Chapter 890: Dark Express Train (Chain)

Chapter 890: Dark Express Train (Chain)

Car No. 8.

Everyone gathered together and looked at Kogoro Mouri who was sitting in the conductor's seat.

"Mr. Mori, what do you mean by starting the mystery show of the dormant Kogoro?" asked Noto Taisaku.

The little kid with glasses just now came into the carriage and said that Kogoro Mouri was about to start his own reasoning show, and asked everyone to gather in the corridor.

When he came out, he saw the famous detective sitting in a chair with his head hung down, as if he was really asleep.

He looked at the people around him and found that everyone in car 8 was here.

"This, this must be the legendary sleeping Kogoro!" the conductor shouted excitedly.

"Seeing Mr. Maori strike his signature pose, I guess he has uncovered the secret room murder that took place in Room B of Carriage 8."

Toru Amuro walked over with a confident step, a faint smile on his face.

Everyone looked at him strangely, then looked at Maori Kogoro who seemed to be asleep, and felt a little confused - although they had heard of the rumor about the sleeping Kogoro, could a person really reason while sleeping?

Izumi Mari leaned against the wall with her arms folded across her chest, looked at Amuro Toru, and asked in confusion, "Who are you?"

Amuro Toru said with a smile: "I am Mr. Maori's disciple, Amuro."

Maori Kogoro lowered his head and fell asleep peacefully, while Conan's voice came out through the bow-tie voice changer: "Yes, the method of murder in a closed room, I understood it when I went to the E compartment and Miss Deba's room."

Izumi Jasmine's expression changed: "Hey, what do you mean? You want to say that I'm the murderer?"

"No, no, no," Conan denied, "What I meant was that Miss Izumi's room gave me the inspiration to solve the Chamber of Secrets."

Izumi Jasmine breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "So, what was the inspiration?"

The others also looked at Kogoro Mori with inquiring eyes.

Conan continued: "There were strange noises coming from Miss Izumi's room at the time of the crime, right?"

Izumi Jasmine nodded affirmatively.

"Later, a watch was found in the gap between the sofas. The source of the strange noise was the alarm of the watch. At that time, I noticed that when the door of the E compartment was opened with the anti-theft chain, the sofa with the watch on it could not be seen.

However, in compartment B, the sofa can be seen in its entirety.

Mr. Conductor, I would like to ask, the design of the first-class carriage rooms should be the same, right? "

The conductor nodded and said, "It's the same."

Conan raised the question at the right time: "So, why do rooms with the same design have such different situations?"

Anton Yu in Carriage C asked tentatively, "Maybe the sofa in the room was moved?"

The conductor immediately denied his guess: "That's impossible, because the sofas in the room are fixed and cannot be moved."

"Then what's going on?"

At this time, Amuro Toru suddenly said, "Since there is no problem with the sofa, then the problem is probably the door, right?"

The conductor looked at him in confusion: "But all the layout of the carriage, including the doors, are the same?"

Amuro Toru raised a finger: "Indeed, the door is difficult to change, but there is one thing on the door that is very easy to change - that is the anti-theft lock!"

"The chain of the anti-theft lock in the room where the deceased was is probably one or two more pieces than in other rooms. This way, the gap between the door and the door will be wider."

Noto Taisaku was a little puzzled: "What would be the problem if there was one more section of chain?"

Amuro said: "That's a big problem. Generally speaking, the length of the door anti-theft lock is designed to be so long that even if you stretch your fingers in from the outside, you can't hang on it. But now that the chain has an extra section, can't we cover the anti-theft lock from the outside and lock the door from the outside?

At the same time, if it’s just an extra piece, no one will notice it unless they pay special attention to it.”

Noto Taisaku showed a shocked expression: "In that case, that room is not a secret room?!"

Others were also very surprised.

The conductor hurried to check the room, and just as Amuro Toru said, the anti-theft lock in Room B had a six-section chain, while the other rooms had a five-section lock.

"But," Izumi Marie asked, "if someone tampered with the door, the conductor would have noticed, right?"

The maid, Sumitomo Hiruka, echoed, "Yes, he is always in the corridor."

"No, the anti-theft lock must have been replaced from the beginning. This is why the murderer set up a fake reasoning puzzle to make the deceased move to the original compartment."

"If it hadn't been in that room, the murder method wouldn't have been possible."

"But," Noto Taisaku asked doubtfully, "When did the murderer enter Room B, and when did he leave?"

"This is actually very simple." Kogoro Mouri said, and as soon as he finished speaking, a call bell sounded in the carriage.

Everyone looked around in astonishment, somewhat bewildered - everyone was here, so who pressed the call bell in the room?

"who is it?"

"It's me!" Conan popped out from the corner of the corridor, holding a mobile phone in his hand. The screen showed that a recording was playing. "I recorded the sound of the call bell in advance and played it back for everyone to listen to. When the conductor heard the sound, he found that there was no indicator light in any room, so he thought it was Mr. Noto in Room A calling, right?"

The conductor nodded: "That's right, because only the indicator light in Room A is broken."

Noto Taisaku complained, "So you can't just fix the light?"

The conductor touched his head and said ashamedly: "Of course I thought about it, but the light bulbs in the freight car behind were missing, so... not only the light bulbs, but also the conductor's work clothes were missing."

Maori Kogoro continued: "When the conductor and Mr. Noto were arguing, the deceased in Room B opened the door to check the situation in Room A. At that time, because of the obstruction of the door of Room B, the conductor standing in the corridor could not see the situation on the other side. The murderer entered Room B at that time."

"Because the train entered the tunnel at that time, the murderer could use the bad signal as an excuse to discuss matters face to face and enter Room B directly."

"Then you can kill the victim with a silenced pistol, disguise the room to look like a suicide, and then leave."

"Wait a minute, Detective Mori," Noto Taisaku interrupted, "I can understand the timing of entering the room, but when did the murderer leave?"

Izumi Jasmine was also puzzled: "That's right, if the murderer left immediately after killing Mr. Qiao, then he should be able to see it when he is still at the door of Room A, right?"

Anton Yu continued, "But he didn't see it, so the most suspicious person is the one the conductor claimed to have seen peeking from behind the door, right?"