Women only affect the speed of my reasoning!

"But it's actually a bit late to walk there now, so we might as well take a taxi."

Qin Sanshu said something in an understatement that was enough to move many social workers who were burdened with housing and car loans to make a living every month.

"But before that, I have to do one more thing."

Fifteen minutes later, in the square in front of an old-looking library, a taxi slowly stopped on the side of the road.

It was Qin Sanshu and Yukiko who got out of the car.

"They seem to be clearing the place already..."

Yukiko looked around and saw that many people in the square were walking out of the library.

And at a glance at the library door in the distance, there were only people coming out, and few going in.

Even if there are, they are uniformed staff.

"It's not a big problem, just look at me."

Qin Sanshu took out a mask from his pocket and put it on, holding up a Xinhua dictionary he bought from a bookstore near the coffee shop before coming.

Yukiko didn't know what Xinhua Dictionary was, she could only tell that this book was thick enough.

Just like a city wall brick.

The two of them crossed the square and came to the library. At this time, two security guards were standing at the entrance of the library. Seeing that someone wanted to go in at this point, they immediately stretched out their hands to stop them.

"Sorry, our library is closed today. If you want to borrow books, you'll have to wait until tomorrow..."

"No, no, no, I'm here to return the book."

Qin Xianshu showed off the Xinhua Dictionary in his hand.

"Today is the last day of the rental period. I will go upstairs to pay it back. It will not take more than 10 minutes. It will be fine soon."

"All right……"

When he heard that he was here to return the book, and it was the last day of the rental, the security guard couldn't stop him anymore, so he nodded in agreement.

Only then did Qin Sanshu and Yukiko enter the library.

Coincidentally, they had just passed the gate, and there was a barrier-free elevator at the end of the library hall, stopping on the first floor.

The elevator door is open, and several library staff members are holding rolled-up posters in their hands and pressing the elevator floor.

"Ah, please wait a moment. Is this the elevator that goes up? We are here to return books. Take us up together!"

Yukiko perfectly took advantage of her appearance at this moment. Several staff members in the elevator saw that she was a cute little girl. Her boyfriend was following behind her. They all showed kind smiles on their faces and helped to hold the door open. button.

However, just as the two people hurriedly and slowly stepped into the elevator, a slightly harsh high-frequency alarm sounded inside the elevator.

beep-!

Chapter 53 Ghost in the Library

overloaded.

Obvious.

The moment the alarm sounded, Qin Uanshu reflexively took a step back and exited the elevator.

At the same time, the alarm in the elevator suddenly stopped.

When Yukiko came back to her senses, she first turned to look at Qin Sanshu who was already standing outside the elevator, then turned back to look at several library staff in the elevator, and suddenly smiled cutely.

"Sorry, it seems it's overloaded."

Saying this, she took a small step back and jumped out of the elevator, took Qin Uanshu's arm with her backhand, and hugged him coquettishly.

"There is no other way, why not take the stairs?"

"we can only do this."

Qin Xianshu nodded and walked toward the stairs, but his eyes were still on the elevator. He didn't look back until the elevator door closed and was completely out of sight.

"What's wrong?" Yukiko asked curiously.

"No, it's nothing. Maybe I'm overthinking..."

Qin Xianshu answered her like this.

As the library closes, the flow of people in the library becomes even greater. Most of the customers in the library have left, so the staff will start to get off work one after another.

But unlike the barrier-free elevators that run up and down all the time, perhaps because the rapid development of modern technology has made people lazy, there was actually no one in the stairway.

The library has five floors in total. The first floor is the hall and library, the second and third floors are pure libraries, and the fourth floor is where staff rest and change and where various utensils and tools are placed.

As for the fifth floor, although Qin Sanshu has not been there, he estimates that it should be a place like the leadership office and server room.

So the two of them followed the emergency passage stairs to the fourth floor of the library.

Qin Sanshu sat down at the entrance of the safe passage on the stairs, took out two pieces of Shaqima that he bought with Xinhua Dictionary before coming here from his pocket, and handed one of them to Yukiko.

"I guess it won't be solved for a while, so let's just eat something to satisfy our hunger... right?"

"it is good."

Yukiko didn't hear the joke in Qin Sanshu's words at all.

She stretched out her hand and took one of the pieces of Shaqima without any pretense. Then she sat down like the latter, tore open the package and started chewing.

The two of them just gnawed on Shaqima while waiting.

Waiting until the sun sets outside the window, and until the last bit of noisy people disappears with the ding when the elevator closes, Qin Ushu quietly pushes the safety door open a small crack from the outside.

The corridor outside the door was dark, all the lights were turned off, and not even half a person could be seen. It was somewhat eerie.

That's fine, no one.

Qin Xianshu slowly pushed the safety door further open. He landed very lightly, and his soft-soled basketball shoes stepped on the hard marble floor tiles without making any sound.

Yukiko also followed quietly, looking left and right. She didn't seem to be afraid at all. Instead, she was very novel about such a new experience.

It could be seen through the windows of the library building at the end of the corridor. At this time, the setting sun outside had almost sunk below the horizon. Qin Ushu used this last ray of light to successfully find the employee's locker room.

Of course, the men's locker room.

"What are you doing here..."

Yukiko didn't react at first, but she soon understood.

She saw Qin Xianshu take out two small wires from his body.

"Wait a minute! Umbrella Shu, you are illegally entering..."

"Everything is false, everything is allowed, don't do basic things, don't panic in small scenes."

While talking, Qin Ushu had already begun to unlock the door.

He inserted two small wires into the keyhole of the locker room door and fiddled with it a few times seemingly casually.

Soon, with a slight popping sound, the locker room door opened a small crack.

"Let's go."

He took back the small wire and raised his eyebrows at the girl.

Yukiko silently shed a drop of cold sweat on her forehead, thinking to herself, aren't you a magician and a detective? When did you change your job to an assassin?

Entering the dark locker room, perhaps because there are relatively few male employees in the library, the men's locker room actually does not occupy a large area. At best, it may be the size of a public toilet in a shopping mall.

Wardrobes as tall as one person are neatly arranged along the wall, about twenty or thirty in total.

Qin Xianshu took out her mobile phone and turned on the flashlight function, then looked through the wardrobes one by one.

Most of the wardrobes have labels with the owner's name and job number written on them, and some are not. However, the keyholes of the wardrobes without labels usually have a lot of dark dirt accumulated. No one has used it for a long time.

"There is."

Qin Xianshu stopped in front of a labeled wardrobe door.

Yukiko came over and took a look. There were four neat handwriting written on the label - Tamada Kazuo.

"Help me take it, thank you."

Qin Sanshu handed the phone to Yukiko and asked the latter to hold it to help illuminate the keyhole, while he took out the two small wires from his body again and started to open the lock.

Compared with door locks with two locks, wardrobe locks are undoubtedly much easier to open. The principle is nothing more than inserting a key of matching shape, then twisting it ninety degrees to remove the hook inside, and then you can The outside opened easily.

The cabinet door opened, and what appeared in their field of vision was a rather ordinary wardrobe.

There was nothing special in the wardrobe, just a casual jacket and a pair of sneakers.

Qin Xianshu put his hand into the inside of his casual jacket without thinking, and fumbled around in the inner pocket for a while, when suddenly there was a slight sound of metal collision.

When he withdrew his hand, there was already a bunch of keys in his hand.

There are many types of keys. Qin Mianshu glanced at them briefly. There were many anti-theft door keys, electric car keys, and other small keys.

"It seems that this is the evidence that Tamada Kazuo is missing in the library." Yukiko took a look and understood immediately.

"exactly."

Qin Sanshu nodded and put the key back where it belonged.

"According to Mrs. Tamada, Kazuo Tamada would call her on the library's landline before going home every day. But the night before yesterday, not only did Kazuo Tamada not call, he even disappeared without taking his clothes and house keys."

"In other words, the accident happened while he was working overtime at night."

Ding!

A very light and distant electronic sound interrupted Qin Uanshu's unfinished words. On the fourth floor of the silent and lightless library, it was like a pebble dropped into a calm lake, causing the two people in the locker room to feel their hearts tremble.

In the invisible corridor outside the locker room, the elevator door slowly opened to both sides, and pale light illuminated the ground in front of the elevator door.

An old and strange shadow walked out from inside like a ghost crawling out of a cemetery.

He seemed to be extremely familiar with the structure of the entire building. He didn't even need a flashlight when walking in the dark corridors.

The sound of footsteps echoed in the dark space.

After a dozen or 20 seconds, the footsteps suddenly stopped, followed by the sound of opening and closing doors.

Outside the window, a huge moon rose, and the desolate moonlight shone into the fourth floor of the library, covering the floor with a thin layer of silver frost.

It also illuminates the ghost figure that happens to be coming out of the tool storage room.

Unfortunately, only the lower body.

In the ghost's wrinkled hands covered with age spots, he held a pair of cold scissors.

The ghost dragged his heavy and slow steps back to the elevator.

However, just before he was about to enter the elevator, a subconscious glance made him stop.

The door to the locker room is open.

The ghost retracted the first half of his left foot that stepped into the elevator, and slowly walked toward the locker room.

Tee, Tee, Tee...

The increasingly clear footsteps were like a heavy hammer repeatedly hitting their hearts.

Qin Mianshu leaned against the cold cabinet wall, pursed her lips and breathed softly.

Next to him was a girl whose mouth was covered and forced to be unable to speak.

Heavy footsteps stopped outside the locker room. After a brief pause, the door was pushed open from the outside.

squeak--!

The sound of the door shaft turning violently suddenly sounded in the dark space.

The iconic Here's Johny scene in the horror movie did not appear. The entire dressing room was empty, not to mention people, not even cockroaches.

"You're so careless, you didn't even close the door." The ghost made an old and deep voice.

Then the door was closed.

Listening to the footsteps outside the door fading away, Qin Ushu let go of his hand and pulled Yukiko to hide in the closet.

The girl was glad that she was in the dark, otherwise her normally fair face would have been quite red at this time.

She took two deep breaths as calmly as possible, lowered her voice and spoke with uncertainty.

"That one just now...the murderer?"