Chapter 99: A Figure on a Moonlit Night

April 3, Wednesday, the sixteenth day of the lunar calendar, evening.

The events on Moon Shadow Island, as predicted in the entrustment letter, "began to disappear". After Mr. Kawashima Hideo, the island's largest property owner and candidate for village chief, was attacked by the sea, the current village chief and candidate for village chief, Mr. Kuroiwa Tatsuji was also attacked in the studio of the village office.

Under Lan's prompting, Conan unlocked the code left in the score. This incident is indeed related to the pianist Keiji Aso who committed suicide twelve years ago. But the retired police officer on Moon Shadow Island confirmed that Keiji Aso left nothing except a piece of music in the fire disaster. All his people were burned, including his bones. And tooth type as evidence.

Knowing that there was a piece of music left in the past, the Mugure Police Department immediately asked Mr. Police to get it, and Conan and Yamazaki also followed.

On the way to the village police station, Conan asked: "Hey, Mr. Police, did Mr. Aso really set fire to the family by himself?"

"Because four witnesses saw it," Mr. Police replied, "Mr. Kameyama, the former village chief, and Mr. Heiyan, Mr. Nishimoto and Mr. Kawashima."

"Is there any relationship between those four people?" Conan asked right.

The policeman replied again: "Including Mr. Aso, all five of them are classmates."

"So," Conan asked again, "Where's that big brother named Murasawa?"

"Ah, that guy, he came to this island suddenly three years ago, and he finally got engaged to the village chief's daughter," the policeman replied again, "However, the village chief has always opposed it. "

Conan continued to ask: "What about the village chief's secretary named Hirata?"

The policeman continued to answer: "That man is very naughty. Although I don't know what he has done, I often see him and Mr. Kawashima sneaking around in the public hall."

Conan then asked, "How is Mr. Shimizu?"

The policeman then replied: "He has a strong sense of justice and is loved by fishermen."

"Oh, so they are like this." Conan said to himself.

"Do you have anything else to ask?" Mr. Police said with a smile, "Brother Detective."

"Well, no, no more." Conan immediately smiled embarrassedly.

When we arrived at the village police station, Mr. Police went in to find the key, and Conan and Yamazaki stood chatting at the door.

Yamazaki said with a smile: "This policeman doesn't seem to be confused at all."

Conan smiled and said, "It's indeed the right person to ask."

"It now appears," Yamazaki said, "that Nishimoto-san is a key figure."

"That's right," Conan said, "It's not only with Mr. Kawashima and the others, but also with Mr. Hirata."

Yamazaki said: "The figure from last night can basically be confirmed to be one of them."

"Yeah," Conan said, "I just don't know why he is standing outside the window."

"Maybe he's curious." Yamazaki said with a smile, "By the way, don't you go in and help? Finding things is also the job of a detective, right?"

Looking at the dusty situation inside, Conan said: "Let him do this kind of thing by himself."...

An hour later, Yamazaki asked, "Are you sure he doesn't need help?"

"I'd rather wait another hour.

" Conan replied seriously.

"Ah, I found it," the policeman exclaimed in surprise in the village police station, "I said it should be around here, that's the key, that's it."

"Fortunately," Yamazaki said with a smile, "I was just thinking about breaking down the door of that warehouse."

Conan smiled and said, "Maybe in an hour, the Mumu Police Department will agree."

"Mr. Police," Lan ran over and shouted, "It's too slow, everyone is getting impatient and has already gone back."

"What, what?" Conan asked in surprise, "Have all the suspects gone back?"

Lan said: "Everyone believes that the last message left by the murderer is that the resentment is eliminated here, which means that it is over, so there should be no more incidents."

Conan immediately said: "I'm going to the public hall to take a look." Then he ran away.

Lan immediately shouted: "Wait a minute, Conan." But Conan ignored her at all, and continued to run forward without looking back.

"Mr. Police, let's go and have a look together." Yamazaki explained, "Although I don't know how the killers are arranged, the first chapter of Moonlight hasn't appeared yet."...

On the way, the three of Yamazaki met Conan, so the four of them went to the public hall together.

After entering, Conan immediately urged: "Mr. Police, quickly open the warehouse."

"Okay, okay, okay," said Mr. Policeman, "don't worry."

At this time, there was a "boom" sound from the piano room, as if something was being knocked on. Conan immediately said, "There seems to be a sound in the piano room." Then he ran in.

Conan went in and took a look. In the dark piano room, a figure was standing by the piano. Seeing him coming in, he broke through the window and escaped. Conan hurriedly chased after him, but was tripped immediately, got up and took a closer look, Murasawa Mr. is lying on the ground.

Conan immediately stepped forward, put his hand on Mr. Murasawa's neck, then heaved a sigh of relief, and said, "He's still alive."

Yamazaki said: "Mr. Police, hurry up and inform the Megure Police Department and the doctor."

"Okay." Mr. Police said and left.

At this time, the sound of music sounded, and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata sounded again on Moon Shadow Island.

"Outside." Conan rushed out immediately, and Yamazaki and Lan followed immediately.

He ran to follow the sound, and was lying on the beach alone. It seemed that the whole person was submerged in the water, and finally... Hey, Conan suddenly discovered that a thick pipe was standing there. What the man said, I looked again, it was Mr. Xiben, his hands and feet should be tied, he was also naked from the upper body, and his eyes were covered, but it didn't look like there was much blood, and the surrounding sea water only had a faint amount of blood red.

Yamazaki immediately went down and dragged Mr. Nishimoto up, but just after he came up, Mr. Nishimoto coughed a few times and passed out before he could say a word.

Heaving a sigh of relief, Conan found that on the reef not far away, there was a stack of music scores under the tape recorder. He went forward to turn off the tape recorder, and then read the top music score. It was strange. How to interpret it with the method just now? not come out.

Looking at the wound on Mr. Nishimoto's chest and abdomen, the wound was relatively clear because he just came out of the sea, and the bleeding was not much. Lan immediately recognized what the three rows of staves were engraved on, so he said, "This is... strange gone."

"What's strange?" Conan immediately turned his head and asked.

Lan said: "It's true that it's the score at the beginning and end of the first chapter, but the beginning part is repeated. The first row is the beginning, the second row is the end, and the third row is the beginning again."

"Start again?" Walking to Mr. Xiben to look around, Conan said, "Sister Lan, can you go over there and have a look.

Looking at the score on the top, Lan said, "Well, this should be a normal score."...

Soon after, the Megure Police Department led a team to the piano room of the public hall. After the diagnosis of Dr. Chengshi and the forensic doctor, the reason for Mr. Murasawa's coma should be a concussion, and then they went to the beach.

After the diagnosis, the police officers came up immediately, ready to lift Mr. Murazawa onto a stretcher and send him to the clinic. To Ms. Reiko who was watching the police carry Mr. Murasawa, Megure Police Department asked, "Miss Kuroiwa, I want to ask you, it's already so late, what exactly is Mr. Murasawa doing here?"

"How would I know such a thing?" Miss Lingzi immediately shouted.

At this time, Conan found that when Mr. Murazawa was being carried on the stretcher, something fell out of his trousers pocket, so he stepped forward to pick it up. Seeing this, Miss Lingzi rushed over immediately, and shouted: "Don't mess with Monday's things, okay?"

Looking at the thing that looked like a small hammer, Meguro Police Department asked, "What is this?"

"I don't know," said Miss Lingzi, "but I always carry it carefully on Mondays."

"Ah, isn't that a tuning hammer?" Lan said, "That's a tool used to tune a piano."

"Tuning hammer?" Mumu Police Department said, "Is he here to tune this piano?" Seeing that no one answered him, he said, "Forget it, let's talk about it when he wakes up." Then he asked again , "By the way, why is he different from everyone else? He wasn't stripped, he wasn't carved with music, he wasn't even tied up, and his eyes weren't taped."

"By the way," Conan said, "I saw a suspicious person at that time, and he escaped through the window."

"Crack!" Maori immediately planted a big mushroom on Conan's head, and scolded, "Why didn't you say it earlier."

Conan sat on the ground in a daze, and then shouted with his head in his arms. Lan immediately complained: "Dad!"

The Mumu police department asked: "Then you mean that the murderer is someone else?"

Mao Li said: "Maybe Conan broke through the Xingzang, and before he had time to make a move, he hurriedly broke through the window and escaped."

"But," Conan said again, "the sharp weapon, the drugged handkerchief, and the plastic bag covered with tape were not found at the scene. These are his crime tools."

Megure Police Department asked: "Mr. Murasawa was injured by something?"

The forensic officer said: "This time the murder weapon is the piano bench."

"By the way," Maori said, "he must have been bumped into when he came back from the beach, so in a hurry..."

"It's quite possible," Mumu Police Department said, "Then let's go to the scene by the beach and take a look." Then he walked towards the front door.

Passing by the warehouse and seeing Mr. Police still inside, Mu Mu Police Department couldn't help asking: "Can't you find the music score left by Mr. Aso?"

"Anyway, it was twelve years ago," replied the policeman. "Who knows where it was put."

"Then take your time looking for it," Mumu Police Department said and went to the beach.

As soon as Mao Li arrived at the beach, he asked, "Doctor Cheng Shi, how is Mr. Nishimoto?"

"It can be confirmed that he was given sleeping pills." Dr. Cheng Shi replied.

"However," said the medical examiner, "according to the example of Mr. Kawashima, other possibilities cannot be ruled out."

"So," Mumu Police Department said helplessly, "it's time to call the helicopter again."

Looking at the three lines of staves engraved on Mr. Nishimoto's body, Maori asked, "Strange, why is there an extra row of staves?"

Yamazaki said: "And it seems that there is no code word."

After taking the sheet music that had already been packed one by one, and interpreting it with the method Conan said earlier, Maori asked: "Why can't I read it, what is written on it?"

"Maybe it's the sheet music," Yamazaki said.

"Lan." Maori said and handed the sheet music to Lan.

"Let me see," Lan said, "well, here's a complete score for Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Ah, strange, this extra sheet is..."

It was a sheet of music that had already been lined up, but only the first line had a few notes at the beginning. Maori asked, "What's wrong with that?"

"On Mr. Nishimoto, the bottom line is exactly the same as the one above," Lan said. "It's the beginning of the first chapter of the Moonlight Sonata."

Megure police department asked: "Where is the tape this time?"

The forensic officer replied: "This time there is about 30 minutes of blank time."

"Isn't that the time after I came out of the village office?" Molly said, "If you say that, except Mr. Nishimoto, the other five people are all suspects."

"Any other discoveries?" Mumu Police Department asked again.

"Except for the plastic tube left at the scene this time, not even a plastic bag was found," said the forensic officer, "and there are still no fingerprints."

"Okay," Megure Police Department ordered, "Go and bring all the suspects to the village office for assembly." After finishing speaking, he left.

"Yamazaki," Conan whispered, "come with me to the piano room."

Yamazaki said with a smile: "It seems that you, who are one step ahead, have gained a lot."...