Takei Ayanokoji's Tool Man Guide

Some people have said that when encountering a scene that cannot be explained by common sense, it is the same as encountering a fire. When escaping, never use the elevator.

The act of fleeing into the "safe area" because of impatience, in this case, is more like throwing himself into a situation of embarrassment and isolation.

While approaching the direction of the escape stairs, I picked up the headset and began to listen to the voices in Room 703, while paying attention to the movement around me.However, shortly after I left the door, I could feel that my muscles were still flaccid, indicating that the other party did not really notice my existence.

The "muscles are still in a relaxed state" I said here does not mean that I have a magical and unique ability to use my body organs to sense my surroundings.Most people in this world have this ability, the difference lies in whether they have been trained in this aspect.

In the University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland, Alan Peña once organized a survey on the entry point of "visual cortex".His findings suggest that the amygdala, which is active in the brain, allows people to perceive a subtle "being watched" feeling even when they are not looking directly at someone/object/scene.

This shows that even outside the field of vision, the unconscious visual system can monitor.

To give a simple example, some people are walking on the road and occasionally feel that someone is following them. When they look back, they find that someone is following them sneakily.

So, I don't have any super powers, but I can clearly feel that no one is following me.So, I went back again, walked directly into the room 701 I booked, faced the partition wall with room 701, and listened to the sound inside.

It stands to reason that there should be no one in the house.

I mean, "nobody" in "nobody's coming back."

After the woman and the black-haired man met, they took all the weapons out of the room, as if the room was just a meeting place for them, not a hiding place for planning.

After meeting and checking the equipment, they don't need to stay in this place any longer.

Therefore, the room is empty at the moment, but when they left it was not the normal check-out time, or they did not care about the normal procedures, so the current room is not in the "check-out state".

Now, there are more than three possibilities for people appearing in the room.

First, they found the camera I left on purpose in the house, waiting to catch a fish in the urn, quietly lurking in the house, wondering who the hell did it.The reason why I did it on purpose is that in retrospect, I also feel a little boring. I just want to see their efforts to catch the perpetrator.

Inexplicably want to experience the game of cat and mouse.

Second, they didn't notice my webcam.After leaving, their opponents followed the clues to their room and tried to find any clues.

Third, they didn't notice my webcam.After leaving, there was a reason, and he returned to his own house,

Because other contingencies have to be considered, there are many possible answers.That's why I need to listen carefully to what's going on in Room 703. I need clues.

In fact, normally speaking, although I am curious about this city, I just have the mentality to try new things first.I think it is enough to understand the inner laws of magic circuits and magic.

After all, I didn't come to this city to pursue the truth of "whether there is magic in this world".Pay attention to "Fuyuki City with abundant spirit veins", just to add some adjustable elements to the predictable boring days, just like food lovers will also pay attention to local unique food when they are on a business trip. After all, it is a kind of adjustment way of working.

I originally thought that if I set up a camera to monitor the object of my suspicion—the man and woman who are suspected to be lovers, I could get some deeper and more detailed information from them.But now it can be inferred from the sound of rummaging from the next room that it doesn't seem to be either of them.

I was listening carefully when the sound in the headset suddenly stopped.I looked down subconsciously, and it turned out that Tanizaki's phone cut off the sound of the monitoring software on the phone.

I ignored it.

Because in fact, I don't particularly like answering the phone, so I installed a "voice robot" software on my phone.Anyone who calls me will never succeed in calling me for the first time, and the voice robot will help me reply "I am busy".

Such a voice robot has helped me isolate a lot of boring and boring calls.If there is something urgent, they will immediately make a second call or leave a text message; if there is no urgent matter, they will naturally not make a second call.As for the question of replying, I will wait until I have time before thinking about whether to call back.

So I just waited for Tanizaki to hang up the phone naturally according to the usual practice. As a result, Tanizaki hung up the phone quickly, but called again in less than two seconds, so I picked up the phone after counting for five seconds.

"Tanizaki-kun, what's wrong?"

Tanizaki's panicked voice sounded.

Because he was in a hurry and spoke quickly, as if someone was chasing him.

"Ah! Ayanokōji, that's great!! You just answered the phone!

Something big happened, really! !There is something wrong with the cake you bought!Mr. Ranpo fell down in less than a minute after eating.I can't scream no matter what, and I don't know what happened!An ambulance is being called to the city hospital now, and we will go to the hospital for an examination soon.

I saved the cake and sent it for testing, hoping to find out what kind of poison it was.

I saw that Mr. Ranpo's complexion was rosy, and he felt as if he had been poisoned by cyanide, but he didn't smell of bitter almonds. "

Normally, the complexion of the poisoned person will be abnormal, it may be dark purple, it may be blue, or it may be pale.For people who have been exposed to poison or carbon monoxide, the body's hemoglobin will lose its ability to carry oxygen, so that the skin will appear cherry red.

And because of this ruddy complexion, people around them often misunderstand and don't take the poisoned person's situation seriously.

When Tanizaki said it, I was actually trying to explain that cyanide is not fatal in one bite.Their toxicity has been exaggerated in film and television novels. After all, it is for a broad audience, and directors and authors cannot openly teach people how to harm people correctly.

But I don't think it makes sense to explain this, and I'm not the host of a popular science program.In addition, Tanizaki called to remind me of the key things such as "where will they go after that" and "don't touch the cake".He was also in a hurry to finish speaking and was about to hang up the phone.

Before he hung up, I raised my voice and said, "It's all right."

"Ok?"

"He just took my sleeping pills and is sleeping now."

"Ok??"

Tanizaki has no idea what I'm talking about right now.

"When did Mr. Ranpo take your sleeping pills? I don't even know, how did you know?"

It's a very simple thing.

"I knew he would steal the cake, so I put it in the cake on purpose."

Tanizaki repeated the words "ah", "um" and "this" back and forth, which is enough to show the entanglement and confusion in his heart, and finally boiled down to a confirmation——

"So, Mr. Ranpo is sleeping?"

"Well, just cover him with a quilt."

I'm going to hang up the phone after I finish speaking.

Tanizaki hurriedly stopped me, and carefully asked his own words: "How did you know that Mr. Ranpo would eat cake? Why did you put sleeping pills in the cake? Is that why you don't like Mr. Ranpo?"

"If I really wanted to mess with him, I would put laxatives in the cake instead of just letting him fall asleep. Moreover, I made it obvious that if he wasn't greedy, or provoking me on purpose, he would He won't eat cake, either."

I paused and said.

"It's all his choice."

Tanizaki was silent for quite a long time, when I took down the phone to check if I was still on the call, he suddenly said something.

"I feel, Ayanokōji, you seem to know Mr. Ranpo very well? Is this my illusion?"

"Well," I'm not sure how to put it, "I know him only a little bit."

Just a little bit, a few words can finish.

There is still work to be done.