Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 204: The Discomfort at the Scene
December 12, Saturday, 17: am, Dongaoshui Village, in the temporary interrogation room of the station...

"So...you're saying that you returned to the village last night, but just got lost?" Shiraishi stared at Makoto Yada in front of him with questioning.

Makoto Yada looks very honest. He is dressed like a student, wears glasses, has some freckles on his face, and looks like a "good boy".

but……

The timing of his appearance is really suspicious!
According to what the Chengshan patrolman said before, he should have gone to the East Metropolitan District to take the exam - now is indeed the time for university self-study exams. Although the general exams and entrance exams are in January and February, university self-recruitment is basically carried out during the winter vacation.

But the problem is...

The road leading to the outside of Dongaoshui Village has been blocked by a landslide. Even the police can’t get in. They are still clearing the road and it is estimated that they will not be able to come to the village until the evening!

In other words, it is impossible for Makoto Yada to have returned in the morning. He could have returned overnight...

And if he came back overnight and didn't show up all night, then... you can imagine how serious the suspicion of murder is!

However, in this case, the reason given by Makoto Yada was...

Got lost in the forest after coming back?

What a bullshit reason!
If he wasn't only eighteen years old and the Chengshan patrolman trusted him very much and made promises and guarantees to Shiraishi, Shiraishi would have behaved even more ferociously now!
but……

"That's right... Dad and Mom... Really..." Makoto said in disbelief, his eyes dull.

From the way Bai Shi looked at him, it didn't seem like he was pretending - although this guy was very suspicious, but... at this moment it seemed that he really had no prior knowledge of the situation, and after learning of the death of his adoptive parents, the pain on his face didn't seem fake.

"Well, he was killed by criminals, so if you know anything, you'd better tell me now." Bai Shi stared at him and said.

"Officer Shiraishi, please…" Shiroyama, who was standing aside, felt a little reluctant to watch Shiraishi interrogate a child who had just lost his parents.

Of course, if it weren't for his suspicious behavior, Shiraishi would not have treated the victim's family like this.

But now Bai Shi is almost certain that even if this guy is not the murderer, he is definitely hiding something!
"I don't know...there's nothing unusual..." Makoto also covered his head in pain at this time.

Seeing this, Bai Shi stood up and said, "Inspector Chengshan, you watch him first."

Then Shiraishi went to the Hihara residence again...

Shiraishi was also very puzzled about Makoto Yada's behavior - if he was not the murderer, he behaved too suspiciously, hiding it from everyone and coming back a night early. Shiraishi didn't believe that he was lost; but... if he was the murderer, regardless of his demeanor, his behavior was indeed puzzling - no one knew he was back, but he came to the village entrance by himself and was seen!
Apparently, Makoto Yada didn't know the road was blocked before, but...

If he really killed someone, there would be no need to come back at this time and add to suspicion.

……

In addition, Shiraishi always felt that something was wrong with the scene. Although he had checked all the "shining points", but...

I still instinctively feel that there is something wrong that I haven't found or explained!

After that, the villagers panicked and a "suspicious person" was caught, but Shiraishi never had time to confirm...

When he came to the house of the village chief Hihara again, Shiraishi went straight to the study on the second floor where the crime occurred. At the same time, Shinichi seemed to have discovered something. When he saw Shiraishi coming in, he hurried over with a stack of documents, as if he wanted to say something.

"Wait a minute, don't interrupt me." Bai Shi has been struggling with that "sense of incongruity" for a long time and doesn't want to be interrupted every time he checks.

"What I'm saying is... well, just wait and see." Shinichi's tone was jealous, but also full of complacency - he had already seen through the truth!

While Shiraishi went to comfort the villagers and interrogate the suspect, Shinichi had been looking for clues at the scene and had just discovered the "shocking truth" not long ago.

Therefore, Shinichi at this time is very confident...

No matter how big you are, Bai Shi, or how different your body is from ordinary people, it is impossible for you to solve the case simply by examining the scene here!
When you haven't noticed and are scratching your head, I will explain it to you in detail - Shinichi was thinking.

"Hmm?" Yukiko was also standing by at this time, looking at Shiraishi with a little concern.

"This is really extraordinary concentration..." Yukiko muttered.

"Huh? What do you mean by concentrating?" Shinichi hasn't discovered anything yet. In his opinion... Shiraishi is just staring blankly, and it doesn't seem like he is "searching".

That’s right, Shiraishi is not doing a “traditional search”, but rather…

At this moment in Shiraishi's mind, Shinichi and Yukiko had already disappeared in the room!

Also gone were the blood on the walls and the ground, and the bullet holes on the bodies of the village head and his wife...

The blood was absorbed, the bullet hole was healed, and even the bullet was returned to the gun!
At the same time, the sky outside changed and became pitch black - it was already very early in the morning when the crime happened, and it was raining, so there was basically no sunlight to be seen.

The village chief and his wife were talking in the study...

At this moment, a "little black" of ordinary size appeared outside the balcony window!

First he smashed the window and broke in, then he rushed all the way, first pushing down the village head's wife, and then immediately smashing open the display case containing the shotgun... There happened to be bullets inside that had not been unloaded?

"Ah! Who are you? What are you going to do?" Bang -

Xiao Hei shot directly and killed the village chief's wife who had fallen to the ground. The direction of blood flow and the position of the body were consistent with the "reality" just now!
The village chief wanted to attack him from behind, but "Xiao Hei" turned around and pointed a gun at him...

Under the threat of the gun, the village chief stepped back with his hands raised, and sat back on the recliner, and then...

boom--

Xiao Hei fired another shot and killed the village chief!
The shotgun shells hit the village chief's chest, and some penetrated through, leaving marks on the back of the recliner and on the wall, just like the real scene...

But just now!

The surroundings suddenly started to replay in slow motion, and the village chief Hihara, who was sitting on the recliner, was seen not only leaning back suddenly under the thrust of the bullet, but the recliner also moved a step back.

Fortunately, the quality of the recliner was good and it did not flip over, but soon the recliner swung back forward under gravity...

Paji——

Because the forward angle was too large, the Hihara village chief was shaken down and fell in front of the murderer!

Then "Xiao Hei" turned his head to look at Bai Shi and said hoarsely: "I don't need to help him go back, right?"

I can’t help you either!

Shiraishi had already checked and found that the bullet holes on the deceased's body, the damage to the recliner, and the blood splattered on the wall all corresponded to each other, with no signs of movement!

"Then I shouldn't stick my butt out like that, right?" Village Chief Hihara complained to Shiraishi with his head on the ground and his butt sticking out.

"I see..." Bai Shi now understood why he hadn't noticed any suspicious "flash spots" before, but he still felt something was wrong.

Because this is not something strange about the "physical evidence at the scene", but... a contradiction in the rules of physics!
Judging from the situation at the scene, the village chief Rihara was shot while sitting on a recliner. If he had not fallen backwards, he should have fallen forward to the ground.

But the reality is obviously not the case.

Not only did it not fall backwards, but there were no signs of friction between the recliner and the floor...

"The shooting angle cannot be wrong, which means... it was offset by some other force?"

While Shiraishi was talking to himself, the blood of the village chief Hihara flowed back again and he was resurrected on the spot, sitting back on the recliner, and all of "Xiao Hei's" bullets also returned.

A look of fear appeared on the face of the Hihara village chief again, but he was shot in the chest again by Xiao Hei!
But this time, when the recliner swung back, "Xiao Hei" quickly kicked the recliner, so that the recliner did not swing as much, and the village chief was not shaken off, but his sitting posture was still crooked...

After a brief pause, Hihara's body twisted its body awkwardly, as if trying to reset itself...

"Don't move." Bai Shi rolled his eyes.

At the same time, Bai Shi also squatted down and looked at the traces of friction between the recliner and the floor - there were flashes here too... This was something that didn't happen at a real crime scene!
"That is to say... not only did your body not shake, and the trajectory traces remained consistent, but the recliner should not have moved backwards either... then it was not simply to stop the recliner from shaking, but... either you and the recliner were both fixed at the time, or... the impact of the shot was just offset!"

Shiraishi drew his conclusion from the "laws of physics".

Snapped--

I saw "Xiao Hei" took out a bundle of hemp rope from somewhere and whipped it on his palm, as if he was going to tie up the village chief Riyuan.

"No, there are no signs of binding at all, so you don't need to try." Bai Shi pushed him away.

"Huh? What should we do then?" Xiao Hei asked helplessly.

"You... have finished it." Bai Shi concluded.

Finishing...

To be precise, there is no role at all!
How can one “exactly” cancel out a force?

Of course, the reaction force is also placed on the same object, such as now...

After the blood of the village chief Riyuan flowed back and the bullet hole healed, he sat on the recliner, picked up the shotgun, pointed the muzzle at his chest, and raised one foot with difficulty to touch the trigger!

boom--

Shot, blood splattered, gun dropped...

Because the gun was in the deceased's own hand, the reaction force balanced the impact force, and the body and the rocking chair barely swayed...

From the bullet holes to the blood splattered on the wall, everything was the same as in reality. The shotgun that was dropped after death also fell to the location of the real scene!
suicide……

Shiraishi then discovered that the only way for the Hihara village chief to be successful was to commit suicide, which was most consistent with the traces at the scene and the laws of mechanics!

In this case, Shiraishi looked at the corpse of the village head's wife, the broken windows, and the various footprints, knowing that these might also be...

(End of this chapter)