Kitagawa Temple was woken up by the ringing of his mobile phone.

When he woke up, he deliberately glanced at the time.

Two o'clock in the morning.

People who call themselves at such times...

Kitagawa glanced at the contacts on the phone screen.

It was Ryoko Okano.

"......" Kitagawa Temple.

Ryoko Okano should have been in a hurry to call herself so late.

He didn't hesitate and reached out to connect the phone:

"Hello?"

Ryoko Okano over there's a solemn voice coming out of the phone, and the iconic awe-inspiring voice is mixed with the piercing alarm bell:

"Kitagawa."

"Something happened to Kokubo."

There were only two simple sentences, but Beichuan Temple was slightly refreshed, and he asked while rolling out of bed: "Location?" ”

"I've already had someone pick you up, and it's almost there now, and there's something unusual about this incident."

Kitagawa Temple raised his hand to open the curtains and looked down.

A police car had stopped next to the house at some point.

It seems that it is the person sent by Ryoko Okano to pick him up.

"I'll be there shortly."

Kitagawa Temple put on a coat to go out and replied.

"Hmm."

The phone hung up at this point.

It seems that Ryoko Okano is still organizing the order of the scene, and it is already the limit that she can find time to call him.

Kitagawa put his phone and keys in his pocket and quickly left the house.

......

Piercing sirens sounded in the middle of the night.

It's like a signal of a rally, and some members of the public who are out and about at night are crowding in this direction as if they have found fun.

In this case, the two police officers who led the Beichuan Temple to get off the bus quickly separated the crowd and squeezed inward.

"Report to the police station! Your assignment has been accomplished! ”

The two of them saluted Yoshiko Okano, who was standing in the arena to maintain order at the scene.

Ryoko Okano turned her gaze and nodded:

"Hmm. I've worked hard for you, and I still need some manpower to maintain order, so I'll leave it to the two of you when the time comes. ”

"Yes!"

The two police officers stepped back with full discipline, and for a while, there was only Kitagawa Temple by Ryoko Gangno's side.

"Kitagawa boy..."Ryoko Okano looked at the Kitagawa Temple in front of him, opened his mouth weakly, and then waved his hand as if he had given up saying something: "Forget it, I'll take you in to have a look." ”

“... Well. ”

Kitagawa Temple nodded, then raised his head and glanced at the apartment building in front of him.

This is a very ordinary residential apartment building, which is considered a mid-rise building.

But for some reason, those flickering lights gave Beichuan Temple an indescribable cold feeling.

Ryoko Okano walked inward with Kitagawa Temple.

During this period, she also met several police officers, and after greeting them one by one, she finally walked into the apartment building with Beichuan Temple.

As soon as I entered the apartment building, I smelled the strong smell of blood and stench in the air.

But Ryoko Okano is also well-informed and experienced in a hundred battles.

I've seen so many murderous cases before, and of course I won't be shaken by this smell of blood.

Smelling such a smell, Ryoko Gangno just frowned, and then quickly took Beichuan Temple to the source of the bloody smell-

In front of an elevator.

At this time, the elevator door was wide open, and several police officers who were conducting sampling and investigation were busy inside.

"It's still working... You should be able to see it from here. Ryoko Okano said in a calm tone.

“... Well, you can see it. Kitagawa Temple nodded.

Standing at the angle of his face of the elevator, he could just see the tragic scene inside.

The metal polished surface of the elevator was already splattered with blood at this time.

The hideous, scarlet lines that burst out in all directions indicate the horrific death of those who have been hit.

Kitagawa Temple's gaze is downward.

Underneath that was a man with pale yellow hair.

His tongue drooped out of his mouth, and his bloodless face turned to the side of the elevator, making an expression of glaring fiercely at the person outside the elevator—

But it's not quite right to say it's staring.

Because there was a black iron cone firmly stuck in his sockets, he could not see his eyes at all.

Naturally, this is not the word 'staring'.

The black surface of the cone was stained with blood and other colloidal fluids, and it looked dirty.

Under the gaze of Kitagawa Temple, Ryoko Okano's explanation also sounded just right.

"After a simple examination, Okubo Hayato had multiple sprains on his body, and it can be inferred that he must have struggled violently when he died, and that the cause of his death was the two iron cones..."

Ryoko Okano stretched out two fingers and made an eye-piercing gesture and said, "It was when Hayato Kokubo was still alive that he inserted the hammer directly into his eyes, entered through his eyes, and then came out of the back of his head... What do you think? Isn't this kind of death very déjà vu? ”

"Indeed."

Beichuan Temple groaned.

The way Hayato Kokubo died and the way Yasui Kamiru and Nao Kiratsu died... Except for the different parts, the others are basically the same.

"Aside from that... I'll tell you one more piece of news that only insiders know. Ryoko Okano glanced at Hayato Kokubo, who had been dead for a long time, and said:

"Hayato Kokubo... The time of this guy's death was around twelve o'clock in the evening, but his body was not found until two o'clock. ”

Ryoko Okano touched her cigarette case, but considering that Kitagawa Temple was next to her, she still gave up this action and continued: "And during this time, the elevator is still being used. ”

"The elevator is still being used?" Kitagawa Temple frowned.

The others were not blind, and the corpse was not visible in front of them.

And leaving aside the corpse, someone can always hear the screams of Hayato Kokubo, right?

This kind of person directly inserts an iron cone into the eyeball, how painful it is, no one needs to say at all, right?

But in fact, the body was found at two o'clock in the morning.

In the meantime, the elevator is still in use as usual...

The only way to do this is to -

Kitagawa Temple narrowed his eyes and said in a calm voice:

"The body disappeared from the elevator between twelve o'clock in the evening and two o'clock in the morning."

Ryoko Okano shrugged and added:

"Actually, it would be more accurate to say... The time when Kokubo's body disappeared should have been around eight o'clock in the evening, he first went around the staircase, then returned to the elevator, and then entered the elevator alone, and that was at that time, the monitoring inside the elevator lost its effect, everything became pitch black, and we could no longer see anything... Then the elevator monitoring returned to normal at 12 o'clock in the evening, and there was nothing in the elevator... Not even bloodstained. ”

"Then at two o'clock in the evening, the surveillance failed again for a split second, and then the body appeared in the elevator for no reason, and then the residents here found the body in the elevator, and then called the police."

Speaking of this, Ryoko Okano had an intriguing expression on her face.

It's no wonder she has such an expression.

After all, the timing of the failure of surveillance and the disappearance of the corpse was too coincidental.

Is there still the kind of person in this world who kills someone and makes a special trip to bring the body back?

And even if there is such an idle murderer, how can the blood in the elevator be erased?

"The only slightly plausible explanation is that the murderer used drugs such as hallucinogenic and coma to stun Hayato Kokubo, and then manipulated the surveillance in advance. Moved out of the stunned Kokubo during the time when the monitoring failed, and then brought the body back at two o'clock, and killed it with an iron cone... But in this way, the time of Kokubo's death is not right. ”

Ryoko Okano waved her hand a little speechlessly.

How to trace this inexplicable homicide, and where to start... She really didn't know at all.

And the way Hayato Kokubo died was so similar to that of Nao Ruzuki...

This doesn't seem like an ordinary coincidence.

In Ryoko Gangno's expression, a wisp of black gas swept through Kitagawa Temple's eyes.

With the blessing of the dead vision, Kitagawa Temple saw something unusual in the elevator.

It was a wisp of black grudge.

Kitagawa Temple's eyes flickered, then he looked at Ryoko Okano, and said with certainty: "It was indeed that thing that did it." ”

“... Yes. Ryoko Okano smacked her lips.

Originally, she felt that something was wrong, but as a result...

Sure enough, it's a resentful spirit.

I really don't know what's wrong.

As long as there is a case of Kitagawa Temple being involved, these strange things will always pop up.

It's as if Kitagawa Temple is a high school student haunted by death.

Thinking of this, Ryoko Okano stretched out her hand and took out the gum box from her pocket, poured a few grains into her mouth, and then said as if she had thought of something:

"By the way, there's one more thing to tell you."

"What's the matter?"

"Before the corpse died, it pressed the buttons on the elevator for four floors in a row... I don't know what's going on, so I'll just tell you to the Beichuan kid. ”

She chewed gum and said word by word: "2, 4, 1, 8, this is the floor button that the other party pressed." ”

“2418？” After hearing this number, Kitagawa Temple's eyebrows furrowed.

This number sounds familiar...?

Beichuan Temple took out his mobile phone from his pocket, opened his homepage of urban ghosts, and then looked at a private message in the private mailbox.

'The strange talk of the elevator and the other world'.

Rumor has it that if you enter the elevator at 8:40 p.m. and press 2418 in the elevator, you will be in an elevator that will take you to another world. ’

As for what was in that world and what happened in the past, it is not known. Because from the first step into that world, you have completely cut off contact with the outside world, and what awaits you may be the end of being eroded by the fear of the unknown. ’

"The strange talk of the elevator and the other world...", Kitagawa Temple muttered to himself.

It's not just about this weird story, but more importantly-

He looked up at Ryoko Okano and asked, "I remember that Nao Rutsuki once lived with Hayato Kokubo for a while, right?" ”

Kitagawa Temple's sudden question made Ryoko Okano stunned, and then she said confirmatively: "I lived for a while." ”

"And what is the room number where they live?" Beichuan Temple asked without hesitation.

Ryoko Okano was silent.

She probably understood what Kitagawa Temple meant.

Ryoko Okano first asked Kitagawa Temple to wait, and then took out her own mobile phone.

She used her mobile phone to enter the webpage dedicated to the police to retrieve information, and then retrieved the information about Nao Ruzuki, and then raised her head: "It's room 2418." ”

It turns out that the number 2418 still has such a meaning?

Ryoko Okano didn't expect it at all.

Her voice was slightly surprised: "But Beichuan, how did you think of this number?" ”

There is only a short line of annotations on the information, and it would be too exaggerated to say that Beichuan Temple memorized all the information just by reading it.

Under her expression, Beichuan Temple also explained to her without changing her voice: "The resentful spirit is originally a thing that is embodied after the distortion of human obsession, and its nature is very simple.

"And in everyone's obsession... In other words, there are many things worth worrying about. The number 2418 means that Nao Kiratsu and Kokubo once lived, and this is likely to be the main way to summon spirits. ”

After saying this long list of idealistic theories, Gangno Ryoko only felt like she was listening to a monk chanting scriptures, and she could only 'uh-huh-hmm', and answered twice as if she didn't understand, and then spoke:

"Oh, oh, I see, I get it all right."

"......" Kitagawa Temple.

Beichuan Temple looked at her deeply, and didn't bother to pay attention to her extremely perfunctory answer.

"Ahem." Ryoko Okano obviously felt the gaze of Kitagawa Temple, and she coughed lightly and said with some embarrassment:

"Anyway, as long as you don't press the number 2418, you won't attract wraiths, right? In this case, Beichuan, you don't need to deliberately press it..."

Uh-

Ryoko Okano, who was about to continue, paused.

Because she clearly saw the face of Kitagawa Temple...

Got a little more eager to try?

What is this?

Ryoko Gangno opened her mouth, and there was some surprise between her expressions: "Beichuan? You don't want to go on an adventure, do you? Are you going to press the 2418 button? ”

Kitagawa Temple turned his gaze away and said expressionlessly, "I didn't. ”

"Before saying something like that... Beichuan, can you look at my face and speak? ”

The corners of Ryoko Okano's mouth twitched.

"I didn't." Kitagawa Temple was unmoved.

"You must want to press it, right? Kitagawa . Answer me honestly. ”

Green tendons appeared on Ryoko Okano's forehead, and there was something unkind between her tone.

Under the tone of Ryoko Gangno, Kitagawa Temple turned its head.

He still looked like he didn't change his face, and his voice didn't fluctuate:

"I think a little. But only a little. ”

"......" Ryoko Okano.

Got a little bit of a thought?

Are you sure you don't have a hundred million points to think?

She looked at Beichuan Temple, and waved her hand angrily for a long time:

"Forget it, you bastard, you really have to be angry with me to death before you are willing - I can't control you! You can do whatever you want. ”

After all, the hand is still on the body of Beichuan Temple, and he really can't control what he wants to do.

And... According to this kid's cunning, even if he falls into danger, he will definitely be able to get out unscathed, right?

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