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【Blue fiber thread? 】
Frowning slightly, Qingshui Jing picked up the deceased's other left hand and examined it carefully, and found the same blue fiber thread in the nail gap of the middle finger of the left hand.
[This shouldn’t be a coincidence.]
Put down your hands and meditate in peace and quiet.
[The victim may have put up a fierce resistance during the process of being strangled by the murderer. These blue fibers may have come from the murderer's clothes.]
【blue……】
After looking around the hall, Shizuka Shizuka finally looked at Suzuki Sonoko beside her.
"Garden."
"What's wrong, brother-in-law? Do you need my help?"
Shimizu Shizuka waved her hand, and Suzuki Sonoko hurried over and asked excitedly.
"I need you to do me a small favor."
Smiling, Shizumi Shizue whispered in Suzuki Sonoko's ear: "Go ask the guests in the hall if anyone has taken a video of the hall before the banquet started.
It would be best if you could get a video of the incident taken by all the staff at the guesthouse. If you have any, please bring it to me. This is very important for us to find the murderer."
"Okay! No problem! Leave it to me!"
Patting her chest, Suzuki Sonoko pulled Mouri Ran, turned around and jumped off the stage.
After the two of them, Shizuka Shizuka also walked off the stage. He took out his cell phone, summarized the clues he had just found, and sent them all out.
He already knew the identity of the murderer, and all he had to do now was wait for Suzuki Sonoko to bring him the final evidence.
Although this sudden murder case was indeed a bit unexpected, from another perspective, it was also a good opportunity for their next move...
At the same time, not far away, Haibara Ai was quietly watching Shizuka Shizuka's every move. When she saw him walk off the stage, her brows immediately frowned.
[Could it be that he has discovered the murderer? If so, what is the meaning of him walking down like this? Why doesn't he reveal the murderer's identity? ]
Could it be the same situation as the time with the bandage monster?
Do you only seek to find out the murderer's identity in order to protect the people around you? But as long as the murderer does not endanger the people around you, you will never take the initiative to expose the murderer's crimes?
[Is it really for this reason? ]
Huibara Ai found it difficult to make a judgment.
[No, that’s not necessarily true…]
She recalled again Qing Shuijing's unusual behavior after everyone left the lobby of the reception hall.
He seems to be a little absent-minded today...
What is this...
“Ah, it’s so hot…”
Just then, a detective on the stage suddenly spoke up.
Chapter 468 The sudden appearance of a male figure
“Ah, it’s so hot…”
In the lobby of the guesthouse, the police had not yet arrived and the reasoning of the case had made no progress. Among the detectives on the stage, one who was observing the corpse suddenly stood up and tugged at his collar.
"Hmm? It does seem a bit hot..."
After hearing what he said, Kogoro Mori noticed that a layer of fine beads of sweat had appeared on his forehead at some point.
"Strange, isn't there any air conditioning in the hall?" Kogoro Mouri asked, pulling up his collar a little to dissipate the heat.
"No, the air conditioner in the hall is always on." Igarashi Kiyoko replied.
"No, why is it so hot?"
"Wait, are those spotlights?"
Suddenly, a detective noticed something unusual.
From the moment everyone entered the hall and discovered the deceased Mr. Todo hanging on a banner, all the spotlights on the stage were turned on, focusing the light on the center of the stage.
In order to find the murderer as quickly as possible, everyone did not pay too much attention to the spotlight. After hurriedly taking the body down, they placed it directly on the stage below.
The corpse has been under the spotlight from just now until now, and the same goes for the detectives who are observing the corpse.
The heat they feel now is actually the result of being constantly illuminated by the dozen or so spotlights on the stage.
"what?!"
Realizing this, Kogoro Mouri's brain exploded. He turned his head sharply and looked at the corpse lying quietly under the light.
In this case, wouldn't it be...
"It seems that you have finally discovered the problem."
Just then, a figure walked out from behind the stage.
The figure was a man, and his clothes were very simple, nothing special about them.
The man's voice was very young, sounding no more than twenty years old.
He was wearing a sun hat on his head, and the shadow of the brim covered his face, making it impossible to see his true appearance.
【who is he? 】
Looking at the male figure that suddenly appeared, Haibara Ai in the audience suddenly had a bad feeling.
Qingshui Jing, who was sitting not far from her, trembled slightly after hearing the voice of the male figure, but in just a moment, he returned to normal.
【finally come……】
"Who are you?" Mouri Kogoro asked on the stage.
"Don't worry about the name. I'm just a detective who happened to pass by and came here to solve a case." The male figure smiled and walked straight to the body of the deceased Mr. Todo.
[Oh my god, this kid is so pretentious! ]
Feeling a little unhappy, Maori Kogoro immediately asked, "It sounds like you have found the murderer, kid?"
Too lazy to ask the other person's name, Kogoro Mori just called him "kid".
Anyway, judging from the voice, the other person couldn't be older than him, so there was nothing wrong with shouting that.
"of course."
The male figure raised his hand to press down the brim of his hat, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
"The murderer is on this stage right now."
"what?!"
"But before I reveal the identity of the murderer, I need to explain to you the actual time of death of the deceased."
Hearing this, Kogoro Mouri fell silent. Not only him, but also the detectives around him fell silent.
Before, everyone had inferred that the deceased had died no more than two hours ago, but just now, an unexpected discovery had broken this speculation.
"That's right. Two hours ago was not the actual time of death. Normally, a person's joints will begin to stiffen about three hours after death. It was based on this that you made the inference about the time of death.
However, our murderer was very cunning. She made full use of the environment at the scene and used these spotlights to continuously heat the body of the deceased, thereby greatly slowing down the speed of the body's rigidity and causing you to make a wrong judgment.
In other words, the actual time of the deceased's death should actually be counted from the beginning of this banquet, because from that time on, the deceased has not really appeared in front of you. "
"This is impossible!"
As soon as the male figure finished speaking, a detective immediately spoke up to refute:
"Even if the time of death we first speculated was wrong, it couldn't have been so far in advance! Don't forget that during the reasoning activity, the deceased who played the role of the thief appeared on the screen twice! The deceased was not in the guesthouse at the time!"
"It's very simple. The videos you saw several times, which you mistakenly thought were taken by the deceased at other places, were actually recorded in advance.
This is also the reason why the murderer deliberately smashed the portable camera. After all, if the camera was still intact, you would be able to easily find the flaws in the videos, and her little trick would be immediately exposed. "
"and many more!"
Just then, another detective shouted.
He took out his cell phone, flipped through a photo, and asked loudly: "If you say so, how do you explain this photo?"
The photo on the detective's phone was a little blurry, but it was basically clear that the photo was the image of the deceased Mr. Todou that everyone saw on the screen inside the clock tower after they solved the first puzzle and went to the clock tower.
In the photo, the deceased, Mr. Todo, was standing in front of a stone bridge.
Of course, what the detective wanted to talk about was not the stone bridge, but the tree with a broken branch behind the deceased Mr. Todo.
“I have asked the staff before, because it rained heavily last night, the branches of this tree were also broken by the strong wind last night.
If, as you say, these videos were really recorded in advance, then why is the branch of the tree broken in the video? "
“That’s a really good question.”
After taking a look at the photo, the male figure nodded and asked with a smile, "But I wonder if the detective has noticed a detail, that is, the stores in the background of this photo...are all closed?"
"What's the problem?"
As soon as he asked this question, the detective suddenly froze.
He suddenly realized that this was a huge problem.
Because during the previous event, all the shops around the stone bridge were open. Not only that, but there were a lot of people around and it was very lively. It was completely different from the situation in his photos where all the shops were closed and there were no pedestrians on the street.
"But, but that tree..."
"Detective, I just said the video was recorded in the past, not yesterday.
For example, the murderer could have used the excuse of rehearsal to have the deceased record these videos himself before the official opening of the rice flower Edo Street this morning, before you all arrived here, and then used these videos to fake the situation that the deceased was still alive during the event... Am I right?"
As he spoke, the male figure turned around and looked at Xue Dingyao, who was standing aside and already looked pale.
"Host Xue Ding wants Miss?"
As his words fell, under the stage, Haibara Ai subconsciously clenched her hands.
[Who is this person? ]