About twenty minutes later, everyone gathered in the hall downstairs. The highlight of the dinner, the magic show, began.
"Ye Ling! Why don't you perform the magic trick from before?”Yuan Zi ran to Ye Ling's side and asked expectantly. She believed that Ye Ling's magic would definitely shock everyone.
Huang Yi was very surprised." Oh? Do you know magic too?" Everyone looked at him curiously. Because Ye Ling was not a member of the magic lovers 'group, they had always thought that Ye Ling was here to be a bystander.
Ye Ling did not come here to perform, so she deliberately changed the topic.
"By the way, where did Binye-san go?”
Hearing Ye Ling's words, everyone realized that Rishi Hamano was indeed not in the hall. Kuroda Naoko, who was wearing a pair of braids and glasses, recommended herself and said,"He must still be upstairs. I'll go get him.”
Therefore, she went upstairs alone. Ye Ling pretended to perform magic because he knew that magic would not work.
As expected, before Ye Ling was ready, a loud scream came from upstairs.
"Ya ya!"
Screams echoed throughout the entire villa, and everyone was shocked. Conan and Doi Tucker, who was disguised as Kidd, had a change in expression. They ran upstairs, followed by Ye Ling and the others.
……
When they reached the second floor, they saw Kuroda Naoko sitting on the ground with her back against the corridor wall. She pointed at the open door of Hamano Riya's room with a terrified expression. It was simply a textbook performance of a first discoverer.
"What happened?" Ent Doi Tucker asked before he arrived.
" Hamano-san, he…" Kuroda Naoko was still pointing at the room, but she did not dare to look over.
Everyone ran to the door and looked inside. Although the two girls in Xiaolan's garden were mentally prepared, they were so frightened that they covered their mouths and almost screamed. Rishi Hamano was also lying on the floor with his head tilted. His eyelids were slightly open, revealing the whites of his eyes. There was also an obvious strangulation mark on his neck. The scene was very terrifying.
Seeing the strangulation marks, even the dumbest person would know that this was a murder.
Doi Takaki immediately ran into the room and squatted down to check. Arayoshi also reacted and hurriedly ran to the landline to call the police. Because they were in the mountains, there was no signal on the phone.
After the inspection, Doi came to a conclusion: "The time of death was less than half an hour ago. The cause of death was suffocation due to being strangled by something similar to shoelaces.”
Conan looked at the strangulation marks on Binye's neck, and a strange look flashed across his eyes.
Strange... Under normal circumstances, when the victim was strangled, the victim would struggle with all his might before he died, so there would be a scratch mark on his neck called the Yoshikawa Line. Why was there only a strangulation mark and no scratch mark on Binno's neck?
Just as Conan was thinking, Huang Yi ran back and said,"I've already called the police. They said they'll be here immediately.”
After Ye Ling arrived at the scene, no one knew where he had gone. He had just returned. When he heard Huang Yize's words, he said,""Then before the police arrive, all of us must not leave each other's sight. In other words, they were monitoring each other.”
"Why?" Yuan Zi asked in confusion, and everyone looked at him.
" I was observing the situation outside the house just now," Ye Ling explained." I noticed that there was not a single footprint on the snow around the villa. To put it bluntly, the murderer did not leave the villa. He is among us.”
"What?" "One of us is the murderer?"”
Conan also looked at Ye Ling in surprise, his face full of disbelief.
Why…why was he so skilled?
The moment he saw the body, his first reaction was to check the body. However, Ye Ling went straight to confirm if anyone had left the villa. Conan's suspicion of Ye Ling had already dissipated, but it was reignited at this moment.
Who exactly was Ye Ling?
……
"Are there gloves here?" Ye Ling asked Huang Yize.
Huang Yi did not know why Ye Ling wanted the gloves, but he still answered,""Yes, downstairs."
"Alright, in order to avoid acting alone, I'll go with you.”
Ye Ling and Huang Yi went downstairs and quickly came back up. Ye Ling had already put on her gloves. He ignored everyone's gazes and walked straight into the house. Doi Takaki immediately stopped him."Wait! It was best not to touch anything at the crime scene before the police arrived.”
Seeing Ye Ling's posture, anyone could guess that he wanted to investigate. However, he might be the murderer, so it was best that no one touched anything in the house.
"Don't worry. You guys are monitoring me together. I won't have the chance to do anything even if I want to.”" And I won't touch anything," Ye Ling said." I just want to confirm one thing."”
Confirm one thing? Everyone was puzzled, but Doi did not stop them in the end.
Ye Ling squatted beside Binye's body and took out his phone from his pocket. He turned on the screen and found that there was a password. He grabbed Binye's finger and unlocked it with his fingerprint.
"Just as I thought." Ye Ling muttered to herself.
"What happened?" Huang Yi asked in confusion.
Ye Ling raised her head and showed the phone to everyone. She said,""Mr. Binye is an invisible person.”
As soon as he said this, the scene was instantly stirred up. Conan and Doi hurriedly came over to check. They saw many emails from financial institutions in Binno's inbox, as well as verification messages from a gambling website.
All the system messages on that website addressed him as " Respected Mr. Invisible Man."
The truth was revealed. It turned out that the invisible person who had bet ten million on Master Harui's failure was Riya Hamano.
Ye Ling browsed through the contents of the phone and stuffed it back into Binno's pocket. She stood up and added,""The ten million that Mr. Binye bet was not his own money, but a loan from a financial institution. He had borrowed so much money to bet on Harui-sensei's performance failing, but he had guessed it right in the end. It was as if he could predict the future.”
Everyone's heart skipped a beat…Such a crazy move, coupled with the fact that Hamino was previously a backstage staff member of the Yokohama Theater, where Harui performed. After the incident, Binye suddenly resigned…
Could it be that Master Harui-san's performance accident was related to Hamino?
At the thought of this, Doi, who was disguised as Kidd, turned his gaze to Tanaka Takumi. When they first met, Gideon recognized that Kikumi was Master Harui-sama's granddaughter. Could it be that she killed Riya Hamano for revenge?
……
The sudden murder disrupted the peace of the party. Before the police arrived, everyone decided to go downstairs to check everyone's shoes because the marks on Binye's neck looked like shoelaces.
When they came to the shoe changing area to check, they found that only the female shoes had shoelaces. The male shoes of Ye Ling, Conan, and Doi Tucker also had shoelaces.
"There's no sign of anyone pulling their shoelaces.”Conan said.
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