Maori took a quick look at the man while greeting him - although the other person looked like a good person, he would not simply judge the other person's inner qualities based on his appearance. The competition for the position of village chief on Yueying Island is already so fierce that even outsiders like them can feel it. Now it is time for the village chief election, and someone might have murderous intentions... And what can be considered a coincidence and a key point is that the person who died two years ago was also the village chief. "See you later then." Asai Narimi smiled sweetly and entered the ceremony venue with Shimizu Masato. As outsiders, Mori and his party had to sit at the door and wait for the ceremony to end. Chapter 10: Moonlight Sonata Begins for the First Time Although it was just an ordinary day, somehow, the moon on Moon Shadow Island was exceptionally round tonight, and the few thin clouds in the sky could not block the light it borrowed from the sun. The full moon is something magical - if you see it when lovers are in love, you will only feel it is romantic and beautiful, as if God is helping you; but like now, on the Moon Shadow Island where a strange murder took place, coupled with the continuous chanting of monks and the knocking of wooden fish coming from the community center, Mao Li, who understood too many things, somehow associated it with a small town called Yanan, which is quite creepy. (But if you think about it carefully, the vicious incidents that happen every day in the simple and honest town of Yharnam are actually not much different from Tokyo after Shinichi has become smaller...) Thinking this, Maori leaned on the steps and glanced at Conan who seemed to be in deep thought. At this moment, a melodious piano music suddenly echoed, suppressing all the sounds in the ritual venue. “This song…?!”
"It's Moonlight, uncle!" Without bothering to tell Xiaolan anything, Maori and Conan, sensing something bad, rushed into the community center one after the other. Many people in the corridor were already looking towards the piano room where the sound came from. Maori pushed open the door with force, and a wet corpse suddenly appeared in front of everyone. As the beautiful music of the Moonlight Sonata continued, Kawashima, the candidate for village chief on the island, crouched in front of the piano, his head pressed against the piano, his arms hanging weakly on the ground, surrounded by water stains... already dead! Although he had almost made up his mind, Mao Li still stepped forward to feel Kawashima's breath, then checked his pulse. Finally, he shook his head and said in a deep voice: "It seems that there is no need for an ambulance. He is already dead..." Everyone immediately gasped: "How, how could this happen?" Mao Li still didn't know why this happened, but he knew that with his police experience and identity as a detective, he had to take over the scene: "Xiaolan! Go contact the police! Everyone else present, don't leave yet! Wait for the police to arrive!" "Okay, Dad!" Seeing his daughter Xiaolan leave, Mao Li looked at Asai Chengshi again: "Ms. Chengshi, can you help with the autopsy?" "Huh? Okay." Asai Narimi nodded, walked to the body and began to examine it. "It's a curse!" Hirata showed a panic expression as he did during the day, and he stepped back and shouted, "This is the curse of the piano!" "What kind of curse is this?" Maori glared at this disturbing guy with a bad temper, and then stood beside the body. The Moonlight Sonata that suddenly sounded just now was not some inexplicable supernatural phenomenon, but a tape recorder on the piano playing a tape. After putting on the medical gloves he carried with him, Mao Li pressed the stop button to stop the music, then turned his gaze to the corpse. The deceased Kawashima's eyes were wide open and his mouth was open as if he had seen something horrible. No one knew where his coat had gone, and his white shirt was wrinkled and covered with mud and sand. Judging from the water stains and drag marks on the ground, it seems that the murderer dragged him in through the back door of this room that faces the seaside... "In short, judging by the incident that happened here two years ago and the situation at the scene,"
Maori Kogoro swept his eyes over the people present, "This is a carefully planned murder! And the murderer is most likely among you!" "murdering case?" "The murderer is among us?" "Hey, hey, stop talking nonsense all the time," someone looked at Mao Li in dissatisfaction, "Who the hell are you?" "I?" Maori sneered and shrugged. Just as he was about to introduce himself, Conan on the side interrupted him: "Don't you know my uncle? He is a famous detective from Tokyo, Maori Kogoro!" "Detective Maori Kogoro?" "I seem to have heard of it, but I also seem not to have heard of it..." "Why did the famous detective come to our island?" …… Maori ignored the discussions of the crowd - sooner or later, he would make his name as the great swordsman (not)... famous detective resound throughout the world, even to heaven! Maori walked along the water mark to the back door leading to the beach. Outside the door was the undulating sea water under the moonlight. The deceased's coat was still floating on the sea. The murderer must have killed someone at the beach and moved the body to the piano room. The back door and windows here were all locked from the inside... The high probability he mentioned before can now be crossed out. The murderer is inside the venue, among these people! At this time, Asai Shigemi, who was temporarily assigned to work as a forensic doctor, had also finished examining the body and explained to everyone: "Based on the livor mortis and the degree of rigor mortis, the time of death should be 30 to 60 minutes... It seems that the cause of death is suffocation. Mr. Kawashima should have drowned in the sea, but an autopsy is necessary to determine the true cause of death." "Dr. Chengshi's examination results are consistent with my inference..." Mao Li nodded, and while telling everyone what he noticed at the scene, he walked to the tape recorder and said, "Also, in this tape of Moonlight, there is a blank section at the beginning that was intentionally left for several minutes. This shows that the murderer should have arranged everything properly, then pressed the switch of the tape recorder and calmly returned to the ritual site from the corridor... So, when Mr. Kawashima left in the middle of the ritual, did anyone see it?" "I know about this. He was sitting next to me at the time and I'm sure he said he was going to the toilet." The bald village chief Kuroiwa Tatsuji said truthfully. Mao Li asked again: "Well, do you remember who left the room during the ritual?" The village chief's son-in-law Murasawa Shuichi posed at a 45-degree angle looking up at the light bulb and chuckled, "Come on, who can remember all these things?" "Does anyone know who Mr. Kawashima offended during his lifetime, or who will benefit greatly from his death?" "Well, Mr. Kawashima is a very kind person, so he hasn't offended anyone. But if there's one person who can benefit the most, it's Mr. Shimizu, who is the candidate for village chief." Village chief Kuroiwa naturally distanced himself from the matter and did not mention that he and Kawashima had an argument during the ritual over the visit of detective Mori to the island. Hearing that the village chief Kuroiwa had thrown the pot on him, Mr. Shimizu immediately became very unhappy. He pointed at the other party excitedly and said, "What are you talking about? You are the same, Kuroiwa village chief!" The village chief's daughter, Kuroiwa Reiko, said sarcastically, "Yes, you are right. If someone hadn't arranged Mr. Kawashima's votes as his own, my father would have been confirmed as the next village chief..." "you……!" Chapter 11 Maori begins to encounter the truth As the saying goes, "there are many turtles in shallow waters, and big brothers are everywhere." Maori feels this way now - the small Moon Shadow Island, a mere village chief election, can actually cause so much trouble.
But no matter what, these people's words could not provide Maori with much useful information, so he turned his attention to the piano where Mr. Kawashima was lying. "Ok?" Maori carefully lowered the piano lid and took out a piece of paper tucked in the back. "Is this... a piano score?" Seeing the music score in Maori's hand, the faces of several people present changed instantly. A thin young man with shifty eyes ran out in fear, shouting as if he had seen a ghost. "Who is he?" Maori frowned subconsciously. "He is Mr. Nishimoto," Hirata, the village chief's secretary, introduced, "He used to be quite powerful, and he was always extravagant in his spending. But after the previous village chief died two years ago, he seemed to be frightened by something and hid at home all day long..." As he was talking, Hirata turned to the current village chief Kuroiwa and said, "By the way, the village chief and he should have been childhood playmates, right?" "Ah, that's right..." The village chief Heiyan had sweat on his head and his face did not look very good. "uncle," Conan thought about it and moved closer to Maori, whispering, "Do you think these people are strange? I felt something was wrong when I saw the body." "Um," Mao Li's eyes fell on the Kuroiwa village chief and his companions. "There must be something between them that we don't know..." …… There was only an old policeman in the police station on the island. When Xiaolan called him to the community center, it was already very late. The old policeman just recorded some information and let everyone in the venue go back. He planned to wait until the next day to conduct the investigation and questioning. "That's not murder, it's clearly Mr. Aso's spirit causing trouble!" The villagers left in twos and threes, still discussing the incident, and the monks kept chanting sutras, as if chanting sutras could help the "resentful souls" to be liberated. "Um, Mr. Maori," Asai Narimi and Mori were still in the piano room. Asai Narimi turned to Mori with a slightly tired look, "Can this murder case be solved quickly? I really don't want to do autopsies anymore..." Mao Li noticed that Cheng Shi had a slightly sad look on his face and sighed: "Although I know I should say something to comfort you, Miss Cheng Shi, but I'm afraid this case is not that simple. This is undoubtedly a serial murder case..." "Serial murders?!" Not only Cheng Shi was shocked, but even Xiaolan showed a horrified expression. Conan's pupils suddenly contracted, and then he realized something. "The commission letter I received, signed by Keiji Aso, said 'the shadow disappeared', which means it was shrouded in light. Wasn't there a song called 'Moonlight' playing at the murder scene?" Maori explained, "The Moonlight Sonata has three movements!" "That, doesn't that mean..." "That's just my inference,"
Mao Li said so, and then changed the subject, "By the way, Miss Cheng Shi, can you do me a favor?" "Eh? Mr. Maori, what do you say?" "Conan and I will stay in this piano room tonight to keep an eye out for the criminal," As Maori said this, he looked at Conan, who nodded at him, so he looked at Asai Narimi again, "So can you take Xiaolan to get some food for me and him?" "...Of course." "That would be troublesome." …… After Xiaolan and Asai Narumi left together, Maori and the old policeman moved the body to the ground and wrapped it in cloth. It was not that he felt it was creepy or that he suddenly had a brain attack and wanted to destroy the crime scene for no reason, but that he had a guess that he wanted to verify. Maori sat down at the piano and picked up the music score he found from the crack, and Conan came up to him. Although he had not used his piano knowledge for many years, Mao Li still recognized that this was a classic in piano music, namely the score of "Moonlight", but there was a part in the middle that didn't match. "uncle!" "Ah." Maori tried to play it on the piano, and it was indeed the tune of "Moonlight". However, when it came to the fourth paragraph, there was a completely out-of-tune sound, which immediately ruined the melody of the song. "Sure enough! This is not an ordinary sheet of music, it is a message left behind!" "But what exactly is the message..." Maori and Conan looked at the music score and fell into deep thought together. Just then, Xiaolan and Asai Narumi came back with midnight snacks, and along with them came an old policeman who brought bedding for Mori and Conan. Although this was the crime scene of a murder, no one was too concerned. Cheng Shi found a spot far away from the piano, spread out a tablecloth, and put sushi rice balls on it, then everyone sat around and ate together. "Doctor Chengji," Mao Li took a bite of the rice ball, "You were the one who performed the autopsy on the previous village chief two years ago, right? How did he die?" "It was me, the cause of death was a heart attack," Asai Narimi nodded and recalled, "But his face looked quite tense, as if he had seen something terrible..." "Isn't that the same as Mr. Kawashima this time?" Conan paused in his action of picking up the food. "Is there really a ghost haunting us?" Xiaolan thought of the villagers' previous discussions and became afraid again. "If it really is a ghost, then you can just use your karate to kill it." Maori could only roll his eyes at his daughter, who had great fighting skills but was extremely afraid of ghosts. "How is that possible, Dad!"
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