Chapter 7 Chapter 7 The Terrible Ball

The fan whirred, blowing the air in the room.A cool breeze kept blowing in through an open window.Even so, Kindaichi Kosuke felt his skin sticky and slightly sweating. Waiting for the force police department to curl its lips and mutter vaguely, "It seems that this passage is only said by one person. Of course it is because the other person's lips cannot be seen." Waiting for the force police department for some reason It seems a little dubious. "Ah, since the two people are talking face to face, so if you can see one side, you can't see the other side... Moreover, when I remembered this, Mr. Jiang Chuan said that the sailboat turned suddenly, so the lips of both people looked at each other. Gone."

"Oh, you mean the speaker was on a sailboat at the time?" Professor Gugaki was also taken aback. "Yes, professor, the teacher said it was a motor sailing boat with yellow sails. Later, the sailing boat seemed to be returning, so the teacher and I decided to go to see what happened, but the sailing boat..." "Found it? Then A sailboat?" Kosuke Kindaichi moved forward. "No. When we were about to leave the roof, we were stopped by Mrs. Minzi. Just at the moment of dawdling, we lost the goal of the sailing boat... Moreover, we met Mr. Garner and the proprietress here as soon as we arrived at the shore , so we went back to the hotel."

"Then what kind of two people are talking on a sailboat?" "The teacher said it was a man and a woman, but they were both wearing big diving goggles and wrapped in a cloak, so they didn't even know if they were old or young. But—" Kato hesitated suddenly, but continued, " Although you can't rely on your imagination in this matter, I think the teacher probably knows the person who said this terrible thing." "You, you mean..." "Uh, what I mean is that since the movement of the lips can be seen clearly, then the teacher must have seen the man's face very clearly. Besides, although the teacher can read lips, he will never steal Listening to other people's speech, of course I know that I should turn my face away in that situation. Therefore, the teacher must be very familiar with the appearance of that person at that time, so he was interested in what he said, and used the lip-reading technique to record this A terrible conversation..." "It looks familiar, who could it be?"

"I don't know about it, I just have this feeling. But I think the teacher must have attached great importance to this conversation, that's why he insisted on inviting Mr. Kindaichi and the Police Department to the beauty contest." On this point, Kosuke Kindaichi and the Police Department of Waiting Force also agreed.Professor Jiang Chuan's gracious invitation yesterday morning did seem to have ulterior motives. "But, Mrs. Kato, whether the criminal targeted Professor Jiang Chuan from the very beginning, or changed his plan to attack Professor Jiang Chuan because of other goals, did he really eat nothing?" Waiting for the police department to feel a little puzzled asked.

"Mr. Furugaki." Kato let out a mournful cry, and tears immediately fell like torrential rain. "This is why I regret it. Because I heard the word 'poison', the teacher and I just paid attention to the population. I told the teacher that the surroundings are so chaotic, maybe I will be implicated at any time, so absolutely Don't touch anything given to me by anyone... That's why I borrowed a hot water bottle from the hotel, chilled the black tea and took it with me. But I didn't expect..." "did not expect……" "The poison used by criminals is not from the mouth. Professor Gugaki, is there any poison that can kill a person through the skin?"

"Li 0 Fuji-kun!" Professor Gugaki's tone became serious, "Did you find such signs?" "Yes." Kato Tatsuko looked around nervously, and took out a waterproof handbag from the bag.Then he took out a metal tong for holding cakes from the bag. "I just borrowed this from the restaurant." Kato said as he opened the seal of the handbag, and then carefully picked it out with cake tongs—isn't it the dirty rubber ball? "Ah, it's this ball..." Waiting for the police department to reach out to grab the ball that was thrown on the table.

"Don't, Police Department, don't touch it!" Kato hit the policeman's hand heavily with metal pliers, "I'm sorry, Mr. Police Department, but you must not touch this ball casually, look, like this..." Kato said The end of the cake tongs was poked, and the ball rolled on the table, and it took a long time to stop.But no matter how you poke, the ball always stops at the same angle. "Look, the principle is the same as that of a tumbler. One piece of the ball is heavier. And if you press it from the top down..." Ms. Kato pressed down hard from the top of the ball with pliers, and a sharp needle point slowly emerged from it.

Needless to say, Kosuke Kindaichi, Hiroto Furugaki and the other police departments also had sweaty palms, and they couldn't help but gasped. "Mr. Jintianyi and the police department of the Waiting Force must still remember that Mr. Jiang Chuan once sat on this ball without any precautions." After saying this, Kato threw the cake tongs away as if he had completed a major task, covered his eyes with a handkerchief, and sobbed until he lost his mind. Professor Gugaki pressed the ball again with pliers, and then pointed the magnifying glass at the exposed needle tip to observe carefully, with a look of surprise on his face.

That ball seemed to be full of black tar or something, because every time the needle came out it was black all over. "Ms. Kato, where did you find this ball?" Kosuke Kindaichi asked while observing Professor Gugaki's face from the corner of his eye. "From inside that tent...if Teacher Jiang Chuan hadn't used the lip-reading technique, I would have mistakenly thought it was a heart attack. However, since this happened before, I always feel that the professor did not die naturally. So, When everyone's attention was focused on the teacher, I picked up the ball and put it away just to be on the safe side."

In front of this witty woman, Kosuke Kindaichi and the other police departments couldn't help feeling ashamed.Even if you don't know about lip reading, you should be aware of it... "But Ms. Kato, why did the criminal go to Professor Jiang Chuan?" "It's because—" Kato fell silent as soon as he said the beginning.Seeing this, Kosuke Kindaichi hurriedly persuaded him: "Ms. Kato, if you find anything, please tell me directly. As for the fault of Karizao, Mr. Police Department will investigate clearly." "Okay." Kato paused, and continued: "I'm afraid it will hurt someone if I say it. I think the criminals, no, the criminals must have realized that their plan has been known to the teacher, so they took the initiative..." "That's right. But how did the criminals notice it?" So far?"

"Well..." Kato hesitated again. "I think the criminal's accomplice saw the teacher observing the criminal's sailboat through the binoculars, and found that the teacher was still remembering something while watching through the binoculars, so..." Kato was obviously referring to Yiliu Minko.Moreover, it was Minzi who persuaded Professor Jiang Chuan to sit on the reclining chair with the ball on it. "However, Professor Jiang Chuan's special skills are only known to very few people..." "Yes, I believe so. However, maybe the teacher once mentioned this to Mr. Garner, and then from Mr. Garner's mouth It spread to the proprietress' ears..." Then, from the proprietress's mouth to Yiliu Minzi's ears?In this way, the man and woman that Professor Jiang Chuan saw through the telescope are people very close to Minzi. , At this moment, Kosuke Kindaichi vaguely appeared before the eyes of the thin, old-fashioned, fox-like-Etsuko's stepdaughter Fusako.The other is the cat-like Toyohiko Okada.It turned out that it was true that these two people might have colluded with Minzi, and both of them went to that tent yesterday. Kosuke Kindaichi picked up the papers translated by Kato again. Obviously, this is a man instigating a woman to kill.Moreover, when these words were said, Professor Jiang Chuan had not yet been set as the target of sacrifice. So, who would the criminal intend to harm in the first place?Who was this improbable victim who was once targeted by a heinous criminal? At this moment, Kindaichi Kosuke could clearly see the beautiful and brilliant proprietress——Etsuko Ichigo. If Yiliu Etsuko dies, her property will be inherited by her stepdaughter Fusako.In this way, Liu Minzi, the aunt who is Fusako's relative, might also get rid of her current humiliating status as the head maid. I heard that Minzi also had a considerable fortune in the past.However, because she lacked the wit and talent of Etsuko, she was finally consumed by the violent inflation after the war, and now she has to be taken care of by her younger sister-in-law, so naturally she often feels dissatisfied.Kosuke Kindaichi has already noticed this in the past twenty days. However, Kosuke Kindaichi shook his head violently from side to side, trying to get rid of such wild thoughts. Whether Yiliu Minzi knew that Professor Jiang Chuan could read lips is still a question; even if she did, it would be too early to think that she already understood that the professor used this skill to read the criminals' plans.Moreover, assuming that she is also one of the accomplices, why didn't she destroy such important evidence as the ball? "No matter what..." Kosuke Kindaichi whispered after a long time, "Don't make the lip-reading technique public for now, no matter whether the criminal has discovered it or not..."