Chapter 11 Chapter 10 The Master of the Ruins

Hamano gave the order.Before Mayumi's arrival, Hamano's instructions were the meaning of Yamagata's life, and this was the only connection between Yamagata and the organization.But after living together with Mayumi, from Yamagata's ears, Hamano's order is like a "spirit order" from the underworld. "Yamagata? Get out of the apartment immediately!" This is Hamano's order. "Do you want to do it now?" "No, it's not yet time. Anyway, come down quickly!" Hamano's words must be absolutely obeyed. "What happened?"

"The situation is not good. There are criminal police in ambush. Didn't you notice it?" "Is it a plainclothes criminal?" "It started two days ago. You peek through the curtains. There is a covered truck parked at the corner of the cigarette shop on the right. There seem to be plainclothes criminals inside." "That car didn't exist yesterday." "I changed the car. It was parked on the left yesterday. It is a MKI car. It seems to be watching your place." "I didn't expose it, am I spying on others?" Kumazawa's alibi was publicly reported, but Mayumi was not reported as the witness of Kumazawa's alibi, so Yamagata did not know that Mayumi was involved in the rape and murder case.The criminal police's questioning of Mayumi was also carried out when Yamagata was away.But people around her were talking about it, and this kind of discussion might have reached Hamano's ears.

"It may be so, but it's better to be careful at such times. You should leave that woman there and go to the hotel alone. You should leave the apartment as if you are going out temporarily, and don't go back." "Just me?" There was dissatisfaction in the voice.Before Mayumi came here, Yamagata never used this tone when speaking to Hamano. "Yes. I know you love her, and I've been there, and I don't blame you. But now that the police are watching you, you have to bear with it. It's too conspicuous to take a woman with you. That would bring her Unfortunately. After your mission is completed, you can embrace as much as you want."

Hamano's words sounded like he was well-versed in the world.But the love between Yamagata and Mayumi is completely ignored. At the beginning of Yamagata and Mayumi's cohabitation, Hamano was displeased, but he did not stop it because he himself had a woman.The difference is that Hamano only uses women as a tool to vent his sexual desire, while Yamagata and Mayumi really love each other.For Hamano, women can be changed at any time; for Yamagata, Mayumi is a unique existence. Failure to understand this difference led to Hamano's miscalculation. "Understood, I will move out immediately." Yamagata replied.

Parting with Mayumi was painful, but Hamano's order was absolute. Yamagata said to Mayumi: "I'm going out for a few days for work." Mayumi thought, once Yamagata leaves, Amada will definitely come.Both are in the plight of not being able to tell each other their deepest affairs.Yamagata felt that he would never see Mayumi again.Mayumi thought to herself, if Amada took herself away, it would be a farewell to Yamagata forever. The two looked at each other with emotion.Although there were no words of farewell, they all felt that this was the last farewell. The ruins of this hotel are located on the Minato side of the road dug near Akasakami adjacent to Chiyoda-ku.After a fire that killed and injured many people a few years ago, there is still no sign of restoration, and this piece of land located in the center of the city is left in vain.

This hotel was built before the Olympic Games in Tokyo and is well-known at home and abroad as the largest hotel in the East.As the climax of hotel construction around the Olympic Games, Artemisia's scale and equipment belonged to the most cutting-edge at that time. Because of the fire, structural flaws and safety management chaos were exposed, as well as operational flaws.Negotiations on compensation with victims have stalled.The huge body that once flourished in the past is now like a huge dead tree left in the center of the city.The building is magnificent, original in design and craftsmanship, and the contrast between its heyday and today is poignant.

About a year after the fire, rumors emerged that ghosts were haunting the ruins of the New Oriental hotel. This kind of strange talk will appear in any ruined and disaster-prone areas.After the New Oriental Hotel caught fire, the personnel in charge of security and management of the building were evacuated.Since then, the strange talk of ghosts has become more and more mysterious. Security officers said they saw will-o'-the-wisps inside the building and refused to patrol, making it impossible to continue nighttime security.Several police officers said they had seen will-o'-the-wisps.The unions finally came forward.

Does the union consider whether there are homeless people living in it?Inspections were carried out during the day, but no signs of human habitation were found. During this period, taxi drivers who passed in front of the hotel late at night also reported seeing will-o'-the-wisps inside the building.A TV station was very interested in this and planned to send an "expedition team" to explore, but the plan was aborted due to the rejection of the hotel management company. Since then, the restaurant has been closed and no one has ever entered. Finally a brave young man set his sights on this place.His name is Mikami Yoichi, and he came to Tokyo from the township of Beiao with 150,000 yuan in his arms.He was very tired of the rural life where he knew what his neighbors had for dinner.All he wanted was to come to Tokyo, no matter what he wanted to do.After graduating from high school, he worked in an agricultural cooperative in his hometown for a year, and finally couldn't take it anymore, and brought all his property to Tokyo.

He didn't think about the future at all, thinking that there would always be a way when he arrived in Tokyo.Chuck Wilson came to Japan with 7,000 yuan, and I came to Tokyo from China with 150,000 yuan.If not, I can walk back.Naive and reckless, he left his job, parents and brothers and came to Tokyo alone. Unlike fleeing, he left a note at home, which said "I will come back if I can't find a job." However, Tokyo is not as beautiful as Mikami imagined.No one can hire a 19-year-old blind streamer who doesn't even have an identity guarantor. Even the "night workers" I had hoped for couldn't be found.Some people say that you can find odd jobs in the ravines, but when you hear that 20 to 40% of your salary will be deducted, and people without special skills can only dig pits, he doesn't want to go.

He lived in a youth travel hostel while he waited to find work, and the little money he had brought quickly ran out.At this time, he had a personal feeling for the phrase "Tokyo is only a paradise for the rich". No matter where rich people go, they are treated preferentially and have a good mood.Especially in Tokyo, people without money have almost no right to live.The disparity between rich and poor is striking.In Tokyo, poverty is evil. The room fee for staying in the youth travel hostel is gone, and the travel expenses for going home are also used up, and he can't go back if he wants to go home, and he doesn't want to go back either.Going back to the countryside, where even the most trivial things are monitored, would be better than starving to death by the roadside in Tokyo.

It's still hot summer, even if you sleep on the street, you have to stick to it.Because he came out this time, it was like fleeing, so he didn't want to go to a free employment agency.He wandered around Shinjuku, Akasaka, Ginza and other bustling areas, and when he saw job advertisements, he went in to inquire, but all shop owners required a copy of household registration or an identity guarantor. On this day, he turned around for a whole day, but it was in vain to go back and forth.My legs are heavy, and my stomach is hungry.But I can't go back to the youth travel hostel, I only have 160 yuan left on me. God is also happy with the poor, but at this time, a typhoon blew up and it rained heavily. After letting the rain drench his tired body, Mikami felt a chill permeate his whole body.How I want to find a place to shelter from the rain. At this moment, he came to an unlit, dark building.In this bustling urban center, it's like a front tooth has fallen out, forming a scary big black hole. Mikami saw that this was the New Oriental Hotel where many people were killed or injured by the fire.It is now closed and has become a ruin, but it still looks majestic and majestic. The fire started from inside the high-rise, and no trace of the fire demon could be seen from the outside.Now if all the windows are lit with lights, it will still not lose the beauty of the heyday of the past. "I don't even have a place to sleep, and I'm wandering in the rain like a wild dog, and such a large building is left unused." Seeing the disparity between rich and poor in Tokyo, Mikami felt very angry. He thought, this building used to be a hotel, and part of it was destroyed by the fire, so the other parts were left intact? For him, living in a first-class hotel in central Tokyo was something he had never even dared to dream of.But now... Maybe there is still food left in the refrigerator!He has even forgotten the reason why he can't move without a refrigerator. The fasting and rain made him fantasize about the huge hotel ruins in front of him.Although the building was closed, there might be a place for people to squeeze into this huge monster. Mikami walked forward along the building.There is a ramp on the side of the building, which seems to lead to the basement or underground parking.There was a window in the wall on the way, and the glass of the window had been smashed.Mikami got in through the window.Here is a small room off the hall, which seems to be the waiter's or porter's lounge. As soon as you leave the door of the hut, you will find the hall inside the front gate. The dim light coming in from the street fills the entire hall.The sofas, carpets, lighting fixtures, murals, tables and chairs in the hall have all been removed, leaving it empty like an old factory.Some pieces of wood, glass, cloth, etc. were scattered on the ground.Although it can avoid the wind and rain here, it is a bit too deserted, and there is no refrigerator. Using the dim light, Mikami found the stairs on the right side of the hall, and he walked upstairs holding the handrail of the stairs.As expected, they found guest rooms on the third or fourth floors. Some of the doors of the guest rooms were open and some were closed. The doors were all unlocked, probably because they had checked to see if anyone was inside during the fire. The floor with guest rooms is not as messy as the hall, the carpet in the corridor is intact, the light shines into the room from the window facing the street, and from the room into the corridor. What is surprising is that the beds, furniture, utensils, etc. in each guest room are placed there as well as when they opened.There is also a refrigerator, because it is not cold inside because there is no electricity, but things like wine, juice, canned food, etc. have not deteriorated.It may be because there are ghosts in the legend, and it seems that no thieves who stole furniture have visited here. It seemed that guests were still living in the guest room when the fire broke out, and there were still signs of fleeing in embarrassment when the fire broke out. The chairs fell there, the table was crooked, and bed sheets, pajamas, towels, etc. were scattered in the room. After Mikami filled his stomach with fruit juice and canned food, he walked in along the corridor.He has made up his mind to live here for the time being.Choose the room arbitrarily, eat something, if you look carefully, there may be better ones. When he thought that he was the owner of the ruins from tonight, he couldn't help feeling elated.The huge hotel in the center of Tokyo became his own residence. With only 160 yuan left, he actually occupied the downtown building that only rich people are eligible to live in. Mikami reveled in the illusion of his own success.He came to the front of the innermost room, opened the door and saw that the interior was a structure of several rooms, the so-called suite. The entrance looks like a living room, with a few chairs around the table, as if a meeting is about to take place.The bedroom is in the back room of the living room. Mikami walked through the living room and pushed open the door leading to the back room.Inside is a double room with two single beds as usual.The room had curtains and was very dark.Suddenly, a blue light came into the room through the curtains, like a neon light across the road. In an instant, Mikami's whole body seemed to be poured with cold water.On a bed, lay a person.The neon lights flickered, and the room returned to darkness. Mikami stood at the door dumbfounded.The blue light of the neon lights shot into the room again.Indeed, there was a man lying on the bed.At this moment, Mikami smelled a foul odor.When he realized that it was the stench of dead bodies, a sense of terror that he had never felt before quickly spread throughout his body. As Mikami ran out of the room screaming, he stumbled over a chair, which added to his terror. On the night of August 30, the police station dispatched personnel to the scene after receiving a report that a dead body had been found in the building of the former Oriental Hotel in Akasaka 3-chome, Minato-ku.The police car of the competent authority was the first to arrive at the scene.The scene was in Room 410 on the fourth floor. The deceased, aged between 20 and 25, was male and was shot twice from behind. After receiving the No. 1 report from the police car, the mobile search team, members of the Criminal Division of the competent authority, and members of the First Search Division and Identification Division of the Metropolitan Police Department rushed to the scene one after another. According to the autopsy results, the body had been dead for 40 to 50 days and was quite decomposed. There were two bullet holes in the back and two bullet holes in the chest.A bullet wound to the heart was the cause of death.Judging from the situation of the bullet entering the hole, it is presumed that the bullet was fired from a distance of two to three meters from the deceased. There was nothing on the body that could prove the identity of the deceased, but judging from the physical characteristics of the deceased, it was the same as Tatsuo Kumazawa, who was prosecuted for robbery on July 14 and escaped in a car accident while being escorted to the detention center. His whereabouts are still unknown. same.The fingerprints of the deceased were also consistent with Xiong Ze's fingerprints.So far, the identity of the deceased has been determined.The police authorities are very nervous about this. After Xiong Zechenxiong was killed, his body was thrown in the ruins of the hotel in the central area of ​​the city.Was it killed at the scene, or was the body transported to the scene after being killed elsewhere?Because the number of days of committing the crime is too long, it is impossible to judge.After careful inspection at the scene, no gunpowder reaction was found.The bullet that penetrated the body was also not found.The possibility of being killed elsewhere within the building also cannot be ruled out. It would be audacious to choose an abandoned hotel in the center of the city as the crime scene.At the same time, this also shows that the murderer just caught a glimpse of the blind spot of the police. The hotel guards are afraid of ghosts, so they are afraid when they come here, and ordinary people probably won't come here.This may be because the victim died unjustly, and his ghost lingers.In the deepest part of this gigantic hotel, gunshots could not be heard outside, and of course the cries of the dead could not be heard.It is also very easy for the murderer to escape from here. Ordinary tramps would not have come to such a place if it hadn't been for a bold and displaced young man who broke into the ruins this time.If this corpse had not been discovered by him, it might have turned into a pile of bones. In terms of geographical conditions, safety (for the murderer), concealment, etc., this is the ideal place to hide the body. The autopsy result of the autopsy was: the cause of death was blood loss caused by a heart attack, and it was presumed that he had been dead for 40 to 50 days. The murderer fired two bullets from behind with a 45-caliber large-caliber pistol within two meters.One penetrated the heart and the other penetrated the apex of the right lung. It seems that Kumasawa was killed shortly after he escaped, and his body was thrown into the ruins of the hotel.Yellow-green synthetic fibers were attached to the body, but there was no such substance in the hotel.The first suspect to be brought forward was Hiroshi Amada.Although it has been determined that Xiong Ze was not at the scene of the crime at the time, the name Hiroshi Amada was not among the searched objects at that time.At that time, he may have simply thought that after Xiong Ze died, all the guilt could be borne by Xiong Ze. If Amada is the murderer, the investigation of the rape and murder of Nami Shimura can be combined with the investigation of this case.Now the Akasaka Police Department has set up the search headquarters for the original New Oriental Hotel murder and abandoned corpse case, and closely cooperates with the previous case to conduct a joint search. The first question raised at the joint search meeting of the two headquarters was how Amada came into contact with Kumazawa if he was the murderer. "Kumazawa went to find Mayumi Hibino after he escaped, did Mayumi tell Hiro Amada?" "That's impossible. When Xiong Ze went to find Mayumi, Mayumi was no longer a prostitute, and Xiong Ze didn't see her." "Did Mayumi's colleague pass it on to Mayumi?" "After Kumazawa escaped, he saw Kihara Godko, who didn't know where Mayumi was. Godko and Kiryu found out that Mayumi was living with another man in Amada's original residence, and immediately reported to the police." "So, Amada and Kumazawa are out of contact." This is exactly the knot that Kiryu has not solved.Even when the method of contact between those two people has not been resolved, Amada Hiroshi was wanted nationwide as a suspect of rape and murder and murder and abandonment of corpses.The victim in the previous case was Shimura Nami, and the victim in the latter case was Tatsuo Kumazawa. At the same time, it was decided that the current strategy is to investigate the weapon used to kill Xiong Ze and the people who are familiar with the geographical conditions of the scene.