It's a rather dilapidated house with quite a lot of pots and pans in it, and a lot of messy dirt shoe prints elsewhere, which shows that someone once stayed here for a while.

But why are there shoe prints here? The footprints in the room, though messy, were clearly some time old,—— and if anyone were resting here, the traces of lying down would likely have damaged the dried shoe prints.

Using the auxiliary processing power provided by the auxiliary unit, Thousand Feathers searched for clues that might be valuable in the blurred picture.

Is there anything unreasonable besides homophony?

His gaze swept around, then rested on the window beside him.

On the windowsill, there is a rather wide and heavy mud print, and if the heaviness can be explained, the very fact that the width of the day almost means that someone has repeatedly stepped on it and imprinted the dirt on it many times.

Someone wants to climb up from here? Why?

Raising his head, Chiba looked at the ceiling above, and then retrieved the results of his previous observation of the room from the outside.

"Officer Otaki," Chiba began. "Have you checked this? If you have a sloping roof like this, you should have an attic, right? ”

"You mean, above?" Officer Otaki turned the flashlight in his hand upwards. "Are you sure there's room up there?"

"Look at the traces over here," Qian Yu pointed to the footprints he had just found. "This footprint indicates that someone wants to climb up, so there may be a place to rest on it."

"......" Officer Otaki thought about the possibility of this theory, and then chose to adopt it. So, where do you think the entrance to this attic will be? ”

"If you jump from here...... "Chiba estimated the jumping power of a normal person." You will be able to jump to the nearest beam. ”

With that, his gaze focused on the ceiling above the beam.

The auxiliary unit told him that the wooden planks of the ceiling above the beams had tiny and imperceptible cracks.

"It's up there," Chiha pointed to the location of the fault that the auxiliary unit had told him. "The attic entrance should be there."

With that, Qian Yu put away the Traceless Umbrella in his hand, and then threw it upwards after calculating the trajectory.

The Traceless Umbrella accurately tapped the position where Qian Yu had just found that there was an abnormality, and everyone immediately saw that a gap seemed to suddenly appear in the ceiling that was originally tightly sealed—a wooden board was briefly lifted up by the Traceless Umbrella.

Although the planks were then reunited with the ceiling by gravity, the entrance to the attic was completely exposed to everyone.

"I'll leave it to us, little brother," Officer Otaki's expression became serious. "You're good, but the Osaka police aren't idle either!"

Chiba took Ash Yuan Ai and walked a few steps to the door of the house - if Officer Otaki accidentally let the people above escape, his position would not be raided. If you still stay in the position just now, the other party will jump out and completely fall from the sky, and there is almost no time and space to react and action. (It's also hard to resist the force of the opponent's falling from the sky.) ）

Although Officer Otaki looked fat, he was actually very flexible, and with a scream of measurement, he was already standing firmly on the beam, pulling out his gun and looking at the door of the attic. "Get ready to take cover."

With that, he pushed open the secret door in the attic.

There was no movement other than the sound of metal clashing.

But this sound of metal colliding is very abrupt here—the sound of metal colliding with metal...... Officer Otaki's first reaction was......

Frowning and poking his head into the attic, Officer Otaki turned his flashlight into the attic.

"Uh......" The voice of pain came from inside the attic, and a thin man was seen with one hand tied to a fixed iron ring, while the other hand covered his eyes.

"Kenichiro Numabuchi?" Officer Otaki asked tentatively. "Is that you?"

"Who are you......" A somewhat weak voice came from the mouth of Numabuchi Keichiro. Hungry...... Hungry ......"

"What?" Officer Otaki was stunned. "What did you say?"

"Give me something to eat...... I'm so hungry......" said him, and Numabuchi shook his handcuffed hands a little restlessly, and the cuffs and hoops made a metal crash.

It turned out to be this voice...... No wonder you hear such strange sounds.

"Who kept you here?" Officer Otaki approached Jiichiro Numabuchi and asked.

"It's a police officer......" Keichiro Numabuchi said weakly. Rice...... Give me food ......."

"Officer? Was it a police officer who imprisoned you here? Officer Otaki was stunned.

"He's telling the truth," Chiba said below. "Let's bring down Kiichiro Numabuchi first, he used to have two bento boxes a day, but today he only had one bento, which means he didn't eat enough food today."

"He's handcuffed here, so I need to figure out a way to get him down." Officer Otaki said this and began to try to untie the handcuffs. "It looks like the handcuffs are fixed to the hoop, so the hoop needs to be removed to ......"

As he spoke, a gunshot rang out.

"Well, the hoop has been removed. Come, I'll help you up, I'll find someone to arrange something for you to eat, and you can eat slowly when you return to the police headquarters. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Officer......" Jiichiro Numabuchi swayed and tried to stand up.

"This is the same Sakata who got it, isn't it?" Gray Plains asked, listening to the voice coming from above.

"That's it," Qian Yu nodded. "He's imprisoned Jiichiro Numabuchi here, and then he's going to push him out as a substitute for the dead when the time comes."

In front of them, the frail figure of Jiichiro Numabuchi appeared at the entrance to the attic.

"This guy is really still like this, he doesn't look like a ghost." Ashbara looked at Numabuchi Keichiro's face and described. "I don't know what he's been through."

Right in front of them, the incomparably weak Numabuchi Keichiro actually jumped directly from the entrance of the attic, and then fell to the ground in front of Chiba and Ashbara! Even if he deviated a little, he would fall into a pile of debris made up of kettles, bottles and cans.

"Hey!" Chiba was startled by Jiichiro Numabuchi who fell to the ground.

"Hey, are you alright?" Officer Otaki was also taken aback.

"It's only a few meters," Gray Plains said lightly. "If it could hurt him, he wouldn't be alive now."

"But he just fell next to these living utensils...... "Qianyu is speechless." If he falls a little off, he may be knocked on the head by the pile of debris and his head will bleed......"

At this moment, Qian Yu suddenly felt that something was wrong.

At this moment, Numabuchi Jiichiro's previous weak appearance was swept away, and he grabbed a knife from the pile of debris like lightning, and then turned his head to look at Chiba and the others.