RNP Chapter 865: Misremembering the Case
Chapter 865: Misremembering the Case
Xiaolan and Suzuki Sonoko went to the dining car to look for Maori Kogoro, while Martin and Huihara Ai asked the conductor to come over and called the police. Sera Masumi was imitating Conan to examine the abstract dead body.
"Xiao Wu." While Martin was away, Conan quietly asked Ma Wu: "Do you feel that the current situation is familiar? For example, have you ever seen a cartoon with the same situation as now?"
Conan wanted to try to pry some information out of Ma Wu's mouth.
However, Ma Wu looked at him with confusion and then shook his head.
At this time, Martin and Huihara Ai came back, followed by the conductor of car number 8 and two conductors.
The two train attendants looked confused. They were actually police officers under Ginzo Nakamori who were specifically assigned to catch Kaito Kid. They replaced the train attendants in preventing Kaito Kid from appearing on the train, but they had never handled a murder case.
"Speaking of which, this should be a closed-room murder case, right?" Sera Masumi analyzed, "The deceased was only disguised as committing suicide, but in fact he must have been shot to death, and the anti-theft chain of the room was hung from the inside, so this counts as a closed-room murder, right?"
Conan stepped on the chair on the other side, then climbed onto the table and studied the window: "The window is not locked, but climbing out of the window to move to other cars on a high-speed train, and the train just passed through a tunnel not long ago..."
This is not a roller coaster, and even if there is a gymnast among the suspects, they may not be able to do such a dangerous thing.
"That's a locked room case. The criminal must have found a way to hang a security chain outside the door." Sera Masumi turned his head to observe the security chain on the door, but because they had violently pulled the chain apart when entering the door, they couldn't tell anything now looking at the remains of the chain.
"Stand outside the door and shoot the prisoner who has been chained?" Martin also chimed in: "The prisoner's position can be seen from outside the door, right? Take the opportunity to shoot him, and then throw the pistol next to him."
"When the door was opened, why would the victim turn his head and point his temple toward the door?" Sera Masumi retorted, "And isn't that obvious? The driver was sitting in the corridor the whole time, so he must have seen the shooting at a glance. - That's right!"
Sera Masumi turned around and asked the conductor: "Did you see who entered and left this room before us?"
The driver shook his head: "No."
Huh? Sera Masumi was dumbfounded. Could it be that the criminal really entered and exited through the window?
"You just came to Mika and don't understand." Martin taught Sera Masumi: "The prisoner is not stupid. If such a big conductor is sitting in the corridor, he must find a way to avoid his sight."
"..." If the criminal is not stupid, then I am the one who is stupid? Sera Masumi felt a little aggrieved, and then asked the conductor about everything that had happened since they left the room.
First of all, there are five rooms in the carriage, from front to back or from left to right when standing in the corridor, they are A, B, C, D, and E. The conductor usually sits at the rear of the carriage, which is on the side of room E.
Ten minutes ago, the conductor saw Maori Kogoro and three girls coming out of room B. (Mauri Kogoro went to the dining car, and the girls went to exchange cars with the victim.)
Not long after, the victim with traces of fake red blood on his body came over. The conductor was quite impressed by the fake blood on him and watched him enter the empty room B.
After that, the train entered the tunnel and the corridor became much darker.
The conductor heard the passenger in Room A press the call bell and immediately went to ask what service he needed. However, the passenger in Room A said that he had not pressed the bell at all and scolded the conductor rudely.
While being scolded by the passenger in Room A, the conductor noticed that the door of Room B was opened again. He also saw the victim sticking his head out from behind the door. He glanced at them while answering the phone, and it was obvious that he was concerned about the noise here.
"So did the passenger in Room A press the doorbell?" asked Masumi Sera.
The conductor thought that the bell must have been pressed, because there is a small red light on the top of each door, which will light up when the bell is pressed, but in this carriage, only the red light on the top of Room A is broken, so when he heard the bell and did not see the red lights in the other four rooms, he thought that it was the passenger in Room A who pressed the bell. Now the two detectives can be wise after the event.
Conan: "I think the ringing of the doorbell must have been the work of the criminal, in order to lure the conductor away from his seat and take the opportunity to enter room B. At that time, the victim opened the door not simply to check on you, but to open the door for the murderer to let him in."
"Wait." Sera Masumi took a look at the layout of the corridor. Since the conductor was standing in front of Room A at the time, it meant that - "The criminal did not enter Carriage 7 from Carriage 8, but was inside Carriage 8, which is one of the three rooms CDE?"
Martin whistled: "Classic."
Conan also laughed.
"Train...tunnel..." Ma Wu muttered softly, attracting Conan's attention.
"I remember now. I watched an episode of the same animation." Ma Wu looked at Conan and said, "Then your mother came too."
"Shh! Shh--!" Conan was startled and quickly signaled Ma Wu to shut up. It would be troublesome if his mother Yukiko got on the bus was heard by someone who shouldn't have heard it.
While Conan was excited that Ma Wu remembered the plot of this episode, he glanced at Martin with a guilty conscience, afraid that Martin would interfere.
Martin just crossed his arms and looked at them, and had no intention of stopping Ma Wu from speaking. If Ma Wu could enjoy the spoilers, then let her do it.
"What happened next?" Conan asked, "Do you remember who the murderer was?"
Ma Wu recalled with some distress: "Is it your mother?"
Conan immediately looked dead: "I don't think so." Unless the mother Ma Wu was referring to was Vermouth.
But Ma Wu just remembered that later Conan went to confront a woman, and as they were talking, the woman took off her hat, sunglasses and so on, and it turned out that she was Conan's mother.
Then Ma Wu recalled the rest: "A man killed another man with a pistol and then ran away."
"Escape?" Conan was puzzled. Compared to the way the deceased died now, what Ma Wu said was more like the plot of their previous reasoning game.
Ma Wu continued, "Then when the train was in the tunnel, the bad guy jumped out of the window and died in the tunnel... Then you confronted your mother and accused her of lying and riding a horse, etc. I didn't understand..."
"Ah? Ah. Ah..." After a series of emotional changes, Conan finally realized and was speechless: "You are talking about the Beidouxing No. 3 train murder case."
That was an old case that happened before they met Martin. The plot was just as Ma Wu said, a shooting occurred on the train, and the criminal jumped off the train in front of them and died in the tunnel.
But in fact, it was just a trick set up by the real criminal, but the method he used came from an unfinished novel by Kudo Yusaku in his early years. So not only did Conan remember the plot of Kudo Yusaku's novel, but Kudo Yukiko, who had noticed this matter before, also put on makeup and got on the train to check the situation.
So what Ma Wu remembered was not today's case, but a case long ago that was similar to today's. Conan's mother also appeared, which scared Conan. (End of this chapter)