Chapter 49 13. Somewhere in the past

Thirty minutes later, the wait force police officer from the Police Department rushed over with several subordinates. "Detective boy, what are you doing here?" "Ah! Wait a minute, Officer, this is how it goes..." Miko Chaijin recounted the whole incident in detail. "So the phantom monster disguised himself as a guest and lived in this room No. 6. When it was late at night, he sneaked into Room No. 7. It was only a little bit, and I let him escape." "Have you checked room number six?" "You can't do this! We can't just break into the guest's room."

Manager Quanto, who was standing aside, said. "Okay, so now I give an order to open this door immediately." "Yes, obey!" Manager Quandou immediately used the spare key at the hotel counter to open the door of Room No. 6. As soon as Manager Quanto opened the door, the room was pitch black, and he quickly pressed the power switch. There was no one in the room, but looking at the dormitory inside, the window facing the backyard was actually open. "Ah! Phantom Man escaped through that window." Yu Zichai went to the window and looked out, but of course there was no one outside.

"Hey! Detective Boy, is this the tights that Phantom is wearing?" Seeing the police officer Waituli grabbing a black tights from the bed, Miko Chai Jin quickly replied: "That's right! It's this one. Damn it! The Phantom Man must have escaped into this room, locked it from the inside, quickly took off his tights and put on a suit, and escaped through the window along the awning." What Miko Chaijin said seems to be true. According to the investigation by the police, there was a brown rag on the awning, which was the same fabric as the suit worn by the squinting guest.

In addition, there are also many shoe prints under the window, and the shoe prints are broken when they reach the back wall. "That person seems to have crossed the wall, because there are some traces of mud on the wall." After reviewing the names of the guests on the accommodation list, it was found that the guest in Room 6 was Hashizumi Xiaocheng, who was a writer by profession, but these must have been forged. Manager Fujitsu said that Xiaocheng Hashizumi arrived at the hotel around ten o'clock. After taking him to Room 6, he seemed to have stayed there. No one saw him come out. It turned out that he was waiting for the night to come.

Yuzi Chaijin managed to let the phantom monster fall into the trap. He could have caught him, but he escaped unexpectedly, so he felt very sad and had some regrets. "If what the phantom monster said is true, then the prisoner who killed Kuwano Wuyue will have to murder two more women!" This is the meeting room of the New Daily News, and it is already the afternoon of the second day after the phantom monster escaped. In the meeting room are the president Sansaku Ikegami, editor-in-chief Yamazaki, Shunsuke Mitsuki, and Miko Shibajin, who are having a secret meeting. "Yes, that's exactly what Phantom Stranger said."

"But he didn't mention the name of the woman he was going to kill." "Mr. Mitsuki, it's all my fault that I was too eager to make a contribution... If I handled it properly at that time, then the Phantom Monster might say their names, sorry!" "Detective boy, don't blame yourself too much. It is not an easy task to catch the phantom monster with your own strength. But now we know that there is an unknown avenger who wants to murder two women. This clue It's already precious." President Ikegami comforted him and said: "And the Phantom Monster will do this, doesn't it mean that he hasn't got the 'Mediterranean Star' yet?"

"Well, that seems to be the case. I heard from Manager Quanto that someone searched in Room 7 the night before yesterday, so I set a trap in Room 7 last night..." When Yuzi Chaijin was biting his lips and talking, a person with the same position as him knocked on the door and walked in. "Ah Jin, just now a strange old man asked me to give you this letter." "A letter to me?" Yuzi Chaijin picked up the envelope and looked at it. The sender's signature was Hashizumi Xiaocheng. Yuzi Chai Jin hurriedly opened the letter and read it. After reading it, he clenched his fists and cursed angrily:

"Damn! Damn phantom monster!" Miko Chai Jin was so angry because of the following content in the letter: