Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

"What kind of ghost is that?" Conan asked hurriedly, "Mitsuhiko, how do you know it's the ghost of the village chief? Did you see the face?"

A man who dies at two o'clock in the morning, whose ghost appears at four o'clock in the morning...

Genta imagined Taro Yamaguchi's ghostly gloomy face, and he shivered in fright.

"No, no, I didn't see the face," Mitsuhiko explained thoughtfully, "What I saw was a ball of will-o'-the-wisp, a cloud of faint blue that floated in the igloo where he lived and could be seen outside. Will-o'-the-wisp!"

Conan looked thoughtfully at the igloo in front of the palace, did not speak again, and led a group of people to the side of the igloo, stood beside a forensic officer who was inspecting the wall of the igloo, and pointed to the igloo on the wall. Xiao Kong said, "This is the small hole. After I found this small hole, I went to tell the police."

"It's you, little brother," the forensic officer greeted Conan, thinking that Conan brought a group of people over, thinking that this was a child showing off to his parents and friends that he had helped the police, and said with a good-natured smile, " It's nice of you to tell the police if you find something weird! But we're still investigating the hole, so..."

Chi Feichi and Chong Shisubaru squatted down next to the forensics personnel, looked into the small hole with their eyes level.

Dr. Ali also bent over, looking at the small hole with the three children.

The forensics personnel were sweating, seeing the serious expressions of the group of people, they couldn't say anything to drive them away.

The small hole Conan mentioned penetrates the wall, and the inside of the igloo can be seen from the outside, which seems to be facing the upper half of the ice bed of the coffin.

Chongshi Subaru narrowed his eyes and looked at Xiaokong, "I remember that this igloo has only one ice bed, and there is an ice platform with a statue of a goddess in the depths of the room, then, the ice bed that can be seen from the small hole, It should be the ice bed where Village Chief Shankou was found lying..."

Chi Feichi also looked into the room from the small hole, and found that there seemed to be a small light spot on the opposite wall, and confirmed to Conan, "Conan, is there also a small hole on the opposite wall?"

"That's right," Conan nodded in affirmation, "I also told Mr. Police Officer that they had checked the position facing the small hole. There are two small holes on the walls on the left and right sides of the ice bed. straight line."

"So that's how it is," Chong Shisubaru touched his chin with his right hand, and analyzed seriously, "The murderer should have used these two small holes to kill the village chief, right? Just pass a thin rope through the two small holes, and tighten the rope , should be able to let the thin rope press down on the neck of the village head of Shankou who is lying on the ice bed, and after the village head of Yamaguchi suffocates, light a fire outside to burn the thin rope..."

"That's why there are slender burnt marks on the sleeping bag." Conan turned his head and looked at Mitsuhiko, "The will-o'-the-wisp that Mitsuhiko saw at four o'clock in the morning should also be the light from the rope burning. With the thick ice layer, it presents a faint blue color."

Mitsuhiko recalled for a while, his eyes lit up, "No, that's right! The ghost fire I saw moved in a straight line, from one side of the room to the other! Uh...but I was so scared at the time, I was so scared Immediately headed to the igloo where we lived, and actually didn’t see where the will-o’-the-wisp moved in the end, I just watched the will-o’-the-wisp move for a second or two..."

"It's right for you to leave immediately," Huiyuan Ai reminded, "If the murderer didn't set up an automatic ignition device and came to burn the rope by himself, then when you came out of the bathroom, the murderer should still be around here, and you should stay outside Or go forward to check the situation, it will be very dangerous!"

Dr. Ali broke into a cold sweat for Mitsuhiko when he thought that there was a murderer hiding here last night, and Mitsuhiko passed by here alone at night.

"But there is still something that doesn't make sense," Conan said without leaning closer to Xiao Kong, frowning and thinking, "There are two keys to this igloo, one is in the hands of the village chief, and the other is in the secretary's place, Mr. Xiaomu. Mr. Xiaomu said that he had not been here last night, and when he came in the morning, the door was locked, and the village head’s key was in his sleeping bag, which was in his own pocket. The murderer enters the house. After killing the village chief, the murderer either takes the village chief's key and leaves, so that the door can be locked, but the key cannot be put in the house, or leaves without the key, so that the village chief's key is still in the sleeping bag inside, but the door won't lock..."

"Could it be like this?" Dr. A Li seriously assumed the situation at that time, "The village head opened the door to let the murderer enter the house, and the murderer took the opportunity to tamper with the house, passing a thin rope through the left and right sides. On both sides of the wall, the string was hung somewhere in the middle. After the murderer left, the village chief locked the door and lay down in his sleeping bag. At about two o'clock in the morning, the murderer came back here and fixed one end of the string. He pulled the other end by himself, tightened the rope and let it fall from the hanging place and onto the village chief’s neck, and after the village chief suffocated to death, he burned the rope…”

Chi Feichi listened to Dr. Ali's words, and the whole picture of the outlaw lunatic Xiao Hei playing tricks inside and outside the igloo and smiling sinisterly from time to time could emerge in his mind.

Actually it's not impossible...

Conan didn't find the hanging mechanism in the house before, but he wasn't sure if there was something he didn't pay attention to, or if there was a possibility. , "Then why don't you go to the house to look for it? If the murder method the doctor said is true, then there should be a place in the house where the rope is temporarily suspended at a high place, right? Otherwise, the village chief saw a rope lying on the ground. On the sleeping bag, you definitely won't lie in the sleeping bag and let the rope hang above your neck!"

The forensic personnel were stunned by the group's analysis. Seeing that these people were going into the house, they took the initiative to lead a group of people to the main entrance of the igloo, found the leading policeman in charge of this case, and talked about the group of people. His discovery and analysis won the group the privilege of entering the investigation.

Conan originally wanted to use Chi Feichi's "Mori Kogoro's apprentice" as a reason to persuade the police, but he didn't expect it to be completely useless.

Two criminal police officers told a group of people not to run around and fumble around, and led a group of people through the gate, through the foyer, and into the spacious room with the dome.

The dome of this igloo is as high as five meters. In the hall, there are ice sofas, tables, dining tables, dining chairs and some exquisite ice decorations.

A one-meter-high ice platform was built in the innermost part of the room. A two-meter-high statue of an angel was erected next to the wall of the ice platform. An ice bed in the shape of a coffin was placed in front of the angel statue.

The police had finished taking pictures and searching the house. When a group of people entered the house, there were still four or five policemen in the house checking the small holes in the wall.

Dr. A Li suspected that the string had been hung on the statue of the angel, and when he got near the ice bed, he observed the statue of the angel from all directions.

It was the first time for Chi Feichi to enter this room, and he felt a little strange when he walked beside the ice bed. He turned his head to look at the entire raised ice table, and then turned his gaze back to the ice bed again, "The bed is very small."

In their room, the ice bed is not divided into big and small beds. Last night the doctor asked him and Oki Subaru if they thought the bed was small. At that time, he had visually measured the length and width of the bed, so he remembered it clearly. The one on their side The length of the ice bed is more than two meters long, and the black fur is also two meters long. The widest part of the hexagonal coffin on the ice bed is about one meter wide.

And the ice bed in this room is about 1.7 meters long, and the widest part is about 70 centimeters. Compared with the bed over there, this bed is a lot smaller, so that he saw that the first bed of this bed For a while, there was a small feeling of 'this bed is not enough to lie on'.

This is the Ice Wither Hotel, and guests of different heights, short, fat and thin will be welcomed. Isn't it unfriendly to make such a bed for tall guests?

Conan also noticed this doubt, looked up at Chi Feichi and Chong Shisubaru, and said thoughtfully, "The village head of Shankou seems to be less than 1.7 meters tall. If he comes to sleep in this bed, he should be able to sleep just right. ..."

When he ran in and saw the dead body of Village Chief Shankou, he felt that there was something wrong with this bed. Now that he thought about it, it was because the bed was smaller than theirs, but Village Chief Shankou was about 1.65 meters tall, so it was very suitable for him to lie on. The sleeping bag, which is a little longer than the height, is just enough to put it, and there is no extra space at all.

This bed was probably specially made by the murderer for the village head of Shankou, just to let the village head of Shankou sleep in a fixed position, not to sleep on the upper side or on the lower side.

In this way, even if the murderer is outside the house, he can accurately determine the location of the throat of the village head of Shankou.

These ice beds were designed and made by Tetsuya Shiota. It is impossible for someone to make the bed in the middle of this big room into a small bed that is not suitable for a hotel bed without telling Tetsuya Shiota.

In the case of the killing of the village head of Yamaguchi, Shiota Tetsu was definitely not an irrelevant passer-by, but the problem now is that the specific method of operation has not yet been confirmed, and he cannot say with certainty that Shiota Tetsu is also the murderer.

There must be something wrong with Shiota Tetsuya making the ice bed like this, but that doesn't rule out the possibility of Shiota Tetsuya being used by others...

Okishi Subaru also came to the same conclusion in his heart, looked at the angel statue in front of the bed, and then looked up at the dome above, "However, it seems that there is no place suitable for hanging ropes, and there is no place where ropes have been hung. trace."

Others did not find traces of hanging ropes. Dr. Ali's hypothesis was not supported by evidence and became more and more uncertain.

Chi Feichi was also interested in this incident that he couldn't think of at the moment, and when he turned around and walked out, he began to think about the murderer's specific method of operation.

The modus operandi of this incident is very special. The deceased Taro Yamaguchi died of compression and suffocation on his throat while he was sleeping, but it was not a common strangulation, but he was just pressed straight down with a thin rope that ran through the walls on both sides of the house.

Because Taro Yamaguchi is wrapped in a sleeping bag, when he feels that his throat is compressed and feels suffocation, his hands may not be able to open the sleeping bag and stretch out in a panic. Fatigue, shock, even more unable to open the sleeping bag, as if tied

Just like putting his hands and feet on the ice bed, he was killed by a thin rope.

The murderer didn't strangle Yamaguchi Taro face to face, but used this unique killing method~www.NovelMTL.com~ It's not like impulsive killing, but a long-planned murder. Then, the murderer must have his own reasons for using this unique method to kill The considerations in it may be religious beliefs, or it may be to create an alibi or create a secret room.

The environment of this scene is very religious, and it is not ruled out that the murderer has some kind of religious belief in his modus operandi, but there is no obvious trace of "ceremony" at the scene and the corpse, and it is impossible to confirm the special modus operandi and religious belief of this murder. related.

If Xiaomu and Xing hadn't been here last night, and a secret room was indeed formed here, then don't think about religious beliefs for the time being, and start thinking from the direction of 'making an alibi or making a secret room'.

Generally, the murderer creates a secret room to make the deceased look like a suicide. If the murderer in this case wants to make the deceased look like a suicide, he should not ignite the murder weapon and destroy it, but find a way to leave the string at the scene. In other words, the murderer chose to burn the string, so he shouldn't have thought that Taro Yamaguchi committed suicide.

So, did the murderer use this special method to create an alibi?

In that case, it means that at two o'clock in the morning when Taro Yamaguchi died, the murderer was not around here, and there was no need to tighten the rope around here, and the ice bed could make Taro Yamaguchi lie in a fixed position, which is also like some kind of The prerequisite for the automatic killing device to work.

When the murderer creates an automatic killing device, they usually use the scene environment. Conversely, they can also use the environmental characteristics here to think about what the automatic killing device the murderer is using.

The scene is an igloo made entirely of ice, with ice inside and outside the house, small holes in the ice wall, and an ice bed in the shape of a coffin...

The biggest feature in the environment is ice. The murderer should have considered the existence of ice when he did the crime. Speaking of ice...

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