Tokyo Mystery Writers

Jiang Liu Meili looked at the sleeping Mai Cheng Jingjie covered with her clothes, and a smile involuntarily appeared on her lips as she once again entered the story of "Convergence"...

The Little Needle Master was somewhat bothered by the large clock placed on the ground, so he immediately opened the box by the door, intending to insert the handle into the box and raise the clock.

But McCarteau stopped the Little Needle Cult Leader from doing so.

Because it is obvious that the bell was intentionally placed there by the suspect, and the person who placed it was not the Little Needle Master.

If the Little Needle Master hadn't raised the bell, the suspect wouldn't have become suspicious.

However, raising the clock would arouse suspicion in the suspect, making him realize that people suspected him.

The Little Needle Cult Leader clearly trusted McCartor greatly, and even told McCartor that he would come to the sanctuary every Monday to read the Book of Katrina and write down his insights, intending to compile it into a second "Book of God"!

McCarteau was speechless at the words of the Little Needle Cult Leader, but he also learned that the Little Needle Cult Leader would only come to the Sanctuary on Mondays and would never come at other times.

Today is Thursday, and the suspect must have thought that no one would know about him putting down the clock within three days.

McCartney carefully examined the clock and found nothing hidden inside. He then questioned Little Needle Master about why he suspected there were suspicious people on the island.

The answer provided by the "Little Needle Master" is a book.

It was a reference book introducing various ancient religious theologies, and it was huge and five centimeters thick.

Since Master Xiaozhen placed this book at the bottom of the bookshelf, where he rarely looked at other books, it was bound to be covered in dust.

However, the dust remained on the other books.

The only thing that had been dusted off was this reference book, which made Little Needle Master think that someone had secretly entered the sanctuary while he was away!

Having learned of these clues, McCarteau wanted to inquire about the location of the Katrina Book that he so longed for.

The Little Needle Master opened the right corner of the desk, took out a safe that looked like a shrine, and retrieved a book the size of a single volume, 15 centimeters thick.

As for the safe, it was custom-made and shares a key with the door to the sanctuary; in fact, it is the only one of its kind in the world.

Little Needle Master carries his key with him at all times during the day and never leaves it behind. At night, he puts the key in a hidden cabinet, making it extremely secure.

McCarteau was puzzled by what Little Needle Cult Leader said, as there was only one key to the room.

The windows of the room were also blocked by iron bars, and even the exhaust fan was covered by iron mesh. There was no secret passage in the sanctuary, and it was completely unknown how the suspect entered the sanctuary.

McCarteau examined the reference book more closely and found it to be unremarkable.

Finally, their gaze settled on a chair in the room, a worn-out leather chair.

When Little Needle Master saw McCarteau looking at the chair, he was naturally curious and asked why.

McCarteau, with his exceptional insight, informed Little Needle that the leather on the chair had aged and lost its elasticity, and placing any item on it would leave an indentation.

The oversized reference book was placed on the chair by the suspect.

The Little Needle Master felt this discovery was insignificant.

But McCarteau believes the suspect raised the chair to compensate for the height difference.

So they picked out this book, which is five centimeters thick, from a pile of books.

The chair is about 40 centimeters high, and the bookshelf is 190 centimeters high, with a height difference of 150 centimeters.

Standing on the chair, 180 cm tall, Mercato could easily see the bookshelf.

But what if the suspect is particularly short? Only about 155 cm tall? Then the suspect would have to find a book that is 5 cm thick to stand on to see the top of the bookshelf.

Unfortunately, when McCarteau stood on the chair and looked up at the top of the bookshelf, he found only a thick layer of dust and nothing else.

In this situation, McCato had no idea what the suspect was trying to do by raising the chair.

Therefore, there are three points of doubt: Why did the suspect lower the bell after entering the sanctuary? What was the purpose of raising the chair? Since the suspect had already entered, why wasn't the Book of Katrina stolen?

After confirming the suspicious points, McCato took Meidai to stay in the room arranged by Little Needle Master.

Through subsequent contact, McCarteau learned that the client's daughter was the nanny, Aoyama.

Now he needs to find an opportunity to get his hands on the "Book of Blessings".

Mibuki just couldn't understand why the money-grubbing McCartney was so obsessed with getting his hands on the "Book of Blessings".

But McCarteau had a strange idea: he wanted to use the power of faith in the "Book of Blessings" to extort kickbacks from believers.

Turning the nanny Aoyama into his female assistant makes him the ultimate villain!

Meidai despised McCarteau's ideas, but was powerless to change them...

At 6 p.m., McCartney, along with Little Needle, had dinner with the cult leader and his followers.

The dinner was very lavish, but the believers talked about very strange things, such as how high a person can ascend to heaven or whether the soul can be explained by science.

Mercato paid no attention to any of this; he was simply eating while pondering how to obtain the key to the sanctuary and his "Book of Blessings."

However, a guy named Terao caught Mibukuro's eye.

Mibukuro discovered that Terao was only 155 centimeters tall, which is considered short for a man, and the upper bodies of the other believers sitting in the chairs were also of different heights.

After careful observation, Mibukuro found that the tallest person here was Hiroshi Sekiya with long hair, who was about 185 cm tall, while the shortest person was Naomi Maki, a female follower, who was 150 cm tall.

Yaozi, who is also a woman, is 165 cm tall, roughly the same height as the nanny, Aoyama.

The last follower, Uchino, also had long hair and was about 175 centimeters tall.

But what's the use of knowing all this? McCarteau only wants the "Book of Blessings".

As for the suspect? Given McCarteau's personality, he could very well just point to someone and get away with it...

After dinner, McCartney and Mikael returned to their respective rooms, only to find a typhoon outside their windows.

And that's not all.

The next morning, Little Needle, dressed in white pajamas with a yellow robe over them, and soaking wet, lay on his back on the cobblestone path leading to the sanctuary.

The Little Needle Cult Leader was shot through the chest and abdomen area near the right side of his body.

The first person to discover it was the butler, Baishan, because his room was on the westernmost side of the island, and his window faced the cobblestone path.

When Bai Shan was washing up in the morning, he discovered that the Little Needle Cult Leader had been shot dead, and immediately summoned McCato.

According to Mercator's examination, Little Needle Cult Leader had been dead for more than five hours.

Around 1 a.m., the Little Needle Cult Leader was shot and killed on his way to the Holy Chamber, just two meters from the doorway.

It felt like I'd just stepped outside and been shot dead.

However, compared to this clue, there are two more strange points of doubt.

First, there are two bullet holes in the pajamas of the Little Needle Master, but no bullet holes can be seen in the robe worn over them.

Secondly, there is a clump of black hair in the throat of the Little Needle Cult Leader, which is about 20 centimeters long.

So who exactly killed Little Needle Cult Leader?

When Jiang Liumei saw this, she was still a little confused, but she understood that what Maishiro Kyosuke had given her was definitely not a waste of time!

It was a meticulously planned series of shootings!