Chapter 38 Five, there are no surprises

At this time, the police still had to be alerted, and Akechi Kogoro accepted the commission again to investigate this bizarre case. "The magician is still alive." Rumors started out of nowhere and slowly spread throughout the city. The police could not ignore it, and decided to dig up the cemetery made by Okumura Yuan after consultation to determine whether the body was still there. In order to facilitate future investigations, it was decided that the source of the burial should be buried, and the clothes and bones should remain intact in the wooden coffin.In fact, Genzao's body is really in the tomb, and all signs can prove that he is indeed dead.The superstition that a corpse slips out of a cemetery in the dark of night, transformed into a bald man with a snake charm, is pure nonsense.

There must be some conspiracy left by the dead.And Yuanzao believed that even if he was not alive, revenge would definitely be achieved, so he committed suicide without any regrets.Although the conspiracy arranged in life is carried out after death, such a crime is rare, but it is not without precedent. Therefore, the police immediately conducted a more severe interrogation of the villain Yudang who was detained in the detention center and had not yet received a sentence. Unfortunately, nothing was found. None of the eight subordinates knew the secret of the leader, and Wen Dai had no clue.

Today, the Yucun family is once again in extreme panic.Especially when the snake that Zentaro fears the most is involved, he looks even more anxious and even a little nervous. For the convenience of taking care of each other, the bedrooms of a family of four have been adjusted and moved to four Western-style bedrooms next to the same corridor.Counting from the inside, they are Ichiro, Taeko, Zentaro, and Jiro.Fortunately, the end of the corridor is sealed, just pay attention to the windows, and there is only one entrance in the corridor.The windows of the corridor and the shutters of the four bedrooms were all fastened and the panes nailed down, and the exit of the corridor was kept on watch all night.All four were locked from the room when they slept.

Even so, Zentaro still couldn't feel relieved.Although it is his own residence, it cannot be completely ruled out whether someone opened a secret door at home or something.So, he found Akechi Kogoro and asked him to check the floors, ceilings, walls and other corners of the four bedrooms thoroughly and carefully to make sure there was nothing abnormal. If there are really slugs in this world that can stretch as thin as a thread, it's another matter.In short, there is no room in these four bedrooms for a small snake to get in, let alone a big bald snake charmer.There is no room for sneaking in, Zentaro thought to himself, now he can finally feel at ease.However, he soon discovered that he underestimated the enemy.

The peaceful days lasted for a few days.Everyone spent about a week under airtight protective measures.Late one night, the sleeping people were suddenly awakened by the mournful sound of the flute. Ah, that flute, that tune!How could they forget?Didn't Taeko and Ichiro hear this mournful melody when Tokujiro was killed and when Taeko and Ichiro were attacked? Erlang was the most alert and got up first, because he was most familiar with the tune. At this point, the locked door appears to be in the way.He found the key and opened the door anxiously.After rushing out of the corridor, the scholar on duty at night was standing blankly at the other end of the corridor.

"Has anyone passed by?" Erlang asked. "No." The scholar replied with a surprised face. If that sumo wrestler appeared, the scholar would not turn a blind eye.Erlang was finally relieved, and when he listened again, the sound of the flute had stopped. "Did you hear any strange flute sound?" "Well, I'm wondering too." "Where did it come from?" "Master's bedroom." Erlang heard the words, even though he thought it was impossible, he was still very concerned.To be on the safe side, he decided to visit his father's bedroom.

The keys to the four rooms are shared, and the door can be opened from the outside. Erlang turned the key as lightly as possible, and then quietly peeped into the bedroom.Unexpectedly, as soon as he probed, an indescribable scream burst out of his mouth. The other two people who were awakened by the sound of the flute were also frightened by Erlang's screams and hurried over. "Jiro, what's the matter?" "Dad, he, dad..." Both Ichiro and Taeko came to the door and looked in the direction Erlang pointed, and saw their father Zentaro, no, Zentaro, who was already a corpse, slid off the bed and lay on the ground.

Zentaro scratched his neck with his hands, looked up at the void, his face twisted in pain, his mouth was wide open, his gums were exposed, and his white eyes were protruding. After seeing that miserable scene once, I definitely don't want to look at it a second time.Unexpectedly, there was a more terrifying monster wrapped around the neck of the corpse.It was a bright red snake, a wraith created by Yuan.Zentaro, who was sleeping soundly, was probably suffocated to death by this little snake. The corpse was the same as before, with cherry blossom petals as delicate as snowflakes scattered around it.Decorating the petals of the corpse, the funeral music for the flute, these are the usual techniques of Genzo Okumura.

The snake seemed disturbed by the noisy human voice, and slid away from the corpse, crawling across the ground and about to escape. "Beast! Beast!" The courageous Ichiro rushed forward, crushing the snake's head flat with a single step of his feet in leather slippers. The snake kept rolling and wrapping itself around Ichiro's leg, but his head had been trampled to pieces, and there was only one way to die, and soon he died limply on the ground. On the other hand, Erlang and Taeko tried their best to save their father, but they failed in the end. "But where did this snake come in from?" Erlang asked after mourning for a while, finally regaining his composure.

There was no gap in the door, the glass facing the courtyard was nailed tightly, and the ventilation holes in the ceiling were sealed tightly with barbed wire.After inspection, there are no damaged mouths in these places. It's just incredible.It would be fine if there were only snakes, but there should be other people breaking in.After the villain was sure that Zentaro was dead, he disappeared like a puff of smoke.After all, snakes don't know how to play the flute, let alone scatter flower petals. Genzo Okumura, the magician, is dead, and his body is decaying day by day in the public cemetery.Nevertheless, everything that happened showed that he was still alive.He showed his business card and killed his enemy Yucun with the same magic technique as before.

How, readers, should this be explained?The bedroom is like a nailed wooden box, airtight, and it is unbelievable that even a snake got in, let alone a human being hundreds of times larger than the snake.If this was a box for a magic show, it would take time to find an explanation, but there was no mechanism in the room at all.In other words, the impossible happened. Ichiro, Erlang and Taeko all lost their father without warning, and witnessing this unexplainable strange event, the three of them seem to have lost their ability to think and become disoriented. Either way, call the police first.Ichiro immediately ran to the telephone room and called the Metropolitan Police Department and Zhizhi's apartment to explain the whole story. Soon, the Boyue police department and Akechi Kogoro arrived and met again at Tamamura's house for the same case. The police once again launched an extremely meticulous search operation, but unfortunately there is still no new discovery. "Mr. Wise, what's your idea? I'm completely clueless." The Poyue Police Department had to tell the truth. "Well, it's unsolvable, it's really unsolvable." Zhizhi put away his usual smiling face, "Needless to say, people cannot freely enter and exit the closed room. Even if there is a key, the corridor outside is still guarded." What's more, the scholar on duty at night is also very trustworthy.He had been known to be honest during the three years he had been employed, and even if he had allowed the murderer to escape, it would have been difficult to escape the eyes of a group of servants.No one has seen the entrance or the back door, which is unbelievable. "If you think about it from this point of view, the case will only become more difficult. However, since the murder took place, the murderer had to enter the room. Mr. Bo Yue, do you know the 'method of taking out the flesh of a tangerine without peeling'? In the formula of advanced mathematics , it is possible. In other words, the crime may fall within the category of advanced mathematics that is not taught in secondary schools." It was hard to imagine that the usually sensible detective said something inexplicable.Is there any precedent in this world for using advanced mathematics to commit crimes?If the villain really has learned advanced mathematics, can he easily enter and exit the secret room? "We have to change the established point of view. Even the same object has various angles such as front, back, side, and slope. In some cases, once the point of view is changed, the appearance of the object will be very different." The Boyue police department vaguely understood what Zhizhi wanted to express. "Then, could it be..." Bo Yue seemed to be stimulated by something, his expression changed drastically, and he stared straight at Zhizhi.Because the truth gradually became clear and revealed its outline, but it was too unexpected and too shocking.