Chapter 41 Section 5

Ten days have passed since the discovery of the body, and Nobuhiko Awata still denies that he is the murderer.The police found no evidence that could force him to submit, and were very distressed. On the contrary, there were several physical evidences in favor of Awata, one of which was the trace of another man left in the deceased's home. A particular man's hair was found in the bathroom drain.There are also hairs on the carpet in the room, the toilet in the bathroom and other places, and a paper bag was found in the drawer, which contained safety razors, shaving cream, and even condoms.

Judging from the hair, its owner's blood type is type A, but Awata's blood type is type 0. Needless to say, she must have other men to associate with, but this is not enough to reduce the suspicion on Nobuhiko Awata.It is possible that Awata found out that she had other lovers, and was furious and murderous. But no one knows the identity of this man.This confuses the police.That is to say, Takeko Nagatsuka kept her relationship with the man a secret from her relatives, and the man did not show up after his lover was killed. "It's an extramarital affair! That man must have a wife." Police officer Gong Qi began to express his remarks again.This time, no one raised any objections.

The criminal police began to conduct a blanket investigation on the men around Nagatsuka Takeko, especially the male colleagues around her, and even secretly extracted the hair of these people.But no one's hair was found to be the same as that found in Nagatsuka Takeko's home. When the police were at their wit's end, another depressing thing happened to them, that is, a certain magazine reported on Uemura Tadahiro's soul coming out of his shell.Needless to say, Hiroshi Uemura wrote this report. "It's really convincing, look!" Mamiya, who was reading a magazine, snorted.

In the meeting room of the search headquarters, Kusanagi was writing a summary report. "I have been a policeman for so many years, and this is the first time I have encountered such a thing." "Citizens who have read this magazine are calling us in a rush, asking why we don't believe the boy's testimony." Yuki held the coffee he bought from the vending machine, pointed to the magazine below, and smiled stand up. "I can't take it anymore," said Tonggong, frowning, "Our section chief must be in a terrible mood." The section chief is having a meeting in another room.

At this time, a young criminal policeman came and said that the Uemura father and son were on TV.Yuuki casually turned on the TV next to him, and saw Hiroshi Uemura and Tadahiro sitting side by side at the recording site of a variety show. "According to my investigation, the so-called soul out of shell phenomenon seems to often occur when people are traumatized," Uemura Hiroshi said boastfully, "For example, when the head is hit, according to those who have experienced it, the body feels 'wheezing' at that time. ' Float upwards at once." "Isn't that because of the unconsciousness caused by the concussion after the impact?" Mamiya muttered.

Uemura even went on to say: "In addition. Those who have experienced suspended animation experience almost without exception have experienced in vitro detachment. That is to say, in order to escape physical pain, their consciousness is temporarily separated from the body. I think we This time, Jia Zhongguang experienced what can be called a miracle just to escape the pain of high fever." "Mr. Uemura," the host asked, "do you think the phenomenon that happened to Zhongchang must be the soul coming out of the shell?" "I can only think that if the research in this field can go further, the police will not be so stupid to reject such valuable testimony. There is no way!"

After saying this, Uemura's face came closer to the camera. Gong Qi turned off the TV with a wry smile: "He is really talking nonsense!" "Kusanagi, what did that Galileo teacher say? Did he figure out something?" Mamiya asked. "Well, I haven't figured it out either, I think he's trying to figure it out." "Hey, he can't count on it either!" Gamiya scratched his head in embarrassment. At this time, two sweaty criminal policemen ran back. "Thank you. Have you discovered anything new?" Mamiya asked. "It's information about the Mini Cooper." One of the detectives replied.

"Why is it a Mini Cooper again?" Mamiya looked at Kusanagi and the others annoyedly, "What's going on?" "A man who lives near Takeko Nagatsuka's house saw the red Mini Cooper parked there, but unfortunately, he can't seem to remember whether it was the 21st or 22nd." "What's the use if you don't know the date?" "But he noticed one thing. There was a strange man living in that car and peeping. It is said that the man was very thin and was wearing a suit in summer. "Oh?" "From the outside, that person is not Awata." Kusanagi said, "Who is that?"

"He just wanted to see if it was a Mini Cooper?" That's Bow's take. "From what the eyewitnesses said, it's not that simple," the criminal policeman who went to collect evidence replied, "He said that the man seemed to be confirming who the owner of the car was." "Maybe, the guy in the suit also has an acquaintance who owns such a car. Could it be that Awata's acquaintance happened to pass by there?" Hearing what Yuki said, everyone fell into deep thought.There is indeed some truth to his opinion. "Wait a minute!" Mamiya said, "What if the man in the suit didn't appear there by accident?"

"What do you mean?" Yuki asked. "That is to say, the man originally planned to go to Nagatsuka Takeko's house, but when he walked nearby, he found this car and thought it looked familiar. He thought, if this car belonged to Awata, then Awata should be at Nagatsuka Takeko's house, then It would be inconvenient to go to Nagatsuka Takeko by himself. He wants to confirm whose car this car is..." "Wait!" Kusanagi interrupted, "So this man is someone who is very familiar with Nagatsuka Takeko and Awata Nobuhiko." "Yes, is there such a person?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally Gongchi finally said: "It seems that someone once introduced them to a blind date..." Moments later, everyone stood up almost at the same time. "I see. Have you arrested Takeko Nagatsuka's former boss?" After listening to Kusanagi's narration, Yukawa nodded and asked. "That man named Yoshioka retired from the company three years ago. He seems to have had an affair with Nagazuka Takeko before. We once speculated that there was a married man who had an affair with Nagazuka Takeko, but we didn't expect that it was a retired woman. This is our negligence. I heard that Yoshioka and Awata became good friends through insurance." Kusanagi said here and took a sip of coffee.Even instant coffee tastes good once the case is solved. "After Yoshioka was arrested, he immediately confessed his crimes." "In other words, Yoshioka introduced his lover to Awata?" "Is such that." "Aiya!" Tang Chuan shook his head and said, "The relationship between men and women is really unclear." "Yoshioka wanted to cut off contact with Duo Huizi, that's why he did that. Duo Huiyu didn't want to break up with him. The reason why she went on a blind date frankly was to show Yoshioka that he couldn't change her mind at all. And it seems like she's been hinting to him recently that she's going to tell his wife about it, which makes Yoshioka feel particularly uneasy." After Yoshioka retired from the company, he took a key position in a rental company his wife inherited from her parents.He worried that if the matter between himself and Duo Kezi was exposed, he would lose everything he had. Yoshioka planned to go to Nagatsuka Taeko's house on the 21st to persuade her to let go, but he was outside the door.He saw Awata's Mini Cooper.So he decided to come back another day.The next day, he made a phone call in advance, went to Duo Huizi's house, and begged her to break up with him. Duo Huizi disagreed life and death, and even called his wife immediately. "The following is very clichéd. He became angry and strangled her to death. Because it was not planned in advance, his words are basically credible." "Then what happened to the Mini Cooper parked on the side of the road on the 22nd? It's not Awata's car after all, right?" Hearing Yukawa's question, Kusanagi showed a bitter face again. "At this point, there is a particularly frustrating low-level mistake. The car parked there on the 21st was Awata's Mini Cooper, but the car parked in the same position on the 22nd was Yoshioka's car. The female owner of the okonomiyaki shop made a mistake. Although they are all red, but Yoshioka’s is a BMW, why did she take it as a Mini cooper?” "Human memory is like this. We are all animals prone to illusions, so those legends about gods and ghosts have never disappeared." "So, you've already solved that problem? Today, I came here specifically to ask." Kusanagi said. "Now that the case has been resolved, let's forget about it." "That can't be done. After that, there were many strange questions, which gave us a headache. Our colleagues in the first search department also said that we must ask you, a Galileo genius, for help. I am also very distressed." "Galileo?" "Please, you must help me. You can handle it, right?" Kusanagi stood up from the chair and waved his fists. Still sitting on the chair, Yu Chuan stretched his body back and said, "Can you investigate something for me?" "Investigation? What is it?" Yu Chuan took something out of the pocket of his white coat.Kusanagi took a closer look and found that it was the fragment of the sneaker that Yukawa picked up a few days ago. "Please confirm whether the information that such a precious specimen tells us is true." "Huh?" Kusanagi took the fragments from him inexplicably. Kusanagi called Yukawa's family that night. "Sure enough, as I expected, I went to the director of the food factory to inquire again. Sure enough, all the doors were opened that day. "As I thought," Yukawa said, "in that case, some accident must have happened." "Yeah, the factory manager thought we already knew about the accident, so he didn't dare to hide anything. He said he wanted to calm things down, but it was impossible. He is planning to contact the relevant departments." "That company is really unlucky. If there is no strange soul out of the shell, this accident will always be a secret." "Although I said that, what is the relationship between the soul out of the shell and the accident in that factory? I can't figure it out." Although Kusanagi said so, in fact, he didn't think about it at all.There is little background material to even think about him. After a short silence, Tang Chuan said, "Well, let's reveal the secret together, but I need an audience." "audience?" "Yes, you must bring them to me!" Tang Chuan said.