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One side of the tombstone was bathed in the sunset, dyed vermilion. Bravely striding in the afterglow of the setting sun, the sound of stepping on the soil disappeared in the cool evening wind. Akihiko Guasheng stood in front of the grave of Guasheng's family, with his hands in his trouser pockets, looking at the distant sky.He seemed to hear footsteps, and turned his eyes towards Yusaku. "You are very slow." He said, smoothing the line of his lips. Yusaku walked towards him silently, stopped a few meters in front of him, and stared at his face. "Because I checked something before I came here." Yusaku said.

"Forensic?" "Yes. To confirm an important thing." Yusaku continued slowly, "It is the feather of the arrow." Akihiko's expression only froze for a few seconds, and then immediately returned to its original state, and even a smile appeared in the corner of his eyes. "and then?" "Misako still remembers," said Yusaku, "that when she saw the third arrow lying alone, a feather fell off from the arrow. But that arrow was not lying alone for that reason. That one was They are poisonous arrows. Neither what Hongchang took nor what Miss Chengjiang handed over to Songcun were poisonous arrows."

Akihiko didn't say anything at the first meeting, as if he planned to listen to Yusaku before responding. "But it was the poisoned arrow that Matsumura shot Sugai Masakiki. Why did it happen? There is only one reason - after Matsumura hid the crossbow and arrows outside the wall of this cemetery, someone replaced the non-poisonous arrow with a poisoned one." Yusuke took a deep breath.He saw Akihiko nodding slightly. "That person may know Songcun's plan, so he came here to observe the situation. When he found the crossbow and arrows and knew that the arrows were not poisonous, he panicked. Because if people are shot by ordinary arrows, the death rate is very low. So he Holding that arrow, he hurried to Gua Sheng’s house, sneaked into the study, and replaced the arrow in his hand with a poisoned arrow. When he was about to leave through the back door, Misako saw him.”

Akihiko was probably afraid of Yusaku mentioning Misako's name, so he just lowered his head at this moment. "After changing the arrows, he realized that he had no alibi for that period of time. So he called a meal shop near his workplace and ordered takeaway that would be delivered when he returned. That's why he had to order the Kabayaki eel, which he hated." Yong Zuo continued: "This is the truth of the murder case." After Yusaku finished speaking, Akihiko remained silent for a while.Sometimes he looked at his feet, and sometimes he looked at the sunset. "So that's how it is," he finally said, "It turns out that Kabayaki Eel showed a flaw. But, you remember it really well."

"Of course," replied bravely, "As long as it's about you, I will remember it." Akihiko let out a sigh of relief. "Should I be happy about it?" "God knows." Yuzuo shrugged. "What evidence do you have regarding the exchange of arrows?" "Investigate the arrows that were actually used and you will find out. I just confirmed it with my own eyes. Among the three feathers, there is a trace of bonding with adhesive. I think. It must be instant adhesive." "Oh. With the testimony of Misako, maybe this can be proved." Akihiko sighed, but Yusaku said, "No, she didn't find anything, and I'm the only one who knows about it."

"You didn't tell your boss?" "It's meaningless to tell. I don't think that alone is enough evidence. The point is that it was Matsumura who shot the arrow, not you." Yusaku stared into Akihiko's eyes and said quietly, "You won." Akihiko turned his face away, blinked, then looked at Yusaku and said, "I heard you met Mr. Ejima?" Sousuke seems to have told Akihiko that Yusaku went to him. "However, there are still many things I can't figure out." "I think so." Akihiko stretched out his right hand from his pocket and pushed his bangs up. "Do you know that Dr. Uehara stayed in the Suwa Nursing Home?"

"Know." "Well, I'll start there." Akihiko looked around and sat down on the stone steps beside Guasheng's family grave. "Dr. Uehara, a brain medicine scholar, met a very interesting case while staying in the Suwa Nursing Home. The patient was shot in the side of the head, but he had almost no problems in general life. However, he was sensitive to special sounds and smells. Produced extremely sensitive reactions, those reactions were varied, sometimes in a trance; The problem is that once some kind of external stimulus is received, that part will generate abnormal current. So the doctor put forward a hypothesis that that part has nerves that control human emotions, and the abnormal current generated by the gunshot wound may have stimulated that nerve. In order to confirm this, the doctor deliberately applied electric stimulation to him and observed his reaction, and as a result, something unexpected happened."

Yusaku swallowed a mouthful of saliva, unable to imagine what happened. "The appearance of that patient began to become weird." Akihiko said. "Is it getting worse?" "That's not it. What got weird was his behavior, and the patient said he liked Dr." "Huh?" Yusuke was surprised. "The patient didn't have many words, but during the experiment, he became loquacious and started to say that kind of words. He even said that as long as the doctor said, he would obey everything. After the experiment, he calmed down. For a while, he said that he didn’t remember much about what happened during the experiment. Anyway, the doctor didn’t have to refuse his love, because this patient is a man with normal sexual orientation.”

"Why would he say that?" "The nerve stimulated by the doctor is in charge of emotion, there is no doubt about it. In addition, the doctor found that when the patient heard a certain frequency sound, the same reaction would occur. That is, when the doctor asked him to listen to the sound voice, he'll always think he loves the Doctor." Yusaku shook his head, this is really unbelievable. "The doctor compiled this case and the contents of the experiment into a report, and made a conclusion that if this experimental technology is used, human emotions can be controlled. However, even though this is an epoch-making discovery, this report is almost I haven’t seen the light. At that time, the war was just over, and there was no place to officially publish it. Besides, Dr. Uehara had to devote his energy to the reorganization of his own hospital. After a few years like this, the president of Guasheng Industry, Kazuaki Guasheng, that is, me Grandfather, go to the doctor and say that he is very interested in the doctor's previous research results."

"I don't understand. Why would the president of the manufacturing industry be interested in that kind of thing?" Yusaku uttered a long-standing question. "To explain this, we must first explain the culture of the company Guaran Industries. Guaran Industries was originally a company specializing in fine processing. During the war, due to the order of the military, it was responsible for manufacturing fine parts of weapons. Therefore, my grandfather and the government A related person got on the line. This person seems to be an old fox. He got Dr. Uehara's report from somewhere and came to discuss with my grandfather. He thought that if he could implant fine parts into the human brain, he would be able to External transmission of electrical waves to the brain to control human emotions. If this can be done, it can make anyone a spy..."

Dare to be dumbfounded.There is still such a trick? "After the defeat, someone immediately thought of that kind of thing?" "This is the difference in thinking. This is what they say. No matter how much research is done, it is impossible to realize this immediately. However, as long as the accumulation of basic research is started immediately, it will bear fruit one day in the future. At that time, the battle The target is the whole world.” "Idiots talking about dreams!" Yusaku spat. "That's right. But my grandfather was involved in that project. He seemed to be possessed, fantasizing about manipulating human beings with the power of science. So he approached Dr. Uehara and asked him to conduct research in the melon industry, which is called 'computer-style heartbeat' The research on the method of operation'. For this research, the doctor recruited seven poor young people to conduct human experiments. It should be said that my grandfather and Dr. Uehara are both crazy." "Then this study was carried out with the assistance of the government?" Akihiko frowned, closed his eyes lightly, and shook his head; "I don't know about this. There is no information or evidence left in this regard. On the surface, it seems that a company conducts research in a very confidential manner." "Hmm... what happened to the research?" "To a certain extent, the research was successful. The doctor determined that the nerves that control the emotions of the subjects can be stimulated with electric current, and the changes in their will and emotions can be manipulated. The doctor then wanted to create a symptom, so that the experimental subjects could feel like they were in the experiment. Like the patient in the Suwa Sanatorium, he responded to a certain sound. But the experiment did not go well, and the subjects did not have the expected reaction. In the process of repeated experiments, something unexpected happened. Unexpected thing. Among the seven test subjects, four escaped." "Then I know." Sou Ejima was among those four. "They were originally unidentified people, and it was not easy to find them. Besides, this experiment cannot be made known to the world, so the doctor continued the experiment with the remaining three people. Finally, he found the conditions that made them react sensitively. After the doctor and others were ecstatic to obtain the information, they restored their brains to their original state, but this was a trap." "trap?" "Well. The doctor thought he had restored the subject's brain to its original state, but it was not. Two of the three subjects died." Akihiko said with a distorted face. Yong Zuo held his breath and asked, "Why?" "I don't know, it's still a mystery." "Two of the three died... so, what about the remaining one?" "My life was saved, but my intelligence decreased significantly, to the level of a young child." "Reduced intelligence, toddler level... Could that person be..." Bravely hesitated to speak. "Miss Sanae Hino." Akihiko nodded, taking out Yusaku's notebook from the inner pocket of his jacket, and talking. The sun is gradually sinking to the west, and the colorful clouds in the sky seem to be about to disappear. "So many people have been sacrificed, my grandfather and the others seem to have finally come to their senses, so they decided to freeze the research and compile the previous materials into two file folders, one is kept by Dr. Uehara, and the other is stored in the safe of Gua Sheng's house The research has become an eternal secret since then. But the matter is not completely over, and the relevant personnel in charge of the research are worried about the four people who escaped. You may have heard Mr. Ejima say that their brains are like being buried A bomb that must be dealt with. The first thing to do is to find the four of them. This is a very difficult job. However, by chance, three of them were found. Dr. Uehara was still alive at the time, and he was in charge Check them. That folder also contains materials recording the identities of the three of them and their symptoms at the time." "Thirty years later, there's a man who wants to take that extremely secret file, eh?" Hearing what Yusaku said, Akihiko smiled wryly. "Sugai Masaki's father also participated in the research. After the research plan was frozen, his father still seemed to want to secretly restart the research. Their father and son's weirdness is really comparable. It's just that when my grandfather died, my father was still alive At that time, he was unable to start. It may be a symbol of the wrestling relationship between the Guasheng family and the Sugai family. I think that Zhengqing's father may have ordered him to restart the plan by the Sugai family. They should The plan is very persistent, so when I saw my father fall and the real power will return to my hands, I started to prepare step by step." "So he took the folder from Gua Sheng's house, but met unexpected resistance, didn't he?" "When I knew that the file folder fell into the hands of Sugai, I immediately contacted Mr. Matsumura, because it was necessary to formulate aftermath measures from many aspects." "Which position does Matsumura stand on?" Yusaku asked. "When the project was launched, he just joined the company as a technician and was responsible for the work related to the current in the experiment. He was one of the few people who saw the experiment with his own eyes. When the subject's appearance changed, he wanted to escape. It is conceivable that when he knew that someone had died because of this, he suffered a great blow. Later he suffered from a neurasthenia, and it took a long time to recover. He still treats himself I regret participating in that experiment." Yusaku thought that if Matsumura was still a young man at the time, it would be natural to have such a reaction.Akihiko also said just now that Uehara, Guasheng and Akira are crazy. "Which of you suggested killing Sugai?" Yusaku asked, but Akihiko flatly denied it. "Nobody brought it up, we never talked about that kind of thing. But we both had the same thing in our minds." "So you conspired to kill him?" "Mr. Matsumura and Ms. Chengjiang are the co-conspirators. Ms. Chengjiang also heard Mr. Matsumura talk about the secret of Guasheng's family, so she should understand the seriousness of the matter. If it can be avoided, I don't want to involve her in this matter." Akihiko regretted frowning. "What did you plan to do?" Yusaku asked, "You still plan to kill Sugai, right?" "Of course," Akihiko said, "that file folder must never be handed over to that man, not even let him see it." "To keep him from repeating that crazy research?" "That's one of the reasons. But more importantly, we can't let Sugai know that there are still three victims alive. If Sugai finds out, we will definitely go to them. We have an obligation to protect the lives of those three people." "Besides, one of them is your father-in-law." "It's not just because of this. One of them has become an important figure in the political arena. If Xu Bei knows that there is still a circuit in that person's brain to control emotions, I don't know what action he will take." "Politics?" When Yusaku heard these two words, he remembered what Sou Ejima said.The leader of the plan to escape seems to be called Cid, and the person who is currently the brains of a certain faction and is well-known throughout the country is also Cid. Akihiko noticed what Yusaku had discovered, and whispered, "This matter is extremely confidential. I'm telling you because it's you." "I know. In short, you decided to kill him for this reason?" "Only this method can solve the problem." "Sure enough, a crossbow?" Hearing this, Akihiko couldn't help laughing. "How is that possible? I'm going to use a pistol." "pistol?" "One of my father's relics, but no one knew he had that gun. I thought, it would be the perfect murder weapon. So I went to scout the scene, and I found a crossbow and arrows hidden here. I think, probably Matsumura Hidden, sir. It would be nice if someone would do it for me. But when I found out it wasn't a poisoned arrow, I panicked. The rest is your reasoning." "Does Matsumura know that you changed the arrow?" "No, he probably doesn't know until now." Akihiko replied, "Because he thought all three arrows were poisonous." "So that's how it is..." Yusaku murmured, and then he thought of something, "That secret letter...is it from you?" Akihiko scratched in embarrassment. "In order to save Hongchang, I had to do that. I tried to tell Mr. Matsumura that I wanted to send that kind of confidential letter to the police. He thought it would be okay to do that. He said that if he was arrested because of this, he would have to accept his fate." Only then did Yusaku figure it out, no wonder Matsumura would plead guilty so straightforwardly.It turned out that he was mentally prepared from the beginning. "As soon as you learned that Sugai Masaaki was killed, you went to Sugai's house, right? To get back the folder?" "Yes. There is another purpose, which is to confiscate the materials left at Sugai's house." Thinking bravely, that's why the black-covered notebook left to him by Sugai Masaki's father disappeared. "I have figured out the whole story of Sugai Masaki's murder, and I can understand why you have to do that." Akihiko blinked slowly, lifting his chin to a forty-five-degree angle. "However, you haven't gotten to the point yet." "I know," Akihiko said, "it's about Sanae-san, right?" "After my grandfather passed away, Subai Masaki's father, Zhongqing, took over as the president. He tried to revive the plan in his own hands, but he didn't have the research data. So he took a fancy to Sanae, the only survivor. He thought that if he hired scholars Investigate her brain, and you should be able to master all kinds of professional knowledge." Akihiko spoke again. "Xu Bei and the others wanted to capture her that night?" "It seems to be. They probably thought that it was a trivial matter to capture the imbecile her, and Dr. Uehara and the others who wanted to keep the plan a secret should not make it public, but they didn't expect that she refused to obey, and the result was..." Akihiko didn't continue. "I see……" Yuzuo clenched his teeth.It turned out that Sanae wanted to escape from the hands of the unknown man, so she jumped from the window.Yong Zuo still remembers that she was timid by nature.Regret welled up in his heart, and he hadn't had hot eyes for several years. "Return this to you." Akihiko handed out the notebook, "Is the question solved for many years?" Yong Zuo accepted the notebook and looked at the text on the cover—the investigation record of the bizarre death in the Brain Surgery Hospital.He thought, maybe he won't open this notebook again. "By the way, I want to tell you something about Ms. Sanae." Akihiko said seriously. "what?" "I just said that her intelligence began to decline after the brain surgery. But in fact, her body changed before that." "Change? What change? Could it be..." "She is pregnant." Akihiko said, "It seems to be a child conceived with other subjects. She had no intention of abortion, so she was expecting to give birth at the time. From the sixth month of pregnancy, she appeared mentally abnormal. In the eighth month, her intelligence began to decline obviously. The relevant people panicked, because under such circumstances, even if the child was born, they could not raise it. However, they were helpless, and had no choice but to let her give birth. She A baby boy was born." "Miss Sanae has a child..." Yusaku remembered something.She always carries a doll on her back, treating it as her own child. "What happened to that child?" Akihiko first looked away, and then said after a while: "Adopted. Among the other subjects, there was a wife whose wife was unable to have a child because of frailty and sickness. That person adopted Ms. Sanae's child. Dr. Uehara was able to show the child on the birth certificate. Let the child be naturalized as his own flesh and blood. The subject's wife has lived in a nursing home for a long time. As long as it is said that she was born there, the relatives will not feel suspicious. This matter is related to Among the people, only the person concerned, the person's father, and Dr. Uehara know about it." "The client and the client's father?" Yong Zuo's expression changed when he heard these incomprehensible words, "What do you mean by that? Among the people involved, there is only your grandfather and your father..." Yusaku looked at Akihiko's face and couldn't say anything for a while. "It's you?" "I knew all of this when I was a sophomore in high school." "yes……" Yusaku didn't know what else to say, the man in front of him had the same blood as Sanae.Thinking of this, a subtle emotion similar to a little jealousy sprouted in his heart. "By the way, it's written in that notebook, have you paid homage to Miss Sanae's grave?" Akihiko asked, pointing to Yusaku's hand. "Only once." "Do you remember where that tomb is?" "I don't remember, my father didn't take me there again, I have long forgotten." Akihiko stood up from the stone steps and faced the Guasheng family's tomb. "Miss Sanae is down here." "What?" Yong Zuo exclaimed, "No way? It's not this kind of tomb." But Akihiko said, "This place was rebuilt about five years ago. She is indeed under here. She was my biological mother, so my father buried her here." Yusaku approached the grave and looked around.Is the scene I saw at that time like this? I think it should be bigger, it must be because I was still young at the time. Yusaku came back to his senses and realized that Akihiko was staring at him, so he took a step back. "Don't you think this is an incredible fate?" Akihiko asked him. "fate?" "You and me, don't you think?" "Of course I think," Yusaku replied, "but after knowing the ins and outs of the matter, maybe it's not so incredible. Your life experience is like this, and I have always had doubts about Miss Sanae's death. The two of us will be in conflict It’s only natural to be together.” "No, is that really the case? Leaving aside my affairs, why are you so obsessed with Sanae-san's death?" "That's because...she is an important person to me. Besides, this is also a murder case that my father cared about very much." "But why is Sanae-san so attractive to you? Also, why does your father only regret that murder?" Akihiko asked questions like a cannonball. Yong Zuo was too lazy to answer, and shook his head vigorously. "What do you want to say?" "You went to worship at her grave," Akihiko said, "it was written in that notebook that you went to worship at her grave. It was very strange. I heard from my father that only those who adopted her child knew about Sanae. Miss is buried in the tomb of Gua Sheng's family." "……What's the meaning?" "The only ones who can go to worship at her grave are those who adopted her child." "Are you trying to say that only you can worship her?" "No. Besides us, it's not surprising that there are still people going to worship her. After all..." Akihiko took a deep breath, and then continued, "After all, Ms. Sanae gave birth to twins. Yusaku couldn't immediately understand the meaning of this sentence. No, he could understand, but it should be said that it happened so suddenly that he couldn't believe it. "What did you say?" Yusaku moaned. "Miss Sanae gave birth to a pair of twins. One was adopted by Naoaki Kawago, and the other was adopted by a couple whose wife suffered from infertility. The couple also gave birth to their children with the assistance of Dr. Uehara. Naturalization. These two children are fraternal twins, so they don't look exactly alike like normal twins." Akihiko's voice entered Yusaku's ears, and Yusaku felt as if a big hole had opened under his feet. "What did you say?" Yusaku asked again. Akihiko didn't answer, just nodded. The silence lasted for a long time, and the wind blew past my feet. Think bravely, everything makes sense.So Koji, who was keen to find the truth about Sanae's murder, would give up the investigation after talking with Naoaki Guasheng.This is because Naoaki Guasheng told him at the time that Sanae was Yusaku's biological mother.I'm afraid that Gua Sheng Nao Ming asked him not to ask anything, just stop the investigation. Yusaku looked at Akihiko's face, and Akihiko looked at Yusaku. So this is ah! No wonder... The first time Yusaku met Akihiko, he knew why he couldn't like this person, why he hated him inexplicably. Because they are so alike. Yusaku himself felt that the two were very similar.But he would not admit it.He couldn't stand who he looked like, or who looked like himself. Some of my friends also said that the two of them look alike.However, Yuzuo would throw a tantrum at this time, and as time passed, no one said that anymore. "When I was a sophomore in high school, I learned that I had a brother, but I didn't know who it was. I didn't expect it to be you." Akihiko sighed and said with a lot of emotion. "Disillusioned your imagination?" "No, you are very suitable." Akihiko said mysteriously, "Actually, when I saw you for the first time, I had a special feeling. However, most of it was jealousy. You are about the same age as me, and you have But it’s completely different. You have the freedom to live with yourself, and you have an air of likability.” "Aren't you richer than me?" The smile on Akihiko's face disappeared instantly.He lowered his head, then raised it again with a smile. "Is it better to be adopted by a wealthy family?" "I think so." Yongsaku said, recalling the environment in which he grew up, although he didn't have any complaints about the family he grew up in. "Do you know who our father is?" Yong Zuo asked tentatively. "I know I know, but his whereabouts are unknown. He was the last one to escape." Akihiko replied. "What kind of person is he?" Akihiko didn't know how to answer, so he said after a while, "He is the orphan of the Chinese." "Chinese……" Yusaku looked at his palm. It turned out that there was foreign blood in his body.Then he remembered that Sanae was always singing foreign songs. "After my father told me everything, he said: 'The people of the Guasheng family must atone for their sins in every way. Although I feel sorry for you, I hope that behind me, you can take up the burden on my shoulders. Because of this, I Only then will you implement all kinds of elite education from an early age.’ So I said: ‘Since this is the case, I will do it in my own way. I want to study brain medicine and restore the victim to you.’ Finally, I want to go to China Find your biological father and heal him with your own hands." "That's why you went to study medicine..." Another mystery solved.The reason why the man in front of me wants to be a doctor is really not a joke. "It's strange, are you on the victim's side? Why do you have to atone?" Akihiko narrowed his eyes as if seeing something dazzling. "It has nothing to do with what kind of blood flows on your body. What matters is what kind of fate you carry on your body." "Fate." These two words echoed in Yusaku's mind, and he began to feel ashamed that he was jealous of Akihiko being adopted by the Kusao family just now.Because of this fate, Akihiko lost his innocence and had to sacrifice most of his life.Why do I envy him in this situation? "I understand everything," Yusaku murmured, "It seems that I lost. I can't beat you." Akihiko smiled and waved his hand. "That's not the case, you still have Misako. I've failed miserably with her." "Her..." Misako's face appeared in front of Yusaku's eyes - she was more than ten years ago. "Are you marrying her as part of the atonement?" Yusaku suddenly thought of this, he asked Akihiko.Akihiko's expression became a little serious. "That was the reason to meet her. Just like my father has done for a long time, I met her based on the idea of ​​compensating the victims. But..." Akihiko shook his head, "I didn't meet her because of redemption and sympathy Marriage, I don't have the right to distort her life." "But she is distressed," Yusaku said. "She wants to know you, but you refuse to let her know. You don't want to open up to her, and even the door is locked." "I'm not at all trying to keep her from knowing what I mean." After finishing speaking, Akihiko smiled slightly.There is infinite loneliness in his eyes. "Frankly speaking, I believed that we would get along better. I don't want her to find out any secrets of Gua Sheng's family, and I hope to bring her happiness." "So there are things you can't do." Hearing what Yusaku said, Akihiko's smile showed a bit of bitterness. "I also sincerely look forward to being able to communicate with Misako. The longer I spend with her, the stronger the idea. However, in this mood, I don't have the confidence to continue to keep the secret. I am afraid that I may be wrong. She told everything to get relief. I locked the door, not to keep her out, but to keep myself from escaping to her." "The lock on the door of the heart..." "But she, who is naturally sensitive, seems to have easily noticed my unnaturalness. To her, I raised my hands and surrendered. I am in a dilemma." After speaking, Akihiko really raised his hands slightly. "Then what are you going to do?" Yong Zuo asked, "either go forward or back, you have to choose one." Akihiko lowered his head for an instant, then raised his head again, stared straight at Yusaku, and said, "According to the current situation, it seems that we can't hide it anymore, right?" Bravely nodded.He feels the same way. "I'm going to explain to her slowly." Akihiko continued. "That's good." Yusaku thought of Misako whom he had just met.She would go back to Gua Sheng's house, it must be because she felt Akihiko's determination.She looks dazzling, and for the same reason. Brave thought, her heart will never turn to him again. "A crushing defeat." Yusaku murmured. "What?" Akihiko asked. "Nothing." Yuzuo shook his head. Bravely looking into the distance. "The sun is fully down." The surroundings gradually shrouded in twilight. Yusaku raised his arms high and said, "Then, it's almost time for us to go." Akihiko nodded. Yusaku walked a few steps, then stopped, turned around and asked, "Finally, can I ask you one more question?" "what?" "Who was born first?" Akihiko smiled slightly in the darkness. Yusaku heard Akihiko's slightly joking answer in his ear. "you."