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Chapter 15 Greetings from Mitarai: Digital Lock Chapter 2

【Greetings from Mitarai: Digital Lock】 "As for the motives to commit crimes against President Suita, there are only two people. These two people have very clear motives, and it can be said that it must be one of them. But it is very difficult to identify one of them. And the most important thing Yes, there is no physical possibility for either of these two individuals to commit a criminal act. "One of them is Ishihara Shuzo, 41 years old. The other is Machang Kazuo, 39 years old. Ishihara Shuzo is a playboy. He runs two snack bars on the side of Ome Street in Nakano Sakamami. There is also a basement floor in his own house. It is a snack bar with a total of four floors.

"Machang Kazuo is an honest salaryman who works for Yaesu M Trading Company. His home is also in Yotsuya, and he has an apartment. However, his home is a little far away from the crime scene, and there is Yotsuya Station in between. In the opposite direction. It takes about ten minutes to walk from his house to Yotsuya, but it takes fifteen minutes at the fastest to get to Suita Denshi—of course, this also refers to walking.” "Both of these two people have a strong motive for Suita Hisuro—clearly, the resentment of stocks and money. All three people were born in Kokura, Kyushu, and they only got to know each other after they came to Tokyo. Individuals form a group of speculators. No, they can’t be considered speculators—speculators mobilize hundreds of millions of funds at every turn, and the total funds mobilized by these three people are only 20 to 30 million, which can only be regarded as the surface of investors Bar.

"Recently, there is a newly issued and listed stock project. I wonder if you know about it? The most sought after stock is the stock of G Seiki Manufacturing Co., Ltd. After all, they have undertaken a large order from the last game exhibition and are desperately rushing to work The production is in short supply. After this business, G Seiki produced TVs, game consoles, indoor exercise machines and other products, all of which are very popular. Therefore, there are rumors in the market that after the public listing in September this year, the stock value will immediately drop from The face value of 50 yuan per share has been increased to 50 times-that is, 2,500 yuan!

"As for Suita Hisakuro, through the relationship he met at work before, he bought about 70,000 shares with half-buy and half-free before this G Seiki was so prosperous. Then G Seiki began to grow rapidly at that time, with him Both Ishihara and Baba, who were stock speculators together, were eager to get their hands on these stocks. A year ago, Suita Hisuro transferred 20,000 shares to each of them for the company’s working capital needs—according to the two people, He transferred it at a price of about 1,100 yuan per share, that is to say, the transfer price was more than 20 times the face value. When Suita bought it, it was at most four or five times the face value. .”

"In short, after such a process, G Seiki finally decided to take advantage of the rapid development of the company and was optimistic about the public listing at the end of October. But at this time, Suita felt sorry for the transferred stocks and deliberately revealed to the two that there was Rumor has it that G Seiki made a false financial report. Does Mitarai-sensei know about the 'false financial report'?" "I don't understand at all." - "Teacher" replied.Mr. Police Officer looked very depressed: "The so-called 'false reporting of financial reports' simply means deceiving and exaggerating the financial returns of your company. In short, Suita briefed those two people, saying that he heard from reliable sources that the Ministry of Finance (equivalent to the Ministry of Finance, responsible for securities supervision and the like) The problem of the problem——Bandhammer School Note) is going to review and review G Seiki’s financial statements, and this news may not even be known to the core people inside G Seiki.”

"This kind of thing is indeed very possible for a company like G Seiki to suddenly pick up a big pie that fell from the sky. If this is true, once the Ministry of Finance exposes the false report, it will go public. The issuance will be postponed indefinitely, and the 20,000 shares held by each of the two people will become a pile of waste paper. Then Suita suddenly said that he planned to sell it before no one knew about the incident, and at least he could get it back Cost. But what about those two people?" "Mr. Takegoshi, I don't need to elaborate on the joints here. I really don't know anything about stocks. Simply put, Ishihara and Bachang were blacked out by Suita in stocks, right? How much did you lose?"

"Zero——Suita took back the shares sold to the two at the selling price, and the two had no loss in numbers. But 1,100 yuan per share, 20,000 shares is a total of 22 million yuan Yes. After a year, the two thousand and two million dollars have not increased by a cent, and they will come back again after a round. This is a loss for investors. If it is deposited in the bank, at an annual interest rate of 6%, there will be an interest of 1.32 million." "So that's the case, so it's a loss of 1.32 million, right?" "More than that. Suita's release is completely fake news. G Seiki has no false reports at all, and the Ministry of Finance has no sign of taking action. Moreover, Suita himself has not transferred out the discounted stocks he bought, and has been firmly grasping In the palm of your hand. In this way, after the IPO last month, the stock of G Seiki was as expected, and it suddenly rose to 2,500 yuan per share. In this way, 70,000 shares of Suita are worth 170,000 Five million yuan, a profit of 150 million."

"Hey!" Mitarai nodded. "This is enough to form a motivation. If two people still have the 20,000 shares, they are worth 50 million now. After subtracting the 22 million they bought, they have lost 28 million! Not only money loss, but also Being cheated by Suita, the two of them hated it even more—people died for money, and the stock market really kills people without blood. Now, the two of them are drunk in hotels everywhere and yell at Suita, saying that they must kill He can't, I don't know how many people have heard it. They also said that they will never let it go like this.

"Originally, Suita's hand was black enough, but there was a reason for it. The business status of Suita Denko seems to have been in trouble until now. Suita himself has seriously considered whether to give up the company and find a job in a big company. But These thoughts were dispelled by the desperate pleading of the staff in the company. After all, if there is no Suita Denshi, the Kitagawa just mentioned has a skill and can always find something to do, but the remaining four people are desperate. Buy something like 'part-time news' to find another way out. "In short, Suita Denshi has been in a state of self-sufficiency for the past few years, and there is nothing left except for this signature store. It would be fine if they had their own neon tube production line and workers, but they don't have——Neon lights The business is always outsourced—they can’t save much. President Suita is often troubled by this, so he sells the stock of G Seiki for a while, and then finds a way to get it back, so that the company can survive. This time, he finally made a profit With a big pen, the company was able to keep the company, and the employees were all equally happy. They drank and celebrated with the president...I didn't expect the president to be killed so soon, and everyone was overshadowed. That's it, even though Suita played a fraudulent trick The means, but they are justifiable, and people can’t scold them—of course, Shi Yuan and Machang definitely don’t think so.”

"I understand. Then the remaining problem is to prepare the handcuffs." Mitarai said boredly, implying that this kind of case is so difficult? "It's a pity that's not the case." Officer Takekoshi emphasized emphatically. "What do you mean?" "There is a 'digital lock' that stands in front of us." "The teacher also knows, right? A small toy-like leather bag lock with three layers of overlapping number dials. The lock can only be opened by aligning the set numbers in a row with the marks on the outside of the three dials— — This is the digital lock."

"I know that kind of lock. But how could this kind of lock be in the way? It's rare that Suita Hisuro's body was locked in the vault, and the digital lock is still locked?" Mitarai talked nonsense in front of the police officer, unexpectedly, Officer Takegoshi had an expression of "I really lost to him" for a moment. "This...it's really like this. President Suita died lying on the sofa in the company, but Suita Denko was tightly locked inside and out. This digital lock is on the door outside the side passage. That is to say, This scene is the same as the incident at Umezawa's house last time, and it is also in a secret room. Because of this situation, the teacher is probably interested, so I came to visit." Mitarai's interest was aroused a little, and she finally sat up straight: "Is it a secret room? You said they are all locked, right? Why is there a secret room? Why does the murderer need to design the scene as a secret room?" "It's just that I don't understand."
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