Chapter 13 third quarter
"I still have the mood to read comics. It seems that I don't need to worry." Tang Chuan said as soon as he entered the ward.
"Why are you here?" Kusanagi asked.
But Tang Chuan didn't answer, he took it out from the white plastic bag he was carrying, looked around, "I brought a condolence item anyway, where should I put it?"
"There's nothing here," Kusanagi's eyes widened in surprise, "Can't you fit ordinary cardboard boxes and fruit and vegetable baskets?"
"Do you want cardboard boxes, fruit and vegetable baskets?"
"No... okay... thank you!" It's no use arguing with Yu Chuan about this, "Put it on the shelf over there! My sister must have asked you to come!"
After putting the melon away, Tang Chuan took off his shirt and sat on the chair beside the hospital bed. "I did hear about it from your sister. I heard that she was stabbed with a knife?"
Kusanagi put the manga he was reading next to his pillow and looked up at him, "You and my sister still keep in touch?"
"It can't be said that she contacted me, and she said that she knew my phone number from you."
"She said she has something she wants to tell you directly, can you tell me?"
Tang Chuan sighed softly, "Blind date."
"Blind date?"
"She said she wanted to introduce me to a blind date. Although I politely declined, can you make her give up on this matter?"
Seeing Yu Chuan's embarrassed expression, Kusanagi couldn't help but want to laugh. After laughing, he immediately looked bitter, and the wound throbbed with pain.
"Are you okay?" Tang Chuan asked calmly, not worried at all.
"It's okay, so it turns out that my sister asked you to talk about this..."
"It was because of this that I called me today, and I didn't know that you were stabbed, but she said that there was no danger to her life and told me not to worry."
"I see."
"When was it stabbed?"
"Yesterday, I was on the first floor of this hospital. I was sent to the emergency room immediately, and then I was hospitalized directly. I didn't bring a change of clothes or anything. I had no choice but to call my sister."
"Is there no one else to ask?"
"If I had to, I wouldn't call that woman!"
Yu Chuan blinked in disbelief, "It's really strange! Why didn't your sister introduce you to a marriage partner?"
"How would I know? From the perspective of a matchmaker, isn't an elite associate professor at a university more popular than a policeman with a low monthly salary?"
"I don't know if your salary is high or not, but this incident can prove that your work is dangerous." Tang Chuan looked at Kusanagi's wound, "This is a sudden disaster."
Kusanagi scratched his nose with a serious face, "I did it to myself, I was too careless, I didn't expect this guy to carry a knife."
"What kind of knife? A saber?"
"It's a pocket knife, the kind you use when you're camping. If it's a saber, it won't hurt like this."
"Why does that person bring such a thing?"
"The situation is more complicated. The suspect is a decent person. I heard that he became nervous due to pressure and suddenly became violent. We should be able to know the details today."
"And then?" When Tang Chuan was asking, he heard someone knocking on the door. "Come in!" Kusanagi replied.
The door opened, and a dark-skinned man came in. He was a tall, broad-shouldered man. When the man saw Yu Chuan, he had an unexpected expression. It seemed that he didn't expect there to be guests.
"This is my friend from college——Yu Chuan," Kusanagi pointed to Tang Chuan and said to the man, "He's a physicist at Imperial University. He helped investigate cases a few times, but he just came to visit me today."
The man looked at Tang Chuan with a relieved expression, "I've heard of it too, so it's you..."
This time, Kusanagi introduced to Yuchuan, "This is the police officer Kitahara who is in charge of this case, and he is a classmate of my police academy."
Tang Chuan was a little surprised, he didn't wear glasses today, "No wonder you don't use honorific words for me like him."
"I'm working in a small place, so if you think I'm not particular about my speech, there's nothing you can do about it."
Hearing Kitahara's self-deprecating tone, Kusanagi frowned, "What! Why do you even mean to be sarcastic?"
Bei Yuan hurriedly waved his hands, "Sorry! I was joking."
Kusanagi looked at Yukawa, "Since he was in the police school, this guy has been several grades better than me. Everyone thinks that Shinji Kitahara will be promoted to work in the Metropolitan Police Department before me, but people like me have all gone to the first investigation class." , He has not been hired by the Metropolitan Police Department. Although he is an excellent talent, but no one appreciates it, this is the representative of underappreciated talent."
"Stop talking!" Bei Yuan said, "Let's confirm a few things with you about this incident! I don't want to force the injured person, can I ask you a question now?"
"Well, no problem."
Kitahara took out a notepad from the pocket inside his suit, but before he started talking, he glanced at Yukawa next to him and said to Kusanagi, "Let's talk as much as possible between the two of us!"
"I'm sorry," Tang Chuan said and stood up immediately, "I'd better go out."
"It doesn't matter!" Kusanagi said to Kitahara, "This guy is just like his family, he is someone who will never be rumored."
Bei Yuan shook his head unhappily, "No, it's better to be strict."
"That's good," Tang Chuan picked up his coat, "That Kusanagi, goodbye! Say hello to your sister."
"Ah, sorry!"
After Yukawa went out, Kusanagi said to Kitahara, "You are still the same."
"Do you want to say that you are so rigid that you don't know how to adapt?"
"I didn't mean that..."
"Let me tell you, you are a bit of an anomaly. I don't know how much he has helped. He is not a policeman but an ordinary citizen. He shouldn't let him know the content of the case casually."
Kusanagi smiled wryly in silence, although he wanted to say that that guy was not an ordinary person, but this man probably couldn't accept it.
"Is the investigation of the suspect going well?" Kusanagi changed the subject.
"It's okay," Beiyuan sat on the chair that Yuchuan sat on just now, "I was very excited yesterday, but today I'm completely honest. He answered our questions well, and he was very particular about his words. Look at this guy's speech today. It looks like a person who can't even crush bugs to death."
"That is to say, a very ordinary company employee?"
"I'm a salaryman who works in an office equipment manufacturing company. He has no criminal record, not even a traffic violation. It's really hard to believe that he suddenly went crazy, not to mention stabbing someone."
"But it's true that it stabbed me."
"Yes, I admit that myself."
The suspect is Yukihiro Kayama, 32 years old, single.I went to the hospital yesterday because I was going to see a doctor in the Department of Physical and Mental Medicine. In order to submit an application for medical treatment, I quarreled with the old man behind me because I suspected that someone behind me pushed him, and finally grabbed the other party's crutches and beat him. The antecedents are probably like this.
"However, there are many inaccuracies in his confession. The old man who was beaten said that he hadn't quarreled with him. Suddenly, the man became angry and attacked him. People around proved that the old man's statement was correct."
"Does this mean the suspect is lying?"
Kitahara pouted slowly, "When I was investigating this, what he said today was completely different."
"What did you say?"
"Well," Bei Yuan shrugged, "He said it was because of auditory hallucinations."
"Hearing hallucinations?" Kusanagi frowned.
"The symptom is that I heard a voice that didn't exist before. I heard that it has been a month, and I am quite troubled, so I came to see a doctor in the physical and mental medicine department of the hospital."
"Speaking of auditory hallucinations, what the hell did he hear?"
"Gasan said that he heard people talking, the man's low voice, as if he was chanting a spell, 'Go to hell! I will kill you sooner or later!', almost every day I don't know when I can hear it."
Hearing this, Kusanagi's face changed, "If this is true, I can't bear it! If I hear it every day, I won't be surprised if I go crazy."
"Indeed," Kitahara opened the notepad, "I want to confirm with you, yesterday you said that when Gasan was waving the cane in his hand, he kept yelling, and he shouted 'Always, always want to make trouble'!"
"yes."
"And said to you 'Are you an accomplice? You can't kill me!'—Is that so?"
"That's right, everyone else heard it too."
Beiyuan closed the notepad, nodded and said: "We have also collected several testimonies. Although everyone's expressions are slightly different, the basic content is the same. Everyone thinks he is talking nonsense. Gasan said that when he was queuing , I heard that voice again—"I will kill you today!" The old man behind was just picking up the crutches, thinking that the old man was going to hit him with the crutches, thinking that he was going to be killed, he reflexively defended himself, but he couldn’t remember anything after that, and he had already been arrested when he regained consciousness.”
"The person who stabbed and grabbed him doesn't remember?"
"He only vaguely remembered that he thought he would be killed if he didn't run away quickly, so he stabbed out indiscriminately."
"Why did he carry a knife with him?"
"For self-defense," Kitahara replied affirmatively, "When he realized that he was hallucinating and no one was ready to kill him at any time, he still put a folding knife in his pocket when he went out. He originally liked mountain climbing. He deeply regrets what he did with his treasure."
"Are you regretting it? If it weren't for your favorite knife, you could stab someone else?" Kusanagi sniffed and curled his lips.
"The content of Gasan's confession just mentioned, we think the situation caused by auditory hallucinations is credible, but you have confronted him at the scene, and I want to hear your opinion, do you think there is any doubt?"
Kusanagi thought for a while and shook his head, "No, I have no objection. The man was indeed mentally abnormal at the time, but this should require a mental appraisal."
"I think so too. A general appraisal is enough, right? Whether he's lying or not, you'll know right away after a little investigation."
"Have you asked anyone in their company?"
Kitahara nodded and looked at his watch, "I'm going to Otemachi, it's a company called 'Penmax'."
"Penmax?" Kusanagi frowned.
"What's wrong? What's wrong with this company?"
"Two months ago, a sales manager named Zao Jian committed suicide in this company. I was in charge of the investigation at that time."
"That's it..." Beiyuan had an indifferent expression, but suddenly seemed to remember something, "Speaking of which, Jiashan also belongs to the sales department."
"Really?"
"However, this may be just a coincidence. The minister committed suicide, and the subordinate committed the crime of wounding another person. This place is going to be burned!" Bei Yuan stood up, "You have worked so hard when you are so tired! Rest well!"
"If there is any situation, you can come here at any time!"
Hearing what Kusanagi said, Kitahara gently raised his hand in response, and then left the ward.
After seeing off his old friend, Kusanagi lay down again and said to himself, "Is it... an auditory hallucination?"
I want to sleep, but I have nothing to worry about, because I have something to care about.Now it's best to recover from the injury as soon as possible. Although he was recognized as an honorable injury by the Metropolitan Police Department this time, he can't just fall ill. If he can't move because of the injury, he might be transferred to another post immediately.
But even with his eyes closed, various thoughts still surfaced, and he couldn't fall asleep, so Kusanagi simply opened his eyes, picked up his coat from the bed, and took out a notepad from the inside pocket to look through it.
Two months ago, the sales manager of "Penmax" met Tatsuro Hayashi, who jumped to his death from the balcony of his apartment.Although it looks like a suicide, but because there are many doubts in the suicide, Kusanagi from the first search section of the Metropolitan Police Department also participated in the investigation.
That day, I went out at 7:30 in the morning, and then the children went to school, and my wife also went out at 8:00 in the morning.At 8:40 a.m., many residents heard loud noises. After a while, management personnel found Zaojian bleeding and lying on the ground on the first floor of the community, and called the police.At 8:50, the police in the jurisdiction arrived at the scene to confirm the death. Judging from the driver's license and other information on his body, he was Hayami Tatsuro who lived on the seventh floor.
Judging from the location, it should have jumped from the balcony of his own house. The question is suicide, accident or homicide?The porch of his own house was locked, but he didn't put a safety chain on it, but his family said he didn't have the habit of wearing a safety chain.Moreover, the body did not wear shoes, and the leather shoes worn when leaving home in the morning were also placed next to the shoe rack in the entrance.
Not long after, I got eyewitness testimony that someone saw him in a park near his home at 8 o'clock in the morning that day. The witness said that he did nothing but smoke silently.
It is reasonable to say that after I went to the company and left home, I stayed in the park for more than an hour, and returned home after my wife and children had gone out. It is reasonable to think so, but I saw that I did not tell the company that I was late and asked for leave.
Although why he didn't go to the company has become a mystery, it can also be considered as suicide, but there is one thing that cannot be explained anyway.
That's the bloodstains on the wall.
There is a bloodstain on the wall of the living room, about 170 centimeters from the floor, which is consistent with Zao Jian's height. The result of the appraisal is Zao Jian's blood stain, and there are scratches on the forehead of the body that were not caused by falling from the building.
Why did you bang your head against the wall?That's the biggest mystery—was someone grabbing their head and banging it against the wall?It is also strange to say that it is suicide.
So I invite the class where Kusanagi and others are in.
Investigating the earlier interpersonal relationship found many problems. He had an extramarital relationship with a female member who committed suicide three months ago.The female member chose to commit suicide in despair because Zaojian had no plans to divorce, and she called Zaojian before she died.I saw that when answering the police's question, she said that the woman told herself "Let's write off the past!" But there is no evidence to confirm this.The police speculated that the woman just used the phone to declare suicide, and wanted the man to keep her and divorce his wife, but it was impossible to find out the truth of the matter.
But I saw that although he was not questioned, he might be hated by others. It is not impossible for the family and friends of the female commune member to want to kill him.
I heard from colleagues in the company that they were afraid to see him early, worried that they would be plotted against by others, so many people felt that "he looked neurotic. I heard that he committed suicide, and everyone felt that he was still on this road."
Although Kusanagi and others collected evidence from many people, they did not find the suspect, and the family members whom they met earlier did not like him. Considering that his wife had a close relationship with a certain man in the past and there were disputes, it is not impossible that there is no possibility of revenge.Just in case, the police also confirmed the man's alibi, and the man does not live in Tokyo, and there is no one in the family who may have committed the crime.
Since then, the team responsible for investigating the security video of Zaojian’s residence also reported the results of the investigation of the identities of all the people who entered and exited the apartment before and after the incident, and none of them had anything to do with Zaojian.
The forensics class made another inference about the bloodstains on the wall. The results of careful investigation showed that the bloodstains were mixed with the palm prints and fingerprints seen earlier.Judging from this situation, Zao Jian was not pushed into the wall by someone, but probably hit the wall by himself.
Although there are several unexplainable problems, the conclusion of suicide is more appropriate-the leaders in charge of the case came to this conclusion.
Kusanagi looked at the two words written on the notepad. This was discovered during the investigation. Although he noticed it at the time, he didn't know how to investigate based on it.
One of these two characters is "spirit" and the other is "sound".
Kusanagi picked up the mobile phone placed beside the pillow, hesitated a little, and found Kaoru Utsumi's number.
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