Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

Years later, Gao Cheng added a caterpillar-like hooded jacket, but it could only be worn as home clothes, and he would never wear it out anyway.

Other than that, everything else is very comfortable. Although there is no new commission, life is still very fulfilling, especially Yuanzi has become a regular customer of the office, and occasionally even stays overnight with Xiao Ai.

only……

Gao Cheng has never been able to establish a relationship with Yuanzi, and has maintained this slightly weird state until January passed, but he also lost the comfortable life of being taken care of.

At the beginning of February, Dr. Ali went to Yamanashi Prefecture to participate in the new invention presentation. Gao Cheng was bored and followed to experience it. When he returned home, he found that Xiao Ai followed Xiaolan and his party to Suzuki's villa.

Since Xiao Ai came, it was the first time for him to spend the night alone in the office, and he always felt strangely deserted, especially when there was a thunderstorm that night, watching TV was boring.

Fortunately, Gao Cheng was not left idle. The next day, a new client came to the office. Police officer Dahe Dahe and Yui Uehara, who had been reinstated, drove all the way from Nagano Prefecture to Tokyo and brought a box of Nagano specialties. Peony cake.

It's a pity that because he ate too much sweets in Yamanashi Prefecture, Gao Cheng didn't eat a bite, and silently put away the peony cakes.

"This shortcut is really difficult..."

In the dark forest of Nagano Prefecture, a car was driving hard on a rough dirt road, and the surroundings were eerily quiet.

The road was bumpy, and Gao Cheng was a little dizzy. Looking at Yamato Gansuke who was driving silently in front of him, he couldn't help asking: "It's all here, should you tell me what the puzzle is?"

"Preconceived notions will disturb reasoning," Yamato Dasuke said cautiously, "We just drove to Tokyo to pick you up because we wanted you to see the scene with your own eyes."

"Uh……"

Gao Cheng's mouth twitched.

It's rare to have this kind of treatment, he thought he had such a big face...

The car finally stopped in front of an old bungalow in the forest. I don't know who would build a villa in such a place, and it still looks very grand.

"It used to be called the Hall of Hope until three years ago," Uehara Yui said looking at the old building, "Three years ago a woman's body was found here, and it became the Hall of Death.

"

The building has two floors, and there is a garden at the entrance. Two policemen stood guarding the entrance with their hands behind their backs. The bright lights dispelled the scary atmosphere.

Gao Cheng followed into the villa. First of all, there was a hollowed-out atrium on two floors, with stairs on the side to go upstairs. It looked very good, although the location was a bit biased, and ordinary people couldn't build such a house.

"Although there is no more now," Dahe Dasuke said, "but there used to be a bus stop in front of this house, and the traffic is quite convenient."

"Why was it called the Pavilion of Hope before?" Gao Cheng asked.

"The rich people who built this place moved away because it was old. Only some young people who think they are full of talent but have no money live here. The rent is almost equal to free. They can live here until their dreams come true. one day……"

"Yeah, the rich man who comes back occasionally is also a good man, but unfortunately he died of illness just after transferring the property rights to those young people," Uehara Yui said, "Those young people also left independently after two or three years. In this house, there was only one couple left five or six years ago, the wife was the woman whose body was found three years ago, and the husband also died this time..."

"Hey, Yui," Dahe Dasuke went straight up the corridor, "show Detective Kido the photos of those people."

"Okay, there are 6 people in total, actor Mr. Naoki Suikawa, fashion designer Mr. Shoji Yamabuki, CG artist Mr. Morose Takuto, musician Mr. Naoki Shiro, and finally the couple, illustrator Mr. Shusaku Akashi and Mr. Miss Xiaoqiao Aoi."

Gao Cheng took the photo and looked at it, then raised his head and asked, "And then, what is the scene?"

"It's the room on the second floor."

Yamato Kansuke stood still on the second floor.

"When I first found out, the cart full of cardboard boxes was blocking the door. It was full of books, and the door could only be opened by pushing it outward. The people inside couldn't get out, and they were starved to death. gone."

Yamato dared to help open the door, and said with a serious expression: "There is something even more terrifying, and that is the red wall in the room."

After seeing the situation in the room clearly, Gao Cheng immediately got into the mood.

In any case, Officer Yamato went to Tokyo to invite him in person, which shows the importance of the matter. After all, Officer Yamato is a very capable criminal policeman.

When you enter the door, you can see the bright red on the wall next to it, which is covered with red spray paint. It looks like a wall of blood. It is very eye-catching. There is a signature of the suspected deceased in the corner, which is the name of the illustrator.

The room is not big, it looks like a studio, there are some drawing board easels in the corner, and a table with tools and paints, but neither the brushes nor the paints have disappeared, and only the red spray paint under the "Chibi" is left in the whole room Can.

Another very noticeable thing is the two black and white chairs placed back to back in the center of the room, the white chair faces the "red cliff", and the black chair faces the white wall on the other side.

Gao Cheng went closer to check and found that the two chairs were nailed to the floor.

"When the body was discovered, it was sitting on this white chair facing the red wall." Uehara Yui explained.

"Are you sure these are the death messages left by the victim?" Gao Cheng turned around and asked.

"It should be true. We found a bug in this room. It should be used by the prisoner to judge whether the victim is dead. Since the bug is still there, it means that the prisoner has not come again..."

"Any other clues?"

Gao Cheng squatted against the wall to check the signature.

It is difficult to draw any conclusions by looking at the crime scene alone, especially when solving puzzles with codes that he hates the most, which is quite abstract.

If you don't know the victim himself, you can't understand it at all.

"Only this signature is a bloody book written by the victim who bit his finger and bleed," Yamato Dasuke took out a date form and said, "The pronunciation of the names of the six people are all colored, so these people usually use color to distinguish each other, except in the In addition to pasting stickers of different colors on the doors of each room, colors are also used instead of names on the cooking duty list.”

"I see……"

Gao Cheng carefully compared the table and thought about it, and found that illustrator Akashi Shusaku is red, actor Suikawa Naoki is green, Kobashi Aoi is blue, fashion designer Yamabuki is golden yellow, CG artist Takuto Seto is peachy, musician Naoki is white.

"Does that mean the victim is using color to imply the prisoner?"

"In fact, we have questioned the other people one after another after the incident," Dahe Dasuke said with an uneasy expression, "We pretended to say that there were their fingerprints on the doorknob to test their reaction. We thought the reaction was weird and quite Naoki, a suspicious white musician, was murdered the next day, sitting on a chair facing a red-painted wall, and was strangled to death by someone on the night of the questioning..."

"That is to say..."

"In other words, the prisoner was among the remaining three people, the walls were sprayed red, and the victim was sitting on a chair and died. We only mentioned them."

Gao Cheng was confused by what he said, but fortunately he took out a pen and paper to sort it out.

The situation is roughly clear to him.

But the development of the matter was a bit strange. On the second day after the police tried it, one of the people suspected by the police was killed. layout.

criminal psychology...

No matter when, criminal psychology analysis is very useful. Almost every detective is an expert in this field, and Gao Cheng is also used to start with criminal psychology.

Judging from the situation on the villa side, if color is used to refer to the prisoner, the red wall is opposite to the white wall, combined with black and white chairs and the victim faces the red wall, it is no wonder that the "white" musician Naoki will be suspected.

But the reason why he was killed the next day shows that Naoki has key clues that can threaten the real criminal, and Naoki's weird reaction also explains it, and it is very likely that he contacted the real murderer privately after the police left.

Then there are the prisoners. There are two possibilities for imitating the scene, provoking the police, or trying to confuse the police in this way.

Generally speaking, the prisoner will try to prevent the victim's death message from being cracked. If it is the latter, it means that the prisoner's copying of "Chibi" can prevent the message from being cracked...

Gao Cheng placed his finger on his brow.

I have been idle for so long, and I am faced with such a troublesome puzzle solving just before starting work. It would be great if Xiao Ai was here, so I can help share it, and Conan...

Noticing that both Yamato and Gansuke were staring at him, Gao Cheng coughed lightly, looked at a small window near the ceiling with shattered glass and asked, "What's going on over there?"

"It was broken from the inside. The victim seemed to have thrown out all the painting tools and spray paint and other painting materials used for coloring through the hole."

Yamato dared to help explain, and asked with an unchanged face: "How is it? Can you figure out what Chibi means?"