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Chapter 1682 "Eve Festival" Insights

For Gao Yuan, the original reason for coming to the backstage to find Asabuki Akira was because of the death of Rieko. There may be a hidden secret, and this incident is most likely related to Asabuki Akira——

Gao Yuan inferred this situation based entirely on Chengzuka Jade's words.

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

Therefore, after seeing Asabuki Akira backstage, the two of them did not try to get close to each other like Sonoko, nor did they straightforwardly explain their intention like Reina Mizuno did. They just stayed here and watched, hoping that maybe there would be something What clues can opportunity reveal——

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

Therefore, the fundamental reason why Gao Yuan and Shirozuka Hisui came to the backstage to see Asabuki Akira was to see if the reporter would appear on such an occasion.

If he really showed up, it would be convenient——

However, what was unexpected was that the reporter named "Kusuda Rikuyou" finally appeared, but when he saw him, he was already a corpse...

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In Osuka Yui's lounge, her manager was holding her violin and was about to help her put it back in her room. However, as a music worker, he even let go of the case containing the violin. This situation is not surprising.

Therefore, Gao Yuan and Shirozuka Jade, who were already thoughtful, 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 didn't look messy.

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

Then, the thing bulging high on his chest was...

It's the hilt!

The blade of a knife seemed to be completely submerged into the man's body, with only the handle still exposed. This made people immediately realize that this man was probably in danger.

After Gao Yuan heard the words "It's Kusuda Rikuyou" from Hisui Shirozuka's mouth and realized who the strange man lying in the room was, Gao Yuan hurriedly entered the room, stretched out his hand to sniff and seemed to feel nothing. Yes, he put his hand on the man's carotid artery again, and finally shook his head helplessly——

"No pulse."

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

The eyeballs are cloudy and white, as if the corneas are very dry...

"He didn't just die."

Gao Yuan judged.

After saying this, I saw that after Shirozuka Jade received the news, he did not stay too much at the door. Instead, he took out his mobile phone and prepared to call the police.

Gao Yuan was about to get up and take a closer look at the situation in the entire room when Gao Yuan suddenly noticed the hilt of the knife exposed on the chest of the deceased——

There was actually a handkerchief between the handle of the knife and the chest of the deceased!

It was a very ordinary white handkerchief with nothing special about it, but the blade penetrated the middle of the handkerchief that had been folded into several layers. Now the handkerchief was completely stained red with blood.

"It should be that he pierced the handkerchief with a knife first, which means he used the handkerchief as a guard for the knife, and then killed the person."

Looking at the location where the knife pierced, Gao Yuan thought like this:

"So, the murderer did this to avoid blood splattering on himself, and considering this, the murderer had already planned..."

Thinking of this, after roughly observing the room and finding nothing else, Gao Yuan walked out of the room and began to protect the scene before the police arrived.

At this time, other members of the band also heard the noise and rushed over. Since the manager of Ms. Osuka Yui who opened the door at the beginning was the first witness, he was the first person to be questioned by others——

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

Osuga Shuhei came here and asked the manager nervously——

"It turns out that the manager's name is Isogai..."

Gao Yuan thought so in his heart, and the situation outside was obviously a little bad at this time, but when he was in the room just now, he didn't feel it was so noisy outside——

"By the way, as the symphony orchestra's lounge, it should be soundproofed..."

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

Yuanzi who came over also said with some horror.

In response, when everyone outside almost gathered at the door of the lounge, Gao Yuan stopped everyone and explained that the incident should be after a murder. In order to ensure the integrity of the scene, no one was allowed to enter the room. As the person in charge here, Suga Shuhei begged to see the condition of the deceased, so accompanied by Gao Yuan, he just stood at the door and looked in, and soon recognized the identity of the deceased——

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

He exclaimed in surprise, as if he didn't expect the deceased to be him, so Gao Yuan took advantage of the situation and asked:

"Did you know this dead gentleman?"

"His name should be Kusuda Rikuyou. He is a reporter who specializes in writing celebrity gossip. He is much more neatly dressed compared to the last time I saw him..."

Osuga Hidehei said with lingering fear:

"But why?"

So, Osuga Hidehira was obviously shocked that this man died in the lounge backstage.

At the same time, when the name "Kusuda Rikuu" came out, Mizunashi Rena, 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 have also read the report about this reporter reporting on your band... So, Mr. Osuga, this Mr. Kusuda had such a tense relationship with you, right? If he is killed here now, what do you think..."

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

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

However, the police who just arrived at the scene were not the police from the Metropolitan Police Department that Gao Yuan was familiar with. It seems that perhaps because of the bus robbers today, the police force is also stretched, or it is just that the nearby police arrived first.

But anyway, since the criminal police have come, the scene will be handed over to them.

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

"By the way. What happened between Asabuki Akira and Kusuda Rikuu on the eve of the festival?"

So, seeing that Gao Yuan finally asked about this matter, Shirozuka Hisui did not hide much and began to simply tell what happened a week ago on the eve of the festival...