Chapter 22 twenty one

By the time Shinsuke realized something was wrong, it was already too late.His sleeve catches an antique wine glass, which falls to the floor.With the sound of crisp shattering, tiny shards of glass splashed out. "Sorry!" The guests at the bar and seats were startled and turned their heads.Shinsuke apologized to them, picked up the broom and dustpan and started sweeping.Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Chizuko frowning. After a while, Chitoko approached him from behind. "What's the matter? I always feel that you, Xiao Shen, are acting weird today. I also made a mistake in the order of the customer just now... What happened?"

"No, it's nothing." Shinsuke shook his head holding the ice drill to crush the ice. "Sorry, I was a little distracted today." "Cheer up!" Qian Duzi patted him on the back and returned to the seat where the guests were waiting. Shinsuke sighed secretly, he knew very well why he couldn't concentrate. What he inquired about yesterday when he arrived at Anzhong Linger's apartment still lingered in his mind. A high school student who lives next door to Kishinaka's house said that he saw Kishinaka Miinae, and the time was the night before Kishinaka Rei's body was found.

Shinsuke said to him, how could such a stupid thing happen.As a result, high school student Hotta Jun glared at him. "Look, I'll tell you. You don't believe me. You said I could beat you if you laughed?" Facing the menacing young man, Shinsuke couldn't help but retreat.The boy's expression didn't look like he was lying. Shinsuke tried to ask the boy if he had mistaken him. "Absolutely not. Although I only took one look at her, I'm pretty sure it's that person. Not only the hairstyle is the same, but she's wearing a light blue dress. I've seen that dress several times."

Of course Hotta Junichi knew that Kishinaka Minae was dead. "That's why I'm so scared, I dare not tell others. People won't believe me if I tell you. But you have to believe me! That person is really the wife next door, the one who died a year ago!" Junichi Hotta's serious expression was imprinted in Shinsuke's eyes, and the terror he felt was directly conveyed to Shinsuke. Shinsuke thought that was absolutely impossible.There is no doubt about the fact that Kishizhong Minae died, and it is impossible for a dead person to be resurrected. So he made a hypothesis, could it be that Miina Kishizhong had a twin sister, and that woman happened to visit Rei Kishizhong's house?Although this hypothesis is possible, Minae probably does not have twin sisters.If there is, Detective Kotsuka should investigate that older sister or younger sister after listening to Junichi Hotta.However, Detective Kotsuka just dismissed the fact that Junichi Hotta saw a person who looked like Minai as nonsense.

So... is it a ghost? Shinsuke's back suddenly felt cold, and he shook his head involuntarily, as if to deny that ominous thought.Suddenly, his hand holding the ice drill trembled.Because he almost stabbed not towards the ice, but towards his left and right. After twelve o'clock, the phone rang.Shinsuke quickly picked up the phone. "I've been waiting for a long time, this is 'Minghe'." "Amura? It's me, Okabe." A deliberately low voice came from the other end of the phone. Shinsuke glanced at Chitoko to confirm that she was chatting well with the guest, then turned around to hide the phone.

"What's the matter? It's rare for you to call." "It's nothing important to call you, but I think it's best to let you know." Okabe's words had a deep meaning. "It's really interesting. Has something happened?" "Don't you want to inquire about the man named Kiuchi? That man will come over later." "To 'Sirius'?" "Ok." "why?" "My friend told me that Kiuchi went to 'Sui Jing' tonight, and asked him which shop can drink orthodox cocktails. The guy remembered that I asked him about Kiuchi the day before yesterday, so he answered 'Sirius' yes It’s a nice shop. That’s why the guy just asked me if there were any seats in the shop. In about thirty minutes or so, Kiuchi will show up in the shop.”

"Like This." Shinsuke looked at the clock.Counting in your head. "Sirius" closes at two o'clock.If you walk fast now, you can get there in ten minutes. "That's all I want to say." Okabe was about to hang up the phone. "Ah, wait a minute. Is Mr. Ejima here today?" "I won't come tonight. He went to discuss business today to open a store in Osaka." "Is that so. Mr. Ejima isn't there..." "Yumura, are you coming?" "Maybe." "It's not bad, but don't cause a strange commotion. If Mr. Ejima finds out, I'll be scolded by him."

"I know. I'm sorry, but I asked you to call specially." Shinsuke thanked and hung up the phone. Chitoko was still chatting with the guest, but she probably sensed Shinsuke's gaze staring at her, so she turned to look at him.He raised one hand slightly. Excuse me first, Qian Duzi came over after greeting the guest. "Sorry, Mama-san. Can I leave early now?" "Now?" Qian Duzi frowned. "The criminal police called and said they wanted to ask me something right away." "Mr. Criminal Police? But isn't that case already solved?"

"It seems not yet. If I don't go there, he said he will come here." When she heard Shinsuke's words, her expression changed drastically, and she shook her hands frequently. "This will be troublesome, and customers will find it strange. I know, I will clean up the store myself." "I'm so sorry." Shinsuke bowed. "However, that case dragged on for a really long time. Since the criminals are all dead, the case should be closed, right?" Qian Duzi frowned. "Yeah, I also want to relax quickly." Shinsuke said.It was a lie that the criminal police came to ask him for questioning, but he was sincere in wanting to take it easy.

Shinsuke arrived at "Sirius" in the early hours of one o'clock in the morning.After he opened the door, he looked in the direction of the bar first, met the eyes of Okabe who was shaking the glass, and then sat silently on the high chair. "Give me lime vodka," Shinsuke said. Okabe nodded, his eyes fell into the depths of the store, and he told Shinsuke through his eyes that it was that guy. Shinsuke turned around and looked in that direction as if nothing had happened.There are two men and two men sitting at the deepest table. The woman looks like a hotel lady, probably brought from the "Water Mirror". Both men look less than thirty years old.The man sitting on Shinsuke's side wore glasses, had a well-proportioned hairstyle, and exuded the air of a salesman all over his body.He talked endlessly with the other woman, making her smile.On the contrary, the man inside is just talking at random.He said he came to "Sirius" to drink an orthodox cocktail, but Shinsuke couldn't tell he was enjoying the drink.However, Shinsuke thinks that this displeased man should be Haruhiko Kiuchi.

Okabe put the glass of Lime Vodka in front of Shinsuke, and warned him not to do strange things with sharp eyes. Shinsuke didn't intend to go to the table where Kiuchi was sitting recklessly and talk to him directly.He wanted to observe the man Kiuchi first, to see with his own eyes what kind of No. 1 person he was. Shinsuke looked at it, and suddenly felt that he seemed to have seen this person somewhere. After trying to recall, he felt that he should have seen him in the traffic court. The two sat on the witness stand as each other's witnesses.Besides, it is of course possible to have seen him elsewhere.On the contrary, Kiuchi might feel more familiar with him. When Shinsuke was thinking about it, Kiuchi suddenly stood up from his seat, as if he was going to the bathroom.There were no restrooms inside the bar, and he had to leave temporarily to go outside.Someone should have told Kiuchi about this, so he walked straight towards the door. Shinsuke lowered his head deliberately.Kiuchi passed behind him. Shinsuke put down his glass of lime vodka and got up too. "Amura!" Okabe called him from the bar. No problem - Shinsuke gave him a look, opened the door and walked out. The restroom is next to the elevator.Shinsuke was smoking a cigarette in the corridor, waiting for Kiuchi to come out.The windows were open, revealing a dark night sky without moon or stars.However, if you look down a little, you can see the bright neon lights. Haruhiko Kiuchi walked out of the bathroom.He stuffed his hands into the pockets of his suit pants, and tilted the corners of his mouth in boredom, showing no sign of being drunk. Kiuchi glanced at Shinsuke's face, and Shinsuke looked back.Kiuchi immediately looked away, passing in front of him, the speed of advancing slightly accelerated. But Kiuchi's footsteps stopped.After a pause, he turned his head slowly and looked at Shinsuke's face again. "You, could it be..." Kiuchi said. "I'm Umura." Shinsuke replied. "Yamura." After Kiuchi read it as if reading aloud, he nodded. "Yes. It's the last name. I remember this special last name." "You seem to remember me." "Of course." Kiuchi shrugged. "Are you coming to this store too?" "Well, I'm sitting at the bar. I saw Mr. Kiuchi just now, so I'm waiting for you here." "Is that so? What a coincidence, the world is so small." Kiuchi sighed. "So, why are you waiting here for me? I don't think we miss each other." "I have a few questions I want to ask you." "Are there any problems so far?" "I was attacked a few weeks ago. In the middle of the night, someone attacked me from behind with a stick. The prisoner was Reiji Kishi. Of course you know him too, right?" "Ah?" Kiuchi opened his mouth halfway and nodded several times. "So, the criminal police once came to me and went back after talking about it." "I think Kishinaka probably attacked me out of revenge, since I caused his wife's death. But if that's the case, there's one thing I can't accept." "Why didn't you attack the other perpetrator, Kiuchi Haruhiko?... Am I right?" Kiuchi grinned after saying this. Shinsuke nodded. "The detective asked me about it too, 'What do you think is the cause?' and stuff like that. I don't know—that's how I answered. I really don't know, so I can't help it. Maybe Kishinaka The husband thinks that you should be mainly responsible for the car accident, and the reason why his wife died is because of you, and this is the only possibility left." "Even so, it's too puzzling for him to have no contact with you at all, right?" "I'm also troubled by you asking me this kind of question. It's not me who attacked you, but Mr. Kishinaka." Kiuchi turned around and walked towards "Sirius". Shinsuke hurriedly chased after him. "Mr. Kiuchi, how are you doing now?" "Work? How's work?" "Don't you usually stay at home? Doesn't it matter if you don't go to work?" Kiuchi stopped when he heard Shinsuke's question. "Who the hell told you this?" "It doesn't matter who said it, please answer my question." Kiuchi sighed, showing a terribly bored expression. "If you inquire around my building, then I can only say that you are really too free. Our company has flexible working hours, and you can stay at home during the day on weekdays." "Stay at home during the day and go to Ginza at night. What exactly do you do?" "Let me tell you, asking questions like you is called meddling." After Kiuchi finished speaking, he was about to step away again. "Do you ever recall the car accident?" "Of course there is. But there is no feeling of committing a crime. You should feel the same way." "Have you been to the apartment where Rei Kishizhong lives?" "I haven't been there." Kiuchi replied coldly, without even looking at Shinsuke. The two came to the door of the store, and Mu Nei put his hand on the doorknob. "Where's the ghost?" Shinsuke asked tentatively. Kiuchi stopped moving.Turning around to look at Shinsuke's face, his eyes were a little bloodshot. "What did you say?" Kiuchi asked back. "Where's the ghost?" Shinsuke said again.He felt that Kiuchi's reaction was a bit unusual. "Have you seen Kishinaka Miinae's ghost?" Shock, confusion and anxiety appeared on Kiuchi's face, his face was extremely distorted, and he shook his head after a while. "It's unbelievable what you said." "You should know about ghosts, right?" Shinsuke asked persistently.His purpose is to induce Kiuchi to tell the truth. "I don't know at all, is there something wrong with your head?" Kiuchi opened the door and walked into the store.Shinsuke followed behind him. Kiuchi returned to the table where he was sitting with an expression of displeasure.He went back too late, which seemed to make his companions a little suspicious, and asked Kiuchi what he had done.Kiuchi replied that he was chatting with other women on his mobile phone.The hotel ladies pretended to be angry because of jealousy. Shinsuke returned to his original seat and took a sip of lime vodka.The vodka was completely lukewarm, so he ordered another shot from Okabe. Okabe put the new lime vodka in front of Shinsuke, and asked Shinsuke through his eyes if he had done anything strange to the other party. "No, no problem," Shinsuke replied with his eyes. Kiuchi and his party seemed to be leaving.Checkout by Kiuchi.Asked him if he wanted a receipt, he said no. Shinsuke sighed heavily after they left. "What did you say about the guest named Kiuchi?" Okabe leaned out and asked. "He was another perpetrator of the previous car accident." Shinsuke replied. "Another one?" Okabe showed a suspicious expression. Shinsuke told him the outline of the car accident in a voice that other guests couldn't hear. "That's what happened. I heard from Mr. Ejima that it was a double car accident." "Obviously as the perpetrator, I was beaten with a stick, but he was having a good time in Ginza. Don't you think it's too bad?" "So you are entangled with Kiuchi, do you want to take advantage of his good luck?" "Well, you can say that if you want." When Shinsuke answered, the young waiter approached and whispered to Okabe.Okabe's expression turned slightly serious. "Yumura, it's about time you go back." He lowered his voice. "Did something happen?" "Mr. Ejima contacted me and said he is coming back now." "This is bad." Shinsuke stood up quickly.If Jiang Dao knew that he was here, he might be said a few more words.If he contacts Sentoko, it will be revealed that Shinsuke lied and left early. "Then I'll go first, and I'll settle the bill with you later." Okabe nodded silently.There was a "Let's go!" expression on his face. Shinsuke left the store, took the elevator downstairs, and regurgitated the conversation he had just had with Kiuchi.When he uttered the word "ghost", the other party showed an obviously embarrassed expression, which was an expression of knowing something inside.In other words, the testimony of Junichi Hotta is true, it is not a simple misreading, ghosts do exist.Of course, the correct term should be "people like ghosts".Who is that person?Why does Kiuchi know the inside story again? Shinsuke recalled what Kiuchi said, and there was another point that made him brood.That's exactly what Kiuchi said when he asked him if he had any recollections of the car accident. "Of course there is. But there is no feeling of committing a crime." Then he continued, "You should feel the same way--". When he heard it at first, he didn't pay much attention to it. He felt that Kiuchi's words "there is no sense of committing a crime" were just to express that Kishizhong Miinae was not killed by him alone.However, no matter how complicated the cause of the car accident was, Shinsuke was still puzzled by the other party's reaction. The elevator reached the first floor, and Shinsuke left the building.Since it was not until two o'clock, there were still many drunk guests and hotel girls on the road. Just as Shinsuke was going to the taxi stand, he stopped.In the alley between the building he just left and the building next door, he saw two men.Both had their backs to him, but one of them could be recognized as Kiuchi from the back.Another person, but not those who were with Kiuchi before. Shinsuke was careful not to let the other party notice, and hid in the dark to peek.He was startled. The person who was talking to Kiuchi with a solemn face was definitely Ejima's fault. Why did Mr. Ejima and Kiuchi—— Shen Jie left the alley in a puzzled manner.He doesn't think Enoshima and Kiuchi are old acquaintances.When Shinsuke told Ejima that he wanted to know the name of another car accident perpetrator, Ejima acted as if he didn't know Kiuchi. How is this going?When Shinsuke was about to walk back to the alley again, his cell phone rang.It wasn't his cell phone that rang, but the cell phone left by the woman who called herself Ruriko. Shinsuke approached the end of the sidewalk and pressed the call button, "Hello?" There was no response, but the call did go through.The other party has remained silent. "Hello, hello? - Is that you? Please answer." Shinsuke said. Soon, the other party finally spoke. "Where are you now?" It was that voice, a somewhat misty and mysterious voice.The blood in Shinsuke's whole body immediately boiled.The touch of the woman's skin revived in his mind. "I'm in Ginza." He replied. "Ginza?" Ruriko thought for a while. "Okay, then you come here now." Shinsuke had been looking forward to hearing this sentence for a long time.That's why he carries that phone with him. "Where should I go?" "Hail a taxi and tell the driver: Go to Universal Tower in Nihonbashi." "You mean Universal Tower? Is it that huge building?" "That towering but tasteless building." Ruriko said. "Room 4015." "4015..." Shen Jie thought, which means the building is forty stories high. "That's it, I'll wait for you." "Ah, wait a minute..." After Shen Jie finished speaking, the phone had already been hung up.He originally wanted to ask the other party's phone number, because the caller did not show the number. He stopped a taxi and told the driver according to Ruriko's instructions.The taxi driver knew where the building was. "Guest, do you live in that super luxurious building?" The driver's questioning tone was mixed with doubts and exclamations.Mostly because seeing the clothes on Shinsuke's body, I thought how could he look so poor as a resident there. Shen Jie couldn't swallow this breath, so he replied, "Yes! I live on the fortieth floor." "Wow." The middle-aged driver let out a real exclamation. Universal Tower is a skyscraper built by a major construction company in Nihonbashi.The building has more than 50 floors, and there seem to be more than 700 households in total.Shen Jie heard that the price ranges from tens of millions to more than 300 million. Does she live in that kind of place? ——After all, she exudes an extraordinary temperament, so Shinsuke thinks it is very possible. It was not long before I saw that building. The square tower soared into the night sky, and it was called a "tower".There are also several skyscrapers around, and the area feels exotic. Taxi enters the building from the general road.After passing the driveway surrounded by trees in the style of an English garden, the entrance that appears can be mistaken for a high-end restaurant. "It felt like there was a waiter or something waiting," the driver also said. Shinsuke took out two thousand-yen bills and got back the change that should have been given back.The driver originally thought that he would get a tip, and he couldn't help showing regret on his face. Shinsuke walked through the automatic door and into the entrance hall.On the left is a long table similar to a restaurant counter, with a call bell on it, and if you press it, an administrator will come out.It doesn't seem appropriate to just call it an administrator, it should be a man in a uniform and putting on airs. There is a glass door on the front, and beside the door is a large table with an automatic door lock intercom installed on it.Shinsuke stood in front, pressed the 4015 button, and then pressed the call button. He originally thought that Rulizi's voice would come from the loudspeaker, but there was no response from the loudspeaker, only the glass door next to it opened quickly. Shinsuke walked through the glass door.Facing it is the hall, where sofas for receiving guests are displayed side by side.Such an atmosphere creates an illusion that there will be waiters who are obedient.Huge artistic chandeliers hang from the ceiling. At the end of the hall is the elevator entrance. There are eight elevators in total, four on each side facing each other side by side.Shinsuke had never seen so many elevators in a building. He stepped into the elevator and selected number forty from a row of touch-sensitive buttons arranged side by side.The elevator door was closed heavily, and it went up silently. Because the moving process was too quiet, people didn't know whether the elevator was going up or down. There was no sound when the elevator stopped.Shinsuke knew the elevator had stopped because the elevator door opened.In addition, only by seeing the changes in the outside scene can one realize that the elevator is indeed moving. Shinsuke was walking down the corridor covered with plain brown carpet.The arrangement of the residents on this floor presents a square shape, and each household has a thick door. He stopped in front of door 4015.There was an intercom next to the door, and he pressed a button on the intercom. Sure enough, there was still no answer to the door.Shinsuke stood outside the door when he heard the click of the door lock opening.He thought that someone would open the door from inside, but there was no sign of the door moving.He grabbed the L-shaped doorknob, turned it and opened the door smoothly. The room was dark and filled with the smell of perfume.After staring intently, he found that there was a double door directly in front of him, which was now open, and behind it looked like a living room. Shinsuke closed the entrance door, and there was a metallic click after the door closed, which startled him a lot.He tried to open the door again, but it was completely locked and would not move. I'm locked up? Just as Shinsuke was thinking this, the sound of a piano playing came from somewhere.He took off his shoes and walked in. The voice came from the left. Shinsuke followed the sound of the piano and passed through the corridor. On the way, he found an object that looked like a light switch on the wall. He tried to press it, but nothing changed. There was a door at the other end of the corridor, and the voice sounded from the door, and he opened it. There was a bedroom, about fifteen tatami mats in size, with an extra-large bed in the middle of the room, and almost no other furniture in it, except for a bedside table. There is a woman lying on the bed.The clothes she was wearing, whether it was a dress or a shirt, actually didn't look much different. Although it was difficult to see clearly in the dim light, it seemed to be red.She sat up and stared in Shinsuke's direction, holding a remote control that looked like a TV or a VCR in her hand. "You've finally reached the finish line," she said. "Is this your residence?" Shinsuke took a step forward. Ruriko pointed the remote control in the direction of the bedside table and pressed a button.So the sound of the piano stopped.Shinsuke looked directly above him, and found that the speaker was installed on the wall. She twisted her body on the bed, and the clothes made a slight friction sound.The hem of the skirt was rolled up greatly, revealing her fair thighs in the dark. "Do you want to see me?" she asked. "What about you?" Shinsuke asked. "I don't know, do I want to or not?" The woman quickly stretched out a hand to him. Shinsuke approached the bed, the down carpet absorbing his footsteps.He reached out and touched the woman's fingertips. "I want to see you, I really miss you." Shinsuke intertwined her fingers.