Stay away from Conan

Chapter 638 Illegal Drugs

"If we hadn't known that the song "Moonlight" played at the scene of Ken Nishimoto's death was actually prepared by Dr. Asai, judging from the final situation, for people who don't know the inside story, this is someone using the 'curse of the piano' to kill people. ”

Seriously, Gao Yuan explained, and Conan naturally quickly understood what Gao Yuan meant and continued:

"That is to say, except for us, the rest of the people who were in the community center at the time, after hearing the song "Moonlight" played at the scene of Mr. Nishimoto's death, they would naturally think that there must be a connection between the two. , so, at this time, once the song "Moonlight" is played, people on the island will naturally think that something must have happened..."

"That's right. Although I don't know who played the second movement of "Moonlight" on the radio station, it is obvious that the other party took advantage of the mentality of the people on the island and deliberately made people feel that when the piano of "Moonlight" played After that, something must have happened to create chaos——"

Saying this, Gao Yuan's expression was slightly angry:

"And, what's terrible... those of us who already know the truth about "Moonlight" played by the tape recorder for the first time were also deceived by the other party's scheme!"

"Someone is trying to lure us away from the community center!"

In this regard, Conan, who roughly understood Gao Yuan's meaning, couldn't help but said seriously.

"Yes, playing the second movement of "Moonlight" on the radio station is by no means a simple prank... The biggest possibility at the moment is this!"

Gao Yuan looked at the community activity center with the street lights still on in front of the door not far away. He couldn't help but quicken his pace and walked around to the back of the community activity center. On the sea side, he saw the piano room through the window. There is no light inside now——

Seeing this, Gao Yuan felt bad. He hurriedly passed through the open window and climbed into the piano room. Then he quickly walked to the door and turned on the light in the room to see if anything had happened here. .

However, when the lights in the room were turned on and looking at the old policeman who had laid out the bedding and was sleeping peacefully in this room that originally had only a piano, Gao Yuan couldn't help but feel... It's an illusion, and I feel like my previous thoughts were wrong.

At the same time, when Conan also climbed into the room through the window, he was stunned for a moment when he saw the very normal scene here, and then asked:

"Mr. Akechi, where is the opening of that piano?"

Although nothing seems to have happened in the current situation, certain possibilities cannot be ruled out.

"It should be under the piano."

Facing Conan's inquiry, Gao Yuan recalled the plot of the original work and responded like this.

So, the short Conan got under the piano and began to search for anything suspicious under the piano. At the same time, Gao Yuan also leaned down and looked for the so-called opening under the piano.

Then very quickly, Conan found an opening that could be opened from the bottom of the piano——

"Mr. Wise!"

Seeing that he had really discovered something, Conan couldn't help but said to Gao Yuan beside him.

Then, under Gao Yuan's attention, Conan reached out and pushed open the opening under the piano——

Then, somewhat unexpectedly, as the opening was opened, several bags of white powder heat-sealed in plastic films slipped out of the opening and fell to the ground.

Seeing this, as these bags of white powder appeared in front of the two of them, Gao Yuan and Conan were first stunned by such a discovery, and then they subconsciously thought about what these bags of white powder might be -

"Conan, contact Detective Mori and ask him to come here with Section Chief Jinguji. We have made a major discovery..."

Due to the presence of these bags, which probably totaled a few hundred grams of white powder, Gao Yuan, who was aware of the seriousness of the matter, knew that the current situation might be a bit beyond his expectations, so he thought it would be better to let professionals handle it.

In this regard, Conan also agreed with this approach and nodded seriously, so he took out his mobile phone and contacted Xiaolan...

…

About ten minutes passed. At this time, Kogoro and others, who had already placed the body of Hideo Kawashima, gathered in the piano room.

Among them, facing the bags of white powder found from the opening under the piano, Jinguji Reito had already put on gloves and carefully and seriously began to check what was inside.

At the same time, due to Jinguji Reito's request, everyone had to stand some distance away from Jinguji Reito's position, watching Jinguji Reito carefully open one of the bags of powder, and use Very carefully, after sniffing the smell coming out of it, he immediately closed the bag——

"It smells of acetic acid...it's most likely an illegal drug like diacetylmorphine..."

After carefully putting all the white powder in front of him into a small metal box and locking it, Reito Jinguji said with a serious and heavy expression:

"The specific test will have to wait until my colleagues come over tomorrow... But judging from the current situation, these packages are the same as those of the batch of illegal drugs seized from the Mihua Library before. I'm afraid we are close to the truth. …”

Saying this, Reito Jinguji paused for a moment, then added:

"By the way, I noticed that there are obvious traces of opening in it, which must have been taken by someone. It is possible that the overdose of illegal drugs that caused Ken Nishimoto's death was taken from here... Detective Akechi, what did you say about Nishimoto before? In the speculation that Jian himself overdosed on illegal drugs and died, the question of the container containing illegal drugs seems to have been answered..."

When they heard such details, Gao Yuan and Conan couldn't help but frown, feeling a little strange——

Was Ken Nishimoto's death really that simple? This answer is too easy to get.

"Of course, we still have to wait for an autopsy before we can draw a conclusion as to whether Ken Nishimoto's death was really due to an overdose of diacetylmorphine..."

In this regard, Reito Jinguji also added a rigorous sentence.

At this moment, I feel that as the details of the situation are improved and more clues emerge, the direction of things is really starting to move towards the conclusion that Ken Nishimoto died due to an overdose of illegal drugs. Gao Yuan still remains suspicious of this, but many problems can only be solved after the police arrive tomorrow, so Gao Yuan just nodded silently and said nothing more.

However, faced with this situation, Kogoro's judgment was completely different——

"Hey, if you think about it, that's really lucky!"

After a brief analysis of the details mentioned by Jinguji Reito, Kogoro couldn't help but say proudly.

"What?"

Hearing this, Jinguji Reito asked in surprise, saying that he still expected Kogoro to come to such a conclusion.

So, Kogoro cleared his throat, and with a slightly deeper emotion, he began to explain:

"The situation is now obvious. Mr. Nishimoto, as one of the parties involved in the smuggling of illegal drugs back then, it is natural that he would know that there are illegal drugs placed under the piano for trading. Therefore, he should be Today I discovered that illegal drugs for trading were placed in this hidden opening, so I started smoking here on my own, but I accidentally overdosed and died.

"At the same time, the person who placed these illegal drugs in the hidden opening of the piano should be Hideo Kawashima, one of the four people. Since Ken Nishimoto died on this piano, he was worried about the illegal drugs hidden in the piano. Kawashima Hideo, whose drugs might be discovered by the police, took advantage of tonight, before police support arrived, to find a way to steal these illegal drugs.

"However, he really underestimated my detective Mouri Kogoro. I discovered him when he was peeping outside the room looking for an opportunity to strike. So in order to prevent us from knowing his true identity, he was panicking. Then, he chose to jump into the sea to escape our pursuit. Unfortunately, he died in the sea and was eventually pushed to the shore by the sea currents..."

The more he spoke, the more proud he became. Kogoro recounted his thoughts, connecting the cause and effect of the deaths of Ken Nishimoto and Hideo Kawashima. At the end, Kogoro paused deliberately before concluding. road:

"In short, what happened this time was two accidents - two prisoners related to the smuggling of illegal drugs. Because these illegal drugs hidden in the hidden openings of the piano eventually led to their deaths. It is really a retribution!"

Regarding this inference, Jinguji Reito nodded as it made sense, but at the same time, there was something unexplainable about this statement——

"Indeed, if you think about it this way, it can indeed explain the death of the two of them. But, what about the "Moonlight" played on the radio station? If it weren't for "Moonlight" playing at that time, we would also He would not have rushed to the radio station at that time and discovered Hideo Kawashima’s body. In this way, if Hideo Kawashima’s death was just an accident, it would still be a little unjustifiable..."

Jinguji Reito asked.

"I told you, it was a prank!"

Kogoro couldn't help but reply:

"I think someone probably came up with this prank today after hearing "Moonlight" played at the scene of Mr. Nishimoto's death, hoping to scare the villagers on the island..."

"dad……"

However, when Xiaolan heard Kogoro's statement, she felt it was very outrageous and couldn't help but interrupt:

"Would anyone really do such a thing? A murder just happened!"

"Oh, there are always some people who are smart enough to do such eccentric pranks!"

Kogoro defended casually.

Xiaolan still felt a little unacceptable for Kogoro who insisted on this statement, so she looked at Gao Yuan aside and asked tentatively:

"Mr. Akechi...what do you think?"

"kindness……"

Hearing Xiaolan ask this question to him, Gao Yuan couldn't help but ponder for a moment, and finally shook his head and said:

"Indeed... As far as the current situation is concerned, there is no way to completely prove the connection between the broadcast of "Moonlight" on the radio station and the two incidents. We can only guess that someone heard the sound of "Moonlight" at the scene of Ken Nishimoto's death. "Moonlight", he suddenly used the same method to attract attention... As for the reason behind doing this..."

Having said this, Gao Yuan couldn't help but fell silent——

According to the original idea, the second movement of "Moonlight" was played on the radio station in order to attract myself and others who were guarding the piano room at the community activity center at the time, so that they could enter the piano room more easily.

As for the purpose of this manipulation, judging from the current situation, no matter how you think about it, it should be related to the illegal drugs hidden in the piano.

However, after he and Conan returned, it seemed strange that there was still so much white powder suspected of being illegal drugs stored in the hidden opening of the piano.

Logically speaking, it is a very reasonable conjecture that the other party attracted him and others away in order to take away the illegal drugs that were originally stored inside. Moreover, in the original work, after the incident, someone was indeed thinking of ways to take away the illegal drugs that were stored there. The illegal drugs that were still hidden inside were taken away, and to do so, they even knocked unconscious Murasawa Monday who was trying to tune the piano——

It’s just that in the original work, the person who wanted to take away the illegal drugs should be Hirata Kazaki. and……

If I remember correctly, according to the plot in the original work, Conan discovered that Hirata Kazaki was carrying foreign coins with him, and then discovered that Hirata Kazaki was the figure who had been brooding about the piano, and thus concluded that Hirata Kazaki had always been Carrying out smuggling of illegal drugs from abroad.

Moreover, in the original work, through the mouth of the old police officer, Conan also learned that Hirata Kazuaki often met with Kawashima Hideo in the community activity center, so he judged that it was Hirata Kazuaki who had been having an affair with Kawashima Hideo over the years. Regarding the smuggling of illegal drugs, there is no mention of whether Nishimoto Ken and Kuroiwa Tatsuji were still smuggling illegal drugs after the death of Keiji Aso...

In this way, the current situation can only be said to be that these things are inseparable from illegal drugs. However, the more specific details of the illegal drug smuggling incidents on the island are not well understood, and there are still many doubts that are unclear.

Therefore, when the situation of the case he encountered has changed almost beyond recognition, perhaps, if he wants to unravel the truth behind it, he must clearly investigate and find out that illegal drug smuggling is still taking place on this island. Who else are the participants?

——"Ah! Yes, isn't there the current village chief Heiyan!"

At this time, when Gao Yuan stopped talking in the middle of speaking, Kogoro seemed to be awakened by these words, and then he made a fist with one hand and knocked it on the raised palm of the other hand, and said very firmly:

"It must be the second movement of "Moonlight" that the Black Rock Village Chief played at the radio station. He wanted to create chaos on the island so that he could attract us away from here and go to the island where the radio station is located. office, and then he can find a way to take away the illegal drugs hidden in the piano! He is afraid that when the police arrive tomorrow, they will discover the secret! "

"But, if that's the case, why weren't the illegal drugs taken away?"

Conan raised questions about this, but what he got was an iron fist from Kogoro that hit him on the head——

"You are so stupid! Isn't it obvious why he didn't take him away successfully? Because the old policeman was still here at that time!"