"Huh? Have you gotten smarter?"

Tang Ze raised his eyebrows and said, "I thought you would also rush over to check the situation."

"Heh, if you hadn't discovered something, Detective Tang Ze, you wouldn't have said, 'I smell a case.'"

Hattori spread his hands and said with a smile: "Others may not know how powerful your sense of smell is, but how could I not know it?

If you hadn't just smelled something in the storage room, Detective Tang Ze, you would never have said that."

At this point, Hattori Heiji's expression also turned serious. "Could it be the smell of blood?"

"No, it's not. It's just the smell of paint, but don't you think it's strange to be in this kind of situation?"

Tang Ze smiled and walked into the storage room first. "Then let's check it out. It's very likely a trap set by the criminal to carry out his trick."

"Is this what you found, Detective Tang Ze?"

Walking into the dim storage room, Hattori Heiji, under the command of Karasawa, took off the top part of the high jump box.

Let’s talk about the so-called high jump box here. Perhaps it’s better to use the vaulting horse box to understand this thing. The so-called "vaulting horse" is a game that children often play between each other when they were young.

One person leans over on his knees, and the others support each other's backs to cross this height, then slowly raise it and gradually increase the difficulty.

The jumping box is a trapezoidal wooden box and is a safer prop.

After all, if there is someone supporting the jump from below, the challenge will be too high and if one person is not careful, both of them may fall. The vaulting box can avoid this risk.

Of course, this vaulting box is not a fixed box, but each layer can be freely disassembled to increase or decrease the height.

Naturally, there is a hollow vaulting box in the middle. After stacking to a certain height and opening the top layer, the space inside can easily accommodate a person.

When Hattori Heiji removed the top lid, he revealed a dummy neatly wearing kendo protective gear inside the high jump box, as well as the messy red paint inside the box.

"I said I smelled the smell of paint, but I didn't expect it was used to make dummies." Tang Ze said in sudden realization as he looked at the dummies inside.

"Since a dummy was set up, it means it's used to replace someone's body..." Hattori Heiji frowned and said, "This is part of the design of an alibi to transfer the body..."

"Let's go over there and take a look first... I'm afraid the bathroom is a mess now..." Tang Ze patted Hattori's shoulder and signaled him not to stand there in a daze.

"Yes... From the moment you discovered this conspiracy, I knew that Tarimi was in great danger..."

Hattori Heiji sighed, "When you said you smelled paint, God knows how much I thought it was just an accident, someone accidentally spilled the paint...

But now, the two words "Kuantian" written on the "big hanging" in the middle of the "hanging belt" of this dummy who is neatly dressed in kendo protective gear and covered in blood are so obvious.

The presence of something so clearly bearing identification here suggests this is probably part of the scheme of that unknown criminal!"

By the way, the so-called "draping belt" is the one worn on the lower body of the kendo protective gear to protect the lower abdomen and hips.

The whole thing looks like a belt. The rectangular baffles on the left and right are called "small baffles", and the baffle in the middle is called "big baffle".

Generally, when you see a competition, you will also see names written on it. After all, after wearing a face shield, you basically can't tell who is who, so it also makes it easier to distinguish identities.

On the way to the bathroom, Hattori Heiji also told Tang Ze about the quarrel he had seen between the group of people from Shinnai University.

"Turimi said he wanted to kill Kuta?" Tang Ze pointed at the armor on the blood-soaked mannequin and said, "Isn't that exactly the name on the armor?"

"Yes, this is also the reason why I think Tarimi is in great danger." Hattori Heiji sighed.

When the two arrived at the bathroom, even though they had been mentally prepared, they still felt depressed when they saw the scene.

Even if it is a stranger, when life passes away, it always makes people sigh.

Chui Jian was indeed dead, and his death was very miserable.

In the shower room, the shower head kept spraying water, but the water flowing through his body turned from colorless to bright red.

But no matter how much he sprayed, he couldn't wash away the blood on the other person's body.

His body was covered with sword marks, and in his arms was a samurai sword that was suspected to be the murder weapon.

"It seems this is the criminal's trick."

After checking the body, Karasawa stood up and went to the corner with Hattori Heiji and said, "Let the rest of the people from Shinnai University go to the storage room and ask those who witnessed the body to come and testify.

Then, in the panic, he moved the body to the bathroom to create an alibi to clear himself of suspicion."

"Ah, but now that the hidden props in the vaulting box have been discovered, the criminal has no way to escape. After all, if this plan is to be perfected, the criminal will definitely do that thing later to make the method perfect."

Hattori Heiji said with a bored look on his face, his eyes drooping: "This time, the criminal is really unlucky to have met you. I wanted to see if I could defeat you, but now it seems that there is no need."

"Then why don't we just go and compete properly?" Tang Ze smiled and said, "When I got here, it was already the semi-finals. Shouldn't the finals be coming soon?"

Hattori Heiji was startled when he heard this, then he smiled and said, "Then I'll leave this to you. It just so happens that I have a guy in the kendo competition who I must defeat."

"Come on." Tang Ze smiled and waved his hand, but he was not very excited about the results of the next game.

If we were to convince Heiji that he is the only rival in kendo, it would undoubtedly be Okita Souji, a character from another work by Aoyama Ryouzei, "The Legend of the Sword Hero".

Its strength...

Well, I've previously reviewed everyone's power levels. Hattori's official power level is B+, and Okita Souji, a well-known extra in the Conan world...

The level of holding a wooden sword is A+!

How the hell do I fight this? There's a whole level difference between them!

When holding a wooden sword, his strength is slightly higher than Toru Amuro and Shuichi Akai by one "+" level.

But...it's still okay to watch the match. The scene where the dark-skinned Heiji gets beaten up is probably also very precious...

Tang Ze, with evil thoughts in his mind, made up his mind and waited for Conan to come and let him use a digital camera to record this "precious" scene.

Speak of the devil, and he appears. Shortly after Officer Otaki arrived at the gymnasium, Conan and his friends also came to the gymnasium. Because of the arrival of the criminal, they happened to run into Tang Ze.

"Detective Tang Ze, why are you here?" Xiaolan was surprised to see Tang Ze greeting several people with a smile.

Conan looked around and had a bad feeling in his heart...