Chapter 11111111【Death Package】

After Kaori Izumi introduced the location of the apartment, he turned back and looked at the star detective he was chasing.

Although Jiang Xia didn't speak, he was obviously in a good mood when he looked at the building and looked forward to entering the building.

Kayori Izumi felt relieved, and she said happily: "Let's go, let's go find Naomi—I remember she is in 203."

 …

Going up to the second floor, taking a quick glance at the spacious corridor, the eyes of a group of five people soon fell on the door of 203.

There were several large bags placed there, and inside were several large and exquisitely packaged lunch boxes. It seemed that they were meals delivered by the "Dolphin Restaurant" that Izumi Kayoli mentioned just now.

“Why didn’t you take the takeaway in? Did she go out?” Sakurako Yamamoto looked at the takeout at her feet and sighed, “You were clearly urging us to hurry up just now…”

They are all acquaintances, she complained and turned the doorknob.

 The next second, Yamamoto Sakurako was suddenly startled: "...the door is not locked."

"Maybe she forgot to lock it, or she was actually at home, but she was busy touching up her makeup and didn't go out to pick up the takeout." Izumi Kayori didn't pay much attention. She called out to Naoko twice, but when she found no one answered, she simply opened the door and left. go out.

Two other friends also followed suit.

 …

Jiang Xia and Mao Lilan were not familiar with the owner of the house after all, so they did not go in immediately. Mao Lilan planned to wait for the owner of the house to come out and say hello before entering the house.

However, they could not wait to welcome the owner of the house who came out.

 Instead…

"ah-!!"

Three screams rang out through the door, piercing through the apartment and echoing around like ghosts.

Mao Lilan was shocked: "?!"

Jiang Xia also immediately showed a vigilant look.

 He was about to rush into the house, fulfill his duties as a detective, and answer the call of the scream.

But at this moment, the peephole on the door next door suddenly dimmed - someone came behind the door and was peeking out quietly through the door.

Jiang Xia suddenly turned her gaze and stared at the cat's eyes in surprise for two seconds.

Then he frowned slightly, looking thoughtful.

With Jiang Xia staring at him through the door, the guy next door obviously realized that he had been discovered.

　　　…”

 A few seconds later, the door clicked and was unlocked.

 A tall, scholarly man walked out of the room.

"...Mr. Okiya?" Seeing an acquaintance, the vigilance in Jiang Xia's eyes seemed to lessen a little, "Why are you here?"

"I usually live here." Subaru Okiya pushed up his glasses, hiding all the shouts and tension in his heart in the reflection of the lenses.

He turned to look at the door of the woman next door and asked calmly: "I thought I heard a scream just now...What happened?"

After being reminded like this, Jiang Xia seemed to have come back to her senses: "I don't know. I'll go in and take a look."

 When speaking the last half of the sentence, he deliberately raised his voice a little.

No one in the room objected, so Jiang Xia opened the door politely and ran into the room.

Mao Lilan also followed closely.

The figures of the two high school students quickly stepped into the corridor, followed the continuous screams, turned towards the living room, and disappeared. Behind them, the large open door was being pulled by elastic force and was being closed again.

 But before it could close, a hand reached out and blocked it.

　　　…”

Okiya Subaru blocked the door, making sure that he could rush to Jiang Xia for help when necessary, while looking left and right vigilantly, his eyes scanning the silent corridors on both sides inch by inch, trying to distinguish the aura of Uzo around him. .

—Ever since a few days ago, Akai Shuichi wore the disguise of "Okiya Subaru" and went to a skyscraper.

 The matter of "Okiya Subaru has a secret" was completely exposed to Usa.

Okiya Subaru has trouble sleeping and eating.

Up to now, except for an email with "I'll kill you if you dare to resign" written in the middle of the letter, Subaru Okiya has not received Uzo's final verdict.

  The most grueling moment is when the guillotine is about to fall. In addition, he has the expectation of "running abroad and escaping from Uzo in two weeks"... Although he doesn't want to admit it, Subaru Okiya always feels like an unlucky cannon fodder with death flags all over his body. If he makes a wrong step, he will die violently. A murder from heaven.

 …

 So these days, Subaru Okiya has been following Akai Shuichi's advice, secretly staying at home, minimizing his presence, and resolutely not opening the door to anyone.

He even bought an alloy box that was resistant to strong pressure, impact and high temperature, and slept in it at night to reduce the chance of being blown up by his neighbors for no apparent reason.

 …After staying like this for a few days, the quiet and stable home life gradually gave Subaru Okiya a feeling of "quiet years".

He secretly thought that maybe in this matter, Uzo was actually a good boss who respected the secrets of his subordinates. He had no intention of directly convicting and silencing "Okiya Subaru" because he entered the explosion site without permission that day.

 …

However, it wasn’t long before Uzo was given a good person card through the air.

　　It was as if someone had read through his mind, and the gloomy footsteps of the murder were approaching again.

—Three screams in unison pierced the wall, causing Subaru Okiya, who was dozing over his paper, to wake up and stand up.

It is well known that screams often accompany murders.

 And murder cases are occasionally accompanied by Uzo.

Okiya Subaru instinctively wanted to figure out the situation. He subconsciously ran to the door and peeked out through the peephole... Who would have thought that just this slight change in light and dark would be discovered by Jiang Xia.

 …

Okiya Subaru desperately didn’t want to leave his safe house.

 But he was seen by Jiang Xia just now, and he had no choice.

—Although the nature of the cat’s eyes prevents Jiang Xia from seeing clearly who is in the house, if a murder does occur, the police will definitely visit nearby neighbors to collect evidence. Okiya Subaru has seen many murder cases and is quite familiar with this process.

Once things develop to this point, Jiang Xia will naturally discover that the person in the room is Okiya Subaru.

“…” If Okiya Subaru was just an ordinary passerby who didn’t know Jiang Xia, he could have fooled him with the excuse that “he was scared when he heard the screams, so he didn’t dare to go out, so he had to stay indoors and act like a crowd.”

 But he happened to know Jiang Xia and Mao Lilan, and he always behaved like an enthusiastic and good graduate student. Hearing the screams but hiding away would only make "Okiya Subaru" very suspicious.

 —Yes, suspicious.

Fear is fright. This state does not affect Subaru Okiya's thinking, but makes his mind spin faster.

Okiya Subaru has long studied Uzo's killing methods. In addition to the one-stop package of "killed in a homicide", there are actually some variations.

—For example, Subaru Okiya can rely on his status as a "peripheral member of the organization" to unlock the package "A person considered a major suspect by the police, brought to the police station, and killed by a killer sent by the organization on the way" from Uzo.

 (End of this chapter)