Chapter 887: Dark Express Train (Room)
After learning about the incident from the conductor, Kogoro Mouri came to carriage A and knocked on the door.
Noto Taisaku opened the door and saw Kogoro Mori with a surprised expression.
"Mr. Noto, I have something to ask you about the case..."
"Oh, that..." Noto Taisaku recalled for a moment, then replied, "When I was talking to the conductor, the door of the next room was indeed opened, and I saw Mr. Murokyo."
"I didn't expect him to be in the next room. I was shocked."
Maori Kogoro nodded slightly and continued to ask: "And why did you say that you didn't call the conductor?"
Noto Taisaku immediately retorted: "I've already said it! I didn't call him at all. He came to me without permission..."
Conan, who was standing at the back, looked at the conductor and asked, "The indicator light above the door will light up as long as the call button is pressed in the room, right? And it will also ring? Could it be that the conductor has made a mistake in the room?"
"No," the conductor immediately denied, "In fact, only the indicator light in compartment A in this carriage is broken and won't light up."
"I heard the bell ringing, but I didn't see any indicator lights on in other rooms, so I thought it was Cabin A calling me, so I ran to knock on his door."
Noto Taisaku suddenly said, "Come to think of it, I pressed the call bell once before, but the conductor didn't come. Then, even though I didn't press it, the conductor came without permission, so I got angry at him."
"I see." Sera Masumi crossed one hand over his chest and held his chin with the other hand, thinking: "In other words, someone must have deliberately broken the call indicator light in Mr. Noto's room, and perhaps the call bell in the room can't be used, so there is a situation where he doesn't come when he is called, and comes when he is not called.
The purpose is to attract the conductor to the A compartment by the sound of the bell without ringing the bell.
Conan nodded his head and agreed, "That's right."
Kogoro Mouri uttered a puzzled "eh" and didn't react to what it meant.
Sera Masumi smiled at Conan and continued, "It seems that this happened because the murderer was trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain. The purpose was to prevent the conductor from seeing him enter the B compartment."
"Because the door of the adjacent carriage B was also open at the time, it just blocked the view from the other side."
"Judging from the location of the rooms in this carriage, the only people who could have done this are the passengers in Rooms C, D, and E..."
Conan nodded again, "That's right."
Kogoro Mouri blinked his eyes in confusion: Wait, wait, what are you talking about? Your thoughts are jumping so fast that I can't keep up.
Masumi Sera ignored Kogoro Maori and continued to analyze: "So, the reasoning puzzles we encountered before might also be set up by the murderer, with the purpose of making the deceased return to the original room?"
"Because he was originally booked in Room B in Carriage 8."
Conan pinched his chin and muttered, "But why? Why did he deliberately let the deceased return to the original carriage? Is there something in this room that can help him complete this murder?"
But if there really was something strange inside, Ran Maoli and the others should have seen it, right? Even if Ran Maoli and Suzuki Sonoko didn't notice it, Masumi Sera would have discovered it.
"Bang!"
Conan covered his head and stared at Maori Kogoro with a wronged look on his face: "Uncle, why did you hit me suddenly?"
Maori Kogoro snorted, blew away the non-existent smoke on his fist, and squinted his eyes and said, "Children should just stay and play on the sidelines. Why are you meddling in this?"
Conan was about to argue something, but suddenly he remembered something and quickly closed his mouth, lowering his head with tears in his eyes.
Masumi Sera looked back and forth at the two of them, revealing a slightly puzzled expression.
Maori Kogoro straightened his clothes and looked at the conductor: "What happened after that?"
The conductor was a little confused by what had just happened. When he came to his senses, he quickly said, "Then the light in compartment E came on, and I immediately went over and knocked on the door."
Several people then came to the E compartment. Izumi Mari opened the door, listened to Maori Kogoro's question, and nodded: "Yes, I did call the conductor at that time."
"That's because there were strange noises in the room," she took out a watch from her pocket and showed it to the others, "The noise was caused by the alarm of this watch, and later we found it in the gap between the sofas."
"It must be because the cleaner didn't clean the room carefully!" She glared at the conductor in dissatisfaction.
The conductor bowed and apologized quickly.
Sera Masumi pondered and said, "You called the conductor over to investigate the room. Could it be that the murderer took advantage of that time to enter and exit the victim's room? After all, there was no one in the corridor at that time."
Izumi Mari was shocked when she heard this, and thought that what Sera Masumi meant was that she was an accomplice, so she quickly explained loudly: "Don't talk nonsense, I just found the watch myself.
I didn't ask the conductor to come in, I just wanted to complain. I hate it most when other people put strange things in my place!"
Maori Kogoro immediately looked at the conductor: "So, the conductor was standing in the corridor, but he didn't see any suspicious people entering or leaving compartment B?"
The conductor was stunned for a moment, then suddenly shouted, "I remember now. When I was talking to Miss Izumi, a door far away from here was opened, and it seemed like someone was looking at me from behind the door."
Maori Kogoro's expression became serious: "Did you see what that person looked like?"
The conductor scratched his head and said, "I'm sorry, the train entered the tunnel and the corridor was very dark, so I couldn't see who it was. But it was quite far away, so it should be at the front end of the carriage?"
Maori Kogoro: "Isn't that the A compartment?"
The conductor added, "By the way, when I was talking to Miss Izumi, the door of the D compartment next door also opened, and Miss Sumitomo pushed Miss Kozue out and headed to the front of the compartment. Those two might have seen that person."
Kogoro Mouri immediately knocked on the door of carriage D.
Sumitomo Hiuka appeared at the door pushing little Mizuo Natsue. In response to Mouri Kogoro's question, she said that when they walked through the corridor, they did not see any door open or any suspicious people.
And the only doors that were open at that time were the door of their room and the door of the adjacent E carriage.
The conductor quickly speculated: "Is it possible that it was opened after Miss Xiaosu and the others left?"
Conan immediately retorted: "But we met them on the way to compartment B. Until we knocked on the door of compartment B and found the body, the door of compartment A next door had never been opened."
Maori Kogoro looked at the conductor suspiciously after hearing this and asked, "Was the door really open at that time?"
The conductor said quickly: "By the way, Mr. Anton in compartment C also opened the door to check the situation. Maybe he saw it..."
Everyone came to carriage C again.
Anton Yu said that he did open the door to check the situation, but the train had just entered the tunnel and the corridor was dark. In addition, Room A and Room E were in opposite directions, so he did not notice whether the door of Room A was open.
At this point, the investigation came to a standstill.