Chapter 32 Section 5

"Any thoughts?" Kusanagi asked after leaving the apartment. "What do you think?" Tang Chuan asked back, this is his usual style. "I'm not too sure. But after seeing that girl, I think she might be telling the truth. Doesn't it mean that people with poor health tend to have a better sixth sense?" "In other words, you think this is a precognitive dream?" "I think it's possible." "Isn't that the end? The girl foresaw that the woman in the opposite apartment was going to commit suicide, and it really happened—isn't it a good explanation? Then there's no problem." After finishing speaking, Tang Chuan walked towards the car.

"Hey, where are you going?" "Go back, since I have already explained it clearly with the prophetic dream, why should I come here?" Kusanagi was thinking about why this guy had such a weird personality, and chased after him, grabbing his arm just like before. "A mere mortal like me tends to think in mysterious directions. It's your job as scientists to stop such stupid thoughts. Let's go." Kusanagi tugged at his arm and walked back, this time to the brown apartment. Since they had called the police station in the jurisdiction in advance, they easily borrowed the key of Seto Tomiyuko's house from the administrator.The administrator was actually the first person to see the corpse, and he still has lingering fears about approaching that room, so only Kusanagi and Yukawa entered the room.

"The so-called predictive dreams may be a matter of probability after all." Tang Chuan said, "How many dreams do you think a person will have in a night?" "Well, I haven't thought about it." "Well——" Tang Chuan snorted nasally, "Dreams usually occur in the stage of light sleep, and light sleep usually has about five times a night, and each time there will be many dreams, and each dream contains several A topic. People have to go to bed at night, so the episodes obtained through dreaming in just one month may reach an astonishing number, even if there are dreams similar to real events, it is not enough. Strange."

"But I rarely dream, and I only do one or two dreams." "That's because you have forgotten a lot of dreams. What you remember is the dream before you woke up. But sometimes, people will also recall dreams that have been forgotten. In one case, what happened in reality and the dream In the same way, it stimulates the memory of the dream, and the person thinks: ah, this seems to have been dreamed before. At the same time, more dreams that did not happen in reality will be forgotten forever. Just like you, I don't even remember having a dream." "But the girl just now predicted the real suicide before it happened, instead of recalling the content of the dream after knowing the incident."

"Yes. So I'm going to talk about the skills of the seer next." "how do I say this?" "First of all, they will make a lot of prophecies and tell others as much as possible about what they see in their dreams. Didn't Mrs. Iizuka also say that, this child often tells them things in dreams as real. " "Ah, that's what happened." "If a lot of predictions are made, there must be something in it. The prophet then emphasizes the one in the saying. The listener is only impressed by this, and forgets what he didn't say. This is how those tricky prophets often trick."

"You mean to say that the kid used this trick?" "It can't be said that she deliberately played tricks. I just want to say that judging from the results, there is such a possibility." While talking, the two came to Seto Tomiyuko's room, and Kusanagi opened the door with a key. The interior remains the same as it was during the investigation by the police station in the jurisdiction.However, the report from the police station said that there was nothing to investigate. The room is about ten tatami mats in size. It is a one-room layout with a small kitchen. The cabinets are placed against the wall. They are very clean. The bed is for two people. There must have been countless incidents between her and Naoki Sugawara on this bed. second physical relationship.

Standing next to the bed is a steel pipe hanger, as the girl said, the shape of the hanger is a bit like a horizontal bar.Kusanagi also remembered that he used to have a health device for hanging, which was also very similar to this clothes hanger. The hanger is about sixty to seventy centimeters wide, and the diameter of the steel pipe is about five or six centimeters.The height of the clothes hanger can be adjusted by sliding the longitudinal steel pipe, which is the same as the principle of adjusting the height of the bicycle seat: there are several holes in the inner steel pipe, as long as they are aligned with the holes on the outer steel pipe, screw on the screws. .

It seems that it has been adjusted to the highest level now, and the steel pipes on top are about two meters above the ground. "There is no rope." Tang Chuan said. "It was taken back by the police station for identification. It seems to be a short piece cut from a plastic rope used to dry clothes." "Definitely confirm some useless things. What I want to ask is, does the rope match the mark on her neck?" "Of course they agree. Don't take the police for fools." It is a basic common sense of forensic science that a strangled person and a hanged person have completely different marks on their necks.

Yu Chuan stretched out his arms, grabbed the steel pipe on the hanger, and lightly applied his own weight. "Sure enough, I didn't expect it to be so strong." "The deceased weighed about 40 kilograms, so there should be no problem." "Is this the one used to step on the feet?" Tang Chuan pointed to the dressing chair that fell under his feet. "Probably." Kusanagi replied.That's what it says in the report. Tang Chuan approached the window thoughtfully, opened the green curtains, and immediately the white building opposite appeared in front of him.The room facing Naoki Sugawara is right next to the room of Tomoko Iizuka.

"It seems that this is a coincidence, right?" Kusanagi said to Yukawa's back. "I would like to think so, but there are a few details that cannot be overlooked." "you are right……" "The child said that the steel pipe hanger was like a horizontal bar, that is to say, she didn't know the existence of the steel pipe hanger. She said that it was understandable to dream that the woman hanged herself, but even dreaming of the irrelevant horizontal bar was a little bit Doubtful." "Exactly." "Let's play a reasoning game." Tang Chuan sat on the bed, crossed his legs, "Let's assume that what the girl sees is not a dream, but reality. So, what can you think of in this situation?"

"That's what I thought." Kusanagi stood up and folded his arms, "Tomyuko Seto wanted to commit suicide three days ago, but failed." "Do you still remember what Tomoko Iizuka said? The next day, that woman made a phone call here in a spirited manner. If it was a suicide attempt, don't you think this behavior is unnatural?" "Your words make sense..." "Conversely," Tang Chuan said, "it's unnatural for such a spirited woman to want to commit suicide two days later." "Indeed." "The girl laughing on the phone and the girl who wanted to hang herself—which one is the real girl? I think this is the key to uncovering the truth of the incident." "That's the hanging side of course. Suicide is no joke." After listening to Kusanagi's words, Yukawa's expression changed a little. He pursed his lips and adjusted his glasses. "Just kidding, it might be surprisingly close to the truth." "Stop playing around, how can anyone in this world play around and commit suicide?" "Well, let's put it another way. If she hanged herself for fun, not really wanting to die..." Kusanagi was taken aback and held his breath.This is something he never thought about. "Is it a fake suicide?" "Is it impossible?" Tang Chuan looked up at him. "Ah, no, it's totally possible." Kusanagi recalled the contents of the report, "Seto Tomiyuko once threatened Sugawara that if his wife was not allowed to answer the phone, she would commit suicide. Sugawara thought it was a threat, so he didn't She did as she said. As a result, she hanged herself. Now that I think about it, it's a little bit admirable—to punish a ruthless man, there are many women who threaten to commit suicide in a fit of anger, but generally they don't actually die. " "So, let's assume there is a trick here," Yu Chuan raised his index finger. "Although she is going to hang herself, she doesn't really want to hang herself. The woman decides to play this play in order to threaten her lover. But there is a problem—this Playing requires practice and preparation." "So that's it! This is the hanging that the little girl saw!" Kusanagi snapped his fingers. "A dress rehearsal." "So, the death of Tomoyuko Osato was not a suicide, but an accident. For some unknown reason, she made a fake show." "According to the reasoning so far, it should be like this." "What kind of trick is that? If something is really used, there should be some clues found at the scene." "It should be so, if the scene has not been altered." "Ah?" Kusanagi stared at Yukawa's face, "What do you mean?" "That is, someone may have cleaned up the scene before the police arrived." "Someone..." "This trick must not have been thought up by Seto Yuko alone," Yukawa asserted, "Think back to what the girl said—in the middle of the night, she can see the opposite room clearly, that is to say, The curtain on the opposite side was not closed—this shows that Tomyuko Seto deliberately let the opposite person see her rehearsal." "The person opposite... is Sugawara Naoki's wife, Shizuko?" "If it's her, can she go and clean up the scene?" "That's true. That's..." Kusanagi went through all the people who were different from the incident in his mind: the one who found the body was the administrator of the apartment, and——"It was the one who told the administrator about Seto Yuko's hanging, and then entered the room with the administrator A man? If I remember correctly, that person is called Minemura, and he is Sugawara's junior, could it be that this person is cooperating with Seto's tricks?" "These are just my speculations." "No, this is likely to be true. Well, let me investigate Fengcun first. If Fengcun instigated the woman to pretend to commit suicide and eventually turned into an accidental death, then he is also responsible." "Kusanagi," Yukawa stopped him, "don't worry, the situation may be more complicated." "What did you say?" Yukawa stood up, walked to the steel pipe hanger, stared at it for a while, and then looked at Kusanagi. "I mean, the failure of pretending to commit suicide may also be something in his plan."