Chapter 33 Section 1

When I woke up from a nasty nightmare, I was surrounded by darkness. Really a nasty dream.Something like a black smoke screen kept chasing me, no matter where I went, it wouldn't let go.I don't know what's so scary about the black smoke screen, but it's just scary, and it made me break out in a cold sweat. And even the head hurts inexplicably. When I wanted to get up for a glass of water, the bed next door was empty. Taking a closer look, there was Dongzi's neatly folded pajamas on the bed.I look at the foot of the bed, where the house slippers have replaced her pumps and lie side by side on the floor.

Did she have nasty nightmares like mine, so she went for a walk? I looked at the alarm clock, and it was a little past eleven o'clock. I didn't expect that I didn't sleep as long as I thought. After going to the sink and washing my face, I changed into a suit of clothes.I always feel that I can't sleep well, and I also care about Dongzi. After leaving the room, the light outside surprised me.And I heard people's laughter coming from the living room, as if someone was still awake. After going down the stairs, I saw President Yamamori and his wife, Ishikura and the hotel owner talking and laughing.They all held tumblers in their hands, and on the coffee table in the middle were whiskey bottles and ice buckets.

Dongzi is not there. The first person to notice me was President Yamamori, who raised his hand to me. "Can't sleep?" "Yeah, I fell asleep and woke up." "Then do you want to join us? But there is no such thing as too high-end wine." "No, don't count me in. By the way, have you seen Ms. Hagio?" "Miss Hagio? No!" President Yamamori shook his head after speaking, "We also came here about thirty minutes ago." "Because only the eldest brother lost fiercely! So he kept annoyingly saying that we would never let us go until we saved face."

The person who spoke in a frivolous tone was Shi Cang.Although there was nothing funny, I approached them with a smile. "When did Madam come here?" I asked, looking in Madam's direction. "Same." The lady replied, "After sending the daughter back to the room, I have been staying with my husband and the others. Any questions?" "No, it's nothing." I looked into the entrance, and the glass door was tightly closed. Has Dongzi gone outside? If President Yamamori and the others had been here thirty minutes ago, Toko would probably have left the room between ten and half past ten.

I went to the porch to check the condition of the lock.The glass door is locked from the inside. "Oh? If your friend is going out, you have to unlock the lock!" The fat hotel owner named Moriguchi came to me and unlocked the glass door. "Excuse me, when was this door locked?" "Hmm... a few minutes before we finished playing mahjong, it was probably ten fifteen or twenty! Actually, it was supposed to be locked at ten o'clock, but I forgot." He pointed to a piece of paper taped to the wall.It turned out that it was written with a strange pen on it, "The gate will be locked after ten o'clock in the evening, please pay attention."

I'm a little concerned. If Dongzi really went out for a walk at night, it must be before ten fifteen.If you go out after that, Dongzi will have to unlock it before you can go out, but now the door in front of you is locked, which doesn't make sense. I looked at the clock hanging on the wall, the hands pointed to ten past eleven.In other words, if she had gone out around ten o'clock, she would have been out for nearly an hour by now. "That..." I looked at the group of people sitting on the sofa chatting and laughing again, "Is it true that no one saw Ms. Hagio?"

They interrupted the conversation to focus all their eyes on me. "I didn't see it! What's wrong?" It was Shi Cang who asked. "She wasn't in the room. I wondered if she'd gone for a walk, but it took too much time, so..." "So that's the case, that's really worrying!" President Yamamori stood up, "Maybe it's better to look for it. Mr. Moriguchi, can I borrow a flashlight from you?" "That's no problem, but be careful! It's dark outside, and you'll run into a cliff if you go a little further." "I know—Yusuke, you come too."

"Of course. Please lend me a flashlight too." "I'm going too." I said.Seeing the seriousness of the two of them made me even more uneasy. We divided into two groups to look for Dongzi.Since Ishikura said he was going to look for it along the driveway in front of the hotel, President Yamamori and I went around the hotel looking for traces of Fuyuko. "Why do you have to leave the hotel at this time?" President Yamamori said with a hint of anger in his voice.When he and I were alone, we both spoke in a condescending way. "I don't know. Obviously we went to bed at the same time..."

"About what time?" "Around ten o'clock." "That can't be done, it's too early! People who usually live an irregular life, even if they occasionally want to go to bed early, they still can't fall asleep." I didn't answer anything, just moved my feet.Now is not the time to refute his fallacies. Outside the hotel is a small forest surrounded by simple paved trails.Go further down that trail and you'll reach the back of the hotel.Behind the hotel is the cliff that the host just mentioned.The bottom of the eyes is full of black and blue shadows that seem to suck people in, and the sound of waves lapping in the shadows can be heard.

President Yamamori shines the flashlight down the cliff.But that level of light really couldn't reach the end of the cliff. "It should be impossible..." He said as if he was talking to himself, but I remained silent, unwilling to answer. We walked around the hotel and went back to the living room to check the situation, but Dongzi still didn't come back.The only one who came back was the sullen Ishikura Yusuke. "Is no one in this room?" President Yamamori asked the hotel owner Moriguchi.Moriguchi wiped the sweat from his temples with a towel and replied: "I searched the whole house, but I didn't see anyone anywhere. I also asked other gentlemen and ladies, but no one knows."

Saburo Kanai and Ms. Shizuko are also gathered in the living room, and the only one who is not here is Yumi. "No way, I'll wait here for a while. Please go to rest! Wait until dawn, and we will go find it again." President Yamamori said to everyone. "Isn't it better to notify the police directly? It's more practical to let them handle it." The person who said this carefully was Masahiko Takemoto. But President Yamamori shook his head immediately. "There is no police station on this island, only the police station. And the real authority is the police headquarters, so even if you call the police now, they will not send a helicopter to fly over until tomorrow morning. Before judging that this is a real incident, I don't think the police would pay any attention to us." "Can we just wait now?" Shi Cang asked while beating his neck. "Anyway, everyone, please go to rest first. Because if nothing happens, tomorrow we will still start early in the morning according to the originally scheduled itinerary." After listening to President Yamamori's words, everyone began to return to their rooms one by one.However, it was clearly written on everyone's face - everything has become like this, how could nothing happen? "I want to stay." Since President Yamamori seemed to be deliberately driving me back to the second floor, I said bluntly: "President Yamamori, you should go to bed first! Aren't you going to sail tomorrow?" "How can I sleep?" After he finished speaking, he sat down on the sofa.