Chapter 3053 3065 [Famous Actor Vermouth]
Jiang Xia: “The murderer used the string to go around the two pillars outside the door and connected both ends of the string to rubber bands to make a loop.
"Some time before the doorbell rang, Sugiyama's body was moved to the door. He was placed diagonally in front of the doorbell, with his neck hooked with a rope and his feet fixed with piled snow. As long as the angle of inclination is controlled well, he can stand steadily without a very strong rope.
"As time went by, the rubber band became more and more brittle due to the freezing, and eventually it would break at some point. This would cause the body to lose balance and fall forward onto the doorbell.
"The broken rope loop should have been blown away by the wind, but unfortunately, it got stuck on the side door."
Jiang Xia looked at the three teachers in front of him and said, "In order to make the body stiff enough, the murderer must give Mr. Sugiyama enough time to stiffen.
"That is to say, the murderer had called Mr. Sugiyama to this villa a few hours ago and strangled him. That's why when we came here, we saw some icicles under the eaves of this long-unoccupied villa. This is proof that the heating in this house was turned on not long ago."
The male teacher's face turned pale. "So this is actually a fresh haunted house, and the murderer is one of my colleagues? This is too scary. When I first came here, I was relaxing here, listening to music and taking a bath... Huh?"
Speaking of taking a shower, he suddenly remembered the strip search not long ago.
The male teacher's eyes suddenly lit up: "Let's not talk about the previous case - after Shimoda was strangled to death in the room, weren't the three of us searched? None of us had any ropes that could be used as weapons, which means we are innocent!"
Jiang Xia shook his head: "When Mr. Shimoda was murdered, Conan and I were chatting at the stairs. Later, I looked from various windows and there was no sign of the murderer jumping out of the window on the second floor to escape.
"That is to say, the murderer is indeed still on the second floor, and it is one of you three."
Teacher Nakamura couldn't understand: "But why did the murderer do it when he knew you were downstairs? Isn't he afraid of exposing himself? - This doesn't make sense at all!"
Jiang Xia: "Conan and I stopped at the stairs and didn't leave. It was just an accident. In fact, according to the original plan of the murderer, he intended to strangle Mr. Shimoda to death, and then use the fact that there was no murder weapon on the second floor to pretend that the murderer fled outside the house with the murder weapon.
"But unfortunately, because the two of us blocked the escape route, the murderer's plan failed, and it was revealed that he was hiding among the three of you."
"As for the murder weapon..." Jiang Xia turned around and looked at the quiet Teacher Mihara, "It has actually been placed in front of us all along, but it's hard for anyone to find it."
Several people followed his gaze and their eyes also fell on Teacher Yonehara: "You mean..."
"The murder weapon was Ms. Yonehara's hair. Or rather, it was the wig she was wearing," Jiang Xia said. "As long as the wig was braided, it could replace the hemp rope and be used to strangle Ms. Shimoda."
"The fiber-woven rope is very similar in shape to the hemp rope. In addition, after the attack, Dr. Shinde left a testimony saying 'someone strangled me with a rope'. There were also rope marks on the neck of the first corpse...
"With all these preparations, others will subconsciously think that the murderer used the same weapon and strangled the last victim with a hemp rope."
"Doctor Shinchu" touched his neck: "..."
Jiang Xia took out the photo of the body he had taken when he entered the room just now and said, "If you look closely, you can see that there are a few very thin strands of hair that have fallen near Mr. Shimoda's body.
"This kind of 'hair' has no scales, so it's obviously not naturally grown, but artificially produced. The only person here who has hair of this color and length is Mr. Yonehara."
"But..." Nakamura kept thinking of something and retorted anxiously, "But didn't your school doctor say before that after he entered the room, he saw Teacher Yonehara lying on the bed, and then he was attacked from behind - if that's the case, how could the murderer be Teacher Yonehara? She doesn't know the art of clones!"
Jiang Xia looked at the "new doctor" and asked gently, "Do you remember the details of your attack?"
Belmode looked at him silently: "..." Should I remember or not?
After hesitating for a moment, she simply told the truth from Dr. Shinde’s perspective: “I heard someone fall in the next room, and I was worried that something had happened to Mr. Yonehara, so I rushed over to check.
"After I opened the door, the room was dark because the lights were off. With the help of the light from the corridor, I saw Teacher Yonehara lying beside the bed..."
Jiang Xia suddenly interrupted: "Did you see her face clearly?"
"New Doctor": "No."
Jiang Xia nodded, and like an old Chinese doctor who had just listened to a patient's description of his symptoms, he gave his verdict: "The 'Mr. Yonehara' you saw lying on the ground was actually Mr. Sugiyama who had already died."
“This morning, Mr. Yonehara brought Mr. Sugiyama to this villa alone under the pretext of a training camp and strangled him to death.
"She then moved the body into her room, dressed it in her own clothes, hid it under the bed, and returned to the ski resort to play with everyone as if nothing had happened.
“After everyone finished skiing and arrived at the villa, Mr. Yonehara went back to the guest room alone, using the excuse of making the bed.
"She made footprints leading from the window to the door beforehand, then dragged the body out from under the bed and put her own wig on it.
“After doing all this, she turned off the light in the room and deliberately made some noise to attract Dr. Xinchu who was making the bed next door.
"After strangling Dr. Shindo unconscious, Mr. Yonehara took back the wig, dressed himself up again, and hid the body back under the bed.
"She then banged her head several times and fell back on the bed - this would not only pave the way for the next murder, but also allow her to disguise herself as a victim and successfully clear herself of suspicion."
At this point, Jiang Xia looked at Teacher Yonehara and said, "Dr. Arata and I are both men, and Xiaolan has learned karate, so you deliberately picked Suzuki Sonoko, who is easier to control, and wanted her to act as the eyewitness to the attack with you.
"But unfortunately, Dr. Shinde volunteered to make the bed. If you force someone to change the candidate, it would only look suspicious, so you had no choice but to agree and take the risk of making Dr. Shinde the target of the attack."
When Vermouth heard the words "voluntarily", the corners of her eyes twitched slightly and she almost couldn't maintain her expression.
——She was worried that someone might bump into her luggage while making the bed and discover the disguise props inside, so she volunteered to make the bed.
But who could have thought that the guy next door was even more daring and actually hid a body in the house. If she had known this would happen, she would not have done this...
(End of this chapter)
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