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Midsummer's Formula 东野圭吾 1827Words 2018-03-22
Isobe proposed that he himself be responsible for interrogating Sawamura.Perhaps, he thought this was the key to the entire search.Everyone thought that he would definitely ask his subordinates from the first investigation section to interrogate with him, but to everyone's surprise, Isobe finally appointed Nishiguchi to be in charge of recording.When walking towards the interrogation room, Nishiguchi still felt a little puzzled, but as soon as he saw Sawamura, Nishiguchi understood Isobe's intentions.Before the interrogation began, Isobe said: "Nishiguchi is a local here. He is very familiar with the electrical appliance store opened by your family and 'Green Rock Village'. Moreover, he and the daughter of the owner of 'Green Rock Village' are high school students. Classmates, and even know the boss and his wife. So, he knows very well what their family will do. You have to think about this when you speak, and don't try to hide anything."

In short, he was actually warning Sawamura: There is a know-it-all here, and you can't hide it if you want to.However, Nishiguchi himself felt that Isobe's actions were superfluous.Ever since he was led into this room, Sawamura already had an expression of giving up. "I don't want to hide anything. The boss of 'Green Rock Village' turned himself in, making the situation uncontrollable. But then again, if he asked me to come to you with him, I would have come with him. "Sawamura's strong tone revealed his strong self-esteem. "Oh? If that's the case, please explain it in as much detail as possible."

Sawamura took a deep breath and calmed down his emotions.After that, he said again: "I think you should know that that night, I went to the izakaya with Kawabata Chengshi and the others. Later, we met Chengshi's mother at the entrance of the izakaya, so I drove and stopped at the station. The previous light truck sent her mother home." "At that time, you didn't know what happened at 'Green Rock Village', did you?" "Yes. Because I used to be with my fellow environmentalists." "I see. Go ahead." "When I went to 'Green Rock Village', I saw the boss sitting alone in the lobby in a daze. The proprietress asked him what happened, and he replied that there was a death. A passenger died."

Nishiguchi couldn't help but stop his hands typing on the keyboard, and looked up at Sawamura.Isobe glared at Nishiguchi, so scared that he quickly lowered his head again. "That is to say," said Isobe, "when you arrived at 'Green Rock Village', the boss had already found out?" "Yes. At that time, the boss had already discovered that the guest had died in the 'Urahara Room' on the fourth floor. Moreover, he had already found out that the cause of the accident was a boiler failure." "So, what did Shigeharu Kawabata say he was going to do?"

"Just call the police - that's what he said at the time." "Oh?" said Isobe, "but he didn't actually do it. Why?" Sawamura sighed with a sad expression on his face and said, "I stopped him." "You stopped him? Why?" "Because..." Sawamura bit his lip and continued, "If the world knows about this kind of accident, the reputation of Glass Pool will be greatly reduced. People will think that the equipment here is very old, so, No one will come here anymore." "I see. Speaking of it, you seem to be opposed to the development of seabed resources. From the standpoint of advocating tourism as the main industry, what happened in 'Green Rock Village' really shouldn't be known to the world."

"I just want to protect Glasspool." "Oh? That's all. Then, after hearing your opinion, Kawabata immediately changed his opinion?" "At the beginning, he still had some doubts. But I told him that this is not just a matter of 'Green Rock Village'. If the matter is known to everyone, then the whole Glass Pool will be in trouble. He listened What I said, just ask me what to do. I told him, just get the body somewhere else." "Did you suggest it? Let him dispose of the corpse." Isobe repeated what the other party said.What he meant seemed to be emphasizing the importance of this point.

"Yes, I said it. And it was I who suggested throwing the body into the rocky ground." Sawamura said self-destructively. "Did Kawahata and his wife immediately agree to your proposal?" "No, you can't say 'immediately'. They were both hesitant at the time. But I urged them to say that if they go on like this, things will be discovered, and then the two of them made up their minds. " According to Sawamura, the work of moving the corpse was basically done by him alone.After moving the corpse to the shelf of the light truck, he and Chongzhi drove to the rocky place.Because of the inconvenient legs and feet, Chongzhi basically did not help when the corpse was discarded.

After sending Shigeharu back to 'Green Rock Village', Sawamura went home first, parked his light truck, and set off for the izakaya.In the izakaya, Sawamura pretended to be nonchalant, and Cheng Shi and the others drank some wine, but they couldn't remember the content of the chat. "What I just said was everything that happened that night. Am I guilty of abandoning the corpse? I don't intend to deny the crime, so—" Sawamura paused at this point.Then he went on to say, "Just let it go. She really doesn't know anything and has nothing to do with this matter."

After listening to Sawamura's story, Nishiguchi seemed to understand why Sawamura confessed everything so easily.Probably Sawamura has heard about it for a long time, and knows that the police are currently holding a skeptical attitude towards Chengshi.Anyway, the truth will come out sooner or later.Sawamura's idea is probably that he wants to turn himself in first, and let Chengshi feel that he is kind to her by the way. With Naruto, there is no man who would not have a good impression of her - Nishiguchi glanced sideways at Sawamura while typing on the keyboard.
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