Chapter 875: Children trapped in the wooden house

Chapter 875: Children trapped in the wooden house

Chapter 875 Children trapped in the wooden house

Yamamura So was about to arrange his men to investigate, when he suddenly thought of something and pointed at Sera Masumi and shouted, "Hey, who are you?"

Sera Masumi was stunned. We've talked so much, and you just remembered to ask who I am?

"My name is Masumi Sera, I'm a detective, and also Kamiya's classmate, right?" Masumi Sera raised his eyebrows at Yuya.

Yuya looked at her strangely and nodded.

"Anyway," Yuya said, pointing to a series of footprints at the edge of the pit, "There are clues about the murderer. There are a lot of sneaker footprints left here, which can roughly tell the size of the foot."

Shancuncao squatted down and measured it with a tape measure: "About 26 centimeters."

Yuya pondered and said, "The foot is 1 centimeters long, so the person's height is about 78 meters, but it is not ruled out that the murderer deliberately wore large-sized shoes, so this can only be used as a reference."

"There was also a shovel used for digging at the scene. But since the murderer dared to leave the shovel here, it means that he was wearing gloves. I guess fingerprints can't be detected, but just in case, let's take it for testing."

Shancuncao nodded and obediently arranged for his men to do it.

"Next, there is the death message left by the deceased."

Shancuncao came forward excitedly: "Death message? What death message?"

Yuya pointed at the hands of the corpse and said, "Didn't you notice that the shape of the deceased's hands is very unnatural? Judging from the bloodstains, he must have desperately made this gesture in his sleeping bag before he died."

Shancuncao gestured with his hands, trying to recreate the dead man's gesture, muttering: "What is this gesture? O and K, or two and three?"

"Hmm? Two and three? I know, it's her brother! The murderer of the deceased is her brother!"

Yuya and Sera Masumi both showed speechless expressions - isn't this obviously wrong?

A police officer came over and reported to Shancuncao that three men with suspicious behavior were found in the mountains and were on their way to bring them.

Miyano Shiho quickly asked: "Did you see any children near those three men? Three boys and one girl."

The police officer was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "We have not received such a report."

Yuya's expression relaxed a little.

In fact, from the very beginning, he had a guess that he had never said out loud.

That is, it is very likely that the children came across the murderer burying the body, otherwise the murderer would not have left the shovel and the unfinished pit there and left it alone.

But now, the three suspected murderers are some distance away from here, which means that they probably haven't found the children yet.

Conan and the others are safe.

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In the wooden house on the other side.

The children waited for a long time with trepidation, but the man stopped banging on the door, and there was no other sound outside except for the occasional chirping of birds.

Conan glanced at his watch: "Almost two hours have passed."

Mitsuhiko said, "There is absolutely no sound outside."

Ayumi guessed with a hint of hope: "Did he give up on us and run away?"

Conan shook his head in his heart. It was impossible. This was the best place to kill people and silence them. They were just little kids. The murderer would not give up so easily.

The most likely thing is to go back to where you were just now, get a shovel, and then break in?

It’s just that such a long time has passed and he still hasn’t come back. It is very likely that he met the police and was taken away for investigation.

But we cannot rule out the possibility that the murderer was lying in ambush outside with patience.

If that's the case, we can only hope that Yuya can find the real culprit and bring the police to rescue them.

However, finding the murderer is not a problem for Yuya, but it will take a long time to find a small cabin in the mountains.

Mitsuhiko went to the door and tried to observe the outside through the gap between the wooden boards, but he could not see anything, so he said, "Should we take a sneak peek at what's going on outside?"

Yuan Tai also agreed: "It should be okay if we just take a look at it, right?"

Conan quickly stopped him: "No, what if..."

But before he could finish his words, he started coughing violently. Damn it, why did his cold get worse at this time?

Ayumi held Conan's arm with concern: "Conan, are you okay?"

Conan took two breaths and shouted anxiously: "Don't open the door, what if the murderer is lying in ambush outside?"

Ayumi looked at the door and whispered, "But Yuanta has already opened the door..."

Conan ignored his aching throat and looked up suddenly, only to see that the wooden door had opened a crack.

Yuan Tai observed through the gap for a while and whispered, "It seems like he really left?"

As he was about to open the door, he suddenly felt a huge resistance and a sound of metallic collision.

He looked up and was surprised to find that the wooden door was locked with an iron chain.

"Oh no!" Yuan Tai shouted in panic, pulling the wooden door hard, but it was completely useless. "It's locked outside, we can't get out!"

Mitsuhiko looked at Conan in panic: "Conan, what should we do? We are locked up here!"

Conan's face was grim as he quickly tried to think of a way to escape, but it was clear that he had no idea.

He had just checked and found that in addition to the wooden door, the wooden house had several windows, but they were all sealed with nails and could not be opened.

Just when the children were getting anxious, Ayumi suddenly sniffed her nose and asked tentatively, "Do you smell a burning smell?"

Conan was stunned for a moment: "My nose is a little blocked, I can't smell anything."

Mitsuhiko sniffed hard, his face suddenly changed: "It does smell like burning. Oh no, this wooden house is not going to catch fire!"

Conan's face changed drastically and he quickly shone the flashlight towards the window. Sure enough, wisps of white smoke floated in through the gaps in the window.

Mitsuhiko ran to the window and pushed and pulled hard, but the window didn't move at all and was completely sealed.

Conan's face became increasingly gloomy. He roughly guessed how the wooden house caught fire.

Perhaps the murderer originally planned to lock the woman in the cabin and then set fire to her to make it look like an accidental death?

But someone didn't know what happened in the middle. It should be that the trick was discovered by the woman, so the murderer could only temporarily kill the woman with an axe. However, if he continued to set fire, the scars on the body would also reveal the cause of death.

The body was then buried near a sign warning of snakes. Because of the warning, no one usually went near that place.

But I didn't expect to be caught by them, and what I didn't expect was that they escaped all the way to the wooden house.

So the murderer took advantage of the situation and simply set them on fire to silence them.

Ayumi shouted in panic: "We have to escape quickly!"

Yuan Tai, who had the most strength, pulled at the wooden door with all his might, but how could a child open a door that even an adult couldn't break open? Not to mention that the wooden door was locked from the outside with an iron chain.

Mitsuhiko was also very anxious: "There is an axe in the room, but we kids can't lift it with our strength!"

Perhaps the smoke exacerbated his cold. Conan coughed violently for a while, feeling a tearing pain in his throat. He comforted the three children with a hoarse voice:

"Everyone calm down. Someone outside will definitely notice the smoke here, and then someone will come to rescue us."

There was nothing they could do now but hope.