Chapter 8 Chapter 8 The Evidence Summoned

Could it be that Eiko Kosaka noticed that the policeman's hand had reached Ishida's side, so she quickly hid him?Or did he kill him for his own safety? All in all, for the first time, I found the connection between Eiko Kosaka and Kazuo Ishida.Just finding out this clue itself is a big progress. The camera seconded by Okawa and Shimoda is really a big gain for the two people who don't have any evidence at hand.They immediately began a retrospective investigation of the camera sales line. This kind of camera is EXL35-A type manufactured by K factory. It has a distance measuring and exposure device linked with the shutter, and the shutter speed can reach 1/1000th of a second.The focal length of the lens is F1.8.There is a small crack on its lens. If it is a small defect on the lens, it will have no effect on photography, but the location of the crack is very improper, which makes the refraction messy and small shadows appear on the film.

I inquired about the sales situation from the manufacturer K company.Of the same model, 982 were manufactured, and they are mainly sold in camera shops in Tokyo and Osaka.Immediately obtained the list of camera sales stores from Company K, and began to trace the whereabouts of 982 EXL35-A cameras. "Hey, tell me, what did the criminal just do here?" After sending the criminal away, Hatao's wife screamed, and her expression was not the same. Hisao Hatao was stunned for a moment, but on the outside he said calmly: "The last time I came to investigate the matter of renting a car, I didn't understand the situation at the time. It turned out that the guy who rented that car before me used that It is suspected that the car has transported the corpse, so I came to investigate again. It is really troublesome to rent a car."

"Did you really rent the car alone that time?" "Of course I'm alone. Can I go out with someone else besides you?" "Then why didn't you invite me?" "How many times do I have to say it before you understand that we couldn't get together for the rest of the day, so we had to go by ourselves." "But you never once told me about your car trip. It happened that the police came to investigate the car trip when I was at home. I didn't know that you had gone out for a ride." "That's why I explained that because you still want to go out and have fun, you come out on impulse. Sometimes you are in a bad mood and want to go for a drive. I called you, but at that time you not there."

"I do not believe." "Why did you say something like that all of a sudden?" "The criminal police just took the camera away!" The wife's concern is developing in a bad direction. "Well, that's what they borrowed as a reference for their investigation." "Why is the camera used as a reference for investigation?" "How would I know. All right, don't ask such boring questions anymore. We don't have many chances to have dinner together." "Don't interrupt! I heard it all!" "What did you hear? What is it?"

His wife's complexion had completely changed, but Hatao still pretended not to know. "You said, the camera was given by a woman, right?" "No, it's not." Hatao panicked because he was stabbed to the vitals suddenly. "Then you lied to the criminal!" "No, you are, that, misunderstood." "Why did you misunderstand? I felt suspicious at the beginning. Would a man go out for a drive by himself? Although it was Sunday, you were supposed to go to work. You lied that you asked for leave from the store for urgent business and went on a trip specially You are the most capable person, and you managed to catch up with the overtime on Sunday, how could you suddenly go for a drive on your own impulse? I begged you to take me out for a drive, but you excused that you were too busy to ask for leave. Every time you throw me away. You must have gone for a drive with another woman that day. "

"You really misunderstood." "What a misunderstanding, I think it is the most correct!" "I beg you, I'm hungry!" "Hate!" Unexpectedly, a radish flew over.Then fruits, carrots, potatoes, onions, and meat all swished over.Although very excited, but the aim is very accurate. Throwing away everything in the shopping basket, she ran to the sink in the kitchen, where there were rice bowls, plates, kitchen knives, etc., and an extremely rich magazine of ammunition. "Dangerous! Don't throw it away, why don't you stop?" Hatao already felt his own danger.She had the bowl up, aiming was done, and all that remained was to pull the trigger.At this moment, she softened.

Because she suddenly remembered that this is the famous Arita porcelain presented by the boss of the work unit to celebrate their new marriage, which is called "Husband and wife bowl".She thought to herself—see if there is anything cheaper. In the quarrel between husband and wife, women always have to be careful.Just as she was looking for something that wouldn't lose much if it was broken, Hatao hugged his wife's body tightly with his arms. The young couple's quarrel was transferred to the new house, and all the regret and resentment in the quarrel evaporated after the seething caused by the fiery combustion.

Of course, there are still pimples in my heart, and I will become the Vulcan who will cause new disputes in the future.But now, after fully burning, the body and mind are completely relaxed, and there is no energy or physical strength whatsoever.The sexual all-out war between men and women, in which the man's firepower hits the woman's city completely, causing it to fall and disarm. On the other hand, men have also exhausted all the firepower of love, and the powder magazine is empty.As a result, both sides lost their will to fight, forming a temporary peace. ——I will temporarily truce with you, just wait, I must grab your little tail.

Like a ruminant, she greedily regurgitates the aftertaste of the sensual burning that her husband ignited, and at the same time, she is searching for the image of the woman who went to drive with her husband in her mind. When she came back from shopping just now, she found someone visiting. Out of curiosity, she stood outside and listened for a while. She heard intermittently that her husband had a woman, but she couldn't tell the truth.Previously, he suspected that he had another lover, but this time the police came to investigate the situation, and this was confirmed. The husband's woman seemed to be exactly what the police were looking for.Definitely not a decent woman.It was precisely because she guessed that she was not a serious woman that it helped a lot afterwards.

Several days passed after the couple quarreled.Hatao's wife works the morning shift and returns home around six o'clock in the evening.Hatao is on the evening shift, and can only go home around ten o'clock in the evening.Although it is a honeymoon for newlyweds, there are many shifts with staggered working hours.Because she changed jobs, it was inevitable that she and her husband would not be able to keep up with each other in terms of time. This is just a period before having children.After having a child, you can't work as a dual-career. At that time, you plan to focus on housework and take care of your children.

In my current job position, although the work is a bit tiring, the treatment and environment are good.When mentioning female clerks, it always makes people think that it is a lower occupation than ordinary female employees, but in fact, female clerks, as supplementary staff for male employees, always have to serve tea and do some chores.In contrast, female clerks are a more independent profession. She liked the job and wanted to keep doing it if possible, but Hatao didn't want her to work. When I get home, if my husband is not at home, I don't want to do anything.Eat alone, just deal with it casually. "Women become lazy if they live alone." She was in the empty house, talking to herself, and turned on the switch of the TV.The phone rang just at this moment. --is it him? She was so happy that her heart was pounding, she picked up the receiver, and a strange woman's voice came from the headset, "Mr. Hatao, long time no see. How is it, can you come out tonight?" The other party said in a sweet voice whispered. It seemed that she thought it must be Hatao who answered the phone.Judging from her familiar tone, the relationship between them is very close. ——That woman! She knew it in an instant. "How about it, can you spare some time? I will never forget your energy, hehe." The woman smiled lewdly.Hatao's wife put the receiver to her ear and stood there dumbfounded.Because he is his wife, the other party said that Hatao's spirit is strong, and I have a real feeling. "Hey, what's the matter? Why didn't you answer? Hey, hey, is it the wrong number?" The woman's voice suddenly panicked. Hatao's wife finally spoke: "This is Hatao's house." "Oh!" This time the other party stopped talking.In the blank space of the silent phone, a voice calling from the radio could be heard, "Mr. Yoshida from Hirakawa-cho, please come to the information desk." "Are you his sister?" The other party took a long time to speak. "It's a wife." Hatao's wife bit down each word and spit it out. The other party probably didn't know that Hatao was married, so he took a breath in surprise, didn't say anything, and put down the phone. After putting down the phone, it took a while for Hatao's wife to burst into anger.The waves of anger in his chest quickly rose and boiled. This woman had the audacity to seduce her husband again, and she said to his wife nonchalantly that he would never forget his spirit. Immediately call my husband's work unit and teach him a lesson.After marriage, there is still a woman chasing after him. I must have taken too good care of that woman in the past. The woman's lingering laughter still rang in her ears. ——Yes, you should call him quickly and warn him.From the woman's shameless words, it can be heard that she will also call her husband's work unit to find him.You have to do it first. She could not wait to dial the phone number to her husband's place of work.But her fingers suddenly stopped halfway through. By the way, instead of calling your husband, it would be better to contact the police.The police who came that time left a deep impression.The police also came to investigate the case of Zu Che before, and they also said that it was related to the murder.So, that woman is also related to the murder case. If it's a homicide case, then don't care about the husband's affair or anything.I seem to remember that the criminal who came last time said that they belonged to the Musashino Police Department. With hesitant fingers, he firmly pulled out the phone number of the police station.Immediately hung up number 110, saying that there was important information to provide to the Musashino Police Department. The other party asked about the address, name and phone number here, and promised to notify the Musashino Police Department immediately. After reporting the important information to Hatao's wife on the 110th, Okawa immediately hung up the call back according to the number notified. "Hello, is this Madam? I'm Okawa from the Musashino Police Station who went to the house to find your master and disturbed me a few days ago. Is there anything new?" Although Okawa called back, he didn't have much hope.I'm afraid I won't get any great new information from Hatao's Chiko. "Ah, is it Mr. Criminal? That woman!" Hearing this out of the blue, he still couldn't comprehend the meaning of the words.Because I already had a preconceived notion that the woman behind the scenes had already noticed that the police's hand reached out to Kazuo Ishida and hid him somewhere.Then he will never take the risk to contact Hatao who has been investigated by the police.First of all, Hatao's wife didn't know such a woman existed. "Who is this woman you are talking about?" Da Chuan asked in agreement. "The woman I'm talking about, isn't it very clear! It's the woman who rented a car with my man and went for a drive. My man has a good friend!" She was a little anxious. "Oh, is it true?" Okawa straightened his body, holding the phone hard to listen to Jane. "How can you lie about such a thing!" "So, where is this woman now?" Okawa hurriedly asked.He didn't even have time to wonder how Hatao's wife had learned about Eiko Kosaka. "It's on the phone." "From where?" "have no idea." "So regardless of that, what did she say?" "That shameless man came to seduce my man to go out again. I happen to be at home. If my husband answered the phone, he would definitely go out immediately. He may be hanging up the phone to my husband's work unit now." "Hey, madam, please don't worry, how do you know that she is the woman who rented the car? Did you tell her name?" Okawa asked while persuading the other party.Her husband was almost stolen by another woman, and she felt wronged, which had nothing to do with the investigation. "No, it's intuition, a woman's intuition." "Yeah. So when you asked him out on the phone, where did you tell him to go?" "Because I knew who I was before I said it, so I hung up the phone immediately." "That is to say, I don't know where the other party is or where he wants to ask your master to go." "yes." Originally a very nervous expectation, it suddenly became discouraged.Isn't that the same as having no clues at all!And as for that woman, it was only guessed based on Hatao's wife's "female intuition", and it was not confirmed that it was Eiko Kosaka. "Ma'am, please think about it carefully. Did the woman say anything related to her address when she called?" "did not say." "Ma'am, you contacted us specifically, hoping that we could catch this lover that your husband concealed for you, right?" "Yes!" "Then please think about it carefully. There is nothing we can do without clues. Even if she didn't say anything, did you hear the station's announcement in the background of the phone, the factory's siren, or other sounds that could explain the location?" "When you reminded me like this, I think I heard an announcement saying, Mr. so, Mr. Kawamachi, please come to the service desk." The information provided by Hatao's wife immediately aroused discussion between Okawa and Shimoda. "Mr. what from Kawacho?" Okawa stroked his thinning hair, trying to figure out the meaning of these words. "This gentleman is probably a resident of Kawacho." "What kind of river town is this, where is it?" "Judging from the situation on the phone, it looks like it's in Tokyo. Besides, since I want to invite that man out, it won't be too far away." "What kind of river town in Tokyo should be..." "It might be Hirakawa-cho in Chiyo-ku. Look it up, there might be other places, but as far as I know, only Hirakawa-cho." "No, there are no river towns in Tokyo, only Hirakawa town. But if it says please come to the information desk, this kind of announcement is like in a big hotel." "There is a 'Tokyo Royal Hotel' in Hirakawacho..." "Well, but Hirakawa-cho is probably the residence of the person being called, not the hotel in Hirakawa-cho." "If this is the case, then the so-called Hirakawa-cho is not from Chiyo-ku, nor even Hirakawa-cho in Tokyo. Maybe it's the name of another street with the same pronunciation, and I may have heard it wrong. But I always think it's from Chiyo-ku Hirakawa Town." Shimoda spoke confidently. "why?" "Because when calling, only the name of the street is said, which means that it can be understood only by the name of the street. If this method of calling is used in Tokyo, then the streets called Huqin in other places or the residents there are not Will answer." "Yes. Then go to the Royal Hotel in Hirakawa to check." It seems that Okawa agrees with Shimoda. Considering that the woman might call Hatao out, surveillance posts were set up around him.At the same time, Okawa and Shimoda rushed to the Royal Hotel in Hirakawa. The new and old buildings of the "Tokyo Royal Hotel" have 2,500 rooms in total and can accommodate 4,200 guests. It is known as the largest giant hotel in the East. "If it is hidden in such a big hotel, it will take a lot of trouble to find it." Okawa shook his head vigorously as if he wanted to rebound the majesty of the super high-rise hotel hanging in his heart.The hair on the back of his head has thinned out. As soon as I entered the front hall of the Royal Hotel, I happened to catch up with the caller in the hotel. ——Mr. Mimoto in Hirakawa-cho, please contact the service desk. "Mr. Okawa!" "It's Hirakawa Town again." The two looked at each other. They walked to the long service desk in the lounge and asked the waiter there, "It was the hotel's internal announcement just now. Is this how you call the tenants who live in the same town?" "What in the same town...?" "Didn't you just call Mr. Yamamoto from Hirakawa Town?" "Ah, that," the waiter smiled, "that's calling our staff." "The staff of this shop?" "The so-called Pinghe Town is the call sign for the staff in the store. Since our restaurant is too large, if we need to find a staff member for something, we often don't know where he is, so we use the code name of Pinghe Town to distinguish it from the tenants. " While the waiter was explaining, the voice of "Mr. Dashan from Hirakawa Town" came from the radio.In this way, it can be confirmed that the broadcast Mrs. Hatao heard in the background of the phone was transmitted from this restaurant, and they both expressed satisfaction with the waiter's explanation. "Excuse me, is there a woman named Eiko Kosaka living in your store? These are just a few words." Okawa wrote it on the notepad for him. "please wait for a moment." The waiter went inside, checked for a while, and came back after a while and said, "There is no such guest. The guests who have made reservations also checked, and there is no such name." "Still not." Although I thought that the woman would not directly use this name to stay, I still felt disappointed. "Did you live under another name?" The waiter added another sentence as if to comfort their disappointment. "Maybe, but I don't know what alias is used." "Yes, then..." He seemed to say that there was nothing to be done.And shrugged his shoulders according to European habits. "Although I live here, is it possible that there will be no registration at the service desk?" Okawa asked again, reluctant to let it go. "Well, all the guests staying here must be listed on the passenger name display board. But under special circumstances, according to the request of the guests, it can be kept secret from outsiders. There are also cases like this." "Haha, this is a way of falsely claiming that there is no such person. Could Kosaka Eiko also use this method?" "But we are working together in the investigation of the police. There is indeed no guest like Eiko Kosaka." "Apart from the way of pretending that there is no such person, is there any situation where the name of the guest cannot be seen?" "Well, besides saying that there is no such person, there is no other way not to reveal the guest's name." "are not there?" "However, if the guest has already settled the bill and paid the payment, and the person who comes to inquire is asked as a normal hotel person, it will be mistaken for no such person." "Is there such a situation?" "Often. Especially when you just left the store, the person who asked the question would get angry and say, how could there be no such person?!" "Okay. Then, please check if there is Eiko Kosaka's name among the big customers in the store just now." This is the last hope.Kosaka Eiko may have rented a room here, and when she failed to ask Hatao, she immediately sensed the danger and left.This possibility also exists. In short, Hatao was already under surveillance by the police, she knew that, that's why she hid Kazuo Ishida.Such a sensitive woman wants to take the risk of contacting Hatao. It seems that Hatao's "charm" makes her never forget it. Kosaka Eiko longs for a man, but this point heralds the tragic fate of Ishida Kazuo. After a while, the waiter came back. "I found it! I left just an hour ago. When you asked just now, it would be great if you also checked the guests who checked out today. But I just thought you were looking for guests who are staying." He said Scratched his head. "The so-called customers who have already paid the bill have already left?" Okawa asked, wanting to confirm his disappointment. "yes." "Do you live under Eiko Kosaka's name?" "Here is the registration card filled out by her." The waiter showed them both a registration card.It was written in a woman's delicate handwriting. "Did she write it herself?" "Because the handwriting of the bookkeeper is different from that of the bookkeeper, I think the guest wrote it himself." "Is the bookkeeper there?" "I'm in class, are you calling me?" "please." After a while, the waiter and bookkeeper on duty came. "Is this Eiko Kosaka you received a regular customer?" Okawa asked straightforwardly. The bookkeeper looked at the registration card and said, "No, it's the first time. I didn't have an appointment at around four o'clock this afternoon. I came directly. I said I wanted to book a double room for one night." "Were you alone when you came here?" "It's my companion who will come later." The waiter and bookkeeper looked a little embarrassed.Knowing that they are not a couple, but providing a double room, I feel guilty. Okawa knew in his heart that the person he was referring to was not the husband and wife's partner, but probably Hatao. "So, what time did you leave the shop?" "The stamp on the clock reads six-eighteen in the afternoon." "The time I came was around four o'clock, that is to say, I left two hours later and did not stay overnight." "I'm afraid there has been a sudden change. We have already charged for one night." The reason for the change of plan was clear to the two detectives. "What kind of person is this guest, Eiko Kosaka?" "Are you asking what kind of person you are, referring to characteristics?" "Yes. Age, physical and speech characteristics, clothing, objects held, etc. Please tell me what you have noticed." "You asked about characteristics, this is because the moment of registration and observation is too short." Even so, what the bookkeeper observed was not much different from the image of Eiko Kosaka that he had been able to describe so far. "Is the room Eiko Kosaka lived in still available?" "Because it was originally planned to stay here for one night, it is still vacant." "Please let us take a look." The room we were taken into was Room 1824 in the new building of the hotel.This is a standard double suite with the main part of the room occupied by a double bed.This is a functional egotistical design that excludes emotional tendencies.Yet between men and women who know each other, such a room can function well (or should I say functional). The luxurious appearance and the colorful decoration of public parts (such as restaurants, ballrooms, meeting rooms) are in stark contrast to the functional guest rooms.This is the obvious feature of this restaurant. "As the guest's room just left, it's tidy enough." Although the bed was not used because the man was not invited, but there were no traces of guests staying in other places. “The room was barely used so it was clean.” The middle-aged woman who brought them here for the main service desk was a director of the room department. "Is there nothing left behind?" "No." "However, when a person stays here for two hours, there is always something to throw out. Cigarette butts, paper scraps and so on." Okawa peered into the ashtray and wastebasket.It was found that these places were as clean as they had been licked. "The ashtray has just been replaced, and the garbage in the wastebasket has been emptied." "That's what's needed, the trash." Okawa and Shimoda said in unison. If you have the handle of the cigarette, you can test the blood type from the saliva of the smoker.Exactly what clues are in the trash is unclear. "Then we need soot and garbage." The director of the room department asked in a daze. "Yes. The ashes and rubbish from this room, and everything else." "The soot has been mixed with other rooms, and there is no way to separate it. The garbage may still be separated because it has just been cleaned." "Please do help." The two of them almost bowed to the director of the housekeeping department and begged her. The director led them to the waiter's room on the floor behind the elevator and asked, "Who cleaned room 1824?" When the director asked, a young male waiter came out. "Where's the trash in the room?" "Barely any litter." "But there's always something, isn't there?" "Just bits of confetti and empty bottles and such." "Has it been sent to the garbage collection room?" "Not yet, because only room 1824 was cleaned just now, so it's still here." The waiter pointed to the garbage bag in the corner of the room. "Is this room full of trash from Room 1824?" "yes." "Please take a look." "please." Seeing the serious expressions of the director and Okawa, the waiter nervously brought the bag over. Just as he said, there were only wads of high-grade toilet paper and empty medicine bottles inside.Unfold the paper one by one to see that there are lipsticks on them. "Looks like it's for lipstick." The room manager looked at the flattened premium toilet paper and said.One of them had lip prints on it.Okawa kept it as important information. The label on the medicine bottle was about to fall off, and the words "Biqionuoer" could barely be read. "What kind of medicine is this?" The room manager cast a curious look.Although she should be professionally trained - she must try her best to close her eyes to the guests' private secrets, but a woman's curiosity is hard to suppress after all. "Yes, what kind of medicine is this?" Okawa couldn't figure it out either.But no matter what, Kosaka Eiko left a legacy after all. The identity of the medicine "Bichionol" that Okawa and others brought back from the Royal Hotel was finally clarified.The laboratory personnel who conducted the identification said at the time that it was an anti-flukes drug. "Anti-flukes, then it's a drug to get rid of parasites." "yes." "Please give an example, what kind of parasite is effective?" "It is mainly lung and liver leeches, which are effective in repelling tapeworms and the like." "Lung liver leech!" Because the medicine for treating lung and liver leeches appeared in an unexpected place, both of them were surprised.Speaking of lung flukes, isn’t that the kind of fluke that lives in Ninomiya Kayoko’s lungs? ——Could it be that Eiko Kosaka is a carrier of paragonimiasis? How should this coincidence be explained?The pair explored this fit from various angles. "Lung parasites are not a common parasite, so it's not just a coincidence." "Even if it is not accidental, then what is the inevitability? Lung parasites must change hosts three times through black snails, algae crabs, and humans in their lifetime. Humans are the third host. That is to say, due to direct transfer to another human The situation is impossible, so the transfer of lung parasites from Eiko Kosaka to Kayoko Ninomiya cannot happen." "It wasn't transferred, but it was possible that they ate crab roe infected with lung parasites together. Because Eiko Kosaka is most likely the person behind the scenes, so is there a chance to eat with the victim?" "Instead of eating together, it's more worth considering that Eiko Kosaka came from the place where that crab was produced." Shimoda's accidental opinion aroused Nasu's interest.After the search headquarters was disbanded, Nasu still served as their advisor, so they often discussed together. "So, what is this saying?" Shimoda needed to confirm his opinion. "Things like algae crab are hard to eat in the suburbs of Tokyo, and there are even fewer chances to eat them raw. The endemic disease of lung and liver leech occurs in places where people have the habit of eating raw crabs. So is Eiko Kosaka born in such a place?" ?” "Ishida Kazuo's mother's hometown is in a town in the mountains of Shikoku." Nasu's round eyes sparkled. "By the way, there is also a small river flowing from the valley in the middle of the town. I heard that people often grill and eat the crab roe they catch on the river beach." "Eiko Kosaka is from Ishida's mother's hometown? This is a blind spot in the investigation." Although I have already smelled Eiko Kosaka as the person behind the scenes, I have never checked the land where she was born and whether she is also in Ishida's mother's hometown.The point of contact between her and Ishida is a problem that has not been considered at all, and has been placed outside the search net from the very beginning. It is very likely that Ishida and Kosaka Eiko met in Ishida's mother's hometown.The hometown of flukes is the "starting point" for criminals.However, the basic investigative method of "returning to the starting point" from the beginning and constantly experimenting has become a dead end in the search work at some point. "But even if Ishida's mother's hometown has the endemic disease of lung parasites, then this disease is not unique to that area. As long as you go to the mountains, you can eat crabs as much as you want. So this alone If there is a consensus on the matter, it is not fashionable to conclude that Eiko Kosaka is from Shikoku.” "Besides, even if Kosaka Eiko came from there, it's still a fake name. All we know now is the name Kosaka Eiko. It's just a simple symbol. How can we find someone?" Different arguments were put forward, and in response to these arguments, Nasu made an explanation: "It is indeed premature to judge Kosaka Eiko's birth place from the perspective of pulmonary parasites. However, any other endemic area of ​​​​pulmonary parasites is not as good as Ishida's mother. There are many contacts between Ishida’s hometown and Ishida. Ishida’s mother has died, so it is logical to investigate that place first. Secondly, even if Kosaka Eiko is a pseudonym, after all, the area of ​​the place is relatively small. It is not very difficult to screen out the relevant tall women in their twenties who have entered Tokyo. Ishida still goes back to Shikoku once or twice a year. If this is the case, then he and There are probably rumors about the relationship between Eiko Kosaka in the local area." Conduct a survey of Ishida Kazuo's mother's hometown - this is the newly formulated clear policy.