Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

Chapter 178: Crime of light and shadow

Mumu did not easily treat it as a suicide case, and still interrogated everyone.

"We've said that he has been several times, but he still smokes here and deliberately provokes guests," the female employee Yuriko complained, "and he always sits in front of the last reflection window every time."

"Yes, the smoke coming up from the cigarette makes the picture appear ghostly..."

Gao Cheng looked back at the crowd in the cinema that was being questioned, and then recalled the time when the movie was showing.

After Zhang Tian came, the movie scenes were indeed weird. Not only did that guy smoke unscrupulously, he also drove away a couple watching the movie...

"Wait, I remember that time..."

Gao Cheng took a step back and looked at the projection window, feeling that something was wrong.

There are several projection windows, and another slightly higher one is an observation window. Now Zhang Tian's body is hung in front of the projection window on the far right.

If the murderer is the projectionist Mr. Furuhashi...

No, there is another problem that I can't figure out. At that time, the black shadow suddenly appeared on the screen. Whether it was Zhang Tian suicide and hanged him or someone else hanged him, the action should be obvious.

But at that time, the black shadow appeared and was hanging, just shaking back and forth, the process of hanging unexpectedly disappeared...

Gao Cheng frowned and lifted his chin.

The time since the last system case is not short, usually four or five common cases are separated. This time the case has to be solved, maybe it's just such a case.

"Police officer," a police officer reported, "According to the aunt at the ticket office, there were only these people in the movie theater at the time of the incident. Except for the city detective and these children, there were only these four people."

The police officer pointed to the owner and several staff members on the side.

It takes a lot of effort to hang Zhang Tian. On the surface, it seems that the female employee Yuriko and the elderly and frail owner of the museum, Mr. Muramatsu, are not the murderers. The sturdy projectionist, Furuhashi, is the most suspicious, and there is also a thin glasses girl brother.

Gao Cheng turned to his glasses brother.

He would not judge whether he was suspected from his physique.

Generally speaking, it is really difficult for women, old people, and thin and thin people to hang Zhang Tian. However, this is only a general situation. You can't ignore the case because of this. Look at the original director of the Mihua Museum of Art Ochiai. Now, not only can he move flexibly in armor, but he can also lift a fat man with one hand and stick a sword into the wall.

"I can't kill people," the glasses brother confidently handed a digital camera to Mumu, "I have sufficient alibi, that I have been taking pictures in my place when Zhang Tian was hanged. ."

"Is this?" Mumu looked at a photo of a dark shadow on the screen in surprise, "Is this the photo when the dark shadow appeared?"

"Yes, I happened to take it too."

"happen?"

Mumu asked suspiciously, "It's easy to take pictures after you hang him, right?"

"Look at the previous photos," the glasses brother pointed to the digital camera, "Those are all continuous images I took from the same angle, and there is no time to kill."

Mumu still had a headache: "But it's a coincidence, isn't it? Taking so many photos, it feels like intentionally..."

"I saw this movie in this place when I was a kid, and this time I have a special memory."

"Can you show it to me?" Gao Cheng took the digital camera to check without waiting for Mumu's approval.

There are a lot of photos, but it's a pity that they were all taken on the screen, and even the people in the front row, including him and Conan, were also taken in.

Looking at the photo at the time of the crime again, it felt a lot blurry compared to the previous ones. To be precise, the screen picture in the photo was blurry a lot, which was quite strange.

Will the prisoner be the glasses brother? The alibi in the murder case is not necessarily the murderer, and as Officer Megumi said, it’s a bit too coincidental...

There is also the boss of Muramatsu. In the photo, the old man was taken away from the auditorium, just before the incident.

He remembered that the owner of the cinema was always watching movies in the cinema, and seemed to cherish the last day of closing the cinema...

"Boss Muramatsu," Mumu looked serious and called out the photo of the boss leaving his seat without waiting for Gao Cheng's question. "This photo captured you, why did you leave halfway? Even if you go to the bathroom, you should go to the other side. ?"

"Uh, this," Mr. Muramatsu squinted close to the camera, remembering, "I wanted to check the condition of the air conditioner in the computer room at that time, because the wind seemed to be a bit bigger than usual and it suddenly became cold."

"Is that so?" Mumu suspiciously asked.

"It's true," Mitsuhiko explained, "I felt so cold at that time, so I went to the bathroom."

"Where is the air-conditioned room?"

"Walk at the end of the corridor outside."

"Well," Mumu looked outside, turned to the remaining Yuriko and Guqiao and asked, "What about you?"

"I was in the screening room with Yuriko at that time." Guqiao explained.

"I bought a bento and made tea back to Mr. Furuhashi, and then something happened." Yuriko nodded and followed.

"In short, it's impossible for everyone to commit a crime. It should be that guy who committed suicide?

"Go to the screening room first."

Mumu looked at Gao Cheng who was thinking, and did not easily draw a conclusion, and continued to lead the way to the screening room by the ancient bridge.

Gao Cheng was about to follow when he suddenly noticed a clear footprint on the back of the back seat, and a ash **** was dropped below it.

It seems that it was the position where the victim Zhang Tian was sitting before, but the seat was directly in front of the observation window instead of in front of the projection window.

This is strange. Shouldn't Zhang Tian sit under the projection window?

He remembered that Zhang Tian was indeed sitting under the projection window, otherwise smoking would not affect the movie screen...

Gao Cheng's puzzled eyes all turned to the projectionist Guqiao.

Regardless of the specific reasons, Guqiao is too suspicious when it comes to the projection window. Although it was in the projection room at the time of the incident, it was actually the closest to Zhang Tian because of the window, and it was possible to do anything.

Even if the murderer is not Guqiao, it must be related to him...

To get to the screening room, you have to go through the stairs next to the counter corridor. Gao Cheng followed into the messy lounge, and then into the screening room inside, where you could see two projectors.

Gao Cheng approached the projection window and the observation window, and knocked on the window glass but found nothing unusual.

"The windows here are completely sealed and cannot be opened~lightnovelpub.net~ Gu Qiao smiled when he saw Gao Cheng exploring, and explained to Mumu, "When the shadows appeared, I would Here, Yuriko helps me make tea in the lounge next door. This alibi proves sufficient, right? "

"What if Mr. Zhang Tian was killed long ago?" Gao Cheng suddenly said in the eyes of everyone's suspicion, "What if Mr. Zhang Tian had actually been hanging there before the black shadow appeared?"

"what?"

Guqiao was stunned, and laughed: "How can this be possible, if like you said, how could a dark shadow appear at that time?"

"It's very simple," Conan said after checking the projector for a while. "If the tape is divided into the first half and the back half, it should be able to do it? Put the first half on the other side of the projector and show it to the second half. Just change it over."

"That's right!" Mumu said in surprise, "In this way, the first half can be broadcast normally without being affected by the corpse. When the second half is switched, the corpse will suddenly appear..."

"Some movie theaters do use this kind of screening method," Guqiao interrupted Mumu with a smile, and looked at Conan. "However, brother, there will be traces of bonding on the tape. I rarely do this. If you do, just look at it. There is no trace of that kind on the belt."

"Yeah, little brother," Yuriko continued, "I came in to see when I bought the lunch, and the only thing that was running was the projector by the door."

"is it?"

Gao Cheng is noncommittal.

Even if Conan's method is wrong, it is certain that the prisoner moved his hands and feet during the screening.

As long as we figure out the technique, this case can almost be solved...

"Kyoto," Conan noticed Gao Cheng's look, and pushed him closer, whispering curiously, "Did you find anything?"

"Nothing."

"..."