Chapter 2103 Chapter 2111 [Stolen the Scene]
Next to him, Jiang Xia was puzzled by the faint aura of "Mission accomplished!" emanating from Maya Hashimoto.
But soon, another puzzling thing appeared.
At noon, Shancuncao walked in refreshed and cleared his throat: "Ahem! It's like this, I have completely seen through this case!"
Hashimoto Maya: "?" Faster than Jiang Xia? Has Uzo's new enemy appeared?
He silently moved away from Shancuncao, worried that a series of competitions and tests would soon befall this ignorant police chief.
Curacao looked at Shancuncao, then at Jiang Xia: "..." What, are you planning to retreat behind the scenes this time?
"You can't judge a person by his appearance." Suzuki Sonoko was much more straightforward. She asked, "Do you really know? You're not just guessing?"
Shancuncao snorted, holding his head high and chest out: "What are you talking about! Of course I speak out because I have evidence! - I am sure that the murderer is among the group of people in the Xun family's old house!"
Suzuki Sonoko was silent for a moment: "Well, Jiang Xia seemed to have mentioned this matter when the 'Cursed Samurai' came to chop down the door on the first night."
"Oh, so that's it." Shancuncao's old face blushed.
He originally wanted to keep it a secret, but now he had to be frank and repeat himself: "In short, I already know all the methods of the criminal! - Follow me to the crime scene, and I will reveal the truth one by one."
The group of people followed him through the wall with doubt and came to the secret room where Akanuma's head was cut off.
"As we all know, the secret room cannot be a real secret room. The murderer must have found a way to escape from here."
Shancuncao walked towards the window with three iron bars: "The last time I came here, didn't the wise police officer discover that the middle bar could be removed?"
Tatsumi Ryunosuke was called over in the middle of the day and was very impatient: "So what? After taking it down, the gap in the window is also quite narrow, and there is a cliff outside this window, and at the bottom of the cliff is a river - even if the murderer gets out from here, there is only one way to die."
Shancun Cao shook his finger: "No, no, no, as long as a certain tool is used properly, the murderer can get away smoothly."
As he spoke, he put on gloves and took down the railing again.
Then he pulled out a crossbow from somewhere and raised it up for everyone to see: "The murderer used this to cross the river outside the window!"
Xun Menghuang came with her cat. A middle school girl who came to join in the fun saw the crossbow, touched the cat's head and asked, "When did you steal my father's crossbow?"
Shancuncao: "What's stealing? This is collecting evidence!"
He raised his hand and pointed outside the window, and saw a sturdy old tree standing right opposite the window.
"I found a deep arrow mark on the trunk of that big tree."
Shancun Cao began his performance: "So I, being smart, immediately thought that the murderer left here with the help of a crossbow!
“The day before the crime, the murderer sneaked into the house when the deceased was not in the room.
"He tied the humble fishing line into a loop, fastened it to the handle of his crossbow, and fired the arrow into the opposite tree trunk.
"Then he went to the other side, found the tree, untied the line from the crossbow, and tied it around the tree again. This made a loop with one end around the tree and the other around the bars of the window of the secret room.
"So that, after dark, the murderer could untie the fishing line, tie a strong hemp rope to one end of the fishing line, and pull the other end of the fishing line. The original fishing line loop, which was not strong enough but hidden enough, was replaced with a hemp rope loop strong enough to bear a human weight.
"This creates a makeshift rope bridge."
Tatsumi Ryunosuke walked to the bed, looked at it, and gestured again, and found that the gap between the window railings was only enough for him to stick his head out.
"So, the murderer is a woman or a child?" Tatsumi Ryunosuke laughed, and for the first time he felt that his big and strong body was useful. "Anyway, I can be ruled out - not to mention the two bars on the window, even if they were removed, I wouldn't be able to get through such a narrow gap."
Yamamura Tsao shook his head mysteriously: "As long as the body is small enough, a man can also complete this escape. Yes, I am talking about your servant - Senda Saruhiko."
Suzuki Sonoko was startled. The name sounded familiar to her. She quietly asked Jiang Xia, "Is this the person who took us into the village earlier?"
Jiang Xia nodded.
Conan also remembered it very clearly: "When Tatsumaru didn't show up yesterday, Mrs. Tatsumaru said that Tatsumaru went out with Senda Saruhiko. And Senda Saruhiko said that not long after they went out together, Tatsumaru sent him away and left alone. And then Tatsumaru..." and turned into a head in the hands of the "Cursed Samurai".
So, Senda Saruhiko was the last person to see Tatsumaru, and everything seemed to fit.
Meanwhile, Shancun Cao had apparently secretly researched a lot of information in order to impress everyone.
He cleared his throat, glanced at the cheat sheet, and continued, "According to the wise and powerful police investigation, Senda Saruhiko was dismissed from the Xun family for a period of time. During that time, he worked as a handyman in the folk art troupe and learned a lot of acrobatic skills.
"For someone with this kind of skills, it would be very easy for him to get out of a window or cross a river with a rope. So there is only one truth! The murderer who killed Tatsumaru, the 'cursed samurai', is the servant of your Tatsuma family - Senda Saruhiko!"
Yamamura Cao originally wanted to be like those brilliant detectives, suddenly pointing at Senda Saruhiko, and then having his subordinates capture the panicked murderer on the spot, and then seeing the murderer fall to his knees, covering his face and crying.
However, even though the script was written, the subordinates were slow to take action.
Shancuncao said dissatisfiedly: "What are you standing there for? Arrest him!"
The young police officer whispered, "But that Mr. Senda is not here at all."
Yamamura Cao: “???”
...How could anyone reject his perfect reasoning and not come here to listen?
No, that person must have known that I would expose him, so he ran away early.
He suddenly became anxious: "Why don't you keep an eye on him!"
The young police officer hesitated: "Just now we asked you who the murderer was, and you said that the secret must not be revealed, and he must be exposed in front of everyone, so..."
So they stared at the people present for a long time, especially the one with the strongest motive, Tatsumi Ryunosuke...but who knew that the murderer was an inconspicuous servant.
"What are you standing there for? Go chase him! He must have fled because he was afraid of the crime!" Shancuncao began to sweat profusely. If he really let him escape, he would be to blame. "The transportation here is not good. He can't run far. Catch him back immediately!"
(End of this chapter)
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