Chapter 51 Section 1

It was past eight o'clock in the evening, and Saeki Kari still didn't show up.Zhe Lang stood behind the pillar where the ticket gate could be seen, and kept shaking his right foot slightly.Perhaps Kari felt a little unnatural about Li Mei's tone on the phone.Or after Zhe Lang left, Li Shizhuo called him again.In any case, if Xiang Li doesn't show up again, Zhe Lang has no choice but to threaten Li Shizhuo again.Thinking of this, Zhe Lang's heart became heavy. He glanced at his watch, it was eight thirty. Zhe Lang thought to himself, he must try to meet Nakao.Since Hayata doesn't help, it will be a matter of time before the police hunt down Nakao.However, he should not have noticed this.I had to meet him, warn him, and ask him what he was going to do next.

People entered the ticket gate one after another.Zhe Lang thought about why they used this place as a place to hand in their health insurance cards.Saeki Kari was able to get here within thirty minutes, which meant that she lived not too far from here.Mizuki should live with her too, right?What about Nakao? I haven't seen Saeki Kari yet.When Zhe Lang wanted to look at his watch again, he felt someone behind him.He looked back, and there was a woman wearing a hat with the brim lowered in front of him.She was wearing trousers and a coat. She lifted the brim of her hat.Zhe Lang was dumbfounded when he saw the face protruding from under the hat.

"Don't be so surprised, QB." "Hiura, why are you...?" "Need I explain? You're the one who called me out? It's a waste of me trying to make the conversation at the Ferris wheel our last." "Why are you here? Where is Xiangli?" Zhe Lang looked around. "He didn't come, or should I not come?" "No, I didn't mean that." "Let's go, talking in this kind of place will attract attention." Mizuki walked quickly.Zhe Lang hurried to follow. "Later, did Li Shizhuo contact you?" Zhe Lang asked as he walked.

"He didn't do that. But Ms. Kari contacted me, and I thought there must be something wrong with Zhuo saying he had appendicitis. And Ms. Kari's tone when she said Li Mei was not right. So I thought it was QB's strategy." "So you're here?" "Well. After all, even if Miss Xiangli shows up, you plan to ask her to take you to my residence, right? If that's the case, it would be easier to do this." On the main road, Meiyue raised her hand to stop the taxi.She got in the car and told the driver to go to Ikebukuro. "Do you live in Ikebukuro?"

"Yes." Meiyue lowered the brim of her hat again, probably because she cared about the driver's eyes. Zhe Lang had a bunch of questions he wanted to ask her, but it was inconvenient to ask her in the car.Besides, Mizuki's hoarse voice alone was enough to attract attention. Once approaching Ikebukuro, she began carefully giving directions to the driver.The taxi ended up in an area densely populated with small buildings. Mizuki walked towards a brown building.There is a signboard for a Chinese restaurant on the first floor, but it doesn't seem to be open.She went upstairs from the side stairs, Zhe Lang followed behind her.

Mizuki stood in front of a door on the second floor and took out the key.The door had the name of a financial company written on it.However, it seems that this company, like the Chinese restaurant, has been closed for a long time. Mizuki opened the door and said, "Please come in." The room was almost empty.Zherang saw only two dusty desks, a broken chair, two broken leather sofas and a filing cabinet. "I used to stay in business hotels everywhere, but Kosuke said that the police could no longer hide it, so I moved here. He said that the police probably used Miss Kari's photo to conduct a blanket investigation of hotels in Tokyo."

This is very possible. "What the hell is this house for?" "The underground bank used to be used as an office." "I know that, but why do you have the key here?" "Gongfu lent it to me. His father seems to be the owner of the building, and now entrusts him to manage it, but he actually didn't do anything. I didn't expect this building to come in handy on an unexpected occasion." "So it's the house of the Nakao family." Zhe Lang looked around the room again.He doesn't know anything about Nakao's father, except that he married a woman who was a man at heart. "In this case, it is dangerous for you to stay here. The police will track down Nakao sooner or later, and they should come here as well."

"Did the police know about Gongfu?" "No, not yet. But I told Hayata." Mei Yue showed a surprised expression, and Zhe Lang told her about the conversation he had with Hayata. "Is that so, did he even see through old lady Togura's plan? It's really Hayata." "Is that guy's reasoning correct?" "Well, roughly right." "Anyway, you contact Nakao and tell him that I have something urgent to see him." But Mizuki shook her head. "If I could get him, I would have done it. Gongfu doesn't live here. I don't know where he is." She took off her hat, looked up at Zhelang and continued, "QB, that guy wants seek death."

Zhe Lang froze. "What's the meaning?" Mizuki inserted her fingers into her slightly long hair and scratched it into a mess. "This is not a metaphor or an exaggeration. That guy Gongfu is serious. He wants to give up his life." "Why did he have to do that?" "He thought it was the best way. He believed it would solve a lot of problems." "I don't understand what you're saying, please explain it to me!" Zhe Lang kicked away the old sofa beside him. Mizuki bit her lip, threw off the hat in her hand, and sighed. "It's all my fault. At the time, if only I hadn't gone to see the QB you guys. That way, you wouldn't be involved."

"What's the use of saying such things now. Anyway, tell me! Tell me everything!" He grabbed Mizuki's shoulders and shook her back and forth.She shook her head.However, he saw her eyes filled with tears and stopped moving. "Hipura..." "QB, it hurts..." "Ah, sorry." Zhe Lang let go of her shoulders. Meiyue stepped back two or three steps, rubbing the spot he grabbed just now. "It's a fact that Togura followed Miss Kari. Uh... the Miss Kari I'm talking about now is the one who impostor." "You said you were the one who killed Togura, isn't that true?"

As soon as Zhe Lang said, she frowned in pain. "Togura followed her very thoroughly, and he kept a close eye on her every move. Have you seen that notebook? No matter where she went, he followed her to the end, and sometimes investigated the people she met. You understand this Does it mean something?" "Did Togura find out about the family registration exchange?" "I don't think he knew how systematized our organization was. But he found out right away that the bartender working at Maoyan lived in a rented apartment, and that his real identity was a woman. Besides, he also Among Ms. Kari's trash, I picked out the household registration documents of several people with gender identity disorder. So he probably knows that Ms. Kari is a man." "Did he blackmail you with this?" When Zhe Lang asked, Mei Yue lightly closed her eyes and shook her head. "Ordinary people would do that. But Tokura is a pervert. Even if a pervert discovers other people's important secrets, he will take actions that ordinary people cannot understand." "What did he do?" Zeran asked. Mizuki sat down on the broken leather sofa and embraced her head with both hands. "That night, I sent Xiangli back to the apartment. Then, I waited for Gongfu outside the apartment. I made an appointment with him. But before he came, there was a white van parked beside me." "Is it Togura's car?" Zhe Lang asked. "To be precise, it was a car from the Kamen Song Iron Works. When I found out that the other party was a stalker who was pestering Xiangli, it was too late. He opened the car door and dragged me into the car. He was obviously a useless middle-aged man, But he is very strong. No, it shouldn't be because he is strong." She shook her head. "It's because I'm weak. After all, I don't have the strength of a man." Zhelang was taken aback. "Tokura treats you..." "It's funny, isn't it?" Mizuki raised her head.Of course, there was no smile on her face. "The way I looked at the time, it was impossible for anyone to see that I was a woman. Even the 'cat's eye' customers couldn't do it. I thought I looked more like a man than a man. But it was not the case for Togura, I was a woman who looked like a man. I seemed to be the object of his sexual desire." "Is he a pervert who doesn't care who the other party is as long as it's a woman?" "I don't think it's that simple. He probably has a grudge against me because of what happened to Kari. I protected her well, so I was a hindrance to Togura. But after he investigated, he found that the obstruction The guy in question is actually a woman. So he thought of giving me the greatest humiliation as a way to vent his hatred. That is to treat me as a woman, and in the most brutal way." That method is rape. "That guy's idea was right, he achieved his goal. When I was almost stripped off by him and felt the disgusting breath of that guy, my self-esteem completely collapsed. I know that even if I use milk Even my strength is no match for him, so I gave up struggling. But I can't stand being treated like a woman, and being treated as an object of lust." What was the result? ——Zhe Lang could not urge her to continue speaking. "I'm fine." She answered his question. "Suddenly, there was a collision of 'Peng', and the whole car shook violently, and Togura was too frightened to let go." "That is……" "Gongfu did it. He didn't see me at the agreed place, so he drove a Volvo to find me. As a result, he found that there was something wrong with the box car parked on the road, so he backed up and filled the box car." Zhe Lang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and suddenly remembered that there were indeed scratches on the car at the end of the middle. "Kongfu got out of the car and ran over. As soon as he opened the door of the van, he immediately grabbed Hugura's neck. His face, his face..." Mizuki shook her head lightly. "Distorted and deformed like a ghost. He must be very angry. The first time I saw his expression, he was angry for me." "Is that how he killed Togura?" Mizuki punched her thigh with her right fist. "There is nothing wrong with Kosuke. If that guy hadn't done such a nasty thing, Kosuke wouldn't be angry. He did it out of necessity to protect me." Zhe Lang nodded.He thinks he understands Nakao's personality, Nakao will act regardless of the consequences, he should be quite angry.He not only wants to protect the woman who was attacked, but also protects Mizuki's self-esteem.Even if he was so angry that he lost his mind and didn't realize that he was strangling Hu Cang's neck too hard, Zhe Lang couldn't blame him. "If this is the case, wouldn't it be good to surrender to the police immediately? If the police clarify what happened, Nakao's sentence will be reduced. But I don't know if he can be acquitted." Hearing what Zhe Lang said, Mei Yue smiled lightly. "It's because we can't get the police to figure out what's going on, that we're so annoyed as hell." "……So this is ah." "But having said that, I said the same thing to Kosuke as you did at the beginning. But when he found out that Togura was dead, his attitude was extremely calm. The first thing he did was to ask me to stay away from the murder scene. He asked me to drive his Volvo back to the apartment. He also handed me Hukura's driver's license and notepad at that time, and asked me to dispose of it." After finishing speaking, Mizuki lowered her head and said softly: "It's a shame that I am so obedient. I did as he said. I left Gongfu alone and fled the scene of the murder." "So, is Nakao the one who disposes of the corpse?" "I also heard from him afterwards, so I don't know the details, but it seems that he drove the box car of Hucang and carried the body to the paper factory. Because the box car can't be dumped anywhere, he hid it in another place. place. You've been worried that the police would find the car, don't worry, he's gone." "Is it because you don't want to dump your van because you're worried about leaving fingerprints or hair?" "This is also one of the reasons, but what Gongfu is most worried about is the scratches on the box car. As I said just now, he used his own car to crash into me in order to save me. Will this leave scratches?" Zhe Lang groaned.He read in the book that if you investigate the scratches on the car, you can even know the model of the other party's car from the paint chips. "I don't know what Gongfu is planning, but I don't think it is possible to escape the police. If the police investigate Tokura's house, they will definitely find out the information he investigated against Miss Xiangli and me, and it will be over after that. So I think the only way is to surrender, but I can't let Gongfu surrender, so I thought of letting me come forward." "And you came to see us before that?" "I've said it several times, it was a mistake. I backed down in a pinch." Mizuki stood up from the sofa and walked inside.There was an old arranging table with a few simple tableware lined up beside it.She pours water into the electric thermos. "Let me make coffee. There's no refrigerator here, so there's no way to buy beer and keep it." "The reason why you gave up the idea of ​​surrendering is because of what Nakao said to you?" Meiyue stopped for a while, but then continued to place the paper cups. "Kongfu was looking for me at the time. He seemed to be taken aback when he knew I was at your house. No wonder. At that time, Gongfu said that he was thinking of a way to solve the problem without anyone being arrested, so I didn't have to Go surrender." "No one will be arrested?" "Although I don't think there is such a good way, I asked him to tell me the details, but he said that the time was not yet ripe, and he refused to tell me. So I told him that if the police searched Tokura's house, it would be over. But he said, It doesn’t matter if the police say so, because they probably don’t have to worry about the police finding important physical evidence.” "Because Yoshie Togura and the others proposed an agreement?" "They left a message on the answering machine of the rented apartment, saying that they wanted to discuss something with him and hoped that he would call back. Kosuke was surprised that Tokura even investigated the matter of this apartment, so he had to call them as a last resort. " "So Nakao accepted the agreement?" "He seems to have paid several times. But he can't go on risking it." The water in the electric kettle boiled.Meiyue poured instant coffee into a paper cup and filled it with hot water.There seems to be no sugar and no creamer here. "Does Saeki Kari live here?" "She doesn't live here anymore. Didn't I mention it to you in Odaiba? She left shortly after that." "Where is she going?" "I don't know." Meiyue handed out one of the paper cups. "She's strong, and I think she'll survive no matter what she does. However, she probably won't use the name Saeki Kari in her entire life. In that sense, a woman named Saeki Kari no longer exists." The deity of this name - Li Shizhuo suddenly appeared in Zhe Lang's mind. "When was the last time you communicated with Nakao?" "Yesterday, he called me." Mei Yue held a paper cup in one hand and took out a mobile phone from her pocket with the other. "What did he say?" "He said it's almost over, don't act rashly until then." "What do you mean? What does he want to do?" Meiyue looked at the paper cup in her hand, but she didn't bring it to her mouth, but said to herself, "Didn't I just say that..." "Does he want to commit suicide?" "Ok." "So what if that guy is dead?" "Kongfu thinks that as long as he takes the blame alone, everything will be fine. If he admits that he killed Togura and then commits suicide, the police probably won't continue the investigation." "Did Nakao say that?" "He didn't say it. But I know that he intends to bury himself with all the secrets in order not to hurt people like Li Shi who live a low-key life." Zhe Lang pondered in a low voice, and drank the coffee in the paper cup.The coffee tasted dull, probably not just because it was too weak. "He doesn't have to commit suicide at all, this matter can be resolved as long as he surrenders himself." "Then did you never mention the motive for the murder? The police are not that easy to deal with, right? I think Gongfu probably thinks that as long as he lives for one day, the police may know about the household registration exchange." Zhelang was silent.Perhaps that is the case, and Nakao is likely to draw such a conclusion. Zhe Lang thought of one thing - Nakao's sudden divorce.Could it be that he wanted to draw a line with his family before being arrested by the police in order not to cause trouble to his family? Zhe Lang snatched the mobile phone from Mei Yue's hand.He stared at the phone, then handed it to her. "Call up!" "what?" "I told you to call Nakao." Mei Yue looked back and forth between the mobile phone and Zhe Lang's face, shaking her head sadly. "Didn't I say that? I can't contact him now. I don't know where that guy is." "Do you have no idea?" Zhe Lang asked.However, Mizuki just shook her head.Zhe Lang smacked his lips and drank the tasteless coffee in one gulp. "QB, this is my guess," Mizuki said quietly, "Is that guy Kosuke sick? And it's quite serious." Zhe Lang stopped the hand that was about to squeeze the paper cup. "What did you think of?" Mizuki slowly retracted her jaw. "Well, I thought of several things. Didn't you notice it too?" "I thought he wasn't feeling well because he was skinny. But I'd interpreted that to mean he was suffering a lot." "I think he suffered a lot, but that's probably not the main reason. I heard from Mr. Saga that Kosuke seemed to have been hospitalized for a serious illness a few years ago. Mr. Saga said that he may have cancer." Zhe Lang felt a throbbing pain in his chest.He thought of Nakao's many unnatural actions, and Nakao also showed a painful look on the first floor of Tetsuro's residence. "Could it be the cancer recurring?" "I'm not sure about that." Mei Yue lowered her head while holding a paper cup.She doesn't seem to be going to drink coffee anymore. If Nakao felt that his death was approaching due to the recurrence of cancer, considering the current situation, he might choose to commit suicide.Zhe Lang thought, but it's still too stupid to do so.To die to keep secrets from people who are suffering because of their gender without even telling their wives and family members the truth is just plain stupid. No... Zhe Lang raised his head, did he really not tell anyone? "Ri Pu, can you accompany me?" Zhe Lang asked. "With you?" "I want you to go somewhere with me. If the guy is going to tell the truth, you better be there." "That guy means?" "Lisako." After speaking, Zhe Lang really crushed the paper cup this time.