Chapter 1324 Suspicion gradually stripped away

[Sir, the team spotted a suspicious figure at 9 o'clock.]

At this time, Ye Xiaobai's reminder brought him back to his thoughts.

As soon as Ye Geng turned his head and looked over there, he saw a man wearing a down jacket and brown trousers, sitting on the snow as if he was looking down at something.

This is... Hikawa Shogo? Why did he appear here?

"Xiaobai, turn on the wide-angle viewing range, synchronize the picture to the retina, and focus on scanning the snow for items such as animal traps, and..."

Ye Geng turned his head and looked at the forest further away.

Hmm... This angle and height difference, calculated based on visual observation data, do not meet the conditions for sniping.

[Wide-angle view has been turned on. Sir, do you have any other instructions? 】

It’s nothing, let’s do this for now… I can just take this opportunity to test it out… Ye Gengyi quickly caught up with Tono Mizuki:

"Miss Tono, do you think that's your friend over there?"

He turned sideways and pointed in the direction of 9 o'clock.

"ah?"

Tono Mizuki took off his goggles, squinted his eyes slightly and looked over there. After a moment, he said, "That jacket should be from Hikawa..."

As she said that, she waved her hand and shouted over there, "Hey! Glacier!"

"I don't think I heard it." Ye Gengyi said.

The position where he is standing right now is exactly between Kogoro Mori and Mizuki Tono.

And Hikawa Shogo is on the left hand side of their entire team, at the 9 o'clock direction that only belongs to the three of them, and remains stationary. So for Maori Ran, Suzuki Sonoko and Dr. Agasa behind them, Hikawa Shogo's position

It will always be in the direction of 11 o'clock.

Therefore, even if everyone turned to look over there, Tono Mizuki, who was standing at the front and left, should be the first to go over and check the situation.

"Strange, what is he doing alone in a place like that?" Mouri Kogoro, who was half blocked by Ye Gengyi, looked at him with a puzzled look on his face.

"Well... you guys wait a minute, I'll go over and take a look."

Tono Mizuki said as he walked towards that direction.

Huh? Are you really not planning to let Mouri Kogoro explore the road first?

Ye Gengyi looked over there in silence.

According to his analysis, if there is really a trap in the snow, there is a high probability that it will target this well-known detective... Shooting and killing him directly will definitely attract the police to launch a focused investigation, but if it is just an 'accidental' capture of the beast,

If the calf is bitten, an incapacitated detective will no longer be a threat.

While thinking, Tono Mizuki had already walked to Hikawa Shogo's side.

"Zangyi, let's go over and take a look." Mouri Kogoro said.

"Um."

Ye Gengyi said softly, "Hmm", turned his head and said to Dr. A Li and Haihara Ai, "Watch the children, don't follow them."

The two of them followed Mizuki Tono's footsteps and left a row of obvious footprints on the same side.

"Ms. Mizuki, please step back first!"

Mouri Kogoro already had a bad premonition in his heart. He reminded Tono Mizuki not to destroy the scene, and then put his hand on Hikawa Shogo's shoulder, "Mr. Hikawa? What's wrong with you? Mr. Hikawa, please speak!"

Immediately afterwards, Hikawa Shogo's body shook, and he fell to the snow with a crash.

"ah!!!"

Tono Mizuki screamed in panic.

"No way..."

Mouri Kogoro squatted down and reached out to touch Hikawa Shogo's neck. He pondered for a moment and said, "It's hopeless. He's dead... It doesn't look like he had any external injuries. He froze to death? No, his clothes are intact."

, is that heart palsy? Uh, that..."

The tool man paused and looked at Ye Gengyi: "Gengyi, what do you think?"

Ye Gengyi looked at Tono Mizuki without comment and asked:

"Does Hikawa Shogo have a history of heart disease?"

Just like he had previously judged that Tono Mizuki would not tell lies that were too low-level and easily exposed to say that he was afraid of dark and narrow places.

If Hikawa Shogo had a heart disease, it would not be a secret in this village.

"By the way! His heart has indeed been bad since he was a child..." Tono Mizuki recalled: "In the past, when we were playing outside, Hikawa's mother often came out to look for him because of this matter."

"That's it... Anyway, let's call the police first."

Ye Gengyi looked at the snow piled in Hikawa Shango's hat. Judging from the traces around him, he could basically tell that these should have fallen inside when it snowed before. There was nothing on his head or shoulders...

Two possibilities.

First, although it is not clear why Hikawa Shogo came here alone, he was just unlucky and had a heart attack and died in the snow.

Secondly, his companion, let's assume it was Yamao Keisuke, called him here and used a stun gun or drugs, causing Hikawa Shogo to have a heart attack.

Taking advantage of the snow shower just now to cover up his footprints, he put on shoes with the same sole pattern as Hikawa Shogo's and walked backwards away from the scene.

"Something's wrong! His stun gun is missing."

Conan ran to the body, groped it up and down, and said sternly before he was beaten: "I met Mr. Glacier at the office before. He said that because he was an insurance investigator, he always held the

The stun gun is for self-defense! Now that the stun gun is missing, it must have been taken away by someone else!"

"Do you know what he did when he went to the office?" Ye Gengyi asked.

"Uh..." Conan thought for a while and said, "It seems that Mr. Yamao wanted to know where his home was sunk in the reservoir, so Mr. Hikawa went to the office with him to get a map of the old Kitanosawa Village.

"

Could it be that those jewels were hidden in his previous home? Ye Geng nodded without trace.

The conversation between the two directly caused Mori Kogoro to mutter dissatisfiedly:

"More one, why did you get caught up in this kid! This is just an ordinary accident, it's an accident! Look over there! There is only one kind of shoe print on the snow, and judging from the pattern on the sole, it is indeed this pair

What’s left of the shoes!”

He found everyone gathered together, first pointed at the footprints left on the road Hikawa Shogo left when he came, and then took out a map to draw a virtual route:

"Bingglai must have been walking alone from the village. He suddenly suffered a heart attack while passing by. Because no one else helped him with first aid, he died unfortunately like this."

"What about the stun gun?"

Conan stared at his tool man for half a month.

It's rare that Brother Geng seems to want to discuss the case with me. What trouble are you causing, this confused uncle!

"It must have been left in the hotel room and not brought over." Mouri Kogoro said.

"impossible!"

Conan was speechless.

As I just said, Hikawa Shogo personally admitted that he always holds a stun gun for self-defense!

How could such an insecure person choose to leave something like a stun gun in the room when he went out alone?

"If it is really a murder case, it should be some trick used by the murderer, right?"

Suzuki Sonoko suddenly had an idea, raised her leg and stepped hard on the snow to make a shoe print, "It's like this, covering the small footprints with the big footprints."

"I know! This is indeed a trick set by the murderer!"

Mouri Kogoro suddenly realized, "The murderer first killed Glacier from the lake, put on the same shoes as him, and then carried the person here and stole the other person's stun gun. When he went back, he only had to follow the footprints he came from.

Just go back backwards and that’s it!”

"Go backwards?"

"Is this possible?"

Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko questioned in unison.

"Of course! I'll show you!" Mouri Kogoro said as he was told, he took off his wide snowboards and took a few steps forward.

In fact, this inference is not impossible, but the premise is that the steps must be smaller...

Ye Gengyi asked himself if it could be done. Among the people he knew, Kaito, who could imitate in the air as if he were walking on the ground, could also do it.

As for Mouri Kogoro... I don't know what his physical coordination is like.

Ye Gengyi was rather curious, so he simply didn't have the skills needed to correct this reasoning, and quietly watched from the sidelines.

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