Manual of the Monster in City

34 Close to the truth?

    Shenting County County Library.

    In the newspapers and periodicals lending area, the members of the "Shen Ting Middle School Vicious Homicide Investigation Team" have spontaneously formed a very tacit cooperation method at this moment——

    Classmate Edogawa has quick eyes and hands, and is responsible for finding out all the newspapers before and after the crime happened four years ago, as well as all the newspapers before and after the murderer committed suicide.

    Yuan Boyang quickly categorized these old newspapers and arranged them neatly.

    The rest is the responsibility of Jia Qingming and Su Qiang. Although they can still do ten lines at a glance, it is still a headache to read the densely packed small prints in the newspaper for a long time.

    Jia Qingming paused a bit to sort out his thoughts.

    The vicious homicide four years ago was originally just a campus violence. The murderer did not intend to kill the victim, Senior Wu Yao. To put it simply, Senior Wu Yao was bullied by a senior murderer and then... was locked in by the murderer. In the cabinet of the school’s old science laboratory.

    This was an excessive school violence. According to the murderer’s confession, he originally planned to go out and surf the Internet. When he came back, he was released. However, he was hit by a motorcycle on the street when he turned out from the campus and went to the Internet cafe. Was hospitalized... and then...

    Then he forgot about it.

    Although there are many unreliable things in Shenting Middle School, it is still a school born for exams. The science laboratory is mainly for the appearance, and the total number of experimental classes in a semester is probably only 20 lessons. And the location is also a remote location at the end of the fourth floor. There are almost no classrooms on the fourth floor. The classrooms there are mainly arranged as examination rooms for large-scale examinations.

    So... this accident indirectly caused the death of Senior Wu Yao. He was locked in a cabinet in the science room. No one noticed him in the science laboratory, which was usually locked when not in use. He was forgotten just like the classroom.

    During that time, only some campus horror legends about the strange sounds of the science laboratory circulated, but judging from this situation, it should be Senior Wu Yao's cry for help.

    It was not until the next time that a certain class arranged a biological experiment to be carried out in this unremarkable laboratory, but everyone smelled a foul smell in the air. Only then did they find the dead senior Wu Yao from the cabinet in the corner. .

    The police immediately intervened in the investigation. When the murderer saw the incident reported in the newspaper, he suddenly remembered what he had done when he bullied Wu Yao...He was the murderer!

    A great fear seized him, and soon he went to the police station to surrender, but...

    But this incident did not alleviate his pain.

    Although the case was closed, and although there were elements of homicide, he was finally convicted of intentional homicide and put him in jail. Everything seemed to be over.

    After a month, the murderer committed suicide in prison.

    A newspaper in Shenting County reported the incident at the time. It is said that the murderer once told the prison guard who guarded him that he felt that there was a pair of eyes looking at him in the iron cabinet in the room.

    The cell in Shenting County Prison is a kind of single room with a bed and a toilet. In addition, there is an iron wardrobe for inmates to store and wash the prisoners.

    Many times he said that he could not bear the pressure, and told the prison guards that there was a real ghost here, and he was dismissed carelessly. Even if he really has a deep fear of cabinets and the like because of the crimes he committed, it is impossible for him to arrange for the cabinets to be dismantled for such trivial matters. In order to prevent improper abuse by detainees, these cabinets They were all welded to the wall of the cell, which was troublesome to remove.

    However, no one thought that he really committed suicide. When he died, he seemed to have been greatly frightened, and he died in the closet of the cell. The cause of death was excessive fright, causing the heart to stop.

    Being lively is the routine of horror movies.

    "Sure enough, do things like ghosts exist?" Su Qiang muttered. "However, this can only prove that the case four years ago is related to ghosts. It is now four years. The ghosts in the story will definitely disappear after their revenge, because they have fulfilled their wishes. Wu Yao has completed his revenge. Killing the murderer, of course he has no unfulfilled wish."

    "It's true..." Jia Qingming said. If you want to say that these two things are unrelated, but they seem to be too similar, the same strange and inexplicable technique, and the same person who died in the cabinet...

    Of course, he still had one thing in mind. He must warn Li Guisheng when he goes back, and don’t hide in the cabinet of the club room in the future to "secretly observe" it. That is a dead cabinet!

    "Of course, it seems difficult for the victim Zhang Liang to have anything to do with this incident. There is no similarity between the two, and more importantly, Zhang Liang's bizarre disappearance before." Su Qiang said Put the newspaper in hand on the table, stand up, move his sore shoulders, and twist his neck. "In fact, there is one more thing I care about in this case. To be honest, it is also a very likely guess."

    "what?"

    "According to the testimony of the doorman, I suspect that someone sneaked into the school last night. In other words, this person is likely to understand the bizarre incident of Wu Yao's death many years ago, and wanted to use it to kill Zhang Liang. On the head of the ghost..." Su Qiang analyzed seriously, but Xiao Shanshan seemed to be holding back the more he wanted to laugh as he listened.

    "The only doubt in this matter is that if it is true, it is almost impossible to exist... only in American dramas, the so-called'perfect crime'. I don't know whether there is such a method in reality. .Because the murderer did not leave any evidence, the toilet site that could leave fingerprints has long been destroyed...no valuable fingerprints can be extracted. If Zhang Liang can be rescued and wake up, maybe he is the only person who can provide valuable clues to this shore Up."

    "That... Actually, it was almost discovered by the guardian uncle last night..." Jia Qingming interrupted Su Qiang's reasoning with a black line on her face, "It's a few of us..."

    "you guys?!"

    "Well... we organized our first club activity last night-a late-night exploration of the high school building of Shintei Middle School!" Edogawa said, looking very proud.

    What's so proud of? !

    "Have you ever appeared at the scene of a crime?! You really are! An act that interferes with the detection of the case!" Su Qiang was very angry, with serious consequences.

    "Not only that, but Edogawa and the others did go to the place where Zhang Liang was found, Class 14. But the door was locked at that time."

    "Locked?"

    "Yes, this is indeed a contradiction." Jia Qingming explained to Su Qiang, "The two younger brothers of Zhang Liang said that the door was not locked that day, but when Edogawa-san went there, the door was locked. "

    "What's even more strange is that the time when the two groups of us appeared there should be fore and aft." Edogawa pushed his glasses and continued to think, "And that day, one of our companions mysteriously disappeared there, but Soon afterwards I found it again..."

    "Who is the companion you are talking about?" Su Qiang's eyes sharpened, and the exhaustion she had felt before was swept away.

    "Ah, it's a member of our club, his name is Li Guisheng, but he is very courageous, he usually likes to hide in the cabinet, hehe, we all say that he is really as his name is, like a person born in the cabinet!" Xiao Shanshan laughed as she spoke.

    But Su Qiang couldn't be infected by her lively smile. She was full of seriousness, and her expression quickly cooled down: "I think your companion Li Guisheng has serious suspicions."

    "Wait... this kind of thing..." Xiao Shanshan stopped smiling and looked surprised.

    "Yes. The time of Li Guisheng's disappearance... can be said to coincide with the time of Zhang Liang's disappearance. It will be a long time since he appeared. If he really committed the crime, there will definitely be plenty of time!" Edogawa began. His reasoning.

    "Eh? Student Jiang, why did you turn your elbow out?!" Xiao Shanshan narrowed her mouth.

    "Yes, I have met Li Guisheng. It is said that he is often bullied and fearful of things. But the more such a person, the more likely he is to accumulate hatred in his heart. When one day bursts out, he will definitely Become a terrible demon. There are too many cases like this." Su Qiang also took over and said——

    This is a clash of inspirations between a Sherlock Holmes fan and a Conan fan.

    "You should investigate him anyway." Yuan Mutou said, standing up and arranging the pile of materials after reading them according to the date, picking them up and sending them back to the newspaper rack.

    "Wait... Although you say that! I am not a member of my own club. I am the president of the student council. I am sure that there are so many members that I can't be partial to everyone. You forgot one thing!" Xiao Shanshan said Said with certainty, "Li Guisheng did disappear mysteriously, and the time is very consistent, but-he has evidence of his alibi! Several of us can actually testify."

    "Really?" Edogawa lost his thoughts.

    "Do you remember how we found Li Guisheng?"

    "It seems to be Seimei-senpai..." Edogawa thought, his memory goes back to the night of school exploration that frightened him.

    He was anxious and a little scared because of this weird thing, but Li Guisheng was nowhere to be found. The child was timid, but it felt like a ghost, and suddenly disappeared. I'm scared. He finally joined everyone in the club room and talked about the disappearance of Li Guisheng, just when he did not know where to start searching...

    Senior Jia Qingming suddenly noticed something, and then the stage is...

    ——"Li Guisheng, come out, you fellow!" Jia Qingming angrily pulled the closet door.

    ——Sure enough, Li Guisheng's scared and trembling voice came from inside: "No!" Negative Yu stubbornly resisted.

    "Yes. You were at the door at the time. Senior Qingming was with us all the time. Senior Yuan, eat potato chips with me in the activity room, right." Xiao Shanshan said.

    "Well," Yuan Mu-mutou confirmed, "but I prefer the barbecue flavor. I ate tomato flavor that day."

    Who is asking about your preference? !

    "Yes!" Xiao Shanshan made a final word, "It means that Li Guisheng had been hidden in the cabinet of the activity room before us. He has an impeccable alibi! We can all testify."

    "No... something is wrong..." Jia Qingming suddenly stood up.

    The previous analysis was okay, but after hearing Xiao Shanshan’s "impeccable" alibi, he suddenly got goose bumps on his cheeks, and his voice was trembling with the chill caused by this inference. .

"That day...you opened the door..." Jia Qingming said.