Chapter 34 fourth quarter

Nakaoka had just fallen into bed after leaving the tavern when the phone rang.The call was from the Metropolitan Police Department. "Qingjiang Zhongze's counter-evidence has been exposed." Tokuda said in a rough voice. "What's going on?" Nakaoka said calmly. "It's nothing special. Just to be cautious, I asked the editorial department of the Y newspaper. It turned out that the literary supplement of the morning newspaper was printed by the printing factory of this system five days ago. Although the pages are not many, the morning newspaper was published five days in advance I was also surprised when it was printed. That guy got it, went to Yangyu Bay on the 17th, and used this morning paper to make others think it was the 18th. I didn't expect this guy to do such a stupid thing..."

"The counter-evidence is just something to confuse the view at the beginning, and Qing Jiang doesn't pay much attention to it at all. Even if it is exposed, he can still insist that it is an illusion." "Maybe so. Also, Nakaoka, how is your place?..." "It's okay. I was going to sleep." Nakaoka hung up the phone. He lay on the bed and smoked.Alcohol had soaked into the depths of his mind.At the same time, Qingjiang's face with ghost fire has been deeply imprinted in his mind. Qing Jiang is obviously different from the criminals he has dealt with in the past.Qing Jiang has his own characteristics, he is calm, ruthless, full of confidence, and unwavering.Although the counter-evidence has been debunked, this incident is not even worth scratching a piece of skin, and it is irrelevant to Qingjiang.Maybe this counter-evidence is just a trick that Qing Jiang deliberately set up a trap to tease the scouts.

No one would suspect an X-ray device.Even in case someone doubts it, as long as it is sunk into the bottom of the sea, then the physical evidence will be in vain.There was no conclusive evidence that the drowned body in the current was the missing worker.As for the workers who died on the coast, even if there were any other real cause of death, it would be next to impossible to debunk it.Qing Jiang racked his brains to plan in every possible way, feeling that he was as safe as Mount Tai, that's why he showed a will-o'-the-wisp grin on his face. Now, the incident of X-ray radiation has been investigated, and the counter-evidence has been exposed, but he was unable to subdue Qingjiang.

——The reconnaissance policy must be changed! Nakaoka felt in his blood the power of roaring and jumping that a jaguar had pent up when it lost its prey.Nakaoka had just fallen asleep, but was suddenly awakened by a loud noise.The sound of many people running could be heard in the corridor, followed by the sound of shouting.He looked in the corridor. A dark-skinned young man was staggering on the carpet with a bottle of wine in his hands, in a drunken state. In front of him were two people running with their arms around their shoulders.Then, the door of a room about four doorways away opened.A guy who seemed to be their accomplice came out with his arm around a woman in just a nylon petticoat, drinking whiskey from the bottle.They gathered together and kicked at the door of another room.At that time, Nakaoka heard hoarse and obscene singing and cursing from that room again.

Nakaoka had an illusion for a moment.Did he end up in a mental hospital?When he got back to his room, he called the front desk.The administrator answered the phone, carefully apologized, and explained that it was a group of fishermen and there was no way to deal with it... "A group of fishermen?..." "Sir, it's all because of Honshu-Shikoku Bridge..." The voice was full of complaints.Building the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge required a lot of sand.Even without the project, sand is already in short supply across the country.In the end, it was decided to dredge the sand from the fishing grounds in the eastern part of Bisan Seto.It is said that the sand there is inexhaustible.Although the fishing grounds in this area do not catch many fish, they have received hundreds of millions of yuan in fishery compensation.The fishermen use the money they get to go to restaurants, and they choose high-end restaurants exclusively.

They carried the wine through the corridors and wandered from room to room, and even called prostitutes to make trouble until late at night.The restaurant advised them to be quiet, but they didn't listen.If they knew in advance that they were fishermen, the hotel would certainly not let them stay, but because they made reservations by phone, they couldn't prevent them.Why do fishermen come here to ruin high-end restaurants?The people at the restaurant were helpless.Although they have already contacted each other and guarded against the fishermen, the fishermen can always sneak in. “These guys are walking around in muddy boots and they were on an expedition to Tokyo last month. Heard three great restaurants have been messed up. Why should we be the only ones suffering – we who run the restaurants are the real ones Hope to get compensation!"

The boss said with a sob. "Where are the fishermen from?" "The fishermen on XX Island. They are all crazy. Not only XX Island, but now fishermen everywhere are frantically demanding compensation, compensation..." Nakaoka hung up the phone. XX Island is near Qingdao.Nakaoka suddenly thought, if An Gao Kyouji was still alive, he would probably have to receive compensation and do the same thing. --are you crazy? An Gao Gonger went crazy, Qiu Zongxiu went crazy.What drives the madness are huge schools of flaming mullets, and maybe the fish are crazy too.What drives them crazy is the constant killing of the companies in the Seto Inland Sea, and the other is trying their best to protect the corporate regime.The regime also erected three Honshu-Shikoku bridges at the same time.This regime destroys the sea and collects sand and stones on a scale unmatched by corporations.And many fishermen are crazy because of this compensation, and they come to the restaurant to have fun.

"Everything is crazy—" Nakaoka called and asked for whiskey and ice.At this moment, he suddenly felt that there was a shadow behind him, and he looked back.A faint shadow appeared on the soft coarse linen papered wall, as if Aoe Tadori was frantically emitting X-rays in order to occupy the beautiful wife of someone else next door. The next day, Nakaoka visited the Shikoku Railway Administration.He was trying to find out the crew on duty on the ferry on the February 12th flight.Nakaoka asked the bureau to call me, and then boarded the ferry boat.He was mentally prepared that it might be futile.On the ferry boat, there were hardly any crew members in the cabin or on the deck.Because Qing Jiang will definitely be wary of others discovering him, the possibility of witnessing Qing Jiang throwing away his suitcase is almost zero.Even if someone saw his suitcase, he would not be able to figure out the location.

As expected, he asked everywhere, but got nowhere.Nakaoka walked onto the deck.Several seagulls flew behind the ferry to catch food dropped by passengers on board.But in the biting cold wind, there was no one on the deck.The strait is very narrow, but Nakaoka now feels that the giant elephant is infinitely wide. He returned to Gaosong without any gain.Nakaoka walked out of the pier to the cafe amidst the flow of people coming and going. He drank coffee without milk.While drinking coffee, he still heard the sound of the burial worms digging the pit to bury An Gao's dead body. Ninety-nine percent of the body had been buried.

——It's all over when it's all buried. Graves of cockroaches, sudden blindness, seasickness, drowned people in the high seas—the face of Qing Jiang suddenly appeared on a series of screens from past investigations, and it covered them, dangling slowly. The coffee was very bitter. It seemed that this thick liquid dissolved the death shadow of Anko Kyouji and the whole case, and then concentrated it again.Nakaoka took his eyes off the spoon filled with the bitter liquid and walked out of the cafe. Nakaoka returned to the Shikoku Railway Administration again, because he suddenly remembered something while walking.

"Group guests? That's not very clear. You know, because we don't have a list of passengers on board." The staff looked embarrassed, "Can you ask the hotel union." "Hotel union?" "If they had stayed in Takamatsu..." Seeing the staff smile wryly, he thanked him and walked out. Because it is a downward ferry, if there is a group of tourists, they may have lived in Takamatsu.But maybe they changed to Dosan Line or Iyo Line here, or disbanded at Takamatsu.This barrel is a needle in a haystack. According to the hotel union, there were no groups of travelers that day. He also inquired at the Travel Industry Association and got the same answer, as did the bus company. Nakaoka walked towards the prefectural police station.His steps were heavy and hopeless, but he had to go.If he stopped, it meant that the jaguar was about to let go of its prey, and Qing Jiang would naturally get the talisman of forgiveness.Nakaoka will never allow this to happen. The county police sent a scout. "This is really..." "This matter is really a needle in a haystack." The elderly scout from the county police station showed a embarrassed look.He suggested that he had to visit hotels and restaurants one by one to find the passengers who took the ferry boat at that time.However, even if it was found out, if the person didn't see anything, there was still nothing he could do.But Nakaoka didn't say a word and started working.Even if it is just to find a person, if there are group passengers in the same boat with him, he may happen to be able to remember the characteristics of the group travellers.The group travelers are very curious, maybe they saw Qing Jiang throwing away the suitcase.Maybe no group travelers.Even if there is and you have seen it, it is useless if you cannot remember the location.First, though, look for such people. Late into the night, they visited more than two dozen hotels and restaurants where travelers were likely to stay, picking out the day's travelers.He found that there were more than 30 passengers who might be the ones he was looking for, and they had left their phone numbers.Nakaoka took it back to the hotel. All he had to do was call to inquire.The owners of these phones are distributed from Kyushu to Tohoku.As a result of the questioning, some people were not at home, and although many people lived in Takamatsu, they came to Takamatsu by barge, plane or hovercraft.Although many of them took the ferry boat to Gaosong that day, they couldn't remember which boat it was.After Nakaoka called and asked 80 percent of the people, he drank a glass of whiskey.There was a look of fatigue in his eyes, fatigue even stronger than whiskey. —Perhaps it was a waste of effort. Although he thought so, he still dialed the phone number.Only by finding the suitcase can Qingjiang be subdued.What Nakaoka sees now is just like an X-ray image.Only white bones can be seen on the screen. Maybe he will grow muscles again, attach skin, and then restore his expression.Nakaoka felt uneasy, deeply afraid that Qingjiang, who had been seen through the perspective, would disappear under the X-ray. This time, the person who answered the phone lived in Tokyo, a sixty-two-year-old man living in Sakabashi District. "I'm Ouchi," he said. Ouchi silently listened to Nakaoka finish what happened. "I know that suitcase. It may be the suitcase I saw floating on the sea." Ouchi has a slight Kansai accent, he said slowly. "Did you see it?" Nakaoka was not happy, but for some reason, felt a little uneasy.Qing Jiang was too negligent. —But why was he so negligent? "I went to Shikoku to travel around the holy places..." After Ouchi resigned as the bank branch president and retired, he lived a free life.He took his elderly wife on the journey to the holy land that he had long wanted to go.At the time, he was taking photos of his wife on the back deck of the ferry with the sea in the background.He saw something floating in the sea, it looked like a red suitcase.It seemed to have fallen from the bow, floating on the figure-eight waves left by the ferry boat.The seagulls chasing the boat probably felt strange, and flew down and landed on the suitcase.Ouchi took a picture of that scene.Immediately afterwards, the seagull flew up again, and the suitcase drifted away and disappeared, probably sinking.Ouchi said to his wife, "This is a pity", and then forgot. "And do you have that negative?" "Yes. The background is the blue sea, and the seagulls and suitcases are clearly illuminated." Hearing Ouchi's voice, it seemed that he was recalling the happy scene at that time. Nakaoka put down the phone and stared blankly at the sky.If it is thrown from the bow, the suitcase will float on the figure-eight waves and leave the ship, which is easy to be found.If dropped amidships or aft, the suitcase would be drawn by the hull and swept into the vortex at the stern.In this way, it can sink in an instant.It is impossible for Qingjiang not to know this.So why did he do it?Is it because someone is behind? No, probably not.The boat is so big, it is too easy to throw a suitcase out of people's sight. ——Is Qingjiang too negligent? Nakaoka slowly shook his head.Qing Jiang will never be that kind of fool. The next afternoon, Nakaoka received the photos.When Nakaoka saw the negative that was entrusted with the scheduled flight, he clearly saw the doubts of last night printed on this color negative.The photo shows the deep blue sea.In the center of the picture, a seagull with spread wings stands on the sea.At the feet of the seagulls, a red suitcase floated on the sea.There are two small islands overlapping at the upper right of the picture, only the lower half is shown. ——This can definitely find out the approximate location! He hails a taxi and heads for the wharf station.He always felt that there was a shadow of Qingjiang in his heart laughing at him. Nakaoka found the sailor of the ferry boat. "Did the suitcase sink from this position? This is a difficult question to answer." The first-class seaman stroked his chin and pointed to a chart and said, "From the overlap of the island's edges and the ship's route, It can be said that it is roughly the sea area around here. If there is another photo showing the back of the island, it can probably be used to determine the position using triangulation between them and our ship." After Nakaoka thanked him, he got off the boat and ran to the Coast Guard. The Ministry of Security also raised the same opinion, and pointed out that these data alone cannot point to a clear location. "However, it's not impossible to point out the general area. I think it may have sunk in this area." The security officer drew a circle on the chart. "However, this area is a no-fishing zone. It's a dead sea with industrial sediments several meters deep. If it sinks there, I'm afraid it's impossible to find it. And although it's just such a small circle on the sea chart , but in fact the sea is much wider.” He smiled wryly at the circle he had drawn. After leaving the security department, Nakaoka put his coat under his arm and walked along the coast to the pier.The sea breeze blowing across the coast is full of spring.There is a spring scene all around, only the sound of footsteps ringing towards the dim winter. "It's still the case!" Qing Jiang is not negligent.Even if it is seen by others, he doesn't care.There is a dead sea, and it is impossible to find it. The sound of the beating heart disappeared.The handcuffs on the outstretched wrists clicked and made a feeble sound.Qing Jiang stood in front of him calmly. This is already the fourth time.Discover X-rays, spot portable X-ray machines, and ask about the origins of those drowned by the tide, this time to solve the location of the discarded suitcase.Nakaoka thought he could catch it every time.But Aoka shattered the phantom that Nakaoka was spying on again and again.He even felt as if they were little signposts left in order not to despair the scouts. Following the signposts, he finally came to the strait.This strait is just a small circle drawn with a finger on the sea chart, but now it is actually standing on the beach, and it is full of seaweed everywhere, and it is completely a vast ocean.Moreover, it is said that industrial sediments several meters deep are accumulated on the seabed where the suitcase sank, and even living things no longer exist in the nearby sea area. "It turned out to be the Corpse Strait!..." He heard a silent sneer. "Are you going to attack the strait of corpses that have swallowed up the evidence?" The will-o'-the-wisp flame hidden deep in Qing Jiang's eyes is burning.