Seven Hundred and Twentieth IX: The Incident at Luofeng Ridge

On Monday, August 16th, in the afternoon, at the village office in the lower village of Luofengling.

After hearing Maori's question, Oshima said: "Mr. Shinichi didn't learn the ability to manipulate Ningyo Joruri from his father, so he couldn't preside over the sacrifice, so after his father passed away, the sacrifice gradually stopped. But Mr. Shinichi learned how to make dolls, and they were very popular abroad, so a few years ago, Mr. Shinichi simply demolished this shrine and converted it into a warehouse."

"Huh?" Maori and Yamazaki were surprised.

"Then a strange thing happened." Oshima said, "Just three years ago, his daughter Miss Misa hanged herself in the room on the second floor of that warehouse. When she was discovered, she was covered with a lot of spider webs. Then It was his wife, who died in the same way, in the same place, with the same spider webs."

"Isn't it?" Maori was taken aback, "How could this be?"

"Don't be nervous. According to the spider research experts invited by the police, the spider webs are only a normal occurrence due to environmental problems such as weather." Oshima laughed.

"That's right." Molly breathed a sigh of relief.

"But that's what makes it even more terrifying. Why are they?" Oshima said, "So the villagers all think that this is the curse of Mr. Spider, and that Mr. Spider is dissatisfied with the severance of worship, so he took revenge on Mr. Shinichi."

"This..." Mori sweated, and Yamazaki was speechless.

"Ha, I'm just kidding, please don't mind." Oshima smiled, and continued, "Mr. Mori, Mr. Shinichi invited you to come over for what happened three days ago."

"Did something happen again?" Molly asked.

"Mr. Shinichi's business partner, Mr. Satoshi Negishi hanged himself in the room on the second floor of the warehouse, which was sealed because of the consecutive suicide incidents three years ago." Oshima said, "But when he was found, he was wrapped around his body. It was not spider webs, but a lot of fishing lines, so the police said it was a locked room murder modeled on a curse."

"The murder in the secret room?" Maori asked in confirmation.

"Yes, I heard that the door is closed, and the only skylight does not allow adults to enter or exit." Oshima said, "The investigation released by the police said that according to the traces on the dust in the room, the murderer put the noose on the On the skylight, the other end goes around the beam under the ceiling and protrudes out of the skylight, and a fishing line is placed on the beam. When Mr. Negishi sticks his head out, he pulls the end of the rope and hangs Mr. Negishi on the beam. At the same time, the fishing line is caught. The shock came down and wrapped itself around Mr. Negishi's body."

"Isn't it?" Mao Li asked, "How could this rope be invisible and still go in?"

Oshima said: "The police said that Mr. Negishi took a lot of narcotics before his death, so he was unconscious at the time."

"Anesthetics? That's possible." Maori asked, "Did the murderer catch it? Could it be someone from the Takeda family?"

"No, everyone in the Takeda family went to the city at that time, and there was only one family in the Takeda family. So the police speculated that it was an outsider, probably because of the conflict between Mr. Negishi and Mr. Negishi because of the anesthetic." Oshima said, "But There is still one point that has not been clarified, Mr. Negishi weighs more than two hundred catties, there are no footprints or tire marks on the ground in front of the warehouse outside the skylight, and the police have not announced how the murderer hangs Mr. Negishi up to now."

"I see." Maori laughed, "It seems that this is my job." Then he said, "Thank you for telling me so many things."

"this is nothing,

Oshima laughed, and then said hesitantly, "Well, Mr. Maori, I have a brother who works as a policeman here, if..."

"Oh, I see." Mao Li smiled, "Don't worry, I will let you know the result."

"Thank you very much." Oshima smiled happily, and then said, "Please sit down a moment, I will call the Takeda family."

"Okay, thank you." Molly smiled.

Oshima called and told Mori that Takeda Shinichi's younger brother Takeda Yuzo was on his way.

About ten minutes later, Mori and Yamazaki got into Takeda Yuzo's pickup truck. ...

On the other side, in the mountains of Luofuling.

Hattori pushed the motorcycle and walked on a road with Kazuha.

Glancing at the setting sun, He Ye couldn't help asking: "Hey, Heiji, are we lost? Why do I always feel like we're going around in the same place?"

"Idiot." Hattori yelled, "Who said that the terrain around here covered me, and then just sat on the back of the motorcycle."

"You're the idiot." He Ye called out, "You ran here on a motorcycle without even filling up the gas, and you still have to take a shortcut to get out of the woods."

"Nonsense." Hattori yelled, "Who knows that there is not even a gas station here, and it is because there is no gas that we took a shortcut, otherwise we don't know where it is. If you want to blame it, it's too remote. not on me."

"It's true, who would live here. Really, not only are there no pedestrians, but there is no mobile phone signal." He Ye complained, "Sure enough, it's better to come here by taxi."

Hattori smiled and said, "I told you earlier, I don't mind taking a rental car here if you are willing to pay the bill."

"Don't even think about it." Kazuha said, and then asked, "What should we do now, Heiji? Can we go to that Takeda's house before evening?"

"I don't know." Hattori said, "If it doesn't work, just sleep in the open."

"Sleeping in the open, don't do it!" He Ye jumped up, "We didn't bring a tent, and the mosquitoes will eat this, so how can we meet people then?"

Hattori said: "Put on the clothes we brought, and if the two of us sleep next to each other, we can always get through the night."

"Sleeping, sleeping together?" He Ye blushed a little.

"What are you thinking?" Hattori raised his triangular eyes, "I'm talking about back to back, who wants to breathe the exhaust gas you spit out. And speaking of the front, don't make any strange moves."

"These are what I want to say." He Ye shouted angrily.

At this time, a man's voice sounded from behind them, and the tone sounded very strange, "Oh, oh, it's not good for young couples to quarrel."

Hattori and Kazuha looked back and found that it was a foreigner in his twenties with a camera hanging around his neck. He seemed to be a tourist.

Hattori and Kazuha glanced at each other, and Hattori said: "Let's go, Kazuha, let's pretend we didn't see it."

"Okay." He Ye nodded and said.

"Wait, please wait, I'm just joking." The foreigner said, "My name is Robert Tiller, an American, and I am a photographer who loves Japanese natural scenery very much. I was also in this nostalgic forest before. Taking pictures."

"Nostalgic?" Hattori asked, "Have you been here before?"

"That's right," Robert said with a smile, "Speaking of which, it's thanks to the help of the Takeda family."

"Takeda?" He Ye asked in surprise, "Do you know their family?"

Hattori asked: "In this case, can I ask you to show me the way?"

"Well," Robert said dryly, "Actually, I'm too obsessed with the scenery here..."

"Don't you want to say that you are actually lost?" Hattori said angrily.

"But, I just heard from you that you are also going to Mr. Takeda's house?" Robert asked in surprise, "Could it be..."

Hattori said to Kazuha: "Well, it seems that we are sleeping in the open."

"I hate it, don't, don't." He Ye jumped.

"No way, there's no one here to ask for directions." Hattori said, and then found a pickup truck parked beside him, with a familiar person, Mori, sitting in the passenger seat.

Yamazaki, who was sitting in the back compartment, smiled and said, "If you ask for directions, 10,000 yen is enough."

"Uncle, Yamazaki!" He Ye smiled in surprise, and then found that there were only Maoli and Yamazaki, "Why didn't Ran and the others come?"

"No." Yamazaki said with a smile, "Let's talk when we come up."

"Why are you here?" Hattori asked.

"That's what I want to ask too," Maori said.

Robert looked at the driver and said, "You are Mr. Yongsan, do you remember me? I am Robert."

"Oh, it's you. We received your letter, but we didn't expect to meet here." Takeda Yuzo smiled, "But you came late this year."

"There was some delay on the way." Robert said shyly, "I wanted to walk through the forest to visit, but I can't remember the way."

"I see, let's get in the car." Takeda Yuzo said with a smile.

Afterwards, Hattori lifted the motorcycle into the carriage, fixed the motorcycle with the rope in the carriage together with Mori and Yamazaki, and then sat in the carriage with Kazuha, Maori also sat in the carriage, and Robert sat in the side seat. in the cab. ...

On the way to Takeda's house, in the carriage.

Maori asked Hattori, "What are you doing here?"

"Yesterday, I received a letter of entrustment." Hattori took out a letter, "It didn't say anything, it just told me to come to Takeda's house in Luofuling before sunset and have an interview with me. Ten thousand yen, I never take money, so come and return the money to that idiot."

"Ha, 100,000 yen?" Maori smiled proudly, "I received a deposit of 500,000 yen."

"It's not the same family." Hattori raised his triangular eyes.

"There's only one family up here, and that's the Takeda family." Mao Li laughed.

Then, Yamazaki briefly explained what he heard from Oshima.

"I see, the secret room murder incident." Hattori smiled excitedly. ...

In the evening, at the entrance of the Takeda family mansion.

Facing the middle-aged man who came out to greet everyone, Takeda Yuzo introduced: "Mr. Mori, this is my big brother. Big brother, this is Detective Mori and his assistant Yamazaki."

"I'm so glad you can come, Mr. Mori." Takeda Shinichi said with a smile.

"You're welcome." Maori smiled.

Takeda Yuzo said: "These two teenagers are friends of Mr. Mori, and we met them on the way."

"I'm Heiji Hattori, I'm here to return this to you." Hattori handed the entrustment letter with 100,000 yen to Takeda Shinichi.

"This is?" Takeda Nobu looked at the entrustment letter and frowned, "I didn't send this letter."

"Not you?" Hattori was stunned.

Shinichi Takeda asked: "Heiji Hattori, are you the famous high school detective Heiji Hattori in Kansai?" Then he handed the letter to Yuzo Takeda, "Go ask your second brother and second sister-in-law to see if they sent it. .”

"I'll go right away." Takeda Yuzo took the entrustment letter and left.

"Mr. Shinichi, hello, we meet again." Robert smiled.

Takeda Shinichi smiled and said, "Hello, Robert, you are late this year."

"The trip has been delayed." Robert laughed.

"Look at me, I asked you to stand at the door." Takeda Shinichi said with a smile, "Please come in, Mr. Mori, and everyone." He said and led the way. ...