Chapter 5 Section 5

When he saw the news, Ah Cheng happened to be having a late dinner at home.My father came home late because of the company's entertainment, and my mother also had dinner with the students in the cultural classroom, and went out in the evening.Ah Cheng's dinner was sushi rice cooked by his mother.But he knew that this was just mixing the food in the cooking bag, and the miso soup was also brewed.It has been a long time since he has eaten the dishes made by his mother, and her reason is "Anyway, no one is eating at home, so I don't want to bother to cook." But Ah Cheng thinks that it is because the table is cut corners Cooking, so no one wants to eat at home.I wonder if Dad feels the same way, he thought.

When he usually watches TV while eating dinner, he does not switch the channel to the news program at all.However, a certain premonition made him pay more attention to the news this evening.Kuaier and Dun also borrowed a car from him yesterday, what exactly did they borrow the car for?Although Ah Cheng had a little speculation, he didn't dare to think too concretely.Because he thought it would make him afraid to drive that car again. Last night—actually, it should have been closer to the early morning of this morning, Ah Cheng received a call from Dunya, asking him to go over and drive the car back.Tatsuya's voice seemed to be trembling slightly.

If you walk from Ah Cheng's house to Dun Ye's apartment, the distance is too far; but if you go by bicycle, you don't know what to do with the bicycle.Although Dun also told him to go there quickly, but before the tram left, Ah Cheng had nothing to do. "Then I'll park the car in front of the apartment, and you'll take the first bus to drive away. Do you understand? If you dare not listen to me, I'll tell Kuaier." Dunya hung up the phone after saying this.There was obvious anxiety in his tone. The helpless Ah Cheng had no choice but to follow what he said and take the first tram to Dun Ye's apartment.Besides wanting to get the car back quickly, he also wanted to know what the hell they had done.

Gloria was parked on the side of the road.Ah Cheng called Dun Ye on his cell phone. "You are too slow!" Even though it was early in the morning, Atsuya answered immediately.Ah Cheng speculated that he might not have slept at all. "I've done my best." "Forget it, you stay there and wait for me." A few minutes later, Tun also appeared with Kuaier.Their faces were black and purple, their eyes were cloudy, and their cheeks were thin. "Get in the car!" Dun also threw the car keys to Ah Cheng. As soon as Ah Cheng got into the car, Dun Ye also sat in the passenger seat, and Kuai Er sat in the back seat.Ah Cheng thought to himself, they must be going somewhere, so he prepared to start the engine.But Quick told him not to start.

"How's the alibi going? Is it ready?" Quick asked in a sullen voice. "Uh, it's done..." "how did you make it?" "Pretend the three of us went to karaoke together. It's at a place called The Shore along Highway 4." "What do you mean? Did you really go?" "I have. When the other party asked me "how many", I replied "three", and told the other party that the other two people would come over later, then walked into the box and ordered food and drinks for three people. " Ah Cheng decided not to tell them how painful it is to eat food and drinks for three people by himself.

Dun smacked his lips too. "What karaoke..." "Because I can't think of any other place." "Have you been alone all this time?" Quick asked. "Ok." "Why? Why didn't you find two other people? Wouldn't it be perfect to let those two people act as us?" "There is no way, it happened suddenly, and it would be even worse if those two people were talking nonsense outside." "But if it's only you all the time, the clerk should think it's strange!" "Wait a minute, maybe Ah Cheng is right." Kuai'er went on to say, "That store didn't install a camera, did it?"

"I didn't pretend, that's why I chose that store." This should be the clearest.Because there is no camera installed, as long as the curtain on the door is drawn, the situation inside the box cannot be seen.Kuai'er took advantage of this and brought the girl to rape him several times. "Besides, there are a lot of customers in that store, so the clerk will not check the number of people in each box one by one." Ah Cheng said: "As long as the food and drinks are ordered according to the number of people, no one will care after that." "Then what time did you stay until what time?" Kuaier asked.

"Uh, probably from nine o'clock to eleven o'clock..." "Is it that short?" Kuai'er twisted his face. "Because you didn't tell me how much you need to do to prove your alibi, and you can't stay in karaoke for hours..." "Even if we sing for four or five hours, the clerk won't doubt it." Dun also spit out this sentence. Didn't you just worry that the clerk would think it was weird if there was only one person in it?Now it's okay to stay for a long time again!Ah Cheng really wanted to say that, but he stopped there. "What about after karaoke?" Kuaier asked again.

"what……" "I'm asking about your alibi after karaoke!" "No... that's the one," sweat dripped from the back of Ah Cheng's neck, "Because I don't know how many things need to be done for the alibi, so I want to say to do karaoke first..." Ah Cheng felt the impact on his back because Kuier kicked the back of the driver's seat. "What are you doing! Is that the only way?" Dun also grinned, "It's meaningless in just two hours! Do you know how hard we worked in the middle of the night?" "Tunya!" As soon as he yelled, Dun also stopped.It seems that Kuaier doesn't want others to know what they did in the middle of the night.

"No way, after that karaoke, let's go to the restaurant, which is the Anny's we often go to." Quickly made a decision, "Then go back to Atsuya's room, the three of us are together all night .So be it." "Me too?" Ah Cheng turned his head away in surprise. Quick grabbed his shoulders. "What? Do you have an opinion?" "No, it's not." "What's that like?" "Will someone... or will the police ask us for an alibi? Is that possible?" Kuai'er took his hand away from Ah Cheng's shoulder, and snorted through his nose.

"It's just in case. Logically speaking, there should be nothing wrong, but those notes who searched here and there may find us by then." "In this case, isn't the alibi that night more important than last night? It was the night when the girl was kidnapped." Hearing Ah Cheng's words, Dun also curled up the corners of his mouth in displeasure.They should also think so in their hearts. "We were all in Totsuya's room that night. If anyone asks, just answer like this. Got it?" Quick said. "That's no problem, but I went home halfway. Didn't I have to return the car at that time? I think my dad should remember this." "What did you do when the car drove home?" "Stay in the room..." "Then after you return the car to your father, you go back to Atsuya's room. Anyway, the three of us stayed together that night, understand?" Seeing that Ah Cheng didn't answer, Kuai'er grabbed the hair on the back of his head again. "As I said yesterday, you are also an accomplice, so don't think about staying out of it alone." Ash nodded silently.He wanted to shout that he had nothing to do with it, but if he did, the two of them didn't know what to do with him. Anyway, the two had already killed a man. That's the decision, after Kuai'er finished speaking, he let go of Ah Cheng's hair. "Let's not get together for the time being, it will be troublesome if we are seen by the police." After Kuai'er finished speaking, He Dun also nodded to each other, and then got out of the car. After this incident, Ah Cheng did nothing this morning.Apparently, those two men killed a girl and somehow hid the body.What good did they do?What did you do with the car again?Because he cared too much about this matter, Ah Cheng read the news for the first time. "This morning, the Chengdong Branch of Jiangdong District received a report that there was a body floating on the Arakawa River. When the police arrived and salvaged it, they found a female body wrapped in blue plastic." The voice of the male anchor made Ah Cheng almost choke. He stared at the TV and watched the pictures taken from the helicopter.A large number of policemen gathered on the embankment of Arakawa. "The investigation by the Joto Branch Bureau found that the identity of the body was that of Nagamine Ema, the eldest daughter of Mr. Changmine Shigeki, an office worker in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture. Killed, an investigation has been launched." Ash couldn't move.The chopsticks in his hand slipped unknowingly, but he didn't have the heart to pick them up.Appetite has also completely disappeared. This is something Ah Cheng already knew.Quickly they killed Nagamine Ema, and told him to drive over to dispose of the body.But after actually seeing the news in this way, an indescribable anxiety and tension, even fear, struck Ah Cheng.This feeling is like walking into a tunnel from which there is no turning back. Do you know how hard we worked in the middle of the night—he remembered what Atsuya had said.They wrapped the body in plastic and threw it into Arakawa.As a result, when the corpse drifted downstream, it was discovered. When he drove to Totsuya's apartment, he happened to see them carrying the "Home Center" paper bag in their hands.There might be plastic wrap in there. After Ah Cheng returned to his room, he picked up his phone.He wanted to call Atsuya, but before pressing the call button, he hesitated again - because he didn't know what to say.It will not help to confirm the facts now, and they will only remind you that "you are also an accomplice". But is he really an accomplice? Indeed, he assisted them in kidnapping Nagamine Ema.He was the one who drove the car, and it was also true that he drove them to the apartment. But it never occurred to him that soon they would kill the girl.And, quick to say it was an accident.So is he still an accomplice?Is it an accomplice to murder? It is a pity that Ah Cheng has no legal knowledge at all.He only knows that even if a minor commits a slightly serious crime, he hardly needs to serve a sentence in prison, and his name will not be made public. Ah Cheng switched the TV channel.He wanted to watch news reports, but couldn't find them, so he had to keep NHK on.NHK is now broadcasting commentary on abnormal weather phenomena overseas. He suddenly thought of one thing.After opening the desk drawer, he picked up the pink mobile phone inside. That was Nagamine Ema's cell phone.Since that day, he has not turned on the power again.Before the body was found, her relatives and friends should have called her countless times, and possibly texted her.It's just that Tumo didn't receive their voices or messages. Suddenly, Ah Cheng felt as if he understood the meaning of life.It is not just as simple as eating and breathing, but the connection and mutual care with the people around you.Just like the grids on a spider's web, once a person dies, the grids disappear from the spider's web one by one. The thought of "I caused a catastrophe" hit Ah Cheng's heart again.The mobile phone is obviously very light, but it makes him feel abnormally heavy. How many people has Nagamine Ema contacted with this mobile phone?How many people have dialed this mobile phone with a glimmer of hope? Almost without thinking, he turned on the phone.The boot screen is a picture of a cat.Is that Ema's cat? He looked at the call log.After Nagamine Ema was escorted into the car, the cell phone rang once.Who is that calling?If that call had come five minutes earlier, things might not have turned out like this. The text displayed on the LCD screen is "Dad".The time of the call was the night of the fireworks display. Ash turned off the power.He's about to break down. After putting the phone back in the drawer, he lay down on the bed.