Chapter 673 2 Victims
As soon as everyone ran to the hall, they heard a strange sound.
In the darkness, a figure was lying in front of a door, fiddling with something.
"Who is it?" Kogoro Mori asked loudly.
The man was startled and looked back.
Only then did everyone see clearly that the person was actually Ke'erfeng.
"Mr. Kari? What are you doing here?" Kogoro Mouri frowned. Could it be that the disappearance of Akiko Utahara was related to him?
Ke Erfeng looked at everyone. Instead of panicking, she was extremely excited: "Miss Xiaohuang is resurrected! And she must be in this room! But the door can't be opened!"
As she spoke, she tried to pry the door handle open, but it wouldn't open. She couldn't help but bang on the door: "Miss Xiaohuang, open the door quickly!"
"Get out of the way!" Youye pushed Keerfeng away and tried to turn the doorknob, only to find that the door was indeed locked as Keerfeng said.
Yuya lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "It's strange, I remember that when we left, Mr. Hirasaka locked the door from the outside with a padlock, why is the door locked from the inside now?"
Yuya clenched his fists, planning to just break through the door like he usually does.
"what happened?"
Mifune Ryuichi ran over in a hurry. He looked at everyone and said, "Ms. Jingzi sent me a strange message, and then I heard some noise here so I came over to check it out. What are you doing..."
Youya briefly recounted the incident.
Conan looked up at Izumi Maho and said, "Ms. Maho, please call Miss Akiko."
Izumi Maho quickly took out her cell phone and made a call.
Youye leaned against the door and listened for a while. The call was not disconnected, but there was no ringing sound from inside.
Mifune Ryuichi said hurriedly: "Then quickly break the glass and open the door from the inside!"
Yuya nodded: "I was planning to do this..."
He raised his arm and was about to take action when he was stopped by Miyano Shiho, who handed him a vase.
"Use this, or you'll scratch your arm."
Yuya smiled at her, took the vase and smashed the glass, then carefully peeked in and said, "Sure enough, the padlock that was originally outside is locked inside."
There is no way to open the padlock without a key. Fortunately, this padlock is an old-fashioned one, and Youya used the vase to knock the padlock off in a few seconds.
The door opened and everyone walked in carefully, stepping on the broken glass.
The meditation room was very dark, but with a little light one could still see that it was a mess inside, with the drawing boards that had been standing lying all over the floor.
Yuya narrowed his eyes slightly, and he vaguely saw a dark shadow on the table in the middle of the room.
Just at this moment, the dark clouds covering the moon dispersed, and the bright moonlight shone through the skylight on the roof, illuminating the scene in the room.
"Ah!!!" Mao Lilan immediately let out a scream of horror.
On the table used for summoning spirits, Akiko Utakura was lying on her back, motionless and lifeless.
There were deep marks on her neck, probably she was strangled to death.
Yuya's eyes quickly scanned the room - the only exit here was that door, and it had just been padlocked from the inside;
The only other place was the skylight on the roof, which was also closed.
Although the skylight is large enough for an adult to pass through, but... Youye looked up and wondered how could one climb to such a height?
Even he would not be able to leave the room from such a height without support.
That is to say...
Yuya and Conan looked at each other and saw the same idea in each other's eyes - murder in a closed room!
Just then, there was a heavy gasp and hurried footsteps, and Park Zhimu Hexiong ran over in panic.
"Oh, something terrible has happened! Hirasaka-sensei..."
"What's wrong with him?" Youye's expression froze. No way...
In the dim light, Park Nobuki Hexiong's face was filled with fear. He pointed in the direction of the bedroom with a trembling hand and stammered, "Hirasaka, teacher, he... is dead!"
"What?" Youye's face changed.
You had been feeling strange since you hadn't seen Hirasaka Yoshiki and Park Noki Heo. You didn't expect that one of them was also dead?
Yagawa Hiroshi said with a horrified look: "How could this happen? Hirasaka-sensei also..."
Park Zhimu Hexiong vaguely guessed something and asked in a hoarse voice: "Also? What does also mean?"
Yuya pointed to the room behind him and said in a deep voice: "Miss Jingzi was murdered in this meditation room."
"What, what? Miss Jingzi too?" Park Zhimu Hexiong took a step back in disbelief.
Yuya said, "Take me to Mr. Hirasaka's room first. Uncle Kogoro, I'll leave this place to you!"
Maori Kogoro was stunned for a moment, then responded, "I, I know!"
But he reacted immediately and waved his fist: "Damn it, you stinky boy, how dare you order me around!"
However, Youya had already run away with Park Zhimu Hexiong.
Maori Kogoro curled his lips in dissatisfaction and said, "Anyway, the rest of you should get out of the room first. No one is allowed to go back in before the police arrive!"
Everyone hurriedly left the meditation room as Kogoro Mori said.
Maori Kogoro finally regained some of his sense of being a famous detective. Suddenly, he saw a dark figure sneaking in from the corner of his eye. His eyebrows jumped and he said, "You little brat, stay still!"
He rushed forward, grabbed Conan by the collar and threw him out.
"Oh!" Conan sat down on the ground and looked at Mouri Kogoro resentfully, regretting deeply in his heart - he had originally thought of investigating the two crime scenes separately with Yuya, but now Mouri Kogoro was guarding the door with a covetous look in his eyes. If he had known earlier, he would have followed Yuya.
On the other side, Youya followed Park Zhimu Hexiong to the door of a room with a chair in front of the door.
"What happened?" Youya looked at the chair and looked up. The ventilator above the door was turned on and he could see the light inside.
Park Zhimu Hexiong panted and said, "I just received a message from Miss Jingzi. It felt very strange, so I wanted to discuss it with the teacher. I knocked on the door but there was no response from inside, and the door was locked."
"Just when I didn't know what to do, Miss Jingzi's cell phone rang suddenly in the room..."
Is Akiko Utakura's phone in there? Yuya's eyes moved. Was it the call from Izumi Maho just now?
"I thought it was a bit strange, so I moved a chair and looked inside through the ventilation fan above, and then I saw..."
Yuya replied in a deep voice: "Did you see Hirasaka-sensei dead in the room?"
Park Zhimu Hexiong nodded vigorously and looked at Youya with horrified eyes.
Yuya stepped onto the chair, stood on tiptoe and looked inside through the ventilator, his pupils suddenly shrank.
Inside the room, Hirasaka Yoshiki was lying on the sofa with blood on the corner of his mouth. On the coffee table was a bottle of red wine and a glass. The wine had been spilled and the bright red wine had flowed onto the carpet.
Yuya frowned tightly——all of a sudden...
Two people died?