I'm on the scramble

"Is Kurokawa's room the one on the innermost side at the west end of the third floor?" In the boundless darkness of the corridor, Ah Li turned his head and asked, deliberately following the footsteps of Yan Yong next to him when he moved.

"That's right, the entire foreign-style building has three floors, and it's a concave structure. Because of Kurokawa's unsocial character, I pushed myself to the corner room on the third floor. In order to take care of each other, I lived in the room next to her. .”

Yan Yong nodded when he heard the words, holding an elegant and luxurious civilized stick in his right hand, and followed the two people beside him with light and heavy footprints.

"That day I heard footsteps outside the door and went out to take a look. I didn't expect to find her squatting alone not far from the stairs. Her spirit was very strange and she was obviously in a state of confusion. It took me a long time to call Unable to wake up, we had to send her back to the room to rest, but she did not regain consciousness for a long time, the situation is really worrying."

Hearing Yan Yong's words, Ah Li had an idea in his mind.

When a person encounters some unacceptable situations, his mental state will collapse like snowflakes, probably because he happened to encounter "something" and was stunned.

Thinking of this, this delicate-looking girl decisively patted the shoulder of the little tiger cat under her, and urged: "Dun Dun, run faster!"

Because of her previous words of 'preparing for the next battle', Dun, who jumped onto the "car" with a paralyzed face, had no choice but to carry her back upstairs and run upstairs: "Yes..."

The three of them went up the stairs and soon came to the door of the most remote room.After knocking a few times, he pushed the door open and went in, only to find that Kurokawa was still lying on the bed and not awake.

Her appearance was just as Jigao had described earlier, with a face with high cheekbones and thinness, a gloomy bone growing in the corners that was not very pleasing.At this moment, the face that was too pale was covered with fine sweat, and the hair was wet and knotted in strands as if wet by rain.

"Teacher..." Kurokawa murmured unconsciously on the bed, calling out chaotic and subtle, the volume was so low that it was difficult to hear clearly.

It seems that her condition has indeed not recovered, but there is still a solution.

Ah Li jumped off the back of the newcomer in his detective agency, and looked at the girl on the bed a few steps forward, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

After a while, she raised her eyes and reminded: "Dun Dun, I might do something 'excessive' to this child next time, if you can't accept it, you'd better avoid it now."

"Have...excessive things?!"

As soon as these words came out, Ah Li's 'wake people up with a fist', 'draw a knife and chop off their toes to wake them up', 'take boiling water to wake them up' and so on suddenly appeared in Dun's mind. The brutal way of waking up.

"No! No, Miss Li!! You can't do that—" Dun immediately spread his hands in horror and gestured in the air, trying to stop her atrocities.

It's a pity that it's already too late. Under Dun's flustered and Yan Yong's unclear sight, Ah Li half-kneeled on the edge of the bed, his eyes froze, and then he suddenly stretched out his hand and ruthlessly——

He pinched Kurokawa's people.

Dun's fingertips stayed in the air, as if he had been given a hold spell, and the scene was very quiet for a while.

After a while, he breathed a sigh of relief, and returned his hands to calm the agitation in his chest: "...that's great, so it's just like this."

Yan Yong, who was on the sidelines watching the whole process, slightly doubted his own three views: "??? Is this enough?"

——The bottom line is too low!

However, the silver-haired boy turned his head and explained numbly: "This is already a very gentle method of torture..."

"Other colleagues in our armed detective agency will either threaten to dismember a living person, or twist people on the ground and ask you 'do you want an arm or keep it secret', or just do it and throw you in a big car. The truck's per capita torture expert."

Yan Yong was silent for a long time after listening, and couldn't help but patted him on the shoulder: "...Your Armed Detective Agency, everyone is talented."

Dun raised his hand and wiped away a line of tears: "Yes, I really like being inside."

While they were chatting awkwardly here, Ah Li's kung fu of pinching someone out of the purple seal finally had some effect. With her touch, a certain evil black energy quietly escaped from the other party's body, and the thin girl on the bed was lying on the bed. She finally woke up faintly under the merciless violence.

The moment he opened his eyes, before Kurokawa could see the things around him clearly, he vaguely saw a strange delicate face appearing in front of his vision, with his lips parted and closed, and his voice buzzing like through the water curtain. came.

"Are you awake? I came here just to confirm one thing: You should be the witness who directly broke the murderer's crime scene, right? There is no need to explain, and there is not much time, so I will explain it clearly now—"

"Who killed Maruyama?"

The last sentence finally penetrated the barrier, pricking Kurokawa's nerves like a needle, recalling the scene of that night, her complexion turned pale instantly, and she nervously spoke the truth with trembling lips: "Yes, yes, I saw it! is her--"

"It was Shirose who killed the teacher! She was the one who ran out of the teacher's room in a panic that night with the blood-stained plaster wrapped in a white cloth!"

……

After listening to Kurokawa's testimony from the beginning to the end, Ari and Atsushi quickly walked out of her room with a heavy heart, racing towards a certain direction as if chasing time.

"How did this happen, Mr. Maruyama was actually killed by Shirase... Why on earth did she do this?" Dun quickly walked down the stairs, but his feet were so weak that he almost fell down.Judging by his absent face, it was obviously difficult to accept this fact for a while.

Before he learned the truth, he always thought that the murder was done by ghosts.

However, contrary to Dun's mood, Ah Li's eyes piercing through the darkness remained unwavering, but the face that could easily make people let down their vigilance curled his lips at this moment.

"Essentially 80.00% of the homicides in this world are committed by acquaintances. The motives are either out of love or out of profit. If you read a lot, you will know that there is nothing strange about it."

According to the testimony provided by Kurokawa, she passed the stairs by chance that night, and forgot the dinner time because she was alone in the room making specimens, so she wanted to go downstairs to the kitchen in the middle of the night to find food.

At that time, the sound of rain was so frequent that Shirase, who was in a panic under the cover of night, failed to notice Kurokawa, who had a low presence like a shadow.

It was she who saw the whole story of what happened.

In the early morning of that night, Shirase was not with Xiaogura at all, but came to the teacher's room for a tryst. As a result, a tragedy happened in the room that night. In desperation, Shirase fled with the "murder weapon" in a panic. At the scene, there is no time to pay attention to the surroundings.

So through the half-closed door that was blown open by the dark wind, Kurokawa witnessed Michio Maruyama lying in a pool of blood with his own eyes.

"The murder weapon is not any other sharp weapon, but something that already existed in Maruyama's room—if I'm right, it's the statue next to the bed."

"Statue?" Dun looked puzzled, "But..."

(There's nothing weird about that statue...Huh?)

A Li glanced at him quietly, then withdrew his gaze and spit out the suspicious point: "The statue shouldn't have lost both wrists, it should have kept the left hand—"

"Because that statue was completed according to the prototype of the housekeeper's wife."

As for the housekeeper's wife, what was actually gouged out was a pair of eyes, and only the right wrist that was artificially cut off.

The young man next to him was finally awakened by these words, and understood why he felt that the sculpture gave off a familiar feeling.

"That's because... the statue is what the housekeeper's wife looked like when she was young! Could it be that the statue still held something in its hand?!"

The more he thought about it, the more frightened Dun felt that the temperature around him was getting colder and colder, but at this moment, a scream came from downstairs.

Ah Li paused, and quickly grabbed Dun to speed up his pace: "No, Shirase might be a little dangerous."

Three 10 minutes before.

After experiencing such a terrible memory in the restaurant, Ji Gao finally woke up slowly under the care of Xiao Cang.At that time, she was lying on the couch in another guest room. Kato, who had cooperated with the police officer in the investigation, just happened to walk in. Seeing that she had woken up, his expression softened slightly.

"Are you okay, Yoshitaka?" Kato asked with concern.

The eyes of the bright woman lying on the sofa gradually dissipated the confusion, and after focusing, she immediately threw away Xiao Cang, got up and threw herself into Kato's arms: "Toshihiko-kun, I, I'm so scared—"

"Hey, it's too much to leave the person who takes care of you and throw yourself into the arms of 'other boyfriend' as soon as you wake up." Ogura reminded dissatisfiedly behind him, causing Kato to also look embarrassed.

When Yoshitaka was pointed out this point, his face suddenly turned blue and white, and he had to withdraw from Kato's arms, pretending to be arrogant and said to him: "It's just a subconscious reaction, who made you look so unreliable, Ogura— —”

But at this point, she herself felt embarrassed, so she hurriedly changed the subject.

"By the way, have you guys gone to find Cai Caijiang? You have to tell her about the discovery of the body again—I really can't stay in this poor house anymore!"

"Exactly, let's go together." Kato nodded and agreed, "I'm also worried whether she will be scared."

After discussing their actions, the three of them started to go out, heading towards Shirase's room on the second floor.Her room was at the east end of the second floor, on the same side as Mr. Maruyama's room next to the stairs.

"Ayana, how is your rest... Huh?"

However, when the few of them came to the door of Shirase's room and knocked on the door, they found that the wooden door creaked and turned open automatically.

The three entered in a file, and each looked around the room, but the inside was empty without Shirase.

"Caicaijiang isn't here? Where did she go?" Jigao folded his arms around his chest, seeing this scene, he couldn't help feeling suspicious, "Why is there a strange smell in this room..."

'Ring ring ring—'

At this moment, a piercing bell rang suddenly in the silent room.

"Xiao Cang, is it your phone that rang?" Jigao rubbed his arms inexplicably feeling a little cold around him, and looked at the position of his companion beside him without doubting him.

"Ah? No." Xiao Cang took out the mobile phone in his trouser pocket and looked at it according to his words. It was a black screen.

"Wait..." Among the three, Kato was the first to notice something was wrong, opened his mouth, and explained with a pale face: "There should be no signal on this island, how could it be possible to make a call?"

As soon as he said this, the other two suddenly felt a thump in their hearts.

"Then...then where did the phone ring from..." Xiao Cang asked in fear.

Several people held their breath at the same time, trying to listen patiently to where the sound came from.

In the dimness, the invisible fear was infinitely magnified, and the mechanical phone kept ringing incessantly, finally, almost at the same moment, their heads turned to the direction of the closet.

'Ring ring ring...ring ring ring...'

The only wardrobe in the room was tightly closed, and a strange crimson liquid leaked out from the slender gap at the bottom of the cabinet door, paving a winding bloody trace on the ground.

This ominous color suddenly bombarded the brains of several people, and Kato's face froze. In the end, he bravely took a few steps forward and came to the closet alone. After taking a few deep breaths, he pulled Open the two cabinet doors.

Almost in an instant, a strong, nauseating bloody smell spread throughout the room.

In the closet, hangs a female corpse that has been dead for a long time. The neck and body are broken in half with a rope as the boundary, and the eye nucleus is protruding, as if suffering extreme fear before dying, staring at the person who opened the closet before dying. Kato.

Her chest and abdomen were cut open cruelly, and her organs were exposed to the air. Piles of blood stained her pure white clothes into dirty scarlet, like a blooming blood-colored camellia on her own body, dripping down continuously. Bleeding.

——It’s Ayana Shirase.

Ji Gao couldn't help but let out a scream of extreme terror.

"Ahhhhh!!"

Amidst the chaotic and noisy shouts, the private mobile phone that was casually discarded in the closet still rang tirelessly, the faint light illuminated the narrow closet, and the name of [Maruyama Michio] was flashing on the cold mobile phone screen.

It was as weird as if an evil spirit had come to repay this blood debt.