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Enomoto ignored Serizawa, and just said to himself: "Let me explain the first secret room first. In fact, the method of the first secret room is very simple. Before that, I had a private discussion with lawyer Aoto, lawyer Serizawa and prosecutor Sawano. During the discussion, there was already a rough guess."

"What method?" Kitamura was taught a lesson by Serizawa, but he still looked at Enomoto suspiciously, like an unrepentant wild dog.

"We were locked out of the villa at the time, and all the doors and windows were locked after inspection, and the key was in the pocket of the owner, Shuren Miyamoto," Enomoto said.

"Is there several keys? In this case, the mystery of the secret room will not exist." Yoshikawa thought for a while and put forward a hypothesis.

Enomoto shook his head and said, "Maybe it's because there are treasures hidden in the villa. The front and rear door locks are quite high-end anti-theft locks, and the crescent locks on each window have locking devices. Moreover, even the deacon There is no spare key, which shows that the owner is a relatively cautious person, so there should be only one key for each of the front and rear doors."

"If there is only one key, wouldn't it be more indicative that when the master Miyamoto Juren was found, this was a completely secret room?" Kitamura said with a sideways glance at Enomoto.

"It's true that there is only one key, but the trick of this huge secret room is not on the door at all, but on the window."

"On the window? What do you mean?"

"At that time, except for Attorney Serizawa and I, and Prosecutor Sawano who has not yet arrived, everyone else, including everyone here, checked the windows on the first floor together, didn't they?"

Hearing the words, Ju Chuancheng raised his head that had been lowered all the time, and finally raised his head. He glanced at Enomoto and said, "I see, you mean to say that some of us deliberately checked the unlocked windows and lied about the locked windows." , wait until you enter the villa, and then lock the window when no one is prepared, will you?"

Enomoto looked at Kikukawa Castle, narrowed his eyes a little, and said, "It was snowing at the time, and the visibility was very bad, and you were all checking the windows, so you couldn't pay attention to others. I don't think you have any way to prove the windows you checked. Is it really locked?"

Ju Chuancheng nodded and said: "There is really no way to prove it. However, you have no evidence to prove that your reasoning is correct, right?"

Enomoto paused, and said, "There is really no evidence. However, after eliminating all possibilities, what remains, even if it is impossible, is the truth."

Although Ju Chuancheng nodded and didn't speak, his expression was not in agreement at all.

"I see. At that time, we thought that the windows were locked, so we thought the whole villa was a secret room. In fact, it was just a trick used by the murderer." Kitamura nodded suddenly.

"But, even if it's not a secret room, it must be arranged in advance, right? When we arrived here, the snow just started to fall. At that time, there were no footprints around the villa." Fujimura expressed his doubts.

"Actually, I checked Miyamoto Shuren's body. Judging from the stiffness of his body and the condition of the spots, he had been dead for more than three days. I think the murderer came to the haunted house three days in advance. After killing Miyamoto Shuren, lock the doors and windows, leaving only one unlocked, creating the prototype of the secret room."

"Baby form?"

"Well, the Chamber of Secrets was officially formed on January 1. There should have been snow in those three days, so it covered up the murderer's footprints on the day of the crime."

Yoshikawa thought for a while, and asked Enomoto: "Mr. Detective, according to your reasoning, this place can indeed be turned into a false secret room, but I still don't understand one thing."

"Please say,"

"If the secret room was formed according to Mr. Detective's reasoning, that is, the murderer seemed to know that we would check the doors and windows and enter the villa that day. But what if we all left after we couldn't knock on the door at that time? How could the murderer know? We will definitely check the doors and windows, and we will definitely enter the villa? If we don’t check the doors and windows, then wouldn’t this secret room be impossible to form?”

Enomoto slowed down when he heard this, and said: "The murderer knows that once the master dies, no one will open the door for us, and everyone is here to find the treasure, so how could they leave so easily? In addition, the temperature has been very low these days, snow It keeps going up and down, no one is willing to wait in the snow for the owner who doesn't know when he will come back, then someone will definitely try their best to enter the villa, and the only way to enter the villa is to check whether the doors and windows are not closed. Locked, accessible for people to enter. Even if they are all locked, someone will try to break open the windows. Although I, the locksmith, will be present that day, the murderer did not expect it. However, for the murderer, he The trick I wanted to complete was successfully completed."

"So that's the case! Mr. Detective, you are amazing! In this way, the first secret room is unlocked, what about the other secret rooms?" Fujimura looked at Enomoto expectantly.

"Yes, there are still several secret rooms waiting for Mr. Detective to crack!" Kitamura Yoshihito saw Fujimura's face full of admiration, and felt a little jealous and unwilling for a while.

"Then in order, I will crack the second secret room where Hiroaki Yasuda was killed."

"Oh, the second secret room is even more unbelievable. It is impossible to commit a crime! At that time, the door was locked, and we were all in the living room outside the door. It is impossible for the murderer to leave under our noses." Serizawa is still puzzled by the second secret room. He doesn't understand why the murderer seems to have disappeared out of thin air.In such a secret room, how did the murderer leave?

"It's very simple!" Enomoto said after a pause, "Isn't there a window open?"

"How is it possible?" Beicun exclaimed, "There are no footprints on the snow under the window. Unless it is a ghost, how can it be possible to walk on the snow without a trace?"

"Ah!" Fujimura suddenly whispered, "Yiren, when it comes to ghosts, I think of one thing."

"What's the matter, as for the sudden surprise!" Bei Cun scolded, and suddenly saw that Fuji Cun's face seemed a little bad, so he fell silent in surprise.

"Actually, after receiving the invitation letter to come here for treasure hunting, I searched for relevant information on the Internet. It is said that a fire broke out in this villa ten years ago, and all the family members who lived here were killed. You said... Could it be that their ghosts still live here, guarding their family's treasure?"

"Maybe that's true." Yoshikawa said with his head down, "It is precisely because of guarding the treasure that he will kill everyone who covets the treasure. Even if it is lost forever, he will desperately guard his important things. Sometimes, the ghost It’s also admirable.”

For Yoshikawa, who has always been sweet and sweet, suddenly said such incomprehensible words, Serizawa was really surprised.

Enomoto squinted at Fujimura, ruminating on what she had just said.

Perhaps, this is the motive?

The author has something to say: Tomorrow, September 9th, Wednesday, update: Chapter 4 cracked the second secret room

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