Chapter 28 fourth quarter

Regarding the disappearance of Wei Ze, everyone finally decided to observe it first, and wait until noon to discuss what to do.Because Songyue said that maybe he would come back suddenly before noon.He seems to hope that big things can be turned into small things, and small things can be turned into nothing. As for what to do in the future, we haven't reached a conclusion yet, so we're going our separate ways.Songyue and Torii went to the workshop, Tang Jianmu's father took the broom and walked to the back of the dormitory, and Aunt Yi stayed in the dining room to wash the dishes silently, but she couldn't see the kindness of the past on her face.It was already light outside.

"Michio, are Kitami and Maya-san still in the bathroom?" "Yes, they seem to have been gone for a long time." Zhenbei stood in front of the toilet door and called their names, but no one answered, so he gently opened the door after knocking. "--what?" It was empty. We went back to the room to check, but we were not in the room. "Hey, Zhenbei, shouldn't it be..." Anxiety suddenly spread in my heart. "How is it possible—what are you trying to say? Don't think about it." Zhenbei said so, but also showed a panicked look. "Miss Kitami! Hey, Miss Kitami!"

I called her name in the corridor, but no one answered.He pricked up his ears, only to hear the sound of Aunt Yi washing dishes in the dining room. "Daowei, is it on the second floor?" "Go and see." We walk up the stairs together.This is the first time I have come to the second floor of the dormitory. Although the space is not as large as the first floor, there are two rooms on both sides of the corridor. The sliding door of the first room on the right is wide open. I can't help but look around one time.This place seems to be a library, and the three walls are filled with bookshelves, and the bookshelves are full of books.

"Miss Kitami—Miss Maya!" We walked down the corridor, but no one answered.We continued calling their names and walked back. "Mabei, what should I do? Miss Kitami is not here." "Daowei, don't panic, they may have walked out." "But how could it be possible not to tell us—" "I'm here, keep your voice down." Hearing this voice, we turned our heads together.Rin poked his head out from the sliding door on the left at the deepest part of the corridor, put a finger on his lips, and was waving to us. "Miss Kitami!" Hearing my yell, Rin looked back into the room helplessly.Mabe and I rushed to the door of the room, looked inside, and found Maya lying quietly on the steel pipe bed against the wall.

——It turned out to be such a thing. "Is Miss Maya asleep?" "Yes, she seems to be very ill in the morning." "It turns out Miss Maya's room is here." This drab room is very unlike the place where young women live nowadays. In addition to the steel tube bed on which Maya is lying in the room, there is a foldable low table, an old TV, and a mobile phone charger on it - one is placed next to the pillow. sheep doll.If it weren't for the doll, no one would have thought it was a woman's room.In the corner of the room is a low wooden cabinet bought at the furniture center, on which are many books related to Buddha statues that have been turned over.

"Daowei, don't poke around." "Oh, it's really impolite—huh? Mabi, there's something worth seeing here." I don't say this because I found something shady, but because I found a book I wrote in the corner of the bookshelf.I wrote a novel about what happened in the deep mountains of Fukushima Prefecture and published it, and Mabi and Rin also appeared in the novel under their real names. "Really, Teacher Daowei, that's great!" "Miss Maya didn't mention the fact that she read my book at all, did she? So she was embarrassed."

"Probably just put it on the shelf and didn't read it at all." "Don't say that." It may also be the recommendation of my cousin's new wife, Shinobu, who reluctantly bought my book. "Ah—Miss Maya, I'm sorry to wake you up." Rin stretched her head to the side of the bed, and Maya looked at the faces of the three of us with sleepy eyes.She hurriedly tried to sit up, but Rin stopped her gently. "Your complexion is very bad, sleep more..." "But the workshop is very busy, and I have a lot of work to do—er, how long did I sleep?"

"Only twenty or thirty minutes." "Did you sleep so long?—I should get up, thank you." Maya sat up slowly.Rin didn't stop, just looked at her face worriedly.Maya smiled shyly at her, and they looked like sisters in harmony. "Mr. Mabi, Michio-sensei, thank you. I'm sorry to make you worry." "Don't say that, I'm sorry I couldn't stop Daowei from breaking into your room without authorization." "No, Ms. Maya, Mabe sometimes talks nonsense—" I hastily denied it, but I didn't expect Mabe to drag me into the corridor while yelling "arrest the criminal".

"Hey, wait a minute, really—ah, Miss Maya, please take care." I was pulled towards the direction of the stairs by Mabi. "What's the matter?" "Miss Maya, let Kitami take care of it. I want to go to the library that I passed just now to read something, so I want to go with you." "Then you can talk about it well... um? What do you want to see?" "Surveillance camera images." "Is there such a thing in the library just now?" I was so worried about Rin and Maya just now that I didn't notice it at all. Mabi and I walked into the library together.The books on the bookshelves are all about making Buddha statues. Each book is thicker and more expensive than the ones in Maya’s room, and there are some thread-bound books among them.There was a lot of dust in the room, and I sneezed three times in a row.

"Your body is still so sensitive." "Thanks to you. Huh——did you mean that?" Between the bookshelves at the back of the room, there is a small desk with a ten-inch screen on it, but no images are currently being shown.The rectangular instrument randomly placed next to the screen should be the digital recorder returned by the criminal police early this morning. Next to it are several wires tied up with rubber bands. "There is no wire connected, don't you want to see the image in the instrument? I don't know if there is an instruction manual—" I searched behind the screen and under the desk, and Mabe picked up the wire and connected the screen to the recorder neatly.Then, press the button on the machine, and the setting work is completed in two or three clicks.

"Do you know how to do it?" "I use it occasionally at work." "Work? What are you shooting for?" "Shooting withered Miscanthus—OK, done." Mabi pressed the button of the recorder, and a black and white image appeared on the screen.The picture is divided into upper and lower parts, the upper part shows the front entrance, and the lower part is the image of the rear door of the old house owner of Songyue.When I think that this is the image recorded by those two crows, I have a strange feeling. "The last video is from December 2nd - yesterday's daytime video. After that, Mr. Torii handed over the recorder to Detective Tanio." The date and time are displayed on the lower right of the split screen, and currently "2003/12/0212:26" is displayed.It happened to be the time when the criminal police led the police search to end yesterday. "Ten days ago—ten days ago..." Zhenbei operated the recorder in his hand, constantly switching screens, and the date on the lower right was regressing day by day. "Oh, I found it." When the date was reversed to "2003/11/22", Mabi stopped the screen. "The day Mr. Okajima disappeared—it was also the day you came to Ruixiang's room alone. What time did you say you got here?" "I think it was about four o'clock in the afternoon." "Then start watching from the previous hour." Mabi pressed the button of the recorder, and the black-and-white images kept jumping.I looked at the screen in wonder, and found that there was a figure of me regressing from the bottom of the screen to the top of the screen at an alarming speed.Turns out he was rewinding. "Teacher Daowei has come on stage." After the picture freezes, it starts playing at normal speed again.A taxi stopped behind the screen, and I got out of the back seat and walked over tremblingly. "What's the use of seeing this kind of picture? What needs to be confirmed is the video from that night. Mr. Okajima disappeared at night." "I know, I'm just curious." Zhenbei fast-forwarded the screen again, and the numbers showing the time changed rapidly. "From here it's worth watching the video footage of the night." The picture quickly darkened, and the sun went down.But perhaps because of the high sensitivity of the camera, the image is not too blurry. "—no one passed by." I looked at the fast-playing video on the screen and moaned.From time to time, bugs flew across the screen quickly, but the image captured by the camera remained unchanged at all.Eight o'clock in the evening - nine o'clock - ten o'clock - "Stop! Here." I couldn't help but screamed.However, the fast playback of the screen has been released earlier, showing a normal speed.Of course Shinbi noticed it too. "The abbot of Ci'an..." We cried out at the same time. The time is displayed at "2003/11/2222:11".I found that the camera was placed in the workshop. When I walked out of the room, the clock on the wall pointed to past eleven o'clock, and the image in front of me was within an hour.That is, an hour before I heard that wonderful voice, an hour before Avalokitesvara grinned. The abbot of Ci'an appears on the lower side of the split screen, which is the screen captured by the camera at the back door.In the center of the dark landscape, tall monks slowly move from below to above with staggering drunken gait.That was the picture of him leaving the Ruixiang room and returning to the monastery. On his shoulders was a heavy-looking large bag, which was exactly the height of a person—— "what is that?" Suddenly there was a voice behind me, and I almost jumped up, and Mabe was also startled, so I quickly turned my head to look. "Ah, sorry—did I scare you?" Rin covered her mouth with her hands and stood at the door.Maya poked her head out behind her too. "Miss Maya has calmed down and said she is going to work. What are you looking at? Ah, it's the footage from the surveillance camera. Have you found anything new?" While talking, Rin looked at the screen with his head, and then took a deep breath. Maya also craned her neck to look at the picture, her eyes widened. "Abbot?..." Regardless of Rin, Maya should not be allowed to see these images no matter what.We can't let her take the blow anymore, otherwise it would be too ruthless. "Miss Maya, uh, there must be some misunderstanding. The abbot of Ci'an may just be carrying some big luggage..." I couldn't help standing up, and Zhenbei stopped me. "Miss Maya seems to know something." Hearing what Mabi said, I looked at Maya's face again.She stared at the screen seriously, with a "huh?" expression on her face.This expression became more and more obvious, and the surprised expression gradually disappeared-finally, she showed a relieved expression. "That's a small amulet." "—Little amulet?" Maya nodded vigorously, smiled at us and said: "Great—the two criminal policemen must have seen this scene before taking the abbot of Ci'an away. They completely misunderstood it. Because the abbot was carrying a dhutanga bag with a small amulet on his shoulder. Teacher, why don't you Remember? Wasn’t there a dhutanga bag with small amulets in the workshop that day?” "The small amulet in the tutu bag... ah!" I remembered.On that day, there was indeed a large tutu bag in the storage room of the workshop, which contained many small amulets. The abbot of Ci’an also said that all the small amulets must be enchanted within the same day, and he also said that if it is too late to put them in After the completion in the institute, he intends to take it back to the monastery to continue working. "That's right, that's right, that's a dhutanga bag." I explained to Mabe and Rin about the tuta bag, Rin let out a sigh of relief, and Mabe nodded and turned his eyes back to the screen. "So, the abbot of Ci'an took the small amulet back to the monastery, just like office workers bring their work home. After entering the soul, he brought it back here the next morning." "Yes, that's what happened. The next morning, I saw with my own eyes that the tutu bag was placed in the workshop. The mouth of the bag was tied up. Mr. Tang Jianmu said that it means that all the small amulets inside have entered the soul." "So, there should be an image of him carrying this bag in the image the next morning." Saying that, Mabe quickly played the screen again.We stared intently at the scene reflected in the night, the picture with noise. "Oh, here it is." The picture plays back at normal speed.The time was five thirty three in the morning.The sun has not yet risen, but the abbot of Ci'an can be clearly seen walking from the depths of the picture with a tutu bag on his shoulders. "So that's the case, so there will be no problem." Yes, no problem.The abbot of Ci'an left the Ruixiang room with the dhutuo bag containing the small amulet, and brought it back the next morning. It was as simple as that. "—Ah, what a disaster." At this moment, the cheerful voice of the abbot of Ci'an came from downstairs.We glanced at each other, and the four of us rushed to the stairs at the same time.The sound came from the dining room. "Abbot, you should stay there and eat a prison meal for two or three days, so that the fat on your stomach may disappear a little." We stood at the door and looked inside, and found two bald heads sitting there.The abbot of Ci'an and Father Tang Jianmu sat at the table facing each other. "Ah Tang, you can't make fun of this." "I'm not kidding, your belly is too ugly—Huh? Isn't this Xiao Lin and Maya?" Father Tang Jianmu turned his head and waved to us.At times, he seemed to only have eyes for young women. "Abbot, you are back." Maya walked over, and the abbot raised his head and smiled. "It made you worry, but it turned out that the police misunderstood." The abbot of Ci'an explained the situation to us.Sure enough, we guessed right. The police were very surprised by the video we saw on the second floor, so they interviewed the abbot of Ci'an. "After I told them about the consecration of the small amulet, I immediately dispelled their doubts. As a result, I told them - since they believed me in threes and twos, there was no need to send me to the police station Are you right? What if I lie? Since they fully accept other people’s statements, it doesn’t matter whether they learn the situation here or go to the police station for interrogation.” The abbot of Ci'an spoke relaxedly and laughed happily. "I thought they would treat me to pork chop rice during the interrogation at the police station. However, the detective named Guwei said no, and it would be considered an induced confession." The abbot of Ci'an seemed to be more talkative than usual. It seems that he was suddenly taken to the police station and he couldn't calm down.

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