Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

"How?" Sonoko looked at Gao Cheng after hearing Yamamura Cao's unreliable speculation, "Is Mr. HOTUMI really lying?"

"Won't."

Gao Cheng's expression suddenly became decisive and serious, and he checked the list of advertisers.

"The name HOTUMI may be just a title. It's normal for part-time staff not to know. You can go to the local town office to verify your identity. Didn't you recommend this place to the playwright because it is his hometown?"

After a pause, Gao Cheng glanced at the three suspects who were being interrogated, turned to Yuanzi and asked, "I still don't know the cause and effect of this incident, and I need to go to the mountain to investigate again...You HOTUMI What exactly are you looking for, sir?"

Looking at the essence through the phenomenon, no matter what the case is, as long as you grasp the central point, you will not be far from the truth. This is where the charm of the investigation lies. Many of the world's top detectives are experts in information collection, and Conan is not far behind. , it would seem to already know something, but didn't say it directly.

After all, Gao Cheng only got clues from Yuanzi indirectly, and he was not as comprehensive as Conan in many details, so the best choice was to go to the field to investigate.

The movie fan that HOTUMI made an appointment to meet with should be one of the three passengers, but these people’s denials made it more obvious that there was a problem. Judging from the murder scene and the whole incident, the murderer should be the movie fan, so the other party asked HOTUMI to find something It is the crux of the matter, that is, the central point of the problem.

Judging from the scene, it is very likely that the murderer will be silenced, so HOTUMI must have discovered something that cannot be known.

Returning to the filming location of "Winter Red Leaves", the corpses at the scene have been taken away, but the police still stayed behind to seal off the scene. After Gao Cheng revealed his identity, he checked the scene several times with a flashlight, including the place where the notebook was found. However, nothing great was discovered.

The stab wound to the victim's abdomen was already a serious injury, and he would immediately lose his ability to move. It was probably at this time that he left a death message, but the murderer noticed that he made up the fatal knife.

The murderer probably left in a hurry after the murder, worried about being discovered by tourists, and took away the notebook that seemed to have left a death sign, but threw it on the side of the road after finding nothing wrong.

It was extremely cold in the woods at night, Yuanzi tightened his clothes and got closer to Xiaolan. Gao Cheng was still investigating the scene, and Xiaolan was fascinated by the European karate competition on a portable TV borrowed from Shancuncao. .

The game is getting more and more exciting,

People are looking forward to what Kyogoku will look like when he comes out...

"Isn't it okay?" Yuanzi looked at Gao Cheng who was thinking.

"The key should be the tree that Mr. HITUMI found, the tree with the red handkerchief tied at first," Gao Cheng asked back, "Isn't it in this location?"

"Mr. HOTUMI said that he is at this location," Sonoko said in a daze, "but maybe not here, this is the place where the red handkerchiefs are tied in TV dramas..."

"Does that mean someone already did this before the TV show?"

Gao Cheng's gaze fluctuated.

In other words, HOTUMI who provided this idea to the playwright also saw a red handkerchief tied to a tree branch, and then someone pretended to be a fan of the movie and entrusted HOTUMI to find the tree.

Because of the popularity of the TV series, there are more and more tourists in this mountain area, so the murderer came to look for the tree, but there were red handkerchiefs everywhere, and he couldn't find it...

In other words, the red handkerchief may be just some kind of mark. After HOTUMI found it, he asked the other party to meet at the last scene of the series, but he was killed.

Gao Cheng felt that he was closer to the truth.

HOTUMI should have been killed on the spot before taking the murderer to the destination. It is likely that he discovered some secret and threatened the other party when they met alone, so the scene was so hasty.

In this case, the murderer may not know that the destination is the location of the tree where the red handkerchief was originally tied...

Gao Cheng and Conan looked at each other, and asked again: "When you met HOTUMI, which direction did he come from?"

"Over there," Yuanzi pointed to the back and said confusedly, "It should be over there, is there any problem?"

"If the idea came from the tree where the red handkerchief was originally tied, the staff would not take off the red handkerchief on the tree without authorization. Since there is no tree in the TV series, the red handkerchief must be tied at a considerable distance, because in It would be weird if there were two trees in the shot with red handkerchiefs tied to them when shooting a series..."

Gao Cheng said while walking: "So you should be able to find the tree as long as you go to a farther place. Maybe HOTUMI found the location in the same way, and you should be able to find it right away by following the direction HOTUMI came back...

"If I'm not wrong, the murderer doesn't know where it is!"

"Don't know yet?" Sonoko asked in surprise, "But, if the murderer is that movie fan, isn't it just because he wants Mr. Hotumi to find a position?"

"Perhaps because he felt that he could find it without Hotumi, so he directly killed him. Of course, it should be because Hotumi discovered the secret and suddenly threatened it."

"secret?"

It is not easy to find a tree with a red handkerchief in the dense forest at night. I am afraid that the red handkerchief was used to mark the murderer in the first place.

However, with the direction and goal, many things became much easier. Gao Cheng and Conan checked the red leaf tree branches on the road with flashlights at the same time. After walking for about 10 minutes, they still found the goal.

There was an old tree with a red handkerchief fluttering in the wind on the branch. Conan, with his sharp eyes, spotted this place at once. He also found that the soil under the tree was quite soft, with traces of excavation.

"Sure enough, Mr. Hotumi came here to dig here before meeting the prisoner..."

Conan's complexion changed slightly, and before Gao Cheng could speak, he squatted down and scraped the fluffy leaves and soil aside, revealing a skull with black eye holes under the flashlight.

"It's a grave!"

Conan's face changed completely, and he was a bit excited to find the truth in his solemnity, but others obviously didn't think so. The dark woods added a bit of horror, Sonoko hugged Xiaolan again, and said in a trembling voice: "Grave, grave? Who died here?"

Gao Cheng was not surprised at all, but his ears moved suddenly, and he heard some slight movements from the woods, he frowned and looked around and said, "This should be the reason why Mr. Hotumi was silenced, right, Mr. Mianguan?"

The woods were silent and did not respond, but under Gao Cheng's sure gaze, finally a fat figure came out. The white-haired old man wearing reading glasses was Watanuki Chenzo among the three previous passengers.

"Mr. Mianguan," Gao Cheng took the initiative to ask, "Is the questioning over?"

"That's right," Mianguan Chensan narrowed his eyes, "It's too late, so I'll ask us another day... But it's really amazing, Detective Kido actually found this place, it seems that God is standing on the sidelines On my side..."

Following a rustling sound, a group of thugs with unfriendly expressions suddenly appeared behind Mianguan Chensan, all holding various knives in their hands, and looked at Gao Cheng and the others as if they were dead.

There are at least 50 people, and they have surrounded the surrounding area without knowing it...

Mianguan Chenzo showed a confident smile on his face, and he looked at Gao Chengdao: "To be honest, I was really shocked when I saw the hot famous detective appearing in the hotel recently. I didn't intend to kill people at this time, but HOTUMI That guy actually found the bones and wanted to blackmail him...

"I heard that the famous detective in the legend is a master of swordsmanship, but this time I called all my subordinates in order to find this place. Is it too much to deal with you alone?"

Yuanzi swallowed dryly, watching the unknown number of gangsters in the night, and gradually moved closer to Xiaolan, but at this moment Xiaolan's body also tensed up.

The gangsters holding murder weapons tens of meters away is no longer a situation that can be dealt with casually...

"You, what are you going to do?"

"Of course we have to continue digging the grave. If you want to blame, you can blame you for coming here with this famous detective."

Mianguan Chensan smiled, and was about to call his subordinates to close the circle, but suddenly saw Gao Cheng pull out a wooden knife from nowhere.

"Ok?"

"As you said just now, it's indeed a bit too much, to deal with a group of guys who can't even use knives..."

Gao Cheng stopped Xiaolan from stepping forward, turned the wooden knife in his hand, somehow, there seemed to be a sharp breath, and the few members of the club in front couldn't help but wiped their eyes.

hell...

A member of the Jiwotou thick lips club couldn't help taking a step back. After realizing it, he angrily raised the real knife in his hand and rushed forward.

"Who is the wooden knife scaring?!"

"Everyone hack him to death!!"