Chapter 53 Section 3

As it was getting late at night, the three of them had no choice but to go back to their respective residences for the time being, that is, Zhe Lang went back to his own house, and Li Shazi went back to his friend's house where he was temporarily staying. The problem is Meiyue, Zhelang really doesn't want her to go back to the building in Ikebukuro. Risako seemed to have the same idea as him, so he said: "You come to my place, anyway, my friend will not come back tonight because of work." "But won't it cause you trouble?" "If you wander around and disappear, that's my problem. My friends want me to use me as their home, so you don't have to worry."

"In this case, I'd rather be obedient than respectful." Mei Yue nodded slightly. Zhe Lang said goodbye to them in front of the coffee shop, and took a taxi alone.On the way home, he called Xu Bei on his mobile phone.Xu Bei seemed to be taking a bath, he waited for a while. "Did something happen?" Xu Bei asked in a low voice, he probably knew it was a murder case.Of course, he didn't know about the household registration exchange and Nakao's involvement.Zhe Lang didn't want to tell him on the phone. "Sorry for calling so late. I have something to ask you about Nakao's villa."

"Nakao's villa?" "Well. When I rented an apartment before, didn't you help me with the procedures for fire insurance? I wonder if you will also insure the villa in Nakao." "Nakao's villa..." Sugai didn't seem to turn his head around immediately, and it took a long time before he said loudly: "Oh, the villa in Kanagawa. Nakao's, or the Takashiro family's house." "That's it, did you help with the insurance?" "You know it very well. That's right, I heard that he bought a villa, so I called him right away, and ended up signing a high-value insurance."

"Tell me the place." Zhe Lang said without waiting for Xu Bei to finish, "The address of the villa. If possible, even the phone number." "You are so thoughtless, what happened?" "I'll explain it to you later. Anyway, I want to know where the villa is right away." "You want me to tell you the address, but Nakao is already divorced, so it has nothing to do with that villa." Xu Bei's leisurely tone made Zhe Lang restless.He stomped on the taxi. "Didn't I say, I'll tell you the details afterwards? Sorry, I don't have time. Tell me the address of the villa."

"It's useless for you to be anxious. I can't tell you now. The information is in the company. I can only check it when I go to the company." Zhe Lang groaned.He really couldn't say it out loud, so Bei must go to the company now. "Then, go check it out early tomorrow morning, and let me know when you find out." "You sound like an ant on a hot pot. What happened? Wouldn't it be okay to tell me?" "I can't say it on the phone. Please Xu Bei, I beg you just once in my life." "It's so strange that you can say such a thing."

Xu Bei seemed to be lost in thought on the other end of the phone, maybe he was afraid of the sparks flying on him. "I see. I planned to join the company later tomorrow. Since you said so, I had to go early. After I find out, I will contact you immediately." "Sorry. I'll pay you back." Xu Bei seemed to want to ask something, Zhe Lang noticed it and hung up the phone.Even if Xu Bei told Zhe Lang where the villa was, he didn't want to tell Xu Bei the inside story.But if he doesn't explain at all, he probably won't let it go.Zhe Lang thought for a while about how to get rid of this bad friend.

As soon as Zhe Lang got home, he immediately lay on the bed and tried to organize his thoughts.He is confident in the reasoning he said in front of Risako and Mizuki.In other words, he was sure Nakao wanted to kill himself. He couldn't stand by and watch his friend commit suicide, but it would be a lie to say he wasn't shaken at all.Considering the complicated situation, there is indeed no other solution. Should I draw my hand?This thought lingered in his mind.No, it should have stayed out of it from the start.If everything is left to Nakao and Mizuki, maybe everything will go smoothly.But in this way, the sacrifice of the middle tail cannot be avoided.

Self-blame, hesitation, regret and other emotions tormented Zhe Lang all night.He was so distressed that he couldn't sleep, tossing and turning. Even so, he dozed off.Until the sound of the phone ringing in the distance woke him up.He glanced at the alarm clock next to his pillow, it was not yet seven o'clock in the morning. "It's me, Risako." "What's wrong?" Zhe Lang asked feeling uneasy, her voice full of unusual tension. "Sorry, she ran away." "She ran away?" Zhe Lang understood what happened before asking who it was. "Has Hiura disappeared?"

"Yes. We couldn't sleep yesterday and kept chatting. She seemed to run out when I was about to fall asleep and my head was fuzzy." "Is that so..." Zhe Lang thought that Risako could not be blamed.Without the appearance of yesterday, it is completely unlikely that he will run away. "Could she have returned to the building in Ikebukuro?" Risako asked uneasily. "No, it's impossible. There's no point in doing that." "If not going back to that building, where would she go...?" Zhelang thought, he remembered the conversation last night. "She may have gone to Miura Coast."

"Miura Kaigan? Then you mean, Mizuki went to Nakao's villa? But judging by her appearance last night, it seems that she doesn't know much about the villa." "She knows. She knows it, but she pretends not to know it in front of us. She plans to meet Nakao alone." "That's it... She went to see Nakao alone, what did she want to do?" Zhe Lang didn't answer Li Shazi, but he was not completely clueless.He had already guessed, but was afraid to say the answer.So Risako seemed to have gotten a hint from his tone. "Does she want to die together?" Her voice was hoarse.

"Risako, get ready to go out now! Let's also go to Miura Beach to chase Hiura." "It's okay to go, but the question is, do you know the place?" "I've already made a move. Although it's still early, we can't procrastinate." "I see, I'll go to your place right away." "No, this is a waste of time. You go to Shinjuku, to Sugai's company." "Subai's company? What do you mean?" "I'll explain to you later. As for the meeting place, I'll tell you again. Anyway, prepare to go out first." "Okay." Risako said.Zhe Lang didn't respond to her, so he hung up the phone, and then called Xu Bei.Yesterday was at midnight; today is early morning, Xu Bei's wife will probably have a stinky face, but she can't take care of that much. Shinjuku, eight forty in the morning.Diagonally ahead is the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.Zhe Lang parked the car on the road, surrounded by towering buildings.He knocked on the steering wheel and felt that the digital clock on the dashboard was running very fast today. "I think even if Mitsuki dies together, it won't help the matter." Sitting in the passenger seat, Risako murmured, her tone seemed to be moaning. "That guy probably thinks that Nakao can't die alone." Mizuki is not trying to stop Nakao from committing suicide.If so, she wouldn't have sneaked out without telling Risako. "But if Mizuki dies together, it will mess up Nakao's plan." "Maybe she didn't think that much. Besides, Nakao's plan has already been disrupted." Zhe Lang saw Xu Bei coming out from the door of the building next to him.In the cold weather, he was wearing a suit.Although he didn't tell him the details, he should have guessed that Zhe Lang was in an emergency.The hem of his suit fluttered in the wind. Zhe Lang got off the car.Xu Bei ran over and handed out a note. "I managed to find it. But, I don't know the phone number of the villa. The contact number is his home." "Only the address is fine. Sorry to trouble you." "Hey, Nishiwaki, what happened to Nakao?" "Sorry, I'll tell you all about it another day." Zhe Lang couldn't meet his eyes.He knew he couldn't tell his friend the whole truth and would have to lie to him in the end.Zhe Lang felt heartache because of this guilt. "We still have to hurry, let's go first." Zhe Lang opened the car door. "Nishi Waki," Sugai held the car door with his hand. "If you see Nakao, tell him to have a drink at the skewer shop another day." Zhe Lang looked up at him, and he showed a sincere look that he had never seen before.Even if he didn't know the inside story, he must have felt something. Zhe Lang nodded slightly and closed the car door.After the car started for a long time, Zhe Lang could still see Xu Bei watching them off in the rearview mirror.Risako sniffed lightly in the passenger seat. The car got on the Metropolitan Expressway and sped toward Yokosuka.The two barely spoke a word in the car.Zhe Lang recalled what had happened in the past two months, and asked himself whether what he had done so far was meaningful, but he couldn't find the answer. Driving to Yokohama Yokosuka Expressway Station, it is a straight road leading to the sea.There are large trucks coming and going on this road, which feels like an industrial road.Even so, when the sea gradually appeared ahead, shops selling surfboards and diving equipment sporadically appeared along the roadside. "I chatted with Mizuki yesterday," Risako said after a long pause, "I think maybe I made a huge mistake." "Mistake? Who made the colossal mistake?" "We. Me, you, and Mizuki." "What do you mean?" Zhe Lang glanced at his wife's face. "Mizuki told me a lot about Nakao. Including the past year, the past, and when they were boyfriend and girlfriend." "And then?" Zhe Lang urged her to continue, she was silent for a while, and then took a deep breath. "I think Mizuki is a woman. When she mentions Nakao, she doesn't have a man's expression on her face." Zhe Lang was at a loss for answers.The situation before him made him want to say, what are you still talking about now?If Mizuki's heart is a woman instead of a man, all the premise will be completely reversed, which just means that her actions are meaningless.However, in fact, Zhelang also partly agrees with what Risako said, because he has subconsciously felt it until now. "If that's the case, it means that Hiura is lying. Why would she do that? She didn't even hesitate to inject hormones and hurt her vocal cords..." He shook his head, thinking it was impossible. "I also know that my words are unreasonable. But if it weren't for this, Mizuki's series of behaviors would be even more unreasonable. Let me ask you, if Mizuki was completely a man, would she want to die with Nakao?" Zhe Lang remained silent, Risako's question was correct. She looked at the sea to the left and continued driving.The sea is gray and the sky is black.There were still many trucks roaring past, and the dust raised by each truck fell on Zhe Lang's car. Risako compared Xu Bei's note with the road map and instructed Zhe Lang to stop.As soon as he parked the car on the side of the road, Risako got out of the car immediately.There is a small fishing tackle shop on the right, and she seems to be going to ask for directions. A few minutes later, she came back. "I see, it seems to turn right after two more traffic lights." "Understood." Zhe Lang let go of the handbrake, his heart beating faster. Zhe Lang followed the instructions and drove the car onto a small road with lush trees on both sides.After a while, the shadows of the trees were no longer visible, and a small road appeared on the left with a building on the inside.At the entrance of the path stands a small metal signboard with the words "TAKASHIRO" (Japanese Romanized alphabet for Takashiro) engraved on it.Zhe Lang turned the steering wheel to the left. The villa of Takashiro's family is a square building covered with tiles, which feels somewhat similar to Setagaya's house.Zhe Lang indifferently imagined that even if the members of Gao Cheng's family changed places, they didn't want to change their way of life. Risako rang the doorbell at the entrance, but no one answered. "It seems like no one is there." "Yes." Zhe Lang looked up at the second floor of the building.The curtains were drawn on the windows, and there was no movement behind the curtains. The thought of "is it too late" flashed in my mind, but Zhelang dismissed the idea immediately.Nakao could not have died in this villa. Next to the entrance is a garage with iron rolling doors, which seems to be able to park two cars.Zhe Lang tried to push open the iron rolling door, but it was locked and could not be pushed open.Even so, lifting the lower part can still create a gap of a few centimeters from the ground.Zhe Lang prostrated himself on the ground, peeping in from the gap. "How is it?" Risako asked Zhelang. "I can't see clearly, but there seems to be no car." He stood up and brushed the dust off his clothes. "You mean, did you drive somewhere else?" "Maybe." Another kind of uneasiness came to Zhe Lang's heart.Could Nakao's reasoning that he might be hiding in this villa be wrong...? Just when he couldn't think of the next step and stood there, his mobile phone rang.His intuition is Mizuki! "Hey." "Nishowaki? It's me, Hayata."