Chapter 24 (Act 3) Scene 4 The reception room

The next morning was sunny outside.There was a sound of hammering something with a mallet.The three criminal policemen nestled on the sofa again. What are you doing?What are you knocking on? The two female soldiers said they had to plug the ventilation holes, but because it was uncomfortable to see, Tokai and Kusaka played chivalry and were hammering hammers there.Kusaka said that he would also block his room by the way. Well, that's reassuring.But the sound of the hammer made people feel restless, and there was a New Year's Eve atmosphere. It is indeed noisy. At this time, another louder man walked in, and he didn't know whether he was calling someone or something, shouting words of unknown meaning.

Mr. Namdaemun! No one responded, and the reception room fell into an extremely embarrassing silence. Mitarai seemed to find it incredible and tilted her head.The inspector probably sensed that he might be calling himself with his sixth sense, so he stood up.He really knows Mitarai very well. I am Anan Excuse me, could you tell me how to get to the Wakkanai branch, please? no problem. Mitarai, as long as he heard someone's birth date once, he would immediately remember it, but he couldn't remember the name of the person, and then he would yell casually.And if he made a mistake once, no matter how many times he was corrected, he would still continue to call that wrong name.

When Mitarai hurried out of the reception room, Kosaburo appeared. Ah, Mr. Hamamoto.Big Bear stopped him. Kosaburo came over, smoking his pipe, and sat down beside Daikuma.So Niu Yue asked, "Where did that great detective go?" That person is special. It's outrageously weird, a lunatic at all. He took off Golem's head and said he would send it to the Appraisal Division for another appraisal.It seems that there is something wrong with the doll's head. nerve-wracking It looks like he might take our heads off too.Big Bear said, maybe you should ask the pickpocket class in the department store.

I don't want to die with that idiot.Ozaki said categorically, but I think he will soon start dancing as you said.Maybe he will start to act as soon as he comes back. Shall we sir get ready? Now is not the time for jokes.By the way, why would he want to take his head off?Ozaki asked Kosaburo seriously. this I don't see any reason at all. That would get in the way of dancing. Although it can be disassembled freely, I still don't want the doll's head to be removed frequently.Is he looking for fingerprints? Is that master so smart?It's not much better for Big Bear to forget himself.

Fingerprints have already been investigated.Niu Yue said. Did you find anything?Kosaburo asked. Lately, especially with this type of smart crime, investigating fingerprints is of no use at all.Prisoners also watch TV.Moreover, if the murderer is really a member of this family, then there is no extravagant hope.Even if someone touched the doorknob, it was natural. makes sense. It was already after noon when Mitarai returned to the Ryuhyokan.He seemed to have encountered something good, and continued to cross the reception room with that excited expression and came to my seat. I came back in the car of the forensic doctor, and he said that he happened to be here on business.

Yeah?I answer. So I invited him over for a cup of tea.Mitarai spoke as if this was his own home. A man in a white robe just walked in from the entrance.Only then did Mitarai remember that she should make tea, so she yelled. Mr. Namdaemun, could you please call Mr. Ohara? I don't know what he was thinking, but he remembered Ohara's surname well.Anan, leaning against the wall near the kitchen, disappeared behind the house without making any protest.It appears he has decided to change his surname. While sipping black tea, the big clock in the reception room rang three times.At this time, the people staying in the reception room, if you want to write clearly here, of course include me and Mitarai, as well as the three detectives and Anan.Kozaburo Hamamoto, Kanai couple, Yoshihiko Hamamoto, Hayakawa couple, and Ohara figure looming in the kitchen.In other words, the four people who did not appear in the reception room were Eiko, Kumi, Tokai, and Kusaka.The forensic doctor who claimed to be Nagata was also sitting beside us at that time.

Suddenly, a man's roar came from afar.It doesn't give the impression of screaming, but the kind of scream that comes from seeing something unbelievable. Mitarai kicked off the chair, stood up, and ran towards Room 12. I glanced reflexively at the big clock in the corner.Not even five points.It was about 3:4:30. The criminal policeman was still guessing where the sound came from and where he should run, but he was unwilling to obey Mitarai, and only Niu Yue and Anan followed him. I think the owner of the voice should be Kusaka or Tokai, because among the people who didn't appear, the rest are women.But I can't tell which of the two it is.Mitarai knocked desperately on No. 13's door without hesitation.

Sunset!Sunset! He took out a handkerchief to wrap around the doorknob, and turned it rattling. The door is locked!Mr. Hamamoto, do you have a spare key? Kang Ping, hurry up and call Yingzi.She has a spare key. Kang Ping rushed away immediately. Come on, please let me go! Ozaki, who came late, said from the side, and knocked on the door violently again.But no matter who tried it, the result was the same. Do you want to break in? No, wait for the key first.Niu Yue said. Yingzi came running. Please wait a moment.Is this one?Give me. The key is inserted and turned.There was a click, and there was indeed the sound of the lock opening.Ozaki hurriedly turned the doorknob, but for some reason, the door couldn't be opened.

really!Another lock was also locked.Kosaburo said. In addition to the button lock in the center of the doorknob in each room, there is also an oval protrusion under the doorknob. Just turn it around, and the iron piece will protrude from the side, and then lock it again.This lock can only be operated from the inside. crash it. Niu Yue made a decision.Ozaki and Anan kept hitting the door with their bodies, and finally broke the door. Hikaru was lying on his back in the middle of the room.The medical books on the table were still open, and there was no sign of a fight in the room. In the sweater under the sun, a mountaineering knife exactly the same as before was inserted near the heart, with a white rope hanging from the handle as before.At the same time, the biggest difference from before is that Kusaka's chest is still rising and falling.

He is still alive.Mitarai said. His face was pale, and his eyelids seemed to be slightly open. As soon as Ozaki entered the room, he looked around and observed.At this moment, I, too, followed him and saw a place on the wall that was clearly different from this sequence of events.There was a small piece of paper nailed to the wall. What do you see?What should you see?answer me!Ozaki screamed, trying to grab Kusaka's wrist.Mitarai stopped him. Mr. Namdaemun, there should be a stretcher in the car outside, please get it quickly! What did you say?Why do we have to follow your orders for an inexplicable person like you?The lunatic step aside for me, don't get in our way, let the experts handle it here.

Of course it should.Brother, come on, let's step aside.Doctor Nagata, sorry for your trouble. Dr. Nagata in a white robe pushed us away and walked into the room. The situation is dangerous.He can't say anything now, please don't talk to him.So say the experts. At this time, under the command of Mitarai Mingkai, the stretcher was brought.Nagata and Mitarai carefully put Hiakata on the stretcher. There was almost no bloodshed at all.Nagata and Anan lifted the stretcher and were about to walk out when something unimaginable happened: Hideko Hamamoto threw herself on the stretcher crying. Under the sun, you can't die.she cried. Hukai, who appeared from nowhere, also saw this scene. Ozaki, who stayed in the room, carefully removed the small piece of paper nailed to the wall.It seemed that it was obviously left by the prisoner.certainly!At that time, he did not immediately disclose the contents of the paper, but when I was allowed to see it later, there were a few simple sentences written on it: Mr. Tokai, where are you around three o'clock? A person from the household was called to a corner of the reception room alone, and Niu Yue asked in a deep voice. I go for a walk outside.Because the weather is fine, I have something to think about. Can anyone prove your words? Unfortunately I think so too.Don't be offended when I say this, because it's not like you didn't have a motive to kill Higoka. This is too much and I am hit more than anyone right now. Both Kumi and Eiko claimed to be in their rooms.The confessions of these two people were extremely ordinary, but what followed by Ohara's confession made even the strong-hearted detective panic. I didn't think it was meaningful before, so I didn't say, no, it wasn't when Mr. Kusaka was killed.It was the night Kikuoka-san was killed, and I was standing leaning against the pillar at the kitchen entrance.At this time, I heard the sound of a blizzard mixed with the sound of a snake crawling. snake?The detective almost jumped up in surprise, what time was it? About eleven o'clock. Just in time for the murderer to kill. Did others hear it too? I asked Kang Ping and they said they didn't hear it. I thought I heard it wrong, so I kept silent.sorry. About that voice, please tell me more about it. How can I say this?Except for the whistling sound, it seems a bit like a woman's sobbing sound.The sound is very thin.When Mr. Kusaka had an accident, I didn't notice it. The sobbing of a woman? The detectives looked at each other.This is simply strange talk. What about when Kazuya Ueda was killed? I did not notice.sorry. So, is it only when Kikuoka dies? Yes. The police officer questioned other people one by one about the strange voice.But no one had heard that voice except Ohara. How is this going?Is it true or not?Da Xiong said to the two criminal policemen that he couldn't bear it.I'm going crazy.what is going on?I don't get it at all! I'm also at my wit's end. There shouldn't be some terrible demon inhabiting here, right?Or the house itself is the devil.It can only be said that this house has the willpower to kill people.Especially this day's homicide case is definitely not something that humans can do.If anyone could do it, it's this house. Otherwise, there is some amazing mechanism.For example, use the machine to lift the entire room, or shoot a throwing knife, and make a 360-degree turn, said Ozaki. If this is the case, then the murderer is not the guest, but Niu Yue, who is in charge of entertaining. So Big Bear went on to say: But the murderer couldn't be found.I think that if you want to find out among these eleven people, Aigura is the most suspicious.After all, the fact that the puppet was peeping from the window was strange.How could such a ridiculous thing happen?Absolutely impossible.In this way, it is of course fabricated.She seemed like the kind of woman who would tell a lie, and she had no alibi for any of the three murders. But Brother Big Bear, in this case, a strange situation will appear.That Kumi should have never seen Gorem in Room 3 before the 29th.But the appearance she confessed was exactly the same as that puppet even in small places.Ozaki said. Big Bear wrinkled his nose and muttered to himself: But no matter what, the murderer is definitely not among these people who meet us every day.There must be some monster lurking here.Now I can only search thoroughly.The walls and ceiling are to be stripped.Especially the thirteenth and fourteenth.There is only this way.Don't you think, Brother Niu Yue? yes.Although tomorrow is the first day of the first lunar month, I don't really want to do such an unsightly thing, but the murderer probably won't rest because of the Chinese New Year, maybe this is the only way. At this time Mitarai passed by. What happened, fortune teller?Didn't you say that there will be no more corpses after you come? Big Bear deliberately sarcastically said.Mitarai didn't say anything about it, but looked a little listless.