Chapter 2 carnival of death

"You will always be my woman, no matter what happens, I will never leave you!" Although the two parties have been satisfied like a full meal, the man is still fondling the woman's body like a greedy cat clinging to the dining table. "If it really belongs to you, I don't want to go back to that tyrant's house." Women are more greedy than men, reminiscing about the aftertaste of pleasure. "Why don't you just run away like this?" The man shot anxious eyes.These two people are about 30 years old, but the mental age of the man seems to be younger.

"That can't be done, life will be in trouble soon! How annoying it is for me to cook by myself. I love you, but I can't bear poverty." The woman made a sober voice.Although a mature woman is nostalgic for a man's fit body, there is still a calm element in a corner of her consciousness. "Everything in life can be dealt with." "Not everything can be dealt with. First of all, what about work? If we elope, won't you be unemployed immediately?" "Jobs will be found soon." "There is no such thing as cheap in the world. I hate being a day laborer or a temporary worker. I want to be a rich woman."

"It's too disappointing." The man showed a cowardly expression. "A woman is an adult at the age of 30, and she cannot live without food, and I want to eat good food." "Hey, won't your husband die suddenly?" the man asked tentatively while sighing. "Do you really want my husband to die that much?" The woman quietly peeped at the man's face. "Of course, as long as your husband is gone, you belong to me alone, and no one needs to be restrained, and we can live together forever." "And what if?" "what?"

"Let your husband die!" "It's not that easy to say let's die. Your husband is still in good health." "So, can't you advance his death date?" "Hey! Are you...really?" The man trembled in astonishment. "If you wait like this for nothing, he will definitely not die. He doesn't even have a tooth decay. You always hide from people's eyes like a sneaky cat, and there is no other way to meet me." "That said, there is still no way..." "There are other ways! My husband has life insurance. If he dies, he can get an income of 20 million yuan. As long as he can get it, he can live a very prosperous life with you."

"If you do that kind of thing, once you are arrested, you will be hit by chicken and egg." "Don't you have a little guts? There are many ways to keep people from finding out. You can fake a traffic accident and push yourself off a cliff. Blind, I'm just joking, because you don't have the courage anyway, I can only steal other people's wives like a greedy cat in my life!" "Is it true that life insurance has 20 million yuan?" The man changed his tone. "There is no way to tell a lie about this." "If you kill your husband, will you really live with me?"

"Forget it, don't overdo it. Forget what you just said, I was joking!" "I'm sincere! Rather than end up living like a gluttonous cat, I'd rather monopolize you openly, and I'll do it!" "You, do you really have the confidence to kill my husband? My husband is very strong. He even practiced karate when he was not married." "There's a man you can trust, and if he's willing to help you'll be safe." "Hire a killer?" "It's not a killer in movies or TV. I have a friend who is absolutely obedient and has a tight mouth."

"How much?" "Five million is what he can't ask for." "If it's 5 million, I can use my private money. However, you must not fail!" "If you fail, you don't have to do it in the first place. Then, don't let it out!" "That's right. I don't want anyone to know. Our husband and wife life is perfect on the surface, and my husband doesn't suspect me at all." The secret love conversation between the two in the bedroom unknowingly turned into a specific murder plan. City A of County S is a hot spring tourist city near the inland sea, surrounded by mountains on three sides, warm in winter and cool in summer, with small daily temperature difference.Hot springs have a long history. At the beginning of the 8th century, a monk discovered the source of springs at the foot of the mountain, which is considered to be the origin of the city.During the Edo period, the shogun's family held the ceremony of "Goyuyu" for the royal hot spring, and once donated spring water to the whole city of Edo.

The 27 soup households that were ordered to provide soup service have now become the central hotel in City A. Due to the opening of the Shinkansen, the number of passengers passing through from Tokyo to here has increased, and the number of tourists staying here has decreased.In order to restore the former prosperity, the city has successively adopted countermeasures to attract tourists, and holding various festivals and sacrificial activities throughout the year is one of the measures. The summer festival held on July 15th and 16th every year has left the original theme, and together with the fireworks display, it has become the most grand event in summer to attract tourists. When the god body of Kinomiya Shrine in City A drifted to Honura on the outskirts of the city, the fishermen who caught it offered barley fried noodles to it, so this summer festival is also called "Yakisoba Festival".

On the day of the festival, a procession of people dressed in the costumes of the ancient priests and Nigi ("Giyaji" is the highest priest of the shrine, and "Neigi" is the middle priest of the shrine) throws barley to the residents and pedestrians on the street Fried noodles while parading the streets.There are also the most popular people of the year from various towns and floats decorated to imitate social topics, and they are displayed on the street amidst the sound of drums.The drummers on the floats are played by children from various towns and cities, which makes the happy atmosphere even higher.The protagonist of the sacrifice is the child, which is also a major feature of the summer festival in City A.

On the first day, when night fell quietly, floats gathered on the coastal street where there were row upon row of big hotels, competing for beauty.A grandstand was set up on Coast Street, on which the mayor and other prominent figures were seated one after another, and the floats were arranged in order.There was a huge crowd during the float show.On the mountainside opposite, there are scattered hotels, inns, apartments, restaurants and other buildings, casting brilliant lights on the sea.Against the luxurious lights, these more than 40 floats are the brilliant crystallization of a year's work and skills.This gorgeous and dazzling landscape is the most glorious appearance of City A, which is displaying its skills in peacetime.

After 9 o'clock in the evening, the floats will return home one after another.At the same time as the floats disbanded, the crowd receded like the ebb tide. At 9:30, the traffic control was lifted, and the vehicles entered the urban area.But because there are still people who are reluctant to leave in the excitement of the festival, the vehicles must drive slowly around the crowd. There is a police station at the corner of Coast Street, and there is a T-shaped road in front of it.After the traffic control was lifted, a group of young people began to gather here.According to the partially revised road traffic law, groups of young people who were ordered to stop running around began to gather here unconsciously, and gradually, this place became a place for social gatherings of fanatical boys and girls.After the ceremonies and fireworks display, there is a scene of youth socializing here.Ordinary citizens who wanted to see the excitement also came. The police just assembled indifferently and said nothing. This night, after 9 pm as usual, all the boys and girls who watched the sacrificial festival gathered.The young boys wore Chinese clothes and Japanese sleeveless shirts, and their hair was cut into Indian or inverted swastika hairstyles. Yokosuka-style pedi jacket with embroidery on the back.Teenage girls wear curly Afro hairstyles, surf skirts, pleated skirts and miniskirts; dyed hair, eyebrows and earrings.They wandered around randomly, from south to north, very inconsistent, presenting the fanatical atmosphere and scene of modern young people gathering together.This attracted a large number of spectators, and the young men and women seemed to be models on a fashion show, becoming more and more enthusiastic. Suddenly, from among the dense crowd, there was a woman's scream, wiping Indian hair. Teenagers spray cans of beer into the crowd. Shake the can, and when the cork is removed, the beer shoots out like a sprayer.The game quickly spread among the boy friends.In the beginning, they only sprayed each other among acquaintances, but due to the wide range of spraying, they had to spray into dense crowds. The onlookers were yelling and running around.This is a luxurious and childish game produced in an era of material abundance.To young people who adopt the dangerous game, the childishness contains an almost unbearable joy. When waving a can of beer, I really acted as the main character in the crowd, with myself as the center, making people scream and run around.These teenagers, who were usually piled up in the corner like small stones, have now become the center of the crowd, dominating the crowd at will, which makes the teenagers very excited. My behavior caused trouble to others, but I became the center and the object of everyone's attention.It does not matter what the nature of the behavior and concern is. Moreover, the crowd at this time did not regard trouble as trouble.Taking advantage of the aftermath of the festival activities, they took the reckless mischief of the teenagers as fun again, and this became a game of "support" by the masses again. The atmosphere of the crowd encouraged the teenagers, and the teenagers who were not satisfied with spraying took out fireworks, and the lit mouse fireworks began to explode on the road, and then gradually escalated and projected towards the crowd. Spraying beer kills no one, but setting off fireworks is different.The noisy crowd is full of screams, and the game is only interesting if it is accompanied by danger.People spraying canned beer, unconvinced, threw beer cans into the crowd.If hit, it would be a heavy blow, and the crowd began to flee desperately. The crowd running around was suddenly knocked down and piled up.The police, who had taken a lenient attitude towards "child's play" by this time, could no longer be silent. The behavior of the juveniles has been applied to Article 1, Item 10, of the Minor Crimes Law: "Those who use or manipulate guns, gunpowder, boilers and other explosives shall be punished." Violation of the eleventh item of Article 1 of the same law: "Throwing, pouring or shooting at places that may endanger the body of others and store items shall be detained." The police from the police station were dispatched and detained the most active teenager.From the police point of view, this is not only a warning, but also a demonstration to the citizens. Unlucky for the detained teenager, he was the only one caught out of so many who did the same thing.Other teenagers protested around the police station.The teenagers had no sense of doing bad things at all, and a game they finally had was destroyed by the police, so they demanded the release of their partners as a legitimate protest. There were only a few police officers in the police station, and there were a lot of teenagers. If the teenagers were incited to make trouble, they would be in a situation where they could not be controlled, thus creating an unstable situation for a while. However, teenagers come from all over the world, not just from the local area.If an unforeseen major accident occurs, it is easy to change the situation. The teenager who set off the fireworks was led into the police station. It was around 10:00 p.m. when a woman’s scream came from the center of the T-shaped road. . Most of the teenagers and the onlookers ran to the front of the police station, and the person who made the screams did not find the person who made the prank. The policeman, who was writing the investigation paper, raised his head to follow the prestige, and following the sound of flustered footsteps, several girls ran in, their faces twitching. "Ah, it's amazing!" I couldn't say the following words anymore. "Be quiet, what's the matter?" said another policeman present. "Dead!" The girls made a hoarse voice, pointing outside. "What?" This time it was the policeman's turn to be surprised. He hurriedly left the boy behind and ran to the T-junction to have a look. There was a man lying down in the middle of the road, with his right side down and his face on the ground. At first glance, he looked like a drunk man. Lying on the road. But when he approached and touched his body with his hand, there was no life response.Turning the body upside down, you can see a small amount of blood stains on the nose and mouth, and the skin on the face is slightly peeled off. I don't know if this is the scratch when I fell to the ground, or it was formed before. On the side of the head, there are blunt force wounds hidden in the hair.Judging from that part, it is the result of external force. The police officer became nervous and immediately reported the sudden death of the body to the department and protected the scene.It seems that this book has nothing to do with the teenagers who are excited and playing pranks because of the festival, but it has another important meaning. "You are going to live in this department tonight!" The policeman informed the boy with a serious expression. "What did I do?" the teenager protested, pouted. "Because someone died!" "What does that have to do with me?" "I can't say it doesn't matter. You threw the beer can before setting off the fireworks. Maybe you hit that person on the head!" "Don't tell a joke! Can you kill someone with that kind of thing?" "That can't be said for sure. Maybe he hit the nail on the head and died." "I'm not the only one who threw the beer cans, and what I threw were all empty cans." The young man tried his best to defend himself because he had been placed in a position of serious suspicion. "Invite your partner to live here too!" Because of the dead, all the teenagers who threw beer cans, wore Indian haircuts, and wore Japanese tank tops were all detained. After getting in touch, the agency sent scouts. Is it a criminal death or an abnormal death?It is impossible to judge at this time. According to the identification of the corpse by the scouts, it was determined that there was a blow injury on the head that caused the cranium to collapse due to the action of a blunt object.Judging from the wound site: it is not caused by oneself; nor is it formed by external force like throwing a beer can.At the same time, according to the freshness of the body, it is presumed that the person has been dead for 1 to 2 hours. Although the suspicion of the teenagers has been eliminated, the possibility of homicide cannot be ruled out. While contacting the No. 1 Search Division of the County Police Department, Department A established an emergency equipment system and deployed a detection network.In this kind of "on-the-road incident", finding the first witness is the first step in the investigation. But it's not on the "road" in general.On the road at the climax of the festival, there were crowds of people and there were many witnesses, but none of the people who witnessed the deceased collapsed on the scene reported their names. Although there were many people at the scene, their attention was focused on the direction of throwing fireworks and spraying beer, which formed a blind spot and covered the fallen body.At first everyone thought it was a drunkard, but because it was nothing new and they were afraid of being entangled by drunkards, no one helped him up. It just so happened that one of the girls in the group was pushed and tripped over the corpse, and she realized from a strange feeling that it was a dead person. At the same time that the detectives from the first investigation department arrived, the detection system was confirmed, and real investigation activities started. What is urgent is to deduce the identity of the victim.The deceased was a handsome man in his 30s with the appearance of a tourist, wearing a calico half-sleeve shirt, light yellow trousers, and brown suede pigskin light shoes. There is nothing in the pocket, is it the murderer's trick to cover up his identity?There was no name tag to indicate his identity on the clothes, and there were no particularly obvious features on the body, so the body was delivered for judicial autopsy. Before moving the corpse, the experienced detective Miyamoto, who had been observing, fixed his eyes on one point. "Did you find anything?" The pig bear detective from Department A sensitively noticed Miyamoto's gaze. "What kind of seed is this?" Miyamoto picked up a small object from one of the deceased's shoes and held it on his fingertips.It was a tea-brown oval grass seed about 3 mm in length.It resembles a barley grain, with a small gap in the middle, and short bristles growing on the grain. If you look closely, it is tightly adhered between the shoe and the shoelace of the deceased, like an insect's egg, and the tip of the bristle of the grass seed is bent like a hook, and it is easy to stick to the cloth surface. "Strange grass seeds?" Miyamoto tilted his head and pondered. "Ah, isn't that foxtail seed? The grass over there is full of it." Piggy glanced at it and said. "It's completely different from foxtail. The ears of foxtail are like a puppy's tail." Miyamoto denied Pigbear's "identification" in one sentence.After the other detectives saw it, some said it wasn't a sparrow stick hammering grass seeds?Others said no, it was paspalum grass seeds.No matter what kind of grass seeds they are, they are all weeds that grow in grasslands and fields. Even if they find out about this kind of thing, they still can't form a clue. "Whether it's green foxtail or sparrow hammer grass, there's always something incomprehensible." Miyamoto seemed not very interested in the characteristics of plants. "What can't you understand?" Pig Bear watched Miyamoto's face. "Look at the dead man's shoe. The right shoe, especially the grass seeds stuck tightly to the shoelace." "It's sticky." Pig Bear still didn't understand the purpose of Miyamoto's gesture. "Why is it only glued to the right shoe?" "Either the wind blows occasionally, or the grass only grows on the right foot." "Even so, it's only on the shoes, and there's nothing on the trousers and socks?" "Indeed, it's very strange." Piggy Bear finally understood Miyamoto's suspicion. "So, what's going on?" Piggy asked again. "I don't know now, but I can only conclude that the deceased did come from the place where the dog's hammer grass and sparrow's tail grass grow." Miyamoto confused the two kinds of grass. As a result of the autopsy, it was determined that the cause of death was a collapsed skull fracture caused by the action of a blunt object such as a hammer; there were abrasions and blow injuries on the face and two wrists due to resistance.Judging from the location and degree of trauma, it can be judged that it was homicide.Presumption: The time of death was between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on July 15, and the age was 25-30 years old.Based on the remaining Chinese noodles, pork, green onions and other vegetables in the stomach, it is presumed that death occurred about 1 hour after eating.No trace of poison, no disease. In addition, it was found that the plant seeds attached to the shoes of the deceased were the seeds of the cressaceae (salvy: that is, wild carrot).It is a biennial grass with forked stems, 50-100 mm in height, short bristles on the leaves; small white four-petal flowers bloom in June-July.The grass is egg-shaped, with hook-shaped bristles at the tip, and it is easy to stick to clothes like lice, so it has the name of this serval louse. This kind of plant is distributed in the wilderness of the country, and it is more common in bamboo forests.From the freshness of the plant, it is presumed that it died after 10 hours of attachment. After it was identified as a homicide, an investigation headquarters was established in Department A. The first question was the whereabouts of the victim before he was killed.The victim did not bring a penny with him, so it can be presumed that he was killed in another place and carried to the scene. "Did you plan to throw the corpse somewhere, and drove to the scene, just as the young man started a commotion, felt that the situation was unfavorable, and was afraid of showing his feet, so he took advantage of the time when the noisy people gathered in the direction of the riot, dropped the corpse and fled?" is the opinion of the majority. That being the case, is it strange that there are so many people present, but there is no witness?There were also different opinions.There are also many drunks on the usual festival day, and some of the people who saw it might not want to cause trouble and kept silent. In any case, identifying the identity of the victim is a prerequisite.But it found clues from unexpected quarters. This is a two or three meter wide single track railway crossing.The N station close to the Tokaido Line, because the railings of the railway crossing are often put down, is called by the locals "the intersection of no traffic" or "the intersection of untimely". At around 10 o'clock on the night of July 17, a small car arrived at the intersection, and the forecast bell was rang before the intersection, and the railings of the crosswalk were lowered.At this time, it was the long marshalling truck approaching. The driver seemed to forcefully break through the lowered cross rail, but immediately stopped the car resolutely. Before that, Yasori Shinohara, a resident of Hope Hill collective housing complex in N City who lived near the intersection, came back from work in his private car that day.The parking lot in the residential area was full of cars, and he planned to park the car in the special parking lot of the auto parts company next door.It was stipulated that if there was no open space, members' cars would be evicted. The common land and roadsides of collective housing have been illegally occupied by residents' cars without parking spaces.This will become an obstacle for fire trucks and ambulances to pass through in an emergency.Despite this, whenever residents change shifts, there are always new cars pulling in. The car society has now produced a new social problem of parking difficulties. Shinohara was wondering, where would he park his car if he was kicked out of the parts company parking lot that was near full capacity?The sharp weapon of civilization, which develops at an abnormal speed, has instead become an inconvenient thing. Shinohara stopped the car at the chosen location and walked towards home when he noticed a wriggling figure under the nearby car.I couldn't see what he was doing in the dark, but that movement was unnatural. Pretending to leave the parking lot, sneaking back to peep.The figure is unloading the tires beside the car.Recently, the tires of the cars parked here have been unloaded.Shinohara became vigilant.The thief didn't realize that Shinohara was watching him. Shinohara ran to a nearby public phone booth and called 110. After receiving the report, the N Department sent a police car to the scene.The thief who stole the tires was putting the unloaded tires into the trunk of a large car. Suddenly surrounded by police cars, the thieves were taken aback.The police officer got out of the police car and got ready; when he approached the car, the thief stepped on the gas pedal without warning and escaped from the gap in the police car. A late-night hunt begins.The thieves were quite skilled in driving, and almost all three police cars were thrown away. Nevertheless, the three police cars were closely linked with each other and pursued.After 30 minutes of pursuit, we arrived at this small railway crossing.At this moment, the train's passing forecast bell rang, the railings of the crosswalk were lowered, and a long marshalling truck drove up.There was a car parked at the intersection. The thief's car honked its horn urgently from behind.On the one-way street, the car had just driven into the intersection, blocked the way, and the escape route was cut off. The thief, who was bitten tightly by three police cars, finally came to the time to catch him without a fight. The police car approached calmly.At this time, the frantic thief seemed to have taken an incredible action, and quickly slammed into the rear of the car blocked in front of him. The truck is already in sight.Fameng's front car was pushed away reluctantly, stubbornly not giving way.The rear car of different mass hit it, and the front part of the front car slightly crossed the railing.The rear car hit again, and at this time the front car broke through the railing of the cross rail as if under the control of its own will, and flew onto the train track. The car in front tried desperately to dodge the approaching lorry, but the distance between the two was so close that within a second the rear of the car was crushed under the locomotive. The locomotive tried its best to make an emergency brake, but under the inertia of the long queue-like marshalling trucks, sparks burst out on the rails, and it slid for more than 500 meters before stopping.At this time, the car that was firmly bitten by the iron jaws of the locomotive was shattered, and the driver sitting in the cab was no longer human. The rear car that knocked out the front car stopped at the intersection, and the driver in the car was stunned. "Come out, you bastard!" "Simply intolerable brutality!" The police officer who finally caught up dragged the man squatting in the back car out.The police officers also turned pale with fright in the face of this unexpected tragedy. "It's not me, I didn't do it!" The driver of the car behind was a young man in his twenties and twenties. He knew that the accident he caused was of great importance, so he tried his best to defend himself.A woman about 20 years old was sitting in the assistant's seat. "Don't say it, who did it if you didn't do it? You bastard!" The police officer who dragged out the thief had to raise his hand to stop the impulse of his colleagues. The area around the scene was prohibited from passing, and inspections of dead bodies, inspections of severely damaged vehicles, and evidence collection at the accident scene were carried out. The witnesses to the accident were the police officers in the three police cars, which are completely credible witnesses. The victim was Shira Kenichi, a furniture dealer in the third street of Honmachi, N City.After Shi Le arrived at the scene of the accident due to work, he was hit by a thief's car under the wheels of a truck.Shile suffered a fractured head and contusions all over his body, and soon died in a near-death state. The thief is Kazuhiko Ishino, an unemployed man from Yamashita Town in this city; the woman who rides with him is Yumi Sawamura, a third-year student at a private high school in the same city.Ishino lives in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture. After dropping out of a local high school, he went to work in an automobile factory in the city, and soon quit. He went to hang out in bars in Nagoya City and Hamamatsu City. He came here 3 years ago. to N city. Worked in dance halls and casinos in N City for 2 years, and was unemployed 1 year ago. While working in a bar, she accidentally met Sawamura Yumi, who concealed her age and was studying as a waitress.Yumi didn't look like a college student at all, with heavy makeup, she seemed to be over 20 years old. Her mother, who became the concubine of the manager of the municipal real estate company, took a laissez-faire attitude towards her daughter. Ishino and Yumi are congenial and live a semi-cohabitation life in an apartment in the city.Difficult to make a living half a year ago, he secretly unloaded tires from the parking lot and sold them to parts dealers. Since then, he has tasted the sweetness and started this kind of criminal activity.Recently, not only stealing tires, but even cutting the car glass, removing the locks, and stealing money and valuables from the car. However, the police interrogation focused entirely on the "intersection incident".In order to escape the pursuit of the police car, Ishino rammed into Shira's car; and knew that when the intersection siren predicted the train was coming and the crosswalk had been put down, if the car in front hit the track, it would inevitably cause a collision.Knowingly committing a crime constitutes the crime of negligent intentional homicide. But Ishino said: "It is true that because of escaping from the police car, I hit the rear of the car in front twice. The force of the first collision was not strong, and the car in front barely moved. It seemed that the hand brake was pulled, so I hit the rear of the car in front again. The second time. This time, something unexpected happened, so I hurriedly pulled the handbrake again, and the force of the second collision was also slight, but the car in front was bewitched by something, and it drove onto the train line by itself." "Don't talk about escape, who can drive to the front of the train by himself?" The interrogator thought that Shi Ye had arrived at this time, and could only confuse the black with the white. "Really! Please listen carefully to the police officers here. I definitely didn't knock it out!" "The police officers said you knocked it out!" "Nonsense, I didn't hit it!" Shi Ye cried out. As a result of the inspection of the broken Shile sedan, it was found that the hand brake was indeed not used, and there was no slope in front of the intersection, so the car stopped without the hand brake.However, between Ishino's first crash and the second crash, Shitara should have had the leeway to pull the brakes.Before the intersection, another car crashed from behind, and the driver should have pulled the handbrake at this moment. The police officers at the scene also witnessed Shile in the car, once releasing the brakes to refuel. However, the hand brake of the Shitara car was not pulled.In this way, in fact, it was Shile himself who restored the closed hand brake and drove to the line.Moreover, the following police officers gave this testimony: "So, the force that Ishino hit the Shira car was not that strong. At the moment of the accident, although we were a little flustered, in retrospect, we saw that Shile seemed to rely on I drove the car out of my own will." According to the results of the on-site inspection: if the hand brake is pulled, the indentation of the tire will be left on the site, but there is no such indentation on the ground. "What's going on here?" the inspector of Department N tilted his head and thought. "When you see a car bigger than your own car hit from behind, do you think, instead of being hit like this, it's better to fly over the intersection by yourself?" distance. "Doing that, wouldn't it be enough to refuel a little? Isn't it too impatient to fly in front of the train after only being hit once?" "Being hit by the car behind, driving to the opposite side of the intersection where the train is approaching, this is not the driver's normal psychology. Even if you are hit, you may not be hit on the line. In order to avoid this uncertain danger, you are willing to take risks. The driver cannot think of the imminent danger in front of him." "Shouldn't Shitara's unexplained panic be considered?" "What are you afraid of?" "I don't know yet. Anyway, he was frightened by something. After the fright, he lost the ability to distinguish between safety and danger, so he flew in front of the train... This is also possible." "Thinking of it this way, there must be something that surprises him quite a bit!" "For the time being, it can be considered that the thing that scares Shitura is in Ishino's car." "But Ishino doesn't know Shitara at all." "How about women? Although Sawamura Yumi is a high school student, she is very slutty." "Ah, in the future, the relationship between Shitura, Ishino, and Sawamura will be investigated accordingly. Even if Shitara knows them, why does he have the panic to fly in front of the train?" No one can answer this question. Based on Ishino's defense, most of the testimonies and on-site verification, the suspicion that Ishino rammed the Shile car in front of the train and caused death has gradually faded. Shitara Kenichi's corpse became the object of inspection as a dead body. Hattori, the criminal police officer of the N Department, carefully observed this miserable deformed corpse, and suddenly discovered a strange fact.What Hattori paid attention to was not the corpse itself, but the "appendages" on the corpse. "A shoe has grass seeds stuck to it!" he said to his colleague Ando.The victim was wearing light brown pigskin shoes.On the shoelace of his left foot, a 2-3 mm long, oval grass seed, like a bug egg, was tightly attached. "It's the grass seeds of weeds that are easy to see. If you walk through the grass beside the road, it will stick to your shoes." Ando said confidently. "Why is it only stuck on the left shoe?" Hattori's attention point does not seem to be the entity of the grass seed itself. "That's because the grass only grows on the left side of the road." Ando replied nonchalantly. "However, not only did the grass seeds stick to the left shoe, but the corners of the trousers and the socks also had the same grass seeds, but the right shoe didn't have it at all. Could there be such a thing?" As Hattori pointed out, except for the right shoe, the right trousers and socks were covered with grass seeds.Walking in the grass, only the right shoe does not stick to the grass seeds, which is an incomprehensible phenomenon. "Is there anything strange about this grass seed?" "Well, look carefully at the grass seeds. There are tiny thorns on the surface, which are easy to stick to clothes. If so, they can grow into strong weeds when they fall on the ground. In this kind of grass that is easy to stick It’s a miracle that grass seeds don’t stick to your right foot while walking!” "If you wear someone else's shoes wrong, maybe this kind of thing will happen, but the shoes are in pairs now." "That might be the case!" Hattori had a strong reaction to Ando's nonchalant question and answer. "You say it's possible?" "What if two people occasionally wear the same style and size of shoes?" "Is there such a thing?" "I think it is possible: two people with the same size feet bought products from the same manufacturer at almost the same time. These shoes are easily identifiable shoes, and the size is standard. No matter where they are bought, they are obviously worn. Soon, it was not worn out." "Then the question is where the victim wore the wrong shoes. Presumably nothing happened where the wrong shoes were worn?" "A person was killed in City A." "Well, on the night of the memorial day the day before yesterday, a fallen dead person was found." "The identity of the deceased has not yet been ascertained. According to the report, one of the deceased's shoes was also stuck with the same grass seeds." "Huh! What?" Ando made a startled voice, he just understood the meaning of Hattori's revelation. "So, do you think the shoes of the deceased in City A and Shira's shoes are a pair?" Ando added this sentence with a hoarse voice.In this way, two seemingly unrelated things are related to each other. "I think the possibility is very high. You can understand it by comparing the shoes. Because the grass seeds are only stuck to one shoe, it is impossible to have them." According to the intention of Hattori of Department A, he compared the shoes of Shira Kenichi and the unidentified victim, and it turned out that they were two symmetrical shoes!The sticky grass seeds are slugwort of the cressaceae family. "It can be speculated that the dead person on the festival day wore the wrong shoe from the place where grass seeds stuck to the right shoe. What is the relationship between the dead person and Shitara? It must be someone who has such a close relationship with wearing the wrong shoe. It seems that wearing the same The shoes were not accidental, and if the people around Shitara were investigated, it would be possible to find out the identity of the deceased." Under the direction of Director A, an investigation into the human relations around Shiraku Kenichi was launched. Soon after in-depth investigation, it was found out that the deceased on the festival day was Yoshiaki Osaki, a 29-year-old salesperson of a furniture store run by Shitara.According to Shitara's wife, Tomiko, Osaki was her husband's fellow townsman and a classmate in elementary and middle school.Because of this hometown relationship, the small self-service store in Tokyo that Osaki served closed down three years ago, and Shile called him to his store to help. Osaki-san is amiable and a master at entertaining customers.After he came, the number of customers increased, and the master liked him very much.Recently, the master trusted Osaki-san more and more, and let him do things like a confidant. On July 15, because he was going to Tokyo to do some private affairs, he asked for a three-day leave.Osaki-san was still a very young single man, so he must have some private affairs, so he let him rest without asking anything.但不知大崎先生为什么在A市被杀害了。 家具商店坐落在市内繁华大街上，营业员除大崎外，还有年轻女营业员两名，工读送货员二三名。大崎住在商店二楼的一个房间里。 设乐的妻子有条不紊地谈着她丈夫的亲信营业员，好像很有道理似的。 “电视和报纸上都披露过大崎被害事件，你没注意吗？”来到店里调查的猪熊发问了。 “电视和报纸披露的消息，我没想到是大崎先生，照片也不像，店里的人们谁也没有认出来。” “对于身份不明的死者，不能原样不动地公开尸体的面目，而是按死者的生前照片修整好再披露，就难免有不像的时候。” “有没有与大崎先生结过怨的人哪？”猪熊扔下一张相片，进一步讯问。 “想不起有怨恨到杀害大崎先生那样地步的人，他人缘好，顾客评论也好。只是来店以前的事情，我不知道。” “有没有跟他有特殊关系的女性？” “那我可不知道。一个漂亮的独身青年，有一两个要好的女人也未可知。可在店里从未谈过这类话题。” “有没有过女人的电话或女人来访的事？” “都是顾客呀。” “女性顾客中，有没有跟他特殊亲近的人？” “大崎先生是个办事谨慎、绝不疏忽的人，接待女性顾客也很热情，但我想没有特殊亲近的人，因为他总是一心在交易上应酬着。” “说是在贩卖家具上应酬，具体地说都是哪些事啊？” “我们卖出现成家具，也接受家具的订货。最近订购适合家庭特点的有个性家具的增多了，特别是墙角组合家具相当畅销。” “墙角组合家具？”猪熊过去从没有听说过这种家具。 “那是为了充分利用房间中的死角或空隙，在那里安放上的杂品柜或高级小柜橱。订这类家具的，家庭主妇占多数。” “这样的家具真不错啊。”猪熊这时想起了自家房间有不少空隙，根本没有墙角组合家具。 “刑警先生，怎么样？最近墙角组合家具品类齐全，很丰富呐。”充满商业精神的设乐的妻子，不为自己失去丈夫而悲哀，倒观察猪熊的表情，做起商业性的推销来了。 “不，我那个家，无论如何也买不起这种高档家具。”猪熊踌躇着。 “嗳哟，墙角组合家具比一般家具便宜呀，宽5毫米、镂刻花纹的有很多样式，另外定做也欢迎啊。”设乐妻子招徕着说。 “等有机会再来光顾吧。嗯，我再问一个问题，贵宅院子里没生薮虱草、羊蹄草和雀稗子草吗？” “你说什么？”这不是设乐妻子生活范围内的用语。 “就是薮虱、羊蹄、雀稗子草，在草原和田野里都生长着的草。” “我们没有院子，大街上也不生那样的草。” “你家男人没有去过长这种草的地方吗？” “嗳，他去送货这去那走的，也许走过长这种草的地方。走过长这种草的地方又怎么样呢？” “说真的，你男人的一只鞋上和大崎先生穿的一只鞋上都粘着这种草籽，从附着的草籽上看，推测大崎先生穿错了你男人的鞋了。”猪熊对草籽粘在两人身上和鞋上的状况作了说明。 “噢，那鞋是我丈夫在3个月以前从百货商店买的，共买了两双，一双送给大崎先生，鞋的尺码足相同的。”设乐妻子的说明，与同一商标、同一尺码的鞋的情况相符合，据此确认大崎在事前曾穿错了设乐的鞋，也确认设乐曾在节前接触过大崎。 “太太，这是非常重要的情况，请再认真想想。7月15日，也就是大崎先生被害的那一天，请告诉我你男人在午后7时到9时之间往哪里去了？” “那是大崎先生请假的日子呀。那天我丈夫因为分送错了中元节礼品，从早晨出去，整整一天都在外面。” "When did you come back?" “大概是午后11时。” 午后10时前后抛掉大崎的尸体，11时回到N市的家是可能的。 “知道他到哪儿去转游了吗？” “不知道。想来的确不是重要的主顾。” "why?" “因为到中元节要给主顾送礼品，那天送错了礼，这边还没送出去，那边受礼的已经答谢了。你怀疑我丈夫了吗？” “由于穿错鞋，你丈夫必得在大崎被害前，和大崎会上一面的。” “我丈夫没有那样的事。他对大崎非常信任和爱护，大崎也很尊敬他。买同样的鞋就可证明这一点。不止是买鞋，凡是我丈夫中意的东西，必定买回两件，给大崎一件。大崎担心穿同样的衣物，太容易认错人，所以接受衣物特意不一起穿。大崎还常常为此苦笑哩。我丈夫为什么必得杀害大崎先生呢？”设乐妻子急切地为丈夫辩护。 “这终究是一种推测。”猪熊抚慰着设乐的妻子。 确认设乐家及其周围，没有自然生长的薮虱和雀稗子等杂草，可这类草籽附在设乐的左鞋和大崎的右脚上，确是事实。 从大崎除右脚外，别处没有附着草籽这一点上看，就要考虑设乐到过哪些有这种草籽的地方。在设乐的生活活动范围内，生有薮虱和雀稗子草，这是错不了的。比起草籽的所在，草籽如何粘到大崎的身体上，更是重要之点。 根据草籽的鲜度，推定附着后经过了整整10个钟头。如果是15日早晨外出时穿错了鞋，还没有问题；如果是15日离家后穿错了鞋，那就说明大崎在设乐家以外和设乐接触过，为什么事才有这种必要呢？ 特别是在穿错鞋并非大崎的过失的场合，问题就更大了，很大可能是设乐穿错了鞋，而大崎也没有注意，由于是同一商标、同一尺码，就把一只弄错了。 设乐的妻子说，设乐和大崎结成了相互信赖的关系，具有深厚的友谊。可是信赖越强，背叛的可能也就越大呀。 他们之间，从来没有发生过破坏信赖关系的事件吗？侦察本部首先在设乐家周围展开了调查。 对设乐家的反映是好的，设乐的妻子富子是招婿入赘的女人，帮助丈夫操持家业，夫妻感情很好。夫妇之间，有一个8岁的女儿，已是小学二年级的学生了。 大崎始终如一地服务，不仅甚得主人夫妇的信任，而且其他营业员和附近的人们也有好评。警察们本来怀疑设乐夫妇和大崎有三角关系，也没有确切的证据。 总之，完全找不到一点破绽。 石野和彦和泽村由美那方面的侦查已经陷入难关，他们和设乐建一有什么关系，同样是一点摸不着头绪。 一时扭头的设乐，由于惊怕追撞车里的什么，而宁愿冲向列车的说法，也没有人再坚持了。 彻底检验了严重破损的设乐的汽车。由于和火车相撞，车后部受到了严重的损伤。石野车因追撞所受的损伤，呈向内凹陷形。石野车和轿车接触的损伤辨认不出来。而且从那损伤程度上，也不能得出是石野车追撞而肇祸的结论。 石野车前部防撞杆损伤轻微。把设乐车撞到火车轨道上去，势必受到更大的损伤，至少防撞杆也得变形，这个鉴定对石野是有利的。 石野过失故意杀人罪难于成立，结果是： 一、设乐车未拉手闸； 二、设乐车在第二次追撞后飞越出去； 三、路口前无设乐煞车的轮胎压痕； 四、石野车前部防撞杆损伤轻微。 根据这些理由，对石野只得仅问他的盗窃罪了。 侦破工作从定案以来呈现了胶着状态。侦查本部根据草籽附着的推理，指名设乐是杀害大崎的凶手。可是设乐已经死去，就是查明他是凶手，也不能逮捕他了。 这就成了追踪死者的调查了。可是如果把设乐作为凶手，也不能查明他的动机。他为什么必须杀害他事业上的得力助手、又是同乡出身的可爱的后辈呢？ 对这一点，侦查本部做了指示，查明动机，真相就水落石出了。 大崎穿错鞋以后，不是被从别处来的凶手杀害的吗？出现这种看法之后，对侦破方针进行了再审议。决定了以下四点： 一、对大崎来设乐家以前的生活史进行调查； 二、对大崎胃中的中国饭菜（阳春时、饺子、八宝饭）进行抽样鉴定； 三、搜查设乐粘上草籽的场所； 四、继续发现杀害大崎的目击者。 在A署侦查本部决定新的侦破方针前后，N署有了新的发现。 破损的设乐轿车成了重点检验对象，同时对追撞的石野汽车、特别是前部做了集中检查。为了周密慎重，安藤检查了车的内部。 如果设乐被石野或者同乘的泽村由美所惊吓，那就还应考虑汽车本身或者车内也许有使设乐惊惧的东西。 可是，车是T厂制造的普通车，没有特别使设乐惊惧的外貌。那么是在车内吧。 安藤在助手位置上发现了一个极其微小的东西。那是夹在背椅和坐垫的缝隙中间、稍有疏忽就会从眼前漏过的米粒大小的物体。 安藤仿佛见过这个东西，那不是和粘在设乐鞋上的草籽酷似吗？不，那确是同种类的草籽，可它为什么跑到石野车里来了？安藤思考着其中的意义。 就是说设乐车和石野车有过“接触”，那附在设乐鞋上的草籽，也不会有跑到石野车助手位置上去的可能。由于是普通常见的草籽，单单弄到石野车上去也是难以想象的。安藤认为：在石野车内发现同样的草籽，绝不是单纯的偶然现象，两个草籽之间必定存在着某种联系。安藤还看到车座上处处抛撒的白粉，那不是土灰和沙尘，便抽样带回鉴定去了。 车内检查之后，安藤分别向石野和由美作了调查。 “车内发现了薮虱草籽，那是从什么地方搞上来的？” “薮虱草籽是什么呀？” 两个人都不知这个植物。 “在田野生长的杂草。” “那种杂草草籽，在什么地方都会粘上的。” “同样的草籽，在设乐的鞋上也粘着呐。” “那有什么关系，普通的草籽粘上谁，都是不奇怪的。” “7月15、16日A市夜里的炒面祭，你去了吗？” “直接回家了。” “真的吗？有人证明吗？那天夜里，有来访和打电话的人吗？” “没有那样的人。” “那就是说，那夜你（们）在家的时候，没人证明了？” “回家就睡觉了。为什么都必须一一找到证明啊？” “那是因为你们不说实话！” “绝不说谎话。” “车上还撒着白粉哩。A市的炒面祭向游人抛撒白粉，现在白粉并不在盘子里。你们说没去A市，可你们的车上，为什么都撒上白粉了呢？” “我真的没去。如果去，也许是由美吧。”石野坚持着。由于面粉撒到助手位置上，安藤的讯问，从这时起集中转向了由美。 A署从细微处开始了调查。猪熊在设乐夫妇周围调查过，可对设乐夫妇的反映良好，夫妇间的感情也是美满的。设乐的妻子31岁，是个成熟的风流女人，常常向顾客和街上的男人们调笑献媚。 她是个很能干的女人，帮助丈夫把商店搞得很兴旺。又因善交际，颇机灵，不仅男人，就是女人反映也都很好。 夫妇间有一个8岁的女儿，猪熊为了深入起见，又向少女作了探询。 “照子姑娘，你爸爸妈妈感情好吗？” "Not sure." “不太知道什么事哇？” “爸爸常为妈妈的事打她。” “打她，真的吗？”猪熊探出身子。孩子的话如果属实，和附近的反映恰恰相反。“美满的夫妻”，不就成了摆在表面的伪装了吗？ “真的啊，使劲揪妈妈的头发，可怕呀！” “那种时候，照子可怎么办呢？” “就叫大崎叔叔去！” “噢，大崎叔叔来了，两人就不打架了吧？” The girl nodded.新的事实浮现出来了。 “大崎叔叔走了的时候，爸爸妈妈干什么了，想想看？” "have no idea." “照子姑娘，在大崎叔叔走了以后干什么了？” "have no idea." 根据少女的证言，就要从另一个视角来看设乐夫妇了。 设乐加入了特付6千万元的灾害倍额保险，又有2千万元的汽车损害赔偿责任保险和汽车车体保险。受领人是富子。这个女人可以由于丈夫死去而获款8千万元。 设乐的死因，一时不能定为是犯罪性的。可是，由于他的死而涉及了巨款，事件就带上另外的色彩了。 侦查开始走向检查家具商店的经营状态。结果，了解到这个商店经营的困难内情。受大型家具店的侵蚀和百货公司的压迫，近一年来相当窘迫，屡屡开不出服务员的工资。与商店内情的恶化同步，夫妇感情也趋向恶化。因为表面上这对夫妇十分和谐，所以真面目就被遮蔽起来了。 严格调查之后，泽村由美耐不住了，开始了意外的供述： ——7月15日，约好和石野一起去A市观看夜祭，可石野又招呼了另一个女人，一气之下就一个人走了。傍晚7时正在街上溜达，一个中年男人塔起话来——她说。 “那个男人是设乐吗？”审讯官发问。 "yes." "What did he say?" “挑逗说一块儿看夜祭不行吗，因为仅剩一个人了，和石野吵嘴以后又心烦意乱，就说给钱就干。给你1万块！好机会啊。和他一同走着，又说再答应干'好事'，给你3万块。同和彦睡觉还拿不到1块钱，偶尔这样干一回比搞工读还强哩，就说'OK'了。旅游饭店和旅馆都满员了，又向郊外寂静无人的草原走去。我讨厌那样的草原有蛇有狗，话刚说完，那个男人立即显出可怕的脸色，拿出钱来说：住嘴，别胡说八道，就把我压倒了。他用强力勒住我的咽喉，我就昏过去什么也不知道了。” “那以后怎么样了？” “忽然睁开眼，我发现自己在草地上躺着，那个男人不见了。” “你受到蹂躏了吗？” “不，那个男人一定认为我死了，就逃跑了。” “钱呢？” “原样放在那里。” “那个男人在路口前，是被和你一同乘坐的石野车冲撞而飞开出去的吗？” “不知道他害怕了没有，可确实是他自己飞开出去的。” 设乐不能听到事情的供述，可情况已经大体上了然了。 设乐在祭夜一时发生错觉，以为泽村由美已经死去，就大吃一惊地从现场逃跑了。随后，由泽村由美引着察看了草原，那里自然生长着许多薮虱、羊蹄、雀稗子之类的杂草。 鞋和裤子上粘着草籽的设乐，在归途中和大崎“接触”了。推定那个时候，多半是大崎已经被害，尸体被遗弃在A市海边街道上了。 两天以后，在偶然通过的A市路口，看见坐在后车里的已经被他勒死的少女，就像看见幽灵一样害怕、而自己开车飞进线路。以为被杀害的少女又生还了，坐在车上追来，于是慌不择路，也是不足为奇的。 泽村由美没有向石野说过设乐的事，偷轮胎贼石野是单独犯罪。由于搞清了设乐和由美这种意外的关系，否定了石野的过失故意杀人罪。 可是，杀害大崎的真相依然在迷雾之中。如果杀人凶手是设乐，他为什么要杀害自己商业上的心腹？大崎和设乐、富子的关系也还没有搞清楚。 追查大崎来设乐家以前的生活史，恐怕也不会发现可疑的线索。 正在展开的犯罪线索消失了。 设乐建一的8千万元生命保险金，根据契约，已经支付给富子了。 设乐富子的处境有点不妙了。可是为了弄清警察怀疑她和设乐的夫妇感情恶化是否与私通大崎有关，必须证实不是杀大崎而是杀设乐才成。因为被害者是设乐，才能说明动机，才能把以生命保险金为目的的犯罪动机裸露出来。 设乐的死，证实是偶然事故，不是以保险金为目的的犯罪。 “莫非设乐在妻子与大崎乱搞的现场捉奸时，把大崎杀害的吗？因为他强烈地意识到，一味信赖只会养痈遗患哪。” “如是那样，富子就得在杀人现场，也许是共犯了。” “这怎样才能证实呢？仅有的一个共犯死掉了，只要自己噤口不言谁也不会知道。丈夫死掉了，自己可以独享那8千万元保险金。还只31岁的女人，8千万元和自由到手，不论怎样也可以过非常愉快富裕的生活了。” 这是奇妙的犯罪，可以叫做不期而然的完全犯罪。根据完全犯罪的解释，一般是指：策划犯罪者得了手，获取了犯罪所得的利益，又未被逮捕，逍遥法外。 可这个案件，却是另外一种情况：被推定为主犯的凶手，犯罪后自遭横祸致死，死后偶然出现的利益，转入了没有参预策划犯罪的共犯之手，因而突发的色彩是浓厚的。 “如说是完全犯罪，应当叫做偶发的完全犯罪哪。”宫本刑警嘟囔着。 没料想事情进行得如此顺利，自己一个指头也没动，就取得最初计划的全部结果，不必再与共犯分赃，自己就独占了8千万元；而且那个构成将来最大危险的共犯——不，应当称为共犯的预定者——又自我消灭了。在这个女人眼里，那的确是：“自我消灭”。没有共犯的帮助，绝对搞不成的犯罪行为，却在没有共犯的帮助下完成了，独占了全部利益，而且知道这个计划的人统统消灭了。这样的完全犯罪，在世界犯罪史上也是罕见的。 “我真幸运啊！”富子打言自语，设想着用这8千万元充实今后自由的一生。用这笔钱可以挽救商店的困窘，自己继承的微薄家业也可以到此为止了。 现在，一个位于合适场所的小巧而雅致的公寓，正以3千万元的标价出卖，可以买到它靠房租过起悠然自得的生活。 建一因富子双亲死去，事实上成了设乐家的主人，婚后不久就渐渐横暴起来。由于他一点祖业也没带来就作了女婿，总带有着屈辱感，一有什么不偷快的事，就向妻子乱发脾气。 结婚初夜，富子没有出血，设乐就认为她不是处女，以后经常追问对方男人是谁。 富子渐渐对丈夫生了厌心，恰在那时大崎出现了。比丈夫年轻的漂亮男人，在女人内心深处徐徐滴进了爱的雨露，女儿照子与大崎也很亲热，富子逐渐向大崎有了表示，大崎也在富子那成熟的美姿面前动了心，两人很快建立了感情。 尽管建一好嫉妒，却对大崎给予绝对信任，甚至大崎和妻