Ke Xue: Shinichi and I are childhood friends.

Chapter 1065: Grains of Salt

"Sorry to have kept you waiting!" Sera Masumi said with a smile.

Before she could finish her words, Conan rushed in.

He walked all the way to the balcony, opened the sliding door and saw that there was no one on the balcony, but this was not unexpected.

In the room, Yuya smiled and said to Sera Masumi, "No wonder it took so long, it turned out to be changing clothes. I didn't expect Sera-san would take so long."

Sera Masumi laughed awkwardly: "Kamiya-san, what you said makes it seem like I'm not a girl."

Yuya smiled faintly: "If not, could it be that Sera-san is hiding someone?"

"For example, the boyfriend you lived with last time at the ramen shop?"

Sera Masumi looked a little unnatural, laughed a few times, touched his head and said, "That was just a joke, it really took me some time to change clothes."

"I see." Youya didn't ask any more questions. He had already got the answer he wanted from Sera Masumi's face. She was indeed hiding someone.

If my guess is correct, it should be the blonde girl in the photo, who looks a bit like Miyano Shiho as a child and Haibara Ai.

"Then I'll go check the room. Do you mind? Are your underwear and other things well put away?"

"Of course, whatever you like."

Sera Masumi swallowed, feeling that she was about to be seen through by Yuya, and hurriedly walked towards the balcony.

She leaned over and saw Conan holding his cell phone, as if he was going to take a picture of the lower part of the balcony.

Sera Masumi was startled and quickly asked, "Conan?"

"Ah?" Conan was startled and took back his hand holding the phone.

"It looks like Kamiya-san has finished checking the room and is heading back over there."

"Ah, I'll be there right away. Sorry to bother you." Conan held the phone tightly and chased after him.

The door closed with a click.

Masumi Sera looked at the closed door and said with a smile, "I'm right, isn't he? His intuition is very sharp, right?"

With a whoosh, a figure jumped up from under the balcony and stood on the railing. It was the blonde girl in the photo. Judging from her height, she seemed to be a junior high school student. There was a long thin rope hanging behind her.

The girl fumbled around her waist for a while, and then the long rope was retracted around her waist with a swish.

"More importantly, you should solve this case quickly. If the police come to search this room, my presence will be exposed."

Although people can hide, the traces of life cannot be eliminated in a short period of time.

Kamiya Yuya was just here to check if there were any suspicious people, so he might not check so carefully, but the police would not do that.

No, with the detective's observation skills, he might have discovered some clues.

Hey, I have to move to a new place again.

Seeing that Sera Masumi didn't move, the blonde girl urged, "Go quickly, we have to solve the case before those people hear the information related to Haneda Hiroshi's case and rush here!"

"Cough, cough, cough!" Perhaps because she was too anxious, the girl coughed vigorously a few times.

Masumi Sera came back to his senses, hummed, and quickly walked out of the room.

The blonde girl was about to go back to her room when she saw a flash of red out of the corner of her eye.

She turned around and found a red bow dropped from the balcony. It seemed to be the one Conan often wore on his chest.

The girl picked up the bow and was about to call back Sera Masumi to bring it to Conan, so that he would not come back and find any clues.

The words that were about to come out suddenly stopped when she realized that this bow didn't seem to be an ordinary decoration.

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When Yuya and Conan returned to the room, Inspector Megure had already arrived with his men.

When he saw Yuya, a helpless expression appeared on his face.

"I have learned from the waiter how the body was discovered. You entered the room at 9 o'clock, and the murderer fled in a panic, knocking over the wine glasses and plates on the table..."

"I have a question about this. At that time, the room directly below this room was under construction, so the room would have been shaking slightly, right?"

"Yes." The waiter confirmed the question, and the construction started at exactly 9 o'clock.

Inspector Megure raised a question, because it was exactly 9 o'clock when Yuya and others entered the room, so the murderer only needed to place the wine glasses and plates on the edge of the table in advance, and then use the shaking of the room to make the things fall.

You also denied this speculation, because the wine glass fell to the ground when they entered the room, and it was impossible for the murderer to guess so accurately that they would enter the room at 9 o'clock.

If they enter the room too early or too late, the tactic will fail.

"In the final analysis, the murderer had no way of knowing the time we entered the room. We had actually arrived here before 9 o'clock. In addition, there was a message from Mr. Horita. If he had discovered it earlier, we would have entered the room earlier.

The reason why I entered the room at 9 o'clock was because Mr. Kouri took a long time to find the waiter. "

"Also, when the waiter opened the room, there was a wrong call, which delayed him a little bit."

"Am I right, Mr. Guli?" Youye looked at Guli Sanping with a strange smile on his face.

Gu Li Sanping nodded nervously: "That's right."

What? Sera Masumi, who followed in from behind, raised his eyebrows and couldn't help but look at Kouri Sanpei - this man's behavior was a bit suspicious.

Yuya pinched his chin and analyzed: "From the current situation, the murderer should have escaped in a panic when he found us opening the door, and knocked over the wine glasses and plates..."

Suddenly, he raised his wrist in surprise and saw that there were a lot of salt grains on it.

Strange, when did it happen...Yuya's gaze fell to the table.

Because he was in a hurry to go to Room 403 to check the situation, he did not have time to carefully check the scene. Only then did he discover that there seemed to be a lot of white particles on the edge of the table.

Yuya bent over to take a look and found that it was the same salt grains as those on his wrist.

Having said that... Yuya quickly squatted down and observed the ground. Sure enough, although there were very few, there were indeed very few white particles on the ground.

So that's how it is. Yuya's mouth curled up slightly. If this method was used, the murderer could accurately grasp the timing of their entry into the room.

"Wow!" Suddenly, Yuya heard Sera Masumi's exclamation voice.

"When I tapped my wrist on the tabletop above where the wine glass and plate landed, I got a lot of salt on me, didn't I? And some of it is spilled on the ground here, too."

"How is this going?"

Conan looked at Sera Masumi in confusion, wondering what she was doing with such an exaggerated behavior.

Suddenly, he noticed that there was a mobile phone in the back pocket of Sera Masumi's jeans, and the screen was still on.

You can clearly see the words "talking to someone".