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Chapter 1403 Mysterious Death (The cat who sleeps until nine o'clock every day with his tail in his arms)

There are so many accidents in this world.

Standing in the smelly room, Duanmu Huai seemed speechless. In fact, he was speechless when he learned about the incident, and became even more speechless after arriving here.

"Hello, Mr. Duanmu."

The person in charge of the on-site investigation was a police detective named Jiu Mu, who had met Duanmu Huai several times - well, this is normal. With Duanmu Huai's appearance, the people who are most likely to react to him are the police.

"I never thought you would take this case."

"I don't want to either. Frankly speaking, I would rather go home and sleep right now."

Duanmu Huai yawned, looking bored and depressed.

The reason why he came here was simple. The principal called to invite him.

As for why the principal invited Duanmu Huai here...

"Tell me about the situation."

"OK."

Detective Jiumu nodded, then took out his phone and glanced at it.

"The deceased is Matsushita Shizuko, 32 years old, a former national gymnast, currently working as a physical education teacher at Qianyuan Academy..."

Duanmuhuai sighed silently.

That's why he's here.

Duanmu Huai still remembered that when the principal invited him to Qianyuan Academy, he said that the physical education teacher was on leave due to illness, so he could take over as a physical education teacher and conduct investigations at the same time. At that time, Duanmu Huai just heard about it, but he did not expect that he would meet the physical education teacher under such circumstances.

According to Detective Jiumu’s description, the situation in which Matsushita Shizuko’s body was found was actually very simple. Because there was a foul smell coming from the apartment where Matsushita Shizuko lived, which disturbed other people’s peace, so they went to the administrator to protest. The latter took the key and opened the door of Matsushita Shizuko's apartment, and then discovered Matsushita Shizuko's body lying in the living room.

Then the police were called immediately, and then the police came to investigate and learned her identity, so they called the principal of Qianyuan Academy. After the principal received the call, he called Duan Muhuai. So Duanmu Huai had to get up and rush to this smelly apartment in the middle of the night.

It looks like I have to take a shower and change clothes when I get back.

"What was the cause of death?"

"It's still unknown, but according to our investigation, Matsushita Shizuko died about five days ago. There were no signs of fighting in the room, and there were no traces left by anyone other than Matsushita Shizuko. So we initially It is judged that the other party died of a sudden illness, and the smell of the body after decomposition was discovered by others... This is not a strange thing. "

"Do you have any pictures of the body?"

"certainly."

Detective Jiumu took out a photo and handed it over. Duanmuhuai took the photo, glanced at it, and then twitched the corners of his mouth slightly.

"What kind of illness and death is this?"

No wonder Duanmu Huai complained, because the corpse in the photo was swollen all over - well, that's understandable. But what was incomprehensible was that the opponent was split open from the head to the abdomen, corpse water and rotten internal organs gush out from it, and the whole person seemed to have been cut open.

Of course, not only that, for Duanmu Huai, who has experienced many battles, he can tell at a glance that this is not someone cutting the body open from the outside, but more like something tearing Matsushita Shizuko's body from the inside. He got out and left this empty shell behind.

"According to the forensic doctor, there is a certain chance that a decayed corpse will explode due to swelling, resulting in this strange phenomenon."

"All right."

Duanmuhuai nodded and returned the photo to Detective Jiumu.

"Do you mind if I look into it?"

"No problem, our investigation is over."

After preliminary on-site investigation, the police seemed to believe that this was just a simple accidental death. Although the exploded body was a bit difficult to stretch, it was not unexplainable. At least for now, there are no obvious traces of homicide or drugs or alcohol on the body. Moreover, there were no signs of outsiders entering or exiting the room itself. At present, it seemed that it was just an accidental death, so the police also planned to close the team.

After the police left, Duanmuhuai began to observe the room in front of him. Although the disgusting rancid smell still remained, the whole room was decorated with a feminine atmosphere. Such as pink curtains, plush carpets, and trophies placed on the bookshelf, but Duanmuhuai was not interested in them. He scanned around, then found the chandelier on the ceiling, and then stretched out his hand to put it down. on top.

Soon, in front of Duanmuhuai, time began to rewind.

"Buzz..."

The sound of the air conditioner echoed in the living room, and a woman in sportswear curled up and hid on the sofa. It's not very hot right now, but the woman is dressed very coolly, wearing only shorts and a short-sleeved jacket similar to those worn by a basketball team. Not only that, she even has the air conditioner turned on.

It would be wrong to say that the woman felt very hot, so she was huddled up and shivering at the moment, and her skin was pale, making it look like she was very cold. But even so, she had no intention of turning off the air conditioner. There were even ice cream and popsicles on the table that looked very cold.

To be honest, even if you are not sick, you will make yourself sick by doing this.

An advertisement was playing on the TV. The woman was shivering on the sofa, but she had no intention of watching the advertisement. Instead, she clutched her phone tightly with both hands, seeming to be looking at something. It's just that the long hair hanging down blocked her sight, so the woman's expression could not be seen clearly.

"————!"

At this moment, the whole room suddenly darkened, the TV was turned off, the sound of the air conditioner disappeared, and everything seemed to fall into silence.

Well, to put it simply, it’s out of power.

“————!!”

However, at this moment, the woman suddenly stood up in a panic. She was about to rush to the door as if running for her life. However, at this moment, the woman suddenly let out an indistinct wail, and then she collapsed as if she had lost her strength. on the ground.

Later, Duanmu Huai saw it.

The woman's face was split in the middle, extending from her forehead all the way down to her lower abdomen. Her body was like a balloon, being squeezed from the inside by something, expanding, cracking, and then exploding!

"Bang!"

It was a sound no louder than the bursting of a balloon, and it marked the woman's complete death. She just collapsed to the ground and stopped moving. Immediately afterwards, Duanmuhuai saw countless black, rat-like things swarming out of the woman's body, and then disappeared like scattered cockroaches.

Seeing this, Duanmu Huai raised his eyebrows, then rewinded again - paused and zoomed in.

He followed the lamp on the ceiling downwards and stared carefully at the mobile phone in the woman's hand - there was a selfie of the woman on the mobile phone. Of course, if it was just this photo, it wouldn't be unusual. But what caught Duanmu Huai's attention was not the woman herself, but the book she was holding in her arms in the selfie!

A black book with a thick leather cover that looks like a magic book!

And this book, Duanmu Huai has seen it! Literary girls used to carry it with them!

At that time, Duanmuhuai used his mobile phone to look back at the literary girl's past, but Duanmuhuai didn't know how he got the book. Because in the past that the mobile phone recalled, the literary girl at that time put down her mobile phone and went out, and when she came back, she had this book in her arms!

It was only after that that the literary girl excitedly said that with this book, she could increase the probability of summoning spirits, and then went to commit suicide happily.

And now, this book is actually in this teacher’s cell phone photo!

Duanmu Huai didn't believe that two people bought a book each. After all, they were both from Qianyuan Academy, one was a teacher and the other was a student. Moreover, when the literary girl took the book, the physical education teacher was not sick yet... …Um?

Wait, could it be because the literary girl took the teacher's book that she died in the end?

So where did this book come from... That's a bit of a problem!

...Forget it, continue to collect clues, and then go home and let your brain think.

Duanmuhuai decisively gave up thinking. His brain was itchy and he couldn't take the exam anymore.

The teacher's cell phone was kept as evidence, and because it was not a murder case, Duanmu Huai was not qualified to retrieve it. But he didn't care about this little trouble. Duanmuhuai first went to the apartment manager to ask about the situation. Facing Duanmu Huai, the apartment manager naturally knew everything and talked about everything.

"The electricity usage in Room 308...? From what you said...there does seem to be something wrong."

"How to say it specifically?"

"Although I don't remember it clearly, it is true that the power consumption of No. 308 has been increasing since some time ago. I was also worried that the other party would do some illegal activities in the room, so I went to inquire about it, and the result was that …”

"result?"

"She just turned the air conditioner on."

"that's all?"

"That's what she told me, saying that she is more afraid of heat..."

"But it's not summer yet."

Summer vacation hasn't even started yet.

"That's what I thought, but since the other party is willing to turn on the air conditioner all day long and is also willing to pay the electricity bill, then I have nothing to say. In fact, this time it was probably because the electricity ran out, that's why he was discovered. If it weren't for the fact that the power ran out, I'm afraid we wouldn't have discovered that she had... ugh..."

"Is her air conditioning turned on very low?"

"It's probably around ten degrees... To be honest, I can't stand it."

"Do you know when this started? Or has it been like this since she moved here?"

"You said so..."

The administrator scratched his head.

"It seems like she wasn't like this before. It was just very ordinary at the beginning... Oh, yes, if I remember correctly, it should have been a year ago when she went back to her hometown, and she became like this after she came back! "

"A year ago?"

"Yes, I remember she went back to her hometown to celebrate the New Year. After she came back, she specially brought me local specialties, so I remember it very clearly. After that...she seemed to have kept the air conditioner on and the temperature was always very low. To be honest, her room feels like a cold storage. Sometimes I feel a bit chilly when I walk through the door..."

"Did you know she has a book?"

Duanmuhuai gestured to the administrator.

"A black one with a large cover?"

When he heard Duanmuhuai's question, the administrator was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly clapped his hands.

"Yes, there is such a thing! About half a month ago, she came to me and asked me if I had seen such a book. She also retrieved the surveillance video from the time, and I watched it with her. But it wasn’t found. At least it wasn’t left in the apartment.”

Oh?

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai narrowed his eyes.

"So how did she look at that time? Was she anxious?"

"When you said that, she seemed to be very anxious at the time. Maybe that book had some special meaning to her..."

"OK, thanks."

After getting the information he wanted, Duanmu Huai also left the apartment directly. He first sent an email to the principal to explain the situation, and then immediately called Shionji Yuko to inform him of the matter.

"...So, the other party did not die accidentally?"

"I suspect that this case may be related to the previous case. By the way, can you investigate, where is the teacher's hometown? She went back to her hometown a year ago, so there should be records."

"Let me check...um..."

Soon, the crackling sound of keyboard typing came from the phone, followed by a slight pause after a moment.

"Huh? You will definitely be very interested in this news."

"Let me guess."

Duanmu Huai's face darkened.

"It can't be related to the light of the universe."

"You guessed it right, her hometown is in Yoshin Town, Aomori, which is one of the addresses on the list...Is this a coincidence?"

"It could be a coincidence, or it could be the result of spillover."

Duanmuhuai snorted coldly.

"Continue the investigation and wait until I get back to talk about the rest."