Chapter 676: The Liberated Secret Room
Yuya thought about it and came to the door.
Miyano Shiho came over, raised her hand and gently smoothed his frown, and said softly: "Don't worry, as long as it is a crime committed by a person, there will be traces left. This is what you said yourself, don't worry, you will definitely find clues."
You was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "You are right."
He leaned forward and rubbed the top of Miyano Shiho's head with his chin, smelling the faint jasmine scent coming from her hair, and suddenly felt calmed down.
Yuya opened his eyes and was about to say something when something suddenly caught his sight.
"This is···"
There were two pots of decorative flowers placed on both sides of the door, and there was nothing special to note.
But Youya noticed that there was a hint of color on the flower that didn't quite match.
He walked over and saw that it was a piece of poster.
"This is a fragment of Miss Xiaohuang's poster. Why is it here?" Miyano Shiho asked puzzledly.
Yuya took a step to the side, looked at the broken posters on the floor at the door, and said thoughtfully: "In this case, the murderer tore the posters into pieces in the corridor and threw them into the room with a ventilation fan, but..."
He walked to the cabinet on the right side of the door, looked at the open drawer, and fell into deep thought.
Miyano Shiho also followed, imitating Yuya's appearance, pinching her chin and said: "But how did the murderer throw the key into the drawer from the outside, cover it with a notebook, and then lock the drawer?"
Youye squatted down and observed the lock on the drawer. He found that this kind of lock did not require a key. He only needed to pull the pull ring on the outside down to lock it.
He stood up, looked up at the ventilator, then looked at the drawer, and touched his chin: "This distance cannot be achieved without the help of something... How on earth..."
Suddenly, Youya turned his head and looked at the broken poster at the door, his eyes flickering.
"I see. No wonder you brought the poster from the meditation room here..."
Miyano Shiho blinked her eyes: "Do you know how the murderer set up the secret room?" She was a little confused. She had no idea yet, so how could Youya think of it so quickly?
"Ah, I see. I just used the poster on the ground." Yuya's lips curled up into a faint smile. "I have already solved the method of this secret room. Next, let's go to the meditation room to see if Conan has any gains."
After saying that, he walked quickly towards the meditation room.
"Posters?" Miyano Shiho was stunned. What could these torn posters do? No, Yuya just said that the posters were torn by the murderer, which means that the murderer tore the posters after completing the secret room...
She thought for a long time but still couldn't figure it out, so she looked up and asked Youya: "What exactly..."
Only then did I realize that Youya had already walked for some distance.
"Hey, wait for me, can you tell me how this secret room was built?" Miyano Shiho trotted after him.
When the two of them arrived at the meditation room, Kogoro Mouri and the others had disappeared. They must have been rounded up by Inspector Megure for questioning.
Yuya glanced around the room, finally setting his sights on the skylight.
"If I want to leave here, besides the front door, the only way out is the skylight, but..." He turned to look at the control panel next to the door, "Even if I press the button from the outside in the same way, I won't be able to completely close the skylight without continuous force..."
Yuya looked at the door of the meditation room. The door was locked from the inside with a padlock. There was almost no gap left after the door was closed, and there was no way to lock the padlock from the outside.
Youya stroked his chin and paced back and forth at the door.
Miyano Shiho stood quietly by the side, watching him, his expression changed, and he said, "Be careful..."
"Huh?!" Youya was immersed in his thoughts and didn't pay any attention to his feet. He stumbled and almost fell.
He looked down and found that he was standing on a bracket used to hang a drawing board.
"Why is this thing here?" Youye looked up and found that other drawing boards and stands were also scattered on the floor of the room.
"That's strange. The forensic officer said there were no defensive wounds on Ms. Jingzi's body, and there were no signs of a fight in the room. In other words, she was strangled to death while she was sleeping. Then why is this place so messy?"
"If it's just to take the poster, there's no need to do this, right?"
Yuya was puzzled, so he walked around the drawing boards, but found nothing.
Seeing that Yuya remained silent, Miyano Shiho knew that he was thinking, and wondered if she could help, so she also started walking around the room.
Suddenly, her eyes fell on the small motor in the cabinet.
"Come to think of it, the commotion during the séance last night was caused by these little motors." Miyano Shiho muttered softly. She was really scared at the time.
Of course, just a little bit.
"Motor, what motor?" Youye looked over curiously.
Miyano Shiho pointed to the small motor in the cabinet and said, "Here, this is it."
Youye hurried over to take a look, and suddenly said: "Oh, you mean this, this is not..."
Suddenly, he froze in place, turned his head sharply and looked at the drawing board stand closest to the door, his eyes flickering.
"I see. If this is done this way, the skylight can be completely closed even if someone is outside."
"The next question is how the murderer left here..."
Yuya once again cast his gaze towards the skylight, the pile of torn posters flashing through his mind once again.
"Let's go back to the room we were in just now!" Youye called out and ran outside.
"Hey, slow down!" Miyano Shiho hurriedly chased after him, but Yuya was too fast and disappeared in a short while.
Miyano Shiho puffed up her cheeks in anger. She knew where Yuya had gone, and hurried to Hirasaka Yoshiki's room. Sure enough, she saw Yuya squatting in front of the pile of posters, looking for something inside.
She took two breaths to calm her heartbeat, then walked over, squatted down and asked, "What are you looking for?"
Yuya replied as he searched: "Help me, find the edge of the poster."
Miyano Shiho nodded and helped to look for it.
Soon, she found the edges of a few posters and handed them to Yuya, asking in confusion, "I did find a few pieces, but why are there strange marks on them?"
Yuya took it and looked at it, then opened his palm, which still had several pieces of poster edge fragments on it.
Like the pieces found by Miyano Shiho, there were strange marks on them.
"What's going on?" Miyano Shiho asked puzzledly.
"Shh, don't talk, look."
Yuya stacked the fragments together and showed the cross-section to Miyano Shiho.
"What is this?!" Miyano Shiho's pupils shrank slightly.