Conan: The Self-cultivation of Fake Wine

"But Brother Ren, someone is missing now!" Conan emphasized, trying to make Lu Ren realize the seriousness of the matter.

"Even so, it's not something you kids should worry about!" Lu Ren's voice suddenly became a bit stern.

"Call the police and organize a search and rescue team. In this weather outside, you kids run out rashly. If one of you gets lost, should I look for her or you? If something goes wrong, how can I talk to your parents? Explain?"

Conan still wanted to say something, but Lu Ren waved his hand and did not give him a chance to speak. Instead, he directly said to the square-faced man of the trio: "I probably know what happened, and we will look for it separately as before."

"I'll go to the back door of the cabin, and you guys go to the front door." Lu Ren took out his business card and handed it to the square-faced man. "Leave each other's phone numbers. Whoever finds out first will call the other party."

The square-faced man accepted the business card and said, "Just keep it mine. My name is Kiyama Tōji, and my mobile phone number is..."

"OK." After entering his mobile phone number into the address book, Lu Ren looked at Dr. A Li, "Doctor, keep an eye on them and don't let them get out."

"Yeah. Don't worry."

After receiving the assurance, Lu Ren briefly explained the situation to the staff at the ski resort and walked out of the cabin.

As soon as he went out, the howling cold wind carried snowflakes and fell on his face, almost driving Lu Ren back into the house.

"This storm is really big." Lu Ren calmed down and closed the door again, "This job is really hard to do."

I looked around at the white surroundings and saw that the visibility was less than half a meter in front of me, which was no different than being blind with my eyes open.

Not to mention finding someone, you also need a poor sense of direction. If you are not careful, you may get lost in the storm.

In such dangerous weather, no matter what Conan said, Lu Ren would not allow Conan to take the children out to play.

Conan himself is fine, maybe he has learned rescue knowledge and skills in Hawaii. Even if he is a child now, he still has the ability to protect himself.

But the three of them definitely don't have 500 words, and it's impossible to teach them this in school.

This kind of weather pulled them all out. While looking for someone, they had to take care of a few burdensome people. Whoever likes to do such troublesome things will do it.

Standing at the door of the wooden house, Lu Ren did not immediately start looking for the missing college student, let alone call her name loudly.

He knew in his heart that when these four people took the initiative to contact Conan and his group, the life of one of them had already come to an end in advance.

Now is just a time to test the results of the Death. To put it simply, it is to look for the corpse of the deceased.

He is mean and offends all the other people in the small team as soon as he opens his mouth. In addition, it is also an extremely bad stormy weather.

No matter how he said it, Lu Ren couldn't find the slightest reason why Miss Shuozi was still alive.

What he really wants to do now is to find out who is the murderer among those three people.

Lu Ren scanned the environment around the cabin, and the information he got was the same as the previous snowstorm cases, that is, there was basically no information.

The continuous storm covered all traces.

Friends who have killed people know that killing is not difficult, but destroying the body and removing traces is difficult.

And this kind of stormy weather is undoubtedly a good helper for covering up traces. When the heavy snow blows, all footprints and drag marks will be covered.

But no matter how you cover up the traces, one thing will not change.

Whether the deceased is active or passive, if he wants to leave the cabin and go outside, he must go through one of the front or back doors.

As for whether it is possible to jump out directly from the window. Lu Ren raised his head and glanced at the second floor, which was four to five meters tall. He felt that the difficulty level was a bit high for college students.

Moreover, it is daytime, so the movement of jumping from the building is not small, and it is very likely to be discovered. Risks and returns are not proportional.

Of course, it’s hard to say. In a Storm Villa case that Lu Ren had previously handled, the murderer made a slide rail using ropes, hung the body on it, and let it slide all the way down from the second floor.

But this operation was even more difficult. The murderer that time was the granddaughter of a magic master. She had been tinkering with various props since she was a child, and her own magic skills were not weak.

Lu Ren didn't think these college students could compare with the magician.

Let's consider this as an alternative.

Lu Ren took a few steps forward and discovered an anomaly.

The snowman that the three of them had built together in the past five hundred words had collapsed.

If that's all, it wouldn't be a problem, after all, it's very windy now.

But the question is, where is the snowman’s head?

All that fell to the ground was the snowman's body and the fruit that served as the snowman's facial features. The snowman's head was missing.

Lu Ren has also built a snowman. According to his experience, even if the quality of the snowman made by the five hundred and three people is not very reliable, it will probably break into several pieces when the wind blows and falls to the ground.

After all, the snow itself will provide a buffer, and the snowball itself has a high density after being continuously squeezed. If it falls to the ground, it should at least leave some traces instead of disappearing completely.

"Before the dead man's head was found, the snowman's head disappeared first."

It's possible that after falling to the ground, it was blown away by the wind. After all, it was a ball.

Lu Ren quickly thought of this possibility and then overturned it.

If that were the case, then it would be impossible for all of the fruits that served as the snowman’s features to stay where they were.

There will always be fruits that are rolled away by the snowballs.

Or maybe the murderer accidentally stepped on it?

No, that's not right.

If this were the case, then these fruits should not remain intact like this.

So the question is, why did the murderer deliberately destroy the snowman’s head?

Lu Ren thought for a while and couldn't find a reasonable answer, so he temporarily put it behind him.

Because there is another possibility that the snowman's head was not destroyed by the murderer.

Before coming out, Lu Ren asked the lady at the front desk. During the snowstorm, sporadic visitors still entered the cabin.

These were people who listened to the radio warning but still didn't take it seriously. It wasn't until the storm got worse that they had to come back.

There are not many such people, but they do exist.

Therefore, it is possible that these people destroyed the snowman’s head.

On the contrary, the graduation works of the college students not far away are quite good.

Lu Ren glanced at it and didn't pay much attention. He stood up and looked for Miss Shuozi again.

A quarter of an hour later, Lu Ren found the missing Miss Shuozi. As expected, this person was floating in the lake at the bottom of the slope.

This lake is also considered a famous attraction in the Gunma Prefecture ski resort. Because no matter how cold the weather is, this lake will never freeze.

It is said that the bottom of the lake is connected to the hot spring.

The storm was also a little smaller at this time. After calling the police, Lu Ren first called the square-faced man Kiyama Kaoji, and then called Haiyuan to report that he was safe.

Of course, halfway through the final call, the voice on the other end of the phone became Conan's.

Lu Ren briefly explained the situation to him and reported his location.

He also told him that the snowstorm outside was much lighter now, and that if he wanted to, he could come out and see for himself.

Of course, it was only for him alone, and the three brats couldn't come out with him.

Conan agreed wholeheartedly, and then the voice on the other end of the phone changed back to Xiao Ai's voice.

Lu Ren estimated that he would be able to see Conan in a while. After all, it was not far from the cabin. It would take three to five minutes to walk and it would be faster to run here.

"Brother Ren, is the deceased floating in the lake in the back mountain?" Haiyuan asked on the phone.

"Ah."

"The deceased should have gone out through the back door of the wooden house."

"It should be, after all, it's the closest way. The front door is also possible, but there's no need to go around in circles."

Conan and the square-faced man basically arrived at the scene at the same time.

After seeing the body of the deceased with her own eyes, Miss Mahua, whose legs and feet were not very flexible, soon began to cry.

Mushan comforted her in a low voice, and Banqiao who was accompanying her seemed to also want to comfort her, but after seeing Mushan next to Mahua, he finally said nothing.

This Mahua lady is quite popular.

Well, it was quite sad to cry.

But it’s useless, maybe it’s crocodile tears.

The lack of flexibility in her legs and feet that she showed was probably just an act to avoid being suspected of murder.

Lu Ren has seen too many examples of this kind in the past, and it has almost become a routine routine.

Of course, it would not be justified if she was determined to be the murderer just because of this.

Lu Ren did not give these college students any more time to grieve or comfort.

Instead, they directly asked about the alibi of the three people.

Square-faced man: "I stay in the house all the time."

Ma Hua nodded, "Me too."

"What about you, Mr. Banqiao?"

Banqiao hesitated for a while, "I kept building a snowman outside and didn't go back inside until it was close to dinner time."

Ok?

Lu Ren couldn't help but confirm again, "Have you been building snowmen outside? This snowstorm is so big."

"Yeah. It's precisely because of the severity of the storm that I have to stay outside to prevent the storm from accidentally destroying the snowman I built."

"It's really hard on you." Lu Ren comforted him and pretended to be casual, "That's right, the snowman built by my children was blown down by the wind."

"Yeah, it's such a pity." Banqiao echoed.

"Yeah, it's a pity." Lu Ren glanced at his phone, "There's almost enough time."

"Huh? What time?" Conan was a little confused.

Lu Ren smiled and rubbed his head, "How long does it take to find the murderer before Yamamura Cao comes."

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(End of this chapter)

Chapter 453 Superficial Friends

Find the murderer through clues, and find clues through the murderer.

The latter is often simpler than the former.

In Lu Ren's view, Banqiao's classmate, who has a melancholic temperament like an artist, is currently the number one suspect in the crime.

As mentioned before, no matter how complex and varied the case may seem, one thing remains the same.

—The deceased will certainly leave the cabin.

Regardless of whether the murderer killed the deceased inside the house and then took him out and dumped the body.

It's better to trick her out first, kill her and dump her body outside the house. There is no way to avoid the crucial step of leaving the cabin.

Under normal circumstances, there are only two ways to leave the cabin, through the front door or the back door.

Therefore, during this period, Banqiao, who had been staying near the back door and controlled one of the access routes, was naturally more suspicious than the other two.

Of course, this alone is not enough to explain anything.

The lame woman and the square-faced man also knew that Banqiao was building a snowman outside.

It is also possible that they tricked the deceased out of the front door, then took a long way to the steep slope and dumped the body.

But Mr. Banqiao just echoed Lu Ren's tentative lies.

This is very strange.

If the snowman was damaged by a returning tourist, there is no need for him to deliberately cover it up.

If it was him who destroyed the snowman, why did he destroy it so cleanly without leaving any traces?

Suppose it was because Genta hit his Yukio earlier and he held a grudge, he could use more violent methods to kill off his head and body.

Even if you only destroy the head, you don't have to do it so meticulously, as it will make people see the flaws. You can just pretend it's an accident.

Of course, this could also be because he was inexperienced in doing bad things for the first time and was too nervous, which led to him handling things too neatly.