Chapter 1808 1815 [Double Kill! ] Ask for monthly ticket o(〃'▽'〃)o
Thinking of this, Vermouth couldn't help but be alert: "..." It seems that in the future, I can't just focus on those murders, but also pay attention to any abnormalities around me. Maybe one day in the future, those "abnormalities" will become the lead of bloody cases... Thinking about it this way, Uzo really adds workload to others.
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The other side.
Haru Matsuzaki doesn't know yet that he has become a case guide in the eyes of others.
Amidst the thunder and lightning, she walked through the corridor and came to the theater where everyone was rehearsing during the day.
The theater door was wide open. Matsuzaki Haru paused for a moment at the door, clenched his fists, strode in, and stopped on the stage.
"I'm here as promised." Matsuzaki Haru remembered the leverage that others had over him, and shouted into the dark theater, "Who are you? Come out and see me!"
Lightning struck all around, and the dazzling light pierced the window, instantly illuminating the entire theater. Matsuzaki Haru narrowed his eyes unexpectedly, and suddenly found a shadow cast on the wall.
Her heart skipped a beat and she raised her head suddenly, only to see a person standing next to the huge and beautiful chandelier above her head.
The man stood on the beam in a strange posture, his taut back bent into a bow shape, a rope tightly clenched in his hands, and an indifferent expression - he looked as if the "opera freak" with bloody hands in the story had survived a hundred years and come back to life.
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“Dinner is ready!”
In the old hotel, Taro Izuka reluctantly prepared a sumptuous meal and shouted to the students upstairs to come down.
Jiang Xia yawned as he walked downstairs. Next to him, Suzuki Sonoko touched her stomach and complained, "Dinner is so late."
Mao Lilan looked at the watch and smiled: "It's not too late now, it's just that it's cloudy and it gets dark too early, so time seems to pass quickly."
In addition to them, others also came down one after another.
Because there were so many people, it was hard to tell who was missing at a glance. But after everyone sat down, the empty stool suddenly became conspicuous.
"Where's Koharu?" Takakazuko Toda was the first to recognize who was missing.
"She may still be in the room." Matsuzaki Masahiko sighed and stood up. "She is usually a little slow. I'll go call her."
Just as they were about to leave, suddenly, a scream pierced through the thunderstorm, piercing everyone's ears like a needle.
The voice was a little distorted and unclear, but it could still be heard that the person screaming seemed to be a woman.
"?!" Coupled with the howling storm and gloomy sky outside, even Kurosawa and Ma were frightened by the miserable cry.
His first reaction was that someone was torturing someone nearby, so he quietly turned his head to look at Taro Izuka.
The two looked at each other, with the same doubt flashing in their eyes: "…" The only two lawless lunatics are here, there should be no other people on the island, so what happened to that female student that made her scream so terribly? They have lived here for so many days, and there are no wild beasts on the island.
...Could it be that the guy named George wanted to escape during the chaos, but was bumped into by a girl, and was being silenced?
The two men felt that something was wrong and decided to calm the group of students down and ran over to check out the situation.
Who knew that before they finished writing their lines, Jiang Xia and the elementary school student next to him had already stood up, their movements almost completely synchronized. Then the two of them turned around and rushed to where the scream came from, reacting much faster than them.
With Jiang Xia and the others taking the lead, the others reacted immediately and followed them out.
“…”
The restaurant, which was bustling just a moment ago, suddenly became dead silent.
Kurosawa Kazuma and Izuka Taro lost the opportunity because they did not respond quickly enough to the screams.
The two of them had no choice but to curse the quick-witted detective in their hearts while gritting their teeth and following along. At the same time, they began to think about whether they should kill Hashimoto Maya before he said something he shouldn't, or whether the three of them should work together to kill these students first.
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A group of people followed the scream and searched around, but the noise of the rainstorm was too loud, and they couldn't determine where the scream came from, and the search turned up nothing.
At this moment, a very penetrating ringtone spread through the rain and fell into everyone's ears.
Jiang Xia looked back at the theater: "It's the bell for the opening of the play."
Mao Lilan was so scared that she squeezed between him and Suzuki Sonoko, and stayed close to her two companions. When she rushed out, she forgot to put down the cutlery in her hand, and the silver fork in her hand had been pinched and deformed.
Mao Lilan held the fork that was about to break and trembled: "Why is the bell ringing at this time? There is no one in the theater. Could it be the ghost of the legendary 'opera freak' who lives under the theater..."
Before she could finish her words, the fork in her hand failed to hold on, and the fork head broke and fell to the ground with a thud, like a heavy footstep falling.
Maori Ranhan’s face turned pale, and she was so frightened that she almost flew off the spot: “Ahhhhhhh——!!”
Vermouth, who rushed over after hearing the scream, said: "..."
...This, this must be another of Uzo's bad taste.
...maybe it was also a trick to test her.
Anyway, it's not Angel's fault that she became like this.
"Dr. Shinde" held up his glasses that had slipped down and straightened his windbreaker as if nothing had happened: "Since the ringing sound came from the theater, that means the student who didn't come to dinner might be in the theater. Maybe she was curious about adjusting the equipment and was scared by something."
Jiang Xia also rubbed Mao Lilan's arm, which was almost pulled off by her when she jumped, as if nothing had happened, and nodded in agreement: "That's right, let's go and take a look."
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They were not the only ones who were attracted to the theater by the ringing of the bell. Others who had gone to various places to look for Matsuzaki Haru also quickly gathered from various entrances.
When you arrive in front of the stage, you can vaguely see something on the stage.
Before they could see clearly, the searchlight above their heads suddenly turned on. The dazzling light made everyone close their eyes and adapt to the light.
A few seconds later, when they opened their eyes again, the stage in front of them made them speechless.
——The heavy chandelier made of brass and decorated with crystal candlesticks had fallen from the ceiling.
It fell heavily to the ground, just like in "The Phantom of the Opera". Blood was slowly flowing along the wooden floor under the lamp. A closer look revealed a body through the hollowed-out part - someone was trapped under the lamp and was dead. This chandelier went from being a beautiful work of art to a murder weapon that fit the occasion.
"Xiao-Xiaoharu?!"
The three college students were the first to react. Matsuzaki Masahiko was so frightened that his legs went limp and he fell to his knees with a thud. Toda Takako was also stunned.
The black-faced man was not very close to Songzaki Haru, and he still kept a lot of rationality at this time. He looked at the two island watchers in shock and anger: "What is the quality of your chandelier?! Why don't you fix such a dangerous thing properly!"
(End of this chapter)
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