On the way to Moritomo Academy, Liu Xing kept thinking about a question in his mind, that is, why did Tetsuya Honda die? !
First of all, Liu Xing can be sure that Honda Tetsuya could not have been killed by the Deep Sea Gospel Society. After all, Liu Xing believed in Honda Tetsuya's ability.
And if you go by what the local anchor said, then Tetsuya Honda immediately jumped into the swimming pool and committed suicide after sending himself a text message.
are you crazy? !
Liu Xing didn't think that Tetsu Honda would do such a thing as convulsing, so he could commit suicide for fun when he had nothing to do.
Therefore, Liu Xing suspected that Honda Tetsuya was not dead, or that the identity of "Honda Tetsuya" was just dead.
To put it simply, Tetsuya Honda just used a trick to escape from the shell and keep himself out of the matter.
Again, since Tetsuya Honda was able to send Rei Ishikawa to another dimension, Tetsuya Honda must have the ability to create his own "corpse" to give the illusion that he was dead.
Of course, Tetsuya Honda is obviously targeting the Deep Sea Evangelical Society in doing this, because the current Deep Sea Evangelical Society probably still stupidly thinks that Honda Tetsuya is just an ordinary person, a sinner who betrayed their great plan.
Therefore, the Deep Sea Gospel Society will definitely follow the steps and wait until the time is right to kill Honda Tetsuya.
Tetsuya Honda naturally understands this, so the question arises, what should Tetsuya Honda do in the face of the attack from the Deep Sea Evangelical Society?
First of all, it is definitely impossible for Honda Tetsuya to let the Deep Sea Gospel Society succeed. After all, Wozki Shuode has such a famous saying-people will die when they are killed, and the same goes for mythical creatures, except for the old rulers.
Therefore, even if Honda Tetsu is a mythical creature, he would not dare to take risks, unless Honda Tetsu is also the incarnation of Nyarlathotep who does not want to reveal his name.
Thinking of this, Liu Xing nodded silently. If Honda Tetsuya is really the incarnation of Nyarlathotep, then everything will make sense. . .
However, Liu Xing is still more than 80% sure that this Tetsu Honda is not the incarnation of Nyarlathotep. After all, although Nyarlathotep is the scapegoat with a high appearance rate in the Cthulhu Running Team game, In this real Cthulhu team game, the possibility of the incarnations of Nyarlathotep playing in person is extremely low. Even Ao Guanhai, who Liu Xing knows best and has exchanged a few words with, is also unlikely to Appears as a GM, not as an NPC.
Even if the incarnations of Nyarlathotep are to join the game as NPCs, then with the "worth" of Nyarlathotep's incarnations, they will definitely not appear in these "small crews" in the Shoggoth area. After all, Shoggoth All the players in the region together may not be able to pay the "appearance fee" for Nyarlathotep.
Therefore, Liu Xing can be so sure that Honda Tetsuya will not be the incarnation of Nyarlathotep, but may be a powerful magician, because now Honda Tetsuya has created a substitute to "die" in his place, and also gave himself The stand-in left a "whole corpse", which shows that Tetsuya Honda is very confident in the stand-in he created and believes that his stand-in will not find any flaws.
Therefore, apart from magicians, the only people who can do this are high-tech mythical creatures like Yis and Mi Go.
Here, Liu Xing still struggled with whether Honda Tetsuya was Mi Ge. After all, Honda Tetsuya was mentioned in MiG's story.
However, Mi Go is still in Zhang Jingxu's crew, and it is unlikely that he will come to this module to make a "guest appearance". Moreover, Mi Go should not be able to send Ishikawa Ling to the alien world without disturbing other people. Dimension, unless Mi.G has developed a miniature time-travel machine.
Therefore, Liu Xing feels that Tetsuya Honda is more like a magician. Of course, this magician is likely to have Mi Go help him perform brain replacement surgery.
However, because the current information is still too little, Liu Xing does not want to be too entangled in Honda Tetsuya's identity. Now it is enough to know that Honda Tetsuya's identity is not simple.
Having said that, Liu Xing is now increasingly confused about what Tetsuya Honda wants to do. After the golden cicada escapes from his shell, Tetsuya Honda can be regarded as "retreating to the second line."
Well, if Honda Tetsuya who was originally on the bright side, Liu Xing felt that he could still be prepared, then Honda Tetsuya who turned to the dark side, who knows what Honda Tetsuya will do next, so Liu Xing can only hope that Honda Tetsuya will not do anything It's done, otherwise the next direction of this module will be problematic.
While Liu Xing was thinking wildly, he took Ming Hanxing and others into Moritomo Academy.
Because it is holiday time now, Moritomo Academy does not arrange a few security guards to guard the school. Now it is necessary to go to the swimming pool to maintain order, so there is no security guard at the entrance of Moritomo Academy.
When they learned that another bizarre death occurred in Moritomo Academy, the surrounding onlookers and some students rushed into Moritomo Academy and went to the swimming pool to find out. So Liu Xing and his party also mixed into the crowd and found a few Form a group with students you know, so you have some cover.
The swimming pool is located behind the old teaching building. Because there has been no maintenance, the area around the swimming pool is very dilapidated and overgrown with weeds. However, due to the death of Honda Tetsuya, the swimming pool has now been surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside. layer.
"It seems we are still late. We can't see anything standing outside." Nobi Nobita complained.
Liu Xing nodded helplessly. It was basically impossible for his group to squeeze in now, but if they couldn't squeeze in, then their trip would be in vain.
Just when Liu Xing was still struggling with how to squeeze in, a familiar voice sounded, "Does anyone here know the deceased? Now the police need your help."
Liu Xing looked around and saw it was Dahu Hayato who squeezed out of the crowd and said.
Liu Xing immediately waved his hand, and Dahu Hayato came over and said with a smile: "Hey, it's you again, what's the matter, do you know the deceased?"
Liu Xing nodded and said, "Yes, if I saw it correctly in the live broadcast, the deceased was my former class teacher and now works in the school archives."
Dahu Hayato didn't waste any time, and directly pulled Liu Xing into the crowd, and unceremoniously opened a path for Liu Xing to reach the edge of the swimming pool. However, Ming Hanxing and his group still did not squeeze in.
Liu Xing first looked around the situation inside the swimming pool and found that Keio Fujiwara and Yuko Fujiwara had arrived at the scene and were talking to another policeman.
Liu Xing now had no time to look at the Fujiwara father and daughter, and directly focused on Tetsuya Honda in the swimming pool.
Because the swimming pool is relatively large, the body of Tetsuya Honda located in the center of the swimming pool can only be retrieved by swimming in. However, because the police are still a little wary of the unknown red liquid in the swimming pool, no one is willing to go into the water to retrieve Tetsuya Honda’s body. , and Liu Xing also heard the policeman next to him complaining that because the swimming pool was in disrepair, the drainage channel of the swimming pool had long been blocked. If he wanted to drain the unknown red liquid in the swimming pool, he could only wait for the arrival of the pump. .
As for Honda Tetsuya's body now, for some reason only his head was above the water and his body was completely immersed in the water, just like Honda Tetsuya was standing in a swimming pool.
"Now are you sure that the deceased is Honda Tetsuya? If you are sure, can you tell me if you have noticed any strange behavior of Honda Tetsuya in the past few days?" Hayato Dahu said to Liu Xing.
Liu Xing thought for a while, nodded and said: "I can now confirm that he is Mr. Honda. If there is anything weird, it is that before the last time we met, Mr. Honda was transferred to the archives room, so I I wanted to go see him, so after watching the excitement, I met Mr. Honda, and that was the last time I saw Mr. Honda alive."
"When I met Mr. Honda at that time, Mr. Honda looked very scared. I asked Mr. Honda what he was afraid of. He said that the day before Suzuki Ryuya's accident, he saw the legendary woman in red. He showed us the ghost handprint on his chest, so he was worried that he would be the next to die, so we comforted Mr. Honda, but we didn’t expect Mr. Honda to die in the end..."
Hayato Oko frowned, looked at the old teaching building, and said with some doubts: "Are there really ghosts in this world? But then again, according to what Suzuki Ryuya and Honda Tetsuya said during their lifetime, they saw them the day before they died. The person with the ghost in red is the next person to die, so Moritomo Academy must have been on holiday yesterday, so the only ones who could see the ghost in red were the security guards, right?"
Liu Xing nodded. Logically speaking, at Moritomo Academy yesterday, only security guards could come to the old teaching building area, so only security guards could see the female ghost in red.
However, Liu Xing still shook his head in his heart, because one conclusion can be drawn from the information obtained before, that is, all of this is a sacrificial ceremony organized by the Deep Sea Gospel Society, and the appearance of the female ghost in red one day early is actually a sacrificial ceremony. In order to remind the deceased, and hope that the deceased can find something for her, something that can liberate the female ghost in red and enable the female ghost in red to help the deceased.
Therefore, leaving aside whether the Deep Sea Gospel Society will "kill relatives" for the sake of justice and use its own believers as sacrifices, Liu Xing thinks that the female ghost in red should already know that the school security guards are all believers of the Deep Sea Gospel Society, so the female ghost in red is It's impossible to appear in front of these security guards.
Therefore, after Hayato Dahu asked the security guards around him, he found that they all said they did not see students or the female ghost in red yesterday.
Hayato Oko scratched his head in frustration and said depressingly: "Did some local anchor sneak into Moritomo Academy yesterday and be targeted by a female ghost in red?"
Liu Xing chuckled, knowing that no one had seen the female ghost in red yesterday, because Tetsuya Honda suddenly "committed suicide" this time, which disrupted all the plans of the Deep Sea Gospel Society. After all, according to the previous rules, the Deep Sea Gospel Society He must have planned to attack Honda Tetsuya in more than ten days.
Therefore, Liu Xing looked at Keio Fujiwara meaningfully, wondering how he was feeling now and how he planned to make up for this loophole.
At this time, Hayato Dahu said to Liu Xing: "By the way, Liu Xing, do you know why Honda Tetsuya was sent to the archives room? Before I came here, I looked at Honda Tetsuya's file and found that he suddenly and inexplicably changed from the class teacher to the archives room." There must be something fishy about becoming an ordinary file administrator."
Liu Xing nodded and told Dahu Hayato about the Yueshi incident, which made Dahu Hayato frown.
It was obvious that Hayato Dahu was aware of something.
Strike while the iron is hot and add insult to injury.
Liu Xing continued: "Officer Dahu, I have another clue to tell you. Before the Escape incident, Mr. Honda dated Mr. Yuko, the daughter of Principal Fujiwara, for a period of time, and they even discussed marriage. But after the Etsuise incident, Mr. Honda was inexplicably sent to the archives, and he also broke up with Mr. Yuko."
After listening to Liu Xing's story, Hayato Oko pondered for a while and said, "Ryuusei-san, do you mean that Tetsu Honda also chose to commit suicide because of the double blow of career and love?"
Liu Xing could tell that Dahu Hayato was pretending to be stupid.
Therefore, Liu Xing said unceremoniously: "Police Officer Dahu, if we don't speak secretly, Mr. Honda will definitely not commit suicide, because Mr. Honda is not that kind of pessimistic person, not to mention the current state of Mr. Honda's death. It's obviously impossible to commit suicide. After all, if you want to commit suicide, you can jump off a building and cut your wrists and turn on the gas. If you want to drown, you might as well just jump into Tokyo Bay. Officer Dahu, have you ever seen anyone fill a long-abandoned swimming pool before committing suicide? It’s full, and the water in the swimming pool now must be several hundred tons!”
Dahu Hayato was speechless by Liu Xing and could only nod his head and said: "You are right, Honda Tetsuya does not seem to be committing suicide, but who wants to kill Honda Tetsuya like this? Just like what you said, Ryusei-san. Then, in order to kill someone, you have to transport hundreds of tons of water to fill this swimming pool, what is this?"
Liu Xing chuckled and said, "Officer Dahu, you should know the Five Elements Theory. The people who killed Mr. Honda, Suzuki Ryuya and Kaneko Gen were based on the Five Elements Theory."
"Gold, wood, water, fire and earth, Kaneko Gen died from metal weapons, Suzuki Ryu also died from a tree branch, Honda Tetsuya also died from water, and their names all have metal, wood, water, fire and earth in them. This is indeed in line with the Five Elements Theory." Hayato Oko's expression He said solemnly.
Liu Xing nodded, pointed to Keio Fujiwara with his eyes, and then said: "Police officer Dahu, you should know that in the Yueshi incident, among the cultists arrested was the dean of our school. I doubt that our school can There’s more than one cultist.”
