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Chapter 24 Section 5

The Curse of the Detective 东野圭吾 1870Words 2018-03-22
"Not good, it seems that there is a power outage again." This is the voice of the mayor, "Hey, go and see the generator." "Okay." Came the doorman's reply. "There should be a flashlight." It's gold, "Where is it?" "It looks like it's under the stairs." It was Dr. Tsukimura's voice. "Found it." It was Naomi Doi again. I sat still, waiting for Doi to turn on the flashlight.The flashlight didn't come on, but we heard the sound of something falling somewhere, very violently. "Ah! Hello, what's the matter?" Kaneko asked, "Hello, Miss Doi."

Did not hear Doi Naomi's answer. "What happened?" the mayor called. Soon, the lights came on.Almost at the same time, Miss Fumi let out a cry. Doi Naomi was lying under the stairs.I ran over immediately and grabbed her wrist, her pulse had stopped beating. "Not good." I muttered softly, glanced around her, and found that the flashlight fell on the ground. Instead of reaching for the flashlight, I took a closer look.There are agencies. "What happened to the flashlight?" the mayor asked, approaching. "Don't touch it!" I reached out to stop him, "There is a needle near the switch. There is a very poisonous needle tip, I guess it's nicotine."

"Huh?" The mayor hurriedly withdrew his hand. "Ah, this..." Jin Zi picked up a piece of paper from the ground, glanced at it, and handed it to me, his face turned pale. It says: Evil is in the pockets of the dead. I squatted down again and reached into Doi Naomi's jacket pocket.In the right pocket is a folded note.I have expected most of the above content. Bewildered by the curse, he became a prisoner of the forbidden book. "Ah, no, let me go!" Jin Jin suddenly cried out, and retreated to the window, "Is it my turn next? Are you trying to kill me? Let me go. I didn't do anything wrong. What did I do?" Didn't do either!"

"Mr. Jinzi, please calm down!" the mayor scolded. "Don't come near me!" Jin Zi shouted, "Call the police, call the police immediately!" "That being said, there's nothing we can do about it now that the phone isn't working," said Dr. Tsukimura. "Then I'll call! I'll go back and notify the police right now. Lend me the car and give me the keys." He stretched out his right hand and said. "It's dangerous when it's raining." Miss Fumi said, as if frightened. "It's much safer than staying in this kind of place. Come on, give me the car keys!" Jin Jin continued to shout.

The mayor, Dr. Tsukimura and I glanced at each other, with the same words written on our faces: there is no way. The mayor pulled out his car keys. "Be careful when driving, there are many roads that are not paved." "I'm confident." Jin Jin snatched the key, looked at us warily, and walked towards the gate along the base of the wall. "Mr. Kaneko!" Dr. Tsukimura shouted at his back, and then said to him who stopped and turned around, "You may also be the murderer. Pretending to call the police, but actually trying to escape, there is such a possibility Sex."

A stiff smile appeared on Jin Jin's face. "When a celebrity like me is wanted by the police, it's easy to get caught." "Exactly," said the mayor, putting his hands in his pockets. "I'm leaving. I pray that no one will be killed again." Jin Jin hurried to the gate. "Hey, Mr. Kaneko, where are you going?" It sounded like the voice of the doorman who was checking the generator. "Go back to the city. Staying in this kind of place, I don't know when I will be killed." "But... in today's weather, you'd better not go back."

"Okay, leave me alone!" There was a rough sound of closing the door. The doorman came in slowly. "What the hell happened?" The mayor didn't speak, just pointing to Doi Naomi's body.The guard's eyes widened. "What... Teacher Doi was also killed? What's going on..." I don't know if it was because of listening to the guard's words, Miss Fumi burst into tears. "What the hell is going on...how could such a terrible thing happen!" "Have you figured out the cause of the outage?" I asked the doorman. "Well. I went to the bathroom to check the electric meter and found something like this on it." He said, taking out something that looked like a small clock.That is a smart timer, the output terminal is set to short circuit.As long as the time is up, the switch will automatically fall off.

Who did it?Anyone can do things like go to the bathroom to plug in the timer. "Anyway, let's move the corpse into the room first." Dr. Tsukimura suggested. The mayor and I moved Naomi Doi's body, and Dr. Tsukimura went ahead and opened the door for us. "The Okawara police department will probably be terrified. Another murder happened, and it's right next to us." After putting Naomi Doi's body on the bed, Mayor Hino looked at the dead man's face and said half masochistically.No one answered. I suddenly remembered and glanced at the inside of the door.There is a wooden board with "SAT" engraved on it.No matter how you think about it, the murderer didn't kill her selectively.Anyone can get that flashlight.

A certain idea quickly emerged in my mind, and just as the idea was about to take shape, Dr. Tsukimura, who had been looking out the window, suddenly said, "How strange!" "What's wrong?" the mayor asked. "The car didn't move at all...is it the mayor's car?" She pointed out the window. "Oh, yes, it's my car. That's strange, what's the gold doing?" The three of us looked at each other and walked out of the room silently. "Ah, what happened again?" Ms. Fumi, who was waiting downstairs, asked with a stiff expression, perhaps sensing something from our expressions.No one answered and we simply didn't have time to explain to her.

Once outside, I picked up the doorman's flashlight.There are no poisonous needles on it. Holding an umbrella, we walked out of the gate and came outside.The storm suddenly became violent.The weather was worse than expected.for a moment.Everyone was drenched. However, we can't take care of many things, and we are still moving towards the car.The umbrella was blown to one side or another by the wind, and Dr. Tsukimura almost fell down several times. When I finally came to the car, I turned on the flashlight and looked inside the car. Jin Jin lay on the steering wheel, motionless.What happened, the two people behind must be very clear, but there was no cry of surprise.

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