Sayoko Kamiya made herself another cup of coffee. On the table, there are densely packed notes.

"I found something."

She suddenly pointed to the list of gods and said, "Isn't it strange that you are not clean?" It is an indisputable fact that the proportion of the population in this village is quite large. However, among the twenty-one people who were in the shadows, the oldest was just over thirty years old at the time of the caveats. Unexpectedly, none of the middle-aged and elderly people have encountered divine seclusion. ”

Pei Qingyi didn't notice this problem at first, but now when he heard Kamiya Sayoko say this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at the list carefully, and he also exclaimed: "Yes, it's really strange." ”

"It is worth mentioning that there were many old people who entered the mansion at the beginning, but those old people did not encounter divine concealment later, but died. And the people who are hidden in the gods are also mostly male surnames. ”

Sima Zhen, who was on the side of the "young man surnamed ......", suddenly had a strange thought: "You say, since Hasegawa Yoshiyo is actually a silver baby slut, do you want to arrest these men to do that kind of thing with them?" Ah, I'm talking nonsense, don't take it seriously......"

Kamiya Sayoko and Pei Qingyi looked at it.

"What do you think?" She said to Pei Qingyi: "I think his statement is also possible. The layout of the apartment is really hard to guess. ”

"It sounds perverted, but it can't be said to be impossible."

Suddenly, Sayoko Kamiya's mobile phone rang on the table. She took the phone and saw that it was an unfamiliar number, and after connecting, a woman's voice came: "Is it Miss Kamiya?" I'm Harumi Kamihara, can I take up a little bit of your time? ”

"Say, what's the matter?"

Before, Sayoko Kamiya had given her mobile phone number to the Kamihara brothers and sisters.

"My friend...... Kazuya Iijima didn't know what was going on, left home in the morning, and hasn't come back until now. And I'm worried about whether he will go to the mountains on the east side of the Great Dusk Ridge......"

"What do you mean?" Kamiya Sayoko's face changed: "You said he went to the mountain range on the east side of the Great Dusk Black Ridge?" ”

"I don't know, it's just a guess. Actually, in fact, ......" Harumi Kamihara finally made up her mind and said, "A friend of mine saw my sister-in-law with his own eyes!" My sister-in-law should have died! It's near the chain bridge, on the east side of the Great Dusk Black Ridge! ”

Sayoko Kamiya had actually obtained this information through eavesdropping, but she didn't say anything at the moment, but she still pretended to be very surprised: "What did you say?" Is this true? ”

"Actually, I also think it's incredible, and he is very concerned about this matter, and he came to me yesterday to discuss this matter. Miss Kamiya, I want to ask you, what the hell is going on? Did you find something? ”

Harumi can be said to be full of horror at this time, and her heart is full of fear. Although she doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, she ...... What if that's true? If that's going to happen...... An icy feeling hit me.

"Please, tell me...... Is there really an evil spirit in that place, in that abandoned mansion? ”

Although she grew up listening to the strange legends of the gods, after all, when Harumi grew up, the people in the village had almost listed it as an absolute forbidden place, so the phenomenon of the gods had almost never been heard of before Miyo, and she always thought it was just a legend that her parents coaxed her.

"If I said yes, would you believe it? Miss Harumi Kamihara? ”

"I ......" Harumi Kamihara almost didn't dare to continue, under the dark night, the forest in front of her seemed to spring up at any time.

"If you believe ......," Sayoko Kamiya continued, "just take your family out of the Great Dusk Ridge immediately, and never come back, as far as you want." If you don't believe it, just stay here. Anyway, it's yours, I don't care. ”

Then, she hung up the phone.

Picked up the coffee cup on the table and drank it all, and said to Pei Qingyi and Sima Zhen: "It was Harumi Kamihara who called, and she seemed to believe in that strange talk a little." Izumi Iijima's son, Kazuya Iijima seems to have gone to that place. He is the first hidden person, the nephew of Sakurako Kobayashi, is this fate? Or is it a deliberate arrangement of the apartment? ”

"It's not important." Pei Qingyi was not interested in the life and death of Kazuya Iijima at all, and only thought further about how to crack these two lists.

"Yes, it doesn't matter." Kamiya Sayoko also picked up the list and said, "There must be hints and rules for the way out." These twenty-one people...... The memories of those old men are not entirely reliable, and it is impossible to know the exact order in which the gods are hidden. However, it is basically certain that in addition to Miyo Kamihara, Kiuchi Izuko's mother, Kiuchi Tae, is the closest person to the gods. I always feel very strange, why haven't there been any hidden people in the next ten years? ”

It's a blank period. Although the old man's memory may not be reliable, there is a long period of seclusion between Kiuchi Tae and Miyo Kamihara. And whether or not to approach that mansion is not an absolute condition for Shen Yin. Why hasn't there been any more reclusive people for so long?

"However, in the more than ten years when the gods were very frequent, many people left the Great Dusk Black Ridge out of fear and moved to live elsewhere." Pei Qingyi looked at the form and said, "There are only some conservative old people who are still left in this village where their ancestors have lived for generations. This also seems to be one of the reasons for the serious aging of the village's population. ”

"Yes." Sayoko Kamiya agreed, "After walking around the village, I realized that the proportion of the population aging is much higher than I expected. At the beginning, many young people left the village for fear of being hidden, so the proportion of the aging population increased significantly, and the youngest of those who stayed were in their forties. That's right, it is indeed easy to cause panic when the phenomenon of divine concealment is so frequent, and twenty-one people are equivalent to an average of one or two people in a year. I don't think if the phenomenon of the hidden gods was still so frequent four years ago, Miyo Kamihara wouldn't have the courage to do such a thing. Perhaps, it will not be hidden by God. ”

"Speaking of which...... Miyo Kamihara's situation is a bit special. Sima Zhen suddenly interjected: "Do you remember?" Masashi Kamihara said that he saw his wife's clothes in the water at that time, and he thought that she had fallen into the water. But when other people encounter divine concealment, they are all real evaporations from the world, and there is not even the slightest trace. ”

For a moment, the room fell silent.

Pei Qingyi's eyes opened wide, and he looked at Sima Zhen in horror, opened his mouth a few times, and said, "Could it be ...... Is Masashi Kamihara a ghost? So he's lying? ”

"Nope." Sayoko Kamiya replied, "I think it's too far-fetched to conclude that Kamihara Masashi is a ghost based on this alone. What's more, the point is not who is a ghost, but what is the way to live. ”

"Hmm...... Got it. Sima Zhen's enthusiasm was shattered.

Then, she brought a watch. It has the names of all the Hasegawa family members written on it. Then, looking at everyone, he said, "Don't you feel that there is a contradiction in this bloody case? ”

"Contradiction?" Pei Qingyi was stunned for a moment and said, "Is it related to the testimony of Matsuda Junzi?" ”

"No, I'm not talking about the testimony of Matsuda Kimikomi." Kamiya Sayoko's slender index finger, the tip of the finger fell on Takuzo Hasegawa's name. She has already written it into Chinese characters.

"Takuzo Hasegawa, according to our inquiries about the villagers, has the impression that he is honest and cowardly, but his younger brother Keiyuki is more shrewd and decisive. So, here's the problem. Such a man, after discovering his wife's annihilation, actually took a knife in one breath, killed six people in his family and then committed suicide? Don't you think it's very contradictory? Does this fit with the image of a coward? ”

"This ...... It's hard to say, right? Sima Zhen said disapprovingly: "The most intolerable thing for a man is the betrayal of his wife, not to mention that his wife is still a woman who can be a husband." In "Water Margin", Wu Dalang is honest and cowardly enough, didn't he go to Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing to catch him? Oh, by the way, you're yourself, probably haven't seen it......"

"I've read the four great Chinese masterpieces since I was a child......" Kamiya Sayoko shook her head and said, "But I remember very clearly, the result was that Wu Dalang was almost kicked to death by Ximen Qing, and was finally poisoned by Pan Jinlian with arsenic, wasn't it?" It was Wu Song who really killed the two of them. A cowardly person, no matter how angry he is, will not kill six people in one go, right? Moreover, after killing someone, he also committed suicide with blood words, is this behavior more like Wu Dalang or more like Wu Song? ”

For a while, Pei Qingyi and Sima Zhen were dumbfounded.

"So...... Isn't Takuzo Hasegawa a murderer? Sima Zhen hurriedly said, "Then who is the murderer?" Could it be some villager? ”

Pei Qingyi also thought about it: "It's really hard to guess." After all, we have too little information. But it shouldn't be one of those seven people, right? I also think it's possible that some villager killed those seven people. In other words, the way to survive may be to find out the truth of the case, and then the ghost will rest in peace. But...... The statute of limitations for criminal proceedings has long expired in this case, and even if the murderer is found, he cannot be brought to justice......"

"I don't agree with that." Kamiya Sayoko retorted, "You can make twenty-one villagers hidden, but you can't do anything to the villagers who killed them?" Of course, it may be said that it is a restriction on apartments, but if so, why not limit it completely and wait until we arrive? ”

"This ......" Pei Qingyi also had to admit that Kamiya Sayoko's words were reasonable, so he asked: "Then what do you think?" Miss Kamiya? Oh, I got it! All of these people on the list are young people. Why? I'm afraid it's because the seven people who were killed don't know who killed them. Maybe the murderer is masked or something, but it can be judged that the other party is very young, so only young people will hide. But as the young people left the Great Dusk Ridge in large numbers, it was said that the gods disappeared......"

"Nope." Sayoko Kamiya retorted again: "So how does Miyo Kamihara explain? She is from Kyoto, she was not born at all forty years ago, and it is impossible for her to be the murderer of that bloody crime. ”

"Yes, yes...... Or, isn't Miyo Kamihara a a god? Did she really fall into the water? ”

"First of all, we need to know a little bit. The murderer is obviously a person who knows Hasegawa Yoshiyo's affair with her brother-in-law. Of those who knew about this, the villagers could only be sure that Matsuda was fully aware of it, and she herself completely denied telling anyone else about it. And a week after she witnessed the annihilation of Keiyuki Hasegawa and Yoshiyo Hasegawa, this bloody case occurred. Is this a coincidence? ”

"You mean...... The murderer is Matsuda Kimikomi? No, it can't be, she was just a little girl, so she told someone and killed ......"

Speaking of which, a question arises.

If Matsuda told a lie, then who did she tell? Who had a motive to kill after knowing this?

"Could it be ......" Pei Qingyi shouted in a lost voice: "Is it Ah Cheng or Ah Jin?" One of the two servants? The two of them are also having an affair with Hasegawa Yoshiyo, and if they learn about it, they are very likely to get angry and kill Hasegawa Yoshiyo! ”

"No," Sayoko Kamiya shook her head, "So how do you explain that Takuzo Hasegawa and Sanae Hasegawa were killed together?" ”

"That'...... I don't know. Miss Kamiya, do you have any ideas? ”

"My idea is simple."

Then, Sayoko Kamiya used a cold voice to say a reasoning that made everyone creepy.

"In this world...... Is there really a person like Takuzo Hasegawa? ”

(To be continued)