Chapter 31 second quarter

"Ah, don't bother." Auntie Yi put the hot tea on the table, and the two detectives bowed respectfully to express their thanks. "Although you said to contact by phone——we think it's better to discuss in person. Although we just said yesterday that we won't come here for the time being..." Tanio detective said.It turned out that Zhenbei was waiting for their call. "what's the result?" Really prepared to ask.Detective Guwei took out a notepad from the pocket of Detective Zhuli next to him, flipped through it, looked up, waited until Auntie Yi walked into the curtain, and then said:

"Mr. Mabi is right. Yesterday we collected the ashes from the bottom layer of the stepped kiln and analyzed the composition." It turned out that this was the thing that Zhenbei whispered to him in the workshop. "—I'm so surprised, Mabi-san is right." "Has calcium phosphate been detected?" Detective Tanio nodded heavily. "Yeah, there seems to have been - burned - large animals." Rin and I exchanged glances, then immediately turned to look at Mabi. "Really, is the lowest level of the stepped kiln the bottom kiln?" I asked the question knowingly, and couldn't help but think of the structure of the stepped kiln I saw the day before yesterday.There are four kilns on the slope that look like fish boards placed horizontally, and there is a kiln in the shape of steamed buns at the bottom.The kiln at the bottom has an arched incinerator with a width and height of about 30 centimeters, and the part connected to the other kiln is separated by a metal grid.With this structure, how could it be possible to burn large animals in the kiln at the bottom?Can't put it in at all?Besides, what exactly is the large animal that the criminal police are talking about?who is it?Okashima?Or Wei Ze?It was still Chirazawa—no, Torii and the others checked the kiln when Nirazawa disappeared.Torii said that at that time, it was still an ordinary cave kiln, and there were no traces of burning things.So, is it Okajima?Or Wei Ze?But it's simply not possible to put people in that kiln right now.

"Shouldn't the DNA test be possible?" Zhenbei asked the detective Tanio. "Yes, because it was burned at a high temperature—a higher temperature than cremation, so DNA should not be detected." Mabe clasped his fingers on the table, staring at his hands.He was preoccupied with important questions.After a while, he raised his head and said to the two criminal policemen: "I know that you will take action based on the results of this investigation, but can you postpone action until tomorrow?" The corners of the mouths of the two detectives showed smiles. This kind of ominous smile was obviously the target of preparing to teach a lesson and make unreasonable demands.

"Mr. Mabi, you—" "Michio," Zhenbei ignored Detective Tanio's speech, turned to me and said, "You just compared your watch with the clock on the wall." "What? Oh, yes, because if that clock is wrong, the dhutanga incident I'm talking about will appear groundless..." "So, did you check the clock on the wall that night to confirm the time? That is to say——do you think it was after eleven o'clock when you walked out of the room, because the clock on the wall showed so?" "That's right, because I didn't wear a watch when I slept. However, the time on that clock is correct, so it should be fine. I also checked it just now..."

"So that's what happened!" Mabe stood up abruptly, and the chair squeaked, and Rin and I backed away in fright.The two detectives also looked up at Mabi blankly. "Daowei—suppose there is an empty room in your house that no one uses. Would you care about the clock in that room? Would you care if the clock was accurate?" "A clock?—well, I wouldn't mind if it was me, because no one's looking anyway." "Aunt Himenoki!" Mabi called into the depths of the kitchen.Aunt Yi poked her head out from behind the curtain with a face full of astonishment.

"When Daowei lived here alone, did you change the battery for the clock in that room?" Aunt Yi shook her head apologetically. "Because it happened suddenly, I only had to sweep the floor a little bit, and it was too late to adjust the clock..." Then, Auntie Yi continued as if defending herself: "But did the clock run this time? On the night when the three of you came to live, I cleaned the glass of the clock and replaced it with a new battery when laying the quilt." I just remembered that when I lived alone last time, the glass of the clock was covered with dust, but this time it was wiped clean.

"Yes, the clock is telling you exactly." Zhenbei smiled at Aunt Yi, and turned to look at me. "Daowei, think about it carefully, how can a clock that runs on batteries run continuously for twenty years?" Hearing him say that made sense. "Mabe, I thought I left the room after eleven o'clock that day—" "This time is incorrect. The night you lived here alone, the clock should have stopped a long time ago, and it stopped many years ago." I vaguely remember that when the three of us slept together in that room this time, I felt that the sound of the clock was particularly loud, but I didn't feel this way at all last time.

"so--" What the hell is going on here?What time did I leave the room that night?If it was before the abbot of Ci'an left the Ruixiang room at 10:11, the tutu bag I saw in the workshop under the light of the flashlight might be the bag that the abbot of Ci'an brought back to the temple, and what the surveillance camera captured should be The dhutanga bag containing the small amulet—no, no, there was no one in the workshop at that time, and I didn’t see the abbot of Ci’an at all.Could it be that the abbot of Ci'an is hiding? "You walked out of the room and went to the workshop before ten o'clock. Because Aunt Himanogi just finished cleaning the kitchen and was going to rest."

Mabi turned his head to look in the direction of the kitchen again. "Aunt Himomi, you said you go back to your room at ten o'clock every day?" "Yes, I live a very regular life, every night." "Is it also the night when Daowei lived here alone?" Hearing Zhenbei's question, Aunt Yi nodded vigorously. Detective Tanwei, who was watching the situation from the sidelines, finally couldn't hold back and interjected: "Mr. Mabi, what are you trying to say? Is the clock's time more important than what we're discussing?" Mabi nodded quickly and replied, "It's very important." Then, turning to look at me, he said something unexpected.

"Daowei, you heard the voice of King Wushu Samoming——I finally know what it means." "Is that the voice?" "I go out for a while." Zhenbei suddenly turned around and rushed towards the exit of the restaurant.Because his behavior was too sudden, no one had time to react. "Hey, wait a minute." I hurriedly got up and chased after him.I heard Mabu's voice from the room where we were sleeping, so I opened the sliding door to find him putting on his coat and talking on his cell phone. "Okay, you should meet me in the middle of the mountain road, and then I will take your car—please come here as soon as possible."

Mabe hung up the phone and walked out from between us. "True, where are you going?" "I'll explain when I get back." "Were you talking to the driver named Sakuragawa from Omi Traffic just now? Where are you going by taxi?" "I'll go down by myself first, and meet him halfway—by the way, Daowei, do you have that photo? It's the photo you took when you first came to visit the Buddha statue." "Yes, I have." I picked up the bag in the corner of the room and rummaged through it.At this time, I suddenly felt something was wrong, the things in the bag seemed different from what I saw this morning. "Really, have you found the photos yourself?" "Why would I go through your bag?" So, has anyone touched my bag?The wallet is there, as is the cell phone and notepad.The photo of the Buddha statue that Mabi just mentioned is still in the library that I haven't finished reading, but——something seems to be missing.I handed the stack of photos to Mabi, and looked down at the bag again.There was a sound of flipping through photos from behind. "I see." Zhenbei said, although I was very concerned, I couldn't take my eyes off my bag.What was taken away?Or is it just my mind? "Ah, teacher!" Looking back, Zhenbei had disappeared.When I came to the corridor, I found that Zhenbei had already put on his shoes and opened the door of the entrance. "Really prepared!" "I'll be right back, you stay here first. Two criminal policemen, I'm sorry." Before closing the door, Mabi said something quickly: "Daowei, don't worry, I know who checked your bag." Mabe's back disappeared at the end of the gravel road in a blink of an eye.