Chapter 12 Chapter 12 The Foundation of Reunion

Recently, Akimaro Kanai has always felt that there are a pair of invisible eyes staring at him, and his every move is under the surveillance of these eyes all the time, and it hovers around him like a ghost. He followed the orders of Eiichiro Anyangji to monitor Noriko's whereabouts, and found out the relationship between Noriko and Yonekawa. Unexpectedly, Umeya Yunobu was hidden behind Yonekawa. Eiichiro suspects that an X has robbed Noriko, and entrusts Kanai with the task of investigating X.However, before Kanai could find out the X, Umegu appeared in the sight of the police. Eiichiro suspects that X killed Yonekawa.However, Mei Gu denied that he had killed Yone Chuan in the face of the police investigation, and provided an alibi.

If Umegu is ruled out, Jinjing is next in doubt. From the beginning of the incident, the suspects related to the case were limited to members who participated in the European tour.As suspects are killed one after another, the number of remaining suspects becomes smaller and smaller, and the scope of suspicion shrinks accordingly. Jin Jing felt more and more uneasy, as if a big net was slowly tightening around him.What's more, the ax was found at the scene where Yonekawa was killed, and Kanai was the commander in chief of the excavation and investigation there, so he was very familiar with the surrounding environment.

Jin Jing felt that the police had targeted him in the search.But the eyes he felt recently were obviously not from the sight of the police, but from a deeper and farther place, which made him shudder.If he knew who he was, he could take precautions, but he didn't know anything, so he could do nothing but wait for death. Who is that ghost watching him?For what purpose?Jin Jing is in a restless fantasy every day. Ever since he felt the ghostly eyes, he has been careful not to let the other party catch his own shortcomings, but has his own shortcomings really not been discovered? "I didn't expect Noriko and Umeya to stick together." Eiichiro said to Kanai.

Now that he knows who X is and his wife's current situation, Eiichiro seems much more relaxed. "What are you going to do in the future?" Jin Jing asked. "What do you mean?" "I mean ma'am." "It's nothing to do. After this incident, maybe she will cherish it a little bit!" "Not to divorce her?" "What's the use of divorce?" "You are so generous!" Kanai said sarcastically.The leader of the archaeological world has lost all face in front of his young wife. "I can't help myself! Age is not forgiving! At my current age, there are some things that can't be taken seriously if I want to live with that kind of woman. As long as Zezi is not an accomplice, thank God!"

"Mei Gu and Yone Chuan also paid the price." "That's right! Yone Chuan lost his life, and Mei Gu is no different from death. They did it on their own. But if Mei Gu wasn't the murderer, then who killed Yone Chuan?" "yes." "The police seem to suspect me too." "No way!" "Because I have sufficient motives. I know the situation at the scene. If you want to talk about the situation at the scene, you also know it! Could it be you?" "Stop joking! Why did I kill Yone Chuan?" "Don't take it seriously! Speaking of it, I still have to thank the murderer! It's good that a pest like him in society is dead, I don't know how many bad things he has done!"

"Don't say that to the police!" "Why have you been avoiding me recently?" Suddenly asked by his wife, Jin Jing didn't know how to answer for a while. "No, no wow!" The words that finally popped out also seemed to lack confidence. "Really? But you don't come home very often these days. It's never been this long before." Noriko vented her dissatisfaction with not having a married life for a long time. "Work is too busy." "Weren't you busy before?" "The nature of the job is different!" "You don't have anything to hide from me, do you?"

"Nonsense, nonsense! What am I hiding from you?!" "That's good. I just think there's been something wrong with you lately." "You doubt me?" "I'm worried about your health. It's normal for you to worry about being a wife after you haven't been home for a long time. The house is almost full of cobwebs." Although she said so, her eyes were full of suspicion. "I'm sorry! I'll issue a health certificate tonight." "Forget about the formality." "How is this a formal thing? I am always sincere!"

"If you do something to be sorry to me, I can't forgive you!" "I know!" Noriko seems to have noticed something with his wife's intuition.Kanai couldn't help feeling the wet underarms, maybe the eyes he felt recently were the private detectives hired by his wife?Kanai is surrounded by a sense of dread that she already knows everything.Could it be that she already knows everything and is still playing with the prey in her hands? But if she knew Jin Jing's secret, she would never finish the matter with such a sarcasm. With her character, she would definitely yell and make a fuss.

In any case, he can have what he is today because of his marriage with Kiko and the relationship with Eiichiro Anyangji.Without Anyangji Eiichiro, perhaps he is still a wandering "archaeological ronin" who can only rely on working for others when there are archaeological excavations.The position of Anyang Temple will be taken over by Jin Jing, which is already a consensus among the public.However, the current offense against Longyan is likely to make past efforts fall short.He couldn't offend his wife for this. Everything went well before, but I didn't expect something to go wrong here.In the future, we must be more careful to leave enough time for married life.If the wife notices it in this place, it will be an out-and-out "planting".

Jin Jing warned himself.But if the ghostly eyes didn't come from the wife, where did they come from?Jin Jing became more and more uneasy. When he came out of the hotel bar, Kanai passed someone.This is a tall middle-aged man, wearing a well-made black suit.He had a generous and gentle appearance, but the heavily scratched side face when he passed by made people feel a compelling coldness.Although he just passed by, Jinjing felt that he had seen this face somewhere before, so he couldn't help but look back, but the man walked straight into the bar without looking back. It is impossible to go back and confirm the memory that has been blurred, and the other party's memory may also be blank.

Such things are often encountered in daily life, maybe it is people with the same appearance.Thinking of this, Jin Jing walked towards the gate of the hotel, and when he was already halfway through the revolving door, he suddenly remembered the place he had seen with the "black suit" just now. That was when I followed Noriko to Akasaka P Hotel.It was the same guy I had met on my way out of the bar, wearing a well-fitting moss-green suit. That's right!it's him!However, when I think about it carefully, there seems to be a layer of memory under the reappeared memory: I had a feeling of deja vu with him at that time. It was not very far away that I had met somewhere before the two accidental encounters.A total of three encounters could not have been accidental.If not by chance, then what was his intention? Kanai was thinking hard, and his lingering eyes recently overlapped with the eyes of the man who passed by in the hotel bar. That's right!It is these eyes that monitor oneself!Thinking of this, Jin Jing immediately turned back and walked back to the hotel.He walked into the bar where he came out just now, the place where the man sat just now was already empty, looking around, there was not even a shadow. Jin Jing hurriedly asked the waiter where the "black suit" who came in and sat here just now went.The waiter said that he seemed to have remembered something important and went out without ordering anything. "Go out without ordering anything." Kanai wondered what the hell this meant?I walked out of the bar with my front foot and he left with his back foot.He didn't think of any important things at all, and his so-called important things ended when I left. He is the owner of those eyes!But what is the purpose of his surveillance?Who is he?These are still unknown.An air of competence and composure wafting around him indicated that he was by no means an ordinary opponent. The case has a new development.During the investigation of Mizue Yonekawa, it was found that her birthplace was Nirazaki City, Yamanashi Prefecture by checking household registration files. "Kanei Akimaro was born in Nirazaki City. And they live in the same street and graduated from the same middle school." After hearing the reports from Ueno and Hanaoka, the search headquarters suddenly became excited.That is to say, the two people who are both fellow countrymen and alumni met again on a trip to Europe more than ten years later.Moreover, they have kept silent about this hidden affair.It is very possible that a reunion based on a common foundation in the past will allow old passions to sprout new shoots.Why did they hide that past history?Is there any secret between them that cannot be disclosed? "If Kanai and Mizue Yonegawa have a common 'past', it means that they have a basis for their affair. Although there is no evidence of their affair, I think they can be subpoenaed for why they hide their past. " As the conclusion of the director and search director, it was decided to summon Mizue Yonekawa and Akimaro Kanai.The target of the search was originally Mizue Yonekawa, but the common ground between the two of them suddenly made Jinjing stand out. First, Mizue Yonekawa accepted the summons. "You and Kanai are from the same town, right? And you went to the same school." The investigator asked straight to the point. "yes." Ruizhi nodded in acknowledgment. "Why are you hiding this?" "I don't think there is any need to make a special announcement." "Why? Your husband died suddenly, and the wife's position is very delicate. Some of the members of the European tour are both fellow countrymen and classmates. This is a major matter." "I don't want to trouble Kanai." "Trouble? What trouble?" "Such as it is now being investigated by the police for past friendships. Since my husband's death is unclear, I want to avoid attracting people's suspicion as much as possible." "But don't you think about it, if you find out later, won't it lead to greater suspicion?" "Now I think about it, but what I thought about at the time was what was in front of me." "Did your husband know about the history between you and Jinjing before he died?" "I probably don't know." "Why didn't you tell him?" "He is a very jealous person. If he knew that Jin Jing and I knew each other when we were young, I don't know how he would guess! When the tour group reunited, Jin Jing didn't recognize me. After ten years of separation, each Things are different too.” "What is the situation you are talking about?" "That's our personal privacy." Yonekawa Mizue gently avoided the investigator's questioning.Next, Kanai was summoned.Kanai's confession is roughly the same as Yonekawa Mizue's. "I really didn't notice when Ruizhi and I reunited during our trip to Europe. After we separated for more than ten years, Ruizhi's appearance has completely changed. I later found out that it was my classmate Ruizhi, but I didn't think there was any need to publicize it. So Didn't tell anyone else." "When did you know?" "Ruizhi told me at the end of the trip. At that time, she said that she didn't want to arouse her husband's suspicion, so we agreed not to tell others." "Have you two met since returning home?" "No. Because there is nothing special to meet." Through investigation, Jin Jing had an alibi on the night of August 7th.That night, he had a tea party with the students who participated in the excavation of the Gongshiping site until late at night, and several of them were called by him to spend the night at his home. Regarding Mizue Yonekawa, she said she stayed at home that night, but she couldn't produce evidence to prove it. Since the search headquarters accidentally discovered the "common ground" between Kanai and Mizue Yonekawa, it seemed a bit hasty in handling it.Since he summoned himself hastily without any materials that could prove the relationship between the two, the breakthrough that he had finally found was blocked again.Even if they have a relationship, they will raise their vigilance and die down.This is undoubtedly the loss of "Zama" who is eager to grab credit.The search headquarters fell into a gloomy atmosphere.Hanaoka shook his head in surprise. "Is there anything strange?" Hanaoka's partner Ueno asked. "The stone tool that fell on the spot." "You mean the handaxe?" "Hmm! Since this is a precious stone tool that doesn't exist in Japan, I suspected from the beginning that the murderer wanted to pass the blame on to archaeologists and deliberately left it at the scene." "Yes. Now Meigu has disappeared, so the doubts return to the archaeologists." "But if the archaeologist is the murderer, he will never leave that kind of thing at the scene." "So it was inadvertent..." "How can this kind of thing be thrown away carelessly?!" "You say you're not an archaeologist, but who is it?" "Suppose Yonekawa himself has such stone tools?" "Ya Chuan?" "Yes, if Yonekawa had one, it wouldn't be surprising if it fell on the spot." "How could Yonekawa have such a thing?" "What's so strange about that? Maybe it was given by Jinjing or Anyang Temple." "Why is Yonekawa interested in that kind of thing? Besides, if Jinjing gave it to him, why didn't he say anything when we asked him for an appraisal?" "If it is known that it is an ancient stone tool, even if it is not Yonekawa, everyone will be interested. Now it is difficult to say that it was given by Jinjing. Even if the source of the stone tool is Jinjing, because it was dug out from the site where the body was found, it is not the same. It’s good to be straightforward. Besides, if he is the murderer, he won’t say it.” "But he gave such a detailed explanation that day." "Because he knows that if we are confused at his place, we will go to Anyang Temple." "If it's from Jinjing, you'll know when you bring it to Anyang Temple." "Even if he made a false appraisal, he will know sooner or later. Thinking about it now, don't you think his explanation that day was ambiguous?" "I also think so from what you said. He is implying that besides archaeologists, it may also flow into the hands of antique dealers or collectors." "Suppose Yonekawa himself is carrying stone tools, and the murderer is an archaeologist, what do you think?" "If the murderer is an archaeologist and knows that Mi Chuan is carrying it, he will definitely take it away." "But the stone tools remained at the scene." "The murderer didn't hide Yone Chuan's identity." "Because he is not afraid of Yone Chuan's identity being exposed. But he will not keep those things that reveal the murderer. There is no doubt that the murder weapon has been taken away." "In other words, there are stone tools left at the scene, which means that the murderer is not an archaeologist?" "The premise is that Yone Chuan must carry stone tools on him." "Is it possible that the murderer didn't know that Yone Chuan was carrying a stone tool?" "It's possible. It's very likely that the murderer dropped the stone tool from Mi Chuan's pocket while committing the crime, but the murderer didn't notice." "Even so, the perpetrator may be an archaeologist." "No! I still don't think it's an archaeologist." "why?" "Because the scene was investigated by Commander Kanai." "So he is familiar with the terrain there." "He is indeed familiar with the terrain there. But he doesn't know when the site after the investigation will be investigated again." "If the corpse is buried in an ancient tomb and turned into a pile of bones, it will be difficult to distinguish whether it is the human bones of modern people or the human bones of ancient people." "This is the case with unexcavated ancient tombs. If it is an excavated ancient tomb, it is impossible to dig out the human bones of ancient people from it. Didn't Kanai himself make this very clear?" "Would Jinjing know the origin of the stone tool?" Ueno asked as if suddenly enlightened. "You know why you didn't say it?" "He's protecting!" "Protect? Protect who?" "If Kanai wants to defend..." The two swallowed back the words below, and looked at each other tacitly.It is very likely that Kanai knows the origin of this rare stone tool in Japan.He has been doing everything possible to keep its origin away from archaeologists.But where did the stone tool, which was found in the same place as the body, come from?It is condensed with a thick mystery.Although it cannot be concluded that the stone tools must come from the murderer, in order to prevent the police from doubting the origin of the stone tools, he is likely to cover up the origin of the stone tools.