The next day, early in the morning.

Kose's feet hurt and her legs hurt and didn't follow, Nanahara Takeshi took Kiyomi Ruri to turn around the small "Izumi Village", looking for people to chat around, understanding the way of life of the villagers, looking at their feelings here, and finding that the basic situation is the same as Kitamachi Tomoka - all have their own misfortunes, this "Izumi Village" is their peach blossom source of escape, and many people have been reborn here.

But who really murdered Da Duan Dai......

Last Tuesday, these people worked separately, picking and picking, planting vegetables, meditating and meditating, repairing houses, seeing each other, and even eating twice a day without a shortage of people, not finding anyone particularly suspicious, and not finding any useful clues.

At this point, the case is somewhat stuck.

"What now?" At noon, Kiyomi Ruri sat on a big stone to eat rice balls, and said hesitantly, "It's not like the people on the mountain did it, Miss Daduan disappeared at the bottom of the mountain at about eleven o'clock, and the people on the mountain have all been to the cafeteria at noon, and they can testify to each other, even if they have a motive to commit the crime, the time for the crime is not enough, right?" ”

The key puzzle is still on how Da Duan Dai mysteriously disappeared, but that is too difficult to explain, and now it is impossible to deduce the modus operandi by finding the suspect, and I can't see who is particularly suspicious.

Nanahara Takeshi threw away the rice balls in his hand, he didn't have the heart to eat for a while, thinking about where else to start solving the problem, but he didn't have a good idea for a while, and muttered: "Let's go, let's go to the mountain for a walk." ”

Kiyomi Ruri jumped off the stone while biting the rice balls, and said strangely, "Walking around the mountain?" ”

"Look at what Da Duan Dai is looking for." Nanahara Takeshi said a few words and began to walk out of the village.

Kiyomi Ruri suddenly felt that this was also a helpless way, but immediately suggested: "Do you want to go to the 'Water Bear Jun' and the Mountain Spring Well again, if Miss Daduan can really be sure that this is the 'Treasure Place', the markers I saw are those two things." ”

Nanahara Wu nodded: "It's a marker, it should be true, but she has only been to the village a few times, and she has secretly searched in the mountains, and it is estimated that the things she is looking for should be outside the village." ”

"But such a big mountain, she has been here many times and has not found it, how can we find it!" Kiyomi Ruri thought for a moment and said, "Maybe we should visit Miss Odan's mother again, she might know something." ”

Nanahara Takeshi didn't object, and laughed softly: "Let's go tomorrow, let's familiarize yourself with the terrain today." I guess it's a word-of-mouth ballad or a myth, look at the terrain first, and then go back to guess the riddle. ”

Kiyomi Ruri felt that it made sense, and he also had confidence in Nanahara Wu's ability to guess the puzzle, but he didn't think it was of much use, "Even if we find the treasure, we may not be able to solve the case, and the disappearance of Miss Daduan doesn't seem to be directly related to the so-called treasure, you still have to think of other ways." ”

"This case is really troublesome, let's investigate it slowly!" Nanahara Takeshi shook his head and said.

The modus operandi is unclear, the motive for the crime is unknown, the suspect cannot be found, and there is no clear line of reasoning and deduction at all, but you can't do nothing, so you can only investigate slowly.

They began to wander around the mountain, where to drill in the middle of nowhere, but nothing was gained, and after an hour and a half they climbed to the place near the top of the mountain, and then went up to the bare and huge rocks, which required professional climbing equipment to continue upward, otherwise the danger was too high, and instead went around the top of the mountain, and condescendingly recorded the general topography of the whole mountain, and then went down the mountain.

The road down the mountain is more difficult to walk, the mountain is too steep, and if your feet slip, you may have to roll down the mountain with your heels, Kiyomi Ruri should explore the road first, and every step was steady before letting Nanahara Takeshi follow, and kept telling him to be careful, and finally went down a very smooth steep slope, the terrain just flattened a little, Nanahara Takeshi suddenly moved his ears, stretched out his hand and pulled Kiyomi Ruri, and hid behind a big tree with her, and said softly: "There is movement, eight o'clock direction, most likely it is a person." ”

"Who could it be?" Kiyomi Ruri is slightly vigilant, except for the two of them, who will be hanging out on the mountain?

Could it be that the blind cat hit a dead mouse and can find some clues?

Or is there really another treasure hunter?

She held her breath and paid attention to the direction of the mountains and forests with Nanahara Takeshi, and after a long time, she faintly heard the sound of speaking, and couldn't help but secretly praise Nanahara Takeshi in her heart for being worthy of being a dog, dog ears are good, and the next time you scold him behind your back, you should pay attention to the sound of a small voice.

Nanahara Takeshi was not nervous at this time, walked out from behind the tree, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's an acquaintance, it's not dangerous." ”

"Acquaintances?"

Nanahara Takeshi smiled: "Our old friend. ”

The two of them greeted each other as they spoke, and three people also walked out of the mountain forest at this time, Kiyomi Ruri looked at it fixedly, and said in surprise: "Eh, Sister Asai, Officer Okuno, Officer Hidaka, why are you here?" ”

The people who came were Sora Asai from the Life Safety Section of the Hirano Police Station and Taiji Okuno and Hidaji from the Search Division, and they finally managed to get out of the mountains and forests, and they bumped into two people head-on, startled, and almost reached out to pull out their guns, and they were relieved to see who it was.

Sora Asai also greeted him, and said with a strange expression: "We are investigating the case, Ruri, why are you here?" "Wouldn't you two be too far away from this place for a date!

Kiyomi Ruri immediately said, "We are also investigating the case!" ”

"You're also investigating?" Asai Sora was stunned and said hesitantly, "It can't be Daduan Dai's disappearance, right?" ”

This case is now suspected of involving murder, and it is under the responsibility of the Search Bureau, but it was originally a case of disappearance, and it has something to do with the life safety lesson.

Kiyomi Ruri also reacted, and said in surprise: "Are you too?" ”

Nanahara Takeshi smiled, "They're looking for corpses. ”

Kiyomi Ruri looked at Asai Sora and said suddenly, "Do you think that Miss Daduan was thrown into this mountain by Iwato-san?" ”

Sora Asai nodded, now the police seriously suspect that Iwato Yu killed Daduan Dai and threw the body, so the three of them ran to the hill behind the villa to look around, wanting to see if they could find the body or bury the body, this is the third time they have come.

She immediately asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"Uh......" Kiyomi Ruri hesitated for a moment, and said embarrassedly, "We accepted Kose-sensei's commission, and after proving Iwato-san's innocence, we are walking around to understand the terrain. ”

After saying that, she and Asai looked at each other, but she didn't expect that her best friend would become the opposite in a blink of an eye, and now they are their own masters.

Nanahara Takeshi didn't care about this, anyway, whoever gave the money he worked for whom, and immediately asked Taiji Okuno and Hidakaji, "Do you have any gains?" ”

"Nothing to gain, this mountain is too big, and now I have checked a small half." Taiji Okuno shook his head and sighed, then asked with concern, "Did you gain anything?" ”

This case has to be solved, even if Iwato Yu is not a murderer, it is better than the case rotting in his hands, and he happened to meet Takeshi Nanahara, and there are still people who have already paid their salaries, so it is just a matter of prostituting his brain.

Anyway, let's solve the case quickly, anyway, he doesn't want to climb this unlucky mountain, and he can't find anything after looking for it.

Nanahara Takeshi didn't mind this kind of white prostitution, and told in detail what he had learned in the past two days, which attracted the attention of Hidakaji, he took out his notepad and flipped through it, and said, "We went to visit Ms. Hinogen...... is Miss Daduan's biological mother, she changed her surname after remarrying. According to her, Miss Daduan's biological father was indeed obsessed with treasure hunting for a while, and it is said that there were clues about a huge sum of money that had been passed down from his ancestors, but in the end he found nothing, and he was gone"

Nanahara Takeshi was about to ask tomorrow, but he didn't expect someone to ask for him first, just to save time, and immediately asked with concern: "What is the clue?" ”

Hidakaji shook his head: "She doesn't know, she only said that it seems to be related to some kind of Ainu rebellion hundreds of years ago, and his ex-husband never talked to her about those things, saying that it was a secret that only the heir could know." ”

Nanahara Takeshi said thoughtfully, "Were the Ainu riots hundreds of years ago? ”

Hidakaji bowed slightly, closed the notepad and said: "Yes, she thinks that there is nothing that can be hidden for hundreds of years, it should be gone a long time ago, her ex-husband is just wasting time, he doesn't care too much about it at all, he only knows this." ”

Nanahara Wu nodded slowly, he seemed to know what Da Duan Dai had been looking for, and he could guess the approximate location without any word-of-mouth songs or myths, but that thing ...... It was indeed a huge amount of money hundreds of years ago, but now it doesn't seem to be that valuable.

Or you can sell it as an antique, but there are so many things that you can't sell for a price when you are an antique, and it's not worth it.

He was hesitating whether to take Kiyomi Ruri to dig it out, or bring the police to find it together, and Asai Sora also had the idea of a white prostitute "detective", and took out a few small bags from his bag, and said positively: "Nanahara, we don't have no harvest at all, there are a few pieces of plastic cover here, very new, and there are corroded and red stones next to it, you can see if it will be related to the case." ”

They rummaged all the way, and they didn't find the place where the body was buried, but they didn't find nothing, and they really picked up some garbage, and the garbage looked quite new, so they were going to take it back for the identification class to test, and it was not in vain to climb the mountain for a day.

Nanahara Takeshi immediately took the evidence bag and took a closer look, and found that it was three pieces of broken black hard plastic, the largest of which was only the size of a fingernail, like the residue left by something broken, and the stone was originally gray-black, as if it had been splashed with some chemical agent, some of them turned red, and there were corroded holes and shallow grooves on the surface.

He opened the bag again, sniffed it carefully, and his heart moved, and he asked Sora Asai thoughtfully, "Where did you find this?" Can you take me to see it! ”

Sora Asai immediately took him back the way he came, through the mountains and forests, and came to a rocky place near a cliff, pointed to a big rock in the grass, and said, "Here it is, you see, the grass under the stone is dead, and there are scratches on the stones, as if something has hit them, and then there are these fragments and corroded stones below, and I look a little strange when I pass by." ”

As she spoke, she crouched down and flipped through it, pinching up a little bit of plastic scraps, "There's another piece, but it's smaller, what do you say this is?" ”

Nanahara Wu took a look, walked to the cliff not far in front of him, and looked down, only to see that it had to be dozens of meters deep, and there was a small river with a very rapid flow below, which was a good place to destroy corpses.

Kiyomi Ruri followed him and looked down, slightly dizzy, and said hesitantly: "What's the matter, what did you find?" Did someone throw something down? ”

It looks like someone was carrying something here and wanted to throw it down, and accidentally broke one on the way.

"It should be." Qiyuan Wu touched the ground, turned his head and said, "Let's go, let's go back to the 'Spring Village', I seem to know how Daduan Dai disappeared mysteriously, now go and verify it!" ”

If it's true, these people really have a lot of money to commit crimes!

(End of chapter)