Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 2522 2526 [Uzo's flaw] Ask for monthly ticket (づど)
Brother Ogata was furious: "...You!"

Jiang Xia did not stop the brothers from arguing, but changed the subject: "As for the old man that Yuanzi and the others saw just now, silently passing through the corridor... Actually, that was not a human."

Mao Lilan: “?!”

Jiang Xia: "It's a piece of paper."

Mao Lilan was about to jump up in fright: "...Wha, what?"

Jiang Xia opened the door of the room and pointed to the corridor outside: "Just find a piece of black paper, cut it into the corresponding human shape, and then stick it on the glass window of the corridor.

"Remember the 'security loophole' the police just mentioned? In fact, the unlocked door in the backyard was not blown open by the wind, but someone pushed it open intentionally.

“The glass with the black human-shaped paper pasted on it faces the open back door. In this way, whenever a car passes by outside the yard, the swaying headlights will illuminate the glass windows in the corridor, and then project the corresponding shadow onto the paper door of the guest room.

"As the car lights move, the shadow will also move from right to left at high speed - so the 'old man' you saw was clearly running at high speed on the wooden floor, but he didn't leave any sound."

Mao Lilan slammed her fist into her palm and suddenly remembered: "Now that you mention it, I think I remember it - I did vaguely hear the sound of the engine at that time!"

"I see, this is a great idea." The first person to cheer was actually Brother Ogata. After saying this, the wounded soldier with gauze wrapped around his head turned to look at his brother and said sarcastically, "I never realized you were so smart. You disguised yourself well."

"How can you be sure it was me?" Ogata's brother was speechless. "When you were knocked unconscious tonight, I wasn't even in that room!"

Jiang Xia: "Speaking of which, if you want to knock Mr. Ogata unconscious, you don't have to be in his room - you can just use the structure of this house and set up a special mechanism to make the heavy guqin fall from mid-air.

"The person who set up the trap didn't intend to murder. Unfortunately, someone sneaked into the room where the guqin was placed and was hit on the spot."

Next to him, a silent lawyer rubbed his ears: "..." "Unfortunately", "coincidentally", "unlucky"... With Wu Zo next to him, hearing these words gives people a headache.

When Ogata, who was having a physical headache, heard this, he also started to have a mental headache. He looked embarrassed and said, "What do you mean by sneaking around? Do I have to report to you when I'm walking around in my own house?"

Jiang Xia: "Today, Miss Haruna brought the music box she received from Mr. Qiu Wu. During dinner, you heard that the music in the music box was "Come, Spring", and you immediately thought of your grandmother who often played this piece.

"You guessed that the set of hand-carved stamps worth 2 million yuan might be hidden in the guqin that your grandmother often used when she was alive. That's why you went to that room at night to look for clues in the guqin."

Everyone couldn't help but look at Brother Ogata: No need to say much, just from his expression you can tell that what Jiang Xia said is true.

"Xiao Minoru, since you have a clue, why don't you tell us?" Mr. Ogata sighed, "If the stamps can be found, you will definitely be involved. Why go looking for them in the dark in the middle of the night? You can't see anything, so it's a wonder you can find any clues."

Brother Ogata muttered, "Do you think I don't want to turn on the light? - I don't know if it was the old man's curse, but after I entered the room, I searched for a long time but couldn't find the light cord. I had to look for the guqin in the dark, but before I found it, I was suddenly hit by Shiro."

The brother Ogata felt a sinking feeling on his back: "...I've told you so many times, I wasn't the one who hit you!"

Jiang Xia nodded: "And the reason you can't touch the light cord is not a curse from ghosts. The light cord disappeared because the person who set up the mechanism pulled it close to the ceiling. After you entered the room and groped at the original height, of course you found nothing."

The detective seemed to know the scene better than the parties involved: "The guqin should have been placed on the ground, so when you were looking for it in the dark, you also knelt on the ground.

"But what you don't know is that the guqin you are looking for has been hung on the ceiling above the room with tough silk.

"At this moment, someone released the mechanism, and with the sound of the strings and silk being broken, the guqin fell. You heard the noise and looked up, and the guqin hit you on the forehead. If you were standing before, the height difference would not be so great, and the injury might not be too serious. But because you were kneeling at the time, the guqin fell and knocked you unconscious."

Brother Ogata: “…”

As the detective reviewed the scene, the scene of the previous smashing suddenly became clear in his mind. He only felt a buzzing in his head again, and his head hurt more.

Brother Ogata pressed his forehead and relaxed: "But I didn't feel anyone around me at the time... How does this evil mechanism work?"

This time, Jiang Xia seemed to be more skilled than the person who designed the mechanism: "Find a piece of silk that is long enough, fold it, put the closed end on the light cable, and then wrap the other end around the strings, so that the guqin can be temporarily placed on top of the cabinet next to it.

"Then the person who designed the mechanism grabbed the silk and passed it through the gap in the door frame, passing through several rooms, and finally connected it to the guest room where Miss Haruna was staying. Then they tied a knot in the silk and fixed this end with a hairpin.

"Finally, tighten the silk and move the guqin from the top of the cabinet to mid-air, and the mechanism is complete."

Suzuki Sonoko suddenly realized: "So that's it!"... Although she didn't understand it at all, she knew that what Jiang Xia said was definitely right!

Curacao looked left and right, and was disappointed to find that other people's expressions were either admiration or nervousness...but there was no suspicion that she wanted to see.

An organization cadre could not help but fall silent: "..." Why are everyone so impressed by Wu Zuo's reasoning ability, but no one has discovered that this guy is actually the culprit behind everything? - Listen to his description, how can this be described as reasoning? This is a complete retelling from God's perspective... Can't you, a bunch of stupid listeners, be a little suspicious?

Unfortunately, no one raised any objections.

So the undisguised "reasoning" continued. Jiang Xia looked at the people in the Ogata family and said, "In this way, as long as the door of the guest room is slightly opened, the guqin will lose the tension of the silk and fall naturally, making a huge noise."

"That is to say, from the ghostly shadows passing through the corridor to the guqin falling out of nowhere, these 'ghostly' things are actually not related to ghosts at all, but are man-made. Is that right, Mrs. Ogata?"

(End of this chapter)