Ke Xue: Shinichi and I are childhood friends.

Chapter 1171 Red School Trip, Solving the Case

At this moment, a young voice sounded behind him.

"The height of the Kiyomizu stage is about 12 meters..."

The man was startled and turned around quickly, only to see Yuya, Hattori Heiji, Kudo Shinichi and Sera Masumi looking at him with their arms folded.

The person who just spoke was Yuya.

Kudo Shinichi continued: "As long as we prepare a life-saving mat below..."

Hattori Heiji: "You won't go to hell even if you jump like this."

Sera Masumi smiled smugly: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Agata Riki."

The man raised his head slightly, revealing most of his face which was covered by the hat. It was Agata Riki with a look of shock on his face.

He asked in surprise, "Why are you here? Did you figure out the code?"

Yuya crossed his arms and said calmly, "That's right. The key to the code is the white cross surrounded by four squares."

"At first, we thought it was the character for 出 (decorative character), but it actually refers to the top, center, bottom, left, and right of Kyoto."

"The words following the squares refer to place names in Kyoto. Combining the positions of the crosses and the words, we can clearly tell which places they represent."

"Because the Chinese characters in place names have different pronunciations than in normal Chinese, we can decipher the code by arranging the characters and reading the first sounds of the characters together according to the pronunciation of the place names."

"The first code said, 'There are three people to be killed, the first one is the screenwriter.'"

Kudo Shinichi put one hand in his pocket and said, "Using the same method, we can interpret the code in Mr. Nishiki's arms and know that it means 'There are two more people to be killed, and the main actor is next.'"

Hattori Heiji continued, "In Mr. Hayabusa's arms, the third code meant 'There's still one person to be killed, so let me jump off the stage.'"

Sera Masumi folded his arms and said, "You, originally, planned to make it look like Mr. Mashan committed suicide, then tell everyone that you solved the code, making it seem like the third code was Mr. Mashan's suicide note, and thus pinning the blame on him, right?"

"But fortunately, the last code indicated the suicide location, so we were able to rush here in advance and arrange everything."

Yuya asked with a cold face: "Well, do you have anything else to explain?"

Aga Tianli's face changed suddenly, and he suddenly showed a look of fear and shouted: "Curse, this is a curse!"

"Huh?" The four detectives were a little confused.

Agata Riki shouted to himself, "I did all this because I was cursed! You saw the ceiling in Ximu's room, didn't you? How could a human make a ceiling like that in just 10 minutes?"

Yuya was speechless for a moment, thinking that he would make some excuses, but this was the result?

He interrupted Agata Riki's performance and said indifferently, "An electrostatic sticky note. This kind of sticky note doesn't require adhesives like glue. It uses static electricity to stick to walls and objects."

"You just used the sticky notes that Mr. Ximu used when he revised the script, right?"

Agata Li's expression suddenly changed.

Yuya continued, "You checked into Mr. Nishiki's room a day in advance and painted bloodstains and footprints on the ceiling. After the paint dried, you used static sticky notes to cover the bloodstains and footprints."

"Also, in order to allow Mr. Ximu to move into this room smoothly, you booked all the smoking rooms. Then, when you gathered at Mr. Ximu's apartment, you canceled the reservation for the room with the bloodstains. This way, Mr. Ximu naturally moved into that room."

"After killing Mr. Nishiki, you removed the sticky notes from the ceiling, and then scattered the scripts around the room to make others think they were from the script."

"After that, you used a syringe to suck up Mr. Ximu's blood and sprayed it onto the center of the paint stain on the ceiling, right?"

Agata Riki's expression changed, and he said stubbornly, "Then, what about the Tengu? How do you explain the Tengu suddenly appearing in my room and then disappearing in the flames?"

Kudo Shinichi stepped forward, indicating that it was his turn to reason.

He said, "During college, you were the only one who helped Chu Li draw comics. That shows you're quite skilled in drawing, which is why you were able to draw that Tengu so vividly!"

"You're probably using the flash paper magicians use. It will catch fire instantly if it touches the spark on the cigarette butt."

"That 3cm cigarette burn mark in your room is evidence. From the time you saw Tengu screaming until we rushed over and saw him, it took so long for a cigarette butt to remain that long."

"In other words, you relit that cigarette butt when you heard the commotion outside the room and the door was about to open, so that the glitter paper Tengu would burn and disappear in front of us."

Hattori Heiji crossed his arms and said, "Next is Inuya's footprint. You also drew that beforehand, but you covered it with another, bigger Inuya."

"After you kill Mr. Iga Hayabusa, take the large Inuyasha outside and put it on top of the Inuyasha next to it. This will reveal the footprints inside."

"We also found two dog-shaped inuyas stacked together, and found a lot of things inside, including the knife used as the murder weapon and a raincoat worn to prevent blood from splattering on the body."

"But I think you must have wiped off all the fingerprints on it, after all, you intend to pin all the blame on Mr. Ma Shan."

Aga Tianli's face was extremely ugly. He argued cunningly, "What nonsense are you talking about? Ma Shan clearly jumped down on his own. You should have seen it, right? He was trying to climb over the fence on his own. He must have been possessed by something!"

Yuya rubbed his brows and said, "Are you still going to insist on this ridiculous statement?"

He was getting a little impatient. It would be fine if Agata Riki came up with some excuses that they couldn't refute, but was he provoking them, the detectives, by saying something as unscientific as cursing?

Just as he was about to expose Agata Riki's trick, Sera Masumi stopped him: "Wait, you all said it, now it's my turn to deduce."

You was stunned for a moment, and made a gesture of invitation with a somewhat amusing look.

Masumi Sera walked to the blood-red footprints on the ground, squatted down, reached out and touched them, and actually lifted the footprints off the ground.

No, to be precise, the footprints were printed on a transparent note.

Sera Masumi held up the footprint note and said, "This is just an electrostatic note with red footprints drawn on it. Just cover it with a layer of paper the same color as the ground and tie it with fishing line. Then you can tear off the pieces one by one from a distance. It will look like an invisible monster is walking towards you with bloody footprints."

Masumi Sera walked to a statue not far away and picked up a device with a handkerchief that was the same color as the ground. "Then, use this directional speaker to play some scary sounds towards Mr. Masan..."

She pressed a button on the machine, and the next second, a terrifying voice rang out: "Unforgivable, unforgivable!"

Agata Riki's face had turned pale.

Sera Masumi raised his chin and said, "You were probably planning to take the things away during the commotion caused by the suicide, so I guess your fingerprints should be left on them. That's enough evidence to convict you!"

Agata Li gritted his teeth, turned around and ran.

There were a few students in uniform blocking the way, and he yelled, "Get out of my way, little bastards!"

However, instead of moving away in fear, those students pulled out pistols and pointed them at Agata Riki without mercy.

Agata Riki was so frightened by this scene that he stood there, not daring to move.

Yuya shrugged, "Why do you think we didn't chase you? A detective's job is to solve the case and catch the criminal. Of course, that's left to the police!"

That’s right, those students enjoying the view on the Kiyomizu stage were all Kyoto prefectural police officers in disguise.

The reason why we go to so much trouble to fish is, of course, to catch them in the act!