Chapter 28 chapter eight

"Hi!" My colleague didn't come over to talk to me until after dinner that day. Because of his arrival, Mayuko seemed relieved at last, and it is said that she fell asleep as soon as she got into bed.The other residents also returned to their rooms.Although Satoe Tamura proposed that everyone sleep in the same room for safety, no one agreed.It seems that everyone regards others as murderers, but instead just wants to lock themselves in their own rooms. I sat side by side with my colleagues in the darkened break room with the lights turned off. "When you came, the snow stopped soon..." I stood in front of the window of the reception room, raised the curtain and looked outside.

Until noon, the weather showed signs of improvement, but finally the blizzard hit again.The goose feather snow was flying all over the sky, the wind was strong, and the snow was worse than before. The whole villa was once again shrouded in whiteness. This undoubtedly made the residents more and more tired. No one spoke. "You work in bad weather," he said. "It's well known in the Investigations Department." "more or less." "I heard you've never seen a clear sky, is that true?" I shrugged: "Almost." This answer is by no means nonsense.When I emerge, the sky is always clouded, and I have never seen what the sky looks like behind the clouds.It's not that I'm very interested in watching it, but I always feel a little disadvantaged. "Fortunately, it has no effect on work."

"That's true." "However, this is the first time I have seen such a large amount of snow. It was just raining before." I was fascinated to look at the pieces of white snow that were persistently and persistently falling in the darkness of the night.I actually think that the so-called landscape, whether it is black or white, should be a simple color. There are too many colors in the human world. "Are you in charge of investigating that woman named Mayuko?" "It started last week, and tomorrow is the execution day." He said, touching his nose. The so-called execution day is the day on which the subject of investigation died.In other words, he appeared in the villa closed by the blizzard to witness the death of Mayuko.

"You mean 'yes'?" "That goes without saying. Who are you in charge of?" "Satoe Tamura. There's a middle-aged woman here, isn't there?" "It's 'ke' anyway, right?" His healthy smile was brighter than ordinary people's. "Maybe," I replied, but immediately denied, "No, I haven't decided yet." "Even if you say that now, you will still write 'ke' in the end, right?" "Perhaps, but I intend to investigate further." "By the way, I heard from her just now that the situation in this building is very bad now?" He seemed to have just thought of it, "What happened?"

"Are you interested?" I really didn't expect my colleagues to care about the life and death of human beings. I was very surprised, at least I was not interested at all. "Actually, that woman named Mayuko likes to read mystery novels." "Mystery novel?" This kind of word has never appeared in my mind at all, and I can't help but suspect that I have heard it wrong, but I immediately remembered that Mayuko did say that. "In order to be able to get close to her, I also read a few books." "Are you close?" I reacted to his words. "Well," he raised his eyebrows, "forget it."

The colleagues in the investigation department have very different personalities.There are those like me who have no interest in the subject of the survey, and some who advocate that "the other party should feel happy before they die", and many colleagues will choose to fall in love with the other party or satisfy their material needs.Presumably he also talked about lightning love in the past few days. "In the books I read, there are several plots that unfold like this." "Expand like now?" "The killings happened during the snowstorm, and they were serial killings."

"Indeed, what's happening here is indeed quite close to what you said." I agreed, "However, the fact that people died one after another in this villa was due to the submission of 'defective' reports, so there is no fuss of." "Mayuko will die too, so there will be three people." He shrunk his chin, "It's time for us to go back to the room." He said and walked towards the stairs, and I followed him. "Speaking of which," he said casually as he stepped onto the first step of the stairs, "she is actually a very excessive woman."

"Did you mean Mayuko by she?" "That's right. Don't look at her appearance as a weak woman, absolutely not to be underestimated. Like this time she was going to come with other men, but suddenly decided to come with me, you think, she and I just met it." "It's really easy to be her boyfriend." "She's the kind of guy who specializes in playing with men—" He held out his index finger. "Have you heard of 'marriage con artist'?" "I know there are such people, but I haven't been responsible for the investigation."

"She is similar to that kind of person. She seduces men first, and then flees with money. She said she was running away, but in fact she suddenly disappeared from the world. It is said that many of the men ended up miserable and heavily in debt. The infatuation has been betrayed, and the screws of the spirit have loosened." "You know really well." "It's all from the intelligence department." He said, frowned, "Those guys, if you don't ask, don't expect them to tell us." "Yes, that's it." I felt the same way. "The guys from the intelligence department are cold and shameless, don't you think they are a bit like human beings?"

"You are so right." I agreed again, then stood still and said, "Actually, the cause of death of Chio Tamura, who died the earliest, has not been clarified yet. Although he must have died of poisoning, I don't know who It's the murderer." "I just heard about this from Mayuko." He smiled and said, "Could it be like this?" Then he began to tell me his personal guess. After listening, I nodded in agreement.His reasoning is indeed convincing, but at the same time a little disappointing.