"We inquired about the location of the lakeside hut in the morning, and went to check it out in the afternoon. The place is about four kilometers east of the town, not very far. If you have a car, you can get there quickly."
Sally sat down and spoke excitedly.
"Do you know how surprised we were when we saw it there? The cabin? That's a holiday villa! It was built not far from the beach of Baisha Lake, with the jungle on the back and the lake view on the side. We went in and looked, there was no one inside, but everything They are all kept very well, and there is even enough food in the pantry to feed thirty people for a week! The most important thing is that there is a hot spring in the corner of the villa, a hot spring!"
"Don't talk about the hot springs." Lu Ning raised her hand to stop her from continuing, "A well-preserved villa with food reserves but no one? This kind of place is simply waiting for us to die with open arms. How can you Dare to go?"
"Because you have to go sooner or later, right?" Sally suppressed her excited tone, "Don't tell me you don't do it as an option. Since you have to do it, why not complete this task early before the demon takes full action? Instead of delaying it until the end? Isn’t it the best choice to complete the task in the first two days when we are at our strongest?”
"If you say that... I think it makes sense." Zhu You nodded, "Now there are many of us, and everyone is the most vigilant and energetic. At this time, even if we don't sleep that night, there will be no No matter what the problem is, the danger can be minimized.”
"Really? Really?" Sally quickly started to recruit allies.
Lu Ning was not persuaded so easily: "The danger is not calculated like this. First of all, there are more than a thousand people in the town, not including other creatures, so the demon may not necessarily target us to solve it first. But If Baisha Lake is the base camp of the demons, it would be equivalent to more than twenty of us facing them directly. Secondly, I am afraid that your idea is only to communicate with people in the same team, at most two of us, right? And the two of us They all work alone and are easier to persuade - you came to us for this purpose. But I'm sorry, if you can't persuade more than half of the people, this plan is meaningless. Finally, I never choose the task Consider your options before you have a clue. Being too greedy can easily lead to trouble."
Sally stuck out her tongue: "You are really hard to convince."
"Simple, if you can persuade more than fifteen people to take collective action, I will participate. Otherwise, there is no need to discuss it. This is my attitude." After Lu Ning said this, she picked up the dinner plate and went to the hotel owner to get some. Try the pork.
One of the characteristics of Western-style grilled meat is that the skin is rich in flavor, but the meat on the inside has no flavor at all. Lu Ning finally knew why the condiments on the table were prepared. Probably the boss also knew about this problem and asked the guests to eat one layer and sprinkle one layer on top.
She still asked the boss to cut two slices of barbecue with crispy skin, then picked some side dishes such as boiled potatoes, salad, eggs, butter, etc. on the side and put them on the dinner plate, and walked back to her seat. Not surprisingly, Sally quickly picked the person to persuade during this period, Carl.
The hedonistic and free-spirited cowboy can neither refuse a hot spring villa with beautiful views nor refuse a lady's warm invitation.
And once Carl was convinced, it was much easier for him to convince others.
"A villa! Of course I want to take a look while I still have the energy to go shopping. And this is a very good opportunity... we might be able to hit the devil's core there! What do you think? "Karl said to everyone enthusiastically.
"If you want to go..." Sugiyama Risu glanced at Tachikawa Ryo, then nodded and said, "Then we will go too."
"Yes, this is a good opportunity." Asayama Seitaro also maintained the same opinion, "No matter whether the enemy will show up or not, we will definitely get a head start by going like this."
Qu Siyuan and others naturally followed everyone's opinions, but now it seemed that everyone was willing to go.
"Does that annoying guy want to join? If we all leave, those of you who stay here will become a minority." Sally even asked Xia Xinhe when she was proud.
Xia Xinhe's face twisted, but she still nodded silently.
"Great! Now it's everyone's joint action! Now no one has any objections..."
Bang!
Before Sally finished speaking, the door of the restaurant was pushed open suddenly, and a huge noise attracted everyone's attention. The person standing there was Fujii Yukine. She still had that cold face, but there was an obvious blood stain on her clothes from her left shoulder to her waist.
"Are you injured?" Karl immediately turned around and wanted to ask Lu Ning for help, but was stopped by Fujii Yukine's voice: "It's not my blood."
The detective's eyes swept across everyone's faces, then returned to Carl.
"Everyone was here ten minutes ago?"
"The people present didn't leave, why?"
"Three people were absent." Fujii Yukine continued what he said, "I was attacked on the way back. The opponent was not slow and ran away quickly after being injured. I came to find the murderer."
"Murderer? Wait, you doubt us?" Xue Fengchun was unhappy at the time.
"You are the only people in this town who know that I am a detective, and you are the only people who know that I have clues." Fujii Yukine glanced at him, "When I return late from investigating, who will be afraid that their secrets will be revealed? ? Only you can do this."
"Fujii... That's not a good thing to say." Seitaro Asayama quickly came out to smooth things over, "You might have just encountered a robber, or the demon in the town has discovered your traces and followed you..."
"No." Fujii Yukine immediately denied, "The probability of the murder coming from someone you know is extremely high. Would you believe that a robber would deliberately murder as his first goal? And I have not talked to anyone in the town today. There was verbal communication, and there was no investigation of any suspicious clues, so there was no possibility that the demon would find out what information I found and intend to get rid of me. Only the twenty-one people in the restaurant at noon in the whole town knew what I wanted to do. Whatever you want to do, only you have the motive to do something to me."
"But you can't rule out the possibility that the witch has some way of understanding our conversation, right?" Karl smiled, "And I warned you that it's very dangerous."
"You guys are weird." Fujii Yukine took off her blood-stained jacket. There was no stain on the white shirt underneath. There was more doubt in her eyes. "After I made an obviously strong inference, And when we are only in the evidence investigation stage, everyone is trying their best to deny the possibility of internal problems. What is your purpose? How many people's secrets are harmful to the whole?"
"Because before that, such an investigation will only make the team split faster." Karl sat back in his seat and said leisurely, "Of course I suspect the insider, but I will not deliberately go there until someone shows something is obviously wrong. According to the investigation, the interpersonal relationship in a secret scene is very fragile, and maintaining such a superficial peace is the best state."
"I can't accept it." Fujii Yukine said coldly, "But I won't accuse others of what they did. Now I'm going to verify the alibi of the three people who are not here. At least one of them can't prove himself."
"Hey...before that, can I give you an invitation? Miss Detective?"
"What invitation?"
"Tomorrow night, let's go together and complete the task of staying in the lake house for a night." Karl raised his finger, "While everyone is in a good state of mind."
"I think this is an act of committing suicide." Fujii Yukine retorted mercilessly, "Entering an area that is likely to be the enemy's base camp without knowing anything about the enemy, and spending the most dangerous period of the day, no matter how you look at it, It’s all extremely stupid.”
"Hahaha! So after everyone leaves, do you want to stay in this town alone?"
"When I was attacked tonight, I was alone." Fujii Yukine raised his chin slightly, "Any time you are in danger, you are always alone. This has nothing to do with several people acting together."
Karl scratched his head and said it differently: "Let's put it this way, when you want to complete this task, do you have to go to the lake house alone?"
"I do not care."
Lu Ning felt that Karl had finally met an opponent.
Although I don’t know whether Fujii Yukine is real or pretending, but this indifferent look is indeed the most difficult type for Karl to convince, and the other party has reasons.
She and Zhu You exchanged a secret look, and only the two of them knew the meaning.
"Miss Detective, how about we make a bet?" Karl finally came up with an idea despite his headache.
"I am not interested."
"... Please listen to me. I promise that there will be no more danger tonight. Are you willing to bet this with me? If nothing happens tonight, then you will go to the lake house with us tomorrow."
This time, Fujii Yukine did not immediately refute.
The point is not the content of gambling, but that there is some information behind the question raised by Carl.
"I don't know why you insist on taking me with you."
"I said, detectives, doctors and professors, I will give priority to protecting these three types of people." Carl smiled and took out a bullet casing from his pocket and flicked it towards Fujii Yukine. She copied it and found that it was a bullet casing. An engraved ornament.
"If you don't accept it, you can return it to me. It will be valid at any time until dawn tomorrow... You have your rules and I have my methods. As long as we don't conflict, we are companions."
"I hope what you said is true."
Fujii Yukine turned around and walked upstairs.
Lu Ning also stood up immediately.
"Frankly speaking, she is right. Even if it is to eliminate our suspicions, we should cooperate with the detective's investigation, right? After all, no one among us is more professional than her."
"I'll go with you. After all, we are companions. To still be so suspicious after the other party is in danger... This is not my principle." Asayama Seitaro also stood up, "I think Fujii still needs someone to accompany him."
The two said goodbye to everyone, walked upstairs, and soon found Fujii Yukine who was knocking on Qiu Yiyun's door.
"Why are you here?"
"I haven't seen a real detective investigation, how about at least letting me witness it?" Lu Ning smiled lightly.
"I don't agree with such straightforward behavior, but you still need a witness, right?" Asama Seitaro said.
Fujii Yukine did not refuse, and continued to knock on the door rhythmically. Soon, the door was opened, and Qiu Yiyun walked out of the room, rubbing her sleepy eyes: "Eh? Miss Detective...is something wrong?"
"Excuse me, I was attacked on the way back. I injured the attacker by fighting back. I want to confirm your alibi."
Qiu Yiyun was stunned for a moment before she realized what she was doing, and immediately panicked: "No, alibi? I was sleeping in the room before... How can I prove that I have been sleeping?"
"It's simple, can you let me in?" Fujii Yukine was not that hard to talk to at this time. It seemed that as long as she cooperated with her investigation, she would be fully prepared for everything.
Qiu Yiyun immediately got out of the way. Fujii Yukine asked for her opinion and let Lu Ning come in. As for Asayama Seitaro, he could only stay outside.
"I only need to verify three points. First, whether there are any wounds on your body. Second, the traces of use of the facilities in this room. Third, the waste disposal locations such as trash cans. This is easy to handle." Fujii Yukine closed the door. Door, "Do you mind letting me take a look?"
Qiu Yiyun quickly shook her head to express that she didn't mind. Fujii Xueyin asked Lu Ning to watch from the side. There were no wounds or scars on Qiu Yiyun's body, and there were no scars on some unhealthy pale skin.
"Thank you." Fujii Yukine took out a pair of thin cloth gloves and put them on. He first checked the bedding and the area around the bed, then looked inside the trash can, and finally opened the window and looked down, returning to Qiu Yiyun. His expression became much more serious at that time.
"Have you really been sleeping in bed?"
"Yes... I got up and went to the bathroom..."
"when?"
Qiu Yiyun looked like she was about to cry: "How do I remember..."
"Fujii, most people wouldn't look at their watches at that time." Lu Ning said helplessly.
"In short, the suspicion cannot be eliminated. Then there are Luo Nan and Yu Guiting."
Fujii Yukine walked to the next room resolutely. But this time it was much easier to handle. Luo Nan was resting and Yu Guiting was taking care of him. The two claimed to have been in the same room. But even so, Fujii Yukine also asked several questions.
"Are you sure that Yu Guiting is always by your side when you fall asleep?"
"Are you sure that Luo Nan really fell asleep when you left for a while to get food?"
etc.
In this way, until she left, she only came to the conclusion that the suspicion was not ruled out.
"So? Can you identify the murderer? Or is it just for peace of mind?"
After returning to the restaurant, Karl heard what happened and could only ask Fujii Yukine helplessly.
"No, now I reject your bet."
"ah?"
"Canceling may be more suitable for you. I agree with you that nothing will happen tonight. In addition, I agree to go to the lake house with you tomorrow." Fujii Yukine put the bullet casing next to Carl's hand.
"Keep it, this thing is my lucky charm, just suitable for people like you who are always on the edge of danger." Karl grinned, "Welcome to join."
In fact, just as the two said, the night passed peacefully.
