Conan the Hell Puppet Master

After listening to Kogoro's narration late, and looking at these two locks again, Mumu gave a normal inference.

"Shouldn't be!"

Gao Yuanzhao suddenly said, "Didn't the two maids say that Ms. Su Fang seemed to have some insomnia recently and had to rely on drugs to fall asleep. When we examined the body, we found no signs of struggle."

"According to my brother, how did you know."

Gao Yuanzhao rolled his eyes at him and said angrily.

"If it weren't for your ugly words, I would have known it sooner."

It turned out that when Kogoro opened the small book, Gao Yuanzhao had already read the above content.

At this moment, Mumu walked into the room and suddenly found a door on the other side.

"Can you get out of this door?"

"It shouldn't. It is said that there is another bedroom next door, which has now been sealed off!"

Kogoro said, and shyly hid his small books.

"If you say that, this is a secret room murder!"

"probably!"

As soon as the two sang together, they were about to define the case, Gao Yuanzhao interrupted immediately.

"There are so many gaps in the secret room, how could it be a secret room!"

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After listening to Gao Yuanzhao's words, Conan, including Conan, followed Gao Yuanzhao's eyes and looked up.

I happened to see that the door that was sealed also had a transom, but it was blocked by some wooden slats.

"As my brother means..."

As Kogoro said, he reached out and fiddled with the... wooden strips, but found that these.... wooden strips had been fixed, and there was a gap between the wooden strips. The gap can only fit one palm.

"Sure enough, this is a secret room. The only door that can be entered and exited was locked by the victim from the inside. The other door was sealed and there was no sign of being opened. The rest of the windows..."

Kogoro went to study the windows again, but they were all sealed.

"There's nothing unusual here. If the victim used the key to open the door by herself, it doesn't make sense that she drank sleeping pills before going to bed."

Kogoro's thoughts came to an abrupt halt, frowning, thinking about any missing clues.

Gao Yuanzhao's expression was relaxed, he looked left and right to observe the furnishings of the room, and from time to time he joked with Xiao Lan next to him.

Conan, who was immersed in case reasoning, did not pay attention to this, but made a hypothesis.

"Uncle, how can you be sure that the deceased drank the sleeping pills by himself, not someone else fed her?"

"Idiot, of course, the people around Ms. Su Fang said it. She always returns to the room by herself..."

Kogoro suddenly got stuck, slapped his thigh fiercely and said suddenly.

"I understand, the prisoner first agreed with Ms. Su Fang to meet at night. After entering the room, he tricked Ms. Su Fang into drinking a drink with sleeping pills, put her unconscious and put her on the bed, then killed her and arranged the scene. ,."

"So this is ah!"

After hearing this, Mu Mu also had a look of admiration and asked impatiently.

"And then how did the murderer escape?"

"this..."

Kogoro is a little "shy"

Right to the finger.

"I don't know yet!"

At this moment, Mu Mu only felt that his expectations had fed the dog, so he decisively shifted his target and looked at Gao Yuanzhao.

At this time, Gao Yuanzhao was studying the padlock, and Mu Mu came up and said.

"In fact, in previous cases, there was also a precedent for using tools such as fishing lines to lock the anti-theft door outside the door. However, this traditional padlock must be locked by aligning the two lock holes on the door frame and the side of the door. It's a complicated operation that can't be done outside the door."

Regarding Mu Mu's statement, Gao Yuanzhao was noncommittal, still the same expression, until the forensic staff brought the murder weapon, Gao Yuanzhao was not interested.

"This knife fell on the bedside table before and was covered in blood. It should be the murder weapon!"

The forensic officer took out a bloody dagger in an evidence bag.

"This knife seems to have been used as a decoration in the Mask Exhibition Hall before!"

Kogoro came out at a glance, but he only knew how much.

"More" seen by Gao Yuanzhao

, so he asked the police.

"There seems to be a lot of bloodstains on it, even on the hilt of the knife. Is it... connected with the bloodstain on the blade, is it left on the blade?"

"I don't think so. The traces of blood on the handle of the knife are all single, they should have been spattered."

The forensic officer turned the knife around, allowing everyone to see the distribution of blood on it more intuitively.

"That's really strange. If the prisoner committed the murder with a knife, it is impossible for the blood to splash on the handle of the knife!"

Gao Yuanzhao didn't seem to have this problem, and asked the police officer of the forensics department again.

"Those with blood should not know this place."

"Yes!"

The police officer of the forensic department brought another evidence bag. The contents in it are more exciting than the murder weapon with blood. It is a "blood-sucking"

The cursed mask.

That is... the mouth of the mask has a lot of blood, just like the mask drinking blood.

"According to the spread of blood above, it can be inferred that the mouth of the mask was very close to the bleeding wound at that time."

"Yeah! Is it really these...masks..."

Xiaolan looked a little worried and asked Gao Yuanzhao.

But the one who answered Xiaolan was Xiaogoro who also understood Xiaolan's character.

"Don't look at this scary, in fact, it should be that the prisoner put on a mask before committing the murder, that's all."

But this consolation............ reminded Mumu.

"If this is the case, then there may be clues on other masks as well. What can be found there?"

"Other masks also have blood on them, but the strange thing is that there is very little blood on other masks, basically concentrated in the 'mouth' part of the mask."

"mouth"

Xiaolan quietly pulled Gao Yuanzhao's arm.

"Zhao-kun, didn't Miss Nagara say that this mask has a legend of sucking human blood? Do you think the prisoner wants to use this story to confuse his eyes!"

"Well, I can think of that, but I think..."

Before Gao Yuanzhao had finished talking to Xiaolan, Officer Xiaolin suddenly ran in.

"Your Excellency the police inspector, Your Excellency the Police Department, we have searched the entire mansion and found no signs of outsiders entering or leaving."

"If that's the case... the culprits should be a few people in the mansion."

After Mu Mu finished speaking, he looked at Gao Yuanzhao expectantly.

Gao Yuanzhao also nodded in approval.

"Let's start with a few suspects. After all, after the four of us are excluded, there are only seven people left."

"According to my brother, this is your miscalculation. In fact, after excluding all those who cannot commit crimes, there are only five 55s left!"

Kogoro said with a condescending expression.

"What's the meaning"

Megumi once again believed in Kogoro.

"Actually, according to Miss Hoonami, only the stairs on the west side can lead to Ms. Su Fang's bedroom on the third floor, while the stairs on the east side can only reach the bedroom next door, which is blocked. This door, the room on the other side, and as we all know, the doors on both sides of the exhibition hall in the middle are closed, and the rooms on both sides are impassable, so..."

Kogoro put on a very handsome.

"The culprit is... except... I look at you, brother, among the five people who live in the west room."

"That's it! As expected of Mr. Maori's observation so meticulously!"

Mu Mu was also attracted by Kogoro, and hurriedly asked a "send points question"

"Who are the people who live on the west side?"

"There should be Miss Kazuyo Inaba, the secretary on the first floor, Miss Minaho Shimokasa, the photographer on the second floor, Mr. Masaki Kato, baseball player Mr. Matsudaira, and the fortune-teller Miss Nagahara."

After saying these.... Name and occupation, Xiaogoro's face was proud, which made Gao Yuanzhao a little unaccustomed to, and immediately asked "Exceeding the outline"

"So, Kogoro, have you figured out how to kill?"

"This... this..."

Kogoro started pointing his fingers shyly again.

In the end, he probably couldn't bear to let Mu Mu be disappointed again, so he said something nonsense.

"Don't worry about it so much, the truth will come out after you ask for the confession!"

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Although Xiaogoro's answer was very confusing, he was also very self-aware and knew that he would not be able to come to a conclusion if he stayed here, so he dragged Gao Yuanzhao and Mu Mu to ask for a confession.