Chapter 256 Silver Bullet
Kogoro Mori was a little unhappy. He felt that what Kudo Shinichi said made sense, but he just wanted to raise questions.
So he asked, "Even if your reasoning is correct, two people who don't talk much, entering the toilet at the same time, and just happen to be next to each other, isn't that too much of a coincidence?"
Kudo Shinichi smiled slightly: "It's not a coincidence, it's inevitable!"
"Necessarily?!" Maori Kogoro was surprised, "What do you mean?"
"From what I've heard, this is the fourth time such a party has been held. I guess it's no secret to most people that the film crew is mixed in with the guests, right?"
After hearing what Kudo Shinichi said, many people nodded in agreement. Otherwise, there would be no need for them to go through so much trouble to perform the characters they were dressed up as.
Isn't it just to get noticed by the staff so that you can get a role in the movie?
“In order to play their roles well, many monsters were prepared to remain silent before boarding the ship. The murderer only needed to find the right person, who just happened to be a mummy.
The murderer only needs to wait in the bathroom for such a person to arrive, and then he can successfully commit the crime according to the method I just mentioned.
As for the tarot cards, it was just a coincidence. The murderer probably came up with the idea of using the tarot cards to frame him. In this way, most people would think that the mummy, who has no tarot cards and no alibi, is the murderer. "
Maori Kogoro thought of something else: "But when Sonoko called for help, didn't the werewolf rush out of the toilet at that time? If he was knocked unconscious, could he have controlled the time so well?"
Kudo Shinichi: "Regarding this, did you hear anything before you saw the werewolf?"
Maori Kogoro was stunned for a moment. While he was still recalling, Suzuki Sonoko spoke first: "I know! At that time, I heard a wolf howl, and then the werewolf rushed out of the toilet! And now that I think about it, the sound of the wolf howl is the same. It should have been recorded in advance and then played back, right?"
Maori Kogoro heard this and immediately looked at the werewolf: "Is that so?"
The werewolf was a little nervous. Although he wanted to deny it, he knew that there was no way to hide it, so he had to say "yes".
Kudo Shinichi said slowly: "I think the loudspeaker should be installed behind the hood, and there is also a bug, so that the werewolf can grasp the situation around the mummy at any time.
If someone accosts him, he will flip a switch and howl like a wolf, which will prevent him from talking to others and make the mummy feel like he is in the bar and nearby, which can be used as an alibi.
"I see," Maori Kogoro recalled some of the wolf's unusual behaviors at that time. "No wonder every time the wolf howled, he looked around as if he was looking for someone. I thought he was signaling to someone!"
Kudo Shinichi nodded and said, “This way, he can take the opportunity to go to the deck and shoot Mr. Fukuura with a cross arrow.
Then he took off the werewolf mask from the guests who had rushed in during the chaos and put it back on his own head, then blended in with the guests and pretended that he had always been there.
Am I right, Mr. Werewolf?"
The werewolf was silent for a while, but unfortunately the mask made it impossible to see his sweaty face. He said with a stiff face, "I don't care if you are a high school detective. You have deduced so much, do you have any evidence?"
The others looked at Kudo Shinichi.
Kudo Shin was not at all panicked. Usually at this time, the murderer would say such things just in his last struggle.
"Of course I have evidence. First of all, this." He bent down and grabbed the tail of the rooster he found on the lookout, holding it upside down in his hand. "This is the clue Captain Gold left behind."
"Turn the rooster upside down?" Kogoro Mouri frowned, not understanding what this meant for a moment.
Everyone was talking and guessing, but no one could figure out the meaning.
Finally, it was Tangsan who spoke up: "It's a cocktail."
"Cocktail?" Kogoro Mouri looked at the monk with the Karasan in confusion.
"The English word for rooster is cock, and the English word for tail is tail, so together they mean cocktail."
Everyone showed a look of sudden realization.
"But what is the hint of cocktail?" Kogoro Mouri was puzzled.
Kudo Shinichi reminded: "You drank a cocktail, too."
Maori Kogoro frowned and immediately denied it: "Ah? I only drink beer... No, when I found the werewolf, I seemed to have drunk a cocktail, it seemed to be called something..."
"Silver Bullet!" the mummy replied, "This is also the drink Mr. Fukuura instructed me to drink at the party."
"So, it was really you who came out of the toilet at that time?" Kogoro Mouri looked at the mummy in surprise, and the mummy nodded vigorously.
"You woke up in the bathroom and found that Mr. Fukuura was about to get into trouble, so you hurried to the bar?" Sonoko asked excitedly, as if she had thought of something.
"That's right." The mummy nodded quickly, mashing the garlic.
"It's just a coincidence, because I also drank that glass of wine!" said the werewolf dissatisfiedly.
The mummy looked at the werewolf in surprise and let out a surprised "Ah". Some of the guests nearby also looked at the werewolf with surprise.
Kudo Shinichi showed a smug smile on his face. Checkmate! He asked, "You are the only werewolf here. Let me ask you again, did you really drink that glass of wine?"
The werewolf shouted in dissatisfaction: "Of course, I just want to drink, is that not okay?"
As if to confirm something, Kudo Shinichi asked again: "Did you really drink it? That glass of Silver Bullet?"
"You're so annoying. I said I've drunk and I've drunk, Silver..." The werewolf suddenly realized something, and he froze there, unable to speak any more.
"Hey, he said he drank Silver Bullet?"
"That's right, he's obviously a werewolf..."
"As for Silver Bullet, that's the one, right?"
"That's right, that's right."
The monsters nearby started talking, their voices were not loud but sounded particularly harsh to the werewolves.
Kudo Shinichi put his hands in his pockets and said pretentiously: "Yes, the name of that cocktail is Silver Bullet, which means silver bullet.
In the movie, silver weapons are the only weapons that can cause fatal damage to werewolves. In addition, silver products can also be used to exorcise evil spirits.
I'm afraid Mr. Fukuura gave this hint so that everyone would go to the bartender and ask who drank what drink.
In this way, after knowing that the mummy drank the glass of wine, it is easy to know that he is the human who sneaked in. Because no monster would deliberately drink a glass of wine to exorcise evil spirits! "
The werewolf suddenly broke out in a sweat, realizing that he had made a mistake in his haste.
And this mistake is enough to completely overturn his alibi!