Chapter 3445 3457 [Murder on the Full Moon Boat] Ask for monthly votes (`)

On a Halloween cruise.

Looking at the "Skeleton Captain" falling from the tall mast and plunging to the ground, the extras who came to audition were horrified and couldn't help but think more - is this a corpse or a puppet wearing a skull mask?

In other words, is what is happening now a murder, or a hint about the game?

In the chaos, several people nearby had already quickly run forward and stood next to the body of the Skeleton Captain.

Unlike ordinary people, detectives were clearly more sensitive to the sound and appearance of a falling body. Coupled with the blood drops that had just fallen from above, they were certain without hesitation that the person falling was definitely a real person.

Running closer, Maori Kogoro, who had intended to check vital signs, hissed, feeling that this procedure was a bit redundant: "Why is there still an arrow stuck in his chest? At this depth... he should have been shot dead before he fell."

Jiang Xia squatted down and looked at the crossbow arrow that was deeply embedded in the dead man's chest.

This is not just an ordinary arrow, it also has a tarot card on it, and the card face is very familiar.

Beside, Medusa took a look and blurted out: "Devil card? Isn't this our card!"

"!" Vodka, who had been eavesdropping in the crowd, was startled. A moment later, he firmly grasped the Devil Card hidden in his pocket, a wave of fear rising in his heart.

"With the devil card stuck in the body, these detectives will definitely screen for people who once held the devil card but now have no cards.

"Just now I couldn't find anyone to exchange cards with. I was thinking of just throwing away the demon card and saying that I lost my own cards. I could just join a random team that was short of people and avoid being on the same team with Uzo... but luckily I didn't!"

——One reason was that Kogoro Mouri came to his door so suddenly that he didn’t have time to throw it away.

The second reason was that he was under Uzo's nose and his heart was trembling. He really didn't dare to play any tricks like throwing away cards and changing teams in front of him.

He stayed in the team reluctantly, but he never expected that he would escape the disaster by accident.

Thinking of this, Vodka couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth. He took out the precious tarot card that symbolized "innocence" from his pocket and almost wanted to kiss it, feeling grateful for his wise decision.

However, when he looked closely, he found that what was in his hand was not a Devil Tarot card at all, but a business card with a black and white cat walking on the snow in the clouds printed on it.

The cat looked at him straight, with the corners of its mouth slightly raised, as if it was smiling maliciously.

Vodka: “…”

Vodka: "..." Ouzo!!! What have you done!!

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ahead.

"Why put such a card in there?" Medusa looked at the corpse on the ground in confusion. "Could the murderer be saying that the devil took the Skeleton Captain to the ghost world? - But if that's the case, shouldn't the Death card be used?"

Jiang Xia: "Everyone has a different understanding of Tarot cards. Perhaps the murderer felt that the Captain was more suitable for the Devil than the Grim Reaper."

Vodka: "..." What does the murderer have to do with it? It was you who wanted the innocent murderer to use the Devil Card, so he used it! — You unethical bastard director! Where are your stage rules? Where are your moral principles? You actually went out on stage to slander innocent passersby... Give me back my precious Devil Card!

Next to Jiang Xia, the invisible man wrapped in bandages glanced at Medusa and Jiang Xia, speechless: Shouldn't we find the murderer now? Why are you still talking about the artistic conception represented by Tarot cards?

Medusa was keenly aware of this gaze, and belatedly remembered the important matter: "So who could be the murderer? ... Sigh, it's really troublesome out at sea. Whether it's the murder weapon or physical evidence, once you throw it into the sea, it's almost impossible to retrieve it."

Kogoro Mouri also scratched his head worriedly. As a former policeman, he was well aware of how troublesome this murder case was.

But now that things had come to this, all he could do was think about how to solve the case. He stood up, quite consciously playing the role of a police officer, and asked a human-looking staff member nearby, "Is there a camera on the boat? Bring me one. I need to take some photos for evidence."

The staff member recovered from the shock of his boss's death and said, "There aren't any cameras, but there are a few cameras used to record the party."

Maori Kogoro was even more worried: "The pictures we take are to be used as evidence, so it would be best if we have a camera with film..."

"How about a Polaroid camera?" Medusa felt in her pocket and took one out. "I was thinking..."

I originally wanted to see what Jiang Xia was going to dress up as, take some photos and put them in my clipping collection as a souvenir, but I didn't expect that in the end it would be a dark grim reaper, and his face was not shown.

She had already taken two pictures, and the remaining film was useless. Kudo Yukiko handed the camera to Mouri Kogoro, and then watched this professional taking pictures around the corpse with Jiang Xia and the invisible man.

Soon, Kogoro Maori finished shooting the whole and the details.

Then he squatted down, pinched the captain's skull mask, and carefully took it off.

After removing the unkempt beard, gray hair, and skull-like features, what was revealed underneath was an unremarkable face—a middle-aged man with a small mustache, his mouth wide open, as if he were giving a speech in his lifetime, but he was no longer breathing.

"Hmm?" Maori Kogoro looked around in confusion, "I think I've seen this face somewhere before."

Medusa: "This is Chizo Fukuura, he's quite famous and often appears on TV. The Captain Ghost series of movies is his work."

Maori Kogoro was shocked: "The ghost captain in that movie is actually the person who produced the entire movie?"

"No." The staff corrected:

“During the filming of the movie, regular actors were used – because Mr. Fukuura loved the role of Captain Ghost, every time there was a Halloween party casting, he would take the role himself and make a cameo appearance.

"He'll host the entire party, giving the key puzzles for the night and the corresponding clues—just as he was doing when he was alive."

Medusa picked up the skull mask that Maori Kogoro had casually put aside, turned it over and took a look, and soon made a discovery: "There is a small microphone near the mouth."

As she spoke, she stretched out her black-gloved hand and knocked, and a "knock, knock" sound came from the ship's radio.

Medusa nodded. "It seems he used this device to communicate directly with the participants on the ship."

——It's similar to the voice changer my son hides inside his mask. Sigh... I don't know what the progress is over there.