Chapter 837

Gao Cheng yawns on his seat in the conference room of the police station.

He seems to think too much. In such a place, he can't even get in the way, or very few people will communicate with him. Only one of him in the whole conference room seems special.

Apart from being polite when they greet him, the consultants don't seem to like him very much at other times. Fortunately, they come to him in the twilight of a moment, but they look very dignified.

"What's the matter?"

"Brother Chenghu," murmured mu, "something happened again. Just now Xiaolan called the police and said that when she was going to a birthday party with Maori, her master was killed. It was quite tricky. It was like a ghost killing..."

"Ghost murder again?"

Gao Cheng hurried out of the meeting room with the consultants.

I don't know when to start. As long as the ghost cases are involved, everyone likes to associate him, because he also has the nickname of "ghost detective".

It turns out that all ghosts are fake. It must be someone who committed the murder this time.

But if uncle and LAN are here, shouldn't Conan be absent?

Baokejia villa, the banquet hall on the second floor.

"I see. After the candles on the birthday cake were blown out and the room was dark, Ms. Baoke, the owner of the residence, was stabbed in the chest by a murder weapon."

When the forensics personnel finished collecting evidence, Mu Mu squatted next to the body of the hostess who was lying beside the cake dining car. He could see a big pool of blood flowing from his chest, and the front of his body was also covered with sputtered blood. There was a blank in the middle, as if the blood had been blocked.

After a pause, I looked at the open balcony behind the French windows.

"A few seconds before the light came on again, the murderer took the weapon and escaped from the inner courtyard through the balcony over there..."

"The key is the blood splashed on the ground in front of the lady. The blood was interrupted in front of her. This is the evidence that someone stood here and was splashed with blood when pulling out the murder weapon. But among the guests at the scene, although some of them were splashed with a little blood, none of them were bathed in blood..."

Maori Kogoro looked around the scene to infer.

"And there are blood stains on the window frame and balcony railing, so the prisoner splashed with blood must have escaped from that window, right..."

"But, brother Maori," murmured mu, "you said it yourself. It's raining all the way to the evening, and the ground is soaked. If you jump down from the balcony on the second floor and run away, the prisoner should leave footprints, right? But look down there, there's nothing in the yard. "

"This is also..."

"It's starting to rain again. The weather forecast says it will stop in the evening."

Gao Cheng, with his hands in his pockets, stood on the balcony and watched silently for a while, then returned to the hall.

The situation at the party can be roughly recovered. The problem is how the killer disappeared and the weapon

Another thing I care about is that I have sent threatening letters for several years in a row.

Nothing happened in the past few years, but this time I found my uncle to be a bodyguard.

Then there was the accident that happened here four years ago. The dead man was a watchmaker, just on the day of the birthday party.

"Hum," the bald old man looked at Mrs. Baoke's body on crutches. "It's also true that ghosts will kill people. The watchmaker died not because of an accident, but because of it! By this cold-blooded woman who thinks she can control time and thinks she is God“ Well Mu Mu returned to the room and asked, "what's the matter?"

The old man took a look and said in a deep voice: "it was a very severe storm. The watchmaker took a safety rope to repair the dial of the big clock outside. As a result, it was blown down by a strong wind and fell into the well in the yard under the big clock

"It sounds like an accident caused by negligence. Yes, but if this woman didn't start her birthday party every minute, but went to find someone immediately, maybe she would be OK."

"Did you find someone missing when the party started?" Eyes evening surprised way.

"Yes," a man with a Chinese character face and beard and a pipe in his mouth said, "at last, the clockmaker was drowned in the well during the party. When his body was found, it was breakfast the next day. If the party had been postponed, he would have been looking for it immediately..."

"After the party started, everyone was so busy that there was no time to find someone."

"Look, it seems that the one who hates the victim most is the dead watchmaker."

Mu Mu several people listen to some in the mind hair, one after another looked to think about the appearance of Gao Cheng.

Gao Cheng was not influenced by the words of the old man and his party. He just wrote down the objective part of his speech and spent the rest of his time looking for clues.

This kind of public crime is committed in the dark, and it is impossible not to leave traces. In addition to bloodstains, it is worth considering the way in which the prisoner stabs the heroine in the chest in the dark.

Moreover, in this case, it is obvious that the killers were the guests at the birthday party, who just pretended to escape and hid in the crowd from the beginning to the end.

Because although there was a sound heard in the dark, no one saw the prisoner escape from the balcony, only the French window was opened. The only question is the way the murderer handled the weapon, and how he didn't splash blood on his body... "It's fluorescent paint," Gao Cheng looked at the body of the victim and covered the light above the necklace with his hand. "The necklace on the neck of the victim was coated with fluorescent paint, and it glows when the light is dark, That's how prisoners find their places... Has anyone touched this necklace? "“ "Ah?" The housekeeper replied, "a lot of people seem to have touched each other at the party, because this birthday party is also a display of this jewelry that my wife bought..." "that's right," murashi said in a deep voice. "She also took out that gold pocket watch with pride and touched it for me, so that everyone is suspected?"“ Of course... "Gao Cheng said to all the guests," the prisoners are among these people at the scene. " The bald old man frowned at Gao Cheng, and other people's faces were not so good“ Isn't there any blood on the balcony? And I do feel that someone rushes to the balcony... "" it just looks like someone is escaping through the balcony. I feel that it will be deceiving, "Gao Cheng stands up and turns to Mu Mu," police department, let's cross examine the guests first, and search their belongings by the way. " Mu Mu Shen said: "it's the only way to do that. What pierces the victim's heart is a long sharp weapon like an ice cone. If the prisoner doesn't escape, it's very possible to hide it on him..." "wait a minute," the bald man interrupted, "what about the bloodstain? According to you, shouldn't the prisoner be covered with blood? "“ Yes, "said the woman next to him," we're not going to be interrogated or frisked if we don't solve this problem first“ Obviously, there is nothing to doubt. Is it too impolite to investigate like this? " The guests were all in a commotion. They were all dignified people. They rejected the police investigation and clamored to go home. Gao Cheng watched all this quietly. With so many guests coming to the birthday party, it seems that no one is sad because of the death of Mrs. Baoke, who is really a failure. No wonder the killer was invited to the party... Who's the killer? Gao Cheng's line of sight sweeps the guests who are in a hurry to leave. Before he stops them, the man with beard and pipe stops them“ Everyone, please wait a moment! " Don't you understand? Now a person has been killed. Today we are all here to celebrate her birthday. If the prisoner is still among us, shouldn't we help the police to investigate? " Although there were some twists and turns in the process, the guests stayed in the end, maybe for the sake of face, maybe really for Mrs. Baoke“ Chenghu, what do you think? " Conan looked at the pipe men who were first taken outside to ask questions“ These people were with the victim at the time of the crime, right? " Gao Cheng followed him out of the banquet hall. The most suspect was the four people who were beside Mrs. Baoke at that time, including the housekeeper, the pipe man, the old man and a female guest. According to Conan, in addition to the housekeeper, the other three people all came to Baoke's home early and knew Mrs. Baoke better than other guests“ Listen to their testimony first. " No matter what the reason is, no matter how unpleasant the character of the victim Mrs. Baoke is, the homicide case is quite serious. As a detective, the only thing she can do is to give the dead a truth. It is impossible for a watchmaker who died four years ago to become a murdere