I'm in Mihua, and all the ladies like me.

Shown above is a distant view of Mount Fuji. The Mount Fuji in the painting is majestic and magnificent. The top of the mountain is covered with snow all year round and is white. This is the most inherent impression that people around the world have on Japan's Mount Fuji.

The voice of an unknown male host sounded from the dark stage.

"Teacher Kisaragi Fengshui is a master of traditional Chinese painting in my country. He has devoted his life to depicting the majesty of Mount Fuji..."

As the male host spoke, the images on the big screen also switched one after another.

That's Mount Fuji in different seasons, at different angles, and at different times, some in the morning, some at noon, some at dusk, and some at night.

After all, it was not a memorial service for Kisaragi Hosui, and this was not the main course of the opening ceremony of today's dinner, so the photo switching speed was quite fast, maybe only ten seconds, and dozens of pictures of Mount Fuji passed by in the blink of an eye.

"Recently, in order to celebrate the completion of the Tokiwa Twin Towers skyscraper, Teacher Kisaragi Hosui specially drew a new picture of Mount Fuji."

After the male host finished speaking on the stage, the large screen that was still on and provided a little light went out in an instant, and rose back to the ceiling amidst the hum of the motor, while the stage curtain behind it quietly opened.

The moonlight at night shines in through the window with the stars, vaguely reflecting the outline of the picture frame in mid-air.

But Serabel noticed that something seemed to be hanging in front of the frame.

Why does that shape look a bit like a Sunny Day doll?

"Please enjoy!"

The male host was completely unaware of this and waved his hand backwards.

The next moment, bright lights shone down from the top, illuminating the beautifully painted and magnificent picture of Mount Fuji.

It also illuminated the... corpse hanging in mid-air.

Well, whether it has turned into a corpse or not is not a matter of discussion, but the identity of the person who was hung is known to everyone in the room.

"That, that is..."

Mouri Kogoro was so shocked that he almost popped his eyes out after just one glance.

That's right, the person who was strangled and hung in the air was the current president of the Tokiwa Foundation - Mio Tokiwa.

She was strangled by the pearl necklace around her neck and hung up from the ground. She was connected to the upper edge of the Mount Fuji picture with a thin piano wire. Her hands and feet were hanging weakly, and her head was bowed as if she had lost her Awareness.

Like a hanged ghost.

"President Tokiwa?!"

"how so……"

No one expected that such a terrifying and horrifying scene would appear at today's dinner.

For a moment, an atmosphere of panic swept through the entire dinner hall.

Most people either covered their mouths in disbelief or stared dumbfounded at the scene in front of them. Even Hidehiko Kazama and Hosui Kisaragi, who were also standing on the left and right sides of the stage, had expressions of doubt about life. .

Who would have thought that the person who was supposed to be standing less than two meters away from him would be hung up in the dark?

Chaos was about to break out in the venue, but fortunately there was still the old detective Mouri Kogoro present.

At the critical moment, he rushed onto the stage and loudly ordered Secretary Sawaguchi, who was standing in front of the console on the side of the stage, to immediately lower the Mount Fuji picture and close the stage curtain again.

And Sawaguchi was worthy of being chosen by Mio Tokiwa as his personal secretary. He immediately reacted after being called out by Kogoro Mori and started operating the console in a hurry.

Then the picture frame was lowered and the heavy curtain was raised again, blocking out all sights that intended to visit.

Although they were in the same banquet hall, the scene behind the stage suddenly became quiet, with only a few people present.

Secretary Sawaguchi, Hidehiko Kazama, Minesui Kisaragi, the unconscious Mio Tokiwa, Kogoro Mouri, and...Serabel.

The last guy came in from outside after the stage curtain was closed.

"How did you get in?"

Seeing the latter appear, Mouri Kogoro asked loudly.

But his method of scaring the three little ones from the Young Detective Group was okay, but it was useless against Sera Bell.

"It's nothing. I just saw you guys like this and I was afraid that you would go directly to President Tokiwa to load the coffin, send flowers, and bury him on the spot, so it would be a one-stop process. So I came here to give you a little reminder that there should be some help."

"Although I think this should be considered common sense, that is, when the carotid artery is compressed, a person will indeed lose consciousness in just ten seconds, but it still takes a long time to reach death, at least 3 minutes. If it is inside, it is still in the salvage stage.”

As Serabel spoke, she squatted down next to Tokiwa Mio, put her hands on her chest in preparation for compression, then turned her head and raised her chin to Secretary Sawaguchi, who was still stunned.

"As the only woman present, could you please help me, Secretary, blow some air?"

"I-I'm coming right now!"

Naturally, there is nothing to say about artificial respiration.

It probably only lasted about ten times. As Serabel pressed hard with both hands again, Mio Tokiwa, who had been motionless since the beginning, suddenly twitched slightly in her chest, and then coughed hard.

Saved!

Mouri Kogoro and others looked happy and stepped forward to help him.

At the same time, Ruyue Fengshui, who had been standing silently behind Sera Bell, suddenly raised his crutch with a ferocious look on his face. He screamed strangely and pointed the lower end of the crutch at the center of the former's back, moving like an old man's ring. The bad omen monster jumps up and attacks the ground.

"Hey……!"

Others also noticed Ruyue Fengshui's movements and wanted to stop them, but it was too late.

Seeing the back of the crutch falling, Serabel instinctively raised her hand to grab the end of the crutch, grabbed it easily with a little force, then hit Ruyue Fengshui on the forehead with her backhand, and turned her head coldly.

"Hey, old guy, what do you want to do?"?

Chapter 169 Torture the old man hard

It's a pity that Ruyue Fengshui can no longer speak.

He was knocked unconscious on the spot by Serabel's backhand cane. His whole body rotated ninety degrees counterclockwise with his heel as the center, and then landed face down on the floor with a thud and became motionless.

The scene fell into dead silence for a while.

"you……"

Mouri Kogoro was simply stunned. This series of changes directly occupied his CPU, and the system was almost on the verge of unresponsiveness.

He couldn't understand why Mio Tokiwa was hung up, and how he was rescued by someone after that. As a result, a certain old painter suddenly started to get sick suddenly and inexplicably, with the intention of violently hurting people.

What's the situation?

Serabel was very skilled in the process. He stood up on the spot with the help of Ruyue Fengshui's crutches, came to the old man's side and leaned over to feel his breath and pulse, and then gave a conclusion.

"It's not a big problem, I just fainted temporarily."

As he said that, he grabbed the old man with one hand and looked up at Mio Tokiwa, who was slowly waking up from Kogoro Mouri's side.

"So back to the topic, what happened during the time when the lights were turned off just now?"

Tokiwa Mio only regained consciousness, but her condition was still very bad. After all, she was almost strangled to death by the necklace just now.

"Sorry...I have to think about it..."

She continued to cover her chest and coughed awkwardly a few times. After feeling herself recover a little, she stumbled and spoke, her voice weak and hoarse.

"Just now in the dark... ahem... first Zeguchi came over and said a few words to me, and then... yes, then my necklace fell off! Ahem!"

As if due to a momentary excitement, Tokiwa Mio coughed violently again.

But she wasn't finished yet.

Barely able to stop coughing, Mio Tokiwa swallowed hard to moisten her throat.

"Because the stage was completely dark and I couldn't see anything, I was still hesitating whether to bend down and look for it on the ground. Then Teacher Kisaragi came over to me and said it was okay, saying that he would help me fix it, and then wait until the painting rose. I suddenly felt a tightness in my neck, my feet were off the ground and I couldn't breathe or even make a sound...and then I lost consciousness."

"He said he would fix it for you?"

Serabel chewed this sentence carefully.

"But you said it was pitch dark on the stage. How did he find your position accurately?"

"This...maybe it's because of the positioning lights under my feet."

Mio Tokiwa cast her gaze on the floor in the middle of the stage.

In fact, not only in the middle of the stage, but also in the space occupied by Hidehiko Kazama and Minesui Kisaragi, there was a small light on the floor in front of their toes, a bit like the light on the ground in a public square at night.

The size is small, the light is not very bright, and it cannot play the role of lighting at all.

But if it is just used for positioning in the dark, it is enough.

Mio Tokiwa added.

"And because I'm wearing a low-cut top today, it's not suitable for bending down, so I asked Teacher Kisaragi to help me get it done."

Huh~ is this so?

Serabel rubbed her chin and thought for a while: "At that time, when we saw you being hung up, there was a piano wire connecting the necklace and the painting... Oh, not only at that time, in fact, the piano wire is still connected now. Yes, if you don’t believe it, you can see it for yourself, but based on this logic, in the dark environment at that time, the only person who had the opportunity to do such a thing was..."

He paused deliberately, let go of the person he was holding, and looked down at a certain gloomy old man who had also slowly woken up.

"Hey old man, what about you, what do you want to say to defend yourself?"

Naturally, Kisaragi Hosui had nothing to say. Mio Tokiwa was not dead at the moment. In addition, he had taken the initiative to attack Sera Bell before. Among the few people on the stage, he was the most suspect.

But after all, he is getting better with age, and the slight concussion caused by the cane just now made him unable to stand up normally, so he could only sit cross-legged on the ground, humming.

"...Hmph, I have nothing to say. Just call the police. Everything will be clear when the police arrive."

Ok?

Surprised that this old man could still show such a bachelor attitude, Serabel simply turned to Moori Kogoro aside.

"Uncle Maori, please help me call the police."

"Oh, good……"

Mouri Kogoro subconsciously touched the phone.

But it was empty.

That's right. When he participated in the 30-second guessing activity just now, he handed his phone to the waiter and he didn't have time to get it back.

Hidehiko Kazama reacted promptly when he saw this, took out his mobile phone from his body and said "I'm here", then turned around habitually and dialed the number while walking in the direction of no one.

But before he could take two steps, the feeling of something being kicked inexplicably under his feet made him subconsciously stop, move his phone away and look at the floor.

It was a small wine glass that rolled due to an external impact. It was exactly the same as what was found at the death scene of Representative Omu and Hara Jiaming.

It's just that this is intact.

"This is……"

Hidehiko Kazama was slightly startled, and subconsciously leaned over to pick it up.

Serabel and Mouri Kogoro were also attracted by the movement on his side, and they all cast inquiring glances.

At the same time, Ruyue Fengshui, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground and covered his head when he also noticed this scene, suddenly widened his eyes.

At this moment, he suddenly showed the flexibility that an old man of this age should not have. Like a flashback, he quickly took out a bottle of oral liquid from his arms without anyone noticing. Something, unscrew the lid and drink it.

At the critical moment, a crutch stabbed horizontally, accurately hitting Ruyue Fengshui's wrist. The force was so strong that it penetrated the skin and flesh and shook the tendons.

"Ugh!"

The old man screamed in pain instinctively, his fingers loosened as his wrist vibrated, and the vial in his hand fell to the dual blessings of inertia and gravity. It fell to the floor with a bang, and the liquid inside spilled all over the floor.

Serabel took back her crutches unhurriedly, beautifully wrapped a stick with the same style as the Clockwork Man, and leaned on the ground for a few moments.

"Speaking of which, when I first swung that wave, I felt that something was wrong with the feel of my hand, but now I am convinced..."

Convinced?What are you sure of?

Mouri Kogoro was still confused.

Then he saw Serabel pick up the crutch and unscrew the handle of the crutch and the stick part underneath as easily as twisting a bottle cap, exposing the hollow structure inside, and then turned the opening of the stick part downward.

Sosuo——

It was the sound of a ball rolling and rubbing along the wall of a hard plastic pipe.

The next second, another pearl necklace was poured out.

That was the pearl necklace that was originally supposed to be worn around Tokiwa Mio's neck, but now for some reason appeared in Kisaragi Minesui's walking stick.

Serabel picked up the necklace and waved it in front of the Ruyue Peak water.

"I have to admit that your technique is quite clever. You originally prepared a string of pearl necklaces of the same style with piano wires hanging on them. When the lights were turned off, you took the string off Miss Tokiwa's neck and then pretended to be kind. I wanted to help her put it on, but what she actually put on was the string connected to the piano wire...Am I right?"

Without waiting for the latter's reply, he put the necklace back into the crutch.