Chapter 9 Chapter 9: Dead bodies connected in series

A murderous heavy rain poured down from the sky like a ghost. People hid in the center of their homes and waited in fear for the passing of the heavy rain like the roar of God. On August 10, this year's super typhoon passed the Izu Islands and Hachijo Island and continued to move northward. Now it is approaching the south coast of Kanto and heading straight for the capital circle. Affected by the typhoon, the Kanto and Tokai areas have been raining continuously since the afternoon. In the mountainous areas in the southwestern part of Kanto, with Tanzawa as the center, heavy rain of 200 to 300 millimeters fell until evening. A record 70mm of rain fell in one hour.The Shinkansen and Tokaido Railways in Shizuoka Prefecture were forced to suspend operations. In addition, railways and highways in Gunma, Kanagawa and other places have also been interrupted.

The intensity of this rain not only shuddered those who had experienced it before, but also terrified those who encountered it for the first time. In Zama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, which is under the frontal attack of heavy rain, people are even more panicked. The entire jurisdiction of Zama City extends from the west of the Sagamihara Highlands to the left bank of the Sagami River.The Sagami River originates from Lake Yamanaka in Yamanashi Prefecture and is the largest river in Kanagawa Prefecture. After the war, the construction of Sagami Reservoir and Shiroyama Reservoir played an important role in flood control and flood discharge. Later, a series of multi-purpose utilization and transformation of the embankment was carried out to further improve the flood control effect.

Residents along the coast, however, are increasingly concerned about the rising water levels of the Sagami River. In the middle of the night, the typhoon crossed the east coast of the Izu Peninsula and made landfall near Odawara City.The typhoon after landing did not weaken at all due to friction with the land. On the contrary, the typhoon still passed the western part of Tokyo, Saitama County, eastern Gunma County, Fukushima and Niigata from the west of Kanagawa Prefecture with strong wind force. Across the mainland of Japan, it blows straight to the Sea of ​​Japan. With the invasion of this strong typhoon, all rivers in the capital circle exceeded the warning water level, and the Ministry of Construction issued a flood warning to residents along the Tama River, Arakawa River, and Sagami River.

The reason why the typhoon did not weaken after it landed was that the trough of low pressure over Japan did not retreat for a long time, and the warm and humid air blowing from the southern sea played a role in fueling the flames. Heavy rain in the area. The water level on the Sagami River, once the most feared flash flood, finally began to drop at dawn, averting the worst. At 7 o'clock in the morning, the citizens of Zama finally breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the news that the typhoon had reached the Sea of ​​Japan.The Sagami River was finally safe and sound, but there was some damage in the mountainous areas in the west of the prefecture, which could not withstand the heavy rain, and a few houses in the low-lying areas of the urban area were flooded.

After seven o'clock, people living in Shitaya, Kurihara, Zama City suddenly felt a terrible shock, and then heard a thunderous roar, which passed after a while. People looked at each other not knowing what happened.The soil layer in this area is a loam layer with poor water absorption capacity, and the terrain is uneven in many places.In a sense, this is a frequent occurrence of small-scale subsidence and collapse. On this frequent occurrence, profit-oriented developers have built young altars that ignore safety. People knew that the thunderous roar just now was by no means ordinary. Although it passed away after a while, they didn't know when it would come again.

People ran outside the house one after another. Although the rain had stopped, the chaotic clouds in the sky were still flowing rapidly. It was not as refreshing as the typhoon had just passed, and the sky was still covered with dark clouds. "where?" "It seems to be the place where the land was built over there." "Isn't that where the horizontal tomb was found?" "I heard that human bones were dug up there recently." People gathered together to search for the direction of the sound.Everyone was relieved to hear that the sound came from the construction site of the horizontal tomb, because no houses had been built on the leveled land.However, the edge of the sound will point to the place where he lives at some point.

Some daring people ran to the construction site, and they saw that the corners of the construction site had collapsed, exposing new ground muscles.At the beginning of May, due to the discovery of a horizontal tomb in the middle of the eighth century during the land reclamation process, the Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Committee decided to suspend the project for excavation investigation.After the investigation, the tomb was filled and the land reclamation work continued.The people who arrived were relieved to see that the people and the house were safe and sound. However, an unexpected thing happened.A person who ventured to the edge of the collapsed ground suddenly found a "foreign object" wrapped in the bare ground.

"Look! It looks like a human thigh!" People dubiously looked in the direction of his finger, and it turned out to be a human leg. "Someone must be buried here." "Who would come to such a place?" "I don't know. But it's a human leg." "Could it be a toy man?" No one dared to approach rashly for fear of another collapse.The whole scene was full of discussions.Someone called the police and fire department.After receiving the report, the police and fire stations rushed to the scene. A male corpse was dug up from the scene, proving that the owner of the leg was not a toy man.Judging from the appearance, the deceased was in his fifties, with a strong physique, and was three to four days after his death.

Since the body was buried in the soil, the degree of decay was not too severe.However, judging from the fact that the body was buried in the soil, it was obvious that the collapse was not caused by the heavy rain last night.During the observation, the police found that the back of the deceased's head had blunt impact marks, and they immediately became alert.Judging from the scene, the deceased seemed to be buried here after being hit by a blunt instrument on the back of the head and losing consciousness. That is to say, because of this sudden landslide, the body was thrown in front of people.A dead body was found at the landslide site caused by the typhoon!Suddenly, a thick image of a murder is sketched.

After receiving the report, the County Police Headquarters immediately dispatched personnel from the First Search Section and the Identification Section to the scene.They re-examined the body rigorously, and at the same time conducted a close search of the scene and surrounding objects. The on-site investigation begins with confirming the identity of the deceased.The deceased was dressed in a hemp suit, and the so-called "seven-piece suit" that men often carry was found from him, including wallets, handkerchiefs, pens, lighters, cigarettes, shoehorns, etc. There are nearly 188,000 yen in cash and some business cards in the wallet. The business cards are printed with: Yonekawa Shoji Executive Director and President Yonekawa Takezo, as well as the address of the office and home.

These alone are not enough to prove that the owner of the business card is the deceased.The police immediately contacted her by phone according to the address on the business card, and it was Mrs. Yonechuan who answered the phone.She confirmed that Yone Chuan left the office three days ago, that is, on the night of August 7th, and has not returned home since then. She asked about all the places where Yone Chuan might have gone, but there was no news, so she is preparing to report the crime today. The physical characteristics that Mrs. Yonechuan described on the phone were exactly the same as those of the deceased.Judging from the money and objects on the body of the deceased, the murderer's purpose was obviously not to rob.The fact that the murderer did not hide anything that could prove the identity of the deceased showed that the murderer had full confidence that the body would never be found. If there is no land subsidence caused by the typhoon, I am afraid that the dead will sleep forever in the soil and finally assimilate with the soil.This is a land where the dead are never found. After a while, Mikawa Mizue, the wife of the deceased, arrived.Her wailing confirmed the identity of the deceased.After confirmation by the survivors, the body was handed over to a judicial autopsy. The "Traffic Escape Search Headquarters" of the Odawara Bureau was shocked by the report that the body of Kozo Yonekawa died suddenly and was found.At present, the search headquarters is investigating Yonekawa as the biggest suspect with all its strength.Unexpectedly, Yone Chuan was killed at this time (the possibility of homicide is very high). The search headquarters immediately held a meeting to study countermeasures, and the central issue was whether Yonekawa's death was related to the case currently under investigation.The prevailing opinion is that: "There is another real murderer who ran over the boy to death. He killed Mi Chuan in order to silence him." "That means Yonekawa knows who the real murderer is." "Perhaps Yonekawa is also an accomplice. Yonekawa was also in the car when the murderer's car ran over the boy to death. Yonekawa asked the murderer to bury the boy's body in Shihei, Hakone." "But why did he let such a dangerous corpse be buried in his own land?" "Because he is sure the body will not be found. He wants to use his land to seize the murderer's weakness to achieve the purpose of permanent blackmail." "Even if Yone Chuan wants to make a fortune, the murderer doesn't have to do it right away." "The murderer already knows that we are after Mi Chuan." "Wait! Wait! It's too early to connect Yone Chuan with the case! Yone Chuan has a lot of bad deeds, and it's possible that it was done by other people who hate him." "Who else is there?" "Is there an old gentleman in archaeology? I heard that he and Mi Chuan had a great time investigating Gong Shiping's ruins." "But Yone Chuan is the one who suffers from the investigation of the ruins! Due to the investigation of the ruins, not only the project plan has been disrupted, but also the investigation fee has to be paid. He has lost his army after accompanying his wife." "It cannot be said that Mr. Scholar has no motive because of this. If the landlord insists on objecting, the investigation will not go smoothly." "How is the old gentleman's wife?" "That's the most beautiful woman in the world." "The two seem to be quite different in age." "It cannot be ruled out that she has another man." "When it comes to Mr. Scholar and his wife, it's complicated." The venue fell silent.If Yone Chuan was killed by "someone else", it would be equivalent to saying that he died before his suspicions were clarified at all.If Yonekawa is indeed as guilty as suspected, it means that the search headquarters "lost the target". It is impossible for the search headquarters to survive without its target.If the disbandment of the search headquarters is neither because of catching the murderer (cracking the case) nor because of falling into the maze (difficult to solve the case), but because of losing the target, this kind of disbandment means giving up halfway.A dissolution that is neither a victory nor a defeat will never find peace in the scout's mind.Whenever possible, try to avoid this form of dissolution. "It is unlikely that other people will commit crimes," Chuan Sheng said. "What is your basis for saying that?" Everyone focused their attention. "The timing is too coincidental. If we don't do it sooner or later, we will do it when we are eyeing Yone Chuan and are about to subpoena him. Although other people may also have a coincidence in time, that kind of coincidence is very small." "Is there such a possibility?" Iwamura stood up. "We assume that the man who was with Mrs. Yonekawa is the real murderer, perhaps Mr. Anyangji. Yonekawa knew about this and blackmailed him. If this is the case, there is a double motive." "But the old man and Mrs. Yonegawa both have commemorative badges!" "About whether there is a commemorative medal, things are different from before Yonekawa was killed. Our original assumption is valid. Anyang Temple can borrow it from his student Jin Jing." "What about Mizue Yonekawa?" "From her husband." "Yone Chuan? That means Yone Chuan is willing to risk his own suspicion to protect his wife who may have an affair with others." "If he knows who the real murderer is, even if he is temporarily suspected, his own safety is fine. I don't know if he knows about the real murderer's affair with his wife. However, even if he knows, it will become a double-edged scheme for him to blackmail the murderer. Weapons. If the wife is an accomplice in the hit-and-run, once the wife is caught, the murderer will also be caught, so that the sweet juice can no longer be sucked. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that he lent his wife his medal The possibility of shielding her." Iwamura's statement feels far-fetched, full of a kind of prayer that can't lose the goal by all means. According to the results of the autopsy, the cause of death of the deceased was brain injury caused by a blunt instrument blow to the head. The time of death was presumed to be four days before the autopsy, that is, from the evening of August 7 to the morning of August 8. The nature of the death was homicide. There are traces of hitting with a hammer-like blunt instrument. So far, the Zama Bureau has established a search headquarters.Almost at the same time, the "Hit and Run Search Headquarters" of the Odawara Bureau called, saying that the deceased Yonegawa Takezo was a major suspect that the department was investigating so far. "Zama" conducted research on the relationship between this case and "Odawara". As a real estate operator, the deceased seemed to have done a lot of shady things.He often fabricates deceitful advertisements to sell remote wilderness and northern slopes to others, and forges seals to defraud other people's land when the owner does not know it, and then resells it to an uninformed third party.So far, he has committed three previous convictions, and there are countless others that have not been discovered. So he attracted resentment from many quarters.Internally, the police "connect" the cases in their own jurisdiction with those in other jurisdictions, and no one is willing to deal with such cases.This tendency is especially stronger among the prefectural police departments, and it cannot be denied that each department has a sense of "only solving within its own jurisdiction".Because once it is "connected" with other jurisdictions, it is no longer "one's own case", at least it cannot be handled "independently". As "Zama", it is natural to avoid the "connection" with "Odawara". Based on the results of the autopsy, the first search meeting was held, at which the current course was decided: 1. Find the murder weapon and search the scene again; 2. Look for witnesses; 3. Investigate the whereabouts of the deceased; 4. Investigate the motive of the murderer; 5. Investigate the surroundings of the deceased. According to this policy, the investigation will be conducted as a "separate case" that has nothing to do with "Odawara" for the time being. Iwamura and Kawakatsu of "Odawara" always had a strong suspicion that they could not be separated from "Zama" during the investigation process.If it is related to "Zama", it means that the actions of "Odawara" have already posed a threat to the murderer, which means that the direction of investigation so far is correct. It was Eiichiro Anyangji who was fiercely opposed to Takezo Yonekawa during his lifetime.There may be other opponents, but the one we know now is Anyangsa Temple.Anyang Temple was temporarily excluded as a suspect in the hit-and-run case because of the medal. However, in the case of Yone Chuan's murder, he was in the closest position.Because of this, the medallion that originally proved his innocence was also painted with a strong color of "borrowed things".Akimaro Kanai is the lender of the medal. In order to find out this point, Iwamura Kawakatsu decided to visit Jinjing again.Jinjing squatted in the university's research room every day to sort out the cards of the site investigation.Iwamura and Kawakatsu have met him in Hakone, so they are no strangers. In a room with poor lighting, there are pots, pottery, jade, pottery figurines unearthed from various places, and scraps of iron and stone from unknown objects.Maybe every item has an extraordinary story, which the police don't know and don't want to know.There is air conditioning in the room, but the quaint atmosphere inside makes people feel a gloomy chill. The two sides exchanged greetings since the farewell, and then turned to the main topic. "Today we are here because of Mi Chuangang. He was killed and his body has been found. Do you know?" "Understood. I saw it in the newspaper. I didn't expect it!" "I heard that the relationship between Mr. Anyoji and Yonekawa is very tense around the investigation of Yonekawa's land in Hakone, isn't it?" "Yonekawa was indeed very negative about the investigation at the beginning, but in the end he gave in and the investigation proceeded as scheduled." "I heard that Yonekawa suffered a considerable loss for this." "Although the development continued as usual after the investigation, it is also true that the plan was disrupted." "What will happen if the landlord firmly opposes it?" "According to my experience, they will generally give in. If the land is a well-known ancient site clearly marked on the distribution map of the site, the administrative agency will always intervene in order to make the excavation and investigation go smoothly, so the landlord will not insist on objecting Everyone knows that the land of Michuan is on the ancient ruins." "Is the investigation almost over?" "The preliminary investigation of the site has been completed, and now it is undergoing post-processing. This requires a lot of manpower and material resources just like the excavation investigation." "Does what is unearthed belong to the landlord?" "According to the Lost Property Management Law, unearthed objects must be reported to the public security department. If it is signed as a cultural relic and the original owner cannot be found, it will be owned by the state. If it is signed to prove that it is a thousand years ago, it will be temporarily entrusted to the discoverer for safekeeping. " "Even if ancient coins are unearthed, don't they belong to the landlord?" "First, the public security department will go through the necessary announcement procedures to find out who the original owner is, and it will not be directly returned to the landlord. If it is a precious ancient coin, it is generally treated as a cultural relic. Among the unearthed items handed over to the country, all of them are kept as state preservation. If the property is divided by the head of the Cultural Agency, certain compensation will be given to the discoverer and the landlord. Items that have no value in preservation by the state will be preserved by the discoverer and the landlord, but generally they are kept by public institutions in the form of entrusted custody.” "So the landlord has no right to speak?" "How should I put it, only those cultural relics with low value and no original owner can be owned by the landlord." "Did Gong Shiping find anything of value?" "A lot of pottery from the middle Jomon period was unearthed." "That should be congratulations." While hesitant to congratulate on such an occasion, the policeman continued to ask: "What about the land after the survey?" "Generally not moving until the results of the investigation are out." "why?" "Depending on the results of the investigation, there may be a partial or full freeze and the developer cannot carry out development operations." "Will the Gongshiping ruins be sealed?" "It's hard to say now." "That is to say, if it is sealed, Yonekawa can only change the development plan." "I'm afraid so." "Who decides whether to seal or not?" "The collective research decided that the people who participated in the research included Mr. Anyangsi and our investigators, as well as people from the Education Commission, the Cultural Affairs Bureau and other departments." "Do you think Anyang Temple will hate Mi Chuan first?" The police got to the heart of the matter. "Sir? It should be the other way around!" "You mean Yonekawa hates Mr. Anyangji?" "Because it was the excavation and investigation that caused Yonekawa to suffer heavy losses. I heard Yonekawa say that when he could build a house and make a lot of money, he had to conduct an investigation. If the capital turnover did not come back, the company was about to go bankrupt." "But Mr. Anyangsi is not the only one who has the final say on the investigation. He is just a signboard. It is useless to hate him." "Will Yone Chuan commit suicide?" "Judging from the condition of the body, it is impossible to commit suicide." "It is true that the relationship between Mr. and Yonekawa is tense over the land survey, but it is impossible to say that Mr. hates Yonekawa." "Have you found Mr. Kanai's commemorative medal from your trip to Europe?" Confronted with Jin Jing, who kept defending Anyang Temple, the police changed the subject. "I thought I lost it, but it turned out to be in a desk drawer." "You won't lend it to Mr. Anyang Temple?" "Why should I..." Jin Jinggang seemed to realize the intention of the police halfway through his speech, and his expression immediately became serious. "How? Tell us the truth?" Faced with the police's questioning, Kanai forced himself to smile: "Haha, how could I do that kind of thing?! Mister wouldn't make that kind of request. If he said to lend him the medal, wouldn't that be tantamount to declaring himself a murderer? The point is that Mister doesn't know if I still have any." .If you don’t believe me, I can lend you this one of mine, you take this and ask Mr. to give you his, wouldn’t it be clear at a glance?” Kanai said as he opened the drawer and took out a familiar Yamagata medal. "Then let's keep it for you for a while." Chuan Sheng reached out and took the medal.He wanted to collect the medals as much as possible, to block the possibility of mutual borrowing between Anyang Temple and other people and suspects, and reduce the complexity of the case. "But don't you think your guess is too outrageous? Why do you want to tell Mi Chuan..." Kanai just realized something stopped in the middle of his speech, which made people feel unnatural. "What do you seem to know?" Iwamura asked without hesitation. "No, I don't know anything." Jin Jing hastily concealed his words. "Mr. Jinjing, if you insist on covering up and covering up, not only will you not be able to help the old man, but you will cause trouble for the old man. You trust your teacher very much, right! If this is the case, you should tell everything!" Faced with Iwamura's persuasion, Kanai seemed a little hesitant. "Maybe I'm worrying too much." "Whether you worry too much or not is up to us to judge. It doesn't matter anything, just talk!" As if Iwamura had dispelled his worries, Kanai straightened his body. "Then I'll say it. Sir asked me to follow madam." "Tracking Mrs. Anyang Temple?" "Yes. Mister has always been suspicious of Madam. That day I saw Madam go on a date with Yonekawa at Hotel P in Akasaka." "What you said is true?" Faced with this unexpected new situation, the policeman suddenly regained his spirits. "I saw it with my own eyes. They got the keys at the front desk, and then they walked to the room together." "When did that happen?" "Late May." "Are you sure they entered the same room?" "Then I can't be sure, but I saw the two of them get the keys at the front desk and get into the elevator together." "Have you told sir about this?" "told." The policeman pondered what this might mean. There is an affair between Anyangji's wife and Yonekawa Kozo, and Anyangji is well aware of it.Since he asked his students to monitor, it means that he has suspected his wife's infidelity for a long time. So far, Eiichiro Anyangji has appeared on the search network as a major suspect. "However, based on this alone, it is too far-fetched to say that Mr. Mi Chuan's hand was taken. Mr. is not a person who does that kind of thing. First of all, it is impossible in terms of physical strength. Mr. is sixty-eight years old, old and weak, and Yonekawa is only fifty-two or thirty-three years old, and he is at the peak of his energy. Mister is not his opponent at all." Kanai tried to defend Anyangji as if regretting his extraneous slip of the tongue. Although Yasuke Takuyuki was ruled out of suspicion in the hit-and-run case, he reappeared in the police's field of vision in the Yonekawa murder case. Bashu returned to China as scheduled on August 3, so the incident on August 7 is entirely possible for him. Regarding whether there was any proof of alibi that night, Ba Shu accepted the police summons. He said that he worked alone in Ozer's studio that night, but he couldn't produce evidence to prove it. When he was working, no one could get close to him. This was originally Bashun's way of working, but a murder happened during this period, so he couldn't prove his alibi. On the other hand, if Bashu is not the murderer and the real murderer knows that Bashu was alone in the studio that night, he can completely pretend to be Bashu and take away his alibi. "Excuse me, is this Mr.'s work?" Police produced a necklace found at the scene of the hit-and-run. Eight beams took it and observed it casually, and then said truthfully: "It's my work." "Do you know who bought it?" "This is my gift to Mrs. Yone Chuan." "But Madam said it wasn't hers." "Maybe she didn't want to trouble me and deliberately concealed it!" "But why do you give away such a high-end thing?" "Do you need to ask? Because I have a crush on her! That's all. Is it strange for a man to give a gift to a woman he has a crush on?" "If others know that it was sent by the husband, why would they bother him?" "Because my work is not owned by me, it is all owned by the gem company run by my wife. So strictly speaking, I took the company's products privately. And my wife doesn't want her husband to know about this and be suspected for no reason. .” Yashu's answer was impeccable. The relationship between Yashu and Ruizhi has not been confirmed.The investigators often smell suspicious smells with their professional sense of smell, but they still haven't found a breakthrough in the end.