Chapter 102: The Cursed Piano
"The current village chief is not allowed to be arbitrary!"
"We're going to hit the privilege!"
"Give me back the farmland!"
"Don't pollute the fishing grounds!"
Before arriving at the public hall, Naoto Hara and Heiji Hattori saw a group of villagers gathered together, carrying various slogans in front of the public hall to protest and demonstrate.
Hattori glanced at the crowd, pulled out a sarcastic smile, and said, "Hehe, I didn't expect that the change of village chief on such a small island would come up with so many tricks." ”
Naoto Hara smiled and said, "It still looks quite interesting." ”
Hattori Heiji said: "Okay, no matter what tricks they have, let's just go ahead." ”
The two of them went up to find a staff member and explained their intentions, and soon they were led into the conference room by Kazuaki Hirata, the secretary of the village chief.
Naoto Hara knows that the village chief has a ghost in his heart, and he is still quite wary of the detectives, so they really don't necessarily see people right away and may even be kicked out, so if there are clues, they must find them as soon as possible.
Seeing that Naoto Hara was about to push the door and leave, Hattori Heiji hurriedly asked, "Naoto, why are you going!" ”
Naoto Hara shrugged his shoulders helplessly, revealing an innocent expression, "I'm just walking around the neighborhood, after all, we don't know when the village chief will meet us, I don't want to wait here." ”
Hattori Heiji thought of the previous speculation and the battle downstairs, and also felt that the village chief would not see them now, so he followed Naoto Hara to go for a walk, uh, no, they were looking for clues.
The two of them sneakily checked in the public hall, I don't know what the reason is, there are almost no people here, but it is convenient for the two people to investigate.
Heiji Hattori inadvertently pushes open a door and discovers that the room is surprisingly large, and there is only a black piano in the room.
Naoto Hara suddenly thought of the secret hidden in this piano belonging to Keiji Aso, but where is that secret grid?
"It's weird, how can there be only one piano in such a big room."
Hattori Heiji walked over and pressed a few notes, but he didn't notice anything wrong.
Naoto Hara closed the door with his hand, and quickly squatted under the piano to find a hidden grid.
"What are you looking for?" Hattori asked curiously.
Naoto Hara took out a flashlight to check it and said, "It's too weird to have only one piano in such a big room, so I'll check it, and the easiest thing for the piano to hide is only underneath." ”
Keiji Aso's piano was from fifteen years ago, and after so many years, many places on the body have peeled off the paint, and people who have used this piano for a long time obviously don't cherish it much, so Naoto Hara quickly found a place where the wear was most bad, and touched the dark grid, reached out and touched it, and put the gray-white substance on his fingers into a transparent bag.
"What is this?" Hattori asked curiously.
But without waiting for Naoto Hara to answer, the village chief's secretary Hirata Kazuaki hurriedly rushed into the room and shouted anxiously, "What are you doing?" Don't touch that piano. ”
"Huh?" Hattori Heiji was taken aback and asked in a panic, "What's wrong?" ”
Naoto Hara also made a panicked look, but in fact, he watched the secretary perform with great interest.
The secretary made a look of fear, and he said, "This is the cursed piano that Mr. Aso used in the concert on the night of his suicide!" ”
Hara Naoto cooperated and asked, "Curse?" What's going on? ”
Hattori Heiji didn't know the situation, but he also said, "How can there be such a thing as a curse." ”
The secretary fearfully pushed Naoto Hara and Hattori out of the room, and said mysteriously: "It's really a curse, don't believe it, not only Mr. Aso, but even the former village head, Mr. Kameyama, also had an accident because of this piano." ”
"Former village chief?" Naoto Hara looked at the secretary who was breaking out in a cold sweat and deliberately asked, "What's going on?" ”
The secretary closed the door again, sighed, lowered his voice, and explained: "It happened two years ago, on the night of the full moon, when I happened to pass by the public hall, but there was a sound of playing the piano in the public hall that was supposed to be empty, and when I opened my mouth to ask who was inside, the sound immediately stopped, and when I walked inside, Mr. Kameyama collapsed on the piano, and the cause of death was a heart attack. However, before he died, he played the same moonlight sonata that Mr. Aso played in the flames! ”
Obviously, he already knew what was going on, but after Secretary Hirata told the story, Naoto Hara's body still trembled, and his hair stood on end.
It's not that he's scared, but he just thinks that this secretary Hirata is too good at telling stories, this public hall is not popular in the first place, it's a bit eerie, and he deliberately lowered his voice, which created a terrifying atmosphere.
Hattori Heiji couldn't help pouting, he didn't believe in any curse, if there was a curse, it must have not solved the truth.
After regaining his composure, Secretary Hirata warned, "You guys better not touch this cursed piano again!" ”
Although he was kicked out without seeing the village chief, Naoto Hara and Hattori Heiji were not frustrated at all.
When he arrived at a place where no one was around, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but be curious and asked, "So, what was that powder just now?" ”
Naoto Hara shook his head and said, "I don't know exactly what it is, but this thing is left in the dark compartment under the piano, and it is obvious that it will not be flour." ”
Hattori Heiji thought that Secretary Hirata hurriedly kicked them out of the public hall after they touched the piano, and couldn't help but be surprised: "This can't be a dupin, right?" ”
Naoto Hara smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know, this thing has to be tested to find out, but this smell is indeed very similar to the Du product in a case that was solved before." ”
Hattori Heiji rubbed his chin and said seriously: "Testing, speaking of which, this Moon Shadow Island is under the jurisdiction of Tokyo, and if you want to test it, it's faster to send it to Tokyo." ”
Naoto Hara said regretfully: "I thought it was close to Osaka, but I knew it was close to Tokyo, so I invited Uncle Maori's family to come and play together." ”
Hattori Heiji glanced at him and said, "So, when you chose Moonshadow Island, you didn't look at the map at all?" ”
Yuan Naoto said confidently: "I saw it, but I didn't understand it, anyway, it's not me who drives the boat, there is a direct route." ”
Hattori Heiji gave Naoto Hara a thumbs up speechlessly.
Naoto Hara smiled awkwardly and took out his phone, "Hello, Officer Twilight, I'm Naoto Hara, I have something I want to ask you for help......"