"Are the police out of the door now?" I asked, turning to the grass and trees.

"This ......" Caomu hesitated for a moment, a slightly strange look on his face.

"What's wrong?"

"The officers seem to be ...... Climb stairs. ”

"Climb the stairs? Twenty-fifth floor, why don't they take the elevator?" I looked at the grass and trees in some surprise.

This is the twenty-fifth floor, not the second and fifth floors. Climb more than 20 floors in one breath, even if you are a policeman, you have to be tired, right?

"According to the security guard's reaction, the elevator here seems to be broken just now...... grass and wood said with a wry smile.

"The elevator is broken? all eight elevators are broken?"

"Yes. ”

Things are obviously unreasonable, and the grass and trees, who have been a little confused by a series of changes, are now beginning to sweat slightly, and I can't help but take out a handkerchief from my arms and wipe the fine sweat on my forehead slightly, and I, too, have some things I can't figure out, and I can't help but fall into deep thought.

Because it is a high-end office area, this building not only has many floors, but also has eight large elevators to meet the needs of white-collar workers entering and exiting it on weekdays.

If only one or two elevators are broken, it is a relatively normal situation, but now eight elevators are broken together, and it is precisely after someone called the police, such a coincidence is absolutely impossible to happen by accident.

Unless someone deliberately wants to break the elevator.

Wait a minute.

Let's assume that the people who do all of this are the same people, or rather, the same people.

The gang knew in advance that the bodyguard was going to die with me, and they called the police, hoping that the police would find out, and they wanted to expose us to the police, but they didn't want the police to come right away.

I hope the police find out, but I don't want the police to find out right away, and there is obviously a paradox in this, and there is probably something in it that I don't know.

But if you think about it from another angle, if these things are done by two groups of people, one group of people is trying to trick us, and the other group of people is trying to block it, then it makes sense.

Could it be that we, who are new to the city, have accidentally fallen into the whirlpool of some strife?

Think about it carefully, the bodyguard is a person from the thousand-headed Shunji, is all this the meaning of the thousand-headed Shunji?

No, just send your own bodyguards to come forward and let people die outside, no one will be stupid to this point.

However, if it weren't for the Thousand Heads Junji, who was doing things behind the scenes? Apart from him, who else could command other people's bodyguards......

"Young Master......"

"Huh?" I was a little confused, and I was suddenly awakened by the sound of grass and trees.

"The police are coming soon, do we want to protect the scene and wait for the police to come?" asked Kusaki softly.

"No, I can't. I shook my head decisively and said to the grass and trees: "No matter what the cause and effect of the incident, we must not be exposed to the eyes of the police now, if this office is designated as a death scene, then, the information in the company will be taken back to the police station as evidence, I don't need to say, I think you also know, our current accounts are not visible." ”

"That ......," Grass and Trees looked at me with an inquiring gaze.

"Anyway, let's do a favor by hiding the body first. I gestured to the grass and trees, and the two of us began to move the body.

"Huh?"

As soon as I lifted the body, I couldn't help but cry out in shock.

For no other reason, this corpse is too light.

Visually measuring nearly one meter nine, with a rather strong body, it should be around one hundred and eighty pounds, but judging from the weight of the start, at most it is only one hundred and four five, and the weight is extremely incommensurate with his appearance.

"What's the matter, young master?" looked at me puzzled.

"Nothing, go ahead. I shook my head, keeping the doubt to myself for a moment.

This office building is very large, there are many offices, it is already night, although there are still many companies working overtime, but most of the property personnel have already left work, it is impossible for the police to search the entire building, and it will be tomorrow at the earliest, with the help of the power of the property company.

Thinking of this, I joined forces with Cao Mu and moved the body to the utility room in the public bathroom on the twenty-sixth floor.

By the time the grass and trees and I had everything arranged, it had been less than ten minutes.

At the speed of a normal person, it would take 15 to 20 minutes to climb 25 floors, so when we got things done and returned to the office, the police had not yet come to the door of our company.

I have to say that although I don't know what the people behind it want to do, this elevator suddenly broke down, which really helped us a lot and kept us from being too embarrassed.

Everything is ready, just wait for the police to come to the door.

"What the hell, this office building!"

I had just sat down to drink the coffee that the herbs had made for me, when I heard a female voice complaining in the distance.

"It looks like a very high-end office building, and all the elevators broke down in the middle of the night?! What are you kidding! Twenty-five floors!"

"Thirty-five floors, to be exact. After climbing this floor, we still need to climb the twenty-eighth and thirty-second floors. A warm and calm male voice, with a slight gasp, corrected.

"Ahhhh

"When we get back, we can go to Takagi and ask him to invite us to dinner. If it weren't for our high spirits, it would have been him and Officer Twilight who would have climbed the stairs now. ”

"Huh?"

The overly familiar voice couldn't help but make me a little stunned for a while.

With the sound of tapping, tapping heels, the footsteps of two people are getting closer and closer to us.

"Huh, this company hasn't closed yet? Excuse me, is there anyone?" a clear female voice sounded in the doorway.

"We are police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department, Miwako Sato and Renzaburo Shiratori, who received a report and came to check on the situation. The male voice followed the female voice.

"Oh, is that Mr. Policeman? Come in! I'm the manager of this company. Cao Mu bowed to me slightly, and then went out to beckon the two policemen to enter the door.

"Xiaohui?!"

"Officer Sato and Officer Shiratori?!"

Six eyes met, and I, with Officer Sato and Officer Shiratori on the other side, couldn't help but speak at the same time.

Of course, they were more surprised, and I was more helpless.

I really don't want to meet them here if I can.

"Xiaohui, why are you here? I heard Yumi say, shouldn't you be going for an interview today?" Officer Sato walked up to me, crouched down and asked me, "Do you have anything to do with this company?"

"This ......" I scratched my face, a little embarrassed.

Originally, the reason I prepared in advance was "Butler Grass and Wood is my grandfather", but I didn't expect to meet Officer Sato, so this reason naturally can't be used, so what can I say......

"Oh, Miss Officer, this kid is my grandson. ”

The housekeeper didn't know that Officer Sato and I knew each other, so when he saw the situation, he explained it according to the pre-agreed statement.

"Grandson?" Officer Sato looked at me and Caomu suspiciously, "But Xiaohui ...... him"

"Oh, that's right, Miwako-san. Before Officer Sato finished speaking, I quickly interrupted her: "I used to be neighbors with Grandpa Kusaki, and I often went to his house to play, so we are very familiar with each other, and he is like my own grandfather." ”

After saying that, I hurriedly glanced at the grass and trees.

Seeing this, Cao Mu hurriedly followed: "That's it, Miss Police, I haven't been married in my life, fortunately, Xiaohui's child has always been with me, so I have always treated him as my own grandson, this company has just opened recently, so I want to call him over to play." ”

"Oh, I see. Officer Shiratori nodded knowingly, and I let out a long sigh of relief.

It's dangerous.

"But Sister Miwako, why are you here so late?" In order to prevent Sato and Shiratori from continuing to entangle on this issue, I hurriedly diverted the topic.

"Well, don't worry about you, kid. Officer Sato smiled slightly, stretched out his slender finger, and tapped it lightly towards my forehead.

"Huh, Sister Miwako, why are you sweating so much?" I asked knowingly.

"Don't mention it, this damn office building, the elevator suddenly broke down, climb more than 20 floors in one go, it's almost exhausting, Xiaohui, when you come, the elevator is still no problem, right?" Officer Sato raised his eyebrows, first complained, and then asked me.

"Well," I nodded, pretending to be innocent and laughing, "If I were a kid who climbed twenty-five floors, I wouldn't be able to climb it." ”

"Yes. Sato nodded, pursed his lips, and said: "What do you say about the failure of the power distribution room, the short circuit of the elevator, I think it's all nonsense, this office building is not in line with me." ”

Oh, all the elevators are short-circuited together......

Sato's words couldn't help but make me smile slightly.

It seems that my idea just now is not wrong, from the death of someone to the arrival of the police at the scene, this time difference was deliberately released by someone.

"Well, well, even if your aunt always forces you to go on a blind date, you don't want to be angry with your work. Officer Shiratori smiled slightly and teased Officer Sato.

"If it weren't for you, my mother wouldn't be nagging me all day like she is now! Forget it, don't mention it. Officer Sato was just about to count Officer Shiratori, but suddenly stopped talking again and began to fan the wind with his hand while looking around the office.

I guess I don't want Officer Shiratori to lose face in front of children.

Although Officer Sato sometimes seems a little hot, in fact, his mind is very delicate, and he really has the charm of a girl.

"Sir, are you the boss of this company? According to our investigation, your company seems to be a foreign company. ”

After looking around and finding no one else in the company, Sato turned to Kusaki and asked.

"Yes. Kusaki bent slightly to Sato: "The president is an American, but now he has left work, so he will go back." ”

"That's great. Officer Sato and Officer Shiratori looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief together.

"Great?" I said, puzzled.

"Well, you don't know, just now we started to investigate the situation from the tenth floor, and we met two companies, and the staff left behind were all foreigners, and they didn't know Japanese, but it was really troublesome, German, French, Italian, or something, who would know that kind of thing?" Officer Sato said with a bitter face.

"Well, if it's red wine, I can still know a little bit of French, but not the others. Shiratori also had a helpless expression.

"It's hard work, but this office building is a foreign company, so most of the employees are foreign employees from foreign companies in Japan. Grass and wood explained to the two of them.

"If I knew this, I asked a colleague who could speak French to help...... Forget it, no one in the search class seems to know French. Officer Sato thought for a moment, gave up the idea of asking for help in frustration, and the two willow leaf brows drooped listlessly like "eight characters".

"It's great that the old gentleman is Japanese, we have some questions, and I hope you can answer them truthfully, old gentleman. Officer Shiratori spoke, took out the notebook and pen in his pocket, and began to ask formal questions.

"Please ask, I will do what I can to help you. Cao Mu bowed slightly to the two of them meticulously.

"Thank you. Officer Sato and Officer Shiratori looked at each other, bowed slightly, and asked, "Excuse me, did anyone visit your company this evening?"

"Visit?" A confused expression appeared in Cao Mu's eyes, and he shook his head slightly, and said, "The company has no plans to visit today. ”

If I just look at the expression of the grass and trees, I believe that no matter who you are, you will not be able to see the slightest disobedience, and if I didn't know in advance, maybe I would have been deceived by his realistic expression.

This reminds me of the incident in the villa before, for the sake of the eldest lady's beloved flower garden, this seventy-year-old man, even if he was burned by the barrel of the gun, his expression never loosened in the slightest.

This old man, whether it is willpower or acting skills, is first-class and powerful, I can be regarded as a treasure.

"However, according to the records of the front desk lady downstairs, there should have been a man who came to visit your company today, haven't you seen it?" Officer Shiratori's eyes became a little serious.

Speaking of which, because this office building belongs to the high-end office area, the access control management is very strict, and if there is no access card or the introduction of people inside the building, you must carefully register at the reception to enter.

I didn't think of this just now because I was in too much of a hurry to dispose of the corpse, and I didn't explain how to answer the grass and trees, which was a bit difficult to do.

I don't know if the grass and trees can be successfully rounded, and I feel a little nervous.

"Man?" Grass and Wood's eyes were full of confusion.

"He is a blonde foreign man, between thirty and forty years old, more than 1.8 meters tall, and speaks fluent Japanese. Officer Sato added.

"Oh...... Ah~" An expression of sudden realization appeared on the face of the grass and trees: "I know who you are talking about." ”

"Really?!" Officer Sato and Officer Shiratori surprised at the same time.

"Well, there was a gentleman who looked like you said, but he was in the wrong place, and he didn't come to visit our company. ”

Before Officer Sato and Officer Shiratori could be happy, the grass and wood poured a basin of cold water on the two of them: "So at that time, he just asked at the door and left." ”

"Did he say who he was looking for?" asked Officer Sato.

"No, he was just asking if we had a black employee in our 50s here, and I said no, and he left. ”

Cao Mu's answer almost made me laugh out loud, in order not to involve any names, resulting in the story not being rounded, Cao Mu actually made up a fifty-year-old black man, it was really a laughing person.

Yes, if you are looking for someone, you will usually mention the name, but if you are looking for a black person who is about fifty years old, such an obvious feature, there is no need to mention the name at all, it does not seem abrupt at all, and it cleverly avoids the possible questioning of the name by Officer Sato and Officer Shiratori, and the housekeeper is too witty.

"Hmm......" Officer Sato and Officer Shiratori were gagged by the clever words of the grass and trees, and they all looked at each other, muttered for a moment, and finally Officer Sato spoke first.

"In that case, then allow me to be rude and ask directly, old man, have you ever seen a deceased here today?"

"The dead?" In order to show the realism, I screamed at the same time as the grass and trees.

"Yes, someone called the police to say that a foreign friend had just been killed here, and it was suspected that he had killed him, so we came to investigate. Officer Sato nodded.

"There's no such thing, officer. Cao Mu shook his head again and again, and said categorically: "We are an ordinary business company operating legally, and there is absolutely no possibility of a criminal incident, you must be mistaken." ”

"Sister Miwako, Officer Shiratori, you must have made a mistake!

As soon as I jumped up, I jumped out of the chair, grabbed Sato's hand at once, pretended to be pitiful, and looked up at the two of them: "There must be some misunderstanding in this!"

"No, no, no, sir, you misunderstood. Officer Sato was confused by me all of a sudden, and he became a little flustered: "Xiaohui, let go first, I didn't say that you killed people!"

"Huh?" and I looked at both of them questioningly.

"Actually, the report we received was that someone had died in a certain company in this office building, and the caller didn't say which company it was. Officer Shiratori explained.

Officer Shiratori's words made me feel like I was moving in my heart.

Didn't say who killed someone?

In other words, it was another murder that happened to collide with our side?

No, if that's the case, the elevator thing doesn't make sense.

Ordinary people don't have that much energy to stop the elevators in the entire office building.

Wait, Officer Sato, before they came here, they seemed to say that they would go to other companies to investigate?

Could it be that the person behind all this did not know where the German named Donnie would die in the end?

"Now, Sister Miwako, let me ask you something. I shook Officer Sato's hand and asked in a soft voice in the tone of a child.

"What?" Officer Sato looked down at me with a smile.

"Since the person who called the police didn't say which company killed someone, then you want to check all the companies here and find out the murderer? Wow! You guys are amazing!"

"Of course not," Officer Sato looked at me amusedly, "This office building, to say the least, has more than a hundred companies, how can we check so many companies with just me and Shiratori? ”

"That's right, Xiaohui, although we don't know which company died in the company, but he said in the police call that the person died suddenly after visiting a certain company here, so we just need to check at the front desk which companies have a record of a single person visiting today, and then check according to the map, it's okay." Officer Shiratori explained to me.

"Did the person who called the police use the word 'suddenly'?"

A thought flashed through my brain like lightning, and I couldn't help but grab Officer Shiratori's shirt.

"Yes, yes......" Officer Shiratori was startled by my sudden movements.

"What's wrong, Xiaohui, have you thought of anything?" Officer Sato looked at me strangely.

"It's nothing, I just feel that this dead uncle is so pitiful. Letting go of the hand that was tugging at Officer Shiratori's coat, I pursed my mouth and shook my head.

"Xiaohui is really a kind child. Officer Sato couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and gently touched my head: "Don't be so sad, since the tenth floor, we have already visited three companies, and we haven't found anything yet, maybe this police call is just a prank done by a boring citizen." ”

"Really?"

"Really, really. Sato gave me a thumbs up, showed a confident smile, and said, "Sister Miwako is a criminal policeman, and she never lies!"

"That's great!" I pretended to cheer.

Alas, it's really tiring to be a child......

"Sir, this is the case, I believe you probably already understand, next, we still need to go through the procedure. After calming me down, Officer Sato turned to Kusaki and said.

"Program?" Grass and Wood looked at the two of them puzzled.

"Actually, it's nothing, just survey the inside of your company to see if there are any traces. With that, Sato nodded at Shiratori, and Officer Shiratori walked towards the various office sections in the office.

Officer Sato didn't say exactly what the "traces" were, but I and Kusaki knew it very well in our hearts.

What other traces could it be? It was nothing more than checking to see if there were any traces of murder or removal of corpses.

However, when Cao Mu and I moved the corpse, we were already very careful about the movements on our bodies, and naturally there would be no traces left, which I am still very confident in.

Sure enough, after a short time, Officer Shiratori, who had been "strolling" around the office, returned to Officer Sato's side and shook his head lightly at Officer Sato.

Seeing Officer Shiratori's movements, Officer Sato was also slightly relieved, and then smiled: "I'm sorry to bother you for so long, it's nothing to do now, old gentleman, please take care of yourself, if you want any clues in the future, please feel free to contact the Metropolitan Police Department." ”

"Definitely, definitely. Cao Mu nodded repeatedly.

"Alas, I was very happy to meet Xiaohui here, but unfortunately my sister still has work to do, and there is no way to take you back to play, you should be careful when you go home alone at night!"

"Mmmm, come on, Sister Miwako!You must be careful when you take down the bad guys!" I nodded and looked at her with a look full of "adoration".

"Peace of mind, Sister Miwako, I'm invincible!" Officer Sato stood up straight with a brush, patted his chest at me, looked like he had a big bag, smiled heartily, and his eyes sparkled and striking.

The neat short hair is slightly shaken, and it seems that the light of the stars is also swaying in the hair, which is really heroic and fascinating.

"Well, that's it, let's take our leave. Officer Shiratori bowed slightly to us, then turned around and followed Officer Sato outside.

"There are still seven floors to end, please hold on a little longer. ”

"Eh???"

Even though I had gone a long way, Officer Sato's slightly exaggerated exclamation was clearly heard in my ears.

I couldn't help but raise the corners of my mouth at the thought of Officer Sato, who had just put on an omnipotent appearance in front of me, and in the blink of an eye he became dejected where I couldn't see.

It's so cute, this guy.

"Young master, then we ......"

"Wait, let me think about it again and again. I shook my head and whispered to the grass and trees, and then fell into deep thought.

After arguing with Officer Sato and Officer Shiratori for so long, of course, it couldn't be in vain, in fact, they inadvertently provided me with a lot of clues.

First, the call they received from the police was extremely vague, only saying that someone had died in the building, but there was no specific location, no name, and even the physical characteristics of the deceased had to be investigated by the police at the property.

The person who called the police, since he accurately foresaw the death of that person, said that he did not know the identity of the deceased, I do not believe it.

Calling the police, but not making it clear, is a bit of a contradiction.

Perhaps, the person who called the police did not want the police to know the identity of the deceased, or in other words, they did not want the police to know immediately, that is, the other party wanted the police to focus more on the matter of "someone died" rather than "who died". ”

Second, when the person called the police, he used the word "sudden death", that is, sudden death, if it is a man-made vicious homicide, there is no need to use the word "sudden death", this term can only be used for sudden and unexpected death, such as sudden illness, such as sudden accidents, or for example...... Poisoned to death.

The deceased had been a mercenary before, and his physical fitness was naturally speechless, but he died suddenly and inexplicably, thinking that he must have been moved on his body before his death, which led to a sudden death, if it was a normal death, it is difficult to imagine that a person would predict the time of death of another person so accurately.

Linked to the death of the person before, there is saliva at the corner of the mouth, and this possibility is infinitely magnified.

If nothing else, it should be the effect of some kind of drug.

This explains why he hoped that the police would find out about the incident, but he did not say exactly where the person died.

Because he didn't know where the deceased would go when the drug attacked, he couldn't be sure, all he could determine was the time of the drug attack, that is, the time when the police needed to be called.

If you think about it along the way, then the elevator power outage can be explained.

As long as you calculate the time when the Metropolitan Police Department will send out the police, calculate the route, pinch the time to call the police, and then at the right time, let the elevator fail, and this time point is the lowest time for the drug attack, and the time when the police go upstairs is the "error time" required for the drug attack.

And while the police were struggling to climb the building, the man had a seizure of the drug and suddenly fell to the ground and died.

That makes perfect sense.

So, to sum up, that person is not trying to set us up, or rather, it's not to set me up alone.

He's playing tricks on everyone in this building.

He knew that the German bodyguard would die, and he would definitely die in this building, so he called the police, it doesn't matter where this bodyguard died, important things, he must be found by the police and die in the building!

That's what that guy was for!

Thinking of this, I suddenly realized that my train of thought had made sense.

That's right, that person must have done that.

If it were an ordinary company, it would have been frightened by the sudden accident a long time ago, and at this time, the police who came up the stairs just happened to investigate......

If nothing else, the police will arrive at the scene within 10 minutes of the death.

I have to say that the person who planned this matter has a really accurate grasp of time.

Unfortunately, he didn't count our existence.

Wait a minute, Officer Sato seems to have said before that they started to investigate from the tenth floor, that is, from the beginning, that person limited the scope to the tenth floor and the tenth floor......

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but ask Caomu, "Grandpa Caomu, is there any difference between the top 10th floor and the 10th floor of this office building?"

"This ......" Cao Mu thought for a while, and said with some hesitation: "If there is any difference, it is that above the tenth floor, there will be more foreigners in foreign companies, and below the tenth floor, most of them are joint ventures between Japan and foreign companies, and above the tenth floor, they are basically foreign employees of foreign companies in Japan." ”

That's it!

That man's target is a purely foreign company, and we were just injured by mistake within his hunting range!

Finding the answer, I couldn't help but wave my fist.

But what did that man do this for......

Slandering the reputation of foreign companies in Japan?

Even if it succeeds, what's the use?

What role does Senzu Junji play in this?

Was it completely unaware and being taken advantage of? Or was it ...... Is he himself the mastermind behind this?

I can't figure it out......

I figured out a mystery, but I felt like I was even more confused......

"Young Master. The sound of grass and trees once again pulled my mind out of the cul-de-sac.

"What's wrong?"

"The corpse...... What should I do?" asked me after a pause.

"Oh, that," I thought for a moment, and said, "Let my men carry it quietly in the middle of the night, and just throw it in the grass near the company." ”

"Isn't that a problem?, and it's ...... to walk down the stairs from the twenty-sixth floor," Grass hesitated, looking like he didn't know what to say.

"Don't worry, if I'm right, the elevator should be back to normal when the police are gone. I smiled and said.

"Understood, young master. Caomu thought for a moment and bowed to me in obedience.