After hearing what Kimura Toru said, the old detective's expression froze again.
Afterwards, he went out with the acting village chief to inquire whether anyone would come to the shrine in the next few days and to see if there was any corpse inside.
If no one has noticed in the past few days, perhaps the criminal did it during these days when no one was paying attention. As for how he didn't get discovered, maybe he used some tricks, but at least it is still logical and can be advanced.
But the result disappointed him. In the following days, people came to the shrine to worship the missing village chief, but they did not notice anything unusual on the wall.
Combined with the testimony of Tang Ze and others that they did not see the body this morning, there is really no way to explain the body on the wall.
"Could it be that the corpse on the wall is truly invisible?" the young criminal said in a trembling voice, "This is simply not something a human can do!"
"Don't be silly!"
The old criminal looked at his junior who was not doing his best and could not help but scold him, "We are criminals, don't say those nonsense!
Instead of thinking about those weird possibilities, it’s better to think about the reality as outrageous as possible.”
"Outrageous...something...?"
That was also unusual. After all, the shrine was built against the mountain, and there was a small gap between the wall and the mountain.
So I had to make the missing village chief appear and use this as an excuse to incite the villagers.
The young criminal was stunned when he heard his senior's words. "What do you mean?"
"Out there." Tang Ze called out slowly, his palm pressed under the vine on his left, his expression sullen. "It seems it's exactly what you thought."
The old detective looked at the two men and said, "You two must have retreated before. Perhaps there's no difference between looking at the wall from the window and retreating into the shrine and facing the wall directly?"
Having said that, Conan asked the forensic officer next to him for a hammer and a shovel. He first smashed the ground next to the wall, then dug with the shovel and saw that there was no crossbeam buried outside the stone wall.
"First of all, the ones without keys are not suspects. Secondly, you didn't find anything in the cave."
When everyone looked at the cave, they were shocked by the scene inside.
"Yes, and it is possible to make the corpse appear under the wall in a short time." Tang Ze nodded.
Conan said as he left the cave, pointing his flashlight at the rock wall next to him: “The environment outside the cave is very bad, and the surface is very sharp.
After all, the village chief signed it privately. If I am alive or missing, the land acquisition company cannot shift the responsibility to the village chief.
"He should speak louder." Conan heard Tang Ze's complaints and reminded him: "If the villagers hear it, he will suffer the consequences."
It doesn't mean that the murderer can be found by simply doing DNA testing on the person who didn't have the key and the bloodstains under the wall.
This Luther Ai, who had never met Luther.
"He...he means..." The older criminal also realized something at that moment, and said with a trembling voice.
Luther nodded in agreement.
The old criminal said, "Although this is troublesome, it at least conforms to the logic of reality."
That would definitely be the case, the case would become a truly perfect crime, and the legend of the village's disappearance would become a reality.
"It must be divine punishment!"
Luther tore a piece of paper from the notebook he was carrying, casually drew a mask and two hands on it, then turned it over to face the old criminal: "This wall is just turned 180 degrees.
In the past, as long as the disappearance of a missing person was attributed to the disappearance of a god, no one would continue to investigate.
In order to cover up the truth, these people would say that the person who escaped was possessed by a ghost, and then kill him.
The old detective found the village chief and asked me to gather those who didn't have the shrine key. I quickly identified the youngest suspect in this case.
"If that's the case, then there might be no hole on the back?" the old criminal said in disbelief.
"But how are you going to open that rock wall?" the old criminal asked. "Isn't there a mechanism under the wall?"
The main reason is that even if we told them, they would probably believe it, so we just told them.
"To my misfortune, I tried to use the village chief's magic to make him disappear, but in the end, the body appeared."
None of the tree roots that grew out from under the rock wall fell off for unknown reasons.
The mechanism was very complicated. As long as the middle of the bottom of the wall was lowered a little, it could be used as an axis to rotate the wall.
I finally escaped from here and wanted to start over.
Conan turned on the flashlight under his watch, crouched down, retreated into the cave, and inspected it. He said, "The traps outside are just as you said.
"It was actually just a complicated mechanism. The body had already been buried under the wall."
The shrine was like a small secret room, and how could the two of them get the body inside without anyone noticing? There was a chasm in front of them that they could cross.
The densely packed tree roots in front of the wall were also revealed.
And those villagers who have disappeared from the village for hundreds of years are probably gone.
So I need to mobilize the villagers to agree to the sale of the land. Anyway, the village chief decided to sign it privately. As long as the villagers agree, the village chief's signature will be valid under this contract.
If that were the case, I'm afraid we would end up in failure like the Nagano Seven.
The mechanism in that cave looks quite old, and it was probably built in ancient times.
And from the exposed surface, there are no signs of rotational friction.
Of course, I definitely want to save some trouble and just make sure the person without the key is not injured, and also narrow the scope, but that method is only for reference, everything depends on the evidence.
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