When Mouri Kogoro noticed that the people behind him had stopped, he also stopped and turned around and asked, "Conan, what are you dawdling about?"
Conan walked up to Tono Mizuki, held up a map and asked, "Ms. Mizuki, where is the place where Touma fell off the cliff?"
"He is outside the old village..." Tono Mizuki bent down and looked at the map, pointing to a location, "Probably here."
Conan looked down at the map.
He remembered that there were no cliffs near Lake Sawajiri. Sure enough, the place where Touma fell off the cliff was in the opposite direction to here. In other words, Touma was unlikely to come to see the swans.
"Have you not heard from Ms. Tachihara before?" Haihara Ai asked aloud, "That Touma got into trouble because he came to see the swans."
"No, Miss Tachihara went out that day. Touma woke up and said, 'Mom, I finally found you.' So I always thought he was planning to go down the mountain to find Miss Tachihara." Conan looked at Chi Feichi, "Brother Chi
That’s what you think too, right?”
Chi Feichi nodded and cooperated with the famous detective to find the answer.
"And the location where Touma fell off the cliff is on the other side of the old village, in the opposite direction from here." Conan looked down at the map and pointed to the bend not far below the cliff where he fell. "Ms. Mizuki, this is Mr. Yamao
Where you hit someone with your car, right?”
Tono Mizuki nodded and confirmed, "Yes, it's probably right there."
Conan looked down at the map and thought.
The place where Dongma fell off the cliff and the place where Yamao's car hit someone are very close. There is indeed a connection between the two. The time is similar and the location is also very close.
So, was it really an accident when Dongma fell off the cliff? Or...
Mouri Kogoro reached out and snatched the map from Conan's hand, "You kid, can you stop asking questions all the time? Don't waste time. We have to go back before dark!"
Conan was speechless and could only put down those things and complete this snow walking trip first.
In the second half of this journey, Mouri Kogoro finally got his wish and chatted with Tono Mizui... No, it was to exchange their hobbies and experiences.
"Ms. Mizuki, come to Tokyo next time. Just tell me where you want to go and I will be your guide!"
"Then let's go to the Sky Tree TV Tower."
"Ah? This, this..."
"Isn't Mr. Mori afraid of heights?"
"Yes, yes, I'm really ashamed. What about you, Miss Mizuki? Is there anything you're afraid of?"
"Me? I don't like dark and narrow places..." Tono Mizuki said, turning to ask Chi Feichi, who was taking care of the children, "Mr. Chi, what about you? Are you afraid of anything?"
"I don't like mental hospitals."
Chi Feichi said, adding in his mind, 'Especially Qingshan Fourth Hospital', his eyes caught the brown shadow on the snow in the distance and looked over.
"Mental hospital?" Tono Mizuki was a little surprised and confused, "Why? Ordinary people shouldn't go to that kind of place..."
"Um..." Koshimizu Nanatsuki followed Chi Feichi's line of sight and saw the brown shadow on the snow in the distance, and asked hesitantly, "Is it a human?"
"Huh?" Tono Mizuki quickly looked over and laughed quickly, "It looks like Hikawa's jacket! Hey! Hikawa! Are you here for a walk too?"
Over there, a figure sat on the snow with his back to a group of people, still motionless.
"Can't you hear me? What is he doing there?" Mizuki Tono waved his hands and shouted loudly, "Hikawa, what are you doing?"
"I gonna go see!"
Mouri Kogoro saw something was wrong and took off his goggles. He couldn't run even in the snow that was as deep as his calves. He could only speed up his pace and walked over step by step. When he got closer, he found that what was sitting on the snow was indeed a glacier.
Shogo, reached out and shook Hikawa Shogo's shoulder, "Mr. Hikawa! What's wrong with you? Are you..."
With the contact, Hikawa Shogo's body swayed, and he fell to the ground stiffly. His frozen face was pale and stiff, and half of his face was smashed into the snow.
Tono Mizuki, who walked closer, burst out in panic and screamed, "Ahhhhh--!"
Conan's short legs had a hard time walking in the snow. It was not late at night, so he crossed the water and reached Nantsuki in one step. He stood aside and watched Kogoro Mori check the condition of Hikawa Shogo.
"No, it's hopeless. There seems to be no external injuries..." Mouri Kogoro squatted next to Hikawa Shogo's body, frowning and murmuring, "Did he freeze to death? No, was it a heart attack?"
Chi Feichi stood aside and said nothing.
When people have been hypothermic for too long, they will have the illusion of "warmth". If they freeze to death, they will "undress" before death, and their clothes will not be so complete.
Judging from the state of the body, his teacher guessed that it was correct, it seemed like he had suffered a heart attack.
Tono Mizuki woke up from the shock and took a breath, "By the way, Hikawa has a heart disease..."
Maori Kogoro turned to look at Mao Lilan who was following him, "Anyway, Xiaolan, you call the police first!"
Koshimizu Nanatsuki didn't look at the body anymore, but looked at the row of footprints on the other side, "Mr. Mori, when you came here, there were no other footprints on the snow except that row of footprints, right?"
Mouri Kogoro looked at the row of footprints and confirmed, "That's right! I was the first to get here, and there was only that row of footprints at that time. In other words, Mr. Hikawa probably went out for a walk in the snow alone. As a result,
He had a heart attack and was not allowed to sit down to rest, but no one could give him first aid or let him take medicine. He just died in the snow..."
Probably because Mouri Kogoro's description was too miserable, Tono Mizuki looked at the corpse with red eyes, "Hikawa..."
Conan frowned and looked at Hikawa Shogo's shoes, then looked at the row of footprints.
Looking at the bottom of the shoe, the rough pattern does match the footprints on the snow, and the size is about the same.
Is it really an accident?
Chi Feichi sighed inwardly.
Conan didn't go to the village office on the first day he came, so he didn't meet Hikawa Shogo and Yamao Keisuke. He didn't find Hikawa Shogo carrying a stun gun. Now that he's found a body, he can't pass. The stun gun on him is missing.
', it was deduced that 'someone came with Bingfeng and took away the stun gun after killing people'...
Should he revise the plot now?
No, wait, it seems that even if he doesn't correct it, there are obvious clues on the corpse that can get the reasoning back on track, so he might as well say it to save time.
"Is it an accident?" Dr. Ali sighed, "It's rare for him to return to the village, but he didn't expect such a tragic accident to happen..."
"It's not an accident, it's a homicide." Chi Feichi said.
"Huh?"
Mouri Kogoro, Yuesui Nanatsuki, and the Conan detective team immediately looked up at Chi Feichi.
Dr. Agasa, the children and Mizuki Tono also looked at Chi Feichi in surprise.
Chi Feichi squatted next to Mouri Kogoro, looked down at the hood of the corpse's jacket, and reminded, "Teacher, his jacket and hood are covered with snow."
Wearing wool gloves on his hands, Mouri Kogoro reached out and gently pulled the hat, "Yes, the whole hat is full of snow..."
Conan and Koshimizu Nanatsuki frowned and thought.
They seem to have caught something... very inconsistent...
"It's so cold outdoors. No matter whether Mr. Glacier is walking or staying somewhere, he probably won't take off his hat," Chi Feichi said, looking at the corpse. "Look at his corpse. When he was alive, he didn't have any ears."
He encountered low temperatures that lasted for a period of time, and the hat should have been put down after his death, indicating that he did not come here alone."
Mouri Kogoro touched his chin, "Is it possible... that after his death, the hat was blown off by the wind or some animal, and it was filled with snow?"
"When we were at Lake Sawajiri, it started to snow. The snow in Mr. Glacier's hat showed no sign of melting. It should have fallen from the snow not long ago," Chi Feichi continued.
There was so much snow, which means that Mr. Glacier had already died here when it started to snow. Then, when the snow started to fall, his hat was blown off by the wind. This is not impossible, but..."
Mouri Kogoro also vaguely grasped the clue, but it was not clear, and he frowned and thought.
Conan already understood, pointing to the row of footprints and said, "Since the snowfall has covered his hat, it must be able to cover up the footprints on the snow, right? But that row of footprints is not covered by heavy snow. It's really amazing!"
Koshimizu Nanatsuki has already reached the row of footprints, kneeling on the snow, looking at the traces of the footprints on the snow, taking out his mobile phone to take pictures, "Not only are they not covered by heavy snow, this row of footprints, the anti-skid marks on the bottom shoes are very clear,
I should say it’s too clear, it doesn’t look like snow has fallen at all.”
Mouri Kogoro cleared his mind, looked at the row of footprints on the snow, and said solemnly, "Mr. Hikawa died before the snow fell, but that row of footprints was left after the snow stopped!"
Chi Feichi stood up, "If Mr. Glacier's body hadn't walked here by himself after the snow stopped..."
Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko huddled together.
If that's the case, that's too scary.
"That is, he and someone arrived here. After he died, it started to snow in the sky. The person did not leave in a hurry, but stood beside him, watching the heavy snow cover the two rows of footprints when they came, and waited.
The snow stopped," Chi Feichi walked backwards, step by step away from Maori Kogoro, "If he keeps walking backwards like this again, at the same time, the other party put on the same non-slip shoes as him in advance, and the footprints left behind were the same as those of his shoes.
The footprints left behind are consistent... Of course, the shoes may also be a coincidence, but that person did not save him when he had a heart attack, did not call for help, but waited until Xue stopped to forge the footprints, which makes it difficult not to doubt that person
He was full of malice towards Mr. Glacier, and even intended to kill someone."
Yes, the murderer left a big flaw, and it was a flaw that completely exposed the modus operandi of the crime.
Even if he didn't say anything, Conan would have discovered and deduced all of this sooner or later.
"Yes, but who would kill Mr. Hikawa..." Mouri Kogoro frowned, raised his head and asked Tono Mizuki, "Ms. Mizuki, is there anyone here who resents Mr. Hikawa to the point of wanting to kill him?"
What's the point?"
Tono Mizuki looked down at the footprints left by Chi Feichi who retreated. He was distracted for a long time. When he was asked by Mouri Kogoro, he came back to his senses, "Ah? People who hate Hikawa? I mean people who hate him.
Chapter completed!