Chapter 158 The Dead (22)

When Huihara Ai heard the scream, she immediately had a bad premonition. She climbed out of the hot spring and quickly came to the woman who was holding her cheeks and still screaming.

"what happened?"

Huiyuan Ai asked.

The woman who was slumped on the ground heard the voice and slowly turned her head.

She looked pale at the little girl in front of her who looked like she had just started elementary school. Then she stretched out her hand and pointed tremblingly at the hot spring pool she had just soaked in. She spoke with trembling lips:

"Water... There is someone under the water..."
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"Edogawa-kun!!"

Conan dreamed that he was riding a roller coaster with his childhood sweetheart, Ran Mouri, and then the whole world began to spin.

He suddenly opened his eyes and saw Huibara Ai with a livid face grabbing his collar and shaking himself frantically.

"Habara, what's wrong? Did you wet the bed again?"

"What do you mean by wetting the bed 'again'?! I've never wet the bed before, okay!"

Huihara Ai said a little angrily.

"So, what's going on?"

"Someone's dead in the women's hot spring area."

When Conan heard what Haibara Ai said, his eyes suddenly widened and he became completely sober.

He quickly woke up Dr. Agasa who was snoring loudly, and after changing clothes with Dr. Agasa, the three of them hurried downstairs.

At this time, Conan heard the sound of sirens outside.

At this time, the area on the first floor of Guquan Temple was in chaos. Many staff members looked very flustered, and it was obvious that they were caught off guard by the situation.

soon.

A group of detectives from the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Headquarters entered the hall and asked:

"Excuse me, who called the police?"

"it's me!"

Huibara Ai raised her little hands and spoke loudly.

The detectives present at the scene were all surprised when they saw that the person who called the police was a young girl.

The leading police officer came to the side of Huihara Ai, squatted down, and asked Huihara Ai:

"Can you tell uncle what happened?"

"I was just taking a hot spring bath when I suddenly heard that sister scream."

As Haibara Ai spoke, she pointed to another woman in the hall who was wrapped in a blanket and had a pale face.

Conan also looked in the direction of Haibara Ai's finger.

The woman's hair was wet and disheveled, and she was still wearing the yukata that Kozenan distributed to tourists, and her body was shaking constantly.

'From the way she was dressed, it was obvious that she had not returned to her room.'

"And if she was frightened, she wouldn't have had time to take a shower."

'Then why is her hair wet?'

Conan heard from Haibara Ai that when she first met the woman, she had her hair tied up.

Logically speaking, the other person's hair should not come into contact with water.

Just as Conan was thinking about it, the leading police inspector sent a female police officer to the trembling woman and asked her what had happened.

The woman's name is Mayumi Motoki.

She had the same idea as Haibara Ai, and also wanted to take a hot spring bath in the morning when there was no one around and the water was cleaner.

But it’s different from Haibara Ai.

Mayumi Motoki chose the "bubble bath" which is said to be good for the skin and has a whitening effect. As the name suggests, the bubble bath pool has many white bubbles on the surface of the water.

The principle of bubble formation is to install nozzles at the bottom or side of the hot spring pool, and inject carbon dioxide into the water through these nozzles to form a large number of small bubbles.

However, due to the generation of a large number of bubbles, the bubble bath pool is not like other hot spring pools where you can directly see the bottom of the pool.

So Mayumi Motoki didn't doubt it and just soaked in the pool.

However, just as she submerged her body in the pool, her right foot stepped on something soft.

At first, Mayumi Motoki didn't have any doubts, and she was even brave enough to submerge her entire head into the pool, wanting to see what she was stepping on.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at the results.

Then Motoki Mayumi was horrified to find that there was a man's body at the bottom of the pool.

Mayumi Motoki was so frightened that she rushed out of the pool like crazy and has not recovered until now.

'No wonder her hair was wet...it turns out she stepped on a body and put her head in the water to check the situation.'

Conan was stunned.

He sighed in his heart that Mayumi Motoki was extremely courageous.

At the same time, I also feel that this young lady may have a trauma in her heart and will never go to the hot spring again.

Conan and Haibara Ai hid behind Dr. Agasa, who was also well-known among the police, and entered the women's hot spring area.

At this time, the body in the hot spring pool had been salvaged.

Since the body had been immersed in water for a long time, it had become soaked.

But Conan and Haibara Ai still recognized each other at a glance.

This is the actor who played Kamen Rider on the stage yesterday afternoon - Kenji Furusawa.

After observing the corpse, Conan turned to look at Haibara Ai.

Then I saw Huibara Ai nodded seriously.

Apparently, the two reached a consensus on the cause of death.

The police first conducted a preliminary examination of Kenji Furusawa's body, but did not see any obvious external injuries on his body.

“Did he die from drowning?”

The inspector of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Headquarters muttered to himself as he looked at the pale and wrinkled body of Kenji Furusawa.

"No, not drowning!"

At this time, Conan took out his bow-tie voice changer and spoke in the voice of Dr. Agasa.

Upon hearing this, the police officers present all looked towards Dr. Agasa.

Dr. Agasa was startled at first, then quickly adjusted his mood and spoke in line with Conan's voice:
"Although the deceased's skin showed immersion and lack of oxygen due to long-term immersion in water, a closer look revealed cyanosis on the deceased's lips, nails and earlobes."

Upon hearing this, everyone present looked towards Kenji Furusawa's body.

Sure enough, it was discovered that the skin of the deceased's lips, nails and earlobes were all blue-purple.

"This is a typical characteristic of a person who died from hydrogen sulfide poisoning."

"Because hydrogen sulfide interferes with the use of oxygen, the skin of the deceased may appear cyanotic."

"At the same time, the poisoned person often loses consciousness quickly due to nervous system depression, which may lead to respiratory arrest, so the body will also show symptoms of hypoxia."

"In addition, Ms. Yuanmu also said that when she found the body, it sank to the bottom of the hot spring pool."

"If the cause of death was drowning, the body should have floated to the surface of the water quickly due to the inflation of the lungs."

"But the body sank to the bottom of the water, which means the cause of death was not drowning, and the time of death was relatively short, and the body had not yet decayed."

"So, the cause of death of the deceased should not be drowning, but hydrogen sulfide poisoning!"

Sorry, I haven't been feeling well since I became ill. Although I don't have a fever anymore, I still feel like I'm having trouble breathing, as if I've aged 20 years in an instant. I haven't been updating well during this period, please forgive me.
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(End of this chapter)

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