Mr. Koji's death alarmed everyone in the villa, and people gathered in the living room where the dolls were placed again. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Watching Mr. Koji's head roll on the floor like a ball, even Xingchen, who was used to seeing corpses, couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Another homicide!

The murderer still committed the crime according to the "code" technique given by Master Yamauchi, and the original reproduction of "the head was cut off in order from front to back".

Xingchen was able to determine that they were in the "Blizzard Heights mode" that often appears in detective novels.

Blizzard Hills mode is when a group of people gather in a building (or island). Then, for various reasons, they were cut off from the outside world for a long time, and not only could they not enter or leave the individual, but they could not even get in touch with other people.

During this period, events occur (mostly serial killings), and the murderer is among the crowd, and the detective conducts limited search, reasoning and solving the case in this special environment, when the police cannot intervene.

Who exactly is the murderer?

The people who are least likely to commit crimes in ordinary novels are often the real murderers in the end.

Xingchen suddenly thought of someone who had been ignored from the beginning, and he hurriedly walked up to Daisuke and asked, "Daisuke, what is the first step in the testamentary procedures of your firm?"

"The first step, of course, is to confirm the death of the client. Daisuke blurted out.

"Then how did you know for sure about Master Yamanouchi's death?" Xingchen continued to ask.

Lawyer Daisuke thought for a moment, and then said, "Master Yamanuchi's estate is huge, so our law firm attaches great importance to his entrustment, and we not only issue a 'medical certificate of death' at the hospital where Master Yamanouchi died, but also a 'cremation certificate' at the place where Master Yamanuchi was cremated, and a 'death certificate' at the police station. What the hell do you want to know?"

"Xingchen is suspected that the person who killed Mr. Tadaji and Mr. Koji is Master Yamanouchi himself, and he may not be dead at all!" "Koshisui is an excellent female detective, and she also thought of Xingchen's guess.

Everyone was shocked, they didn't expect that Yamanouchi could still be alive and commit two lives in a row.

"No! The murderer can't be Master Yamauchi himself!" After Xingchen raised this possibility, he immediately denied it, "Although those proofs can be faked, and Master Yamanuchi's financial resources can do these perfectly, this is not reasonable!"

Xingchen paused slightly, gathered his thoughts, and then said, "Master Yamanouchi's death has been publicized in the newspapers, and the relatives and friends of the five inheritance candidates also know more or less that you will come to this villa. If the master faked his death, he would not be able to 'resurrect' after killing someone, and the price would be too great. With his talent for writing mystery novels, if he wants to kill someone, he can use other more convenient methods. ”

When Mr. Koji returned to his room yesterday, he should have been alert and would not let people in easily, how did the murderer sneak into his room and kill him?

With this question in mind, everyone went to the room where Mr. Koji lived last night, and the magician Rosyth checked the only door for people to enter and exit, and he found that there was a secret door in the lower part of the door, which allowed people to enter and exit freely.

"I'm afraid that the prisoner who killed Mr. Koji entered and exited from here, so no matter how much you lock it, it's useless!" Magician Rosyth analyzed.

"I've been in this villa for so many years, and I didn't know there was such a mechanism. The housekeeper Tashiro immediately stood up to clear up the relationship, and of all the people present, he had lived in the villa for the longest time, and it was the most likely that he knew about this secret door.

"I remembered that this villa was originally an inn. If I remember correctly, the first person was supposed to be Russian, and the world-famous magician of the time, Yuri Ivanov. Rosyth named his fellow magicians.

"By the way, I also remembered that when I was first called to this villa deep in the mountains, Master Yamanouchi had said that this villa was perfect for him as a mystery writer, because the villa itself was full of mysteries. "Tashiro is currently the most suspicious, and in order to prove his innocence, he now knows everything and says everything.

"What a nuisance! Mr. Roseth, can you help me look around the room, if there is such a little mechanism? Fearing that her room would have a mechanism for outsiders to enter and leave at will, Miss Yuyue was the first to ask for Roseth, the magician she had invited.

"Of course, if the others don't dislike it, I'll take a look at it too. "Having the opportunity to crack the tricks of a famous magician was something that Rosyth couldn't wait for.

The group returned to Miss Moon's room, and Roseth soon found a secret passage behind a cabinet against the wall.

The secret passage leads to the cellar in the basement, where at least 500 bottles of wine over 50 years old have been found, and regardless of the taste, it is not difficult to imagine the high price of these wines just by looking at their preciousness.

Later, Rosyth found a safe behind an oil painting in Miss Plum Garden's room. High school student Takashi found many old ceremonial clothes in his room. In Yueshui's room, I found a magic mirror that looked ordinary, but was actually a magic mirror that could be peeked into from next door.

For safety reasons, Rosyth inspected the rooms of Tashiro's housekeeper, her maid Muko, and Daisuke's lawyer.

In the maid Xiangzi's room, Rosyth discovers a special mask that can be peeked into Xiangzi's room from the next room.

"Who's in the next room?" Xingchen asked curiously.

"Yes...... Master Yamanouchi...... of the dormitory. Thinking that Master Yamanouchi might be spying on him, he replied with a flushed face.

I really didn't expect the people of Yamanouchi to be old-hearted, but fortunately they have a hobby. Xingchen had to admire Yamanouchi for being old and strong, old and strong.

In Daisuke's room, Rosyth found a text that could only be seen from a certain location and from a certain angle, and although it was composed of English letters, it could not form English words.

For a while, people couldn't understand the meaning of this text.

Xingchen is a person who does not pick a bed, so he has reason to suspect that the cup of Russian black tea that everyone drank yesterday gave people sleeping pills.

Finally, there was Tashiro's housekeeper's room, but no one found any mechanism.

"Then, when everyone stays in the room in the future, as long as they make sure that they are locked from the internal test, they should not be threatened by the murderer. Butler Tashiro reassured everyone.

On the surface, there is no secret passage in Tashiro's housekeeper's room to alleviate suspicion, but Xingchen is becoming more and more suspicious of him.

Some people will "recognize the bed" when they sleep, and as long as they don't sleep in their own bed, they can't sleep well. There are even many people who "recognize pillows" and "quilts".

Xingchen does not have this shortcoming, he can adapt to the new environment very well. But judging from the fact that I woke up this morning and felt extremely tired, I didn't sleep well as I slept the same way.

Xingchen suspected that the cup of Russian black tea they had drunk before going to bed last night had been given sleeping pills.

The people in the villa are Japanese, and no one knows what Russian black tea really tastes like, which is especially important to mask the smell of sleeping pills.

On the one hand, the effect of sleeping pills can make Mr. Koji be killed by the murderer without resistance, and on the other hand, it can make others unable to hear the movements produced when Koji is killed.

However, the black tea was brewed by the maid Xiangzi, and it was brought to everyone by the hands of Tashiro's housekeeper, so the two of them had every chance to drug all the black tea in everyone.

"Mr. Tashiro, is the key to that lock rack kept by you?" asked the housekeeper tentatively, apparently Xingchen could think of the housekeeper's problem, and she also noticed.

"Yes, it's all in my custody for now. This key looks very ordinary, but it is actually made by a special Russian process and cannot be copied at will. The owner once explained that if the key was lost, he had to destroy the lock, and I had to take care of it. "Tashiro stressed that it was impossible for the murderer to enter the house and kill people by normal means.

"When you say that, I also remember that Master Yamanouchi once told me that the key here cannot be copied. High school student Takashi once again proved that the master key cannot be easily copied.

Why didn't the magician who built the inn make a spare key to the lock rack?

After all this effort, if you lose your keys, won't you be able to get all the keys?

Isn't it strange that the master key of the villa was not backed up when it was originally used as an inn?

All kinds of questions swirled in Xingchen's heart.

Later, Tashiro told everyone that the rope for tying the key was also specially made, and it was all woven into a rope made of metal wire and carbon fiber, and its hardness was not comparable to ordinary iron wire.

On one occasion, Master Yamanouchi tried to cut the rope with an iron tong, but only a few traces were left, and the rope was still unharmed. I'm afraid that only special tools can cut it off.

"If you smash the entire shelf with a hammer, can you take the key down?" Xingchen himself does not advocate violence, but he also wants to prevent the murderer's violent behavior.

"It's okay to do that, but it's also going to be the alarm device set up inside, and if the alarm bell goes off, it's hard not to be detected. Tashiro's answer dispelled the last of Xingchen's concerns.

"Then as long as you keep this master key, you don't have to worry about being killed when you sleep!" Concerning her own safety, Miss Mei Yuan took the initiative to suggest: "How about keeping the master key for me?"

"I think it's better for me, as a lawyer, and I don't have the right to inherit, to keep it! Lawyer Daisuke was not worried about handing over the key to a woman for safekeeping, and he also took the initiative to stand up.

"Is it really so?" said Rosace the magician, lukewarmly, "what if one of them secretly colludes with you, as a lawyer, and promises you a considerable profit? ”

"I'll keep the key first, and you can seal off my room from the outside, so that no one can enter or leave. Magician Rosyth didn't care about other people's reactions, he snatched the key from Tashiro's butler's hand, "During the day, everyone tries to act together, and at night, I will take the key back to the room, and then ask everyone to lock me in the room from the outside." ”

Keeping the master key ensures that no one else can use the key to open the door, but there is also a risk of being killed by the killer.

Rosyth's ability to easily find the mechanism in everyone's room proves that he is a good magician, and he may be able to open someone's door without a key.

And he is the helper found by Miss Youyue, if the murderer really kills according to the order of Master Yamanouchi's code, then the next target is Miss Youyue.

For these reasons, there was no objection to Rosyth's keeping of the keys.

There were two murders in a row in the villa, among which Mr. Koji invited Yue Shui to come to help, but he didn't expect to get a huge inheritance, but he died here.

Although Mr. Koji is dead, Koshisui still needs to solve the riddle of Master Yamanouchi, and she asks Tashiro to find the floor plan of the villa, hoping to find clues from it.

From the yellowed drawings, it can be seen that the Lucia Pavilion is divided into four towers, south, east, and northwest, and there is a clock tower with a giant clock hanging between the northeast towers.

A closer look at the drawings reveals that the height of each tower varies.

Tashiro guessed that it was built so that everyone on the tower could see the giant clock clearly, but this reason was not convincing.

Yue Shui also recalled the viola of Ou Lijia and the second violin of the Ta Niang, both of whom were women, except for the different costumes they wore and the instruments they played, the expressions of the dolls were exactly the same as their height, and it was easy to mistake their identities.

"There is a big difference between the two!" Youyue heard Yue Shui's analysis, picked up the viola and said, "The viola I chose is from 65 to 66 centimeters in size, which is slightly larger than the violin. As for the bass, which is responsible for the lowest tone, it ranges from 180 cm to 2 m. And the sound is not the same, the key of each string of the violin is 5 degrees higher than that of the viola, and the range of each instrument is also different. ”

In order to make it easier for Yue Shui to experience the characteristics of the viola, Yuyue played a beautiful piece of music using the viola.

"The viola is rarely used for the main melody like the violin, but without the viola, which is responsible for the middle range, the thickness and depth of the whole piece will be completely different. Just like the illustrations in a novel, although no one will buy a novel for the illustration, the pleasure of reading a work is very different if there are no good illustrations in it. ”

"Actually, when I was illustrating the works of Master Yamauchi, I used to secretly draw things that would reveal the solution to the puzzle. I knew very well that puzzles were the soul of mystery novels, but that time, when I received the original manuscript of each serialized novel and designed the illustrations to match the original manuscript, I suddenly discovered the answer to that work. So, I was so excited that I wanted to tell others the answer, but in the end, I couldn't restrain myself, so I showed it in the illustrations. ”

As a result, the complaints of readers who found this were overwhelming, and I was really anxious at that time, because no matter how I put a lot of thought into it, it was the work of Master Yamauchi. But in the end, Yamauchi forgave me with a smile, and I was so touched that I thought it was no wonder that people respected Yamauchi and his good character. ”

With a high chance of becoming the murderer's next target, and under pressure that others can't imagine, Yuzuki decides that even if she will be killed by the murderer, she must first tell the information about Yamanouchi.

"It's hard to say now, maybe he hated me then, but because of his noble reputation, he had to forgive me. For example, don't you think that peephole like the one I found in Miss Miko's room just now seems to make people see the true face of Master Yamanouchi?"

"Under the mask of noble character, there is intrigues, jealousy, lust/desire, greed, cruelty. These words can also be used to describe everyone gathered in this villa, even me. ”