Chapter 41 Chapter fifteen

"What's going on here! Why did things become like this?!" Chu Douhai was about to go crazy. Master Erliu said to him: "It's because your will has lost to fate." "Ah?! But...my reasoning, those just now are absolutely flawless, aren't they?! That's obviously the correct answer!" "Actually, that's what I thought when I reasoned." "Oh...why did this happen...I didn't intend to publish the reasoning at all, but after hearing the conversation between Mr. Kato and Mr. Wednesday, I said it unconsciously..." "Because fate sometimes creates will." Master Er Liu said, "It's the same as people who don't want to pierce their eyes and end up piercing their eyes with chopsticks."

"Although I don't know what you're talking about, but I understand a little bit... But, I still want to protest! This is really ridiculous! Absolutely ridiculous! The answer will escape, this is a foul!" "Don't instigate, come out to tease the sea." Mercury C sneered, "Who do you want to protest, who violated what rules?" "Hey, Mr. Mercury, don't you even help me?!" "I'm helping. Now you can ask the doctor over there for some anesthetic. Apply it on the chopsticks or drop it on the eyes. It should feel much better, right?"

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa... I'm going crazy." "Well, can I start reasoning?" Amidst the chaos, Lombaba XII spoke. "Wait a minute first." I said, "You are Lombaba Twelve? Are you real? Are you and Mitamura Saburo... are you acquaintances at the end of the dark hospital? By the way, we seem to have met somewhere? Why do I feel like I saw you." But Lombaba Twelve didn't answer my question, but instead asked me: "Is your name Disco Wednesday?" "Huh? Yeah, that's right." "So it turns out that you were misled."

"……what?" "Isn't everyone calling you Mr. Wednesday Mr. Wednesday? But they don't want you to do something." "Why would you know..." Where the hell is he hiding to listen to us? "How did you know?" Lombaba Twelve still ignored my question, and continued his reasoning: "You all read the redundant context. Because the order is completely reversed. Obviously you came later." "what exactly is it……" "Yukio, let's start now. Excuse me," he said to the members of the Angel Rabbit Troupe, "Can everyone help, and split up and collect the boards in the corridor?"

Except for Hongo and Yingyue, the rest of the Angel Rabbits scattered in all directions. They lifted up the carpet in the corridor and took out the transparent plate underneath.Each of them took four or so pieces down, and the corridor was suddenly bare. "So, from now on, let's make 'Stairway to Heaven'." "Stairway to Heaven" is a ninety-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-year-old saying.But what to do with only these boards?So I said, "Should I have to take apart the handrails of the corridor and take out a lot of metal rods?" But again it was ignored.

"The production method is very simple, as long as the boards that were originally assembled into a circle are combined up and down. Also, this ladder leads to the outside of Pineapple House. The estimated completed drawing looks like this. " In line with Lombaba Twelve's lines, Nishimura beside him took out a piece of paper and unfolded it, showing us the schematic diagram he drew (see Figure 35). "Oh oh oh..." the members of Angel Rabbit exclaimed in unison, "It's amazing, the circles can be arranged in a straight line..." But what does that mean, I thought.

At this moment, Lombaba XII finally looked back at me. "How about it, do you understand? The Wednesday that everyone is talking about actually refers to 'Wednesday' among the twelve radially arranged twelve words that Curry discovered at the beginning, that is, 'onsdag'. It means They want us to build this "Stairway to Heaven" in the direction of the word "Wednesday". That's what everyone said. But, you appeared here, didn't you? So everyone misunderstood .They all fell into your trap." The members of the Angel Rabbit team started homework immediately after hearing the arrangement of Lumbaba Twelve, but I ignored it and stood there alone.

Because of my existence, everyone will... Everyone made a serious mistake because of me, did all famous detectives lose their lives because of my existence? "But you don't need to mind too much, because you have your own reasons for coming here. So you can only blame them for making mistakes." After speaking, Lombaba Twelve turned to face the busy Angel Rabbit members again, "Oh, that's about it, connect them all up, uh, put them up, right. Get someone on the porch to hold there, yes, that's good. Then put them up a little bit, this way, That's right. Above Room 7, there's the entrance to the skylight. That's right. That's what the window was opened for."

Going out of Douhai was also left alone, with his mouth wide open and his eyes glazed over. Rumbaba XII continued to command: "Then everyone, come together and slowly pull out the bottom side. Then it will slowly fall down due to the weight. Yes. That's right, instead of lifting it up, let it fall down. Go down. Very good, just a little bit. Hmm. Pulled to this length, it is about the same length as the part that protrudes from the roof. We only need to press a little inside, and the other end will lift up, right? Very good, Then find someone to go to the corridor...Okay. Now everyone slowly lift it up...that's right. Then the person in the corridor, hold it down, leave a little space, and then install the remaining boards. Slow down Slow down, and you must keep your balance. Yes, yes. Very good, everything is installed. Come on, everyone push a little, and then let go together. Don't worry, don't worry..."

A dazzling scene appeared in front of me who was stunned.The gradually combined transparent panels stretch out slowly, piercing the night sky across the skylight, and then continue to extend, slowly sliding to the other end of Pineapple House...and pouring in the direction of "Wednesday".Then suddenly I woke up. The cedar branch fixed by the "コ" iron stake.The branch was not at all for the convenience of climbing from the backyard to the roof, but a beam frame deliberately erected to support the transparent bridge. Clicking and brushing, the cedar branches and the transparent bridge are connected, making the sound of branches and leaves shaking, and the boards that rise to the skylight are almost moving horizontally.Then, probably due to the weight of the bridge, the slightly sloping roof and the role of the casters, the transparent panels slowly slid to the outside of the Pineapple House, and finally completely passed through the skylight and disappeared from people's sight.Cheers mixed with exclamation came from the crowd of angel rabbits.

"Well. Those boards are so light, as long as it takes a little time, one person should be able to complete them. But it must be very troublesome. Alright, next, everyone from the Angel Rabbit Theater Troupe, please wait here for a while, Mr. Wednesday and I Go up and have a look." Before that, the words of Rumbaba Twelve made people obediently obey orders like the sound of the piper in Hameln, but at this time it seemed that they could not completely suppress the curiosity of the Angel Rabbit members.The troupe members lined up neatly in the corridor, and Fukushima fetched the ladder from the independent hut. The group made noises excitedly, but went up to the roof without any confusion.I couldn't help but chuckle seeing how organized they were.Lombaba Twelve also shrugged and said, "Oh, there's really nothing we can do about them." Rumbaba Twelve, Yukio Nishimura, and I also walked towards the stairs inside the hall.Lord Erliu, Chu Douhai, Hongo, and Yingyue are lying on the sofa decadently, but Mercury C is very energetic. "Hey, Detective, it's so much more interesting now, I've decided to live here." Do not make jokes. "You can't watch this kind of thing for a lifetime. There will definitely be a moment when it ends. Because there is a beginning, there must be an end." Mercury C smiled and said: "What are you talking about. The so-called forever has a beginning and no end, doesn't it. What exists here without a beginning will never exist." "But there is a famous detective here, but there is no eternal event, isn't it?" "There's no such thing as a detective here! Everyone's dead! Idiot, you're just pretending to be annoyed. You're relieved to know that 'Wednesday' wasn't referring to you, you're a good-for-nothing piece of rubbish. You anticlimactic lolicon." I'm not annoyed.Because I don't feel the slightest mistake in Mercury C's words. "Che, what a boring guy. Don't you have any desire to swim against the tide? Sure enough, because of that, you only live in your own habits and become dull and decayed. Let me tell you, only the old and the new People can be called real people. You definitely can’t be a Japanese confectioner. Because that job can only be done by real people.” Fate engulfs the will. But this guy didn't understand this, so he said that. "What?" I heard the voice and looked up. It turned out that Toru Taniguchi had walked out of Room 11 and was looking around the empty central hall. "Where did everyone go?" "It's all on the roof." It was Rumbaba Twelve who was climbing the ladder. I looked up, and through the glass skylight, I could see a group of men and women standing on the steel frame of the roof. "What the hell are you doing..." "Want to come up together?" Taniguchi was visibly taken aback when he was invited in a familiar tone by a child who appeared at an unknown time. "No, forget it. I can't leave now." Taniguchi said. "Really, see you later." After Lombaba Twelve, who was getting out of the skylight, finished speaking, Taniguchi couldn't help but meet my gaze. "...Who is that kid?" In fact, I do not know. The members of the Angel Rabbits stood loosely on the roof, bathed in the moonlight, as if they were waiting for the appearance of Rumbaba Twelve. As soon as the young detective poked his face out from the skylight entrance, they immediately cheered, and some even applauded this time Come.Mercury C and I climbed the ladder next, and got a little light as well. Mercury C and I climbed through the skylight to the roof.There were about 20 people standing on this circular skylight, and the media personnel below occasionally pressed the camera flashes and vehicle lights to illuminate the surrounding woods.Starlight and moonlight poured down from the sky, causing crowds, vehicles, buildings and rivers to sink into the distance, the surroundings were silent, there was no wind, and the smells of grassland, forests and running water were transpiring. Faced with such a dreamy scene, I was shocked. I don't know why I feel pain in my chest. The "Stairway to Heaven" falls in the direction of the foothills, and the transparent long bridge extending straight forward gradually disappears in the depths of the cedar forest.I found that the whole bridge was basically level, and it seems that the height and length of the cedar branches were trimmed for the purpose of erecting the bridge.The starting point of the transparent long bridge just slides down on the fir branches fixed on the outer wall of Pineapple House, almost parallel to the roof, and fits perfectly on the building. "Mr. Wednesday, can you come with me?" said Lombaba XII. where to goI don't have time to ask this question, Lombaba Twelve is standing beside the long transparent bridge. "Is this dangerous?" I asked. "It'll be fine. You don't need to worry at all." Lombaba Twelve's voice was unusually stable. Don't you need to worry... I'm still hesitating. Lombaba Twelve has already stepped on the long bridge in front of me. He stepped on the other foot and stood on the bridge without hesitation.He took another three steps forward, and the long transparent bridge made of spliced ​​plastic panels and supported only by fir branches remained motionless.It seems that in order to firmly fix the bridge deck, not only the cedar branches were trimmed, but also some branches were added, or simple devices were installed in some hidden parts.Even so, even if it can bear the weight of a Japanese child, it may not be able to bear the weight of a big American man.Trembling, I tried to stand on the bridge.Looking down from the top of the board, the moonlight was not reflected in any way. Through the board, I clearly saw the fir branches and the dark ground under my feet. It made me feel that I had no support at all, so I doubled up Legs are weak. "Mr. Wednesday, don't look down, look this way." Hearing the voice of Lumbaba Twelve, I looked for my reputation.He said to me again, "It's all right. It's a straight road. It's more dangerous if your legs are weak. Just walk as usual and you'll be fine." I raised my head and saw a skinny boy with big eyes looking at me on the long transparent bridge extending into the night sky beyond the cedar forest. Deep in my mind, never forget. Rumbaba Twelve began to walk forward along the "Stairway to Heaven".Feeling as if being urged, I hurried to follow.A boy from Angel Rabbit supported a section of the bridge, but it shouldn't be necessary.The bridge was originally designed to lead to the edge of the forest. "As I said just now," Lombaba Twelve asked me after we passed the first cedar tree in the back yard, "Mr. Wednesday has caused all this confusion just because his name is Wednesday. Do you feel Is it much easier?" "Much easier? Why?" "Uncle, you are always being asked to find a way by the people around you, is it really annoying? Now I finally know that I have nothing to do with it, so I will ask you if you are much more relaxed." "...I said, where did you hide and see this?" The twelfth detective, Lombaba XII.Could it be that he has been watching us from the sidelines, waiting for his time to play?This guy too?I now know that a detective is perfectly capable of such a thing. "I'm not so idle. If this incident could be resolved without my appearance, I wouldn't be here. But now it seems that I have to appear." "What does that mean... Could it be that someone sent you here?" "The simple theory of the mastermind behind the scenes will not work here. Didn't Master Erliu also say it just now?" "Say what?" "Will and fate or something." "Oh." "Yingyue seems to have said similar things." "How on earth do you know?" "Isn't things formed by the interaction of fate and will? Then it can be said conversely, if something happens, it must contain the interaction of fate and will, or the iron will engulfs fate, or not Changeable fate creates will, one of these three forms. What is fate? And what is necessity? If everything is the product of will and fate, there should be no chance in the world. For even in chance There must be a destiny, or a new destiny that is changed by the will. But if the will is created by us, then where does the destiny come from? Does it suddenly appear from somewhere? You carefully Think about it, I appear as the twelfth detective of Fengliju, do you think this is really a product of my will? Even if my name is really 'Rumbaba Twelve', don't I always do it to solve the case? Do I have to endure until the end of the first eleven inferences, and not every event will have a twelfth inference? Even so, I appeared as the 'Rumbaba Twelve' in this event and became the twelfth inference Twelve famous detectives. The ninth and tenth rounds of reasoning were completed by 'ninety-nine-nine'. Therefore, I have obviously created a new context here. But who is this context for? How did it come into being? And why did it come into being? If you really want to pay attention to the order, you should grasp this order from the whole. If there is no one and two, it is impossible to have nine, ten or twelve. The so-called creating context is Let the one after the other be related. The so-called context reading is to predict the future from that connection. Therefore, this event has a future, Mr. Wednesday." "...What exactly do you want to say? Don't go around the bush, just say it." "Idiot. I was going to force you to think, how could I tell you the answer directly." "What do you want to do here, and what is the reasoning?" We have passed several cedar trees at this time, passed through the gaps between the trees, and finally saw the end of the "Stairway to Heaven".About five meters before the end, the cedar forest left the bridge deck due to the inclination of the mountain, making the long bridge completely lose its support.However, Lombaba Twelve still walked steadily on the transparent road floating in mid-air, and turned to look at me at the end of the bridge. "I'm here to let you see that circles can be arranged in a straight line in the end. I want you to try and walk straight on a circular passage. Please listen to me carefully. Even straight things, It can also make it a perfect circle sometimes." What exactly does that mean? "Is this directly related to the incident?" "That's what you need to think about." "But it's you who is expressing reasoning now." "That's the end of my show. I'm here to show you this stuff. It's annoying to see you, so I've temporarily turned the 'Wednesday' cue elsewhere. That's not what you're doing Is it much easier? But I am very sorry to tell you that this reasoning cannot be called reasoning at all. You must be very clear about this, right?" very clear.So I said, "It's blood, right?" There is no carpet on the "Stairway to Heaven", and even if you want to spread it, it is very difficult. The directions of the bloodstains are contradictory... It should be said that this combination method will cause the friction direction of the bloodstains on each plate to be opposite, so such reasoning cannot be established at all. Lombaba Twelve nodded and said: "That's right. But I made mistakes just for the sake of making mistakes, completely on purpose. It is because of your passive resistance that this kind of thing happened. If you were not so passive at the beginning, I will not appear here. But how to put it, people cannot escape their fate." "what……" "However, this is the same as the previous reasoning. My reasoning just now is not completely wrong. None of the previous reasoning is useless. You should be very clear about this. This kind of thing will not be completely wrong. Useless. In fact, not only that, but everything in the world is not useless, but they are not like the events of speculative fiction, so no one has ever tried to decipher any meaning from them. But this event that gathered many detectives Is it different? We read all kinds of meanings from it, and realize that everything in the world is full of amazing value. This is the so-called inevitability and destiny, right? Collect all the clues and think hard." "...is this reasoning really wrong?" "True, but by no means a useless mistake." "Are you stabbing your eyes with chopsticks too?" "If that's my fate." "Just don't think about that." Lombaba Twelve sighed and said: "...Don't you understand? As long as there is destiny, will will be created. You have to listen carefully when people speak, no wonder you waste so much time. Why is it you? I began to feel that those children who died before were too pitiful, but there was nothing I could do about it, it was all due to fate. It’s all your fault, and my stomach started to hurt.” As he spoke, Lun Baba Twelve bent over in pain in the air. "are you OK?" "Of course not." "Hurry up and go to the bathroom." Heh, Lombaba Twelve smiled: "Idiot. I didn't catch a cold in my stomach." "Do you want to say that I caused you to suffer from nervous gastritis?" "Hehe, it's definitely not gastritis. My pain is on the right side of my abdomen, it should be the cecum." cecum? ……appendicitis? "Have you heard this term recently? So, no matter what you think about anything, your initial thoughts will generally be correct. Before you are hindered by redundant common sense, trust your intuition first. I just want to This is what brought you here. If you are not left alone, I am afraid you will not be able to think normally." The word appendicitis appears only once so far.But how is this possible?But there is no such thing as worthless information.Everything has meaning. I asked Lombaba Twelve, "How old are you?" "Seventeen. Doesn't it look that old? To you, it seems that Japanese people look younger than their actual age." Toru Taniguchi.Taniguchi Toru.See you later then.No wonder the guy was so familiar back then. I see.If the twelfth round of reasoning is wrong, then the thirteenth appearance is... Lombaba Twelve said: "I said, the coldest part in mystery novels is when the murderer comes forward and confesses. There are more than a dozen detectives gathered here, how can such a thing happen. Now only you are involved The whole process, so you are the last hope. Come on. When you return to Pineapple House from here, everything will be over. So this is the most suitable place for you to think alone." I float in the night sky, bathed in the summer mountain wind, and close my eyes. "Really. Sure enough, it's my turn." "Of course. It's just you from the beginning." Only you can save the world right! Nail Peeler told me so.So that's what he was referring to. You just need to think about the little things now! Nail Peeler also said this to me.So that's what he was referring to. "Everything has meaning." "That's right. No matter how you say it, you are Disco Wednesday. Don't let others manipulate your dance steps, and complete your own dance independently." Oh, I laughed.People used to make fun of the name disco, but this is the first time I've heard anyone say that. I open my eyes. This is a new world. If I learn to quote "John's Apocalypse" in ninety-nine ninety-nine, a whole new world really appeared before my eyes.Pineapple House is the new Jerusalem.Hallelujah! "OK. I'm ready. (Well, I'm ready.)" I announced in long-lost English. This is my beginning.Ehime Chuan Shisan will not have a chance to play.

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