After dinner, everyone spent time in the Masked Hall. The photographer and the rock singer went to play billiards, while Kogoro pestered the mysterious-looking fortune teller and asked her to tell him his fortune for the year.
As for Fang Zheng, he was sitting in a chair drinking tea and reading a book. Overall, everything was calm - well, the calm before the storm.
"Mr. Fang Zheng."
At this time, Xiaolan and Conan also came over and sat next to Fang Zheng.
"Wouldn't it be too boring for you to read alone? How about playing chess with us?"
"Playing chess... this has lost some of its fun for me."
Looking at Xiaolan who was smiling and holding up the chessboard towards him, Fang Zheng also put down the book in his hand and thought for a moment.
"Well, let me tell you a story."
"Story? Yeah, yeah!"
Hearing that Fang Zheng was going to tell them a story, Xiaolan immediately became interested, and Conan looked at Fang Zheng curiously, wanting to see what story he would tell.
"Hmm... Let me think about it. The protagonist of the story is a girl named Risa..."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng began to tell the two of them a story. In short, the story began with a girl named Li Zuo who lost her memory. Because she lost her memory, she walked aimlessly on the street, and was then found by her boyfriend, who then took Li Zuo to his home.
Although her family took Risa to treatment, the doctor diagnosed that the girl was probably mentally stimulated and lost her memory. After that, Risa began to have nightmares at night. She always dreamed of a huge caterpillar coming in from the door and trying to crawl into her vagina. Every time Risa woke up here.
Hearing this, Conan also became interested and began to try to use his own abilities to deduce how the girl lost her memory.
"Maybe she was frightened by the caterpillars."
Xiaolan quickly expressed her guess, and Conan shook his head.
"Sister Xiaolan, you are exaggerating. Even if someone is afraid of caterpillars, they shouldn't be scared to the point of losing their memory. I suspect she may have seen something similar to a caterpillar..."
"But a normal caterpillar can't be that big."
Xiaolan gestured in confusion. According to Fang Zheng's description, the caterpillar's body was as wide as a basketball. Where could there be such a caterpillar?
But then again, if this kind of caterpillar really existed, Xiaolan herself would probably scream in fear.
"Could it be a python? Maybe he suddenly encountered a python and got scared?"
"But you can't mistake a python for a caterpillar..."
The two discussed for a few sentences, and then listened to Fang Zheng continue. Then Fang Zheng talked about the girl named Risa who went to visit her boyfriend Makita's house at his invitation, but Makita's house made Risa uneasy and fidgety. Facing the nervous Risa, Makita told her that it was not the first time she came to his house, she had been there before... But this made Risa even more uneasy. After returning home, she felt as if she had recalled something. She suspected that she must have seen something at Makita's house, which frightened her and caused her to lose her memory.
Just when Risa was feeling uneasy, Makita suddenly came to her house and told her that his father was seriously ill and was about to die, and hoped that she would see her father for the last time. However, when Makita opened the door, Risa finally saw the true face of Makita's father.
"…It was an old man lying on the tatami. He looked haggard and seemed to be dying. However, what frightened Risa even more was the old man's head. On the old man's head, there were skulls connected one after another, just like hundreds of bowls turned upside down... Those skulls were the skulls of the ancestors of the Makita family. Whenever someone in their family died, their skulls would grow on the next heir. And Risa was originally chosen by them as the woman to give birth to the heir of the Makita family..."
Fang Zheng's voice echoed in the entertainment room in a low voice. At this moment, Xiaolan's face was ashen and she held Conan tightly. Conan also gasped. Although he knew that this was just a ghost story, the thought of hundreds of people's skulls connected together like a giant caterpillar gave him goose bumps all over his body.
The story ends with Makita's father dying and Makita inheriting his father's skull. Then, under the control of the skull, he pounces on Risa. Facing Makita flying in the air under the control of countless skulls, Risa is frightened and loses his memory again, and falls into Makita's clutches...
"Ouch... Really, really scary..."
After hearing this story, Xiaolan felt that she didn't dare to sleep alone tonight, and Conan was also speechless, because this was not only a ghost story, but also had a BAD END in the end...
At this time, the twin maids came out and said that it was time to rest, and hoped that everyone could go back to their rooms to sleep. Because every twelve o'clock, they would completely block the Mask Hall from the east and west sides to prevent the masks from running around... Well, this is just a legend, but it was enough to scare Xiaolan so much that her face turned pale.
"Ko, Conan, can we sleep together today?"
After Fang Zheng finished telling the story, he patted his butt and left, leaving Xiaolan alone. The more she thought about it, the more scared she became. Finally, she couldn't help but look at Conan beside her. Faced with Xiaolan's invitation, Conan was in a dilemma.
Oh, do you think I agree or not?
After returning to the room, Fang Zheng did not sleep, but continued to open the computer to set up his plan. After all, Fang Zheng had thought that once he dealt with this guy who was corrupted by chaos, the Four Leaf Galaxy would definitely fall into his hands. Therefore, he had to make a good plan in advance, especially the apocalyptic world over there in Danganronpa, which required the "players" in various worlds to work together to rebuild it.
So the focus becomes how to lure players to spend money.
Although skins, exteriors, and houses are all old tricks, Fang Zheng knows that these alone are not enough. Any game update must have a new krypton gold point that excites players... Well, how about this, starting with the Four-Leaf Galaxy, inducing players to build star cities here, and then krypton gold to let them buy battleships.
Then you can go a step further and customize it, and finally build factories... Of course, these will be released step by step.
Of course, the warships given to players at the beginning must have many flaws. For example, free players can get fighters and shuttles, and krypton gold players can randomly draw warships of various camps? Should the probability be lowered? Or simply don't have to fake the probability and go straight to the real one?
“Boom boom boom!”
Just as Fang Zheng was excitedly thinking about how to harvest leeks, he suddenly heard a knock on the door outside. Fang Zheng had no choice but to put away his computer, then opened the door and looked into the corridor. Soon he saw one of the twin maids hurriedly coming up from the first floor, and then quickly opened the locked Mask Hall. The moment the door opened, Fang Zheng saw Maori Kogoro and his group rushing over and running towards the third floor.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
At this moment, the photographers and fortune tellers nearby also came out to see what was going on. Seeing this scene, Fang Zheng yawned silently.
Is there any need to ask? It must be that the person is dead, right?
Forget it, let’s go up and take a look.
Thinking of this, Fang Zheng followed the others to the third floor.
As expected, the door of Ms. Sufang's room on the third floor was locked. Kogoro had no choice but to break the air vent on the door and send Conan in. Then Conan opened the door from the inside, but it was too late...
At this moment, Sufang Hongzi was completely dead, and next to her body, there were masks scattered all over the ground...
Moreover, Sufang Hongzi was stabbed to death in the neck with a knife, which was undoubtedly a homicide. Moreover, the room was a secret room at the time, which means... this was a murder in a secret room!
After discovering the body, Kogoro called the police immediately, and then Officer Megure quickly led people to the crime scene. According to the traces at the scene, Ms. Sufang fell asleep after taking sleeping pills, so she died without any struggle. There was no place for anyone to enter or leave the room, and there were no fingerprints or any marks of the murderer on the blood-stained knife handle, which was really confusing.
Not only that, according to Kogoro Mori, they were originally sleeping, but suddenly someone called and told them that the mask was craving for blood. Therefore, Kogoro Mori realized that something was wrong and hurried to Ms. Sufang's room to check the situation.
Not only that, Kogoro Mori also made a bold inference.
"Because Ms. Sufang's room can only be reached through the stairs in the West Building, and the doors on both sides of the Mask Hall are locked, the criminal must be someone who lives in the West Building!"
However……
"impossible."
Fang Zheng's words completely shattered Kogoro's delusion.
“Why?”
"It's easy, because my room is right next to the stairs."
Fang Zheng shrugged and looked at Kogoro.
"Besides, I was busy working and had not slept until this happened, and I can be sure that no one went up to the third floor via the stairs."
“Woo…”
Upon hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Kogoro's face turned pale.
"Perhaps the criminal deliberately avoided it quietly..."
"That's impossible. I'm very confident in my ears. Anyway, before you, no one from the West Building went to the third floor, so the murderer couldn't be in the West Building."
"How is this possible?!"
Hearing this, Kogoro immediately started complaining again.
"So according to you, the murderer is one of us who lives in the East Building? Then how did he get through the sealed Mask Hall and get to Ms. Sufang's room on the third floor?"
"Perhaps he never passed through the Hall of Masks."
Faced with Kogoro's unreasonable demands, Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders.
"That's all I can say."
“…”
Hearing Fang Zheng's words, Conan fell into deep thought. He was sure that Fang Zheng would never say it if he was not sure. Since he said that no one would go to the third floor from the West Building through the stairs, it means that he is very sure of this. But as Maori Kogoro wondered, if the criminal is not from the West Building, then how can he go through the blocked Mask Hall to Ms. Soho Koko's bedroom on the third floor?
Just as Conan was thinking, he saw Xiaolan looking at the police officers putting away the masks with a complicated expression, and she seemed a little scared.
"What's wrong? Sister Xiaolan?"
Seeing this, Conan asked in confusion, and when Xiaolan heard Conan's question, she smiled embarrassedly.
"No, nothing, Conan. I just saw those stacked masks and remembered the story Mr. Fang Zheng told me before..."
"Ah, that story...ah!"
After hearing Xiaolan's answer, Conan nodded, and then he suddenly had an idea!
Looking at those masks again, combined with the story Fang Zheng told earlier, Conan said... I know the truth!!
After that, Conan quickly announced his reasoning through Maori Kogoro, pointing out that the murderer was the rock singer Aichuan Fuyuya. The secret room crime method he used was also solved by Conan. In simple terms, Aichuan Fuyuya tied an elastic band to the bottom of the dagger, then passed the masks through the elastic band one by one, sent them through the fence to Sufang Hongzi's bedroom, and then pulled it up.
Under the action of the elastic band, the masks scattered on the ground will be pulled up and form a solid support point. Then, by pushing the mask on the other side of the vent, the dagger on the top can be stabbed forward, and Sufang Hongzi can be killed easily.
All that’s left to do next is cut the elastic band and recycle it, and a perfect secret room is formed.
Since Sufang Hongzi had taken sleeping pills and fell asleep, she would not react no matter how hard she was stabbed. Otherwise, the possibility of one person throwing so many masks in through the ventilation hole without being discovered was basically zero.
So you see, it’s a lot of science.
Looking at the "masked arm" being pulled up, Fang Zheng was speechless.
If this happened in reality, you would at least make a knot if you did this, right? But on Conan's side, it was as smooth as silk. There were more than 200 masks strung on elastic bands, and they were scattered all over the floor in a completely irregular pattern. If you pulled hard, what if one got stuck and you were doomed?
In the end, none of them got stuck...
Is it possible?
Is it scientific?
Forget it, there's no point in talking about science with Conan.
Let’s talk about science.
In short, the case was solved. After Conan exposed the lie of Aichuan Fuyuya's alibi, he also decisively stated his motive for the crime - just as Fang Zheng thought, it was Aichuan Fuyuya's mother who took the blame for Sufang Hongzi 20 years ago and then committed suicide. After learning the truth of this matter, Aichuan Fuyuya planned to take revenge.
So young man, you have gone astray. Why don't you come to Hell Communication to vent your anger? Even if I had to do something, it wouldn't have turned out like this...
Looking at Aikawa Touya being taken away by the police car, Fang Zheng was filled with emotion. Not far behind him, Conan was also looking at Fang Zheng with a complicated look.
To be honest, Conan could find that today's reasoning was too smooth. First of all, Fang Zheng directly ruled out the suspicion of everyone in the West Building. Out of trust in Fang Zheng, Conan immediately narrowed the target range. If the criminal was really in the East Building, then it must be Mr. Aichuan and Miss Shimokasa in addition to the three of them. So Conan focused on observing the two of them, and sure enough, he saw a clue from Aichuan Dongye's alibi.
As for the criminal's method, Conan immediately thought of it after listening to Xiaolan's story. In fact, two hundred masks stacked together really look like the hundreds of skulls stacked together in the story...
But, is this all coincidence?
No matter how Conan thought about it, he felt something was wrong. After all, the story Fang Zheng had told him before was too consistent with this crime method. It was as if he knew that the criminal would use this method to commit the crime this time, so he made up a story in advance and told them.
But this is too unreasonable, as if Fang Zheng can predict the future.
"...Hey, Brother Fangzheng."
Just when Conan made up his mind and wanted to ask, he saw Fang Zheng turn his head, look at him, and sigh helplessly.
"See, I was right, wasn't I? Every time I ran into you outside, someone would die. Fortunately, only one died this time."
“…”
At this moment, Conan said I don't want to talk to you at all.