Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen Another Motivation

At 6:30 am on September 26, Nagano came to the "parking lot", and the scene in front of him made him very angry.I saw a small car parked at the entrance and exit of the parking lot, blocking the passage tightly.He came back around ten o'clock last night. The car wasn't there at that time, maybe it came in later. This vacant lot was bought by a big bank in the city for its employees to build houses. It has been idle for several years, and over time it has become a free parking lot for nearby residents.The people who park here are regular customers who live in the surrounding area, and the location is generally fixed. Although "outsiders" come in from time to time, they only stop for a while.

This car is also an outsider who just saw this morning.However, it is too lack of public morals to park in front of other people's cars in such a large open space next to it. Yong Yejiu suppressed the fire and looked into the car. There was a person lying on the front seat of the car, who seemed to have parked the car here and fell asleep. "Hey! Move over! Do you hear me? My car is blocked!" Nagano yelled through the window.But the people in the car didn't seem to hear it. "This is the passage! The cars inside can't get out!" Nagano knocked on the car door.But he still lay motionless.

Although it is a free parking lot, there must be a first come, first served!But this man grotesquely parked the car on the passage and pretended to be asleep.What a thick-skinned guy!Nagano cursed in his heart. Yong Ye, who was already impatient, couldn't help getting angry.If you procrastinate any longer, it will be late for work.The place to go today is far away in the suburbs. If you are late, you will lose your reputation, and the customer will never come again next time. Yong Ye kicked the car door with his foot.He thought that if he didn't, maybe this cheeky intruder would never wake up for the rest of his life.Unexpectedly, as soon as he kicked it, the person in the car fell down with a plop.

This prank is too much!While thinking about it, Yongye looked into the car again, the moment he touched the face of the person in the car, Yongye was stunned.The face of the person lying down in the car was swollen to a maroon color, obviously not the face of a living person. Yongye yelled subconsciously, and his two legs were frozen there as if he had lost consciousness.Suddenly, a car horn sounded in my ears, and the neighbor's car parked next to me drove out.Yong Ye suddenly came back to his senses. "No, it's not good!" "What happened?" The neighbor poked his head out of the car.

"There's a dead car among people." The neighbor got out of the car and looked in through the window. "Ah! Really!" After receiving the 110 call, the police car from the local police station arrived first.Almost at the same time, the police car of the patrol team also arrived. The site is located in a vacant lot a little south of Ome Street in Honmachi 2-chome XX, Nakano District. The vacant lot is owned by a bank and has been vacant for many years.There is a sign on the edge of the land, which says "land for the construction of staff dormitories". The body was in a small car, which was lying across the entrance and exit of the parking lot.The deceased was a man in his thirties, with marks on his neck from being strangled by a rope.

The first step is to ascertain the identity of the deceased.According to the vehicle inspection certificate left in the car and the driver's license carried by the deceased, it was learned that the deceased was named Akimaro Kanai, lived at No. 30 Wada 2-chome, Suginami-ku, and was an associate professor at Shukokan University.While notifying the family members, the corpse and the surrounding area were inspected. According to preliminary investigation results: five to eight hours after the death of the deceased, the death was due to strong oppression and suffocation by someone strangling the neck with a rope.According to eyewitnesses, the car was not there at ten o'clock last night, so it is preliminarily determined that the car involved drove to the scene between ten o'clock last night and eight and a half hours after the body was found.

It is difficult to determine whether the deceased was killed at the scene or transported to the scene after being killed elsewhere.The site is surrounded by high walls of apartments, just in a dead corner of the city. There were no signs of struggle on the body of the deceased or in the car. Judging from the condition of the body, the murderer took advantage of the opportunity to talk with the deceased after parking the car and waited for an opportunity to strike.The murderer was most likely someone who knew the deceased.The strangle marks on the neck are enough to show the murderer's ruthlessness.

After the identification of the wife of the deceased who came later, the identity of the deceased was confirmed. So far, it has been confirmed as a homicide, and the Nakano Bureau has established a search headquarters.An autopsy was performed on the body that day. Based on the results of the anatomy, the following inferences were drawn: "The cause of death was suffocation caused by the compression of the neck by the rope. The time of death was ten to fifteen hours before the autopsy, that is, between ten o'clock in the afternoon and three o'clock in the morning the previous day." The results of the autopsy confirmed that the initial examination results were correct.

According to the wife of the deceased: "My husband left the house at around ten o'clock in the morning on the 25th. He said he was going to the university research office. When he left, he didn't say that he would not go home at night. In the past, he would tell me first when he stayed out overnight, so I was very worried. I missed him. There are no enemies outside." After asking the university, they replied that Kanai had no classes that day and had been in the office from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm to sort out Gong Shiping's investigation results.According to the confirmation of the guard at the gate, Jin Jing was seen driving away from the school around 4:30 in the afternoon. Jin Jing was alone in the car at that time.

Akimaro Kanai graduated from the History Department of Shukokan University, and later married the daughter of Eiichiro Anyoji.Due to the excavation of several famous sites, he has become the young and promising backbone of the archaeological field.It is an indisputable fact that Anyang Temple will be replaced by Jinjing after retirement. Although Kanai Nouyu today relies on the support of Anyang Temple, through his own independent investigation, he put forward new insights that stone tools and pottery in the late Jomon period were used as agricultural tools, and classified them one by one.In comparison with the Korean peninsula and mainland China, through the analysis of the seeds of cultivated crops, the theory that it was used in paddy and land farming was proposed from an archaeological point of view, thus establishing its position in the academic world.Soon he will be promoted to professor, but unexpectedly he is brutally killed.He has a very good popularity in the school and enjoys a high reputation among the students.

The news of Akimaro Kanai's murder shocked "Zama" and "Odawara".Jin Jing's killing made the cases they were responsible for lose important clues. Jin Jing was an important suspect in the murder of Yone Chuan, and his killing was probably the real murderer's attempt to kill people.In other words, Kanai probably knew who the murderer of Yonekawa was. "Zama" and "Odawara" urgently held a joint meeting to discuss countermeasures regarding the recent successive killings of important suspects.Although the search headquarters established between the two agencies has adopted a quasi-joint system, it has never taken any real joint action. However, because the important suspect that the two search headquarters jointly pursued was killed in the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police Department, they had to sit together whether they wanted to or not.The Kanagawa prefectural police and the Metropolitan Police Department have always looked down upon each other. Although the relationship between the two has improved to some extent due to the implementation of the "110 Centralized Management System for the Metropolitan Police", the two sides on both sides of the Tama River are still sworn enemies. Face each other across the river. Now that the scope of the search has spread to the Metropolitan Police Department, the previous approach of "Zama" and "Odawara" will not work. "Yone Chuan and Jin Jing were killed one after another. Is this a series of crimes committed by the same murderer or independent cases that have nothing to do with each other?" Discussions have focused on this issue from the outset. "Let's start with a brief review of the previous search process. This case started when a young man named Masaki Hiyama was hit and killed. His body was found in Gongshiping, and a souvenir badge of his European travel was also found at the scene. Therefore, members of the tour group were investigated as suspects. According to whether there was a medal and whether he was familiar with the scene environment, Yonekawa Kozo appeared in the field of vision of the search, and later Yonekawa was suddenly killed in Zama City." "Yonekawa had an improper relationship with Anyangji Noriko before his death, and later discovered that Anyangji Noriko had an ambiguous relationship with Umeya Yunobu, so Umeya came into our sight, but he only admitted to hit and run and abandoned the body, but denied killing Yonekawa In the case of Yonekawa's murder, Meigu has an alibi." "According to the stone tools discovered by Ueno and Hanaoka later, Anyang Temple and Jinjing were revealed, but Anyang Temple was excluded due to age and physical strength, so only Jinjing was left. Although Jinjing is regarded as the murderer It seems far-fetched, but since Jinjing and Mizue Yonegawa are both fellow countrymen and classmates, his suspicion can basically be determined. Although the relationship between Jinjing and Mizue Yonegawa has not been confirmed, it is conceivable that the reunion on the trip to Europe will make their old love come true. for further catalysis." "Just as we were calling for the arrest of Kanai, he was killed. Is the murder of Kanai the murderer who killed Yonekawa? Or another murderer who has nothing to do with this? Please express your opinion." The head of the first search section of the headquarters, who presided over the meeting, made a brief summary of the past search situation, and then turned his attention to everyone.After a brief silence, Ueno from "Zama" broke the silence first. "As a young scholar, Kanai has a bright future, and he has a high reputation among the students. No relationship between men and women has been found in him. Although it cannot be concluded that he is a clean and honest person, one thing is certain, that is, he He was not reviled by everyone like Yone Chuan. It can be considered that his death has nothing to do with Yone Chuan's killing." After Ueno finished speaking, Iwamura of "Odawara" stood up. "I agree with Ueno-kun. Obviously, there is no relationship between the killing of Yonekawa and the hit-and-run or the abandonment of the body and the killing of Yonekawa. According to Meigu's confession, it can be considered that the killing of Yonekawa has nothing to do with the Hiyama Masayoshi case. It is dangerous to directly link killing with Yonekawa." Iwamura's opinion is exactly the position adopted by "Zama" at the beginning.According to Umegu's confession, the case that "Odawara" was responsible for can basically be declared over, and the reason why the search headquarters has not been disbanded now is because the relationship with "Zama" cannot be severed.It can be said that Iwamura's opinion betrayed the position of "Odawara". "The opinions from all sides are reasonable, but if the suspects are limited to members of the tour group, then the suspects will naturally be limited to death." "Zama" said the director.Then, Tanaka from the First Search Division sent by the headquarters stood up. "A total of nine people participated in the European tour. Two of them have been killed, which means that the murderer is among the remaining seven people. If Jinjing's murder is related to the Yonekawa case, then there is an alibi for the Yonekawa murder case. can be ruled out.” "Eiichiro Anyangji wouldn't kill his son-in-law with his own hands, would he?" Director "Odawara" expressed his opinion for the first time. "Judging from Jin Jing's anatomy, there are deep strangle marks on his neck. It can be concluded that the murderer struck with great force." Shimizu from "Odawara" made supplements to the director's statement. "It can't be done by a woman. If the wives of Anyangji, Yonekawa, and Umeya are excluded, Takuyuki Yagi is the only one left!" The head of the first search class summarized everyone's opinions. "There is also a travel agency accompanying the members of the tour group, but the travel agency's escort cannot have a motive for killing. He is just doing routine work according to the company's arrangement. In this way, there is only Takuyuki Yatsuyuki left. The motive is that his adultery with Mrs. Yonegawa was discovered first. Yonekawa found out that he was blackmailed by Yonekawa and killed Yonekawa, and later Jinjing found out about the killing of Yonekawa, so he killed Jinjing again in order to silence him." Director Zama further develops his Masari. "But I still don't understand." Regarding Director Zama's opinion, Tanaka interjected cautiously.Tanaka used to be a policeman in the Atsugi Bureau, but was later promoted to the first search section of the headquarters because of the appreciation from above. "Please say." Director Zama turned his head to Tanaka. "If Ba Bean is the murderer, he would not ignore the consequences of doing so before committing the crime. Why would he take the risk when he knows that he will be suspected if he does so?" "Maybe it's because Jinjing's existence threatens his interests. Jinjing has always been considered the biggest suspect in killing Yonegawa, so if he knows that Yasuke did it, he will also report him out of self-defense considerations." Director Zama is still stubborn in his reasoning. "But he didn't report on Yashu. Unlike Yonekawa, Jinjing didn't show signs of blackmailing Yashu. Killing Jinjing is equivalent to putting a shackle around his own neck." Tanaka retorted. "Bashu firmly believes that the motive will not be discovered." Hanaoka from "Zama" joined in. "Isn't the motive being that Jinjing knew about killing Yonegawa?" Director Zama asked Hanaoka who helped him out. "As a possibility, I would like to draw attention to it. Kanai and Yasuke have always been the two most suspected people in the case of Yonekawa's murder. In this case, if Jinjing is killed, Yasuke will be suspected immediately. This even the child I know it all. I doubt Yasuke is the murderer who killed Jinjing. He knew that he was suspected and he still wanted to do it. This only shows that his motives are in other aspects and have nothing to do with killing Yonekawa." "You mean his motive was not to kill Yone Chuan?" "I think he had other motives for killing Kanai." "That means it wasn't Bashu who killed Jinjing?" "yes." "Then who killed Yonekawa?" If Kanai, who is the suspect in the killing of Yonekawa, is killed, there will be only Yasuke left. Hanaoka's new insights immediately aroused everyone's interest. "I think it was Kanai who killed Yonekawa. The motive was that he had an affair with Mizue Yonekawa and was blackmailed by Yonekawa when he was discovered by Yonekawa. The same motive also applies to Yasuke, but Yatsu will not continue knowing that he will be suspected. Committing the crime. If Yashu is the murderer who killed Jinjing, I don’t think it was because of the secret relationship with Mrs. Yonechuan and the obvious motive of killing Yonechuan and being discovered by Jinjing, there must be other extraordinary motives hidden.” "You mean that there were two murders with quite different motives among the members of the Orient Journey?" Director Zama asked in surprise.The others also showed surprised expressions. "That possibility cannot be ruled out." Hanaoka limited the people related to the case to the members of Journey to the East, but at the same time claimed that there was no relationship between the two cases.This is an acceptable explanation for "Kanagawa".This is mostly influenced by Iwamura. "What is the so-called extraordinary motive?" the head of the first search section asked. "It's not clear yet. But since Yashu decided to attack Jinjing, I don't think it was because of that obvious motive. At least it had nothing to do with the killing of Yone Chuan, nor was it because of the discovery of the secret relationship with Mrs. Yone Chuan. If he really If Kanai was killed with this motive, it would be no different from suicide." Hanaoka's speech defended Director Zama's claim and at the same time supported Tanaka's opinion from the perspective of motivation. Finally, it was decided to prepare a joint report based on the above opinions and report to Tokyo.