Coroner Coroner

Lin Xin murmured at the corner of his mouth, hesitant to speak.

He still gave up this last chance to refuse.

Because Belmode was already telling him with her silently strengthened arms not to say unnecessary words.

The Jianggu police officer in front of him is no fool.

They have already established the personality of a cohabiting couple before.

Although they deliberately released rumors of a broken relationship to the outside world later, judging from their interactive attitude at Police Officer Jianggu today:

The relationship between their "cohabiting couple" is obviously far from broken to the point where it is unacceptable to stay in the same room for one night.

The relationship between the characters has already acted like this, and it is too late to change it.

What's more, it was still in front of an audience that was not easy to fool, Police Officer Jianggu.

So, no way...

Come here.

It's too late to think about it.

In the end, Lin Xinyi cooperated with Belmode and asked police officer Jianggu for accommodation with only one room.

So police officer Jianggu turned his head and said to the hotel owner at the front desk:

"Two rooms."

"One room for me, one room for their couple."

"Okay." The owner of the homestay is a middle-aged man who looks ordinary, but is very confident and talkative.

He quickly prepared the room key for Lin Xinyi and the others, and then took the initiative to talk with some curiosity:

"I really didn't expect that there are still people staying in the store at this time."

"There was a case of a dead person in the mountain, I thought there would be no business this month!"

"Oh?" Police officer Jiang Gu continued with some concern: "Boss, the case you're talking about is the 'unnamed female corpse case' that has been very popular on TV recently, right?"

"Yes." The owner of the homestay nodded.

Police officer Jianggu wanted to solicit information from the locals, and the chatty homestay owner was also willing to chat with these foreigners.

He quickly said a lot of useful and useless content:

It turns out that this village does not have any special products, and it is not well-known.

The only thing that can attract tourists from other places is the undeveloped primitive mountains outside the village.

Generally, tourists like to climb mountains with roads and guardrails.

But there are also a small number of wild donkey friends who like to find excitement, like to bravely venture into no-man's land, conquer wild mountains, and pursue the most primitive and pure nature.

People in the mountains who have built roads still don't like to go.

I like to drill into deep mountains and old forests.

This unknown female corpse hidden in the deep mountain was discovered by some climbers who came to climb the wild mountain.

And it is exciting to play with excitement like this, but it is also easy to encounter danger.

Therefore, this seemingly ordinary small village has experienced its advantages in original eco-tourism...

"Our village was originally built on a mountain."

"Because the road couldn't be repaired, I moved to the foot of the mountain in the past few years."

"At that time, the telecommunications company specially installed a signal base station in our village. Although our village moved down the mountain later, the signal base station in the mountain is still in operation."

"That's why those mountaineers and hunting enthusiasts especially love to come here to climb mountains."

In this era when the communication infrastructure is not yet perfect, the signal of mobile phones basically stops working as soon as they are away from human residential areas.

And even in a technologically advanced future, being able to send mobile phone signals into isolated remote mountains is not a feat of infrastructure that any country can achieve.

So it's no wonder those donkey friends will run to this mountain:

There are not only the wild charm of nature, but also the signal of human civilization in this mountain.

If you encounter any danger while climbing and cross-country, you can call the outside world for help at any time.

And this simple homestay built in a desolate mountain village is doing the business of those climbers and hunters.

That's why when news of a dead person broke out in the mountains, the homestay owner sighed, "I'm afraid there won't be any guests coming."

"but…"

What police officer Jianggu noticed from the words of the homestay owner:

"Boss, are you saying that besides climbers, hunters often come here?"

"Not often..."

"After all, there are not many people who usually come to play in our mountains."

The owner of the homestay rubbed his chin and replied thoughtfully:

"But among those guests, there are indeed quite a few hunting enthusiasts who come to the mountains for hunting vacation."

"They all carried long-barreled shotguns, which looked quite scary."

"Why... is there any problem with this?"

"No, I'll just ask."

Police officer Jiang Gu ended the topic perfunctorily, then turned his head and cast a suggestive look at Lin Xinyi.

Lin Xinyi read the meaning in his eyes:

The murder weapon in this case was probably a shotgun.

And this mountain area is visited by hunters from time to time.

From this point of view, the identity of the murderer is getting closer and closer to hunting enthusiasts.

He and the deceased may have come to this mountain to hunt and camp before, so he is familiar with the terrain of this mountain and chose this place as the crime location.

"Hunter..."

Lin Xinyi realized what:

"This is the only homestay in this small village."

"If the murderer and the deceased had come here to hunt before, did they also live here?"

Thinking of this, he immediately asked the hotel owner:

"Boss, do you have any resident registration records for the past few years?"

"Er..." The owner of the homestay was slightly taken aback, and then muttered with a strange expression: "Why do you ask me for the guest registration record?"

"Those policemen didn't ask me for it."

"My small business...is not so formal."

"Eh..." Lin Xinyi finally realized:

In this era, the management of hotel occupancy is not strict. In most places, guests can enter the room without registering their identity.

What's more, this is just a small homestay in a mountain village.

There is no rule for registering the identity information of the residents here, so naturally there is no information about the identity registration of the residents in previous years.

"All right…"

Lin Xinyi sighed lightly:

After finally catching a clue, it seems that it will be broken again.

And only knowing that the murderer's identity may be a hunting enthusiast does not help much in solving the case.

Hunter, there are so many hunters in the world, where should I find them?

That's what he was thinking.

Outside the hotel, in the pouring rain.

A young man with a shotgun on his back, holding an umbrella, slowly opened the door and came in.

..............................

"He was looking at you just now."

After returning to the room, Bellmode suddenly said this to Lin Xinyi.

The appearance of the young hunter just now did not bring any breakthrough to their investigation.

They didn't even have a chat with the unexpected visitor.

Because the other party had a completely different personality from the chatty homestay owner, he was very introverted, or indifferent.

The young hunter who appeared suddenly just asked the hotel owner for a room at the front desk, then took the key and carried the shotgun, and went to his room without saying a word.

During the whole process, the two sides only had some brief eye contact.

Lin Xinyi himself didn't think this eye contact could explain anything.

But after Belmod returned to their guest room with him and closed the door of the guest room, he suddenly and mysteriously approached his ear and said to him in a very soft voice:

"That hunter was looking at you just now."

"When he opened the door and came in, his gaze was on you for the first time."

"This process lasted about two seconds—"

"And when he looked at me later, he just swept his eyes away."

"This..." Lin Xinyi felt that Belmode's gloomy tone was a little too much: "It's not surprising, is it?"

"My face...is quite famous in the Tokyo metropolitan area."

"Maybe he recognized me, so he took a second look?"

Manager Lin of the Metropolitan Police Department is the pride of the Japanese police, and his popularity in the Tokyo metropolitan area even crushes those famous detectives who have been "abandoned by the new era".

Gunma Prefecture is next to Tokyo.