Chapter 14: Jason: I'm on the fifth floor
Jason deliberately elongated his tone.
Then, he looked at the office workers, shop assistants, and female students, his eyes were as sharp as knives, and people couldn't help but tremble in the bottom of their hearts.
The office workers, shop assistants, and female students are all pale, and as the only female student, the female student is even more trembling.
Who is it?
Hurry up!
I'm in a hurry!
Hui Lijing couldn't help shouting in her heart, but she didn't dare to interject.
As a last-rate detective, although she is a last-rated, she is also a detective, and she still knows some of the 'basic skills' of detectives.
For example: Fraud!
There are two types of fraud.
First, when you already know the general direction, but you can't judge it accurately, use words to stimulate the criminal, so as to really lock the target.
The second is to completely know who the murderer is, and then use words to expose the criminal's flaws, or cooperate with some radical means.
As for how to choose?
That's the level of looking at the detective.
Good detectives choose the first one.
Although she is excellent, she basically chooses the second option.
It doesn't matter if she cheats or not, the main thing is that she likes to convince people with reason.
Physical, physical.
Ryosuke, who was on the side, frowned.
He is not very proficient in interrogation.
However, as an excellent criminal policeman, his rich experience told him that at this time, he needed to cooperate.
So, the next moment-
"I see!"
Ryosuke sighed slightly, and an inexplicable look appeared on his face.
There is disbelief, relief, and a hint of pity.
In short, it's as complicated as it gets.
After hearing Ryosuke's words, the office workers, middle-aged clerks, and female students who had been struggling to support them all changed their faces.
The three of them glanced at each other, and the most inconspicuous middle-aged clerk took a deep breath.
"Sure enough, Officer Ryosuke, you found out."
"Although we have been carefully dressed, in the eyes of an old criminal police officer like you, there are also many flaws, right?"
"You may not recognize it at first, but over time you will find out."
The middle-aged clerk said this and straightened up.
The look of fear on his face was swept away.
Not only this middle-aged clerk, but also office workers and female students.
Ryosuke was stunned.
Who are you?
However, the middle-aged criminal police officer did not deny it.
He hadn't forgotten that he was cooperating with Jason at this time.
Therefore, he nodded calmly.
"That's right."
"I didn't recognize it at first, but now I can be sure."
"And the wounds on my body...... It was also left behind by letting the pain and exhaustion affect my judgment, so that I was left behind by fighting Iwashita, right? ”
Ryosuke said and pointed to the wound on his arm.
"Hmm."
"It's a pity that it won't work for you."
"We still underestimate you, and this ...... Detective? ”
The middle-aged clerk shook his head regretfully.
Looking at Jason's gaze, he was a little uncertain.
And it wasn't until this time that Hui Lijing came back to her senses.
The female detective raised her voice.
"You're all murderers?!"
Her voice was full of disbelief.
In Hui Lijing's thoughts, she narrowly defined the murderer as one person, and she didn't expect that three people committed the crime at the same time.
"Murderer?"
"We're just getting revenge!"
"Ten years ago, he killed me and our family!"
The youngest schoolgirl couldn't help but retort.
Dressed in a short skirt school uniform, with a haircut haircut, and a beautiful face, the female student who does not apply powder was full of youthful and lively atmosphere before, but at this time, she only had a terrifying hatred.
A gruesome hatred.
She stared at Hui Lijing, causing the female detective to subconsciously clench the handle of the gun.
Then the schoolgirl turned to look at the hanging body.
"Ten years ago, he killed my father."
"Killed his mother."
"Killed his lover."
"Now, we kill him, it's just revenge!"
The female student pointed to the office worker and then to the middle-aged clerk, and her tone gradually returned to calm.
"He's wanted?"
Hui Lijing frowned.
"Of course!"
"Moreover, he is also a well-known wanted criminal."
"Ten years ago, I broke into a house and robbed three times, each time killing the owner and plundering property, and then, I was arrested by Officer Ryosuke, but on the way to the escort, I killed the escort and escaped."
It was the same schoolgirl who answered.
Even Hui Lijing could hear the sarcasm in the schoolgirl's words.
"I'm sorry."
"It's my responsibility."
Ryosuke whispered.
Remorse welled up on the middle-aged officer's face.
If he had tried a little harder, Iwasita wouldn't have run.
If he had tried a little harder, Iwasita would have been directly arrested.
If he had tried a little harder, the three innocent people in front of him would not have blood on their hands.
"No, Officer Ryosuke, it's not your responsibility."
"Your efforts are beyond the imagination of others."
"Thank you."
The schoolgirl bowed solemnly to Ryosuke.
The same goes for office workers and middle-aged clerks.
However, when the three of them straightened up, the office worker spoke directly.
"We chose our way."
"We know it's against the law."
"But we don't have a choice."
"We can't wait."
"We couldn't watch him get away with it, so when this opportunity presented itself to us, we didn't turn it down - the hatred of that day and night had long since made us unable to choose."
The voice of the office worker becomes high-pitched.
The middle-aged clerk is appeasing the office workers.
It can be seen that the oldest person is the leader of the three.
After the office worker's mood calmed down, he turned his head to look at Jason, Ryosuke, and Hui Lijing.
"We don't have any ill will."
"I'm here just hoping to keep you trapped here for the time being."
"Other than that......"
The middle-aged man seemed to want to say something, but eventually shook his head.
"The first game is over, and the murderer has been found."
"Now, the second game begins."
"You're going to catch me—the message is in the box behind the plaque."
After the schoolgirl finished speaking, the darkness around them enveloped the three of them.
Then, the trio vanished.
It wasn't until the three of them disappeared that Ryosuke and Hui Lijing suddenly realized.
The two didn't remember until this time that this was not an ordinary murder scene, but in an inexplicable environment.
Almost subconsciously, Ryosuke picked up the ladder again.
He's going to take down the box behind the plaque.
"Need help?"
Hui Lijing asked, but Ryosuke refused.
Hui Lijing didn't force it anymore, but looked at Jason.
"Jason, how did you find out?"
"Are exorcists also trained as detectives?"
Hui Lijing asked.
I have a career skill.
Jason replied silently in his heart, but he said the words he had often said-
"Everything is obvious."
In the unreal world where the female pastry chef lives, Jason often uses this sentence to fool everything, and with the help of the female pastry chef to explain, there is naturally no problem.
But Hui Lijing in front of her does not have such a quality.
She tilted her head and thought for a long time.
The curly hairs that covered his forehead and eyes were tilted to the side, revealing his beautiful eyes.
It's a pity that these eyes are full of confusion.
Obvious?
Why don't I see it?
Am I missing a lot of important clues?
Hui Lijing frowned, and after a full four or five seconds, she popped out of her mouth.
"The results are all there, and the process doesn't matter, right?"
As she spoke, Hui Lijing looked at Jason expectantly.
Jason was silent for a second, then nodded.
Because, he didn't know how to explain it.
Silently, he misses the female pastry chef a little.
"Look at this box."
Ryosuke held the box behind the plaque in one hand and jumped straight down the ladder.
The box is wooden, about the size of an adult's palm, and has no lock on it and can be opened directly.
Inside was a piece of paper, on which was written in calligraphy letters—
I was in the east, and I had no eyes.
I was in the west, and I had no ears.
I was in the north, without arms.
I was in the south, without legs.
……
The words without a beginning or an end, Ryosuke frowned when he saw it, and Hui Lijing looked even more confused.
After a moment, both of them looked up at Jason.
"Did Jason find anything?"
Hui Lijing asked.
"It's the same handwriting as the letter we left before."
Jason said.
"We know this!"
"What about other than that?"
Hui Lijing asked.
Then, as soon as she finished asking, she noticed that Jason was looking at her with a very strange gaze.
Hui Lijing was looked very unnatural, and even, she thought that her shoelaces were open, and couldn't help but look down.
"Maybe it's not the knowledge of the 'occult side', but I want you to remember—"
"Never follow the enemy's steps."
Jason replied.
As he spoke, Jason walked towards the outside of the temple.
Until now, Jason still didn't know what was going on.
But one thing is for sure, the mastermind behind the scenes brought him here, not for a tea party.
As for the words of just office workers, middle-aged clerks and female students?
Jason wouldn't believe a word.
He had learned not to trust anyone's words, especially the words of the enemy, before the City That Never Sleeps learned not to follow in the footsteps of the enemy.
Perhaps these three people have no ill will.
Perhaps these three men are not lying.
But!
This does not mean that the person behind the scenes is not malicious and does not lie.
The other party can completely use lies to deceive the three of them.
Then he numbed them through the mouths of the three.
It's a better way than a direct lie.
Because...... Office workers, middle-aged clerks, and female students believe in each other.
Even if the other party tells a lie, the three of them will believe it.
Then, the three of them would tell them that it was true.
But who knows what the real outcome will be?
Therefore, even if Jason could still sense the dead qi on the three of them at this time, and easily determined the location of the three of them, he would not look for the three of them.
He could have imagined that even if he found three of them.
There will also be a third and fourth innings.
Or even more entanglement.
Under such entanglement, everything will become more confusing.
It's far better to start from the most straightforward place.
Once!
Always the best solution!
Hui Lijing and Ryosuke, who were following Jason, were also thinking.
"Is there any countermeasure?"
"Can you force those three murderers to show up automatically?"
Ryosuke thought so.
Hui Lijing, on the other hand, is much simpler.
"Jason must have found the murderer and gone after him."
Obviously, this is a limitation or habit of thinking.
Take chestnuts (the example is good, but chestnuts are not bad) -
Hui Lijing is on the first floor.
Ryosuke is on the second floor.
Jason was on the fifth floor
……
In the courtyard, the 'startled deer' went up and down, making a unique sound of bamboo and stone clashing.
Squatting inside, the water droplets rise and fall, bringing up layers of ripples.
The handsome man holding the folding fan gently tapped his palm with the folding fan, and a smile appeared on the other party's fair cheeks, and he slightly narrowed his slender, fox-like eyes, looking at the undulating 'startled deer' in the courtyard.
The waiter walked behind the handsome man with small steps.
"My lord, those three have completed the first stage."
"But ......"
"Immediately the jason found out."
"Then, the Ryosuke detective also found out that something was wrong."
The waiter whispered.
The handsome man was not surprised.
Instead, he nodded as a matter of course.
"Of course."
"After all, it's an exorcist who has evaded dozens of pursuits."
"If you can't even find this clue, it will be really disappointing."
"As for the Ryosuke detective?"
"If he hadn't been too short-tempered and upright, he would have been a police officer with his credit, and besides, it was a case he handled, so such a discovery should have been."
Speaking of which, the handsome man was stunned.
"Otherwise, how do you get into the second game?"
After saying that, the handsome man seemed to have discovered something interesting, and his expression became more and more pleasant.
He raised his hand and waved.
The waiter immediately retreated respectfully.
Then the handsome man looked into the courtyard.
I saw that in the courtyard, an old monk wearing a gray rag robe appeared at some point.
The old monk was dirty, very sloppy, and his face was also dark.
Still, those eyes were bright.
At this moment, these bright eyes were staring at the handsome man.
"Monk Tong Shouji, you are finally willing to appear."
The handsome man laughed.
The monk sighed, didn't speak, just bent down and washed his hands in front of the 'squat'.
Such a gesture made the handsome man's eyes light up.
He stood up from his kneeling position.
The folding fan in his hand opened slightly.
Several marks were made with one hand.
Woo!
A gloomy wind blew into the courtyard.
Dark clouds followed.
The stars are obscured.
The moon became dim.
Several skeletal warriors in armor appeared in the courtyard.
They drew their knives and surrounded the old monk.
The old monk washed his hands and face unhurriedly, and then shook his monk's robe and looked at the handsome man.
In the expectant and excited gaze of the handsome man, he knelt down straight and straight, and shouted in a very high voice-
"Spare your life!"