Stay away from Conan

Chapter 495 The table and the big hole

"Hey! Mr. Mingzhi already knows who the murderer is!"

After listening to Gao Yuan's words, Miwako Sato and Wataru Takagi couldn't help asking in surprise.

"Well, that's about right."

Gao Yuan nodded affirmatively.

"However, the inquiry just now clearly didn't provide any useful clues. Why..."

Takagi Sheba asked in confusion.

"The inquiry just now was just to confirm one thing. In fact, when I understood why the murderer cut a hole in the wall, I already understood what the incident was about."

Gao Yuan couldn't help but replied:

"As long as we figure out why the murderer cut a hole in the wall, all the doubts will be solved naturally!"

"is that so?"

Takagi Sheta was still a little puzzled and said:

"But no matter how I think about it, I can't think of any benefit to the murderer from opening a hole in the wall."

"Hmm... So, could it be that the murderer wants to cover up some traces?"

Miwako Sato began to think seriously.

"Cover the traces?"

Hearing this, Takagi Wataru asked doubtfully.

"Didn't the murderer have an argument and fight with the victim before committing the murder? Because the buttons on the deceased's body were torn off and there were bruises on his face. If you think about it this way, the murderer may have received a counterattack from the victim. Could it be that at that time, the murderer was hit by the deceased against the wall, leaving blood stains and the like? "

Sato Miwako considered this possibility very seriously.

"Oh I got it!"

After hearing Sato Miwako's speculation, Takagi Wataru felt that it made sense and couldn't help but said:

"The blood stains are spattered on the wall, and even if you wipe off the blood stains, you cannot avoid the luminol test. So if you want to completely remove the blood stains, the best way is to use a chainsaw to cut off the blood stains on the wall.

"And if only the small piece of blood-stained wall was cut off, and very obvious marks would be left on the wall, it would look very suspicious. In order to cover up this, the murderer simply cut a hole in the wall. Big hole, so that the traces of the murderer left at the scene can be covered up!”

Takagi Wataru was very motivated and expressed his thoughts in one breath, causing Sato Miwako to look at him with great approval, feeling that this idea coincided with her own.

"But if you want to cover up the marks on the wall, just make more small holes."

Gao Yuan could not help but pour cold water on their idea and said:

"Theoretically, it is more important for the murderer to leave the crime scene as soon as possible. Although according to you, the bigger the hole, the better, but it is meaningless to waste so much time opening the hole."

"But if that's not the case, we really can't think of a reason why the murderer had to open this hole?"

Seeing that his conjecture was denied, Takagi couldn't help but said a little disappointed.

"The key to the problem is not just that the murderer made a hole in the wall, but why he had to make such a big hole..."

Gao Yuan tried to express his speculation, but before he finished speaking, he couldn't help but stop the topic and said instead:

"In short, you should do as I said and go investigate."

In response, Miwako Sato and Wataru Takagi looked at each other, and had no choice but to follow Takato's instructions and launch an investigation——

"Surprisingly...but why?"

In the kitchen of the main house, Sato Miwako and Takagi Wataru looked at the reaction of Luminol detected on the kitchen floor. Their expressions couldn't help but become very puzzled, and they turned to look at Gao Yuan aside.

Facing the results that appeared in front of him, Gao Yuan seemed to be relieved, and he couldn't help but smile a little relaxedly, and then couldn't help but say:

"This way we can basically confirm that the kitchen is the first crime scene!"

"What!"

Regarding this answer, Sato Miwako and Takagi Wataru were very shocked. They didn't know what to say. They just looked at Gao Yuan and waited for his explanation.

"Don't you feel a little strange about the scene in the other room?"

Gao Yuan couldn't help but explain:

"First of all, you still remember the table with the corpse lying on it. That table has one leg that is shorter than the other three. If you lean on it, the table will make a 'click-click' sound and tilt. Get up, right. Why do you think this is?"

"Because the table isn't finished yet?"

Tentatively, Takagi Wataru replied.

Gao Yuan also nodded in response and said:

"Of course you are right to think so. But if this is the case, then there is a contradiction in the scene in the other room - on a table with corners of different lengths, there is a man upside down with his head pierced by a screwdriver, so the whole It’s natural for the table to tilt, right? In this case, shouldn’t the blood flowing from the deceased’s head follow the tilt of the table and stay on it?”

"However, there is no blood on the floor of the other house..."

After listening to Gao Yuan's words, Miwako Sato immediately realized the key to the problem and couldn't help but think deeply.

"You can take a closer look at the table where the deceased was lying. The shape of the dried blood is basically solidified at the position facing the deceased's head. Only a few traces of blood flowed out from the blood and moved to the edge of the table. But overall, there is no obvious sign that the blood stains mainly flow in one direction due to the tilt of the table.”

Hearing this, Sato Miwako and Takagi Wataru were suddenly surprised. Then they took out photos of the scene and carefully looked at the blood stains on the table where the deceased was, and found that it was indeed what Takato said.

So Miwako Sato wondered:

"Then...that is to say, before the blood stains solidified, the table did not actually tilt?"

"That's right."

Gao Yuan nodded and continued:

"Judging from the shape of the blood stains, the four legs of the table should have been the same length when the victim was killed. In other words, the table should have been in a completed state when the murder occurred. However, after the murder, the murderer After the blood dried, one of the legs of the table was sawed off to make it look like it was unfinished."

In this regard, Sato Miwako and Takagi Wataru continued to look at the photos of the scene, thought about it carefully, and then couldn't help but nodded:

"Indeed, if you think about it this way, it should be like this."

Miwako Sato said:

"But why did the murderer do this?"

Even more puzzled, Takagi Wataru asked.

"Because, wouldn't it look weird if the table left in the studio had already been made?"

Gao Yuan couldn't help but said:

"If the table has been made, it would be more normal to take it out and use it."

"But... it's possible that it was just made and hasn't been taken out yet?"

Miwako Sato asked.

"Yes, you can think of it this way."

Takato agreed with Miwako Sato's idea and said:

"But when you connect it to the big hole at the scene, the whole thing becomes clear at once—"

Speaking, Gao Yuan couldn't help but pause, and then explained seriously:

"Don't you think the big hole in the wall is just big enough for the table to pass through?"