"Uh......"

Gao Cheng didn't expect his identity to be debunked in person.

It seems that next time you have to pretend to be Black Feather Kaito, compared to Okita, Kaito is normally much more low-key, just relying on the Kidd vest to go out on the waves.

Looking at Wenyue Hualien, who plucked up the courage to request, Gao Cheng continued to ask about the troupe, but he didn't get much information, but he knew that the previous relationship between the members was copied by Hongchuan and written into the script of this drama.

In other aspects, Wen Yue Hualien only said that she usually doesn't know much about the troupe, and she doesn't know if this woman is deliberately hiding it or really not clear.

"Script ......"

When he left the restaurant, Gao Cheng got a copy of Apoplodi's performance script, and sure enough, he still couldn't see too much, and the relationship between the members of the troupe was already known.

Since the troupe has nothing to gain here, we can only try to investigate the line of "Santa Claus the Redbeard".

"Santa Claus the Redbeard is dead?"

"yes."

At the houseboat café, the talkative owner was so impressed by Santa Claus the Redbeard that he chattered before Gao Cheng could ask too much.

"I also heard from the owner of the hotel that the man died a year ago, and one day when the waiter was cleaning the room, he was found dead in his bed......

"It's really a weirdo, even if you're dressed in red, and you paint all the hotel rooms red, and live in that kind of room for 10 years, ordinary people will go crazy, right?"

The café owner shook his head and sighed: "It will be 10 years old tomorrow, and I don't know if the owner of the snow village will restore the room to its original state, because that room is already idle and not in use." ”

"Not working?" Gao Cheng asked, "Why?" Is there anything wrong with that room? ”

"Sort of," said the innkeeper mysteriously, "that room 315 has a taboo past, about 100 years ago, the person who built this Inhuman Pavilion died in the bed of that room, it was like a curse, and no one dared to live in it now." ”

"There's already someone living in it......"

Gao Cheng muttered a sip of coffee, paying more attention to the clue of "Santa Claus the Red Beard".

Kojiro Sakata apparently discovered this clue as well, so he managed to move to that room.

"By the way," the owner of the coffee shop suddenly remembered, "Speaking of the strange place, that person added a lot of sugar to the coffee, and complained that the sugar in our shop was not sweet no matter how much he put it, and he felt a little nervous, and the coffee was so sweet that people couldn't stand it......"

"Sugar?"

Gao Cheng took another sip of coffee, indeed, it was sweet without much sugar.

"Anything else weird?"

"Well, I think about it, he was often called, and it was a different person each time, as if he was busy," the café owner recalled, "but the hotel said he stayed in his room all year round...... Oh, and I heard that room 316 next door has been booked by all kinds of people since he moved in, and he refuses to change rooms. ”

There weren't many clues provided by the innkeeper.

However, the weirdness of this red-bearded Santa Claus reminds Gao Cheng of a possibility.

Paint the room red and add a lot of granulated sugar to the coffee...... A crazy attachment to a certain color, or an abnormal sense of taste, are common symptoms in heavy drug users.

Perhaps Santa Claus the Red Beard's real identity is a drug dealer and a severe drug addict.

"Thanks, boss."

Although there has not been much progress in the two cases, and even the method of killing Bandai Suzue is not clear, Gao Cheng has a feeling that Santa Claus the red-bearded who died a year ago is the most crucial part of the whole case.

"You're welcome." The café owner wiped his glass, and when he looked up, Gao Cheng had already pushed the door and left.

When he investigated, he was more like Detective Shiro Gaocheng, but unfortunately he couldn't help much.

……

Takagi arrived at Hakodate in the afternoon, and no one picked him up, so he hurried to the Ijinkan Hotel and then ran to Room 215 to meet Takasei.

"Threatening letters?"

Gao Cheng looked through the case materials brought by Takagi and saw the threatening letter like a murder notice, and finally understood the reason for the joint investigation between Hokkaido and Aomori Prefecture.

"On the way here, I received the case information from the Aomori Prefectural Police, and Officer Twilight asked me to hand it over to you as soon as possible," Takagi looked like he hadn't woken up, and his eyes were dark, "It just so happened that there was a senior brother in the Metropolitan Police Department who was investigating a drug trafficking route, and the clues pointed to Bandai Suzue and Yukio Hongchuan who were killed here, so it was easy to join this joint investigation." ”

"I see."

Gao Cheng was not too surprised, and after suspecting that Santa Claus the Redbeard was a drug dealer, he carefully asked the owner of the hotel Snow Village.

Bandai and Hongchuan have both stayed in room 316 in the past, and the frequency is not low, and combined with this case, it is not difficult to figure out the connection in the middle.

Santa Claus the Red Beard obviously has no job, but he has a lot of cash on hand, apparently dealing in drugs through Bandai and Hongchuan, and the troupe itself is relatively easy to sell drugs.

But in this way, Redbeard's death a year ago is worth studying.

Judging from the fact that the murderer committed the crime under the name of Red Beard this time, it is very likely to be related to Bandai and Hongchuan.

But what's the point of a threatening letter? Yesterday, the costumes were specially destroyed, causing the police to tighten their vigilance......

Combined with the information that Gao Mu brought and everything that is happening so far, Gao Cheng feels that there are hands behind him to manipulate the development of the case, and the seemingly unreasonable and meaningless places have a specific purpose.

"What do you need me to do next?" Takagi asked.

Yesterday he didn't sleep all night, and in the morning he learned that he was going to Hokkaido to support Gao Cheng, and he hurriedly learned about the case on the way, and knew that 2 people had been killed so far, and the police had made no progress for the time being.

"Let's cooperate with the local police to investigate first," Gao Cheng put down the information and considered, "Tell me if there is any movement, and if you can, find a way to let me go into the stage hall to have a look." ”

Redbeard's line has been almost investigated for the time being, and Takagi is already in place, so it's time to start officially solving the case.

He believes that no matter how difficult and complex a case is, there must be traces to follow, because the more the prisoner designs, the more traces he will leave behind......

"Ah Cheng," Sonoko shouted back to her room, "dinner is ready at the inn...... Hey? Officer Takagi? Didn't Officer Sato come with you? ”

Takagi wiped his sweat and said, "Officer Sato has other tasks......"

Originally, he was on a mission with Sato.

Going down the stairs, on the other side was the blocked stage hall, Gao Cheng looked at it and found that the police were staring closely, and it was probably not easy to go in to check the situation.

I can only watch Takagi play.

"There are a lot fewer people today," Yuan Zi sighed, "and those people were still discussing mystical night reasoning at this time yesterday......

"This is also no way, the hotel where the murder occurred, ordinary people will not continue to live." Gao Cheng paid attention to Takagi, who went to hand over to the police, and responded casually to the garden.

"Well, this hotel is weird enough......"

There are two statues on both sides of the stairs in the antechamber, it is the snake-haired Medusa and the hero Perseus who got rid of Medusa, and the garden can't help but complain while waiting.

"Why put a statue here, it's scary at night, right?"

"Medusa ......"

Gao Cheng's gaze paused on the statue.

When he came yesterday, he noticed these two statues, and judging by the form, they should represent the scene of Medusa turning into stone.

Medusa is a monster in Greek legend who is able to turn anyone who sees herself into stone with her eyes, and finally Perseus grinds her shield like a mirror, allowing Medusa to see herself and petrify.

"It's strange that Medusa is heading." Gao Cheng observed.

The direction of Perseus on the left is Medusa on the right, but Medusa is not facing Perseus......

He stepped forward to try to move the statue, but found that the statue was tightly connected to the base, and felt a subtle movement coming, so he quickly stopped the movement in his hand.

Interestingly, it's actually a mechanism.

The high-level proficiency-level "Organ" played a role and instantly identified the situation.

If he guessed correctly, it should be a switch like a secret passage in a secret room, which is not uncommon in the Inhuman Pavilion, after all, the owner who built this place had a lot of enemies in the beginning.

"No, Joto," Takagi said distressedly after returning from the handover, "I'm going to go on field duty with the Aomori Prefectural Police tonight, and this side will not break the police and they will be responsible." ”

"I see," Gao Cheng nodded, "let's go eat first." ”