Chapter 95: The red of the full moon night


   Tuesday, April 2, the fifteenth of the lunar calendar.
   Entrusted by Aso Keiji, Maori, Ran, Conan, and Yamazaki came to Moon Shadow Island early this morning, but after arriving on the island, the Maori knew that Keiji Aso had been dead for twelve years. So in order to find out the truth, the Maori four found the current village chief who was busy at the public hall for the death of the former village chief, but he said that he was busy and asked them to come again after the ritual was over.
  So, after dark, the four Maori were outside the public hall watching the full moon and chatting, while waiting for the end of the ceremony. However, suddenly, a piece of music sounded from the public hall, and it was the moonlight song for the occasion, that is, the moonlight song that was regarded as a curse by the people of Moon Shadow Island.
   After hearing the music, the four Maori immediately outflanked the public hall in three ways.
  The sound came from the room where the piano was placed. Conan went in and was immediately surprised because there was nothing inside. No, the front cover of the grand piano was opened and the back cover was raised. I ran over and saw that there was a tape recorder behind the piano, and the sound came from there. Just breathed a sigh of relief, Conan was about to speak to Yamazaki who had just entered the door, and Maori's voice came from outside, "Yamazaki, here."
   Maori ran along the artificial seawall by the sea, all the way to the back door, which is the side door of the room where the piano was placed. When I reached the back door, I found a person lying on the beach, so I ran over. When I saw it in the past, I was immediately shocked. In a piece of water that should have been stained red with blood, a man was lying motionless on some clothes, which made the water just reach his There are tapes on his chin, his eyes, and his mouth. So Mauri immediately notified Yamazaki, then dropped his shoes on the seawall and walked into the sea a few steps away.
   Hearing Maori's shout, Conan immediately opened the back door and ran to the beach ten meters away, where Maori was. As soon as Conan ran out of the room, Yamazaki passed by him and rushed to Maori first.
   After getting into the water, Maori pressed a button on the man's neck that was not underwater, and immediately shouted again: "I'm still alive, go and call Miss Shi." Then he dragged him to the shore.
   Yamazaki, who was only a few steps away, immediately shouted, "Conan, go and ask Ms. Chengshi."
   "Okay." Conan not far behind immediately ran back to the public hall.
   Yamazaki ran two more steps, then dropped his shoes, rushed into the water, and then helped Maori drag the man to the shore. Then Yamazaki supported the man's shoulder with his left hand in front, so that Maori could tear off the tape on his hands tied behind him, and then with his right hand tore off the tape from his mouth.
   tore off the tape from the man's hands, and asked Yamazaki, who had just torn off the tape on his eyes, to lay him down. Mori stood up and said, "It seems there is no problem."
   "It's not clear yet," Yamazaki said as he took two steps back, tearing off the tape that tied the man's feet, "He is still bleeding."
Looking at the blood in the man’s chest and abdomen, and recalling the wound that could be discerned when he was dragged to the shore just now, Maori asked, "By the way, did you see his wound? What happened to me? Looks like a sheet of music?"
   Yamazaki said, "I think it was engraved on it."
   "If I guessed correctly," Conan came over and said, "That's the music of the moonlight." Conan bumped into Lan near the back door and asked Lan to call Miss Chengshi to call the police by the way, then he returned and returned.
   "Moonlight?" Maori asked, "By the way, have you seen any suspicious people?"
   "I didn't see it." Yamazaki replied.
   Conan replied, "Sister Lan shouldn’t have seen it either."
   "Huh, Yamazaki," Maori asked seeing that the blood had begun to flow up to the ground, "Did you see where he was bleeding? It seems that there was not so much blood just now."
   "No," Yamazaki replied.
   Conan asked, "Could that be the cause of the deep wound?"
   "I didn't pay attention," Maori replied.
   Yamazaki replied, "Neither do I."
"Hey, Uncle Maori, it's not already announced in that letter. Someone will disappear on this island on a full moon night. If he disappears, he should be killed," Conan asked, "Can you tell me How is it?"
   "Go," said Maori, "it's nothing to you."
   "I want to know too," Yamazaki said. "Maybe I can find some clues."
   "Okay." Maori then described what he had just seen.
   "The sea only reaches the chin?" Conan asked rhetorically.
   "Maybe when the tide is high..." Maori said.
   Yamazaki asked, "Then why do you play music at this time?"
   "This," said Maori, "maybe he calculated the time of the high tide wrong."
   At this time, Lan was carrying the medical kit and followed Dr. Asai. When he saw the man, Dr. Asai exclaimed, "Mr. Kawashima." Then he squatted down to check his condition.
After a while, Dr. Asai said, "There was no other trauma, but his blood had a problem. It should have been injected with some kind of anti-blood clotting drug, so the wound was not deep, but the blood flow did not stop. Take him to the clinic first. , He needs a blood transfusion." Then he stood up and said, "I want to take him to a big hospital immediately. Fortunately, he is a universal blood type, and the blood reserves on the island can be fully supported.
"Well, Uncle Maori, you lift his shoulder, Conan, you go to the sea to get his clothes, there may be any clues on it." Yamazaki said, and then said to Lan, "Use the satellite phone in your bag , I taught last night, remember."
   "By the way, let Miko call the police," said Mori. "This is a murder."
So, put on the shoes, Maori raised his shoulders, Yamazaki raised his feet, and together he lifted this man with blood on his chest and abdomen, naked upper body, and walked to the public hall step by step, and the blood on this man was still dripping. Drop by drop.
   After a while, Conan came over to help support his waist, and then said: "His clothes were cut by a sharp weapon, nothing else."
   "Did the sharp weapon cut?" Maori said, "It should be to save time."
  As soon as the five Maori entered the public hall, there was a cry of exclamation. Seeing the villagers just standing in front of the piano room, no one came in, Maori said, "Come and join us."
   The man who drove them out shouted: "Curse, this is the curse of that piano."
   Looking at the recorder in the piano next to him, Maori said, "It is not the piano that makes the sound, but the recorder."
   Conan immediately took out the tape recorder from behind the piano. At this time, the moonlight song of ten minutes was still playing. In front of everyone, Conan pressed the shutdown button on the tape recorder, and the music stopped immediately. Seeing this, several bold villagers came up to help.
   Give Mr. Kawashima to the villagers and ask them to follow Ms. Chengshi to the clinic. Of course, Ran, who is holding the satellite phone as a locator, also went with him.
   Putting down Mr. Kawashima and adjusting his clothes, Maori said loudly, "This is a murder case deliberately arranged based on two previous incidents."
   A villager in gray clothes immediately asked: "Hey, hello, don't talk about messy things, who are you?"
   "Me?" Mori smiled, "I am a famous detective from Tokyo, Kogoro Mori."
   Hearing this name, the villagers immediately started talking.
   "It's the astronaut."
   "No, he often appears in mystery novels, right?"
   "That's called Mingzhi."
   "So, who is this person?"...
   Seeing Mauri's face being hit hard, Yamazaki asked, "Does anyone know when Mr. Kawashima left the room?"
   A fat middle-aged man said, "About twenty-five minutes ago."
   As soon as he spoke, the others stopped talking, and Yamazaki asked, "Excuse me..."
   "I'm the village head here, Kuroiwa Tatsuji." The middle-aged man introduced himself, and then introduced the few standing next to him. One is his daughter, Reiko Kuroiwa. One is the guy who drove the people, his secretary, Kazuaki Hirata, and the fiancé of Reiko Kuroiwa who was wearing gray clothes just now, Murazawa Monday.
At this time, Conan, who had already checked the room, said, "Judging from the fact that the doors and windows are all locked, the first few minutes of the tape should be blank. I'm afraid the prisoner will come back after taking Mr. Kawashima to the beach. Lock it, turn on the tape recorder, and walk out of the room to the corridor." Then he smiled and asked, "Is it right, Uncle Maori?"
"Yes, that's right." Maori said, and at the same time, he thought, this guy had robbed it again... and continued, "If the door of this room is locked, because we didn't see anyone when we split up just now, so In my judgment, the possibility of the prisoner returning to the ceremonial venue is quite high..."
   "Wait a minute," Miss Lingzi said immediately, "You mean, the prisoner is among us."
   "Yes, if he didn't go out just now," Maori said, and then asked, "Mr. Black Rock, can you be sure that it is that time?"
   "He is sitting next to me," said the mayor of Heiyan, "he said he was going to the toilet."
   Maori asked, "Will anyone see anyone who left the seat with him, or who has not been in the seat, or who often leaves the seat."
   "Huh," Mr. Murazawa said, "How could anyone care about that kind of thing."
   Mori asked again: "Then, if you ask Mr. Kawashima whether he has offended someone?"
   "It's not an offense," said Heiyan Village Chief. "However, the happiest person after Mr. Kawashima's death is Mr. Shimizu who is a candidate like him."
   "What did you say," Mr. Shimizu who was standing behind immediately retorted, "Then, it's the same for you, Chief Heiyan."
   "Yes, that's correct." Miss Lingzi said sarcastically, "If someone hadn't designed and arranged Mr. Kawashima's votes into his own votes, then my father would have been elected long ago."
   "What?" Mr. Shimizu called immediately.
   Seeing that Miss Lingzi wanted to say more, Mr. Hirata immediately stepped forward and persuaded, "Miss."
   Seeing this, Maori immediately walked among them and said loudly, "Okay, calm down."
   At this time, Conan asked: "But why does the prisoner have to play the moonlight song? He can go straight back."
While walking towards the piano, Maori replied: "That's because he wanted to blame the curse of the piano on this murder." Then he stood in front of the piano, turned around and asked, "By the way, when did this piano start to be here? of?"
   Mr. Hirata said: "That was something donated by Mr. Aso fifteen years ago. It has been here since."
   "Oh," said Mori, "it turns out to be Mr. Aso."
   "Yes," Mr. Hirata said, "His name is also engraved on the key cover."
   Maori immediately lowered the cover of the keyboard when he heard the words, which exposed a piece of paper. When Maori saw it, he was surprised and said, "This, this is a sheet of music." Then he picked it up and looked at it and said, "It's strange, I don't remember this thing when I watched it in the morning."
   "Ah!" Hearing this, a man screamed in horror and ran out.
   "Who is that person?" Maori raised his head and asked.
"He is Mr. Nishimoto." Walking to Mori, Mr. Hirata said, "Speaking of which, he used to be quite rich. He invested a lot of money in wine, women and gambling. But since two years ago, the former village After he died, he seemed to be afraid of something, and he seldom went out."
   "Oh." Maori said.
   "That's right," Mr. Hirata said again, "The village chief and him should be childhood playmates."
   "Oh," the head of Heiyan smiled, "it seems like this."
   At this time, an old policeman came in and asked, "What happened here? Who called me?"
   Mr. Hirata introduced: "This is this one. His name is Kogoro Mori."
   Mr. Police immediately walked in front of Maori, clapped his hands, and smiled happily: "Wow, you are the famous..."
   "Yes." Maori replied immediately.
   Pointing to Maori's nose, Mr. Police continued to smile and said, "Mr. Astronaut."
   "Please," Maori said helplessly, "You are wrong."
   Yamazaki went up to tell him the matter, and the policeman said: "If this is the case, let them register their names, and the rest will be discussed tomorrow."
At this time, a village elder came over and handed a roster to Maori, and said, "This is the roster of all those who came to attend the ceremony tonight." Then he turned and left, still sighing, "Where is this? It was a murder, obviously it was the soul of Mr. Aso."
   "Amitabha Buddha." The monk who presided over the ceremonies said that he turned and followed the village elder and left the room. The other villagers followed Lu and walked out.
   Looking at the declining number of villagers, Miss Lingzi, who was standing at the bottom and unable to leave, complained: "Really, that kind of piano that makes people scared, can't you just set the fire and burn it?"
  Mr. Murazawa echoed: "That's right, maybe it would be better to let the piano disappear."
   Heiyan village chief said: "Okay, let's go, too." As he said that, he brought Ms. Lingzi, Mr. Murazawa and Mr. Hetian, followed the villagers and walked out of this room. ...
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