Chapter 95: Red on a Full Moon Night

April 2, Tuesday, the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar.

Entrusted by Keiji Aso, Mori, Ran, Conan, and Yamazaki came to Moon Shadow Island early this morning, but after going to the island, the four of Mori knew that Keiji Aso had been dead for twelve years. So in order to find out the truth, the four Maori found the current village chief who was busy with the funeral ceremony of the former village chief at the public hall, but he said that he was busy with business and asked them to come back after the ceremony was over.

In this way, after dark, the four Maori chatted outside the public hall while admiring the full moon, while waiting for the end of the ceremony. However, suddenly, a piece of music sounded from inside the public hall, and it was exactly the appropriate moonlight song, that is, the moonlight song considered to be a curse by the people of Moon Shadow Island.

After hearing the music, the four Maori immediately surrounded the public hall in three ways.

The sound came from the room where the piano was placed. Conan went in and was shocked because there was nothing inside. No, the front cover of the grand piano was opened, and the back cover was also propped up. I ran over and saw that there was a tape recorder behind the piano, and the sound came from there. Just after he breathed a sigh of relief, Conan was about to speak to Yamazaki who had just entered the door, when 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 is placed. When I got near the back door, I found a person lying on the beach, so I ran over. When I went over to look at it, I was immediately taken aback. In a piece of sea water that should have been stained red with blood, a shirtless man was lying motionless on some clothes, which made the sea water just reach his chest. His chin, his eyes, his mouth were all covered with tape. So Maori immediately notified Yamazaki, then threw off 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 Maori's place by the sea more than ten meters away. As soon as Conan ran out of the room, Yamazaki passed him and rushed towards Maori first.

Mao Li, who got into the water, pressed the man's neck that was not underwater, and immediately shouted: "The man is still alive, go and call Miss Cheng Shi." Then he dragged him to the shore.

Yamazaki, who was still a few steps away, immediately shouted: "Conan, hurry up and invite Miss Chengshi."

"Okay." Conan, who was not far behind, immediately turned back and ran towards the public hall.

Yamazaki ran two more steps, then threw off his shoes, rushed into the water, and then helped Maori drag the man to the shore. Then Yamazaki held the man's shoulder with his left hand in front, so that Mouri could tear off the tape on his hands that was tied behind his back, and then tore off the tape on his mouth with his right hand.

After tearing off the tape from the man's hands, and letting Yamazaki who had just removed the tape from his eyes lay him flat, Mori stood up and said, "It seems that there is nothing wrong with it."

"It's not clear yet," Yamazaki said while taking two steps back, tearing off the tape that bound the man's feet, "he's still bleeding."

Looking at the blood on the man's chest and abdomen, recalling the wound he could still distinguish when he was dragged to the shore just now, Maori asked, "By the way, did you see his wound? Looks like a sheet of music?"

Yamazaki said: "I think it was carved by people."

"If I'm not wrong," Conan came over and said, "It's the score of Moonlight." Conan met Lan near the back door, and after telling Lan to call Miss Chengshi to call the police, he turned around and came back.

"Moonlight?" Maori asked, "By the way, have you seen any suspicious people?"

"I did not see it.

" Yamazaki replied.

Conan replied: "Sister Lan probably didn't see it either."

"Hey, Yamazaki." Seeing that the blood had started to flow to the ground, Maori asked, "Did you see where he was bleeding profusely? It didn't seem like there was so much blood just now."

"No." Yamazaki replied.

Conan asked back: "Could that be the reason for the deep wound?"

"I didn't pay attention to it." Maori replied.

Yamazaki replied, "Me neither."

"Hey, Uncle Maori, didn't the letter predict that on the night of the full moon, someone on this island would disappear. If he disappeared, he should be killed," Conan asked, "Can you tell me who was How is it?"

"Go," Molly said, "it's none of your business."

"I also want to know," Yamazaki said, "maybe we can find some clues."

"Okay." Maori then described what he saw just now.

"The sea water only reaches the chin?" Conan asked back.

"Maybe it's time for high tide..." Maori said.

Yamazaki asked, "Then why is music playing at this time?"

"Well," Maori said, "maybe he miscalculated the high tide."

At this time, Lan carried the medical kit and ran over with 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 is no other trauma, but there is something wrong with his blood. It should be because he was injected with some kind of anti-blood coagulation drug, so the wound is not deep, but the bleeding is not continuous. Take him to the clinic first. , he needs a blood transfusion." Then he stood up and said, "I'll send him to a big hospital right away, but fortunately he has a universal blood type, and the blood reserves on the island can fully support it."

"Well, Uncle Maori, you lift his shoulders, Conan, you go to the sea and get his clothes, there may be some clues on it." Yamazaki said, and then said to Lan, "Use the satellite phone in your bag , I taught it last night, remember."

"By the way, tell Miko to call the police," Maori said, "This is a homicide."

So, after putting on the shoes, Maoli lifted his shoulders, Yamazaki lifted his feet, and together they carried the man with his chest and abdomen covered in blood and his upper body bare, and walked towards the public hall step by step, and there was still a drop of blood on this man's body Drop by drop.

After a while, Conan came over to help support his waist, and then said: "His clothes were cut by a sharp object, and there is nothing else."

"It was cut with a sharp object?" Maori said, "It should be to save time."

As soon as the five Maori entered the public hall, there was a burst of exclamation. Seeing that the villagers were just standing in front of the door of the piano room, but no one came in, Mao Li said, "Come here, help me."

The man who chased them out yelled, "Curse, that's the curse of that piano."

Looking at the tape recorder in the piano next to him, Maori said, "It's not the piano that makes the sound, but that tape recorder."

Conan immediately took out the tape recorder from behind the piano. At this time, the ten-minute-long Moonlight song was still playing. In front of everyone, as soon as Conan pressed the off button on the tape recorder, the music stopped immediately. Seeing this, several brave villagers immediately came up to help.

Mr. Kawashima was handed over to those villagers, and they followed Ms. Chengshi to the clinic. Of course, Lan, who was holding a satellite phone as a locator, went with her.

After putting down Mr. Kawashima and straightening his clothes, Mao Li said loudly, "This is a murder case deliberately arranged based on the two previous incidents."

A villager in gray immediately asked, "Hey, hey, don't talk about nonsense, who are you?"

"Me?" Mori smiled, "I am a famous detective from Tokyo, Mori Kogoro."

Hearing the name, the villagers immediately started talking.

"It's the astronaut."

"No, he often appears in mystery novels, doesn't he?"

"That's called wisdom."

"So, who is this person?"...

Seeing Maori's shocked look, Yamazaki asked, "Does anyone know when Mr. Kawashima left the room?"

A fat middle-aged man said, "About twenty-five minutes ago."

Seeing that as soon as he spoke, the others stopped talking, and Yamazaki asked, "Excuse me..."

"I am the village head here, Tatsuji Kuroiwa." The middle-aged man introduced himself, and then introduced the people standing next to him, one of whom was his daughter, Reiko Kuroiwa. One is the guy who chased people away, his secretary, Kazuaki Hirata, and the one in gray just now, Reiko Kuroiwa's fiancé, Monday Murasawa.

At this time, Conan, who had already checked the room, said, "Judging from the fact that the door and windows are all locked, the first few minutes of the tape should be blank. I'm afraid the prisoner took Mr. Kawashima to the beach and then came back." Lock it, turn on the tape recorder, and walk out of the room into the corridor." Then he asked with a smile, "Isn't it, Uncle Molly?"

"Yes, that's right." Maori said, thinking at the same time, this guy robbed it again... and then continued, "If the door of this room is locked, because we didn't see anyone when we split up, so According to my judgment, the possibility of the prisoner returning to the ritual venue is quite high..."

"Wait a minute," Miss Lingzi said immediately, "You mean, the prisoner is among us."

"That's right, if he didn't go out just now," Maori said, and then asked, "Mr. Heiyan, can you be sure it's that time?"

"He was sitting next to me," Heiyan Village Chief said, "He said he was going to the bathroom."

Mao Li asked: "Has anyone seen anyone who followed him out of the seat, or who has not been in the seat, or who often leaves the seat."

"Hmph," Mr. Murasawa said, "how could anyone care about that kind of thing."

Maori asked again: "Then, if you ask Mr. Kawashima if he has ever offended someone?"

"It's not an offense," said Village Chief Heiyan. "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, you are the same yourself, Village Chief Heiyan."

"Yes, that's right." Miss Lingzi sarcastically said, "If someone hadn't designed and arranged Mr. Kawashima's votes into his own, then my father would have been elected."

"What?" Mr. Shimizu called immediately.

Seeing that Miss Lingzi still wanted to say more, Mr. Hirata immediately stepped forward and said, "Miss."

Seeing this, Mao Li 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 back directly."

As he walked towards the piano, Maori replied, "That's because he wanted to attribute this murder to the curse of the piano." Then he stood in front of the piano, turned around and asked, "By the way, when did this piano start here? of?"

Mr. Hirata said, "It was donated by Mr. Aso 15 years ago. It has been here ever since."

"Oh," Maori said, "it's that Mr. Aso."

"Yes," said Mr. Hirata, "his name is also engraved on the cover of the keys."

Upon hearing this, Mao Li immediately put down the cover of the key, which revealed a piece of paper. When Mao Li saw it, he said in surprise, "This, this is the music score." Then he picked it up and looked at it, and said, "It's strange, I remember that I didn't have this thing when I read it in the morning."

"Ah!" Hearing this, a man shouted in horror and ran out.

"Who is that person?" Maori asked, looking up.

"He is Mr. Nishimoto." Walking to Maori, Mr. Hirata said, "Speaking of which, he used to be quite rich and invested a lot of money in wine, women and gambling. But since two years ago, the former villager After he died, he seemed to be afraid of something, so he rarely went out."

"Oh," Molly said.

"By the way," Mr. Hirata said again, "the village head and he should be childhood playmates."

"Oh," Heiyan Village Chief laughed, "It seems to be like this."

At this time, an elderly policeman came in and asked, "What happened here? Who called me?"

Mr. Hirata introduced: "This is him, his name is Kogoro Mori."

Mr. Police immediately walked up to Mao Li, clapped his hands, and smiled happily: "Wow, you are the famous..."

"Yes." Molly replied immediately.

Pointing to Maori's nose, Mr. Policeman continued to laugh, "Mr. Astronaut."

"Please," Maori said helplessly, "You're wrong."

Yamazaki stepped forward and told him about the matter, and the policeman said, "In this case, let them register their names, and we can talk about the rest tomorrow."

At this time, a village elder came over, handed a list to Mao Li, and said, "This is the list of all those who came to participate in the ceremony tonight." Then he turned around and left, sighing, "Where is this?" People killed people, it is clearly Mr. Aso's soul that caused the trouble."

"Amitabha." The monk presiding over the ritual said, then turned and followed the village elder out of the room, and other villagers followed suit.

Seeing the dwindling number of villagers, Miss Lingzi, who was standing in the innermost place and still unable to leave, complained: "Really, that kind of piano that scares people, why don't you just set it on fire and burn it?"

Mr. Murasawa echoed: "It's true, maybe it would be better to let that kind of piano disappear."

Village Chief Heiyan said: "Okay, let's go too." Then he took Miss Lingzi, Mr. Murasawa and Mr. Hirata, followed the villagers, and walked out of this room. ...