Miss Moriarty wants to save Mihua Town today too

"Yes, that happened two years ago. It was a full-moon night, and I happened to pass by a nearby public hall where no one should be there, but there was the sound of someone playing the piano. I walked Near the window of the public hall, when I was about to open my mouth to confirm whether anyone was there, the sound stopped immediately." He choked out a sob and continued, "When I walked inside, Mr. Kameyama fell on the piano, and the cause of death was He had a heart attack, and the piece he was playing at that time was the Moonlight Sonata that Mr. Aso kept playing in the flames, and since then, this piano has been unknowingly called the cursed piano.”

These words, in the eyes of Conan, a staunch materialist, are simply exaggerated versions of things that have been fermented.

He lifted the piano cover at once, put his hands on it and pressed it randomly.

"Conan! This piano..." Just as Mao Lilan wanted to stop it, Conan had already started.

"It's not that different at all."

Conan tried to make others understand this with actions.

As a matter of course, they were kicked out by this man.

He stood in front of the door and said, "In short, please wait at the entrance until the ceremony is over!" After finishing speaking, he left the three of them behind and left without looking back.At this time, Dr. Chengshi came towards them.

"Ah, are you still here?"

"Miss Cheng Shi, are you coming to attend the ceremony too?"

"Yeah, because when I came to this island, the first autopsy was on Mr. Kameyama, so I wanted to burn incense and pay my respects." He said, and then began to introduce the tall man beside him, "This is Shimizu That's what I just mentioned, sir."

Masato Shimizu smiled and said: "It's the first time we meet, I'm Shimizu, please give me your advice."

After exchanging pleasantries, Cheng Shi and Masato Shimizu went to the ceremony.

"It looks like it won't be finished in a while..."

Mori Kogoro and the others were waiting in the living room, and they couldn't wait any longer, so they began to sit at the gate.At this time, the three of them saw Winnet who was coming.

"Miss Winnet?" Mao Lilan, who was leaning against the wall post, took a step forward.

"I was taking a walk, and I was thinking of coming over to wait for Dr. Chengshi. I thought I might as well go back together." Seeing that they were all sitting at the door looking up at the sky, Winnet said, "Have you not met with the village chief and others yet?" ?”

"Yes, the ceremony is still in progress. Really, such a day is wasted." Mori Kogoro complained.

Conan didn't speak, he was still worried about the piano placed in the room, because it was so strange, if it was as the man said, no one had used that piano in the past few years, but in his When pressing randomly, the sound is normal, it should be that someone secretly adjusted the rhythm for some purpose.

What does that letter to uncle mean?Conan was thinking, and suddenly found Winnet's face appeared in front of him.

"Ah, ah..." Conan was taken aback.

"Is my face that scary?" Winnet covered her cheek with one hand, tilting her head slightly in shock.

Conan took two steps back, when someone suddenly appeared in front of him, anyone would be startled.

Winnet said to Conan: "If you frown like this and tense your nerves, you will age quickly."

Ha, haha, it would be great if he could really age quickly, Conan thought, if he could directly transform back to Kudo Shinichi, he would not be restrained like he is now when investigating cases, alas, I would cry if I said too much.

At this moment, the sound of music came from the whole building.

moonlight!shit!Conan who heard the music ran quickly.He walked through the living room, ran straight to the room where the piano was, passed through the adults standing at the door who dared not make a move, and pushed the door open.

A man is lying on the piano in the house.

"It's Mr. Kawashima!" said the man before.

Conan saw the man motionless, and thought, Damn it!Too late!

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227 The Disappearing Shadow

While Conan was shocked, Kogoro also ran over.He crossed the crowd and came to Chuan Dao, who was lying on the piano, and checked his pulse. As he expected, Kawa Dao's vital signs had stopped.He turned his head and said to everyone, "He is dead."

"What are you talking about!?" The bald and overweight Heiyan Village Chief exclaimed.

Mori Kogoro ignored him.

Although waiting too long made him feel unhappy, but it was not because of personal reasons that he ignored the other party. He turned to Xiao Lan beside him: "Xiao Lan, hurry up and notify the police."

"Yes." Moore replied.

Following her father, Kogoro, who is a detective, she gradually got used to the scene of this kind of murder, and she didn't act too flustered. She ran out of the room and rushed to the village police station she saw on the road.

Mori Kogoro thought that Chengshi had done an autopsy on the former village chief Kameyama, so he faced the door and said to Chengshi, "Doctor Chengshi, can you come for an autopsy, please?"

"Oh, okay..." Cheng Shi was a little nervous, he knew who the real culprit of the murder was.

Hope there will be no problems.Cheng solid thought to himself, and then walked towards Chuan Dao's body.

Conan, who witnessed all this, was using his brain.He thought of the content of the letter mailed to the office, which had already announced that on the night of the next full moon, on Moon Shadow Island, shadows would start to disappear again.In other words, on nights when the moon is full, people will die on this Moon Shadow Island.

At this time, the man who drove Conan and his party out of the room at that time—Hirata Kazuaki exclaimed again: "It's a curse!" He kept trembling, "This is the curse of which piano!"

Mori Kogoro, who was checking the piano, sighed. "Oh, what's the curse?" He picked up the tape recorder hidden in the edge of the piano, "It's not the piano that makes the sound, it's just this tape recorder." Kogoro quickly thought of the death of the head of Guishan village two years ago , he came in front of everyone and said: "Judging from what happened two years ago, this is a planned murder!"

"Kill, kill!?" Hirata Kazuaki trembled in shock, and his raised right arm shook like an epileptic.

Among the group of people who participated in the ceremony, wearing black sunglasses, a gray knitted hat, and a long chin, Murazawa stopped him on Monday. He is the fiancé of the current village chief Heiyan's daughter. "Hey, don't talk about such nonsense," he questioned Mori Kogoro, "Who are you, exactly?"

Kogoro, who had expected to be asked about his identity by other people one day, tugged at his suit jacket with both hands, lowered his head with his eyes closed, and announced to the questioner, "I am a famous detective from Tokyo——I am Kogoro Mori!"

"Oh! Space pilots!" a man yelled.

Mori Kogoro almost fell.He thought that he has made frequent appearances recently, and he is already a detective with popularity and discussion. How could he have expected that these people didn't know him at all!

"Who is that?"

"I remember the pilot's name is Mori Mamoru!"

"No! He often appears in mystery novels, doesn't he?"

"That person is wise, Akechi Kogoro!"

"So... who is this person?"

After discussing for a while, the people who came to participate in the Dharma conference turned their eyes to Kogoro.

It's unbelievable that these people have never heard of him!At this moment, Kogoro felt very discouraged, and put his hands on the piano, looking down in thought.

When Kogoro held his debut show, Conan was not idle.He crawled on the ground, saw the swirling water stains, dipped his fingers lightly on them, and put them in his mouth.

Salty!

It is sea water.Conan looked in the direction of the water damage, the source was the back door of this room.

Winnet, who stayed quietly in the crowd, was still amused by the Kogoro Theater at first, but after seeing Conan's behavior, she tensed up again.

At this time, Dr. Cheng Shi, who served as the coroner, also came to a conclusion: "The presumed time of death was three to ten minutes to an hour ago. The cause of death should be asphyxiation."

"I think Mr. Kawashima should have drowned in the sea." Cheng Shi looked in the direction of the door and window.

Mori Kogoro wondered: "He died because of drowning..."

"If I don't take a look at it, I have no way to make a conclusion." Cheng Shi emphasized.

The person who started this murder case was no longer himself. During the whole ceremony, he sat in a conspicuous position and "accidentally" made some noises, which increased everyone's impression of him. In the homicide case, he had no suspicion at all.

Chengyu glanced at Winnet from the corner of his eye. He felt that this incident was the same as his original design, but the executor had changed. If possible, he still wanted to do it himself instead of pouring blood into the hands of others.

Conan walked to the window: "I think what Dr. Chengshi said is not wrong!"

"Look," Conan pointed his finger out of the window, "the coat on the beach outside must belong to that Mr. Kawashima. From this door to the piano, there are also continuous traces of being dragged from the sea."

"Mr. Kawashima also has dirt and sand on his back."

"Judging from the fact that the door or the windows of the room are all locked, the first few minutes of the tape should be blank."

Conan's barrage of reasoning surprised everyone present.

Mori Kogoro widened his eyes and gritted his teeth: "This, this kid, when did he, this..."

Winnet was also shocked by Conan's clarity of thinking.His reasoning is even faster than Kogoro?Winnet felt that maybe he was the first to bring it up, but even so, he spoke confidently, concisely, with strong persuasiveness, and his logic was so clear that it was impossible to refute.

Conan continues to infer:

"I'm afraid the prisoner left during the ritual, came to this room, passed the back door, took Mr. Kawashima to the seaside to drown, and then carried the body to this room, then came back to lock it, and pressed the switch of the tape recorder. Go out of the room to the corridor, and then back to the room where the ceremony is held."

After he finished speaking, he noticed that everyone looked at him in shock.Conan thought to himself, inadvertently overdoing it, it's really inappropriate to be smaller!He immediately pretended to be a child, folded his hands behind his head, and looked at Kogoro with a smile: "Is that so, uncle?"

Mori Kogoro was very troubled by Conan's showmanship, why did he tell him everything before asking him?What a nuisance!But in this situation, he couldn't hold back his face, so he could only admit it and agree with it, showing that he had already thought of it.

"Yes, that's right." Kogoro smiled embarrassingly, propped the piano with one hand, put his left leg back behind his right heel, and stood obliquely, and raised his head slightly, "If the door of this room If there is a lock, because we have been staying at the entrance just now... so according to my judgment, the possibility of the prisoner returning to the ritual venue is quite high."

The detective has gone wrong.Winnet remained calm. Although the door was locked, there were more than one window in the museum and this room.It wasn't out of the question to get in through other windows when it was getting dark—that's what she did.

She paid attention to leaving no traces when crossing, and the complicated situation at the scene also pointed the suspicion to the inside of the venue.

"Wait, wait a minute, what do you mean," Heiyan Yangzi, the daughter of the village chief Heiyan, was suspicious, "Is the prisoner still among us?"

Mori Kogoro said with certainty: "That's right, the prisoner is inside!"

"May I ask if anyone saw Mr. Kawashima leaving his seat in the middle of the ceremony?" Mori continued to ask.

"I know about this," Heiyan Village Chief replied proactively, "I'm sure he meant to go to the bathroom."

"What about the others, have you seen anyone leave their seats?"

Murazawa murmured on Monday: "Ah...how could I remember all of that kind of thing."

"Well, what if Mr. Kawashima offended someone?"

"It can't be said to be an offense, but the person who is the happiest after Mr. Kawashima's death is Mr. Shimizu, who was a candidate for the village chief election like him." Village Chief Heiyan said again.

Shimizu looked anxious when his name was mentioned. "What did you say!?" he yelled, "then you yourself are the same, Chief Black Rock?"

"Yeah, that's right! If someone doesn't want to use Mr. Kawashima's ticket source as his own ticket source," Yoko Kuroiwa raised his head, "then my father would have been elected a long time ago."

"what!?"

"Okay, stop arguing." Kogoro stepped forward to stop the two sides.

At this time, Conan said to himself: "But why did the prisoner move Mr. Kawashima back to this room?"

"That's because he wanted to blame this murder," Kogoro raised his hand as he walked, "blame the curse on the piano." He stopped in front of the piano and turned around. "By the way, when was this piano first placed here?" he asked.

"It was donated by Mr. Aso 15 years ago, and it has been here ever since," explained Kazuaki Hirata.

"Oh, is that Mr. Aso?"

"Yes, his name is engraved on the cover of the keyboard."

Mori Kogoro heard the words and came to the piano's lid to check.However, a sheet of music appeared inside, and he remembered that this sheet of music did not exist when they broke into the room in the evening.

"This, this is! Is it a sheet music? It's strange!"

Kogoro took it out. "During the day, there is no such sheet music," Kogoro said, a man in the crowd trembled when he saw the sheet music, then yelled and ran towards the entrance, and rushed out.Kogoro was a little dumbfounded: "Who is that person?"

Hirata and Akira came up to answer: "He is Mr. Nishimoto. He used to be quite powerful, but after the death of the former village chief two years ago, I heard that he seemed to be afraid of something, so he seldom went out."

"By the way," he looked at Village Chief Heiyan again, "The village chief and him should be childhood playmates, right?"

"It seems like this is right." Hei Yan was perfunctory.

The next moment, Mao Lilan who ran to call the police also rushed back, bringing back an old policeman along the way.

"The police are here!" she gasped violently.

"Xiao Lan, isn't it too slow?" Kogoro complained.

"Because he's not in the police station, I'm looking for him everywhere."

Winnet walked to the panting Xiaolan and handed her the handkerchief: "Please use it."

"Thank you, Miss Winnet."

Holding his hat, the old police officer walked towards the center of the crime scene.Hirata Kazuaki explained to him: "This is this one, his name is Mori Kogoro."

"Oh!" The old police officer hammered his palm with his right hand, and came to Kogoro admiringly, "It's the famous..."

"Yes." Mori Kogoro smiled.

Finally someone recognized him.

"Is that the space pilot?"

Kogoro blushed: "Please, you've got the wrong person."

I explained the matter to the old police officer a little bit, but the time has already passed 09:30, and everyone started to shout for going back.Mori Kogoro inquired about the list of participants in the ceremony, and then let them go.

At the entrance of the main entrance, he announced: "It's very late tonight, and the investigation and inquiry will start tomorrow morning."

The three of Mao Li, Cheng Shi and Winnet walked side by side on the night road.