Chapter 891: Dark Express Train (Case Solved)
Izumi Jasmine was a little impatient: "You keep saying you saw suspicious people. Which door did you see them behind?"
The conductor quickly said, "It's the door at the end of the train. I saw it in Room E, so it should be Mr. Noto's room in Room A, right?"
Others looked at Noto Taisaku with suspicion.
"Hey!" Noto Taisaku was a little panicked, "Did you see clearly? I haven't opened the door since you left my room! Didn't those little brats see that my door was not open at all!"
Everyone was a little bit unconvinced, but since there was more than one person who could testify, they could only look at Kogoro Mouri with puzzled eyes.
Conan said at the right time: "I already know the true identity of that suspicious person."
"Who is it?" Neng Dengtai asked anxiously.
"That person is you, Mr. Conductor!"
"Huh?" Everyone was surprised and puzzled. The conductor even exclaimed, "I am the suspicious person? I am the criminal?!"
Izumi Jasmine was a little confused, but still sober: "How is this possible! The conductor was clearly talking to me at the time, how could he run to Room B and kill someone?"
After Conan said those words, he immediately understood and said, "No, what the conductor saw at that time was indeed me standing at the door of Room E and behind the door. So under what circumstances would someone see me?"
Everyone thought about it for a while, and Sumitomo Hiruka's expression changed: "Mirror?"
Others also showed expressions of realization.
Conan: "Yes, the criminal had put a mirror on the inside of his room door in advance. When the conductor was called to Room E by Miss Izumi, the criminal opened the door of his room in order to prevent the conductor from seeing him coming out of Room B."
Izumi Mari asked, "But if the criminal came out of Room B, how would he open the door to his room?"
"It's very simple. All you need to do is wrap the fishing line around the door handle and connect it to Room B through the railing in the corridor. All you need to do is pull the fishing line hard at the right time and you can open the door to your room."
Everyone fell silent, imagining the scene in their minds, and some people showed shocked expressions.
Conan observed the man's expression and smiled. "That's right. To accomplish this technique, if the mirror is too far or too close, people will notice the disharmony. Among the five rooms, A, B, C, D, and E, only Mr. Anton, who is in the middle room C, can accomplish this technique except you."
"The criminal who killed Mr. Mu Qiao is you, Mr. Anton Yu!"
Faced with Kogoro Mori's reasoning, Anton Yu still wanted to struggle, but when Toru Amuro brought the paintings from his room and took out the three mirrors from it.
"These three mirrors can just cover the entire door of the carriage. There's even some plasticine stuck in the middle of one of them. I guess they're worried that the conductor will see the number on the door and be seen through?"
All of his tricks had been exposed, and even the evidence had been found. Anton Yu knew that he could no longer defend himself, and he screamed in despair:
"It's all that guy's fault!"
"If this guy hadn't done what he did five years ago, I wouldn't have killed him!"
Two years ago, Anton Yu saw a painting at an auction that was supposed to have been burned in a fire five years ago.
Anton Yu felt something was wrong. After some investigation, he found out that the owner of the painting was Mu Qiao Yueren, who was also a survivor of the fire.
Shi Qiao Yueren stole the paintings from the villa. In order to cover up her theft, she set fire to the capitalist's collection room, but the fire got out of control and killed many innocent people.
Anton Yu thought that Murashige Yueren boarded this train every year to mourn those who died in the fire, but when he played the criminal and waited in the room with Murashige, who played the victim, for the "detective" to arrive.
Shi Qiao Yueren, however, was excited and said that playing the role of the victim made her unable to help but recall the memory of being rescued from the fire and finally surviving.
Seeing that Shi Qiao Yueren had no remorse for the sins he had committed, and recalling his wife who died in the fire, the grief and anger in his heart made him wield the butcher knife in his hand.
Faced with Anton Yu's crying, everyone remained silent.
Emotionally they can understand Anton Yu's approach, but they cannot support it rationally.
In response, Conan sighed slightly and said in Maori Xiaowu's voice: "The rest of the matter will be handed over to the police after the train arrives at the station."
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While Conan was solving the case, in a carriage on the other side.
Shuichi Akai found the list of passengers on the train from the conductor's seat. After some searching, he found the name - Yuya Kamiya.
Akai Hide remained expressionless, but a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes: "Why did he book a separate carriage? And he was alone."
At this time, the conductor who came back from the toilet saw Akai Shuichi holding the passenger list and immediately shouted: "Hey, what are you doing!"
Akai Shuichi quickly closed the roster and said, "Sorry, I just saw someone I know on the train, so I wanted to find out which car he was in."
The conductor snatched the list and complained, "You can ask me directly about this. How can you look at the list without permission? This involves the privacy of passengers. So did you find it?"
Akai Hideya nodded and said, "Found it." Then he turned and left.
The conductor grumbled a few words and then sat down.
What he didn't realize was that a smoke bomb was placed below his position.
Shuichi Akai, who was suddenly interrupted, did not have time to see that there was another name not far from Kamiya Yuya's name.
According to the list, Shuichi Akai came to the middle compartment of car No. 5.
He raised his hand and knocked on the door, but there was no response.
So he simply pulled the handle and opened the door, and the room was empty.
Shuichi Akai searched the room and soon found a lot of things for disguise - masks, cosmetics, and a bulletproof vest with blood bags in the suitcase.
Shuichi Akai sneered a few times, stuffed all these things into the box, then opened the window and threw them out.
Watching the box slam onto the side of the road, spin a few times and finally disappear from sight, Akai Shuichi revealed a triumphant smile.
After doing all this, Shuichi Akai took out his mobile phone, took a look at the message he had just received, then opened a certain software and pressed the switch on it.
In an instant, thick smoke spread out from under the door of Room B in carriage No. 8.
The people still in the corridor saw this scene, especially the few who survived the fire, all showed expressions of horror.
"Hey, what's with the smoke?"
"I gonna go see!"
Toru Amuro quickly ran over and opened the door, and suddenly a thick smoke rushed out and submerged him.
Toru Amuro started coughing violently. The room was filled with thick smoke and a choking smell, making it impossible to go in and check.
He managed to peek inside through the smoke, then shouted anxiously, "It's a fire! It's on fire!"
At this time, another cloud of smoke came out from the freight car at the end of the train, and quickly spread from the connection between the cars to the tail of car No. 8.
Seeing this, the other passengers in Carriage No. 8 screamed in fear at the same time and ran towards Carriage No. 7 at the same time.
Amuro Toru hid against the wall to avoid those people and shouted to the conductor: "Quickly inform the conductor, there is a fire at the rear of the train, let him tell all the passengers to take shelter in the front carriage!"
"Uncle, get up quickly!" Conan shook Kogoro Mouri hard to wake him up.
Before Kogoro Mouri could wake up, he was pulled by Conan towards the front carriage.
Soon, an announcement was made on the train.
"Emergency notice, there is a fire in carriage 8. Passengers in carriages 7 and 6 are requested to take shelter in the carriages ahead!"
"Repeat it again..."
All of a sudden, the passengers in the two carriages ran out of their rooms and fled towards the carriage in front.