Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 279 Xiaolan’s discovery

Seeing Xiaolan regaining her composure, Conan finally couldn't help but ask the question he was most concerned about at the moment: "Sister Xiaolan, who is the prisoner you found?"

Hearing Conan's question, Xiaolan did not answer directly. Instead, she turned her head and stared at her garden beside her. She suppressed her sorrow and said: "Yuanzi, although I don't want to admit it, I must tell you that I killed Shimoda." The two teachers Sugiyama and the person who attacked you are most likely Yonehara-sensei..."

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I clearly saw Teacher Yonehara lying in front of me. How could the murderer be her?!" Although he had already expected it, when he really heard the name from Xiaolan's mouth, Sonoko finally felt Still unwilling to believe what the other party said, he shook his head desperately.

"Sonoko, did you really see clearly that the person who fell to the ground was Mr. Yonehara himself? If it's just that the clothes and body shape are similar, it might be someone else pretending to be..." Hearing the reasons that Sonoko desperately denied, Yoko calmly said The tone analyzed, "For example, Mr. Sugiyama who has been killed."

After hearing this, Sonoko's expression was obviously shaken, but she still persisted in trying to defend the teacher she admired: "But, but, I clearly saw that the person lying on the ground was a woman. Teacher Yonehara's beautiful hair I will never mistake your long hair!”

"But what if it was a wig?"

Hearing Xiaolan's rhetorical question, Yuanzi was stunned on the spot and was speechless for a long time.

When Conan on the side heard this, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in his mind, and he finally figured out the mystery of the missing murder weapon. He excitedly confirmed to Xiaolan: "Sister Xiaolan, could it be said that you discovered it when you were searching me just now? Yonehara-sensei’s hair is a wig, that’s why you suspect her?”

Hearing Conan's inquiry, Xiaolan slowly stretched out her right hand that she had been clenching since just now, and slowly opened her fingers under the gaze of the other three people, only to see two undetectable long brown hairs suddenly appearing. In the palm of her hand.

"These two hairs, one of them was found on Teacher Shimoda's sheets, and the other one was pulled out of Teacher Yonehara's head while I was searching him..." Xiaolan pointed to the two hairs in her hand. Genhao smiled bitterly and said, "Actually, I have never dared to compare these two hairs, but when I pulled out the hair, Teacher Mihara didn't react at all. At that time, I had already confirmed that the hair on her head was a wig."

"It is precisely because it is a wig that she refused me to help her check the wound at that time." After Xiaolan took the hair from Xiaolan's hand and observed it carefully, Yangzi immediately came to the conclusion, "You can still vaguely see a lot of hair on one of the hairs. The light blood stains, I believe there must be other blood stains remaining on the wig, which is enough to become conclusive evidence."

"As for how to make Teacher Sugiyama's body ring the doorbell while everyone is having dinner, I'm afraid they used this delay mechanism." As he said that, Yoko took out a kite string with half a rubber band tied to one end and told everyone The method of using low temperature to harden and break rubber bands is explained.

Although it has been basically confirmed that Yonehara Koko is the murderer who committed the two murders, Xiaolan had never understood how Teacher Sugiyama's body appeared at the door. Now after listening to Yoko's clear and easy to understand explanation, she Even Sonoko, who was the slowest to react, understood the other party's method of creating an alibi.

As for Conan, when he suddenly realized this, he was also shocked that the other party's observation ability was even worse than his own, and he reflected in his heart on the mistakes he had made during the investigation.

He obviously arrived at the scene of the incident at the same time, but his attention was completely attracted by the body and instead ignored the situation outside the door. This was really a serious negligence as a detective.

"How could this happen... Teacher Yonehara, why did she do this? What was the reason that made her have to kill someone? I really don't want to believe that all of this is true!" After listening to the reasoning of the two friends, Sonoko He felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and he could not hide the sadness and anger on his face. "I think the source of everything should be the girl named Mochizuki Minako who was judged to have committed suicide three years ago at Acupido Elementary School." Facing the two girls who were deeply hit, Yoko sighed softly and replied, "As for what kind of secret is behind this, I'd better go and ask Yonehara-sensei herself."

"Let's go, Xiaolan, Sonoko, no matter how Teacher Yonehara reacts, I will face it with you." At this point, Yoko's tone softened slightly and said, "If you can't speak, Xiaolan, then Let me explain the truth to everyone.”

"Thank you, Yangzi... let's go." After hesitating again and again with a tangled mood, Xiaolan finally chose to accept Yangzi's arrangement with a guilty look on her face.

Seeing that Xiaolan had made such a decision, Yangzi didn't have any thoughts of blaming her. After all, it was indeed too cruel for a pure-hearted girl like Xiaolan to identify her beloved teacher as the murderer.

What's more, Xiaolan was able to take the initiative to explore the doubts in her heart today, dare to name her teacher as a suspect, and finally muster the courage to tell the truth she discovered. This is already a huge improvement.

Too much is not enough. Putting too much pressure on Xiaolan all at once is likely to cause her relatively fragile and sensitive mind to suffer irreparable trauma. Therefore, it is better to take it step by step. I believe Xiaolan's heart will become stronger and stronger from now on. .

Thinking of this, Yangzi nodded and told the three people in the room: "Then you take Conan and go to the living room first. I will go to the door to prepare for the restoration technique. I will be back soon."

After hearing this, Conan wanted to follow Yangzi to the door to make a mechanism, but when he thought of Xiaolan and Yuanzi's mood and physical state at this time, he finally obeyed the other party's arrangement.

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Five minutes later, Yangzi returned to the living room from the entrance and announced in front of everyone that he had found the murderer and fully grasped the murderer's method of committing the crime.

When they heard that the murderer was among them, and felt the undoubted aura in the other person's words, the three teachers were instantly shocked, and Sentoshi, a reporter, also showed a meaningful smile.

"Oh, I didn't expect that this beautiful lady also has a detective's heart." He walked out of the crowd, looked at the heroic Yangzi with interest, and slightly raised the corners of his mouth and said, "Then what do you do? Before I come up with my reasoning, please allow me to know your name. After all, reports like a female high school detective solving a serial murder case are really rare."

Sensing the warning in Mori Atoshi's words, everyone looked at Yoko nervously, but saw that the expression on her face did not waver at all, and she confidently replied: "Yoko Sawabe, Class B, Grade [-], Teidan High School."

(End of this chapter)