Ke Xue: I have a knife, and you still dare to fight me?

Then Kurokawasaki Tsuki realized something was wrong; it wasn't Minowa at all, but the stunt double.

Although he had changed his hairstyle, was wearing a hat and large ski goggles, and his face wasn't fully visible, Kurokawa still noticed something amiss.

Kurokawasaki narrowed his eyes.

"interesting."

The fans below applauded and cheered when they saw the wheel slide down from above and drift to a stop in front of them.

After seeing Minowa, Ran Mouri asked Kudo, who was standing next to her, "Is this the actor Minowa Shohei that we met at the restaurant earlier?"

"Hmm," Shinichi Kudo nodded in agreement.

"I just ran into them too, and they seemed to be discussing some kind of suicide case, even bringing up the legend of the Yuki-onna. That Minowa guy even thinks the Yuki-onna is the murderer."

"Oh, right, there was also a dark-skinned boy who said something interesting, and he's about your age, Kudo-kun, you both look like middle school students. He thinks this is just a murder case where the perpetrator used some kind of method. After the dark-skinned boy finished speaking, everyone around him laughed."

"Because before this, there was another junior high school boy who said something similar to them in the restaurant. That person was you, Kudo-kun."

After saying that, Kurokawa Saki looked at Shinichi Kudo with a smile.

"A dark-skinned middle school student?" Kudo was stunned: Could he be a detective too?

Ran Mouri chuckled, covering her mouth. "I knew it, Shinichi! They were making fun of you."

Kudo scratched his head and turned it away haughtily.

At this moment, the director reminded Minowa that it was almost time to film, and the detective uncle also came over and asked them curiously where the stunt double and the special effects makeup artist had gone.

The director replied that they had gone up the mountain first.

Ran Mouri and Tsuki Kurokawa were chatting enthusiastically as they walked down the mountain, while Shinichi Kudo followed behind them, continuing to ponder the case.

Suddenly, a loud "bang" came from not far away.

"Huh?" Upon hearing this, Shinichi Kudo seemed to have all the cells in his body activated in that instant, abandoning Ran Mouri and Kurokawa and running away to a nearby place.

"Shinichi!" Ran called after him, but it was no use.

“Let’s follow them and see,” Kurokawa suggested.

"Ah."

Shinichi Kudo quickly ran to the cable car disembarkation point. The sound had come from nearby. As he got closer, he found the director from the restaurant earlier there and immediately asked him what was wrong.

"What happened?"

The director turned around and saw that it was Shinichi Kudo. "Oh, it's you. I didn't know. I just came down."

Because of the heavy snow, visibility was low in the distance, so when Shinichi Kudo and the director looked back at the next cable car, they could only see blurry figures.

As the cable car drew closer, they finally saw that sitting inside was none other than Ji Lun, whose face was covered in blood from his temples.

"Stop the cable car immediately and call a doctor and the police!" Shinichi Kudo quickly turned to the staff and instructed them.

The staff also saw the dead winch on the cable car and hurriedly went to operate the cable car. Another female staff member saw the body and immediately made a sharp explosion.

At this moment, Kurokawasaki Tsuki and Mouri Ran also arrived.

"What? Shinichi, what happened?" Ran Mouri asked as she ran.

The cable car stopped just in time, and due to inertia, the corpse of Jilun fell forward, its neck tilting to the side, revealing its wounds in a gruesome and bloody manner.

"Ran, don't look!" Shinichi Kudo said anxiously, but Tsuki Kurokawa was obviously faster.

He grabbed Ran Mouri from behind as she was running, and quickly covered her eyes with his other hand. Ran Mouri fell backward and was caught in Kurokawa Saki's arms.

Ran Mouri instinctively struggled.

Kurokawasaki Tsuki whispered in her ear, "There's been a murder. The scene is a bit inappropriate for children. Mouri, you shouldn't watch it."

Hearing Kurokawa's gentle voice in her ear, Ran Mouri stiffened, then trembled with fear.

"well."

Shinichi Kudo breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Kurokawa's actions. Luckily, Ran didn't see it, or she would probably have nightmares that night.

Seeing that the cable car had stopped, Shinichi Kudo rushed up to check the body.

Kurokawa then took Ran Mouri a little away from the scene and comforted her for a while before returning to the scene.

.........

On a cable car not far away, Hattori Heiji and his childhood friend Toyama Kazuha also heard the gunshot and scream.

"What happened?" Toyama Kazuha asked, somewhat frightened.

"Damn it, the cable car, the gunshots... Is the incident from four years ago repeating itself here?" Hattori Heiji thought to himself.

.........

Police arrived at the scene quickly, and a bearded officer was examining the body.

"To shoot oneself with the muzzle pressed against the temple, it must have been suicide."

"Yes, he's still holding a gun in his right hand."

The two police officers were talking when the bearded officer noticed a large travel bag next to them.

"I have a bad feeling."

After saying that, the bearded policeman unzipped his travel bag, revealing a large bag full of snow inside.

"It really is snow. It's exactly the same as it was four years ago."

The bearded policeman stood up and began questioning the director.

Kurokawasaki Tsukiya came up to Kudo Shinichi and asked, "Well, did you find anything, little Kudo?"

"Hmm, I found three suspicious points. The bindings at the ends of the two ski poles on the cable car were upside down. There was also a small, round hole in the seat of the cable car. And that travel bag, I don't know why it was frozen like this."

Shinichi Kudo shared his clues with Tsuki Kurokawa.

After listening, Kurokawa Saki Tsuki stroked his chin and began to think about the murderer's methods. Although he didn't quite remember the plot, it didn't matter; he wasn't brainless.

The bearded policeman also heard Kudo's analysis.

"I never expected that middle school students these days would be so curious."

The bearded policeman praised Shinichi Kudo, then started calling on his companions to get to work. After all, the cable car staff were urging them to get back to work, and the cable car couldn't stop for too long, or the passengers on board would get restless.

He saw his companion carrying the corpse of Ji Lun all by himself.

The bearded policeman paused for a moment, then asked, "Do you need any help?"

"No need, he's quite light," his companion replied.

“He’s much lighter than he looks,” the director explained after hearing the bearded policeman’s reply. “He weighs less than 60 kilograms, so we always film in the winter. He said he didn’t want people to see his thin figure.”

After listening, the bearded policeman didn't dwell on it and picked up the travel bag full of snow from the ground. "It's rare that he has to carry such a big bag. This bag is probably big enough to fit a child."

Their conversation was also overheard by Kurokawasaki Tsuki. "I see," he murmured.

However, Shinichi Kudo overheard them and exclaimed, "What? Kurokawa-kun, have you already found the truth?"

"We've made some progress, but we still need to verify it further."

Chapter Seven: Peeping Gaze

The cable car has resumed operation.

Soon after, Hattori Heiji also got off the cable car and arrived at the scene.

Just as they were about to find out what was going on, they heard Kazuha Toyama shout, "Heiji, come save me!"

Hattori Heiji saw that Toyama Kazuha was still sitting on the cable car, moving away from him.

"Idiot, what are you doing? Get down here!"

"But I don't know how to get down."

"Then you should wait until the cable car reaches the bottom and stops before you get off."

Kazuha Toyama opened her mouth slightly, but still answered, "Mmm."

Watching Kazuha Toyama's cable car drive away, I couldn't help but mutter, "What an idiot."

The cable car staff, witnessing this scene, remarked, "Just now, there was another female passenger who couldn't get off the cable car."

"is it?"

Soon, Hattori Heiji saw the female passenger the staff had mentioned. She was Minakami Jiro's fiancée, and he and his stuntman Miho were gathered around Minowa's corpse.

Hattori Heiji immediately asked, "Excuse me, miss, why couldn't you get off the cable car just now? Didn't you come here four years ago?"

When his question was asked, his fiancée, Mikami, replied, "I'm not very good at this. Mikami helped me before, and just now Miho helped me."

The stuntman, Mr. Miho, also explained from the side: "Her athletic ability is very poor."

After hearing the explanation, Hattori turned to Miho and asked, "That's strange. Didn't the director just say you had already gone up the mountain? How come you were riding the cable car with her?"

"The filming preparations were completed, but the director and lead actor hadn't arrived yet, so I slid down the mountain to check on them. I ran into her on the cable car, and just as I was greeting her, I heard a gunshot."

After Miho finished answering, his fiancée, Miho, chimed in: "I had a bad feeling when I heard the gunshot, so I asked Mr. Miho to take the cable car with me to check it out. But the cable car stopped and we only got off just now."

“I see,” Hattori Heiji thought for a moment, then said something surprising, “So, all of you could potentially shoot at Mr. Minowa, right?”

Heiji Hattori read out the names of the director, the detective, the fiancée Mizukami, and Mr. Miho.

The fiancée on the water quickly stood up and retorted, "Did you hear me clearly, kid? When the gun went off, I was with Sanbao."

At that moment, the detective calmly spoke up from behind Hattori Heiji, "What if that gunshot was faked? That's possible, isn't it, kid?"

“Yes, that’s exactly it,” Hattori Heiji said.

"But...but the gun is clearly in Minowa's hand," the director questioned.

Miho also questioned, "And how could they possibly shoot someone from that distance?"

The detective agreed with their statement, saying, "Besides, the snow was very heavy just now, so the marksman had to be very accurate to hit the target."

"Well, although I don't know exactly what happened, I did notice a few suspicious points..."

Hattori Heiji rattled off several points of doubt.

After listening to Hattori Heiji's words, the bearded policeman immediately said, "These middle school students nowadays are really amazing. A middle school student just told us all the points of doubt you mentioned."

"What did you say?" Hattori Heiji was shocked: Another middle school student? Could he be a detective too?

.........

On the other side, Toyama Kazuha finally got off the cable car.

Kurokawa Saki and Kudo Shinichi also arrived here.

"Kurokawa-kun, how do you plan to verify your idea?" Shinichi Kudo asked.

"Go ask if anyone has taken any pictures of Mr. Minowa getting on the cable car," Kurokawa said without hesitation, assigning the task to Washi-kun.

"okay."

Then Shinichi Kudo started shouting at the passengers.

"Did anyone take a picture of Mr. Minowa getting on the cable car? Could I borrow it?"

After asking several times, a mature and sexy voice came: "If the video I took is acceptable, then you can take it."

Shinichi Kudo turned his head and saw a beautiful young woman holding a video camera and talking to him.

I checked the footage taken by the young woman, and it showed that she had filmed the entire process of Minowa riding the cable car, starting from the director who boarded the car at the front and continuing all the way to the back.

Kudo couldn't help but ask curiously, "If you're just a fan of Mr. Minowa, wouldn't it be enough to just take pictures of Mr. Minowa?"

The young woman replied, "This is what my son told me. He said he wanted to use it as a reference for the case from four years ago, and asked me to take some pictures at the cable car boarding area."

"Hey, is your son a policeman?"

"No, he's just a middle school student, but he always wants to be a detective."

“Isn’t that just like you, Kudo-kun?” Kurokawa Sakizuki said as he walked over.

Then he noticed the beautiful woman in front of him, who must be Heiji's mother—Hattori Shizuka.

"Oh? Are you with this young detective too, handsome young man?" Hattori Shizuka asked, looking at Kurokawa Saki.

While reviewing the video, Kurokawasaki Tsuki praised Hattori Shizuka commercially.