Chapter 38 Chapter fifteen

Namwon put the photo in front of his eyes and observed it carefully. It must have been Hashimoto who killed Taguchi.This photo is fake. It is also true that the passenger and cargo vehicle that was emitting black smoke passed in front of Izu K Station on July 30.Because it was caught by the police. But this photo was not taken at that time.If so, then Hashimoto's "alibi" can be established. So, this photo was taken at 12:58 on other days.However, after investigation, except for July 30th, there were no passenger and cargo vehicles emitting black smoke in the square of Station K.

Could it be that the van in this photo isn't actually emitting black smoke at all? Perhaps it was the processing on the negative that produced such an effect. The question is how is this photo processed? Nanyuan immediately walked out of the dormitory, took a few cars on the street, and returned to the room to wash up. He first worked on negatives. Namwon is carefully processed with the sharp point of a razor.Because the film on the negative film is shaved off, a black image will appear in the photo when it is developed, and the effect of "black smoke" may appear. Namwon magnified the processed negative into a 6-inch photo. It did look like it was smoking, but a closer look revealed flaws.It seems that this processing is still not working.

This time Namwon once again drew the "smoky" appearance on the photo paper with a pen.This method is much better than engraving with a razor, but there are still loopholes if you look closely. It seems that this photo was not processed by these two methods. Just then Fujimoto called. "It seems that your idea is right. The driver of the van is indeed related to Hashimoto of the Central Industrial Company!" "What kind of relationship?" "The male driver's name is Suzuki Naoji, and he lives in K City, Izu. He is 32 years old this year, and he owns a company called 'Suzuki Bussan'. It is roughly a limited liability company, and it is a small company with only 5 employees. Interestingly, His company has business dealings with Central Xingye."

"That's the kind of subcontracted business?" "Yes. This kind of subcontracting business is usually done for people who are close to you." "Then Naoharu Suzuki admitted that he drove a van through the square in front of Station K at the request of Hashimoto on July 30?" "But this man is traveling to Hawaii with his family now, and he won't be back until three days later. How is your place? Have you found a way to process it?" "Unfortunately, not yet. But if Hashimoto is really a criminal, the method of photo manipulation can become important evidence."

"Then please. I just want to use this method to convict him!" After Fujimoto finished speaking, he hung up the phone.Zhu Zi called two hours later, and her young voice was full of excitement: "Found it! It's Mr. Jinzi!" "He admitted it?" "Yes. But he didn't intend to do other bad things. He just occasionally saw Hashimoto he knew in the selected works, so he told him." "What's his relationship with Hashimoto like?" "Isn't there a 'Tokyo Photography Hobby Association'? It's an organization where photography enthusiasts are concentrated. Hashimoto is the president of that association, and Mr. Kaneko is a technical advisor."

"I see. Then Mr. Kaneko found out that one of the works selected by them was stolen? I think he will find out as soon as he sees the August issue of "Camera Japan". Because the Hashimoto he knows is not there It's in the works." "He went to Europe when the August issue came out. After hearing what I said, he found the August issue and was very surprised. What a sloppy old man!" Zhu Zi giggled on the other end of the phone.Her laughter is an encouragement to Nan Yuan. After thanking Zhu Zi, Nanyuan continued to study the method of photo processing. —Is it synthetic?

Namwon had heard of such a method. There was an American reporter whose task was to interview and report special news events.Once he went to report a fire incident, but the fire had been put out because he was late.He had no choice but to take pictures of the building first, and then found the fire negatives in the data to synthesize the report of the building fire.Although it was a long time ago, Hashimoto said something similar. Namwon decided to give it a try. He "synthesized" the moving car negatives and the smoking negatives together. Compared with the first two methods, it is obviously much better, and it looks very natural.But the traces of "synthesis" are too obvious, and there are still traces of "synthesis" if you look closely.

It seems that this photo was not faked by "synthetic" method.