Chapter 137 Script Killing (VI)
One player was accidentally eliminated, but it didn't affect the others. They expressed their sympathy for Hattori Heiji in a friendly manner and then continued to search for evidence.
Only the sulking Hattori Heiji was left in the hall.
He definitely lost this competition. He was even muted, so how could he win?
Not long after, the radio sounded again: "Under the current emergency report. It is now 1:15 pm. Tourist Tou was found dead on the ridge of a field."
Everyone:?!
Another one died!
Hattori Heiji was shocked and secretly delighted: Great! Someone is here to keep me company!
When he saw Amuro Toru coming in, he asked in confusion, "Why weren't you brought in?" He was carried in by two men in black, but now the men in black were following Amuro Toru obediently, without any of the arrogance they had just shown.
No, why treat them differently?
Toru Amuro pulled out a chair and sat down, saying, "Maybe it's because I'm more cooperative." As soon as the man in black jumped out, he raised his hands and took the initiative to walk towards the hall.
The man in black handed the mask and the sign to Toru Amuro, watched him put on the mask, and then left the scene.
Another person died, and this time none of the remaining players returned to the lobby, instead continuing to search for evidence. They couldn't be resurrected anyway, so returning would be a waste of time.
Conan Edogawa senses something's amiss. Kodai explains that the case is based on a true story, and he initially thought it was just a gimmick, but unexpectedly, the series of incidents continues. One person is missing, two are dead, and then the entire village is burned down. This is clearly no ordinary case.
He thought about it and decided to call Dr. Agasa.
"Hey, Shinichi. Didn't you go play games with Xiaolan? Is there anything you want to talk to me about?" asked Dr. Agasa.
Conan Edogawa asked in a deep voice: "Doctor, I would like to ask you to help me investigate whether there have been cases where entire villages have been burned down."
"Hmm?" The sound of keyboard tapping and Dr. Agasa's voice echoed from the other end of the line. "A whole village burned down? This is a big case, the media will definitely report it, but I don't have any recollection of it."
"Please help me check, Doctor. The time span can be extended a little bit."
"Okay, I'll call you back when I find out."
After hanging up the phone, Edogawa Conan went to the scene of the death of Villager Hei and Tourist Toru. Dummies had been placed at both locations by the staff.
The two cases happened suddenly, leaving many clues at the scene. Edogawa Conan quickly deduced the murderers in both cases. However, after reaching the conclusion, he felt that the final annihilation of the village must be related to an unknown secret.
Before everyone was about to gather, Conan Edogawa finally received feedback from Dr. Agasa. After listening to the information the doctor had found, Conan Edogawa hung up the phone with a deep look in his eyes, and then found the last piece of the puzzle in time.
All the players returned to the lobby again, and Hattori Heiji and Amuro Toru, wearing masks, were particularly conspicuous.
Subaru Okiya looked at Toru Amuro's gloomy face and couldn't help but purse his lips. He coughed lightly to cover it up and asked, "If Toru is dead, then he can't report the clues he found?"
Xiao Dai nodded: "They are both muted now."
"This is a script-based killing game combined with Werewolf Killing." Suzuki Sonoko said with a smile, "Can't there even be a last will and testament?"
"No." Xiao Dai shook his head. "After all, our game is different from Werewolf. Besides, they don't know who the murderer is. Leaving a suicide note will only affect everyone's judgment. We still have to rely on the actual clues."
Everyone nodded. Hattori Heiji also raised his hand to show his agreement.
Toru Amuro turned his head and looked at him, keeping his arms crossed over his chest.
"Then let's begin the second round of discussion," Xiao Dai asked. "Does anyone want to start first?"
A few girls said they would come first. They didn't find much, and if they spoke too late, others might finish what they had.
Yuanshan Heye, never forgetting her original intention to target Villager Ping, found some more evidence from him. "I found a remittance slip from Villager Ping. It's from someone with the name 'wings,' and the amount is enormous." She pushed the clue to the middle of the table and showed it to the others. "Look, starting five years ago, Villager Ping has been receiving large sums of money every six months. The frequency has gradually increased since then, and this year, it's every two months, and the amounts are getting larger and larger."
Everyone frowned and looked at Hattori Heiji.
Seeing the mask on his face, Edogawa Conan raised his eyebrows and asked, "Tsk, he can't speak now, so does that mean he can't answer these questions?"
"Yes." Xiao Dai nodded.
Hattori Heiji showed a smug look.
"Ah? Then my search for him was in vain?" Yuanshan Heye frowned, looking a little depressed.
"No, your clue is very important." Mao Lilan showed the clue she found, "I found a list from the village chief."
A notebook with a brown paper cover, the first page says "People leaving the village".
Mao Lilan said, "Our village is very closed, but it's not that no one yearns for the outside world. Anyone who leaves registers with the village chief. Over the years, more than a dozen people have left the village." She flipped through the book and said, "Pay attention to the time these people registered... They were all two days before the villagers received the remittance."
Edogawa Conan propped up his upper body and lay on the table, reading the contents of the notebook: "Village A, male, 25 years old; Villager B, male, 23 years old; Villager C, female, 16 years old..."
"Those who left were all young people, the oldest no older than 28, and their reasons for leaving the village were all to find work elsewhere." Subaru Okiya crossed his fingers, resting his chin on his shoulder, and pondered, "Could it be that the villagers collaborated with the traffickers and bought them all off?"
Mao Lilan agreed: "I think so too. The time on the remittance slip is too coincidental. Even if it's not a human trafficker, these two things must be connected."
Everyone looked at Hattori Heiji. Although he couldn't speak, they could still interpret his expression. His acting was extremely poor, and this was his first time playing a villain. His eyes betrayed a guilty conscience. Facing the gazes, he silently shielded his face with a raised hand sign. The circle on the sign seemed to speak for him.
"No need to guess, he did buy his fellow villagers." Edogawa Conan confirmed.
"Then he deserved to be killed!" Yuanshan Heye said angrily, "Why don't we just not look for his murderer?"
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Xiao Dai immediately said, "Let's look for it."
"I already know who killed him." Edogawa Conan said this, successfully drawing everyone's attention to himself. He sat back in his chair (which had been padded to protect it from the table), raised his lips, and said confidently, "Village Ping was killed by a sharp weapon. He was stabbed through the heart from behind. Among us, only three people had such a weapon."
Yuanshan and Ye immediately responded, "It's three tourists! They all have guns and knives!"
"That's right." Edogawa Conan looked at her with appreciation and continued, "Moreover, Villager Ping also sold them false information. I think that on the day of the incident, the three tourists must have confirmed in some way that Villager Ping provided false information, so they killed him out of anger."
"Who is it then?" Toyama Kazuha turned to Suzuki Sonoko, who immediately shook her head and said, "It's not me! If I wanted to kill someone, I would definitely use a gun. And I haven't achieved my goal yet, so I definitely won't alert the enemy!"
"Village dweller Ping is a tall, young man, while Tourist Ling is a middle-aged woman, so she'll definitely take the easy route. So the murderer is somewhere between Tourist Toru and me," Okiya Subaru said, then immediately began to defend himself. "However, I share the same sentiment as Tourist Ling. My goal hasn't been achieved yet, and I can't let a momentary argument lead to further conflict."
Toru Amuro shot him a dagger-like look, as if saying, "Who are you calling petty?"
Subaru Okiya looked at him calmly. "Besides, the tourist Toru is indeed younger than me. It makes sense that young people are easily overwhelmed."
Everyone: "..." So this is how the case was solved? Thinking about the character setting, this was something they hadn't expected.
"Although I don't know what they really think, it was indeed the tourist Toru who killed the villager Ping." Conan Edogawa listed the evidence, "I went to the rooms of the three tourists again and found that only the tourist Toru's knife was missing. He should have wanted to find a place to hide the murder weapon after killing people, but unexpectedly, he was killed by another person on the way. The knife fell into the grass on the ridge of the field, but the person who killed him didn't see it." A model knife coated with fake blood was placed on the table.
Amuro Toru raised his hand and admitted that he was the one who killed Murapei.
"Case solved!" Yuanshan Heye cheered, then asked, "But who killed tourist Toru?"
"You'll have to ask the village chief about that." Subaru Okiya spread a handkerchief on the table. On the handkerchief was embroidered a feather that was exactly the same as the badges of the tourists and the silver coins of Mrs. Wei!
"Can the village chief explain to us? What's going on with this handkerchief?" Subaru Okiya asked with a smile.
Dong Yexi glanced at the handkerchief and said calmly: "I picked up this handkerchief."
"Picked it up? I'm afraid not." Okiya Subaru asked back, "If you found it, would you hide it in your pillow?"
Dong Yexi said confidently: "What I picked up is mine, I can put it wherever I want."
Okiya Subaru choked on him.
"But you." Dong Yexi threw the question back, "Why did you decide that I killed Tourist Tou after seeing this handkerchief? Does this handkerchief have anything to do with you?"
Everyone's attention shifted to Okiya Subaru.
Yes, why?
"They won't tell you. This badge represents their ambition." Edogawa Conan looked around, his eyes sweeping across everyone's face. He slowly said, "This feather should be the crest of a certain family."
Mao Lilan asked doubtfully: "But didn't the three of them say they didn't know each other?"
"They really don't know each other. Because they are not members of this family." Edogawa Conan explained, "This badge is just a medium, or an invitation. If they get this badge, they can participate in a certain family's activities, but they didn't go. Instead, they came to this remote village to find what they wanted."
"Since it's a family crest, then the village chief's wife, who has the crest silver coin, is from this family. This handkerchief is probably hers too. After the village chief found the handkerchief, he thought it was her personal belonging and kept it as a treasure."
"The old patriarch disagreed with villagers marrying outsiders. Logically, he should have been stubborn or even driven them all out. But why did he finally relent and pass the position of village chief to a disobedient person? I'm afraid it was because he discovered the identity of the village chief's wife. So what is the relationship between Baiyu Village and this family?
Conan Edogawa took out a photo and said, "I found this in the shrine next to the activity room." The photo showed a piece of wood with feathers printed on it.
A few people showed puzzled expressions, and Edogawa Conan continued: "This is the base of the tablet. Every tablet base in the ancestral hall has this mark printed on it."
"The relationship between Baiyu Village and that family is that of a main family and a branch family." Edogawa Conan said slowly, "Then there's a reasonable explanation for the old patriarch's sudden resignation. Madam Wei is from the main family, so she's not considered an outsider. Because of her special status, the old patriarch was even willing to pass the position of village chief to her husband."
"Not only that, the young people who left the village also went to the main family." Edogawa Conan pointed to the remittance slip, "Feathers are attached to wings. The one who remitted money to Villager Ping is the main family. Therefore, Ayong's disappearance was done by Villager Ping."
The people in the hall had different expressions. Edogawa Conan finally said, "Three tourists learned about the relationship between Baiyu Village and the main family and came to explore the area. They were discovered to be abnormal by the village chief Xi. After the tourist Toru killed the villager Ping, he was discovered by the old patriarch who always hated outsiders. In anger, the old patriarch also killed him."
The corners of his mouth curled up in a confident arc, "Am I right? Villagers, the acting chief?"
Hattori Heiji resigned himself to his fate and raised his hand in surrender, while Odai also smiled.
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