Chapter 27 Chapter 27 A Nightmare

The expression on Fujimura Natsue's face became more and more rigid, and his eyes were full of fear. "I forgot to tell you that there is a street light around the corner, so I can clearly see the face of that girl in pajamas..." Natsue Fujimura kept waving his hands in front of him, as if he wanted to wave away the terrifying succubus. "I don't know how many times that face has appeared in my dreams. It is no longer a human face, but a devil's face! That face is severely distorted and deformed, and it keeps laughing. Even her body is very Strange, her back arched, her jaw jutting forward, her hands drooping like a chimpanzee... No! I'll never see that face again!"

Kosuke Kindaichi and Police Officer Waituli looked at each other in surprise. The Misa they saw on the golf course today was just like what Fujimura Natsue described. "Ms. Fujimura, please cheer up. Next, did you go to the girl?" Encouraged by Kosuke Kindaichi, Natsue Fujimura raised her head as if awakened from a nightmare, sweat dripping from her forehead. "Yes, because I had to do that, and I noticed that there was nothing on the girl's hands. I instinctively realized that Mr. Fuekoji had an accident. When the girl's figure disappeared on the top of the slope, I hurried to where she was just now. After a while, I saw a luminous object in the thick fog in front of me. When I got closer, I realized that it was a pool.

"There is a barbed wire fence around the pool, and one of the barbed wire fences seems to have been damaged for a long time; then I saw a small piece of white cloth hooked on the damaged part of the barbed wire fence. Probably girls' pajamas!" At this time, Officer Hibino made a whimpering sound from his throat. "Officer Hibino, if it's because I took that piece of cloth away and affected your investigation work, I can only say sorry here. I didn't notice anything in the pool at first, wait I got under the barbed wire, only to see Mr. Futekoji floating on the pool in only his underwear. I just took one look and decided he was dead, so I ran away from Karuizawa the next day.

"Mr. Kindaichi, this is what I don't understand. I don't know whether Mr. Fuekoji died by suicide or homicide. If he killed him, then the person who killed him was Misa, but why did Misa kill her own father? Before this, Mr. Di Xiaolu raped her, no matter how much he drank unconsciously, it is impossible for a father to rape his own daughter!" After a long and suffocating silence, Kosuke Kindaichi said in a sad and helpless tone: "Because the idea that Mr. Futekoji and Misa are father and daughter has long been deeply rooted in our minds, there has been a blind spot in our investigation work. Ms. Fujimura, thank you very much. Your testimony has cleared the obstacles in front of us. By the way, Ms. Fujimura..."

Kindaichi Kosuke then asked: "Do you think that Mr. Dixiaolu died of homicide?" "I don't know about this. At that time, my head was blank, and I just felt very terrible. Not long after,... Mr. Kondo was sitting there! When he came to me and wanted to ask me about the accidental death of Akutsu , he said that the police suspected that it was homicide..." "The police do have such suspicions. So, what do you think of Mr. Akutsu's death?" "Mr. Kindaichi, didn't... he died in a traffic accident? Wasn't it said that homicide was very low?"

"At first I thought it should be the case, but then the bizarre death of Di Xiaolu gave us a chance to rethink. That traffic accident instead became a cover-up for the murderer to conceal the real motive of the crime." "Mr. Kondo, please forgive me. I didn't tell you everything I witnessed on August 15th." Officer Yamashita comforted Xia Jiang Fujimura: "Forget it, forget it, after listening to your narration just now, even a man like me who has many years of experience in handling cases can't help feeling horrified. This incident tells us that, seriously, we really appreciate you very much. By the way, Mr. Kindaichi..."

"yes." As soon as Officer Yamashita called his name, Kindaichi Kosuke looked at Natsue Fujimura very sadly and said: "Ms. Fujimura, I'm sorry to keep interrupting you when you were tired. May I ask if you found anything about the incident that happened at Tsumura's house the night before yesterday?" Fujimura Natsue's eyes were full of fear again. "Mr. Kindaichi, the night before yesterday I... I'm sorry, I was too self-righteous, but please listen to me, so that I can feel more at ease." "Please say." Natsue Fujimura rearranged her thoughts, only to see that her eyes were slightly wet, and she said faintly:

"The main reason why I visited Karuizawa again this year was because of Mr. Futekoji's daughter. I was troubled by terrible nightmares almost every night, so I also wanted to know the truth of the matter. I am not unconcerned The matter of Mr. Tsumura, but I think that if Mr. Tsumura also abandoned Ms. Feng, the reason should be related to her daughter. This is the original motivation for me to come here. Okay, now I will start talking about what I witnessed the night before yesterday .” Seeing the anxious look on Natsue Fujimura's face, everyone became nervous. "Mr. Kindaichi, to be honest, I don't know what happened to the Tsumura family the night before yesterday, so I can't guarantee that what I'm going to say next will be of much help to your investigation work. At around eight o'clock the night before yesterday There was a power outage, and sister Cao took out a large flashlight, and we continued to chat. Later, we chatted almost, and we couldn't watch TV, so we went upstairs to go to bed at about 8:30.

"At that time, I made the bed with my sister's flashlight, and when I was about to close the window, I suddenly saw that the corridor of the villa next door was still bright, because the flame was shaking unsteadily, and I immediately realized that it was the light of a candle. Moreover, some windows seemed to be open, so after the candles were extinguished, the people in the house hurriedly lit the candles again; then I heard the sound of the windows closing. It's so windy, why don't you close the windows and light the candles?" (Probably because moths flew into the house at the time!)

"You said it was half past eight?" "I think it's eight thirty-five or six!" "You think the person in the living room was Mr. Tsumura?" "I can only think so! I learned from the posters posted on the street that there is a concert going on. Once the power goes out, the concert will naturally have to be suspended!" "Exactly. What's next?" "I lay in bed and read a book for a while, and when I was about to turn off the flashlight and go to bed before 9:10, I heard the sound of the car engine next door, so I quietly got up from the bed, opened the curtain a little and looked down, I saw a car parked just below the corridor, and a man got out of the car; it was very dark outside, and the headlights of that car happened to be projected towards me, and the man got out of the car without turning off the headlights, so I You can clearly see the man's face. I think he's probably a musician too, and he's wearing a long hip-length shirt."

"Have you met Mr. Shen Gongwu?" "No, I've never seen him. But when he married Ms. Feng, I saw his picture in a magazine. Could it be..." "It's nothing, did that person enter the villa later?" "yes." "Did you see anyone in the house at that time?" "No... because I don't have much interest in this matter. I just feel that it is very inconvenient to have guests visit during the power outage. If it wasn't for a strange thing that happened at that time, which made me frozen in place, I went to bed early." "When you say strange things, you mean..." "As soon as the guests entered the house, there was a figure looking in from the side window at the back of the villa." "what!" Officer Hibino let out a cry, he was too surprised to speak. Natsue Fujimura misunderstood the meaning of Police Officer Hibino and hastily explained: "No, I didn't lie, something really strange happened." Kindaichi Kosuke quickly comforted her and said: "Ms. Fujimura, we are not doubting your statement, we are just confirming whether this person has really appeared... Your testimony is very important to us, please explain this part in detail." "OK." Natsue Fujimura took a deep breath, seeing her like this, everyone speculated in their hearts that she might have witnessed something terrible again. "Looking down from my position, I can see the right side of the villa next door. The man was sneaking towards the right side from the front, but because of the car coming, he hurriedly hid behind the building; After the guests entered the house, he sneaked out again." "and then?" "That man... To be honest, the villa next door is really dark! But because the headlights of the car are shining towards me, I can clearly see every move of that man. I saw him looking in from the window, probably because The window was too high, so he carried a stone from behind, put it under the window, and stood on the stone to peek inside." "What kind of clothes is that person wearing?" "I didn't see this. Because of the reflection of the headlights, I couldn't see very clearly. I only saw that person carrying a backpack that young people like nowadays." Natsue Fujimura began to show fear and anxiety on her face. While restraining her uneasy emotions, she said: "Then I looked at my watch and realized that I had been standing for fifteen minutes when the person who was peeping suddenly moved. I saw him jump off the rock and run towards the front of the building, and then a figure came out of the building. The front corridor rushed out, and ran past the headlights...At this moment, I saw a hunched girl...she arched her back, her jaw protruded forward, her hands drooped...like a whirlwind around the front of the car Get in the back of the car and get on a bike..." (Bicycles...Mesa has a bicycle, strong evidence!) Everyone looked at each other nervously. "When the girl suffering from rickets rushed out from behind the car on her bicycle, a figure suddenly blocked the front of the bicycle. It was a young man... The girl suffering from rickets ran into the young man desperately. , and galloped down the slope quickly; the young man wanted to call the girl to stop, but because the night wind was very strong at that time, I couldn't hear what the young man called, so he immediately followed the bicycle and ran down the slope with all his strength. By the way, the young man had a flashlight in his hand, and when he stood in front of the bicycle, he shone the flashlight on the girl's face, and the girl screamed, and that's all I saw." Natsue Fujimura closed his eyes and lay down in the chair with a tired face. Kindaichi Kosuke said to her softly: "What do you do next?" "Mr. Kindaichi, this is the limit of what I can bear. I thought something terrible must have happened in the villa next door, so I gently lowered the curtains and quickly got into bed, but I couldn't sleep. I didn't dare to open the bed." I was afraid that people would think I was peeping after turning on the light, so I slipped out of bed with a flashlight, and on the way downstairs, I checked my watch, and the time was 9:08." (At this time, Shinji Tsumura should still be at Sakurai's house.) "Mr. Kindaichi, that's all I know. Then I went downstairs and got into my sister's bed. Alas! I didn't expect that my doing this would arouse my sister's curiosity. In addition, she has a rich imagination. In the end, it turned into the situation just now!" Mrs. Cao is currently being sent to the hospital because of insanity. I don't know if she is just insane for a while, or it will be like this for the rest of her life. Seeing Natsue Fujimura standing up unsteadily, Kosuke Kindaichi said in a gentle voice: "Where are you going now?" "I have to go back. It's not Asama Yin, it's sister fuck. It's me who caused her to go crazy. I have to take care of her." "Then find someone to take you there! But before you leave, I have one or two questions I want to ask you. When you looked at the villa next door, did you hear the sound coming from the Yulan Basin loudspeaker?" Natsue Fujimura thought for a while, and suddenly replied tremblingly: "After you said that... because the wind was strong at the time, the voice sounded distant and near, but the sound from the loudspeaker could still be heard." "hateful!" Detective Kondo cursed lowly, and he realized that the music of the Obon Festival was Misa's amulet. "Another question is, did you hear the sound of the car driving away from the villa next door?" "Yes, I heard it. But Mr. Kindaichi, if you want to ask me what time it is, I can't tell you; because I'm afraid of waking my sister up, so I can't muster up the courage to turn on the flashlight to see what time it is." Exactly what time it was, all I know is that the wind picked up and it started to rain heavily." Natsue Fujimura staggered out of the living room after speaking. Detective Kondo sent Xiajiang Fujimura to the door, and immediately returned to the living room. "Mr. Kindaichi, do you already know the relationship between Nobukichi Tashiro and Misa? Nobukichi Tashiro caught Misa on the spot, and something must happen next." "Before Tashiro came back here, he might have known about Misa. If he met Fuekoji in the 'Shirakaba Camp' last year and heard anything from him..." While Police Officer Hibino was muttering to himself, Detective Yamaguchi, who was staying at Shinji Tsumura's villa, ran in in a panic. "Found it, we found these things from the hidden storage room of that villa." Detective Yamaguchi took out whiskey bottles and glasses... "The bottle of whiskey smelled of potassium cyanate, and we also found strange things from the victim's belly." It was a sheet of music folded in four, and at first glance it appeared to be the usual music notation of bean sprouts, but Detective Yamaguchi was referring to the back, where there was a pattern of matchsticks arranged.In addition, there was an empty envelope, addressed to Shinji Tsumura of Okushi Asama, and sent by Shigeki Tachibana of Tokyo, but there was no letterhead inside. Kosuke Kindaichi grinned when he saw the arrangement of matchsticks on the back of the sheet music. "From this point of view, when Shin Kyougo drank the drink mixed with potassium cyanate, he did not fall forward, but backward, so when Tsumura came back from Sakurai's house, the pattern of the match sticks would be different. Neatly left on the table. In the eyes of friends, Tsumura is a person who is informal and big, but he also has a slender side. He quietly copied these patterns and reproduced them in Yazaki's studio." "Mr. Kindaichi, what exactly does this mean?" Officer Yamashita asked with wide eyes. "This can be said to be the genealogy of a color-blind family. Officer Yamashita, I have dealt with color-blind patients before, so I know a little bit about 'color-blindness'. I saw the number of matchsticks for the first time in Yazaki's studio. .Wait for the police officer to also know that there is a very complete encyclopedia in the Nanjo Villa. After I checked it in detail, there should be no mistakes. Let me explain it now." "Please." "As Tsumura drew with a ballpoint pen, the green matchstick drawn with a slash on the head of the matchstick represents a male, and the complete green matchstick represents a healthy male, which can be represented by a 'zero' symbol; the green matchstick folded into two strokes represents Males with color blindness are represented by '●' symbols. "Next, Tsumura blackened the matchstick to represent the red matchstick, which refers to women, and the complete red matchstick represents a healthy woman, represented by the '!' symbol; and the matchstick folded in two represents that he is not colorblind. , but has the genetic factor of color blindness, so the symbol '?' can still be used. Now I change the four different styles of match sticks to symbols instead, and the children and grandchildren born to the man with color blindness will have This genetic method is just one example. It seems that Shen Gongwu must have checked the knowledge of color blindness in detail." At this time, Police Officer Hibino said: "But Mr. Kindaichi, I asked Gu Chuan just now, and he said that Misa is indeed colorblind. If so, what happened to that child?" "Officer Hibino, what I said is all based on the records in the encyclopedia, so please don't doubt it. I heard that the proportion of women who inherit color blindness is about 0.5% of the total population. So under what circumstances, Will it give birth to a daughter who is colorblind? "Only women who are not color-blind but have color-blind genetic factors, that is, the symbol '?" marrying a color-blind man will give birth to daughters with color blindness. We apply this theory to Meisha's parents, Feng Chiyoko is a big star in color movies. She should not be color-blind, but will she have the genetic factor of color blindness? "The answer is impossible, because her father is a painter who uses gorgeous colors and is good at depicting ladies, so he should not be color-blind. Besides, everyone has heard about her mother, so her mother should not be color-blind." "hateful!" Detective Kondo finally understood the real reason why Kindaichi Kosuke talked about Feng Chikage and his wife here last night, and admired them so much. "However, Misa's father...or Fuekoji who is considered to be Misa's father, what about his situation? He has a driver's license... most people will undergo a color blindness test before getting a driver's license, so Fuekoji is not colorblind either. " "Mr. Kindaichi, then why is Misa colorblind?" Detective Kondo's fox-like eyes kept turning. "Judging from Misa's blood type, she is not a child of Di Xiaolu; and judging from the genetic law of color blindness, she is not a child of Hochiyoko either." The usually calm police officer Yamashita also asked emotionally: "Mr. Kindaichi, whose child is Misa?" Kosuke Kindaichi sadly replied: "I don't know. I'm afraid only Di Xiaolu Atsuko knows about this matter." In an instant, the entire living room was enveloped in an atmosphere of silence. Detective Yamaguchi didn't quite understand the reason for everyone's silence, so he continued to ask: "Mr. Kindaichi, how do you explain the envelope found in the victim's belly?" Kindaichi Kosuke showed a row of bright teeth and said: "Well...Mr. Yamaguchi, Tsumura may use this envelope to pack these matches. This is a letter from Tachibana to Tsumura. It may not be an important letter, so after reading the letter, Tsumura used this envelope to pack the matches." Kosuke Kindaichi showed the front of the score to everyone. "Look, this is an unprinted sheet music. The name of the piece is 'Asama Hymn'. The composer is Shinji Tsumura. It's a piece for string quartet. Just ask Tachibana to know if this piece was originally planned. The song performed the day before yesterday. According to Sakurai Xizi, Tsumura brought a sheet music cover made of synthetic leather that day. Copy the arrangement pattern of these matchsticks on the back, that is to say, everything was over at that time." "Mr. Kindaichi, does Tsumura know what the pattern of match sticks means?" "Wait," the police officer asked. "How should I say this? I think Tsumura only knew that Shen Kyogo wanted to use the arrangement patterns of the match sticks to point out the clues of the murderer, so he let the arrangement patterns of the match sticks reproduce in Yazaki's studio, hoping that the police can grasp this Some clues. Although he himself doesn't know what's going on, the police may be able to find out some clues from it, maybe he thinks so!" "Even so... Mr. Kindaichi, why does Misa have potassium cyanate?" Officer Yamashita seemed to have just woken up from a nightmare. Regarding the question he raised, Kosuke Kindaichi said not very confidently: "Well...Officer Yamashita, could it be Mrs. Atsuko who owns potassium cyanate? She uses Meisa as a tool for her own profit..." "That's it! That Hakone Treasure Box!" The police officer Waiting Li suddenly jumped up from his chair with a yell, and everyone turned to look at him. "That's it, that's it! Mrs. Atsuko found that there was less potassium cyanate in the Hakone Treasure Box, that's why she looked so trembling when waiting on the platform of Ueno Station." Kosuke Kindaichi looked at the police officer Bodouli maliciously and said: "Officer, what's the matter? You don't look like you at all... what Hakone Treasure Box? What's going on here?" The police officer Waiting Power briefly told everyone about the Hakone Treasure Box. When he finished speaking, a young plainclothes criminal policeman ran in and said: "The Furukawa detective who stayed at the Fuchikoji Villa just now called. He said that Chiyoko Fuze had gone to the Fuchikoji Villa because Mrs. Atsuko called the hospital to tell Chiyoko Fuzeko about Misa, and hoped that she would rush over immediately." Before the young plainclothes criminal policeman could finish speaking, Kosuke Kindaichi had already lifted the hem of his kimono and rushed to the gate.Seeing this, the others immediately rushed out behind Kosuke Kindaichi. "Ah! I heard that Meisha hasn't come back..." While shouting, the young plainclothes criminal police rushed out of the living room after everyone.