"Mr. Wise. Gui'an. I saw the Shinkansen explosion on the news, but I didn't expect such a terrible thing to happen on the train after I got off the train. I wonder if you're okay? Are there any injuries? Such a terrible thing has happened, so let's put the investigation on hold for the time being, and after a while, I will go to my mother's hometown with you, Mr. Wise. Megumi Hanada is not on. ”

Looking at this email from Hanada Memi, Gao Yuan frowned slightly, and didn't understand why Hanada Megumi had let him go over to investigate before, and now he suddenly changed his hexagram and said that it was temporarily shelved.

Moreover, she is also a member of the organization with a code name, and she just got off the bus before Gin and them got on the bus, is there any connection between this? Does she know that Gin is going to do something on the Shinkansen? If she knew, then she would have found an opportunity to get out of the car and let herself stay in the car - intriguing!

Thinking of this, Takato thought for a moment, did not choose to take the shuttle bus back to Tokyo, but continued to take the Tokaido Shinkansen, came to Shin-Osaka Station at the end of the line, transferred to the Sanyo Shinkansen, and the next afternoon, came to Hanada Kochi's hometown - Hiroshima!

However, after coming to the address of Hanada Xiaozhi's hometown according to the information he had investigated, Takato found that because the elders of the Hanada family had long since passed away, the Hanada family had long ceased to exist here.

At the same time, by visiting nearby residents and going to the school where Hanada Kochi once studied, there was no trace of Asamitaro in the environment in which Hanada Kochi grew up.

In other words, Taro Asami is not a character that Hanada Kochi has known since childhood.

However, when I thought that Hanada Kochi was in that situation, he would go to Asami Taro to discuss, which means that Asamitaro should be the person Hanada Kochi trusts very much. So, how did they meet?

An actor who graduated from high school and a medical student, how do they intersect?

There was no progress in the investigation, and he felt a little helpless, so Takato could only temporarily give up continuing the investigation in Hiroshima, go home, and return to Tokyo on the evening of the fourth day, and then take the subway to Rice Flower Station and get off, and stay in front of the safe at the station for a while, after making sure that there were no suspicious characters, Takato walked casually to the location of the safe agreed with Masami Hirota.

"Hey! Isn't that Mr. Wise! ”

However, just as Gao Yuan was about to walk to the safe, someone came out of the subway and stopped him - this voice?

Turning his head, he saw that coming out of the tram stop were two girls walking together, wearing the uniforms of Teidan High School, waving at him, Takato felt a little helpless - it was Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko.

So, Gao Yuan could only temporarily give up picking up the items in the safe, and greeted them:

"Mori-san, Suzuki-san, hello."

"What a coincidence, Mr. Wise."

Maolilan stepped forward to greet him.

"yes, what a coincidence. I'm going to meet you here. ”

Gao Yuan said, "Do you have any activities after school?" ”

Hearing this, Mao Lilan waved his hand.

"No, I don't. Just go to the cake shop in front of the station together to pick up the cake that was ordered yesterday. ”

"Pre-ordered cake."

Gao Yuan said, "What is a special day today? ”

Somewhat curious, Takato asked.

"No, Mr. Wise."

Sonoko Suzuki said, "It's just that the private cake shop's new popcorn cake has been very popular lately, so we wanted to eat it...... That's right! Why don't you come with us, Mr. Wise? ”

"Popcorn...... Cake? ”

Hearing this name, Takato felt a little novel, and it was hard to imagine that popcorn could be paired with a cake, so he agreed to Suzuki Sonoko's proposal and followed the two to a private cake shop not far away.

It's a very small storefront, and the name of the store is two Chinese characters, so it's called "rice flower".

Walking into the store, the aroma of cakes came to the face, and there were a lot of various cakes on the small storefront, but after looking around, Gao Yuan did not see the so-called "popcorn cake".

"Strange, no one?"

Seeing that the store was empty and no one else was there, Mao Lilan said with some surprise, "I obviously told the store manager that I would pick up the cake at this time?" ”

"Maybe something happened for the time being."

Gao Yuan said, "After all, the door of the store is still open, so let's wait a while." ”

In this regard, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko also agreed with this statement, so the three of them waited in the store for a while, while Takato wandered around the store, and then, with sharp eyes, Takato saw that behind the counter, there were several cakes on the window of the room that should be the baking room, with popcorn on them.

So, Gao Yuan curiously walked behind the counter and walked to the window, ready to see what the so-called popcorn cake was like.

However, just as Gao Yuan walked to the window and looked into the window, he could see through the window that a young woman was sitting on the ground in the baking room, leaning back against the edge of a table, motionless, and there was blood on the woman's head!

"Maori classmates! Suzuki-san! Call the police! ”

Seeing such a situation, Gao Yuan immediately shouted loudly, and at the same time walked to the door of the baking room, ready to open the door and go in to have a look.

"Oh! Good! ”

Although he didn't know what was going on, Mao Lilan immediately took out his mobile phone and dialed the police.

"What's wrong! What happened! ”

Suzuki asked with a surprised look on her face, and she was going to go to the window to see what was going on in the baking room. Then, after seeing the bleeding woman in the baking room, Suzuki Sonoko couldn't help but widen her eyes, covered her mouth with her hands, and exclaimed with her body back-

"Yes...... Store manager! ”

Without paying attention to Suzuki Sonoko, Takato vigorously turned the doorknob of the baking room, but he couldn't turn it at all - it was locked!

So, Gao Yuan could only walk to the window, looked at the pair of glass windows pushed inward, and found that the windows were not locked, and when he was about to open the window to enter, he suddenly noticed one thing-

The cakes I saw in front of the window were placed on the windowsill in the baking room, and the height of these cakes was significantly higher than the lower edge of the window. In any case, as long as you push the window inside, those cakes on the windowsill will naturally be pushed off the windowsill!

The door is locked, and pushing the window open will spoil the cake on the windowsill...... Is this a secret room?

Thinking of this, Gao Yuan continued to look inside from the window, and saw that there was a door on the back wall of the baking room.

"Suzuki-san! Maori classmates! You stay here and don't move! ”

Gao Yuan instructed the two of them, and he immediately ran out of the storefront, went around the side alley to the back of the storefront, found the back door he saw in the baking room, and tried to open it.

But apparently, this door is also locked!

The two doors of the baking room are locked, and the windows can't be opened in principle because of the cake - it's a real secret room!