Conan: The Heart Thief

In the living room of the villa, Xiaolan and Kisaki Eri, who helped to clean up the dishes, began to clean. Xiaolan was mopping the floor with a mop while looking at the forest outside the window.

"I don't know if it's my illusion, but Sister Yukiko and Xiaojun are a little too close." said Mao Lilan.

"That's your illusion." Since Eri Kisaki and Yukiko had reached a consensus, she chose to stand on Yukiko's side. "I'm worried about them, are they really okay?"

"Don't worry, Lin Xiao is here. As for here, I'm here, mom, I will protect you." Xiaolan said with a smile.

"Thank you, Xiaolan." Hibiki Eri felt ashamed. Xiaolan loved her as a mother, but she not only did not take care of Xiaolan, but also took advantage of her. "Next, I'll take care of the living room. Is Miss Sumika still upstairs?"

"Yeah, and I can hear the vacuum cleaner. It's too loud."

"Maybe it's a more powerful model."

As they were talking, the sound of the vacuum cleaner suddenly stopped, and then Chengxiang returned to the living room on the first floor and shouted, "If the living room is cleaned, can you help clean the other rooms?"

"No problem." Xiaolan replied.

After cleaning the living room, Xiaolan and Kisaki Eri went upstairs together.

"By the way, Xiaolan, do you usually call Yukiko "sister?" asked Eri Kisaki.

"Yes. Because Yukiko is vain, she asks everyone to call her sister, which makes her look younger." Xiaolan giggled innocently.

"Xiaolan, can you call me sister instead?" asked Hibiki Eri.

"Eh? Mom, why?" Xiaolan was suddenly confused. Her mother wanted to be her sister. What was going on?

"Because mom is also vain. You call Yukiko "sister", as if Yukiko is younger than me, and I feel unbalanced."

"Is that so?" Xiaolan immediately agreed to her mother's request, "Sister Yingli..."

"Xiaolan, you are so good." Hibiki's lips curled up slightly, and she smiled knowingly. In this way, she successfully became a sister of Xiaolan, and she could do whatever she wanted in the future without any scruples.

Chapter 292: Ghosts Violate the Detective Worldview

"call--!"

There were strong winds blowing in the forest, making people feel a little chilly. Lin Xiao frowned and looked at the rental villa that looked like a haunted house. Compared with the villa they lived in, this villa where a murder had taken place seemed to have not been taken care of for many years, and it was surrounded by weeds.

"Ah, it's locked after all."

Yukiko stood at the door of the villa and said, "So we can't see the crime scene now, right?"

Lin Xiao wondered: "It's been so many years, the crime scene can't have been preserved until now, right?"

"What should we do? Should we go back?" Yukiko asked.

"Since I'm here, I have to take a look." Lin Xiao said hesitantly.

Yukiko stared blankly at Lin Xiao as he took out the wire and walked forward, then tried to open the door of the villa with a few clicks.

There was a faint smell of decay in the villa, but the conditions were not as bad as imagined. The furniture was covered with tarpaulin and the dust on the floor seemed to have been swept.

Lin Xiao turned on the flashlight and walked into the inner room.

It felt much more upscale than the villa they were staying in, but the structure was similar.

"The crime scene is said to be in the master bedroom, this side..."

“It seems to have been cleaned up.”

"Of course, it's been so many years."

A few people took a casual look in the master bedroom and found that there was no blood on the floor. At least it was impossible to investigate clearly without the luminol reagent.

Even Lin Xiao doesn't have the habit of carrying Lumilor reagent with him.

Sweeping the area with a flashlight, Lin Xiao squatted down to check the floor.

This bedroom is still dusty...

In fact, he didn't originally want to investigate the crime scene, but wanted to confirm some things.

No matter how powerful one is, it is difficult for an ordinary person to live like a savage in this forest for more than ten years. This long-unmanned rental villa is the most ideal place to stay, and the police will basically not come to investigate again.

"Let's go check out the kitchen."

Lin Xiao stood up and said.

"Ok?"

As the flashlight swept across the corridor outside the bedroom, Lin Xiao suddenly discovered a faint scratch on the wall, like a mark left by the tip of a kitchen knife.

"What's wrong?" Yukiko asked curiously.

"Ah, nothing... the kitchen should be..."

"on the left."

Lin Xiao thought about it and walked towards the kitchen.

There is no electricity in this villa, but there are indeed signs of someone entering, and just recently, there have been signs of people entering and leaving the villa.

What is certain is that there is someone secretly moving in this forest...

"Without water," Yukiko said, looking at the faucet, "we can't live like this for long, right?"

"Yes." Lin Xiao had already looked at other bedrooms and found nothing.

"Let's go look for it in the forest next?"

"Go back first."

Lin Xiao felt as if he had grasped some important clue. Images flashed through his mind one after another, returning to the time when Yukiko and the others first saw the red figure in the forest.

If the white raincoat was dyed red, it should have turned black long ago. And without help, there was no way that the naked woman could survive alone in such a forest.

In other words, the red figure is likely to be someone else...

But what was going on here? Was someone pretending to be a naked woman to scare people?

No, there is still a lack of key clues, and the information is completely insufficient...

Lin Xiao pressed his forehead, walked out of the villa with his thoughts racing, and locked the door again.

Perhaps we need to re-investigate, starting with those clients.

In the holiday villa, when Lin Xiao and Yukiko came back, Kisaki Eri, Xiaolan and Miss Sumika had just finished cleaning and went to the bathroom to take a bath together. Ren Tian, ​​who had gone out to buy things, also returned to the villa.

"I bought some drinks and ingredients for dinner," Ren Tian asked Lin Xiao and the others while carrying two bags of things, "Did you find any clues over there?"

"Not yet. Actually, I still have something to ask you about what happened 12 years ago..."

"Hey!"

Suddenly, Ms. Sumika's angry voice came from the bathroom, "What is this?! Is this another prank?"

"Ok?"

Lin Xiao came to the bathroom puzzled, as if something had happened.

Lin Xiao walked quickly through the corridor, opened his eyes wide and suddenly opened the glass door of the bathroom: "What happened?"

"ah!"

The three women wrapped themselves in bath towels and gathered around the bathtub. Nothing happened, but they were frightened by Lin Xiao's sudden intrusion.

"Xiaojun, why didn't you even knock on the door? You scared me." said Fei Yingli.

"I broke in because I heard a scary sound." Lin Xiao didn't break into the girls' bathroom on purpose.

Xiaolan pointed at the steaming hot tub and said, "Xiaojun, I don't know who did this, it's full of tomatoes -, so disgusting!"

"tomato?"

Lin Xiao then turned his gaze towards the bathtub, and saw that the large surface of the bathtub was filled with red tomatoes, so densely packed that it looked quite strange.

"How could this be?"

Lin Xiao picked up a tomato casually, his brows jumped, and he reached his hand into the hot water. He soon touched something. After picking it up, he found that it belonged to the little fat man Bo Guchang who lived in the villa with him.

Bo Gu was directly pulled out of the water by Lin Xiao by his hair. His wet face was lifeless and his eyes were dull. He was already a corpse.

"Mr. Bo Gu?!"

Xiaolan watched Lin Xiao pull the body out of the bathtub by its hair. She was so scared that her face turned pale and she asked in a trembling voice, "Is he dead, dead?"

Lin Xiao said: "Yes, it is impossible to be alive in this situation... Change your clothes first, come out, this bathroom cannot be used for the time being."

Lin Xiao returned to the lobby of the holiday villa and called the police. Some time later, the Nagano Prefecture police arrived at the scene, led by Nagano Prefecture Police Inspector Yamato Kansuke.

Forensic analysis showed that Bo Gu was responsible for cleaning the bathroom when he was hit on the back of the head with a blunt object. However, the cause of death was drowning, as he was probably knocked unconscious and sank into the bathtub with dumbbells placed on his body.

Minegishi Tamami was questioned by the police and choked up as she explained, "Every year before we come here, we divide the work. Bo Gu cleans the toilets and bathrooms, I am responsible for everyone's meals, Sumika is responsible for cleaning the rooms and corridors, and Jinda is mainly responsible for going out to purchase things, because the nearest store is about one kilometer away..."

"Is that so?" Yamato Gansuke confirmed with the others.

"Yes, if I finish my work, I will help others..."

"Who was the last person to see Mr. Bo Gu?"

Minegishi Tamami said: "After lunch, I met him in the living room. He said he was going to clean the toilet and bathroom, and I don't know what happened after that..."

Cheng Xiang continued: "After I cleaned the room upstairs, I went to the bathroom and he was not there at that time..."

Yamato Gansuke turned his attention to Sumika: "Have you come to see it?"

Cheng Xiang nodded and said, "Yes, because there was steam coming out of the bathroom, I thought he helped to prepare the bath water."

Xiaolan explained: "At that time, we were together and opened the lid to test the water temperature. There were no tomatoes at that time. Later, when Miss Chengxiang and I finished cleaning and were about to take a bath, Miss Chengxiang found that there were slowly tomatoes floating in the bathtub..."

"That's it," said Eri Kisaki. "In a short period of time, tomatoes appeared out of nowhere."

Yukiko at the side asked quietly: "Lin Xiao, what do you think of this case?"

"If you mean the prisoner, I already know who it is."

Lin Xiao looked at the young men who were being questioned and said.

"Well, what's going on?"

"The bathroom water was specially made of green bath salts, and the body was pressed down so it was difficult to be found. And then there were the red tomatoes, which seemed unnecessary... From the analysis of the criminal behavior, the murderer must have a reason behind this arrangement, either to disrupt the investigation, or because of the need for the technique."

"Do you know what the method is?"

"You should have heard it just now, right?"