Chapter 26 Section 26

A variety show in which entertainers challenge dangerous games is being broadcast on TV.Although he didn't want to see it very much, Gongping still sat upright, pretending to be very happy.Setsuko put the cut pears on a plate, put them on the small table, and said "eat". "Thank you." Although there was a fork on the plate, Gongping still twisted a piece with his hands. Shoji was drinking tea and reading a book.Cheng Shi went out after eating. "Kyohei, what did you do today? It seems like you haven't left the room." Shigeji asked. "Uh, did some summer homework. Played games for a while after that."

"Do your homework? You're so good." "But I'm just starting to do it. The doctor told me that if you don't understand something, you can ask him." "PhD?" "He's talking about Mr. Yukawa." Setsuko stood up.After speaking, she turned and left the room, and went to the kitchen. "Really? By the way, how long does the teacher plan to stay here?" Chongzhi said. "He said he didn't know it himself." Gongping said, "He complained to me, saying that those guys at DESMEC are stupid all day long, and their research work hasn't even made any progress."

"Really? But he is a teacher at Imperial University after all, so he wouldn't just rely on not paying the accommodation fee." Shigeji stroked his thinning hair, looked at Gongping and said, "Did that teacher mention it to you?" What about the case?" "What about the case?" "Anything is fine. Did he tell you that someone died here, which made him feel a little nervous? Or did he ask you how that person died?" "He didn't say anything. He just told me that the police always come here at every turn recently, and he feels a little upset."

"Really?" Chongzhi nodded, and sighed heavily, "Kyohei, it's really a coincidence that you came here. It's rare to come here, but you were involved in this kind of thing. I was going to take you to take a bath in the sea. As a result, I haven't been able to go until now, and as an uncle, I feel very sorry for you." "It's fine. If you're on the beach, you can go there anytime." "Really?" Just as Chongzhi finished answering, the handset of the cordless phone in the corner of the room rang.But after two rings, the phone was cut off.Probably because Setsuko picked up the master machine on the counter.

Gongping looked at the clock.A few minutes to nine.The variety show is over.Holding the remote control in his hand, Gongping kept thinking about what excuses he should find to stay in the living room.After a while, Shigeji will go to take a bath, and until then, Kyohei must find a way to hold his ground. After changing a few channels, after waiting for a while, the drama starring the idol began.Although it was a program that I had never watched before, Kyohei sat up straight in the chair as if he had been looking forward to it for a long time. "Why, Gonghei, do you still like to watch this kind of program?" Shigeji was a little surprised.

Ok.Gong Ping didn't turn his head, and replied while staring at the TV.If my uncle thinks this kind of show is boring, then it will fall into Kyohei's hands. Just then, the cordless phone rang again.However, this time the sound was different.This time it seems to be an internal call. "Oh, what's going on?" Chongzhi just said something, but didn't get up to answer the phone. There was a sound of hurried footsteps in the corridor, and after that, Setsuko walked into the living room. "It's Gongping's father." As she spoke, she picked up the phone, "Hello, can you hear me...? Then, I'll ask him to answer the phone." After that, Setsuko handed over the phone to Kung Ping.

"My dad?" "Yes, it's from Osaka." Gongping put the phone to his ear and said, "It's me." "Yo, it's me, Dad. How are you doing recently?" Jing Yi's cheerful voice came from the receiver. "Well, it's okay." "Really? I just heard from your aunt that something happened there. Why didn't you tell your mother? Didn't your mother call you last night? She asked if you met What happened, didn't you still say it's nothing?" Because it's annoying.Gongping managed to swallow this sentence back to his stomach.

"I don't think it's a big deal." "Isn't it? They're all dead, aren't they old enough? By the way, are you okay?" "What's all right?" "Aren't the police coming in and out all day? Don't you feel uneasy? Don't you feel that you can't go out to play, and you can't concentrate on your studies?" "It's nothing like that. I also played and did my homework." "Really? If you don't feel comfortable being there, you have to be honest." Ok.Gong Ping answered with his mouth, but he was thinking in his heart: Even if I replied that I couldn't stay here, so what?Is it possible that you can still let me go to Osaka?Wasn't it because I was not allowed to follow, that's why I was sent to my uncle and aunt?

"So, can you stay there for a while longer?" "Ok." "Okay, I see. You can give your aunt the phone. Ah, wait a minute, your mother has something to tell you." "Stop talking. Didn't you just talk to her yesterday?" Kyohei handed the handset to Setsuko.After chatting with Jingyi for a few words, Setsuko hung up the phone. "Is Jingichi very worried?" Shigeji asked. "I don't think so either. He is always single-minded in his work, and he is probably preoccupied with work now." After speaking, Setsuko looked at Gongping, "It doesn't matter how long you want to stay here, but if you think about If your father is going there, you have to tell me. Auntie, I will call your father immediately. "

Ok.Gongping nodded. "Okay, it's time for me to take a bath." Chongzhi finally stood up. Setsuko returned to the kitchen.Now, Kyohei was the only one left in the living room.This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. After opening the door and confirming that there was no one in the corridor, Gongping opened the drawer of the cabinet next to the TV.In the drawer, a key with a large wooden sign was placed randomly.Gonghei took out the key and stuffed it into the pocket of his shorts. Afterwards, he turned off the TV, left the room without his slippers on, and rushed barefoot down the corridor, across the lobby, and onto the elevator.Gongping felt his heart was pounding, but it was not just because of the running just now.

Gongping took the elevator to the third floor and knocked on the door of "Between the Sea of ​​Clouds". After a while, there was a sound of unlocking the door, and the door opened.The person standing behind the door was Yu Chuan. look.Kyohei took out the key. "Thank you. How long?" "I want to return the key before my uncle finishes taking a bath, about twenty minutes." "That's enough. Let's go." Tang Chuan also walked out of the room barefoot.Although there were no other passengers in the hotel, there was no need to worry about being heard footsteps, but he did this just in case. Yu Chuan didn't take the elevator and climbed up the stairs to the fourth floor.But after going up to the fourth floor, he walked in the completely opposite direction to Gongping's expectation. "Doctor, where are you going?" Gongping asked. "'Rainbow Between' is here?" Tang Chuan stopped in his tracks: "'Rainbow Between'?" "Don't you want to go to the room where the dead uncle lives?" When Yu Chuan begged himself to steal the supervisor's key, Kyohei once asked him why he did this.At that time, Yu Chuan's answer was: I want to go to a certain room to have a look.After hearing Yukawa's answer, Kyohei always thought that he wanted to go to the room of the passenger who fell to the rock and died.To be honest, Gongping himself really wanted to go in and have a look.The police posted a "No Entry" note on the door, which aroused Gongping's curiosity even more. However, Tang Chuan shook his head and said, "I didn't say I was going to that room." "Then where are you going?" "Come with me, and you will know." Yu Chuan stopped again at the gate of "Unahara no Ma". "here?" "That's right." Tang Chuan fumbled in his pocket, "Put this thing on." It was a pair of white gloves.The gloves are the size worn by adults, so Kyohei feels a bit loose when wearing them. "Sorry, but I don't have kids' sizes here. Just try to...don't touch things in the room." "What the hell do you want?" Tang Chuan thought for a while and said, "I want to do a little research." "Investigate? Investigate what?" "Some investigations in physics. The structure of this hotel interests me and may help my research, so I want to investigate a little bit." "In that case, why don't you go and tell my uncle directly?" "That's not right. The police come here all the time these days, and if your uncle told the police about it, they'd be holding me down and questioning me. I don't want to go into this kind of muddy water—the key." Give me." "It's really not easy to be a famous scholar." Gongping handed the director key to Yu Chuan. "It's impossible to grasp the truth if you only care about the light all day long." Yu Chuan unlocked the door and pushed the door open.Fumbling with his hands, he turned on the light switch and walked into the house.Gong Ping also walked in.The air conditioner was not turned on in the room, and it felt damp and stuffy. The size of the whole room is about the same as the one Gongping lives in.Tang Chuan stood at the door, looked around the room, and squatted down.He reached out and wiped the tatami, then stared at the glove for a while. "what are you doing?" "No reason. I heard that this room has not been lived in for a long time, so I wonder if there may be dust in it. But it seems that they still come to clean it often." Yu Chuan walked to the window and opened the curtains.Gongping stood behind him, and also looked out of the window with his head.Outside the window is the backyard where Gongping and his uncle set off fireworks a few nights ago. "I remember you said that you set off the climbing fireworks with your uncle that day?" "Well, five rounds were fired." "At that time, were all the windows on this side of the room closed?" "Well, it's closed." "you sure?" "Sure. If you don't pay attention and let the fireworks go into the room, it will be very dangerous. So, at that time, my uncle and I checked to see if any windows in that room were open. Except for the windows, we And cover up all the places where the fireworks could go in." "Really?" Tang Chuan nodded, "Did the light in this room be on at that time?" "lamp?" "Did you make sure that the lights in this room were on when any windows were open?" "Uh..." The sudden question made Gongping feel a little confused, "I don't remember much either." "Just like tonight, the rooms on this side of the hotel should be empty that night. In this way, if you look up from the backyard, the windows of the entire building should be completely dark." It's not that Gongping doesn't understand the meaning of Tang Chuan's words, but he didn't think about it that much at the time.Are there any rooms with lights on?It seems there is.Gongping himself doesn't remember much. In desperation, Gongping had no choice but to answer truthfully.Yu Chuan nodded silently and closed the curtains.Afterwards, while staring at the walls of the room, he began to pace the room.While pacing, he tapped his fist on the wall from time to time to hear the sound. "Has this building been around for many years? When was it built?" "I don't know, but it must have been thirty-five years at least. Uncle's father built this hotel. My uncle inherited it about fifteen years ago." "Fifteen years ago? How old is your uncle?" "Well, it's not yet seventy. But he said that if rounded, it can be counted as seventy." "Well, it feels about the same. His wife looks quite young." "My aunt also said that after a while, she will be sixty if rounded up." "Sixty? If it takes a while longer, it should be fifty-three-four. But it doesn't look like it." After speaking, Tang Chuan seemed to suddenly think of something. He lowered his head and asked Gongping, " How old is your father?" "forty five." "The age difference between the two siblings is really big enough." "That's because the two of them were not born to the same mother. My aunt's mother died shortly after giving birth to my aunt, and my father was born to another mother." "So that's the case, the same father and half mother." "My aunt went to Tokyo when she was young and lived alone for a while. So my dad also said that the relationship between the siblings is not particularly close, but feels more like the aunt next door." "That's really ugly. Well, let's not talk about it for now. According to what you said just now, your uncle should have inherited the hotel when he was in his fifties? Then, What was he doing before?" "It is said that he works for an engine company." "engine?" "He has been changing jobs, and sometimes he works alone. When he was in Tokyo, he rarely went home." "Tokyo? Is that so, their family came from Tokyo?" "how?" "Well, nothing." Yukawa opened the closet.The closet is stuffed with white quilts.Tang Chuan stared at the quilts for a few seconds, then stretched out his hand to pull out the quilts, climbed into the top floor of the closet, and knocked on the wall of the closet. "Doctor." Gongping called Tang Chuan.For some reason, there was always an inexplicable uneasiness in his heart. Yu Chuan climbed out of the closet, stuffed the quilt back, and closed the sliding door. "Okay, let's go." "Are you done?" "It's done. Everything is as I expected." Tang Chuan reached out and pressed the light switch.In the darkness, Gong Ping felt that the side face of the physicist in front of him seemed to have a serious look that had never been shown before.