Chapter 231 199. Now, have you ever killed anyone? (Please order in full)
A disembodied sound came from the wall clock.
Kurosawa woke up at the same time as usual and looked out the window lazily. Just like last night, the wind and snow were still raging.
After getting up, she felt something was not right. After checking her physical condition, she found that her cold had miraculously healed completely for some reason. She had no headache or fever, as if the cold did not exist at all. .
The wall clock in the room pointed to the time Kurosawa usually got up.
After stretching and yawning, Kurosawa dragged his somewhat tired body to open the door. In front of him was Li Ming, who was holding a tray in both hands.
...is an expected character.
Li Ming was also startled by the sight in front of him. He subconsciously took a half step back: "Ah, you're awake. How is your health?"
"Maybe it's me. Due to my physical constitution, I am not too sensitive to colds, so as you can see, I have recovered from the illness." A bright smile appeared on Kurosawa's face and he replied with a smile.
"Really? That's good... I'd say our eldest lady is really amazing."
After learning that Kurosawa had recovered from health, Li Ming was pleasantly surprised but also a little confused.
"I'm sorry, everyone was asleep last night, I'm sorry to bother you... I just got cold medicine for you this morning, but it seems like there's no use for it." Li Ming smiled. , pointed to the room with his chin, "Aren't you going to invite me in?"
At Li Ming's urging, the two returned to the room.
The young man also put down the tray, moved the table and chairs to the table, and forcibly placed Kurosawa on the bed with his warm hands, and then sat down.
"Is it really okay...? Don't you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"
"It's really not the case... You see, I don't feel any pain now, and there is no sign of nasal congestion. This means that I am clearly cured." Kurosawa was pinned down on the bed by the young man. He had no way to dodge, so he could only reply with a smile.
Li Dang still looked like he couldn't agree. He looked at the cheongsam girl in front of him solemnly, then raised a hand to gently push aside Kurosawa's bangs, put it on his forehead, and carefully judged the temperature. Then he breathed a sigh of relief.
"The heat has gone down...that's great."
Although he said this, he did not immediately take back his hand, as if checking for something fragile, he pointed His belly rubbed Kurosawa's forehead, stroking from one temple to the other, and murmured to himself in a strange tone.
“It’s great~...it’s really great...”
After repeating it several times, he finally slowly withdrew his hand.
"It's just a little cold, don't be so nervous, right? You're too worried." Kurosawa looked at him strangely, and at the same time he was happy for Li Ming's change. The straight man in front of him Finally, I have made progress in understanding the style, "This change in you really makes me feel..."
"Haha... I am indeed overly worried, but who would have experienced that kind of thing last night? What about the matter... ah, really, it's all my fault for putting you in such danger..." Li Ming looked very guilty and beat his chest, "Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's have breakfast first. Remember after dinner. Drink the medicine.”
Kurosawa nodded vigorously. She felt as if she was in a dream. The straight man in front of her was indeed her ideal type...
… …What was she thinking?
This was originally a white dream.
Fictional white dream.
It is even said that... this is a dream specially constructed by the Xinjiu Company... To put it bluntly, it is still in someone else's script...
How sad.
The fire in the living room is still burning brightly, and the layout is the same as last night. After walking down the stairs, there is a coffee table in front of it, with many books placed on it, which should be mystery novels.
On the right is a row of sofas, on the left is a fireplace. There is a rocking chair next to the fireplace, and Chief Terada is sitting on it. There is a wooden locker on one side of the room, which is sorted according to the first letter of the type of book. Some mystery novels are arranged above.
Terada was still reading in front of the fireplace, pushing up his gold-rimmed glasses, and showed unnatural approval when he saw the wonderful points.
"Are you awake?" After noticing the figure in the corner of his eye, President Terada suddenly raised his head, a smile bloomed on his face, and he waved enthusiastically, "Come on, come on, I have a lot of questions about mystery novels. Discuss with you." He was referring to Li Ming.
Except for President Terada, who caught his eye, Yamada was sitting on the sofa with paper and pen in front of him, as if he was thinking about something.
With the intention of not disturbing others easily, Kurosawa and Li Ming sat on the sofa near Terada one after another, looking a little reserved.
"Where are the others?"
"Eri-chan should be taking a bath in the hot springs. I don't know about the others..." As if he suddenly remembered something, Terada closed the reasoning book in his hand, "That's right, that's right. , there is a natural hot spring in this mansion, you will go there later Taking a dip in the bar is good for your health. "
Hearing the words "natural hot springs", Kurosawa was obviously a little moved. She temporarily left Terada and Li Ming, giving them enough time to communicate and discuss, and then Just look around and carefully observe the layout in front of you.
Like the floor plan on each floor, there are storage rooms and toilets on the left and right of the entrance of the mansion. Next to the toilet are the dressing room and natural hot spring room, and opposite are Eri and Jisaki's room. room, and next door to the storage room is the kitchen.
In the kitchen, Jisaki, the mascot of the Mystery Research Society, is wearing an apron, happily preparing drinks and clearing the table.
In addition to the almost empty dishes and chopsticks on the dining table, there was also a plate with a bowl of soba noodles, which was steaming and brought a sense of warmth to Kurosawa.
"Is breakfast still to your liking? I usually participate in the cooking club, so I am very good at processing ingredients and making soba noodles. It would be great if you like it." Jisaki did not have it. He was so startled last night, but today he looks more like a lively and cheerful junior.
Kurosawa picked up the noodles, put them in his mouth and chewed them carefully, savoring the taste, with an expression of enjoyment on his face.
After swallowing all the food in the bowl, Kurosawa stood up and prepared to put the plate into the kitchen to wash it himself, but was stopped by Jisaki.
"Just let me clean up the dishes. Please go back to the living room and rest. I will make hot cocoa for everyone later."
A very friendly smile appeared on Kurosawa's face. She nodded slightly and left the kitchen. Before she even left the kitchen, she bumped into Eri-chan who was returning from the hot spring in a bathrobe and a towel on her head.
"Hmm~! Sure enough, the highlight of the trip is the hot springs..."
Eri said to herself enjoying herself, it was rare for her to not have the attribute of poisonous tongue. She looked extremely cute, and then she glanced at the kitchen.
"Huh? You're sending Tsuzaki-kun to work again! Although he is the mascot of the promotion conference, don't go so far!" Eri-chan put her hands on her hips and became angry, "You don't either Pamper them, Jisaki-kun!”
"No... I did it on my own initiative..." Ji Qi lowered his head and continued to wipe the dishes in his hands.
"Although it is true that these men cannot wash the dishes cleanly, we cannot spoil them all the time. Let me tell you..." Eri-chan pretended to accuse everyone present, but Terada and the others But they seemed not to notice Eri-chan's expressions and movements at all, and continued to do their own things while talking and laughing.
"Need help?" Kurosawa asked softly.
"It's okay! It's okay to have customers!! Don't worry about it! This is the daily routine of our promotion club. Compared to that... do you want to go to a hot spring?"
Eri-chan led the team Kurosawa came to his room, picked out a piece of clothing from a pile of luggage and changed into it. Then he sat on his bed and clung to Kurosawa.
——Actually, this is quite normal, because they are the only two girls in the whole mansion, and it is human nature to be a little close.
"Hey, have you ever killed anyone?"
Eri-chan suddenly asked such a question, Kurosawa turned his head stiffly, and some bad guesses came to his mind.
"Our promotion club actually has very scary rumors... It's the kind of scary urban legend, a bit similar to..." Eri-chan looked sideways slightly, her eyes wandering, "It's a bit like a club membership meeting The rumor that he was killed by the crime method of the last mystery novel he read is really scary."
"This is just an urban legend..."
Kurosawa sneered at such ridiculous rumors. She had always been a staunch materialist, not to mention that after becoming a hospital staff member, she had her own unique understanding of haunted scenes. She firmly believed that the world There are no ghosts.
"I am afraid someone will die tonight... In this closed environment, and it is completely consistent with the Blizzard Villa model, it is the best time for the murderer to commit the crime..."
Picture Lijiang looked around and whispered mysteriously.
"So, I heard a strange sound in the middle of the night last night... Could it be that someone has already done something~?"
"Sound?" Kurosawa carefully recalled yesterday. At night, she suddenly remembered that she had no memory of last night because of the cold.
Eri-chan was stunned for a moment, then looked around awkwardly, and then danced and gestured.
"Uh...I can't tell what the sound was. It was just "Boom!", "Boom!", that feeling like something falling down? I think it must be coming from inside the mansion! ...But having said that, there was a lot of wind and snow outside the window at that time, and I was also asleep in a daze. To be honest, I am not sure..."
"Could it be a ghost? It’s a good reasoning~ But...does supernatural beings count as reasoning? Although some people are very keen on it, I still like the reasoning of the normal world view..."
Kurosawa said to Eri-chan temporarily while thinking about the voice last night in his mind. Farewell, she doesn't want to spend time with this girl. There are still many parts of the mansion that she has not explored. She must understand the hidden events as much as possible before she can leave this white dream.
—— She remembered it again.
It can be seen that Kurosawa has not lost himself.
Because she finally knew that the straight man in front of her... was not real.
After seeing Kurosawa walking out of Eri-chan's room, Li Ming, who was talking to Terada, immediately waved her over.
"Good morning! Did you sleep well? The wind was so strong last night that I could hardly fall asleep..." Seeing Kurosawa, Terada laughed, "But this kind of exhaustion is also a blizzard. The fun part of the villa is that it’s like spending a restless night avoiding a serial murderer lurking among us. Just imagining it is satisfying.”
It’s really a scary thought. ……
"You can't understand? Haha, that's natural. After all, creatures like mystery fans, from the perspective of "pursuing excitement" and "taking pleasure in death", may be just one step away from murderers, but luckily The point is that fantasy is guiltless. "
It can be seen that Terada basically reads books and gives lectures on mystery novels, and has an almost obsessed attitude towards mystery novels.
"Speaking of which, a new mystery writer has appeared in Japan recently. , called "Dongcheng Yi", I wonder if you have seen it? He wrote an original mystery novel "The Second Between Fences", and also won the "Identity Mystery Novel Award", the "Ranpo Award", and the "Mephisto Award". He is a newbie mystery with strong strength. As for the novel writer. "
"There are also "The Museum of Tricks" and "The Collector of Secrets" by Mr. Oyama Seiichiro. I think they are also very good. They are some of my favorite short stories... It is a pity that "All Suspects" "People", I am not interested in it. From my personal point of view, I think this book should be regarded as Mr. Oyama's failure..."
"I have also read the book "All Suspects" , I can’t say it’s a failure, I can only say it’s a little boring. "Li Mang chatted.
"It's true. The book I'm reading recently is "The Terrorist's Umbrella" by Mr. Fujiwara Iori. He is a representative writer of hard-boiled mystery novels in Japan. It is said that he was once heavily in debt, and in a desperate situation, he heard about Rampo. The prize money for the award was 10 million yen. In order to pay off the debt, he started writing, and this book became the first book to win the Rampo Award and Naoki. The miracle of the award."
"Teacher Fujiwara is indeed a legendary writer of mystery novels...it's just that he died of esophageal cancer...it's a pity."
The atmosphere at the scene was finally over. As the fire went out and became stiff and condensed, Kurosawa quietly left the two of them and came to Yamada's side.
Koshira Yamada has been sitting on the sofa, immersed in imagining novels. Kurosawa waved and talked to him many times, but he always seemed to have a wandering mind, and his eyes were wandering, which made people have to give up the idea of continuing to disturb him. .
After a long time, Yamada finally came back to his senses.
"I'm sorry...I've been thinking about my own mystery novel recently...it took a long time so I didn't pay attention."
"You have already started thinking about the mystery novel...? I feel like you are the one The most suitable person to recommend to the president of the society," Kurosawa said jokingly.
“No, no, no, I am different from my predecessors. Instead of admiring a famous detective, I want to be a mystery writer...I’m far from qualified.”
(This chapter End)