Chapter 19 Chapter Eighteen

Until the ambiguous relationship between Tokiya Fuyuko and Matsuo Shunsuke was found out, the next step of the search made no progress. At the beginning of March, Dongzi resumed her original surname, calling herself Natori Dongzi, and moved from the earthenware house to the home of her father, Ryutaro Natoro, who lived in Seijo.From then on it is free. This is to take Long Tailong as the future of Dongzi, who is still young, and wants to take her back home.The relationship between Dongzi and Matsuo seemed to have settled a debt, and it was interrupted since then, and no contact between the two was found.Later, Natori intends to remarry her daughter to a big shot in the Shinwa Foundation.

Now that the relationship between the two of them has been severed, the line of love murder as the motive for killing Dokiya must appear insignificant. If it is said that Matsuo killed Dokiya in order to get Fuyuko, then once he possessed her, the interest would soon disappear.Of course, this can be reminiscent of a child who gets tired of playing with a favorite toy very quickly.However, it is very doubtful whether people can kill people just for the sake of momentary joy. If it is said that Dongzi seduced Matsuo in order to seize the property of the earthenware house, this possibility cannot be said to be non-existent. However, since she has given up this easy-to-get right and hastily returned to her natal home, this line has also been broken. up.

"The murder of the earthenware house will never be the murder of a man and a woman." This is the unanimous opinion of the search headquarters.This brings us back to the original point of view. Starting from the fact that the victim Dokiya Sadahiko was the acting general manager of Dokiya Industry Company, it became more and more obvious that the competition in the trading field could become the fuse of the murder.During this process, because the privacy of Dongzi and Matsuo was exposed, the search target suddenly tended to be on the relationship between the sexes. More importantly, it happened that the headquarters found Matsuo, the only suspicious person, at this time.This brings attention back to the original starting point.Matsuo is indeed a suspicious figure.However, it is only suspicious, and no conclusive evidence has been caught yet.

What role did Matsuo play in the killing of Dokiya?Nothing more specific is known. Searches conducted along the line of the murder weapon were also fruitless.Judging from the pistols obtained at the scene, it was a rotary repeating pistol used for special reconnaissance, and it was the most fashionable new pistol favored by violent groups.This kind of pistol is closely related to violent groups, and it is constantly smuggled in from abroad in large quantities. Strict control with the usual method of banning guns and swords will not help.Therefore, it is impossible to trace the countless concealed pistols.

At the time of repeated setbacks, only one detective continued to pursue the investigation unrelentingly according to his own ideas.This is Okawa Inspection Minister. How did Dokiya Sadahiko fall down in the corridor of the late-night hotel?Okawa has been haunted by this question.The earthenware house did not reserve a room in the hotel, but found his body in the corridor. This inevitably led to the following speculation at the beginning of the search: Could the earthenware house be visiting someone in the hotel? The body was not carried into the corridor, which was confirmed by witness Sakamoto.That night, a strict investigation was conducted on the guests on the fifth floor, and no one who had a direct relationship with the victim was found.

Okawa also advocated "Sakamoto's accomplice theory" at first.Later, this idea was overturned.This idea was first proposed by Shiraki detective, but according to the situation introduced by Kumiko, he gradually shifted his focus to the relationship between Tokiya Toko and Matsuo Shunsuke, thus changing his opinion.However, "Maybe the earthenware house is here to visit someone!" Shiraki's initial question was deeply imprinted in Okawa's heart.In fact, during the search, there are many cases where people change their opinions or policies like this, and it is not surprising that they go against their opinions at the beginning of the search.

"Doki House doesn't wander around the corridors of hotels aimlessly. He is indeed interviewing someone. The person he interviews is undoubtedly a criminal or an accomplice who is harboring a murderer." As time went by, Okawa speculated on this More and more convinced.He thought: Someone on the fifth floor must have had contact with the earthenware house somewhere that night.In this society, the relationship between people is intricate. Even if there is no direct relationship, they will be intertwined, intertwined, and mixed together.The victim's pottery house is a link in this chain.However, this interlocking is infinite.In fact, it is impossible to check every passenger on the fifth floor.It can only be inferred from the location where the victim fell, which first involves the rooms in Buildings A and B that are closest to the victim.

It was a daunting task to pursue leads that had been stranded during the early search process by only one person.Yet such efforts are not in vain.Da Chuan found a person acting suspiciously, saying it was suspicious but couldn't find any concrete evidence. Okawa made a judgment based on past experience, and decided to shift the focus to this character.He is confident about it.If the first flag is successful, the whole search will be successful.Casting the net upon this man was a thankless drudgery that only he would undertake. According to Okawa's judgment, the prisoner must have escaped into a room on the fifth floor, otherwise it would be unreasonable.A living person can never rise up like smoke.The witness did not lie.It was unanimous in reliable testimony that the prisoner could not have slipped from the scene in one fell swoop.But judging from the current situation, the prisoner did not hide in any room on the fifth floor.

Judging from the condition of the corpse, the prisoner hit the victim on the back in the corridor of Building B, that is, the corridor from which the guards ran.The problem is that according to Okawa's supplementary search, no one who has direct or indirect relationship with the victim has been found among the passengers in Building B. Based on this, Okawa came up with a new idea: the so-called victim standing with his back to Building B was actually an illusion of the witnesses.The situation may be the opposite. Could it be that he was standing with his back to Building A? If this assumption is correct, the prisoner can escape through the blocked fire escape in Building A, or get into a certain room in Building A.

This painstaking assumption was overturned by witness Sakamoto.Sakamoto confirmed that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the fact that the earthenware house faces Building A and its back faces Building B. Since Okawa was not at the scene, he couldn't deny it when he heard such confident words. Sakamoto's testimony is also based on facts, that is: the identities of the passengers in Building A have been ascertained, and no suspicious person in contact with the victim has been found.The new seals pasted by the guards on the emergency exits, including the seal on the plug in Building A, were not damaged.In order to prevent the guests from being carelessly locked outside the fire exit while enjoying the night view, the guards check the seal on the fire exit every day to see if anyone has gone out and did not come back, and then lock the hidden lock on the door.If the pasted seal is broken, a new one must be reattached.

The seal on the blockage of Building A on the fifth floor has not been broken, which proves that no one has been out here since it was sealed about three hours ago. In short, the prisoner neither escaped from building A nor from building B.Of course, Building C, which is blocked by Sakamoto, is another matter.When the testimony of eyewitnesses is credible, and the situation is complicated and mutually restrictive, Okawa feels more and more troublesome. In this interdependence he found the only blank spot.How this void relates to the mystery of the assassination is unknown.But to be sure, it will be of great help to gather and search online ports. ...A suspicious figure appeared in front of Okawa.According to his experience, this moment is no longer comparable to the initial stage of the search. Only when all suspected objects have been reasonably and reasonably denied, can we seriously conduct reconnaissance on newly emerged characters. So, finally one day... Driving at night on Highway No. 246 from Isehara to Hadano, you will suddenly find a city that never sleeps in the Zenboling area at the junction of the two cities.This is the group of hotels called "tourist resorts". Just from the title of "tourist resort", it can be seen that in order to compete to attract tourists here, the owners have spent a lot of effort on various new tricks.First of all, the appearance of the building, as if entering the fantasy world in "The Arabian Nights", is enough to entice visitors to long for the joy hidden in the interior, and be fascinated by it, lingering. Looking at this "tourist resort" will indeed make people feel that the flowers of sexual culture are dizzying and dazzling. On a Saturday evening in mid-April, in front of the tourist hotel called "Ginba" in Zanbo Ridge, close to Isehara, a woman got out of the car and went into the house in a panic. The hotel is far from anywhere, perhaps because it is located in the quietest tourist area, older travelers seem to be more willing to come here than young men and women.The appearance is also Japanese-style, which is very elegant. The woman enters room number three.This hotel is not so much a tourist hotel as it is a bungalow with the flavor of a rental villa. Two hours later, after the coquettish time, the woman came out of room three.She got into the taxi that just came, just as she had come. About 30 minutes after the woman left, a car pulled out from the garage attached to the hotel, and a middle-aged man walked into the car with a cane in hand, but there was no one in the car. Although it was only for a brief moment, under the illumination of the hotel door light, the profile of the man was clearly highlighted.He was recognized immediately by a man hiding among the garden plants. After the headlights of the car completely disappeared into the darkness, a figure came out from the flowers and trees, said to himself, "It was so easy to catch him!" and then took a deep breath.This person is Interpol Okawa.After a long period of painstaking tracking, the success was declared, and this rare opportunity was finally caught on the spot. Okawa's face, while showing the exhaustion after following and monitoring, was filled with simple joy. "I never thought that this woman would get involved with Nakahashi. She was too careless in the past!" Okawa said to himself, and wrote down the number of the car that just drove away in the handbook. Okawa has been obsessively following a person recently, that is, the woman named Sayuri Sansugi who lived on the fifth floor the night the earthenware house was murdered.She is a fashion designer by profession and works in a high-end clothing store in Ginza. As a fashion designer, it is not known whether the craftsmanship is superb, but he is born to please men, and his charm can be scored full marks. This Sayuri lived in Room 510 on the fifth floor of the Akasaka Hotel on the night of the earthenware house's murder.It is located at the top of Building A, that is, with Buildings A and B as the horizontal axis and Building C as the vertical axis, the three buildings form a T-shape, and it is just in a delicate place near the intersection point.Its neighboring room, Room 511, belongs to Building B. Okawa wanted to follow her at first for a simple reason, that is, because the pottery house had collapsed in front of her room.Even though she fell in front of her door, it cannot be concluded from this: the earthenware house has visited her. However, it cannot but be inferred that there will be a relationship between them.Of course, when searching the headquarters, there must be doubts about the relationship between Sayuri and the earthenware house, and it must be clarified.As a result, nothing hidden in it was found.That night Sayuri went to bed very late because she was busy with work. Sayuri Misugi used this hotel for the first time.This hotel caters for urban people, and there are many guests who have only met one time. Among the guests who lived on the fifth floor that night, several of them were staying for the first time. Besides, there was nothing suspicious about this matter itself.What Okawa couldn't understand was that the apartment in Setagaya where Sayuri lived was originally a place extending in all directions, so why did she not live here?To Okawa's frank question, the hotel replied: "Among the people living in the city, business people often use this place as their office or semi-colon recently. It's not surprising." This view still cannot convince Okawa.He always felt that if a woman lived in this hotel, there must be ghosts in it. Although Sayuri's room is a single room, it looks like it can be used for two purposes.The sofa in this room can replace the bed.The uninitiated are deceived by the name of the single room, but do not know that it is a room for two people. From No. 501 to No. 510, there are rooms that can be used by two people. In terms of hotels, it is regarded as a single room or a double room according to the number of people entering the room. If Sayuri Sansugi lived in a double room, it would of course arouse suspicion, but since she lived alone in the single room at No. 510, it did not arouse suspicion at the time. Okawa thought: Is there no loophole here?Didn't Sayuri stay here just for a tryst?Wouldn't it be possible that the blinding sofa could be turned into a bed for the "couple" who came secretly later? Could this couple be Tsukiya Sadahiko?Or simply another person? According to the subsequent search, because there was no other situation between Sayuri and Tuqiwu, she was dismissed as someone who had nothing to do with the case, but only Okawa stubbornly held on to it.What he thought of was: If one person lives here, he should live in an ordinary single room. Okawa has already found out from the hotel that there was an ordinary single room that was vacant that night.In terms of the room rate, the room Sayuri lives in is about 1.7 times that of an ordinary single room.Okawa, who has a meager income, can hardly understand Sayuri's senseless waste. However, most people who searched the headquarters focused on the clue of Tokiya Toko and Matsuo Shunsuke.In their view, Okawa's doubts were subjective after all, so they failed to change the headquarters' policy. It is not uncommon for people who live in the city to live alone in a single room for two people.In fact, there are many such guests.It would be a big mistake to look at things with this fixed lens in a big, devilish city like Tokyo, where all kinds of people live. Okawa insisted on the above opinion to defy all opinions, and quietly cast surveillance eyes around Sayuri Sansugi by himself.His secret efforts finally paid off one night. "Sayuri Sansugi hooked up with Masamune Nakahashi?" The fact that the two of them hooked up will undoubtedly open up a whole new situation for the search work that cannot be done.Thinking of this, joy flooded Okawa's heart again. At first, Nakahashi was a figure who was suspected in terms of the relationship between the National Defense Agency and Dokiya Sangyo, and even now this suspicion has not been completely ruled out.There is even such speculation: Could it be that Nakahashi killed the earthenware house, and the first witness, Sakamoto, deliberately covered him up?It was only because it was concluded that Nakahashi was not at the scene that the suspicion was lifted. However, at this juncture, knowing that he was related to the woman who lived in the room closest to the scene of the earthenware house's murder, it cannot be considered that it happened by accident. The man who used Sayuri's room 510 as a double room might be Nakahashi.This possibility cannot be underestimated. Was Nakahashi really involved in the murder?If so, what role did he play? What does it mean that room 510 is so close to the murder scene?Is it purely by chance?Or should it be so? A series of questions arose in Okawa's mind like a snowball.But it will take a lot of time to come to a conclusion. "Anyway, it's too late tonight, so we have to talk about it after the meeting tomorrow!" Okawa walked towards the station.A fashionable sports car stopped in front of it, and a romantic couple got out of the car arm in arm, and walked into the tourist hotel excitedly. Only then did Okawa feel that his stomach was very empty. Okawa's report received rare attacks at the headquarters. "How much do you think the relationship between Masamune Nakahashi and Sayuri Misugi will affect the case?" After listening to Okawa's report, the Ishihara Police Department asked everyone for their opinions at the morning meeting. "Didn't it be found out that Nakahashi was not at the scene at that time?" It was the criminal policeman who said this.Nakahashi had talked to Sakamoto on the phone before the murder, which had been confirmed by the switchboard operator in the hotel.Sakamoto was called away by the phone and witnessed this incident on the way to Nakahashi's room.It is impossible for Nakahashi on the third floor to arrive at Wu Lu's scene earlier than Sakamoto. "According to this, it is too coincidental that Sakamoto, who was called by Nakahashi, happened to be the first to see the murder." Xingshan detective said. "That's the truth." Ishihara nodded, as if to say what he wanted, "Didn't Nakahashi call him so that Sakamoto could witness this incident?" "So, is Nakahashi a criminal?" Looking at the glaring Shiraki, Ishihara went on to say, "It can't be concluded that way. However, can you imagine that Nakahashi was never present at that time in order to create a man himself?" Didn’t he call Sakamoto on the phone because of the false appearance? Wasn’t he calling Sakamoto here just to find an excuse for him not to be there?” "According to what you said, the claim that Nakahashi was not at the scene is a fabrication!" Fan Jiang asked. "I always feel that there must be a ghost in Nakahashi calling Sakamoto. The earthenware house was killed in front of Nakahashi's mistress, and this happened to be discovered by Nakahashi's subordinates. Don't you think this Is it too coincidental?" After the Xingshan criminal policeman finished speaking, the Ishihara Police Department analyzed the questions he raised, and then said: "Why does Nakahashi call his subordinates at three o'clock at night when he can't do anything? I think he thought he was called Sakamoto because he was in the insurance circle. More precisely, he called Sakamoto because of him." You can hide in the safety circle!" "However, judging from the fact that Nakahashi was not at the scene, it doesn't seem like there is some kind of trick set up." It was Fan Jiang who said this.He had done research on hotel exchanges.Nakahashi did call Sakamoto on the fifth floor from his room on the third floor.When a guest picks up the microphone of the intercom, the indicator light on the telephone switch will go out immediately, and it is impossible to play tricks.That is to say, the phone call from room A cannot be faked from room B. "The facts are clear. Nakahashi called to show that he was in his room at the time. Because of this, he could have dialed directly, but he went through the switchboard, right? When asked about Nakahashi, he replied that he didn't know. In fact, it is not the first time he has stayed at the Akasaka Hotel. As an important member of the National Defense Agency, he often goes abroad and is very familiar with hotel life, so he will not even know how to use the internal phone. The telephone equipment in the local hotels is the same, but it is really strange to have to bother with the switchboard. It seems that Nakahashi is just trying to prove that he is not at the scene. In a sense, can it be considered that he has nothing to do with the case? Is there a bigger connection?" "Did the relationship between Nakahashi and Sayuri Misugi begin at the time of the incident?" Shiraki, who had been silent all this time, raised the question from another angle. Indeed, if there had been no relationship between the two at the time of the incident, there would have been far less suspicion of Nakahashi's conduct.Previously, on the one hand, he was regarded as a suspicious person, but on the other hand, he was not included in the search targets at that time, because his relationship with Sayuri had not been revealed yet. "It can be affirmed that we didn't meet after the incident." Ishihara Police Department said with certainty on this point. "No matter how you analyze it, as long as Nakahashi feels that he has no scruples, he won't be afraid of this and that when dating Xiaobai. According to the situation reported by Okawa, the two of them, especially Nakahashi, seem to be extra vigilant. This not only makes people think, A cadre of the National Defense Agency fooling around with a woman is most afraid of being met on the spot. Okawa has long been paying attention to Sansugi Sayuri. If they met after the earthenware house incident, although it is an era of sexual liberation, love There is always a development process, and it would be too fast to go to a tourist hotel within a few days of knowing each other. I think it would be more appropriate for the two of them to spend more time together than this!" "Then what about the line between Matsuo and Toko?" Shiraki asked another question.Now the focus of the search is on Matsuo and Dongzi.When the new clue of Nakahashi-Sayuri appeared, most people in the headquarters began to shake. As for how the headquarters should act, it mainly depends on how to expose the criminals.However, in Bai Mu's view, since he has poured his heart and soul into the newly discovered clue, he is determined not to give up on it halfway. Nakahashi was originally a person who had been monitored by the headquarters for a long time.Later, Matsuo and Dongzi replaced Nakahashi, and now Nakahashi's reappearance has shaken the search target again.When encountering difficult cases, it is common to change the search policy midway like this. "Of course, the clue of Fuyuko will continue to be pursued. Maybe it will be connected to the line of Nakahashi somewhere." Ishihara made it clear that he would fight on both sides.As for which aspect to invest the main force in, it naturally depends on what kind of new materials are unearthed from the line of Nakahashi and Sayuri.