It's snowing in Changye mountain area. Even the forest has accumulated a thick layer. Gao Cheng drives through the forest and arrives in front of an abandoned church.
I don't know who built the church in this deep mountain. It looks like a snowy villa in a mystery novel.
Gao Cheng has no doubt about the next case here. After all, uncle and Conan are here.
"It looks so good."
Maori Kogoro didn't know his name. Instead, he was very excited. He stared at the church for a long time before he opened the trunk to pick up his luggage.
There is a long strip wrapped in cloth in the back of the trunk, which attracts my uncle's attention.
"Strange, Chenghu boy, is this cloth wrapped thing yours?"
"It's a client's." Gao Cheng grabs the package from uncle and doesn't let this guy open it.
Inside, of course, is the treasured Dao he got from Kabuki Cho's locker. There is no big difference between the standard and the normal Japanese Dao, but the scabbard is very gorgeous, and the handle is inlaid with a pearl, which seems to be special.
To be on the safe side, it's better not to expose it.
In fact, uncle Maori was not too curious. Seeing Gao Cheng put away his sword, he didn't ask more bitterly and began to rush for humanity: "I'm sorry to trouble you today. If you still have a job, you'd better go quickly. There should be no problem in the back. The client here will drive us to the hotel..."
Gao Cheng didn't leave immediately. He just looked at the abandoned church and asked the uncle, "have you really contacted the client?"
"Can I lie to you?" The uncle snorted, "didn't they all show you the entrustment letter? And that strange piece of code paper. "
"Yes, but..."
Gao Cheng confirmed again.
"The client RIYUAN Taisheng was confirmed dead two months ago."
"What did you say?" Uncle's face changed greatly, "how can it be?"
"Before refueling, I contacted Nagano County police," Gao Cheng showed his mobile email content. "The person who hanged himself in this abandoned church is Taisheng rihara."
"Are you kidding? Who is the person who commissioned me to investigate? He specially called me to such a place... "
"I'd better go in and see what's going on. It's really cold outside."
The tightly wrapped Yasuda took the lead in opening the church gate, perhaps because it was abandoned. The gate was not locked, and the corridor inside was very shabby. No one had ever cleaned it, just like the habitat of evil spirits.
Fortunately, it's windproof indoors. It's not as cold as it is outside.
Gao Cheng was at the back of the car. He had planned to drive the car to the parking lot in the back, but he didn't start when he looked at the sign in front of him.
Unlike the old church, this wooden sign indicating the location of the parking lot is obviously very new. It was only recently erected here.
"What are you doing, Chenghu?" Uncle yelled in the church, "stop the car and come in!"
Now he doesn't want Gao Cheng to leave.
"Good."
Gao Cheng looks back at the cloudy sky.
It seems that the trend of snowstorm is getting bigger, and the weather forecast on the mobile phone also indicates that there will be snowstorm in this area.
It's just this weather
Finally, Gao Cheng didn't transfer the car, so he went into the church with a sword.
Uncle met another group of people in the chapel, four men and one woman. They all said that they were invited by email to attend the farewell party of senior high school classmate RIYUAN Taisheng, but they couldn't tell who the real sponsor was.
"Hey, hey, don't beat around the Bush," Uncle Maori called to stop the Wranglers. "I think it must be someone who lied. He specially hid his identity and gathered other people here. He also pretended to be Yasunari Taisheng to come to me."
"Boom!" Suddenly there was a loud noise outside the church, as if something had collapsed.
"Ladies and gentlemen," Gao Cheng asked as he walked into the chapel, "are your cars all over the parking lot?"
"Yes, yes," someone panicked. "What's wrong with the parking lot?"
The parking lot indicated by the road sign is located behind the church, because the church itself is built on the edge of the cliff, and the platform behind it is only supported by columns. I don't know if it is decadent or not. It will fall into the valley below with all the cars.
"Damn it! I just bought a new car! "
"How can a parking lot be built in such a dangerous place?"
Only Gao Cheng's car parked in front of the church survived. People were ready to wait for the police to come. However, the other party said that the tunnel into the mountain was blocked by an avalanche, and they couldn't get their hands to clean it up in a short time.
Gao Cheng stands at the edge of the collapsed cliff and looks at it. He thinks it's very likely that it's man-made and there is no trace on it. But if we investigate the bottom of the valley, we should be able to find the explosion trace on the collapsed column.
In addition to the avalanche blocking the road, these are the beginning of a series of murders. The reason why we chose the snowstorm days is probably for the purpose of killing people.
Anyway, I'm afraid he can't go to Kyoto today.
Chapel, Maori Kogoro contacted the Nagano Prefecture Daiwa dare to help police officers.
"Coming tomorrow? Why? Why don't you shovel the snow off quickly? "“ It's not so easy, "Dahe dares to say angrily." the heavy snow has also caused other places to suffer from disaster and hunger. There is only an abandoned church opposite the tunnel. Of course, priority should be given to other places. It depends on the weather tomorrow if we can pick you up“ Three or four days ago, the weather forecast said it was going to snowstorm. Who told you to go to the abandoned church in the mountains and forests? You'll get into trouble! "“ Oh, didn't Chenghu tell you? Of course, it's for the purpose of investigating a case, and there are five other people here, a total of 10 people. Let's think about something! " Maori Kogoro wondered“ Hoo Gao Cheng opens the door from the outside and returns to the church. Suddenly, a cold wind blows snow into the room. You can see that the snowstorm has further strengthened. In this case, even if the tunnel is not blocked, it is difficult to drive down the mountain. Different from other people who complained repeatedly, Gao Cheng didn't feel any bad luck. After all, he thought that a case would happen at the beginning. The most urgent thing is to find out the murderer as soon as possible to prevent the matter from becoming serious. At this time, he did not have the heart to test Yasunari. Gao Cheng glanced over several young men and women who were talking with Uncle Maori. After a brief self introduction, the identity of several people is generally clear. They are all about 27 or 8 years old, and the young man with a beard is Hotan Xiaoping, who works as a company employee. Wearing glasses, looking dull and always like to drink water is Kawasaki Yangjie, a bank clerk. Partial division of the v-face is rattan Lai Ren, a high school teacher. Finally, the only woman wearing a knitted hat was gupu Yuhua, a company employee. The key figure in this incident is Taisheng rihara, who died here two months ago. Some people gathered his classmates here for revenge. The question is why Uncle Maori was specially called and asked for three people to go with him... "Hmm?" If keida Jianze, who has been following uncle all the time, looks at Gao Cheng, who is in deep thinking, and finds nothing, he follows uncle to continue to investigate and ask questions.