my cthulhu game

Chapter 82 A big investigation with brainstorming!

As for Chen Qiang...

He doesn't care what "Green Delta" thinks, the large pile of patents produced by Gu Shiyin's reverse engineering can be authorized to just one or two of them, which is enough for them to do business.

"The trials of the great race may be related to the real supernatural," Chen Qiang said, "so I hope to gather our 'true' wisdom to find a way to pass the level."

"Okay!" Sayoko was really motivated this time.

"Just take 'game', 'supernatural creature' and 'detection' as the multiple premise, and sort out all the current puzzles as a whole." Qin Lingxue said.

……

After a moment.

"There are so many." Looking at the blank paper full of writing in front of him, Chen Qiang was secretly shocked.

Just investigate the core "who", "where", "using what", "how to do", "for what" and "doing what".

"Beyond the case, the secrets of our characters themselves must be revealed," Qin Lingxue said. "What other messages are hidden in 'Jiang En Chen's' cell phone? Why were Xiaoyezi and I injured? Why was Uncle Xu regarded as a suspect? These may provide useful clues for the investigation."

"I can answer the last question." Sayoko raised her hand. "Officer Masayoshi Takeda's testimony is because some witnesses said that Uncle Xu's character was hanging around Imai's suite during the time of the theft."

"eyewitness?"

"It's the female forensic doctor who helped with the autopsy. I remember it's called... Nikki. Nikki Renaghi."

"Add her name to 'Who', and she is also considered one of the suspects or insiders."

Chen Qiang nodded.

Under the "who" column of "who", "where", "with what", "how", "for what", and "did what", there is already a row of names written, the top few of which are "Quilina Captain Si", "Hiroyuki Imai", "Officer Takeda Masayoshi" and "Inspector Uesugi Kenhito".

That's right.

Under the current conditions, as long as the face of the corpse is invisible, no matter how much the corpse has in common with Uesugi Kenhito, it cannot be sure that the deceased is really Uesugi Kenhito.

"We'd better imagine that the enemy is some kind of monster," said Sayoko worriedly, remembering the body torn in half. "We need firearms and... the old seal..."

"The old improvised seals are useless—as for the firearms, they're in the captain's quarters and the police quarters. Sayoko, let's find a chance to 'take' them out. That's the job for you, right?"

"Why me—I know..." Sayoko's voice dropped.

Chen Qiang paced back and forth in the room.

"Assuming that the deceased is indeed Sergeant Kenhito Uesugi," he naturally advanced the question to the next step, "Why is the room of Hiroyuki Imai the murder scene? Why did the murderer choose to commit the crime here?"

"Normally, the first person we suspect should be Imai Hiroyuki," Xiaoxue was playing with a plush treasure that was dug out from the cabinet. "He doesn't have an alibi. What he doesn't want to be seen, he has a motive to commit murder."

"But this is a 'game trial'," Sayoko said, "it shouldn't be such a simple puzzle, right?"

"According to what Chen Qiang said, Uncle Xu also encountered an accident." Qin Lingxue put down the plush toy with a solemn face, "The murderer attacked one after another. It is also possible that the murderer's purpose is...to meet the needs of some kind of magic ritual..."

"But for a large-scale magical ceremony that summons supernatural beings, the time and place are very important. If so, Captain Quilinus is almost certainly the murderer." Sayoko speculated.

"Considering that he refuses to meet with us at all," Qin Lingxue said, "even if he is not the murderer, at least he is the murderer's collaborator."

A moment of silence.

"The name of the module is 'Christmas Carnival'," Chen Qiang frowned. "It is now 12 o'clock in the evening on December 23. At the current pace, I think the main line of the story will end before Christmas at the latest. We It should be stopped before things become irreversible..."

"So annoying!" Xiao Yezi scratched her head distractedly, "We need more clues!"

"If there are clues, there are." Gu Shiyin, who was busy tinkering with the laptop, suddenly said.

"what?"

[Gushiyin computer use test 87/95 success]

"The key surveillance video was deleted by someone, but he made a mistake."

"what?"

"That person seemed to want to pretend to be a monitoring failure. After deleting today's video, he turned off most of the cameras on the ship." Gu Shiyin said.

"what do you mean……"

"The data actually left on the hard disk has not been overwritten by new data. As long as the data is restored remotely, we can browse today's recordings."

Gu Shiyin pinched her waist with both hands, and put on a look of "Praise me, I'm so good".

"Tell me first, when did you delete the data?" Chen Qiang asked while experimenting with the password to unlock the phone file.Failure too many times in a row would lock the file, so he could only retry a few times every quarter of an hour.

"Probably between the time when the murder happened and when we found the body." Gu Shiyin glanced at the screen.

"Hey, if there is a camera recording... Shouldn't it be called directly when the previous theft just happened?" Xiao Yezi asked.

"The monitoring system of this ship seems to be fully automatic and unattended," Qin Lingxue said. "Officer Takeda said that the application for using the video footage was submitted by Officer Uesugi long ago, but it seems to be stuck with Captain Quilinas. ..."

"Very good," Chen Qiang nodded, "Now our captain, who has lost his head and tail, is more suspicious."

"Let's quickly look at the video near the scene of the murder." Xiao Yezi said eagerly.

"It hasn't been fully restored..." Gu Shiyin found that no one praised him, and immediately seemed aggrieved.

"Okay, I knew Xiao Gu was the best, here are the mints for you." Xiaoxue patted Gu Shiyin's head.

A happy smile appeared on Gu Shiyin's face.

"Sister Xue is the best..." She stuffed the candy into her mouth.

"By the way, Xiaogu, can you also restore the video near the room where Xiao Yezi and I were originally in?" Qin Lingxue tried to persuade, "If there are all kinds of inconspicuous corners, like the bathroom door, that would be the best."

"Oh! Yes," Gu Shiyin said, "Actually, the videos there have not been deleted, we can directly call them up. You see, that's all."

"Is that so..."

Xiaoxue opened a file casually.

[Haneda snow belt punishment luck check 27/70 success]

"what."

It was a video at the door of a bathroom.

The video is very unclear - but enough for the crowd.

The time shown on the upper left of the video is around nine o'clock in the morning.

In the middle of the video, in front of the sink, two girls—the image is obviously Qin Lingxue and Xiao Yezi—are wrestling together without any image.

Chen Qiang:"……"

Sayoko: "..."

Qin Lingxue: "..."

　The second watch arrives, and there is another watch at night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)