass window.

Everyone is in the villa, that is to say, those who shoot arrows are outsiders, but why would they shoot arrows at the bathroom where no one is inexplicably? To scare people?

"What's the matter?" Uncle Mao Li and others hurried down from upstairs, and their expressions changed after seeing the situation in the bathroom.

"Bastard, what the hell is that guy going to do? Not only did he attack Ms. Tanaka, but he even shot arrows at the bathroom!"

"Attack Miss Tanaka?" Gao Cheng looked at the uncle in doubt.

"Yes," Xiaolan said with lingering fear, "just now when we accompanied Miss Tanaka back to the room, an arrow shot through the window and almost hit Miss Tanaka."

"yes?"

Gao Cheng turned to Tanaka Takahisa, who came after him, and said confusedly, "That means the murderer first shot an arrow at Miss Tanaka's room upstairs, and then shot an arrow at the bathroom? Wouldn't that be too strange?"

"What's so strange?" Uncle Mao Li snorted, "I think that guy slipped his hand and shot the wrong shot!"

"Ha ha."

"Are you kidding?! That guy really pissed me off!" Tanaka Takahisa ran out angrily after looking at the bathroom.

"Wait, Miss Tanaka!"

"It's too dangerous outside!"

In the backyard of the villa, Takahisa Tanaka ran out of the back door and ran directly to the woods opposite the bathroom next door. Uncle Maoli and his group hurriedly followed.

"Miss Tanaka!"

"Come out!" Tanaka ran to the edge of the woods and shouted, "It's nothing to hide in fear, if you have the guts, get out!"

Gao Cheng walked out of the villa at the end, silently looking at Takahisa Tanaka who was shouting.

"What's the matter, big detective?" Hui Yuan followed with a slight smile, "Do you feel soft-hearted just because you are a big beauty?"

"How is it possible? Be careful and I'll deduct your salary!"

"Humph."

Huiyuan looked at Gao Cheng and smiled, and walked towards the crowd at the edge of the forest with his little hands behind his back.

The light in the woods is not very good, but you can still see messy footprints everywhere on the snow. Conan and other people's attention is completely attracted by the footprints.

"Is there really anyone else hiding here?"

Xiaolan caught up with Takajiu Hui Tanaka who accidentally fell down: "Miss Tanaka, are you okay?"

"Why?" Takahisa Tanaka said painfully, "Why did we encounter such unlucky things? Why?"

"Miss Tanaka..."

Gao Cheng never took his eyes off Tanaka Takakue. Although this woman moved very secretly, he still saw with his own eyes that the other party threw a pocket crossbow to the other side of the snow field, as if she had pulled something from a tree trunk.

"This is?"

Standing under a tree with fallen snow, a small hole in the trunk appeared in Gao Cheng's sight.

"Hey, come and take a look!" Uncle Mao Li found the crossbow and hurriedly shouted, "It seems that the murderer is someone outside the villa!"

"Isn't this a crossbow?"

"There are still a lot of arrows here!"

Gao Cheng squatted by the tree and looked at it for a while, then stood up and said to Uncle Mao Li: "It's hard to say that the murderer is someone from outside."

"What?" Uncle Mao Li's face sank, and he said unhappily, "Isn't this obvious? Everyone was in the villa when the murderer shot the arrow, and now the murder weapon is also found here. Tell me, the murderer was outside What else is possible?!"

"What if it's just someone's deliberate deception?" Gao Cheng asked rhetorically.

"what?"

"Anyway, everything is still uncertain. Who is the murderer needs to be further investigated."

"But no matter when Mr. Hamano was killed or just now, we all have an alibi," Huang Yi said strangely, "If the murderer is among us, how did he do it?"

Gao Cheng pondered: "It's probably magic. The murderer performed a magic trick in front of us that is impossible to commit a crime."

"magic?"

Uncle Mao Li's forehead smoked: "What the hell are you talking about? Hmph, I think you just want to confront me."

Gao Cheng smiled wryly: "I think we'd better confirm everyone's alibi again, and hand over the crossbow to the uncle for safekeeping before the murderer is caught."