Ke Xue: Xiaolan delivers goods to your door at the beginning

During this time, Lin Xiaofeng had almost finished cooking the dishes. Listening to the noisy commotion, he occasionally had the urge to throw a cleaver and chase everyone out, but he managed to restrain himself.

And after returning from Masakage, she took Hattori Heiji, whose hand was injured, to get it bandaged.

"You're saying I was too careless, but she was the one who interfered with me..." Hattori Heiji complained with a dissatisfied look on his face.

Lin Xiaofeng dipped a cotton swab in iodine and gestured for Hattori Heiji to reach out, "Stop making noise."

Once or twice is fine, but they've been arguing all day. Don't these two get tired of it?

"Ah, I see..." Hattori Heiji's arrogance immediately deflated upon seeing Lin Xiaofeng's indifferent face. He quietly watched Lin Xiaofeng help treat the wound, lost in thought for a moment, and then suddenly sighed, "I don't know why, but whenever I see Kazuha wandering around there with a grin, I just feel really annoyed..."

Conan paused for a moment, then asked to confirm, "Besides this, should we also add 'other people' or 'other men' or something?"

“That’s right, that’s exactly it,” Hattori Heiji said, extending his left hand for Lin Xiaofeng to apply the medical tape. “How did you know?”

Conan looked at Hattori Heiji with a strange expression, and a second later, he smiled and said in a childish voice, "Hattori-nii-san is really a child!"

Hehe... Lin Xiaofeng is here, so he can't appear too precocious. He just won't say anything!

"What the hell?" Hattori Heiji exploded instantly, reaching out his free right hand towards Conan, ready to punch him on the head. "You brat, you're a brat yourself, and you have the nerve to talk about others!"

Just as Conan was about to speak, the lights in the room suddenly went out with a 'snap'.

Hattori Heiji couldn't bring himself to strike. "Is there a power outage?"

Lin Xiaofeng groped in the dark and tore off the medical tape, then patted Hattori Heiji's hand. "All done."

"Ouch..." Hattori Heiji gasped in pain. "Brother Feng, you're patting the wound..."

Lin Xiaofeng: "Sorry."

Hattori Heiji:"……"

Conan turned on the flashlight on his watch. While gloating, he didn't forget the important matter at hand. "The lights outside are still on. It must be a power outage. Let's go out and check it out."

The three of them went to check the circuit breaker, pulled the switch, and as soon as the lights in the house came on, screams came from upstairs from Ran Mouri and Kazuha Toyama.

Himegami Nobuko is dead.

When the others arrived on the second floor, Himegami Nobuko was sitting on the floor with her head covered in blood and her back against the corridor wall; her body was already cold.

Hoshigawa Dogo called the police from the next room. Conan and Hattori Heiji entered the room and found the window open.

Just then, Kazuha Toyama discovered that all the books on the bookshelf in the next room had been overturned and were lying on the floor. He quickly called Heiji Hattori to take a look.

According to Zhengying Mangong, the room contains some newspaper clippings and photo albums, but the only valuable item is the "Zhengying Notes" left by the master Zhengying.

Lin Xiaofeng stood in the narrow corridor, listening to Hattori Heiji and Conan asking about the situation, and looked towards the room where Hoshikawa Dogo had come out.

He remembered that the murderer in this case was Hoshikawa Dogo, and the method was to use a mirror hidden in the door, a magic trick that made the body suddenly appear...

When Xinghe Tongwu saw Lin Xiaofeng looking over, he paused for a moment, then nodded gravely at Lin Xiaofeng and quickly went to the next room, which had been ransacked. "The police said they should be here in about twenty minutes..."

Shirley didn't go into the room either. Leaning against the wall in the corridor, she told Lin Xiaofeng what had happened: "After the dishes were served, Mrs. Zhengying said she was going to call Mr. Fan Tian (bhbe) to dinner, and Miss Jigong was handed over to Mr. Xinghe. Mr. Xinghe said there were some interesting magic souvenirs and photos on the second floor, and asked if we wanted to take a look, so we came with him..."

Lin Xiaofeng listened to Shirley's explanation, took out his gloves, put them on, walked to the door, and opened it a little.

“When we reached the end of the corridor, although it was narrow and dark, moonlight shone through the window at the end, allowing us to vaguely see what was happening in the corridor. We were certain that there were no shadowy figures resembling corpses in the corridor at that time. But after the lights went out and came back on, Himegami Nobuko's body was already leaning against the wall,” Sherry said, straightening up as she walked to the doorway and looked at the open window in the room. She continued softly, “It seems that someone broke in here to steal the ‘Makoto Notes,’ ransacking the room next door where the photos and documents were kept. Miss Himegami discovered this, so they killed her. When the power went out, they slipped out of the room, placed Miss Himegami's body in the corridor to attract our attention, went into the room where Mr. Hoshikawa called the police, and escaped through the open window…”

Hattori Heiji, who came out of the next room: "That's right, that's how it seems for now."

Conan, who also appeared, looked thoughtful. "Yes."

Shirley: "..."

What was she doing just now? Deducing something?

It turns out that 'deduction' really is a disease, a contagious disease. Once you get to know these detectives for a long time, you can't help but start deducing things once you become interested.

And she had something else she wanted to ask Brother Feng: was it possible to use magic tricks...?

"But Brother Xiaofeng," Hattori Heiji, who was deep in thought, looked up at Lin Xiaofeng, his gaze serious yet hesitant, "do you think it's possible to use magic to make the corpse appear out of thin air?"

Conan stopped thinking and looked at Lin Xiaofeng as well. He and Hattori had finished their discussion, and now he wanted to talk to his friend who knew more about magic than they did. "That's right, even though the window was open, it doesn't rule out the possibility that the culprit didn't leave and was still in this house from beginning to end! This is the house of a magic master; there might be some kind of magical mechanism that can make the body appear or disappear..."

After observing the door, which was twice as thick as a normal door, Lin Xiaofeng turned to look at Hattori Heiji and Conan.

These two people have hit the nail on the head.

He vaguely remembered the technique, and since magicians' illusions mainly consist of only a few elements, after examining the room, he filled in some hazy details from his memory. Just as he was getting bored, the two men started asking questions, and the clues were all at the scene...

It would be such a shame not to overturn the table, accelerate the pace, and make everyone lose the fun of deduction!

600. The Great Death

Hattori Heiji glanced at Lin Xiaofeng and broke out in a cold sweat. He felt there was something strange about Lin Xiaofeng's gaze. Although Lin Xiaofeng appeared calm, he had a bad feeling. "Uh, w-what's wrong?"

"Come here for a moment," Lin Xiaofeng said, turning his gaze away and walking out of the corridor. "Shirley, you come too."

The three followed, completely bewildered, until they reached the stairwell leading to the first floor.

Lin Xiaofeng stopped and turned to face the three people, but instead of looking at them, he took out a notebook and a pen and began to scribble. "The room where Mr. Xinghe called the police has more than one strange... place..."

"Really? Besides the open window, there was..." Hattori Heiji stroked his chin, recalling, "a cello, a round table, a cabinet, a magic prop sword..."

"The shelves are mostly filled with magic props. It feels a bit crowded, but not messy..." Conan suddenly stopped. "-Huh?"

why?

Why did he feel an increasingly strong sense of unease the more he thought about that room?

"What's wrong? Is something off? Work..." Hattori Heiji broke out in a sweat and quickly corrected himself, "Conan."

Sherry secretly glanced at Lin Xiaofeng and saw that he was focused on drawing. She breathed a sigh of relief and then glanced at Hattori Heiji.

If we don't keep a close eye on things, we'll get screwed over by Hattori sooner or later.

"That room definitely doesn't look right," Conan thought, recalling the room's layout and searching for anything that seemed off. "It's the side near the entrance..."

"Take a look at this and you'll understand." Lin Xiaofeng tore off a page with writing and drawing on it and handed it to Hattori Heiji.

He was planning to overturn the table and cause chaos; he wasn't going to patiently guide Conan and Heiji Hattori and wait for them to figure it out themselves.

Standing at the door of that room and looking inside, there is a wall on the left and a glass door directly opposite. There is nothing in the middle of the path from the door to the glass door. All the furniture is concentrated on the right side, which is where the incongruity lies—the furniture is all concentrated on the right side, leaving the space between the front and the glass door empty.

In that room, there was also a projector screen that had been folded up. If you pulled that screen down, it would completely block out the furniture on the right.

In a dimly lit environment, if you pull down the curtain and look into the room from the doorway, it will appear as if there are walls on both sides. The small bookcase placed against the left wall can also serve as the door to the room on the left side of the corridor.

As for the glass door at the end, since it consists of four pieces, you can simply move one of the "corridor cabinets" in the room to the front of the glass door to block the two pieces of glass below, and then place the "corridor cabinet" vase in the room on top. Since the room floor and the corridor floor are the same, this arrangement will make the room look exactly like the corridor.

The door to that room opens outwards. The corridor is narrow, and the door is wide, so the door will be positioned horizontally across the corridor, wedged against the wall on the other side, and fixed at a specific angle.

The door was twice as thick as a door, with a thin, recessed groove in the middle of the door panel. It could actually be divided into two doors, with a mirror the size of the door panel fixed to one of them.

After the room is arranged, open the mirror mechanism on the door. Standing at the entrance of the corridor, you will see that the mirror reflects a fake corridor inside the room, and the corpse is behind the mirror door.

Because of the dim light, people can only vaguely see the general outline and are deceived by their own eyes into thinking that it is the corridor. When the power goes out and it is pitch black, as long as the door is closed, the corpse that was previously hidden by the mirrored door and the real corridor will be revealed.

In this way, it's quite obvious who the murderer is.

For this "corpse-turning" magic trick to work, the murderer would have to be next to the door to close the mirrored door during the power outage. Afterward, they would have to enter the incongruous room under the pretext of "calling the police," pull up the projection screen, move the cabinet back to its original position, remove the vase and place the telephone on top, pretending to be calling the police...

Hoshikawa Dogo!

Only Hoshikawa Dogo has the opportunity to activate the magic 'switch', and only Hoshikawa Dogo has the time to erase any remaining traces that would ruin the magical display.

"What is this?" Hattori Heiji took the paper with a puzzled look, squatted down, and generously shared it with Conan, who was peeking out on tiptoe.

Sherry, also curious, moved closer to Hattori Heiji and peered at the paper.

That was a blueprint, or rather... a set of drawings.

The top left corner of the paper shows two doors with a curved arrow above them, indicating that the two doors are changing from overlapping to separating. In the middle part where the two doors will overlap, there are several diagonal thin lines of different lengths, which make it easy to guess that they are something like a mirror.

Yes, it's drawn simply yet clearly, making it easy for anyone to understand.

The person who drew the illustration seemed worried that they wouldn't understand, so they added text labels. On the bottom corner of the door, they wrote "The door to the room where Xinghe Tongwu called the police." On the mirrored side of the door, they drew a line and wrote "Mirrored door." They even drew a line on the inside of the door handle and wrote "Can be pulled up, suspected to be a door panel mechanism switch."

· ······Requesting flowers· ····

Well, this is like dissecting someone else's secrets and showing them the inside story.

On the right side of the page is a layout diagram of the room, labeled 'The room where Hoshikawa Tongwu called the police.' The viewpoint is from the doorway. The furniture on the right, such as the round table, is drawn in simple terms, but the glass door directly opposite, the cabinet in front of Hoshikawa Tongwu when he called the police, and the vases on the shelf are drawn in much more detail. Although they are still composed of lines, they accurately depict the specific styles, and even the patterns on the vases are drawn simply.

In this picture, the cabinet is marked with an arrow pointing to the left, and there is another cabinet drawn with a dotted line in front of the glass door. The vase is also marked with an arrow pointing to the top of the dotted cabinet, and the outline of the vase is also drawn with a dotted line above the dotted cabinet.

..... . ...

It should be easy for people to understand at a glance; it refers to movement.

It is worth noting that in this picture, near the ceiling, there is a thick line circled, labeled 'projection screen', and then there is a downward arrow, with the outline of the screen being pulled down drawn in a dotted line.

Below this painting is a picture labeled 'Mr. Hoshikawa Tongwu calling the police in room 2.0,' which is a rendering of the room after the cabinets, vases, and curtains have been moved, making it look exactly like a corridor.

In the bottom left corner of the page is a floor plan of the hallway and rooms:

The door split into two, with the mirrored door panel facing the side leading into the corridor, angled and wedged into the corridor. Behind the door, there was a circle marked 'corpse'. The items in the room also appeared to have been moved. A straight line represented 'line of sight', extending straight out from the entrance of the corridor, turning at the mirrored door, passing through the 'fake corridor' in the room, and stopping at the glass door, the moving cabinet, and the vase at the end.

In the corridor, there was also a human figure with his right hand outstretched, labeled "Hoshikawa Tongwu". The bottom corner read, "When the power goes out, close the door so that the body that is being blocked can be seen. When the power comes back on, take advantage of other people's attention being drawn to the body, pretend to panic and go into the room to make a phone call, pull up the curtain, move the cabinet and vase back to their original positions, and call the police."

Yes, very good, still so simple and easy to understand.

Even a primary school student could probably understand and recreate the picture, but the annotations are so detailed that they give them the feeling of being a little kid being taken care of by an older brother... *sigh*.

601. Boring!

After reading it, Conan looked up at Lin Xiaofeng, hesitant to speak.

The detailed diagrams illustrating criminal methods are so familiar, they bring back fond memories.

He remembered the first time he met Lin Xiaofeng. It was at a gathering of magic enthusiasts' chat group. He and Xiaolan accompanied Yuanzi there, and a murder occurred. Lin Xiaofeng solved the case, but when the police arrived, he didn't explain or demonstrate the method. Instead, he gave the police a drawing and told them to recreate and demonstrate the crime themselves...

Heiji Hattori and Sherry were thinking of the same thing.

Hattori Heiji:"……"

Shirley: "..."

In the past, detectives would always direct the police to reconstruct the methods, but with Brother Feng, the police had to study the blueprints themselves. As a result, Brother Feng's "detailed diagrams of crime methods" became legendary in the Metropolitan Police Department. Unexpectedly, it has reappeared in the Magician case.

Conan snapped out of his reverie, looked again at the blueprints in Heiji Hattori's hand, his lips twitched slightly, and asked in a complicated tone, "Should we hand them over to the police directly later?"

"If you understand it, you can demonstrate it yourself," Lin Xiaofeng said nonchalantly.

This time, we didn't need to wait for clues to appear; we just pushed the progress through in one go. It was great!

“Ahem,” Hattori Heiji also came to his senses, “This is just Xiaofeng’s speculation, right? Even if this trick works, Mr. Xinghe can pretend he doesn’t know about this mechanism.”

Lin Xiaofeng looked at Shirley.

Sherry: "?"

Let's see what she's doing...

Heiji Hattori and Conan also looked at Sherry.

"Hey, Qun Huiyuan Er, you were just hanging around Xinghe-sensei when you were out, right? Did you notice anything?"

“Yes, yes,” Hattori Heiji said expectantly, “like the sound of a door closing…”

"At that moment, all the lights on the second floor suddenly went out. I was standing against the wall, not making any sudden movements. Ran-nee, Kazuha-nee, and Mr. Hoshikawa were talking, so I didn't hear the door close..." Sherry said, her previously nonchalant expression suddenly turning serious. She peeked at the blueprints in Hattori Heiji's hand, who was squatting to the side, and murmured, "The vase's shadow is different..."

"A vase..." Hattori Heiji looked at the blueprint.

"Shadow?" Conan vaguely guessed what Sherry wanted to say.

“Before the power outage, we saw a vase on the cabinet at the far end. Because the moonlight was coming from behind the vase, we couldn’t see the patterns on it,” Shirley said, looking at the blueprints. “After the power outage, when we found Miss Himegami’s body, the moonlight was coming from the side of the vase, and we could see the patterns on it.”

Hattori Heiji looked at the blueprints and said, "The glass door to the room does indeed face east, while the window at the end of the corridor faces north."

“Moonlight certainly can’t hide the flaws of the past…” Conan looked at Sherry, “Haibara, are you sure you didn’t see it wrong back then?”

“I can confirm it,” Shirley’s expression calmed down again, and she looked away from the blueprints. “Sister Xiaolan and Sister Heye were there at the time, so they might have noticed. You can go and ask them.”

Heiji Hattori and Conan exchanged a glance, put away the blueprints, and hurried towards the corridor.

They need to go to the site again to observe and determine if this method will work!

Shirley watched the two leave, then walked up to Lin Xiaofeng, who hadn't followed, looked up at him, and hesitated to speak.

If a person doesn't expect something, they won't proactively consider questions like 'how to develop it' or 'how to prepare for it'.

Especially for someone like Shirley, who can't get enthusiastic about things she's not interested in, the fact that she's actively considering what preparations to make shows that she has a very strong sense of anticipation.

Shirley felt as if Lin Xiaofeng's gaze had completely penetrated her thoughts. The intense, intrusive feeling made her incredibly insecure. She instinctively wanted to deny it coldly, but she held back and nodded in acknowledgment, "Yes..."

Her brother saw through her, but he wouldn't harm her or make fun of her.