The slightly overweight criminal was investigating the whereabouts of three people around five o'clock this morning.
After he asked the hotel front desk staff, he did get news about the three people.
Among them, Natori Fukashio did ask him to help keep the key at five o'clock this morning.
Mr. Sitang Yunping contacted the front desk at around 2 a.m. today and said that the air conditioner in his room was broken and asked the staff to go to his room for repairs.
But it turned out to be just an operational error on his part, and the air conditioner was not broken.
As for the fact that Junsaku Tanizawa went to the counter to exchange change at 4:30, it was also confirmed. According to the front desk staff, the other party exchanged a 1,000 yen bill for coins.
"Before our police arrived, was it true that no one returned to the rooms in this hotel from the pier?" Upon hearing this, Shigeo Yokomizo turned his head and looked at the two staff members in charge of guarding the hotel and asked again.
After receiving another affirmative answer, Yokomizo Shigego pondered, "If that's the case, then at that time this morning, all three of them were resting in their rooms in the main building of the hotel.
In this case, the theory that the murderer is hiding in the open-air hot spring cannot be established. "
Having said this, Yokomizo Shigego looked at Tang Ze, as if asking for his opinion.
"No, someone actually hid in the open-air hot spring for the entire night and left traces, but you didn't even realize it."
Tang Ze's words made Yokomizo Shigego look a little embarrassed. He couldn't help but ask, "What traces?"
"The bottle of water of unknown composition found in the locker room and the used matches floating on the lake are all traces of their presence."
Tang Ze said, "You know, staying outside this open-air hot spring in the middle of the lake for a whole night in this kind of weather is no joke.
The cold temperature is simply not something that ordinary people can bear. Even if you can hide in the bathroom from the balcony, in the locker room where the lights and heating are not turned on, you still cannot resist the cold at night.
So in that freezing cold room, there's only one way to keep warm."
"The method you are talking about is not taking a hot spring bath, is it?" Yokomizo Shigego was shocked when he heard this and spoke quickly.
"Well, this is the only way to keep warm."
Tang Ze nodded and said, "And the evidence is that he drank all the neon tea in the bottle, and even went to the locker room sink to get more water to drink.
This proves that the criminal must have soaked in the hot springs multiple times. After all, when soaking in hot springs, one can easily become thirsty due to the high temperature.
"Then according to you, what about those used matchsticks found on the lake?" After listening to Tang Ze's reasoning, Yokomizo Shigeo began to believe this fact and quickly continued to ask.
"That's pretty simple. He's probably smoking like crazy to keep himself from getting sleepy."
Tang Ze replied, “As for the three matches found on the lake, I’m afraid they are only a small part of it.
In order to avoid the smell of cigarettes in the bathhouse and thus his presence being known, the prisoner went to the balcony to smoke, and that's probably when he lost the matches."
"In that case, the most suspicious person is you, who is carrying a cigarette!"
Upon hearing this, Yokomizo Shigego looked at Jidou Yunping and said in a deep voice, "And the ashtray in your room also proves that you used matches instead of a lighter!"
"I...it's not me!" Sitang Yunping retorted in panic, "You can't assume I'm the murderer just because I smoke!"
"Don't be impatient. I said smoking, but I didn't say cigarettes." Tang Ze looked at Sitang Yunping's anxious look, and smiled as he stopped Yokomizo Shigego from blaming him.
"Hmm?" Yokomizo Shigego's face was filled with surprise when he heard this. "What do you mean by that?"
"pipe…"
At this moment, Natori Fukashio realized what Tang Ze said and said in disbelief: "Wait a minute, if you want to smoke a pipe while waiting, then..."
"Yes, that's right."
Tang Ze nodded in agreement with Natori Fukashio's words, then smiled at the bewildered crowd and said, "You don't seem to realize that the person waiting in the women's bath could be not only a murderer, but also a victim."
This statement directly caused everyone to scream, no one expected that,
"What!? Are you saying that the person hiding in the women's bath is Tetsuyama Yanzhi himself!?"
Yokomizo Shigego pointed at the pier and exclaimed, "How is this possible?! At around 4:30 this morning, those two staff members saw Mr. Tieshan passing by the entrance with their own eyes!"
If you say that the person who stayed in the women's bath all night was the deceased Mr. Tieshan, then who was the person they saw?
“We actually saw it too!”
At this moment, Conan suddenly stood up and said, "But the Mr. Tieshan we saw at that time seemed to have covered most of his face with a scarf and a hat, so we couldn't see his face at all.
I'm afraid that Mr. Tieshan at that time was a criminal in disguise!"
"That's right. What the staff and children saw around four o'clock was probably the murderer pretending to be Mr. Tieshan!"
Tang Ze concluded: "This cunning murderer used a psychological trick.
He, in turn, took advantage of the idea that the victim could not have stayed at the crime scene all night, waiting for the criminal to arrive.
Let's pretend the killer spent the night in the open-air hot springs to confuse our timeline."
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