white night syndrome

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 discovered 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 figure.

Li Ming was also startled by the sight in front of him. He subconsciously took half a step back: "Ah, you're awake. How is your health?"

"Maybe it's because of my physical constitution. I'm not too sensitive to colds, wind and cold, so as you can see, I've recovered from the illness." Kurosawa replied with a smile as a bright smile appeared on his face.

"Really? That's good... I'll just say that 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 went to bed last night. I'm sorry to disturb you... I just got cold medicine for you this morning, but it seems like there's no use for it." Li Min smiled and pointed with his chin. Room, "Won't you 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.

"Are you 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 Ming still 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, carefully judged the temperature, and then let out a long sigh of relief. .

"The heat has gone down...it's great."

Although he said this, he did not immediately take back his hand, as if he was confirming something fragile. He rubbed Kurosawa's forehead with his fingertips, caressing from one temple to the other, and murmured in a strange tone. Talk to yourself.

"It's great~...it's really great..."

After repeating it several times, he finally slowly withdrew his hand.

"It's just a small 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 had someone who understood the charm. Progress, "This change in you really makes me feel..."

"Haha... It's true that I'm overly worried, but who made me experience that kind of thing last night... Ah, really, it's all my fault for letting you encounter such danger..." Li Hao seemed to be very blaming himself. He thumped his chest and said, "Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's have breakfast first. Remember to drink the medicine after dinner."

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 is she thinking about?

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 broke out on his face, and he waved enthusiastically, "Come on, come on, I have a lot of mystery novels that I want to discuss with you." He Refers 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.

In order not to disturb others easily, Kurosawa and Li Ming sat on the sofa near Terada one after another, looking a little reserved.

"What about the rest?"

"Eri-chan should be taking a bath in the hot spring, I don't know about the others..." As if he suddenly remembered something, Terada closed the reasoning book in his hand, "By the way, there is a natural hot spring in this mansion. Wait. You guys should go take a dip later, it’s good for your health.”

Hearing the words "natural hot springs", Kurosawa was obviously a little moved. She said goodbye to Terada and Li Ming for the time being, giving them enough time to communicate and discuss, and then looked around and carefully observed the layout in front of her.

Like the floor plan on each floor, there are storage rooms and bathrooms on the left and right of the entrance to the mansion. Next to the bathroom is the dressing room and the natural hot spring room. On the opposite side are Eri and Jisaki's rooms, and the storage room Next door is the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Jisaki, the mascot of the Mystery Research Society, was 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 taste? 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 was not as surprised as he was last night. At first glance, he looks more like a lively and cheerful junior today.

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.

"I'll take care of the dishes. Please go back to the living room and rest. I'll 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 that she looked particularly cute without her poisonous tongue, and then she glanced towards the kitchen.

"Eh? You're sending Tsuzaki-kun to work again! Although he is the mascot of the Promotion Association, don't go so far!" Eri-chan put her hands on her hips and became angry, "Don't spoil them either, Tsuzaki-kun. !”

"No... I did it on my own initiative..." Ji Qi lowered his head and continued to wipe the dishes in his hands.

"Although these men can't wash the dishes cleanly, you can't spoil them all the time. Let me tell you..." Eri-chan pretended to accuse everyone present, but Terada and the others didn't seem to notice at all. Eri-chan's expressions and movements continued to talk and laugh while doing their own things.

"Need help?" Kurosawa asked softly.

"It's okay! It's okay to have customers!! Don't worry about it! This is our daily routine in the research club. Compared to that... do you want to go to a hot spring?"

Eri-chan led Kurosawa to her room, picked out a piece of clothing from a pile of luggage and changed into it. Then she sat on her bed and clung to Kurosawa.

——Actually, this is quite normal, because the two of them are the only girls in the whole mansion, and it is human nature to be a little close.

"Now, 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 similar to the last time a club member was seen by him. The rumor that someone was killed by the way a mystery novel was committed 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'm 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..."

Eri-chan 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 about it~?"

"Voice?" Kurosawa recalled last night carefully, and she suddenly remembered that she had no memory of last night because she was infected with the cold.

Eri-chan was stunned for a moment, then looked around awkwardly, and then danced and gestured.

"Uh... I can't tell you what the sound was. It was just a "boom!" or "bang!" kind of feeling like something fell 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 the time, and I was half asleep. To be honest, I wasn’t too 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 worldview..."

While Kurosawa was thinking about the voice last night, he said goodbye to Eri-chan for the time being. She didn't want to spend time with this girl all the time. There were still many parts of the mansion that she hadn't explored, and she had to try her best. It is possible to understand the events hidden in it, and only after deciphering it can we 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... wasn't 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? It was so windy last night that I almost couldn't fall asleep..." Seeing Kurosawa, Terada laughed, "But this feeling of exhaustion is also part of the fun of Blizzard Villa. It’s like spending a restless night avoiding a serial murderer lurking among us, just imagining it is satisfying.”

What 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 spends his time reading books and giving lectures on mystery novels, and he has an almost obsessed attitude towards mystery novels.

"Speaking of which, there is a new mystery writer 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 the short stories that I like to read... It is a pity that "All Suspects", I am not interested in it. He’s not cold at all. From my personal point of view, this should be regarded as Teacher Dashan’s failure..."

"I've also read the book "All Suspects". I can't say it's a failure, I can only say it's a little boring." Li Ming 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 1000 million yen. In order to pay off the debt, he started writing, and this book became a miracle that won the Ranpo Prize and the Naoki Prize.”

"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 finally became stiff and condensed as the fire went out. Kurosawa quietly left the two of them and came to Yamada's side.

Yamada Hollow has been sitting on the sofa, immersed in conceiving a novel. Kurosawa waved and talked many times, but his mind always seemed to be wandering, and his eyes were wandering, which made people give up the idea of ​​​​continuing to disturb him.

After a long time, Yamada finally came to his senses.

"I'm sorry... I was recently thinking about my own mystery novel... it took a long time, so I didn't pay attention."

"You've already started thinking about a mystery novel...? I feel that you are the most suitable person to promote the president of the research society." Kurosawa said teasingly.

"No, no, no, I'm different from my predecessors. Rather than admiring a famous detective, I want to be a mystery writer... I'm far from qualified."

(End of this chapter)