Chapter 6 second quarter

Hakometo-cho is located in a remote area in the northwest of Mahoro City.Due to the surplus of land, the university campus in Mahoro City will also move here in the near future.Because it is full of lush trees, the view is poor, and there is no one there. The mansion mentioned by son A is located near the national highway leading to the neighboring city Doi Rushi, almost bordering the border between the two cities.Clock Towers towered deep within the crumbling brick walls.The hands covered with rust have stopped moving, and the Arabic numerals on the dial have begun to fall off.Even if I look around, there are no other houses nearby, only lush forests.The Clock House is also a well-known monster house in the local area.Rumors of an ownership dispute have been circulating for two decades.It has been empty since Amagi was a child.In the first year of junior high school, Amagi also sneaked into this place with his best friend at that time.Although there were no monsters or ghosts running out in the morning, the experience of the humidity in the room and the profuse sweating was still fresh in my memory.

After turning into a fork in the national highway, Amagi turned off the headlights and drove slowly, and stopped the car quietly after reaching the gate.The sound of rain drowned out the sound of the car engine, the rusty iron door was slightly opened, and there was no one around the door, only the sound of raindrops hitting gravel in the silence.Unsurprisingly, son A and the others seemed to have entered the museum first. Although it is an empty house, it still has an owner. Trespassing on private property like this is a terrible trespass.Having said that, there should be nothing wrong with A's words. In the worst case, at best, an apology can be used to settle the matter privately.But Tiancheng is just a criminal police officer.

In fact, there is no room for serious thinking.Mahoro KILLER is a very serious situation, and there are as many excuses as there are.Not to mention that Guang Azi took the initiative to contact him, which means that the situation is very serious.Thinking of this, Amagi held up his folding umbrella and silently slipped through the crack of the gate. The clock house, which has been in existence for more than 17 years, looked as huge as an ancient city when Amagi was young, but now it is only a three-story building with a timepiece spire, and it is no longer as grand as I remember.The main building is not far from the narrow courtyard, and there is a small warehouse beside it, which gives people a very cramped feeling.Why did I find this place scary when I was a child?It was obviously just a suspiciously small building.

From the window on the first floor, you can see the light of the flickering flashlight, the output power is not strong, it should be A's penlight or something.Really careless, big, unguarded, as if advocating to come and find me.The same is true for detectives who act with no brains.Tired of A's lack of nerves, Tiancheng was about to step into the entrance when suddenly there was a strange smell, like the smell of something burnt. Following the direction of the wind, a small warehouse without even a door came into view.In the dark night, the raindrops pattered down like sobs.Two sticks stick out from the warehouse door.Although it was impossible to find out clearly in the pitch darkness, I always felt that the true face could be imagined.Amagi changed course and walked towards the warehouse.

The closer we got to the warehouse, the stronger the smell became, and at the same time, other nasty smells began to mix in.Discomfort starting to kick back stomach acid.I can't get used to this smell no matter how long it takes. Amagi lit up the flashlight and shone at the entrance of the warehouse. A corpse lying on his back appeared in the light circle - a female corpse whose left ear was burned, a bloodless cheek, a swollen mouth, and a pink doll.Amagi bit his lip unconsciously. After taking the pulse to confirm his death, Amagi walked out of the warehouse in order to breathe fresh air.Taking a deep breath, he took out his mobile phone, and quickly dialed his own number first.After two rings, the wife answered the phone.

"Gengzi." Hearing his wife's voice, Tiancheng was slightly relieved. "I'm sorry that I don't seem to be coming back tonight... well, another case happened, so you should sleep well first." After hanging up the phone, Tiancheng dialed 110 again.Really heavy work. "What's the matter, gloomy detective?" Son A said as if to blame Tiancheng for turning on the flashlight.I saw her walking here from the watch shop with the young man who saw it, as if she was going to explore the monster house.The lying corpse seemed to be invisible from A's side.

"It's not okay to leave the flashlight on like this, it will be discovered by the hunting hat man." Accompanied by the loud preaching, there was the sound of "pacha" opening the umbrella, and the two figures of A and Zi appeared under the umbrella. "Is it just you and the young man who came here?" Amagi asked while restraining his emotional fluctuations. "That's right. What's wrong with you? When did you become more gloomy?" "So, have you found the hunting hat man?" "Well, because the lighting problem hasn't made much progress yet, the two of them can't find it at all. And the place is even more eerie than imagined. I accidentally touched the wall, the door, etc., and it feels like it's about to collapse."

The two of them approached Tiancheng with pattering footsteps. "It smells a bit burnt. What's going on, is it a bosozoku's prank?" Son A seems to have noticed. "It wasn't the bosozoku who did it. It seems that something was burning in this warehouse until just now." "What are you burning? It doesn't seem like waste paper or something." "……ear." "Ear, then Maguro Killer did it." Child A hastily pointed the penlight in the direction of the warehouse, and the light that wanted to catch the target swayed left and right.First the feet are reflected, then the waist, the chest, and finally the face of the deceased.It is someone A Zi knows.

"Miss Zhudai!" The young man who saw him screamed in one step first, and ran towards the corpse in three steps in two steps. At the same time, a white Corolla jumped out from the darkness of the watch hall, crashed through the iron gate and disappeared into the night.The dull sound of a hood being dented, the whine of car tires, the noise of an engine.Tens of seconds later, as if absorbed by the pitch-black night sky, the surroundings returned to tranquility, only the sobs of son-in-law and the young man from Jianchu echoed in the air.