Science solves cases? No, I am an immortal cultivator!

Ohno Takami opened the door with her key and walked in first.

Others followed.

Huiyuan Ai pulled Beichuan Taki and whispered, "The female writer didn't catch up."

Kitagawa Taki pointed in the direction of the open-air bath and said, "She took a shortcut."

"You really knew it a long time ago."

"what do you know?"

Seeing that Kitagawa Taki was still pretending, Huihara Ai snorted and walked into the house with her hands behind her back.

Kitagawa Taki followed.

The others who were only focused on checking on the old man didn't notice that one person was missing.

Ohno Takami wanted to turn on the light, but found that the light could not be turned on at all.

"That door!"

Shancuncao held a flashlight and pointed at a chopped-up paper door in front of him, with knife marks all over it.

"Mr. Kitagawa, it's not really a Kamaitachi, is it?"

Shancuncao was trembling with fear. Although he spoke eloquently when talking about monsters, he was actually quite timid.

"Ah Cao, humans are much scarier than monsters!" Beichuan Taki patted Shancun Cao's shoulder and said in a condescending tone.

While Yamamura So was still thinking about Kitagawa Taki's words, Hattori Heiji had already rushed into the room.

The old man was stabbed in the chest by the sickle that everyone had seen in the warehouse before, and he lay straight on the ground.

"what--"

This was followed by a woman's scream.

It was not until then that Xiao Liulu arrived, panting, and looked very tired.

Seeing this, Beichuan Taki jokingly asked, "Miss Xiaoliu, where were you just now?"

"Just now I accidentally... fell."

Facing the mysterious Kitagawa Taki, Xiao Liulu's eyes were a little evasive.

"It's really easy to fall in heavy snow."

Kitagawa Taki said something casually, then pulled Yamamura Cao into the room.

"Look, no monster would use this thing to kill people." Kitagawa Taki said, pointing at the corpse on the ground.

"That's true." Shancuncao scratched his head awkwardly.

"Ahem." Yamamura Cao finally remembered that he was a policeman and began to maintain order. "Except for Osaka kid and Mr. Kitagawa, no one else is allowed to enter the room."

Hattori Heiji has already begun examining the body. "He's dead, no rigor mortis, less than thirty minutes after death."

Yamamura Cao swept his eyes over the people at the scene, then pulled Kitagawa Taki aside, covered his mouth with his hand and whispered, "Mr. Kitagawa, those three were with us! How could they be the murderer?"

Kitagawa Taki shook his head, "No, no, the murderer is among them."

"Ah? Could the murderer have teleported?" Yamamura Cao was stunned for a moment, then realized, "No, Mr. Kitagawa, you must know something, right?"

Before Kitagawa Taki could say anything, Hattori Heiji shouted, "Hey, Gunma Prefectural Police! What are you and Kitagawa whispering about? Why don't you have them cordon off the scene and start an investigation?"

Kitagawa Taki interrupted: "No need to investigate, the murderer is right here."

He hadn't exposed Koyanagi before, but was just curious about how she would use the Kamaitachi legend.

"What??"

Hattori Heiji was shocked. He had just examined the body, and Kitagawa Taki already knew the murderer?

Shancuncao had an expression that said, "As expected." Looking at the shock on the faces of the others, he felt quite pleased that he was the only one who saw the truth first.

Hei Yu Qianying was also very surprised. It was clear that Kitagawa Taki was just following the crowd before, so how could he suddenly change so much?

"Mr. Kitagawa, do you mean that the murderer is still in this house and hasn't escaped?"

Zhong Zhong Taiwu subconsciously excluded the murderer from the people at the scene.

"Uh..." Beichuan Taki was speechless and could only explain: "I mean, the murderer is among us."

"Beichuan, you are not kidding, right?"

Hattori Heiji still didn't want to believe it.

Toyama Kazuha helped, saying, "Heiji, how could Kitagawa joke about something like this?"

"That's right, Mr. Kitagawa, please tell us who the murderer is!" Hei Yu Qianying urged. She was a little impatient to hear what Kitagawa Taki would say.

Beichuan Taki looked at the pale Xiao Liulu and asked, "Miss Xiao Liu, are you going to confess on your own initiative? Or should I?"

Everyone else looked at Xiao Liulu in surprise and confusion. Beichuan Taki's meaning was very clear.

Xiao Liulu forced a smile, "Mr. Beichuan, how could I be the murderer?"

"Alright then, I'll take over," Kitagawa Taki said. "You just pretended to fall behind, but you actually went from the open-air bath to this detached house. After killing the old man, cut off the power to the detached house and reunite with us in the dark."

Shancuncao wondered, "Wasn't she with us just now?"

"We were all in a hurry to go to Li's house to check on the old man's condition and didn't notice this!" Hattori Heiji's face changed.

Kuroba Chikage said, "But isn't the open-air bath still full of water?"

Beichuan Taki looked at Ohno Takami and said, "Let's go. Madam boss, lead the way. We'll go take a look."

Everyone followed Ono Takami to the corridor.

A semicircle had been dug out of the snow in the open space between the veranda and the fence leading to the open-air bath.

Hattori Heiji understood immediately, "This was scraped out with a sickle to erase the footprints."

"This is not important." Kitagawa Taki took the lead and walked towards the fence.

The group then passed through the fence and returned to the open-air bath, which was still full of water.

Beichuan Taki looked at the puzzled crowd and said, "Try touching the water in the bathtub."

Yuanshan Heye was surprised and said, "It feels sticky."

"I see." Hattori Heiji suddenly realized, "If a strong force is applied to a non-Newtonian liquid at once, it will become solid."

After saying that, he quickly ran from the bathtub to the other side.

“It really can run people!”

Seeing this, Shancuncao also wanted to try it, but ended up falling into it.

Kitagawa Taki grabbed this funny guy and pulled him out.

Tai Wu in the middle was still puzzled: "How did they do that?"

Beichuan Taki glanced at Xiao Liulu and said, "I guess it should be kudzu powder."

Hearing the word "kudzu powder," Ohno Takami exclaimed, "A large amount of kudzu powder was lost from the warehouse a few days ago. I was wondering who would steal such a thing."

The truth was gradually revealed, but Xiao Liulu still refused to surrender, saying, "Have you forgotten that my face was scratched in the warehouse? Could it be that I scratched it myself?"

"You scratched it yourself." Beichuan Taki chuckled and said, "Miss Xiao Liu is very good at playing the trick of self-torture. You actually dared to do it to your own face."

Shancuncao asked again: "But what did she use to scratch it? How did she make the light bulb explode?"

Hattori Heiji explained: "The light bulb exploded probably because of the chewing gum. If an old light bulb gets stained with something, it will easily cause a temperature difference on the surface, which will cause it to explode."

Then, he looked at Kitagawa Taki, "But I still have no idea what it was made of."