Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

Chapter 32 A strange look at each other
"When was the death? Where was the body found?"

"Police, the estimated time of death was eleven o'clock last night. The place where the body was found was the innermost room on the second floor of the old school building of Gaifang Academy. The first person to discover was the administrator." The coroner carried the tools in his hand and finished He is ready to return to the police headquarters after he has finished his work.

With the two children, Officer Otaki walked into the old school building that had been cordoned off.Yuuji took the gloves from the inspection police and put them on, then he and Heiji looked around.

The stairs leading to the second floor of the old school building are right next to the main entrance on the first floor. Going up the stairs, Yuji saw a gloomy corridor with classrooms on both sides.Because it has been abandoned for too long, the lines here can no longer be used, and there is a risk of fire.

How could it be such a layout, how could any school build the school building like this?
Generally, in order to adjust the psychological pressure of students, the school buildings will try their best to make the lighting as good as possible, but the layout of this old school building is not like this at all.

Yuji found out that this old school building was a chemistry research institute when he searched the school journal of the high school.The headmaster at the time spent money to buy the surrounding land and the institute together, intending to separate the middle school and high school that were still together.

It's a pity that after buying this place, Fang Xueyuan has no money.That's why the old school building was preserved and used as the school building of the high school. It was not until five years later that Gaifang Academy built the current new campus, and then abandoned the old school building.

Yuji, Heiji and Police Officer Otaki walked in along the corridor, and the innermost one was a large room facing the corridor. When the door was opened, the wooden wall was right in front of it.This house only has windows on two sides, so the lighting is not very good, other than that, there is nothing in this room.

As the first scene where the body was found, there were about six or seven police officers in this room.

The three of them saw the deceased, Senior Huajing, lying on the wooden floor, her neck was covered with bloodstains scratched by fingernails, and her hair was hanging down like this, making people feel creepy at first glance.

Yuji and Heiji approached a little closer, and found that Kajing-senpai seemed to be terrified, just like the boy who died three years ago in the description.

Wouldn't this be another plot of revenge for the seniors?

The two remaining students and the administrator of the Supernatural Club were brought here by the police. Yuji looked at the three people who were being interrogated. After the bodies were sent away, he got the interrogation notes from Heiji.

From the answers of the three people, it can be known that at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, the Ghost Club ended the entire adventure.

At six o'clock the administrator locked the gate of the old school building and went home. Around eleven o'clock, Huajing-senpai sent an exclamation point to everyone in her address book, and hanged herself in this room.

Judging from the condition of the body, senior Hanajing must not have committed suicide.A person who hangs himself would have his feet pointed downward towards the ground, but when the senior student was lying on the ground just now, her feet were perpendicular to the ground.

This shows that the senior probably died first, and was hanged from the ceiling by the murderer after the body became stiff.

However, it is not necessarily correct to judge whether the toe is a homicide.

When Yuji was in elementary school, he heard from his father that strangulation and hanging were different.The depth of the force of hanging is uniform, but that of strangulation is not uniform.

Fortunately, the senior sister was strangled to death.

Yuji wrote an exclamation point on the paper, walked up to Hattori Heiji and asked, "Heiji-senpai, this should be the message before death."

"I told Ye last night that senior sister Huajing sent her an exclamation mark. I called and asked my classmates in senior sister's class, and many of them received it."

Why did Hanajing-senpai put an exclamation mark?Can't you just send the murderer's name?
Unless she was in the process of being strangled to death by the murderer, she tried her best to send this message.

Yuji looked at the three people standing in front of Officer Otaki who kept defending, and suddenly thought of the boy who died two years ago. Could he be the breakthrough in this case?

Just after Heiji expressed his thoughts, Yuji realized that yesterday when Officer Otaki sent them back to Hattori's house to leave, Hattori Heiji asked Officer Otaki to find the case from two years ago.

The result of the investigation was that the police did conclude the case as suicide at that time, and did not mention much about the autopsy of the deceased.

The only doubt raised by Heiji was the boy at that time. He didn't seem to be the first person to have an accident in this old school building.

Before him, there were people who disappeared here, but that was five years ago. Because it was not a murder, the names of the missing people were not even left.

Yuji began to feel that it was stuffy here. Although the weather wasn't hot, the oppressive environment here made him unconsciously fan the wind with the paper in his hand.

"What does the exclamation point mean?" Heiji asked the police for information on three more suspects. On the page of the camera man, he saw the senior's old surname.

Zhihe is the same as the boy who died three years ago.

While fanning the wind, Yuji walked to Hattori Heiji's side. He also pointed to the information of Sister Sakura, and found that the girl's sister was also a student of Gaikata Academy before and disappeared five years ago.

If the guess is correct, the missing person is this sister.

Yuu didn't hold the paper in his second hand, and was blown directly to Hattori Heiji's feet by the wind from outside the window.Hattori closed the police information, bent down and picked up the exclamation mark from the ground, just as he was about to hand it to Yuji, his eyes were fixed on the piece of paper.

Yuji sensed something was wrong. He walked to Hattori Heiji, only to find that the paper he had just written on had been turned upside down by Hattori.

"!" becomes "i"

"Kudou, you can see it too." Hattori put away the paper and adjusted his hat.

Yuuji nodded, and the two teenagers suddenly walked to the place where Huajing-senpai was hanged in front of everyone in the room. In front of them was the door of the room, and looking out, there was a dark corridor.

"Xiaoping, do you know what this message means?" Officer Otaki walked over with two policemen.

Hattori Heiji took out the exclamation point from his pocket again, and turned it around: "What Hanajing-senpai sent to others is not "! ", but "i". It refers to the English word "eye" which has the same pronunciation as "i". The real pre-death message is "eye upside down."

Yuji continued to explain: "People's eyes have a viewing angle of nearly 120 degrees under normal circumstances, but the most important thing is that people always look forward, and their eyes are facing forward.

"Upside-down eyes" is to remind everyone who receives this message to look back. "

Hattori Heiji and Kudo Yuji turned to look at the wall facing the door of the room.They looked at each other, first walked over and knocked on the wooden wall twice with their hands.

The sound made by the wooden wall could be clearly heard. It was empty inside. Hattori Heiji and Yuji put their eyes on the wooden wall again and looked into the gaps.

…with a female mummy inside also looking at them through the gap.

(End of this chapter)