Chapter 14 13

The next morning, Cheng Mei still didn't come home.After Shinsuke finished his simple meal, he took a taxi to Shenchuan Police Station. He told the service desk on the first floor that his cohabitant was missing.After a while, a middle-aged police officer in uniform said to him, "Come this way, please." Shinsuke and the police officer sat face to face, with a small desk between them, and he tried his best to explain the incident in detail.The police officer carefully asked about the characteristics of Chengmei's body.When Shensuke answered these questions, he found that the police were not looking for Chengmei, but when a suspicious corpse was found somewhere, the content of the answers now can be used as a reference to identify the corpse.Simply put, the police believed that Cheng Mei was no longer alive when they found her.

"I understand. If there are any clues, I will notify you immediately. Thank you for your hard work today." Although the police officer spoke kindly, Shinsuke secretly prayed that Chengmei would not be found by these guys. Just as Shinsuke left the police station entrance and exit gate, a police officer stepped out of the police car parked in front of him.It was a well-built male police officer who looked about thirty-five years old.Shinsuke stopped when he saw his face after taking off the helmet.He remembered seeing this man. Maybe the other party noticed it too, and he also looked at Shinsuke.But the other party didn't seem to think of it immediately, and once looked away.But he stopped in the next second.

"Oh, it's you," said the officer. "Are you the one who got into a car accident in Kiyosumi?" "Do you remember?" "I remember it. After all, that case is quite special. By the way, what happened today? What good things have you done?" "No, in fact, my friend's whereabouts are unknown, and I just wanted to call the police..." "Hey, this is really bad. A woman?" "yes." "How old are you?" "Twenty-nine." "Well, twenty-nine..." The police officer's face darkened, and he nodded.When a young woman's whereabouts are unknown, she probably won't be found if she's alive, so there's probably this inauspicious rule of thumb.

"What do you do now? I remember you were a bartender." The police officer remembered what happened to Shinsuke quite clearly. "It's the same job now." "That's it. Don't drive anymore." "It's not open." "That's good. You should know the horror of a car accident." "Ok……" "Then goodbye." After the police officer finished speaking, he patted Shinsuke on the shoulder and walked towards the gate. Shinsuke also took a few steps forward.But then he turned around again. "Excuse me!" he yelled at the officer's back.

The officer stopped and turned his head.Shinsuke asked him with a surprised face. "What do you mean by the special case you just said?" There are several small rooms side by side next to the transportation department. The room is so cramped that it is difficult to fit a small desk into it.Shinsuke was taken into one of them.The last time he came here was during the car accident last year.He didn't know why the memory of that time still remained in his mind. "I may be a little rude when I say that, but there is such a strange situation of memory loss, and I only forget the part of the car accident." Police officer Akiyama looked incredulous.

"I think so." "It can be said to be very happy in a certain sense, but it is a crime on another level. It is happiness to forget the accident completely, but it is difficult for the families of the victims to accept it." "That... I understand." Shinsuke recalled Reiji Kishinaka's gloomy face.Kishinaka once asked him, how do you deal with unpleasant things?Shinsuke replied that he would do nothing and forget about the annoying things early. Shinsuke believes that it was that sentence that determined Kishinaka's killing intent. "Then about the car accident," Akiyama opened the file in front of Shinsuke.There is a schematic diagram of the scene of the accident.One of them is a east-west three-lane road, and the other is a one-lane narrow road. The two roads intersect. The place where the car accident happened is near the intersection on that narrow road. "The victim is heading south on this narrow road. As long as you pass the intersection, you can reach her house a little further. You drive a little farther behind her." Akiyama gestured on the road on the schematic diagram with his finger. "The model is a silver Mercedes. So far, do you still have any memory?"

"Hearing others say it, you will vaguely feel that this is right." "I vaguely feel... ah." Akiyama looked carefully at Shinsuke's face.On his face was written a vague expression of how could such a car accident happen. "I'm sorry." Shinsuke apologized. "Forget it, there's nothing you can do about it. What's more, it's the survivor of the victim who caused you to lose your memory. It's really unclear who is right and who is wrong." The police officer looked at the schematic diagram again. "The maximum speed limit on this narrow road is thirty kilometers. You claim that you obeyed the speed limit."

"But you didn't follow it, did you?" "I don't know." Akiyama said. "There are brake marks left on the ground, but I don't know how many kilometers per hour. It used to be very accurate, but recently the brake marks have become more and more unreliable." "why?" "Thanks to technological innovation. If the vehicle is equipped with an anti-lock braking system, the relationship between speed and brake marks will be completely different from previous data." "oh oh……" So that's the case, Shinsuke thought about it.Even on icy roads, cars using anti-lock braking systems can do their best to suppress tire slippage.As a result, this vehicle will of course have different data from a vehicle using a general braking system. "In short, your car is driving behind the bicycle. Even if you abide by the speed limit of 30 kilometers per hour, the speed will always exceed the bicycle, and you intend to overtake." Akiyama moved his fingers on the schematic diagram. "Prior to that, the bicycle appeared to ride slightly from the center of the road to the side of the road. Whether the victim noticed a Mercedes approaching from behind is not clear. The Mercedes would have had its headlights on though, so I think she might have Notice. In this situation, most people usually want to lean to the left, but they may pay too much attention to the vehicles behind them, causing them to make mistakes in operating the handlebars of the bicycle, and instead ride in a dangerous direction. This kind of situation often occurs.”

"I ended up hitting the bicycle from behind, right?" "That's what happened," Akiyama nodded. "The bicycle flew to the left, and the car you were driving rushed into the right lane by a large margin. Probably you turned the steering wheel to avoid it." "So the victim... bumped his head?" Shinsuke asked.Just listening to the explanation just now, I still can't accept that this is a fatal car accident.If the victim died, the injuries at the place hit by the car should be serious. However, Akiyama shook his head. "No, I think, at that point in time, the victim should not have been seriously injured. But this is just my inference."

"No serious injuries... But, isn't she dead?" After Shinsuke finished speaking, Akiyama frowned.Then he let out a long sigh. "You really don't remember?" "Yeah." Shinsuke replied. Akiyama pointed to the schematic diagram. "The victim died after this car accident." "after?" "Right. The second car came in here."