Ke Xue: I picked up a bottle of sherry at the beginning.

"Swish, swish--" There was a strong wind outside and the snow fell even harder.

"It's a headache... I guess I'll have to bother you here tonight..." Quan Yi said, looking out the window.

"Don't worry about that! Just stay at Villa D'Shula tonight!"

"Then we will respectfully obey your orders!"

It was already 8:30 in the evening and everyone was still reminiscing about the food after finishing dinner. They didn't expect the food here to be so delicious.

"Wow! It's really good!" Mingmei took the tea brought by Tansho.

"This is rosemary tea I made myself."

"Dinner just now was delicious! Mr. Tadokoro's cooking skills are truly amazing."

The thin man, Hamura, said seriously: "Thanks to this lady who can't cook, thanks to Aritasho, she can live such a leisurely life."

"Mr. Hamura." Mrs. Tokura hesitated.

Tansho said seriously: "No, I am able to be by my teacher's side and learn novel writing from him, so I should do this."

On the other side, Fatty Doi bowed and scraped to Torakura and said that his magazine would not be able to survive without Torakura.

"Well, Mr. Torakura, I'll take care of next month's new serialized novel."

"Before that, I have to finish this month's manuscript." Torakura called out, "Tanoko, bring the wine and movies to the study."

"I'll get it right away. Which movie should I get?"

"It's up to you to choose!" After saying that, Hu Cang walked away, leaving behind his heavy footsteps in the long corridor.

"By the way, Officer Bai, ladies!" Tansuo said with a mysterious wink, "Would you like to come with me? There are a lot of strange things there!"

"Something weird?"

"They're the props and costumes from the vampire movies. Those are Mr. Torakura's proudest vampire collections."

"Let's go see Beiquan Yijun." Mingmei became interested.

Izumi nodded, and followed Tadokoro with Akemi and Ai.

Vampires are coming

Hamura stared coldly at Tansho's back.

Tansho brought Izumi, Akemi, and Ai to a room on the first floor. He excitedly introduced the room, saying, "Inside are all the movies and collectibles that the teacher has collected!"

Quan Yi looked around for a while, then casually wandered around. Suddenly, he saw an open door, poked his head in, and asked, "Hmm? What's this staircase for?"

"This is the basement. There is a library in it that contains vampire literature from all over the world, as well as various related ancient documents. The teacher calls it the Vampire Library." As he spoke, Tansho led the three into a mask display room, and Mingmei immediately looked a little excited.

"Very well done, vampire mask!-"

"This vampire's hand is quite exquisite!"

"There's even a cross sword!"

Tansho was used to it, and he concentrated on picking and choosing. After a while, he said happily: "Okay, let's choose this one."

"Have you chosen a movie?" Quan Yi asked.

"Well! This movie is called 'Blood Feast,' an old British film. It's my favorite! Look, that wooden stake over there is the prop that was stuck into the vampire's chest in the last scene of the movie!"

Izumi's eyes seemed to be covered in blood... Tansho continued, "Wow! In the teacher's study, there's also the cross that turned the vampire into ashes in the movie!"

Huh? It smells like oil paint...

Quan Yi smelled a scent.

Strange, there are no oil paintings here...

"Okay, let's go back."

"it is good!"

"Ah, Miss Akemi!" Tansho turned around and said, "Excuse me, could you please check to see if the windows are locked?"

"Yes, it's OK." Mingmei checked and said, "It's all locked."

"Thank you."

It was already 8:50 in the evening.

Back in the living room, Hamura stared at Izumi and said, "How is it? Isn't the vampire collection nice?"

"Very good." Quan Yi nodded. "Mr. Hamura, may I ask, is Dracula a fictional character?"

"That's right. Count D'Sula is a monster created by American author Bram Toker in his 1897 novel D'Sula the Vampire. However, in medieval Europe, such nobles did exist, their behavior cruel and violent, just like vampires." Hamura flipped through the book. "Torakura-sensei has collected a lot of ancient documents on this subject. It's to read them that I often come here to bother you."

At that moment, the wall clock read three minutes past nine in the evening. Mrs. Torakura was drinking when Tansho came by pushing a small cart. Suddenly, as if remembering something, she said to Izumi, "Officer Bai, to kill time, do you want to play some poker?"

"Um... OK."

"Please wait a moment. I'll go check if the doors and windows are closed."

"Mr. Tansho is quite kind. Does someone like him also like horror novels?"

"If you ask me what kind of novels I really like, they should be heroic fantasy novels." Hamura answered Mingmei's question seriously.

Doi also joined in the conversation: "I was the one who introduced him to Mr. Torakura. I think he is very talented."

At a quarter past nine, Tansho returned to the living room.

"Is it still snowing outside?" asked Mrs. Torakura.

"No, the snow has stopped."

"Mrs. Torakura, Mr. Hamura, why don't you come and play poker with us?" Izumi invited.

"I'm so sorry, I have a headache. I'll go back to my room and rest today." Mrs. Torakura declined politely.

"Sorry, I still have to go to the library to look up some information." Hamura also politely declined.

The castle was covered in a thick layer of snow. It was already 12:25 in the evening. "Quan Yi, hurry up and play the six of hearts!" Ming Mei urged.

"PASS!" Izumi had no cards to play and no one knew what he was thinking, while Tansho was extremely interested in playing cards.

Suddenly, the door opened with a click. Doi looked towards the door and said hurriedly, "Mr. Hamura, would you like to have a drink too?"

"It looks good!"

"I'm going to the bathroom." Doi stood up and said to Izumi, "My stomach has been feeling uncomfortable since this morning." But as soon as he turned around, he bumped into Hamura.

"You hit me."

"Excuse me."

"Ding——" the wall clock struck twelve o'clock in the evening.

"Huh? That's strange..." said Tian as he picked up the phone.

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"Is there something wrong?" Doi asked.

"Teacher, he hasn't answered the phone yet. Could he be dozing off?"

"Others might be like that, but Mr. Torakura definitely wouldn't." Doi knew Torakura's habits best and said with certainty, "He's the type who can stay up late working after drinking."

"I'll go and see him." Tansuo stood up.

"Let's go too."

Everyone followed Tanosho down the long corridor to the study.

"Teacher, please answer me!" Tian Suo knocked on the door but heard no response.

"Mr. Togura!" Everyone shouted anxiously.

"The door is locked."

"What are you arguing about!?" a female voice scolded.

.. . .......

"Oh, ma'am, no matter how much we called out, Mr. Torakura didn't respond."

"Really? That's strange."

"I heard the sound of the projector." Tian said as he listened at the doorstep.

"How could this happen? The movie should have ended long ago." Doi yelled.

Tansho yelled to Izumi, "Let's go outside and shout out the window!"

Everyone opened the Yanghe door of the octagonal room, and the north wind blew in, making people shiver with cold.

Quan Yi was walking in front, and when he turned to the window at the third corner, he stopped.

"This window is open!" Quan Yi frowned, "The snow in front of the window has traces of being stepped on..."

"What's going on?" Doi, Hamura and others who followed behind were all surprised. Quan Yi climbed through the window and shouted at the dark house: "Mr. Torakura, are you in there?"

But there was no response from the house, only the projector continued to spin.

“W-What is this!?”

Hearing Quan Yi's surprised cry, the others following him also quickly climbed into the window.

"W-What!? What's going on?"

Across from the projector, Mr. Torakura's hands were tied to a cross, his eyes bulging with fear. The vampire's stake was buried in his chest, blood gushing out. His mouth was wide open, and it was clear that he must have been frightened before his death. Turning on the light, Mrs. Torakura threw herself tremblingly onto Hamura. Doi was stunned, while Izumi was lost in thought...death.

I'm a detective, not a forensic doctor.

A murder occurred, which was beyond everyone's expectation. Bai Quanyi immediately began to observe carefully.

"Except for the window we came in through, all the other windows are locked." Quan Yi looked at several windows and checked the door. "Also... this door we came in through is also locked." As he said that, Quan Yi opened the door.

As he swung the door open, Quan Yi discovered that the gap was sealed with rubber. He thought to himself: So, it's impossible to open the door from the outside with a rope...

"It seems that the murderer came in through that window," said Doi.

"But, Officer Bai, how did the murderer get here?" Hamura said, supporting Mrs. Torakura. "Only the snow in front of the window was trampled. Apart from that, there were no footprints anywhere else."

"The waves are so big, the boat will capsize immediately if we start sailing." Quan Yi looked at the surging sea, holding his chin in his hand and thinking for a moment, "In other words, this study is essentially a secret room except for the open window."

"Where are the police?"

"They can't come," Tansho told Izumi, "because the heavy snow last night caused a serious avalanche on the road leading here. They have to wait until daybreak to complete the repairs."

"This is truly unfortunate... I guess I'll have to do the autopsy, since I'm a detective, not a medical examiner... But this murderer's methods are truly perverted. He mistook Mr. Torakura for a vampire, impaled him on a stake, and then tied him to a cross."

"Wait..." Quan Yi suddenly realized, "Why did the murderer move the projector to focus the light on the corpse? What's the meaning of this! And... this is exactly the same as the last scene of "Blood Feast"!"

"'Blood Feast'?"

"It's the movie that Mr. Tadokoro brought here."

"Yes, this is Mr. Torakura's favorite vampire movie." Quan Yi said as he examined the body. "The murderer deliberately imitated the last scene of the movie. The body has begun to stiffen. Judging from the degree of stiffness, the time of death is about an hour. The murder took place after Mr. Torakura entered the study, between 9 and 10 pm. Hmm? There is also a wound on the back of the head..."

It looks like they hit him with this, there's blood on it." Mingmei said, pointing to a wooden stick with an iron hoop in the corner.

"So that's how it is! The murderer waited until he fainted, then crucified him and drove a stake through his chest."

Tansho walked over and said, "Officer Bai, that wooden stake was originally placed in the collection room!"

"Really?" Izumi muttered to himself, "In other words, this guy came here and stole the wooden stake after Mr. Tadokoro took out the movie. After Mr. Tadokoro delivered the movie to the study, he killed Mr. Torakura..."

Suddenly, Quan Yi's tone was full of energy. He sniffed and immediately remembered the scene of seeing the wooden stakes before. How could the smell of oil paint disappear? There must be something behind this!

"However, all the windows here are locked from the inside... and there are no footprints outside the house! So, the murderer is in this house." Xiao Ai, who had not spoken for a long time, spoke lightly.

Everyone was shocked by Ai's words.

Suddenly, Quan Yi noticed a small branch on the ground.

Doi, who was standing by, suddenly spoke up: "Mr. Hamura! The only person who could have stolen the wooden stake from the collection room was you, who was looking for things in the library at that time!"

"You said you didn't borrow it." Hamura said calmly, "But, Mr. Doi, if I stole the stake, how would I get to the study? If I go through the corridor, I will definitely pass through the living room where everyone is at the time."

"Go through the roof of the second-floor corridor and you will reach the study!" Doi seemed to be very sure that Hamura was the murderer.

"If I want to go out from here, I have to go through the living room. It's impossible no matter how you say it." Hamura was still defending himself.

"Madam!" Quan Yi suddenly spoke, looking at Mrs. Torakura, "Above the collection room is your room, right?"

"Yes, yes." Mrs. Torakura said a little uneasily.