Chapter 104: Lucia's Puppet Murder (End)

"Don't you understand, before revealing the true identity of the murderer, let's discuss the distribution of Yamanouchi's inheritance!" In a sense, Xingchen is controlling the life and death of Gao Zhi and Mei Yuan at this moment. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The biggest advantage in the negotiation process is that you have all the cards in the other party, but the other party does not know the depth of the bottom line on your side.

Xingchen had read the contents of Yamaouchi's suicide note, so he took the absolute initiative in the negotiation of the distribution of the inheritance.

"Thirty million!" Xingchen stretched out three fingers and said to Gao Zhi and Mei Yuan: "Each of you will share 30 million, and give me all the rest!"

"What are you kidding! Since you only give us this little money for billions of inheritances, I won't agree to it!" Gao Zhi, a high school student, immediately shouted when he heard Xingchen's ridiculous proposal.

Yamanachi left at least three billion in an inheritance, and Xingchen only gave each of them less than one percent of the amount, so they naturally would not agree.

"You have to think clearly, if your life is gone, no amount of money will help. Xingchen said talkatively.

Human life is at stake, but Xingchen seems to have just said a trivial matter, his light-hearted attitude made Gao Zhi and Mei Yuan a little confused, they didn't expect a seven-year-old child to be so difficult to deal with.

The stars are asking for a price, and then Gao Zhi and Mei Yuan sit on the ground to pay back.

After some fierce bargaining, in the end, Gao Zhi and Mei Yuan agreed to only 100 million yuan of inheritance each.

In Japan, the amount of inheritance exceeding 300 million yen needs to pay up to 50% tax, and considering that some real estate and illiquid collectibles are not easy to exchange for cash, so Gao Zhi and each of them almost received a fifth of the total value of the inheritance.

After negotiating the price, Xingchen took Gao Zhi and them to find a lawyer and asked a professional lawyer to draft a notarization agreement with legal effect.

After signing the agreement, Xingchen also gave a special client fee of 5 million yen to lawyer Youjie, which is the largest client fee he has received so far in the legal profession.

"Okay, the agreement has also been signed, you quickly tell us who the murderer is!" Gao Zhi and Mei Yuan said hatefully after seeing Xingchen carefully put the agreement into their arms.

"Don't worry, if we want to lure out the real murderer, we also need to go to Mr. Roseth, and we will perform a murder magic together. ”

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The actor is in place, and the magician Rosyth first uses the dummy dressed as Miss Plum Garden, with the prepared ketchup, to disguise it as a corpse without a head.

Umeen's head is placed on the table, and the body from the neck down is hidden behind a magic mirror, which is a close-up magic trick that uses the mirror to refract to give people the illusion that people who don't know the mystery will think that Umeen's head has been cut off and placed on the table.

All the people in the villa were gathered to be present.

On the dummy, Rosyth took out the dog hair prepared in advance, pointed out that Miss Umezono was killed by Inukai Takashi, and without giving Takashi a chance to speak, he used a retractable magic dagger to "stab" Takashi to death.

Rosace acted as a complete madness, locked in the room by the rest of the group.

At this point, all the people who prevented the murderer from obtaining a huge inheritance were removed.

"I didn't expect that all the succession candidates died, and it seems that I can only donate the inheritance of Master Yamanouchi. Lawyer Arisuke pretended to be casual and said casually.

Provoked by this, the maid wanted to be as Xingchen expected, and she couldn't wait to unravel the code of the Yamanouchi puppet in front of everyone, and successfully found the second suicide note.

Lawyer Yousuke took out the suicide note in his hand and read it aloud: "The person who found this suicide note is the real murderer - the commander!"

"Impossible! This suicide note is fake, someone must have secretly replaced it!" shouted Xiangzi with an incredulous face.

"Sure enough, you are the commander!" Yue Shui stood up and analyzed: "The suicide note is indeed replaced by me, but generally only think that the suicide note is fake, or Yamaouchi's joke, and will never think that someone has secretly changed it, unless that person has already read the content of the suicide note!"

"And unfortunately, I've adjusted the height of the doll slightly, so it's impossible to come up with the word tokei clock based on the arrangement, unless the murderer cracked Yamanouchi's code early in the beginning!"

"What?" Xiangzi knew that she had been tricked, but she quickly adjusted her mentality and quibbled: "Yue Shui-san, is so powerful! Your imagination is really admirable, just like a mystery novelist." However, I don't remember ever reading the contents of the suicide note, or I don't remember ever killing someone. It's all because of this notebook!"

Xiangzi took out a notebook that looked a little old and handed it to everyone: "This is one I stumbled upon in the villa before, and it contains ideas about Russian dolls and big clocks! I never said that it was because of the awkward atmosphere, so I pretended to have just thought of it, and it was too much to treat me as a prisoner just like this! And Miss Yuyue was killed in the secret room, isn't Roses more suspicious?"

It's okay not to mention the moon, but the mention of the moon makes the stars angry!

"Shut up!" Xingchen rarely lost his demeanor and roared at Xiangzi, "The spare key on the lock rack is just tied with a magic knot, and the rope can be removed at will by moving the rope to a certain angle. ”

When he was discussing with Rosyth about performing a murder trick just now, Xingchen learned from him about the method of creating a secret room.

"You are the only person in the villa who can put sleeping pills in everyone's food and get a suicide note to complete the whole process of killing!"

The stars are actually unlucky.

Music, language, rope. The three are the areas he is not good at, and in this case, these three points are precisely the key to solving the case.

"Well, I'll admit it. I did it all, and I killed all three of them. Xiangzi took off her maid's costume, untied the strap that tied her hair, and changed her expression with a hideous expression: "Do you think that I am really a pure and ignorant country girl, a little maid of Tubula?" Let me tell you, don't look at me like this, I have experienced much more storms and storms in the Shura field than you!"

"Why? Just for the sake of money, do you not hesitate to kill people?" Yue Shui had not yet experienced the fact that she could only enforce justice on her own, so she could ask now.

For a helpless woman like me, money is everything, as long as you have money, you don't have to go hungry, you don't have to work with your frozen hands, you don't have to please stinky men, and you don't have to compromise to live. You can also buy beautiful clothes, and you don't have to worry about having nowhere to live. ”

"That's right, as long as you have Yamanouchi's vast inheritance, you can live in a castle-like house and live like a princess surrounded by servants and maidservants. ”

"Money, money, money! I just want money, I want the billions of dollars that Yamauchi left behind! And I want it even more when I think that the property should belong to me. Don't you understand? The notebook I just showed you full of wonderful tricks was written by my father!"

Each murderer has his own reasons for committing the crime, and after committing the crime, he is always afraid of being discovered, and until the truth is revealed, the murderer has the opportunity to tell the bitterness in his heart.

Xiangzi doesn't want people to forgive her crimes, it's more of a self-venting. She began to gush on and on about the reasons behind the crime.

It turned out that Kirie Xiangko's father used to work mainly in Europe, specializing in buying and selling Russian antique art. It was later bought from the descendants of the magician who built the villa. He was fascinated by the best of Russian architecture, as well as the puzzles and traps hidden within.

Although he inherited the career of his elders, his father is a literary youth in his bones, and he has always dreamed of becoming a mystery novelist.

When he was a student, his father recorded his thoughts bit by bit, and gradually completed a notebook full of ingenious techniques.

Every night, the childhood miss son falls asleep happily to the ingenious puzzles told by his father.

But the good times didn't last long, and his father died in a car accident during a negotiation in Europe. His company was quickly crushed by insiders and outsiders.

Without the desire of his parents and brothers, he could only be sent to an orphanage.

When he became an adult, he wanted to do the most difficult job at the bottom of the society, but he got the most meager income.

If there are no major opportunities in life, Xiangzi will spend his life like countless ordinary people. But fate arranges a prank when people least expect it.

In the process of description, Xiangzi metaphorically said: "What would you do if you dropped a wallet with a large sum of money a long time ago and stumbled upon it in a place you never dreamed of? And push away all the other people who reach out to grab it. ”

It happened two years ago, when she had just turned 16 and lied about her age as a cheap escort girl in a rural town in Hokkaido, under the name Xiao Zi.

In Hong Kong, this type of profession is called a boxer, which refers to the staff who guess the boxing with customers in a bar.

For the pitiful hourly wage, he accompanies those vulgar Ojisan drunks day after day.

On a snowy night, three middle-aged men in designer suits come to Miko's tavern, and the accent is that they are supposed to be high-class people from Tokyo.

Xiangzi wanted to change the bad circumstances of life at that time, so she tried her best to express herself.

In the casual chat, Xiangzi recognized that one of them, Yamauchi Shengheng, was his father's college classmate, and he often came to his father to borrow money at that time, but now he has become the leading master of mystery novels at home and abroad.

When Yamauchi took out his famous work "Lucia Doll Murder" to give to Xiangzi, her brain exploded, because her father used to tell her this story when she was a child.

Later, Soiko came to the villa to work as a maid, and through her investigation, she found that Yamauchi relied on her father's notebook to obtain the status of the current master of mystery novels.

"If Yamauchi hadn't told my dad that he couldn't write a novel, he would have written and published it a long time ago! Or if I find out where that notebook is, as a daughter, I might be able to write it as a novel and publish it. ”

The more she talked, the more excited she became, and she suddenly took out a dagger and put it against her neck, wanting to end her painful life. "My most miserable life is a combination of a series of misfortunes, and I am not uncommon to have a painful life. ”

Xingchen looked at Xiangzi quietly on the side, like an outsider.

Xiangzi's experience is indeed worthy of sympathy, but she shouldn't blame everything on someone else's fault.

Does a good idea make a good writer?

There are some writers with an annual salary of tens of millions, and the novels they write are carved out of a mold, which is more like a work on an assembly line.

And some creative writers, because of the speed of updates, failed to advance to the ranks of super-first-class gods, and eventually had to jump ship to other websites for development.

Life depends on strength, but also has to have opportunities.

Xiangzi only saw Yamanouchi's success, but he didn't want to think that he had spent his life dying at the age of fifty after countless late nights.

If she wants to improve herself, she should study hard in the orphanage, or at least find a good job after college.

If she wanted her son to seek justice and avenge her father, she should have killed Yamanouchi instead of implicating innocent people.

The poor must have something to hate! Everything is an excuse for her to hide her greed.

Xiangzi stabbed himself in the chest fiercely, only to find that the dagger in his hand suddenly disappeared and turned into a rose petal.

"It's just that if you are forced by the detective a little, you can easily choose the path of death, and you can't be a calm and rational criminal like you. The magician Rosyth, the helper invited by the moon, said to Xiangzi: "You have just died once, if you still want to be reborn, then this time, you should take a good look at what you should be." ”

Indeed, it was so cheap for her to die like this, and she should have repented in prison for the rest of her life!

Xingchen has already thought about inviting his master, the undefeated queen of the lawyer industry, Princess Yingli, to appear, and he must sue Xiangzi to life imprisonment!

The Lucia puppet murder has come to an end completely, but the mysterious magician Rosyth wears a mask from beginning to end and never shows his true face.

"Mr. Magician, aren't you going to show me your true face?" asked Xingchen curiously, knowing from the beginning that Roseth's mask was not the cause of his disfigurement.

"Wouldn't it be better to have a little mystery about some things?" Rosyth stroked his hair and asked, "What are you going to do with Yamanouchi's legacy?"

"In addition to the cash distributed to Gao Zhi and Mei Yuan, I also have to give a part of Mr. Koji's family, after all, he invited me and Sister Nana to come, but he couldn't save his life. I will also find the best doctor in the world to take care of Sister Yuyue's vegetative brother, and hopefully one day he will recover. With the rest of the money, I plan to set up a fund to address the education of orphans, in order to prevent the recurrence of tragedies like Xiangzi. ”

When everyone heard Xingchen's arrangement, they all nodded in agreement, especially Yue Shui, who gave Xingchen a thumbs up.

"Okay, the feast that will be scattered in the world, I should also go. Rosyth walked to the window, stepped into the prepared hot air balloon, and left the Lucia Doll House on the isolated island in full view.

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A month later, Stellar received an email signed "Hell Puppeteer", which read:

On the surface, the mystery game is a good story, choosing a good friend who took care of Yamanouchi himself when he was alive as a candidate for inheritance, based on the playfulness of a mystery novelist, and using a code as the theme.

Yamaouchi arranges for Kirie to live in the next room, and peeps at her through the mechanism, presumably Yamaouchi has discovered her true identity and is sure that she knows how to crack the code.

Yuko inadvertently became a pawn of Yamaouchi's murder with a knife, and the five candidates were actually people that Yamauchi hated.

When the book critic Tadaharu Kami was selected for the Literary Prize, he rebelled, and as a result, Yamauchi's work was not selected.

The editor-in-charge, Koji Takada, is constantly urging drafts, and he is known for being harsh.

The dream of the moon came because the mystery was leaked in the illustration, and although Yamaouchi forgave her at the time, the hatred in his heart must be incomparable.

Kaoru Umezono once had a time when he was Yamanouchi's lover/person, and stole inspiration from him to win the Best Newcomer Award, but let Yamauchi miss out on the grand prize.

Inukai Takashi, who is probably the person Yamauchi wants to kill the most, because Yamauchi has to concentrate when he is creating, while his neighbors have a lot of dogs at home, and other neighbors often complain that the barking of dogs is annoying.

Dead Yamanouchi, he is the real commander behind the scenes!