Stay away from Conan

Chapter 626 Why are people still dead?

Horrified, Gao Yuan, who thought everything had settled, suddenly turned his head and looked at the community activity room behind him. But now, where everyone was standing, facing the room with the piano - —

At this moment, I looked into the room through the window of the community activity room. Although the lights were not turned on, I could vaguely see a figure slumped on the piano in the activity room!

In this regard, not only Takato, but also Reito Jinguji and Narumi Asai couldn't help but express surprise and wonder after noticing the strangeness in the piano room.

At the same time, Conan, who was hiding in the corner, suddenly realized something was wrong when he heard "Moonlight Sonata" playing. He got up and ran towards the piano room——

The whole structure of the community room has only two doors for entry and exit.

One is the front door of the activity room where Mouri Kogoro and Xiaolan are currently located, and the second is a side door located on the right wall of the activity room.

At the same time, the side door of the activity room is connected to the room where the piano is placed, and Conan's position at this time is right next to the wall where the side door is.

Therefore, after realizing that something was wrong, although there were windows on the wall on the side where Conan was sitting that could see the situation in the room, he chose the simplest method and directly opened the door on the side wall. , become the fastest person to enter this room!

However, in contrast, although there is no door directly behind the community activity room near the sea where Takato, Asai Narumi, and Jinguji Reito are located, but also due to the existence of the windows, Takato subconsciously I tried to push up the window of the activity room to see if I could enter directly through the window.

As a result, fortunately, the window here was not locked.

After pushing open the window, Gao Yuan was the first to climb into the piano room through the window——

"who is it!"

However, when Gao Yuan had just climbed up to the window, Conan, who had already entered the room, noticed the movement near the window. Since the room had no lights on, it was almost pitch dark, so Conan subconsciously shouted towards the window.

At the same time, Gao Yuan immediately noticed the movement of a living person in the room, and found that the side door of the room was open, so he immediately shouted with a serious expression -

Therefore, in this way, Conan and Gao Yuan actually shouted at the same time.

Then, the two of them heard each other's voice again, and relaxed a little. Then they didn't worry too much about why Conan appeared here. Gao Yuan gave instructions:

"Conan, turn on the lights!"

Conan also understood this and hurried to the front door of the room and fumbled for the light switch of the room based on his memory.

Then, as the lights in the room turned on, the view of the room was finally clear.

What was shocking was that there was actually a figure lying on the piano in the room——

The man was sitting on the seat in front of the piano, his upper body slumped down, pressed against the keys of the piano, his eyes wide open and lifeless.

As for the cause of death of this person...

"A small amount of fluid oozed from the mouth and nose, suspected symptoms of pulmonary edema...a bit like a fatal overdose of diacetylmorphine..."

At this time, Reito Jinguji followed Gao Yuan and came to the scene. After checking the death condition of the deceased, he frowned slightly and murmured.

——"Diacetylmorphine?"

Hearing this familiar term and looking at the death of the man in front of him, Takato couldn't help but recall the time when he pretended to be Miyano Shiho and encountered the secret room case on the Shinkansen heading to Shikoku Island...

As for this, Asai Narumi still stayed outside, looking at the deceased in the room with a surprised look on his face. He was a middle-aged man with a slightly thin body and an upturned hairstyle.

——"It's Ken Nishimoto..."

With a strange look on his face, Asai Narumi said the name of the deceased.

"It's him?"

Hearing this and looking at the deceased's appearance, Gao Yuan couldn't help but recall that when he first landed on Yueying Island, when he and others were in the office on the island, Ken Nishimoto was standing outside the office door drinking.

And he, if we look at the plot of the original work, is also a person inseparable from the death of Keiji Aso twelve years ago, that is, he was originally the target of Asai Narumi's revenge...

But……

Thinking like this, Gao Yuan couldn't help but glance at Asai Narumi outside the house, and then turned back without saying anything -

No, Asai Narumi has always been under his attention, and there is no way to carry out revenge...

Just as I was thinking about this, at this moment, the main door of the room was also opened from the outside——

Led by Mouri Kogoro, followed closely by Kuroiwa Tatsuji and a group of other candidates for village chief, they had already broken through the door with frightened expressions because of the sudden sound of "Moonlight Sonata".

And when the people outside the door saw the scene in the room at this moment, and saw the tragic scene of Ken Nishimoto dying on the piano, everyone showed a surprised expression——

"It's too late. He's dead."

Looking at the door of the room, after the villagers who were supposed to be participating in the ritual gradually began to flock to the door, Gao Yuan shook his head at the crowd and said so.

"What……"

"how come……"

There were a lot of discussions in the crowd, and the leaders, Kuroiwa Tatsuji and Kawashima Hideo, looked at the situation in shock, unable to calm down for a long time——

"Xiaolan, report the crime to the police station here quickly. Everyone else must stay at the scene and will not be allowed to leave!"

At this moment, Kogoro reacted immediately, quickly made professional arrangements, and then walked into the room. Xiaolan also responded quickly, turning around and running towards the door——

"Miss Chengshi, please be responsible for the autopsy... other people..."

Looking at Narumi Asai outside the window, Kogoro said with a serious face, then stepped forward and pushed away Jinguji Reito who was already here:

"Irrelevant people should not come near this place! You don't even understand this!"

He must have recognized Reito Jinguji as a staff member at the village office in the morning. Kogoro said half of the words to Reito Jinguji, and the other half, Kogoro yelled at Takato.

In response to this, Jinguji Reito did not show any disgust. Instead, he looked like he was frightened by Kogoro, and came to a position in the room away from the deceased in despair.

At the same time, after hearing Kogoro's words, Asai Narumi couldn't help but nodded, walked in from the side door of the room, and began to perform an autopsy on the dead Ken Nishimoto.

At this moment, Conan frowned deeply as he looked at the somewhat chaotic scene, feeling that his thoughts were very confused——

First of all, the "shadow disappears" mentioned in the letter my uncle received last week can be understood as a metaphor of "surrounded by light", and that "light" is worth Beethoven's "Moonlight"!

Twelve years ago, pianist Keiji Aso played this piece repeatedly when his home was burned to death in a blazing fire.

Two years ago, the former village chief Isamu Kameyama played this piece before his death.

Now, "Moonlight" appears again at the scene of the deceased...

It can be seen that the letter is actually a notice that another murder will occur on Yueying Island on a full moon night——

Originally, there was no problem in thinking this way, but after overhearing what Mr. Akechi and Dr. Chengshi said, I felt that things were not that simple...

Damn it, what happened?

Mr. Wise!

With confused thoughts, Conan stood aside and looked at Gao Yuan who was in the middle of the scene. He had endless thoughts in his heart, but he could only endure it and did not ask.

——"It's the curse of the piano!"

At this time, looking at the "Moonlight Sonata" that was still playing at the scene, Kuroiwa Tatsuji's secretary Hirata Kazaki showed endless fear on his face, and shouted in panic:

"This must be the cursed piano causing trouble again!"

As he said this, the villagers at the scene could not help but be frightened by these words and showed panic expressions, and some were too timid to stay at the scene.

After hearing this, Kogoro looked around the scene and refuted seriously:

"What a curse! What nonsense!"

"But... no one is playing, how can there be sound!"

With a trembling tone, Hirata Kazaki pointed at the piano and shouted.

"Oh, it's because of the tape recorder..."

At this time, seeing Hirata Kazaki's reaction, Gao Yuan, who had already put on his gloves, took out the tape recorder he had discovered from under the piano with a look of helplessness -

"Look, the sound of the piano comes from this tape recorder, so it's not a curse or a ghost at all."

Although it is clear that the reason why Hirata Kazuaki emphasizes the piano curse so much is because he wants people to stay away from this piano——

Because this piano is related to the illegal drug trade on the island.

But at this moment, Gao Yuan couldn't expose it directly——

Things were so unexpected. It was clear that Asai Narimi was under his nose, but the murder still happened...

And, it’s still in this piano room!

You know, I was just outside this room!

Even if he is not always paying attention to the situation in the room, if the murderer kills people in this room, how could he not notice it when he is outside the room?

This is too weird!

Moreover, the cause of Nishimoto Ken's death is likely to be related to illegal drugs, so this matter must be involved in the illegal drug trade on the island. At present, Jinguji Reito did not take the initiative to reveal his identity when facing Kogoro. Obviously He doesn't want to directly attack this group of forces on the island now, maybe he has some considerations.

Therefore, naturally I can't break this point just like that, I can only stand still for now...

"That's right! Someone used a tape recorder to create such a trick, which means that this person was killed!"

Following Gao Yuan's words, Kogoro turned to look at the crowd at the door and said seriously.

"Hello!"

In response to this, Murasawa, who was wearing sunglasses and a knitted hat in the crowd, couldn't help but stepped forward and said impatiently:

"Stop talking about these things... What have you two been talking about since just now? Who are you?"

Saying this, Murasawa couldn't help looking at Gao Yuan and Kogoro in front of him and asked.

"I?"

In response, Kogoro couldn't help but put his hands in his pockets and said seriously:

"I am the famous detective from Tokyo...Moori Kogoro!"

"I'm also a detective, my name is Akechi Gaoyuan."

After hearing Kogoro's impressive self-introduction, Gao Yuan couldn't help but add something.

"Maoli? Oh, it's that astronaut..."

"No! It's the protagonist of that detective novel..."

"The protagonist's name is Akechi..."

"Isn't Akechi the one next to you..."

"Then who is he?"

After listening to the self-introductions of the two people, the older villagers in the crowd began to whisper, as if they had never heard of Mouri Kogoro's name at all, and what they were talking about was somewhat out of touch with the current era.

Gao Yuan didn't care about this, but after hearing the crowd's discussion, Kogoro looked embarrassed and didn't want to explain too much to them.

As for the leaders of the village, such as Kuroiwa Tatsuji, Kawashima Hideo and others, they seemed to know Kogoro's name, so they did not object too much to Kogoro's behavior of controlling the scene.

And soon, Asai Narumi's side, the autopsy has been initially completed——

"Based on the body spots and the stiffness of the body, the time of death should be half an hour to an hour ago... A small amount of fluid leaked from the mouth and nose, suspected..."

Asai Narumi spoke truthfully, but when he was about to talk about the cause of death, Asai Narumi saw Gao Yuan looking at him seriously, shaking his head slightly.

As a result, Asai Narumi paused for a moment, his words stumbled a bit, and he seemed to think again before he said:

"It is possible that the death was due to suffocation due to bleeding in the nasal cavity, but sudden death due to myocardial infarction is not ruled out, so the details will not be determined until after the autopsy."

"That's it..."

After listening to Asai Narumi's explanation, Kogoro couldn't help but ponder, and then felt a little puzzled. He looked at Takato, who arrived at the scene much earlier than him and others, as well as Jinguji Reito and Conan, and asked with a slight frown. :

"Speaking of which, what were you doing before? Where did you come from? Why did you arrive at the crime scene so quickly?"

"Because I wanted to discuss something with Dr. Asai, when the ceremony was held, I was in the corridor outside this door, waiting for the ceremony to end."

Hearing this, Gao Yuan couldn't help but explain:

"Then, I happened to meet Dr. Asai who was walking out during the ceremony, so I and Dr. Asai went out from the side door of the piano room and went to the beach behind the activity room and chatted for a while."

To be honest, Gao Yuan explained the general situation, and Asai Narumi nodded in affirmation.

"As for..."

As he said that, Gao Yuan looked at Reito Jinguji who was aside——

"Oh, I happened to be walking by the beach, and I met Mr. Akechi and Dr. Cheng Shi chatting behind the community activity room, so we just happened to meet them, so we chatted for a few words."

Jinguji Reito explained this.

"Really……"

In this regard, Kogoro believed that Takato would not lie because of his understanding of him, but when faced with Jinguji Reito's words, he showed doubts——

"You didn't kill the deceased here, then left through the side door here, and then pretended to meet them by chance and chatted with them, right?"

Kogoro took a few steps closer to Jinguji Reito and asked seriously:

"Because there are only two entrances and exits here, and Xiaolan and I have been staying at the front entrance, so if the murderer wants to escape after killing the deceased, he can only take the side door. And you happened to appear at this time... "

"That uncle probably didn't lie!"

Then, when Kogoro asked this question, Conan couldn't help but speak.

"kindness?"

Hearing Conan's voice, Kogoro couldn't help looking down at Conan who interrupted with a look of disgust, looking a little displeased.

"Because, I originally wanted to go in through the side door to use the toilet... but I happened to hear Brother Mingzhi and Sister Chengshi chatting at the beach, so I stayed there curiously and accidentally eavesdropped..."

Saying this, Conan scratched his head in embarrassment.

But hearing these words, Asai Narumi's expression changed slightly——

This child...

He heard his conversation with Mingzhi Gaoyuan, that is to say, he heard Mingzhi Gaoyuan's reasoning...

What if he said what he heard in front of so many people?

With such worries, Asai Narumi's face looked a little ugly.

"so what?"

Kogoro frowned and asked, looking at Conan's displeasure.

"So I stayed at the side door all the time! At that time, no one came out of the side door at all! Moreover, I also heard that uncle coming from the other side, so he couldn't be the murderer who came out of the room. Well!"

Conan made an innocent smile and said with a smile.

"snort……"

In this regard, after listening to Conan's words, Kogoro felt that what he said made sense, so he didn't say much.

However, Kogoro soon realized a problem——

"Wait a minute! In other words..."