Conan: This repairman is not very knowledgeable

Chapter 355 Here we go again

"Now we can be sure that the criminal is definitely not that guy."

"Well, this story is all too familiar."

"Yes, that's what I was thinking."

Lin Feng stood next to Hattori and Conan, and the three of them played charades together.

The repairman didn't know what the two men were thinking of, he only knew that this guy who came to his door was definitely not the criminal.

"The ABC Murders from the Poirot series!" A smile appeared on the corner of the dog-headed detective's mouth.

The mysterious suspect used the alphabetical order of the train timetable to gradually implement his murder plan, misleading people into thinking that the crimes were committed by a serial killer.

The target, whose first letter was C, was successfully killed.

They intend to use this so-called indiscriminate killing to cover up their crimes. These two traps are exactly the same.

In other words, among the locations of the arson, ABCD, ABC are all decoys, and only D is the real target!

"The timid uncle who was just put into the police car is just like the one in the novel who had the illusion that he was a murder suspect." Hattori nodded and said.

I don’t know why, but the direction of the case makes people gradually become excited.

This kind of trick is rare.

"Let's go, let's go to the crime scene!"

Hattori and Conan didn't want to wait any longer, so they grabbed the repairman and prepared to leave.

"Hey, the food prepared by Xiaolan and the others is still in the refrigerator!" Lin Feng was very hesitant. Logically, there should be a midnight snack, right?
“We’ll eat tomorrow!”

"After the investigation, let's go have a barbecue..."

……

Bewitched by the barbecue, Lin Feng drove the car and took Hattori and Conan to the crime scene again.

Officer Gong Chang did not go back to rest, but drove behind. If they wanted to enter the fire scene to investigate, they would have to do it without his company. And like the two guys, he did not believe that the man was the arsonist.

"It's really burnt beyond recognition!"

Entering the Morokaku family's villa, Hattori sighed.

The walls are black everywhere, and the house is of good quality as it didn't collapse.

Although firefighters launched a rescue operation immediately, Mrs. Morokaku was unable to escape because the fire was too big.

"This is it." Officer Gong Chang led the three to the storage room on the first floor. There was a vent on it, and the wooden door at the entrance had long been burned.

A large amount of lamp oil was detected inside and outside the wall near the air vent, and it seemed that someone had poured it inside from outside the air vent.

"Let me go up and take a look!" Conan pointed at the air vent and said to Lin Feng.

The small window was more than two meters above the ground, and it was difficult for him to climb up.

"..."

The repairman lifted the dog-headed detective up.

"This angle should be fine." Conan looked from the place where the Red Hare was placed to the house next door with the curtains drawn.

The wall between the two households was about 1.5 meters high. When the fire started, it would be no problem for the horse's shadow to be reflected past it.

but……

The famous detective remembered what Lin Feng said, that the arsonist might have deliberately placed the Red Hare on this window.

The repairman, who is 1.85 meters tall, has to stretch his arms to put his head on the windowsill. How tall must the arsonist be?

Was he carrying a ladder when he was spraying the lamp oil?

"Hey!"

"Kudo...come here quickly!" Hattori, who was squatting on the ground, almost called Kudo again.

"This is?!"

Conan was carried by Lin Feng. When he saw what Hattori was holding, he immediately looked up. "There is also this." Hattori called Officer Yumachi over and pointed at a small piece of ash on the ground that looked a little regular.

This thing will fall apart if you touch it, so you have to tell the police in advance.

"I understand."

Not to mention Conan, even Lin Feng nodded.

There's a reason the police couldn't solve the case; the on-site search was so careless.

"It seems that we have to visit the little boy who saw the Red Hare." Lin Feng glanced at the time. It was already midnight.

"Ding dong!"

"Ding dong!"

After ringing the doorbell two or three times in succession, the lights in the villa next door came on. After asking for the child's identity, the child's mother opened the door.

"I say, doesn't any of you wear a watch or something?" the woman said, rubbing her forehead.

Her husband was away on a business trip and wasn't at home. Someone rang the doorbell in the middle of the night and she almost called the police.

"I'm very sorry..." Officer Gong Chang was the one responsible for apologizing today, and he kept apologizing to the other party.

Lin Feng and the other two have already found the child who ran out rubbing his eyes to check the situation.

"Why are you here?"

The kid looked at Hattori and Conan with confusion. Aren’t these two the ones who jumped into their yard?

"Let's go to the living room first."

Hattori opened the door of the living room very familiarly, walked in, and stared at the curtains.

"If it's 7:30, then the time is about the same, but is it possible that the fire was already lit, but it wasn't very big, so the shadow of the horse only appeared slowly at 7:30?"

Officer Gongchang asked, standing by the window.

He didn't see what clues these three people had found, but if it was Morokaku Akira or Soga Sofu who committed the crime, the time of ignition would have to be moved forward, right?

At around 7:20, the fire was lit by special means, and then it actually started burning at 7:30.

"The horse's shadow didn't appear slowly, it appeared instantly!"

"And it's very clear!" said the little kid who witnessed it with excitement.

"Very clear?" Officer Gong Chang glanced at the three smiling people with a puzzled look on his face.

In the light of the fire, the shadow of the horse will be very clear?
It should be flickering, right?
"Well, after a few seconds, the shadow disappeared, and then my mother and I went out to check the situation." The child once again revealed an important piece of news.

"That's right, the mystery is completely solved!" Hattori picked up the evidence bag in his hand.

Inside were the remains of an incandescent lamp, although they were burned and tattered.

"Stop beating around the bush," Officer Gong Chang said.

"The murderer set up a trap. When he left the villa at 7:20, he used an incandescent lamp, calculated the time, and started the fire at 7:30." Lin Feng pulled open the curtains and said while looking at the air vent opposite.

"We already know the method, but where is the evidence?"

Hattori looked at the evidence bag and felt a little troubled.

"We can catch him and torture him severely," the repairman suggested.

In the ABC murder case, A and B are so damn innocent, they should be punished!

"Cough cough!" Officer Gong Chang coughed lightly.

Why does this young man's eyes look a bit dangerous, and I'm still here.

"Ah, hey, hey..."

Conan is here again.

(End of this chapter)