Chapter 20 Section 4

The name of the store is "Bizarre", and the interior decoration is very elegant, giving people a quiet feeling.Under the slightly dim light, many tables are lined up side by side. Two young girls with long hair approached their table and asked, "Is this your first time here?" "Mr. Takasaki recommended us to come here." Kusanagi said while wiping his hands with a towel, "Does Takasaki come here often?" "Huh? Takasaki?" The girl asked in surprise with her eyes wide open. "It's the Takasaki who runs the supermarket." "Ah?" The girl looked at the faces of Kusanagi and Yukawa alternately, then leaned forward and whispered to Kusanagi, "Sir, don't you know?"

"what do you know?" "Mr. Takasaki, Mr. Takasaki..." The girl looked around carefully, and then said, "Dead." "Ah?" Kusanagi opened his eyes exaggeratedly on purpose, "Really?" "Really, just two or three days ago," "I don't know at all. Hey, do you know?" Kusanagi asked Yukawa playfully. "It's the first time I've heard of it." Tang Chuan replied expressionlessly. "How did you die? Is it sick?" Kusanagi asked the waitress. "I'm not sure about this. I heard it was caused by a heart attack. It seems that his son discovered it. He said he died while taking a bath at home."

"You know the details!" "It was reported in the newspaper, and our proprietress showed it to us in surprise. "oops!" Kusanagi also knew that the morning newspaper on the second day after the discovery of the body had published a report on Takasaki Kunio's bizarre death. "What is your relationship with Mr. Takasaki?" It's just wine and meat friends.But we don't even know he's dead, so I'm afraid we can't even count him as friends. After Kusanagi said these words, he took a sip of whiskey and water. "what do you do?"

"My job? An ordinary salaryman. He is different. He is a young associate professor at the Institute of Physics of Imperial University. He will definitely be a candidate for the Nobel Prize in the future." Hearing him introduce Tang Chuan in this way, the girls couldn't help but "wow" in amazement. "great!" "It's nothing special." Tang Chuan said coldly, "I can't be a Nobel Prize candidate." "Don't be modest, you might as well show them your business card!" Kusanagi said, "If they don't believe it, what a pity."

This is the code for him to help paralyze these girls.After realizing this, Yu Chuan reluctantly handed the business cards to the girls. "It's amazing! The thirteenth research room of the School of Physics, what are you researching there?" "The theory of relativity and Darwin's theory of evolution. Also conducts extensive research on Newton's theory." "Ah? What is that? It sounds so complicated!" "To ordinary people, they are as meaningless as feces." Tang Chuan said with a non-humorous expression, and then brought the whiskey and water to his mouth.

"When Gao Ji came, were you accompanying him?" Kusanagi asked one of the girls. "Been together, but most of the time he was with Satomi. He liked her a lot." "Which girl?" "The one in black on the chair." Looking in the direction she said, a girl in a black miniskirt was accompanying other guests.She looked to be in her early twenties, with straight hair that fell to her shoulders. "In a moment, can you help call her over?" "OK!" In order to relax Satomi's vigilance, Kusanagi and her also repeated the conversation just now, and finally succeeded in finding out that Satomi was her real name, and that it was written in Chinese characters as Satomi.

"It's a pity, it's really impermanent. Such a healthy brother Takasaki died suddenly while taking a bath." Kusanagi sighed loudly. "I was shocked too." Satomi replied. "You also know about it through the newspaper?" "yes." "Oh, what a shock." "Ah, it's unbelievable." Satomi Hui pouted slightly. From the way she talks and the way she moves, it can be seen that she is a lazy person.She wears so much makeup that I can't see her expression clearly now.Kusanagi thought, if it was daytime, many men would be strongly attracted by this appearance.But after dealing with criminals for so many years, his experience told him that this kind of woman might not always be so carefree.

Kusanagi carefully observed Satomi lighting a cigarette with a disposable lighter.She wears rings on the middle and index fingers of her right hand. "Miss, what do you do during the day?" Tang Chuan suddenly asked from the side. "Ah, during the day?" "You must have other work, don't you?" Perhaps because Yukawa's question contained indisputable meaning, Satomi nodded. "What do you do?" Kusanagi also asked, "Are you an ordinary white-collar worker?" "yes." "What kind of business does your company do?" Tang Chuan asked, "Manufacturing, is it a factory?"

Satomi blinked her eyes in amazement: "How do you know?" "It's basic common sense in physics." After hearing Tang Chuan's answer, just when Satomi was about to say something, someone called her name suddenly, and then she said "Farewell" and left her seat. Kusanagi immediately picked up the disposable lighter she had just put on the table with a handkerchief.It also has the name of the store "Strange" printed on it. "Have you found fingerprints of anyone other than the deceased at the crime scene?" Yu Chuan asked as if he understood Kusanagi's purpose.

"There are a few." Kusanagi replied, while putting the lighter wrapped in a handkerchief into his arms, "Even if it is murder, criminals nowadays are not stupid enough to leave fingerprints, so it is useless at all." "Such a down-to-earth effort sometimes bears fruit." "That's fine! Then tell me first," Kusanagi lowered his voice, "Why do you know she works in a factory?" "I think she is either working in the company or in the factory. Her working place should be in the factory. She doesn't seem to be an operator, but just does on-site work."

"Then why do you know this?" "It depends on the shape of her head. Although her hair is straight, it has an unnatural bend. This is probably the indentation of the hat. The industry that must wear a hat in the unit is probably the manufacturing industry." "Doesn't the elevator lady wear a hat too? Doesn't the front desk lady also wear a hat?" "But when she was asked if she was an ordinary white-collar worker, she didn't answer right away. Another point is that some fine metal powder stuck to her hair, which proves that her workplace has a lot of dust. This is also a distress for girls. one." Kusanagi stared earnestly at the physicist's face. "You observe carefully, although it seems that you are not interested in women." "If it's not necessary, I won't observe. Isn't the purpose of our visit this time to investigate her?" "That's true. I wish you could tell me, too, why she's not a field worker?" "This is the easiest. Her nails are too long, and she doesn't have fake nails. How can she work on site?" "It makes sense." When the word "on-site work" was mentioned, Kusanagi suddenly remembered something.I found unfamiliar work gloves in the health department of Takasaki Yuki House. If it was in the factory, there would definitely be many opportunities to use work gloves. Satomi came back again, said "I'm sorry just now", and sat down again. "What position are you in?" Kusanagi asked tentatively. "Me? Well, it's an ordinary job. I'm an accountant." "Oh." Kusanagi glanced at Yukawa.Tang Chuan was afraid of being noticed by Satomi, so he shook his head with small movements, telling him in his eyes that she was lying. After drinking two or three glasses of whiskey and water, Kusanagi and the others got up and left.Paying the bill costs about five times as much as a normal pub. Satomi sent them outside the bar, just as a taxi passed by. "Being a waitress is also a tiring job." Yu Chuan said after getting into the car. "However, the pay is high." "There are also many weird guests among them, right?" Tang Chuan turned around and said, "For example, there are men like that." "Ah?" Kusanagi also looked back, a young man seemed to be about to say something to Satomi, but Satomi looked impatient. "That man is hiding next to the bar," Tang Chuan said, "maybe he likes her very much and has been waiting for her to come out." "It doesn't look like a guest of hers." "Well, it doesn't look like a boyfriend either." The taxi turned a corner, and the two figures were no longer in sight.