"Well, I've already reported the situation here to the higher authorities. Thanks to Miss Zhulan's presence here, the boss agrees with my current approach. ”

The bright yellow light confronted the night outside the window, and also dispelled some of the strange atmosphere brought by the bloody case.

In the middle of the hall of the Mori no Yokan, Jun Sha from the special department of the alliance faced the round table, giving orders to explain the current situation, still pressing the head of the unknown person on the chair in his hand.

"However, the patience of my superiors is not unlimited. In the Western-style pavilion where it is rumored that Akari used to live, the decapitated head of a suspected member of the Galaxy Group was found, and whether it was true or not, the matter was too sensitive. They asked us to come up with enough results to convince them by midnight tonight. Otherwise, regardless of the authenticity of this head, early tomorrow morning, there will definitely be a group of heavily armed Momoyo City police officers who will come to block this forest mansion. ”

It was past seven o'clock in the evening, and the minute hand of the clock had gone through a semicircle. At midnight, there are less than five hours left.

A question quietly surfaced in the hearts of everyone, including Junsha—in such a short period of time, could the incident really be resolved smoothly?

"Heh, it's really a disaster."

In the midst of the silence, the owner of the Meydan Pavilion shook his feet without grace, looking very impatient, and the tips of his hard shoes knocked on the ground unpleasantly, making a deafening sound of stomping.

"It's a rare party, and such a boring thing happened."

"Life is like that, there are always more bad things than good things, and both like to be surprised."

Mr. Hayden, who sat next to Medan, looked much more composed, supporting his cane on his knee with his right elbow, and raised his left hand gracefully as he spoke.

Then, he turned to look at Junsha, his eyes deep, as if he were speaking in the board of directors, carefully measuring his opponent's bottom line-

"However, considering the position here, regardless of whether or not you have finally found out the results of your investigation, Miss Junsha, Ah Ying and I plan to leave here before midnight. After all, I'm only here to meet old friends, and I don't want to be caught up in a storm that could damage the company's reputation. ”

Faced with the uncooperative attitude of the two old men, one hard and one soft, Jun Sha did not deal with their offensive head-on, but smiled-

"It seems that the two of you, like me, have long seen the authenticity of this dead man's head. Obviously, he didn't even participate in the autopsy, should he really be an expert in the field of biology and a big boss of a medical company? It took me a lot of time to confirm this myself. ”

"I've studied biology all my life, and I'm not going to be fooled by a bionic head." Professor Medan didn't deny it, but said coldly with a straight face.

"Android?!" The maid Miss Zina, who was standing behind the owner, was taken aback.

"Of course, do you really think that there will be a big living person dying in this foreign mansion?"

The old man sneered loudly—

"Only a little girl who has never seen the world can be deceived by such a childish trick, right? What hair, skin, muscles, teeth, lip flaps, nose tip, blood, these things can be restored by a film and television company, and there is a makeup team that can restore them, not to mention the puppeteers and modelers who specialize in making such props to make a living. In this day and age, a bionic human head that looks lifelike to the touch is just a slightly more expensive toy. I really can't figure out how just forging some foul-smelling blood on the neck below can scare everyone in the room so much. ”

"But that human head, it looks really...... And the real thing. Winnie muttered.

"Eyes." "The eye is the least deceiving thing—of course I don't agree that there is anything mysterious about it, I mean its biological structure." ”

The old man stretched out two fingers and pointed to his mean eyes—

"In this pair of spheres, which are just over 20 millimeters in length, width and diameter, a highly intelligent high-definition camera is converged. Dense connective tissue frames its shape, flexible tendons allow it to rotate freely, blood flows through delicate veins to provide energy, and gelatinous vitreous fluids subtly channel light, allowing the world before us to be reflected in an orderly network of optic nerve weaves...... No mechanical structure can reproduce such an elaborate structure, and even if it can barely be made to resemble it, it is impossible to restore its function – let alone simulate the morphology of the human eye after death. ”

"I see!"

Jun Sha raised her eyebrows, stopped pressing her head, and clapped her hands with her fists, and suddenly responded happily as if she had realized it—

As the saying goes, the eyes are the windows to the soul, so it's only fitting to distinguish between truth and falsehood. This reminds me of the forensic science that my relatives talked about at the party—the pupils of the human eye will dilate and fix after death, and after a while, the transparent cornea, which has no blood supply, will become cloudy and white due to edema and necrosis. And on this human head, we don't see such traces. ”

Only fake flowers will always bloom, and only dummies can have a pair of eyes that are always bright.

"So, what fits in the eye socket of the man's head is nothing more than a pair of glass beads." Meydan asserted.

Everyone once again focused their attention on the face of the head in Junsha's hand, and they could see that the big eyes that were frozen were still looking into the void in dismay.

The reason why these eyes can give the impression of being hideous is that their widening eyeballs are surrounded by bloodshot that makes people unconsciously frightened—a trait that is obviously impossible for the head of a dead man who has lost its blood supply to the whole body. Not to mention the two pupils in the middle of the eyes that showed no signs of dilation at all.

"What about Mr. Hayden? How did you tell that the head was a fake? Miss Junsha turned to Hayden again, "Did you guess by looking at the afterlife changes of your eyes?" ”

"Unlike Medan, my knowledge of biology was returned to the professors at the university very early."

The big boss of the pharmaceutical industry shrugged his shoulders, shook his head self-deprecatingly and said slowly, and he also did not deny the fact that he had long seen the fact that people were tired.

"Actually, I noticed something unusual when Miss Junsha moved the head into the house."

"Isn't that the first thing you see when you see a human head!" Junsha complained weakly.

Neither Hayden nor Maidan made it to the roof, so they didn't see the scene of the "corpse" in the attic. Therefore, when Junsha entered the second floor with the head, it was their first meeting with the head.

"While Miss Junsha was still in the attic to continue investigating the scene, Miss Wineria and the others had already come down from the stairs, and naturally told us what they had seen inside. With this psychological foreshadowing, you won't be too shocked and sluggish when you see that thing. Hayden explained.

"And what kind of anomaly did you find?"

"The first thing I noticed was that I saw that you seemed to be having a bit of a hard time carrying people's heads. As a post-mortem officer, you should theoretically move your head with your cheeks in your hands and move it downstairs without damaging the deceased's body. However, when you hold your head, you carry it with both hands on your chin – even if it makes your gloves bloody. ”

"If you're not careful, you've leaked your secrets." Junsha sighed.

"What followed confirmed my suspicion - after the autopsy, there was a heavy thud when you placed the thing on the chair through the bath towel. Taken together, the weight of the skull was so much greater than Miss Junsha expected that it had to be carried in a position that was convenient for force. ”

Hayden raised his cane and pointed at the head—

"A head that had been cut from the chin, not even the back of the neck, and had suffered a lot of blood loss, could not have had such a heavy weight. The only explanation is that there is a problem with the material. Beneath the lifelike skin, it is not flesh and bones that are wrapped, but denser steel and copper wires. ”

"Alas, it's not like a copper wire, but that's probably what it's all about."

Seeing that everyone present was a human spirit, and there was no way to rely on the results of the autopsy to show off the limelight, the police officer was a little disappointed, but the words had come to this, so she had to continue to talk -

"After noticing that the weight of the human head was wrong, I looked at the cross-section of the neck and was able to confirm that the bone supporting the human head was not normal human calcium, but made of stainless steel that mimicked the structure of the skeleton. The rest of the blood muscles, although they looked like that, were only superficial, and their veins were completely different from those of normal humans, so I judged that this was not a real human head, but a very intricately made dummy head. ”

The head is not a real person, so naturally there is no decapitation to speak of. The body under its section may not have been made at all.

"Then why is it in this mansion?" Zhulan Champion, who had not spoken just now, spoke at this time, still holding the ancient book that she had brought out of the hall owner's room in her hand.

"Considering the situation of this Mori no Yokan, it shouldn't be difficult to guess why...... "Junsha said thoughtfully, feeling as if she had captured a little bit of inspiration.

But at this moment, two voices in unison interrupted the officer's thoughts-

"Then you don't need to say it!"

The two old classmates, Maidan and Hayden, spoke at the same time with a sharp heart, and even their voices were in unison—

"Of course, because the crazy theists chased me all the way here."

"Naturally, it's because there are institutions and companies that are hostile to my company and want to pour dirty water on me."