Chapter 10 Chapter Nine Midnight Gunshots

Norio Sakamoto was awakened by the ringing of the phone, and he hurriedly picked up the receiver. "Is it Sakamoto? I'm sorry to bother you so late at night, can you come to my room?" This is the slightly flustered voice of the boss Nakahashi. "Yes, right away." Sakamoto put down the phone and looked at the alarm clock on the bedside table. It was almost three o'clock, and it was strange to call so late. The work of Nakahashi and Sakamoto is mostly confidential, and some work is inconvenient to be carried out in the office where people come and go, so they often use this hotel.Sometimes I come here because I have too much work to finish, close the door, and get bored in the room for three or five days.There is no need to guard against the eyes and ears around here, and confidential matters can be fully discussed in the secret room.Although it is the Ministry of National Defense, it is also full of intelligence networks of private businessmen and various politicians.Even in your own department, you can't talk carelessly.

I stayed here again today to discuss confidential matters.They went back and forth on the A-1 Air Force equipment plan until one o'clock in the night.This plan is the core of the next defense force preparation plan.A draft plan must be drawn up ahead of a review meeting scheduled for a few days away. The air force equipment plan should be basically determined at the review meeting.Therefore, those who directly draw up plans like them must be mentally prepared to be attacked by concentrated artillery fire during questioning.This plan was prepared three months ago. I was bored in the hotel early this morning and conducted a thorough research and discussion on this draft.The conclusions of this review meeting will serve as the basis for discussions at the "Defense Conference," the highest decision-making body on national defense issues.

This plan must be done carefully and thoroughly, impeccable.In the National Defense Agency where there are sharp oppositions and all kinds of complicated interests, it is not easy to come up with a plan that is comprehensive and exquisite in all aspects. people wish. These days, however, had not been in vain, and at last a plan was drawn up which was more or less satisfactory. "This plan won't pose any major problems." Nakahashi said with a smile as he looked at the draft.In the past few days, his cheeks have suddenly become as thin as a knife. I have been working on this draft for the past month, especially in the past few days, and I have hardly had enough sleep.Not only Nakahashi's right-hand man is like this, Nakahashi himself is especially tired.

"I'm tired, go back and rest." Nakahashi said. Nakahashi lived in a room for two.Normal single rooms are too cramped to work in.In order for both of them to sleep well, Nakahashi booked Pomoto a single room on another floor. When Sakamoto was about to leave Nakahashi's room, Nakahashi seemed embarrassed and said: "I'll take a good look at the draft again. If there are still things that need to be revised, then I'm sorry, and I may call you again." "Section Chief, please don't be polite, we are here to work." Seeing his boss being so polite, Sakamoto felt a little strange.Both Nakahashi and Sakamoto are well-known top players in the National Defense Agency.Nakahashi was promoted step by step from the chief of the air force equipment plan, the chief of the planning and research office, the chief of the base air defense and ground warning system of the Ministry of Defense, to the chief of the defense section.He has been walking a top line.He was able to be promoted so smoothly because he followed closely the boss who has now gone to a large private enterprise and was cultivated and promoted by him.Now the relationship between Sakamoto and Nakahashi is the same as the relationship between Nakahashi and his boss in the past.Once Nakahashi is promoted, Sakamoto will definitely follow suit.Now one is the chief of the first section of the National Defense Agency's equipment plan implementation headquarters, and the other is the assistant to the chief. The two are still connected by muscles.It is no exaggeration to say that Sakamoto dared to go to the sea of ​​fire for Nakahashi Daoshan.

In order to make a fortune, a person expresses his willingness to be loyal to his boss, even if he destroys himself. Although this extraordinary and strange practice makes people feel ridiculous, it is not only not a contradiction in the relationship between superiors and subordinates, but even considered commonplace.Therefore, Sakamoto didn't think there was anything wrong with being called by Nakahashi at three o'clock in the morning.What's more, Nakahashi has already spoken beforehand. It turned out that when Sakamoto returned to his room, he made preparations for Nakahashi to be on call.He thought, anyway, the approval meeting will be held soon, and a few days of overcoming will pass.He just took off his shirt and lay down on the bed.Due to being too tired these days, I unconsciously fell asleep in a daze.

These angels Sakamoto prominently feel that he and Nakahashi are not just the superior-subordinate relationship of ordinary employees, but more clearly feel that this is the superior-subordinate relationship of the "army". Sakamoto received the call, put on his shirt and walked out of the bedroom.The corridor in the middle of the night is as silent as the bottom of the sea. This is a T-shaped building, and Sakamoto's room is at the end of the vertical building.Nakahashi's room was on the third floor.The elevator is in the middle of the vertical building.Because the T-shaped horizontal building is short and the vertical building is long, the elevator is installed in the middle of the vertical building.This is a high-rise building recently built in central Tokyo, with nearly a hundred rooms on one floor.

Because Sakamoto lived in the room at the end of the vertical building, he had to walk a long corridor to the elevator. Sakamoto had just walked a few steps out of the room when he saw a figure at the head of the corridor.That is, the place where the horizontal building and the vertical building are connected, there seems to be a man standing there.He thought: It's so late, do you want to sneak into the woman's room?Thinking of living alone in a bachelor's room, I feel a little envious! Sakamoto put on his glasses and walked forward, getting closer and closer to the figure.He could see clearly that it was a tall man in a black suit, but he couldn't see the shape of his face clearly because of the dim light in the corridor.The man was standing facing left in the corridor of the horizontal building.

What is this man doing?Sakamoto thought in amazement: If he came out of a room in the vertical building and walked towards the horizontal building, his back should be facing me, but what I see now is his profile, what's going on?This may also be the turn from the vertical building to the horizontal building.Does he want to go into which room on the side building?But he didn't move, as if he was standing there looking at something.Are you going out now, who are you waiting for?Why don't you wait at the elevator door?Can I go out at three o'clock at night?Sakamoto was thinking as he walked towards that person.Suddenly he heard what sounded like a gunshot, which seemed to come out of something. The gunshot was muffled.

Sakamoto saw the man fall to the ground in response, as if he had been shot coldly?Just as he was about to escape, he staggered and fell forward.From the direction of the fall, it seems that the gun was shot at his back from the right side of the corridor. "Not good!" Sakamoto ran forward without waiting to shout. Sakamoto ran to him, and the man seemed to have died. It seemed that he had been hit on the back, and the back of his suit was covered with purple-black blood. Sakamoto instinctively glanced at the right side of the corridor, the person he wanted to commit the crime might be over there.Because the victim fell to the left, the bullet should have been fired from the right.

However, he saw no figure.One person was killed, but no one came out of the house. Every room was like a tightly closed shell, tightly shut.Did you fall asleep late at night?Sakamoto has never felt like this before, feeling that these tenants are very cold. Although the sound of the gunshot seemed to be muted with a silencer or something, it also pierced the silence of the hotel late at night.Sakamoto felt that even in the dead of night, at least one or two people should hear it. At this time, a guard came hurriedly from the head on the right side of the corridor.Corridor plugs are jammed.

"What's going on here?" the guard shone a flashlight on Sakamoto and said out of breath. The guards seemed to come running immediately when they heard the gunshots.When he saw the dead body and Sakamoto standing there dumbfounded, he was more suspicious of Sakamoto than surprised. "Has anyone escaped from the fire escape?" Sakamoto asked. "No one escaped, but what are you doing here?" The guard assumed that Sakamoto would take action if he moved. "You, don't doubt me. I'm Sakamoto who lives in Room 562. I have something to do. When I was walking in the corridor, I saw this person was knocked down. I was just closer to him, one step earlier than you." "But, no one escaped from this corridor!" The guards still did not relax their vigilance against him. "What are you doing, are you treating me like a murderer! It's so disrespectful!" "Someone was killed here, and you are the only one here!" The guard looked at him intently like a criminal policeman watching a prisoner. "Don't talk stupidly, maybe he fled to a nearby house! It's too disturbing to think that the person who found out is the murderer!" Sakamoto said angrily. At this time, he suddenly thought: the murderer fired from the right side, and when he ran, the murderer was gone. At this time, the emergency staircase was blocked by the guards, and the only place for the murderer to escape was the rooms on both sides of the corridor on the right.The room was tightly closed, and there was no movement in it. This may not be a sign of indifference. Maybe the murderer is hiding inside. "We'll search the guest room right away, but anyway, you have to come with me." The guard persisted, with a serious attitude and a strong language.At this time, the waiter on duty ran from the duty room when he heard someone yelling.There was movement in the surrounding room, as if someone got up. "Call the police immediately, and inform the night shift manager to be on the scene immediately. I will protect the scene here." The guard ordered the waiter, still staring at Sakamoto.Sakamoto remained silent, he already knew that he could no longer get away from this sudden incident.Even if you don't really treat yourself as a murderer, as the first witness of the case, you will inevitably be questioned repeatedly by the police.It's really bad luck that the approval meeting is about to be held. Sakamoto complained that Nakahashi shouldn't have greeted him at this time and caused trouble for himself. At the same time, he thought that Nakahashi would never have thought that he had been involved in the murder, and he was probably still waiting anxiously! "Hey, what's the matter?" "It looks like someone has been shot." "oops!" "It's such an uneven hotel!" "It's true, why are the hotels in Tokyo like New York?" "Who actually did this?" "Does the murderer run away?" The tenants talked about it in one go.They came out of the house when they heard someone shouting in the corridor.At first they were trembling with trepidation, and then they became chaotic as if they were watching the excitement, and the more noisy the crowd, the more people gathered. The night manager arrived.He and the guard asked everyone to go back to their houses, but no one did.At some point, the guard firmly grasped Sakamoto's wrist, as if afraid that Sakamoto would take advantage of the chaos to escape.Although this is disrespectful to the tenant, it is loyal to his duty as a guard. "Hey, who is that man whose wrist is being pulled by the guard?" "Maybe the murderer!" "Oh, it's terrible!" Among the noisy crowd, someone obviously stared at Sakamoto with the eyes of the murderer.He was angry, of course, but he didn't protest.He thought, when the police arrived, they would know what happened. Anyway, they had nothing to do with those people and they didn't know them, so it was fine to ignore them.He showed an air of indifference. Interpol came to the scene. "Hey, old snipe, did you find this?" A criminal policeman who arrived first greeted the guard as if he knew him very well. Perhaps the guard had been a detective in the past.He showed the crowd that he was doing very well, not only did he not leave Sakamoto, but he also protected the scene well when the crowd came. "After I heard what sounded like a gunshot, I ran here. When I saw that the man had fallen, he was standing beside him. When I saw that the victim was dead, I asked the waiter to find you. The scene remains the same protected." "That's good..." After a brief chat with the guard, the detective turned his face to Sakamoto. The identity of the deceased was immediately identified from the items carried on his body. He was Dokiya Sadahiko, the managing director of Dokiya Industry Co., Ltd., a large commercial company in Tokyo.The investigators became nervous after knowing the identity of the victim.Everyone expected that the young master of the current chairman and general manager of the well-known Dokiya Industrial Company was killed in a hotel in the center of Tokyo. The scene of the murder was the fifth-floor corridor of the newest large hotel "Akasaka Grand Hotel" in Akasaka.The victim was shot in the back with a bullet hole in the right back.After careful inspection, it was found that the shooting distance was close, but no bullet was found to pass through the exit, and it could be seen that the bullet was still in the body. The place where the victim fell was to the left of the central intersection of the horizontal building and the vertical building of the T-shaped building.The hotel calls the left side of the intersection Building A, the right side Building B, and the vertical building leading out from the intersection is Building C.In other words, the victim fell face down in Building A near Buildings B and C.Behind the victim, near the intersection in Building B, the pistol and a bullet casing used in the murder were found.Guards kept the scene intact amidst the chaotic crowd. Judging from these circumstances, the murderer shot the victim facing the back of Building A from the corridor of Building B. The first discoverer of this case was Norio Sakamoto, who lived in Room 562 on the same floor.The second discoverer is Yuan Yuanzao, the guard of the restaurant.Snipehara used to be a criminal police officer of the Metropolitan Police Department. After retiring, he came to this hotel as the head of the security department.He happened to be on duty that night.He heard the gunshots around three o'clock. At that time, he was patrolling the emergency stairs outside the side door of Building B, walking from the third floor to the fourth floor. "This gunshot sounded more muffled than normal gunshots, but the location where the gunshot was fired was close to the intersection of the buildings, so it could be heard from all sides. Although the emergency staircase is separated from the emergency exit at the end of the corridor of Building B, in the dead of night, It can be heard clearly when the whole building is asleep. Because I heard the gunshots on the fifth floor, I ran up quickly. It was only two or three minutes, and no one was seen coming from Building B on the fifth floor. Come out through the fire exit. "I ran to Building B and saw that Mr. Dokiya had fallen to the ground, and Sakamoto was standing beside him like a wooden man. The pistol was about three or four meters away from Mr. Dokiya." Snipehara introduced the situation in more detail.He emphasized that no one escaped from Building B. From his tone, he could feel that it was difficult for him to rule out his suspicion of Sakamoto. The investigators had the same suspicions.However, the subsequent gunpowder smell test on Sakamoto was negative, which ruled out the possibility of him committing the crime.Therefore, they had to temporarily abandon their doubts about Sakamoto. Sakamoto was washed.The emergency staircase in Building B, which might be the escape exit, was blocked by Snipe, so the murderer had nowhere to escape except to hide in a room in Building B. The investigators suddenly turned their thinking to Building B, thinking that the murderer was in the guest room of Building B.They asked the hotel to bring the accommodation registration book immediately, and check the identity of each room guest one by one. There are eight rooms on both sides of the corridor in Building B on the fifth floor.There were not many tourists that night, and there were only seven rooms 514, 516, 517, 519, 521, 523, and 526. In Room 514 lived an old couple who were over 70 years old, and in Room 516 lived a businessman from a large American company. A couple of female guests live in rooms 517 and 519. No. 521 lived in a company director and an unmarried female employee of the company. Room 523 is a newlywed couple. The last room, Room 526, is a famous old foreign writer who has lived in Japan for three months in order to collect creative subjects. The passenger registration card is filled in by the guest himself when staying.After checking the addresses and contact units registered on the card one by one, it was found that only room 521 was falsely reported.But in the end, it was found out that this was a company director and his company's female employees having sex with men and women in a hotel, deliberately concealing their true identities.He bowed and kowtowed and begged again and again: "In any case, I hope you will keep my wife and the company secret." The investigators sneered and had to exclude him from the suspects.Because he was not found to have any connection with the victim. Passengers on the fifth floor were excluded one by one after strict identity checks.The suspicion of whether he would hide in the empty room was also clarified, because the empty rooms were all locked, and the keys were kept at the registration office, and no one in the hotel staff took the keys that night. The first search meeting was held at the search headquarters at the Akasaka Police Station, and everyone expressed their thoughts frankly. The person who handled this case was the top ten generals under Ishihara who specialize in homicide cases in the Third Investigation Room of the First Division of the Metropolitan Police Department.In addition, the Akasaka Police Station also dispatched detectives and forensic officers.More than twenty people attended the meeting. The head of the search headquarters, the Chief of the First Search Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, delivered a speech and gave instructions.The Ishihara Police Department, who stood on the front line of the search and took direct command, said "this case is very difficult" as soon as he opened his mouth. "The scene is under lockdown. The murderer shot the victim in the back from Building B. The emergency staircase at the top of the corridor of Building B has been blocked by guards. All passengers in Building B have been ruled out as suspects. As a result, the murderer fled like a smoke. .In real life, such strange things don’t happen. Then, where did the murderer go? Please use your brains carefully.” The eyes of Police Department Ishihara were bloodshot.This is a sign of lack of sleep and excessive fatigue.He was called as soon as this case happened last night, and since then, he has been running around. Ishihara's nickname is "General Affairs", and his serene demeanor resembles that of a general affairs section chief who is about to reach retirement age, hence the name.No one can see that he is a steady and capable police officer who specializes in homicide cases. After Shi Yuan finished speaking, everyone was dull for a while, and the oldest team leader Okawa of Shi Yuan's class stood up.He was nicknamed "Old Man Bald", his hair was bald from the pointy top of his head, which made people feel funny like a cannonball, but he was a very serious person who made the other party feel awe-inspiring. "I always thought that the first discoverer, Sakamoto, was suspicious. I didn't know much about him during the first search stage. He was a member of the National Defense Agency. On the other hand, the earthenware house business run by the victim is one of the few large iron and steel companies. The company. Between the National Defense Agency and this company, there seems to be some ulterior motive behind the scenes." "If there is any connection between Sakamoto and the victim, this secret murder case will be solved in one fell swoop." Naturally, the Shiyuan Police Department is also considering this issue, but he has other thoughts.Since the smoke reaction test was carried out on Sakamoto, the result immediately denied the suspicion of him. However, if he is an accomplice who shelters the murderer, then the murderer can find a way to escape from Building C. There is an elevator in the middle of Building C, and there are emergency stairs at the top of the building. You can escape from both places. However, if he is an accomplice, why kill in the hallway?Even late at night, it is extremely easy to commit crimes in such a large hotel corridor in the city center.Whoever heard or witnessed this murder, it seemed that no one would cover it up.It is unreasonable to regard Sakamoto as an accomplice. "What did the victim come to the hotel for?" The youngest detective Shiraki asked from another angle.He is the first handsome boy in Ishihara's class. "According to the hotel, the victim did not book a room that night, nor did he stay there. In this case, it can be considered that he came to visit someone. Sakamoto said that he did not know the victim, so let's not mention how reliable this is. If the victim came to visit Sakamoto, the location where he fell would be a bit strange. The room where Sakamoto lived was near the end of Building C, and the elevator was in the middle of the corridor of Building C. If the victim came to look for Sakamoto, then he might have collapsed in the Somewhere in Building C where Sakamoto lived. However, the victim collapsed in Building A not far from Building B, so could he have come to visit the rooms in Building A and Building B?” Perhaps Shiraki's words were in line with Ishihara's thoughts, and Ishihara nodded deeply. "Couldn't it be that Pomoto dragged him to Building A after he was killed in Building C?" Okawa still insisted that Sakamoto was an accomplice. "Then I don't think it's possible. It is said that it took only two or three minutes for the guard Snipehara to run from the emergency stairs to Building B on the fifth floor when he heard the gunshots. At this time, Sakamoto was already standing next to the corpse, carrying the corpse from Building C to Building A." It is too difficult for Dom to arrive earlier than Snipehara. It has been tested and proved that there is no smell of gunpowder or blood on Sakamoto itself. Besides, it is not beneficial to carry the body from Building C to Building A. There is an elevator in the middle of the corridor, which can only attract Dangerous. Snipe was suspicious of him as soon as he saw it, and this is a clear example." Okawa fell silent, and seemed a little unhappy, but he couldn't come up with any rebuttal materials for the time being. "If the victim is looking for someone, I think he might be looking for passengers from Building A." Detective Fan Jiang interjected. The man seemed unresponsive!But sometimes sharp opinions are suddenly raised. The passengers in Building B have all been investigated, and they have nothing to do with the victim, so the person who had something to do with the victim should be the person in the room of Building A, which can also be deduced from the location where the victim fell. "It is necessary to thoroughly check the passengers in Building A again!" Fan Jiang's colleague Xingshan said with a flash of eyes. Fan Jiang is short and fat, and Xing Shan is tall and slender, with different faces, but people often confuse the two, perhaps because of the language sense of their names or some similarities in their speech and behavior. Everyone not only agreed with Fan Jiang's opinion, but also believed that it was necessary to check all the passengers on the fifth floor.When accepting things that can be used as identification certificates from passengers, most passengers actively expressed their assistance, while a few expressed displeasure, and after explanations, they all adopted a cooperative attitude.In order to conceal the relationship between men and women, a few of them filled in false names and false occupations on the registration card. They were afraid of revealing their true identities and expressed hesitation.But when they heard that they were promised to keep their secrets, they all reluctantly agreed. Business cards, seals, commuter tickets, even notebooks, obstetrics clinic vouchers, etc., everything that can prove identity was searched.It can be said that they are really capable of collecting all these things from the passengers on the fifth floor. According to the data, passengers in Buildings B and C were checked carefully again. Except for Norio Sakamoto in Room 562 of Building C, no one was found to be related to the victim. The possibility of finding female passengers was also taken into account during the inspection, however, all female guests staying in double rooms on the fifth floor had husbands or partners.The female guests in the single room were also not related to him. Why did the earthenware house come to the hotel in such a late night? The body of the earthenware house was quickly dissected and some information was learned.The bullet had entered very close to him, from the right side of the back, through the intercostal artery, to the left chest, where it lodged under the skin of the breast.He died due to the dysfunction of arteries that flooded into the chest cavity. In addition, it was found that the murder weapon picked up at the scene was a 38-caliber revolver used for special investigation.The bullets taken from the deceased were identical to the pistol bullets.The friction traces of the bullets are also consistent with the friction traces of this pistol bullet, and there is also a gunpowder reaction when checking the corridor on the scene. The time of death was around 3:00 a.m. on October 11. When the autopsy was performed, it was at most one hour before the time of death.This proved that the victim had not been killed somewhere else and somehow brought into the hotel. Kumiko is shocked by the news of Tsukiya Sadahiko's murder.She felt that the earthenware house was the most suspicious person who could answer her husband's disappearance. "Maybe the earthenware house killed my husband." Just as she was doubting this, the earthenware house was suddenly killed. When Kumiko heard the news, she was more shocked than disappointed.Kumiko was suspicious of the earthenware house, but at the same time felt helpless, and what she knew was not enough to call the police. The date of the trip to Doki House happened to be the same day as Umura's trip to Niigata.The earthenware house disappeared for a period of time during the trip, which is likely to be related to his private life. He is a director of a company, and it is not surprising that he secretly has contacts with one or two women.It is entirely possible that he took the opportunity of a business trip, or in the name of a business trip, to fool around with women at the place of business trip.This is his private life, and the police have no right to intervene. When Kumiko was at a loss what to do, unexpectedly, the earthenware house suddenly died again.It was a wave of ups and downs, and a new wave of waves broke out in Jiu Meihu's mind. "Who killed Dokiya?" Kumiko asked after recovering from the sudden shock. Dokiya Sadahiko is the young master of the boss of Dokiya Industrial Company, and he is also the upcoming general manager.His death may have something to do with the intricate business world.Was his killing caused by mutual rivalry among capitalists, or by jealousy over women? Of course, there are various possibilities for a person to be killed. This is something that the police should think about, but Kumiko's mind is involuntarily churning. She raised her head suddenly and opened her eyes wide, as if something passed her sight. "Could it be..." She pressed her chin tightly to her collar, her dull eyes seemed to be staring at something.Suddenly, a thought flashed in her mind: Could it be that the earthenware house was killed because it was related to Yucun's whereabouts?Could it be that there is another person related to Yucun's whereabouts besides the earthenware house?In order to conceal his relationship with Umura's disappearance, that person completely sealed the mouth of the earthenware house who knew the details and prevented him from revealing the truth, so he killed him?Her imagination is expanding rapidly. "In this case, I'm afraid Yucun was killed?" She muttered alone with infinite sadness and confusion. If only Yucun's whereabouts are unknown, then there is no need to kill people to silence them. No matter how well-thought-out the perpetrator is, killing people is always a dangerous gamble with one's own life at stake. Since it is still a risk, it shows that the earthenware house has caught a major handle.So what could be the handle?Did he conspire with Tuqiwu to kill Yucun?That is to say, they are accomplices.It is not uncommon for accomplices to be killed in order to conceal serious crimes. According to Kumiko's speculation, since the earthenware house was killed, the possibility of Umura still alive in the world is very slim. In any case, this case seems to have opened up a new way of thinking for Kumiko who was at her wit's end.However, although it was a new idea, I didn't see any specific new things in my vision, and I lost the only goal of the earthenware house.She walked out of the dead end of thinking and entered the vast sea of ​​mist. She seemed to hear Yucun calling from the bottom of the sea of ​​fog.However, that was not the voice of the living, but the extremely miserable screams of the dead in order to let their relatives take away their rotting corpse as soon as possible. "Yes, let's go to the police." She suddenly had such an idea, which might be the inspiration from her husband's constant calling. Kumiko thought: It would be fine to talk to the police about the possible connection between Umura's disappearance and Tukiya's death, especially since I have information that no one else can understand!I got my thoughts on the earthenware house from analyzing these situations. The earthenware house is no longer alive, and it will not hurt anyone to tell my thoughts to the police. Talk to the police about your ideas, will they accept it?Whatever it is, let them judge.For the first time since her husband cut off the news, Kumiko's eyes showed a firm light. Detective Shiraki from the search headquarters of the Akasaka Police Station received her.Kumiko, who was calm and slightly sad, walked into the search headquarters room, which was as gloomy as the office staff room in an elementary school, and felt even more sad and heavy. This was the first time Kumiko came to the police station in her life. She tried her best to suppress the depression caused by the environment and serious atmosphere there, and introduced the results of the secret investigation she had entrusted to Xingshin Institute and her own speculation. Shiraki listened enthusiastically to Kumiko's words, especially when he heard Kumiko mention that there might be some relationship between the murder of the earthenware house and the disappearance of Umura, he acted as if he had a new vision in front of him. If Kumiko's conjecture is correct, then the accomplice who killed Amamura has something to do with the murder of Dokiya.This is indeed a new idea, showing a new possibility.Moreover, many of the bases of her reasoning are credible. "Ma'am, was your husband close to the earthenware house?" "Yes, they are old acquaintances, classmates from high school." "Are there connections at work?" "I don't think there is anything special about it, but..." She suddenly remembered something. "But what?" Bai Mu raised his ears and leaned forward to urge. "Saw him a lot shortly before my husband died." "Is it at your house?" "Yes. Never saw him before that university." In fact, it's not that I didn't see it much, but I didn't see it at all.Moreover, every time the earthenware house left, Yucun was very disappointed. "What is the earthenware house here for?" "It seems that it is inconvenient for me to talk on the spot, so I always avoid it." "Hey, my high school classmate came to visit my home, does my wife have to avoid it!?" If it is a general topic, it is not inappropriate for the wife to also participate.He is an old friend of the husband. It is human nature and general etiquette for the husband and wife to entertain together.Moreover, in this way, everyone will talk more vigorously and the atmosphere will be active. "Is that what your husband told you to avoid, or..." "Both sides. When I was present, the earthenware house didn't speak, and the husband didn't say a word as if he was embarrassed." "Didn't you hear a little talk about your husband's work? Like when he came in with tea or something." "Yeah, they talked about the Niigata Atomic Power Station and all. As soon as I came in, they started talking about something else." Inspired by Shiraki, Kumiko gradually recovered her faint memory.Kumiko didn't pay attention to this at the time, but in retrospect, it was a big problem for Dokiya to mention Niigata Nuclear Power Station as a topic. After Amamura went to Niigata, he lost the news. Dokiya talked about Niigata, and the two may have talked about the specific matters of building a nuclear power plant. Kumiko told Shiraki what she thought of. "Perhaps the earthenware house suddenly needed the results of her husband's research and approached him. At that time, many businessmen came to him." Kumiko once again explained the outline of Amamura's invention and the situation in which businessmen kept coming to the house.Maybe Earthenware House was one of those people. "It would be great if you could understand the relationship between the Earthenware Industry Company and your husband's invention. We'll check it out right away. Then, please take your husband's ... ah, excuse me!" Bai Mu inadvertently said something, and blinked his eyes twice, feeling embarrassed.His attitude was not like that of a criminal policeman in the first investigation department. His simple and simple style made a good impression on Kumiko. "Nothing, sir, please don't mind! I've almost given up hope." "I'm really sorry for saying something I shouldn't have said!" Bai Mu scratched his head and continued, "Can you write me a list of the names of those business people who are close to your husband that you still remember? Although this is also an impolite way to ask, At the same time, please tell me all the people who seem to resent your husband. People don’t know when they are resented by others. This...it’s hard to speak in front of Mrs. Umura. Your husband has something to hide from you. woman?" When Shiraki asked straightforwardly, Kumiko's deeply engraved sad face appeared in Kumiko's eyes. It seemed that Toko was mourning for her husband who was taken away by the devil's claws, but after careful consideration, one felt that she was not mourning her husband, but rather It was like mourning Yucun. Kumiko thought: Dongzi will not hate Yucun, if I say resentment, I hate Dongzi.In front of Bai Mu, a surge of passion surged from the bottom of her heart, and flames of anger spurted out.Moreover, this incident made her regret it.It's okay to be jealous, or to be harsh on your husband, what's the use of that?The husband is no longer there. So, what kind of position does he occupy in Yucun's heart?Is it always a substitute for Dongzi, or does it have its own independent position?As far as independent status is concerned, who has more of Dongzi or himself?When all this is still a mystery, there is no trace of Umura, and I will never win against Dongzi. "Madam, I can't remember it for a while today, but I can do it another day. Thank you for your introduction today. It will be very helpful for our future investigation and solving work." Shiraki's words brought Kumiko back from her reverie.

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