Chapter 8 third quarter

Shuicheng opened the door of his house, saw Yoichiro, and said softly "Oh".He looked as if he hadn't slept all night, his eye sockets sunken and bloodshot.The two met on the day of Sakieda's cremation, but now he looks much thinner. "What's the matter... came to find me early in the morning." Mizuki asked Yoichiro with a voice like a dead man speaking.Regardless of the voice, even the content made Yoichiro feel astonished. "What's the matter... Let me ask you, is Hui her..." "Hui is dead." Yoichiro couldn't help frowning and looked at Shuicheng.Shuicheng hiccupped under his gaze, and the chest of his wrinkled shirt was once deeply dented.

"Where's Aki? Are you okay?" "Is there anything wrong?" Yoichiro is quite confused, Mizushiro's attitude is extremely abnormal, it looks like he has drunk alcohol, but he can't smell the alcohol. "My mother passed away, she must be very sad...... Is she at home?" Yoichiro glanced into the room, and Aki was sitting alone on the sofa in the living room, looking down at his knees blankly. "excuse me." Yoichiro took off his shoes, walked past Shuicheng into the living room, and came to the sofa.Aki raised his head slowly, and made a hoarse "ah" softly, as if he had only now noticed Yoichiro's visit.Her face was very pale and bloodless.

"Aki, it's really hard for you." Yoichiro squatted in front of Aki, speaking to her as gently as possible.Aki didn't respond with a word.Yoichiro thought, maybe she's in a mess right now.He saw Aki's hands resting upright on the skirt, so he stretched out his hand and placed it gently on Aki's hand.But at that moment, Aki let out a small but sharp exclamation, and shook Yoichiro's hand vigorously, as if an animal reacted to being frightened, and moved very quickly.Aki violently shook off Yoichiro's hands with his left hand, then retracted his upper body, and pressed his back against the back of the chair, as if trying to distance himself from Yoichiro.

"Aki?" Yoichiro stared at Aki in astonishment. A voice from Shuicheng came from behind: "My Mao, Yaji has been hit too hard, let her be quiet." Shuicheng's tone was very flat. "But……" "Go to my room." Before Yoichiro answered, Shuicheng had already walked into the living room and entered his room.Yoichiro glanced at Aki again, Aki was stiff all over, and his eyes were not facing Yoichiro at all. "Don't worry, Yaji. Shuicheng, me and Huangjie will be by your side." After speaking, Yoichiro quietly left the sofa. After entering the room, Mizushiro closed the door tightly, silently beckoning Yoichiro to sit down on the office chair.He sat on the round stool next to him.

It was very quiet in the room, there was no sound at all.Yoichiro was rather uncomfortable. Then, he suddenly remembered that he had heard from Shuicheng before that this room had been soundproofed.In order to concentrate on work at home, Shuicheng completely blocks the sound.So, as soon as you walk into this room and close the door, the noise outside, the activity in the living room, and even the ringing of the phone are blocked. There is a small window behind the water city, and through the thick window glass, you can see Sagami Medical University and the affiliated hospital. The research building looks only a little big.This is the tenth floor of the apartment, and the research building is a five-story building, so the angle of view is diagonally above the research building.

"That's where he jumped." Shuicheng looked out of the window following Yoichiro's line of sight, and said, "While I was working, Kei jumped from upstairs, passed me, and fell to the ground." With a sound of "uh", Shuicheng hiccupped again. "Shuicheng, what's going on?" "It's exactly what I just said, Hui died under my laboratory last night." "I've heard Teacher Tiandi say this. Shuicheng, I know you're in a mess right now, but..." Suddenly, Yoichiro stopped, and he saw a notebook on the table, which appeared to be opened.

what is this? The horizontal lines on the inside of the notebook are lined with strange characters. Although they appear to be in Japanese, each character is crooked, extremely distorted, completely deviated from the horizontal lines, as if written with feet. "Is this... your notebook?" Hearing Yoichiro's question, Mizuki craned his neck to take a look, opened his mouth wide open, and let out an "ah" sound, with a few strands of saliva hanging between his teeth. "Ah, yes, this is mine. I copied some information from a medical book last night." "What are these words?"

"It's my word." Shuicheng let out an "uh" and hiccupped. Yoichiro felt a twinge of unease.That was a very bad feeling.No, it is almost certain that Water City may... He shook his head, pushing the thought out of his mind. "Anyway, Shuicheng, can you explain clearly, did Hui really commit suicide?" "Yes, she committed suicide." "What did the police say?" "The police did nothing to investigate, and it wasn't a homicide." "Shuicheng, please tell me the whole story." Mizushiro narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at Yoichiro.After a moment of silence, he explained the news he heard from the police.Except for the opening and closing of the mouth, there is no expression on the face, and it looks like a rubber mask is making sounds.

Last night, when Shuicheng was working in the research room on the third floor, Hui jumped from the top floor of the research building.The estimated time of death was between 8:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.However, Shuicheng said that he had heard a loud noise. According to this testimony, it is almost certain that Hui's fall time was around 9:10 p.m., and no suicide note was left at the scene. The gate on the first floor of the research building is automatically locked at nine o'clock in the evening.This security system was activated when Yoichiro was a graduate student, so he also knew very well that once it passed nine o'clock in the evening, the gate could only be opened from the inside, and unless he had a key, he could not enter the building from the outside.In other words, Kei entered the building before nine o'clock, and then jumped from the top floor.The door leading from the stairs to the attic seemed not to be locked normally.

"However, she didn't go up to the top floor just to jump off the building. Jumping off the building to commit suicide was not her original plan." "What's the meaning?" "She was going to commit suicide by cutting her wrist. The police showed me the body. There were cut marks on her left wrist. The police said they found a box knife and some blood in the middle of the top floor." "Did the utility knife come from home?" "No, it's new." In other words, Megumi came to the top floor of the research building after buying a utility knife at a certain store.

"I guess she cut her wrist and found that she couldn't die, so she jumped over the railing and jumped downstairs." "But why did Hui commit suicide at your work place? If you planned to jump off the building from the beginning, there is a reason to follow, but if you just want to cut your wrists, you don't have to choose such a place, right?" "Who knew?" Shuicheng shook his head, looking at the floor with empty eyes. "Probably for revenge." Yoichiro couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence, he asked, Mizushiro just shook his head slowly. "How does she look in the morning? You should have met in the morning, right?" "Who cares about..., uh... what my wife looks like. All I know is that the police said that she appeared in the company normally yesterday, once in the morning and in the evening." The insurance company Hui works for stipulates that employees must return to the office for meetings in the morning and evening, and let employees visit customers around the rest of the time. Hui returned to the company from outside at around 6 o'clock yesterday evening, clocked in and left the office after dealing with some chores.According to police testimony from Hui's co-workers, she appeared to be troubled by something. "From leaving the office to jumping off the building at 9:10, no one knew where she was or what she did. Yaji seemed to call her cell phone several times to find her, but she never got through. I think it's probably..." Speaking of this, Shuicheng stopped, and let out a long breath through his dry lips. "Forget it, anyway, I don't know, I don't know what she was thinking, and I don't know where she went, I only know that she went out as usual yesterday morning, but at that time she was ready to commit suicide, that's all many." Shuicheng's words made Yoichiro very suspicious. "How do you know that?" Mizushiro didn't seem to understand the meaning of Yoichiro's question, and just squinted at him. "How do you know that Hui Cong planned to commit suicide in the morning? It's understandable if the utility knife she used to cut her wrists was brought out from home, but isn't her utility knife newly bought?" At this moment, Yoichiro realizes that Mizushiro is obviously hiding his emotions. "Oh..., it's just my intuition, living together for many years, these things can be seen." After Shuicheng finished speaking, he glanced at Yoichiro's face, as if he was afraid that he would be suspicious of these words.Then he went on to say: "You should know Sakie very well too! The so-called couple..., uh... isn't that what it is? I know Kei too well, nothing can escape my eyes." This sentence completely contradicts what he just said.Yoichiro stared at him in surprise, Mizuki slowly moved his upper body towards Yoichiro and asked: "What's the matter... what are you looking at?" "nothing……" Yoichiro couldn't help pulling his head back. "Did I say something strange?" "No, no..." "Why have you been asking questions all the time? Do you think you're a policeman? Why are you asking so carefully about Hui?" "No, I just care about..." "Just concerned, why are you asking around like a policeman? Why are you asking so carefully? You just..." A stream of transparent saliva overflowed from the corner of Shuicheng's mouth and dripped down his chin.Shuicheng himself was startled, and suddenly stopped moving, his eyes were wide open, his pupils quivered slightly in the opened eye sockets, and he looked at Yoichiro in horror. The two remained silent for a few seconds. "Shuicheng, you..." Yoichiro asked his old friend. "What kind of medicine did you take?"