[Death] Acacia inkstone

"The relationship between them has always been disharmonious." Hua Yuan stopped here for a moment, as if thinking about what to say, she pinned a strand of hair hanging from her forehead behind her ear, and continued: "Rina Takeuchi She and Akiyama Reomi have always been at odds, you already know that, because she likes Remi's boyfriend Kaga. But, what you don't know is..."

"Mr. Okamoto also has conflicts with Akiyama." Sakurai Kaoru answered lightly.

There was a look of surprise in Hua Yuan's eyes, she turned to Kaoru Sakurai, with a look of disbelief on her face: "You actually know?"

Kaoru Sakurai nodded: "I found that their attitudes towards each other are not very friendly, but I don't know why."

The sound of the rain outside the window was getting louder, and the raindrops were hitting the window, making people always feel that this was a harbinger of a storm.

"Your feeling is right." Hua Yuan lowered his eyes, and said something that Sakurai Kaoru never thought of: "Before coming to the criminal investigation team, Mr. Okamoto and Remi were lovers."

"Ah?" Kaoru Sakurai was very surprised, and couldn't help sighing: "I think the Criminal Investigation Team of Karakura Town has to be renamed. It would be nice to call it the Gossip Squad."

"However, according to Remi Akiyama's character, the reason why she broke up with Mr. Okamoto is that she fell in love with another person, unsurprisingly," Sakurai Kaoru took a sip of water from the cup, and the idea of ​​what they were going to do together appeared in his mind. When the boat came to Datura Island, Remi Akiyama's cheeks looked extraordinarily charming in the sun: "So, I suddenly remembered that when I was detained by that psychopath Takikawa half a month ago, she seemed to be the one who notified the captain. .”

Hua Yuan's complexion suddenly darkened, but she quickly calmed down the subtle expression, and her expression returned to normal: "Although these conflicts between them are not enough to constitute a motive for killing, it may be that the entire Datula Island One of the causes of the incident. Everyone in the group has their own eccentricities. These details may seem insignificant, but I think we still need to understand."

"Hua Yuan is right." Dongshiro nodded irrefutably. He had been just frowning and thinking, and did not speak: "The case has developed to this point, and there are still several doubts that have not been resolved. Rina Takeuchi The cause of death was undoubtedly poisoning, but we still don't know how the murderer poisoned her. The poison came out very quickly, so it can be seen that the time of her poisoning should be when she rushed outside the villa alone. There is obviously no toxin on the phone, Sakurai touched it at the time, and nothing happened—”

Sensing the cold gaze cast by the captain, Sakurai Kaoru only felt a tingle in her back, and she quickly laughed dryly twice: "Ahem, captain, I can guarantee that there is no poison on Takeuchi's cell phone. Because I chewed it later I forgot to wash my hands when eating apples..."

Dong Shilang looked away a little annoyed, she was always so casual, and she was really not afraid of danger.He didn't look at her again, and said sternly: "We don't have corresponding equipment on the island, so Nishiura Yantai can't carry out toxin testing. But the murderer obviously controlled the time of the crime precisely, I think we may have missed something The key stuff."

"Another doubtful point is the cause of the fire when Kaga died. The fire at that time was obviously not caused by a piece of incense. I think the murderer may have used some tricks to make him accidentally knock down the wine bottle on the shelf. It caused a big fire." Dong Shilang leaned back slightly, leaning on the back of the chair, with a tired look on his brows: "This is probably what I will talk about in today's meeting. I think if the case is to make progress, it should More clues are needed. You must pay more attention these days."

"Understood, Captain." Hua Yuan answered quickly, with a strange color in her beautiful eyes, she looked at Dong Shilang with a serious tone: "Captain, you need to rest more, don't worry about it." Make yourself too tired."

"That..." Sakurai Kaoru actually couldn't bear to interrupt the concerned Izumo of Kahara, but she had to clarify a question: "Huahara, I have something to ask you."

"What?" Hua Yuan turned his head, somewhat puzzled.

"You said you had a sister before, what's her name?"

Sakurai Kaoru can be sure that for a moment, she saw Huayuan's face covered with haze.

"Why did you mention her? You clearly know that I have a bad relationship with her." Hua Yuan's voice was cold, but she was originally a soft-spoken person.

"Your sister, is her name Huayuan Qianyin?"

"How did you know?" Hua Yuan showed a startled expression, but soon returned to his previous indifferent look: "She and I are just sisters in generations, and we don't actually have much blood relationship."

"I don't like her at all, I even hate her a little bit. If it wasn't for her, I would have been with the person I love a long time ago." Hua Yuan's voice was so calm that it couldn't be calmer, but there was a gloomy coldness mean.

"So your older sister robbed the person you love?" Sakurai Kaoru met Kahara Izumo when she was still in Mao.At that time, Huayuan, who had excellent grades and a beautiful appearance, was quite well-known in Zhenzhong Central, especially after she graduated with the first place in the same class, there were many more suitors and admirers.But very few people know that Huayuan once had a sister, she almost never mentioned it herself, even Kaoru Sakurai knew about it, and she heard her mention it to someone else by chance.

"No, that person wasn't hers in the end." Hua Yuan sneered suddenly: "Even though Qianyin was willing to die for that person in the end, it didn't change anything."

"Are you saying that your sister has actually been dead for a long time?" Sakurai Kaoru suddenly felt a little confused, because according to what Huayuan said, it was impossible for her to know Huayuan Qianyin, and she should not even know the name.

"Who knows." Huayuan's expression was a little strange, her eyes fell on Sakurai Kaoru, with indistinguishable complex emotions: "Maybe he's dead, maybe he's not."

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Kaoru Sakurai and Toshiro walked side by side in the corridor. Their rooms happened to be the two opposite to each other on the far right of the floor, while Huayuan's residence was on the other side opposite them.

"Sakurai." Toshiro felt in his heart that Kaoru Sakurai has become more and more strange these days, always looking absent-minded, as if thinking about something: "Do you know something else?"

Sakurai Kaoru was thinking about what Huayuan said just now, but when she heard Toshiro call her, she couldn't help being stunned for a moment: "Ah...no. Captain, if I knew something important, I would have told you. "

"Captain, I've known you for so many years, don't you know me?" Sakurai Kaoru smiled faintly and patted his arm: "As long as there is any progress in the case, I will tell you immediately .”

Dong Shilang looked at her helplessly, but didn't speak again.Sakurai Kaoru must have something to hide from him, but it has nothing to do with the case, her own thoughts.

It is useless to ask about many things. Kaoru Sakurai is actually very good at hiding.

boom--

Suddenly there was a blunt sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.Kaoru Sakurai, who was twisting the doorknob at the door of her room, stopped and turned her head to meet Toshiro's gaze. She nodded, then pulled out the key neatly, and followed Toshiro toward the escalator.

The dull sound actually came from the study on the first floor.

When Toshiro and Sakurai Kaoru arrived at the door of the study, no one else had arrived yet.

When Kaoru Sakurai saw the scene inside the door, the guesses in his mind were almost inseparable.On such a so-called cursed island full of datura flowers, the only thing that can happen is the tragedy of killing people.

Makoto Okamoto's body was lying in a pool of blood, with an overturned wrought iron vase on one side.Kaoru Sakurai stepped over carefully, and pulled out a piece of paper from the middle-aged man in his 40s.

This is actually a letter with a very simple content, only one sentence:

The bookshelf in the study room is on the fourth floor from top to bottom, and the No. 15 book from the right contains what you want.

Kaoru Sakurai frowned, turned around and handed the letter to Toshiro: "Captain, this is what Mr. Okamoto was holding before he died. I'll go and see what that book is."

Stepping over Makoto Okamoto's body, Kaoru Sakurai came to the bookshelf, and quickly counted out the corresponding book according to the instructions in the letter.

"It's actually Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose." She sighed, took out the book, and briefly flipped through it.The footer of a page in the book was folded, and Kaoru Sakurai had already guessed it in her heart. She turned to that page and glanced at it, with a disappointed expression on her face.

"Captain, this page in the book has been marked, and a section of the lyrics has been specially circled." Kaoru Sakurai walked to the captain and pointed to the text for him: "It's a pity that this doesn't mean much to us." Not a clue."

Buildit upwithhironandsteel,

Iron and steel, iron and steel,

Buildit upwithhironandsteel,

My fair lady.

Iron and steel will bend and bow,

Bendandbow, bendandbow,

Iron and steel will bend and bow,

My fair lady.

"The murderer just needs to deliver the letter to Makoto Okamoto's room." Dongshiro pulled out a fishing line from the side of the corpse: "The murderer carefully arranged a trap, and this fishing line is part of the trap."

"But what's strange to me is," Dong Shilang glanced at the bookshelves on both sides from the corner of his eye: "The murderer didn't hide the crime method at all, as if he didn't care that the crime method was discovered."

Sakurai Kaoru followed the place Dongshiro looked at just now, and found that the bookshelves on both sides of the aisle were nailed with a long nail at knee height, which was probably used to wind the fishing line. A little bleak: "Maybe it's because the murderer is confident that even if we know the method, we won't be able to find him."

"And we really can't." The person I met not long ago has turned into a cold corpse at this moment. Sakurai Kaoru couldn't help feeling a pang in her heart, and she sighed: "The villa on the island It is a common thing to have fishing lines, but there is no way to investigate this case."

"The murderer placed the vase on the top of the bookshelf, with the bottom half hanging in the air, and then cushioned it with something like a stone to maintain balance. Then tied the fishing line to the stone and pulled it down, around the spikes on the bookshelf, and pulled it across the corridor. , fixed by the spikes on the other side of the bookshelf." Sakurai Kaoru reached out and touched the cold iron nails, and gradually climbed up the cold feeling on her back, she felt that the murderer was driving her to a desperate situation step by step, maybe A few days later, she will have nowhere to escape: "In this case, as long as Mr. Okamoto passes here, the vase above his head will definitely fall down."

"He will surely die."

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