Chapter 12 A first power and A second power

one Stay at the hotel and immediately find the local police station to investigate the whereabouts of the deceased in the Shuicheng massacre. He also took the bust of the deceased and went to more than a dozen hotels in Musashi Onsen in person, asking for identification. Torikai believed that if the deceased had stayed at Musashi Onsen, it must have been on the night of February 7th.He made this inference from the time when the Sagami Lake massacre occurred. He believed that the woman who disappeared in Lake Sagami fled the scene of the murder after 9:00 p.m. on February 6, took a train from Tokyo to Kyushu that night, and arrived in Fukuoka the next day.Therefore, if she has been to Musashi Hot Spring, it cannot be before February 7th.

So, will it be after February 7th?Torikai also thought it was impossible. That's because Mine Oka, who is now considered the most important suspect by Superintendent Mihara, claimed to have boarded the train on the evening of the 7th and returned to Tokyo Station on the morning of the 8th on Monday.This, has not been confirmed.However, Mineoka did appear in his own company in Tokyo on the afternoon of the 8th. Therefore, if Mineoka lived with her in Musashi Onsen, only the night of February 7th was the most suitable.After staying for one night, he can take an early flight back to Tokyo the next morning, and show up at the company on the afternoon of the eighth day.

Superintendent Mihara's most troublesome thing is the photo of the Wabu Kari Shrine in Mineoka Yiyi's hands.From Torikai's point of view, the young man who was killed was probably the one who took the eight photos. From this point of view, Mineoka first discussed with the young man before making the overall plan, and he assisted in the process, which produced sufficient evidence that Mineoka was not at the scene of the murder on Monday. Although the idea was perfect, Torikai Shigetaro found nothing in the actual investigation.With the assistance of the local police station, he investigated all the hotels in Musashi Onsen, but he had no clue.It has been more than two months since February 7th.The hotel accountant and the waitress have always been careful in identifying people, but they all agree that the young man in the photo has never come to lodge.Later, everyone looked through the registration form together, and added a week to the date before and after, but there was no result.

Torikai Shigetaro was not discouraged.He thought he might be putting too much emphasis on Musashi Onsen, and they might not have stayed at the Onsen.So, he decided to investigate all hotels in Fukuoka City. In this way, the scope of work is expanded.He printed several copies of the photos of the deceased and asked the police stations in various places for assistance. This work will take at least three days, not only including Fukuoka City, but also including nearby small towns. However, the result is still the same.Every police station's return has only disappointed Torikai. The deceased was not a local. Since he came from afar, he must have stayed in a hotel somewhere.

Tokai Shigetaro thought for a long time, and thought that the strangled body found in the soil on the embankment of the water city was not caused by a woman alone.If it wasn't the woman who strangled the deceased herself, there must be another man beside her; the woman's job was to lure the deceased to the scene.The method of this murder is still the same as the Sagami Lake murder. From this point of view, it must be considered that if the young man killed on the night of February 7 and the woman wearing gloves stayed in the hotel, Mineoka would also be together on Monday. An imagination appeared in Torikai's mind.

The young man who was killed handed back the camera that had filmed the Nabukari Ritual. It may have been in Moji or in Kokura. In short, since Mineoka entered the Daikichi Hotel in Kokura at 8:00 a.m., the camera must have been delivered before that time. From there the young man went to Fukuoka.Since the only person who appeared at the Daikichi Hotel was Mineoka himself, this imagination was not wrong in the first place. What about the woman? The woman who escaped from Lake Sagami stayed at a hotel somewhere in Tokyo on February 6 and flew to Fukuoka on the morning of the first day of the seventh day.She was waiting for him somewhere in Fukuoka that Mineoka had designated.

Whether this place is a hotel or something else, it is impossible to judge, but in this case, it is probably more natural to choose a hotel.The young man who was ordered to take pictures of the Wabu Kari Festival may also come to the same place. On the other hand, Mineoka received a telegram from Tokyo at the Daikichi Hotel at around 9:30, informing him that Takeo Doi of the Traffic News was killed on the shore of Lake Sagami.After he knew it, he set off for Fukuoka.He showed up at Dadong Company at one o'clock in the afternoon.This is what Torikai personally investigated from the company's personnel.

Later, it was witnessed that Mineoka was standing in front of the West Japan Railway Office. Except that he claimed to be going to the capital building site, no one knew where he went.Therefore, no matter how you judge, the time when the three of them met must be after 2:30 in the afternoon when Mineoka was waiting for someone in front of the West Japan Railway Office. Mineoka Monday is a cautious man.Be sure to minimize impressing actions.Needless to say, if he made a slight mistake in the action stage of this precise design, he would immediately lose his reputation, so he must have carried it out carefully and carefully according to the long-thought-out plan.

Well, that place might not be a hotel. Since it was in Fukuoka, the investigation of hotels near Kurume found nothing, so the place where they gathered might not be a hotel.The hotel is the easiest place to see, and it can also be called a dangerous place. Thinking of this, Torikai felt that the gathering place might be the place with the most people. (Yeah! Maybe that's the place.) He was thinking of the fact that Mineoka had been standing in front of the West Japan Railway ticket window on Monday.When I thought of this place in the past, I only thought of the electric train.In fact, the West Japan Railway Office is the busiest Iwataya department store in Fukuoka.The place is just a few steps from the entrance of the department store.Waiting in a department store is a great place to hide and never go unnoticed.Moreover, one of the prisoners was a woman.Waiting there, even at the sales counter, is easy to spot.Walking alone while looking at the goods in the container, no one will be surprised, and can be mixed among countless guests.

two Mihara was repeatedly contacted by Torikai Shigetaro. The murder case on the shore of Sagami Lake suddenly had a chain reaction from the west.Although Mihara was surprised, he was not very surprised.Judging from the facts of the case, there is a possibility that the two cases are related. He carefully read the report and related attachments sent by Bird Feed. Although Mihara expressed sympathy for the deceased, he hoped to make progress in the investigation of this second murder.He is confident that he will be able to find the prisoner in Sagami Lakeside from this case. Inferring that the Mizushiro case is related to the Sagami Lakeside case, his opinion is exactly the same as that of Torikai.In other words, he believes that this case is a continuation of the Sagami Lakeside murder case.

At this point, Torikai deduces that the unidentified deceased youth is the assistant of Mineoka Monday's film trick, and Mihara fully agrees.With this idea, the mystery of the film that Mihara had been thinking about was solved.This film is neither a remake of a newsreel nor a remake of someone else's photo exhibition.The photos of the ceremony taken on the film are entirely on-site photography. However, the reports and phone calls from Torikai gradually made Mihara anxious.Like the Sagami Lakeside case, the investigation of the Shuicheng murder case is also difficult to make progress. At the scene in Shuicheng, there was a flesh-colored women's glove.The owner of this glove is the woman who escaped from Sagami Lake, and she was standing next to Mineoka Yiyi at the scene of the water city. Mihara has no objection to this presumption.This is because Mineoka once stood in front of the window of the West Japan Railway, and he claimed to have been to the capital building site, these facts can be linked together.It is conceivable that Mineoka believed on Monday that the police would sooner or later track down the real photographer of the Nunakari ceremony. In order to eradicate the grass, he first killed the assistant. However, if this is the case, Mineoka Monday and this young man should have had a fairly deep relationship. Both the Department and I have spent considerable time investigating this point.The results of the investigation of the hotels in this area have been reported before, but the life experience of the deceased has not been found so far.The deceased's appearance, clothing, age, etc., as well as photos of the deceased taken at the scene were published in local newspapers, but there was no response.From this point of view, this young man is not a local person, and he may have come here from Tokyo according to someone's instructions or accompanied by someone. This is the opinion that Torikai put forward in the letter. Mihara thought so too.The young deceased was probably sent from Tokyo to Kyushu.This is because it is more difficult for those who go to Tokyo to investigate their background than the locals in Kyushu.The murderer has removed all the things that could provide clues from the clothes of the deceased, and there is nothing around the deceased.Since the murderer has this calculation, of course he will not use the locals who can find clues immediately. What if the young man who was killed, the glove girl, and another person, Mineoka Monday, met in front of a certain counter in the Iwataya department store? That's hard to understand. However, the murder at the Shuicheng scene seemed to be carried out when the surrounding area was already in darkness.If it was carried out in broad daylight, people from nearby farms must have witnessed someone acting there. Looking in the letter and investigation report of the bird feeding, there is no mention of someone nearby who testified that he saw someone similar to the deceased. Therefore, if that day is February 7th, it must be around 5:30 in the afternoon, and the surrounding sky is already dark.Maybe it was six o'clock.In Kyushu, the sunset time is thirty minutes later than in Tokyo. In order to be careful, Mihara thought of this and called the Tokyo Observatory to inquire about the sunset time around Fukuoka on February 7.The Observatory replied that it was 5:29 p.m. in the Fukuoka area.Judging from this, the time when the deceased was brought to the scene of Shuicheng was probably around six o'clock or seven o'clock. In this regard, there is still a clue to be deduced. Could the deceased be strangled to death elsewhere, packed in a car, and transported to the scene in Shuicheng?In other words, the Shuicheng scene is the second point, and the first scene of the actual murder is elsewhere. However, that does not appear to be the case. Mineoka is from Tokyo on Monday, and he doesn't know where to kill people in Fukuoka.Of course, he can kill people inside the house, but he just happened to be on a business trip to Mineoka in Fukuoka, so he may not know how to find such a house, and he himself does not have such a house.Moreover, to transport the deceased to the Shuicheng site, of course a vehicle must be prepared.Of course he can't use a business car, but his own car.Mineoka probably doesn't have his own car in Fukuoka either.From this point of view, the scene in Shuicheng where the body was found was the scene where the deceased was strangled. So what excuse did Mineoka use on Monday to bring the dead to such a secluded location? If it was an ordinary place, the deceased would have no doubts and would go there safely, but on the embankment of the water city, there were no pedestrians at night, and anyone who was brought to such a place would feel strange.That young man took Mineoka to this place easily without fear of danger, there must be some other reason. Thinking of this, Mihara remembered the method of the Sagami Lakeside murder. The Sagami Lake murder was brought to the scene by a woman. The deceased, Takeo Doi, was on his way to Lake Sagami by car, near Koenji Ichimachi Station on the Ome Highway, picked up a beautiful woman who looked like a drinking girl at a glance, and they drove together to Bitantei Hotel in Lake Sagami.According to the female work certificate of the Bitanting Hotel, the two ate in a single room, and Doi intentionally kept the woman overnight. Then, the two said that they went out for a walk and walked towards the lake. That was the last side of Doi's life. Later, he was found strangled to death.The woman didn't look back either.Where she fled, how she fled, and even the way she fled could not be judged. What if this method is also used in the murder in Shuicheng? The deceased in this case was a young man.It makes sense that he was taken by a beautiful woman to the water city embankment at night.To the young man, it is more pleasant to walk with a beautiful woman in a dark place than in a bright place.He must have been secretly happy in his heart, walking up the dark embankment of the water city together with that woman. At that time, Mineoka Monday left the two of them with some excuse.According to Mineoka's intention, the woman went to the scene with the young man, which was the same method used in the Sagamiko case. three What did the pair of men and women who entered the dark forest in Shuicheng do?Come to think of it, the young man must have blushed and said sweet words to the woman.Then, began the subtle movements before hugging.He was completely engrossed.But he didn't hear anyone coming quietly behind him. Suddenly, a rope wrapped around the man's head.Very powerful.I can't even call out.That is, the woman who is the object of love is standing on the side of the murderer and helping him.The method of strangulation is also the same as Lake Sagami. The young man was buried on the spot.It was handled by Mineoka and the woman together.Gather the dry grass nearby, sweep the fallen leaves, and pile them on the soil where the corpse is buried shallowly, so as not to be discovered immediately. The two left the scene.However, halfway through, the woman's face changed color.Before I knew it, the glove on my left hand was lost somewhere. At that time, neither Mineoka nor the woman wanted to turn around immediately and retrieve the gloves.However, it is no longer possible.Broadly speaking, the reasons may be as follows: One was that the woman was afraid of returning to the scene of the murder.Another reason is that there is not enough time. Perhaps these two reasons exist at the same time.Anyway, this glove is relatively high-end among ordinary commodities, and it doesn't have the characteristics of the owner, and it doesn't have a name.Even if it is lost, the problem is not too big, so I didn't go back to look for it. Of course, this glove is not necessarily related to this murder case.It was mentioned in the bird feed report that whether the owner of the glove is related to the case is difficult for the search headquarters to make a judgment. If it belonged to someone on the prisoner's side, it would be a mistake not to get it back, so they wouldn't let it go. Judging from the fact that it was not retrieved due to insufficient time to retrieve it, it must have something to do with the time when Mineoka returned to Tokyo from Fukuoka on Monday.For example, it is possible to go back to Tokyo by train. If, on the night of February 7th, he had finished committing the crime, stayed with the woman in a nearby hotel for one night, and took a plane back to Tokyo the next morning, as he had imagined before, he might be at his own car company in the afternoon. Appear. On this occasion, will Mineoka return to Tokyo with that female accomplice?Will we go back separately? The problem is that woman. Since the case of Sagami Lake, Mihara has been secretly investigating whether there is such a woman by Mineoka Zhouyi's side.However, no such woman was found from Mineoka at that time. After the Shuicheng case this time, it is inevitable to investigate whether there is such a woman again.Mihara felt that this would be futile.The case of Sagami Lake has been thoroughly investigated. Mineoka is a special person who doesn't have much relationship with women.First of all, I am thirty-seven years old and have never been married.Even if he were married, it was not surprising that, given his age and income, he would have one or two women.However, it cannot be investigated at all. If Mineoka was assisted by a woman in the Sagamiko and Shuicheng cases, he was quite cleverly hiding his relationship with the woman. Thinking of this, Superintendent Mihara suddenly had an idea. If the unidentified young man who was killed in Shuicheng was Mineoka's assistant, he must be someone who is often familiar with the camera.This is because this person's job is to take photos of Moji and Nobukari at night.Although Mihara also plays with cheap cameras from time to time, he doesn't often use flash.I don't have that enthusiasm, and I am a beginner. However, the Wabu Kari Festival is nighttime photography, and the assistant must have a fairly deep interest in the camera.As such, this person should show up at a photographic equipment store from time to time. Those who love this way, develop and imprint themselves in the dark room of their apartment, so they must often go to the photographic equipment store to buy materials such as film, imaging solution, and photographic paper. (Yes. Show photos of the deceased in the Suicheng case to various photographic equipment stores in Tokyo. Torikai detectives in Fukuoka have already done this. This proves that the deceased is not from Fukuoka. Try it in Tokyo this time. ) I called the Fukuoka police station, and it happened that detective Torikai was out. After hearing this, the image of the old detective running around wearing a pair of old shoes appeared in Mihara's mind.Mihara summoned up his courage.Before that, whenever I was depressed, I always got encouragement from Torikai detectives, encouraging me to be more courageous. Sanyuan handed over the photos of the deceased in the Shuicheng case sent by the Torikai detective to his subordinates for reprinting, and walked out of the police station by himself.In his pocket was one of the two photos that Torikai sent. Suddenly, he remembered that he should show Mineoka the photos in person on Monday, to give him a try. The deceased in the Shuicheng massacre was speculated to be Mineoka Monday’s accomplice. If the photo was shown in front of him, he would deny it and claim that he never knew him, but his expression must have changed.Since it is an acquaintance, his face, such as his eyes or muscles, will always cause certain reactions. Mineoka was working in the company on Monday, and sat at the innermost desk as usual.When Superintendent Sanyuan walked in, he remained calm, as if welcoming a big customer, and greeted warmly: haven't seen you for a long time.how have you been? there is nothing.Things are always busy, there is no big case.Homicides don't happen often, either.After saying this, Mineoka didn't seem to believe it.In order to reassure Mineoka, Mihara pretended to be doing nothing, and chatted with him all over the place.If it is said that Mineoka is not nervous at all, maybe he is not afraid.Although the face is very friendly, there seems to be hostility in the heart.The more Mihara saw this, the more reluctant he was to take the photo out of his pocket immediately.He wanted to talk further and further away from the topic, and then suddenly put the photo in front of the other party and launched an assault. After another 20 minutes, Superintendent Mihara started to move: Mineoka-san, do you know this man? Saying that, Mihara suddenly took out a photo from his pocket and placed it on Mineoka Monday's desk.This is the photo of the deceased sent by Tokai Shigetaro. There is also a black mark on the neck, which is the mark of being strangled. drink!Mineoka picked up the photo. In these few seconds, Sanyuan was engrossed in watching the other party's expression.As long as Mineoka's eyelashes flickered shut, and the muscles on his face shrank a little, they couldn't escape Mihara's eyes. However, there was not even a trace of expression on Mineoka's face.He looked at the face of the dead calmly, just like watching a news picture in a newspaper. do not know.Mineoka slowly put the photo on the desk, asked An Ran, there was a black mark on his neck, it seemed that he was strangled to death.Where is this case? As he spoke, he put the cigarette to his lips and lit it leisurely.There is still no change on the face. Sanyuan became confused, unable to judge at all.He always believed that Mineoka was acting now, but he acted so naturally that no loopholes could be caught. This is a case that happened in Fukuoka.Mihara spoke slowly on purpose, and shot at the opponent word by word. Oh, so far away.Mineoka's voice remained unchanged.However, a case has occurred, why do you come to ask me? Mihara had already prepared the answer. This is because the life experience of the deceased cannot be investigated.Mr. Mineoka, the local police department believes that the deceased was not from Fukuoka, but may have gone to Tokyo.So I thought of you. Mihara said while watching Mineoka's movements.The result is still unchanged. Why do you think of me?Mineoka smiled. Because you said you often travel to Fukuoka on business. I went there to Dadong Company on a business trip. I know you're here to discuss business, but those of us who handle the case must do our best whenever we see a little hope.Recently, I found out that people from Tokyo were killed in Fukuoka, and you often travel from Tokyo to Fukuoka on business, so I always thought that maybe you would know some clues, so I came to ask for advice with a bust photo of the deceased. This can be troublesome.Mineoka laughed out loud.According to your method, you have to visit everyone who travels from Tokyo to Fukuoka one by one. Mihara hit a snag and said goodbye.He didn't want to go back to the Metropolitan Police Department right away, he planned to find a place, think about it, and study the question and answer with Mineoka just now, as well as the expression he saw on him. He went into the Hibiya cafe he frequented.He likes to drink black coffee. There was fragrant hot coffee in the white porcelain cup, and while he was sucking it, he was thinking about the question and answer with Mineoka just now, as well as his expression. After thinking about it, he had another strange thought about the young man who was killed in Shuicheng.The origin of this idea was not because there was no response from Mineoka.Mineoka's performance is certainly one of the reasons, but it's not just this reason.Superintendent Mihara has doubts about the idea that the photos of the Wabu Kari ceremony were taken with the assistance of another person. That’s right, when Torikai’s letter came up with an inference that the young man killed in Suijo Castle might have been an assistant for filming and the Nukari ceremony, he was confused about the case, so he had the idea of ​​fully agreeing with this inference.However, now that I think about it carefully, the assistant is just a phantom, but I don't have such an actual feeling in my mind. In my opinion, the photos of the Henukari ceremony were taken by Mineoka Zhou himself in some way. This kind of thinking comes from Mihara's painstakingly discovered tricks of arranging the film before and after. This matter has become a fixed concept in his mind and cannot be eliminated.