There were already quite a few people gathered outside the piano room, but they all stood at the door and didn't dare to go in. Conan rushed over and pushed the door open.

Under the dim light, a man was lying on the piano with his hands hanging on the ground. Water was dripping down his clothes, forming a pool of water. The terrifying sound of the piano echoed in the room.

——It’s Hideo Kawashima.

The system has consciously absorbed the life magnetic field.

Maori Kogoro walked up to him and felt his pulse: "He's dead. Ran, notify the police immediately."

He turned to Cheng Shi and said, "Doctor Asai, could you please come and perform the autopsy?"

Asai Narimi responded and walked forward.

Conan gritted his teeth, secretly hating himself for not cracking the code earlier. If he had let Chu Ming see the warning letter earlier, or if he had thought about it more carefully, this bloody incident would not have happened today...

"Damn it!" Conan clenched his fists.

Chu Ming squatted down and touched Conan's head: "Don't blame yourself, no one can predict such a thing, you have done a good job. Since it has happened, what we have to do is to find the murderer."

Conan nodded vigorously. He would definitely - definitely find the murderer!

"Ah - it's a curse! This is the curse of that piano!!!" Secretary Hirata pointed at the piano and shouted loudly, trembling.

Maori Kogoro snorted disdainfully and picked up a radio from the back: "What kind of curse is that? It's not the piano that makes the sound, it's just this radio."

He raised his hand and turned off the switch, and the whole room fell into silence.

"Based on what happened two years ago, this must have been a planned murder!" Kogoro Mori said in a deep voice.

"What nonsense are you talking about? It's incomprehensible. Who are you?!"

Maori Kogoro stood up, straightened his clothes, and cleared his throat: "I am the famous detective Maori Kogoro from Tokyo."

Then he raised his eyebrows and waited for others to exclaim: Is that the famous detective?

The result is:

"A space pilot?"

"no!"

"Oh, I know. It's the one that often appears in mystery novels, right?"

"That's Kogoro Akechi!"

……

After some discussion, the islanders focused their attention on Maori Kogoro again: "So who is this person?"

Kogoro Mouri shrank into a corner in melancholy.

Chu Ming bent down, looked at the water mark on the ground, touched a little with his hand and smelled it: it smelled like sea water.

Cheng Shi had also finished the autopsy. She stood up and said, "The time of death was 30 minutes to an hour ago. The cause of death should be suffocation. I think Mr. Kawashima must have drowned in the sea."

"Drowned?"

Cheng Shi shook his head: "Without an autopsy, I can't make a conclusion."

Conan turned around and said, "I think what Dr. Chengshi said is right. Look at the jacket on the beach, it should be Mr. Kawashima's! And from the door to the piano, there are traces of being dragged from the beach. There is also mud and sand on Mr. Kawashima's back. The doors and windows of this room have all been locked. The first few minutes of the tape should be blank..."

Chu Ming shook his head. This guy forgot his current identity when he encountered reasoning. You are just a child now... You are getting too proud, Conan.

Maori Kogoro was stunned: "When did this guy..."

Conan continued to talk: "I'm afraid that during the ritual, the criminal took Mr. Kawashima to the beach and drowned him, then moved the body into this room, locked the door, turned on the recorder, and walked out of the room to the corridor..."

Chu Ming secretly kicked him. Conan turned around and saw everyone's surprised eyes, and quickly added: "Really? Uncle."

Maori Kogoro stuttered twice and said, "Ah, yes, yes... yes, that's right."

Chu Ming looked at the two with interest. Maori Kogoro never interrupted Conan's reasoning during this process. Wasn't he surprised? A child actually had such rich reasoning knowledge... He took out a small notebook and wrote it down. Maori Kogoro's doubts +1.

After thinking for a while, Maori Kogoro added: "If the door of this room is locked, and we have been staying at the entrance just now, I judge that the criminal will return to the memorial site...which means the criminal is among you!"

Everyone was shocked and looked around, fearing that the criminal was right next to them.

"So did anyone notice when Mr. Kawashima left his seat during the ritual?"

Kuroiwa Tatsuji said, "I know that. He said he wanted to go to the bathroom."

"Then are there any other people who left their seats during the meal?"

“Who would pay attention to this kind of thing…”

"Has he ever offended anyone?"

"It's not that he's offended, but if he dies, the person who would be the happiest would probably be Mr. Shimizu, who was running for village chief with him!" Heiyan immediately started to criticize him.

Shimizu Masato was furious. He said, "You scheming old boy, I haven't said anything to you yet, but you've framed me first." So he also said, "What nonsense are you talking about... You are the same, aren't you, Kuroiwa Village Chief!"

The village chief's daughter added, "Yes, that's right. If someone hadn't secretly changed Mr. Kawashima's votes to their own, my father would have been elected long ago."

Seeing that several people were about to quarrel, Maori Kogoro hurried over to stop them: "Okay, okay, stop talking."

Conan stood aside, staring out the window: "But why did the criminal move the body to this room?"

"He probably wants to blame the murder case on the curse of the piano!" Chu Ming touched his chin, thoughtfully.

“When was this piano placed here?”

"This is the piano that Mr. Aso donated 15 years ago, and it has been here ever since. His name is engraved on the keyboard cover."

Chu Ming happened to be standing next to the piano, and upon hearing this he opened the lid of the piano.

——Under the lid was a piece of music score!

Chu Ming frowned and reached out to take out the music score. Maori Kogoro came over and took it: "Strange, I didn't see this thing when I looked at it during the day."

Just as everyone gathered around to watch curiously, Ken Nishimoto, who was standing nearby, suddenly started to have trembling hands, a look of fear on his face, and he screamed and ran out.

Chu Ming looked at his receding back, a hint of smile flashed across his eyes. Very good, the next victim will be scheduled soon.

"Who is that?" Kogoro Mouri was holding the music score. What was that thing that suddenly ran over?

Secretary Hirata said, "That's Mr. Nishimoto. He used to be quite powerful. He spent a lot of money on women, alcohol, and gambling. But after the death of the previous village chief two years ago, he seemed to be afraid of something and rarely went out..."

While everyone was exchanging clues, Xiaolan walked through the crowd breathlessly with an elderly policeman.

"The police... the police are here..."

"Lan, you're too slow!" Kogoro Mouri was a little dissatisfied.

Xiaolan felt a little aggrieved: "I can't do anything about it. He's not in the police station. I've been looking for him everywhere."

The policeman adjusted his hat and asked, "Why did you call me here in such a hurry?"

"Ah, it's Mr. Maori Kogoro."

"It's the famous——"

Kogoro Mori stared at him expectantly. As expected, there were people who had heard of his name.

"—space pilot?"

Chu Ming hid aside and couldn't help laughing.

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