Chapter 11 Chapter 11 Tracking Relay

On December 24, when Christmas came, Ushio, who was searching the headquarters of the Shinjuku Bureau, received a call. "Ah, are you the policeman from a few days ago? I'm Takeuchi." The other party first announced his name. Although Oxtail remembered the name, he was suddenly confused. "I'm the Takeuchi whom you came to Uehara to meet a few days ago!" As soon as the other party explained, Ushio remembered that it was the president of Takeuchi who discovered that Kosai had appeared in Kiyoko Shimazaki's apartment three years ago. "Oh, it's Mr. President! We disturbed you a few days ago."

"Yeah, today I take the liberty to interrupt, because I recalled one thing again, and I don't know if it's related, so I called you." "You can say whatever you want." Oxtail leaned out happily.Because usually when such a person who is not easy to contact calls, there will be unexpected discoveries. "Last time I said that I mentioned the Shrike when I met Mr. Xiang Xixian." "Ah, I remember, it was about the Shrike on the iron fence of Uehara's apartment." "Yeah, actually I still have some research on this kind of bird. There are many kinds of food for them, and I even took pictures."

"That's right, you said that there are more than 130 kinds." "I only have more than 100 kinds of information. It eats the most frogs, lizards, snakes, locusts, crickets, crickets, praying mantises, dragonflies, spiders, earthworms, bees, mice, etc." Takeuchi began to explain one by one.Uxtail felt that what he wanted to say was contained in these explanations. "How does the Shrike treat the captured animals? I have to explain that one is playing prey, and the other is that its claws are not sharp and can only use its mouth. But when it eats these prey, once someone or other animals approach, it will panic and drop its prey and run away."

"There's so much more to say here." "But there's another take on what I'm saying." "Oh, what's it like?" "It captured the animals, sometimes as courtship gifts." "What, a courtship gift?" Ushio seemed to have forgotten his original purpose, and he became more and more interested in what Takeuchi said. "Courtship gifts are not only available to humans, but also among animals. For example, crows, the males will quietly give them to the females when they find something delicious; the same is true of aphids, the males give the honey they get from ants to the females; the males The golden pipa also gives its own honey as a gift to the female. There is also a rare male insect that wraps the prey it catches in the silk it secretes for the female to eat when mating with the female."

"Still wrapping presents? It's the same as us humans!" Oxtail was amazed. "When I was watching Shrikes, I noticed that they had a habit of wrapping 'gifts'." "What, the Shrike also packs?" "Yeah, the shrike I saw three years ago had insects wrapped in paper." "real?" "Yeah, because I also think this is a very rare opportunity. What I pay special attention to is the wrapping paper it uses." "What, wrapping paper? What's it like?" "It's the receipt of the post office's registered credit. It says the sender's 'Hexi Jianyi' in four Chinese characters, and there is an extra word 'one', which is actually the same as the pronunciation of 'Xiangxixian'!"

Hearing this, Oxtail couldn't help but let out a loud "ah". "Xiang Xixian and Kenichi Kasai? Is that receipt still there?" "exist." "Do you have the sender's address?" "There are also." "I'll go to your place right away!" Niu Wei put down the phone and immediately stood up. By accidental discovery, it is possible to find Xiang Xixian's address three years ago.Niu Wei immediately said a few words to Da Shang, and they left the search headquarters together. This registered post office receipt, which is made of shrike wrapping paper kept in Takeuchi, bears the postmark of the Okuzawa Post Office in Setagaya Ward on October 31, three years ago.The name of the sender is Kenichi Kasai, who lives at No. XX, Okuzawa 3-chome.

"If it's Ozawa 3-chome, it's very close to Tarumi's house!" Ushio and Ogami looked at each other. At this time, the criminal who robbed the taxi got into Kawagishi's car after Tarumi got off in front of them. I don't know what was sent, but in the column of "Consignee" it says "Jingjiang, Hexi".It is even more likely that Kasai Kenichi and Kasai Hyun are the same person. "Da Shangjun, let's go to Aoze!" So they went to Aoze immediately. There they inquired about the address on the registered mail, and they responded immediately.

"It's Kanishi Ken. He lives in the dormitory of the Lvfengzhuang Apartment in 3-chome. Who would have thought that he would still be here today! At that time, he did not have a regular job, and he was often seen in the pachinko room in front of the station." It didn't take much to inquire about "Lvfengzhuang" in that area.Among the many tall and beautiful apartments recently built, this "old" apartment looks very outdated.Viewed from the window of the building, it is a building composed of single rooms. "He lived here back then!" Standing in front of "Green Wind Village", Uxo said with emotion.The rain and dust had already washed out black marks on the wall, giving him a desolate look.

"Is there an administrator?" "There must be a landlord anyway, just ask!" As they were talking, a young man with plastic shopping bags from the store walked up and walked into the apartment. "Sorry, we want to inquire. I heard that Xiang Xixian lived here before? Do you know?" The young man froze for a moment, then looked at Oxtail and the others. "The room I lived in was the one he lived in before. I have lived in it for half a year, and I heard several people say that he lived in it before. Because he lived in it, I also want to get some credit, and maybe one day I will too. Become famous!"

The young man said very proudly. "You live here, so please check if this key is the original one?" asked the Grand Priest this time. "I got two from the landlord when I lived in it, but it seems that one is a late match." Oxtail and the others restrained their joy and asked: "Where does the landlord live?" "Well, he lives on the second floor of this apartment, the one with 'Black Ze' written on the door." So they quickly found Kurosawa's home. "If you talk about Xiang Xixian, he lived here two years ago. Now he is a big shot. He was a poor boy at the time, probably in October three years ago. After he paid the rent he owed me, he left I don't know where I moved to."

In October three years ago, wasn't that the time when Kawagishi's car was attacked? "So he got a lot of money and went away?" "That's a guy who doesn't like to tell people what he does. He just says he won the lottery." "While he lived here, did any women come to him?" "His room is full of maggots, what other woman would come to him?" "Do you still have the key to the room he lived in at that time?" "At that time, heck, there was only one left when he left. Later, I got a new one, but the lock is still the same as before." "Xiang Xixian lost a key?" "Yes, he gave me two when he moved in, and only gave me back one when he left." "Has he ever returned after moving?" "He is not such a loyal person. Fortunately, he is well-known, otherwise he would have become a robber if he is not a fool." The man said bitterly. "How do you say that?" "That guy always said that he was bitten by a nearby dog, and extorted medical expenses from others." "Is it badly hurt?" "What, he just bit his trousers. I saw him steal milk from other people and newspapers from neighbors with my own eyes." "So Xiang Xixian is very bad!" "That's right, he has stolen almost all milk orders from people in this area, and he has also stolen newspapers once! But he has no proper job, so everyone hates him, and there is nothing he can do about it." These are the landlord's comments on Xiang Xixian. Ushio and Ogami, who quickly returned to the search headquarters, immediately conveyed the situation of the investigation. "That's right. If the key matches again, a warrant for his arrest will be issued." Nasu, who was usually serious like a Buddha, also grinned this time, and his face was also beaming with joy. So other staff immediately rushed to "Green Wind Villa" and tried the key, and this time the landlord also came out.The other residents didn't know what happened, and they all came out to watch the excitement. "Try it!" All eyes were on Dashang's face.He inserted the key in carefully, swallowing nervously at the same time. Dashang concentrated all his attention, and turned the key lightly, only to hear a "click", and the door lock was easily opened! "opened!" Everyone cheered.Finally caught the murderer! At 5:30 a.m. on December 27, a joint investigation team composed of Shibuya Police Station, Shinjuku Police Station, and Tamagawa Police Station, with the consent of the brokerage company, came to Kosei Ken's apartment in Moto Azabu 3-chome. Sato from the Shibuya Police Station showed the arrest warrant to Kosai who was still in bed. "Kanishi Ken, you were arrested on suspicion of killing Kiyoko Shimazaki." Kansai, who didn't return to the apartment until late at night due to yesterday's schedule, just fell asleep at 3 o'clock in the morning.He was still in a hazy state of consciousness when he was called by the police.He hadn't had time to react to Sato's announcement. And so he was taken to search headquarters.The police prepared breakfast for him, but he did not move his chopsticks. It wasn't until this time that he woke up like a dream and realized the seriousness of the situation. "I will not answer anything, you must call my lawyer! You are trampling my human rights!" Shanxi yelled. Today is the launching ceremony for the filming of a film he starred in. It has been agreed that the company's agent will pick him up at 7 o'clock.Probably they don't know that they are already sitting in the police station. "Of course we will. But before we do, we'll show you something." Nasu changed his usual majestic style, and said to Kosai with a pleasant face. "Let me see what!" The bluffing Xiangxi began to show an uneasy look on his face.Nasu put the bunch of keys in front of Kansai. "Do you have any impression of this key?" Hearing Nasu's words, Xiangxi looked at the bunch of keys dismissively. "This bunch of keys is from the room you lived in in Aoze's Green Wind Manor three years ago." Hearing the words "Lvfengzhuang", Xiangxi's eyes moved. "What does such an old key have to do with me?" "You dropped it." "I don't remember that." "But the place where it fell is not so good!" "what!?" The uneasiness on Xiangxi's face became more intense. "This bunch of keys fell on the mountainside of the cliff in Nakatsu Valley, Kanagawa Prefecture." Hearing the words "Nakatsu Valley" again, Xiangxi couldn't help shivering, but he immediately regained his composure: "I don't know that place." Then he shrugged again.Nasu didn't hear it and went on to say: "In other words, it was at the place where Ryoko Kirihara overturned the car, and Ryoko Kirihara also died there." "What does what you said have anything to do with me? I said I didn't even know." "You don't know. Take a closer look at this bunch of keys. There are two of them. One of them belongs to the Green Wind Manor where you once lived. You will know whose is the other, right?" Asked by Nasu, Xiangxi lost the aggressive aura just now, as if he started to search his memory. "This is the key to Uehara's apartment, the former residence of Kiyoko Shimazaki who was killed in Hiroo's apartment on March 17!" "This, this has nothing to do with me!" Xiangxi retorted desperately. "You can't say it has nothing to do with you! You said you didn't know Kiyoko Shimazaki, but why did you put the key to a woman's room you didn't know with yours? You said you didn't know her, but why did this A bunch of keys turned up in the car of Ryoko Kirihara who died in Nakatsu Valley? How do you explain that?" "I don't know! I don't know anything! I don't know where the key fell!" "You said you didn't know where the key fell, why was it tied to Shimazaki's key? And the murderer's pinch mark found on her neck is also in the same shape as your hand?" Nasu questioned so severely that Xiangxi no longer had the strength to refute. Xiang Xixian confessed everything. "Three years ago, on September 18th, I was waiting for an empty car to send Kiyoko Shimazaki, and Kawagishi's empty car arrived. Tarumi got out of the car. He looked a little drunk. He was not pregnant when we got on the car. I teased Qingzi with good intentions. I immediately got angry and wanted to argue with him. But he was so drunk that fighting with him would not do any good, so I ignored him and got into a taxi." "Just when I was driving, I noticed that there was a bag in the car that I didn't know who lost it. I opened it and saw that it was full of bundles of banknotes. I thought it must have been lost by the front bag. At this time Kawagishi saw all this in the rearview mirror and said he was going to take it straight to the police. I had the money in my hands at the time. I advised Kawagishi to split the money, but he was very upright and said there must be no corruption Passenger's money. This is so much money that I have never seen in my life!" "At this time, I saw a wrench for repairing the car on the passenger's seat, so I wanted to kill him and take the money for myself. It happened that there were few cars at the moment, so I took the wrench secretly. Hit Chuan'an hard on the head. He passed out at the first hit, and Qing Zi was also frightened, but she didn't say anything. In order to pretend to be a robbery, I took another 30,000 to 40,000 from the taxi I think the police will think it was a taxi robbery in the end, and Tarumi will have to admit that he is unlucky." "But just as I took the money and was about to get out of the car, Ryoko Kirihara's car hit this car. The accident was not serious, but Ryoko Kirihara saw it all. But maybe Kirihara was hit when the car crashed. Well, she passed out in the driver's seat soon. It suddenly occurred to me that Kirihara might not be able to see what I just did because of the 'coma', so I asked Kiyoko to sit with me I got into Kirihara’s car. After leaving the scene for a while, I asked Kiyoko to get out of the car, and then drove Kirihara’s car to the Nakatsu Valley where I used to go fishing.” "I don't want Kirihara to come back to life. But if she is killed elsewhere, the traces of her car and Kawagishi's collision will remain, so the police will connect the two incidents. So I decided to bring Kirihara's The car was just pushed down the mountain intact, which would have caused death in a traffic accident. Moreover, the Nakatsu Valley is close to Tokyo, which is convenient for me to handle, and the cliffs there are relatively steep.” "Tirihara woke up halfway, but I hit her on the head again, and she fell into a coma again. I also thought that if I ran into the police halfway, I would say that I was taking the patient to the hospital. That's it. , Kirihara was pushed off the cliff by me in a coma. I dropped the key in the car, and I didn’t notice it, because I was also panicked at the time. The time when I pushed Kirihara down the cliff was around 3 in the morning. Then I walked along I went back the same way and came to the Stone House Bridge Hotel. I stole a motorcycle and went back to Tokyo. I didn’t find the key when I got home, but I don’t know where I lost it. But I think, even if I found it The key would not be known to be mine, so I used the spare key kept in the mailbox to open the door and go in." "The money that Tarumi lost was 30 million yen. At that time, Kiyoko was obedient to me, and I didn't worry about any problems at all. Later, I moved out of Green Wind Village very quickly. Because the place where Tarumi got off the car was far from Green Wind Manor is very close, so I judge that he may live in this area. And I guess the money may be a piece of black money, and he will never give up looking for it easily." "The police's investigation was just as I expected, and it was heading in the direction of the gangsters robbing the taxi. They didn't carry out an investigation into the loss of 30 million yen at all, and they didn't take the taxi driver to death in the Nakatsu Valley. Kirihara connected together." "Three years have passed like this. But three years later, Qingzi has changed, and she seems to have a boyfriend. She escaped from my control. In this way, it is very dangerous to me. Because she has my The handle, the handle that is enough to kill me." "At the same time, my chance has come. I have become a popular singer from a worthless person before, but if Qingzi can drag me from heaven to hell with a word. Qingzi will also remember that she was with me before I was so angry that I might tell her new boyfriend about it. In order for me to stay firmly in heaven, I must clear my obstacles and kill Qingzi to silence her. Although she escaped from me, but Through the household registration search, I found her new address without any effort." "On the night of March 16th, I lied that I would discuss the distribution of the money with her. Qingzi was overjoyed when she heard about it. In order to start a new life with her new boyfriend, she also desperately needs money, especially after breaking up with me. .” "She never expected that I would kill her. Because my proposal met her wishes, she was very happy to welcome me into her new home. I also said that in order to avoid harassment from fans and the media, We decided to meet in the middle of the night, and I changed clothes, and she didn't doubt it. In order to achieve the purpose of living with her new boyfriend, she couldn't care about anything. After I saw her true attitude that night , and strengthened my determination to kill her." "There was no difficulty in killing her, and I'm sure no one saw me go in or out of her room. The police would never have found out I did it." "But when I finally breathed a sigh of relief, Tarumi appeared in front of me. Tarumi is a frequent visitor to Kiyoko's new workplace. Three years ago, on the night of September 18, he only saw Kiyoko once and found her It was the one with me. But Kiyoko couldn't remember who he was. Tarumi quickly became her regular customer in order to find out my address, but at that time he couldn't find out about me from her mouth Tarumi found the opportunity after I appeared frequently on TV. I was surprised to meet Tarumi again, and at the same time I had killed Kiyoko. Tarumi knew right away that I did it .So he grabbed my two handles." "Through the publicity of the mass media, Tarumi grasped my characteristics, so he pushed me step by step. Kiyoko is a potential danger, and Tarumi is a real danger. He made a request of 100 million yen. He said yes The amount of 30 million plus interest. Although I am famous, I can’t afford so much money. At that time, Tarumi didn’t know that Kawagishi was killed, I stole 30 million, and killed Kiyoko Shimazaki. But the truth of the car accident involving Ryoko Kirihara will be revealed from the killing of the two people. The existence of Tarumi is a real threat to my future success! Even if he does not have these evidences, as long as he reveals a word to the police, he will It will attract the suspicion of the police, and the police will be able to follow the clues to find out the truth of the whole incident. Once I am brought into the investigation by the police, it will be fatal to me! So I must kill Tarumi, as long as he lives, kill It's meaningless to die Qingzi." "Because I often appear in public, I let Tarumi wait at the place I designated, and then bargain. There is no doubt about Tarumi." "At 11 o'clock in the evening on June 17th, I picked up Tarumi at the designated place and drove to an open lot in Shin-Nishijuku. I gave him 30 million there. I said I can only give you 3 this time. Ten million, next time I will give you the remaining 70 million, he thought I was real, so he went paralyzed and started counting the money. I took this opportunity to hit him on the head with a hammer. He is the same as Kawagishi , passed out with one blow of the hammer. Then I hit him hard a few more times and threw him into the cave. That's where I found it before when I was in a hurry to find a place to pee. That way, no one will find out What is the relationship between me and Tarumi. No one knows about the killing of Kawagishi three years ago and the killing of Shimazaki later, and I have nothing to do with Kirihara Ryoko. I am finally relieved. And Shrike I never even dreamed that the bird took the registered receipt. It was the receipt when I bought a watch and sent it to my hometown with the money out of the 30 million from Tarumi. It seems that "ill-gotten gains are not available". !Now that I think about it, it really happened. If Tarumi hadn’t thrown the money in the taxi, I wouldn’t have killed 4 people. It’s all because of the money!” "When I pushed Kirihara Ryoko down the mountain, I found something in her car, not Kiyoko's. If it is her belongings, please give it to her relatives." After Xiangxi confessed to the crime, the police found a diamond ring from the home he confessed. Because of Xiangxi's confession, the case was solved in one fell swoop.If there were no black money of 30 million yen from Tarumi, perhaps these 4 lives would not have been lost. At the joint celebration meeting of the three departments that solved these cases within the year, Ushio murmured: "At that time, the price of the piece of land that Tarumi was thrown into was already more than 30 million yuan!" Hearing this, Qing Liu went on to say: "For the sake of 30 million, 4 lives were lost, and the price there should be appreciated."