Chapter 2137 2148 [He is an undercover]
All kinds of thoughts flashed through her mind quickly. Although she was relieved, Naoko Torimaru would not forget the important things.
She said the most important thing first: "This is what happened. A while ago, I attended a meeting of my subordinates organized by 'that person'."
At this point, she felt a little guilty: … I ran away and got into the car, and ran into two colleagues with a cat. This should also be considered a gathering.
Never mind. Only by making the matter sound more serious can Jiang Xia be more vigilant.
Naoko Torimaru cleared her throat and said, "At that rally, I saw Hashimoto Maya. Who knew he would appear next to you again? He must be an undercover agent sent by that person to gather information."
I thought Jiang Xia would suddenly become alert, and at least be able to recall some evidence of Hashimoto Maya's crime, and then join forces with a room full of police officers to arrest the man on the spot.
But it didn’t.
Jiang Xia looked even calmer than when he heard “Today is cloudy”. He nodded, as if he had known the news for a long time. “One for each, very fair. In this way, what the final result will be depends on our respective abilities, and your respective abilities.”
Torimaru Naoko: “…” You know again! ?
She was stunned for a moment, unable to speak for a moment - she thought she could become a sharp weapon for Jiang Xia to fight against Wu Zuo, and become a qualified intelligence agent, but now...
The passion that had just been there to fight against Usa and his minions was gone, and Torimaru Naoko suddenly felt lost, as if she had lost her job.
Jiang Xia glanced at her and comforted her: "If you encounter any difficulties, you can always come to me. If you encounter anyone showing signs of committing a crime, you must tell me immediately - don't face them alone, they are very dangerous."
When Naoko Torimaru listened to his sincere words, her cold heart suddenly felt warm as if she was soaking in a hot spring: as a smart person who is good at manipulating others, she could hear that Jiang Xia was not forcing himself, he really thought so.
Torimaru Naoko sighed, and her tone became much slower unconsciously: "Hashimoto has evil intentions. You must be careful when you keep such a person around you."
Jiang Xia nodded: "You too."
After saying this, he found that the murderous aura of fried egg smell on Torimaru Naoko was gone. He looked at his watch and urged: "We can't waste any more time. Let's solve the case as soon as possible."
Naoko Torimaru nodded, her energy returned, and she took Jiang Xia to the crime scene on the third floor: One look at Hashimoto Maya's expression showed that he didn't know that his identity with Jiang Xia had been exposed. In this case, Naoko Torimaru certainly wouldn't give him a chance to find out - only by keeping that guy in the dark could he unconsciously reveal more flaws and help Jiang Xia's anti-dystopia cause.
…
"This is the room."
Naoko Torimaru took Jiang Xia up the east stairs and opened a door that had been closed for a long time.
When I pushed the door open, I saw a bedroom inside - the layout was exactly the same as the bedroom where Mrs. Sufang died, just the left and right were reversed.
There is also a door sealed with iron nails in this bedroom, on the left wall.
Jiang Xia walked to the door, jumped up and peeked inside through the air vent, and saw that the room behind the door was indeed the crime scene.
Naoko Torimaru introduced: "The two rooms are made in mirror image, separated by an iron door in the middle, but Mrs. Sufang has always lived in the one next door, so this one has always been vacant."
Jiang Xia looked at him for a while, then checked his watch: "I understand."
…
Soon, everyone came to the bedroom one after another.
Inspector Megure was just worrying about the 7 people on the list, and was hesitating whether to add Hashimoto Maya to make it 8.
But now, hearing the detective's voice saying "I know who the murderer is", he suddenly felt relaxed all over.
"So who is the murderer?" The other guests were also very concerned about this. The rock singer glanced at the secretary and said, "Is it really not Miss Inaba?"
Jiang Xia: "You are the murderer."
Rock singer: “…”
The rock singer smiled awkwardly: "You may have been confused after sleeping. Don't forget, I slept in the east guest room with you guys, and Ms. Su Fang's room can only be reached from the west. Among all the guests, I am the only one who is not a suspect."
Jiang Xia shook his head: "It is because you absolutely cannot go to Ms. Su Fang's bedroom that you are more suspicious. The murderer creates a secret room to disguise the death as suicide and get rid of suspicion. But this time, Mrs. Su Fang obviously did not kill herself, which is obviously very contradictory.
"So the truth is the other way around - the murderer didn't even enter Mrs. Su Fang's bedroom when he killed her. This secret room is indeed a perfect secret room that no one can enter or leave."
Everyone was stunned: "But Mrs. Su Fang..."
She was obviously stabbed to death. Who would have stabbed her if no one had entered the house? It couldn't have been the ghost of the mask maker!
As if responding to their imagination, Jiang Xia said: "Mrs. Su Fang was killed by the 'Cursed Mask'."
Mao Lilan was so scared that her hair became fluffy. She stammered for a long time, leaned close to Jiang Xia and asked in a low voice: "Didn't you say there are no ghosts in the world?"
The mermaid lying on Jiang Xia's shoulder was pressed down by her and raised her hand to push her face in dissatisfaction.
"Of course there is no ghost." Jiang Xia said sternly, "It was not the wronged spirits that killed Mrs. Su Fang, but the masks themselves."
“……” Ran Maori suddenly remembered the masks scattered next to the corpses with blood on the corners of their mouths.
Imagining a bunch of masks crawling onto the bed late at night and happily devouring humans, she shuddered: Isn't this even scarier? !
Jiang Xia patted the poor classmate who couldn't understand the wonders of ghosts with sympathy, then turned around and started to advance the process:
"Last night, after everyone fell asleep, the murderer returned to the kitchen alone. The key to the mask room was hanging there. The murderer took the key and moved the dagger in the kitchen and the 200 "Shawbul's Masks" in the mask room to this room next to the crime scene.
"The murderer then put the key back and fetched a bundle of elastic cord that was long and strong enough.
“The dagger used as the murder weapon had a ring at the end, and the murderer passed an elastic band through the ring and hung the dagger on it.
"The room we are in now is separated from the crime scene by an iron door. The air vents on top of the iron door are made up of railings with a spacing of 5 cm. With this spacing, people can never get in, but they can throw a dagger through the iron window.
"After throwing the dagger into Mrs. Sufang's bedroom, the murderer used a long rope to pass through the eye and mouth holes of the mask, and slowly put the masks into the room one by one along the gaps in the iron railings."
(End of this chapter)
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