I Am a Light Novel Master in Japan Chapter 674

"I remember that very late, Li found me and rescued me from the cabinet... But when we were planning to go out from behind, I really thought about it. Simply sneaking in is not simple."

"..."

Mashiro listened quietly to Rita's explanation.

"However, our whereabouts were still discovered, so in the shortest possible time, Li felt that it was too dangerous to escape with me, so he once again used a trick and hid me in the cabinet in the utility room where the noise was caused. By the way, he also gave me his mobile phone and asked me not to make any calls, but to send a text message to tell Mashiro what’s going on here.”

"Yeah, but I received the call at 4 o'clock in the morning." Mashiro Shiina said.

"The signal here at the school has always been relatively poor, especially after hiding in that small cabinet. I tried many times but couldn't send the text message...but I did succeed once at four o'clock."

Rita explained.

"I...have been worried about Li's safety. I have been waiting with some fear and listening to the movements outside."

Rita's next words made Mashiro Shiina and Victoria feel heavy in their hearts after hearing them.

"It was very noisy, as if the fighting was fierce... I heard all kinds of screams and shouts from time to time... I also knew that Li might have been injured too..."

In order to prevent the surrounding people from being alerted, the opponent kept attacking Li Yan with sticks and machetes. In the darkness, the two sides finally got into a bloody melee.

"Finally, I couldn't hear any more sounds. Just when I was trying to contact you, I heard a gunshot."

Rita lowered her head sadly and told everything she knew.

"..."

Shiina Mashiro noticed something very much and asked: "Rita, what time was it when the gunshot was fired?"

"...Eh?" Rita looked at Mashiro in confusion.

Victoria didn't quite understand the meaning of Mashiro's question about the time of the gunshot, but this detail was indeed very important. She explained: "Well... if you had been using Li's mobile phone at that time, wouldn't that thing have always displayed the time? You had Notice what time you heard the gunfire?”

Rita thought for a while, but as a painter student, her picture memory ability is also very good, and answered: "It should be at 11:32."

"?!"

Shiina Mashiro and Victoria's expressions suddenly changed.

"Tell me, what did you find? I noticed that you looked at that clock for a long time before. Sure enough, you found a clue that we couldn't see?" Victoria then raised her head and looked at Mashiro and asked.

"...Well, Li left us an important clue."

Mashiro Shiina said to Victoria in a soft and delicate voice.

"Really... I remember that the time refers to 11:35:15. The time I told Rita is completely different by more than two minutes. It may be an error caused by falling. However, something like a mechanical clock can It’s not so easy to drop two numbers ending in 5 by coincidence.”

Victoria thought and analyzed.

Shiina Mashiro nodded and said, "Fu... Li has turned around."

"..." Rita and Victoria fell silent and looked at Mashiro.

"Only the clock body and minutes had very slight traces of blood."

Mashiro further explained: "When Li fell, he secretly set the clock, and then the clock turned over."

"...the two numbers 5, and some of them are deliberately placed in reverse... 5, huh? The Arabic numeral of the clock, 5 in turn looks like 2. Li emphasized the word number 2, could it be telling Us?!" Victoria already understood Li Yan's message.

"The letter Z." Mashiro said.

After learning that Li Yan also knew the inside story of the police, he combined all the clues and deduced. The only information that can be understood through investigation and reasoning is this.

"Among the 11 suspected police officers we are still investigating, only one person's name is different...Cha.vez (Chavez), Sheriff Chavez of Portuguese descent, the British name is spelled in There are not many names with a Z letter at the end, and among the 11 police officers, the only one with a conspicuous 'Z' letter is Sergeant Chavez. So Li can still help you with your deeds by memorizing the names of 11 police officers. Introducing, the London police elite who have been tracking the [Jester Thieves], so the traitor is Captain Chavez."

Victoria quickly continued her analysis and said.

As Mashiro Shiina and Victoria reasoned, after Li Yan failed at the last moment by using hostages as cover, he realized at the last moment that the person who foreshadowed being shot was none other than himself.

But it happened that this omen made him see the time of 11:35:15, which was completely inconsistent with the clock he saw after he fell. Li Yan quickly thought of this method, taking advantage of the dark moment on the ground. , he tampered with the clock in time.

For Victoria, this kind of information was of great help. After all, the progress of investigating one police officer by the European girl detective who did not follow him was much faster than the progress of investigating the suspicion of 11 police officers.

"I immediately asked Mrs. Forrest to contact the British side to thoroughly investigate Officer Chavez's suspicion. If the spies in the police force can be eradicated as soon as possible, it will be of great benefit to our operations here."

Victoria took out her mobile phone, which was like a big brother, and used her clumsy fingers to dial Mrs. Forrest, who had connections all over Europe.

Shiina Mashiro was silent.

She had long suspected that Officer Chavez, who had dark skin, a fat body, a cheerful and optimistic personality, and most importantly, when the members of the Jester Gang were almost rounded up by the British police, it was Chavez. Sheriff Si ordered random shots to quickly kill this member.

"but……"

As the breeze blew, Mashiro Shiina gradually lowered her head, thinking about this matter.

In the end, Li Yan left no clues of his own traces...

swish swish...

Among the fallen leaves in the school, Mashiro Shiina thought of the wall of blood and persisted in her belief that she could be strong in the end...

※※※

National hospital in Tokyo.

In the training room, Nanami Aoyama was sitting on the bed, holding a thick script of scripts in his hand. He kept clearing his throat and said in a serious, cold and delicate voice: "...Please don't come close to this place now. No one can enter this scene before the police arrive, this is a murder case!"

"My tone is a little better."

Nanami Aoyama played back his tape recorder. After listening carefully, he smiled and said.

"It's just that I still feel that the character of the girl Sherlock Holmes is a little different from Mashiro's thinking. How about making it a little more empty... Mashiro's work can't be ruined because of me."

After listening to it several times, Nanami still found her own shortcomings. She became a little scared, sighed in a low voice, and said to herself.

Nanami Aoyama looked at the lines seriously, and then wrote down his thoughts in his notepad.

There was only two or three days left before the audition at Musashino Company. Nanami did not dare to be lazy at all, and continued to practice secretly after the nurse made her rounds.

However, at this moment, Nanami's forehead was covered with sweat, and her eyelids could not help but tremble a little. Although her ribs and legs had recovered well, the pain was still unbearable. Nanami endured the discomfort. The most painful thing was that her body was obviously in unbearable pain, but she had to imitate the calm and cold tone of the young detective.

"..."

Looking at Nanami Aoyama in the room, who was trying to realize their dream of becoming an animation together, Mashiro Shiina, who was standing at the door and secretly peeking through the crack of the door, stepped back.

"Nanami."

"Feel sorry."