The police in Gunma County were busy until midnight, searching the hotel inside and outside, as well as around the hot springs, before closing the team and leaving.

However, the result was not ideal at all.

The murderer hasn't been found yet, so Yamamura can only take two policemen to squeeze in the remaining vacant room of the hotel for one night.

Early the next morning, everyone gathered in the hall again.

Everyone was haggard, even Kurosawa Jin was not as energetic as usual because of a whole night of dreams.

Among the crowd, the radiant Yamamura Cao and his two subordinates stood out from the crowd.

Yamamura said proudly: "This is a strong psychological quality."

The three policemen took their seats, and Katsumura Jun and Katsumura Yuna brought up the prepared breakfast.

Yuna Katsumura looked around and asked Rina Ogura, "Miss Ogura, is Mr. Horiuchi awake yet?"

"I don't know, I knocked on the door before I went downstairs, but no one responded." Rina Ogura frowned.

"Maybe he's still sleeping." Watanabe Hara interjected, "He came to us last night and asked us to tell him about the curse. He thinks this case is very interesting, maybe it can be written into a novel."

"Mr. Horiuchi wants to create another best-selling novel like "The Lost Lover". It's really possible." Rina Ogura couldn't sit still, she said: "I'd better go upstairs and make sure to wake him up, so that he doesn't have another Day and night turned upside down."

Yuna Katsumura looked at her hurrying back and sighed: "It's a waste of youth to learn anything by being around such a person."

Kurosawa Yaoyao looked curiously at Yuna Katsumura who was sighing.

Yuna Katsumura smiled embarrassedly, and put the ramen in the tray in front of the two of them, without any intention of explaining.

Rina Ogura went upstairs to find Taku Horiuchi, and the others began to enjoy breakfast.

The ramen is rich and delicious.

Kurosawa Yaoyao fell in love with it after only one bite.

"Is it delicious? Ah Zhen." Kurosawa Yaoyao asked.

"Not bad." Kurosawa Zhen looked calm and relieved, obviously in a good mood.

Heize Yaoyao suggested: "Then I'll let Saburo learn it, and I will make it for you at home in the future."

Kurosawa looked at Zhu Fu Jingguang who looked haggard, and nodded lightly, "That's probably all he has to do."

"Haha, yes!" Kuisawa Yaoyao smiled unkindly.

Because Zhu Fu Jingguang was hit too hard by his childhood playmates, he didn't sleep well all night, and he was sleepy at this time. He didn't expect the two heartless people to hurt him so much.

He looked at the two of them speechlessly, "I heard you."

"That's just right, you think of a way, show your powerful... ability, learn the skills, and whether our Mr. Kurosawa can eat delicious ramen at home in the future depends on you." Kurosawa Yaoyao is wicked. said.

Zhu Fu Jingguang, "...you are breaking the law by doing this!"

Also, what is behind the "powerful" is probably an undercover agent!

"I don't aim to make a profit." Kuisawa Yaoyao said innocently: "Besides, you are the one who stole it, not me."

Zhu Fu Jingguang, "..."

As expected of Gin's wife, shameless enough.

Kurosawa Yaoyao added: "Ah, remember to learn cold noodles by the way."

Now, Zhu Fu Jingguang, who was an undercover police officer and still hasn't given up on his mission, silently kept his face away from the two villains, and went to Zejian's old grandma's table.

Kurosawa Yaoyao didn't care at all, and turned her head to enjoy breakfast with Mr. Kurosawa, "Ah Zhen, do you still dream in the second half of the night?"

"Hmm." Mr. Kurosawa answered with a nasal voice, sucking on the noodles.

"What did you dream about?" Kurosawa Yaoyao asked curiously.

After Kurosawa finished chewing the noodles in his mouth, he said, "Dark sea water."

Kurosawa Yaoyao, "..."

She felt that Kurosawa Jin's dream was aimed at her.

She is afraid of water, and his ideal country is the sea.

Kurosawa said: "As we get closer to the red light, the boundless darkness reveals its true colors. It is not darkness, but the sea. I seem to be in the depths of the sea, approaching the sea surface little by little."

Kurosawa frowned.

It would be fine if this was just an ordinary dream, but this is Kurosawa Jin's utopia.

Such an ideal country is obviously not right.

"Apart from the sea?" Hei Ze Yaoyao asked again: "Is there anything else, other than water?"

Even a sunken giant ship full of gold coins will do!

"It seems to be black, I'm not sure what it is yet." Kurosawa said.

Kurosawa Yaoyao lowered her eyes in deep thought.

"From a psychological point of view, what do these dreams represent?" Jin Kurosawa asked Mrs. Kurosawa, his personal doctor.

"It means that your heart is depressed and dull, but you yearn for the light." Hei Ze Yaoyao analyzed seriously, "You are running from the bottom of the sea to the surface of the sea, which is a process of trying to grasp hope."

But obviously, the situation of Kurosawa Jin cannot be interpreted by ordinary psychology.

Kurosawa Yaoyao said: "Don't worry, it will be fine soon, I believe in you."

"Which eye of yours sees me worried?" Kurosawa chuckled and said, "On the contrary, you seem to be very concerned about this matter, and didn't sleep well last night."

Kurosawa Yaoyao, "...Yes! I'm worried."

Worried that you will remember, and worried that you will not remember.

It feels like hypnotizing Kurosawa this time is asking for guilt.

Rina Ogura ran down the stairs in a hurry and said eagerly, "Mr. Horiuchi is not in the room."

"What?" Zuo Zuo Caiai exclaimed, "Could it be that he fled in fear of crime."

"What, who absconded in fear of crime." Yamamura raised his head from the delicious ramen, his face full of doubts.

The policeman next to him said, "Horiuchi Takumi is missing."

Rina Ogura said: "I searched upstairs, but Mr. Horiuchi was nowhere to be seen, but his things are still there, it doesn't look like he fled in fear of crime."

Yoshino Osamu smiled strangely, and said, "Maybe it's at the hot spring. Last night, according to what he said, he seemed to want to go to the scene of the crime to find inspiration while the police were resting."

"Damn it, how dare you destroy the scene of the crime." Shancun slapped the table angrily, and led two of his men to the hot spring.

The body was taken away last night, but the case has not been solved yet, and no one is allowed to approach the crime scene.

Hei Ze Yaoyao said with half-moon eyes: "This person really knows how to die."

At noon yesterday, when they first arrived, Taku Horiuchi went to the scene of the crime with the police on his back today because of a bottle of wine.

It's like using life to perform one hundred and eight forms of death.

"That's why he died." Kurosawa Zhen said lightly, without any waves in his calm voice.

Hei Ze Yaoyao barely choked, she lowered her voice and asked, "What do you mean?"

Kurosawa ate the last noodle in the bowl calmly, put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth, and said: "In the photos provided by Watanabe Hara and the others, the water in the three hot springs is red, which means that a total of three people will die. .If breakfast doesn’t show up, it’s dead.”

Hei Ze Yaoyao said in horror: "Then you still eat? Let's go and have a look."

"It doesn't matter, I'm a detective, as long as it's time to solve the case." Kuisawa Zhen pressed Kurosawa Yaoyao's shoulder to make people not worry, "Besides, if you go now, what you see is not a fresh corpse, no difference."

Kurosawa Yaoyao, "..."

Is this the difference between Detective Kurosawa and Detective Edogawa?

Gin, even if he has the brains of more than a hundred Mori Kogoro, he probably won't be able to become a real detective.

Perhaps, in the future, when the family really can't open the pot, he can be asked to write a memoir and publish a best-selling book, which is more profitable than being a detective.

Almost at the moment when Kurosawa Yaoyao finished eating the noodles, a piercing scream completely interrupted everyone's breakfast.

It was Rina Ogura who screamed.

When Detective Kurosawa arrived with his well-fed wife, what he saw was almost the same murder scene as last night.

Horiuchi Taku died, and he died in the No. [-] hot spring in the middle.

The same arteries in both hands were cut, and he lost too much blood to die; he was also soaked in a hot spring after death, and the whole pool of water was stained red with blood.

"How could this be?" Yuna Katsumura grabbed her husband's hand with an unpredictable expression.

Katsumura pulled his wife behind him so that no one could see what was wrong with her.

Different from the last time, this time Detective Kurosawa followed the police into the crime scene and carefully inspected the body.

The situation of Horiuchi Takumi is similar to that of Sawamiya.

Kurosawa asked the police to pick up the body, checked it, and knew it by heart.

He said to Shancun Cao: "Let the forensics class check carefully to see if he has taken sleeping pills."

"Yes." Shancuncao, the new boy, was very obedient, and immediately took out his mobile phone and called someone.

Although he is not as smart as Vodka, he is not inferior to Vodka at all in terms of carrying out the orders of his elder brother.

This time, the police came faster and brought two pieces of good news.

Shancun Cao took the forensic doctor to dissect Ze Jianjiazheng's body overnight, and the report he gave was overjoyed.

Almost without any hesitation, the police officer presented the report to Detective Kurosawa with both hands.

Zhu Fu Jingguang covered his face while watching.

He has completely given up on the wariness of this childhood playmate.

"After the forensic autopsy, it is known that the sleeping pills taken by the deceased were mixed with food and eaten. It was the last meal of the deceased before death." Yamamura Cao reported.

Detective Kurosawa looked at the report in his hand and nodded slightly.

"The murderer must be in charge of cooking..." Yamamura pointed at the suspect and concluded, "Boss, Katsumura Jun."

Following the direction of Yamamura's fingers, everyone's eyes fell on Katsumura Jun who was comforting his wife in a low voice.

Katsumura Jun's face changed, and he quickly explained, "I didn't do it, I didn't put medicine in the food."

"My husband definitely didn't kill him." Yuna Katsumura also said, "We just met Mr. Sawami for the first time yesterday, so there is absolutely no reason to kill him."

Without a motive, this is indeed a problem.

"If I remember correctly, Mr. Zejian and Ms. Zejian ate the food last night at a separate table." Kurosawa Yaoyao said.

Even the sushi ordered one of each taste, and the husband and wife ate it in two.

At that time, I was envious of Kurosawa Yaoyao.

"Yes, we did share the food at that time." Nadeko Zejian affirmed Kurosawa Yaoyao's words.

Katsumura Yuina heard the words, and said anxiously: "It must not be a food problem, otherwise Ms. Zejian would not have taken sleeping pills. Maybe if she was put in water or something and drank."

Yamamura was speechless, he looked at Kurosawa for help.

Kurosawa took a look at Yuna Katsumura, who looked haggard, and said flatly, "It's cold noodles."

"What cold noodles?" Shancuncao asked a hundred thousand whys as a matter of course.

Zhu Fu Jingguang couldn't bear to watch it anymore, and explained: "The sleeping pills should be placed under the cold noodles. At that time, Ms. Zejian only used a small bowl to hold a small part of the top, so she didn't take the sleeping pills."

The cold noodles last night were mixed together and served separately.After it can be plated completely, put the sleeping pills into the noodles.

"Being drugged, can't you eat it?" Shancuncao continued to ask a hundred thousand reasons, "The sleeping pills are very bitter."

Zhu Fujingguang laughed angrily, "Mr. Zejian is over 70 years old, his sense of taste is definitely not as good as that of young people, and sleeping pills are mixed in the noodles, so it's not surprising that he can't eat it."

"Oh!" Yamamura nodded knowingly.

Zhu Fu Jingguang added: "Yesterday afternoon, the boss made cold noodles once, and Zejian and his wife shared the food like this at that time."

"So, is it true that the hotel owner and his wife killed Jiazheng?" Zejian Nadeko stood up with an agitated expression.

If it wasn't for Ogura Rina to support her, Kurosawa Yaoyao would have suspected that her legs would tremble and fall because of being too excited.

Detective Heise, who received the money, calmly said to the employer: "It's not sure yet. I can only say that the boss and the boss's wife are the most suspected at present."

Zhu Fu Jingguang asked the boss and his wife, "Aside from you, who else has touched the cold noodles last night?"

"No..." The proprietress paused for a moment, then looked at Rina Ogura, "Last night, Miss Ogura seemed to help with the plate."

Yesterday, the hotel, which has always been sluggish, was suddenly full of people, and the couple were very busy.In addition, he and Rina Ogura are also old acquaintances, so let her help with some simple tasks in the kitchen.

For example, put the mixed cold noodles on the plate.

Of course, it is not compulsory labor.Just like before, or reduced room rates, or free food.

Rina Ogura waved her hands again and again, and said in fear, "It's not me, I just put the cold noodles on a plate."

"Then you are also suspected." Yamamura Cao narrowed his eyes.

Katsumura Jun said: "I cook the cold noodles and let them cool. After mixing, Ms. Ogura puts them on a plate and puts them in the kitchen. Until dinner, I will serve them to the guests.

"After the cold noodles were put on the plate, I went to the warehouse to get the ingredients. There was no one in the kitchen at that time. Our husband and wife and Ms. Xiaocang were the most suspected, but other people may also seize this opportunity to prescribe medicine." Jundao Katsumura .

"Yes, that's it." Rina Ogura said excitedly, "Maybe someone secretly drugged the boss while the boss was away. Anyway, I didn't drug it inside."

Things seem to be back to square one.

It seems that the suspect has been found, but the range of suspects can be expanded to include everyone.

Kurosawa shook the autopsy report in his hand, attracting everyone's attention.

"Judging from the remaining food in the stomach, the time of death of the deceased can be more accurate. It was between 07:30 and [-] o'clock last night."

Kurosawa Yaoyao's eyes lit up, "So, I, you, and Ms. Zejian can all be ruled out as suspects. The three of us were walking in the yard at the time."

"En." Kurosawa nodded, affirming her words.

Kurosawa Yaoyao breathed a sigh of relief.

Knowing that you are not a murderer is not the same as being excluded from the suspect list.

The faces of the others were not so pretty.

During the discussion, the forensics class also had results.

Horiuchi died between 06:30 am and [-]:[-] am, also taking sleeping pills.

For this answer, Kurosawa Jin was not surprised at all.

At the two crime scenes, there was no sign of the deceased struggling, and there was no blood on the shore. It was obvious that he died unconsciously while unconscious.

The police officer from the forensics section said again: "Taku Horiuchi probably walked into the hot spring on his own initiative, and there are still clothes he took off in the changing room."

At that time, everyone's attention was on the blood-red hot spring, but no one really paid attention to the changing room.

But thinking about it now, Taku Horiuchi in the hot spring really fits the look of soaking in a hot spring.

"At a time like this, do you still go to the hot springs?" Rao Sasa Aya, who likes to die, was also stunned by Horiuchi Takumi's spirit.

Kurosawa Yaoyao also twitched the corner of her mouth.

Rina Ogura said: "Mr. Horiuchi likes to go to the hot spring for a soak every morning after getting up."

"But, it's so strange." Zhu Fu Jingguang said: "Mr. Zejian is the first time to come to a hot spring hotel; although Mr. Horiuchi is very familiar with the owner and his wife, he doesn't know any other passengers at all. How about killing them both?"

It is really puzzling that the deceased and the suspects have no intersection in terms of interpersonal relationship.

Kurosawa bowed his head and pondered for a while, then ordered: "Continue to look for the murder weapon."

"Don't worry, I've been looking for it all the time." Shancun Cao said proudly.

It was too dark last night, and it was too late. Today, a few more police officers were dispatched to start a blanket search.

Zhu Fu Jingguang added: "The scene of the crime must be fenced off, especially the No. [-] hot spring where no crime has happened yet."

With Qin Jiu's character, I'm afraid he is more willing to continue the case and provide clues to solve the case. Zhu Fu Jingguang can only bring it up by himself.

Kurosawa glanced at him, noncommittal.

No one is a fool, even Yamamura realized that if there was another dead person, it would probably be in No. [-] hot spring, so he quickly called the police to guard it.

According to the precise time of death of Sawamiya and Horiuchi Takumi, the police once again conducted routine interviews with everyone.

When Horiuchi Taku died, everyone was sleeping, and the result was similar to last night.

Unknowingly, at noon, the police still found nothing.

After lunch, Rina Ogura had nothing to do, so she wanted to help Taku Horiuchi clean up the belongings.

Kurosawa Yaoyao also had nothing to do, so he suggested to help, and by the way, he pulled Sawami Nadeko who was still immersed in sadness.

Horiuchi Taku's room was even more chaotic than Kurosawa Yaoyao imagined, and there were so many things.

Not like a hotel, but more like his private room.

Rina Ogura said with a smile: "The main thing is that the boss and his wife are good people. Seeing that Mr. Horiuchi and I have been living here, even if we have a very cheap room rate, it is similar to renting a house outside."

Kurosawa Yaoyao asked while arranging the books all over the floor, "Mr. Horiuchi lives here, and the lady boss can take care of him for him. Why do you want to hire you?"

After asking, Kurosawa Yaoyao added: "Of course, I mean nothing, I'm just curious."

Rina Ogura said with a smile: "There is nothing to apologize for. Many people are curious about it. In fact, I took the initiative to ask to be Mr. Horiuchi's assistant."

Kurosawa Yaoyao did not expect such an answer.

Sawami Nadeko asked curiously, "Do you like Horiuchi Takumi?"

"No, no." Rina Ogura shook her head slowly, with sadness and nostalgia in her bewildered expression, "If you like it, it's also the book "The Lost Lover."

"Is it this one?" Kurosawa Yaoyao asked holding up a book with a very romantic cover.

Looking at the book, Rina Ogura had a gentle smile in her eyes, "I like it very much. From the moment I read this book, I decided to come to Mr. Horiuchi and learn from him to create good stories. "

This time, Kurosawa Yaoyao was completely aroused, "What is written in the book?"

"A very interesting romantic story." Rina Ogura slowly told the contents of the book.

Couples in a long-distance relationship, separated from each other.

One day, the hero finds out that the heroine has lost contact.

The story begins with the hero looking for the heroine.

Different from traditional mystery novels, this book focuses on the love line, supplemented by the reasoning line.

But everyone who reads it with the mentality of watching a love story will end up addicted to reasoning.

The reasoning is very exciting, and it doesn't overwhelm the guests, but makes the love between the hero and heroine more delicious.

When it comes to this novel, Rina Ogura talks eloquently and obviously likes it very much.

Zejian Nadeko also talked about the love between her and her husband, which is happy and sweet.

Three women with huge age differences just chatted in Horiuchi Taku's room, and the atmosphere was harmonious and harmonious.

Before he knew it, the messy room was cleaned up, and Takumi Horiuchi's things were packed into boxes.

Rina Ogura stood in front of a pile of things, with a puzzled face, "It's gone."

"What's missing?" Kurosawa Yaoyao subconsciously asked.

"It's the bottle of body wine from yesterday." Rina Ogura said, "Mr. Horiuchi didn't drink that bottle of wine. I wanted to give it to you, but I couldn't find it."

Kurosawa Yaoyao was deeply impressed by that bottle of wine.She recalled it, and indeed she did not see the bottle of wine.

She asked, "Are you sure Mr. Horiuchi didn't drink it? Maybe he drank it alone last night."

Rina Ogura shook her head, "Mr. Horiuchi doesn't drink well, it's impossible for him to drink a whole bottle of wine. Even if he drank, he should have a bottle. I always clean his room."

"Will you take it to the hot spring?" Nadeko Sawami recalled, "Mr. Horiuchi secretly went to the hot spring in the morning."

The alcohol content of the medicinal wine is not high, even if you drink it in the hot spring, it is really possible.

"In any case, tell the police about this first, maybe the alcohol is also an important clue." Kuisawa Yaoyao said.

Kurosawa stayed in the hall the whole time, drinking sake leisurely, while Yamamura Cao and Mo Fu Jingguang next to him seemed to be arguing about something.

Kuisawa Yaoyao and the others briefly talked about the wine bottle.

Zhu Fu Jingguang sighed: "In the No. [-] hot spring, I got a bottle of wine, and the proprietress has already seen it. It is the bottle that Horiuchi Taku snatched from you yesterday."

"How could it be in the hot spring? Could it be that guy is really so leisurely?" Kurosawa Yaoyao was stunned.

"The wine bottle sank at the bottom, covered by red blood, and the police found it when they sneaked into the bottom of the hot spring to find the murder weapon." Zhu Fu Jingguang took a deep look at Kurosawa Yaoyao, with an indescribable expression.

"Because the bottle cap is on, the wine inside is not contaminated. The forensic department has confirmed that sleeping pills were put in the wine." Shancun Caofa announced very happily, "The sleeping pills in the wine have been used for a long time. I'm afraid it was there when the wine was bottled."

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