Chapter 16 Section 8

It was discovered that Kakimoto Masao and Seban Hirohisa were accomplices on the Sunday of the third week after the two middle school students discovered the metal mask.When Sebon was arrested, he had a certain degree of mental preparation, and when Kusanagi told him that his fingerprints had been found on the shutters of the garage, he told the truth. "It was he who proposed to kill my husband, although I didn't want to do it. If I didn't listen to him, he would expose my incident to my husband. There was no way, so I had to do as he said." The "that matter" that Changdai said was the matter of Shibang Cheng threatening her. He found out that Changdai had an affair with the coach of the golf club, so he threatened her with this matter.

"She confessed to her husband that she was messing around outside and wanted a divorce, but her husband didn't agree with anything, so she came to me to discuss and said, if I can help her, she will help me pay back the money , and I don’t have to pay back the money for buying the horse. I really wanted him to pay the advance payment because I really wanted to buy the horse, and I didn’t intend to lie to him at all. That woman is really nice, I was used by her.” According to the confessions of the two people, the day when the crime was committed was late at night on August 16.Shiwang sneaked into the room under the leadership of Changdai, beat Kakimoto to death with a hammer while taking a bath, and disposed of the body the next morning.Sewan used Kakimoto's Audi car to transport the body to the gourd pond, discarded it, and then left the Audi car in Saitama Prefecture on the way back.

The crux of the matter is the second day. The two men created the illusion that Kakimoto was still alive until this morning, which became the perfect proof that they were not suspects - they prepared an Audi of the same model and showed it to people nearby The car was driven out of the garage of Kakimoto's house. This little trick became their fatal wound. Yukawa deduced that the date of the crime was before August 17, but where did Shibo get the Audi car at that time?Kusanagi launched an investigation.He found out that one of his friends who played horse racing in Shibang had an Audi of the same model. That person seemed to have nothing to do with the case, so he honestly admitted the fact that he lent the car out on August 18.

Thinking about it carefully, this scam is actually very simple, but since it was Kakimoto Masao who first provided clues to suspect Seban, no one thought that the two were accomplices.They had long foreseen that the investigation team would focus on Shiwang, so they did everything they could to pull everyone into their trap. "Then how did you think that the crime might have been committed before the 17th?" Kusanagi's boss asked him many times. Kusanagi pointed to his head with his finger: "Ah, it's because of the difference here." Kusanagi was taken to a building with "High Voltage Research Plug" written on the door, and the door was marked with "Dangerous, unrelated persons are prohibited from entering" in yellow letters.see these.He was already terrified, and when he entered it, his legs felt weak.

It seemed that part of the power station had been moved into this room, and the cables were piled up on the floor like snakes. "Oh, come to such a place, I don't think I can touch things casually." Looking at the back of Yuchuan who was walking hurriedly in front of him, Ge Mina said, "I am very afraid of electricity, and I feel that I can easily get electrocuted, although I don't actually Something like that happened. Yu Chuan stopped and turned around suddenly. "No, it happened." "what?" "For example, look! That little box next to you, what do you think it is?"

Hearing what Tang Chuan said, he looked to the side.There was a large stove-like metal box with two protrusions on it. Judging from its appearance, it was impossible to tell what kind of machine it was. "I don't know. What's that?" "Capacitor." Yu Chuan replied, "It's also called a storage battery. You must have heard of this name, right?" "Ah, capacitors? I remember learning about them in science class." Why did he have to smile ingratiatingly, he wondered as he answered? "Try to touch it, next to that protrusion." "Are you okay?" Kusanagi stretched out his hand tremblingly.

"Maybe it's okay." Tang Chuan continued in a flat tone, "The impact of the electric shock may blow people away." Kusanagi hurriedly withdrew his hand: "Are you kidding me?" "In principle, the capacitors here are already in a fully discharged state, but if they are placed here for a long time, they will be charged slowly due to static electricity. If this group of capacitors is fully charged, your The body may not be able to support it for a while." Kusanagi retreated quickly, and Yukawa hurried to him. "What are you doing, don't let me touch you again."

"Don't worry, take a good look. The two protrusions of the capacitor have been covered by the cable, so it won't be charged at all." Tang Chuan snorted and walked forward again. In the middle of the cluttered laboratory stood a square sink about the size of a domestic bathtub.Because it is made of transparent acrylic, you can see how the water is stored.There were still many things sinking in the water, and a flexible wire protruded from it. Yu Chuan stood by and looked in. "Come here!" "Aren't you trying to scare me again?" "It might surprise you, but for the sake of your work, there's nothing you can do about it."

Under Yukawa's urging, Kusanagi looked in, and suddenly, he let out an "ah". The first thing he saw in the water was the head of a mannequin, resembling a woman, but without hair.A few centimeters away from her face, there was a thin aluminum sheet picked up last time, and a flexible wire was fixed. The plastic film on the wire head was peeled off, and the wires in it were also cut apart. "This is to reproduce the state of the gourd pond." Tang Chuan said. "Is that how it happened?" "That's how it happened." "How do you form that metal mask?"

"I'll show you now." Yukawa pulled the wire protruding from the sink and connected one end of it to an apparently handmade contraption.Part of this device was the capacitor that was used to scare Kusanagi just now, and this capacitor was much larger than those. "It's a simple lightning generator." Tang Chuan explained. "Thunder?" "Over there, there are two opposite electrodes, right?" Yu Chuan pointed to a place three meters away. There is a device for fixing two copper ball electrodes tens of centimeters apart.On closer inspection, one end of the electrode is connected to the wire protruding from the sink.

"Small-scale lightning can occur there." "So what?" "Didn't you pick up the wire in the gourd pond!" "what?" "That wire was connected to an iron shelf in the pond, do you remember?" "yes." "According to the results of your investigation, on August 17, there were thunderstorms in that area. Not only that, but a huge thunder fell beside the pond." "On that iron shelf?" "Yes!" Tang Chuan nodded, "It acts as a lightning rod. As you know, the essence of thunder is electricity. The electric energy accumulated in the thundercloud is released to the iron frame." Kusanagi nodded yes.Although he is a science idiot, it is not difficult to imagine the scene at that time. "What happens to the electricity released to the iron frame? It is generally absorbed by the ground. Maybe some of it is true, but the iron frame is connected to the wire that conducts electricity more easily, so most of the electricity is released. It's in the pond." Yu Chuan said while pointing to the tank with the mannequin. "And then?" Kusanagi urged the following, he could fully understand everything Yukawa said so far. "But," said Yukawa, "what if the wire isn't thick enough to conduct so much power?" Regarding this question, Kusanagi thought for a few seconds and shook his head. "I don't know what to do?" "Let's do this experiment." Tang Chuan took out a pair of glasses from the pocket of his white coat and handed them to Kusanagi. "What? This?" "Safety glasses, there is no prescription, in case of any accident, it will be bad, you should put them on." "just in case?" "I'm afraid that some debris will fly out." Hearing what Yukawa said, Kusanagi hurriedly put on his glasses. "I started," Yu Chuan slowly turned the dial of the machine next to him to the right, "now the capacitor is storing electricity, you can also understand that it is generating thunderclouds." "What if the thunder falls next to us by mistake... it should be impossible?" Kusanagi asked.Needless to say, he was just trying to make a joke. "That's impossible." "Oh." "As long as I don't miswire it." "Ah?" Kusanagi glanced at the serious Yukawa and exclaimed. "The charging process of the capacitor is complete." Tang Chuan looked at the electrodes and said, "Now, the voltage of tens of thousands of volts has been generated between the two electrodes, and the only thing separating them is the nominal obstacle of 'space'. However, if If the voltage is increased again, this barrier will be broken." When he said this, Kusanagi found that there was a flash of light between the two poles accompanied by a violent impact sound, and almost at the same time there was a low cracking sound from the sink. "what happened?" Just as Kusanagi was about to run to the sink to see what happened, Yu Chuan grabbed him. "At the last moment, you sacrificed yourself because of an electric shock, isn't that too stupid?" Tang Chuan performed a few more viewing operations, and then tapped Kusanagi on the back: "Okay, let's go and have a look." The two came to the pool.Kusanagi looked inside and couldn't help shouting: "Oh my God!" "Are you satisfied?" Yukawa reached into the sink with his hands and fished out the head of the female model.A thin layer of aluminum was firmly glued to her face.Tang Chuan carefully peeled off the aluminum skin and said, "This is a custom-made product for you." After speaking, he handed it to Kusanagi. Kusanagi took the aluminum skin and looked at it carefully.It perfectly reproduces the bumpy shape of the model's face. "What's the mystery here?" "Shockwave." "what?" "Because of the excess energy, the middle of the wire blew, and it happened in an instant, like a blown fuse." Yukawa fished out the wires from the sink.Its front end has melted into a ball.Kusanagi felt that it was exactly the same as the wires he picked up in the gourd pond. "In an instant, a huge shock wave was generated in the water, which had a force to push the nearby objects outward, and the aluminum sheet would naturally be pressed to the model's face." "As a result, you made this?" Kusanagi whispered while looking at the metal mask. "In the past, this was a well-known technology, but now, almost no one uses it to make anything. It is also the first time for me to do such an experiment. It is really insightful!" "It's incredible!" "It's not inconceivable, it's an inevitable result. Didn't I tell you before that many incredible phenomena that bring turmoil to human beings are all fluid pranks. This case is also one of them." "No, that's not what I mean by unbelievable." Kusanagi raised his face, "If the mask hadn't been found, it would be impossible to find the corpse. From this point of view, I think Kakimoto Shinichi's resentment formed the mask. Maybe you, a superstitious scientist, will think I'm talking nonsense." Kusanagi thought that Yukawa would laugh at himself, but Yukawa didn't do that. Instead, he took out a folded piece of paper from the pocket of his white coat, which seemed to be a copy of something. 'Do you remember when I first heard about the case in Metalface County, I asked you about Budger?I also ask you if you can hunt with a rifle near Gourd Pond. " 'Ah, I remember, why do you ask that question? " "Actually, at that time, I wondered if it was possible that the shock wave in the water created the mask. But I don't know the cause of the shock wave. I doubt it is a rifle." "Can a rifle produce that effect?" "When a bullet is fired into water, it can also form a shock wave, but to achieve the degree of forming metal, it is far from enough to use a pistol, at least the power of a rifle is required." "Oh!" Kusanagi was a little confused, but nodded ambiguously, "Then what does it have to do with what we said today?" "There is a technology for making gold braces that uses the shock waves of bullets. This is the research result of a certain university." Yu Chuan handed the paper in his hand to Kusanagi, "This is a copy of that paper. You Let's see." "Let me see?" "Look!" Kusanagi glanced at the copy paper.As he expected, the content here is beyond his comprehension at all. "What does it all say?" "Look at the author's name!" "The author of the paper?" Kusanagi parrot repeated it imitatively, then looked next to the title, where the names of three people were listed side by side.When he saw the third name, he exclaimed "ah". That was Shinichi Kakimoto. "I heard that the deceased researched the subject of using shock waves to shape when he was a student," Tang Chuan said jokingly, "When he became a corpse and was abandoned in the pond, his soul recalled the technology he had studied, and created that metal mask .What about the storyline?" Kusanagi was stunned for a moment, then laughed again, and looked back at the physicist. "Don't scientists not believe in those gods and ghosts?" "Even scientists can joke sometimes." Yu Chuan strode towards the exit, letting the corners of his white coat flutter in the wind.