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Chapter 44 Twenty-three, lead the snake out of the hole

Elegy for "Lover" 西村京太郎 2363Words 2018-03-16
Seeing Totsukawa hang up the phone, Kamei asked, "Does Tomoko Tachikawa know about the murder of his lover Inoue?" "She said she already knew." "That's weird. Instead of going to the police when my boyfriend died, he fled abroad instead. How can this be explained?" Totsukawa said nothing.It took me a long time to talk to myself: "How deep is the relationship between Youzi and the current series of cases?" Kamei came over and leaned into Totsukawa's ear: "Didn't you say that she was instructed by Ozeki to go to the Kiso Line to monitor Okuda?"

Then Kamei said again: "I think this time Inoue was probably going to blackmail Ozeki, but he was killed in Fukushima Juku. Tomoko had secretly stabbed Inoue about this, so of course Ozeki would not tolerate her. danger of killing." Totsukawa thought for a while, then said softly: "Do you think this will work? Let's use a computer typewriter to write a letter to Ozeki." As he spoke, Totsukawa took a typewriter and wrote the following letter: Totsukawa wrote the letter and carefully put it in the envelope, and ordered his detectives to send it by express mail immediately.

Relieved, he lit up a cigarette and smoked happily. "Do you think it's working?" "Ozeki saw Y.T's signature at the end of the letter and knew immediately that it was written by Tomoko, and it was impossible for him not to respond." Totsukawa was very confident about this. That night, Nishimoto and Kusaka, who went out to investigate the blue caravan, rushed back to the office. "Cough, I'm so tired." Nishimoto murmured tiredly as soon as he entered the door. "Is there any clue?" Totsukawa looked hopefully at the two exhausted subordinates.

"Finally found it." Nishimoto took a sip of tea, "Just as I estimated, Ozeki opened a small travel agency in the name of his nephew." "Does that travel agency have a blue caravan?" "Yes. The facilities in the car are complete, including beds, toilets, bathrooms, etc. It's unbelievable." "Does the car number start with the character character?" "yes." "Well, now we finally see the dawn of hope." Totsukawa smiled happily. A mixed-use building in the Ikebukuro district, the third floor is where the headquarters of the Ozeki company is located.

Totsukawa ordered Nishimoto and others to lurk near the building, secretly watching the situation at the company window.In addition, other police detectives were ordered to monitor Ozeki and the travel agency opened in the name of his nephew, especially the movement of the blue caravan. Totsukawa sat in the office, staring at the telephone on the table, smoking quietly.At this moment, the tranquility of the outside world could hardly contain the torrent in his heart. Totsukawa thought, how would Ozeki react when the letter printed by the computer typewriter came into Ozeki's hands?For Ozeki, 20 million yen may not be a large sum, but it is estimated that he will not readily agree to this condition. Judging from the killing of Ryosuke Inoue, Ozeki's attitude has been fully demonstrated.Of course Ozeki knew that extortion would not be tolerated, and if he paid the money, it would be tantamount to admitting that he had participated in the scandal of embezzling huge sums of money.Therefore, the pawn he is most likely to take is to take the risk and kill people.

Totsukawa sat on the chair, full of thoughts and worries. Now, the yellow cloth should appear in the company's window, right?If this is the case, we should use the name of Tomoko Tachikawa.Try to inform the other party where to pay, and then wait for an opportunity to catch them all. In the office, Totsukawa and Kamei faced each other silently.Now there is no need to say anything, each other understands each other's feelings.The eyes of the two focused on the telephone on the stage in unison.However, the telephone remained unbearably silent. On the second day, there was still no expected movement.

In the evening, Nishimoto returned to the office listlessly and reported to Totsukawa: "Everything is quiet in that building, and there is no yellow cloth strip on the window at all." "Have you ever come out of the gate?" "Just like yesterday, he left the company early in the morning. He usually stays overnight at the company, and he is still in the company now." "How does he look, nervous?" "We once sent plainclothes officers to the company to investigate secretly. We saw Oguan's calm expression with his own eyes, and he seemed very happy."

"Oh, that's weird." Totsukawa shook his head in surprise. A thought suddenly flashed in his mind: "Will Daguan send someone to Hawaii to kill people? If so, of course he has nothing to fear." Thinking of this, he suddenly felt restless, and for the sake of prudence, he immediately gave him a stay at the M Hotel in Hawaii. Tomoko called. Tomoko Tachikawa quickly picked it up to listen to Jane, and she asked angrily: "What else do you want? I hate it!" Then she hung up the phone. "How is she?" Kamei looked at Totsukawa worriedly. "It's okay, she's doing well there." Totsukawa replied mockingly.

"In this case, why is Ozeki indifferent to this matter?" "Maybe we made a mistake in our judgment." Totsukawa said, frowning suddenly. "What's wrong?" Kamei looked at him anxiously. Totsukawa said thoughtfully: "Okuda was entrusted by Ozeki to go to the Kiso Line to find the Kido couple. At that time, he and Tomoko Tachikawa were traveling together. Of course, this was arranged by Ozeki in advance. However, Tomoko secretly disclosed the situation to Ozeki will not know about Ryosuke Inoue, are you right?" "This... of course." Totsukawa added: "The facts are very clear. Ozeki didn't know Ryosuke Inoue. However, when Ozeki decided to kill Okuda, Yuko Tachikawa also became his target because she knew that Oseki wanted Okuda to go to the Kiso Line. the goal of."

"Well, according to common sense, after Ozeki killed Okuda, he immediately went to kill Tomoko." "That's right, Ozeki is a very scheming person. In order to silence him, even Mrs. Okuda and Ryosuke Inoue can't escape from his murderous hands." "However, instead of being hunted down, Tomoko Tachikawa can spend the summer leisurely in Hawaii." "What's the reason?" Totsukawa stared at Kamei. "Could it be that Tomoko was bought by..." Kamei struggled to spit out a few words. "That's the problem!" Totsukawa said loudly.

"You mean Ozeki bought Tomoko?" "It seems that the expenses of Tomoko's trip to Hawaii this time are also paid by Ozeki." "Could it be that Tomoko betrayed her boyfriend for money?" "You have been to her room, and everything there is very luxurious, which shows that this woman is very vain, and Inoue can only make a little money by extorting and piecemeal, which cannot satisfy her desire, so she will not betray Inoue and join Ozeki. Not surprising." "In this way, Tomoko is really a cold-blooded animal. Although Inoue was killed by Ozeki, she remained indifferent, but happily went to Hawaii with Ozeki's money." "She not only abandoned Inoue, but completely betrayed him. I'm sure she must have informed Ozeki of Inoue's motives in advance, so that Ozeki fully grasped Inoue's movements, so she set a trap to kill him. Inoue." "Is Tomoko's trip to Hawaii an incentive trip for Ozeki?" "Very likely." Totsukawa nodded, and suddenly a painful expression appeared on his face, "If this is the case, we have done something wrong. We thought that we had carefully set up a trap to make Ozeki panic and show the fox Tail. Unexpectedly, Ozeki has already made a move, and he will laugh at us after reading this letter. He, a shrewd old police officer, has always been familiar with our police methods." Kamei said with a smile: "Police, don't be so sad all the time. We didn't think carefully at the beginning, which gave Ozeki some loopholes, but bad things may turn into good things, and Ozeki will also despise us because of this, resulting in paralyzed thoughts." "En." Totsukawa responded, as if a light flashed in his mind.
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