“She’s fine. She’s lying on the sofa, sleeping soundly.”

Winette turned towards the sofa, and Conan followed suit. After confirming that Xiaolan was safe, he returned to the first floor. As he expected, the circuit was selectively cut off at the main switch.

This once again confirmed his guess that the murderer was someone who was very familiar with the villa.

After the power was restored, Conan returned to the banquet hall again. At this time, Kogoro Mouri had brought the unconscious Masumi Kuba over and let her sit on a stool.

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“Miss Winnet, what happened when we left?”

Kogoro Mori asked solemnly.

“I was sitting next to Xiaolan when the lights suddenly cut out. I walked to the entrance to check the switch and someone suddenly appeared from behind me. Because I practiced martial arts, he didn’t succeed, but since it was completely dark, I couldn’t tell who the other person was.”

Winnet explained with a lingering fear.

“You are not hurt?”

Kogoro Mori looked grateful.

He knew in his heart that the murderer was probably targeting Xiaolan.

“No.” Winnett smiled and said, “If the murderer hadn’t escaped halfway, I think I would have caught him now. But I was afraid that Xiaolan would get into trouble, so I didn’t chase him.”

“However, even Miss Kuba Masumi was attacked. It seems that the murderer is really a murderer who kills indiscriminately!”

Kogoro said nervously.

“I think Sister Xiaolan might have been given sleeping pills.”

Conan told the two of them that at this time the rest of the people had also returned to the villa and learned that Kuzuha Masumi and Winnet had been attacked.

“You mean sleeping pills?”

“Yeah, didn’t we drink coffee just now? Maybe there was medicine in it.”

Seeing that Kogoro still didn’t believe it, Conan continued to add.

“Even when Miss Winnet was attacked, and now when we are gathered together, Sister Xiaolan was still asleep. This is very abnormal.”

“I remember it was Xiaolan and Aunt Mi who made the coffee.”

Kogoro Mouri looked at Aunt Yone.

“How could I possibly do something like that?”

Aunt Mi was a little nervous.

“Aunt Mi was with us just now.”

Xiao Ai added.

“In this case, the person who attacked Miss Winnet and Miss Kuba Masumi could not be you. However, the murderer should have no reason to attack Miss Kuba Masumi, Miss Winnet and Xiaolan, so the murderer may have no reason at all…”

Kogoro’s inference made everyone tremble with fear.

It would be even more dangerous if the murderer is an indiscriminate killer who kills anyone he sees.

But Conan doesn’t think so.

“Miss Winnett, you should have been in this room with Xiaolan when the power went out? Did anything strange happen at that time?”

“Come to think of it, I heard the air conditioner start up.”

air conditioner!?

Conan immediately ran to the drawer of the low cabinet, rummaged through it, and then found the air conditioner remote control with the time set to 12:30 a.m.

It turned out to be the case.

Watching Conan rush out of the house, Winette also understood. During the first power outage, the murderer did not do anything with the power supply, but used the voltage to create a situation where all high-power electrical appliances were started at the same time, causing an overload and power outage.

“It seems that he has found some clues again.”

While everyone was discussing what to do next, Xiao Ai came behind Winnet and spoke.

“Well, I think the murderer is among us, so it’s better for him to stay with me.”

Winette whispered to Ai.

“Is that so?”

“Well, during the first power outage, the murderer overloaded the circuit. There was no need to be present to control the main switch in person, so as to create the illusion that someone had tampered with the switch, making everyone think that the murderer came from outside.”

“Well, there are only a few hours left until dawn anyway.”

“Would you like to sleep in my arms for a while?”

“No, I’m a nocturnal animal.”

As they were talking in low voices, a conflict broke out again among the men in the discussion, caused by Mifune’s request to go back to his room to rest alone.

“This is too dangerous. How can you stay in the room alone?”

Kogoro advised.

The smooth-talking Yizhi Long also tried to smooth things over.

“That’s right, Mifune. It’s already past four o’clock. We only need to wait another three hours for the car to arrive.”

“It’s none of your business! The murderer might be among us. How can I be with him?”

Mifune roared excitedly, then opened the door and left without looking back.

“Then I’ll go to my room and rest.”

Rokuda Masashi chose the same approach.

Aunt Mi looked worried.

“Wouldn’t it be safer if we all stayed together?”

The two men were stubborn in their opinions, and the others had no intention of trying to persuade them.

In the situation where a murder had occurred, no one was in the mood to chat. They just sat quietly in their seats, waiting for the arrival of the next morning.

After more than two hours, Xiao Ai finally yawned.

“I told you that children need a lot of sleep, but it turns out that I’m forcing you to sleep.”

Seeing this, Winette said, she gently patted Ai’s shoulder, and the latter looked back at her with dead eyes.

“You’re not going to talk about developmental problems, are you? If you really like children so much, you can adopt one yourself. I don’t mind.”

“Where is it…”

Winnet smiled awkwardly and glanced back at the clock. It was already seven o’clock in the morning.

After staying up all night, Kogoro yawned, held back tears, and muttered about the time.

Takashi Ichieda and Osamu Gojo, who were staying in the banquet hall, said they wanted to go to the bathroom. Sophia also said she wanted to wash her face, and Aunt Mi followed her.

Winnet turned on the TV, which was playing the weather forecast.

She asked Xiao Ai: “Aren’t you going to wash your face?”

“Because children are a group that has nothing to do with beauty or ugliness.”

When Conan was changing seats, he happened to hear Ai’s voice, and his sleepiness eased a little.

“They are so slow.”

The time in the upper right corner of the TV indicated that more than ten minutes had passed.

“There’s nothing we can do. They all need to go to the bathroom.”

Kogoro Mori lit a cigarette to refresh himself.

Just a few minutes after he finished speaking, a few people came back, and Aunt Mi was holding a tray of coffee.

“Why is there coffee again?”

Kogoro turned around and asked, holding a cigarette in his mouth.

“I asked Aunt Mi to make it for me when I was in the toilet.”

“This will help keep the sleepiness at bay.”

Ichieda Takashi and Gojo Osamu explained.

Kogoro still had some psychological resistance to coffee because of the sleeping pills that Xiaolan had taken, but he still picked up the cup.

“Don’t worry, you won’t have any sleeping pills.”

Seeing the hesitation of the two, Ichieda Takashi smiled and said, patting Kogoro and Conan on the back. As a result, coffee splashed on the two people’s faces and hair due to his shaking hands.

Kogoro and Conan were immediately awakened by the scalding, and then rushed out of the room to find a bathroom.

Looking at this scene, Xiao Ai smiled slightly.

“I am taking pleasure in someone else’s misfortune.”

“But isn’t this the way I am that you like me?”

Winnet was defeated in the verbal duel again, and she slowly stood up and stretched her body a little.

“They both slept so soundly…”

Masumi Kuzuha and Ran Maoli have not woken up yet.

At this moment, everyone in the room heard the shouts of Maori Kogoro and Conan. A wake-up call far more effective than coffee hit everyone’s mind, and they all ran towards the bathroom where the two were.

Since the light bulb in the nearby corridor was broken, they took the candlesticks left in the corridor.

As a result, they saw the body of Reika Shii in the bathroom.

“Don’t come in yet!”

When Kogoro Maori saw everyone coming, he gave instructions.

He walked up to Shijing Lihua alone, picked her up by the waist, and laid her flat on the ground.

“Miss…how could this happen…”

Aunt Mi’s voice trembled.

The situation at the scene was that Rika Shioi’s head was submerged in a bathtub full of water, while her body was outside. Based on the situation at the scene, it was easy to determine that this was the same as the previous two incidents.

“She was also drowned. It is not certain until the medical examiner examines the water she drank, but I guess her head must have been pressed hard into the bathtub and she drowned.”

Kogoro spoke as he recalled the process of sorting out the case.

“So, Nikaidou was drowned by someone in the fountain, and Miss Kuba Masumi was nearly drowned by someone pressing on her head at the kitchen sink. These two incidents were caused by the same method as this one.”

Hearing Kogoro’s inference, everyone was panicked.

“So, the murderer had no reason to kill…”

“That should be the case, and the murderer is a very cruel person.” Mao Li continued, “You can see that the victim’s skirt and socks are all wet. This is also evidence that she had strongly resisted when she was killed. It’s really pitiful… Not only that, there are traces of being tied on her hands and feet, and traces of being taped on her mouth. It can be seen that the victim must have been imprisoned somewhere by the murderer before she was killed.”

“Who is it? Who would do such an outrageous thing?”

Gojo Osamu murmured.

Conan asked from the side.

“The people who went to the toilet just now were Uncle Ichizhi, Uncle Gojo, and Aunt Mi, right?”

“correct.”

The three of them answered at the same time.

“Did you notice any suspicious people or sounds at that time?”

“No.”

Aunt Mi shook her head.

“When I was using the toilet, Aunt Mi and Yizhi were waiting for me outside the door, and then Aunt Mi went to the bathroom. After that, Yizhi asked Aunt Mi and I to go to the kitchen to make coffee. He went to the toilet last, and I don’t know what happened after that.”

Gojo Osamu said to Conan.

After hearing what Gojo Osamu said, Mifune smiled and said “I see”.

“So this is how you killed Miss Lihua.”

He looked at Yizhi Long.