On the last day of the semester, it stands to reason that everyone as a student should feel very happy.
However, on the last Friday of the holiday, the girl who was in the same class as Yinsi and who often volunteered to stay and clean the room was found tragically dead on the rooftop of the No. 1 teaching building.
The bodies were separated, but the method was different from any other crime in the past.
The official statement is that the serial murders that have occurred one after another are very likely to have imitators, who are learning the methods of previous criminals to carry out criminal activities, but this tragedy that happened on campus is somewhat different.
The perpetrator seems to have severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and mysophobia, which can be judged from the symmetry of the placement of the corpses at the scene and the cleanup of blood stains at the scene.
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"Tsk...hiss..." This is already the fifth cigarette Zhao Mu has smoked.
The lights in the room were turned blue by the smoke.
He was holding a stack of photos and a lot of information in his hand. These were important materials for handling the case, but Akaki, as before, always liked to take them to Yinsa's house for processing.
Yinsi has long been used to it. He still remembers that when he was five years old, he saw a photo of a victim who was bitten by a dog and looked disfigured on the table in the living room.
That time he was frightened and became aphasic. He was unable to pronounce and speak normally for nearly half a year.
But even so, Zhaomu is still a frequent visitor to Yinsi's house, and he will still bring those things over, but he will be more careful and try not to let Yinsi see them.
It's different now. Yinsi has grown up and his psychological quality has improved a lot. Akaki no longer avoids taboos.
But...dinner is about to start...is it really okay to watch this kind of thing on someone else's table?
"Do you know what a copycat is?" Aki suddenly asked a question that Yin Si was not interested in at all.
Yinsi frowned and shook his head, "I don't know."
"Ha... It's actually very simple. It's just imitating other people's modus operandi to commit crimes. In this way, the police will naturally think that these crimes are committed by the same person, and the imitator can use this to evade legal sanctions." Zhao Mu.
In fact, the official media has explained it very clearly on TV.
Yinsi also knew it very well, but he still said he didn't know.
"Who do you think it could be?" Zhao Mu asked another strange question.
"What?"
"Could the guy who killed Lan Chi and the guy who killed your classmate be the same person?"
Yinsi was a little unhappy when he heard this. He frowned and said, "Have you never made any progress?"
Zhaomu shook his head and laughed at himself, "It's funny, right... I have been handling criminal cases for more than ten years, but this time there are no clues at all. If I tell you, no one will believe it, right?"
"Is there really no clue?" Yinsi asked.
Zhaomu shook his head and said decisively, "Really not."
"Why are you so sure? There are cameras everywhere in the school. Is it so difficult to find out who followed Yezi upstairs during the period? The rooftop is only fifteen meters away from the classroom where I am, upstairs.
There is also a class that can see everything on the rooftop very clearly! Who would choose to commit crimes in such a dangerous place? Besides..."
"Yin Temple..."
"I'm not done yet! Besides! You said this is a copycat crime? Why is it a copycat crime? Instead of this murderer's methods becoming more and more sophisticated? He may even think that he is too clever, so that here in Kyoto
It took so long for the police to find him! Haven't you ever thought about this?"
Zhaomu stopped talking. He put out his cigarette and turned to look at Yinsi with confusion on his face.
"And!" Yinsi was a little excited. He clenched his fists and said, "Why is it Yezi? Who hates her so much? He wants to kill her! He also dismembered her body and arranged it into figures, using this shameless
Insulting her in such a way? Is it really just killing people for the sake of killing people?"
After hearing this, Zhaomu took a deep breath and said, "The four deceased people before would have the same question. They were all the same. They had no enemies, no powerful people, no money on them, and they were both male and female.
But you see... this guy seems to regard our city as a forest, and he... is like a wild beast! Hunting humans is not just for food, it may also be a kind of fun..."
"Fun?...Fun..." Yinsi murmured to himself.
Zhaomu looked at Yinsi silently, and waited until his mood stabilized before saying, "An eyewitness said that he saw you and Huan appearing near the street where the bodies of the first and second deceased were found.
, do you have any impression?"
When Yinsi heard this, he calmly asked Zhao Mudao, "Is this a clue before the rumor spread, or after the rumor spread?"
Zhaomu was suddenly speechless, he turned his head again and put away all the photos.
"It's a holiday now. If there's no need, it's better to stay at home for a while. It'll be safer." After Zhao Mu said that, he got up, picked up his coat and walked out.
Yinsi said nothing.
After a while, I heard my mother ask, "Dinner is almost ready, why do you have to leave now?"
"Um, I'm sorry, I suddenly remembered that I haven't done some important things yet, and I have to rush back now."
"Hey? Are you in such a hurry? Do you want to leave some food for you?"
"No need to bother me."
The door closed, Yin Si stood up and came to the window.
Seeing the vehicle being started downstairs, he turned around and went back to his room.
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At midnight, it was still the same bamboo forest.
But Yinsi was not alone today. He contacted Xian Luoan and said that he had something very important to tell her.
Now after the two of them met in the bamboo forest, Yun Si pointed to the Qingshui family residence in the depths of the bamboo forest, "Going around the forest in front, you will see a very narrow hole. You can go in from there."
After hearing this, Xian Luoan smiled and asked, "Are you asking the girl out so late just to sneak her into someone else's yard?"
Yin Si was very calm and asked, "Then do you want to know where the specialness in Phantom comes from? Who is that murderer?"
Xian Luoan looked at Yinsi after hearing this, pondered for a moment and then said, "I'm quite curious, but I can definitely visit in person without being sneaky. As for...the murderer you mentioned...I'm sorry, I don't really want to know."
who is he."
Yin Si frowned and was a little surprised.
"Why?"
"Because it has nothing to do with me." Xian Luoan's words were a bit harsh, but they were indeed the truth.
Yinsi was startled when he heard this. He thought Xian Luoan took the initiative to come to him because she also wanted to know the secret behind all this, but he did not expect such a reaction.
For a moment, Yinsi not only felt embarrassed, but also felt as if he had been tricked by Xian Luoan.
Seeing Yinsi's speechless face, Xian Luoan said happily, "Okay, I'm just teasing you. Since you found a way to sneak in, I'll accompany you."
Yinsi was a little confused by Xian Luoan's face-changing skills. He frowned and said, "I'm not in the mood to joke. This matter is related to the death of my friend, so I have to find out. So...if you don't think it's necessary, you can go back."
, after all, this kind of thing may be detrimental to you."
Xian Luoan stopped laughing after hearing this, she took a deep breath and said, "You are right, I really don't need to go in with you, but you shouldn't have forgotten what happened that night, right? If it weren't for me, he wouldn't be the one who died.
Yezi, it’s you!”
Yinsi was shocked when he heard this. He clenched his hands subconsciously and his heart beat faster.
"It's getting late, hurry up." After saying that, Xian Luoan headed to the Qingshui family's house first.
Yin Si followed her, looking at the girl's back while mentally guessing about her unknown side.
As the number one figure in the Kyoto branch of the high school directly affiliated with New Tokyo Shoko Academy, Yinsi is no stranger to Xian Luoan.
But since that conversation a few days ago, Yinsi noticed that there were many secrets around him.
Some of them...may even be dangerous.
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After walking around the bamboo forest and finding the entrance of the cave that Yinsi mentioned, Xian Luoan was about to duck in.
Yinsi suddenly asked, "Are you sure you want to go in?"
Xian Luoan turned around and asked strangely, "It's already this time, you're not going to say you can't do it, are you?"
This was said so ambiguously that Yinsi didn't know how to answer it.
"I...I just asked."
"Yeah." Xian Luoan didn't say anything, and ducked directly into the hole.
Yinsi also followed in.
After groping for more than ten meters in the cave, the two saw the sparse moonlight.
After looking at each other, both of them sped up their movements.
After a while, Yinsi and Xian Luoan successfully sneaked into the Qingshui family's mansion.
After dusting off the dust on his body, Xian Luoan raised his head and looked at the castle-like mansion and asked, "Where are we going now?"
Yinsi didn't say anything. He took out his mobile phone and put on a portable retinal projection curtain, and a whole structural diagram appeared in his field of vision.
Xian Luoan looked at the device worn by Yinsi with some curiosity and asked, "What is this?"
"map."
"Map? Where did you get the map?"
Yinsi did not explain. After confirming the location of himself and Xian Luoan, he closed the map and walked forward based on his memory.
"This way."
"Oh." Xian Luoan followed obediently.
The two of them walked very lightly and didn't speak a word along the way.
After leaving the backyard and entering the hinterland of the house, Yinsi did not intend to take Xian Luoan to the nine-story house in the middle of the house. Instead, he took her to find a particularly hidden path and went straight to Qingshui's house.
An abandoned courtyard in the house.
Seeing Yinsi's familiar pace, Xian Luoan began to feel a little wary.
Pushing open the door of the small Japanese-style building on the second floor in the center of the abandoned courtyard, Yinsi did not rush in. Instead, he first used a flashlight to shine around the room.
Xian Luoan asked curiously, "How did you know they had such a yard at home?"
Yin Si did not answer. After making sure there was nothing unusual in the room, he entered the room first.
Xian Luoan followed him with some confusion and was about to speak.
Yinsi suddenly turned around and covered her mouth, then pulled her and hid behind the old screen.
Xian Luoan was startled and his eyes widened.
Yinsi turned off the flashlight and looked back at the door.
Xian Luoan also looked outside the door, but she couldn't see anything from her angle.
But when she looked at Yinsi again, she found that Yinsi's eyes were full of fear...
At that moment, a chill ran down Xian Luoan's spine, and he was even more curious about what Yin Si had seen.
After a while, Yinsi let go of his hand, but his mental state was very bad, as if he had been extremely frightened.
Xian Luoan quietly touched the door and looked outside.
Although the abandoned courtyard gives people a spooky feeling, everything outside is bathed in the tranquil moonlight, and there is nothing scary about it.
This made Xian Luoan a little confused.
She returned to Yinsi and asked in a low voice, "What did you see?"
Yinsi's body was still shaking uncontrollably. He calmed down for a while before saying, "I don't know..."
"Huh? I don't know?"
This answer is really confusing.
But that was Yinsi's answer. After taking a deep breath, he put on the previous device again, and then said, "Follow me, we're not there yet."
After saying that, he went to the back room.
Xian Luoan hurriedly followed her. As she walked, she looked back towards the door, full of doubts in her heart.
When the two came to the bedroom in the back room, Yinsi's breathing became rapid.
Xian Luoan frowned and adjusted to the darkness before he saw a strange hole in the corner of the master bedroom!
It's strange... not only because it appears in the master bedroom, but also because it is surrounded by shrinking black and white textures, like a vortex.
After looking at it for a while, Xian Luoan took a step back with caution, "What's in there?"
Yinsi shook his head, "I don't know."
Don’t know again?!
Xian Luoan was speechless. She asked Yinsi, "Then what do you know?"
Yinsi took off the device on his head and said, "I know why the police have not found clues, and I also know why they knew the clues but did not dare to investigate in depth... they just kept waiting there passively."
Xian Luoan "Why?"
"Because of fantasy."
"who?"
"Qing Shui Huan, the eldest daughter of the Qing Shui family." Yin Si said and looked at Xian Luo'an and said, "Originally I was just curious... But after Lan Chi died, I realized that all of this is more than just curiosity to me.
, I want to find out the truth!”
"Then...then what did you find?"
"Many, very many...but...all the same..."
"What?" Xian Luoan didn't like Yinsi's way of speaking very much. She said bitterly, "Can't you speak more clearly?"
Yinsi shook his head, as if rejecting, or denying himself.
"You'll understand when you go down," Yinsi said.
"Go down? That hole...have you ever gone down? What's in it?"
"No, I haven't been down there, but I have an intuition that it's down there, and I can already smell its scent." Yinsi pointed to his nose and asked Xian Luoan, "Don't you say you can?"
See? What now? What did you see?"
Xian Luoan felt that Yinsi was already a little stunned, so she took another step back, grinning at the same time and said, "A hole?"
"That's not just a hole, it's a secret guarded by the Shimizu family, and also a secret guarded by the whole of Japan! Even all mankind!" Indera's voice became louder and louder.
This made Xian Luoan feel even more uneasy, and she regretted coming.
"Yinsi, don't be so excited! Don't you think there's something wrong with your current state?"
Yinsi suddenly smiled when he heard this. He lowered his head and looked at himself and said, "Did you notice it too? I have indeed become abnormal... From the moment I could smell the smell on her body, everything became different.
It’s not normal! But don’t worry, my sanity is still there and I’m not crazy.”
But Xian Luoan felt that Yinsi was not as rational as he said. Otherwise, how could a high school student have the courage to sneak into a private residence and even find such a place?!
"Uh... Yin Si... How about we go back first?! I think things may not be as complicated as you think! The police must have missed a very crucial clue! They will definitely catch the person who killed your friend.
The murderer’s.”
"No!" Yinsi shouted as if he was suddenly stimulated, and then his whole body began to tremble.
Xian Luoan was startled, and her face straightened, knowing that she could no longer accompany him to fool around.
"Sorry, Yinsi, I can't help you." After saying that, Xian Luoan slowly retreated into the shadows.
As for Yinsi, he no longer cares whether Xian Luoan chooses to abandon him.
At this time, the strange floral fragrance had occupied his mind, and the night when Lan Chi was killed was repeated over and over again in front of his eyes...
In the darkness, the cave in the corner is like an eye peering into all living things from the darkness.
It stared at the slightly thin back, and at the same time began to try to break free from the restraints and disperse the moonlight in the room!
Yinsi, who was in chaos, could no longer hear the sounds in his ears clearly. Some were just noisy. He seemed to be drunk and his body was swaying.
Danger was approaching, but he was still alert but unable to turn around. He could only look for the color that he ignored among the chaotic colors.
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"Pure killing is meaningless!"
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"magical……"
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"I heard it's to repay a favor!"
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"No clue!"
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"Sorry, Yinsi...I can't help you!"
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hiss………………
Many pale arms poked out from the darkness, and they grabbed Yinsi's head, Yinsi's shoulders, Yinsi's arms and thighs, and then...
They began to retreat into the darkness and attempted to take Yinsi away.
At this time, Yinsi's eyes were also dark, without any light.
The sound disappeared, and the body temperature also disappeared...
In the haze, Yinsi heard a voice.
"Come to me..."
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"Huh!" Yin Si opened his eyes suddenly and saw only the chandelier in the room dimly lit.
His whole body was soaked in cold sweat.
After a while of adapting, Yin Si finally realized... This is his room, but why?
Yinsi sat up and looked at the time.
Four thirty-one in the morning.
My throat is interfering and my bladder is a little sore.
He hurriedly got up and went to the bathroom. When he came back, Yinsi discovered that the light in the living room was on.
He walked over curiously and found Akira sitting there smoking a cigarette with a bunch of photos in front of him, but they were not photos of the victim, but photos of Qingshui Gen.
Seeing this scene, Yinsi hurriedly stepped forward to snatch the photo back and said angrily, "Why are you searching my room!"