Sayoko Kamiya made herself another cup of coffee. On the table are densely packed notes.
"I found something."
She suddenly pointed to the list of Shenyin, and said: "Is it strange that you are not clean? It is an indisputable fact that the proportion of the elderly in this village is quite large. However, among the twenty-one people in Shenyin, the most When hiding, the oldest one was just over 30 years old. Unexpectedly, no middle-aged and elderly people encountered Shenyin."
Pei Qingyi didn't notice this problem at first, but now hearing what Sayoko Shengu said, his eyes lit up, he looked at the list carefully, and exclaimed: "Yes, it's really strange."
"It's worth mentioning that there were quite a few old people who entered that mansion back then, but those old people didn't encounter ghosts afterwards, but died of old age. And most of the people who were ghosts were men."
"Young men..." Sima Zhen on the side suddenly had a strange idea: "You say, since Jiashi Hasegawa is actually a whore and a slut, are these men going to be arrested and have sex with them? Things? Ah, I'm talking nonsense, don't take it seriously... "
Shen Gu Sayoko and Pei Qingyi looked over.
"What do you think?" She said to Pei Qingyi: "I think what he said is also possible. The layout of the apartment is really difficult for people to guess."
"Although it sounds abnormal, it cannot be said that it is impossible."
Suddenly, the cell phone that Kamiya Sayoko placed on the table rang. She took the phone and saw that it was an unfamiliar number. After connecting, a woman's voice came: "Is this Miss Kamiya? I'm Harumi Kamihara, can I take a moment of your time?"
"Tell me, what's the matter?"
Before, Kamiya Sayoko had given her mobile phone number to the Kanbara brothers and sisters.
"My friend... Kazuya Iijima didn't know what happened. He left home in the morning and hasn't come back yet. And I'm worried that he might have gone to the mountains on the east side of the Great Mu Hei Ridge..."
"What do you mean?" Sayoko Shengu's expression changed: "You said he went to the mountains east of Damuheiling?"
"I don't know, it's just a guess. In fact, in fact..." Harumi Kanhara finally made up her mind and said, "A friend of mine saw my sister-in-law with her own eyes! My sister-in-law who should have died! It's near the chain bridge. The east side of the Great Twilight Ridge!"
Kamiya Sayoko had actually obtained this information through wiretapping, but she didn't say much at the moment, but still pretended to be very surprised: "What did you say? Is it true?"
"Actually, I also think this is unbelievable. Kazuya is very concerned about this matter. He came to discuss this matter with me yesterday. Ms. Kamiya, I want to ask you, what is going on? Are you What did you find?"
At this time, Harumi can be said to be full of panic, and her heart is full of fear. Although she doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, but... what if it's true? If it's really going to be like that...
A cold feeling hit my heart.
"Please tell me... Is there really an evil spirit in that place, that abandoned mansion?"
Although she grew up listening to the legends of ghosts and ghosts, after all, when Harumi grew up, people in the village almost listed it as an absolute forbidden area, so the phenomenon of ghosts and ghosts was almost never heard of before Miyo, and she always thought that That's just the legend of her parents coaxing her.
"Would you believe me if I said yes, Miss Kanbara Harumi?"
"I..." Kamihara Harumi almost didn't dare to continue, under the dark night, it seemed that a demon would emerge from the forest in front of her at any moment.
"If you believe..." Sayoko Kamiya continued, "Take your family away from Damuheiling immediately, and never come back. Go as far as you can. If you don't believe it, just stay here. Anyway, your fate is yours Yes, I don't care."
Then, she hung up the phone.
He picked up the coffee cup on the table and drank it down, and said to Pei Qingyi and Sima Zhen: "It's Harumi Kanbara, she seems to believe that strange story a little bit. Iijima Izumi's son, Iijima Kazuya, seems to have gone That place. He is the first person to hide from the sky, Kobayashi Sakurako's nephew, is this fate? Or is it a deliberate arrangement of the apartment?"
"It's not important." Pei Qingyi had no interest in Iijima Kazuya's life or death at all, and just thought about how to decipher these two lists.
"Yes, it's not important." Sayoko Kamiya also picked up the list and said, "There must be hints and rules for survival. The memories of these twenty-one people... those old people are not completely reliable, and it is impossible to know the secret of Shenyin. The exact order. However, it is basically certain that apart from Miyo Kamihara, Yoshiko Kiuchi’s mother, Tae Kiuchi, is the most recent hidden person. I always feel very strange, why did not appear again in the next ten years What about the hidden people?"
This is a blank period. Although the memory of the old man may not be reliable, there was a long blank period between Tae Kiuchi and Miyo Kamihara. And being close to that mansion is not an absolute condition for Shenyin. Why hasn't there been another hidden person in such a long time
"However, during the more than ten years when Shenyin was very frequent, many people left Damuheiling because of fear, and moved to other places to live." Pei Qingyi looked at the form and said: "There are only some people with conservative ideas. of the elderly are still staying in the village where their ancestors lived for generations. This seems to be one of the reasons for the serious aging of the village population.”
"That's right." Sayoko Kamiya agreed, "After walking around the village, I realized that the proportion of aging population is much higher than I thought. At the beginning, many young people left because of the fear of encountering a ghost. the village, so the proportion of the aging population has greatly increased, and the youngest people who stay are in their forties. It is also true that the phenomenon of ghosts and ghosts is so frequent that it is easy to cause panic. Twenty-one people are equivalent to an average of One or two ghosts. I think if the phenomenon of ghosts was still so frequent four years ago, Miyo Kamihara would not have the guts to do such a thing. Perhaps, there will be no ghosts.”
"Speaking of which... the situation of Miyo Kamihara is a bit special." Sima Zhen suddenly interjected: "Do you still remember? Masato Kamihara said that. He saw his wife's clothes in the water at that time, so he thought she was falling. Go into the water. But when other people encounter a ghost, they really evaporate from the world, without even the slightest trace."
For a while, the room fell into silence.
Pei Qingyi's eyes were wide open, and he looked at Sima Zhen in horror, opened his mouth a few times, and said, "Could it be... Shen Yuan Yachen is a ghost? So he is lying?"
"No." But Sayoko Kamiya replied: "I think it's too far-fetched to conclude that Kamihara Masami is a ghost based on this alone. What's more, the point is not who is a ghost, but what is the way of life."
"Well... I understand." Sima Zhen's enthusiasm just now was broken.
Then she brought a watch. It has the names of all the Hasegawa family members written on it. Then, looking at everyone, he said, "Don't you feel that there is a very contradictory point in this murder case?"
"Contradictions?" Pei Qingyi was taken aback, and said, "Is it related to Mr. Matsuda's testimony?"
"No, I'm not talking about Matsuda Junko's testimony." Kamiya Sayoko's slender index finger landed on Hasegawa Takuzo's name. She has written it in Chinese characters.
"Hasegawa Takuzo, according to our inquiries with the villagers, the impression of him is that he is honest and cowardly. Compared with his younger brother Jingyu, he seems to be more shrewd and decisive. Then, here comes the problem. Such a man, after discovering his wife After the adultery, he took a knife in one breath, killed six members of the family and then committed suicide? Don’t you think it’s very contradictory? Does this fit the image of a cowardly person?”
"This... is hard to say?" Sima Zhen said with disapproval: "The most unbearable thing for a man is his wife's betrayal, not to mention his wife is a woman who can do her best. In "Water Margin", Wu Dalang is honest and cowardly. Oh, why don’t you go to Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing to catch them? Oh, yes, you’re Japanese, you probably haven’t seen it…”
"I've read the four major Chinese classics since I was a child..." Sayoko Kamiya shook her head and said, "But I remember it very clearly. In the end, Wu Dalang was almost kicked to death by Ximen Qing, and finally he was poisoned with arsenic by Pan Jinlian, right? Is it? It was Wu Song who really killed the two of them. No matter how violent a cowardly person is, he wouldn’t kill six people in one go, right? Moreover, committing suicide by leaving blood on it after the killing is even worse. Like Wu Dalang, or more like Wu Song?"
For a moment Pei Qingyi and Sima Zhen were dumbfounded.
"So... Isn't Hasegawa Takuzo the murderer?" Sima Zhen said hastily: "Then who is the murderer? Could it be a certain villager?"
Pei Qingyi also thought about it: "It's really hard to guess. After all, we have too little information. However, it shouldn't be one of the seven people, right? I also think that it is possible that a certain villager killed that Seven people. In other words, the way to survive may be for us to find out the truth of the case, and then the ghost will rest in peace. But... this case has long passed the statute of limitations, and even if the murderer is found, he cannot be brought to justice Yifa..."
"I don't quite agree with this statement." Kamiya Sayoko retorted: "Can you make twenty-one villagers disappear, but you can't do anything to the villagers who killed them? Of course, it may be said that it is the restriction of the apartment, but if so , why not completely restrict and lift the restrictions when we arrive?"
"This..." Pei Qingyi had to admit that Sayoko Shengu's words made sense, and asked, "Then what do you think? Miss Shengu? By the way, I got it! The people on the list are all young people. Why is that so? What? Probably because the seven people who were killed did not know who killed them. Maybe the murderer was masked or something, but it can be judged that the other party was very young, so only young people would disappear. But With the young people leaving Damuheiling in large numbers, so it is said that Shenyin disappeared... "
"No." But Sayoko Kamiya retorted again: "Then how does Miyo Kanbara explain? She is from Kyoto, and she was never born forty years ago. There is no way she was the murderer of that murder."
"Yes, yes... Or, Miyo Kamihara isn't Kamihiro? Did she really fall into the water?"
"First of all, we need to know one thing. The murderer is obviously a person who knew about Hasegawa Kashi's adultery with her brother-in-law. The villagers who knew about this matter can only confirm that Mr. Matsuda knew about it completely, and she herself completely denied it. She told others. And this murder happened a week after she witnessed the adultery between Noriyuki Hasegawa and Kayo Hasegawa. Is this a coincidence?"
"You mean... the murderer was Junko Matsuda? No, it can't be, she was just a little girl then, so she told someone and went to kill..."
Speaking of which, a question arises.
If Mr. Matsuda lied, who did she tell? Who has the motive to kill after knowing this
"Could it be..." Pei Qingyi shouted: "Is it Ah Cheng or Ah Jin? One of the two servants? The two of them also have an affair with Hasegawa Kashi. If they learn about this, they will most likely become angry and kill him." Kashi Hasegawa!"
"No," Sayoko Kamiya shook her head, "Then how do you explain that Takuzo Hasegawa and Sanae Hasegawa were killed together?"
"Then... I don't know. Miss Kamiya, do you have any ideas?"
"My idea is very simple."
Then, Kamiya Sayoko uttered a reasoning that made everyone's hair stand on end in a cold voice.
"In this world... is there really such a person as Hasegawa Takuzo?"