Chapter 857 The Most Likely Answer

It only took a few seconds for the two of them to fall to the bottom.

In the dark, Conan noticed that Chi Feichi let go of his hand, and sat up quickly, "Brother Chi? Are you okay?"

"It's okay." Chi Feichi sat up and felt his own condition, that is, his back hurt from being hit by the ground, and the skin on the back of his hand was scratched.

He was a little thankful that he was used to wearing long trousers and long sleeves, otherwise it would not only be the back of his hands that would be scratched.

Conan tried his watch-shaped flashlight and said helplessly, "My watch is broken."

The two sat quietly in the pothole for a while, and after their eyes adjusted to the dim light, they could vaguely see the surrounding environment.

Chi Feichi got up and picked up the small plastic medicine bottles scattered around.

There are traces of excavation above the pit they are in, but there are natural stalactite caves under the slope. In addition to the stalactites hanging from the top, there are many stalagmites and stone pillars. The one that hit the stalagmite and fell to the ground.

Conan helped Chi Feichi pick up the small medicine bottle, and sat quietly waiting for Chi Feichi to bandage him.

When he thought of Chi Feichi protecting him with his body when he rolled down, he couldn't help being moved.

His little buddy is a good guy, a nice guy.

Hmm... The things my little friend brought are still so complete.

Alcohol for disinfection, disposable bandages for bandaging, when he was picking up the small medicine bottle, he also saw the small bottle with the 'anti-inflammatory drug' sticky note on it.

However, there was one thing he wanted to confirm.

"Brother Chi, did you drop the bottle on purpose just now?" Conan actively helped tear off a piece of medical tape for Chi Feichi.

"Yeah." Chi Feichi took the tape and tightened the bandage around his hand.

Conan was not surprised to get Chi Feichi's affirmative answer.

When he fell down, he heard the sound of many things falling to the ground. He thought that the things in Chi Feichi's pockets had accidentally fallen out, but when he helped pick up the bottles just now, he found that the places where the bottles landed were scattered. , not like a natural drop.

That is to say, when Chi Feichi fell down, he deliberately smashed the small plastic bottle in his pocket to different places, listened to the sound of the bottle landing, and explored the height of the pothole and the situation below the pothole.

Once again, the real name is envious of someone's calm and quick response characteristics.

After Chi Feichi healed the wound on his hand and put the small bottle in place, Conan stood up, walked to the steep slope, looked up, "It's a hole dug by hand, reinforced with cement, and built This slope is not used for people to enter and exit or to trap prey, and the village is surrounded by mountains, if it encounters heavy rain, it is easy to be damaged, so this hole should be used to guide rainwater to flow into the natural stalactite cave. It was built in the pool as a backup reservoir."

Chi Feichi's judgment was similar to that of Conan, and he reminded, "The wind is blowing from the upper hole, not from the back, and the passage is sealed."

Conan turned around and walked deep for a while, but he was blocked by a wall. He reached out and groped in the dim light, "It's cement..."

Chi Feichi also arrived at the concrete wall, and pressed his palms up against the wall. When his palms touched the cold wall, he suddenly had a guess in his mind.

"The slope over there is too steep, it's hard to climb up, and the road here is blocked by cement again," Conan withdrew his hand regretfully, "It seems that we can only wait for everyone to find us if we want to go out."

"Conan..."

Chi Feichi's low voice seemed a little gloomy in the pit.

Conan's back felt a chill when he heard this, and he looked up at Chi Feichi beside him in doubt.

Because of the dim light, all he could see was a dark figure standing facing the wall with its hands on it.

But Chi Feichi didn't say any more, withdrew his hand, turned around and walked towards the slope of the pothole, took out a multifunctional saber from his pants pocket, turned out the screwdriver, letter opener and protractor, and stuck the protractor into the screwdriver and letter opener. In the middle, make a stable triangle, hold the handle tightly with your right hand, "Come here."

Conan stepped forward and found Chi Feichi hugging him, guessing Chi Feichi's intentions, "You want to climb up directly? After you go up, find a rope to come down and pull me. It's easier than taking me up now, isn't it?"

Using the tip of a screwdriver and a letter opener stuck on the edge of a slope or pothole, using the edge of a protractor to increase friction, coupled with Chi Feichi's physical strength and explosive power, it should be possible to climb up, but it will be troublesome to climb up with a child many.

Chi Feichi didn't explain, and held Conan a little higher, so that Conan could see the situation behind him, and stuffed a small plastic bottle into Conan's hand, "Open the lid, keep it in your hand, watch carefully, and prepare to spill it at any time .”

Conan lowered his head to open the bottle, saw the red chili powder in the bottle by the moonlight, and was taken aback for a moment before he understood what Chi Feichi meant.

I understand, what Chi Feichi meant was that if that strange person was ambushing at the entrance of the pit after going up later, he would immediately sprinkle the chili powder out when he saw him...

This should also be the purpose of Chi Feichi carrying him up together - he was responsible for staring at Chi Feichi's back.

After Chi Feichi finished explaining, he didn't dawdle any longer. The multifunctional saber clenched in his right hand stabbed at the concrete wall, using his strength to climb up.

Half a minute later, the two came out of the pit.

The moonlight shone among the surrounding trees, and the surroundings were quiet, with no suspicious figures.

Conan put the cap on the chili powder bottle in his hand, handed it to Chi Feichi, and said speechlessly, "Brother Chi, you are too nervous."

Chi Feichi filled the bottle, put Conan down, and looked around.

What is more dangerous than accidents and difficulties is the human heart.

If the opponent is squatting outside, standing behind him when he just climbed to the entrance of the pit, whether it is with a knife, stick or other weapons, can hurt him who is inconvenient to move.

In comparison, it is not difficult to climb up with Conan in his arms. Even if there is an accident, he reacts faster and stabs the multi-function knife into the cave wall, and he can stabilize it no matter what.

Comparing the two, a fool knows how to choose.

Seeing that Chi Fei didn't respond to him for a long time, Conan silently complained to his little friend about "nervousness, late stage of persecution paranoia", and looked around, "It seems that guy has already run away, let's go back quickly."

Chi Feichi responded casually, glanced at the direction the strange man left, looked away, led Conan to the right path, and then whispered, "Investigate tomorrow."

Conan was taken aback, and asked anxiously, "Did you find any key clues?"

He and Chi Feichi have been together all the time. If Chi Feichi suddenly found any clues, it is likely to be in the pothole just now, and in the pothole, Chi Feichi stood in front of the concrete wall for a while, The abnormal behavior of calling him out suddenly and not being able to continue, made his guess much more likely.

Chi Feichi must have discovered something at the time, but he stopped suddenly, didn't continue, and decided to climb out of the pothole first, probably because he was worried that the strange man was still squatting outside the pothole and heard their conversation!

What's wrong with that concrete wall?

Chi Feichi looked behind the village, "Mr. Hecang said on the way to the villa that there is a large reservoir behind the village."

Conan looked puzzled, his mind spinning rapidly.

Large reservoirs, underground natural karst cave reservoirs, caves blocked by cement...

"Could it be that..." Conan's face became serious in an instant, and he thought about his thoughts, "If the reservoir is connected to the cave, and there is only a gate in the middle, the murderer only needs to seal the exits of the cave and leave only the place under the sacrificial tree." A hole, open the switch of the reservoir gate at the right time, let the water in the reservoir pour into the cave, the water in the cave increases rapidly, but there are not enough vents to discharge the air, the air pressure will increase, so, stay The air that escapes from that hole is enough to lift a person into the air and into a branch in an instant..."

In this way, the weird sound resounding through the village before Shirato Taimi died can be explained. It should be the sound made by water pouring into the cave and air squeezed.

"However, there are no similar holes near the Sacrificial Tree, and relying on the airflow from the holes alone, it should be very difficult to blow people away and stab them into the sharpened branch, right?" Conan said. Go, while touching his chin and muttering.

Rather than saying that he was asking Chi Feichi, it was better to say that he was asking himself.

He also feels that this is the answer that is closest to the truth at present, but there are still many doubts that need to be clarified.

Chi Feichi was also thinking.

When he was staring at the dead body and eating bread, he had evaluated in his mind that with his current strength, he could throw a person high into the air and be stabbed to death by a branch, but it was difficult for him to penetrate into a branch that was thick enough to hang a person .

Similarly, it is difficult for small institutions to do this.

A small ejection machine may be able to throw a person up, but at most it can cause a person to hit a branch and cause the bone to break and die. It is impossible to pierce a person into the branch.

Then, the murderer must have a large mechanism with a powerful thrust, but that mechanism is sufficiently secret.

Based on this, in a large underground cave, he touched a cement wall that sealed the entrance of the cave and was completed within a month, and then thought of the reservoir and the sound that resounded through the entire village before Taimi Shirato died. Thought of this method.

Using the karst caves underground in the entire village as a mechanism, this mechanism is indeed large enough, and the air is also the most secretive weapon.

However, the two points Conan said really need to be considered.

"Weeping—!"

The high-pitched and sharp chirping sounded again, breaking the silence on the road in the middle of the night.

Startled, Conan suddenly turned his head to look at a sacrificial tree they passed by.

There is this sound...

The killer started killing again?

The sound passed quickly, and there was nothing unusual about the sacrificial tree at the rear, and naturally there were no corpses hanging on it.

"Is this voice unrelated to the case? Or is it that there is no mechanism near all the sacrificial trees?" Conan said, speeding up his pace, and ran to the place where the sacrificial tree where Shirato Taimi was punctured, "this village There seems to be more than one sacrificial tree in the tree, but the one that is most likely to be the scene of the crime is the tree that has been pierced by the white vine Taimei, brother Chi, let's go and have a look!"

Chi Feichi followed.

When he arrived, Conan had already looked up at the branches of the sacrificial tree, but there was no corpse hanging on the sacrificial tree.

Shirato Taimi's body has been taken away by the police, and now the branches are empty, and the dried blood on the tip is black in the moonlight.

The night wind blew the yellow warning tape near the tree of sacrifice, and also bent the waist of the weeds in front of the tree, revealing a piece of land soaked in blood and also black under the moonlight.

Conan stood for a while, not knowing whether the environment was too gloomy, the things were too weird, or the temperature dropped tonight, which made him feel a little cold. He turned his head and looked at Chi Feichi who followed, "There is no corpse."

Chi Feichi stood by the side of the road, lit a cigarette, looked at the beam of the flashlight at the end of the road and a group of people running over, "Dr. A Li and the others are here."