"Hey ......"

Yuanzi's eyelids fought, and he yawned sleepily.

"Joto, when is it my turn?"

"Don't be verbose, I'll teach you the same when I learn it."

Gao Cheng swung his racket, and accidentally became a sword-holding habit again.

Sure enough, swordsmanship is more interesting......

"Castle ......"

Conan looked away from Gao Cheng and looked worriedly at Xiaolan who was leaving.

It seemed that something was wrong from just now, and it stands to reason that the castle household should have noticed it a long time ago, but this time it was very slow.

Akashi's behavior is really strange......

"I'll check it out too." Conan ran out of the living room with a hoarse voice.

"Huh?"

Gao Cheng stopped swinging the racket.

"Ah——!h On the second floor of the wooden house, Xiaolan's scream suddenly sounded, and Uncle Maori, who was asleep in the bathroom bath, woke up and opened his eyes in a daze with a bath towel.

"What's wrong?"

……

In the bedroom on the second floor, Gao Cheng walked into the dim room in front of everyone, frowning and looking at the strange old man who was suspended from the beam by a rope.

His eyes were white, his mouth was wide open, and the blood flowing from the corners of his mouth was still dripping, as if he had really become an old demon in the mountains.

"There is still a residual body temperature, but it has begun to stiffen, and the time of death is about thirty minutes......

Gao Cheng turned on the flashlight and shone it around, and then pulled the electric light rope behind the corpse to make the whole bedroom open.

The corpse hung in front of the lantern, and below it was the bed, and the curry rice that had eaten part of it was placed next to it, and on the other side there was a fallen herringbone ladder, which seemed to be used to wipe the mouth and the handkerchief with curry fell to ......the side.

Taking advantage of Uncle Maori's call to the police, Gao Cheng approached and covered his nose to check the strange old man's mouth.

Blood mixed with saliva and seemed to be coming out of the gums.

I had to wait for the police to come and check it, but in general, this strange old man died quite strangely......

Gao Cheng subconsciously looked at the frightened Akashi Kuanto outside.

I recall that the young man went back to the living room before and said that his father had a situation that he couldn't think of, and now that I think about it, it is really a little abrupt, was it designed from the beginning?

But for nearly two hours from the time I returned to the living room to the time I found the strange old man's body just now, Akashi Kanto stayed in the living room with everyone, and the only one who didn't have an alibi was Uncle Maori, who took a bath in the bathroom.

It's also easy to get to the second floor from the bathroom, and you can even avoid the living room directly.

Uncle seems to be the only one who could commit the crime?

It's impossible, it's the first time the uncle has come over, and he doesn't have the courage to kill people...... That is, this is really a suicide case?

Amid the sound of dripping water, several Gunma Prefectural police cars stopped in front of the old house, and forensic personnel and police officers entered the house one after another, and hurried to the second floor after making contact with Akashi Kanto.

The police officer who led the team is still the rookie policeman Yamamura before, and he is quite persistent in the reasoning of the sleeping Kogoro.

"Haha, I rushed over as soon as I got the alarm!"

The mountain village with a funny fox face excitedly finds Uncle Maori before he enters the scene of the murder.

"As long as it's for the Maori detectives, even if there is heavy rain blocking the mountain road, my mountain village will rush over as soon as possible!!"

Uncle Maori looked disgusted: Is there no one else in Gunma County?

"Ahh The mountain village saw Gao Cheng waiting for the forensic personnel to collect evidence at the scene, and said in surprise, "Even the Chenghu detective is here, I have watched your big stomach king competition, are you coming here for the reasoning competition this time?" It was amazing, I brought the camera with me......"

"Please, can't be sure it's a homicide case yet, right?"

Uncle Maori thought of the Okinawa game and his eyebrows jumped, and he looked at the silent Gao Cheng: "The deceased is the owner of this house, Akashi Yano, the first person who found out was Xiaolan who came to clean up the dishes, the first time he came to the light on, he went downstairs again, and the second time he came to the room, the wait was closed, and then he found that the hanged deceased died about 30 minutes before he found it......"

Akashi's body was put on the ground by the forensic personnel, and Gao Cheng followed to carefully check the condition of his mouth.

"It's strange," Conan interjected, "how can this old man bleed from his mouth?" ”

"Huh?" Yuan Zi was stunned, "What's strange, don't people who hang themselves bleed from the corners of their mouths?" It's in movies and on TV......"

"That's fake," Conan explained, "the hanged man's face is swollen because of the blood in the brain, but as long as there is no wound in the mouth, it doesn't bleed, and the TV is only arranged so that people know that they are dead...... Uh, I heard from Brother Joto, hehe. ”

Gao Cheng glanced at Conan: "No matter how many mouths you have, it will really develop into acute laryngitis, and when you lose your voice, you will know that you are in trouble." ”

"Oh." Conan was honest.

"Mr. Akashi," Gao Cheng said in a deep voice, looking at the bleeding gums, "Has your father had a tooth extracted recently?" ”

Akashi Kanto was a little in a trance because of the words of the mountain village, and when he heard the words, he came back to his senses and said: "I seem to have seen a dentist a few days ago, because my father said that tooth decay hurts and I need to go to the dentist......"

"Really?"

Gao Cheng turned on the flashlight, quietly looked at the bleeding gums and stopped talking, but the mountain village next to him was still asking about the dentist's situation, but he didn't get useful information.

Putting away the flashlight, Gao Cheng got up and looked up at the rope hanging from the beam, paused, and turned his gaze to the electric light rope hanging next to him.

Unlike the other rooms, the drawstring here is a little shorter, and the knot of the extension cord in the middle is not the same.

This drawstring is a simple dead knot, while the living room is a fishing wire knot, and the drawstrings in this house are all made of fishing line, so using a fishing wire knot should be the most suitable choice......

Behind this incident, there is really a secret.

"How can it be suicide? I and my colleagues hyped up the ...... of the mystery show," Yamamura Gym on the side heard Uncle Maori's inference, and held the camera in frustration, and in frustration, he saw Gao Cheng, who was carefully examining the murder scene, and moved the camera over.

It's going to be filmed......

"Huh?"

Uncle Maori followed and looked at Gao Cheng: "What's the matter, Chenghu boy?" ”

"It's a little strange," Gao Cheng looked at the rope and said, "The electric light rope in the house has been lengthened because of the old man's relationship, right?" But the drawstring in this room is obviously a lot shorter. ”

"Oh, this one," Akashi explained, "it's because my dad found the rope annoying when he woke up at night, so only the light rope in his room was shorter." ”

"So," Uncle Maori said, retracting his puzzled gaze, "is that a suicide?" ”

Yamamura Caocai's heart fell again, and he said disappointedly: "Yes, then you can go downstairs and wait first, and I will call you if there is anything." ”

"That's fine, it's late......"