innocence method

? "Even if you ask now, you don't plan to say it in a while."

"Ah."

This kid... the wolf narrowed his eyes.

"Then, there is only one person left."

I'm not as easy to fool as the kid over there.From the corner of its eye, the wolf glanced at the monkey who was silently wiping away his tears, sitting upright and constantly inhaling to adjust his breathing: It’s okay to pull your tongue out of your mouth, or pull your intestines out of your stomach...

I will definitely let you explain it verbatim.

"Then tell me." The wolf closed his eyes.

"—About the way that woman died."

"The words of the bird..."

There is no way to describe the bird's death seven intact.But there is one thing he can be sure of——

"The girl's death—it was an accident."

"..."

"What. I'm not joking!"

"..."

"It's true! If you have to say who killed her, it's probably the 'trial room' room."

... Really.Seven swallowed a breath. "That day, Bird came to you with the determination to die, and what he wanted to tell you was the way to 'escape this place'."

After opening the beginning with no atmosphere, Shichi avoided Lang's eyes, appraising himself like a guest officer listening to a book, and began to narrate.

The courtroom overhead is closed for ten hours a day.It is completely isolated from the seemingly warm living area below, but in fact people are constantly dying.

—The disappearance of the bird takes advantage of what is obvious to everyone.Compared with other rooms in this venue, this court room obviously has a different place-that is, whether blood or dirt, things other than corpses will not be cleaned up; in other words, this room Not only will it not be completely removed, but if there are no corpses inside, no one from the organizers will enter this room. ——At that time, the inference of Bird and Nanshang's discussion was probably like this.

In other words, for those who have no intention of participating in the game, whether it is the night when the room is closed or the day when everyone shuns because of the oppressive atmosphere-as long as they stay in this room, they can sit and wait for the game to end.

Even if someone finds it, it only needs a very simple method to avoid their eyes and ears——

"...you stop."

Wolf suddenly interrupted Qi.

"The kind of thing you imply is impossible."

Seven glanced at him.

"it is true."

That's about the same.Finally——I kind of showed the expression I wanted.

"—that day, when we were looking for birds together, she was still alive."

The "simple way to avoid people's eyes" mentioned by Qi is not a gimmick - as long as others stay in the courtroom when they are in the lower room, and hide when others come to the courtroom, and so on - it is very simple.

"...To put it simply, hum. Tell me, how does that woman know when I go up to find her? Are you going to talk about pinching the watch? Or telepathy?"

"Here, didn't I make it clear to you just now?" Qi said, slightly dissatisfied with his aggressive attitude. "That's why the bird needs 'partners'. As long as someone from below informs her, it will be easy to know when you will go up, right?"

notify?That's really nice to say.

——If you live in an ordinary residence, it is indeed as easy as you said.But in this game field with no mobile phones or other communication tools, and a primitive society, it is impossible for you to say such stupid things as knocking on the door with your hand and telling her to run away—even if that, the sound insulation effect on the door above your head is so good that even It is also impossible for an iron gate that cannot be leaked by explosions and cannons.

"So didn't I ask you to think about more 'simple' things." Qi sighed.I'm tired of it.It's a simple thing, so just think about it yourself.

"There are a total of six doors leading to the courtroom above the head. At that time, I was the one who chose which door to go through and opened the door—as the bird's 'partner'."

"..." The wolf was speechless.

Simple.That's what Qi said—it was exactly as he said.

"What's wrong?" At that time, the wolf asked Qi.

"It seems... stuck." The young man, who couldn't push with his hands, changed his shoulders to push it.

Stuck?It was indeed stuck, but not by anything else: At that moment, above the young man's shoulders, on the opposite side of the ten-centimeter-thick iron—the girl curled her knees, frowned, and knelt nervously before Seventh agreed with her. on this iron door.

The moment she felt the young man's first push, she jumped up like a bird hearing the sound of a bow. The girl opened the door of the next room, jumped down, and closed it.

Five seconds later, the wolf who was delayed by the iron ladder pushed open the iron door and looked desperately at the empty trial room.

……damn it.

Wolf took a deep breath.This brat, how dare he... In vain, I always thought that the bird killed jelly and was "executed" by the organizer and "death penalty" ah!

"Looking at you, you seem to have understood. By the way, the bird hid in the sheep's room. In order to prevent you from finding out, I went to help her lock the lock from the inside. We agreed that today As soon as the door opened, I would have delivered her food—"—it was.

But then some kind of accident seemed to happen.

"..."

"That room doesn't seem to be waiting for someone to hide there honestly. It seems that some method was used to clear people... But the bird can't get out—"

Before Qi could finish speaking, the wolf stepped forward.

It overlaps with where he sits.With two legs straddling his knees, the wolf was so close that it stared at Qi like this.

He bent down and picked up his collar at an extremely slow speed.

"How did you know?"

"..."

"There was an accident—how did you know?"

I don't want to get into the cause of that woman's death.However—human will is not something that can be controlled by one's own wishes, so it's disgusting.

No blood, no signs of struggle.

The overhead vents that never seem to get air in, the dead bugs that have been accumulating on the table since the second time I entered the room...

"If I had to say who killed her, it would probably be the 'trial room'."

"..." The wolf took a deep breath of air.

Choking?

"Will not."

"That kind of stupid and stupid woman who would utter the words of a dead body and be afraid of being alone to death would not die for that reason in that disgusting Bara's room—!" I knew very well , She couldn't stay in that kind of place for a minute.

That's why I said, she came to you with a "determination to die".

"That's impossible!" Even though he said this, the wolf's body was a hundred times more honest than his mouth - lowering his eyes, Qi felt that his whole body was trembling with the wolf's hand holding his collar.

"...That idiot's tipping technique was taught to her! If you didn't lock the door at that time, if you didn't teach her that technique at the beginning, if I asked you later, you told me To be honest...!"

"—Enough is enough!" Seven said.The wolf let go.

Sitting back on the chair with a bang, Qi straightened his collar.

"That logic is so strange. If you want to push it that way, in the end, the person Bird wants to find for a discussion-is you! If you didn't choose to reject her, what would happen now?"

"One more thing. The purpose of that courtroom is to keep people from hiding in it overnight. If it's done exactly the way you said, the device that sucks the air out of the courtroom will be activated before about eleven o'clock. .At that time, the bird should still be alive, and should be aware of it. In other words—”

"If you had the heart to save her, you'd have pulled her out of that 'disgusting Barra's room' no matter how many times. But then—where were you?"

"Before eleven o'clock, the door of the court room was always open, but the method I agreed with Bird can only be used once. Why? You obviously searched the room below several times, why didn't you go to check on Bird again?" Are you in the courtroom? Where are you when the overhead vents start to work, when the consciousness is a little blurry, and the birds are knocking on the door hundreds and thousands of times begging you to open it?"

The wolf stared blankly at Qi, but that gaze didn't stop on Qi's face—the gaze penetrated Qi.

That day, the wolf paced back and forth in his room.Although he didn't quite believe it, he still reasoned that the bird was dead.There is no other possibility.

Suddenly, as if being pulled by someone, the wolf slipped and bumped his head against the foot of the bed.His whole body seemed to lose all strength, and he straightened his back, and the wolf just lay there motionless.

Filling his out-of-focus field of vision are things like this:

Ceiling—iron door—iron door—ceiling.

And over and over and over and over and over and over and over again—he'd been looking at it all that night, and it never occurred to him once to open it.

"Wolf, I don't really understand. But that's what you call 'arrogance'. I can't say anything if you insist that it's my fault... But isn't it because of your judgment of 'the bird is dead' Believe it or not—is that why you killed the girl?"

Right, that is it.

that's it.My brain is not that good, so I can't solve the cases one by one.However, if you can't solve someone else's case, you can create your own case—I am confident that I can repeat my own methods.

There is only one thing—the rules of this game restrict this—before the end, such self-confessional methods are not allowed.So from the very beginning, my identity in this experiment was established.I'm not the one who "solves the case"—trying to set up clues to lead others to wrong reasoning—I'm the "detective who stops others from solving the case."