Chapter 9 Chapter 9 The Dream of Xintiandi

On the afternoon of April 15th, Haneda Airport. A man got off the Japan Airlines plane, and he was Inoue Detective.The Yabe Police Department greeted Inoue at the airport. Yabe patted the shoulder of the detective Inoue who had traveled around Thailand, the Philippines, and Hong Kong, and said to him, "Thank you. Let's talk over tea!" When Yabe and Inoue walked side by side to the bar in the airport, a man of medium build who was neither fat nor thin was going through the formalities for going abroad. The name used by the man on his passport was Sanshen Yinan.He holds a Brazilian permanent residence permit.

Mid-April is the season for sightseeing, and the airport is full of passengers traveling overseas, so the clerk looks very tired, and presses the stamp of going abroad almost mechanically. The clerk noticed the young men in the radical group who had gone overseas, and the lists and photos were posted on the walls.Apart from these photos, the average traveler basically doesn't pay attention. A flight to Rio de Janeiro via Los Angeles awaits departure on the tarmac. Of the 307 passengers, more than half were Japanese, and there were also young couples who were traveling and getting married.

When the giant Boeing airliner roared into the sky, in the bar in the airport, Detective Inoue was reporting to Yabe about his trip to Southeast Asia. "In Bangkok, a Japanese construction company was engaged in blowing up old buildings and building new ones. This work continued after the coup. The detonators used by this construction company were produced by the N Gunpowder Factory." "anything else?" "I met the Japanese who supervised the operation. According to him, several detonators were stolen. I heard that it was done by the locals, and there was a wonderful friction. The local police kept silent."

"Is it a thief or maybe a Japanese traveler?" "It is very likely that he is the culprit in this incident. As you said, if you hang the detonator around your neck like a necklace, you can pass through the airport smoothly!" "How about Manila, Hong Kong? Any gains?" "Nothing was found in Hong Kong. In Manila, I asked the police for plastic bombs used by Muslim guerrillas, and that was part of it. They made special divisions." Detective Inoue took out a small white lump wrapped in a handkerchief from his pocket, and when he touched it, it felt as soft as clay.

"According to the analysis of the Manila police, it is alternate with the C4 plastic bomb, which means that it is the same bomb used in this incident." "Perhaps the criminals somehow got in touch with the Filipino Muslim guerrillas and got their hands on the plastic bomb." "I think they probably bought it with dollars. The guerrillas then used these dollar cannons to buy more plastic bombs and weapons." "So the weapons used by the criminals in this incident may all be raised abroad. Plastic bombs, pistols, and detonators are all there, so no matter how much you search in the country, you can't find any evidence."

"What's the next step?" "Was it a month ago that the detonators were stolen in Bangkok?" "Yes. Correctly, the detonator was found stolen on March 15th. So it is very likely that it was stolen on March 14th." "Okay. It's probably around this time that the criminals got their hands on the plastic bombs. And the pistols, I think they got them from Guam, Hawaii, or the continental United States. Maybe it's a bit of a hassle. So far, all passengers returning from Southeast Asia and the United States have been investigated.” "There are too many people! There is a boom in overseas travel now. The JAL flights I took were all Japanese returning from Bangkok and Manila."

"There is no way, let's check everything!" Yabe said decisively. It is impossible for Yabe to want all the 47 criminal police who searched the headquarters to participate in this investigation. Because it is necessary to continue to monitor the Sanshen couple and the Huidong branch of M Bank.The search headquarters couldn't spare any manpower. As a result, 20 criminal policemen went to Haneda Airport and asked the airlines for a list of passengers returning from overseas travel for almost a month. Also, overseas travel is not limited to returning from Haneda.Many people who came back from Southeast Asia returned to China via Osaka Airport. For example, the JAL flight that Detective Inoue took flew through Bangkok-Manila-Osaka-Haneda.

So I asked the Osaka Police Station for assistance, and asked Itami Airport for the list of Japanese who had returned to China for nearly a month. The list of Haneda Airport was first made. There were more people than expected. The number of travelers returning home after March 14 has reached 2,506. Among them, excluding minors, there are more than 1,900 people.The criminal police checked the addresses of the people on the list one by one. However, none of the suspects was found, because none of these people were present on the day of several cases. At this time, the Osaka Police Station sent the passenger list of Itami Airport.Although the number of people is much smaller than that of Haneda, there are still nearly a thousand people.

In the empty search headquarters, Yabe was flipping through the thick names one by one.Almost all of the passengers who disembarked at Itami lived west of Osaka, but some lived in Tokyo.Most of these passengers meet friends in Osaka and return to Beijing by Shinkansen the next day. "County police must be asked to assist." While staring at this and turning his eyes to several pieces of printing paper, Yabe suddenly noticed. A piece of paper contained the names and addresses of about 30 people, and the name of one of them caught Yabe's attention: Hideo Makino "I seem to have seen this name somewhere."

But he couldn't remember where he had seen it. "It's the name on the note given by Zuo Wenwen." He finally remembered, and he breathed a sigh of relief. Yabe hurriedly took out a folded piece of paper from his coat pocket. On it are the names of four people written in the left characters. Tomoya Nogami Hideo Makino Kushida Junichiro Takue Futaba Yabe's eyes were bright, and he flicked through the name book desperately. Only the name of Tomoya Nogami was not found.He discovered the names of Junichiro Kushida and Takue Futaba. Hideo Makino - Bangkok. Kushita Junichiro - United States.

Futaba Zhuojiang——Manila, Mindara. This is the destination of the trip for three people. In the evening, the criminal police who found nothing came back with a sad face.Yabe ordered them to investigate the three people first tomorrow. At this time, Zuo Wenwen also received the audio tape sent back from Columbia University.The audio tape has been corrected and restored with the "Helium Acoustic Correction Device" developed in the United States. The friend attached a letter, which said that the Donald effect is because the speed of sound passing through helium is 2.9 times faster than that in ordinary air, so the high-pitched sound mainly appears, and various sounds were made for correction and restoration Corrected the device, but the sound has not been fully restored. Even so, when listening to the sent tape, the original high-pitched tone has disappeared, and it has completely become another person's voice. "Ah! That's great!" Hearing this, Shi Zi couldn't help cheering happily, "This voice is very similar to that of Lawyer Nogami!" "Yes, that's right! The voices of the other three people are probably similar to the voices of the other three people we have." "I'll take these tapes and let the friends of the three of them listen to them!" Shi Zi said energetically, picked up the tapes and left the office. The left character is left alone.The left text unfolds the newspaper. Today's newspaper also published the deposit amount of Sanshin Tokutaro's deposit account at Huidong Branch of M Bank. This seems to be a stock market column, reporting the market every day.Unlike the stock market column, the market here is not falling, but growing continuously. 90.6 billion yen, and will soon exceed 100 billion yen. The 5,000 yen badge sold 18.12 million pieces. To borrow the words from the newspaper, Sanshen Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has quickly ascended to the throne of the largest enterprise. The cadres of the head office of M Bank made a special visit to the Sanshen couple. Some magazines even calculate the amount of tax payable. the phone is ringing. Zuo Wenwen dropped the newspaper and picked up the phone. "It's me." It was Yabe's voice, "I think maybe your reasoning is correct." "That's great. What's going on?" "We think that the pistols, plastic bombs, and electronic detonators used by the criminals may have been raised abroad, so we investigated the tourists who traveled overseas for nearly a month, and found that three of the four people you mentioned One. Only Lawyer Nogami." "This is very interesting. So, have the addresses of all three been found?" "Only Hideo Makino lives in Tokyo. The department will be sent to investigate immediately, but he has already moved. He returned to China on March 15 and moved on March 20." "Where did you move to?" "I don't know. He has almost no contact with the people around him. People say that he is not talkative, has a strange temperament, and he doesn't even say hello when they meet on the road." "Do you live in an apartment?" "He used to live in an apartment near Jindaiji. We searched the room, but found nothing." "Because it was planned, it must be underground. What about the others?" "Kushida Junichiro lives in K Island, and he got a passport in K Island. Futaba Takue is in Fukuoka City. We have contacted the Fukuoka prefectural police, but it is very likely that we cannot find her whereabouts. Obviously, Kushida Jun Ichiro won't stay on K Island anymore." "They all acted according to plan, so they all went into hiding. Only the leader who gave the orders stayed on the ground." "Is he Lawyer Nogami?" "Yes. You can see him again, but not at this stage, because there is no evidence." "Understood. As long as the other three can catch one, they can force him to confess." "Could the democratic police say such horrible things?" "I really want to slap the criminals hard because people are calling the police stupid all day long." "Just be patient!" "Please be sure to close the box and take care of it, ah, wait a moment." Zuo Wenwen waited for about five or six minutes holding the phone, when Yabe's voice rang again.His voice was unusually excited. "The Sanshen couple have already applied to the Brazilian embassy for permanent residence in Brazil." "Permanent residence application in Brazil?" "Yes. Once you live in a foreign country permanently, there will be no restrictions on bringing foreign currency abroad!" Yabe hurried to Mukoshima. The Mikami Works was packed with journalists from newspapers and weekly magazines.A press conference is being held here. When Yabe arrived, the press conference had already started. "When did you decide to go to Brazil for permanent residence?" "It was three days ago." "Is it a little sudden?" "Of course. We used to plan to engage in agriculture in the vast land of Brazil, because I dreamed of agriculture a long time ago. Three days ago, I went to my unknown son, Yinan. A letter was written from Brazil, saying that he had been waiting for a long time. in Brazil." "Can I read this letter?" "Please." (Wife Wen Dai happily handed an airmail letter to the reporter.) "You really want to be with your son?" "Yes. It doesn't matter anywhere in Brazil as long as I can be with my son, because Brazil is my favorite country." "So, what does the Brazilian embassy think?" "I think it will be allowed, although it will take some time to process. So I sent $5,000 in advance to my son in Sao Paulo. I wanted to send more, but the limit is only $5,000." "However, we have noticed that the deposit is close to 100 billion yen. So if you settle in Brazil, will you bring all this huge sum of money to Brazil?" "Yes. In fact, I'm not trying to imitate Mr. Onoda. I just want to build a ranch there. Of course, we have to pay taxes before leaving. We have also talked to the Brazilian embassy about the idea of ​​setting up a ranch in Brazil." "When do you expect to make the trip?" "Since there is still a lot of preparatory work to be done, I think it will be in autumn. At such an age, we must learn the other party's language, and we must learn about animal husbandry!" "If it's autumn, then by that time, your savings may reach 200 to 300 billion yen, no, maybe more." "Maybe. However, due to the high tax, the amount that can be brought to Brazil is only tens of billions of yen at best." Mikami Tokutaro smiled happily. Yabe finally had the opportunity to meet the Mikami couple after the reporters retreated like a tide to issue a press release. Yabe was hit hard.The development of the situation was completely beyond his expectation.It was thought that the criminals had raised a huge sum of money, and it was not known how to wrest it from the old couple! If the criminals open an account in a Swiss bank to remit, the limit is only 5,000 US dollars.Therefore, it is estimated that they can only resort to violence.However, if the Sanshen couple said they wanted to settle in Brazil and run a ranch, and if the Brazilian government allowed it, the police would not have the power to prevent them from leaving the country.Moreover, since they said that they would pay all the taxes, if they could not prove that the Sanshen couple were the criminals in this hijacking case, then they could only watch them take the huge sum of money abroad. For Yabe, the only advantage is that their emigration to Brazil is not now, but in late summer and early autumn. The case must be closed before they emigrate. "Is this a letter from your son?" Yabe picked up an airmail postmarked in St. Paul. "Is this a letter from your son?" Yabe asked. "Hey, yes, it's my son's son." Mother Wen Dai said with certainty. "Will the determination to move to Brazil not change?" "It will never change." Mikami Tokutaro said loudly. "I can finally live with my son. I definitely want to settle in Brazil. I heard that there are many Japanese there, so don't worry." "Didn't you say that you want to transfer the huge income to welfare?" Yabe sneered. But Mikami Tokutaro didn't realize that he was mocking him at all, and said: "At that time, I thought my son Kazuo was dead. I changed my mind when I learned that he was still alive. This is probably a parent-child relationship. And , this is also my legitimate income, and I have to pay a lot of taxes. If calculated at 75%, then only 25 billion yen of the 100 billion yen will be kept in my hands, and the other 75 billion yen will be handed over to the state. I hope that among them Part of it is used for welfare undertakings.” "Although it's an old tune, I still want to ask, does this hijacking incident have nothing to do with you? Do you know the criminal?" "I don't know, I don't know at all, this is definitely not a lie." The old man flatly denied it. Yabe felt that there was nothing he could do about the old couple. The son he had been looking for for a long time suddenly sent a letter from Brazil, saying that he wanted to live together, and the old couple decided to settle in Brazil for him.This is a matter of course, and there is no doubt about it. According to the lawyer, the huge deposits in the Huidong branch of Bank M are a legitimate business practice. As long as the tax is paid, the net profit can be brought to Brazil for settlement, and the police have no reason to stop it. The detective who monitored the Sanshin couple also confirmed that no suspicious person visited them. In addition, Yabe also knows that wiretapping Sangami's phone is an illegal act. If the matter is exposed, he can only take responsibility and resign.However, precisely because of such a difficult case, the extraordinary method of wiretapping had to be adopted. However, in the phone conversations at Sanshen’s house, there was never any words related to the incident. They were all conversations with morning bath lovers, or whether they could get badges if they sent cash. "Nothing was found. Of course, this is only a superficial phenomenon." Yabe, who returned to the search headquarters, reported regretfully to the head of the headquarters, Matsuzaki. "Then what should be the truth?" Matsuzaki asked steadily. "I think everything went according to plan from the beginning." "The son who ran away from home suddenly sent a letter from Brazil. Is this also according to plan?" "yes." "Then explain it." "Migami Tokutaro and his wife Bunyo are typical small businessmen. People say that they don't like improper things. They are very humane, generous, and honest people who always suffer. Such a couple sells that business as if nothing happened. It’s very strange to get billions of yen or tens of billions of yen for this kind of badge. Doesn’t this fit well with Mikami Tokutaro, a small businessman?” "However, although this is a legitimate business transaction, isn't it also making money continuously?" "Yes. There is only one reason for a typical small businessman to do this kind of thing. For his doting son, he wants to make money no matter what kind of money it is. The criminals must take advantage of this." "So, the Sanshen couple didn't know about their son after receiving the letter from Brazil, but they had already seen him somewhere before that?" "Yes. If there is no news for many years, if they suddenly receive a letter from St. Paul, they will not go through the settlement procedures first, but should go to St. Paul first. Isn't that more reasonable? Even if they don't, they should make a phone call first." It is more humane to make an international call and talk to his son. However, it was not found in the tapped phone that he had made an international call, that is to say, we can only think that the old couple knew that their son had gone to Brazil beforehand.” "Could it be in the water hot spring?" "I think so. They met their son there, when they were out for a walk. The criminals must have made the preparations. According to Zuo Wenwen, the leader of the criminals, Zhi Nogami, is also a well-known defense lawyer. It may be arranged by this lawyer. At that time, the son, Yinan, wanted to settle in Brazil to run a ranch, but he needed a lot of money for this. The old couple returned to Tokyo and knew the money that the criminals were entangled. Just started earning. This is for his son. They plan to take all the profits to settle in Brazil. Of course, the criminals will also settle in Brazil. Since those three men and women have a disgraceful past, they will stay in Japan instead , I would rather live in Brazil.” "With a huge sum of tens of billions of yen, just a few of them can buy a large ranch in Brazil! But as their leader, Lawyer Nogami, probably there is no need to flee to Brazil, right? Because his business in Japan is very prosperous. " "Yes! But you can also buy him a big villa in Rio de Janeiro. This is what he deserves! The land price there is also very cheap, and you can buy a decent villa for hundreds of millions of yen. In this way He could also go once or twice a year and get a taste of the success of their project there." "Maybe something happened after Mikami Kazuo left home? So he got in touch with lawyer Nogami. Nogami learned that Kazuo's father made a lot of badges that couldn't be sold, so he made a plan not to release it this time. The newly cut plan—” "It can be confirmed that this is the case." "How about interrogating the Sanshen couple as important witnesses?" "I'd like to do that too, but it probably won't work. The couple may have seen Nogami, but not the other three. I think the criminals are pretty cautious at this point. And we haven't found anything yet. Evidence that the couple had anything to do with this incident. Besides, they would never say anything against their son because they are very stubborn." "So, do we have to wait for them to settle in Brazil with huge sums of money? And those three men and women don't even know where they are?" "Yes. But there is still time before the Sanshen couple go abroad to settle down, and the whereabouts of the other three people will definitely be found out." "What do you propose?" "If my calculations are correct, they will also apply to settle in Brazil soon, appearing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Brazilian embassy." "What if I have already received a settlement permit?" The situation was quickly cleared up. Among the three, Hideo Makino has obtained a residence permit in Brazil. The time to get the permit was March 19, two days before the case started. It turned out that they—that is, the "Blue Lions"—made this plan earlier.At that time, the progress of the implementation of the plan was fully estimated, so Hideo Makino obtained the settlement permit as soon as the incident started. Tanimi and Tanabashi, who were in charge of the investigation, said puzzledly: "Why don't the three of you apply to settle in Brazil together?" "Maybe they think that if the three of them do it together, it will be revealed that the three of them are friends." Yabe thinks. Three days later, Junichiro Kushida, who went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to obtain a form related to settling in Brazil, was arrested according to the notification.No, it is not correct to say that he was arrested. There is no evidence to prove that he is a member of the "Blue Lion", so he was taken away in the form of random travel. Yabe suppressed the excitement in his heart and met this man who might be one of the criminals. He was a tall, thin man with a broad forehead and a high nose. He sat on the chair without fear, rather it gave off a sense of arrogance.He straightened his chest and stared at Yabe. "I didn't know that recently I wanted to go abroad and settle down, but I became a criminal!" Kushida sneered. "Why did you settle in Brazil?" Yabe asked seriously, because the other party was not even a suspect. "The reason is simple, because I am tired of staying in Japan." "I heard that when you were in the surgery department of Chengbei Hospital, you were fired for conducting human experiments?" "Correctly speaking, it is not a human experiment." "Then what is it?" "It can be called an experiment to promote medicine. I hate Japan's judgment of this and that, so I want to emigrate to the vast land of Brazil. There are too few places in Japan where I can use my talents, and the country is too small." "Hideo Makino, Takue Futaba, Tomoya Nogami, do you know the names of these three people?" "No, I don't know." "This is weird. You are all friends who have received elite education at U University!" "However, maybe the grades are different. I don't know anyone except the same grade." "So, what about Mikami Tokutaro?" "I know the name." Kushida smiled, "Isn't he the old man who has earned tens of billions of yen selling badges?" "What is your relationship with him?" "It's nothing to do with it. No, since you bought the badge, you have a customer relationship!" Kushida smiled happily while gently flattening the badge worn on his chest with his fingers. "Have you traveled to America recently?" "Yes. Isn't it allowed?" "Weren't pistols secretly brought into Japan then?" "Is this—are you—" "Yabe Police Department." "Okay, Mr. Yabe, you don't have any evidence, how can you say such a thing? If I were a lawyer, I would definitely sue you." "Then ask something else. Is the address written in your passport K Island?" "yes." "Where and what did you leave the K Island Clinic?" "I work in a hospital in Saijo, Osaka. That hospital is called Saitian Hospital. If you think I'm lying, you can go there and ask!" "Where were you on March 26?" "What? March 26?" "That's the day when criminals called 'Blue Lions' shot and killed innocent youths in Sapporo, and lied about killing their own hostages!" "That is to say," Kushita chuckled strangely, "I am a member of the 'Blue Lion' criminal gang?" "is it wrong?" "Of course it's wrong." "So, can you provide an alibi for March 26? Especially that night." "Yes, yes. Qitian Hospital is a designated emergency hospital. Maybe I was on duty that day. You can go and find out." "Criminal Tangi!" Yabe called Tanimi and asked him to call the Qitian Hospital that Kushida said. "However, Kushida, what do you think of this hijacking incident?" Yabe asked.Kushida said "Yes", and then seemed to think about it seriously: "I think it is a very interesting incident. The criminals must be very smart guys!" "Is it like you, someone with an IQ above 140?" "Then how do I know. It seems that I haven't caught it yet?" When Kushida was sneering mockingly, Criminal Tanimi came over and whispered something to Yabe: "Hung up the phone to Saitian Hospital and said that Dr. Kushida was on duty on the night of March 26. He was injured in a traffic accident around 11 o'clock in the evening." treatment of the elderly." Kushida Junichiro was released, as detention cannot be done without evidence. Yabe thought that it was Hideo Makino who shot and killed the auto mechanic in Sapporo, and this role had been decided long ago. For this reason, only Makino obtained the residence permit to go to Brazil first. So, it is very likely that Makino has left Japan. In order to investigate, the criminal police flew to Osaka again and asked the Osaka Prefectural Police to assist in the search. The result has not yet come out, Futaba Takue was taken to search the headquarters when he appeared again because he applied to settle in Brazil. This time, Yabe was also interrogated. This is a small woman with bright eyes, but there is neither softness nor feminine charm in her. Like Kushida, Futaba Takue also looked directly at Yabe with a confident look. "Did you know that 196 people died in this ANA accident?" Yabe stared at Zhuojiang and said. "Well, I know!" "That's because a criminal named 'Blue Lion' planted a plastic bomb on the plane." "I saw this in the newspaper too." "The bomb was placed in a cake when a person who claimed to be a fan presented a cake to one of the passengers, singer Yukiko Ishizaki, before the plane took off from Fukuoka Airport." "Is that what brought me here? I finally get it. Do you think it's me who calls himself a fan?" "According to eyewitnesses, that woman resembles you." "Then please testify with the witnesses!" Zhuo Jiang said challengingly. Yabe felt hopeless.The criminals at Fukuoka Airport are said to be wearing outdated costumes, hair tied in a bun, and white masks.But the woman in front of him was wearing a white suit, bell-bottom pants, sunglasses, and her hair was cut short. She was a completely different person. "You live in Fukuoka, so what are you doing in Fukuoka?" Yabe changed the subject. "Teaching. Isn't it okay?" "No. Then why did you settle in Brazil?" "I don't have good memories in Japan. Anyway, you have investigated my situation. I have been in a mental hospital. Isn't it natural for me to leave this Japan and go to the free and vast Brazil?" "You have a very interesting necklace, too. Is that the key?" "Yes. A key that won't open any lock." "Before this, did you hang a detonator or something there? When you traveled to Southeast Asia." "You mean a detonator?" "Yes, the detonator for the plastic bomb." "I'm a woman, would I treat such unrefined things as jewelry?" Zhuo Jiang laughed with a "puchi". Futaba Zhuojiang could not be detained without any evidence, so she had to be released as a last resort. Soon, came an unfortunate news. Hideo Makino flew to Brazil from Haneda five days ago.