Super God: If I punch you, you will die

Zhu Zhixiang recalled the contents of the letter that Maria read aloud last night. "Yes, it did say that in the letter. It also said that interest would be collected from now on, but once the mystery of the gold is solved, she will lose these rights."

“Grandpa obtained a large amount of gold and revived the Ushiromiya family. What Beaterich means is that everything Grandpa created with this gold as capital is interest, so to speak.”

"This joke is too much. Does it mean that everything the Ushiromiya family created, that is, everything that Grandpa created, refers to the descendants who inherit Grandpa's bloodline?"

"If we interpret that letter from this perspective, then this murder case is Beate Lizzie exercising her legitimate rights to collect interest. In that sense, the incident is not over yet, because the interest has not been fully collected."

Rang Zhi's gaze swept around the living room.

There are many people here who bear the surname Youdaigong.

Since both Goda and Sane have been murdered, even the servants who did not bear the surname Ushiromiya could not escape their fate.

"The killer wanted to kill all of us. But Brother Zhi, that doesn't make sense. Why only kill six people? Logically, the killer should have had many more opportunities. If they had attacked while we were sleeping, they could have killed everyone in one night. Why didn't the killer do that?"

"Because there was a special clause that once someone found the gold, she would lose the right to collect interest. And I remember that at the end of the letter it said that we should all work together to solve the mystery of Grandpa's gold."

"Now we finally understand what message the murderer wants to give us. In other words, the murderer wants us to solve the mystery of Grandpa's inscription if we are capable, and if we drag our feet, the murderer plans to continue to collect interest."

Lin Yan also realized that he had jumped around too quickly in several places while drawing this conclusion. But that doesn't mean that everything that happens in this world can be connected.

Almost all unknown phenomena are just points.

They understand these phenomena by connecting points with lines. The closer the two points connected by a straight line are, the easier it is to understand logically. The farther apart they are, the less logical the explanation becomes. Therefore, we call this situation of excessive distance a leap. But we can also say that the shorter the distance between two points, the narrower the thinking.

Are thinking and reasoning different?

Is Lin Yan really just trying to force a misunderstanding of the whole incident using superficial imagination?

No, that's not how it works.

This process of reaching out and groping in the dark is imagination. Only imagination can find the point of connection.

Reasoning is simply the act of connecting points with lines.

Without imagination, there is no reasoning.

Lin Yan's thinking may have been quite groundbreaking, but it was probably correct. Only imagination can help one find clues in the dark.

Only then can we connect them through reasoning.

It's very similar to finding the enemy's weaknesses and then finding a way to break through them.

It's okay to leap a little.

Find the weaknesses first.

It's not too late to figure out how to exploit the weaknesses once we find them. Right now, we're in the stage of finding points to connect.

living room.

Lin Yan temporarily withheld the conclusion that the nineteenth person might exist, and instead proposed the hypothesis that the murderer's purpose was to make them solve the mystery of the inscription.

Hideyoshi was very interested after hearing this, but Princess Natsuhime said that the reasoning was too far-fetched.

“Indeed, thinking about it that way, the strange letter makes sense. I think your deduction of the motive is very reasonable. Of course, let's not worry about who actually gave the letter to Maria for now.”

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“Beatel is really here.”

She's been puffing out her cheeks like that many times since yesterday, but now I can't find it cute at all, because I always feel that if I joke with her, she'll suddenly burst out with that uncomfortable laugh.

"There was no hidden gold at all. But the motive that the murderer blindly believed in the existence of gold and wanted to lure us into solving the mystery to obtain my father-in-law's gold, and then steal it by force, does make sense. But if that's the case, why were the most important figures in the Ushiromiya family killed first?"

When Princess Natsumi Ushiro asked this question, Nanjo responded as follows.

“That makes sense. If we are to solve the mystery, it would be unwise to kill those who are close to Mr. Ushiromiya Kinzo.”

"Exactly, and if we're going to continue this discussion, wouldn't it be faster to just threaten Dad from the start? Instead of asking us to solve the mystery, it would be much faster to just get the answer from him directly."

"That's true, but I don't think it's that easy to threaten my father-in-law into submission."

“Anyone who knows Mr. Ushiromiya Kinzo should know that Mr. Ushiromiya Kinzo is not so easily subdued.”

"He carries the weight of the Ushiromiya family's vast wealth and has faced various attacks and threats in the past. It is because he overcame these difficulties that he has achieved his current wealth and status."

“I feel the same way. To say that my grandfather would obediently listen to someone when threatened is just too far-fetched.”

"Zhu Zhixiang, you speak very rudely."

"understood."

"What do you think of this idea? No, this statement might also be quite a leap forward?" Lin Yan shouldn't hesitate; leaps in thinking are like arrows.

Although difficult to hit, it was an excellent weapon for attacking distant enemies. The research report pointed out that the cause of death in large-scale battles was almost always arrow wounds, indicating that soldiers did not rely on just one arrow during combat.

Instead, a large number of arrows are fired at once, covering the entire area and scattering them towards the enemy soldiers, so it is essential to fire, one after another.

"We need to use force to uncover the truth."

"If the murderer's goal is gold, and having us solve the mystery is inefficient, it would be much easier to just ask the person who came up with the mystery for the answer. So, from another perspective, doesn't this mean that all of this is a message meant for Grandpa?"

In other words, this murder itself was a threat to Ushiromiya Kinzo.

The implied message is that if we don't tell you where Ushiromiya Kinzo is, we'll kill your entire family one by one. So, we weren't the only ones forced to solve the mystery; even Ushiromiya Kinzo was no exception?

Thinking about it this way, it can explain why Ushiromiya Kinzo disappeared so unnaturally.

Judging from the condition of the six bodies, if the murderer had already targeted Ushiromiya Kinzo, they would have added that tasteless makeup and displayed him in public. But we still haven't found Ushiromiya Kinzo.

In other words, Ushiromiya Kinzo was actually kidnapped and imprisoned?

"How could this be? How is this possible?"

"That's quite interesting. So, Dad was actually imprisoned, and the murderer threatened to continue killing people if he didn't reveal the location of Hwang Udo-miya Kimura?"

"I really can't understand what's so interesting about this."

Ushiromiya Natsuhime glared at her, but Ushiromiya Eyu didn't care and just smiled in response.

"Since Grandpa hasn't shown up yet at this point, I think it's almost certain that he's been implicated as well. Considering this, Lin Yan's hypothesis shouldn't be ignored."

"Tell Zhi to be quiet. If we really have to talk about it, when did your father disappear?"

Who was the last person to see Dad?

"It was probably me. This morning, because I couldn't find my husband and the others, we figured they might be in my father-in-law's study, so I went to pay my respects to him. Oh, by the way, I haven't returned the study key yet. Genji, here's the key back."

Ushiromiya Natsuhime took out a golden key and handed it to Genji. Ushiromiya Eyu looked at the key and smiled.

“I’m saying, Uncle Yuanci, I think the police will definitely search Dad’s room thoroughly anyway, and whatever he’s hiding will be found sooner or later. So, why not just tell him now? It shouldn’t be a problem, right?”

"I don't understand what you are talking about."

"It's very simple. Dad's study is a secret room that can only be entered with this key. I want to clarify if this definition is correct. Dad's study has one door, and besides that, there's a window? Are there any other entrances or exits?"

No. There is only one entrance.

"Are you sure? So there's no secret door? Since Father isn't here, I'm the highest-ranking person in the Ushiromiya family now. I'm asking you on behalf of the entire Ushiromiya family, and you need to understand this before you answer. Besides the main entrance, are there any other entrances or exits to that room? You're Father's most trusted confidant; you should know."

Upon hearing her mention the words "highest status," Princess Natsumi Ushiro showed displeasure, but decided not to interrupt and wait to see how Genji would respond.

Lin Yan couldn't shake the uneasy feeling in his heart. Why was the topic of the secret gate being brought up?

"Jiayin and Xiongze, if you know anything about it, could you please tell us? If there really is a secret door, you'd better tell us now, otherwise someone will be forced into a corner. As long as we assume there is a secret door, all my deductions will be ruined."

Ushiromiya Ewa didn't explicitly say who was being forced into a corner, but judging from the flow of her speech, it seemed she was referring to Ushiromiya Natsuhime.

"Mom, what are you talking about?"

“Let Zhi keep quiet for now, okay? Yuancibo, Jiayin, and Xiongze Po, does this secret door exist or not? Yuancibo should have been supervising the construction when Dad was renovating the study, so I won’t allow you to say you don’t know.”

"There is no such thing in the master's study."

"Are you sure? What do you say about Jia Yin, who is authorized to wear the single-winged eagle badge?"

"Yes, that's right, there's no secret door in the master's study."

"Where is Granny Xiongze?"

"I haven't heard of it either."

"What about Dr. Nanjo, who was an old friend of Dad?"

"I've never heard of such a thing."

"Very good. Listen up, everyone, I'm about to begin. This matter is actually very simple."

Everyone tilted their heads, wondering what Ushiromiya Eyu would say, given her smug expression.

Ushiromiya Eiha smiled smugly, as if she were revealing a secret that only she knew.

"The last person to see Dad was your sister-in-law, Princess Natsuhime, right? I've forgotten the exact time, but I think it was around nine o'clock this morning. Sister-in-law, do you remember? You bumped into me when you came out of Dad's study, didn't you?"

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"Yes, I remember. So what?"

"Then when was the next time you went to Dad's study, sister-in-law? It was after you found my brother's and the others' bodies, right? You went to the study to report this, and then you came with me to confirm that Dad wasn't there. But sister-in-law, when you went into Dad's study that time, did you notice anything?"

"What did you notice? What do you mean?"

"Didn't you pick up the scrap of paper? It was a folded invoice."

"Come to think of it, I do seem to have picked up some of those scraps of paper. So what?"

"I got that receipt when I bought candy at a store before arriving at the airport."

Ushiromiya Eiha took a small bag of candy from her handbag.

"So this is the receipt from when I bought the candy? But what is this receipt related to?"

"Rangzhi, be quiet for a while and listen to your mother first."

Hideyoshi's expression was somewhat serious, and it seemed that he had already understood what Ushiromiya Ewa was about to say.

"I really just did it on a whim. I definitely didn't predict anything would happen, and I certainly didn't intend to set a trap for my sister-in-law, Princess Natsumi. Actually, when my sister-in-law saw my father and came out of the study, didn't she run into me? At that time, I put this invoice on the study door."

"What's going on? It means that no one opened the study door before Aunt Xiafei picked up this invoice."

"Wait a minute, Aunt Huiyu. It would be super obvious to stick the invoice on the door, okay? Maybe Grandpa found it when he was out and just put it back on a whim."

Zhu Zhixiang quickly retorted.

Although she wasn't quite sure what this meant, she could tell that her mother was under suspicion.

"Of course I would fold the invoice smaller to avoid being discovered by others. However, even if Dad saw the invoice fall down, he couldn't possibly know exactly how high the invoice was originally stuck in the door crack, right? I checked it when my sister-in-law, Princess Natsumi Udai-no-miya, was taking out her keys, and the position where the invoice was stuck was exactly the same as before."

"I... I completely don't understand why you would play such a childish prank. I... I think you were the one who played the prank on my door too."

"What happened to the door of Consort Xia's room, the eldest sister-in-law of the Right Palace?"

"It's an unpleasant story, so I won't mention it. Actually, when I woke up this morning, there was a scratch-like mark on my door made with the same red liquid as the metal roller door. It made me want to vomit."

"What? Why didn't my sister-in-law tell me this before?"

"I'm sorry. A lot of things happened afterward, so it took me until now to remember."

“How would I know about such things? Besides, I’m not talking about my sister-in-law’s bedroom door, I’m talking about my father’s bedroom door. From the time my sister-in-law confirmed that my father was in the room, until we later confirmed together that he wasn’t in the room, that door was never opened. If my father didn’t use the bedroom door, how did he get outside?”

"How would I know such a thing? I'm the one who should be asking."

"Besides Consort Xia, who else saw my father-in-law in the room?"

“Last night I played Go with Mr. Ushiromiya Kinzo, and that was the last time I saw him. I was with him until dinner.”

"Did no one else see it after that?"

"I was here. I was in charge of delivering dinner to the master last night."

"Yes, I'm with Shana too."

"By this point, it should be certain that my father-in-law is still in his room. However, Sister-in-law Ushiromiya Natsuhime, didn't you say that after my father-in-law left, all the doors and windows of the study were locked? But Sister-in-law Ushiromiya Natsuhime also said that she saw my father-in-law this morning."

"I don't understand why everyone has become so fierce. Can someone explain this?"

"Dad, Mom, are you saying that Aunt Xiafei of the Right Palace was lying when she said she saw Grandpa this morning?"

“My mom would never lie. She’s innocent. Why would she lie?”

"Zhu Zhixiang. How many times have I told you to speak properly?"

The scene suddenly became chaotic. Ushiromiya Eiwa and Ushiromiya Natsuhime were facing off across the tea table, and Jūji was also facing off against Akiko. What exactly was going on?