After a hasty dinner, I went to my room, sat down at the table to rest, bored reading books, my room was facing the corridor, and I could see the scenery in the corridor from the window, and I could hear even the sound of Chiyoko entering and exiting the door clearly, so I could watch their backs in front of the window every morning.

With a "click", the lights in the room went out instantly, and the world seemed to fall into a dead silence in an instant, and I was not surprised to raise my hand and light the candle, because the apartment administrator had already informed me that the power would be out for about two hours on the 26th floor due to circuit repairs, and it was now seven o'clock, that is, the power would be turned on at nine o'clock.

At this moment, Chiyoko's figure always echoed in my mind, and I didn't even read a word of the book in my hand, forcing myself to look at the book again.

In my ears, I thought of Chiyoko's complaining words, her ex-husband had been harassing their mother and daughter's lives, hoping to get back together with Chiyoko. She was not very bored, and it was even said that her ex-husband swore to find them and set them on fire to burn them to death, Chiyoko was often very scared, she wanted to cut off the past, and from her words I could tell that she was very afraid of her ex-husband, and it was not difficult to imagine what terrible things her ex-husband had done to her.

I lowered my head and pulled open the drawer, looking at the small-caliber pistol I was carrying with me in the drawer, and I wondered if her ex-husband would be determined to pick up the gun and shoot the bastard in the head if he found it here again to harass her.

Chiyoko always lingered in front of my eyes, I blinked and thought for a moment before I closed the drawer and stood up.

Standing in front of Chiyoko's house, I stretched out my hand to knock on the door, and there was a faint sound from inside the door, my brow frowned slightly, and I knocked on the door.

There seemed to be silence inside the door for a moment, and soon Chiyoko's worried voice sounded, "Who?" ”

"Kawaki next door." I replied.

After a while, the footsteps gradually approached, and then the door creaked and slowly opened, and Chiyoko's beautiful face also met my eyes, and she looked at me with uneasy eyes, "Is there something wrong?" ”

I noticed that her clothes were a little messy, her hair was messy on her shoulders, and her face was a little red, I looked past her through the half-open door, frowned and said, "It's nothing, it's just that the power goes out at night, it's dark, you and Zhengtai must be very scared, I really can't worry about you, but what happened to you?" ”

"No, I was scared by cockroaches when I was cleaning just now, and it took me a long time to die, thanks to Mr. Kawaki for your concern," she said with a smile.

I loosened my eyebrows, "Can I go in and sit?" ”

"Yes, you can." She pale for a moment, and quickly smiled, turned sideways and stepped out of the door, "I suddenly feel ashamed to think that I haven't invited you to the Humble House since I moved here." ”

I walked in the door, took off my shoes at the entrance, and looked at the facilities in the room by the faint candlelight, the room was very well equipped, there was a wooden tea table in the living room, a lamp, an electric fan, a blanket on the floor, an air conditioner installed on the wall, and a very small electric heater on the floor.

"It's a small place, please sit casually, I can't prepare tea for you because there is no electricity." Chiyoko smiled apologetically.

"It doesn't matter, my stomach is full just after eating." I sat down cross-legged.

"Where's Shota?" I asked.

"Today's power outage made him go to bed early, and now he has fallen asleep." Chiyoko sat across from me and said.

"Oh." I nodded.

For a moment we fell into silence, and the atmosphere was a little awkward with the dim environment.

"Well, did your ex-husband still harass you?" I open the topic.

"Ah, what? You.... How do you know. Chiyoko looked surprised.

I was stunned, and then I reacted, Chiyoko didn't tell me that she had been harassed by her ex-husband, and the reason why I knew was because I had stood by the window of Chiyoko's house several times and listened to her call and complain to her friends, because I wanted to hear Chiyoko's voice so many times.

"Hmm.... You told me before. I replied casually.

"Oh, that's probably what I forgot, you see my memory." Chiyoko blinked her beautiful eyes, and then smiled, I looked at her face and was a little distracted, yes, Chiyoko is so simple and kind, it is easy to believe what others say, and yes, if it is someone else, how can you let an unfamiliar man into your home at night? For her, an unfamiliar strange man is much more dangerous than this dark environment, right? I'm already a mother and such a child, I sighed in my heart.

"No, thank you Mr. Kawaki for your concern." She sat down and replied with a sparkle in her eyes.

"I take the liberty of asking, why did you separate from your ex-husband in the first place?" I asked.

"Well, he's actually good at everything, capable, capable, has a high income, and he's not bad-looking, but he loves to drink too much, and when he comes back drunk at night, he often can't control his actions against me and Zhengtai, so I finally made up my mind to separate from him, of course Zhengtai must follow me, and I'd rather not ask for child support." She said with a resolute gaze.

"yes, you can't let your child live with such a violent person, you're doing a good job." I say.

"It's like that, it's too hard." She sighed.

"yes." I nodded, "Please let me know if you need help in the future, and I will definitely do my best to help you." ”

"Thank you, Mr. Kawaki, by the way, what does Mr. Kawaki do, and is he also an employee?"

"I'm a police officer."

"Oh, the police." Chiyoko had a look of surprise on her face, apparently she hadn't expected it.

In this way, we talked for a while.

"Excuse me, but where is your bathroom?" I stood up and said.

"Oh, go inside and just around the corner, please slow down when the light is low." Chiyoko reached out to show me the way.

"Okay." I nodded and headed towards the back room.

The bathroom is just around the corner, Chiyoko's room is on the left side of the bathroom, I look inside, in the dark, Shota is sleeping on the bed, and the right side of the bathroom is the storage room and then the right is the kitchen, I blinked, turned around and entered the bathroom.

After coming out of Chiyoko's house, I returned to my room, sat back in my seat, I sighed, picked up my cup and took a sip of water, and after nine o'clock there was a "drip" sound in the room, and the light turned on instantly.

It's called, I thought to myself.

I stood up and walked to the back room.

"Bang dang." Suddenly, a crisp sound sounded violently, my body paused, stopped in place, this sound seemed to be the sound of glass breaking, I frowned and thought, it is estimated that a child of a certain family accidentally broke the glass at home, because the apartment floor is higher, so every family has a large mask of glass, and it is also a common occurrence for bear children to break glass, so I didn't care too much about returning to the room.

But after a while, there was a very thick smell of smoke in the air, and I looked back to see a very thick black smoke wafting out of the window, and this smoke was coming from Chiyoko's house next door.

I rushed out of the house and found several residents standing in front of Chiyoko's house, covering their mouths and knocking on Chiyoko's door.

It's going to be too late! "Get out of the way!" I roared and rushed forward, the occupants made room, I raised my foot and kicked the door open, a pungent black smoke instantly engulfed my vision, there was a fire burning in the living room, someone rushed in with a fire extinguisher behind me, and the fire was quickly extinguished.

And when the white smoke cleared, and the shrill screams pierced the sky, all of us present were shocked by the shock, and my eyes were wide open, and my pupils were faintly trembling, for I saw that on top of the blanket in the living room, Chiyoko was lying quietly on it, and the burnt skin was faintly exuding a pungent smell, and beside her, the young Shota was lying quietly beside her mother, and her lovely face had become a piece of charcoal.

I took off my shoes and walked into the room quickly, many of the facilities in the room were burned, of course, the first fire started by the blanket on the floor, I walked forward, to the floor-to-ceiling window in the back room, I found that there was a big crack in the floor-to-ceiling window, there was a lot of glass shards on the floor, I stuck my head out of the window and looked out the window, below was the terrifying flat ground, except for an outdoor public balcony that extended on the tenth floor, and the sky was endless upstairs.

I retracted, frowned, and thought about it carefully, making sure that I hadn't heard anyone enter or leave Chiyoko's house since I got home, so how did the murderer enter and leave this house unless he could go to heaven and earth?

I turned around and looked at the residents who were about to enter the house, and suddenly my eyes lit up: "Everyone, don't move!" Don't come in, this is the crime scene and can't be destroyed, you have to do it! Just contact the police immediately! ”

"What? The scene of the crime? The residents looked stunned.

"That's right." I turned around and looked at the bodies of Chiyoko and Shota, my eyes sank, "This is a murder, and it is impossible to commit a crime, which means that this is a murder in a closed room." ”