Chapter 78 Section 76

The car body tilted greatly, and the command vehicle also drove into the national road. So, should we be surprised by this eye-popping development?Still feel unexpected?The atmosphere in the car is neither the former nor the latter.Because Matsuoka only said one sentence as firmly as Mount Tai: "Wait for the detailed report." For a while, even the radio conversation fell silent.The reactions of Ogata and Minegishi also became sluggish, as if the work performance just now was just everyone's illusion. "A detailed report is coming!" The small-faced man took off his earphones and yelled.

"Not being protected, but receiving counseling! Because Mezaki Utasumi stole three cosmetics from the hypermarket 'Strike' in Asahicho, Xuanwu City! After receiving the report from the store, the inspector of the Asahicho West Police Station went to counseling! It was only later that I found out that she was Mezaki Utasumi. According to her words, the mobile phone had disappeared since the early hours of yesterday. Because she slept in front of the iron rolling door of a LiveHouse the night before, and it disappeared when she woke up in the morning. It may have been stolen. "

Taking the sheep by hand, receiving counseling, and losing the mobile phone... Mikami let out a breath from his dantian. He finally saw the whole picture of the matter clearly.It is neither self-directed nor acted, nor is it a real kidnapping case. It is just a plan to use the "not going home" as a "hostage" to defraud ransom. The prisoner took advantage of Gecheng's seldom going home, stole her mobile phone and made threats, making Gecheng's parents mistakenly believe that she had been kidnapped.On the other hand, the prisoner followed Ge Cheng, and once she reported the crime to the police station or returned home, the plan would be terminated.Because he had to follow Utasumi who was wandering around, the prisoner couldn't leave the bustling areas near the station.

The prisoner's worst fears came to pass in a different form this morning.The prisoner should have witnessed Utasumi stealing in the hypermarket in Asahi Town, and the people in the store may have also spotted her stealing, so the prisoner had to execute the plan early.He rushed to the toilet in the store, checked that no one else was in or out, inhaled the gas from the helium bottle he had hidden in his bag beforehand, and called Mezaki's house.With the determination to take a gamble before talking about it regardless of the three seven twenty-one, the plan was launched. As a result, Ge Cheng, who was taking advantage of the sheep, was caught by the clerk, and might even be taken into the office of the store.The prisoner who saw this scene quickly instructed Mezaki to take a shortcut, abandoning the plan to imitate 64 starting from "Aoi Coffee", and lured Mezaki from the circular line to the national highway.The instruction call after changing the plan was made from the car parked in the parking lot of the hypermarket, so there was no response.And in order not to let others hear the voice that has been processed by the voice changer, it can only be played in the car.However, there is actually a more important reason for the prisoner to stay in the parking lot.

That is to monitor the entrance of the hypermarket from the car.Because once the store calls the police, the police will come to care.So even though he was flustered in his heart, the prisoner still hoped that Ge Cheng would last a little longer. After all, she was a bad girl with a broken family, so she shouldn't plead guilty easily.She will definitely play dumb, quibble, and cry. Even if the store puts the stolen goods in front of her, she will insist that it is what she wanted to buy, but she just forgot to take it to the checkout.As long as she made up her mind to keep silent, no one would know her identity, because the mobile phone full of all her information had been stolen long ago, besides, she was not the kind of personality who would walk on the road with her student ID card!So the prisoner used his mobile phone to issue instructions to Mezaki, while praying for the blessing of the gods, he watched the door of the store.In fact, Utasumi also worked really hard to buy time for the prisoner and let Mezaki drive for more than ten kilometers.

Not long after, police officers from the police station in uniform came to the store to understand the situation, but the prisoner hadn't given up hope yet.It may be that Ge Cheng refused to reveal his name no matter what, and the shop owner had no choice but to hand it over to the police.However, because it was just passing by, the police's interrogation was not too strict.Although it is only a matter of time to learn that she is Utasumi Mezaki, the administrative procedures are not as orderly as this command vehicle. Waiting for the news to reach the right place will definitely cause "processing time".The prisoner gambled on this, taking advantage of the time difference to continue his crime.That's why Mezaki was asked to drive faster, the final place where the ransom will be delivered is probably not far away, but...

everything is over.It is commendable that no one was kidnapped or killed, but the commotion it caused was too great. Mikami turned on the phone and was about to press Suwa's speed dial button when a voice of "Wait a minute!" came from his ear. It's Matsuoka.He was looking straight at Mikami. "Who are you calling?" "Call back and terminate the reporting agreement." "Abiding by the agreement." "That agreement no longer applies." "Is this up to you to decide?" "It's over." "it's not finished yet."

Did he mean the investigation?That's true, but it was Matsuoka who asked him to focus on his work when he got in the car. Mikami stood up. "This matter involves the integrity of the media. The agreement signed on the grounds of protecting human life cannot be delayed just because the investigation has not been completed." "If the body of Mezaki Utasumi is found now, it is indeed as you said. But since no one was killed, it would make no difference even if it was twenty minutes late, and no one would die because of it." Mikami thought he heard it wrong, did this sentence really come from Matsuoka?

There was the sound of emergency braking in the car.It's coming from a loudspeaker on the wall. "Don't you need to tell him?" Mikami pointed to the loudspeaker. "You don't want to make him wait for twenty minutes!" "This is to keep him from having fun in vain." "what?" "At present, there is only a girl who steals and claims to be Mezaki Utasumi, and it has not been confirmed that she is herself." "You are sophistry!" Mikami looked at Ogata, then at Minegishi. "Hey! Don't worry about him? What if there is a car accident? You are also worried!"

Both avoided Mikami's gaze, but they didn't feel the slightest bit of guilt. "I understand, now I'm deliberately trying to lure the snake out of the hole, right? If you want to force the prisoner out, you need bait, isn't that the case!" "You fools! Do you really have to wait until the prisoner is hooked before letting go? The real search is to take action as soon as the buoy moves! Since you don't have to worry about Mezaki Utasumi being killed, you should first catch the bastard who changed his voice What do those people in the invitation class who work separately in the driving training class do? Tell them to go near the hypermarket, find out the man hiding in a certain car with his hand on his throat talking on the mobile phone, catch that man, and force him to He revealed the location of the accomplice!"

"Call Guitou and tell him that his daughter is safe! Get him out of this hell!" "The target's father's mobile phone received a call! It was dialing the calling number..." The chunky man shouted at the top of his voice. "It's the victim's mother, calling from Mutsuko Mezaki's cell phone! I'll broadcast it right away!" Great!Mikami clenched his fist in front of his chest.Turning around, Mutsuko Mezaki already knew that Utasumi was safe and sound, so she called. Doot beep...beep beep...beep beep... do not answer.why do not you answer? what!Mikami thought of it. It was impossible for Mezaki to answer the phone.Because he was talking to the prisoner on the phone, he couldn't keep the phone in a "blocked" state even for a moment. That's right, this is also calculated!In order to prevent Mezaki from receiving calls from his wife, the prisoner deliberately kept his cell phone on. Mikami clenched his teeth, stretched out his arm and grabbed the phone on the table, found out the phone number of "Ghost", pressed the call button and held it to his ear... The wrist was grabbed.Matsuoka's face was pressed down, his eyes were wide open, the eyebrows were raised like a field ridge, and the eyebrows were hanging up at an unusual angle. Mikami was overwhelmed by his aura. But if you don’t say no, you must say it! "You are conducting an illegal search!" "There is no room for you to speak!" There was a strong force pressing his hand down, and Mikami tried to resist, but he was no match.Even the ghost's voice gradually receded until it reached the position next to the thigh.The finger was pulled away by Ogata, and the mobile phone was snatched away by Minegishi.This is really a great shame, and it is really powerless, Mikami knelt and sat on the floor. "Do you really understand?" Mikami shouted from the bottom of his heart. "How hard it is to spend time without my daughter! How long every minute and every second is! It doesn't matter if it's a minute or a second earlier, I just hope she can come back soon, and I hope I can see her face again. Use these hands! Use these hands...to hold her tightly. Don't you even understand this? Can someone who doesn't even have this kind of empathy be a policeman?" The monitor screens on the four sides reflected the residential area with blue roofs and the brown pastoral scenery in mid-winter.The only sound left in the car was the sound of the car driving on the road. Matsuoka looked up at the roof of the car. It took a while to turn her face back, glanced at Mikami, then turned her back to him again, and put her hands in the pockets of her suit pants. "Now we are not investigating a self-directed and self-acted kidnapping case." what……?Matsuoka pulled his hand out of his pocket, then put it in again, this time deeper than before. "This vehicle is currently under the investigation command of 64. And it all started with the information you gave." In an instant, it seemed that a large and soft cloth was lightly covered from the top of the head. Mikami was at a loss.He should be surprised, but he doesn't know why. ——The investigation of 64?I am the beginning...? I felt a vibration on the soles of my feet, and I saw that the open mobile phone was making a slight vibration and moving towards my feet.By the way, he was going to call Suwa, after that... While Mikami got up, he picked up the phone by the way, and as soon as he got it to his ear, he heard the other party's voice. It was Mochizuki calling. "What's the meaning?" No. I do not know anything. Mikami hung up the phone and sat on the chair. He was paralyzed there.The large, soft cloth also slid lightly from his body, fell to his feet, and disappeared. The fog in front of him finally dissipated, and he seemed to see the truth. The information given by Mikami... He remembered that when he visited Matsuoka's house, he mentioned the silent phone call to his wife.Only later did he know that Matsuoka's hometown also received silent calls.Even Murakushi Mizuki's family took over.The wife and Ruixi were very worried about Minako, so when chatting on the phone, they inadvertently discussed that Meiyun's hometown also received silent calls, and all of them happened "recently".Because of Minako's insistence, they also figured out the time when each of them received the call.It was discovered that the calls were received in the order of Matsuoka's hometown, Mikami's house, Mizumo's hometown, and Murakushi Mizuki's house.This is not the only thing Mikami knew. Before this incident happened, Mezaki's family also received several calls.The call to Ming Chuan Liangci's answering machine might have been a silent call. Mikami understood, these clues are all arranged in a straight line, it looks like a chain of nine stars, as long as you read the sound, you will suddenly understand. ま, み, み, む, め, め. It is "ま行"."ま行" without "も"... Mikami raised his head and looked at Minegishi. "Have you received any silent calls from your hometown or relatives recently?" Minegishi signaled with his eyes: "Yes." Mikami looked at the chunky man. "What's your last name?" "White, white bird." Mikami couldn't help laughing, but it was just a twitch of his face.He tightened his face, and looked at the little-faced man again. "And you?" "My name is Morita." "Have you ever received a silent phone call?" "No." "Did the Counselor ask you this question?" "This..." "I asked." Matsuoka replied.It seemed that he wanted to stop the bleeding and didn't want the pain to continue. Blackened fingertips appeared in front of his eyes. what…… So it wasn't Ayumi's call... When he accepted this reality, he also saw the truth of everything at the same time.When he finally accepted the reality that he was unwilling to accept, although he paid a heart-wrenching price, he also grasped the undeniable truth. Mikami clenched his hands into fists and pressed hard on his forehead. I see. It turned out to be such a thing. ぁぃぅぇぉかきくけこさしせせいねのはひふへほまみむめ…… How could this be? How is this possible? 580,000 households, 1.82 million people... He was alone, and only one person was on the silent phone.Starting from "ぁ行", until recently, I finally hit "ま行". When did it start?three years ago?five years ago?or more time ago?Every day, morning, noon and night, he used his finger to open the thick phone book and press the number keys on the phone.Even though his nails and skin were cracked and his index finger turned black like a big blood bubble, he still pressed the number buttons on the phone persistently.In order to hear "the voice on the other end of the microphone".In order to hear the "voice of the prisoner" heard through the telephone line fourteen years ago... If you hear the same voice, you will know it.At the time of the incident, Yoshio Amamiya once said categorically.Although he had hoped for the police investigation, he was betrayed and even saw the ugly hidden truth.Eight years after the incident, his wife Toshiko collapsed due to a stroke.It must have started at that time.While taking care of his sick wife, Amamiya started making silent calls.Maybe it was because he wanted to catch the criminal with his own ears while Minzi was still alive.The voice will change with age, but Amamiya is quite confident that he can hear it just by listening.No special accent, slightly hoarse, the voice of a man in his thirties to forties.No, he called his home and nine stores, and burned the voice of the gangster who made him suffer all his life in his ears and heart. Just thinking about the telephone directory in Showa 63, I feel that it is an extremely huge project.In the era when there were no troubles caused by the name appearing in the phone book, in addition to D city, the personal phone numbers of the other three cities were also compiled into a super thick "Central and Eastern Edition of D County" .Starting from Aikawa, Aizawa, Aoki, Aota, Aoyanagi, Aoyama..., there are also surnames like Sato, Suzuki, Takahashi, and Tanaka in the middle.And it's not just one call for one household, and it's a small number of households that can be solved with one phone call.If a woman comes to pick it up, you have to keep calling until a man comes to pick it up.Even if a man comes to pick it up, if the voice is too young or too old, considering that there may be cohabitants between the two ages, you have to call again.There are also some numbers that no one will answer no matter how many times you call!However, Yugong never gave up, even after Toshiko's death.For revenge, to fulfill his father's duties, and to comfort his wife's spirit in heaven.All kinds of thoughts churned in his mind, making him continue to make phone calls.Finally one day, he finally heard the voice from that day fourteen years ago. Mezaki's trembling voice was transmitted through the loudspeaker. A voice suitable for the age of forty-nine.No special accent.Because he has been yelling at the throat since this morning, no one knows whether his original voice is a little hoarse.Even knowing it was useless, because none of the criminal police had ever heard the voice of the prisoner fourteen years ago. The decent people are collecting evidence separately.That's what Matsuoka said last night.It turned out that what he meant was to completely filter the line of "ま行", so that the criminal police whose first character of the surname is pronounced as "ま行" called back to their hometown and asked relatives, while the criminal police who didn't pronounce "ま行" called one by one. To all "ま行" relatives and friends.Everyone lives in a public dormitory where the numbers are not listed in the phone book, and there are no rumors of silent phones around, so everyone must be quite surprised!At dawn, the reports of "received silent calls" piled up into a hill, and the documents of "never received silent calls" also piled up into a hill.Mogi, Mochizuki, Mori, Morikawa, Morishita, Morita... People whose surnames begin with "も" did not receive the call.Even if there is, there is no continuity in the order of the fifty tones. "The command vehicle understands! Is there any parking space in the parking lot?" Matsuoka listened attentively to the report coming from the loudspeaker, with an extremely serious expression.Since he said categorically that this was an investigation by 64, it is likely that even the surnames other than "ま行" were filtered before getting on this command vehicle. It is precisely because the "ま行" call was made recently, so the memory is still fresh, and it is easier for people to talk about it, which has evolved into the "rumor" effect this time.However, with Matsuoka's logic of thinking, it is definitely dangerous to rely solely on the clue of "ま行". A good thing, then Mezaki is not a prisoner of 64.Therefore, he also thoroughly investigated the tail of "は行" and the head of "ゃ行", collected a lot of evidence from Horita, Hori, and Honda, confirmed its continuity with "ま行", and found that "ゃ行" did not The exact continuity finally came to a conclusion, that is, this series of silent calls stopped at the pronunciation of "め". Years of experience in handling cases told him that there are no surnames beginning with "れ" in D County, and "へ" and "め" are also extremely rare, except for people like "Mingchuan" who moved here from other places, The surname starting with "め" is probably only "目崎". Mikami closed his eyes and listened carefully to the voice: it was Kazuki Koda. Not from the sound, but Mikami was very sure.Because things like stealing the phone and stalking in the downtown area are not something that Amamiya is capable of doing.There is a letter from Koda in the letter insert of the Amamiya family. Kakinuma also said that he would go to the grave of Shoko's little sister every month to offer incense on the day of her death.It seems that Koda is sincerely repenting.Confess to Amamiya about the content of "Koda's Letter" and apologize for the organization's dishonesty.Even after resigning, she continued to keep in touch with Amamiya.The man who was so upright that he was almost a clean freak must have said to Yu Gong year after year: "If there is anything I can help, just say it, I want to help." Maybe it's not just condemned by conscience!Besides the Amamiya couple, isn't the one who hates prisoners the most is Koda whose life has been messed up by 64?Yugong knew this, so he told him the secret deep in his heart.That's why Koda threw off Kakinuma's surveillance and disappeared.I gave up the job I begged for by kneeling and kowtow, and I gave up the peaceful life with my wife that I finally got, thinking that the final result would be to "die together" with 64.Together with Amemiya, he fell into the path of crime.In order to let the real lawbreakers understand what is the right track.So he used his daughter's life and death story to cast doubts, tear Masato Mezaki's soul, and let him experience the hell that Amamiya experienced at that time. However... how does he plan to end it? What is the purpose of Yugong?What did Yu Gong entrust to him? Koda probably knew that the "Invitation Six", "Invitation Seven" and "Invitation Eight" who were working separately in the driving training class had already surrounded the surroundings, but he still didn't hang up the phone. The car turns to the right.The command vehicle is also heading towards "Ai Ai Hair Salon".Ogata held the mobile phone of the "shop", and the short and fat man connected the line. "Yoshikawa, report the situation to me." Very low voice. "Can you see ahead?" Minegishi bent down, looking at the surrounding map called on the computer screen, and said to Matsuoka: "Let's go around from the front." Then he pushed open the small sliding window, and ordered to the driver's seat: "Turn left at the corner at LAWSON, turn right at the next intersection." "Can it go in?" "The width of the road should be no problem." Mikami took a deep breath.Hello!Is he serious?Ogata and Minegishi called out at the same time. Even the monitor screen on the command vehicle reflected the rising black smoke, which looked like a wisp of wolf smoke. Beep...beep...beep...beep... "The prisoner hung up the phone." Ge Cheng's death "announced".Is this what Yu Gong intended?I will always live in the moment when I hear the news of my beloved daughter's death... "The target's father's mobile phone received a call, and the calling number was the target's mother's mobile phone... switch the monitoring system to it." "The second monitoring system also received a report from the Yoshikawa criminal police!" The open space can also be seen from the command vehicle, and the monitor screen in front also captures the surrounding situation.A hairdresser appeared at the back door of "Love Love Hair Salon" and seemed to rush out of the shop in shock, and a customer with a head full of curls could be seen from the back window showing a surprised expression.Everyone has heard Mezaki's cry!Even nearby shops and houses were visited by people.Everyone's sights and footsteps were approaching the gasoline drum that was constantly emitting black smoke and Mezaki who was sitting down next to the gasoline drum. "Bring the camera closer." "learn!" The camera on the right is approaching Mezaki, and the image on the monitor screen is getting bigger and bigger until it fills the entire screen.Mezaki's face was captured from the front, with his head lowered, his eyes fixed on a point on the ground.Even though he had just gone through heaven and hell, he looked extremely calm.Only the temples twitched and convulsed slightly.No, the temples on the left and right are moving at the same time, and the jaw is also moving up and down slightly... Minegishi shouted. "He ate the paper! This killer!" "Wait! Look." Ogata pointed to the monitor screen and said.The paper was still in his hand and hadn't disappeared.Wait a minute, Yoshikawa said that it was a piece of paper that looked like a note, but the paper in his hand was much smaller than a note, more like a note, and it was thin and long.Sure enough, it was eaten by him, he tore it vertically in two, and ate half of it.I saw his jaw wriggling from up and down to side to side, grinding paper into pulp with his molars.It's too late! "Yoshikawa, did you see it?" In other words, his behavior of eating paper was carried out carefully without letting anyone see it.After all, the police had been involved in this matter, and he knew that the police might be watching, and he might be asked to hand over the paper afterwards, so he deliberately kept half of it and ate the other half that he didn't want the police to see.Probably the part where Amemiya wrote the message... Mezaki's expression didn't change at all, and the squirming of his temples and jaw also stopped.In the next moment, his Adam's apple moved up and down.There seems to be a sound of "Gudu!" in the ear. "hateful!" Ogata knocked on the outer frame of the screen, and Minegishi also punched the wall.The right half of the screen turns into a blurry light brown color, and spectators are standing in front of the camera.The same is true on the left side, with blue blurry images filling every inch of the screen one after another.Mezaki's figure gradually became smaller, and finally he was completely invisible. "Is that the end?" Minegishi spread his hands and asked. "Why not do it more thoroughly? He can obviously do it more thoroughly, can't he? He should force the other party to kill Ge Cheng if he refuses to admit that 64 was committed by him." "It is indeed a bit anticlimactic." Ogata was short of breath. "Threatening him, making him exhausted, and finally burning the money is nothing more than avenging 20 million yuan. Although a trap was set on the road, what's the use of that alone? He also ate the paper , it’s better to call him directly and tell him, so that we can get a definite reaction.” A surge of anger welled up in his heart, as if something sacred had been defiled, just when Mikami was about to refute—— "Anything else you're not satisfied with?" Matsuoka spoke one step ahead of him, and looked at Ogata and Minegishi at the same time. "Yoshio Amamiya has already reminded us who the suspect is, and the next step is our job. Amamiya's evidence is only based on the voice on the phone. No matter what he wrote on the paper, it is not evidence that Mezaki can be arrested. On the contrary. It is Amamiya's greatest contribution to let Mezaki swallow something that cannot be used as evidence at all. Remember it for me, it is a confession, which means that Mezaki is a man who will confess even if there is no physical evidence." Ogata and Minegishi stood at attention and listened carefully like rookie detectives who had just entered the police force for three years and were still serving tea. Shiratori nodded towards the wall, while Morita pulled himself together and zoomed in on the camera.A frightening crowd of onlookers surrounded the open space. I couldn't see Mezaki's figure, but only the smoke that was gradually whitening and thinning.Once upon a time, the wind had stopped, and the smoke was rising straight up.Why burn money?Of course it was to avenge the 20 million yen, but apart from that, maybe Yu Gong wanted to convey another message.He wanted Xiangzi and Toshiko in the sky to see it, and he wanted to entrust his heart to this wisp of smoke and tell them that he had done everything he could do. "Close the team!" Matsuoka said holding the microphone. "Don't let Mezaki Masato run away. In name, it's to protect him from media harassment, so send him to D Central Office!" Mikami nodded.Then it's their job.With the mood of parting ways, turn on the phone and press the speed dial button. "Mezaki Utasumi has been protected safely... Terminate the reporting agreement immediately!"

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