In the warehouse.
After hearing Tang Ze's reasoning, everyone was horrified by the truth.
In a hazy dream, if I turned over, I would fall off the cabinet and be hanged on the beam by the rope around my neck and strangled to death. It’s terrifying to think about it.
"We have already figured out how the young lady died."
Tang Ze looked at the speechless crowd and continued to reason, "When the trick was completed and the young lady was forced to hang herself, the shattering of the pottery jar in the room was not accidental.
Because at the lower end of the beam where the rope was fixed, the prisoners had already stacked up some pottery jars.
With a rope around his neck, he fell from a height like the top of a bookcase. The weight of his entire body was supported by his neck, which would naturally cause dislocation and fracture of the cervical vertebrae. He would probably die in an instant.
Afterwards, the corpse will swing along with the rope due to inertia, and the pottery jar directly below the rope will naturally be kicked by the corpse's feet.
This is to make the stacked pottery jars look like the young lady kicked over the pottery jar she was using as a tiptoe when she hanged herself.
Of course, there is another use, which is to make the pottery jar break and make a noise to draw people's attention to the corpse in the warehouse as soon as possible.
This way, as long as I was in the living room when the young lady died, my alibi would be established."
Hearing this, Megure frowned and asked, "How do you explain the wound on the young lady's right calf?"
"Inspector Megure, look carefully at the vertical dividing line on the bookshelf. Is there a nail?"
Tang Ze pointed to the bookcase above and said, "I guess the wound was caused by the nail when the young lady lost her balance and fell from the bookcase.
She may have subconsciously grabbed the shelf and held on for a few seconds, which is why there was blood near the shelf."
Upon hearing this, Inspector Megure immediately realized the problem and asked hurriedly, "Karaze-kun, are you saying that the injury on the young lady's right leg was actually an accident?!"
"That's right. As the saying goes, 'Man proposes, God disposes.' No matter how meticulously planned, you never know when an accident might occur. Especially when you're trying to kill a living person with a trick."
Tang Ze spread his hands and said, "I think the prisoners must have been terrified when they saw their plans go awry.
But after all, it was his idea, and he was probably the first to realize the cause of the accident. He also discovered the consequences of the accident, which was the blood drop next to the bookcase.
Even if the deceased struggled hard when committing suicide, and the blood on his legs splashed all over the place, the distance next to the bookcase was too far.
But we can't just ignore the bloodstains. After all, if the police find them, then the method of disguising the young lady's suicide will be in vain.
So he came up with a plan. When moving the body, he took the initiative and guided the other person to move the body to the side of the bookcase, using the blood from the body to cover up the bloodstains that were already there.
At this point, Tang Ze looked at the man and chuckled and asked, "I think what I said is correct. Yesterday, while everyone was drunk, he moved the young lady to the top of the bookcase in the warehouse and set up this trick - Mr. Seto Ryuichi!!"
"Seto...it's actually...you..."
Yoshihiko Arita had an expression of disbelief on his face, while Otani and others beside him also had expressions of horror on their faces, as if they could not accept it.
"Wait a minute!! How could it be me?!"
Seto Takashi waved his hands repeatedly, "I'm not the only one who left the party while drinking. Everyone has gone out at some point, right? Others also have time to go out."
"Besides, Detective Mori has come to our house." Seto Ryuichi said with a wry smile: "Even if I were brave enough, I wouldn't dare commit a crime under the nose of a famous detective, right?"
"It's just because the trick you designed before has already happened, so you have no choice but to go against the wind and commit the crime."
Tang Ze took out the marbles that Conan saw when the Feng Shui Pill was broken, and said, "This little mechanism was also set up by you, right? Just put it at the bottom of the Feng Shui Pill to make its center of gravity unstable. Then, as long as someone tries to take it, it will probably be broken.
The reason for doing this is very clear, it is to make your trick seem more reasonable and find an excuse for the young lady's "suicide."
"So... ahem..."
Halfway through his words, Maori Kogoro quickly changed from a look of enlightenment to a serious expression, and after two dry coughs, he said: "This is naturally done to plot against the young lady and make her break the Feng Shui Pill.
After all, the young lady is responsible for the other party's transactions, and it is usually the young lady who deposits and withdraws works from the warehouse.
"And the young lady drank quite a bit yesterday and eventually fell asleep, so this is a golden opportunity to strike."
"Then show me the evidence!" Seto Ryuichi didn't lose his temper, but looked innocent. "Without evidence, everything you said is just speculation!"
"Of course there is evidence, and it's on you!" Tang Ze pointed at Seto Takashi and said, "The evidence was left behind when you moved the young lady to the top of the bookcase yesterday!"
As he spoke, Tang Ze came behind Seto Ryuichi, lifted up his coat, and revealed the T-shirt at the back.
And there, on Seto Ryuichi's white T-shirt, there was a striking red lipstick mark!
"Looking at the position, it must have been left there when you carried the young lady and placed her on the bookcase." Tang Ze pointed at the lipstick mark and said, "After all, the bookcase is very high and you need a ladder. If you don't use a method to support it, you probably can't get up there.
I think after you finish these things, no one will notice you when you return to the party, since everyone is drunk."
"Hey, hey, hey, you can't doubt me just because of this lipstick mark." Seto Ryuichi said helplessly: "Indeed, this might be the lipstick mark left by the young lady, but during the banquet, the young lady slept in the living room before going back to bed.
Maybe it was printed accidentally at that time. We were all drunk, even Detective Maori couldn't remember it clearly. You can't ignore other possibilities!"
"Well, it's the so-called 'never give up until you reach the Yellow River'." Tang Ze shrugged, looked at Conan and said: "Conan-kun, then let Mr. Seto see the decisive evidence!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Conan climbed up the bookcase with his bare hands and found the bottle that Tang Ze had discovered before.
"Throw it away." Tang Ze said bluntly.
“Bang!!”
Before everyone could react, Conan let go and dropped the pottery in his hand.
“Bang!!”
The loud noise startled everyone, and their eyes unconsciously turned to the broken bottles on the ground.
And there, inside the broken bottle, there was actually a cell phone hidden inside! !
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