Chapter 111 Hirata’s World (6)

"December 2nd." Watanabe replied.

Feng Bujue said: "The first video took place on November 24th, right?"

"That's right."

"Excuse me, what are the times for the second and third periods?" Feng Bujue asked again.

Watanabe did not answer immediately. He seemed to need to think about it, but Police Tachibana was familiar with the case and continued: "Fukui was shot on November 26. That afternoon, he sent away all the servants at home. The reason is... to meet your wife Sato Hariko." He hesitated slightly when he said this, probably thinking of a more appropriate wording, "I personally think that a guy like Fukui deserves to die, but you just wanted to get the murder weapon. And if my subordinates are involved, I will never show any kindness to you."

Watanabe added at this time: "Fukui's body was not discovered until noon the next day. Since it was a shooting, the investigation progressed very carefully. On that day, Hirata-kun went to work at the company as usual and behaved very calmly. Sato Hariko was absent from work, and what happened in the third video x-on:happened that night.”

Feng Bujue said: "Then... Officer Yamada's disappearance should be from the time when Hirata left the company on November 24th to the morning of November 26th, right?"

Police Department Ju continued: "On the night of the 25th, he went out on patrol on his bicycle, and no one saw him again."

"Has the bicycle been found?" Feng Bujue asked.

"I'm asking you where you are now!" Ju shouted.

"Don't you think so..." Feng Bujue muttered, "Well...I see."

"Does your tone mean you deserve a beating?" Tachibana threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and rushed over again.

Feng Bujue ignored him and said to himself: "As far as I know, the public security in Japan is pretty good, and the police force accounts for a high proportion of the total population. If it is in a big city, only the criminal police and special police will Equipped with a gun. But in a small town like this, I guess...everything from public security to criminal cases must be handled by a fixed and limited group of people, so...it's not surprising that Yamada would become a target." He After a pause, he continued: "This is what I think. Suppose Hirata plans to take away Yamada's gun. He has two choices. The first is to steal, and the second is to rob.

Stealing that requires skill, not to mention stealing something like a gun. Once caught, he will definitely go to jail, and his intention to murder Fukui will also be exposed. What Hirata did was reckless, but that was under the premise of successfully killing Fukui. Before the crime was completed, he could not allow any mistakes. So... the certainty of robbery is obviously greater than that of stealing. Of course, the crime is also more serious, but a man who plans to kill has already had this awareness.

Since it was a robbery, no skills were needed. All he had to do was pick a deserted place at night, attack the unsuspecting Yamada from behind, and then take away the gun. But if that was the case, there was no way Yamada would be missing... The most he could do was faint on the roadside.

Now that Yamada is indeed missing, that means something unexpected happened while Hirata was grabbing the gun. Maybe he originally planned to knock Officer Yamada out, but he accidentally killed him during the operation..."

"Asshole!" Ju was serious this time. He came up and grabbed Feng Bujue's collar: "Have you finally confessed? Tell me! Where is Yamada's body!"

Feng Bujue continued to narrate calmly: "I don't know, I'm just guessing based on the clues you told me... uh..." When he said this, he received a heavy punch from Ju in the stomach, and his survival value actually increased directly. It dropped 30, and it was also attached to the status.

"Department Orange!" Watanabe came up and pulled the uncle away: "Please don't abuse the suspect's private behavior!"

"Suspect? This kid killed at least two people!" Orange shouted.

"Okay, Orange Police Department, enough is enough." Watanabe advised.

Feng Bujue suffered the loss of being mute, and the breath in his chest was uneven. It took him a long time to recover. Unknowingly, he was immersed in the fun of reasoning and went his own way. This punch made him realize again that he was in a nightmare difficulty scenario. Even if the two in front of him were humanoid NPCs who could communicate, there was absolutely no "safety" "This kind of thing can't be said. Any small mistake will lead to your own demise. Saying the wrong thing or even having a bad attitude has a chance of triggering a death FLAG, and any NPC can kill him instantly.

"Haah...haah..." Feng Bujue gasped, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and continued what he had interrupted before: "If Hirata carried out a sneak attack and killed Officer Yamada while he was patrolling on his bike, then ...The bike should be found."

Tachibana seemed to calm down, and Watanabe let go of his hand. The two of them turned to look at Feng Bujue to listen to what he was going to say next.

"When Hirata found out that he accidentally killed the policeman, he had nothing more than two reactions. The first was to take away the gun and run away; the second was to dispose of the body and then run away. Even in the second case, he could not Remove both the body and the bicycle at the same time. The most you can do is to throw the bicycle into an inconspicuous corner nearby and hide it, and then try to remove the body..." At this point, he added: "By the way, Hirata has Car?"

Watanabe replied: "No, in fact he doesn't have a driver's license either."

"Then we can basically rule out the possibility that he killed Yamada with his car and then put the body and the bicycle in the trunk and transported it away." Feng Bujue said thoughtfully. He paused for about ten seconds to collect his thoughts. : "I have three inferences. One is that after Hirata attacked Yamada, he dragged the body away and took it to a hidden place for disposal. The bicycle was left on the side of the road and was discovered and picked up by a third person afterwards. This is the second reason. The three of them probably did not witness the crime, so they dared to pick up the car. It is very likely that they are homeless people. The other party may have left the town now, or they may later learn that the car is related to certain incidents. It is possible to throw the bicycle into the river or even dismantle it into parts out of fear.

Secondly, after Hirata attacked Sheriff Yamada, the latter was not dead or unconscious, and he could see Hirata's face clearly. Hirata had no choice. If he let Yamada go, he would be arrested soon, so he had no choice but to use the stolen gun to hold Officer Yamada hostage, take him to a hidden place and imprison him...or kill him. In that case, Officer Yamada pushed the bicycle away by himself, while Hirata was holding him hostage.

Thirdly, after Hirata discovered that he had accidentally killed someone, he did grab the gun and run away. But after he was gone, someone else disposed of the body and the bike. "

"What do you mean? Do you have any accomplices?" Commander Ju said sharply.

"This is just a reasonable assumption, and it is entirely possible in theory. For example, someone saw what happened in the dark, and he happened to know Hirata. So he disposed of the scene after Hirata escaped, trying to cover up the matter Go over. From now on, he can use this matter to blackmail Pingtian for money, or even let Pingtian use that gun to kill people for him." Feng Bujue replied.

"Okay! Enough of your nonsense! How long are you going to keep pretending! Tell us about Yamada's whereabouts!" Officer Tachibana's patience has already reached its limit.

"Please wait a moment, I still have some things unclear..." Feng Bujue said: "On the afternoon of November 24th, Hirata had a murderous motive; on the evening of November 25th, he managed to get a pistol from Sheriff Yamada; on the afternoon of November 26th, , go to the mansion in Fukui, catch jiān, kill people..." He looked at Watanabe, "Since there are no witnesses, how do you know that Hariko was in the room when Hirata broke into the room that afternoon?"

Watanabe said: "It's based on Hirata-kun's own description, combined with the conclusions of the on-site investigation. He said that when he opened the door, he saw Hariko on the bed, and a monster was attacking Hariko, so he shot the girl to death with a gun. A monster. Then we asked where the gun came from, and he said he couldn't remember."

"Didn't Zhizi die at that time?" Feng Bujue asked.

"On the evening of the 27th, the police received a report and rushed to find Haruko Sato's body in Hirata-kun's house. Judging from the traces at the scene, it was suicide. The estimated time of death was the afternoon of the 27th, when Hirata was working as usual at the company. "Watanabe said.

"That is to say... on the 26th, Hirata went to the foreign hotel to kill people, and then took Zhizi home. The next day, Hirata showed up at the company as if nothing had happened, while his wife committed suicide at home." Feng Bujue read. Said; "It is unlikely that Haruko Sato hanged herself to die for her lover, and she did not report the case to the police... This means that her suicide was either due to mental stimulation, or she was motivated by guilt and fear towards her husband. actions made."

"We already know this kind of thing, you don't need to repeat it." Tachibana said impatiently from the side.

"Things you know, these three videos have been roughly restored." Feng Bujue continued: "And the thing you don't know...that is, the whereabouts of Officer Yamada is stored in Hirata Shuichi's already crazy mind." He moved his gaze to Dr. Watanabe's face: "So Dr. Watanabe wants to help you awaken Hirata's memory?"

Watanabe said: "Did you remember anything? Mr. F?"

Feng Bujue replied: "Sorry, the memories I saw were only three segments recorded in the video, but they were different from the content in your video. What I saw seemed to be the world with monsters in Mr. Hirata's imagination."

Watanabe sighed and said: "After the human brain is severely stimulated, memory may be affected. For example, if a person has experienced being beaten or abused as a child, because those memories are very painful, more than At the limit of his mental endurance, his brain may close the relevant memories, and the person will completely forget those things, as if they never happened; sometimes, the memory is not 'closed' , but was 'changed', just like Hirata-kun's situation. Maybe in his memory, he only remembered that he ran into his wife being attacked by a monster, but in reality..."

"I know this." Feng Bujue interrupted: "I also know a little bit about this." He moved his neck that was fixed and uncomfortable: "The situation where the memory is 'closed' is likely to lead to multiple personalities. Schizophrenia, and if it is 'changed', it is hallucination..."

"Having said so much, where is Yamada! Do you know or don't you remember?" Officer Ju stood in front of Feng Bujue, stared at him fiercely and shouted, it looked like he was about to use violence again.

Although Feng Bujue didn't want to be punched again, at this moment he didn't even have any room to resist. His whole body was restrained and he could only accept the beating obediently. He did not try the spiritual consciousness gathering technique, because judging from the settings in front of him and the words and deeds of these two NPCs, if he suddenly displayed that kind of supernatural skill, then... Watanabe would be shocked before he could successfully break away. He has to retreat, but Tachibana will decisively draw his gun and shoot. This development will inevitably lead to death.

"If I want to know the whereabouts of Yamada, I have to go back..." Feng Bujue said quickly.

"What did you say?" Orange looked suspicious.

"I have to go back to that black and white world to investigate it," Feng Bujue said.

Watanabe looked at him and frowned: "You mean... you want to return to Hirata's spiritual world?" He asked tentatively: "How to do it? Watch the video again?"

"No... that's useless." Feng Bujue said: "Didn't I just watch the video again? I just watched the normal picture... When 'Pingtian' was watching the video before, I was He was experiencing distorted memories in his spiritual world, and then I came here. Is there any way for me to go back..." He mused: "And I have to go back to a point in time before the evening of November 25th... "

"Very good. Since you are willing to cooperate, you can talk to the doctor." Tachibana's tone suddenly changed, becoming unnervingly calm.

Feng Bujue was stunned when he heard this: "What?" He looked at Watanabe again: "I haven't been with Dr. Watanabe..."

Watanabe interrupted him and said: "You have retrieved the memories of the case, recognized your mental condition, and locked Yamada's memory blind spot, so we can rest assured."

"Huh?" Feng Bujue didn't understand what they were talking about at all, "You suddenly..."

Before he could ask the question, he lost the ability to speak, because he once again became the state of watching CG in the first person, and the scene in front of him changed again.

Feng Bujue felt that he was almost fooled by this script. At first he thought it was an ordinary ghost story setting, and then he thought it was a supernatural incident with multiple threads. However, he found that the first three things were in a reversed way. On the timeline, it is just the distorted memory of a mental patient, and the script setting becomes a murder in the real world.

And next...he didn't know what would happen next.

Zhi——

This was the sound made by an incandescent lamp, and a dazzling white light made Feng Bujue recover from his brief trance.

He closed one eye and turned his head. After two seconds, he adapted to the sudden increase in light and saw his surroundings clearly.

Feng Bujue was currently wearing a striped hospital uniform and was sitting in front of a table. His hands were tied to the armrests of the chair by two pairs of handcuffs, and his feet were connected together by shackles.

There was a lamp on the table and some paper documents spread out. On the seat opposite the table, there is a man in a white coat. He looks to be in his fifties. His forehead is covered with wrinkles. He is holding a piece of paper in his hand and is writing in circles on it with a pen. There is also a There was a mini tape recorder.

This room is not closed. There is a small, iron-barred window high up, and a bunch of moonlight falls through the gap. There was a bed in one corner of the room and a toilet in the other corner. The four walls are no longer the monotonous cement color, but are painted in soft and bright colors. Feng Bujue could see the door leading out. There was a small window above the door panel. This small window was not made of glass, but was filled with a very dense, intersecting iron mesh. There is also a flap on the lower part of the door, which seems to be only openable from the outside. It should be an opening used to deliver meals to prisoners.

"Then... Hirata-kun, if you are ready, let's start this conversation." The man in the white coat said.

Feng Bujue sighed: "Sorry, there are three things you must tell me."

The white coat was silent for two seconds, frowned and looked at him: "What is it?"

"Who are you, where am I, and... today's date." Feng Bujue asked.

The other party also took a deep breath, and then sighed deeply: "Hey..." He picked up the mini recorder at hand, pressed the record button, and said to his mouth: "March 9, 2005, patient number 0098, Hirata Xiuyi. The person who recorded the file, Taro Takakura." Gao Cang put the recorder aside and said to Feng Bujue: "Don't you remember me?"

Feng Bujue ignored him, lowered his head with all his strength, and touched his face with the back of his hand. After touching it twice, he was basically sure that his face did not look fifteen years older. Although it looks like he is wearing prison uniform, when he opens the game menu, there is still no change in the clothing column. But no matter what, from the perspective of the NPC, the person in front of him is undoubtedly Shuichi Hirata, who is in his forties.

"You..." Gao Cang seemed to be a very perceptive person: "Who are you? Are you Hirata? Watanabe? Tachibana? Or someone else?"

The amount of information in this question was quite large, but Feng Bujue responded immediately: "Do I have multiple personality disorder?"

"Yes." Gao Cang replied. He picked up the document in his hand and sighed again: "Since you were imprisoned in 1991, many doctors have participated in your treatment and research. It can be determined at present There are three personalities, the main personality is Shuichi Hirata, and there are two other personalities, a psychiatrist named Watanabe, and a police officer named Tachibana. So, which one are you? Or neither of them?"

Feng Bujue leaned back in his chair: "You can call me Mr. F." He looked at the ceiling: "Watanabe represents Hirata's rationality and wisdom, and Tachibana represents Hirata's conscience and self-blame. Hirata himself... I don’t know, I haven’t met him yet.”

"Mr. F? Reason? Conscience?" Gao Cang snorted coldly: "Okay, Mr. F. So what do you represent? Your identity, profession..."

"Me?" Feng Bujue smiled: "I am a mystery novelist who came from a higher dimension and entered this body." He looked relaxed: "I am gradually breaking away from a certain kind of world cast by thought. The subject of the cage may be Mr. Hirata, whom I have not yet met, or it may be something else. I broke through from the most chaotic and vague memory world to the subconscious self-spiritual world, and then picked up some important things. memories, and came here." He moved forward: "I now seriously doubt, Dr. Gao Cang, whether you and this cell are real or a symbol of another cage..." (Unfinished) to be continued.