7. Melting ice
"Mr. Police officer, from Shili's body, this is just an accident, right? After all, the place where he fell completely blocked the door, and there was a tennis racket under his butt. It should be that he had accidentally dropped the tennis racket, because of some accident, the vase next to him fell on his head."
Gao Lisheng and Officer Henggou have almost the same ideas.
"And the door of this room is locked."
"The spare key for the room has not been found yet, aren't you?"
Taoyuan Kotoo and Umejima Machi obviously don't want to be suspected of being the murderers.
Officer Henggou said while flipping through the small notebook left by the police officer on the table: "At present, a thorough investigation is still being conducted around the villa, and there is no progress."
"Although it's off topic, it's really ugly." Kogoro Mouri sat down.
Officer Henggou scratched his head awkwardly, "Because I can usually understand it."
On the other side, Conan's eyes lit up when he saw the detective who had finally taken the initiative to sit on the chair.
--When I am embarrassed to face Chen Xing, the detective's actions undoubtedly saved him a lot of trouble.
It seems that the "Sleeping Kogoro" will be on stage again! Conan thought so and quietly raised his anesthesia watch.
But as soon as I opened my sight, there was a handsome black face in front of me.
"What are you doing, Conan?" Amuro blinked in confusion.
Conan was so scared that his eyes glared, and his little heart almost jumped out.
"Hand, the cover of the watch seems to be broken, haha." Conan blew up, turned around and ran away.
At this time, Gao Lisheng said, "After that being said, we heard the collision sound downstairs. It shouldn't be the sound of a vase falling to the ground, right?"
"At that time, there were only the corpses following the children sleeping beside them." Mama Umeshima said.
"The vase should not fall off by itself," said Taoyuan Qinyin, the owner of the villa.
Ran Maori guessed: "That should be just the creaking sound of buildings."
"If it's a crunch, I can hear it when I'm eating cold noodles." Yuanzi said: "The sounds of the two are completely different."
"That..." Conan suddenly said: "Does the way to make Chinese cool noodles use ice?"
Ran Maori nodded, "Yes, we will use ice water to cool the cooked noodles down quickly."
Kogoro Mori knocked on the table with his eyes and said, "Hey, don't say anything irrelevant."
"Because the ice will melt?" Conan said with hinting.
"Isn't this a matter of course?" Kogoro Mouri didn't get it at all.
Conan had no choice but to continue, "Since that's the case, I want to say that if the vase was made of ice, as long as it melted, wouldn't the vase fall off by itself?"
"Idiot, that vase is made of copper!" Kogoro Mouri stood up from the chair by the ignorant brat, "Have you touched it before?"
"Please wait a moment." Next to it, the Henggou police officer pondered: "Will it be that a large amount of ice cubes were piled up on one side of the vase, and then placed the vase in the corner of the bookshelf where it almost fell. As long as the ice cubes melt on their own, the vase would lose balance and fall from the bookshelf!"
When Kogoro Maori heard this, he smiled and said, "But if you put a large amount of ice in something and then transport it in, no matter who it is, will you find it?"
"No, you can carry it even if you have empty hands." Amuro said lightly.
"What?" Kogoro Mouri was stunned.
"When making Chinese cold noodles," Chen Xing said.
Tori Amuro chuckled, "At that time, all three of them were still wearing tennis sportswear and not changing their clothes."
Generally speaking, in order to fit tennis balls in men, they will deliberately make the pockets of their pants particularly large. The same is true for women's tennis clothes, which are skirts with large pockets that can be put into tennis balls.
Therefore, when making Chinese cold noodles with ice, it is easy to get ice, and even if it is not held in your hand, there is a place to hide it.
Kogoro Mori hesitated: "But even if the vase really falls off the bookshelf itself, there is no way to transport the body next to the door, right? There is no trace of dragging on the floor."
"Ice cube." Chen Xing said.
"Eh?" Kogoro Mouri didn't react.
Seeing that his comprehension was so low, Tori Amuro couldn't help but remind: "The ice is very slippery."
Kogoro Mouri scratched his head. Is this "slim" the same as what he thinks?
"I understand!" Yuanzi said excitedly: "Think about it, isn't there a racket under the butt of the corpse? As long as there is ice cube under the racket, you can slide the racket to move the corpse? The distorted ball net line on the racket is evidence!"
"It's really worthy of being a garden!" Ran Mori looked at her with bright eyes.
"But, even if you said, there should be water marks on the floor, just like in a vase." Police Officer Henggou said: "And there should be traces of wet on the trousers of the body, but we didn't find these marks."
When Yuanzi heard this, she couldn't help but feel a little discouraged.
Chen Xing said: "What if it is ice that has nothing left after melting."
"By the way, dry ice!" Yuanzi slapped his palm and raised his back again because of Chen Xing's words.
Amuro looked at the two of them and thought to himself that he really didn't want to see the other party suffer a combination.
Ran Maori thoughtfully said: "That's right, because the dry ice is carbon dioxide, nothing will remain after it disappears."
"But how can dry ice be carried over simply? It's different from ice cubes and cannot be touched directly." Kogoro Mouri made a gesture of grabbing something.
"It's Mr. Ishiri." Amuro smiled faintly, "He brought it in by himself."
Kogoro Mouri felt that he was surprised a lot today. Why did Chenyu and Amuro, who were usually not revealed, suddenly competed like a competition, thinking and reasoning were so powerful?
"In order to eat it as lunch, he brought the whole box of ice cream cake to his own room, and the box was filled with dry ice."
Toru Amuro said: "I think the prisoner probably killed Mr. Ishiri with that copper vase, put several pieces of dry ice on the top of the racket, then used a string to pass through the frame of the racket, and finally placed the racket under the butt of the corpse.
After the prisoner leaves the room, just pull the string and pull the body next to the door. Of course, in order to successfully recycle the string, the rope does not need to be knotted."
Ran Maori suddenly said, "No wonder when I went to that room, my toes felt cold. That's because dry ice was placed next to the door."
"So, Miss Machi said the same thing just now." Officer Henggou looked at Kotoin and Takarisheng, "Do you all feel that your toes are cold?"
"Yes." Taoyuan Qinyin nodded quickly.
"I don't feel it. I thought that this child might just sleep in the room and leave immediately." Gao Lisheng said.
"So that's it. I finally know who the prisoner is." Unpredictable, someone spoke.
Everyone looked over subconsciously, Kogoro Mouri supported his chin with the back of his hand, and his expression was as confident as ever.
Conan was a little stunned. It would be fine if Chen Xing and Amuro Toru. One was a shock that was always unpredictable, and the other was a member of the Dark Organization. But what happened to this uncle today?
Chapter completed!