Basement vault of the villa.

Gao Cheng asked the hostess and the garden to wait outside, and walked into the dim secret room by himself.

On the cluttered floor lay a strange man, long dead, with an unpleasant stench in the air.

The scene looked like a homicide, the corpse had impact wounds on its forehead, and the corresponding blood stains were in the sharp corners of a small box, which seemed to have been knocked unconscious, and as for the real cause of death, the preliminary judgment was suffocation.

The room at the scene, which was supposed to be a vault, was almost completely sealed as long as the thick iron gate was closed, and according to the hostess, she went to the villa a month later today, and when she opened the iron door, she found the man dead.

In this way, it is likely that he was attacked and knocked unconscious and locked in the vault.

"It's been 3 days since I died, and the cause of death was suffocation......

Gao Cheng took a flashlight to inspect the corpse, and continued to observe the scene, there were no valuables stored in the vault, there were documents and some miscellaneous items on the two rows of shelves, the manuscript paper on the ground was scattered, and a piece of paper was tightly held by the deceased in his hand, which seemed to be a death message.

In addition, it is very strange that there is only one slipper at the scene, and the other one that originally belonged to the deceased is now missing.

"Chenghu ......" Yuan Zi grabbed his palms at the door and looked nervously at Gao Cheng in the investigation.

This case has nothing to do with them, it just happened to ......

"Excuse me, do you have a camera?" Gao Cheng turned back to the hostess and asked, "The scene needs to be verified before the investigation. ”

"This," the hostess thought for a moment, not quite sure, "and there is a room dedicated to Mr. Takino up there, and perhaps he has a camera." ”

"What is your relationship with Mr. Takino?" Gao Cheng asked strangely.

"He's a magazine editor, and I'm a writer, and we use it together because of our work," the hostess explained, "and I come here to work at the end of the month, and when I'm not there, Mr. Tano uses it as a villa." ”

"Aren't they lovers?"

"No, we've known each other for a long time, but it's only for work."

The hostess paused and asked, "Would you like to go to Mr. Tano's room?" ”

"Okay."

Gao Cheng followed the hostess upstairs with a slightly strange expression.

Although it was not interesting, he still felt that there was something wrong with the hostess, and it was likely that she was the murderer of Mr. Tamano.

Of course, this is just speculation, and what exactly is going on needs to be investigated.

It's not too complicated cases, look for more detailed clues, and the truth should be clear......

"Excuse me," the hostess asked with concern, "Mr. Tanano must have been an accident, right?" ”

Gao Cheng shook his head: "It's not for sure, it looks like it's very likely to be a murder at the scene." ”

"Huh?" The hostess laughed dryly, "But you just said that you died of suffocation......"

"Being locked up is murder."

"Wouldn't it? Actually, there was a time before when Mr. Takino was looking for something in the vault and the door closed somehow, but I was there and I opened it for him. ”

"Really?"

Gao Cheng didn't say much, compared to the criminals he met in the past, the young woman in front of him was really not suitable for committing crimes, and before he found evidence, few clues were already so obvious.

"But this time, Mr. Takino has a scar on his forehead from a heavy blow, and someone must have hit him with that small box on the floor, and there are blood stains on it......"

"But," the woman shook her head and laughed, "there can't be anything like that......

"Why can't it be?"

"When I came, the vault door was locked, and the only ones who could open it were me and Tatsuno, and no one else could open it." The woman struggled to explain.

Gao Cheng glanced at the woman again.

It sounds like a woman locked Tin in a vault, but Takino is just injured by a heavy blow for some reason.

A normal person's idea would be that the prisoner attacked Tano and then closed the vault door, rather than closing the vault door first and then thinking about how to attack Takino......

Those who have the latter idea are only strange or murderers.

"This is it." The woman didn't notice Gao Cheng's suspicion and went straight to Gao Cheng's room on the second floor.

There was a suitcase on the desk inside, Gao Cheng opened it and took a cursory look, found the camera, and then carried the box downstairs to the basement vault.

The detective has a special identity, but what should be done is not to be sloppy, and now the police can't come for the time being, so he can only act as an identification officer.

After taking a lot of photos in a row, and after making sure that all the corners were taken, Gao Cheng picked up a piece of manuscript paper that the deceased was holding in his hand.

There are some pictures on the front of the crumpled manuscript paper, and the back is blank, I don't know what Tano wants to express, there are so many manuscript papers on the ground, why choose this one......

In the living room of the villa, Gao Cheng and the hostess sat on the sofa face to face, and the garden next to them looked curiously at the big dog like a good baby, and even shook hands with the big dog on a whim.

"That ......" Gao Cheng looked at the hostess and opened his mouth, and suddenly found that he didn't know the other party's name.

"Ah, my name is Chiba Koishikawa," the woman reacted, and hurriedly handed a book on the side to Gao Cheng, "This is what I wrote, it's a shoujo comedy." ”

"Chiba Koishikawa? Huh? Are you Chiba Koishikawa? Yuan Zi didn't bother to shake hands with the big dog, and took the aisle in surprise, "I especially like what you wrote!" I've read almost every one of them! ”

The woman chuckled shyly: "Thank you, in fact, I write very ordinary." ”

Gao Cheng had no idea at all, flipped through it casually, and asked Yuanzi in a low voice: "Is Chiba Koishikawa famous?" ”

"Of course," the garden hated that iron could not be made of steel, "don't you usually care about anything?" Chiba Koishikawa is a famous girl's house. ”

"I don't look at girls' ......"

Gao Cheng put it down and smiled apologetically at the woman.

It's not easy to be able to write, unlike him who has to write an essay of a few hundred words.

"Miss Chiba, do you think it was possible for Mr. Takino to come to the villa with three days ago?"

"I don't know much about that," Chiba Koishikawa wondered, "Why do you say that someone is with Mr. Tamano?" ”

"I just looked at his luggage."

Gao Cheng placed the contents of the suitcase on the coffee table one by one.

A stack of receipts that could clearly be seen three days ago as they had traveled, a condom, and a notebook with a pact written on it......

Gao Cheng's temples jumped.

This is really amazing, there are so many women.

Looking closely at the notebook, it happened to be arranged to go on a date with a woman codenamed "C" three days ago.

The murderer was too sloppy, and the clues left behind were a little unbearable even if he was a detective.

"Who do you think this C woman might be?" Gao Cheng continued to ask.

"Is the other party a girl?" Chiba nervously pinched her fingers and asked cautiously.

"There are condoms here, there are no accidents that should be women," Gao Cheng looked at the woman and said, "If C stands for name, Chiyo, Chiba...... Your name Chiba can also be used. ”

Chiba Koishikawa's eyes wandered, and he nodded stiffly: "That's right." ”

Gao Cheng has basically confirmed that the woman is the murderer, but he did not say it directly.

There is still a lack of key evidence, and even if the case is solved, it is necessary to make the woman decent......

Turning his gaze away from the woman's face, he studied the manuscript paper that Tano was holding on to what seemed to have a message of death.