Chapter 14 Chapter 14 "One Hundred Percent Chance" of Reversal

After receiving a report from the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Department, Tokyo re-examined the search plan.So far, the focus of the investigation has been on the surroundings of the deceased, but the intervention of "Kanagawa" brought a new turn to the case.Although everyone thought that it would be quite difficult if the case became a series case related to "Kanagawa", no one can ignore the contribution of "Kanagawa". According to the fact that the deceased let the murderer sit in his car, there was no sign of a fight in the car, and the property was not moved at all, it was inferred that it was done by an acquaintance, and the search direction was placed on people who were close to the deceased, and " The involvement of "Kanagawa" further consolidated this search direction.In this sense, it can be said that "Kanagawa" has made a powerful contribution to the determination of the direction of the search.

Of course, some people in the search headquarters also suggested that they were unwilling to cooperate with "Kanagawa" and wanted to carry out the search in their own direction.In the end, it was decided to temporarily adopt the "two-handed preparation" with "Kanagawa" to carry out the search. First, Yatsutsu Takuyuki was summoned for proof of his alibi on the night of September 25th.Bashu replied that he was working alone in the studio that night.But there is no evidence to prove it. That is to say, Bashu has no alibi. The search stalled.The search headquarters of the Nakano Bureau did not find anything new in the "inseparable two-handed preparation" with "Kanagawa", and time was wasted in vain.

Tokyo did not limit the suspects to the members of Journey to the East like "Kanagawa". They spread a search net from Tokyo's unique perspective, but so far no prey has been caught in the net.The Nasu group of the first investigation section was sent to the investigation headquarters at the Nakano Bureau.Due to no progress in detection, the headquarters was shrouded in a gloomy atmosphere. At this time, the search headquarters received a visit from a mysterious person. The visitor talked with Nasu for a long time, only to see Nasu's slightly closed eyes shooting a tough look.

"Understood! Tell everyone immediately!" After listening to what the visitor said, Nasu said firmly. In the evening of the same day, after the staff of the headquarters returned one after another, all the staff were called together.The visitor was also present at the meeting.After confirming that all the staff are present, Nasu introduced the visitors to everyone: "This is International Police Officer Kaneko Hirohiko sent by Interpol in Paris. Officer Kaneko has brought the latest information about our case. Now, Officer Kaneko speaks." After Nasu finished speaking, the international police officer who was introduced as Kaneko stood up.I saw that his tall figure was burly and strong, and his well-made black suit looked decent and dignified.

"As I have just introduced, my name is Kaneko. Kanai Somaro, who was killed in this jurisdiction on September 25th, is actually a suspect we are looking for." Jin Zi's words caused an uproar below.Nine out of ten cases pursued by Interpol are international cases. Jin Zi waited for everyone to calm down and continued: "I wanted to come earlier, but I was late because the investigation in Japan was not complete. In fact, Kanai is a member of an international art smuggling gang. He smuggled important cultural relics that are prohibited to be brought out under the guise of a scholar. Out of the country, or smuggled in from overseas to sell art to domestic cultural relic dealers to make a profit."

Jin Jin's surprising speech once again aroused the discussion below. Gold continued: "He colluded with antiquities dealers in Paris, underground antique dealers, and antique dealers in China and Southeast Asia, and smuggled a large amount of fine arts and important cultural relics. If these things entered the country as folklore materials for research, the Customs Almost unconditionally released." "Is the murderer who killed Jin Jing also related to the smuggling of cultural relics?" The senior police officer of the Nasu group, Yamaji, was the first to stand up and ask a question.

"When I heard the news of Jin Jing's murder, I also doubted the motive. Cultural relics bought overseas for a little money can turn into tens of millions, so it's okay for business friction to turn into a murder motive. Strange. However, Jinjing mainly smuggles pottery figurines and sacrificial utensils, and the objects he deals with are generally fixed people. Those things can only be sold at a high price when they are brought into Japan. In the eyes of Europeans, they are just sacrificial utensils of oriental aborigines. .For Japanese antique dealers, Jinjing is an important bridge. Without Jinjing, the connection between them and the black market in Paris and Southeast Asia will be cut off. They have no reason to kill Jinjing. Even if they smuggle cultural relics through Jinjing, they will not be able to reach What a serious crime, so they can't risk killing people for this. Now we can only think that Kanai was killed for other reasons."

"Will the French smuggling organization and the Southeast Asian smuggling organization of the world cultural relics smuggling group escape the exposure of the law because of Jin Jing's death?" Hexi asked. "We have been paying attention to them for a long time, but it is still unclear who the Japanese contact person is. I always thought that the person who acted as the contact person would not be an archaeologist. Kanai is a character who appeared in the final stage of our investigation. It doesn't make sense either." "The purpose of my coming today is because I also have a strong interest in the murderer of Kanai. Please allow me to join you. Last May, on my way back to Japan from Paris, I happened to take a trip to the East with Kanai The same train that the tour group took. I heard that another member of the tour group, Kozo Yonegawa, was also killed in Kanagawa in August this year."

"In the tour group I became a 'traveling companion', there was a Japanese contact person of the cultural relics smuggling gang I once hunted down. The 'Kanagawa' side seems to regard Yonekawa and Kanai as the victims of this serial murder case, and has been restricting the search targets to members who participated in the European tour." "However, this means that there is no murderer. The physical strength of Anyang Temple is impossible to murder Yonekawa and Jinjing. The only one left is Yasuke. Meigu is in detention, so it is impossible." "So far, the direction of my investigation is basically the same as that of 'Kanagawa', but I changed the perspective slightly. 'Kanagawa' is to find the murderer among the members of the tour group, and I replaced all the members of the tour group with the victims."

Jin Zi's speech moved the people below, as if the mystery that had not been solved before was suddenly solved. "In other words, the murderer was someone who held grudges against the members of the tour group. From this perspective, we will find that Yonekawa and Jinjing were killed, and Meigu was also discovered because of her secret relationship with Mrs. Anyangsi and her hit-and-run. They have been imprisoned. The only men left alive are Eiichiro Anyoji and Takuyuki Hachitsu. Of course, women cannot be said to be safe, but judging from the accidents that have happened to the three men, men are more dangerous .”

"Are you saying that the murderer's next target is Anyang Temple or Bashu?" Shimoda spoke out the words below Kaneko first. "Yes. Instead of looking for the murderer among the members of the tour group, it is easier to find the murderer if you foresee the next victim and take preventive measures as soon as possible." That is to say, set up an ambush around Bashu and Anyangsi, who are most likely to be the next targets, and wait for the murderer to appear.This is a 180-degree turn from a suspect to a victim. But to prove the correctness of Jin Jin's vision, it is necessary to find the common ground that links the members of the tour group. "But the members of Journey to the East came together 100 percent by chance." Caochang raised questions on behalf of everyone. "Indeed, there is nothing in common now except that they are traveling. We might as well imagine that they may have had some kind of inevitability of encountering accidents during or before taking the trip. Let's take a look at the travel group Schedule, they departed from Tokyo on May 21 last year, arrived in London on the same day, stayed in London for two nights, then took the Orient Express to Venice, stayed in Venice for two nights and then returned home via Rome, stayed in the car for one night, including the round-trip plane The whole journey is eight nights and nine days. "About any incidents that might constitute a motive for killing occurred during the trip, I asked the travel agency. The travel agency said that no such incidents occurred. The whole trip can be said to be safe. Yes, we will travel on the same train five years later." "That was the pre-travel. So I researched, but I couldn't find anything they had in common before the trip." After Kaneko finished speaking, the entire venue fell into silence.Everyone obviously hasn't integrated into this bizarre perspective. All the members who participated in the Eastern Journey became the targets of the murderer as victims, which caused a 180-degree turn in the direction of the search so far. If the "180-degree turn" described by Jin Zi If the assumption is correct, it is necessary to find the "common ground" that he did not discover. However, will there be that kind of commonality among the members who came together "100% by chance"?If there is, it's not a "100% coincidence". "Officer Kaneko's intelligence and opinions have provided us with important revelations. We and 'Kanagawa' have had a fixed concept until now that the members of the Eastern Journey gathered together 100% by chance. If we think about it from another angle, What if they did not come together by chance? Could they have been brought together by some common ground? Perhaps that is the crux of the case." Nasu's concluding speech contained an important hint that prompted everyone to change their thinking angles.