Chapter 23 chapter Five

Tanabe returned to Tokyo the next day, and immediately went to the apartment in Nakano. Yaeko Hayakawa wrote "New Nakano Apartment" on the postcard.It is a newly built 11-story apartment building at the north exit of the station.Next to the entrance is the administrator's room. "Hayakawa Yaeko lives here, right?" The middle-aged administrator with a mustache asked with a scared look: "You have something to do with Ms. Hayakawa Yaeko?" Tanabe frowned and just said "yes" when a word came from behind: "Sorry." It turned out that there were two men standing behind him at some point.Tanabe "Huh?" After a moment, one of the men showed him a black police ID.

"What do you want with Ms. Hayakawa Yaeko?" "What's up with her?" "You should answer my question first!" the policeman said unhappily. "I just want to meet her." "What is your relationship with her?" "Nothing else matters." "It doesn't matter why come to her?" There was a suspicious look in the policeman's eyes. Tanabe smiled wryly and took out his business card: "She was an actress on TV on April 23, talking about women pulling rickshaws. That's why I came to visit." But he deliberately concealed the matter of going to S City.The two policemen said "Oh" and looked at Tian Bian again.

"You go to CCTV and ask, don't you know? The director named Matsuo is the person in charge of the program. I think he knows everything. Now please answer my question? What happened to her?" "She was killed in her room on the fifth floor." said a police officer.Then coughed lightly. Tanabe's face suddenly changed.Could it be that the cause of her death was coming to Tokyo? "Who killed her?" "We're also investigating." The two police officers smiled wryly and walked out of the apartment.They probably went to CCTV. Tanabe turned around and asked the administrator, "What happened?"

"It's the dead body I found." The administrator said with a mixed expression of uneasiness and pride, "Ms. Hayakawa asked me to call her early yesterday. She is going to an employment agency today. So I went up to the fifth floor early in the morning. But her door was open, but no one answered. I felt strange, so I glanced at the room, and now it’s terrible, she died. She was strangled to death.” The administrator also "demonstrated" with his hands around his neck. "When was he killed?" "Mr. Police said he was killed last night." "Who was here last night?"

"This apartment has a back door. I don't know who came in to find her." "She lives on the fifth floor?" "Yes. Room 506." "Can I take a look?" "That's not okay. The police are all closed." Tanabe had no choice but to leave the apartment and returned to the "TV Times" magazine office.It's almost noon, and everyone is here.After listening to Tanabe's introduction, everyone became nervous again. Watanabe immediately turned on the TV.It's a cultural show right now, but soon it will be the news on the hour.

The news that Hayakawa Yaeko was killed also came out on TV.This is a very cruel fact.The police don't have any leads on the killer yet. "Then who? And why did you kill Yaeko Hayakawa?" Suzuki tilted his head and muttered to himself. Tanabe said "I am also very interested" and looked at everyone: "I'm especially interested in her relationship with CCTV. As I said just now, Yaeko Hayakawa has never used a rickshaw to pull people. The program broadcast on April 23 was also edited and fake, but why did the Central Television Is it going to be broadcast on TV?"

"There are two possibilities." Suzuki said calmly: "First, Matsuo planned it from the very beginning in order to increase the ratings. The most worrying thing for Matsuo is that there will be no follow-up programs. If he is in this situation, he will Unscrupulous in fabricating fake news." "What about the other one?" "She pulled a rickshaw out of curiosity a month ago. Matsuo went to City S after hearing the news, but when he arrived at the scene, he found that it was not the case at all. But the plan cannot be changed, because he has no time to find A new strange person. And the 'beauty pulling the cart' is also a selling point, right? Then he simply did it to the end."

"No matter what it is, let's investigate. CCTV said that Yaeko Hayakawa was invited to come to Tokyo as an actress. I think we should investigate this point." "I'll go to CCTV." Watanabe stood up, "You go too." Tanabe said to Suzuki.He himself decided to go to the police station to find out the progress of the case. The Nakano Police Station established a search headquarters.Several men who looked like journalists were walking up and down the dimly lit corridor. Tanabe greeted a policeman whom he had seen at Nakano's apartment. The policeman still remembered Tanabe, and said with a smile, "It's you."

"Have you met Matsuo, director of CCTV?" Tanabe asked.He nodded: "Thanks to you, we learned a lot about Hayakawa Yaeko." "What did Matsuo say?" "He was taken aback and said he had no idea about Yaeko Hayakawa coming to Tokyo." "You don't think Matsuo killed Yaeko Hayakawa?" When Tanabe asked, the policeman put his chin in his hand and replied: "That person...why do you think Matsuo-san killed her?" "There is no reason, I just think that Hayakawa Yaeko who came to Tokyo must have met Matsuo-san." "I see. Mr. Matsuo is not a murderer."

"He has an 'alibi'?" "Yes. Yaeko Hayakawa was killed around 11 o'clock last night. At that time, Mr. Matsuo was playing mahjong with his friends at the Mahjong House in Shinjuku." "Are you sure?" "Of course. The shop owner and his friends have testified that they were playing mahjong from 9:00 to 12:00 last night. So Mr. Matsuo is not the murderer." "yes?" Tanabe looked disappointed.He didn't particularly hate Matsuo, but he thought that Hayakawa Yaeko's death was definitely related to Matsuo.