"I think there's actually no need to investigate carefully, the conclusion has already been reached."
Looking at the clean and tidy study in front of him, Fang Zheng was silent for a moment, then looked at the butler Genci behind him.
"It's obvious that no one has lived here for a long time... So, Mr. Genji, please tell me the truth. Is Ushiromiya Kinzo dead?"
"That's not the case, Mr. Founder."
Facing Fang Zheng's question, Genci seemed very calm.
"In fact, the master is not dead, he was just taken away by Beatrice."
“That golden witch? Are you saying that Ushiromiya Kinzo is with Beatrice now? Then I would like to ask, where does this person live? Why haven’t I seen her before?”
“…”
Facing Fang Zheng's question, Genci remained silent for a moment.
"Even if you want to see her, you can't, because Lady Beatrice has no physical body."
"……Um?"
What the hell are you talking about?
"Ms. Beatrice is a witch. It is said that her human form is just like the one depicted in the painting. Sometimes she simply appears as a golden butterfly. In fact, all of this is the will of Ms. Beatrice."
"It sounds just like the truth."
Fang Zheng walked slowly to the bookshelf and took out a book on Western black magic.
"The master is a chuunibyou. Even the servants are doing this to him? No wonder you are trusted by Ushiromiya Kinzo. It turns out you are birds of a feather."
After flipping through the black magic book in his hand, Fang Zheng chuckled and looked at Yuanci again.
"You don't think you can get away with this kind of nonsense. Witch? How can such a thing exist in this world?"
"Lady Beatrice is real."
Facing Fang Zheng's question, Genci once again gave a calm answer, just like an elder telling a child that "Santa Claus is just a story."
"Then I want to meet her."
"That's impossible, Mr. Founder. You won't be able to see Lady Beatrice."
"Then for me, she doesn't exist."
Fang Zheng turned around and stared at Genci with narrowed eyes.
“Humans need to observe, observe and infer to recognize the existence of a thing. If something cannot be observed, cannot be observed, and cannot be inferred, then it does not exist - you see, it is that simple.”
“…”
For a moment, the two were silent, but after a moment, the sound of hurried footsteps broke the silence.
"Mr. Genji, something bad has happened!"
Jiayin ran up panting and shouted loudly, and when he heard his voice, Genji turned around.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
"Just now I went to knock on the door, wanting to call Ms. Huiyu and the others for dinner, but Ms. Huiyu and the others did not respond, and the door was locked!"
"What?!"
Hearing this, Genci and Fangzheng were shocked, and then they immediately left the study and rushed towards the guest house.
"Ms. Eiha! Mr. Hideyoshi! Please answer me if you hear me!!"
When he arrived at the door of Eiha's room in the guest house, Genji knocked on the door hurriedly, but no one answered. Then Genji took out the key from his pocket, opened the door, and pushed it inside...
“Click.”
However, to everyone's surprise, the door was not pushed open. On the contrary, the door chain inside prevented the door from opening further. Seeing this, Genji gritted his teeth and immediately turned to look at Jiayin.
"Go find something to cut the door chain right now!"
"yes!"
Jiayin nodded and was about to turn around and leave, but at this time Fangzheng stood up.
"There's no need for that. Please move back."
“…”
Although they didn't know what Fang Zheng was going to do, Jia Yin and Yuan Ci hurriedly backed away from the door. Then Fang Zheng walked to the door and kicked it out.
"boom!!"
With a dull thud, the door suddenly opened, and Fang Zheng walked into the room, then was immediately shocked.
In the room in front of me, I saw Ushiromiya Ewa's eyes wide open, and something that looked like a nail was inserted directly into her brain from her forehead.
“This, this is…!?”
Seeing this scene, Genci and Jiayin were also shocked. They instinctively wanted to come in to check, but Fang Zheng blocked their way with his hand.
"No one is allowed to enter the room without permission!"
As he spoke, Fang Zheng walked to the bathroom door and pushed it open. He saw Hideyoshi, who was naked in the bathtub, with a long black spike piercing his head. He had no signs of life.
Soon, everyone rushed to the crime scene again, and even Conan had a frown on his face with a grim expression.
"Are you sure this room is locked?"
"Yes, there's a door chain inside, a perfect secret room."
Hearing Conan's question, Fang Zheng nodded and then asked in a low voice.
"Has anyone left before?"
"No, I was with Battler, Shujika, and Jouji the whole time. No one left during that time... What about you?"
"Mr. Genji and I have been in the study, and he hasn't left."
"By the way, why do you want to kill people in this way?"
Looking at the corpse in front of him, Fang Zheng was puzzled.
"And judging from their appearance, it seems that they were killed by a single blow while awake. If it was a crossbow or something like that, it would be fine, but this thing..."
Fang Zheng stretched out his hand and gestured.
"It's a bit crazy to use it as a murder weapon. Wouldn't it be more convenient to use a fruit knife?"
Having said this, Fang Zheng turned around and looked at Xia Fei, Yuan Ci and others.
"Have any of you seen anything like it?"
“…”
Facing Fang Zheng's question, everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.
"In short, first protect the scene, then...what's that smell?"
At this moment, suddenly, a pungent smell came, Fang Zheng frowned, and the others also showed surprised expressions. Soon, Jiayin came out.
"Maybe there's something wrong with the boiler. The boiler here is very old. I'll go take a look."
"I'll go too."
Granny Xiongze followed Jiayin and left, while Fangzheng and Conan began to inspect the entire scene again. In fact, there was no trace left at the scene, only a letter stuck in the crack of the door, which only contained a sentence like "Praise my name". So neither Fangzheng nor Conan took the letter seriously.
"Something is wrong. Something is wrong with this murder."
Conan was also frowning at this moment, muttering to himself as he looked at the naked body in front of him.
"how?"
Hearing Conan's words, Fang Zheng glanced at him.
"You don't think this is the apparition of the Golden Witch, do you?"
"If there really are people other than us on the island, then it's not unreasonable, but what I can't understand is the criminal's method of committing the crime..."
"Yes, it is indeed quite weird."
Fang Zheng once again looked at the nail inserted into Ushiromiya Ewa's forehead.
"It was a fatal blow. There was no sign of struggle or resistance. It was as if she was lying on the ground, and then suddenly the nail appeared out of nowhere and pierced her head."
"So did Mr. Hideyoshi. He didn't even have time to climb out of the bathtub."
"So the question is, why did the murderer use two different methods to kill? You have to know that it was only two or three hours from the time Ms. Huiyu and the others went back to their rooms to rest until the body was discovered. In comparison, last night there were a full six or seven hours to set up the murder scene. Since the criminal could draw a magic circle on the door out of boredom, he could also use these nails to pierce the victim's forehead."
“Maybe there aren’t enough nails?”
Conan looked at the spike on his forehead in confusion.
"This nail looks very complicated, like some kind of work of art. I don't think there are many of them. Maybe if the murderer used them on the victims yesterday, they wouldn't be enough."
"Then the question is, what are these nails..."
“Boom boom boom!!”
At this moment, hurried footsteps sounded again, and then Fang Zheng and Conan saw Battler running over in a hurry.
"Oh no! Something happened to Jiayin too, and we found a dead body!"
“…”
Hearing this, Fang Zheng couldn't even sigh.
"Anyway, let's go check it out first."
Soon, in the underground boiler room, Fang Zheng saw Kanon being rescued by Doctor Nanjo, and a charred body on the ground. According to Genji's identification, the charred body was the missing Ushiromiya Kinzo. Kanon, like Huiyu and Hideyoshi, was pierced in the chest by a long nail, and was currently only breathing out but not in.
In this depressing atmosphere, everyone was also panic-stricken. Finally, at Genji's suggestion, they came to Ushiromiya Kinzo's study and planned to hide there for a night. As for Kanon, she was taken to the room by Doctor Nanjo for treatment, but unfortunately she could not be saved in the end...
Under the pressure of the crowd, Genji finally couldn't bear the pressure and admitted that Beatrice really existed. However, according to Genji, this woman should have died a long time ago. As for whether she and Kinzo had an illegitimate child, Genji said he didn't know. He just said that Kinzo was very sad after losing Beatrice, so he was obsessed with black magic and other things all day long, trying to revive Beatrice...
"That's right, a living sacrifice! A living sacrifice!!"
听到这里，战人似乎想到了什么，顿时大叫了一声，接着扑到了书房里贝阿朵莉切的画像前。
“一定是这样，爷爷是想要复活贝阿朵莉切，所以把我们叫来这里，表面上是为了分配遗产，其实就是拿我们做活祭品！你们看，这个碑文上写的，第一夜，将被钥匙选中的六人作为祭品献上，第二夜，将紧靠着的两人撕碎……这都吻合啊！！”
“你怎么看？”
听到这里，方正望向柯南。
“的确，如果按照那个碑文来说的话是很符合，可是我总觉得还是有些地方不太对劲，这只是我的一种直觉，但是我感觉太刻意了。”
柯南这会儿也说出了自己的看法。
“刻意？”
“没错，一般来说，密室手法大多是为了让人误以为受害者是自杀，从而洗清嫌疑。但是现在因为之前六人的死亡，我们已经确认是有凶手存在的，而且这个密室并没有布置成自杀的样子，那么这个密室的存在究竟是为了什么？为什么犯人一定要把这一切规划成密室杀人不可？难道只是想要让大家承认的确有这么一个神出鬼没的魔女的存在？把所有的一切杀人罪行都推到魔女的头上？”
柯南是死活想不明白，而方正也同样无法理解。
而就在这个时候……
“所有人全部退后！”
夏妃的尖叫声打断了方正和柯南的思路，两人抬起头来向着眼前望去，接着不由大吃一惊。只见在油画前，夏妃手握枪械，瞄准了站在桌前的源次，熊泽婆婆和医生。
“这是怎么了？”
方正警惕的盯视着夏妃开口询问道，而旁边的让治则急忙解释起来。
“我们刚才在这里看碑文，然后真里亚说贝阿特丽切送了一封信过来，当我们向着桌子望去时，发现那里真的放了一封信！”
“哦？”
方正和柯南这时也急忙望向桌子，果不其然，只见在餐桌上放着一封款式和之前基本一致的信件。
“刚才那封信还没有在那里吧。”
“没错！”
夏妃一面举着枪，一面小心翼翼的走到餐桌前，她恶狠狠的盯视着眼前的三个佣人，大声怒吼起来。
“所以，这封信一定是你们当中的某个人所放在这里的！”
“我们才没有做这种事啊！”
“战人君，读信！”
“啊，是。”
听到夏妃的命令，战人急忙跑到餐桌前拿起了那封信读了起来。
“……这场游戏只有两种结果，不是我赢就是各位赢，时限一过就算我赢，这一点希望不要误解……”
“把这封信放在这里的，就是你们当中的某个人！”
夏妃举起枪，挨个指向源次，熊泽婆婆，南条医生和真里亚。
“我把罐头放在桌子上的时候还没有这封信，在那之后，我，让治，朱志香和战人去了油画前，那边的方正先生和柯南一直在茶几边讨论案情，但是就在我们移开视线的瞬间，这封信就出现在了这张桌子上，所以可以肯定，这封信一定是你们当中的某个人放的！”
“这……”
“只有你们四个在桌子前，你们一定看到了信是谁放的，如果说不出来的话，那么就说明你们四个人都是同案犯！”
此刻的夏妃明显已经歇斯底里了，她紧握着枪，瞪视着四人。柯南想要上前说点儿什么，但是却被方正一把拉住。
随后，四人在夏妃的威胁下离开了书房，而夏妃也在四人离开之后，示意战人上去锁好门，这才喘了口气。
但是好景不长，仅仅只是过了几分钟，忽然，电话铃声响起，夏妃走过去接起了电话，可是在电话另外一头，他们只能够听见真里亚唱歌的声音……
“到底是怎么回事？！”
当众人冲出书房，来到餐厅时，看见的是源次，熊泽婆婆和南条医生的尸体，他们都被砸破了头，分别在小腿，腹部和脚上刺着一个长钉。
“原来如此，我明白了！”
看到这一幕，柯南顿时恍然大悟。
“犯人完全是按照碑文来行动的！这些钉子所刺穿的部位，正对应着碑文上那些描述！”
“但是究竟是谁做的？又是怎么做的？刚才这个餐厅也是上锁的啊。”
方正检查了一遍尸体，同样毫无头绪，而此刻朱志香，让治和战人也把真里亚团团包围了起来，询问她犯人究竟是谁，然而无论他们怎么问，真里亚都只会说犯人是贝阿朵莉切……
坦白来说，看着真里亚这个欠揍的样子，方正也想抽她了。
不过等等……
“夏妃女士呢？”
方正下意识的看了一眼四周，这才发现不知道什么时候，夏妃女士不见了。而听到方正的询问，其他几人这才惊讶的转头向着四周望去，与此同时，真里亚则开口了。
“夏妃伯母的话，刚才一边读着信一边出去了哦。”
“什么？！”
听到这里，朱志香急忙冲到餐厅门前，想要打开门，但是不知道为什么，门从外面被锁上，根本打不开。
“妈妈，妈妈，你在干什么！快开门！”
“我来！”
方正此刻也是急忙走到餐厅大门前，再次用力一脚踢出，将门重重的踹开，而与此同时……
“砰！！”
枪声响起。
当众人冲出餐厅时，他们所看见的，只有倒在不远处的玄关地面上，额头中弹，已经身死的右代宫夏妃。
“这到底是怎么回事？！”
方正等人急忙来到右代宫夏妃的尸体前，向着四周张望，可是却一个人都看不见，不仅如此，在夏妃身边，他们也没有找到什么信件。
而就在这个时候……
“铛……铛……铛……”
午夜十二点的钟声响起。
下一刻，方正和柯南的眼前，顿时变得一片漆黑。
整个房间不见了。
世界仿佛被黑暗所吞没，随后，一个小小的身影出现在了两人的面前。
“第九夜，无人生还。”
真里亚抬起头来，带着那令人觉得恶心的笑容看着方正和柯南。
“如何？贝阿特丽切很厉害吧，她可是魔女呢。”
“所以，你的意思是，这一切都是贝阿特丽切，一个魔女犯下的罪行？”
柯南这会儿也是神色凝重的盯视着真里亚，后者则“天真无邪”的点了点头。
“没错，贝阿特丽切是魔女哦，所以能够自由自在的出入上了锁的房间，能够随心所欲的杀人，这都是魔女的魔法哦，如何？你们到现在还不愿意相信这一点吗？”
“你……”
听到真里亚的询问，柯南紧握双手，他当然不愿意相信真里亚的鬼话，可是柯南又的确找不到什么理由来反驳，毕竟他刚才已经仔细调查过了那些案发现场，然而却没有找到一丝半点儿的线索……
“哈哈哈哈哈，原来如此。”
然而，就在柯南冥思苦想的时候，方正却是仿佛恍然大悟般笑了起来。
“我明白了，柯南。”
“方正先生？”
听到方正的说话，柯南好奇的望着他，而方正笑着拍了拍他的脑袋。
“你看，我们一开始以为，这个游戏的目的是让我们解开谜团，找到六轩岛杀人事件的真相。”
“难道不是这样吗？”
面对方正的说话，柯南有些发闷，而方正则点了点头。
“严格来说的确是如此，但是这个游戏的设定却不太一样，我们不仅仅要找到真相，而且还必须识破谎言！”
“谎言？”
“没错。”
方正一面说着，一面望向真里亚。
“你看，我们得到的资料上，只写了六轩岛发生了爆炸，除了右代宫绘羽之外全员身亡，但是他们到底是怎么死的，警方并没有能够完全验证，所以说，这整个六轩岛其实就是一个谜团，一个未知的X。我们已知的事实是谁死了，谁活着。而未知的事实就是他们是如何死的，死在什么地方，死亡时间，死亡原因等一概都不了解，所以……”
说到这里，方正猛然伸出手去，指向真里亚。
“即便有人编造了一个现场和死因，我们也无法确认这是否是真实的！也就是说，我们原本以为我们现在所处的六轩岛上所发生的事情，很有可能只是编造出来的谎言！因为想要让我们相信是魔女所为，所以才做了这些无聊的碑文，谜题和密室。就好像RPG游戏里，老子不能直接踹开一扇门而必须去解密一样，这只是一个符合‘魔女杀人’设定的编造谎言！也就是说……”
方正盯视着真里亚，嘴角微微翘起，露出了一抹狰狞的笑容。
“事实上我们所看见的这一切，在现实之中从来就没有发生过！”
伴随着方正话音落下，下一刻，世界破碎了。