"Because time is running out..."

"So you didn't even notice your button was about to fall off."

The woman in the wool hat looked at the agitated woman with disheveled hair and laughed, "Anyway, everyone should take a break first and start practicing again after you've calmed down. I'm going to take a nap in the recording studio. I should feel more refreshed after about 10 minutes."

"Seriously, we can only rent the recording studio for another two hours?"

The woman with long hair watched silently as the woman in the woolen hat left the lounge and went upstairs, but she couldn't help but anxiously check the time.

"Ranhua, you're just too nervous," the playful girl said with a smile.

“After all, this concert is a memorial concert for Akane, who committed suicide,” the ponytail girl said, raising her fingers in distress. “What am I going to do with my nails? I didn’t bring nail clippers.”

"How about I help you?" The playful girl handed over a pair of nail clippers, then asked the woman with long hair, "How about I sew on your buttons for you? I have a sewing kit with me."

"Wei Zi, you really bring everything, just like a mother," the girl with the ponytail said with a smile as she took the nail clippers. "Thanks, I'll go to the restroom to cut them in a bit."

"Ah," the playful girl exclaimed softly after searching in her bag for a while, "I think I left my sewing kit in the recording studio. Oh well, Ranhua, can you give me your coat? I'll go to the recording studio to sew on the buttons for you, and I'll wake up Ogie while I'm at it."

"Let's go back and call Ogie."

The woman with long hair realized that she had indeed been too hasty, and she was too embarrassed to get angry again. She took the initiative to say, "Let her sleep for a while. I'm going to replace the broken string on the guitar later."

“Oh no,” the girl with the ponytail said worriedly, “I also want to revise the piece, but if Ogie is sleeping in the recording studio, it’s going to be difficult. I can’t compose without a keyboard…”

"It makes a sound when you change or tune the strings, really."

"Okay, there's still time, let's take our time."

The playful girl folded the long-haired girl's coat, smiled, and was about to get up to go to the recording studio when she suddenly noticed Akaso Kaze teaching Sera Masumi to play bass across from her.

As a fellow bassist, she couldn't help but glance at him again, and when her gaze swept over Chi Chufeng, who was standing there dumbfounded, she stopped in her tracks.

"Lord Chichu?"

The playful girl covered her mouth in surprise and looked at Chi Chufeng, recognizing him immediately.

During this period, Akaso Kaze was at the height of her popularity and had written several well-known songs for Okino Yoko and others, so she quickly became a fan of Akaso Kaze.

If they could get Chi Chufeng to write a song, it would be an incredible opportunity for the band.

"Hmm?" Although Chi Chufeng heard the women arguing, he didn't pay much attention until the playful woman called out to him, at which point he turned around.

"It really is Lord Chi Chu!" The other two women also recognized Chi Chu Feng. The woman with long hair excitedly ran forward and grabbed Chi Chu Feng's hands. "W-I can't believe I've run into you here! I'm not seeing things, am I?!"

"what?"

Chi Chufeng looked at the women and asked, "Who are you?"

The woman with long hair realized what was happening, and embarrassed, she let go of his hand, still not calm: "We are in a band, and I am the guitarist, Mu Chuan Ran Hua."

The playful girl chuckled and said, "I'm bassist and lead vocalist Yuiko Fuekawa, and this is our keyboardist, Rumi Kogure. The band leader who plays drums is Ogie Yamaji. She's gone up to the recording studio to sleep."

"Hello, nice to meet you..." The woman with the ponytail pushed up her glasses, looking a little reserved.

"I am the Onmyoji Chi Chufeng."

Chi Chufeng greeted the women politely, still thinking that the woman with long hair who had just lost her temper was the leader.

Are you guys preparing for a concert?

“It’s just an underground concert,” the long-haired woman said, her face slightly flushed, “but it’s very important to us, so it has to succeed. Um, Lord Akashi, could you…could you please give us some guidance? Sorry, we…we…”

“I have no problem with that,” Chi Chufeng said with a smile, looking at the stammering woman with long hair. “But you’ll have to teach them instruments after your concert.”

Chi Chufeng pointed to the few people in the garden behind him who were stunned.

There's a problem here in Chapter 623.

On the first floor, near a recording studio, the playful Fuekawa Yuiko opened the door with her coat ready to be sewn on. She saw the band leader, Yamaji Ogie, sleeping on the drum set and shook her head.

I still like to sleep like this, just like always.

"Hey, Ogie," the playful girl called out as she passed the drum set, "Guess who we ran into? It's the famous Onmyoji, Lord Akatsuchi! He promised to give us some pointers later... Is he still sleeping?"

Seeing the group leader standing motionless, the playful girl could only go to the side to get her sewing kit.

Ranhua and Liuhai were still teaching those high school girls to play instruments in the lounge. Although they didn't know why they needed help when Chichufeng was there, they were happy to help if it would help them get closer to him.

They don't expect Chi Chufeng to actually write a song for them; just a little guidance would be a huge benefit to the band.

As for Akasoka's guidance level... a musician who can write famous songs is already at the top level, so there's no need to think too much about it.

Perhaps we could ask Chi Chufeng to help revise their music. The band's songwriter is Liu Hai, who is quite good, but still far from being a renowned composer.

"Click!" Just as the playful girl was lost in thought, someone suddenly opened the door and came in.

"Lord Akachu?" Turning around and seeing who it was, the playful girl hurriedly blushed and stood up, saying, "I-I'm sorry, Ogi is still sleeping..."

"I know, there's still plenty of time, no need to rush."

Chi Chufeng smiled and nodded, looking at the drum set on his right, and the woolen hat-wearing auntie who was fast asleep with her face buried in her arms, lying on the high-pitched drum.

A long support pole stands on the front of the drum kit; it's a selfie stick attached to the microphone stand, with a mobile phone fixed at the top.

Perhaps he was being too sensitive, but he always felt that this all-female band was a bit strange.

Memorial concert, featuring former band member and lead singer Zhu Yin...

He casually asked a question in the underground lounge and learned from the woman with long hair named Ranhua that it was a traffic accident. However, if he remembered correctly, the woman with ponytail had mentioned "Shuyin who committed suicide".

If this was just a little strange, then the fact that the woman with the ponytail borrowed nail clippers but didn't seem to be preparing to cut her nails at all was really abnormal.

She had previously mentioned wanting to revise the song in the recording studio, and even though he, a famous composer, was right there, she showed absolutely no intention of asking for his advice.

It was as if they felt the band couldn't continue practicing, so there was no need to cut their nails anymore, and the changes to the music seemed to have another purpose.

Considering all this, he originally planned to ask the front desk to take a look at the surveillance footage of the recording studio, but he didn't expect that the entire right half of the surveillance footage was black.

Upon entering, it was discovered that the security camera was blocked by a mobile phone, and it happened to block the drum set where the woman in the wool hat was sleeping. Only the playful woman sitting inside could be captured.

interesting……

Chi Chufeng's eyes flickered slightly, and his gaze turned to the mirrored wall opposite where the curtains were drawn.

They even considered the mirror reflection; the surveillance camera can't capture the drum kit side at all—this is a deliberate blind spot.

“Well,” the playful girl noticed that Chi Chufeng was looking at the phone stand and quickly explained, “we wanted to record our performance, so we installed a selfie stick.”

Chi Chufeng averted his gaze and asked, "Didn't the people in the shop mention you?"

The playful woman responded, "We did receive a warning at first, but we come here often and don't damage the equipment. Today, the guitar string we use for dyeing flowers broke, and we plan to replace it ourselves."

"Do you come here often?" Chi Chufeng walked to the mirrored wall, pulled back the curtains, and asked, "What about here? You're having a performance today, why are the curtains closed?"

"It's Ogie Kanji. She said she wanted to concentrate during the performance, and since she filmed it with her phone anyway, she can watch it repeatedly afterwards," the playful girl explained, then asked doubtfully, "Um, is there a problem?"

"I'm just a little curious," Chi Chufeng's gaze returned to the selfie stick and phone, "Is the phone still taking pictures?"

"The scheduled video recording should be gone now."

The playful woman perked up. Having a fairly good understanding of Chi Chufeng, she instinctively tensed up upon seeing him, sensing that there might be some kind of case involved.

"Lord Chichu, we..."

"Can you take your phone off so I can take a look?" Chi Chufeng asked softly.

"Of course, of course." The playful girl swallowed, took her phone off the selfie stick, unlocked it, and handed it to Chi Chufeng.

It's still the world's iPhone.

Wow, there are such new phones now. Looks like it's time to upgrade my phone too.

Chi Chufeng looked at the familiar Apple logo and quickly pulled up the video recording inside.

It started with the playful girl adjusting the phone stand position after being reminded by others. When the band members appeared in the phone screen, the woman in the beanie said, "That's fine, let's start practicing." Then the playful girl, who was also the bassist and lead singer, took her bass and stood in front of everyone to start playing.

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Chapter 624 Premeditated Unfinished Crime

Chi Chufeng watched the video in silence.

After drawing the curtains and confirming the last location of the phone, it was indeed this woman in the wool hat, Yamaji Ogie. Could it be that he was really overthinking things?

But something still feels off...

After a pause, Chi Chufeng watched again the part where the playful girl was adjusting the position of her phone.

The phone was recording vertically, and the woman with the ponytail, who was playing the keyboard, was in the upper left corner of the screen. In the end, the keyboard was included in the frame.

The drum kit's position is fixed and won't move, while the guitarist and bassist in the middle are easily captured in the frame, so the only option for the phone's position is the keyboardist.

At first glance, it seems like a coincidence, and the decision was even made by Yamaji Ogie, but by simply controlling the position of the keyboard, it was enough to make the phone cover the right side of the surveillance camera.

If the keyboard is close to the drum kit, the phone will move forward; if it's far away, the phone will move backward. You can also control the angle.

As for the curtains being drawn on the mirrored wall, if Yamaji Ogie always does this, the ponytail girl would have considered that too.

Therefore, this was a premeditated but unfinished crime, and the time of the crime should be when the woman with the ponytail comes to the recording studio to revise the song.

It's very likely that Shanlu Dijiang has been given sleeping pills, which is why he's so sleepy and sleeping so soundly right now.

"Lord Chichu?" The playful girl's breathing quickened with nervousness. She was somewhat unsettled because she was worried that the band might be involved in some case. She couldn't help but whisper, "Is there a problem with the recording?"

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