Chapter 17 second quarter

That night, Totsugawa Police Department and Kamei Detective were arranged to rest in Shiraishi Police Station.Early the next morning, they woke up. After they washed their faces and ate the breakfast prepared for them by the Shiraishi Police Department, the Watanabe Police Department came over. "We have officially established the search headquarters for this incident." Police Department Watanabe said as soon as he saw Totsugawa Police Department. "Probably we're going to take a joint search." Totsukawa nodded, lighting a cigarette. "Do you think this case is related to the murder case in Tokyo?" Police Department Watanabe asked Totsukawa Police Department with his sun-tanned face.

"Yesterday, apart from the 'Yamabiko No. 17' train on the Tohoku Shinkansen, nothing happened to the other trains, right?" "We asked the National Railways, and it is like this." Police Department Watanabe nodded. "In this case, I think it is very likely to be related." The Totsukawa Police Department said very confidently. At 9 o'clock in the morning, the autopsy results of the deceased came out.The cause of death was potassium cyanide poisoning, which was as expected, and nothing else was discovered. The question is: how did the deceased drink potassium cyanide?If it was murder, then someone made him drink it.The autopsy report reads:

As a result of the autopsy, no potassium nitride reaction was found in the stomach, but potassium cyanide reaction was found in the blood.Therefore, it is believed that it was poisoned and died after being injected into the blood through the skin. "And in the compartment, no empty bottles of beer or beverages were found." Totsukawa Police Department said. When the doctor in the luxury car reported the situation of the deceased to the Totsugawa Police Department, he immediately thought that the deceased might have drunk a drink mixed with poison, so he specifically checked under the seat of the deceased, but nothing was found at that time. not found.

"However, there is still something unclear about this." Kamei Sadao said with his head tilted. "What?" Totsukawa Police Department tilted its head and asked. "He didn't commit suicide! . . . " "Of course." The Totsukawa Police Department nodded and said with a smile, "If it's suicide, I haven't heard of it yet. Someone killed himself by injecting himself with potassium cyanide." "If he kills and uses poison, it is usually mixed into a drink and let the victim drink it, such as canned beer or canned drink. These things are also sold on the Shinkansen." Kamei said seriously, "But, Why did the murderer use such a laborious method? By injection, or by applying potassium cyanide on the tip of the needle and piercing the skin."

"Yes. Usually poison is added to beer, drink or coffee for the dead to drink, but why did the murderer do it this time?" "Besides, killing people on Shinkansen trains, if poisoning, there are other opportunities!..." For example: If the other party drinks milk every day, you can add it to the delivered milk and inject it with a syringe.In this case, there is no need to take any more risks and jump off the train to escape. "It's exactly what you said." The Totsukawa Police Department's words became vague.The escaped man is still missing. Yesterday, when the "Yamabiko No. 17" train temporarily stopped, the man jumped off the train and fled, until the Miyagi prefectural police arrived, and it took only about 30 minutes.Therefore, Watanabe and others from the prefectural police station believe that it is unlikely that the man escaped to another county.

The Totsugawa Police Department also thinks so.From the viaduct at the site to the ground, it is about five or six meters high. As Watanabe said, if you don’t jump well, you will definitely be injured or even fractured. The man should not have hesitated in his desperate escape.Therefore, he jumped down in a panic, and he must have been seriously injured.Therefore, if this is the case, then he must still be hiding around the scene. "I want to go to the scene again." Totsugawa police department said to Watanabe police department of the prefectural police station, turned around, got in the car and walked out.

It is about one kilometer from the Shiraishi Police Station to the vicinity of Shiraishi Station on the Tohoku Main Line, which is also the "Shiraishi Zao Station" of the Tohoku Shinkansen. Watanabe first drove the car to Shiraishi Zao Station, which is a station located in the fields.It looks exactly like a station without people, it is quiet, maybe there are staff inside, but there are no passengers who get on or off the train. The car passed through Shiraishi Zao Station and rushed to the scene from a road. "Why do you want to build a station in such a deserted place?" Kamei detective asked extremely bored.

Police Department Watanabe replied while driving: "Do you think so too?" "Of course. It will be convenient if it is merged with Shiraishi Station on the Tohoku Main Line. However, it is a bit confusing to build another Shiraishi Zao Station one kilometer away from it. It is far away from Shiraishi. Town, life is inconvenient, and it doesn’t intersect with the Tohoku Main Line, so it’s so inconvenient!...Is it because it’s close to Zaoji Temple?” "Actually, I didn't plan to build a station here at the beginning. Because there is Fukushima Station in front of me, and the next station - Sendai Station is also very close. It was originally planned to build a station from here to connect the Tohoku Main Line and the Tohoku Shinkansen. However, due to political considerations, it was temporarily decided to build a station here. However, the route did not change, and we had to build another station in a field one kilometer away from Baishi Station. It can be said that It's a typical 'political station'."

Introduced by the Watanabe Police Department, the car came to the scene. The seven of them from the Totsugawa Police Department got out of the two patrol cars respectively and started searching again. Under the midsummer sun, walking back and forth in the airtight grass, after a while, everyone felt dizzy and dry mouthed. The farmers who were working in the straw stared at the behavior of the Totsugawa police department in puzzlement.After more than two hours, there are still no clues. "Take a break first." Police Department Watanabe greeted loudly. At this moment, the Kamei detective was two or three hundred away, and suddenly shouted excitedly: "Police department, come quickly!..."

Seeing this, the Totsugawa Police Department quickly ran towards Kamei, who was standing in a ditch for watering. The ditch is more than two meters wide, and there is gurgling water flowing in it.Detective Kamei bent down and walked into the culvert. There was a person lying down in the dark culvert, and the running water kept hitting the person's body. Most of his head and body were soaked in water, and in the center of this culvert, it was cut into two parts by the iron fence. This is a man of twenty-five or six years old.Although it is not yet possible to accurately determine whether he was the person who jumped off the "Yamabiko No. 17" yesterday, but Totsukawa and Kamei struggled to drag this person out of the culvert and onto the trail superior.Watanabe Police Department and others also hurried over.

The man's head was swollen and white due to prolonged immersion in running water, and his suit was soaked, but he was not wearing sunglasses. "Is that person?" Police Department Watanabe asked Totsukawa. "The color and height of the suit do look alike." The Totsukawa Police Department replied while checking the pockets of the deceased. There was some change in the dead man's pocket, and a piece of green paper folded in half.The Totsukawa Police Department hastily took out its own handkerchief and spread it on the ground, then carefully unfolded the wet piece of paper on the handkerchief and watched it carefully. Looking at it, the Totsukawa Police Department couldn't help but smiled with satisfaction.Because, this is exactly what he was looking for. It was a luxury ticket for the Tohoku Shinkansen on August 8."Yamabiko No. 17", Car No. 7, and No. 1 B are printed on it.This is the ticket next to the seat where the incident happened. "The man killed in the car was seat 1A. Maybe the ticket was snatched from Oya Yunko. It was by the window." The Totsugawa Police Department said, looking at the direction of the viaduct. "If that's the case, how should I explain it?" Kamei Detective asked with his head tilted. "If it is assumed to be the same case, then it can be considered this way: The man who snatched the ticket for the luxury carriage of 'Yamabi No. 17' from Yuko Oya yesterday killed the man next to him with potassium cyanide in the carriage. The male passenger in position 1B. He then went into the cabin crew, pulled the emergency brake, stopped the train and fled down the viaduct. He was unfortunately injured at this time and died here." "It seems that I have no choice but to think so." Detective Kamei nodded. "Why do you say that? Old glans." Totsukawa Police Department looked at Detective Kamei curiously, "Do you have other opinions?" "This is too coincidental. These two men must have known each other. And I think: from the very beginning, this man planned to kill the man sitting in seat 1A in the compartment. I think: He snatched Since the ticket in Oya Yunko’s hand, I’ve planned to do this.” "But, old man, even though you said that, why did you have to kill people on the Shinkansen? Moreover, the motive for committing the crime and the identities of these two people are still unclear. Besides, we haven't figured out the cause of this man's death. Woolen cloth!" The Totsugawa Police Department tilted its head while continuing to check the dead man's pockets.He found another wallet with nearly 100,000 yen in it.What pleased Totsukawa even more than this was that there were five identical business cards in one of the pockets of the wallet. These five business cards all have the same words and fonts. "It's a bank clerk!..." Detective Kamei said in surprise. "Is this business card his own?" Totsukawa Police Department asked cautiously.Since there is a name logo embroidered with "Yagi" on the inside of his suit, it can be roughly considered that the deceased is the owner of the business card. "We must find out the cause of death!..." Tojinchuan Police Department said seriously. "Perform an autopsy immediately!..." Police Department Watanabe quickly issued an order to his subordinates. "He has a head injury!..." Detective Kamei said to the Totsugawa police department. The Totsukawa Police Department looked sideways and found a wound on the right forehead of the deceased, but it was not a fatal wound. No other wounds were found.The death may have been caused by stabbing or a huge impact. It is not yet certain whether the deceased was poisoned by potassium cyanide.