Chapter 2357-2369 [Assistant Fu, you go be a substitute]
After the tour guide and Mrs. Xiangshan, the old doctor walked into the house.
Through the questioning just now, some past events have already emerged. Jiang Xia imitated the police, flipped through the empty notebook in his hand, and asked directly: "Have you ever encountered a shipwreck before?"
The old doctor froze.
After a long while, he slowly bent down and sat on the sofa, his old age was fully revealed: "That's right. Three years ago when I was traveling, the ship I was on had an accident - if I remember correctly, it was a big deal at the time and was even reported in the newspapers. It was the famous 'Toyo Shipwreck Incident'."
The old doctor held his forehead and recalled with some pain: "Not long after the travel ship set sail, it was hit by a cargo ship and took on water on the spot. The captain tried to rescue the passengers in a panic, but it was useless. In the end, the ship sank and many passengers were swallowed into the sea."
"The sinking of the Toyo..."
Hattori Heiji suddenly remembered something, he stood up and said to Jiang Xia excitedly: "I remember this! The reason why this accident is so famous, in addition to the shock it brought, is because there was a reporter who happened to be on the ship at the time.
"He is a survivor of this tragedy. After recovering, he wrote a shocking report from a unique first-person perspective. This reporter is the one who asked me to participate in this vacation experience on his behalf. In other words, the common point of all the people who were summoned to experience this vacation is indeed the shipwreck!"
Jiang Xia paused while holding the pen: "..."
The old doctor was surprised: "He asked you to participate in this vacation experience on his behalf? So you also pretended to be someone else... No wonder I always heard them call you 'Hattori' instead of 'Trimura reporter'."
Hattori Heiji: "..."
He realized it belatedly and felt embarrassed for a moment, then turned to Jiang Xia with a sullen face: "It's all your fault for yelling, I'm exposed now!"
Jiang Xia looked innocent: "..." When you were talking to Yuanshan Heye, the "reporter assistant", didn't you always call her Heye, and never called her "Hexi Sayuri"...
Perhaps because he felt guilty, Hattori Heiji was particularly lacking in confidence when speaking. He quickly retracted his gaze, cleared his throat, and turned the page himself: "Fortunately, it was me who came this time. If it was reporter Shumura, he would have been so panicked. Well, anyway, now we have finally figured it out - the murderer is probably not after the lifetime free membership voucher. His real purpose must be related to this tragic shipwreck!"
However, the shipwreck killed so many people and involved a wide range of issues. It remains to be investigated which specific incident touched the murderer's nerves.
Jiang Xia tapped the notebook with his pen, and the tapping sound brought the old doctor back to his senses from his memories.
He looked at the survivor who had witnessed the shipwreck and asked, "I remember you said some strange things before - things like 'human beings will reveal their inner darkness at a critical moment' and 'the Plate of Carnides'... What do they mean exactly?"
The old doctor clenched his fists, and his breathing became heavy as if he was thinking of something bad.
…
After a few minutes, the questioning of each person came to an end.
The three people walked out of the house with different expressions.
Vodka looked at this and that, quietly alert: "It seems that Wuzo's conversation with this old doctor takes an unusually long time? And the three of them have strange expressions... Although I don't know what happened, I seem to smell the scent of conspiracy!"
The others did not read and understand Jiang Xia's expression as deeply as Vodka did, but they also vaguely felt that the atmosphere was wrong.
Suzuki Sonoko stood up and asked expectantly: "What did you talk about? Have you solved the mystery?"
Jiang Xia shook his head: "The more I ask, the more confused I become."
"I see..." Suzuki Sonoko sighed, but quickly cheered up again, "It's not a big problem! When the bus arrives in a few days, we can call the police and ask them to close off the mountain and search. My uncle got a bunch of infrared detection equipment from somewhere to compete with Kidd for the headlines. I'll ask him to sponsor it to the police, and it won't be difficult to find that cruel guy!"
"But by then, who knows how many more people will die." Hattori Heiji muttered to himself about his terrible money power and interrupted her mountain search proposal, "How about this - don't sleep separately tonight, come to the living room and sleep on the floor."
Vodka thought of his last experience sleeping on the floor and shuddered silently: "..." Rather than being forced to lie between Uzo and that little bitch, he would rather spend a few more hours checking the room before going to bed.
"Doctor Shinchu" breathed a sigh of relief: "..." If that's the case, maybe she could sleep a little longer... Otherwise, she would be so tense every day and she really couldn't bear it.
However, others seemed to have some opinions.
"Sleeping together at night?" Mrs. Xiangshan's voice rose in fear. "Didn't you say before that the villa vandal might be hiding among us? Without a door lock, if he gets up in the middle of the night and chops everyone with his axe, we'll all be doomed!"
Jiang Xia: "Then we can divide into two or three groups to supervise each other and take turns to rest. Since everyone has nothing to do during the day, we can make up for the lost sleep by taking turns to rest."
“…”
This sounded barely reasonable. Although Mrs. Xiangshan was still reluctant, she did not object and nodded.
Vodka looked left and right, but still felt something was wrong: "..." The detective separated everyone and questioned them very formally for a long time, and in the end he came up with such a stupid idea of "keeping an eye on each other"?
He touched his chin, feeling that there might be something else going on.
Just then, someone walked towards him.
Vodka raised his head and met the smiling Jiang Xia's eyes: "?!"
…
While complaining quietly, everyone went back into the house, slowly packed up their bedding, and dragged their things to the living room.
As they left the bedroom, the windows of the rooms on the second and first floors darkened one after another, and the already dim light in the woods became even dimmer.
Among the bushes, a masked man hid behind a tree, looked out the window of the villa, and raised his hand to push the headphones hanging on his ears.
The noises from the living room could be vaguely heard through the headphones.
——Behind the painting in the living room, there was a bug lying quietly. At this moment, everyone's movements were captured by the bug and all were heard by the dark figure.
The sounds of bedding being spread out, detectives being divided into groups, the whispered complaints of some uncooperative people... and finally silence.
"Tsk." The dark figure frowned impatiently, "Isn't he a famous detective? And in the end, he came up with such an annoying and stupid method?"
...But I have to admit that this method is very effective.
The dark figure gritted his teeth and was about to retreat temporarily.
But at this moment, there was a rustling sound of someone standing up in the headphones.
(End of this chapter)
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