Chapter 25 Section 6

I stood outside the car window and watched for a while.There doesn't appear to be any trauma. "Stand back." After I finished speaking, I held my breath and opened the door. Jin Jin's body crooked out of the car door.The pipe fell out of the coat pocket. "Move." The mayor said as if waking up from a dream. Drenched, we struggled to move the gold into the house.Miss Fumi, who was waiting at the door, saw the third corpse and crouched down on the ground. "What was the cause of death?" the mayor asked me. "It's poisonous gas, probably hydrocyanic acid. Potassium cyanide is mixed with acid and placed in the car, and the poisonous gas will be released soon. If you enter a closed car, you will die if you breathe it in."

The mayor shook his head helplessly, his body trembling violently.Getting wet from the rain might just be one of the reasons. "Ah, what is this?" Dr. Tsukimura took out a ball of paper from the tip of the pipe that Jin Jin dropped, unfolded it and handed it to me. Sin is under the bed of the dead. "I'll take a look." The doctor went to the second floor. After dozens of seconds, she came back.I just said "I found it" and handed me another note. Bewildered by the curse, he became a prisoner of the forbidden book. As I expected, I wasn't surprised.

"What's going on here?" The mayor seemed to be moaning. "Anyway, let's move the corpse into the room first." Before I finished speaking, I suddenly felt someone, so I looked into the corridor. Little Green stood there like a ghost. She glanced at Jin Jin, her pale face was slightly distorted by the pain, and then said to her father: "It really doesn't work that way. Cursing is not a superstition. Everyone died because of me... this kind of thing... too It's too much, it's too much." After she finished speaking, she burst into tears. "What are you talking about? Hahaha, I said what's wrong with you? I really don't understand what you are talking about." The mayor stroked Xiaolu's back, looked at me, and smiled embarrassedly, "She seems to be scared When it arrived, she didn't even know what she was talking about."

Of course, I don't believe the mayor's words.I'm sure Little Green holds a major fact. "Anyway, let's go to the living room first," I said.In this way, Jin Jin's body was placed at the gate by us. In the living room, where the chairs without their owners stood side by side, I decided to have a final conversation.It doesn't matter whether there is an "×" above the "SAT" and "FRI" on the Naomi Doi and Kaneko chairs. "Before listening to Xiaolu, I want to clarify one thing." I stared at one of them and said, "That is, why did you do this. I can't believe it, you are a murderer."

In front of my line of sight was Dr. Tsukimura's expressionless face.She moved her lips and said, "Do you have any evidence that I am the murderer?" "In this incident, the most critical thing is that the murderer did not target a specific person. To be clear, it doesn't matter who dies." "How could it be?" It was the mayor who spoke, "Judging from the notes found at the scene, the murderer committed the crime in a planned way." "It was just a scam, and I was almost deceived." I turned my gaze back to Dr. Tsukimura, "Take Mr. Jinzi as an example. Isn't Mr. Jinzi going to drive the mayor's car quite uncertain? Could it be that the murderer It has been predicted that Mr. Kaneko will forcibly drive the mayor's car? Impossible. Ms. Doi is the same. Except for her, everyone else may touch the flashlight. However, the murderer doesn't care who it is. , just adjust what to do next.”

"However, when everyone is killed, the murderer will leave a note..." "Recall. It was Dr. Tsukimura who took the note out of Mr. Kaneko's pipe. But, was that note really in the pipe? Could it be possible? - Dr. Tsukimura He secretly put the note in his hand into the pipe, but pretended to have just found it. Show it to us." "That's right, Ms. Tsukimura was also the one who took out the note from under Mr. Kaneko's bed. Hmm... But how do you explain Ms. Doi's situation? You are the one who took out the note from her pocket." "That's right. But at that time, the note that said 'the evil is in the pocket of the dead' was lying on the ground. Of course, the person who threw the note on the ground was Dr. Tsukimura. The moment the doctor knew that the deceased was Naomi Doi , and threw the one prepared for Mr. Doi on the ground among the notes prepared in advance."

"The one prepared for Mr. Doi?" "For example, if it's the mayor who fell..." I said, "the note for the mayor would be thrown on the floor. What would it say? Probably 'The crime is in the pillow of the dead' , if the discoverer goes to the pillow to look for it, another note will appear: He was bewildered by the curse and became a prisoner of the forbidden book." "bedside?" "I'm just giving you an example. Dr. Tsukimura has placed a note with the same content in everyone's range of activities in advance. Ms. Doi's is in her jacket pocket. The chance of being discovered put the note in her coat pocket. As for Mr. Kaneko, she may have really put the note under the bed. Also, Mr. Kibe’s is in his book. Of course, Kibe Mr. Be was poisoned by ice. Of course, Dr. Tsukimura did not know who would be 'lucky' to pick up the poisoned ice. Until Mr. Kibe fell down. When everyone panicked, she calmly carried out the following action-prepared to A note for Mr. Kibe's sin is in the book of the dead. Then, at nine o'clock, when the 'dove' in the clock chimed the time, she pretended to find something in the 'dove''s mouth, and deftly moved herself The note in the hand and the package in the mouth of the 'pigeon'. Maybe the mouth of the 'pigeon' is just a blank piece of paper."

"Yes." The mayor seemed to recall the scene at that time, nodded repeatedly, "Yes, it was Ms. Tsukimura who took the note from the quartz clock. Thinking about it now, it is very simple." "In addition, you have made a little trick." I turned to Dr. Tsukimura, "It is to draw an '×' on the name code on the wooden board behind the door. The purpose is to convince everyone that the murderer planned it premeditatedly. If you observe Now, this is actually very simple, that is, engrave the same characters on both sides of the wooden board, and draw '×' on the reverse side. In this way, you only need to turn the board over when everyone is not paying attention after the murder. Just come here. Thinking about it now, only you have the chance. Especially when you moved the body of Ms. Doi Naomi, you deliberately advanced into the room to open the door for us. It only takes a blink of an eye to reach out and turn the board over."

Finally I asked Dr. Tsukimura, "How was it?" She looked at the mayor with a blank expression, and made a gesture of holding a cigarette between her fingers.The mayor took a cigarette from his coat pocket. "It's a little wet." "It's okay, as long as you have it." She picked up a cigarette, lit it with the lighter handed by the mayor, took a puff, and exhaled thin smoke. "It's great," she said. "I thought I'd be exposed after everyone disappeared, but I didn't expect it to be this early." "Why?" I asked, "Why are you doing this?"

"To protect this small town." "Protect this small town...is there any danger in the small town?" "Of course." She exhaled, "Curse." "The curse...is that the curse?" "Yes, that's the one." The doctor nodded and said, "Because of it, both Mr. Mizushima and Mr. Hida were killed. If we just sit back and watch, many people will die because of it. Moreover, it is not an ordinary death, but Die by accident. Or strangled to death in a room that is impossible to enter, or die after writing strange words, or the body is moved in an instant, or the murderer suddenly disappears... I want to protect the small city from being harmed, to protect the small city Stay away from bizarre murders since then."

"Do you not hesitate to kill your companions for this?" "I have no choice, because they have been captured by the curse. One day, they will be killed by the curse like Mizushima-san and Hida-san, and if that happens, the curse will continue to spread. Before everything gets out of hand, I decide Kill them in a way that no one will notice." "Are you trying to kill all the committee members here?" "yes." "But that leaves one of the biggest mysteries, which is that there are only dead bodies and no murderers. Don't you think that's the real curse?" "As long as I write a suicide note, there will be no mystery, and all the members will be gone, isn't that okay?" Before she finished speaking, something suddenly dropped from her mouth. "Broken!" I stood up. It's too late.Dr. Tsukimura stared at me with wide eyes, then limply lay down on the table. "Ms. Tsukimura..." "PhD!" The mayor and I ran to the doctor almost at the same time.Of course, it was too late. Suddenly, Xiaolu burst into tears. "It's all me, it's my fault, I wish I hadn't done that... Everyone is dead! Everyone is dead!" she yelled, as if she was about to vomit blood. The mayor hugs his daughter.She is still crying. "Can I... can I take my daughter back to the room?" the mayor asked me. "That's better," I replied, "but I still want to hear your explanation." "I understand," he said.