Conan's self-cultivation of fake wine

Chapter 527 The past reappears

Inufushi Hotaru, one of the eight adopted sons of the Inufushi family who served as the background of the story, fell off a cliff and died. Before he died, he muttered to himself: "I was pushed down by the fire demon dog."

Now, the adopted daughter of the Inufushi family, who is about to return to heaven, also said something similar.

Doesn't that mean that the murderer is very likely to have used the same method he used before to kill people?
If this is true, the murderer's approach is a bit unoriginal. However, most murderers pay more attention to practicality than the artistry and drama of their crimes.

In this regard, the two adopted sons of the Inufushi family have indeed used their lives to prove the effectiveness of this move. At least for now, this is a "classic routine" that can stand the test.

Taking this into consideration, if the murderer intends to continue committing crimes, he is very likely to continue using his current method of killing.

Conan and Hattori also realized this. They looked at Lu Ren and shouted almost at the same time, "Xiaolan and Ye, you stay here. Lu Ren, drive us up quickly."

When the previous cliff murder happened, both Conan and Hattori Heiji missed the first scene - they were like viewers holding the playback remote control, and could only piece together the crime through other people's retelling.

Even if the murderer left behind a special method of committing the crime, in the face of time, the most competent "cleaner", any traces of the crime have been self-destructed in the wind and rain.

But this time the situation is completely different. The death pendulum has just struck, and the victim's body temperature has not yet dissipated. Now is the golden time for criminal investigation - at this hot death scene, every coagulating blood drop is a speaking code, and every undisguised trace is a testimony that is about to disappear.

Everything will become a sharp blade to pierce the lies.

What they have to do is to race against time and run to the first crime scene above the cliff before everything is too late, break through the bloody fog and expose the truth.

Before Lu Ren could respond, Inufushi Yukihime said, "I know a small road. It's faster to go up there than to drive!"

Conan Hattori immediately said: "Lead the way!"

One person led the way, two followed, and the three of them quickly disappeared into the night.

"Brother Ren, aren't you going up with them?" Mao Lilan asked in a low voice.

It was understandable that her father didn't go up with her. After all, an experienced person had to be left to guard the crime scene. And Mao Li was old after all, and his legs and feet were definitely not as good as those of young people.

But why didn't Lu Ren go? His interest in solving the case should be no less than Conan and Hattori.

"It's enough just to have them here."

After expressing his sincere admiration for the two famous detectives, Lu Ren stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers lightly.

The next moment, he was on the top of a cliff. The night wind whimpered through his hair, and the bright moonlight was streaming down from the gaps in the clouds. Not far ahead, a middle-aged woman riding a women's bicycle was rushing towards him with a horrified look on her face!

This is the world in Inubushi Saki's eyes, and it is also his paradise.

While Hattori Conan and the others were busy, Lu Ren asked Xiaoyou to accept the soul of Inubushi Saki.

In an instant, time went back and everything in the past came into Lu Ren's sight. He saw the demon dog wrapped in flames appear from the night, roaring and pouncing towards Inufu Sasaki.

She was so terrified that she ran forward in panic. The next moment, she crashed into the wooden guardrail on the edge of the cliff and fell off the cliff with her car.

"This demon dog is quite realistic."

Scarlet light was steaming all over its body, and wherever it sped past, it left behind clusters of continuous, leaping flaming trails.

The idiom "lotus flowers bloom at every step" seems quite appropriate here.

However, compared with the poetic imagination of lotus blooming with every step, the actual scene of lotus blooming with every step seems a little scary.

Seeing this scene late at night, it’s no wonder that the adopted sons of the Inufushi family performed aerial acrobatics one after another.

Ordinary horror movies don't have such strong expressiveness and impact. Who wouldn't be confused? Even if the demon dog doesn't actually pounce on people, the process of chasing is enough to scare people into running for their lives.

So now the question is, who designed such a good show?
The first suspect was Inubushi Yukihime. She led people to the bottom of the cliff to look at the graves late at night. She even came up with the idea of ​​the underworld, so it was natural for her to design a demon dog from the underworld.

According to this inference, she must have set up the mechanism in advance and then specially arranged this time to invite everyone to witness it.

The only problem was her grasp of time - Lu Ren and his friends met her at noon that day, and they stayed together almost all the time afterwards.

Is the remaining time really enough for her to design such an ingenious and grand deception?
If this is true, she is either a master of time management or she is very foresighted. Before meeting Lu Ren and others, she predicted their itinerary and set up this plan in advance.

This kind of layout is difficult and risky, and it is easy to fail if you are not careful. But the benefits are also obviously high.

When Inubushi Saki performed the trapeze in front of them and accidentally failed, everyone present was an eyewitness and could provide an alibi for Inubushi Yukihime.

And judging from Conan and Hattori's performance just now, they had almost no suspicion of Inubushi Yukihime.

As soon as the latter suggested that there was a path leading up the mountain, they immediately responded and followed without hesitation.

At least at the moment of the incident, Inubushi Yukihime had temporarily gained their trust.

Apart from Inubushi Yukihime, the focus of suspicion is naturally on the remaining adopted sons of the Inubushi family. When Lu Ren and his men drove away from the Inubushi family residence, they did not hide their whereabouts. If there were people with ulterior motives, they would have been able to detect their movements.

Then he just had to follow behind, imitating the way a spider weaves its web, quietly setting up controls in the dark, and waiting for the prey to run headfirst into his trap.

The eldest daughter dog is Fu Kaozi, the doctor dog is Fu Zhihuang, and the bearded male dog is Fu Chanye.

At present, the three suspects are equally suspected. No one is more suspicious.

Although Inufu Zen's performance at noon was a bit off, it was not a big deal. After all, in Lu Ren's opinion, these adopted sons of the Inufu family were all scumbags, and Inufu Zen just exposed his true nature in advance.

After witnessing Inubushi Sasaki's twelfth performance of the trapeze artist, Lu Ren cleared his mind and returned to reality. At this time, Conan and Hattori also finished their investigation of the crime scene, and Hattori began to call them to drive up.

In order to save time, Conan and his friends rushed up the mountain almost instinctively under the blessing of adrenaline. But they were absolutely unwilling to go back and take this dangerous road again.

I'm not a masochist. Who would like to seek excitement for themselves when they have nothing to do?

After the group returned to the Inufushi family, Hattori called the remaining three adopted sons of the Inufushi family and began to report their exploration findings at the crime scene in front of everyone.

"There are indeed traces similar to flaming footprints on the cliff."

"Are you sure?" Maori asked in disbelief.

"Yes. There are such traces of fire from about twenty meters away from the cliff to the edge of the cliff. It's like the scene after a demon dog ran past." Hattori's tone was straightforward when he stated the case, without too much rhetoric or corresponding emotional fluctuations.

However, it was this almost mechanical retelling that made the pupils of the two girls present tremble, and they subconsciously hugged each other tightly. Recalling the scene described by Hattori, the knuckles of the tightly grasped clothes were already white, and the sudden chill penetrated into the bone marrow.

I don’t know whether the chill comes from the mountain wind or from the evil thoughts hidden deep in people’s hearts.

"It's just footprints. What about the legendary fire dog? Did you see it with your own eyes?" Seeing the three people shaking their heads, Mao Li showed an understanding expression and said disdainfully, "In my opinion, this is just a trick. Someone poured gasoline on the mountain and set it on fire, and then pretended that there was a fire dog."

After hearing Maori's rebuttal, Conan's face became more serious. They had naturally thought of the possibility that Maori raised. If it was really as easy as he said, then the matter would be simple.

"There is no smell of gasoline. And the distance between each fire footprint is different. The closer to the cliff, the larger the distance between the footprints." Conan turned his head to look at Inubushi Yukihime, "Don't you agree, Sister Yukihime?"

Facing Conan's sudden question, Inubushi Yukihime was stunned for a moment before nodding and saying, "Yes, what they said is true."

Hearing this, the girls looked even more horrified, "Is the legend true? The demon dog really exists?!"

Hattori sneered: "How is this possible? It's all fake, just a trick."

"That's right." Conan nodded in agreement. Although he had not yet figured out the murderer's method, he was certain that it was not the work of the demon dog.

The so-called curse of the demon dog is nothing more than a carefully designed murder plot.

"The murderer just wants to blame his crime on the demon dog."

Just as they were discussing, a very loud male voice suddenly came from behind them. He said in a high voice like an opera singing aria: "In such an information age, there are still people who try to fabricate the legend of the demon dog to make people panic. It is really outrageous."

"Um, Officer Yamamura."

The person who came was none other than Inspector Gunma, the rising star in the police force, the one with a 100% homicide solving rate, the number one suck-up guy, and the little prince of encountering ghosts, Yamamura Cao.

His appearance instantly relaxed the originally tense and panic atmosphere.

And after posing and looking cool (he thought), he couldn't wait to ask Mao Lilan and the others what they thought of his performance.

This frivolous and dissolute style of behavior caused great dissatisfaction to Hattori. He frowned and asked Lu Ren in a low voice, "Who is this guy?"

"Yamamura, don't you know him?" Hearing Hattori's question, Lu Ren was immediately surprised. He thought the two had known each other for a long time.

After all, these two were both pioneers in catching ghosts, and according to common sense, they should have crossed paths a long time ago. But was it only today that they met for the first time?
"Why, he's famous? Why should I know him?"

"Nothing." Lu Ren lowered his voice, "Just think of him as the Maori brother in the police world."

"understood."

"Excuse me, how is Sister Saki doing now?" Looking at the police who came from afar, Inubushi Yukihime asked about her sister's condition with a nervous look.

Although falling from that height without any protection would probably kill the person, but what if?
What if a miracle happens?

"I don't know." As expected, Shancuncao disappointed everyone again, "She had been taken away by ambulance before I arrived. I don't know her current situation either."

"The ambulance that took Saki away was from Inubushi Hospital." Doctor Inubushi Chiaki stepped forward, "My colleague just sent me a message that Saki lost her last vital signs in the ambulance."

"What?", "How could it be..."

Upon hearing the bad news, the faces of the other adopted children all changed.

Inufushi Yukihime was choking with sobs and unable to speak.

Inufu Zen also said with a heavy face, "Although I don't know who is behind the demon dog, that person must have a strong hatred for our Inufu family."

Inufushi Koko also agreed with this, "That's right, half of the eight adopted children are now dead."

Yes, there are half fewer people to share the family property. You must be so sad that you are about to laugh, right?

In Lu Ren's judgment, only Inubushi Yukihime was feeling sad at this time. Although the other three adopted sons looked solemn on the surface, they were actually secretly happy to varying degrees.

Their silence and solemnity are just a sophisticated mask.

Of course, this does not mean that Inubushi Yukihime's suspicion has been cleared.

After all, taking her life and grieving for her are not contradictory.

The sadness expressed by Inufushi Yukihime at this moment only shows that she is a better actress than others.

Everyone present knew this. Without giving them time to mourn, Maori went straight to the point and said, "Since the rest of you are here, please tell us what you were doing at the time of the crime, which was 7 o'clock in the evening. At that time, Miss Inubushi Yukihime was with us at the foot of the mountain to see the demon dog's grave. She has the clearest alibi."

Inufu Zen was the first to answer: "If it's 7 o'clock in the evening, I would probably be taking a shower."

"Because Zuo Ji hasn't come back, I went outside to try to find her. Because even now she still gets lost occasionally." Inufushi Koko continued.

"I was taking care of my mother. I measured her blood pressure and body temperature, and fed her liquid food. But having said that..." Inufushi Chiaki opened the paper door of the Japanese-style room and tried to show his witness to everyone, "My foster mother has been in a coma. I'm afraid she can't testify for me for the time being."

After everyone took a look inside, they all withdrew their gazes. They all knew about the situation of Old Madam Inufu, and it could be said that she had one foot in the door of death.

Inufushi Chiaki said something nice, saying that he would wait for the old lady to wake up and testify for him. However, it was still unclear whether the old lady would wake up, and even if she did wake up, it was also hard to predict whether she would remember what happened during her coma.

So it’s almost the same whether there is this witness or not.

Mao Li turned his attention to the remaining two adopted sons, "What about you? Can anyone testify for you?"

Both shook their heads. "Normally there were three maids in the house. But they all happened to be on holiday and went home."

As expected, when Mao Li was about to ask more questions, Shancun Cao at the side reached out and gently pulled him, "Mr. Mao Li, this is all our police work."

You said my words!
Kaozi asked in confusion: "Huh? Isn't this gentleman a criminal policeman?"

"Who told you he's a detective? Don't you know who he is?" Yamamura Cao seemed even more surprised than them. "He's Maori Kogoro."

"What? Maori Kogoro? The famous detective?!"