Chapter 189: The Sweat of the Class Reunion

On Saturday, July 27th, in the evening, Benkei Onsen Hotel.

In the bathroom on the first floor, Mouri was sticking his head under the faucet, flushing cold water, Yamazaki and Conan stood by and looked at and thought about what Maori just said. What Maori said just now means that he already knows who the murderer is, but there are still key points that he has not figured out and found no evidence.

After a while, Maori turned off the tap, wiped his face with his hands, straightened up, looked at Yamazaki in the mirror and asked, "What's your opinion?"

Yamazaki asked: "Uncle, you already have a goal, is it Uncle Nakamichi Kazushi?"

"That's right," Maori asked back, "You thought about it too, didn't you?" Then he said, "It seems that Yumi committed suicide, so, among my classmates, the Only a professional criminal policeman like him can arrange it." He punched the wall, and then said angrily, "How can there be such things as ghosts in this world, that is to say, at around five o'clock, Yumi She is still alive. She was shot dead by him at 6:30, covered by the sound of the fireworks display, and it was arranged as a perfect suicide scene." Then he said angrily, "Damn it, I am I can’t figure out what kind of trap he set up to change the time of Yumi’s death and create an alibi.”

"I know a little bit about this." Yamazaki said.

"Huh?" Maori immediately turned around and asked expectantly, "Then tell me, what is it?"

Yamazaki asked back: "I don't know what uncle knows about Musashibo Benkei?"

Benqing? Conan thought for a moment, and immediately laughed, that's why.

"Musashibo Benkei?" Maori asked after thinking for a while, "What does this have to do with him?"

Yamazaki said with a smile: "This Benkei hot spring hotel has a statue of Musashibo Benkei. He died with many arrows in his body."

Maori asked, "What's the problem?"

"Uncle Mori," Conan said with a smile, "on that statue of Benkei, Benkei was standing up. The hotel owner said that Benkei was different from other people, and he died standing up in the end."

"Standing? Ah, that's right." Mao Li said to himself, "I remember when I was in the police academy..." Then he laughed, "Very well, let's go and see if Mei Daizi brought anything good News." Then he strode away.

"That," Conan asked Yamazaki in a low voice, following behind Maori, "do you have evidence?"

"No." Yamazaki shook his head.

Conan said helplessly, "Sure enough."

Outside Room 201, seeing Mori and the others coming, Nakamichi and Kazushi smiled and said, "Moori and Yamazaki are here, Mei Daiko, you can talk now." Tell them where she found the Horikoshi Yumi underwear she was holding.

Handing the underwear wrapped in plastic sheet to Mao Li, Mei Daizi smiled and said, "I found this in a dry cleaning machine in the laundry room. I got the plastic sheet from the laundry room."

Conan walked up to Maori, and wanted to reach out to the underwear in Maori's hand, but Ran grabbed him immediately.

Lan reprimanded: "Conan, this is not something you should touch." Then he took Conan aside and took control.

Looking at the underwear inside the plastic sheet, Mao Li asked, "Mei Daizi, have you asked the waiter? Which bath did you take it from?"

"I have already asked all the staff in this hot spring hotel in the kitchen,

"Mei Daizi laughed, "They said that this hot spring hotel will send people to the specific baskets of each bathing pool at around 6:50 every night to collect notes with names or room numbers, and they need to send Go to dry cleaning clothes, then take them to dry cleaning. But today it's just us, and they've been helping in the kitchen all the time, so the work hasn't been done yet. "

Nakamichi Kazushi asked strangely: "Mei Daizi, did you just say that all the staff in this hot spring hotel have gone to the kitchen and are still busy?" Then he asked, "Aren't we the only ones here today? Are these people, is the kitchen so busy?"

"Ha," Yuanzi couldn't help laughing, "The staff here are very busy today, and they should be busy in the kitchen by now."

Yukio Ayajo said: "By the way, I only saw the boss there in the lobby just now."

"Yes." Noriko Ayajo asked curiously, "Why is this happening?"

"I placed a big order," Mei Daizi smiled, "They are all busy with this."

Zhongdao and Zhi asked, "What did you order?"

Mei Daizi smiled and said, "It's a live chicken." Then she counted her fingers and said, "There are a total of eight staff members in this hotel. They go to the back mountain to collect springs, then settle and filter them, and then boil water while slaughtering and cleaning them." After cleaning, add the washed mushrooms and wild vegetables and steam them in a pan. Considering the number of them and the number of stoves here," then thought for a while and smiled, "Well, I think it's around twelve o'clock, so it's time for supper. "

Nakamichi Kazushi couldn't help asking, "How many live chickens did you order?"

"There are nearly a hundred of them." Mei Daizi smiled, "Twenty of them for supper should be enough for so many of us."

"..." Shiroyuki and his wife, Omura Jun, Nakamichi and Kazushi were speechless together.

After opening the plastic sheet, Mao Li, who had been looking at the underwear for a long time and found nothing wrong, said, "Okay, Mei Daizi, let's talk about the supper later." Then he asked, "Do you have any other discoveries?" Handed the plastic sheet and the underwear inside to Noriko Ayajo, motioning for her to hold it directly in her hand and help take a look.

"I checked the work records of the laundry room, and there is no record about this set of underwear at all." Mei Daizi said, "That is to say, other people put them in privately, and they should want the staff to put them in easily." Cleaned up together, and this person should be the murderer."

"The murderer?" Taking out the underwear from the plastic cloth and looking carefully, Noriko Ayajo asked, "There doesn't seem to be any marks on it? Why did the murderer take it for dry cleaning?"

Yukio Ayajo pointed to the underwear and asked, "These underwear seem to be wet?" He wanted to reach out and touch them.

"Slap!" Noriko Ayajo slapped Yukio Ayajo's hand away, and said angrily, "This is not something you men should touch."

"By the way, that's it," Mei Daizi said, "They're wet." Then she smiled, "I think I forgot something, so it's this one. It's not my fault, it must be because I was just caught by Uncle Zhongdao If you interrupt, you will forget."

Zhongdao Hezhi twitched the corners of his mouth and said with a dry smile, "That's my fault."

"I can also see that they are wet," Mao Li said angrily, "it must be the reason why you took them out before washing them."

"No, Uncle Mao Li." Mei Daizi said, "In order to earn labor costs, the boss here has no staff to start the dry cleaning machine. When I took it out, this set of underwear was wet..."

"In other words, when this underwear is put in, it will be wet." Mouri said, then looked at Ayajo Noriko and asked, "Then, can you take a look, is it water or sweat? "

"Sweat, it's sweat," Mei Daizi said quickly, and then explained, "I turned on the dry cleaning machine, and when I took them out, I smelled sweat. There was only this set of clothes in there, so they must be coming out of it. "

Ayajo Noriko walked to the side, carried everyone on her underwear, sniffed it carefully, and said, "It does smell a lot of sweat."

"Sweat?" Maori rubbed his chin and thought for a while, then said to himself, "So that's how it is."

"Xiao Goro, what do you understand?" Jun Omura immediately asked, "Is there any clue about the murderer?"

Maori stared at Nakamichi and Kazushi and said, "Yes, and it's not just a clue. Now I finally understand what the murderer's trap is like." He then asked, "Is that so, Nakamichi and Kazushi?"

Nakamichi Kazushi said, "Kogoro, I don't quite understand what you're talking about."

"You should know better than I do," Mori said, and then snapped, "You murderer of Yumi."

"What!" Ayajo and his wife, Omura Jun, Lan and Yuanzi shouted in surprise.

"Kogoro, stop joking, what are you talking about? Are you still drunk?" Nakamichi Kazushi said with a smile, "We inferred the time of Yumi's death, and I was obviously playing billiards with you at that time. "

"So you have a perfect alibi," Maori said, "but the premise must be that Mei really died at three o'clock in the afternoon."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Nakamichi Kazushi said angrily, "You and I did the identification work after Yumi's death. At that time, Yumi's body did indeed start to stiffen even its toes. "

"That's why I think that it must have been about seven hours after Yumi's death." Maori said, "But there is an exception, that is, sudden death occurs during intense exercise. At this time, the body's muscles The protein in the body is easy to coagulate quickly, so the stiffness after death will be faster than under normal circumstances, which is the same as the reason why the first hero Musashibo Benkei died standing up. It has also been confirmed in medicine It is entirely possible to die standing up."

"But Yumi's own room at the scene of the crime," Nakamichi Kazushi asked, "Tell me, what sports can I ask Yumi to do there?"

"Yumi's underwear is wet with sweat, and there is a place in this hotel where Yumi can sweat a lot in her underwear, and that is the billiard court." Maori said, "You don't need Yumi to die standing up, just put Move the time of Yumi’s death forward a little bit, even an hour is enough, so as long as you play a game of billiards for more than ten minutes, you can achieve this goal, and it has been moved forward by more than seven hours, it should be because you played too much. It's intense, it's just a coincidence."...