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Maintaining this sweet embrace for a while, Ran slowly broke free from Yun Feng's warm, protective hold, her cute little face as red as a ripe apple...
"Big Brother Yun, let's go find the island's police station. Dad and the others are still waiting." Ran whispered softly.
Yun Feng also stood up then, patted the dirt from his clothes, and gently said, "Ran, are you feeling alright now?"
"Mm, I'm fine now, thank you, Big Brother Yun." Ran shyly nodded her head. That was the first time she had ever been embraced so closely in a boy's arms...
Looking at the bashful Ran, Yun Feng felt immensely satisfied, secretly cheering himself on in his heart. Come on! The defense in this angelic girl's heart is almost broken through by me.
Thinking for a moment, Yun Feng's playful side emerged. He smiled brightly at Ran and said, "Ran, do you know how to forget all your worries?"
Ran lifted her small head, shaking it, wondering what this Big Brother Yun was up to now.
Yun Feng laughed heartily, took Ran's warm, soft little hand, and ran towards the island's police station, leaving only a trail of dust. Ran let Yun Feng pull her along, running freely under the moonlight. She felt truly incredibly happy and joyful with Yun Feng; she could even completely forget the bone-deep fear she had felt earlier. Is this the feeling of happiness that idol dramas often talk about...?
After they had run a long distance, Yun Xiaoyu's graceful figure appeared there, looking at the two who had already sped off, and shook her head helplessly: "My master sometimes really has the heart of a child."
Before the sound of her words could dissipate, Xiaoyu's graceful figure had already vanished from the spot. With her skills and strength, catching up to Yun Feng and Ran was as easy as a leisurely stroll.
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Accompanied by the island's sole elderly police officer, Yun Feng and Ran returned to the civic hall. At this moment, in the piano hall on the second floor, only Kogoro Mouri remained, lost in deep thought about the case. Conan stood at the doorway, meticulously examining all suspicious aspects within...
The two swollen bumps on Conan's head seemed to explain why he could only stay at the doorway. It appeared his future father-in-law was truly enraged by this brutal method of crime.
"Conan, where are the others?" Ran, who had returned with Yun Feng, looked around in confusion.
Conan strangely glanced at Ran. Being observant, he noticed the lingering blush on Ran's face and was greatly puzzled. What's wrong with this violent lead female? I've never seen such an expression on her face before. And how could she recover so quickly after being so scared earlier? This doesn't seem like the Ran I know.
His detective's intuition told him that some kind of change had occurred within Ran. But at this moment, his mind was entirely consumed by the pressure of solving this case, and he wasn't in the mood to address Ran's inexplicable transformation. So he simply replied, "Big Sister Ran, everyone else has already been sent away by Uncle Mouri, to prevent them from disturbing the crime scene clues."
"Huh? Is there only one police officer? Are there no others on this island?" Conan then noticed that only this elderly police officer had arrived and said disappointedly. He had hoped the island would have more professional forensic specialists and evidence collection personnel.
Kogoro Mouri, who was deep in thought about the case in the piano hall, heard this and glanced at the somewhat elderly and infirm police officer. He sighed and said nothing more. He was merely disappointed by the island's police force; he still held considerable respect for this elderly police officer, who, at such an advanced age, was still serving as an ordinary officer, which he greatly admired.
Yun Feng looked at the serious Kogoro Mouri before him, feeling quite unaccustomed. One had to know that Uncle Mouri usually acted like an old mischievous child in the detective agency. There was even one time when he draped his arm over Yun Feng's shoulder to discuss what color Yoko Okino's underwear was...
Meanwhile, Ran's heart was filled with joy. She knew that when her father encountered such cases, he became extremely serious, acting like a completely different person from his usual sloppy, unreliable self. It was precisely because of this that her mother married him.
Looking at her serious father, and then at Big Brother Yun who had stepped forward to help her father with the difficult problem, Ran felt that familiar feeling welling up in her heart again: how wonderful it would be if Mom were here right now. But unlike last time, this thought now took root deep within her heart like tree roots, refusing to be dismissed... Under this warm feeling, Ran felt that the terrifying piano hall was not so scary anymore...
"Uncle, have you noticed any clues?" Yun Feng tentatively asked Kogoro Mouri at this moment. To be honest, this Uncle Mouri was sometimes more formidable than Conan, one of those people who, despite being foolish, would eventually stumble upon something insightful. He was genuinely afraid that his father-in-law might discover something.
Kogoro Mouri shook his head reluctantly, saying weakly, "I can't see any method regarding the locked room at all. Before Ran kicked the door open with karate, this piano hall was absolutely a perfect locked room!"
Conan, outside the door, also chimed in with his notebook, "And there are no recording devices inside, which proves that the mysterious person was playing the piano in this hall just a second before the door was broken. But in less than a second, he vanished into thin air. I've checked, and there are no secret passages or anything here. It's truly baffling."
Then, Conan confidently continued:
"As for why the blood is black, I think the culprit used the victim's fear and shock just before death, which caused a massive increase in blood circulation and thus some unknown chemical reaction in the blood. This made the victim's blood turn pure black, and for this reason, the heart also turned pure black."
"And the reason the heart continued to beat for so long after leaving the body is probably because the culprit used some method to increase the electrical ion flow in that heart, similar to the principle of cardiac defibrillation."
"The reason for doing this must be extreme hatred or even contempt for the deceased. Because humans are high-level organisms, all vital signs quickly disappear after death. Conversely, the lower the organism, the slower its vital signs disappear. For example, a frog's heart can beat for about 8 minutes after being removed, and a 'lower' cockroach can live for a long time even without its head..."
"In other words, the culprit made the victim's heart beat for so long after being removed... not only to shock people but also to satirize the victim as being inferior to even the lowest organisms..."
"And as for why the victim's blood was turned pure black, I think the culprit wanted everyone to believe this was justice punishing a devil, because only a devil's blood is pure black."
"I suspect... the victim was still in a state of near-mad terror... witnessing the culprit swiftly remove his own heart... The agony of such a death is horrifying just to imagine..."
Conan said in a low, solemn voice, his tone tinged with anger, clearly furious at the culprit's cruel methods. Everyone was stunned after hearing Conan's deduction, not expecting this little kid to be so articulate in his analysis. At the same time, they all couldn't help but shudder at the culprit's brutal methods.
Yun Feng's heart also lurched at this moment... This great detective is really not easy to fool... He easily solved the most crucial mystery... But it didn't matter. As long as the locked-room mystery wasn't solved, everything else was futile... Yun Feng had almost blind faith in Xiaoyu. He believed that with her extraordinary abilities, the locked room she meticulously created was simply unbreakable by anyone...