Chapter 24 Section 3

In the workshop of "Nojima Industry", there are three men who are doing the work at hand. The two are Suzu, U and Tanaka who are about 35 years old. The oldest is Sakai. Suzuki was using a drilling machine to drill holes in the metal plate, when he saw Kusanagi, the corners of his mouth twitched. "Why are you again, do you have anything to do with us?" "No, there is nothing special today, I just want to see the situation of the factory." "That's fine, but please don't affect our work. Although the economy is not good now, we still have to work."

"Ah, I know." Kusanagi said with a smile. Suzuki glanced at Yukawa and smacked his lips. "Madam was called in by the police again today for questioning. What exactly do you want?" "Because there are many things that must be confirmed with her." "You always talk about confirming, confirming, what is there to confirm? Are you really suspicious of her? It is impossible for Madam to do such a thing." "Suzuki!" Sakai's voice came from inside, "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and work!" "Ah, I see." Suzuki gently raised his hand, turned back to the drilling machine, and then glanced at Kusanagi and the others, meaning to say, "It's all your fault, let me be criticized."

Kusanagi and Yukawa walked around the factory side by side.He didn't know what the purpose of doing this was, but it was Yu Chuan's request. There are many machine tools and large power supplies in the factory, which reminds people that Zhong Zhao may have hired more workers, but now there are only these three left. "Is there any evidence that these people are not present?" Tang Chuan asked Kusanagi in a low voice while walking. "It has been confirmed, and all three people have evidence of their absence. The two young people have been working here, and the neighbors nearby can prove that, Sakai, the oldest, delivered goods to a customer. The customer was a company in Saitama Prefecture. No matter how he rushed, it would take one and a half hours one way. It has been confirmed that he came out of that company at 5:00 half, and he has already returned here a little after 7 o'clock, so he has no time to go to the Bridge Hotel."

After hearing this, Tang Chuan nodded without saying anything. A worker, Tanaka, is making white polyethylene containers.Specifically, it is to connect two vessels with complex shapes to form a container.Instead of using adhesives, he heats and melts the edges of the vessels, causing them to stick together instantly, a process known as welding.To heat the edge of the dish, an electric heater is thin and flat like a linguine, bent to the same shape as the edge of the dish. "So that's it, it's really amazing." Standing behind Tanaka, Tang Chuan said with admiration, "Using the electric heater with the same shape as the edge can weld each part at the same time and with the same heat. It’s really a lot of effort.”

"This is the unique skill of our factory." Although the tone in his mouth was calm, it was hard to hide the pride in his heart. "What are you doing?" Tang Chuan asked. "This is a container for car wash, but it's just a prototype." Oh, Yukawa nodded.Kusanagi thought to himself: Physicists are still more interested in factory technology, and he probably forgot about the case. Tang Chuan's gaze suddenly fixed on the wall in front of him: "This is?" Kusanagi also looked towards the wall.There was a piece of paper pasted on it, and the four characters "one shot into the soul" were written with a brush.

"This is written by the president." A voice came from behind.look back.Sakai stood there. "Really?" Kusanagi answered this time, "What does 'one shot into the soul' mean?" "It's a term for shooting," Sakai said with his hands in the shape of a pistol. "What he means is that we need to concentrate on our work as we do on shooting." "Oh... Did Yajima practice shooting?" "I haven't heard of this, maybe it's just a metaphor." Kusanagi also nodded, but he still didn't quite understand, why use shooting as a metaphor for work?

"Besides," Sakai took off his gloves, looked at Kusanagi and Yukawa alternately, "Suzuki also said just now, you should stop doubting Madam!" "We don't suspect her." Hearing what Kusanagi said, Sakai shook his head. "Please tell the truth. I don't understand. The president said that he was going to collect the money and went out. Why do you suspect that Madam is a murderer because of this?" "There may be someone else who called President Yajima out," Tang Chuan said next to him, "but that person may have been instructed by Mrs. Yajima."

Sakai squinted at Yukawa for a while, then let out a breath. "The reason why you think so is because you don't understand the relationship between their husband and wife. Two people started from nothing and managed the company to its current scale. I know very well in my heart how the two of them are absolutely impossible. It is absolutely impossible to betray the other party!" Kusanagi didn't know how to answer, and fell silent for a while.Tang Chuan didn't say anything either. "I'm sorry, can you stop here today? Ma'am will be back soon, I think, she doesn't want to see the police after returning home." Sakai's tone was obviously hostile.

After leaving the Nojima factory, Tang Chuan's first words were: "The craftsmen are amazing, and those technologies are the real research topics of computer technology." "Let's not talk about it, have you found any clues?" "Do you mean?" "Don't pretend to be confused, don't you know what I brought you here for?" Kusanagi's voice could be heard anxiously.Tang Chuan smiled meaningfully, and took something out of his trousers pocket—it was a thin rope about two or three millimeters thick and more than ten centimeters long, white, with a knot at one end.

"It was picked up in the corner of the factory." "Oh? When did you pick it up?" Kusanagi took it in his hand, looked at it carefully, and found that it was not a single-strand rope, but twisted with many strands. "What is this? ?” "Well, I'm not sure yet. Leaving this aside, let me ask you, do the strangle marks on the neck of the deceased look consistent with this rope?" Asked by Yukawa, Kusanagi recalled the condition of the corpse and stared at the rope. "It's possible... agree." "That would be interesting, very interesting." Saying this, the physicist didn't smile at all.