Ke Xue: Xiaolan delivers goods to your door at the beginning

265. Everyone has a bright future.

Yi Minglin Xiaofeng placed his gaze outside the window (in the pitch-black night), and although he had already approached, he could not see anything unusual outside.

"Kaze," Toyama Kazuha asked softly, "Are you going to rest?"

Lin Xiaofeng withdrew his gaze and calmly met Yuanshan Heye's smiling eyes: "No need, I'm not sleepy yet."

"I see." Kazuha thought about it seriously for a moment, then said, "Then I'll stay too. I don't think Conan really wants to leave either."

"Yes!" Conan nodded immediately. "The most exciting part of the Holmes journey is about to begin, and I definitely want to stay!"

Kento Toju, already impatient with Ayako Oki's urging, suddenly felt a surge of support upon hearing Lin Xiaofeng and the others' conversation, saying, "That's right, in these crucial moments, whoever leaves first loses."

"Honestly, isn't it better to go back to your room and sleep this late?" Ayako yawned. "If I go back to sleep alone, you'll definitely wake me up when you come back!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiaofeng casually asked, "Did Mr. Hu Shi return to his room very late yesterday?"

Toji Kento immediately gave him a wary look and said, "No, I just got up in the middle of the night."

"I see," Lin Xiaofeng said. "I was going to ask you if you knew when the rain stopped last night."

Toji Kento breathed a slight sigh of relief and replied, "I'm really sorry, the rain had already stopped when I got up."

Lin Xiaofeng nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

Everyone stayed in the lounge for a while.

Just as everyone was about to fall asleep, and Ayako Oki was practically dragging Kento Toju back to his room, Kento Toju suddenly pointed out the window with a surprised expression and said:

"Isn't that the car we took here? Who would drive out this late?"

Upon hearing this, everyone looked in the direction he was pointing and indeed saw someone sitting in the driver's seat, the car moving forward at an extremely slow speed.

"Haha, I told you, the reasoning quiz will start soon." Hu Shiyan was very excited.

However, Conan and Heiji Hattori had very serious expressions.

"Xiao Feng," Yuan Shan Kazuha pointed out, standing beside Lin Xiao Feng, "Isn't it a bit strange that Mr. Jingu isn't moving at all?"

Lin Xiaofeng spread his hands and said, "Maybe he's just driving too seriously?"

"That's strange, isn't it? Usually, a car is going so slowly because the driver is distracted or not ready... Ah, it's accelerating!"

No sooner had Kazuha Toyama finished speaking than Conan and Heiji Hattori, like two arrows released from a bow, leaped out of the window and raced toward the car!

Because that car was facing a cliff!

……

Even though Conan and Heiji Hattori kept calling out "Uncle!" and "Grandpa!" to Hiroyuki Kanaya, Hiroyuki Kanaya still didn't react and drove the car recklessly towards the cliff.

In the end, they could only watch helplessly as the car plunged off the cliff and disappeared into the surging waves.

Conan stood frozen on the edge of the cliff, unable to recover for a long time.

"It's dangerous at the edge of the cliff. Let's talk about it back at the inn." Heiji Hattori took Conan's hand and turned around to see Lin Xiaofeng. He nodded slightly to Lin Xiaofeng, and then the group joined the others who had arrived.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Ayako Oki asked anxiously.

Hattori Heiji said gravely, "Mr. Kanaya, dressed as Sherlock Holmes, drove his car off a cliff..."

"what?!"

Everyone looked at each other in dismay; clearly, no one had expected the trip to turn out this way.

One by one, they stared at the direction of the cliff with grim expressions.

“I think it must be murder,” Kento Toju suddenly broke the silence.

Hattori Heiji looked over with some surprise.

In the past, in cases he encountered, everyone except himself tended to believe the deceased had committed suicide. Especially in a case like today's, where the deceased drove his car off a cliff in full view of everyone, most people would assume that Hiroyuki Kanaya committed suicide. How come Kento Toto had the same idea as him?

Kento Toji, unaware that his unusual behavior had aroused the detective's suspicion, continued to explain, "All we need to do is knock someone unconscious or kill them, then strap them to the chair to achieve the same effect, right?"

"You mean the murderer is among us?" Maria Toda looked incredulous.

“Yes, that should be it.” Kenji Toto pushed up his glasses and reasoned seriously, “I saw how Hiroyuki Kanaya fell, and the car was going very slowly. The murderer must have killed the store manager in the evening, put him in the car, and put it in Drive to fake a suicide.”

Hattori Heiji immediately questioned, "Then why did the car suddenly accelerate halfway through?"

"Huh?" Toshi Kento was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to respond.

Kazuha Toyama was standing right next to Lin Xiaofeng, so she could clearly see that Lin Xiaofeng thought seriously for a while, and then showed a knowing look.

Kazuha Toyama exclaimed that Lin Xiaofeng was truly outstanding; his emotional intelligence and intellectual intelligence far surpassed Hattori Heiji's. Hattori Heiji simply couldn't compare to Lin Xiaofeng.

“And there’s something else very strange,” Hattori Heiji said in a deep voice, “There’s a sound like wind coming from inside the car, and I’m pretty sure it’s not the engine.”

"That must be the sound of the air conditioner. It's been very hot lately, and if the air conditioner isn't turned off, it will start working as soon as you turn it on."

"Yes, it has been very hot lately. The air conditioning was on the whole way here."

Fujisawa Toshiaki pouted and complained, "What's going on? It was clearly suicide, but they had to make it look like a murder, and even dressed up like Sherlock Holmes."

"It's such a pity..." Ayako Oki sighed.

"what?"

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Before Ayako Oki could speak, Lin Xiaofeng suddenly said, "There is no condensation."

Fujisawa Toshiaki: "What?"

Hattori Heiji suddenly realized: "Condensation is caused by the condensation of water vapor in the air when the air conditioner is on, due to the evaporator surface temperature being much lower than the room temperature! No condensation means that the air conditioner in the car isn't actually on!"

"If it's not air conditioning, then what is it?" Maria Toda asked, puzzled. "You said it's not an engine."

"It's the heating."

Everyone looked at Lin Xiaofeng, who had spoken, with surprised expressions.

Fujisawa Toshiaki: "Who turns on the heating in the middle of summer?"

“If the murderer wanted to manipulate the temperature to conceal the victim’s true time of death, raising the temperature would delay the onset of rigor mortis.” Seeing everyone looking at him, Lin Xiaofeng smiled slightly at Kazuha Toyama and said, “My analysis should be correct, right, Kazuha?”

"Yes. I understand. I think what you said makes a lot of sense, Xiaofeng."

. ... ....

Even Yuanshan and Ye understood, and the others naturally grasped the meaning behind Lin Xiaofeng's words.

Conan nodded thoughtfully after hearing Lin Xiaofeng's words, his eyes never leaving the scene as he carefully searched for clues.

However, since the car had already plunged off the cliff with the body in it, they wouldn't find anything of much use on the cliff face no matter how hard they searched. He just vaguely remembered that there seemed to be a cloth covering the dashboard.

Why cover it with a cloth?

“Sigh…” Maria Toda suddenly sighed softly.

Ayako Oki asked, puzzled, "What's wrong?"

“The celestial signs aren’t perfect today,” Maria Toda said, gazing up at the sky at a 45-degree angle. “Some will miss the chance to learn the truth, some will miss out on their most stubborn obsessions, and some will only be able to reminisce about the people on the other side of the wall.”

"Huh?" Ayako Oki was stunned.

Lin Xiaofeng glanced at Maria Toda, then silently looked away.

Conan finally finished observing the scene. Although he didn't find any useful clues, he had a new question in mind: "If the murderer turned on the heater to cover up the true time of Kanaya Hiroyuki's death, then why did he go to such lengths to push Kanaya Hiroyuki off the cliff? It was so high, and the car exploded, so it must have been very difficult to give an accurate autopsy result, right?"

Upon hearing this, Kazuha Toyama's expression became subtle: "This child is really exceptional, even more so than adults. He's quite extraordinary. No wonder he easily won Heiji's heart. I, his childhood friend, can't win at all."

Kazuha Toyama's pursuit of Heiji Hattori has been unsuccessful, and it's time for her to let go. Especially with the appearance of Lin Xiaofeng and Conan, it further proves that Kazuha's thinking was correct.

Kazuha Toyama becomes one of Lin Xiaofeng's harem members, Heiji Hattori gets together with his true love Conan, and everyone has a bright future ahead of them.

266. The verbal attacks are so powerful that they don't even need evidence.

Heiji Hattori glanced at Conan with admiration. Conan's discovery was exactly the same as his. He said with certainty, "If it wasn't to mislead the forensic doctor, then the murderer must have used the heating system to do something else—like making the corpse that was originally in rigor mortis soft again."

Fujisawa Toshiaki asked, bewildered, "What's the point of doing this?"

"Of course, the corpse should be made to do what we saw: 'Hiroyuki Kanaya driving himself off the cliff.'"

"Mr. Lin," Toyama Kazuha suddenly called out to someone, "what are your thoughts on this matter?"

Kazuha Toyama now only has eyes for Xiaofeng Lin, just as Heiji Hattori now only has eyes for Conan.

Lin Xiaofeng said, "I think Hattori-kun and Conan's reasoning is sound. The key question is, who is the murderer? So, we should all explain what we were doing on the first night?"

"The first night of '137' here?" Everyone looked at Lin Xiaofeng in surprise.

Ayako Oki asked directly, "So, you're asking about our alibis, right? But why the first night? Hiroyuki Kanaya clearly just died."

"Didn't you understand?" Hattori Heiji crossed his arms. "After Kanaya Hiroyuki died, the murderer placed him in the driver's seat and used rigor mortis to make him step on the brake. After the heater was turned on, as the temperature rose, Kanaya Hiroyuki's muscles would gradually become soft again, and the brake would naturally be released, causing the car to fall uncontrollably off the cliff."

Conan added with a smile, "Yeah. That's why Hiroyuki Kanaya covers the dashboard with a cloth in his car."

“We all rested in our rooms the first night because we had to write a thousand questions the next day. If we went to bed too late, we wouldn’t be able to get up in the morning,” Ayako Oki said after thinking for a moment. “I went to bed around nine o’clock.”

Hattori Heiji asked, "Can anyone prove that you were in the room all night?"

Ayako Oki hesitated for a moment before saying, "Kento is with me, so we can probably vouch for each other, but we probably won't be able to tell clearly when we're asleep at night."

Hitomi Iwai looked left and right, seemingly wanting to say something but not daring to speak.

Conan noticed her unusual behavior and innocently asked, "Does Iwai-neechan know where everyone was last night?"

“Ah.” Hitomi Iwai was slightly taken aback, then said with relief, “If the person who left the room on the first night is the murderer, I do know two people, and it should be certain that only they left the room.”

Everyone cast curious glances their way.

“Because my room is the only one on the first floor next to the bathroom, if someone wants to leave the guest room department, even if they climb out of the window, I can hear the noise,” Hitomi Iwai said embarrassedly. “I’ve always been a light sleeper and have insomnia. That day, I finished cleaning the lounge at 9:30 and went back to my room, but I heard two people get up in the middle of the night. One went out around 10 o’clock and the other probably went out around 2 or 3 o’clock.”

Hattori Heiji immediately gave him a sharp look: "Do you know who it is?"

Although he knew there was one, the person who left the hotel around 10 o'clock was obviously more suspicious, and the murderer must be him!

"Hmm." Hitomi Iwai nodded slightly, then turned her gaze to Kento Toto. "It's Mr. Kento Toto."

Hattori Heiji straightened his baseball cap and pointed at Toju Kento: "Toju Kento, you're the murderer!"

Toji Kenji immediately waved his hand and retorted, "What are you talking about? How am I the murderer? I'm not the murderer!"

“I also don’t think Kento is the murderer,” Ayako Oki said loudly. “I heard Kento leave the house at 2 a.m., and Heiji Hattori, you said Hiroyuki Kanaya died at 10 p.m., which doesn’t make any sense!”

Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, embarrassed, and didn't know what to do.

Heiji Hattori looked at Conan, who was still thinking, then looked at Lin Xiaofeng, wanting to ask him for help.

Lin Xiaofeng sighed softly. Hattori Heiji was still a bit short of being a detective. Otherwise, he wouldn't always be outmaneuvered by Conan.

Lin Xiaofeng calmly looked at Toju Kento and said indifferently, "Let's not talk about how you killed Kanaya Hiroyuki. Of everyone here, you're the only one with a motive for murder. Right, Mr. Toju?"

Toji Kento's expression changed drastically. He said in a panic, "I don't understand what you're saying. How could I possibly have a motive to kill someone? I just came here for a trip and I don't know Kanaya Hiroyuki at all."

“You don’t know him.” Lin Xiaofeng ignored the stares of others, took out his phone, and opened a picture. “But you recognize this book.”

Everyone looked curiously at the photos on the phone screen, but Toshihiko's face turned deathly pale in an instant.

"Eileen Adela's mockery??" Fujisawa Toshiaki exclaimed in shock. "Isn't that the book I co-authored with Kanaya Hiroyuki?"

Upon seeing the familiar cover, Kento Toju's eyes flashed with hatred. He clenched his fists tightly, but still stubbornly insisted, "Eileen is the only woman Sherlock acknowledges. How could she possibly mock Sherlock? Hiroyuki Kanaya and Toshiaki Fujisawa publishing this book is an insult to both Eileen and Sherlock!! But even so, I won't kill anyone. Don't be ridiculous!"

Lin Xiaofeng didn't respond. ... He went through the timeline like Conan had done before, pointing out what Toju Kento had done behind everyone's back during this period.

"That's not right!" Before Kento could argue, his girlfriend Ayako Oki retorted, "According to your reasoning, the murderer killed someone at 10 p.m., but I've emphasized many times that Kento was resting in his room at that time!"

"Really?" Lin Xiaofeng stared intently into Toshi Kento's eyes. "Then I'll ask you one more time, did the rain stop when you got up in the middle of the night?"

“I told you I don’t know when the rain stopped, anyway, it was already raining when I woke up…” Kento Toto suddenly hesitated.

Lin Xiaofeng chuckled and said, "It was raining at two o'clock in the morning, and it was quite heavy, which is why water stains were left on the signal tower that was taken down at 2:30 and have remained there until now."

"And the reason you (six) think that the rain stopped after a long time is probably because the real reason is that it wasn't raining when you committed the crime at ten o'clock, right?"

This is a common human mindset: if it didn't rain at 1.4 AM and didn't rain when you woke up in the morning, then it must have rained in between. It's like if you're playing on your phone when your parents leave, and you're still playing on your phone when they come back, they'll likely assume you've been on your phone all day.

Toji Kento was stunned by Lin Xiaofeng's words. Oki Ayako looked at him in disbelief, her eyes filled with deep disappointment.

Even so, Ayako Oki continued to struggle: "Where is the evidence? This is just reasoning. Even if your reasoning is completely correct, you still have to say it's correct."

However, Toshihiko didn't need Lin Xiaofeng to provide evidence. He broke down and knelt on the ground, crying, "Don't give me any evidence. I killed Kanaya Hiroyuki. I admit it!"

Conan was completely bewildered. This time, the culprit didn't even want evidence?

Hattori Heiji was amazed by Lin Xiaofeng's verbal attacks; they were too powerful, getting the murderer to confess without even needing evidence.