However, as time passed by, and when the room became silent because of the current scene, I looked at the clock on the wall and found that about twenty minutes had passed since Oki Ayako left.
Lan couldn't help but said with some worry.
In this regard, after Xiaolan raised this point, everyone present reacted -
"indeed."
"Twenty minutes have passed."
Kawazu Ikuo and Fujisawa Toshiaki said feeling a little flustered.
But after hearing this, Kogoro's expression immediately changed, feeling that something might be seriously wrong——
"Is it difficult, is it difficult..."
Subconsciously, Kogoro thought of some possibility and shouted. Then as a former detective's instinct, Kogoro rushed out of the room first and ran towards the hotel toilet.
At the same time, Kawazu Ikuo, Fujisawa Toshiaki, Conan, and Hattori Heiji all followed closely behind, following Kogoro to the toilet door——
"Hey! Miss Omu! Miss Omu!"
With a loud noise, Kogoro knocked hard on the toilet door, which was locked from the inside, trying to open the door.
Then, seeing that he was knocking on the door and shouting like this, but there was still no response from the toilet, Kogoro immediately got into position and was about to knock on the door.
However, without giving Kogoro a chance to knock on the door, the toilet door was opened from the inside——
"What are you doing? It's so noisy!"
Ayako Oki, with a sullen look on her face, pushed open the toilet door, causing Kogoro's movements to stop abruptly. She also sternly asked Kogoro and others who were surrounding the toilet door——
"How rude! They gathered outside the bathroom..."
Seeing that everyone in the hotel had rushed here because of the noise, Omu Ayako said angrily.
"No, we are worried about your safety, after all..."
In response, Kogoro could only wave his hands in embarrassment and explained in this way, and everyone else present also looked embarrassed. They looked around and talked about him. In the end, the topic turned to Omu Ayako knowing who the murderer was.
——
"By the way, are you going to tell us who the murderer is?"
"Oh, that..."
Faced with such inquiries from several people, Omu Ayako slowly walked out of the toilet, not paying much attention to everyone's attitudes. After walking away, she calmly replied:
"I thought about it carefully in the bathroom, and it seems that I made a mistake myself. I'm really sorry for making you so worried about something happening to me."
With that said, Omu Ayako started walking downstairs without looking back.
Seeing this, several people present couldn't help but look at each other——
"What! It's really a bluff!"
Helplessly, Kogoro complained.
And just twenty minutes later, Oki Ayako's attitude suddenly changed 180 degrees. Conan stared blankly at her leaving figure, feeling that things were even more confusing——
"Damn it! I still have a lot of unclear doubts! Why did her attitude change so quickly? The shop owner has been missing all day... the car suddenly accelerated... and there was that strange sound coming from the car...
Who is it, and which of the four people is the murderer..."
Frowning slightly, Conan felt that many doubts could not be answered.
But compared to Conan, after discovering the change in Oki Ayako's attitude, a faint sneer suddenly appeared on the corner of Hattori Heiji's mouth——
"That's it! That's what happened! The murderer...is that person!"
Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji felt that the truth about this incident would soon be revealed, as long as conclusive evidence could be found——
"Wait a moment!"
However, just after Hattori Heiji realized who the murderer was, a possibility suddenly emerged from his mind——
"If that's the case, that doesn't mean... Damn it, we have to find a way to stop him! But what will he do?"
With such thoughts and some urgency, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but start thinking about what to do next.
At this time, because no accident happened to Oki Ayako, and because she said that she had no idea about the murderer at this time, everyone lost the sense of urgency that they had just wanted to question her, and casually followed Oki Ayako.
We walked together towards the restaurant downstairs.
In response, seeing everyone's reaction as if they were temporarily relieved, Hattori Heiji and Conan, who stayed where they were, looked dignified——
"Hey, really, the murderer is obviously still among everyone, but Miss Omu did something like this. Isn't she really worried that the murderer will find her?"
With a slightly helpless tone, Hattori Heiji began to sigh:
"And speaking of it, why did the car accelerate at that time? If the murderer really knocked out or killed the store owner in advance, then put the store owner in the driver's seat and let the car move forward on its own, then the store owner would not have been there.
Make some acceleration movements in the car. And little brother..."
As he said that, Hattori Heiji suddenly lowered his head and looked at Conan.
"ah?"
Suddenly, when Hattori Heiji called him this, Conan was stunned for a moment, then pretended to be innocent and scratched his head, and asked with a smile:
"What's going on?"
"When the car drove on the bumpy dirt road, you jumped in front of the car window and looked in. Do you still remember what actions you saw the shop owner make?"
Hattori Heiji asked as if he wanted to seek confirmation from Conan.
"Ah... No, the shop owner just held the steering wheel tightly with both hands, motionless..."
At this time, Conan, who was still pretending to be naive in answering Hattori Heiji's question, suddenly looked stunned after saying this -
Gripping the steering wheel? Motionless? Bumpy dirt road?
Three keywords in succession caused a sudden flash of light in Conan's mind, but soon followed by new questions, making Conan's expression slightly heavy——
"Huh? Sure enough, I saw it right. That's what I saw."
Sighing, Hattori Heiji said helplessly:
"I can't figure out why the vehicle accelerated while driving. After all, not to mention that the shopkeeper who fainted was also unconscious. If the shopkeeper had been dead at that time, it was obviously impossible for the dead person to do anything. Hey, what the hell?
Why, why is the car accelerating..."
With such a sigh, Hattori Heiji put his hands in his trousers pockets and slowly followed the footsteps of others and walked downstairs——
"Dead people...can't move?"
However, at this moment, after Conan listened to what Hattori Heiji said, he combined the three key words that he had thought of before and the strange noise the car made that he had not yet understood.
Suddenly, all the clues were connected in Conan's mind, and the final result derived from this was immediately ready to be revealed——
"But, in this case, who is the murderer?"
Silently, with his head lowered, Conan was thinking this way, and then, Oki Ayako's abnormal attitude changes before and after were suddenly amplified at this moment——
"So... what's going on!"
In this regard, although he was walking in front, his attention was still focused on Conan behind him who was still in the same place because of thinking. Hattori Heiji was still a little hard to believe——
"Forget it, it's just a little test anyway..."
Thinking about this, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but think of an incident he had handled that Gao Yuan mentioned to him when he was chatting with Gao Yuan before -
"Huh? Didn't you understand? The murderer's method of creating the secret room... was the corpse itself! It seems that the corpse will not move, but as long as it is under certain conditions, it will still change, right? Just like in a fire scene,
After the stiff corpse was attacked by the fire, the muscles of the corpse began to curl up. Doesn't this complete the secret room technique?"
At this moment, thinking back to what Takato said about the incident at that time, Hattori Heiji had already thought of the method of this incident because of the phrase "the corpse will still change."
Now that the identity of the murderer has been confirmed, the next step is to find ways to find evidence!
But at this moment, Conan, who had already figured it out, suddenly ran over to Hattori Heiji, trying his best to look like a child, and said:
"Brother, do you think Sister Ayako really doesn't know who the murderer is?"
At this time, because Conan had figured out the key to the incident, and also understood that if his prediction was good, then Miss Oki Ayako might really be in danger, so he tried to ask Hattori Heiji, hoping that he could click
Wake him up.
But in this regard, looking at Conan's expression, Hattori Heiji was slightly stunned, and then replied helplessly:
"How do I know this? After all... who makes me stupid!"