Conan's Corpse Picker

The thick soundproof door makes a muffled sound when clapped, which is very textured.

However, after knocking for a long time, no one came to answer the door.

"...Maybe he fell asleep after being drunk."

Etsuko Hukura recalled the structure of the study, and pointed to a door next to it: "Opposite the door of the study, there is a floor-to-ceiling window that can be opened. It is next to the cliff, and no one can go up, so it is usually not locked... Go around the balcony and call him."

Jiang Xia nodded, and pushed open the side door.

Daisuke Torakura's study is an octagonal room that protrudes separately and is built on the cliff. With the corridor, it is shaped like an octagonal lollipop connected to the living room by a stick.

The door on the side just leads to the open-air balcony surrounding the study.

As soon as the door was opened, the cold wind and snow swept in.Looking down, the circular balcony is covered with snow, the snow is flat, and there are no footprints on it.

However, after walking along the circular balcony to the side of the floor-to-ceiling windows facing the door of the study, a group of people were slightly taken aback.

——The floor-to-ceiling windows were wide open, there were messy footprints stepped on in front of the windows, the wind whistled into the room, and the scarlet curtains fluttered, giving people a bad feeling that "something happened" for no reason.

Amuro Toru's heart skipped a beat, and he stepped forward quickly.

He ran to the window and looked into the room through the open floor-to-ceiling windows, his pupils suddenly dilated—the study room was pitch black, and the only light was the old projector.

The old machine made a slight noise when it was running, and it was dragged to the door by someone. The cone-shaped light emitted from the port was no longer facing the movie screen at this time, but changed its direction, illuminating the corner by the wall. A cross used to burn vampires.

The old spots flickered, and in the treacherous light, one could see a man with his arms outstretched and tied to a blood-stained cross, like a stuffed vampire waiting to be burned—Daisuke Hukura's eyes were wide open, and a knife was deeply embedded in his heart. Judging from the sinking depth of the wooden nail, the person is undoubtedly dead.

"..."

Amuro looked at the corpse and fell silent for a moment.

The others realized something was wrong from his reaction, hurried over and looked into the room.

Immediately afterwards, there were screams one after another among the group of people.

Toru Amuro backed away silently.

While other people's attention was focused on that horrible corpse, he silently took out the dice in his pocket, looked it over and over, and even took a flashlight to light it.

... No matter how you look at it, there is no problem, it is just an ordinary dice, and it has not been tampered with.

The road he and Jiang Xia took when traveling was indeed a random road, and they met random acquaintances.

... Could it really be a matter of the event's physique?

Chapter 542 Take Jiang Xia away

For a moment, Toru Amuro suddenly wanted to suspend the experiment, return to Tokyo immediately, and find a laboratory to lock Jiang Xia up so that he would not run around.

...But his reason told him, not to mention that there is no direct evidence to prove that there is such a thing as "event physique" in the world.

Even if there is, the holder of the event physique is probably just unlucky.

——It's like the peerless European emperor who always wins the first prize when buying lottery tickets.The first prize exists objectively, and Ouhuang just has the characteristics to be able to draw it.In fact, even if Ouhuang doesn't buy lottery tickets, the first prize will still be there and will not disappear.

...By analogy, even if Jiang Xia was illegally locked up because of the "incident constitution".That case has not decreased, it will still happen, but it will be encountered by other people.

Compared to this, it would be better to be met by Jiang Xia, at least Jiang Xia will not be frightened by the corpse like innocent citizens.And Jiang Xia also seems to like this way of showing her self-worth...

Jiang Xia vaguely felt a chill.

He patted off the snow from his thin shirt and walked into the study room which was slightly warmer than the balcony, feeling much more comfortable.

Others followed subconsciously.

Detective Gunfield glanced around, but didn't see too many things worth noting in the dark, so he put on his gloves, found the switch in the dark, and turned on the light.

As the room brightens, the spooky atmosphere fades a bit.

Jiang Xia walked around, using exercise to create heat, while looking at the doors and windows in the room by the way:

"The door is locked. Except for the French windows we came in just now, the other windows are also locked."

Amuro came back to his senses, entered the study, and glanced at the door of the study.

This door is a soundproof door. The door is surrounded by rubber, and there is no gap after it is closed. It is impossible to use the door gap to create a secret room.

...Combined with the steep cliff outside and the untrodden snow on both sides of the balcony, this is undoubtedly a murder in a secret room... The bad premonition has come true.

Amidst the wind, someone beeped and pressed the phone button a few times.

Then Suzuki Sonoko's trembling alarm sounded: "Hello? Well, there was a murder in Dracula's villa..."

"..."

Several people who were not familiar with her looked at her in surprise: I didn't expect this little girl to recover quickly, and she had already started to call the police in an orderly manner.This is really unbelievable...

……

However, although Suzuki Sonoko instinctively called the police, the road was blocked by heavy snow at this time, and the police could not come through at all.

Suzuki Sonoko hung up the phone in disappointment, but she wasn't surprised at all, and she even got used to it...

"No way, let's do our own autopsy first." Guntian Yumei encountered not as many murder cases as the group of high school detectives, but she has seen quite a few corpses. "Time is precious. If you wait until the snow melts and the roads are clear , At that time, a lot of evidence will melt silently like snow."

As she spoke, she took out her mobile phone and took a few photos of the cross and the corpse tied to it.

Then he adjusted his gloves and took a closer look.

"...Combined with the timing when the deceased entered the study, the time of his death should be between 9 and 11 o'clock tonight." Qian Tian Yumei observed the thick wooden nail on the deceased's heart, and then looked at the bleeding.

After briefly showing a puzzled expression, she began to look at other parts.

In the end, Detective Guntian's eyes stopped on the back of the corpse's head: "Blunt force injury... It seems that he was attacked from behind first, then tied to a cross, and finally nailed into the heart."

Jiang Xia has observed Conan for a long time, and now he looks like a serious detective.

He saw a heavy wooden sculpture with a forearm length lying on the ground: "This is stained with blood. It may be the murder weapon used by the murderer when he attacked Mr. Hu Cang."

"Where is it?" Guntian Yumi turned around.

Then she followed Jiang Xia's pointing, took a closer look, and nodded her head: "The shape roughly matches, it should be it."

At the same time, she took a few more pictures.

Hideichi Hamura, who is engaged in research on vampires, covered his mouth, as if he was disgusted by the smell of corpses and blood.

But soon, he discovered the problem, and pointed to the wooden nail nailed to the corpse:

"...This seems to be a collection in Mr. Hu Cang's collection room. It is said that it is a prop used in the filming of "Blood Feast". I remember that he often used this to show us off."

When he said this, the others immediately thought of the wooden nail.

In my impression, when they visited the collection room together, the wooden pegs were still placed there.

...That is to say, after that, someone went to the storage room first, took away the wooden peg, then managed to enter the study room, and killed Daisuke Torakura.

"...Go to the collection room and have a look, there may be traces of the murderer left there."

Everyone has reached this consensus.

……

It's the same as the "Chamber of Secrets" study.

The windows in the collection room were also firmly locked.

Pushing open the window, there was a vast expanse of white snow outside, without any footprints—this time, it didn't look like someone invaded from the outside, but it was more like someone in the villa committed an internal murder.

Jiang Xia walked to the window and saw a slender piece of wood lying on the ground.

So he poked Amuro Toru next to him, pointed at the wood chip, and reminded: "Boss, take a picture."

Toru Amuro responded, took out the phone, and wiped it.

Then startled.

and many more?

...Why is he doing it again.

"..." Forget it, Jiang Xia didn't have a mobile phone with her, so she couldn't take pictures.And it's also for solving crimes.

Amuro Toru's frozen movements quickly resumed.

After subconsciously taking one picture, he took a few close-up pictures and distant pictures respectively, and recorded in detail the specific appearance of the slender piece of wood and the location where it fell—Hucang’s house was cleaned very cleanly, even the dust was quite dusty. Rare, let alone such an important place as the collection room.

And this kind of wood chip is not easy to fall off like hair and thread ends. Its existence at the scene where the murder weapon is stored may have some inevitable meaning.

Amuro temporarily forgot about the "incident constitution" that gave him a headache, and began to think about the case like a detective.

……

After checking the two key locations of the study room and the collection room, everyone got together and began to try to find the murderer hidden inside.

Gun Tian Yumei remembered Jiang Xia's reputation for solving crimes quickly, and glanced at him.

But Jiang Xia was holding a teacup and was emptying it quietly, as if she had no intention of opening her mouth.

When she was puzzled, she could only immerse herself in her own thoughts:

Judging from the current situation, before the murderer commits the crime, he must first get the wooden nail from the collection room, and then go to kill.

And killing Daisuke Torakura, tying him to a cross, driving a wooden peg into his heart, moving the projector so that a bleak halo shines on the corpse... all these will take time.

And within the time frame of the murder, there were only two people who went to the direction of the collection room.

Chapter 543 Detective's business, don't be ashamed

One of them was Toshiya Tasho, a student who went to the storage room to check the doors and windows were closed after returning from delivering the meals.

The other is Shuichi Hamura, a vampire researcher who went to the underground library next to the collection room to check the classics, and returned to the hall after a long time.

Among them, Toshihiko Tasho checked the doors and windows, and it took only a few minutes to do anything.

So rule it out...

Guntian Yumi looked at Hamura Shuichi: "At present, it seems that only you have time to commit crimes."

Hamura Hideichi was startled, then pushed his pince-nez, shook his head and retorted: "There is a hall between the collection room and the study room, I did go to the collection room, but during that time, you were all sitting in the hall, even if I have a chance to get the wooden nail, and it is impossible to go to the study to commit murder."

"There is more than one way to the study, but other paths are less conventional."

Guntian Yumi stepped up the stairs and walked to the window on the second floor: "If an accomplice lowers the rope ladder from the second floor and helps you climb up from the underground library, you can go to the second floor first, and then follow the roof— —”