"Even if he was physically controlled, when the deceased was stabbed in the abdomen continuously with a sharp weapon, his body would at least respond with a fierce struggle due to severe pain and body spasms."
Xiao Ai said in detail:
"But looking at the photos from the scene now, there are no obvious restraint injuries on the deceased's body, and there is no blood spatter caused by body spasms or fierce struggles... Looking at the current situation, it is easier for me to think of...
The deceased may have been completely unconscious when he was killed, just like being anesthetized during surgery."
With that said, Xiao Ai raised her eyes and looked at Gao Yuan beside her, and saw that his face was no longer at a loss as before, and instead began to fall into serious thinking, as if he had caught some important clues.
In response, she felt that Gao Yuan seemed to have lost his confusion just now, and his expression began to become familiar. Xiao Ai couldn't help but have a faint and reassuring smile on his face.
So without saying anything else, Xiao Ai just sat quietly beside Gao Yuan to see if Gao Yuan needed any other help.
At the same time, Gao Yuan did have a new development in his thoughts because of Xiao Ai's conjecture that the deceased had been "anaesthetized" -
Indeed, if the deceased was anesthetized before the murder, then the question of how the murderer can ensure that the deceased will appear at the scene of the crime at a certain time and that the deceased will not move around randomly before the crime occurs is straightforward.
No need to think about it.
Because the deceased was basically controlled by the murderer.
In this case, the thinking about the whole incident will have to change——
However, this way, there are still problems that cannot be solved...
With this thought in mind, Gao Yuan stood up silently, as if preparing to go out to investigate.
"I'll go out for a while, and you and Miss Moroyu can have a good rest!"
Gao Yuan said to Xiao Ai.
Seeing this, Xiao Ai didn't say much. She watched Gao Yuan go out and only replied lightly:
"good!"
Then, Gao Yuan nodded and asked Xiao Ai to lock the doors and windows, indicating that he might not come back in a short time.
In this regard, after Gao Yuan left, Xiao Ai locked the lock on the floor-to-ceiling window on the balcony and locked the latch on the door. She did not return to the bedroom, but covered the sofa with the baby she had just taken out.
A blanket, lie down and rest——
It seems that he is afraid that when Gao Yuan comes back later, because the door is locked, Gao Yuan will knock on the door and he will not be able to hear it in the bedroom...
…
At the same time, in the guest room on the 30th floor, after Conan carefully looked at the photos of the scene sent by Henggou Sengo, he immediately came to the balcony again, took out his mobile phone, and used the bow to change his voice.
Qi called Henggou for enlightenment and suggested to him:
"Officer Henggou, I have seen the photos of the scene. I have some questions that you, the police, need to investigate further!"
"Oh! That's right! Detective Maori, if you have any ideas, please tell us immediately. We will investigate it as soon as possible!"
In this regard, when he heard Kogoro's voice on the other end of the phone speaking so seriously, Henggou Sengo felt that the investigation of this case had been greatly assisted, and it probably wouldn't take long to crack it, so he did it without hesitation.
said.
Hearing this, Conan on the other end of the phone said seriously:
"I would like to ask you to carefully investigate whether there are restraint injuries on the deceased. It is possible that the restraint injuries are not very obvious. You need to investigate carefully... and check whether the deceased had taken sleeping drugs before his death. This is very important. Can you
Complete the investigation as soon as possible?"
"Of course that's no problem, I'll get it done as soon as possible!"
Without asking much about the reason, Henggou Sengo responded. After hanging up the phone, Henggou Sengo immediately ordered the police officers around him to follow Kogoro's instructions as soon as possible.
On the contrary, just after Conan hung up the phone and returned to the room from the balcony, he saw Xiaolan in pajamas walking out of the bedroom. Looking at Conan who actually walked back from the balcony, Xiaolan
He couldn't help but asked with some worry:
"Conan, it's so late, what are you doing again?"
"ah……"
In response to this, Conan's face changed slightly and he looked embarrassed. He touched the back of his head with his hand and said in a child's tone:
"Sister Xiaolan, I went to the balcony to watch the scenery..."
"You kid... you're still sneaking out at such a late hour. Do you know how worried I am about you?"
Hearing this, Xiaolan couldn't help but said angrily:
"As soon as I got up, I saw you were not sleeping in the bed. I thought you ran out again!"
With that said, Xiaolan took Conan and walked towards the bedroom——
"Really, it was the same before. You didn't come back so late. Do you know that so many terrible things have happened now? Why are you still walking around at this time?"
Complaining, Xiaolan pulled Conan to the door of the bedroom:
"Also, Yuanzi is very scared because of what happened at night, so we have to stay with her!"
After saying that, Xiaolan didn't give Conan a chance to speak, so she pulled Conan into the bedroom, then hugged Conan and came to the bed, letting Conan lie between her and Sonoko——
Um... In this case, what should I do if Officer Henggou replies to my message...
In this regard, because he was being held by Xiaolan, Conan was thinking about this helplessly, but for no reason, looking at the worried Sonoko in front of him, Conan couldn't help but realize that it seemed that several events that had happened this time,
The blow to Yuanzi was pretty big——
"Sonoko, don't think too much about it? Look, Conan and I will be here to protect you. You will be fine!"
Faced with Yuanzi's expression, Xiaolan took Conan back to the bedroom and couldn't help but comfort Yuanzi:
"And the police are in the hotel now, so you don't have to worry! It's getting late now, so let's go to bed early! What if we wake up and the police have already solved the case!"
"Really?"
But in response to this, Yuanzi's mood still seemed to be very low, and she felt a little unenergetic. She lowered her head and continued to say dejectedly:
"But, Xiaolan, don't you think it's scary? Not only was the brown-haired woman killed, but we also just moved to this high-end hotel. We thought we could stay in a safer place, but we happened to encounter someone who fell into the hotel.
Floor... And! That's the weird guy I met at the elevator door! Xiaolan, you can't even defeat him with your karate. I feel so scared! I feel like God is targeting me these two days!"
As he said this, Yuanzi seemed to be very emotionally broken, almost crying.
Seeing this, Xiaolan could only continue to comfort her:
"It's okay, it's okay! Don't think so! The weirdo at the elevator entrance... Mr. Mingzhi said that he has figured out what happened, so don't worry about it! And the falling incident has nothing to do with you, right? It's okay!
of!"
"Really……"
Somewhat suspicious, Yuanzi is still a little uneasy——
"Otherwise, if you still feel uneasy, how about I ask Mr. Dowaki to come over and accompany you?"
Seeing that Sonoko was still like this, Xiaolan considered whether she should ask Masahiko Michowaki to come over and comfort Sonoko. After all, Masahiko Michowaki and Sonoko were getting along quite well today -
"No! No... no need!"
But in this regard, Conan immediately and nervously dissuaded him.
"ah?"
As for Conan's reaction, Xiaolan was a little confused.
"When I came back just now, Brother Mingzhi told me that the police have been outside to protect us, so there is no need to trouble Mr. Michowaki! And... Sister Xiaolan and I will always be with you!"
With that said, Conan's original idea of finding an opportunity to contact Henggou Zenwu had to give up for the time being——
There is no way, who knows that the murderer this time may be a serial murderer who targets brown-haired girls. It is normal for Sonoko to be afraid.
Moreover, Michowaki Masahiko is also suspected to be the murderer who serially killed brown-haired women. At this time, he must not be allowed to come over...
"Really?"
In this regard, after listening to Conan's statement and knowing that there were police guards outside, Sonoko seemed to feel a lot more at ease and asked.
"Of course!"
Seeing that Yuanzi's mood seemed to have eased a lot, Xiaolan couldn't help but say:
"So, Sonoko, don't think too much about it, just take a rest quickly!"
…
However, at the same time that Conan was stopped by Xiaolan, Gao Yuan also started to take action.
But something was different. After Gao Yuan came out of his room, he did not choose to take the passenger elevator in the elevator room. Instead, he found the hotel's emergency exit and found the cargo elevator near the emergency exit.
After confirming that the hotel's freight elevator does not require specific access control to be opened and used, Gao Yuan thought for a moment, then used the freight elevator to go downstairs, and waited until the freight elevator stopped where the open-air restaurant was.
After reaching the floor, Gao Yuan walked out of the elevator and found the hotel employees' changing room near the freight elevator, not far from the freight elevator——
So, after roughly confirming these two points, the situation just imagined in Gao Yuan's mind seemed to be gradually confirmed.
Then, Gao Yuan turned around and found the side door leading to the outside of the hotel. After finding that it could be opened easily from the inside, Gao Yuan walked out of the hotel from the side door——
Without passing through the main entrance of the hotel and letting the police on duty at the hotel notice it, Gao Yuan actually felt that it was so smooth and he came out of the hotel. The whole process only took a few minutes.
After walking out of the hotel, looking at the relatively empty area outside the hotel, even if there were a few cars parked here, it would not affect the openness of the place at all. Gao Yuan frowned slightly and turned to walk a certain distance away from the hotel.
There is a parking lot located near the beach.
After walking for more than ten minutes in person, Gao Yuan also found the car belonging to Masahiko Michowaki in the parking lot here through the vehicle model and license plate.
Then, thoughtfully, after starting from the parking lot, it took nearly twenty minutes to reach the road near the previous fireworks display venue.
Then, it was still a few minutes away from the highway to the woods where the crime occurred.
In this regard, Gao Yuan calculated the time, and after arriving at the crime scene in the woods again, looking at the time, Gao Yuan's expression couldn't help but look a little solemn——
"If you think about it this way, the time is just right...but there is no time to deal with the evidence..."
Thinking like this, I felt that I had roughly understood the high-level aspects of the situation, but I couldn't help but fall into thinking——
"So, do we still need to have an accomplice?"
Thinking silently in his heart, Gao Yuan took out his mobile phone, turned on the flashlight function of his mobile phone, and looked at the crime scene, where the police had marked the place where the deceased was with a white circle. Gao Yuan couldn't help but squat down and carefully observed his surroundings -
—
However, apart from the bloodstains everywhere in the bushes where the deceased's body was at that time, it is difficult to find anywhere with bloodstains even here...
--"who is it?"
However, before Gao Yuan could completely observe the scene, Gao Yuan was keenly aware that there were others in the woods at this time!
So, Gao Yuan was immediately on guard, stood up, looked around with his cell phone with the light on, and said to the surroundings with a serious expression:
"Is it the police?"
——Since I had previously asked Henggou Senwu to send police officers to continue searching the crime scene, there may be police officers staying here now, so Gao Yuan asked this question.
Moreover, logically speaking, if the other party is a police officer, then after you ask this question, it should be normal for the other party to show up and admit your identity and ask you why you are here.
but……
If the other party does not respond...
If someone appears here at this time, then the identity of the other party will become subtle!
Once again, after Gao Yuan asked the other party, "Are they the police?", he still didn't wait for the other party's response. Gao Yuan's vigilance suddenly rose——
Not the police, returning to the scene of the crime at this time...
Is it the murderer himself?
Or the possible accomplice?
Thinking this way, with a frown, Gao Yuan put his hand into the right pocket of his windbreaker, got the monocle named "Star", then carefully observed the surroundings, and slowly walked forward -
—
"Where is it?"
Holding his breath and concentrating, Gao Yuan felt the faint movement in the forest under the dark night. Suddenly, after noticing the other party's location, Gao Yuan directly took the light of his mobile phone and shined it, and then without hesitation, directed towards
He rushed towards the source of the noise, preparing to strike preemptively——
"Drink!"
However, after Gao Yuan reacted, the other person hiding in the forest, who could no longer hide himself, suddenly jumped out from behind the tree where he was hiding. With a loud shout, Gao Yuan only saw the person in front of him.
The figure that emerged actually used a roundhouse kick towards him, intending to strike back and turn against the enemy!
Seeing this, Gao Yuan turned on the light of his mobile phone and already captured the opponent's attack.
but--
"Can't hide!"
In the flash of lightning, although Gao Yuan saw the opponent's movements, intuitively, Gao Yuan keenly felt that he could not avoid the opponent's blow, so without hesitation, Gao Yuan raised his left hand holding the mobile phone to protect himself.
The posture of his face is used to receive the opponent's blow. At the same time, Gao Yuan has already made preparations to retreat, intending to retreat to relieve his strength while receiving the blow——
However, although his idea was good, after Gao Yuan endured the opponent's roundhouse kick, before Gao Yuan could retreat to release his strength, Gao Yuan only felt a huge force coming from his wrist, unstoppable and standing in defense.
Gao Yuan's left hand suddenly felt pain, and he couldn't even hold his cell phone steady due to the strong numbness.
But fortunately, due to the gear of his left hand, Gao Yuan still managed to take a step back, allowing the kick that should have hit the door directly after kicking away the defensive wrist, but in the end it just passed in front of him——
Although his face hurt from the wind incited by this kick, he did not let this kick actually hit him in the face!
However, even though he dodged the blow, the opponent did not retract his legs. After the kick failed, the opponent suddenly retracted his knees and pulled his calf half a minute. After adjusting the angle, he kicked forward directly.
——
This time, the connection was so fast that Gao Yuan was unable to hide and was kicked directly in the chest——
For a moment, the huge force on Gao Yuan's chest made Gao Yuan feel suffocated, and because of this kick, his whole body was kicked backwards, until he hit a tree trunk only a few steps behind him, and he was able to stop.
Come down.
But because of this blow, Gao Yuan felt that his whole person had fallen apart, and he was completely unable to exert any strength——
how come!
this person?
Even when facing Gin, Gao Yuan had never felt so powerless, but at this moment, the opponent was actually using his bare hands, leaving him with no room to fight back——
This kind of fighting power?
There is also this suspected karate leg skill...
Is it possible?
Suddenly, Gao Yuan's thoughts were racing, and he seemed to have guessed the identity of the other party, but before he had time to react, the other party seemed to have no intention of stopping after seeing that he had not fallen down, and continued to kick him -
Is it really him?
So the current incident in which the brown-haired woman was murdered is indeed the incident in the original work?
The truth of that incident is...
——"I saw through it!"
In a moment, all the clues were connected in Gao Yuan's mind, and the truth of the fireworks display incident had basically been solved.
At the same time, facing this inevitable blow, Gao Yuan, who already felt that his whole body was falling apart, saw through the opportunity and was still ready to give it a go...