Chapter 974: Attack in the Dark

Chapter 974: Attack in the Dark

Yui Uehara pinched her chin and analyzed, "So, the crime was committed between the time when Xiaolan and the others checked the water temperature and the time when you finished cleaning and returned to the bathroom."

"At the time, Mr. Nida was out shopping, and Ms. Sumika was cleaning the room with Xiaolan and the others. So the most suspicious person is Ms. Tamaki, who has been in the kitchen the whole time, right?"

Seeing that she was regarded as a suspect, Minegishi Tamae got anxious on the spot: "Wait a minute, I really didn't come out of the kitchen until Ren Tian came back from shopping!"

Kazuaki Sumika also said: "I think Tamae is impossible."

"Why?" Uehara Yui asked the reason.

Kazuaki Sumika explained, "I and those girls were cleaning the first floor where the bathroom is. Zhumei knew that I would even clean the corridors carefully, so it was impossible for her to sneak out and kill someone. If I caught them, then..."

"Besides, I believe Zhu Mei would never do such a thing."

Uehara Yui had a headache. The current situation was that almost everyone had an alibi, and the only one who acted alone, Minegishi Tamami, seemed unlikely to have committed the crime based on the evidence from Ming Sumika.

"Who is the murderer..." she couldn't help but mutter.

Ren Tianshenfu suddenly said angrily: "Needless to say, the murderer is the woman in red!"

"The woman in red?" Uehara Yui looked at Ren Tian Shenfu in surprise, "You mean the one from fifteen years ago..."

"That's right!" Ren Tianshenfu gritted his teeth and recounted the strange events he had encountered one by one, and finally said with certainty, "He must have killed Bo Gu!"

"That's impossible!" Uehara Yui said firmly, "Because the woman in red who committed the murder fifteen years ago has already been confirmed dead!"

"What?" Ren Tian Shenfu and the others were shocked. "But didn't the previous news say that she was still on the run?"

Uehara Yui said: "Do you know that three years after the case, a girl's body was found in a swamp deep in the forest?"

Ren Tian Shenfu nodded vigorously: "It's Congzi, our classmate."

"Really?" Uehara Yui sighed regretfully and continued, "In fact, a body that had been dead for three years was found in the swamp. Because the kitchen knife used in the murder was found next to the body, the police believed that the bones were most likely the body of the woman in red."

"However, the woman in red set fire to her own house before committing the crime. All her personal belongings were destroyed, so the police were unable to conduct a DNA identification and comparison."

"However, the mother of the woman in red who died last week secretly kept her umbilical cord. After DNA comparison, it was confirmed that the DNA of the skeleton matched that of the woman in red. So the woman in red you mentioned has long been dead."

"This matter is also scheduled to be announced to the public at a press conference tomorrow."

After hearing what Uehara Yui said, Minegishi Tamae shouted in horror: "Who is the murderer? Could it be the ghost of the woman in red?"

With cold sweat dripping down his forehead, Ren Tianshenfu laughed dryly and said, "If the opponent is a ghost, then there would be no point in me preparing a baseball bat for self-defense in advance."

Kazuaki Sumika's face was filled with fear: "Miss Police, please stop scaring us. You will protect us, right?"

Uehara Yui quickly comforted them, "Don't worry, but until the investigation is completed, can you three wait in the room?"

In Ren Tian Shenfu's room.

Because the victim was knocked unconscious by a blunt object hitting his head, Uehara Yui called the forensic department to examine Shinnosuke Nida's baseball bat.

However, there were no obvious scars and no luminol reaction, so he was probably not the murderer.

However, there were sticky marks on the bat, as if it had been stuck with something, but Ren Tian Shenfu himself was not sure.

At this time, a police officer came to the room and told Uehara Yui that the weapon that knocked the victim unconscious was the barbell that pressed the body under the water based on the results of the wound identification.

Miyano Shiho walked up to Yuya, pulled his sleeve and asked, "Does that woman in red really exist?"

You also looked at her with amusement: "Why, our great scientist also believes this rumor?"

Miyano Shiho rolled her eyes at him and said worriedly, "I'm just worried about Xiaolan and Sonoko..."

You was stunned for a moment, and also understood something.

One is a weak young lady, and the other is a "weak girl" who is extremely afraid of ghosts and loses her ability to fight when encountering supernatural events. Faced with such a scene, one would indeed feel scared.

"It's okay. The woman in red, the ghosts and so on, there must be someone who is using the rumors to do evil." Youye comforted.

Miyano Shiho nodded slightly, then suddenly looked down at her fingers, pinched them, then looked at Yuya's sleeves, and asked in confusion, "Why are there salt on your sleeves?"

“Salt?” Youye looked down curiously and found that his sleeves were covered with salt crystals. “That’s weird. When did they get stuck?”

He loosened the sleeves that were rolled up because of pulling the corpse, and found that there was more inside. He immediately showed a thoughtful expression: "Is that so?"

Miyano Shiho tilted her head: "Do you know who the murderer is?"

Yuya nodded: "That's right..."

Just as he was about to say something, his vision suddenly went dark.

Yuya was stunned for a moment, then he realized that there was a power outage.

"It looks like the power outage was caused by thunder. I'll go take a look." Youya volunteered.

But before he could do anything, a terrified scream suddenly sounded downstairs.

Youya was shocked. Could there be a second victim?

He took out his cell phone and turned on the flashlight, then told Miyano Shiho to follow the police officer and not to run around, and then he and Uehara Yui went downstairs along the stairs.

At the stairs, I met Conan and Masumi Sera who also came to check out the situation.

Several people came to the room where the scream was heard and found that the window inside was broken and Ming Chengxiang was lying on the ground, her life or death unknown.

"Ms. Sumika, are you okay?!" Youya rushed forward to check on her and found a bloody wound on her back. Fortunately, she was still breathing.

Uehara Yui asked angrily, "Who did this?"

Kazuaki Sumika's face was filled with pain, she grabbed Yuya's clothes, and said through clenched teeth: "It's the woman in red!"

"The woman in red?" Uehara Yui exclaimed, "How is this possible? The woman in red has been confirmed dead!"

Yuya asked calmly, "How do you know it's the woman in red? Did you see what she looks like?"

Kazuaki Sumika shook her head: "It's too dark for me to see clearly, but her hair is very long and she is holding a kitchen knife to chop me, so who else could it be but the woman in red?"