Chapter 973 The body under the tomato
Conan glared at Yuya in dissatisfaction.
Damn it, he wanted to take advantage of the chaos to take a look at Xiaolan... No, he wanted to know what happened inside!
But growing up with Conan or Kudo Shinichi, how could You not know what this guy is thinking?
All I can say is that this guy usually hides it well, so no one else knows about it.
Under normal circumstances, it would be fine to fulfill his wish, but now Miyano Shiho is still in there, and Youya doesn't want his girlfriend to be seen by others.
Sera Masumi went in and there was no sound for a while, and Youya shouted worriedly: "Sera, what's going on in there?"
Sera Masumi whispered a few words, as if she was discussing something with the people inside. After a while, she shouted loudly: "You can come in."
Youya opened the bathroom door and took a glance. Several girls inside had wrapped themselves tightly in bath towels.
Yuya walked in without looking around, and came to the bathtub. There should have been two wooden boards covering it, but they had been removed at this time, and he could clearly see a lot of red tomatoes floating in the bathtub.
"Is this... a tomato?" Youya asked uncertainly.
It’s not that he doesn’t know what tomatoes are, it’s just that the scene is a little too weird. What kind of good person would fill the bathtub with tomatoes?
Usually they would put some flower petals or something, right?
Kazuaki Sumika's face was gloomy, and she murmured in a low voice: "The woman in red..."
Yuya's expression moved, and he recalled a series of strange things that had happened in the villa before. The apple, the red paint on the door, and the woman in red were all related to the color red.
"Is this the same... prank?"
With things like this happening one after another, it's hard to define it as a prank. It's more like someone is using it to warn someone or... to convey a message?
At this moment, Yuya suddenly thought of something and asked Minegishi Tamae beside him: "Where is Mr. Bo Gu?"
Minegishi Tamae was stunned: "Now that you ask, it seems like I haven't seen him since dinner."
Just when Minegishi Tamae and Nida Shinfu were confirming the whereabouts of Bo Ya Chang's family, the three detectives' faces changed at the same time, as if they were thinking of something.
The three of them looked at each other, and Yuya, who was closest to the bathtub, immediately rolled up his sleeves and reached his hand into the bathtub to grope around.
Seeing this scene, the people nearby guessed something and showed uneasy expressions.
After a while of groping, the tomato in the bathtub floated up and down with the shaking of the water.
Suddenly, Youye's eyes widened, and he pulled his hand out of the water with a splash. In his hand, he was holding a handful of black stuff - human hair.
At the same time, a face appeared in front of everyone. It was none other than Bo Guchang's family, who had not appeared since the riots!
When Mao Lilan saw this scene, her hair stood on end instantly - they almost went into this bathing pool to take a bath just now!
Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko couldn't help but scream in fear.
Miyano Shiho was still relatively calm, but her hands tightly gripping the bath towel showed her unrest at the moment.
Kazuaki Sumika's face was even paler.
They almost shared a bathtub with a dead body just now!
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After several girls changed their clothes, the police arrived.
When Uehara Yui entered the house, the police officers had already conducted a brief investigation of the scene and collected the bodies to be transported back for an autopsy.
"What's the situation?" asked Yui Uehara.
The police officer nearby immediately reported the identity and movements of the deceased.
"Preliminary judgment is that the victim was hit on the head with a blunt object, causing him to fall into a coma, and then thrown into the bathtub and drowned," the police officer concluded.
Uehara Yui nodded slightly: "So, who is the person who found the body?"
The officer gestured inside the house.
Uehara Yui returned to the house and was a little surprised to see Yuya and the others: "Detective Kamiya, and Conan, why are you guys here too?"
You also explained the purpose of their coming here.
At this moment, Ren Tianshenfu knocked hard on the wall and cried, "Damn it! Why was that guy killed for no reason?"
Uehara Yui sighed slightly. She had seen such scenes countless times, but the most important thing at this moment was to solve the case.
"So, when was the last time you saw the victim?" asked Yui Uehara.
Minegishi Tamami recalled: "After lunch, Bo Gu went to clean the bathroom and toilet, and I haven't seen him since then."
Ren Tianshenfu was very upset: "If I hadn't gone out to buy things and stayed to help him clean up, this wouldn't have happened."
Uehara Yui simply comforted him and asked everyone what they were doing after lunch.
Among them, Minegishi Tamami was in the kitchen cleaning up the lunch dishes and preparing the ingredients for dinner. In the middle of the process, she talked to Mao Lilan, Suzuki Sonoko, and Miyano Shiho who were cleaning the living room.
Ren Tian Shenfu went to a store one kilometer away to buy something. When he came back, he met Yuya and the other two and treated them to iced drinks, which meant that he had just come out of the store not long ago.
She and Ming Chengxiang were cleaning the room on the second floor. They probably never left because Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko downstairs could hear the sound of the vacuum cleaner.
Halfway through, Akane Sumika and Miyano Shiho noticed steam coming out of the bathroom. When they went in to check, they found that the bathtub was full of hot water and tested the water temperature, but they did not see any tomatoes in it at that time.
After that, the four of them spent some time cleaning the room. When they were about to go back to the bathroom to take a bath, they found it was full of tomatoes. Then, Yuya and the others heard the commotion, came over to check, and discovered the body.
Uehara Yui asked, "So, you didn't see anyone in the bathtub until you pulled him out?"
Youye nodded. "Yes, there were tomatoes floating on the surface of the water, and the water was green because of the bath additive. If it weren't for my experience... um, if I hadn't noticed something was wrong and tentatively checked the bottom of the water, I wouldn't have discovered that Mr. Bo Gu was dead, and his body was pressed under the water by the barbell."
Miyano Shiho glanced at Yuya secretly. You just wanted to say that you are experienced, right? Sure enough, detectives have a keen sense of smell in this regard. She didn't think too much at the time and just thought it was the same "prank" as before.
At this time, Conan asked: "Sister Xiaolan, what was the order in which you entered the bathroom?"
Sera Masumi agreed, “If you were the first one to go in, you might have a bag of tomatoes on you.”
Mao Lilan pointed her finger at her chin and recalled: "I remember that Miss Chengxiang went in first to open the lid of the bathtub."
Yuya asked, "Did she carry a bag or anything?"
Mao Lilan was stunned for a moment and shook her head: "No, we were going to take a bath, so we were wrapped in a bath towel... If we really had a bag, it would be seen at a glance, right?"
After saying this, Mao Lilan blushed slightly and glanced at Conan secretly.
However, Conan was completely unaware of this and was just holding his chin in deep thought, not knowing what he was thinking.