Chapter 836: Ghost, Time Killing Incident 2

Gao Cheng yawned boredly in his seat in the conference room of the Metropolitan Police Department.

He seemed to be thinking too much. In this kind of place, he couldn't speak at all, or in other words, few people would communicate with him. He was the only one in the conference room, which seemed a bit special.

Except for being very polite when greeting him, the consultants didn't seem too interested in him at other times. Fortunately, they came to him after a while, but their faces were particularly dignified.

"What's wrong?"

"Brother Chenghu," Mu Mu said in a deep voice, "something happened again. Just now Xiaolan called the police and said that when she and Maori attended a birthday party, the owner was killed, and it was quite troublesome. It seems to be a ghost killing..."

"Another ghost killing incident?"

Under the gaze of the consultants, Gao Cheng and Mu Mu hurriedly left the conference room.

I don't know when it started, as long as there are cases involving ghosts, everyone likes to think of him, because he also has the nickname "Ghost Detective".

Facts have proved that all ghosts are fake, and someone must have committed the murder again this time.

But if Uncle and Xiaolan are here, that guy Conan should not be absent, right?

Baokejia Villa, the scene of the banquet hall on the second floor.

"It turns out that after the candles on the birthday cake were blown out and the room was completely dark, Ms. Baoke, the owner of the mansion, was stabbed in the chest by someone."

After the forensic personnel finished collecting evidence, Mu Mu squatted next to the body of the hostess who was lying next to the cake dining car, and he could see a large pool of blood flowing from his chest, and his body was also covered with splattered blood, with a blank space in the middle. It seems that the bloodstain has been blocked.

After a pause, he turned his eyes to the balcony with the open French windows at the back.

"A few seconds before the lights came on again, the murderer escaped from the inner courtyard through the balcony over there with the murder weapon..."

"The key point is the blood splattered on the ground in front of Madam. The blood splattered in the front. A little drop of blood, but not a single one covered in blood..."

Mori Kogoro looked around the scene and made inferences.

"And there were bloodstains on the window frame and the railing of the balcony, so the blood-splattered prisoner must have escaped through that window..."

"But,

"Brother Maoli," Mu Mu said speechlessly, "you said it yourself, it has been raining until evening, and the ground is soaked, if you jump off the balcony on the second floor to escape, the prisoner will leave footprints, right? But look below, there is nothing in the yard. "

"That's true..."

"It started to rain again, and the weather forecast clearly said that the rain would stop in the evening."

With his hands in his pockets, Gao Cheng stood by the balcony and watched silently for a while before returning to the hall.

The situation at the party can roughly be restored. The problem is how the murderer disappeared, and the murder weapon...

Another thing I care about is the threatening letters that have been sent for several years in a row.

Nothing happened in the past few years, but this time when the uncle came over to be a bodyguard, a murder happened.

Then there was the accident that happened here 4 years ago, the deceased was a watchmaker, and it happened to be the day of the birthday party.

"Hmph," the bald old man looked at Mrs. Baoke's body while leaning on his crutches, "it's natural for ghosts to kill people. The watchmaker didn't die in an accident at all, but was killed! This person who thought he could control time and thought he was God's cold-blooded woman!" "Huh?" Mu Mu returned to the room and asked, "What's going on here?"

The old man glanced at Mu Mu and said in a deep voice: "It was a very severe storm at that time. The watchmaker took a safety rope to repair the dial of the big clock outside, but it was blown off by a strong wind and fell into the yard below the big clock. in the well...

"Sounds like an accident of negligence, yes, but if this woman hadn't started her birthday party right away and found someone right away, maybe everything would have been fine."

"Did someone disappear when the party started?" Mu Mu asked in surprise.

"Yeah," said a bearded man with a square face and a pipe, "the last watchmaker was drowned by the water in the well during the party, and it was already breakfast the next day when his body was found. If I had postponed the party at that time, I would have searched immediately..."

"Everyone was so busy after the party started, there was no time to find people."

"Look, it seems that the one who hates the victim the most is the dead watchmaker."

The few people in the audience felt a little nervous when they heard it, and they all looked at Gao Cheng who was thinking.

Gao Cheng was not affected by the words of the old man and his party, but just wrote down the more objective part of the words, and spent the rest of the time looking for clues on the scene.

This kind of crime committed in public is also done in the dark, so it is impossible not to leave traces. Apart from the bloodstains, it is worth considering the method used by the criminal to stab the hostess in the chest in the dark.

Moreover, in this case, it was obvious that the murderer was the birthday party guests at the scene, who just pretended to escape and hid in the crowd from beginning to end.

Because although there were voices heard in the darkness, no one saw the prisoner escape from the balcony with his own eyes, only the floor-to-ceiling windows were opened.

The only doubts were the way the murderer handled the murder weapon, and why there was no blood on his body...

"It's fluorescent paint," Gao Cheng looked at the victim's body, covering the light path above the necklace with his hands, "the necklace on the victim's neck was painted with fluorescent paint, and it glows when the light is dark. This is probably how the prisoner found his place." ...has anyone touched this necklace?"

"Ah?" the butler replied nah, "very, many people, everyone seemed to touch each other during the party, because this birthday party is also a display of this new piece of jewelry that Madam bought..."

"That's right," Mori Kogoro said in a deep voice, "She even took out that gold pocket watch proudly and showed it to me. Doesn't that make everyone suspicious?"

"Of course……"

Gao Cheng said to all the guests who were discussing: "The prisoner is among these people at the scene."

The bald old man looked at Gao Cheng and frowned, and the expressions of the others were not very good either.

"Isn't there still blood on the balcony? And I did feel someone rushing towards the balcony..."

"It just looks like someone escaped through the balcony. It feels deceiving," Gao Cheng stood up and turned to Mu Mu, "Police department, anyway, let's question the guests first, and search their belongings by the way."

Mu Mu nodded cautiously and said: "We can only do this first. The thing that pierced the victim's heart was a long, sharp weapon like an ice cone. If the prisoner didn't escape, it is very likely that he hid it on his body..."

"Wait a minute," the bald old man interrupted, "What about the blood stain? According to what you said, shouldn't the prisoner be covered in blood?"

"That's right," the female guest next to him said, "We don't plan to accept interrogation and body searches if we don't solve this problem first!"

"There is obviously nothing to doubt, so it's rude to investigate like this?"

The guests were all in a commotion, they were all respectable people, they were quite repulsed by the police investigation, and they demanded to go home after making a lot of noise.

Gao Cheng watched all this quietly.

With so many guests who came to the birthday party, no one seemed to be sad because of Mrs. Baoke's death. This lady was really a failure.

No wonder the murderer was invited to the party...

Who is the murderer?

Gao Cheng glanced over the guests who were in a hurry to leave, and before he could stop them, a bearded pipe-smoking man next to him stopped them all.

"Everyone, please wait a moment!" The pipe-smoking man persuaded, "Don't you understand? Now a person has been killed. Today everyone is here to celebrate her birthday. If the prisoner is still among us, why not assist the police in the investigation?" Should we do it?"

Although there were some twists and turns in the process, the guest stayed in the end, maybe for the sake of face, maybe it was really for Mrs. Baoke.

"Kiroto, what do you think?" Conan asked, looking at the pipe-smoking men who were first taken outside for questioning.

"These people were with the victim when the crime happened, right?"

Gao Cheng followed and walked out of the banquet hall.

The most suspicious ones were the four people who were with Mrs. Baoke at that time, the housekeeper, the pipe-smoking man, the old man, and a female guest. According to Conan, except for the housekeeper, the other three people also came to Baoke’s house early, and with Baoke The lady is much more familiar than the other guests.

"Listen to their testimony first."

No matter what the reason is, no matter how unpleasant the victim Mrs. Baoke is, the murder is a very serious matter. The only thing a detective can do is to tell the truth to the deceased.

It is impossible to make a watchmaker who died 4 years ago become a murderer...

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