“Is there such a possibility…?”
Listening to everyone's discussion, Hong Shu calmed down his fear and joined in. He looked at the skeleton lying on the ground and said:
"Xiaochuan Kusuke didn't come here voluntarily, but was chased here by someone?"
"What do you mean?"
"Think about it, Brother Kid just said that Ogawa Kusuke was shot in the back, which means that the other party attacked him by surprise. Then according to normal people's thinking, if he can still move after being shot, he should run away as soon as possible!"
Hongshu said quickly:
"The cell door was not locked when we came in. Assuming that Xiaochuan Caojie was shot here, why didn't he try to escape after the prisoners left? Or, since the prisoners fired the gun, why didn't they kill him all, but instead left Xiaochuan Caojie with a breath?"
yes!
Hong Shu's words undoubtedly reminded everyone that it was too strange for Xiaochuan Caojie to die here. The criminal attacked him by surprise, so he should have continued to shoot him to silence him. However, Xiaochuan Caojie not only did not die immediately, but even lingered for a while...
But the problem arises again.
Assuming that Ogawa Kusae didn't die immediately, what did he do in the last moments of his life?
Questioning life?
Apart from the marks on the wall, he did not leave any other information about his death. This doesn't make sense!
Moreover, when everyone came in, there was no oxidized black blood on the ground or walls, which meant that Xiaochuan Kusuke was not shot outside, but...
Sakaki Makoto looked at the blurry bloody handprint on the wall, walked forward, covered the wall brick with his palm, and pushed it hard!
Click!
The wall tiles sank in response, and everyone's eyes lit up. There must be a mechanism here!
However....
After a while, the wall bricks sank, but the mechanism did not appear.
This is unscientific and should not be done.
How could there be no reaction at all to the message that Ogawa Caojie protected with his body!
Sakaki Makoto fixed his eyes on the wall that the skeleton was leaning against, picked up a piece of hay on the ground and placed it near the crack in the wall.
As I got closer to the crack in the wall, the hay suddenly shook, as if something was blowing it.
It's windy!
There's nothing behind the wall!
After confirming this, Sakaki Makoto asked Conan and the others to gather their flashlights together to fully illuminate the wall, put on gloves, and begin to feel along the cracks between the bricks.
The fingers gradually moved downwards. Although the wall was covered in blood and was pitch black, making it difficult to see any clues, there would always be gaps, and the wind can penetrate any pore. As long as it is not completely sealed, there will definitely be flaws.
As he felt around, Sakaki Makoto finally felt a protruding foreign object at the bottom. Looking down, he discovered that it was an inconspicuous stone, embedded in the cracks of the bricks like a wooden wedge. Because it was stained with blood and the color was the same as the surrounding area, it did not attract anyone's attention at first.
Putting down the flashlight, Makoto Sakaki pinched the edges of the stone on both sides and tried to pull it out, but no matter how hard he tried, the stone didn't move at all.
"Mad, it's stuck!"
Cursing silently, Sakaki Makoto stretched out his hand towards Kid:
"Give me the crowbar."
"oh."
As if by magic, Kidd pulled out a forearm-long crowbar from behind his back and handed it to Makoto Sakaki.
Conan looked at him with a strange look in his eyes. While everyone's attention was focused on the crowbar in Makoto Sakaki's hand, he quietly slipped behind Kid, stood on tiptoe, and stretched out his little hand...
"Who the hell touched my butt?!"
The sudden obscenity made Kidd furious on the spot. He turned around with a roar:
"I hate it most when someone touches my butt! Conan! It's you, kid! You're not satisfied with women anymore, so you're not letting men off either?!"
Hearing this, Sakaki Makoto, who was struggling to pry the stone, was caught in one breath and used his force in the wrong direction. With a snap, the stone stuck in the gap bounced out. Then the wall shook and spun loudly, revealing a pitch-dark hole behind it.
"Don't move!"
Seeing this scene, Conan immediately raised his hand to stop Kidd who was about to fight him to the death, and said confidently:
"See? This is all within my expectations!"
"I don't trust you!"
Bang!
Kidd still gave Conan a solid punch on the head.
"Okay, stop messing around."
A cold wind blew out from the dark cave entrance. Sakaki Makoto shone the flashlight in there, but the light didn't travel far before disappearing into the darkness. The cave entrance was gray and murky, and no one knew where it led to.
"There's blood on the ground!"
Hong Shu pointed at the ground inside the cave and shouted:
"That's where the little kawaguchi came from!"
"I see...."
Sakaki Makoto sneered, and the doubts in his heart were resolved:
"No wonder there is no blood in the cell, because the place where Xiaochuan Kusuke was shot was not here at all! He was shot somewhere else, was chased by someone, and fled to the well!"
The stone blocked the mechanism at the entrance of the cave. The pursuers could not do anything to Ogawa Kusai and had to give up. Ogawa Kusai died in the deep well due to excessive blood loss and old age.
After so many years, if Sakaki Makoto and his companions had not rediscovered the prison cell under the deep well, no one would have known that Ogawa Kusuke's body was actually there.
"Hey, don't you think it's a little weird?"
Standing at the back of the crowd, Masumi Sera suddenly thought of something:
"Ogawa Kusuke's body has been here for decades, why has no one discovered it?"
"Needless to say, it's because no one came down to check!"
"But this is the campus of Gunma University. Even if there is a sign at the door saying no trespassing, someone should have carefully checked it at the beginning of the renovation..."
Sakaki Makoto and the others looked at each other and their expressions changed slightly.
Sera Masumi was right. This deep well behind the old school building was not hidden. Logically, Ogawa Kusuke's body should have been discovered long ago, but the reality was the opposite....
Why?
There is only one answer.
Someone has been keeping an eye on this well for all these years!
Yasuki Domon took out his cell phone and dialed a number. The phone beeped a few times and then was connected with a click.
"It's me. How's the situation over there?"
"Report to the commander, everything is normal!"
Before coming down, Domon Yasuaki arranged people to hide and keep watch everywhere to prevent anyone from sealing the wellhead after they entered the deep well. Any normal person could think of this, and since the people arranged above said everything was normal, there was no problem.
Could it be that Masumi Sera was wrong, and the reason why no one found Ogawa Kusuke's body was purely a coincidence?
"Perhaps the observer left for some reason, and we took advantage of his absence."
After hanging up the phone, Domon Yasuki squinted his eyes and looked at the cave entrance, saying word by word:
"I don't know if you still remember that Ogawa Kusuke's grandson was critically ill the day before yesterday..."
"You mean, for all these years, the criminal has never left Gunma Prefecture and has stayed in the Ogawa family, monitoring the Fukai and secretly observing the Ogawa family?"
"Yes, if we speculate this way, everything can be explained..."
Domon Yasuki nodded.
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