Conan's Almighty Extraction

Facing Ms. Mimura's reprimand, Housekeeper Hanazaki bowed and apologized repeatedly, but Ms. Mimura waved her folding fan and said unreasonably: "Mrs. Hanazaki, in fact, the master died, you should be very happy, right? Your old lady has suffered so much, and the old lady will be so short-lived, all because of the master."

Butler Hanazaki raised his head and loudly denied: "I never thought about it that way!"

Seeing that Hanazaki's housekeeper was being questioned, Ryoichi Aonogi hurriedly assured him: "I can assure you that Aunt Hanazaki has been serving my father with all her heart."

Ms. Sancun cast a sideways glance at the two of them, and speculated maliciously: "It's not that you two made use of the legend of that monster to make Grandmaster tremble with fear all day long, right?"

"Miss Mimura, what are you talking about?"

"Too much!"

Butler Hanazaki was even more aggrieved and ran downstairs crying, Ryo Aonogi gave Ms. Mimura a displeased look, and chased after to comfort Butler Hanazaki.

Shiraiwa Maha grabbed Conan who was about to chase after him, and reminded in a low voice: "Conan, if my reasoning is correct, the murderer swam from under the covered bridge to the tea ceremony room."

"What? Under the covered bridge?!"

After being reminded by Shiraiwa Maha, Conan instantly understood the tricks used by the murderer. He frowned and pondered for a while, then lay down on the balcony and observed for a while, then asked Yakura Morio, "Uncle Yakura, what about the one next to the lake?" Is that water wheel for decoration?"

Moruo Yakura was taken aback when he heard the words, he didn't know why Conan asked him this question, but he still answered truthfully: "The water wheel can pump the lake water into the flower garden in the courtyard, and now it has been designed to start with electricity, and the timer's When the time is up, it will turn automatically."

"oh, I see."

Conan looked at the water wheel that was turning non-stop, and whispered to Shiraiwa Maha quietly, asking Shiraiwa Maha to investigate something.

"I see." After listening to Conan's words, Shiraiwa Maha nodded, got up and went to the yard.

After arriving in the yard, Shiraiwa Maha followed Conan's instructions, first went to check the rotating waterwheel, then walked around the lake for a week, and finally returned to the second floor of the main house, and told Conan what he found.

"Sure enough, it seems that the murderer is that person!"

A smile appeared on Conan's face, and he looked at a certain figure in the room. Then, when others were not paying attention, he knocked down Kogoro Mori with one shot, and started the familiar reasoning link.

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After completing the routine questioning, Police Officer Henggou announced: "Thank you for your hard work, I will stop here. I think the master committed suicide, and I will ask you to wait for the results of the appraisal."

"No, no, police officer Henggou, do you really want that murderer to leave the scene in front of you?"

'Mori Kogoro' interrupted the development of police officer Henggou, and said with great certainty: "The master did not commit suicide at all, but was killed by someone, and the murderer who killed the master is among us. "

"Oh? Are you in 'Sleeping Kogoro' again? That's great."

Looking at Kogoro Mori with his head down, Police Officer Henggou was very pleasantly surprised, and urged: "Mr. Mori, don't play tricks on us, and tell us the truth about this case."

Ms. Sancun opened the folding fan and said with great interest: "It's really nice to have a famous detective here. I want to hear your reasoning."

'Mori Kogoro' ignored Ms. Mimura, and said straight to the point: "Then, let me briefly explain the facts of the case. When the water in the lake turns red, in fact, this crime has already occurred where you can't see it." happened."

"How could it be?" A puzzled light flashed in the eyes of police officer Henggou, and he asked puzzledly: "Didn't you say that when the master's body was found, everyone was in this room? I should remember correctly."

"Yes, even though the murderer is in this room, he can still hang the master on the beam in the tea ceremony room, and he can do it with only one rope."

'Moori Kogoro' admitted that everyone was in the main house when the crime happened, and then revealed the murderer's modus operandi under the more puzzled eyes of Police Officer Henggou and others.

"First of all, the murderer intentionally imitated the legend of monsters that had haunted the lake for many years, let the master's blood drip on the corridor of the tea ceremony room first, and then strangled his neck with a rope from behind to kill him."

"Secondly, he hung the rope hidden in the tea ceremony room on the beam, tied a special slipknot that can be untied as long as one end of the rope can be pulled, and then wound the other end of the rope around the master's neck once. , and the other end bypasses the pillar of the beam, and is connected to the outside through the paper window."

"Then, connect the rope that has been tied to the wheel axle of the waterwheel with a rope and one end tied to the water support in the tea ceremony room, and the rope pulled out from the room. In this way, you can successfully create a The timing of the incident was poor."

"Finally, he fixed the door latch on the west side of the tea ceremony room, made a spring with thumbtacks and rubber bands, pulled it back, tied the wooden block with a painting scroll, and pressed the painting scroll against the air vent of the room, and it was done. Create a closed secret room, and he himself left the scene at this time, returned to the current room, and produced an alibi."

While Conan was reasoning, Shiraiwa Maha also used professional-level painting skills to draw a concise and clear schematic diagram according to his previous instructions, so that others can better understand the methods used by the prisoner.

"When the water in the lake turns red at four o'clock, the water wheel set by the timer starts to rotate at the same time, so the rope shortens as the axle wheel rolls, and the corpse is automatically pulled into the tea ceremony room. When the painting scroll was touched by the corpse, it fell down, and when the door panel was completely stuck to the bottom, it was automatically locked from the inside."

"After hoisting the body to the beam, the rope naturally formed a tight knot. The length of the rope was calculated by the murderer in advance, and the cut was left with a knife. The remaining rope was rotated by the waterwheel. Under the circumstances, it was naturally swept out."

"After the incident, when we found the body and were in a hurry, pretend to remove the door panel of the small cabinet, and secretly remove the thumbtacks and rubber bands."

"When the waterwheel starts to turn, the setting sun will produce diffuse reflections on the water surface. Naturally, the rope is not easy to be found. The murderer took advantage of this feature and carried out the whole crime perfectly."

"So it turns out that it is indeed possible to commit a crime in this way."

After listening to Mori Kogoro's narration, Police Officer Henggou clenched his fist with his right hand and slammed it on his left palm. With a look of sudden realization, he looked sharply at Ryoichi Aonogi and the others, preparing to find out the real murderer who killed Master Aonogi .