Chapter 36 Thirty-five. Strange characters dressed in exotic styles

The next week passed without incident.No news about the villain was found at all, and no patients suspected of blue beard were found in various hospitals in the city. Is Bluebeard still alive?Shouldn't it be dead?Not even that is certain.One newspaper even published a report that Blue Beard was dead, and it was well written.Still, if he did die, where was the body?Where did the accomplice Hirata escape to?It's a real mystery. The owner of the empty house was naturally under investigation by the police.After investigation, it was learned that the house was managed by a trust company, and the client's name and address were registered.However, when I went to that address, I found that the client's house was already empty, and the trust company was not surprised until this time.

The police have also ascertained the identity of the deceased in five altars of salted corpses.Except for the rotting flesh, not even a piece of clothing was found, so it was quite difficult to identify.However, according to the few remaining clues such as dentures and hairpins, it was finally determined that the characteristics matched the five people in the list of missing women pointed out by Dr. Pan Liu before, and the bodies were returned to their parents. Due to his foot injury, Dr. Pan Liu refused visitors for a whole week and stayed alone in his dormitory.Now that he has finally recovered a little bit of energy, he agreed to visit requests from Assistant Nozaki, Police Department Boyoshi, Yoko Fuji and others.However, he couldn't get out of bed yet, so he could only grudgingly thank them for their visit with a pale face, and he didn't have the heart to discuss how to hunt down Spider-Man.

Time passed like this.One day, a strange man appeared in front of Panliu's house, and he circled back and forth. A white stand-up collar suit with white leather shoes, a snow-white sun hat, and a strangely shaped cane. Under the hat is a tanned face with a high nose bridge.On her finger was a large, one-inch-wide ring full of exotic styles, adorned with shining gemstones the size of soybeans.He was tall and tall, and at first glance he thought he was a British gentleman from Africa or an Indian colony, and he looked a bit like an Indian gentleman who had lived in Europe for a long time.In fact, he is genuinely Japanese.Because just a few seconds ago, he asked the passing postman in fluent Japanese: "Is this house the residence of the famous criminologist Mr. Pan Liu?"

However, he didn't seem to plan to visit the doctor. He sometimes looked at the house number, and sometimes probed his head to observe the interior of the house, as if he was waiting for someone, lingering nearby. After a while, the scholar came out of the courtyard, probably thinking of going to work somewhere. "May I trouble you?" the gentleman in white shouted. "Is there a Nozaki Saburo here? Could you please tell him that there is a friend waiting for him at the door, please ask him to come." The scholar showed surprise on his face, but he seemed to be conquered by the other person's appearance and demeanor, and returned to the entrance uncontrollably to convey this strange message for him.Soon, Assistant Nozaki came to the door together with the scholar.

"It's this one." After finishing speaking, the scholar hurried out to handle errands. "Could you be looking for the wrong person? I'm Nozaki." Seeing the gentleman waiting, Nozaki asked suspiciously.Because he didn't know this person at all. "I'm sorry for visiting rashly, I definitely didn't find the wrong person. I am..." When the gentleman said this, he suddenly moved to Nozaki's side, and whispered a few words with his mouth almost close to his ear. "Ah? Your Excellency is? But I heard that you are not in Japan now." Assistant Nozaki asked back with his eyes widened in surprise.

"I just came back, and I just arrived in Tokyo this morning. But I have a bad habit, as long as I think of something, I can't wait to solve it that day. So, actually, I have something to ask you..." This time he whispered for five minutes. As he listened, a look of astonishment gradually appeared on Nozaki's face, which soon spread to the entire face. The gentleman took out a small bottle from his pocket and handed it to Nozaki, "We must not let him find out, understand?" He emphasized repeatedly, and then he left and strode towards the car waiting at the opposite corner.

Assistant Nozaki, who stayed where he was, looked very pitiful.His face was livid, his breath was short of breath, and his steps back to the entrance were staggering, as if he would fall down at any moment. He walked through the reception room and study room, and finally stopped in front of Dr. Pan Liu's bedroom door, fine beads of sweat appeared on his pale forehead. He coughed lightly, trying to clear the phlegm stuck in his throat, then took out a handkerchief and wiped his forehead.Then, barely stretching his facial muscles, he grinned and squeezed out a smile.However, it was definitely not a happy smile, it was like the smile of a dead person before dying.

At last he put his hand on the doorknob.Then, like a thief, it took a full minute to open the door just enough for a body to slip through.What was he going to say to Dr. Pan Liu?