Solving cases with Detective Conan's science? No, I'm a cultivator!

……

Community Center.

"Well? Did you find it?" Kogoro Mori asked hurriedly when he saw the two return.

The old policeman explained, "We couldn't find it at the police station. Maybe I'm mistaken. Perhaps it's in the community center's warehouse."

I don't have the key to that warehouse; we'll have to talk about it tomorrow.

Kogoro Mouri's lips twitched, and he silently sat back down.

"Brother Kitagawa, let's take turns keeping watch tonight. I'll keep watch for the first half of the night, and you can keep watch for the second half!"

He had given up hope on this elderly policeman.

Kitagawa Taki nodded.

They were supposed to take turns guarding him, but before midnight, Kogoro Mouri was fast asleep, snoring away.

Kitagawa Taki opened his eyes, glanced at the two sleeping people, and silently waited for those people to come.

He didn't have to wait long before a rustling sound came from the window.

The visitor was none other than his secretary, Hirata Kazuaki. He tiptoed to the window and, by the moonlight, saw that everyone inside was fast asleep in their sleeping bags before he felt relieved.

He pushed open the window, carefully climbed under the piano, groped his way to open the hidden compartment, and took out a large bag of white powder.

Having obtained the heroin, he didn't linger. He returned the way he came, closed the window, and ran away.

Just when he thought everything was going smoothly, a voice sounded behind him.

"Mr. Hirata, what are you doing here in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"

Hirata Kazuaki turned to look at Kitagawa Taki, who had a mocking expression, and tried to remain calm. "I couldn't sleep, so I came out for a walk."

"It moved under the piano?"

Hirata Kazuaki knew his plan had been exposed, so he gritted his teeth and reached for the dagger at his waist.

"Click~"

That was the sound of a gun being cocked.

Hirata Kazuaki's gaze shifted upwards, and there was a gun pointed at his forehead.

"W-What are you doing, sir detective?"

"I don't want to waste words. Tell me who your accomplices are, or you're dead!"

The chilling killing intent sent a shiver down Hirata Kazuaki's spine.

"I'll tell you, I'll tell you, it's Ken Nishimoto, Hideo Kawashima, Isamu Kameyama, and Tatsuji Kuroiwa!"

"there is none left?"

"It's gone, really gone!"

Kitagawa Taki put away his gun and snapped Hirata Kazuaki's neck.

Hirata Kazuaki looked incredulous, his expression as if to say, "He confessed everything honestly, so why kill him?"

"I never said I wouldn't kill you."

Kitagawa Taki searched Hirata Kazuaki's body and found the packet of heroin, taking some out with a knife.

Then, a fireball was used to destroy the body and eliminate all traces.

……

Back in the music room, the two people on the floor were still fast asleep.

Kitagawa Taki sprinkled some of the white powder he had just taken under the piano and into the hidden compartment.

After finishing this, he went back to his sleeping bag...

The next morning.

Kogoro Mouri was still fast asleep when Ran and the other two arrived.

Ran asked with concern, "Taki, nothing happened last night, right?"

"No." Kitagawa Taki shook his head. "How did you guys sleep last night?"

"pretty good."

Xiao Lan smiled.

Actually, she wanted to sleep in the same room as Ai Haibara last night, but was politely refused.

The three of them ended up each booking a room.

The older policeman glanced at his watch. "The Tokyo police should be arriving soon, right?"

"Tokyo?"

"Don't you know?" the old policeman explained, "This area is under the jurisdiction of Tokyo Metropolitan Government. I reported the matter yesterday."

Needless to say, it's definitely Inspector Megure who's coming.

As expected, not long after, Inspector Megure arrived at the community center with Wataru Takagi and several other officers.

Inspector Megure never expected to run into Kitagawa Taki on such a small island. When he saw Kogoro Mouri fast asleep, he felt that he had found the root of the problem.

After learning about the case from Kitagawa Taki and the others, Inspector Megure squatted down and tried to wake up Kogoro Mouri.

"Hey, hey, wake up, Mori buddy!"

Kogoro Mouri, still half asleep, had no idea what had happened.

"Police department?"

"Brother Mori, the sun is high in the sky, it's time to get up."

"Is this also under the jurisdiction of Tokyo Metropolitan Government?" Kogoro Mouri yawned.

"That's right, Brother Kitagawa said you have a sheet music on you?"

"Oh, this."

Kogoro Mouri pulled out the sheet music. He had stared at it for a long time while keeping watch last night, but still couldn't figure it out.

Inspector Megure took the sheet music and said to Wataru Takagi, "Takagi, take two men and go with the old man to fetch the person. We're going to conduct an investigation!"

Chapter 302 Like Riding a Roller Coaster

Is there something wrong with this sheet music?

Inspector Megure, holding the musical score, was also completely bewildered.

Conan suddenly spoke up: "Do you understand? You're next!"

After arriving at the hotel last night, he thought about it for a long time before he finally understood the mystery behind it.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, Conan felt quite pleased and said, "As long as you can read sheet music, this is very easy to understand."

Start by sorting the letters from the left side of the piano keyboard, then fill in the English letters in sequence, and finally write the message in musical notes using phonetic notation on the sheet music.

Therefore, we can conclude that the problematic part of the sheet music is "Do you understand? You're next."

"You think you can read sheet music?"

Kogoro Mouri finally understood why he couldn't understand it.

"And since you knew what it meant, why didn't you tell us sooner? Maybe the 'next one' has already been murdered!" Kogoro Mouri roared at Conan again.

"Uncle, don't worry, the murderer won't do it anywhere else. He'll only kill people in this community center, using the legend of the piano's curse!"

Therefore, as long as we gather everyone who participated in yesterday's ritual, the murderer will have no way to commit the crime!

Conan felt he had figured out the killer's logic. Yesterday, the killer released the first movement of Moonlight Symphony, so there are only two people left to kill, corresponding to the second and third movements of Moonlight Symphony.

If the murderer strikes while they are scattered, and no one hears Moonlight Sonata, then it would be meaningless.

Kogoro Mouri snorted coldly, "That's for the best!"

Kitagawa Taki glanced at Conan. If he hadn't intervened, things really would have turned out exactly as Conan predicted.

……

After half an hour.

Apart from Hirata Kazuaki, the people who participated in the religious ceremony last night have gradually arrived.

Takagi Wataru reported, "Inspector, we couldn't find the village chief's secretary, Mr. Hirata. We couldn't get through to him on the phone, and no one was home."

Kuroiwa Tatsuji's expression changed slightly in the crowd. Yesterday, he had Hirata Kazuaki move the goods under the piano, but he hadn't received a call from Hirata Kazuaki.

Inspector Megure realized a possibility and his eyes widened: "Mr. Hirata couldn't have been murdered, could he?"

Conan had the same thought, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

How could that be? The murderer would never have done it elsewhere!

What went wrong?

Kogoro Mouri glanced at Conan and asked the old policeman, "Sir, could you gather the other villagers to search the island?"

“Okay.” The old policeman nodded and said, “By the way, the key to the community center’s warehouse is with Chief Black Rock.”

"The key?" Inspector Megure looked puzzled.

"It's a sheet music left behind by Keiji Aso, and it's stored in the warehouse."

Kogoro Mouri offered a brief explanation, then looked at Tatsuji Kuroiwa: "Chief Kuroiwa, could you please open the door?"

"The keys and keys are all managed by Hirata... I don't have them here."

When Kuroiwa Tatsuji heard that it was sheet music left behind by Aso Keiji, he naturally refused to open the door.

"There's no other way but to break down the door by force."

Kogoro Mouri gave Inspector Megure a look.

Inspector Megure instructed, "Takagi, take an officer with you."

Kuroiwa Tatsuji was filled with apprehension, but dared not utter a sound to stop him.