This Japanese Story Is Not Too Cold

Beichuan Temple was woken up by the ringtone of his cell phone.

When he woke up, he took a special look at the time.

Two o'clock in the morning.

People who still call themselves at this time...

Kitagawaji glanced at the contacts on the screen of his mobile phone.

It was none other than Ryoko Gangno.

"..." Beichuan Temple.

There must be something urgent for Okano Ryoko to call him at such a late hour.

Without hesitation, he reached out and answered the phone:

"Hello?"

The solemn voice of Ryoko Gangno came from the phone over there, and the iconic awe-inspiring voice was mixed with the harsh alarm bell:

"Beichuan."

"Something happened to Kokubo."

With just two simple words, Beichuanji felt slightly refreshed. He got out of bed and asked, "Where?"

"I've already sent someone to pick you up. It should be almost here now. There's something unusual about this incident."

Beichuanji raised his hand to open the curtains and looked down.

I don't know when a police car parked beside the house.

It seemed that that was the person sent by Gango Ryoko to pick him up.

"I'll be there soon."

Kitagawa Temple replied while putting on a coat he had taken out.

"Um."

The phone was hung up at this point.

It seems that Okano Ryoko is still organizing the scene, and it is already the limit to find time to call him.

Kitagawaji put his cell phone and keys into his pocket and quickly left home.

...

The piercing sirens wailed in the middle of the night.

This was like a gathering signal, and some socialites who were hanging out at night crowded over here one after another as if they had discovered the fun.

In this case, the two police officers who led Beichuanji out of the car quickly separated the crowd and squeezed inward.

"Report to the Gangye Police! The task you assigned has been completed!"

The two of them saluted to Ryoko Okano, who was standing in the field maintaining order.

Gangno Ryoko turned his gaze and nodded:

"Yes. Thank you for your hard work. We still need some manpower to maintain order. I'll leave it to you two then."

"yes!"

The two police officers retreated in a disciplined manner, and for a while, Kitagawaji was the only one beside Gango Ryoko.

"Kitagawa boy..." Gango Ryoko looked at Kitagawa Temple in front of him, opened his mouth feebly, and then waved his hand as if he gave up saying anything: "Forget it, let me take you in to take a look. "

"...Um."

Kitagawaji nodded, then raised his head and looked at the apartment building in front of him.

This is a very ordinary residential apartment building, considered a mid- to high-rise building.

But for some reason, those twinkling lights gave Beichuan Temple an indescribable feeling of coldness.

Gang Yeyangzi led Beichuanji inside.

During this period, she also met several police officers. After greeting them one by one, she finally led Kitagawaji into the apartment building.

As soon as he entered the apartment building, Beichuan Temple smelled the strong smell of blood and stench in the air.

But Gangano Ryoko is also well-informed and experienced in many battles.

I have seen so many brutal cases before, so of course I will not be swayed by the smell of blood.

Smelling such a smell, Okano Ryoko just frowned, and then quickly led Kitagawaji to the source of the bloody smell——

In front of an elevator.

At this time, the elevator door was wide open, and several police officers who were conducting sampling investigations were busy inside.

"It's still under work inside... You should be able to see it from here." Ryoko Okano said calmly.

"...Well, I can indeed see it." Beichuan Temple nodded.

From his angle facing the elevator, he could see the tragic scene inside.

The polished metal surface inside the elevator was now spattered with blood.

The ferocious, scarlet lines exploding in all directions indicate the horrific death of those who were struck.

Beichuan Temple's gaze was downward.

Underneath that was a man with dyed sandy hair.

His tongue was hanging out of his mouth, and his bloodless face was facing the elevator, making an expression of glaring fiercely at the people outside the elevator——

But to say it was a glare was actually a bit incorrect.

Because there were black iron cones stuck firmly in the sockets of his eyes, and his eyes could not be seen at all.

Naturally, the word ‘glare’ cannot be mentioned.

The black surface of the iron cone was stained with blood and other colloid liquids, making it look dirty.

Under Kitagawa Temple's gaze, Gango Ryoko's explanation voice sounded just right.

"After a simple examination, Hayato Kokubo had multiple sprains on his body. From this, it can be inferred that he must have struggled violently when he died, and the cause of his death was the two iron awls..."

Ryoko Okano stretched out two fingers and made an eye-piercing gesture: "When Kokubo Hayato was still alive, he inserted the hammer directly into both eyes. It entered through both eyes and then came out from the back of the head... How about that?" Doesn’t this way of death make you feel deja vu?”

"really."

Beichuan Temple groaned.

The way of death of Hayato Kokubo is basically the same as the way of death of Kaoru Yasui and Nao Kisaragi...except for the different parts.

"Except for this... I will tell you another piece of news that only insiders know." Ryoko Okano glanced at Hayato Kokubo, who had been dead for a long time, and said:

"Kubo Hayato... This guy died around twelve o'clock in the evening, but his body was only discovered at two o'clock."

Okano Ryoko touched her cigarette case, but considering that Kitagawa Temple was right next to her, she gave up this action and continued: "During this period, the elevator is still being used."

"The elevator is still being used?" Kitagawaji frowned.

Others are not blind, and they can't see the corpse in front of them.

And putting aside the corpse, someone could hear Hayato Kokubo’s screams, right?

There is no need to explain how painful it is to have an iron pick inserted directly into the eyeball, right?

But in fact the body was found at two o'clock in the morning.

During this period the elevator is still in use...

The only way to cause this situation is——

Beichuanji narrowed his eyes and said in a calm voice:

"The body disappeared from the elevator between twelve o'clock in the evening and two o'clock in the morning."

Gangno Ryoko shrugged and added:

"Actually, to be more precise... the time when Kokubo's body disappeared should be around eight o'clock in the evening. He first walked around the stairs, then returned to the elevator, and then entered the elevator alone, that is At that time, the monitoring inside the elevator lost its function, everything became dark, and we could no longer see anything... Then the elevator monitoring returned to normal at 12 o'clock in the evening, and nothing was seen in the elevator... There wasn’t even a trace of blood.”

"Then at two o'clock in the evening, the surveillance failed again for a moment, and then the body appeared in the elevator out of nowhere. Then the residents here discovered the body in the elevator and called the police. "

Having said this, Ryoko Gangno showed an intriguing expression on her face.

No wonder she had such an expression.

After all, the time when the monitoring failed and the body disappeared was too coincidental.

Are there still people in this world who kill someone and go all the way to bring the body back?

And even if there really was such a murderer who was so idle, how was the blood in the elevator wiped out?

"The only slightly more reasonable explanation is that the murderer used hallucinogenic and coma-like drugs to stun Kokubo Hayato, and then manipulated the monitoring in advance. During the period when the monitoring failed, he moved the unconscious Kokubo out, and then moved him in At two o'clock, we brought the body back and killed it with an iron awl... But this way, the time of Kokubo's death would not match up."

Gangno Ryoko waved his hands speechlessly.

How to track down this inexplicable murder case, and where to start... She really had no idea at all.

Moreover, the way of death of Hayato Kokubo is so similar to that of Nao Kisaragi and others...

This doesn't look like an ordinary coincidence.

In Ryoko Gango's expression, a wisp of black energy flashed across Kitagawaji's eyes.

With the blessing of death energy vision, Beichuanji saw something unusual in the elevator.

It was a strand of black entangled resentment.

Kitagawaji's eyes flickered, then he looked at Gango Ryoko and said with certainty: "It was indeed that thing that did it."

"...Really?" Ryoko Gangno smacked his lips.

She thought something was wrong at first, but...

Sure enough, it was a grudge that was at work.

I really don’t know what’s going on.

As long as Beichuan Temple is involved in a case, all kinds of strange things will always appear.

It's as if Kitagawaji is a high school student haunted by death.

Thinking of this, Okano Ryoko stretched out his hand and took out the gum box from his pocket, poured a few pieces into his mouth randomly, and then said as if he had thought of something:

"By the way, there is one more thing I want to tell you."

"What's up?"

"Before the corpse died, he pressed four floor buttons in succession on the elevator operation panel... I don't know what happened, so I might as well tell you, Mr. Beichuan."

She chewed gum and said word by word: "2, 4, 1, 8, these are the floor buttons the other party pressed."

"2418?" After hearing this number, Beichuanji's eyebrows wrinkled.

This number seems familiar...?

Kitagawa Temple took out his mobile phone from his pocket, opened his homepage of Urban Paranormal Stories, and then looked at a private message in his private mailbox.

‘Elevators and Strange Stories from Another World’.

'According to rumors, if you enter the elevator at 8:40 in the evening, and then press the floors in the order 2418 in the elevator, the elevator you are in will take you to another world. ’

‘As for what is in that world and what has happened in the past, it is unknown. Because from the first step into that world, you have completely cut off contact with the outside world. What awaits you may be the ending of being eroded by unknown fear. ’

"Elevators and weird stories from another world..." Kitagawa Temple muttered to himself.

Not only is it related to this strange story, but more importantly -

He raised his head and looked at Ryoko Okano and asked: "I remember Nao Kisaragi once lived with Hayato Kokubo for a while, right?"

Kitagawaji's sudden question made Okano Ryoko stunned, and then she confirmed: "I lived there for a while."

"Then what is the room number where they live?" Beichuan Temple asked without hesitation.

Gangno Ryoko was silent.

She probably understood what Beichuan Temple meant.

Okano Ryoko first asked Kitagawaji to wait, and then took out her own mobile phone.

She used her mobile phone to enter the police's special information retrieval webpage, then retrieved information about Kisaragi Nao, then raised her head: "It's room 2418."

It turns out that the number 2418 still has such meaning?

Gangno Ryoko didn't expect it at all.

Her voice was slightly surprised: "But Beichuan, how did you think of this number?"

There is only a short one-line annotation on the information. It would be an exaggeration to say that Beichuanji memorized all the information just by reading it once.

With her expression like this, Beichuan Temple also explained to her calmly: "The resentful spirit is originally the manifestation of human obsessions after distortion, and its nature is very simple.

"And in everyone's obsession...or longing, there are many things worth worrying about. The number 2418 represents that Kisaragi Nao and Kokubo once lived, and this may also become a reminder. The main way of the spirit.”

After listening to this long list of idealistic theories, Okano Ryoko felt as if she was listening to a monk chanting sutras. She could only say, "Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh." :

"Oh, oh, that's it. I understand it completely."

"..." Beichuan Temple.

Beichuan Temple looked at her deeply and didn't bother to pay attention to her extremely perfunctory answer.

"Ahem." Okano Ryoko obviously felt Kitagawaji's gaze, and she coughed slightly and said with some embarrassment:

"In short, as long as you don't press the number 2418, you won't attract the evil spirit, right? In this case, Beichuan, you don't need to press it deliberately..."

Well--

Ryoko Okano's voice, which was about to continue speaking, paused.

Because she clearly saw Beichuanji's face...

There's actually an extra bit of eagerness to try?

what is this?

Gangno Ryoko opened his mouth, with a somewhat surprised look on his face: "Beichuan? You don't want to take risks, do you? Do you want to press the 2418 button?"

Kitagawa Temple turned his eyes away and said expressionlessly: "I didn't."

"Before you say something like this...Beichuan, can you look at me and speak?"

The corners of Gango Ryoko's mouth twitched.

"I didn't." Beichuan Temple was unmoved.

"You must want to press it, right? Beichuan. Answer me honestly."

A vein appeared on Gangno Ryoko's forehead, and her tone was somewhat unkind.

Under Gango Ryoko's tone, Beichuanji turned his head.

He still had the same expression on his face, and his voice didn't sound wavering:

"I think about it a little bit. But only a little bit."

"..." Ryoko Gangno.

Have a little idea?

Are you sure you don't have hundreds of millions of thoughts?

She looked at Beichuan Temple and waved her hands angrily for a long time:

"Forget it, you bastard, you really want to piss me off to death - I can't control you anymore! You can do whatever you want."

After all, the hands are still on Beichuanji's body, and I really can't control what he wants to do.

And...according to how cunning this kid is, even if he falls into a dangerous situation, he will definitely be able to escape unscathed, right?

Thanks to Mingye Qiyu, Ganzhao with such a long name, and braised lychee meat for the reward! Thank you so much!

The English test is tomorrow... This week is another quick question week... I really don’t have time! ! ! !