Stay away from Conan

Chapter 619 Invitation Letter from Yueying Island

"The murderer does not need to be indoors when committing the crime. He only needs to pull the rope outdoors and tighten the rope around the neck of the deceased. Then he can hang the deceased naturally... Therefore, the secret room itself is not a problem at all."

A few days after Ichiro Tanaka fell to his death, in the "Sandglass" cafe, Gao Yuan took a sip of coffee and slowly told his reasoning to the woman sitting opposite him. She seemed to be less than He is twenty years old and still looks like a student in school.

And with this girl, sitting next to her were two police officers, Sato Miwako and Takagi Wataru from the Metropolitan Police Department.

However, when the three of them heard Gao Yuan say such a conclusion so calmly, the three of them looked at each other a little bit.

Among them, Takagi Wataru and Sato Miwako looked at each other a few times. Finally, with complete confusion, Sato Miwako asked first:

"Mr. Akechi...you mean...that the room in the secret room was locked by the deceased himself from the inside?"

"Yes, judging from the description of the scene, this is the only possibility."

In response to Sato Miwako's inquiry, Takato nodded affirmatively and responded.

"Wait a minute! Wait a minute!"

Faced with Gao Yuan's determined attitude, Gao Mushe seemed even more incomprehensible, and even asked with a little self-doubt:

"Mr. Akechi... according to your statement, it means that the deceased locked himself in the room, and then the murderer pulled the rope outside and hung the deceased..."

"This is really..."

Hearing Takagi Wataru's doubts, Miwako Sato couldn't help but echoed:

"Can't understand..."

"After all, if this is the case, how can the murderer put the rope around the deceased's neck? Even if the rope can be extended outside through the small transom window in the room, allowing the murderer to pull the rope outside... But if the other end of the rope can If it can’t be put around the neck of the deceased, all this will be meaningless!”

Takagi Wataru couldn't help but ask in detail.

In this regard, Gao Yuan just said plainly:

"What's so difficult about this? The deceased put the rope on himself."

"ah!"

Hearing this, the three people present suddenly screamed out in unison, while Gao Yuan calmly asked the woman opposite:

"Miss Asada, you were rehearsing a stage play adapted from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," right?"

"Ah...well..."

The very confused girl whom Gao Yuan called "Miss Asada" hesitated for a moment after hearing Gao Yuan ask her, and then nodded in confirmation.

In this regard, after receiving such a reply, Gao Yuan continued:

"That's right. In the plot of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," one of the plots is that when the heroine Esmeralda was sent to the gallows, she was saved by Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

"The deceased happened to be playing Esmeralda in this stage play, and she would rehearse different segments of the story alone in that room every day in order. Therefore, the murderer only needed to prepare the scene in advance when the deceased was about to rehearse the hanging scene. If the prop rope is replaced by the murderer's rope, the deceased will naturally take the initiative to put the rope around his neck during rehearsal...

"Then, the murderer only needs to take this opportunity to pull the rope outside! After the deceased dies, the murderer only needs to cut the rope and recycle it through the transom window to complete the secret room murder!"

Concisely, Gao Yuan explained his reasoning in detail.

At this moment, the three people present seemed to be enlightened. They looked at Gao Yuan in shock. They were speechless for a moment and didn't know how to respond.

"But...in this case, who is the murderer?"

After a while, Miwako Sato reconsidered and asked Gao Yuan:

"And where is the evidence to prove this method?"

"If I want evidence, it is the nylon rope sample detected in the deceased's fingernails... If my prediction is correct, then the same nylon rope sample should remain on the window sill of the transom. This is the murderer who pulled the rope outside to remove The evidence that the deceased was hanged. As for the murderer..."

Gao Yuan pondered for a moment, and then said helplessly:

"How do I know this?"

"What!"

Hearing this, Sato Miwako and Takagi Wataru were surprised again, and couldn't help blurting out surprise.

In this regard, Gao Yuan expressed some helplessness:

"Yes... Based on the clues you have given me, I can only guess the method used by the murderer. As for who the murderer will be, how do I know?"

With that said, Gao Yuan looked at the very low mood of the three people in front of him, and then he had no choice but to suggest:

"However... if the murderer wants to implement this method to kill, the murderer must be very clear about the deceased rehearsing alone in that room these days. Therefore, either the murderer has been stalking the deceased recently, or the murderer is a familiar person around the deceased …”

Before they finished speaking, Takagi Wataru and Sato Miwako seemed to have thought of something, and hurriedly stood up and said to Gao Yuan and Miss Asada:

"I understand. Thank you very much for your suggestion, Mr. Mingzhi. I think we will know who the murderer is right away!"

Just like that, as the two police officers left, the only customers in this coffee shop were Gao Yuan and Miss Asada in front of them.

As for the sudden departure of the police, Ms. Asada looked very anxious, but Gao Yuan still looked calm, sitting on his seat, quietly tasting the coffee in front of him.

However, it didn't take long for Miss Asada to receive news from the police, saying that the murderer had been caught and that Miss Asada needed to go to the Metropolitan Police Department to help identify him.

So, after receiving the news, Miss Asada, who was still anxious, couldn't help but become anxious——

"Detective Akechi, thank you for your help. I'm going to the Metropolitan Police Department now...ah! By the way, this is the commission fee!"

Somewhat hurriedly, Miss Asada stood up and thanked Gao Yuan. Then she took out a thick-looking envelope from her backpack, held it with both hands, and handed it to Gao Yuan.

Seeing this, Gao Yuan took the envelope very calmly and said lightly:

"You're welcome, this is what I should do."

After saying that, Miss Asada continued to bow to Gao Yuan and thanked her, and then walked out of the coffee shop with great eagerness.

In response, after Ms. Asada completely left "Sandglass", Gao Yuan finally couldn't hold it in any longer. He let out a long sigh and laid his face on the table, looking very tired.

"That's great, Mr. Akechi."

At this time, since Gao Yuan was the only customer left in the store, the owner of the coffee shop, Kizui Toro, who had been at the bar, began to talk to Gao Yuan:

"Is this the first case that has been completed in the past few days? The business is starting to get busy! Since Mr. Mingzhi's name appeared in the news that day, the number of incidents I have received where Mr. Mingzhi was appointed to accept the commission has also become more and more... There are more!”

Saying this, a cheerful smile filled the face of Kizui Hōrō.

"yes……"

Regarding Fōro Kizui's statement, Gao Yuan couldn't help but said:

"Mr. Kizui must have charged a lot of agency fees."

——Basically, the incidents that Gao Yuan has taken over in the past few days have been received through the detective agency Kizui Fourou, and this situation only started after that day at the Rice Krispies Hotel, when his name began to gradually appear in the public eye. of.

"Although I heard that there were many cases where people wanted to find me, except for the one just now, the only case I received was about searching for a runaway child... and that case took me several days of work!"

Gao Yuan couldn't help but sigh.

"There's nothing we can do about it."

Seeing what Gao Yuan said, Mr. Kizui couldn't help but comfort him:

"Ever since that day when I rated Mr. Akechi's rating as the highest 'Mei level', the basic commission fee has already persuaded many people to quit, otherwise Mr. Akechi would probably be a little busy. Moreover, Mr. Honda's family wants to The commission fee paid to find a child is not included in the cost! Although it takes a lot of time, it is well worth the money! ”

"Yes, Mr. Kizui turned the commission fee of one million into one hundred thousand, right?"

Regarding Fōro Kizui's statement, Gao Yuan couldn't help but said——

At the same time, after completing the event of finding someone, the settlement panel did not appear in the end.

As for the incident we just dealt with——

"The reasoning is over, let's start closing the case."

"Comprehensive evaluation of case closure: A"

"Logic: S"

"Observation: A"

"Knowledge: B"

"The settlement is completed, the overall score reaches A, and the reward is 40."

"Detective Rating: Certified Detective"

"Bounty: 1800"

Looking at the settlement panel that appeared shortly after Ms. Asada left, Takato knew that Miwako Sato and Officer Wataru Takagi should have identified the murderer after reaching their own conclusions and arrested him quickly.

And because I didn’t know the complete story of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, I reread the story before discovering possible clues. Therefore, the low “knowledge” score in the end is normal.

"Oh! Don't say that, Mr. Akechi!"

Facing Gao Yuan's mention of agency fees, Kizui Hōrō couldn't help but smile and said:

"We are also mutually beneficial! Moreover, if Mr. Mingzhi opens his own detective agency one day, I may need more support from you!"

"Open your own detective agency?"

After hearing the situation proposed by Kizui Fōro, Takato couldn't help but start to think about it seriously, but in the end, he reluctantly put the idea aside for the time being——

Although now you will be charged an agency fee if you use the detective agency here at Kizui Farou, but if you open your own detective agency, the expenses will not only be the agency fee.

At least, I don't have the advantage of Kogoro Mouri. There is a single building in the Tokyo metropolitan area, which can be used to open a detective agency, and even rent out the ground floor to open a coffee shop.

If you want to open an office, you have to rent a store outside. As a result, the cost is beyond what you can afford now.

As for opening a detective agency directly in your own residence...

Don't be stupid, how could you allow outsiders to enter and leave your home at will?

As a result, the idea of ​​opening an office is really unrealistic for me.

Moreover, although you will be charged an agency fee through a detective agency, you are not the only one who can receive cases through this agency...

Thinking like this, Gao Yuan felt that the current situation was pretty good.

After the last incident, because Domoto Mumo never confessed, but the existing evidence was enough to sentence him, seeing Domoto Mumu being so stubborn, even Akechi Kengo left the country immediately without insisting on interrogating him.

As for myself, I was entrusted by Kengo Akechi to be the guardian of Shirozuka Hisui. It's just that I can't take care of the child I want to take care of. But seeing that she has just continued her "spiritual medium career" recently, I also Too lazy to bother with it.

The rest is what he entrusted to Kuroba Kaito.

But yesterday, Kuroba Kaito reported back that the mirror in Fifteen Nights Village was not made of black diamonds as he thought, so this line could only be put on hold for the time being. In order to fight, can you continue to pay attention to things about blue diamonds or black diamond mirrors...

So, seeing that the time seemed to be about the same now, Gao Yuan got up and prepared to go home...

…

It was already evening when I returned to my apartment, and Xiaoai had already returned home from school and was sitting on the sofa in the living room watching TV.

"I'm back."

Out of habit, Gao Yuan muttered this, changed his shoes at the entrance, and then walked into the living room——

"Welcome back."

Xiao Ai responded calmly, and then continued to watch fashion programs on TV.

"By the way. Today's dinner is ready for takeout, Haiyuan, what do you want to eat?"

Not wanting to move, Gao Yuan also sat on the sofa in the living room and was about to rest and said, but at the same time, Gao Yuan's sight couldn't help but notice an envelope placed on the coffee table in the living room——

"This is what I found in the mailbox at the door when I came back today. It should be addressed to you."

Looking at Gao Yuan's gaze, Xiao Ai replied calmly.

"That's right..."

Hearing Xiao Ai's answer, Gao Yuan couldn't help but feel a little strange, and took the envelope over -

"strangeness……"

Muttering, Gao Yuan couldn't help but frowned in surprise when looking at the envelope with only a receiving address and no sender.

——Who sent it?

Even leaving aside the fact that there is no sender, just sending a letter to your own home is already abnormal.

After all, I don’t have any relatives or friends in this world who need to be contacted by writing letters——

To be precise, I have no relatives at all, and the friends I know have all left their mobile phone numbers or email numbers. Even if someone wants to contact me, they can just call or send an email. Why send a letter?

Moreover, if it is not someone who knows you, who will know your address!

Was it his client who asked him to solve the case after he became famous?

But how could the client know his address?

You know, even when reporters blocked the door in front of the Metropolitan Police Department, he drove towards Shirozuka Hisui's residence. That direction was completely different from the road in Miwa Town where he lived, so he didn't want to expose himself at that time. I chose the Jade House in the Castle Tomb first.

As for the future, after getting rid of those reporters, outsiders have no reason to know where they live.

What's more, you have to know that the last time, and the only time I received a letter before, it was the letter sent by Miyano Akemi in the name of Furukawa Yuki!

Apart from this, I have not received any other letters at all.

Therefore, because of the lesson from Miyano Akemi's letter, Gao Yuan inevitably has some concerns about the letters sent to him.

Moreover, no matter how you look at it, this letter still seems a bit abnormal...

Thinking like this, Gao Yuan held the envelope in his hand and looked at it for a long time. Then with a slightly serious expression, he walked to the study and began to open the letter——

Open the envelope and take out the contents.

I saw that in addition to a folded letter, there was also a check for five hundred thousand yen!

Seeing this, Gao Yuan frowned and unfolded the piece of letter paper, and then he saw that it was a letter composed of cut fonts from newspapers and magazines and then pieced them together——

"On the night of the next full moon, shadows will begin to disappear again on Moon Shadow Island. Please investigate the cause - Keiji Aso."

After reading the letter, Gao Yuan could not help but widen his eyes in surprise.

At the same time, Gao Yuan subconsciously glanced at the watch he was wearing given by Shirozuka Jade, and looked at the moon phase displayed on the moon phase disk, and discovered that the so-called "next full moon" turned out to be tomorrow!

"Moon Shadow Island, Keiji Aso... This is an invitation letter from Tsuki Shadow Island... But why..."

Seeing this, Gao Yuan had already remembered which case in the original work this was, but because of this, Gao Yuan was also very puzzled that he would receive this letter...