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Chapter 1682: "The Eve of the Festival"

For Gao Yuan, the original reason for coming to the backstage to find Asabuki Ken was because of Rieko's death. There might be a hidden secret, and this matter is likely related to Asabuki Ken -

Gao Yuan made this inference based entirely on what Shirozuka Hisui said.

Therefore, Gao Yuan and Shirozuka Hisui's purpose of coming backstage to find Chaochu Xian was naturally not as simple as Sonoko's.

So, after meeting Asabuki Akira backstage, the two of them neither tried to get close to him like Sonoko did, nor did they explain their purpose directly like Mizunashi Rena did. They just stayed here and watched, hoping that there might be a chance to discover some clues -

For example, will the reporter who once had a conflict with Asabuki Akira and wrote about his scandal appear here again and cause trouble?

Therefore, Gao Yuan and Shirozuka Hisui came to the backstage and wanted to meet Asabuki Ken. In fact, the fundamental reason was to see if the reporter would show up in such an occasion.

If he really showed up, it would be convenient—

However, what was unexpected was that the reporter named "Kusuda Rikuu" finally showed up, but when they saw him, he was already a corpse...

……

In Osuga Yui's lounge, her manager was holding her violin and was about to help her put it back to the room. However, as a musician, he even let go of the case containing the violin. How could this situation not be surprising?

Therefore, Gao Yuan and Cheng Zuka Feifei, who were already thinking about something, came directly to the door, bypassed the manager, and looked inside -

All I saw was a man lying there on his back.

He was wearing a half-worn black jacket and a cheap tie, but his clothes did not look messy.

There was a pair of sunglasses dropped next to him, which should belong to this person.

Then, the bulge on his chest was...

  It's the handle!

It seemed as if the blade of a knife was completely embedded in the man's body, with only the handle sticking out. This made people immediately realize that the man was probably in great danger.

After Gao Yuan heard Shirozuka Hisui say "It's Kusuda Rikuu" and realized who the strange man lying in the room was, Gao Yuan hurried into the room, reached out his hand to feel his breath and seemed to feel nothing, then put his hand on the man's carotid artery, and finally shook his head helplessly -

"No pulse."

As he spoke, Gao Yuan could not help but observe carefully, looking at the man's distorted face and his eyes that were wide open, as if he had seen some horrific scene before he died.

The eyeball is cloudy and white, as if the cornea is very dry...

"Not recently dead."

Gao Yuan judged.

After saying this, after receiving the news, Hisui Shirozuka did not stay at the door for long, but took out her cell phone and prepared to call the police.

Gao Yuan was about to stand up and take a closer look at the entire room when he suddenly noticed the handle of the knife exposed on the dead man's chest.

  There was actually a handkerchief between the knife handle and the dead man's chest!

This was a very ordinary white handkerchief with nothing special about it, but the blade had pierced through the middle of the folded handkerchief, and now the handkerchief was completely stained red with blood.

"He must have pierced the handkerchief with the knife first, which means he used the handkerchief as a guard for the knife, and then killed the person."

Looking at the place where the knife pierced, Gao Yuan thought: "So, the murderer did this to avoid blood splattering on himself, and considering this, the murderer had planned it in advance..."

Thinking of this, Gao Yuan roughly observed the room and found nothing else, so he walked out of the room. At the same time, he also began to protect the scene before the police arrived.

At this time, the other members of the band also heard the noise and rushed over. Since the manager of Miss Osuga Yui who pushed the door in at the beginning was the first witness, he was the first person to be questioned by the others -

"Hey! Isogai, is what you said true? Someone died in the lounge?"

Osuga Shuhei came here and asked the manager nervously:

"So, the manager's name is Isogai..."

Gao Yuan thought so in his heart, and at this moment, the situation outside was obviously a bit bad. However, when he was in the room just now, he didn't feel that it was so noisy outside -

"By the way, as a lounge for a symphony orchestra, it should be soundproofed..."

——"Well, when I first heard about it, I was wondering how such a thing could be possible..."

Yuanzi, who came rushing over, said with some fear.

In this regard, when almost everyone outside gathered at the door of the lounge, Gao Yuan stopped everyone and explained that this was probably a murder. In order to ensure the integrity of the scene, no one was allowed to enter the room. However, Osuga Hidehei, the person in charge here, begged to see the condition of the deceased. So, accompanied by Gao Yuan, he just stood at the door and looked inside, and soon recognized the identity of the deceased -

"Ah! It's... this man..."

He exclaimed, as if he had not expected that the deceased would be him, so Gao Yuan took the opportunity to ask:

"Do you know this deceased gentleman?"

"His name should be Kusuda Rikuu, and he's a reporter who specializes in writing celebrity gossip. He's much more neatly dressed than the last time I saw him..."

  Osuga Hidehei said with lingering fear:

"But why?"

Thus, Ohsuga Shuhei was obviously shocked that this man actually died in the lounge backstage.

At the same time, when the name "Kusuda Rikuu" came out, Mizunashi Reina, who was also here, suddenly changed her expression. It seemed that she did not expect that someone would die here, and the deceased was...

"I've also read about this reporter's report on your band... So, Mr. Osuga, this Mr. Kusuda had a tense relationship with you, right? If he was killed here now, what do you think..."

At this time, listening to Osuga Hidehei's words, Gao Yuan tentatively wanted to ask, but at this time there was a commotion outside the door, as if an ambulance and the police had arrived.

I saw Hisui Shirozuka outside leading the police towards the backstage.

However, the police officers who just arrived at the scene were not the ones from the Metropolitan Police Department that Gao Yuan was familiar with. It seemed that perhaps because of today's bus robbers, the police force was stretched thin, or perhaps it was just that the police nearby arrived first.

But no matter what, since the criminal police have arrived, the scene is left to them.

Then, seeing that Osuga Hidehei, the person in charge of the theater, was called in for questioning, Gao Yuan also came to Shirozuka Hisui and asked curiously:

"Oh, right. What exactly happened between Asabuki Akira and Kusuda Rikuu on the eve of the festival?"

So, seeing that Gao Yuan had finally asked about this matter, Shirozuka Hisui didn't hide anything and began to simply recount what happened a week ago, on the eve of the festival...