Chapter 62 Section 08

I asked the main station and said that the call was coming in from outside. "What should I do?" Kamei looked at Totsukawa nervously. "An hour more." "That means Mitamura-kun and the others won't die during this period of time, right?" "The other party probably doesn't want to kill anyone," said Totsukawa. "But you can't promise to search again." "Well, that's impossible. It's been concluded, so it's for the courts to decide." "Then the other party won't understand?" "No way."

"So, within an hour no matter what, we must rescue Mitamura-kun and the others." "Even Okubo and Komori Ao." "Do you think these two are murderers?" "Don't worry about anything else." "Is it buried somewhere in the training ground?" Kamei muttered, "But even so, why were Mitamura-kun and the others taken out so easily?" "I'm thinking about this too. Mitamura-kun is young and a little reckless, so I remind him to be careful, I don't believe he will be tricked out by someone he has never met." "That's right. Even if Okubo and Komori came to this hotel as tourists, they are strangers who meet for the first time, so I don't think they will be tricked out." Kamei also said.

"Therefore, I didn't come here as a guest." Totsukawa said. "You want to say that?" "As I saw from the window just now, there are exclusive ski instructors, intermodal bus drivers and other people working here. I think there should be a lot of temporary workers who only come to work in winter." "Go and ask immediately." Kamei rushed to the main station, then came back and told Totsukawa, "It is said that there are nearly 500 people working in this resort, most of them are just temporary workers in winter as the police department said. Not just ski instructors, even those who work at the reception desk of the hotel have winter temporary workers.”

"Go and meet the general manager." Totsukawa said. The two decided to ask the general manager and the person in charge of personnel to ask some questions. "Temporary workers mainly invite people from the vicinity." The general manager said. "Didn't anyone else be hired?" Totsukawa asked. "No, when the skiing season comes, there will be no shortage of manpower anyway, so if someone is reliable, he will be allowed to work. Because there is a shortage of ski instructors and the like. Skilled people are always needed." The general manager said with a smile .

"Recently, have you hired a man named Hiroshi Okubo? He is from Tokyo." Totsukawa described Okubo's appearance. The general manager looked at the face of the person in charge of personnel affairs and asked, "Mizunuma-kun, how are you doing?" "A man named Okubo was hired five days ago. He brought his driver's license and resume, and he also has the qualifications of a ski instructor, so it was decided to let him work this season. The lad makes people feel good. I also consulted He graduated from the university he graduated from, and it is said that he is a student with the ability to guide." Mizunuma said, showing the resume filled out by Okubo.Of course, he didn't say a word about the company he's currently working for.

Totsukawa took a meaningful look at Kamei and asked, "Where is Hiroshi Okubo now?" "I can skate until 9 p.m., so I think I'm still on the practice range," Mizunuma said. "During the same period of time, did you hire a young woman named Xiao Senbi as a temporary worker?" "Komori?" Mizunuma muttered, "Oh, there is a pretty girl who wants to work. She is working at the tower now. That's right, her surname is Komori." "What are you doing there?" "Housekeeper. Say that, let her do some auxiliary work." "Do the towers wear the same uniform as the main building here?"

"Yes, because they are operated by the same company." The general manager said. "Kamei-kun, you go to the tower. I'm going to see the driving range. Can I borrow an electric sled?" Totsukawa turned his gaze from Kamei to the general manager. "Okay. Mizunuma-kun, you go and help him too." The general manager said. Totsukawa and Mizunuma went down to the first floor and took the electric sled to the ski resort. There is a climbing crane working near the back of the main building. As soon as the electric sled was out, the ears were so cold that they were about to fall off.

Under the dazzling night lighting, many young people are still skiing.Compared with other ski resorts, this place still looks empty. Its area is two and a half times the size of Naeba's comparable ski resort, and most of the skiers must be tourists staying at the only hotel. Totsukawa searched intently while driving at high speed. The snow quality here is very good, and the electric sleds are very slippery.It's just that if you don't grasp well when going up the ramp, you will suddenly slide to the side and fall down. Totsukawa, who was not familiar with driving a snowmobile, went all out.

Even just driving is not easy, if suddenly a skier rushes over or something.After all, Mizunuma is more experienced. While driving, he saw a ski instructor and asked him: "Didn't you see Okubo-kun?" "Okubo? Just now I took a couple to the direction of the miscellaneous woods over there. I said I would go up the mountain for a while, but then I disappeared." The coach pointed to the hill behind him with his ski pole. "When was that?" Totsukawa asked. "It's still light, so it's before 5, about 4:50." "So it's been nearly four hours?"

"Yeah." The ignorant coach smiled and said. The time span of four hours made Totsukawa feel anxious, and the snowflakes falling from the narrow night caught his eyes even more.In the light of night lighting, snowflakes are falling down one after another. "It's not good," he thought. Back from Kamei skiing to check out the Tsar Tower.Kamei also called out to Totsukawa, "It's snowing!" "The more snow there is, the more urgent it is to find Mitamura-kun and the others." "No matter how hard I looked in the tower, I couldn't find Komori. The room attendant also said that she was there all morning and disappeared in the afternoon. Also, it seemed that she was resting all day yesterday." Kamei said.

"I probably went to Sapporo and inserted a strange card in the room where Mitamura-kun and the others lived in the Saboro Hotel." "It seems to be snowing heavily." Kamei said, looking up at the night sky.What is worrying is that the wind has increased again, and it looks like a blizzard is about to blow. "Seeing that an hour has passed, I'm going back to the hotel now. Kamei-kun, can you check around the woods behind you? It is said that Okubo took a man and a woman who looked like the Mitamura couple and slid towards the woods. Yes. I will contact the Hokkaido Police Headquarters and ask for their support." Totsukawa said. "Understood." Kamei said. Mizunuma also said: "I will continue to look for Okubo." As soon as Totsukawa returned to the main hotel building, he called the Hokkaido Police Headquarters for assistance.But the other party also said that at present, we will not be able to reach Penglu before around 11 o'clock. Right after that call, there was an outside call to Totsukawa.