Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

Chapter 43 You are still very knowledgeable

"I can't get through the phone either!" Suzuki Ayako put the landline back on the desk.

The weird cry attracted everyone, Takahashi Ryoichi held his head in fright, and ran to the suspension bridge with all his strength, and Ota Masaru and Kakutani Hiroki also chased after him.

Yuji looked over to Conan and found that his brother was still comforting Xiaolan. He angrily grabbed Conan's ears and pulled the elementary school student into the living room.

"Have you noticed? That man in black must be trying to kill people here. He will never attack Miss Xiaolan for no reason. Don't be a fool."

Ota and others came back with bad news that the suspension bridge was cut off.

After finishing dinner worriedly, when everyone was about to return to their rooms, Takahashi Ryoichi suddenly shouted in the corridor on the second floor: "Who are you?"

He turned his head to look at the few people who were still in the restaurant, and then pointed outside: "There seems to be someone by the window below."

Everyone looked outside. At that moment, the man in black quickly slid past the window with Chikako Ikeda in his arms. Hiroki Kakutani opened the window, but it was so dark outside that it was impossible to see clearly.Conan chased the man in black from the door in the direction where he disappeared, and all the boys except Yuji followed him.

The boy drank the canned coffee, he ignored the mocking expression of Katsuo Ota just now.In fact, he already knew who this pretender was, and Chikako Ikeda was probably dead at this time.

The reason why he didn't go was firstly that he didn't have any friendship with that woman, and secondly, he would have nightmares at night after seeing too many corpses.

Yuji closed his eyes and waited quietly for them to come back, and slightly opened the right compartment of his jacket.

"Miss Xiaolan, can I trouble you to protect them later?"

Xiaolan froze for a moment, with a puzzled expression on her face.

"I already know who the man in black is."

Following Conan and the others was Chikako Ikeda. Even though she was dismantled like building blocks, she was barely complete.

Hiroki Kakutani put the woman's body together in the living room, and then covered it with his coat. Everyone there was angrily scolding the man in black with a bandage.

After Conan talked to Xiaolan, he walked towards his brother again.

"I heard from Xiaolan that you already know who the man in black is?"

After receiving the coffee handed by the boy, the two brothers stood a little further away from the crowd, and stood at the door of the kitchen to exchange information.

"Probably that fat man, Ryoichi Takahashi. My father is a mystery novelist. Logically speaking, brother, you should be quite sensitive to things like Blizzard Mountain Villa."

Conan stared straight at Takahashi's stomach, and then looked it up from top to bottom: "I also think he's wrong, this person has been deliberately guiding us from the beginning."

"When Sister Xiaolan was attacked in the afternoon, I saw that black figure running towards the back of the villa. When I mentioned the man in the bandage, everyone else said they didn't see it. Only Ryoichi Takahashi kept affirming it. He was the first to see it just now. Bandage man outside the window."

Conan nodded and agreed with his brother's statement: "And his figure. His belly looks like it weighs more than 100 kilograms, but his face doesn't match his weight.

When I came back, I noticed that Ms. Ikeda went out through the back door and was killed by prisoners.On the gauntlet on the second floor, there are traces of two strings tied. This should be the means by which he forged his alibi. "

"Probably some method was used to confuse us in judging the time of death. Isn't that what the stuntman did at the ski resort three years ago?"

Yuji squatted down, trying to be at the same level as Conan's eyes: "The strange thing about this case is that there is nothing strange next to the body. I think the murderer must have tampered with the body itself."

"The corpse itself? That's it!" Conan glanced at Takahashi Ryoichi again, and suddenly shuddered: "This guy is really perverted!"

Yuji followed his brother's gaze and figured out the murderer's modus operandi.He motioned with his eyes to Xiaolan and the girls to take a few steps this way, and then slightly amplified the sound so that everyone in the room could hear it.

"Generally speaking, in the case of Snowstorm Villa, there are several ways for the murderer to escape the crime:
1. Kill everyone.It is ruled out here, we are here, if we do not contact the outside world tomorrow, Aunt Suzuki will definitely send someone over.For a whole day, the man in the bandage only killed Miss Ikeda, which showed that he had a definite target.

2. Let everyone think that he did not come, or make everyone think that he left in the middle. The murderer can travel between Blizzard Villa and the outside world.This is also excluded. Sister Ayako also said just now that except for the suspension bridge, it would take half a day to reach the nearest residents. "

The young man looked at the three men standing there, and unhurriedly said the last possibility: "3. Pretend to be weak, that is, use appearance to cover up one's sins, make oneself look innocent and pitiful, and even Make a partial sacrifice if necessary, victimize yourself in some way, and let yourself get away with it."

Kakutani noticed that the girls walked a little further away, he looked around at the two friends beside him, and realized the meaning of Kudo Yuji's words.

"You mean, the murderer of Chikako is among the three of us, right?"

Ota Katsuki was so angry that he wanted to rush over and beat up that kid: "You bastard, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Yuji looked at Kakutani and Takahashi, who had no intention of stopping Ohta, and then pulled out the Agasa high imitation Luger filled with electric shock bombs from the right mezzanine and pointed it at Ohta.

Conan watched his younger brother pull out something incredible and wanted to stop it, but he noticed that his younger brother's hands behind his back were typing Morse code.

"This gun is fake, the bullets in it are not loaded with powder."

The primary school student relaxed, he is not so stubborn, as long as the younger brother knows how to measure, it is okay to scare the other side.

Suzuki Ayako crossed the garden to try to persuade the two parties, but was pulled back by her sister.

"Sonoko, they are my friends."

"Sister, if you don't want to see the three of them sink into Tokyo Bay, just let Yuji finish his reasoning, and then the two people will be innocent."

Just kidding, after such a heinous murder occurred, the two daughters of the Suzuki family are still here.Although Chairman Suzuki is an easy-going person, if he knew what happened today, it would be doubtful whether these three people would be alive in a few days.

Yuji pointed a gun at them, although the motive was to fear that the other party would be violent, but Suzuki Shiro would not anger them anymore afterward, and barely saved the lives of the remaining two people.

Kakutani Hiroki seemed to be aware of this too, he pulled Ota back, and took Takahashi with him to the kitchen door and walked a little further until they reached the door, stopping in their tracks.

Yuji lowered the hand holding the gun, and nodded towards the three of them.

...This Kadotani Hiroki is full of sense and interest, I really don't know why that old woman looks down on him.

(End of this chapter)