The fear of vampires, a non-human species, prevented everyone from sleeping well, so they all gathered in the living room and remained silent.
Ran Mouri, who has always been afraid of monsters and demons, puts her hand on the wound on her neck from time to time. She is at an age when her imagination is very open, and she really can't control her fantasy.
After being attacked by a vampire, will I really... become a vampire?
She lowered her head in worry, terrified that she would turn into a blood-sucking monster.
Fujiwara Yu lowered his head and thought about the people who had an alibi at the time. Before the drinking party started, except for Ryuyama Moritaro, everyone had time to go out and commit the crime.
But after the drinking party started, the only one who had time to commit the crime was Ryuyama Moritaro. He did not participate in the second half, but chose to go back to his room alone to write his novel. That is why he was the last one to arrive at the bathhouse.
Is there no way to eliminate anyone as a suspect?
If we can't narrow the scope, we just have to start from the murderer's motive.
Fujiwara Yu was about to ask Nishin Ikuo something when Minato Aoko suddenly took out a notebook, looked at him with a professional expression, and asked:
"Officer Takashi, do you know whether blood is drained after a person dies or while they are still alive?"
"Hmm?" Fujiwara Yuu didn't expect her to ask this question. Remembering that she had previously mentioned that she was very interested in reasoning, he glanced at Conan and said with a slight smile, "The marks on the victim's neck are enough to prove that she was strangled to death. There would be no way such deep marks would have been left when she was alive, so she must have been drained of blood after death."
Minato Aoko showed an expression of sudden realization, and she murmured:
"Then it wasn't done by a vampire, because vampires only suck the blood of living people. So this is a murder case, and the murderer should be someone in Ruins Villa, right?"
"Yes, that's true."
Edogawa Conan looked surprised. He had never thought that this mystery enthusiast was actually quite capable. He took this opportunity to hold a glass of juice in front of Maoli Ran and said in a childish voice:
"Sister Xiaolan, you heard it too, right? It wasn't a vampire that committed the crime. The murderer was disguised as a vampire."
"Well, thank you Conan, I'm fine now."
Seeing that Mori Ran's emotions had stabilized, Fujiwara Yu wanted to take this opportunity to ask her some questions. After all, she was an eyewitness who witnessed the entire process of Asaka Umitani's murder.
In fact, he was also a little curious why the murderer didn't kill Mao Li Ran.
Because he knew the characters of Yamada Kimi and the Saijo brothers, they would not choose to leave anyone alive. So the murderer did not kill Mao Lilan, it was nothing more than what he needed her to do.
Wanting to find out the murderer's purpose, Fujiwara Yuu asked:
"Ms. Maori, do you remember where you were attacked by the murderer? And the specific time."
"Well...it's in the bathhouse's changing room. After dinner, it was around 8pm, so I went straight back to my room to get my clothes. So it shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to get to the bathhouse."
So the time of the attack was around 8:10 PM.
Fujiwara Yuu frowned slightly. There seemed to be quite a few people with alibis during that period, but it seemed a bit far-fetched to exclude them just in this way.
He thought for a moment and then asked:
"Then do you remember the scene when Ms. Haigu was murdered?"
Although it is cruel to let Mao Lilan recall bad memories, only by getting more clues can the murderer be prevented from continuing to commit horrific crimes.
Mao Lilan lowered her head, clenched her hands tightly, and said softly:
"After I was attacked by the murderer, I woke up at the scene of the distribution on the second floor. I remember clearly that the curtains were drawn, there was a bedspread on the bed, and the floor lamp was on. The light in the room was very dim, but I still saw the murderer strangled Ms. Haigu to death."
"Sister Xiaolan, are you sure the room you are in is Ms. Haigu's room?"
"Well, I'm sure, because that room has only one window and the arrangement of the items in the room is also the same." Mao Lilan nodded and confirmed.
Conan Edogawa's face became solemn. He looked up and exchanged glances with Sosuke Takagi. He was sure that he had also thought of the most difficult point when the murderer committed the crime, which was - how to transfer Xiaolan from the first floor to the second floor.
Fujiwara Yuu glanced at the stairs leading to the second floor, then looked at Hiragawa Toru and asked:
"Mr. Hiragawa, could you tell me how many stairs there are in this villa?"
"Stairs?" Hiragawa Toru pointed to the spiral staircase in the center of the lounge and said, "There's only one, connecting the first and second floors."
"How did the murderer move right under our noses?" asked Conan Edogawa.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present realized the impossibility of this.
You have to know that there were always people in the lounge during the time of the crime. It was impossible for the murderer to take the unconscious Ran Mouri and go up the stairs from the lounge to the second floor in broad daylight.
There is no such thing as an invisibility cloak.
"Ah! I get it!" Minato Aoko suddenly cried out excitedly, stating her reasoning: "If we use a freight elevator, we can complete this series of operations. Just keep Mr. Ryuyama's instructions about writing a manuscript and then going up to the second floor. After that, we just need to wait for the elevator to reach the second floor and then drag Xiaolan out!"
Ryuyama Moritaro didn't expect that he would become the object of suspicion. He quickly waved his hands and said:
"No! I didn't! I had no reason to kill Ms. Umitani or hurt Ms. Ran!"
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