Chapter 918: The Incident at the Hot Spring House

April 8th, Saturday, afternoon, outside room 209, Aoiya Onsen Hotel, Minakami Town, Tone County, Gunma Prefecture.

Boss Toda shouted for Detective Maori and knocked on the door, but after several times, no one answered the door. Officer Yamamura laughed and said, "Detective Maori? Mr Goro."

"What, what!" Boss Toda was stunned.

"Hmph," Mao Li said with a smug smile, "this fake guy must have known I was coming, so he didn't dare to see you. Now you use the spare key to open the door, and let me expose his true colors in person."

Boss Toda opened the door with a spare key, and after Mouri went in, he said loudly: "Okay, don't hide, come out, let me see who dared to take my name."

No one answered in the room, everyone looked around and found no one, the boss Yuan Tian shouted: "The suitcase is not there, he took the suitcase away, which means that the newspaper is weird, so I didn't exchange newspapers for money, and I'm not a murderer."

"Well," said the village police officer, "this has yet to be verified."

Yamazaki asked, "Boss Toda, where is your parking lot?"

Boss Toda said, "The parking lot? It's right next to it."

Conan immediately wanted to run out, but was caught by Yamazaki. Conan struggled to calm down and stopped struggling.

"Why are you asking this?" Mori asked Yamazaki.

While putting down Conan, Yamazaki said with a smile: "Uncle, the waiter who helped park the car, Masao Jimbo, hasn't come to return the key yet, so I'm afraid he ran away in the police car of the Yamamura police officer."

Maori asked, "You mean, he's a prisoner?"

"Whether he is the prisoner of this incident is hard to say, in short, he has a problem." Yamazaki said, "He should have recognized you, uncle, and then simply ran away."

"So the prisoner drove away in my car?" The mountain village police officer's face changed, "This is troublesome."

Mao Li said to the mountain village police officer: "Hurry up and call, and it will be no problem to recover."

"That's right." The mountain village police officer immediately took out his mobile phone.

"Officer, there is no signal near us." Boss Toda said, "There is a landline at the front desk."

After that, everyone went to the front desk to call, but the phone seemed to be broken, and there was no signal, and Yamazaki and Mei Daizi did not bring satellite phones, so they planned to drive to other places to call the police, but when they went to the parking lot to see, all the cars It was all broken, so I had to go to the police on foot, so I took my luggage and a flashlight, and under the leadership of Boss Toda, I rushed to the water hot spring village at night.

On the way, Mao Li said to Boss Toda: "Tell me what happened later, and let me see what happened."

"Yes, Mr. Mori." Boss Toda said, "When the long-haired man left, he asked me to give the letter to the person who came if he didn't come to pick up the things. As a result, one of them obviously put on makeup the next day. The man said he wanted to get the letter and the box, so I gave him the letter, and he tore it up angrily after reading the letter, and then asked me for the box, but I didn’t give it to him, so he left.”

The mountain village police officer asked, "Just left like this?"

Boss Toda said: "Yes, I was a little worried at the beginning, but he hasn't come again until now."

Yamazaki asked: "At that time, was Mr. Masao Jimbo present?"

Boss Toda said: "Yes, yes, he is definitely not that person."

Maori asked, "Are you so sure?"

Boss Toda said: "Because I was also curious about what was written in that letter, after that person left, I asked a few waiters nearby to pick up the broken letters that were thrown everywhere, and If you spell it out, Masao Jimbo is among those people."

The mountain village police officer asked, "What was written in that letter?"

Boss Toda said: "There is only one line of big characters on the letter.

May you be cursed and die. "

At the same time, there was the sound of birds singing in the nearby woods, and Lan and Yuanzi screamed.

"That's why I told you not to come." Maori said helplessly.

Mei Daizi smiled and said, "It's even more frightening to stay there, a hot spring hotel far away from the crowds, with no communication, a classic scene of a horror movie."

"Mei Daizi!" Lan and Yuanzi shouted angrily, and then the three of them started playing.

Yamazaki changed the subject, "By the way, Boss Toda, did anyone know when the long-haired man gave you the box?"

Boss Toda said, "That's not true."

Maori said: "That is to say, that's when Masao Jimbo knew you had a mysterious box."

Officer Yamamura asked Boss Toda, "So, what's in the box?"

Boss Yuan Tian said: "After experiencing this incident, I was also afraid that there might be something stolen in the box, so I asked someone to open it with a key, and it turned out that it was a newspaper, so I took the box stayed."

"A newspaper?" The mountain village police officer said in a gloomy tone, "Could it be that the man's long hair is still in it."

"Ah!" Lan and Yuanzi screamed again in fright, and then Yuanzi was so angry that he kicked the mountain village police officer's calf, "You deliberately scare us."

"Pain, pain..." the mountain village police officer yelled, and then said embarrassingly, "I didn't intend to scare you, it's like this in movies."

"No, there's no hair in it, it's just an ordinary sports newspaper." Boss Toda said, "I remember the front page is the news that Akaseimaru won the sumo match."

Officer Yamamura said, "Akasei Maru? He quit sumo four years ago due to injury."

At this moment, Mei Daizi pointed a flashlight into the woods and said, "Look, there seems to be something there."

Everyone shone their flashlights and found that it was a man in white hanging from a tree, so they ran over quickly.

Yamazaki took out the triangular blade and handed it to Mei Daizi. Mei Daizi threw the blade on the road and cut the rope, causing the man to fall to the ground, while the blade was nailed to a tree in the distance.

Boss Toda approached the man and took a look, and immediately called out, "It's Maori Detective."

"I'm here." Maori said angrily.

"Ah, I mean, this is the counterfeit one." Boss Yuan Tian said with an embarrassed dry smile.

After Maori stepped forward to check, he shook his head and said, "He's dead."

"Another suicide." The mountain village police officer sighed.

"This is still uncertain." Maori said angrily, and then said, "Lend me your gloves."

"Gloves? Oh, oh, I brought them." The mountain village police officer quickly gave the gloves to Mao Li.

Mao Li looked at the bear leather gloves, gritted his teeth and said, "I'm talking about the white gloves worn by the criminal police. I want to see the box beside him."

"White gloves?" The mountain village police officer smiled, "You should have said it earlier. How would I know if you didn't tell me? If you said it, I would definitely give it to you. It's impossible for you to think..."

"Pfft!" Lan, Yuanzi, and Mei Daizi laughed together.

"Stop!" Maori shouted angrily, "Don't even look at what time it is, just memorize the lines from the movie."

"I just don't think this scene is relatable." Officer Yamamura said shyly, and then smiled, "By the way, so Mr. Maori, you have also seen this Hong Kong movie."

"Gloves!" Molly yelled.

"Sorry, sorry." The mountain village police officer hastily handed the white gloves to Mao Li.

Lan laughed and said, "It can't be done, my stomach hurts from laughing."

Mei Daizi smiled and said, "It's really fun."

Yuanzi smiled and said, "This guy should become an artist."

"Really?" Police Officer Yamamura said with a smile, "I have thought about this profession, but I still think the police are more prestigious, just like Miss Yukiko's TV drama."

"Okay, stop making trouble." Molly shouted, then opened the box and found a newspaper inside.

"This is it." Boss Toda said, "This is the newspaper."

Yamazaki picked up the blade and came back, "Uncle, don't worry about the mystery of the newspaper, let's go first, I suspect this is a trap."

"Trap?" Mao Li and the others were taken aback, then looked around, but found nothing.

Mei Daizi said: "Brother, I don't think there is any danger here."

"Of course there is no danger, this is a trap to delay time." Yamazaki said.

Conan thought to himself, so this is delaying the time for us to call the police.

The mountain village police officer asked, "Delay for time?"

"Delay the time to call the police, but I'm not sure yet." Yamazaki said, "Uncle, let's talk as we walk."

"Okay, let's go." Molly said.

Straight out of the woods, everyone found a statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva on the ground, but it was originally on the side of the road, but now it is in the middle of the road.

Boss Toda asked, "What's going on?" He said, wanting to return the statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva to its place.

"Wait, Boss Toda, let the stone statue be there first, there may be fingerprints of the murderer on it." Yamazaki said.

"Murderer?" The mountain village police officer asked, "Why did he put the stone statue here?"

Maori looked at the woods behind him, and then said, "So that's why we stopped," and then said as he walked, "There is a stone statue blocking the way, and anyone who sees this will stop, and then they will find that there are people in the woods. There's someone hanging there."

Boss Toda said, "But it's night."

Mei Daizi said: "That person is wearing white clothes, not far from the roadside, even at night it is easy to see."

Sonoko asked, "So this is a murder?"

Yamazaki said: "That's right. It is reasonable to say that the suicide should be deeper in the woods. The murderer deliberately put him in a place where it is easy to be found, so that we can stop and check."

Lan said: "But there may be other people who find out."

Boss Toda said: "Generally speaking, after dark, basically no one will go this way." Then he sighed, "It seems that the murderer is Masao Jimbo. I really don't know why he did this."

Mori said, "Of course it's the 100 million yen."

Boss Toda asked in surprise: "So he solved the mystery of the newspaper?"

Maori said, "Yes, so this box is no longer useful to him."

The mountain village police officer said: "It turns out that he wants us to see the box, and then study the newspaper there, so that he can buy time to drive away, this cunning guy." Then asked, "So, Mr. Maori, that long-haired man also Did he kill it?"

"Well," Maori said after thinking for a while, "probably not, he didn't know what was in the box at that time."

The mountain village police officer asked: "Then, that long-haired man committed suicide?"

Yuanzi said, "Maybe it was the impostor who killed him."

Mei Daizi said: "It is very possible that he and the long-haired man were accomplices, but the long-haired man who took the money hid the money and refused to give it to him, so he killed the long-haired man in a fit of anger."

Lan asked: "Then, how did Mr. Jinbao get involved? Even if Mr. Jinbao opened the box privately, he would only see that newspaper?"

Mao Li said: "I'm afraid only he himself knows this question."

Boss Toda asked, "So did he really get 100 million yen?"

Mao Li said: "It should be, otherwise I wouldn't have killed this impostor." Then he found a light in the distance, so he said, "Okay, we're almost there, let's go."

After more than 20 minutes, everyone rushed to the light and found that it was a hot spring hotel. The mountain village police officer called the police, and then had a not too late dinner with Mao Li and his party in the hotel. But Mei Daizi saw that there were only some special snacks, so she called for takeaway.

After dinner, Mori and Yamamura police officers left with the police who arrived, and the others went to the hot spring hotel where Dr. Ali and the others stayed.

Soon after, Mei Daizi's dining car was transported by heavy shield helicopter to the nearby Xiwu Water Plateau Ski Resort. ...