Chapter 668 Gao Yuan Comes to Pursue the Necklace

Chapter 668 Gao Yuan comes to pursue the necklace

"Game over!"

After Hattori Heiji fell asleep due to the effect of the anesthesia needle, Conan immediately took out the bow-tie voice changer and adjusted the knob of the voice changer to change his voice to that of Hattori Heiji. Then Conan hid behind the door. Then he said in Hattori Heiji’s voice, imitating Hattori Heiji’s Osaka accent as much as possible——

"I already know completely who the murderer is! And what method the murderer used to commit this incident!"

"ah?"

Suddenly, everyone present who was still surprised because they had just learned that Fujisawa Toshiaki and Oki Ayako had known the store owner Hiroyuki Kanaya for a long time, couldn't help but look even more surprised after hearing Hattori Heiji's words. , all turned their heads to look at Hattori Heiji, who was leaning against the door.

"That's right, the first murder that killed the owner Mr. Kanaya in this hotel and caused him to fall off a cliff in his car, and the culprit who tried to use the gasoline that volatilized in the garage to harm Ms. Oki and Mr. Fujisawa..."

As he said this, Conan lifted Hattori Heiji's drooped right hand from behind the door and pointed Hattori Heiji's hand towards someone in the room——

"That's you!"

Ling Ran, Hattori Heiji said firmly in his voice.

"Huh? Me?"

However, looking in the direction pointed by Hattori Heiji's finger, Mouri Kogoro, standing in front of everyone and looking at the candidate pointed by the finger, looked surprised, pointed at himself, and asked blankly.

At the same time, everyone present was shocked.

In response, Conan leaned out from behind the door and looked at the situation in the room. He looked helpless and continued to explain in the voice of Hattori Heiji:

"Wrong! I was referring to the man behind the uncle who is sweating coldly...Mr. Kento Toba! The murderer is you!"

As soon as these words came out, Toba Kento couldn't help but his pupils were stunned, and he was stunned on the spot for a moment.

At the same time, Oki Ayako on the side looked slightly disappointed after hearing Hattori Heiji's voice saying this result. Finally, she lowered her head helplessly and sighed——

"Wait, wait a minute!"

However, when everyone turned their attention to Toba Kento in shock because of Hattori Heiji's words, Toba Kento immediately retorted in a panic:

"A few hours before the shop owner drove the car, I stayed with you all the time! Aren't you there too? You can tell me what I should do to kill him while staying with you. Where’s the shopkeeper?”

"Hmph——"

In this regard, just after Toba Kento said this, Kogoro on the side couldn't help laughing proudly, and then slowly walked up to Hattori Heiji, and seemed to be a little intolerable, and hit Hattori Heiji on the head. One punch——

"dad!"

Regarding Kogoro's act of punching Hattori Heiji on the head, Xiaolan felt that this was very bad and couldn't help but advise him.

Noticing the strength of Kogoro's punch just now, Conan, who was hiding behind the door, couldn't help but panic——

"Oops! This won't wake him up..."

But Kogoro was still very unhappy. He glared at Hattori Heiji and vented his anger:

"That's right! You idiot! Stop looking down on people! Why are you talking in such a weird Kansai accent! When the shop owner started the car, weren't you here with Toba? You should tell me what he would do if he did this Let the car start!"

"Yes, it does seem impossible."

However, seeing that Hattori Heiji did not wake up after being punched by Kogoro, Conan continued to say in his voice:

"However, if we take advantage of the catalepsy state and the performance of the car, it would be possible!"

As he spoke, Conan paused for a moment, and then revealed the core plot behind the murder of shop owner Hiroyuki Kanaya——

"The trick is to let the store manager who died exactly one day ago sit in the driver's seat and fix him with his foot on the brake. After half a day, when the body begins to stiffen, in this way, even if the car's engine is running , the gear is switched to D, but the car still won't move because the brakes are pressed. Then, as long as you open the garage before eating, slowly wait in the house with everyone to wait for the body to soften, and the foot that is pressing the brake will loosen. Just drive, and the car will start moving naturally!”

"Ha ha ha ha!"

But regarding this inference, Kogoro immediately burst into laughter:

"You kid, don't pretend to understand if you don't understand! A stiff corpse will only start to soften 40 hours after death! If according to what you said, the shop owner was killed early yesterday, then it was nothing more than just Twenty hours is not enough time at all!”

"But what if the environment where the body is located has a higher temperature?"

As soon as Kogoro finished speaking, Hattori Heiji's voice immediately gave an explanation.

"Why?"

Hearing this, Kogoro was stunned.

"If the temperature around the body reaches 35 degrees Celsius, the rate of stiffness and softening will accelerate. The body will begin to soften in about 24 to 30 hours."

Conan smiled proudly and reasoned in the voice of Hattori Heiji:

"The shop owner is said to have disappeared after 10 o'clock at night. Assuming that he was killed immediately, the car was started at about 3:30 this morning, which is about 29 hours later. Doesn't the time match well?

"And at that time, didn't we also hear a sound like blowing wind in the car? It was not the air conditioner we thought at first, but the heater! If the air conditioner was on, there should be water dripping next to the front wheels."

"So, you just went back and looked around the tire tracks?"

Xiaolan was a little surprised at this.

"That's right."

Conan continued to answer in the voice of Hattori Heiji:

"When we investigated the rut marks immediately afterwards, we found no traces of water droplets! This means that the air conditioner was not turned on in the car at that time. Therefore, the sound of blowing wind we heard at that time could only be because the heater was turned on in the car. "

"However, this trick only requires investigating the rigor mortis..."

Faced with this situation, Kogoro couldn't help but sigh, and at the same time he understood why the murderer made such an arrangement——

"That's why the murderer drove the shop owner and his car off the cliff! Because unless the body is not found, the rigor mortis cannot be investigated!"

Hattori Heiji's voice continued to explain.

"Why did the car accelerate suddenly?"

After listening to this analysis, astrologer Maria Toda raised some doubts.

Conan continued to analyze in the voice of Hattori Heiji:

"Probably because of the bumps in the road, the feet of the already limp corpse completely slipped off the brake pedal. Since there is no deceleration from the brakes, the vehicle speed will naturally increase. And the cloth covering the dashboard is also for Don’t let people who get close to the car find out that the heater is on!”

"I see……"

Very shocked, Kawazu Ikuo couldn't help but sigh:

"Then just watch the car start on its own with anyone in the house..."

"In this way, the murderer has a perfect alibi!"

Maria Toda said with some admiration.

"So... Mr. Toba asked Miss Ayako to stay in the house at that time just to create a witness who witnessed the car starting with him?"

Xiaolan asked, somewhat unbelievably.

"That's right."

Hattori Heiji's voice confirmed Xiaoran's words.

But Xiaolan found it difficult to accept this statement, and she couldn't help but look at Oki Ayako who was silently standing aside——

"But... why! If the murderer of the store owner is Mr. Toba, doesn't it mean that... the person who wanted Miss Ayako's life just now was also Mr. Toba!"

Xiaolan asked in confusion:

"Aren't they a couple? Why do they do this!"

"Because I want to silence you!"

Hattori Heiji's cold voice responded:

"Miss Ayako said it herself - she already knows who the murderer is!"

"What! If you say so, at that time!"

Surprised, after hearing what Hattori Heiji said, everyone present couldn't help but look at Oki Ayako standing aside, a little unbelievable——

"That's right. You should still remember, right? Miss Ogi Ayako suddenly said that she knew who the murderer was. Because at that time, after she learned from me that no traces of water droplets were found near the rut marks, the murderer took advantage of his death. The stiff trick used to create an alibi has been exposed by her!"

Conan couldn't help but say this, recalling the situation when Ayako Ogi asked Hattori Heiji before announcing to everyone that she knew who the murderer was.

"But if that's the case, she already knew that Toba was the murderer, so why is she still unwilling to tell the truth even after knowing that the murderer also wants her life!"

Kogoro asked loudly.

"Of course this is because Miss Omu Ayako also has her own little plans!"

Conan continued in the voice of Hattori Heiji:

"You still remember, after hearing Miss Ogi Ayako declare that she knew who the murderer was, the anxious Mr. Toba pretended to follow her to the bathroom, but in fact he went to negotiate terms with her. I think Miss Ogi Ayako's The note should have been given by Mr. Toba to Miss Ogi Ayako at that time, in order to let Oki Ayako keep the secret for him on the condition of the first edition! "

"Indeed... Toba was the only one who could be alone with her at that time."

Kawazu Ikuo said suddenly.

"That's why her attitude changed drastically after she came back!"

Maria Toda was greatly surprised and said:

"But he's really amazing, he was able to think of this trick right away at that moment!"

"No, this plan was originally prepared for another person. The most fortunate thing for the murderer is that Miss Ayako Oki has the same habit of carrying a lighter with her!"

Hattori Heiji’s voice explained again:

"Yes, the trap in the garage should have been designed for Mr. Fujisawa from the beginning!"

"What!"

Horrified, Fujisawa Toshiaki shouted, and the other people also looked at Fujisawa Toshiaki in surprise——

"The card stuck in the door of your room was meant to lure you to the garage. But because something happened suddenly, the murderer thought of using this trick to kill Ayako first. As for how to kill you in the end, he We can only make other plans.”

Hattori Heiji's voice explained, and then his tone changed and he continued to explain:

"However, it is precisely because of the changes in your reactions, Ms. Omu Ayako, that after figuring out the murderer's method of killing the shop owner, I was able to completely confirm who the real murderer was, so I was able to unravel the truth of this incident! If I’m not wrong, even after we stopped you and learned that Mr. Toba wanted to kill you, the reason why you still didn’t choose to make the truth known to the public was probably because of the original version!”

In this regard, Omu Ayako remained silent, as if she still did not intend to tell the truth.

"That's right...it seems like you did everything you could to get that first edition..."

Seeing Ayako Oki's reaction, Conan felt a little regretful and continued to say in Hattori Heiji's voice——

"However, even if you don't tell me, judging from your reactions, I already know what evidence you have that can prove that Mr. Toba is the murderer!"

As he spoke, Hattori Heiji's voice said slowly:

"Ms. Oki Ayako, you went to Mr. Toba's room during the day yesterday and saw something. And it was precisely because of this thing that you immediately concluded that the murderer of the store owner was Mr. Toba!"

"Evidence! What evidence!"

Regarding the explanation given by Hattori Heiji's voice, Kogoro couldn't help but stepped forward to ask.

——"That's the questionnaire!"

Suddenly, suddenly, another voice that was very unfamiliar to the members of the tour group present came from outside the door.

But this voice is very familiar to Conan and others——

It's Gao Yuan!

I saw Gao Yuan, who was wearing a blue windbreaker, passing by Conan outside the door and slowly walked into the room. He looked at Kento Toba who looked ugly in front of him and said slowly:

"Miss Ogi Ayako probably went to your room yesterday to peek at the answers you wrote, or when she wanted to discuss the answers with you, she found that you were not in the room. At that time, you might have gone to the garage to check for rigor mortis. So, in the end, Ms. Ogi Ayako probably just found the questionnaire you wrote in your room..."

As he spoke, Gao Yuan paused, and then he saw Hattori Heiji, who was sitting with his back against the door, opened his eyes, stood up slowly, and said lightly:

"And you probably didn't write a word in that questionnaire! After all, you already knew in your heart that the shop owner who changed the test papers is no longer in this world, so you don't need to spend so much time writing that completely useless questionnaire. Questionnaire of meaning! Now, just show us your questionnaire and we will know if what I said is nonsense!”

As soon as these words came out, everyone else present was shocked——

Among them, Conan, who was hiding behind the door, widened his eyes and was completely at a loss for words——

"When did that guy... wake up! And why did Mr. Akechi..."

But at this moment, for Toba Kento, any words are of no use.

I saw him slowly kneeling on the ground, with a look of reluctance on his face.

Seeing this and seeing his behavior, everyone present already understood that the truth of everything was indeed as mentioned just now, and he was the murderer of the store owner Hiroyuki Kanaya.

However, regarding the current situation, Gao Yuan, who had just arrived here not long ago, couldn't help but feel a little helpless——

It seems that there was no major deviation in this incident without my participation...

However, this kind of person does not directly participate in the incident at the scene, but affects the choices of the original staff in the incident in other ways...

Does it seem to have some effect on its results?

Blinking slightly, Gao Yuan looked around at the people present and found that Ayako Oki, who was supposed to die in the original work, was not dead. This made Gao Yuan feel that this was somewhat positive!

However, compared to these, as expected——

The necklace called "Priestess" is really here!