Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 19 Cotton Man?
"power cut?"

"It may be that the lightning just broke the line!"

Everyone was talking in panic in the restaurant, and Suzuki Ayako offered to say, "I'll go to the kitchen to get candles!"

"I'll go with you!"

Mao Lilan was worried and followed Ayako closely. Before Gao Cheng could speak, Conan grabbed him and shouted, "Brother Gao Cheng and I will go together!"

Among other things, Conan is very confident in Gao Cheng's kendo, at least he won't be afraid of strange people like Mao Lilan.

Pulling Gao Cheng hard, Conan whispered, "Brother Gao Cheng, you said you wanted to protect them, right?"

"Ah, um."

Gao Cheng opened his mouth, smiled and did not refute.

Mao Lilan has been attacked twice. Although the reason is unknown, it is indeed dangerous.

In the darkness, Suzuki Ayako quickly found a candle in the kitchen. After lighting the candle with a match, she breathed a sigh of relief: "At least I can last a while..."

Gao Cheng stood at the door, waiting for Ayako and the others to walk out of the kitchen with candle holders. Just as they were about to walk through the corridor, there was a sound of broken glass from the direction of the restaurant.

"It's over there to the restaurant!"

Several people stopped in their tracks: "Could it be that bandage weirdo again?"

"Wait!" Gao Cheng frowned and listened attentively, followed by the sound of glass shattering, the sound of hurried footsteps on the stairs, and a sharp wind came from the corridor behind everyone.

Gao Cheng's eyes narrowed slightly, and the wooden knife in his hand was swiftly swung behind him. After knocking away the sharp ax that was slashing at Mao Lilan, he continued to chop at the assailant unabated.

Ok?
Feeling the strange touch from the wooden knife, Gao Cheng was slightly stunned, and when he realized it, the figure had already fled out of the corridor in a hurry.

"This guy……"

"What happened?"

Ayako rushed to Gao Cheng holding the candlestick in doubt, and when Conan and Mao Lilan saw the ax smashed on the floor, they were taken aback: "This is not..."

"It's that weird bandage man!" Conan asked Gao Cheng calmly, with an ugly expression on his face, "Brother Gao Cheng, did you see anything?"

"I didn't see him, but," Gao Cheng said with a heavy face, "it felt weird when I cut him, as if I cut cotton."

"cotton?"

"Well, is it possible that that guy... is the Cotton Man?" Gao Cheng wondered.

Conan was still listening seriously, but he staggered when he heard the words.

"Really..."

Resisting the mood of complaining, Conan reminded: "Brother Gao Cheng, let's go to the restaurant first. Didn't there be some noises there just now? Maybe we will find some clues."

"That's right."

Back at the dining room, the power of the villa suddenly returned to normal, and the room was brightened up again. At this time, everyone discovered that the window of the balcony on the second floor next to the restaurant had been damaged from the outside, and there were glass shards everywhere.

It seemed that he was pretending to come in from the outside, but this only made Gao Cheng more certain that unless the man in the bandage was a ghost, he must be someone from the villa.

And ghosts cannot exist in Conan.

Gao Cheng glanced at everyone in the villa, and secretly activated the 1-minute detective mode. The clues he found and all other information were filtered, analyzed and sorted in his mind.

As if incarnated as Sherlock Holmes, the whole incident became connected by a clear line in an instant.

Everything has pointed out the identity of the murderer.

There is only one person in this villa who fits the characteristics of a murderer...

Just why did the murderer attack Mao Lilan again and again?
"It's that person!" Conan also solved all the puzzles immediately.

But he, a child, cannot solve the case directly, and Mori Kogoro is not around...

Conan's eyes fell on Gao Cheng's back, seeing that Gao Cheng was still thinking, he quietly opened the watch-shaped anesthesia gun to aim.

"Sorry, Gao Chengjun, in order to prevent Xiaolan from being attacked again, I can only borrow your identity first..."

"call out!"

The sound of the watch's anesthesia needle firing was very soft, and Gao Cheng, who was thinking about it, didn't notice it at all. He turned around and swung his arm almost instinctively.

Gao Cheng had a cold and stern look on his face, and when he saw Conan who was still holding a watch-shaped anesthesia gun with a dazed expression on his face, he couldn't help being stunned: "Eh?!"

"Cheat, lie?" Conan stared blankly at the shattered anesthetic needle, noticed Gao Cheng's gaze, shrunk his neck, and said with a guilty smile, "Well, brother Gao Cheng, I'm going to the bathroom..."

Gao Cheng couldn't help mentioning Conan from behind who wanted to sneak away: "Wait for me!"

Good guy, he was taken aback just now, if he hadn't held this magical Lake Toya, he would have been attacked by Conan.

Since starting a detective agency is of course on his own, he doesn't want to become a sleeping famous detective like Mori Kogoro.

Gave Conan a warning look, Gao Cheng temporarily put Conan aside, and shouted to everyone in the restaurant: "Everyone, it's time to expose the bandage man!"

"What?" Yuanzi was stunned, "Do you already know who that murderer is?"

Conan, who was being honest, also looked at Gao Cheng with some surprise when he heard the words: "Already know who it is?"

"That's right," Gao Cheng said straight to the point, "Actually, I thought it was some kind of ghost at first, but after finding enough clues, I fully understood that the man with bandages is not only not a ghost, but someone from this villa! "

"What did you say?" Ayako's classmates looked at each other, "But aren't we the only ones here?"

"It's among the few of you!"

Gao Cheng smiled and looked at the few people: "Don't you think it's strange? When Conan and the others were attacked by the Bandage Monster, if he climbed a tree to the second floor from the outside, why were there no mud footprints on the balcony on the second floor? Leave a trace?"

"This……"

"That's right. The prisoner actually went to the balcony from another room. The room next to that room is the room of Zhijiazi who has been killed. It is very convenient to get in and out."

Jiao Gu asked eagerly: "Who is the prisoner? I was with you at the time!"

"Mr. Jiao Gu is indeed not a prisoner," Gao Cheng continued to reason without being affected, "but there are others, right?"

"Are you kidding me? Are you suspicious of us?" Katsuo Ota snorted with a trace of cold sweat, "When that guy passed the window with Chikako in his arms, we were all in the villa, weren't we? How could it be one of us! Don’t think that you are a bad detective and you can talk nonsense!”

"Is it really impossible?"

Gao Cheng snorted and said, "What if it was just using a dummy? There are still brand-new strangle marks on the railing. I think it should be the mark left by the prisoner to let the dummy pass through the window."

"Dummy?" Ota Katsuki was stunned.

"The prisoner only needs to set up a small mechanism on the balcony on the second floor. I think it is probably with the help of piano wires. After giving us the illusion that Zhijiazi was taken away, the dummy and Zhijiazi's body were taken back to the balcony through the piano wires."

Gao Cheng turned his gaze to Takahashi, the fat man who was sweating profusely beside Masaru Ota: "There is only one person who has the ability to do all this, and that is you who just finished the roof at that time! Mr. Takahashi, the murderer is you!!"

"Don't talk nonsense, okay, haha," Takahashi said in a panic, "If I really dragged the body to the second floor, then why did I find Chikako's body in the forest later? I was behind you! And at that time I'm empty-handed, don't you forget?"

Gao Cheng had no intention of wasting time with this guy, and interrupted severely: "Then what's in your clothes now?"

"What?" Takahashi's face was full of horror.

"At that time, after we chased them out, Ms. Ayako found the necklace that should have been worn around Zhijiazi's neck in the entrance, which proved that someone passed the entrance with a corpse at that time." Without giving the fat man a chance to quibble, Gao Cheng continued, "If Of course it’s hard to cover up a corpse, but if it’s just a human head…”

Gao Cheng recalled the scene of people's heads rolling down in the forest again, paused, and said coldly: "When we saw Zhijiazi being hugged by a dummy, only her head was exposed. At that time, she might have been separated. Dead body! Well, please take off your shirt now, let everyone see the truth, and see if you are really so fat."

"Fatty" Takahashi froze in place, and didn't move for a long time under the suspicious eyes of everyone.

"Takahashi? Could it be that you..."

"Just now when the prisoner took advantage of the power outage to attack Ms. Xiaolan, my knife slashed at it like it was on cotton. That's because the stuffing on your body blocked the blow for you," Gao Cheng said finally, "Although I don't know you Why do you attack Miss Xiaolan again and again, but I think it must be that Miss Xiaolan has inadvertently grasped clues about your body shape? You are afraid that your real body shape will be discovered, so that you can see through the means of committing the crime."

Conan stood behind and stared blankly at Gao Cheng's back, feeling confused.

From the first time he met Gao Cheng in the haunted house incident, he didn't know whether he should trust his own judgment or not.

After several observations, he obviously looked like a confused detective like Mori Kogoro, but the level of reasoning shown at the end of each incident shocked even him.

I don't know if it was an occasional flash of light, or he was deliberately teasing him.

"Could this guy have discovered my true identity?" Conan's serious face flashed a look of horror.

(End of this chapter)