Stay away from Conan

Chapter 221 Mao Lilan’s Loss

"The deceased's name is Natsukawa Rena, 28 years old, and the manager of this 'rice cake shop'. The cause of death seems to be a skull fracture caused by hitting her head on the corner of the table."

The police arrived at the scene quickly, led by Officer Megure. After breaking open the door of the baking room, Officer Takagi Wataru reported the inspection results of the forensic personnel to Officer Megure.

"Moreover, both doors of this room are locked from the inside, and both have bolts. The only window that is open, and because of the cake..."

"cake?"

Something strange, Officer Megure asked.

"To put it simply, this window opens inward, and there is a row of cakes placed on the inner windowsill. The height of the cakes is higher than the lower edge of the window."

Gao Yuan stepped forward and explained, "If someone leaves through the window, he will inevitably hit the cake when he opens the window. And if he leaves through the window first, he will not be able to place the cake on the windowsill with the window closed afterwards. In other words "It's impossible for anyone to get out through the window. This room is a completely secret room."

"kindness."

After listening to Gao Yuan's words, Officer Memu thought, "The scene is a secret room, and no one can leave from the scene. In other words, the deceased should have died from accidentally sliding in the house and hitting his head... This should be An accident occurred.”

As he said that, Officer Memu looked at Gao Yuan:

"In that case, brother Mingzhi, there is no need for you to take action this time."

"how come……"

Hearing what Officer Megure said, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko on the side found it difficult to accept this reality.

At this time, Gao Yuan did not pay attention to what Officer Memu said, but turned his attention to the row of cakes in front of the window.

I saw the row of cakes on the window sill. In addition to the more distinctive ones, the store's signature popcorn cake, there were also some ordinary cakes.

But what's more special is that these cakes are placed evenly on the windowsill: in front of the left window, there are ordinary cakes, while in front of the right window, there are popcorn cakes.

The so-called popcorn cake is placed between two layers of cake with popcorn as a filling, and some popcorn is also sprinkled on the top layer of the cake.

Looking at these popcorn cakes with plastic wrap underneath, and the unpopped raw corn visible in the popcorn, Gao Yuan smiled thoughtfully——

The secret room? I have figured out the secret room method! However, the question now is, how to prove that this is a murder with a murderer? After all, according to the conditions at the scene, there was no evidence that the deceased died of murder. It is completely reasonable to say that it was an accident.

Thinking of this, Gao Yuan stood up, looked around in the cake shop, walked out of the shop, looked for nearby surveillance cameras, then returned to the shop and explained to Officer Memu:

"Officer Megure, when was the deceased's time of death?"

Hearing this, Officer Megure glanced at Takagi Wataru, who immediately replied: "About... two hours ago."

"Then, Officer Memu, you can send someone to check the surveillance on the road outside the store to see who entered the store during the time when the deceased died. Miss Natsukawa's death may have been murdered."

Gao Yuan said.

"Huh? But this scene is a secret room..."

Officer Megure said unexpectedly.

"The mystery of the locked room is simple."

Gao Yuan said, "It's just an unlocked window."

Hearing this, Officer Megure walked to the window and asked with some confusion: "But, brother Akechi, you just said that because of the cake on the window sill, no one can leave the house!"

"Officer Megure."

Gao Yuan said, "The trick is on those pieces of popcorn cake. Because before the murderer left, the popcorn on them was still in the state of raw corn, so the height of these pieces of cakes in front of the window on the right was not higher than the window at that time. lower edge so the window can be opened."

"But, now, is this popcorn on top?"

Officer Megure asked in confusion, "Is it possible that after the murderer left the house, he could turn the raw corn in the house into popcorn?"

"It's just possible."

Gao Yuan said, "It is not impossible to heat corn outside the house through glass... It can be done with microwaves or lasers. Of course, I personally prefer microwaves."

"Micro...microwave?"

Hearing this, Officer Megure said unexpectedly.

"Could it be that it's a microwave?"

Mao Lilan said unexpectedly, "I remember that you can buy popcorn in the supermarket, which is specially used to make popcorn. You only need to heat it in the microwave for about three minutes to turn it into popcorn... But, how to do this? "

"The principle of heating food in a microwave oven is to use microwaves to vibrate the water molecules in the food, thereby causing the food and water to generate heat. Microwaves are a kind of electromagnetic wave, and it is very simple to penetrate glass. Therefore, as long as there is a specialized microwave transmitter , it is not difficult to heat corn through glass.”

Gao Yuan said, looking at Officer Memu:

"Of course, this is also my assumption. Just judging from the situation on site, the popcorn on these popcorn cakes is not completely popped, and you can also see a lot of raw corn on it. As a specialty of this store, Popcorn cake, if the quality is like this, I don't think this cake will become a popular product that requires a reservation to be purchased. Therefore, I have reason to believe that these cakes are the ones that others have reluctantly made above. The corn explosion... In short, there are flaws in the secret room's methods, which means that there is a possibility that an outsider may have committed the crime. "

"Yeah, that makes sense."

Officer Memu nodded, and then ordered the police officer beside him to call the roadside surveillance to find out whether anyone had entered the store during the time of the deceased's death.

Soon, according to Gao Yuan's ideas, the police locked in on a suspect, and with the secret room technique already cracked, the police quickly broke through the other party's psychological defenses and found the microwave transmitter he made. However, all this has already happened. Gao Yuan and the others have nothing to do with each other.

On the way home, Suzuki Sonoko had already said goodbye, while Mao Lilan followed Gao Yuan with a heavy heart to Mihua Town 2-chome, and stopped in front of the unlit door of Kudo's house.

"Na...Mr. Akechi."

Mao Lilan said with a heavy tone.

"What's wrong? Mori-san?"

Just as he was walking to the door of his house, Gao Yuan couldn't help but turned around and asked when he heard Mao Lilan say this.

"Shinichi hasn't gone to school for almost two weeks."

Mao Lilan said sadly, "Do you know where Shinichi went?"

"I don't know that."

Gao Yuan said.

"Really."

Lost, Mao Lilan looked at the villa called Kudo House in front of her, speechless and choked——

"Mr. Akechi, if one day Shinichi comes home or contacts you, you must tell me!"

After saying that, Mao Lilan left lonely.

Watching Mao Lilan leave, Gao Yuan couldn't help but sigh, walked to the door of Kudo's house, and after looking at the iron door for a while, he hurriedly ran to Dr. Ali's house next door - who is it? Has anyone been in there in the past few days?