Chapter 28 Twenty-seven unexpected people

Having said that, the story has to go back to the beginning, and briefly explain the actions of Saburo Nozaki that night. At first he chatted with the criminal police until midnight, then he was sleepy and forced himself to cheer up, not daring to take his eyes off the door for a moment.Like Dr. Pan Liu, he had no doubts about the strength of the villain. As July 7th approached, he felt a faint uneasiness in his heart, which became more and more uncontrollable. "No matter how closely the doctor and the Boyue Police Department are monitoring him, that guy is like a magician, and he will definitely be able to take Yoko away by means we can't think of."

Nozaki was convinced of this. "Someone must have entered the door. It should be someone who will not arouse the suspicion of the criminal police on guard. He pretended to pass through the door as if nothing had happened. The more unsuspecting the person, the higher the possibility of being a villain. The postman? The person sent by H Hospital ? A guest visiting Mr. K? Or, a criminal policeman from the K police station? In short, no matter who it is, as long as someone steps into this door, he must be regarded as a villain." He made this assumption, based on what he had learned from detective stories, and he fought against it.He also earnestly warned the criminal police guarding the back door, reminding them that no matter who came in, even if it was the maid of K's family, as long as anyone passed the door, they must notify him.

During the day, two or three guests came in through the main entrance, but because the host was not there (K went to the studio at that time), they went back after reaching the entrance.He kept watching in front of the door without any doubts. In addition, the hospital once sent someone to bring Yoko's medicine, but she left immediately after handing it to the maid at the entrance. As for the postman, after putting the letter into the mailbox in front of the door, there is no intention of entering the door at all. At the back door, the maid went out twice, and was followed by a criminal policeman, but the maid once went to the ice shop and the other time to buy things at the food store. Nothing unusual happened in between, and she came back normally.The boy from the ice shop brought a large piece of ice and left immediately after delivering it to the kitchen.

After nightfall, due to the secluded location of House K, there were no visitors and no one went out.So, it was ten o'clock, eleven o'clock... the night was getting deeper and deeper. Nozaki gradually became restless, thinking that the villain might be sneaking into Yoko's room at this time, and the scene even emerged vividly in the darkness, and he couldn't sit still. Nothing wrong with the back door, the towering concrete walls are even covered with broken glass.That person would not choose such a difficult passage to sneak in, he is not an ordinary thief, his approach is bolder and more unexpected.Although I was convinced, it was too strange that no one came in and out of the front door and the back door.Maybe... Thinking of this, Nozaki couldn't sit still anymore.

"I'm going to patrol the back." After alerting the criminal police, he decided to patrol around the wall. Turning right from the main entrance is the back entrance, but he walked in the opposite direction.The area has just been filled with paddy fields to build houses, so K's house is surrounded by a vast open space overgrown with weeds.Although it is a dark night, it is like the stars dotted with gold powder on the surface of lacquerware, shining beautifully, making the summer night sky glow with white light, and it is not too dark to see the road under your feet. Inside the high wall, the light from the second floor of the bungalow is sprinkled between the leaves of the bushes, and the fine light is faintly visible.

"Yoko's room is over there." He thought secretly in his heart and continued to move forward. Turning another corner, you will be right behind the mansion, and that area is also a vast open space.He stared intently ahead and walked slowly. After walking for a while, he was stunned for a while, and stopped to wait and see, because he saw a strangely shaped object in front of him. At first he thought it was a shed, but on closer inspection it was not a shed, but a car with its headlights and other lights off. "It's so strange to park the car in this kind of place at this time."

He secretly doubted, after standing in place for a while, this time he found another even stranger thing. On the fence not far from the car, an unknown object was squirming. It is certain that it is not a wild cat, but a human. Nozaki immediately lay down on the ground, careful not to let the other party find out, and fixed his eyes on the squirming thing. This time, I looked from a low place to a high place, against the whitened starry sky behind, the figures on the wall were clearly visible.The man was holding what looked like a rope under his armpit. He was standing on the wall, and the next second he jumped to the ground without a sound. After he jumped, there was still a ball on the wall. Highly raised objects.

"Then it must be Yoko?" Nozaki's eyes widened, and he saw that black shadow was holding a long stick in his hand, pushing things off the wall from below.There was a sound of "swipe", and the thing fell to the outside of the wall. The black shadow struggled to pick it up and walked towards the car. I understood, so it turned out to be a clever plan. The object on the wall just now turned out to be a big sandbag.Sombra placed it on the wall to cover the broken glass so it wouldn't get cut.If the glass is opened, it will make a noise, and if you climb over it directly, you will hurt your hands and feet.So the black shadow just now must have come up with the trick of using sandbags because of this, a thief really knows how to use his brain.

Although I didn't see Yoko, she might have been carried into the car long ago.And the black shadow just now may have gone back to pack the tools he used to sneak into Yoko's room.The sandbag is also a tool, and there is something that looks like a rope... By the way, it must be a rope ladder, because Yoko's room is on the second floor. Nozaki's head was running fast, analyzing the possible facts. At this moment, a suspicious figure was about to get into the driver's seat of the car. Are you going to pounce on him and catch him?However, Nozaki was no match at all.This villain didn't look like an ordinary person. He had seen his strength in the dark booth of the studio during the day, and Nozaki had no chance of winning.Besides, the other party might still be carrying a gun.He didn't want to die in vain.So, are you going to call the people in the house over?That's not OK.Even if the sound can be transmitted from here to the house, it will be more troublesome to startle the thief and let the thief run away. The other party has a car.

The only way is to sneak behind the car. Although I don’t know how far it will go, there must be a purpose. I must find their whereabouts. Nozaki remembered the scenes he often saw in movies. After making up his mind, he lay down on the ground, crawled forward, quickly approached the car, and finally reached the rear of the car just in time for the car to start. The headlights flickered on faintly, and so did the small lights in front of the steering wheel.Before Nozaki rushed to the rear of the car, he glanced at the car through the side window. There was indeed a person in the back seat, and it looked like a young woman, lying down slumped.

The car sped out like an arrow off the string, and Nozaki clung to the rear of the car like a sarcoma. The car drove in the dark, and finally got on the wide road of Keihin National Highway.There are almost no people on the road, and occasionally a car passes by.The journey to Shinagawa took about thirty minutes.I passed two police stations on the way, but fortunately or unfortunately, I was not stopped for interrogation.Because it was late at night, it was impossible to see any abnormalities in the car, even the sarcoma on the rear of the car, as long as you didn't pay attention, you would never find it.But having said that, if Nozaki took the initiative to call for help from the inspector, when he explained the reason, the villain would definitely find an opportunity to slip away.In short, as long as we can confirm the whereabouts of the villain now, the result will be perfect. However, after entering the urban area of ​​Tokyo, the car began to drive in some sparsely populated alleys, as if deliberately avoiding passing the police station.The speed of the car was also slower than before. Although it is late at night, this is an urban area after all, so it is impossible not to meet someone, and it is hard to guarantee that you will not become suspicious of Nozaki's weird posture.At that time, it would be fine if another vehicle catches up. That would be a solution, but the problem is that Nozaki's hands and feet have long been numb after tens of minutes of stunt performance, and now he is not only in pain, but has lost consciousness at all.He didn't even think any villains were important anymore, he just wanted to get out of the car and have a long sleep. Just when he felt that he couldn't hold on any longer, a passerby by chance found Nozaki. "Hey! There's someone behind the car!" While roaring, the man chased the car for five or six distances. Hearing the roar, the villain didn't know what he was thinking, and started to accelerate with all his strength.Nozaki was nearly thrown off as he turned the corner. Afterwards, the car stopped in an inaccessible place, and the thief got out of the driver's seat.Nozaki jumped to the ground and put on a defensive posture without thinking. Unfortunately, the location here is not good, with the long wall of the factory on one side and the river on the other. I'm afraid no one can help him. In desperation, he could only get under the car like a flat spider.Resigned to fate, and then did not dare to vent the atmosphere. "Hey, there's nothing there. Did I hear wrong just now?" The villain walked around the car, talking to himself as if he thought it was incredible. Finally, he returned to the driver's seat, and the car engine started to vibrate. Nozaki thought it would be bad if his movements were too slow, so he quickly got out from under the car, and stuck to the place where he was originally clinging to. After that, nothing happened again.The car just arrived at its destination. Since the parking action was very natural, Nozaki immediately understood the destination.He hurried out of the car.It was a narrow alley, so he had to hide under the opposite eaves.After the villain stops, there is still a period of time before getting off the car, so it is very easy for people to follow. I found out afterwards that it turned out to be R Town in Maiding District.Of course Nozaki didn't know about it, but readers must still remember that the villain hired Satomi Yoshie as a clerk at first, and the place he took her that night was also R Town.Not only that, but the place where the car stopped now was the small empty house that the villain and Fangzhi walked into that night.Finally, Nozaki found the villain's lair. The other party didn't know that Nozaki was hiding under the eaves opposite, got out of the driver's seat, opened the rear door, dragged the woman out of the car, walked around the car with her in his arms, and disappeared into the house just like that. However, at that time, the villain neglected to turn off the headlights, so when he passed in front of the lights, Nozaki saw the victim's face.Although it was only for a brief moment, Nozaki could see clearly that the woman was indeed Yoko Fuji.It was the face of Yoko Fuji, gagged and limp as a dead man. Meanwhile, Nozaki made another discovery. He always thought that the man driving the car was the blue beard, but he found that this man was not the same person as the burly man who was making trouble in the dark shed during the day.The man was much shorter and very thin.Seems very young too. Although he didn't see his face clearly, Nozaki could not only be sure that he was not Bluebeard himself (if the man who claimed to be Inagaki and the white-haired old doctor who appeared today were Bluebeard himself), but also Nozaki still remembered where he met this person. A man with the same walking posture.He did see this guy. Until the other party hid in the room, he still stood there, "Who is it, who is it?" This question kept turning in his mind. Finally, the unexpected discovery made him jump up in surprise. "I remember! I remember! That guy is the bad boy from last time. I remember his name is Hirata Toichi." Readers should still remember it.When Satomi Yoshie's hand was made into a plaster statue and displayed in the framing shop in Kanda, the young man who led the doctor and Nozaki to the shop left an abnormal scream from the doctor's house like a puff of smoke on the same day The mysterious youth who disappeared.What kind of role did he play in this incident?Did he become Bluebeard's subordinate from that day on?Or, is he himself the blue beard himself who massacred many women and caused an uproar in society?