Stay away from Conan

Chapter 496 The identity of the murderer

"You mean, the murderer deliberately opened such a big hole in the wall so that the table could pass through it!"

After listening to Gao Yuan's words, Sato Miwako said with a surprised look on her face, feeling that it was a bit difficult to accept such a line of thought for a while, and Gao Mu Shi asked unexpectedly:

"Then...if that's the case, since the murderer has opened such a big hole, why didn't he move the table out?"

"Officer Gao Mu..."

Gao Yuan couldn't help but be slightly stunned by Gao Mu Shi's words, and then said helplessly:

"Don't you understand yet...the table doesn't need to be moved out from another room It was not moved out, but the murderer opened such a big hole in the wall in order to move the table outside the other room into the other room. "

"Hey——"

Takagi Shigeki dragged out his voice and couldn't help showing a very surprised expression, while Sato Miwako seemed to have connected all the words that Gao Yuan said before and after, and asked in surprise:

"Could it be that the table was actually completed, so it should have been taken out of the other room long ago and placed somewhere. And the murderer killed the deceased on the table... In other words, the murderer moved the body!"

Very concisely, Sato Miwako grasped the core issue.

In response, Gao Yuan smiled slightly, nodded seriously to Sato Miwako, and then began to explain:

"That's right. Judging from the bloodstains on the table, before the bloodstains completely solidified, at least some bloodstains should have dripped from the table to the ground, but no bloodstains were found at the scene of the other room, which means that the other room is not the first crime scene. The murderer should have killed the victim somewhere else, and then moved the body and the table to the other room after the bloodstains solidified."

"But... why do you have to do such a troublesome thing?"

Takagi Shigeru asked in confusion.

"Because, for the murderer, if the body is not moved and allowed to be found at the scene, it is almost equivalent to announcing the identity of the murderer." Gao Yuan explained: "The murderer should also understand that it is easy to leave traces if the body is moved after the death of the deceased, but in order to prevent his identity from being exposed, the murderer has to move the body away. For this reason, the murderer should have racked his brains. "Fortunately, the body happened to be lying on the table, and there were bloodstains on the table. Therefore, as long as the table is moved together, it can be guaranteed to the greatest extent that the body and some traces at the scene can be moved without changing the posture of the deceased. "Hearing this, Gao Mushi couldn't help but stare, feeling that this idea is really amazing, and Sato Miwako kept thinking, but couldn't think of where to refute this speculation. "But in this way, where to move the body and the table so as not to arouse suspicion has become a new problem. "At this time, Gao Yuan continued: "The table is a piece of furniture that the deceased has already made. Because it is very new, it should be a newly made thing. Therefore, if the table is moved to the studio in the other room and made to look unfinished, wouldn't it be a good disguise? "

"But in this case, the murderer must take the table with him to ensure that the deceased's posture does not change, so the murderer can only move the table... But in this case..."

Sato Miwako has already begun to imagine this situation and began to analyze it.

"If the table is directly moved into the other room, it will not pass through the door of the other room because it is too large!"

Takagi Shige also said as if he understood.

"That's right. If you just take the table out of the other room, just fold the legs and stand it up, you can move it out from the door. But now there is a body on the table, of course it is impossible to move it in again upright, this is something that cannot be accomplished no matter how hard you try..."

Takagi Shige explained in detail.

"So the murderer came up with the idea of ​​drilling a hole in the wall! The impossible became possible!"

Takagi Shige was surprised.

"That's right. First hide the table behind the other room, then take the key from the deceased's pocket to enter the other room, and lock the door for safety. Next, use an electric saw to make a hole in the wall. " Gao Yuan said: "After the table was safely moved into another room, the murderer began to disguise himself. First, cut off a section of the table legs to make the table look unfinished. Then sprinkle paint on the door to make people think that the murderer's motive for breaking through the wall is also a reasonable explanation. Finally, put the key back into the victim's pocket, wipe off the fingerprints, and leave the scene. " After listening to Gao Yuan's explanation, Sato Miwako and Takagi Wataru thought seriously for a while, and then couldn't help saying: "Indeed, in this way, all the doubts have a reasonable explanation... But who is the murderer? How did Mr. Akechi know that there would be blood in the kitchen? " Sato Miwako said this, and couldn't help looking at the fluorescent spots on the kitchen floor caused by the luminol reaction. Takagi Wataru also had the same question. In response, Gao Yuan sighed helplessly: "What's wrong? I've talked about this, haven't you figured it out yet? When I realized that the big hole at the scene was for moving the table in, I knew it was impossible for one person to move the table with the body on it! Therefore, in addition to the murderer, there must be an accomplice.

"Now that the suspects have been narrowed down to the four people living in the main house, as long as we find out which two people's testimonies are obviously suspected of covering up each other, we can basically determine who the murderer is!"

"What! That means..."

After hearing what Gao Yuan said, Takagi Wataru finally figured out the key, and then instantly understood who the suspect was. However, because the choice of the suspect was so surprising, Takagi Wataru still showed an expression of disbelief.

"Yes, the murderers are Nana Yamauchi and Yuta Yamauchi."

Gao Yuan stated his conclusion straightforwardly, and then began to add:

"Of course, this is also inferred from the performance of the two people when they were questioned. But after locking them in, we can start to guess the real first scene.

"And where their identities can be revealed at once, and where the table was originally placed, the most likely place is the kitchen! Therefore, I asked you to conduct a luminol test on the kitchen. As long as If the blood stains of the deceased are found here, it can be determined that the first crime scene is the kitchen! "

With that said, Gao Yuan began to sort out the entire case in chronological order:

"Yesterday at 11 o'clock, the deceased Yamauchi Toda completed the table and put it in the kitchen. At that time, his nephew and daughter were probably watching TV in the kitchen. After that, he may have put the table The screwdriver in the pocket was left in the kitchen, or it might be because of other things, but the deceased returned to the kitchen again..."

Gao Yuan said, his tone became a little solemn——

"I'm afraid it was at that time that Mr. Toda Yamauchi bumped into the brother and sister, doing something shameful..."