Chapter 20 Chapter 6 Field Verification

After Totsukawa and Kamei arrived at Tokyo Station, a train happened to stop there.They hurried on the "Xiaoyu" Shinkansen.The structure and route of this train are exactly the same as "Glorious No. 62". The siren blew, and it was time for departure. The "Xiaoyu" train started.The two stood in the narrow corridor. "I ran out of the car as soon as I heard the woman's screams! I saw Nishimoto-kun lying down here." After Kamei finished speaking, she lay down on the corridor for Totsukawa to watch. "Did the blood flow out when you saw it?"

"It's dripping out." Kamei replied and stood up. "Where is Miyamoto?" Kamei was lying in the toilet with his head leaning against the toilet bowl and his feet stretched out in the corridor. "Is it prone?" Totsukawa asked. "Yes. Got shot in the back a few times for lying prone." "I always feel a little weird." "Really? Even though Nishimoto was shot, he still cared about Miyamoto. Nishimoto is very responsible." "He did yell 'Danger, stay out!'" "However, Miyamoto still ran out of the toilet. His mood at that time is understandable. But when he ran out of the toilet, the bullet should have hit the chest, not the back. If he was shot in the front chest, he should generally fall on his back. do you think so?"

"Yeah. But maybe when he opened the door, he ran back to the toilet as soon as he saw the gunman and Nishimoto lying in a pool of blood. Then he might have been shot in the back," Kamei said. At this time, a train conductor walked past them and looked at them with strange eyes.Totsukawa showed his ID and explained the situation to him. After the conductor left, Totsukawa immediately said to Kamei: "Let's experiment." Totsukawa pretends to be Miyamoto and walks into the toilet. "Was the train running when Nishimoto-kun was shot?" Totsukawa asked Kamei.

"Yes. It was almost Nagoya." "Can Miyamoto hear Nishimoto's voice in the toilet? Let's try it out," Totsukawa said. The "Xiaodama" train will soon stop at Shin-Yokohama Station.A few minutes later, the train started running again.So Totsukawa went into the toilet and closed the toilet door. Kamei shouted loudly from the passage: "Danger! Don't come out!" Shouting could be heard in the toilet. Totsukawa opened the toilet door and said to Kamei, "I can hear you." "But Miyamoto ran out anyway. Maybe it's scary to be locked in?"

"Maybe he thought his accomplices came to save him!" "Yes, there is such a possibility." As soon as Totsukawa finished speaking, he tilted his head and began to think. "What's the matter?" "There is no doubt that Miyamoto heard Nishimoto-kun's cry in the toilet. However, he was uneasy and didn't know what happened. So, open the door and see the situation outside. Is this reasoning more realistic?" "Well, it makes sense." "If this is the case, we must open a door to see what's going on outside." Totsukawa said while doing it.

"oh, I get it." "If the criminal had fired at this time, Miyamoto should have been shot in the chest, not the back." "yes." "Both feet stretched out of the toilet door, and the person fell down in the toilet. How did he get shot?" "It must have been standing in front of the toilet door with its back facing out. After being shot in the back, it collapsed in the toilet." "Maybe he ran out of the toilet and then ran back into the toilet in a panic. In that case, he could have been shot in the back as well." "yes."

"I really can't figure it out." "However, it somewhat explains some problems." "That makes it even more confusing," Totsukawa said. The two walked to Shizuoka and took the "Xiaoyu" train back to Tokyo.They bought coffee and drank and talked in the car.There are very few passengers in the car, and they can talk freely without restraint. "Let's sort out the doubts." Totsukawa took out his notebook and said. "There are many doubts." Kamei said. "Then let's put it on." "Okay. The first question is, why did Jiang Shang take the 'Glorious No. 62' train? Escorting Miyamoto is top-secret, how did Jiang Shang know?"

"It is indeed a question. Why did Egami shoot Nishimoto and Miyamoto? Is it necessary?" Totsukawa took a sip from his coffee cup. Outside the window, the beautiful Mount Fuji is clearly visible.But Totsukawa and Kamei didn't even look at him. "Let's study your question first," Totsukawa said. "When the criminals were escorted to Tokyo, the newspapers reported. However, we did not disclose to the reporter which train they took." "The departure from Okayama is at 14:12, right?" "yes." "Will you guess right?" "No way."

"Maybe the criminal followed the police secretly and got into the car together?" "Impossible. But..." "But what?" "But maybe the two are in collusion." "Miyamoto and Egami?" "Yes. Maybe Egami and Miyamoto agreed to rescue each other on the way." "Before the meal, Miyamoto confessed very straightforwardly. However, after lunch, his attitude became bad. That day, he left for Beijing after a short rest after dinner. Perhaps they estimated that they would take the 14:12 train." "Makes sense." "In addition, Miyamoto's going to the bathroom may have been agreed in advance."

"Okay, let's take it as an answer. Let's discuss my question later. Egami and Miyamoto are not close friends, but dewy friends who met at the racetrack." "Oh, yes." "Therefore, the two will not be very close. Besides, why didn't Egami flee to Manila immediately after taking the jewelry from the M Bank Yotsuya branch on February 10? Why did he take the risk of shooting Nishimoto detectives and Miyamoto on the train? is this necessary?" "To kill people, right? He is afraid that Miyamoto will confess." Kamei said, "But Miyamoto has already been interrogated in Okayama. Maybe Miyamoto has already confessed when he was tried? If the two have a deep friendship, it's a different matter , but they are only 'temporary allies'. It is likely that the name of the co-accused will be given during the interrogation. It will become meaningless to kill and silence."

"Yes." Kamei nodded yes. "Jiangshang has no previous convictions. Although the crime of robbery is not a minor crime, a first-time offender can spend at most two or three years in prison. The situation is quite different if someone is killed. In addition, Jiangshang has jewelry worth 250 million yuan around him. How can this be?" Can you keep your mouth shut? With so many unfavorable factors, why did Egami shoot and kill Miyamoto on the train?" "It's really incredible." Totsukawa lit a cigarette. "Let's kill people and silence them. Jiang Shang has achieved his goal, why did he flee to Manila the next day? This is incredible. Now that he has killed people and silenced him, is there any need to escape?" "Makes sense." "Unless he was discovered by others when he shot. Wasn't there a woman screaming on the train at that time?" "That's a female employee in Tokyo, she came back from Kansai." "Did she see the criminal?" "No. After the criminal escaped, she went to the bathroom and screamed when she saw a pool of blood on the ground." "Therefore, there is absolutely no need for Jiang Shang to flee to Manila. If Jiang Shang wants to escape, he can escape on the day of picking up the jewels on the 10th. There is no need to kill Miyamoto." "It's getting more and more confusing," Kamei said, scratching his scalp. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Totsukawa and Kamei arrived in Tokyo.As soon as he returned to the search headquarters, Detective Shimizu told Totsukawa: "Around 2 o'clock, Miyako Egami called." "What's up?" "She said 'I'm right. I'll show you the evidence, please come here.' I told her you weren't there and she said call back later." "Do you know her home phone number?" "Know." "Call her." Totsukawa said. Miyako always insists that her brother is innocent.As a younger sister, this kind of thinking is natural.How could she find evidence?Totsukawa couldn't believe it. "Why don't you come to answer the phone?" Shimizu said to Totsukawa holding the phone. "Did she call at two o'clock?" "yes." "Did she say to call back later?" "yes." "It's 5:20 now." How come you haven't called for so long?She should report the evidence she found to the police department as soon as possible. "Maybe something went wrong," Kamei said. "Let's go and see!" Totsukawa said. Miyako's door was closed.Kamei tapped with his hand, but there was no response.I saw the electric meter kept turning, I am afraid that the air conditioner is still turned on in the house.Totsukawa became uneasy. Kamei found a manager.The manager said there was no key.Kamei asked him to find the coppersmith.The coppersmith found one among thousands of keys, and easily opened the door.Totsukawa and Kamei entered the room.The room was warm and the heater was fully turned on. The room was empty.Maybe after Miyako divorced, she was busy proving her brother's innocence, taking care of family affairs flawlessly. "Officer, come here." Kamei called softly. There is a living room and four small rooms with half tatami mats.Miyako lay prone in the small room.Kamei picked her up and saw that wires were wrapped around her neck. "It's dead," Kamei said. In the center of the room stood an electric heating stove.Miyako seems to have been dragged out from there and killed. Kamei called an expert to identify it.Totsukawa looked around the room, the room was in disarray.The drawers of the large cabinet and the mirror stand are open, and the sundries inside are exposed in a mess. "What is the criminal looking for?" Kamei asked. "have no idea." "Do you think she has any evidence?" "No. Such evidence is not easy to find." "Then what does the criminal want?" "Miyako has the autopsy report from the Manila Police Department in her hand. I don't know if this thing is in the house, let's look for it." After Totsukawa finished speaking, he and Kamei looked through the drawer of the big cabinet and the bag that Miyako had used.Since the room was small and there was little furniture, I searched it quickly, but I couldn't find the autopsy report. "No?" Totsukawa asked wearily. "Yes. Will it be taken away by criminals?" "Hmm!..." Totsukawa tilted his head sideways and pondered. The identification expert came, and he took pictures indoors and took fingerprints.Totsukawa and Kamei waited outside the apartment for news. The sun was setting and the air-conditioning was blowing.However, Totsukawa did not feel the slightest chill, and he was engrossed in thinking about the accident. "Miyako always believed that her brother was innocent, and that it was her brother who died in Manila. She said on the phone, 'I'm right,' probably referring to the latter." Totsukawa said to Kamei, exhaling smoke rings . "But the police officer, the newspaper also thinks that Manila's body is Egami himself. And some of the police also agree with this statement. Miyako did say that Manila's body is her brother, so she wouldn't be killed because of that." "Judging from the loss of the autopsy report, the criminal killed Miyako for this purpose." "Even if Manila's body is Jiang Shang, so what?" "The two criminals who robbed the Jewelry Temple are dead, the case is over, and the search headquarters can be disbanded." "That's all?" "yes." "If that's all, then who and why killed Miyako?" "Maybe you don't want to disband the search headquarters?" Totsukawa said jokingly. Miyako's body was sent for autopsy. Since the Miyako incident is closely related to the robbery case, the search headquarters will not be disbanded for the time being. Although Totsukawa said it jokingly, but because Miyako was killed, the search headquarters must continue to search. "We still have to thank the criminal who killed Miyako." Totsukawa said to himself with complicated feelings. "We also think she was referring to the body in Manila when she said 'I'm right' on the phone," Kamei said. "right?" "I want to know her reasons." "I think so too," Totsukawa said. Manila's body has been cremated.Only after seeing the autopsy report can we prove who the deceased is.Who read the autopsy report?Maybe it's the doctor?So Totsukawa looked around for a doctor who had treated Jiangami. Egami used to run the "Aoba" restaurant in Yotsuya.Yotsuya is the birthplace of Egami and the place where he lived for a long time.The doctor who saw Egami was probably a doctor near Yotsuya.Therefore, Totsukawa asked Kamei to go to Yotsuya to investigate.Sure enough, the doctor who had read the autopsy report was found there.This is unexpected, but within reason.Miyako let many doctors read the autopsy report.Most doctors believe that it is impossible to judge whether the deceased is Jiang Shang just by looking at the autopsy report.Even the doctor who performed the cecum operation on Jiang Shang answered the same way. However, one of the three dental hospitals proved that the deceased was Egami. Totsukawa immediately went to see the dentist Katayama, who was in his sixties. It was already midnight, but Katayama still warmly received Totsukawa. "At noon today, Miyako Egami came to my place," said the doctor. "Are you asked to read the autopsy report?" "Yes. She came to find out if the deceased was Jiang Shang. Because Jiang Shang had filled his teeth here." Katayama said calmly. "But, the face of the corpse is festered, and the teeth are probably damaged too?" Katayama said affirmatively: "Yes, the front teeth are almost completely damaged, as stated in the autopsy report. But the big teeth on both sides are intact." "Based on this, can we conclude that it is Jiang Shang?" "The autopsy report stated that the right wisdom tooth was extracted. In his thirties, there are very few people who have had their wisdom teeth extracted. Jiang Shang had his right wisdom tooth extracted in this hospital in March last year." "Is that enough alone?" Totsukawa asked. "In addition, the autopsy report stated that the two big teeth on the lower left were inlaid with platinum. Most people use gold to inlay their teeth, but it is very rare to use platinum inlays. Four years ago, when Jiangshang's business was booming, he asked me to use platinum to inlay his teeth, which is on the left side. The two big teeth at the bottom. The position and shape written in the autopsy report are exactly the same as the teeth that I fixed for him at that time." "So we can conclude that it's Jiang Shang?" "Yes, more than 90% sure." Katayama said confidently. "How did Miyako react when she heard the news?" Totsukawa asked. "Extremely happy. She asked me to write it down. I wrote the words 'The man in the autopsy report is Toshio Egami', stamped it, and handed it to Miyako." "Did Miyako come at noon?" "Yes. It was past 1 o'clock when I got back. I made a careful analysis and research, so it took a lot of time." "Has the autopsy report been returned to her?" "yes." "Where does she put your proof materials?" "She put it in the handbag carefully. Miyako always thought that the deceased was her brother, but the police didn't believe it. She said she wanted to make the police feel sorry. Oh, sorry, I'm sorry." "No, it's okay." Totsukawa asked with a smile, "What else did she say?" "..." "She called me. Did she call someone other than the police?" "She didn't say that." "Did she say she was going to tell the police?" "She said she would teach the police a lesson and asked me to testify, and I agreed." "Do you know her temper?" "Yes. She has been with me for treatment since she was a child." "How is she?" Totsukawa asked. Katayama thought for a while and said: "This child has a very stubborn temper since she was a child. She can hold back the pain and never cry or make trouble. Her brother is weaker than her. When he was young, he often cried." "Is it a stubborn woman?" Kamei asked. "It would not be appropriate to say she was stubborn, she was a tough woman." "Is the relationship between siblings harmonious?" "Yes. Everyone says they are good brothers and sisters." "Jiang Shang robbed a jewelry store and killed someone, you know that?" "Yes, it's in the newspaper." "Would he do such a thing?" "No, no. He is kind and generous," Katayama said. "I'm afraid that's when business is booming?" "That's true. After the restaurant closed down, Egami hasn't come to my place yet!" Katayama said. What appeared to be stolen from Miyako's house were the autopsy report and the doctor's certificate. It looked like she had been in contact with someone on the phone.After receiving the call, the man rushed over angrily, killed her, and took away two things. "Who is that person? Why did he do this?" After returning to the search headquarters, Totsukawa pondered over this question.However, the man's motives were never clear. Even if it is confirmed that Jiang Shang was killed in the suburbs of Manila, it will not change the fact that Jiang Shang is a criminal.There is no way to prove Jiang Shang's innocence.Egami is still a criminal who robs jewels and kills Miyamoto. The press made extensive reports based on the materials provided by the police department.However, Miyako always insisted that Manila's body was her brother.But this still cannot prove Jiang Shang's innocence. Even so, someone killed Miyako for unknown reasons. "I'm puzzled!" Totsukawa said with a sigh. A social commentator determined on TV news that the body in Manila was that of Toshio Egami.He said: "It's a pity that the gangster ended up like this, but he deserved his own death!" Now is the time when things perish by themselves.The criminal died in a daze, adding a strong argument for "things perish by themselves".However, this still does not change the conclusion that Manila's body is Toshio Egami. "Being targeted at life", so the critics probably haven't heard of this famous saying? But why was Miyako who came to the same conclusion as this critic killed?Is it because she is Jiang Shang's younger sister?Of course, Miyako is convinced that her brother is innocent, which is also different from the critics.Had she been killed for this reason?Who and why killed Miyako? Miyako can't prove her brother's innocence.Still, she was murdered. "It's really puzzling!" Totsukawa said loudly. "I also find it difficult to understand." Kamei said. "The murder of Miyako is not related to the jewelry case, is it?" "Yes. If it is an ordinary thief, it may have nothing to do with this case, but there is no shortage of property in her family." "And he escaped after locking the door. If it was a thief, I'm afraid he wouldn't have locked the door and escaped calmly, right?" "The criminal wanted to delay the discovery of the body as long as possible." "The reason for killing Miyako is still unclear." Totsukawa shook his head. "Miyako only has evidence of Egami's death. I don't know what the value of this evidence is. If it is of great value, it may induce new murders." "The body in Manila is just a substitute for Egami. He himself disguised himself as a Filipino and escaped, but his whereabouts are unknown." Totsukawa said. "That's not enough to kill Miyako." "If Manila's body is Jiang Shang, then our previous reasoning, isn't it all a fool's dream?" "Where will it be!" Kamei said.Suddenly his eyes sparkled. "That's right, the appearance of that corpse is too strange, too strange." Kamei said repeatedly, as if he had discovered something. "How about the body?" "I think it was carefully planned. The disfigurement was to make people unrecognizable; the finger burning was to make people's fingerprints unrecognizable, and the intention was to confuse the real ones. Jiang Shang himself took jewelry worth 250 million yuan. , disguised as a Filipino, and fled.” "After Egami fled to the Philippines, he was murdered by a strange coincidence. I don't know if the murderer was a Japanese or a Filipino. In short, he took the jewels and slipped away." Totsukawa went on to say, "You are right, the corpse is indeed shocking." Incredible people." "Really? Police Palace. If the deceased is Jiang Shang himself, why disfigure his face and burn his fingers?" "Perhaps once the fingerprints are identified, we will know that the deceased is Jiang Shang." "Also, there is Jiang Shang's passport in the pocket of the corpse." "The boy stole Jiang Shang's passport and money and was arrested. I think he took it out of the corpse pocket." "Speaking of it this way, it's even more unbelievable. The criminal who killed Jiang Shang, on the one hand, disfigured his face and burned his fingers so that he could not be recognized; on the other hand, he put his passport in his pocket. The attitude of the criminal is very contradictory." Turtle Wells said. Totsukawa nodded silently and said, "Maybe the criminal doesn't think it's contradictory." "why?" "If the deceased is Jiang Shang, of course it is contradictory. If the deceased is not Jiang Shang, there is no contradiction at all. Jiang Shang killed the scapegoat, making people think that Jiang Shang himself died. Then he fled. Two people with similar looks have different faces. They are exactly the same, and of course the fingerprints will not be the same. Once the face shape and fingerprints are checked, it will be revealed, so it will be disfigured and its fingers will be burned. On the contrary, I put Jiangshang’s passport in my pocket, so that I can be mistaken. People mistakenly think that the deceased is Jiang Shang. Jiang Shang himself escaped. This way the understanding is not contradictory." "It seems that we were fooled." "If the deceased was Jiang Shang, as you said, disfiguring and burning fingers would be meaningless. The purpose of disfiguring and burning fingers is to make people unable to recognize who the deceased is, and putting the passport in the pocket makes it easy to see. Contradictory." "Maybe someone set a trap," Kamei said. "Yes. The more the press says that the deceased is Jiang Shang, the more we think it is not Jiang Shang. The corpse is just Jiang Shang's substitute." "It was an elaborate trap." "The criminal wants us to hold the opposite opinion to the press, that is, not to believe that Jiang Shang is dead." "Does the criminal want people to think that Jiang Shang is not dead?" "Yes. Miyako may have the same opinion as us," Totsukawa said.If Manila's body is Jiang Shang, it means that the case is over.But it's not actually over yet.Totsukawa thought. Although it is not known whether the culprit is Filipino or Japanese, it must have something to do with Jiang.If it has nothing to do with Jiang Shang, why do so many tricks?It can be seen from this that it must be the Japanese who killed Jiang Shang, and it was the people around Jiang Shang. This is why Miyako was killed.