Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

In the kitchen of the main building, Dr. A Li stared at the freshly made butter cake and smashed his lips. When he saw that no one had entered the kitchen, he had an appetite for a while, so he cut a piece of cake with a knife and put it in his mouth.

not bad……

"Doctor?" Gao Cheng and Xiaoqiao Xian saw that they followed the maid Ms. Quan into the kitchen, and they couldn't help being stunned when they saw Dr. A Li.

"I'll come over and take a look..." Dr. A Li hid the knife and fork behind his back eagerly, grinning with a guilty face on his old face.

"By the way, Doctor," Gao Cheng glanced at the butter cake strangely, "When I will send Mrs. Yuan and the others back, I'll bring some snacks to Xiao Ai by the way."

"it is good……"

"Miss Quan, do you still have the biscuits from yesterday?" Gao Cheng asked, turning to the maid.

"It doesn't seem to be anymore, but I can make some more," the maid said, turning around while boiling the water. "Mr. Kioto, help me get some sugar. It's in the cabinet above."

"granulated sugar……"

Gao Cheng opened the door of the cabinet to find the sugar, and suddenly noticed that there were many electric switches on the wall of the door.

"Miss Quan, is this the main gate switch of the Grape Pavilion?"

"Well," the maid was stunned, "because I usually handle everything here..."

"Does anyone else know?"

"As long as anyone who has been here knows it?"

"So..."

Gao Cheng handed the granulated sugar to the maid, frowning in a deep voice.

Yesterday, Izawa met Huoji Xingzi who went out of the kitchen. It was just after 12 o'clock, that is, when the magic light in the single room was off. If the magic light was off at the beginning, it was just turning off the power switch between the ceremonies. The 5 minutes after Huo Si Xingzi left was suspicious.

The time when Huo Si Xingzi returned to the living room was 12:12, just after the magic light was turned on again. Only Huo Si Xingzi could do this in time.

During the single room ceremony, Gao Cheng returned to the scene of the murder.

Huo Si Xingyao's body has been taken away by the police, preparing for an autopsy to determine a more accurate time of death, but in other aspects, it is still as good as possible.

For Gao Cheng, after encountering a crime with a super-high IQ, he must avoid reasoning for granted, otherwise it is easy to enter the trap preset by the murderer preconceivedly. The best way to get rid of these is to return to the original point and carry out all the clues and details that he has. Deductive reasoning, and explore the murderer's thoughts and goals.

And this case seems to be a crime of high IQ, and there is a vague shadow of **** puppet master Gao Yuanyao.

The first thing to clarify is the meaning of each arrangement of the murderer, which is either to confuse the audience or have any deep meaning. The murderer deliberately shows the cursed doll first, and then displays the dead body in the same way in front of everyone. Everyone’s attention shifted to the cursed doll, so that some ignored the victim’s strange way of death...

Gao Cheng put his hands in and walked to the magic lamp again.

The question now is why the murderer arranged the murder scene between this ceremony, and also specially wrapped the neck of Huoji Xingyao with wires.

Because of this clue, the police judged the time period of the attack by monitoring the extinguishing of the magic light.

"Senior!" Kentaro Izawa and Kenken Kobashi rushed to the ceremonies together, squinted and smiled, "I heard that Senior, you suddenly ran over here. Did you find anything?"

Gao Cheng gathered his thoughts and shook his head at the two of them: "There is nothing to notice, but..."

After speaking, Gao Cheng's sight fell on the wall clock on the wall. The pendulum was swinging normally, but the time on the dial was slower. To be precise, it was about 11 minutes slower, which coincided with the time when the magic light went out last night. .

"This wall clock...isn't it mechanical but electronic?"

"wall clock?"

Seeing this, Xiaoqiaoxian looked at the wall clock in confusion, was stunned, and his eyes suddenly lit up, excitedly wishing to hug Gao Cheng.

"I see, Joto! The time is 11 minutes slower, which is the same as the time when the magic lamp does not turn on. If the wall clock is powered by a power source, it means that the plug of the magic lamp was not unplugged last night, but the whole The power was cut off between the ceremonies!"

"Power off?" Kentaro Izawa looked at Kobashi inexplicably, "What do you mean?"

"Don't understand, Kentaro," Kenta Kobashi said, "During the tea party yesterday, everyone did not have time to unplug the magic lamp, but if the light goes out and turns on again, it's not because the plug is unplugged, it's here. Has the power supply been cut off? The switch is in the kitchen of the main building. It will not take long if the power is cut off. You saw Miss Xingzi come out of the kitchen yesterday, right?"

"Wait...wait," Kentaro Izawa interrupted anxiously, "Kobashi, are you suspicious of Miss Hoshiko?"

"Don't you think she is hiding something from us?"

Ken Kobashi said seriously: "Yesterday the magic light went out at 12 o'clock exactly. Miss Xingzi walked out of the kitchen just after that, did you see it too? Only she has time to turn on the switch..."

"but……"

"It's not just that," Xiaoqiao said, the more sure he became. "The magic light turned on again at 12:11. At that time, she was the only one who was not in the living room. She said that when she went to make tea, it was 12:7 and went back to the living room. It’s 12 minutes. During this time, it’s very likely that you will go to the place between the ceremonies to set up the scene, and then return to the kitchen to restore the electric switch...

Kentaro Izawa shook his head straight: "But it's only 5 minutes. It takes a lot of time to run back and forth. How can I kill people? Besides, Xingzi did make vanilla tea and bring it back to the living room..."

"What if Jiuyao were killed before then?" Xiaoqiao said in a deep voice, "The current estimated time of death is 11:30 to 12:30, isn't it? According to past experience, the specific time will be 11:45. By 12:15, you can kill Jiu Yao before the tea party starts, hide the body between the ceremony, and then go to the kitchen of the hotel...

"Even if the vanilla tea is really brewed, it is possible that the tea bags have been prepared in advance, and there is no time for the temporary boiling time..."

"Impossible!" Kentaro Inazawa looked ugly, "Miss Hoshiko is absolutely impossible to be a prisoner!"

"Kentaro..."

Kenken Kobashi chased after Kentaro Izawa, who was hit, between the departure ceremony ~www.NovelMTL.com~ Only Gao Cheng was left alone to find the police officer to check the wall clock.

As expected, there is a socket behind the wall clock for power supply, so there is no place to wind it, as long as there is electricity, it can go on.

Indeed, there is only one maid in a place as big as the Vineyard, and the mechanical wall clock will only increase the workload.

but……

Gao Cheng walked to the window and looked at the villa in the building.

Is the murderer really Huoji Xingzi?

Both the motive and the actions can make sense, but the suspicious points still exist, because this kind of reasoning can be expected sooner or later as long as the police keep investigating, that Huo Si Xingzi did not leave a way for herself, and in the end, she was the only one who did not prove that she was alibi.

Or what else does Huo Si Xingzi have?