"Jingle bell!"

In the early hours of the morning, Gao Cheng was awakened by a sudden phone ringing.

"What's wrong?" Gao Cheng picked up the guest room phone at the head of the bed, heard Nanase's voice, rubbed his eyes and said, "Why did you call at this time?" ”

"Oh no, Joto, that weirdo has reappeared!"

"What?"

Gao Cheng hurriedly got dressed, and happened to meet Nanase who came upstairs to find him: "What about the weirdo?" ”

"Outside!"

"Whew!" Behind the villa, Harumi Kiryu was hung from a tree by a steel wire under the wind and rain, and her body was already cold, and the thin steel wire creaked in the wind.

Gao Cheng and the others stood under the tree with umbrellas, looking at the slowly swaying corpse with heavy expressions.

Kiryu Haru's white shirt pajamas were soaked by the rain and clinged to his body, and his upturned breasts could be faintly seen, and his wet carcass was both seductive and shocking.

"How so...... Didn't everyone close the doors and windows? Gao Cheng's gaze swept over, and Kiryu was wearing only a pair of underwear on his lower body, revealing his fair thighs, and one shoe on his feet, and the other fell on the grass under the tree.

"Could it be that Kiryu-senpai committed suicide?" Nanase trembled as she looked at Kiryu's desolate remains.

"Fool," Kenmi Kohashi sneered, "in such a high place, there is not even a place to step on your feet, can you hang yourself?" Apparently, she was forcibly taken out by the killer and hanged on the tree outside her room......"

"It's not that simple," Gao Cheng pondered, "It is true that Kiryu Senpai was strangled to death by the murderer, but where did the murderer come to her room, and how did he bring her here?" It's so weird......"

"What's so strange about this, the door is locked from the inside, from the window, of course......"

Kobashi Kenmi looked back at the open window of Kiryu's room, and the row of footprints extending from the mud under the window, and suddenly his words froze.

"Right?" Gao Cheng squatted on the edge of the dirt floor and continued, "Whether you enter the room through the window or walk from the room to the tree where Kiryu-senpai hanged her, you have to pass through this muddy ground, but there is only a row of footprints on the ground. ”

Kohashi Kenmi narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Gao Cheng, frowned and said, "In this case, although I don't know how the murderer entered the room, it was he who carried Kiryu out of the window......"

"The problem is," Gao Cheng picked up the shoe under Kiryu's corpse and mused, "This is the shoe that Kiryu-senpai is wearing, and there is mud on the shoes...... It is completely consistent with the footprints, and this row of footprints is Kiryu's ......"

"What?"

"Could it be that she was hanged after she walked under the tree herself?" Everyone shuddered, "Wouldn't it?" ”

A trace of cold sweat was left on Kobashi Ken's conceited face, and he looked closely at Gao Cheng, who looked thoughtful on the edge of the mud: This, this guy...... Who the hell is it?

"There can't be a ghost, right?" Gao Cheng suddenly said uncertainly.

Seeing a stumble, Kobashi Ken wiped away the cold sweat and said coldly, "How can there be a ghost?!" The murderer must have played some trick! ”

With that, he turned to Nanase and asked, "Did you see the strange man in the mask?" ”

"Well," Nanase said with a sigh of relief, "dressed like an opera house weirdo, and banging on my window with a strange smile......"

"Opera eccentrics?" Kenmi Kobashi touched his chin and asked, "Where did you put the props?" ”

"It's backstage in the theater."

At the annex theater, Kenmi Kobashi took the lead and hurried to the backstage, only to see the props that had been turned over in a mess.

"The masks and costumes of the opera house eccentrics are all gone!" Bushi Mitsuhiko exclaimed.

"Sure enough," Kohashi glanced at him, then wondered, "But why did that Utatsuki pretend to be an opera house weirdo?" ”

"Like in a play," Yuji Arimori exclaimed, "Hidaka and Kiryu...... It's exactly the same as the drama we played, that's how the weirdos at the opera kill people, the first incident is to let the tightrope fall and crush the actress to death, the second is to strangle the person who sees him, and then the third is to let the man who catches up fall into the water and die......"

"The crossbow I brought with me as a prop is gone! The fourth case in the script is that someone was shot to death......"

Bushi Mitsuhiko said in a trembling voice: "It's Rika, that Geyue is really Rika's incarnation!" It must be the eccentrics who imitate the opera house who want to kill us all! ”

"Is the murderer doing the murder according to the script?"

Kohashi Ken was silent for a while, and suddenly laughed in a low voice: "Hmph, it's interesting, let me catch this serial killer!" ”

Gao Cheng silently looked at the excited teenager, it is normal for some detectives to be excited about the battle with criminals, and even the more complicated the case, the more excited they are, but is it really good for this guy to set up a flag casually like this?

If you don't have the aura of the protagonist, maybe the next one will die......

Gao Cheng left the theater and thought about walking to the outside of Kiryu Harumi's room on the first floor, the door had been opened from the outside by a maid, but the inside was locked with an anti-theft chain.

As a detective, he will also be excited to solve the case, the more difficult the case, the greater the sense of achievement, but he is not only a detective for this sense of accomplishment.

Of course, it's not just about money, after experiencing more events, it's more about not wanting to see tragedy happen.

"Boom!" Outside the villa, the rain was a little lighter, but the dull thunder still sounded from time to time.

Gao Cheng holds a map of the villa that he asked for from the maid, and it marks everyone's room, Nanase's room is next to Kiryu, and the prisoner has attracted attention after deliberately killing people.

But how did the prisoner kill Kiryu?

Everything at the scene looks as if Kiryu himself walked from the window to the tree and was hanged......

Putting away the drawings, Takasei walked to Hidaka's room on the second floor.

This room is directly above Kiryu's room, so if you use a rope, you can enter Kiryu's room.

"Huh?" Gao Cheng looked downstairs and suddenly noticed that there was a clear strangulation mark on the window edge, which was very deep, and it seemed to be strangled with a steel wire.

In addition, the foot of the bed also left friction marks, and it seems that the murderer did go downstairs with the help of a steel wire.

"Joto," Nanase asked excitedly, following along, "do you know anything?" ”

"If that's not wrong, that Geyue is hiding in this villa," Gao Cheng muttered, "Anyway, let's look in the villa first." ”

"Where to hide?" In the villa restaurant, the boss of Kurosawa asked the maid to pour a glass of milk, and after being questioned by Gao Cheng, he muttered, "There shouldn't be any convenient hiding places in this villa, and besides, I checked the doors and windows everywhere yesterday, right?" ”

Nanase nodded: "Yes, Ah Yi, I also checked it." ”

Gao Cheng continued to ask, "But maybe there are some secret rooms or something, right?" ”

"I don't know about that......" Boss Kurosawa stood up and looked at the cliff outside the window with a sigh, "I used to act in a play, and my first role was the opera house weirdo, so I named this hotel Opera House Hall, I didn't expect the opera house weird incident to be staged here, it's really surprising......

"Did the boss play the opera weirdo?" Gao Cheng and Nanase were surprised.

"yes, but that was many years ago."

Boss Kurosawa seemed to be back on the stage, facing a doll at the table that looked like a stage theater actor, and said solemnly, "I'm a weirdo in the opera house, uglier than you think, right?" Such an ugly monster, although burned by the karmic fire of hell, still yearns for heaven! ”

Gao Cheng looked at the selfless boss Kurosawa in embarrassment, with that affectionate look, as if he really regarded the doll as the heroine in the play, it was indeed very powerful, but the scene looked a little strange.

"Sorry, gaffe." Boss Kurosawa came back to his senses, noticed Gao Cheng's strange gaze, and turned to leave the restaurant with a red face.

"Hey, Nanase, did he just pronounce the wrong line?" Takasei turned to Nanase Road, "Isn't it 'burned by the flames of hell'?" ”

"The flame of hell is a recent thing, and it seems to have been a karmic fire before," Nanase said uncertainly, "probably ......"

"Really? I think karma sounds better. ”

"Leave this alone," Nanase said eagerly, "what now?" If you can't find Utatsuki, maybe someone will be killed! ”

"This, actually, I still don't quite understand why the murderer killed Hidaka and Kiryu......"

Gao Cheng asked again: "Nanase, is that Rika's disfigurement related to them?" ”

"Rika-sanpai didn't say it."

"I do know something." Mr. Ogata appeared at the door in pajamas rather charmingly.

"Teacher?" Nanase's face turned red again, and he said worriedly, "Teacher, why are you here?" It's too dangerous! ”

"I just can't sleep."

Mr. Ogata smiled, looked at Gao Cheng a few times, and said meaningfully, "If you want to know the motive for the killing, Toyo may know something." ”