Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

"The alibi is just a cover-up."

Gao Cheng handed over a copy of the surveillance video to a police officer with a laptop.

"The most important thing about this crime is that in addition to the real murderer, there is also a person who thinks he is the murderer. The cursed doll and the homicide committed by the cursed doll are hard to doubt that these two things are different. And the motive of Ms. Xingzi to monopolize the property of the Huo Si family is quite convincing..."

Gao Cheng's eyes fell on Huo Si Xingzi who was completely shocked and sweating non-stop.

"Even she herself thought she was a murderer, so she behaved like a murderer, and because she killed people by spells rather than with her own hands, she would not shrink back when confronted by the police, and she didn't care if the evidence of the curse was discovered by the police ...It cannot constitute a crime of homicide, Miss Xingzi, is that what you said?"

Huo Si Xingzi's body trembled, and his lips became dry under Gao Chengping's gaze.

"I... he, they are not because of my curse..."

"The murderer hides himself and lets people who have murderous intentions and motives stand in front, designing a seemingly rigorous but flawed alibi, and creating a deeper alibi for himself," Gao Cheng said. Averted his eyes and continued to look at Izawa, "It's the same as everyone except Ms. Hoshiko, so the police won't suspect you at all..."

"Then why..."

"Mr. Jiu Yao's death was indeed before the tea party, but the actual arrangement time of the murder scene was not..."

Gao Cheng waited for the police to release the surveillance video, and personally adjusted the video to around 2:46 in the morning.

"The completion time was actually after the tea party. It can be seen from the surveillance that the magic lights flickered twice. The first time was around 46 minutes, and the second time was a few minutes later. This is the time when the murderer really did his tricks. "

"But Kido," Kenjian Xiaoqiao asked tightly, "Didn't you also watch the scene? How could it be possible without unplugging it?"

"I thought I couldn't do it..."

Gao Cheng looked at Xiaoqiao who didn't want to believe it.

"With enough clues to deduce, no matter how incredible the result is, it may be the truth... The murderer performed a magic trick for everyone to break the conventional understanding."

"magic?!"

"Think about it,

Xiaoqiao, why did the murderer design such a strange way of death between the rituals? "

"Make an alibi for Miss Xingzi?"

"Why is it that way?" Gao Cheng asked back, "Is it just for Miss Xingzi?"

Xiaoqiaoxian saw a drop of sweat dripping from the corner of his eyes: "And the murderer himself?"

"It's the same as the design of the double murderer," Gao Cheng said with a smile, "There are also double psychological traps here. The first one is that turning off the lights is equivalent to unplugging the magic lamp, and the murder scene cannot be arranged without unplugging, which is Miss Xingzi's. Alibi, the second level, must be unplugged when setting up a murder scene, and it must be during the time when the lights are off...

"That's right, the second layer is a preconceived trap created for the murderer's own alibi, so that the first layer can be cracked, and the second layer can take root in everyone's hearts."

The horse-faced police officer broke out in a cold sweat.

Undoubtedly, he fell into the murderer's trap thoroughly. He never imagined that a murder would be designed so complicatedly. Even if it wasn't a perfect crime, it would be almost the same. The person who designed the crime is really terrible.

"Also... That is to say, the murderer arranged the scene not during the time when the lights were turned off, and he did not unplug the magic lamp... But how can it be done?"

Izawa Kentaro also looked directly at Gao Cheng with his fist: "Yeah, you are talking about how Jiuyao was hanged! How could you not unplug the plug..."

"You mean how to get it out of the rug cutting gap without unplugging it?"

Gao Cheng took out a blank piece of paper, which was the same as the carpet during the ceremony, and cut out 3 sides in the middle, like a tongue, only the 4th side could turn into a Chinese character.

"I just used this piece of paper as a demonstration. The location of the magic lamp is on the corner of the 'tongue'. The wires are sewn on it and cannot move. The rest of the wires are from under the carpet through the frame to the wall. It looks like you can’t pull the wire out without unplugging it, right?”

The horse-faced police officer looked at the white paper and nodded: "That's right."

Gao Cheng smiled and said, "Officer, please pinch the 'tip of your tongue' with your fingers from below, just like a magic lamp."

"Is that so?"

The horse-faced police officer pinched the inner circle of paper suspiciously, let the outer frame rest on his thumb, and his arm became like a magic lamp wire. Unless he cut off his hand or let go, he really couldn't figure out how to proceed to the next step to transfer his hand to the paper above.

"Okay," Gao Cheng glanced over the stern Izawa, and looked at the people who were thinking hard, "This way it looks more obvious, more abstract and easier to understand. It only takes a moment to move the police officer's hand to Above, 3, 2, 1!"

The horse-faced police officer stared wide-eyed, watched helplessly as he pulled up the upper paper frame, turned over from the other end, and moved it under his arm in a circle.

He didn't need to move at all, just turned the outer paper frame twice to complete the position exchange, and his arm moved above the paper, it looked as if his hand had penetrated the paper directly.

"How, how is it possible?"

"What the hell is going on? Is it so simple?"

"It's just a blind spot in thinking." Gao Cheng handed the blank paper to the horse-faced police officer to continue to study. "Everyone is thinking about how to move the wires, but they didn't think that the carpet itself can also be moved. The reason why the magic light will shake twice , It is also because the murderer touched the carpet, the first time the carpet frame passed over the magic lamp, and the second time it passed under it, so there is no need to unplug the plug at all!"

Kenjian Xiaoqiao stared at the white paper used for simulation, his pupils dilated slightly.

The murder incident was turned into a magic stage, and the police and him were also turned into pawns...

"Kentaro," Xiaoqiao looked at Izawa with a dry throat, "Why did you do such a thing?"

Izawa stood there without responding, and it took a long time to raise his head to face Gao Cheng again.

"Even so, the murderer may not necessarily be me, right? Except for Xingzi, everyone here is right-handed."

"That's true, but you have missed two flaws."

"what?"

"Do you still remember what you said when you were in the monitoring room?" Gao Cheng calmly looked at the Xiaoqiao who became the murderer, "When the monitoring video was disconnected, you said it might be a malfunction."

"Yes...what's the problem?" Izawa frowned.

"Actually, the recording at that time was not because of a camera failure, but because there was a lightning strike nearby, causing a temporary power outage...Of course, it's normal if you don't know, because the person who closed the curtains between the ceremonies in the video is you, Kentaro Izawa..."

Gao Cheng affirmed: "At that time, you were dealing with President Xiao during the dark ceremony, but you heard the thunder and didn't notice the temporary power outage here."

"Just because of this?" Izawa's face trembled.

"Another reason I found out after that is that there is no need to pull the curtains by hand, as long as you pull the rope on the side, the curtains will open and close automatically. Everyone in the Huosi family should know..."

Gao Cheng paused, looked at Izawa with an uncertain face and continued: "Of course the most important thing is that after deciding to continue this tea party, I specially asked someone to adjust the camera. Although you are very careful, the scene of entering the kitchen It was still filmed."

"It actually happened like this..."

Izawa's face stiffened.

"I thought it would be Xiaoqiao, and I didn't want to involve my friend's friend, but that hell puppet master insisted that I find you through Xiaoqiao..."

"Kentaro..."

"It's none of your business, Xiaoqiao." Izawa looked coldly at Huo Si Xingzi beside him, and suddenly drew out a dagger to charge, "It's all over, just kill the last target!"

Huo Si Xingzi stayed where he was, watching the dagger stabbing himself in horror. There were bursts of screams in the living room, and even the horse-faced police officer had no time to stop him.

"go to hell!"

"No!" Xiaoqiao Kenjian stared at Faxiao losing his mind, his mind went blank, the kind-hearted Izawa in his memory and the current murderer were completely two people.

"Kentaro!"

Gao Cheng frowned and pulled Huosi Xingzi away, stopped in the middle to meet Izawa who was full of resentment, stretched out his hand to grab Izawa's wrist, his sharp eyes directly woke Izawa up.

"you……"

"Gao Yuanyao's target is me, you are just a puppet used by him, do you want to continue?"

"Bang!" Gao Cheng knocked down the dagger, handed Izawa Kentaro to the shocked horse-faced police officer next to him, brushed past Huosai Xingzi and left the living room.

"Miss Xingzi, let's go to the police station and tell the story of what happened ten years ago."