Chapter 12 Section ten

Mikami left the headquarters in his own car. He was going to find Mochizuki who entered the police force at the same time as him.In the initial investigation of 64, he, like Mikami, was assigned to the close-range tail-chasing squad, and he was the man in charge of "Chasing Two".He later stayed in the special search headquarters and continued to pursue the case as a member of the search team for multiple debtors.Three years ago, because of his father's illness, he took this opportunity to quit his job as a police officer and return to inherit the family's orchard.This is a very common "personal factor" in places.Although the obligation of confidentiality will not be lifted because of resignation, there should be more things that can be revealed than when I was still on duty!

Emotions fluctuate a bit.On the one hand, it is because I have read too many reports about "Little Sister Xiangzi" in the publicity room, and on the other hand, it is because there are too many traces of 64 left on this street.The car passed the Aoi-cho intersection, and the eyes naturally turned to the blue signboard "Aoi Coffee" next to the bookstore.Everything is exactly the same as it was fourteen years ago.In the process of delivering the ransom, that coffee shop was once the starting point of the whole chase drama. On January 5th, Mikami spent a sleepless night at Amamiya's house.The kidnapper made a third call after 4 pm on the 6th.To everyone's surprise, it was not the phone at Amemiya's house that rang, but the phone in the office located in a corner of the pickled factory.The kidnapper called himself "Sato", cleverly broke through the encirclement net of reverse detection and recording, and asked if the president was there?The female employee who had been told that the president would stay at home all day today answered without doubt that the president would not come to work today.The kidnapper said that he had something important to ask her to tell the president, and asked the female staff to take notes. "Please take the agreed items to 'Aoi Coffee' in Aoi Town, the time is 4:30 p.m....".

No special accent, slightly hoarse, the voice of a man in his thirties to forties - according to research, it should be the same voice that Amamiya heard the day before.Thirty-two-year-old female employee Yoshida Motoko just happened to receive the call, but she was forced to listen to the voices of hundreds of suspects afterwards. At that time, Suzi didn't know it at all, so she called the president's house to tell this sentence.The Yugong and his wife were already at a loss, and even the investigators who were present at the time were panicked.Because there were only twenty minutes left before the time appointed by the kidnappers.Although I have prepared 20 million in cash and a large suitcase, I have also installed a micro-transmitter for tracking, and I have installed a pin-type microphone in the collar of Amemiya's jacket, and I have fully practiced how to repeat the kidnapper's voice on the phone. what he said.However, there is not enough time.Because it takes thirty minutes to drive from Amamiya's house to "Aoi Coffee" in Aoi-cho, no matter how fast you drive.

Amamiya left the house with chaotic steps, stuffed the suitcase into the rear compartment of his own car, and drove towards the city at a fast speed.Katsutoshi Matsuoka, who was in charge of commanding the "short-range rear-end chase squad", hid in his car, covered his body with a cloth and lay on the narrow floor of the back seat, so that he could jump up at any time to deal with all emergencies.The other four members of the rear-end squad took two cars and followed Amemiya's car at a distance of about ten meters.Mikami sat in the passenger seat of "Chasing One".Because the radio waves emitted by Amemiya's pin microphone are very weak, it is only possible to receive the signal within a range of tens of meters on a street lined with tall buildings.Therefore, Mikami's task was to listen to the kidnapper's instructions repeated by Amamiya from the side, and then use the car wireless phone to report to the special search headquarters one by one.

Amamiya arrived at "Aoi Coffee" at 4:36, six minutes late.He rushed into the store.At that time, the owner of the coffee shop was holding a pink microphone in his hand, looking around and calling Amamiya's name. "I am." Amamiya replied in a hoarse voice, and took the microphone.A few meters away from him, Minako, who was pretending to be a couple with a detective, was sitting on a window seat.At that time, all the retired female police officers who were married to police officers were specially summoned to become members of "two-person teams" and gathered in the conference room of the county police headquarters early in the morning.Once he knew the place where the ransom was delivered, he immediately dispatched with the detective who played the role of the husband, and went to the store a few minutes after Amemiya arrived.However, Minako caught the figure of Amami with out of the corner of her eye for less than ten seconds, because Amamiya rushed out as soon as she finished listening to the call.

Sure enough, the kidnappers dragged Yugong around, constantly specifying the next store and time, making Yugong drive around like a headless chicken.First, let him drive north along the national highway, from "Siji Bingguo Shop" to "Good Luck Mahjong Hall", then from "Cherry Pure Tea" through the junction with Yasugi City, and turn right at the traffic light about one kilometer ahead , enter the "Aiai Hair Salon" next to the city road, then turn left from the city road, go north along the county road again, and come to the "Hometown Vegetables Direct Sale" that you will see immediately when you enter Dali Village from Yasugi City. Continue to drive for about five kilometers, and there is a "Ozatoyaki shop" and "Miyasaka folk crafts".This area has entered the deep mountains, and there is no room for meeting cars. The uphill village road winds along the Shuangzi River. The sun is about to set, and it is already past six o'clock in the afternoon.

One of the short-distance tail-chasing squad "Chasing II" received an order to stop tailgating, and five vehicles including the "Invitation Squad" that joined the national highway and county road on the way also received the same order.After all, Shoko Amamiya is still alive and dead, and I don't know how many kidnappers there are. Under such circumstances, it is definitely not wise to let seven or eight cars appear at the same time on the mountain village road where there are almost no cars passing by. lift. So Mikami's "Zhouyi" who was in charge of relaying the kidnapper's request by radio followed alone, widening the distance from the car in front. Seat down.After driving for a long time on the bumpy road, the final designated place was "Fishing Suspension · Yixiu" near Genxue Mountain in the county.Amamiya was exhausted, and staggered to the hotel's phone, and the kidnapper's instructions came from the other end of the microphone:

"About 500 meters ahead, there is a bridge, right! One of the mercury lamps on that bridge is wrapped with a plastic rope. Throw the suitcase down there, and if you don't want your daughter to die, you have to do it in five minutes." Finished within..." Until this moment, the kidnapper's intention to use a large suitcase to hold the ransom finally became clear.The kidnappers intend to use the suitcase as a "boat", so it must have certain buoyancy. Amamiya turned the car 180 degrees from the hotel parking lot and turned back to the "Qinping Bridge" indicated by the kidnappers.In this sparsely populated place, the bridge is obviously too grand.The mercury lamp on the right hand side facing the downstream was indeed wrapped with a plastic rope, and Amamiya threw the suitcase into the Twin River seven meters below without hesitation.Due to the acceleration of gravity, the suitcase sank into the water for a while, but it floated up immediately, and began to slowly flow downstream, disappearing from sight within a few seconds.It was past 7 o'clock in the evening in the deep mountains, and once it went beyond the range of light from the mercury lamp, it was pitch black, and it was impossible to tell which side was the river, which side was the bank, and which side was the sky.

The kidnappers extended the place where the ransom was delivered from a "point" to a "line", and this more than ten kilometers long line was still in the dark, extending all the way to the weir located downstream. The Special Search Headquarters hastily deployed a large number of police forces on both sides of Shuangzi River.The kidnapper must be hiding somewhere.However, the safety of Shoko Amamiya was unknown at this time, so neither lights nor flashlights could be turned on, let alone the battle of police cars and investigators disturb the village road on the river bank.The investigators had to be concentrated in the downstream area in the south of Dali Village, and from there quietly went north along the shore.In the darkness where you can't see your fingers, everyone searches with intuition, which is better than nothing.

It is said that some people in the Tokusou headquarters were also optimistic at that time.Because the kidnappers, like the police, can't use the lighting equipment in a big way, so they can't find and recover the suitcases drifting in the dark?At the same time, the police have great confidence in machinery.The transmitter installed in the trunk has been working smoothly.A clear green light spot also appeared on the screen of the receiver installed on the search command vehicle, and the light spot was slowly moving south. At this moment, no one noticed a blind spot. Downstream of Qinping Bridge where the suitcases were left behind, there is a rocky area called "Dragon's Cave" on the right bank only 300 meters away.It was a cave in the water about three meters wide, and anything that was washed up from the right bank in this area would be sucked into the cave.Needless to say, local residents know this area as a well-known danger zone among canoeists and whitewater rafters.

This is the reason why the kidnappers asked to drop the suitcase from the mercury lamp on the right.In fact, the special search headquarters later conducted experiments under the same conditions and found that the suitcase was sucked into the "Dragon's Den" nine times out of ten.The kidnappers only need to stand in front of the cave, salvage the suitcase after it is sucked in, quickly snatch the money inside, and then throw the suitcase back into the river.It is said that the transmitter at that time was not yet sophisticated enough to interpret such a short period of time as "stopping motion". After the ransom was paid, the kidnappers left the river, first went to the mountains and then left from the nearby villages, or fled across the mountains to neighboring counties.The empty suitcases drifting downstream along the river gave the kidnappers enough time to escape.When the suitcase passed through Yashan City from Dali Village and was caught by the fishing net in the north of D City and finally stopped drifting, it was already the early morning of the 7th.Even at this juncture, the county police still dare not take action.As long as the possibility exists that the kidnappers will show up to recover the ransom, the police will have to keep watching with binoculars from a distance.The sleepless pursuit lasted for nearly twenty hours, until the owner of the fishing net suddenly appeared after noon and salvaged the suitcase.Including Mikami, many investigators did not know the news of "Emperor Showa's death" until after noon. In the end, things came to an end with the worst possible outcome.Three days after the suitcase was salvaged, on January 10, Shoko Amamiya's body was found at a scrap car dump in Sada Town, D City.Because the wild dogs barked so much, the recycler opened the rusted trunk of the car and saw the horrific scene.Shoko Amamiya's hands were tied behind her back by a clothesline, her eyes and mouth were covered with sealing tape, and there were dark purple marks on her neck that seemed to have been tightened by the rope. Ping Cheng kicked off the prelude so humiliatingly.In addition to the deep hatred for the murderer, the feeling that the sunset of Showa was also taken away is still lingering, making people even have the courage to face up to the era name "Heisei".The Emperor Showa's funeral procession that appeared on the TV screen symbolized the depression of all those involved in the investigation of the early 1964 investigation. Mikami turned the steering wheel to the right. Turn into the city road and drive forward for a certain distance, you can see the signboard of "Ai Ai Hair Salon". Amamiya's face flashed in my mind.On that day, on that Qinping bridge, under the light of the mercury lamp, the blood-colored face appeared.At that time, he was not yet desperate, and there was still hope on his face.The face was desperately telling itself "I've thrown the ransom money so my daughter can go home". He was completely different from the Yu Gong that he saw during the day. Now there is no expectation on Yugong's face anymore, and he doesn't believe in anything anymore. It's not just feelings and beliefs that have been taken away from Yugong, but her lovely daughter who is alive and precious.Amamiya is just drifting in the world where she lost her daughter, it has nothing to do with Showa and Heisei. Mikami accelerated the speed of the car. Ayumi is still alive.In front of the scattered landscape of rural areas and emerging residential areas, a huge greenhouse made of plastic canvas is reflecting the sun and shining brightly.The existence of Yugong feels like it has become so far away.