Conan’s Corpse Picker

  Chapter 316 Double Secret Room and No Wu Virtue

   When three high school detectives run into the mansion one after another.

   Behind the window on the third floor, a pair of eyes were hidden in the darkness, looking downstairs gloomily.

  This is a suite, which consists of two rooms, inside and outside. The outer room was very dark, and there was a bloodstain on the ground caused by dragging the corpse. The bloodstain stretched from the center of the room all the way to the door of the inner room, and the light was on in the inner room.

  In this environment, people who come in from the door will immediately notice the bloodstain on the ground, and then follow the bloodstain to rush into the lighted interior without searching outside.

   Moriyuan Kikuto was hiding behind the curtains outside.

   After smashing the window, he glanced at the inner room with a slight resentment while waiting for the guests or servants to run upstairs to discover and break into this secret room.

   There is the body of the housekeeper Takamatsu being poured.

  …

  The love between the two generations of the Moriyuan family is quite amazing.

   Nearly thirty years ago, Steward Shigematsu's sweetheart came to visit him at Moriyuan's house. At that time, Mr. Moriyuan thought that the woman was here to visit him, so he happily proposed to her. It didn't take long for the two of them to come together smoothly. Butler Shigematsu could only silently wish them a hundred years of happiness.

But now, in this generation, what happened in the past has happened again - Katagiri Kaede came to visit Shigematsu butler's adopted son Sakurai Yuji, but Shigematsu butler thought Katagiri came to look for Moriyuan Chrysanthemum, and mentioned this to Mr. Moriyuan thing.

  The Moriyuan family quickly decided on the marriage of Moriyuan Kiku and Katagiri Kaede. Later, Butler Shigematsu realized that he had made a mistake. He didn't want the tragedy of the previous generation to repeat itself on his adopted son, so he decided to prevent the two from getting married.

  I don't know if it was out of a guilty conscience or other reasons, the butler did not confess all this to Senyuan Master, but chose to start with Senyuan Juren.

   He asked Moriyuan Chrysanthemum to cancel the engagement, and threatened to tell Mr. Moriyuan about the illegal actions of Moriyuan Chrysanthemum company if the other party did not do so.

   In Moriyuan Kikuto's opinion, this turned into Shigematsu's housekeeper proposing a marriage to him, and then suddenly threatening him with the company's business to cancel the engagement.

  Moriyuan Kikuto remembered the secrets that he was kept by the housekeeper that could not be exposed, and felt that if he did this time, he would definitely be threatened more in the future. So he decided to go first, kill the housekeeper who threatened him, and then put the blame on the adopted son of housekeeper Shigematsu, so that no one could stop him at all.

   After making up his mind, Moriyuan Juren drilled holes in the glass and obtained fishing line tape again, and designed a fancy secret room to prepare for the blame.

   After killing people, he threw away the murder weapon, locked the doors and windows, arranged bloodstains on the ground and lights in the interior, intending to sneak in among others when they broke into this secret room and rushed to the interior.

  …

   As he was thinking, there was a violent knock on the door, as well as the sound of questioning.

  Morien Kikuto, who was hiding behind the curtain, listened carefully and recognized that it was Hattori Heiji's voice.

   The Osaka detective who had just been a guest at his house this evening knocked on the door and asked sharply, "Who's in there? What happened just now?!"

   followed, and the door lock was clicked and twisted by another person.

  Moriyuan Juren heard a strange voice coming from the door: "It's locked."

   Yuan Shan and Ye Zezheng ran along the corridor with a few servants, their voices a little flustered: "I didn't find Uncle Shigematsu! Everyone said that they haven't seen him since just now."

  ——This room is not a bedroom, nor is it a specific study for someone, so only the housekeeper Shigematsu has the key here.

   Moriyuan Kikuto hid behind the curtains. Hearing these words, he remembered the corpse of the housekeeper Shigematsu and the key in the corpse's arms, and nodded secretly - in this way, the secret room was completely formed.

   The group of people outside the door didn't get a response, and slammed the door anxiously.

   Almost at the same time, Moriyuan Juren heard Yuan Shan and Ye screaming in surprise when they were frightened by the blood on the ground.

   He breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that it was not what he expected—the group of people who broke into the door must have their eyes focused on the blood stains on the ground.

After   , these people will follow the blood to the interior. When they were startled by the corpse and didn't have time to pay attention to the side, it was the time for him to quietly appear... Moriyuan Juren thought of this, and the corner of his mouth evoked a planned sneer.

   However, the smile has not yet been fully formed, and he once again heard the strange voice that he did not know who it belonged to.

  The man suddenly said: "Wait, there's something wrong with the shape here."

   Moriyuan Kikuto stared at the curtain in front of him, his whole body stiff.

   "Where?" Hattori Heiji was walking quickly towards the interior, but after the unfamiliar voice sounded, Moriyuan Kikuto heard Hattori's footsteps and stopped.

   stopped outside.

   Moriyuan Juren held his breath, and cold sweat gradually formed on his forehead: Don't stop! Continue to go inside!

   But it backfired. The next second, he heard Hattori Heiji's suddenly alert voice: "... Indeed."

   Outside the curtain, footsteps sounded again.

   But unlike what Moriyuan Juren expected, the footsteps did not follow the bloodstains and walked towards the interior, but came straight towards him. The voice got closer and closer...

  “…”

  ...Go away! do not come!

  Brush Pull——

  The curtains were pulled open, ignoring his prayers, and a light appeared in front of Moriyuan Juren. The light was not bright, but he felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

   In Moriyuan Kikuto's slightly distorted expression, Hattori Heiji looked at him in surprise: "It's you? What's the matter with the blood in the house?"

  Jiang Xia walked around the room, briefly communicated with Mao Lilan downstairs, and walked out of the room with a calm expression: "The windows are locked, and the key is on the housekeeper Shigematsu. This is a secret room."

  Although it was expected, but after this fact was clearly pointed out, the eyes of everyone in the room looking at Moriyuan Kikuto completely changed.

   A secret room with two people in it, one dead, the other alive and deliberately hiding... What happened here just now can be imagined by anyone.

  Moriyuan Kikuto stared at the man who appeared out of nowhere and disrupted his overall plan with a few words, only to feel a burst of anger going straight to the sky——

   You talk a lot! ! !

   He shoved the person in front of him away, subconsciously trying to run.

   However, just as he took a step, Jiang Xia grabbed him. Hattori Heiji shot almost at the same time, grabbed the other arm of Moriyuan Kikuto, and with a little force, the two of them pushed the inactive eldest young master back to the wall.

   There was a broken window and a door just now, and there was a lot of noise.

  Moriyuan Juren struggled to escape. He watched the crowd gathered at the door, and finally his eyes darkened, and he fell to his knees on the ground.

"...It's all Shigematsu's fault! He forced me!" Moriyuan Kikuto didn't want to speak at first, but under the stares of a group of people, he finally failed to overcome the criminal instinct and said angrily, "If he hadn't threatened me Cancel the engagement, how could I kill him!"

   (end of this chapter)