Chapter 17 fourth quarter

In the evening, Kamei made an emergency call. "The situation is not good?" Kamei said coldly. "Has your fake identity been exposed?" "Not this. The group of people called and said that Takata had promised that once the plan's implementation date approached, he would tell them the exact location of the hidden room where the huge amount of money was hidden in the pachinko shop. It is almost It's time to tell them. Although this matter is tricky, I want to tell them a location tomorrow no matter what, and let's talk about it first, what do you think?"

"You mean somewhere on the second floor?" "Yes. Anyway, I want to tell them a location. The purpose is to lure those people to attack the pachinko parlor as planned." "Does that group also have the floor plan of the store?" "Should hold." "Well, if you talk nonsense, will they believe it?" "Yeah. That's why I said something is wrong." "Okay. Let me think about it and discuss it with you." The Totsugawa Police Department hung up the phone. Takata probably knew the location of the hidden room from Kondo, a former employee of the tax office.However, Totsukawa could not ask Kondo about this matter.

The Totsugawa Police Department took two store floor plans and visited the construction company responsible for designing the "Life Route". The shop floor plan was drawn by a designer named Murakami.The Totsugawa Police Department handed over two floor plans to Murakami. "This one was surveyed and drawn by me myself." Murakami warmly received Totsukawa.He carefully compared the two plans, and suddenly, he used a compass to measure and read the plan made by the inspection class. "Is there something inappropriate?" As if Murakami didn't hear Totsukawa's question, he continued to concentrate on measuring east and west on the drawing with a scale and compasses.

Soon, Murakami started muttering to himself, "It's weird!" "Did you find something inappropriate?" Murakami listened to Totsukawa's second question. He raised his head and asked, "Is this drawing correct?" "Of course it is." "So, are there the correct number of filing cabinets juxtaposed along the wall of the general manager's office?" "Oh, it should be drawn after counting with my own eyes." "Is the filing cabinet the kind sold in the market?" "I think so." "Look at my floor plan. The general manager's office is rectangular, measuring eight meters by five meters."

"Well, that's right." "However, look at the floor plan. Along the wall of the general manager's office, filing cabinets are placed side by side. This is placed along the wall on the shorter five-meter side. But only five filing cabinets are placed. Each file cabinet is 60 centimeters wide, and the total of five is only three meters. How about two meters? They disappeared inexplicably!" Murakami said. The eyes of the Totsugawa Police Department suddenly lit up. "Oh! Is it true?" "Yes, it is reasonable to put a few more filing cabinets, but only five filing cabinets are drawn on the drawing, which is incredible!"

"No, this floor plan was specially drawn for some reason, and its correctness is beyond doubt." Totsukawa Police Department said. "If the drawing is correct, wouldn't it be even more absurd? No matter how you think about it, it's hard to imagine that a wall five meters wide can only accommodate five filing cabinets with a width of 60 centimeters? It's unbelievable!" Murakami tilted his head with a puzzled expression on his face. "No, it might be easier to think like this!" The Totsugawa Police Department stood up with a smile on his face, thanked him, and said goodbye.How can we not make Totsukawa smile?The secret of the hidden room is finally revealed.

Kondo, a former tax office clerk, must have also grasped the secret. When he finds that the operator of "Life Route" shows signs of concealing income, he is likely to go to the store to visit the general manager Fukami himself. Perhaps at that time, he noticed that the width of the general manager's office was narrower than the picture. However, Kondo did not report this important discovery to the director or the National Tax Agency's Inspection Section.He was going to sell this information to the gang of robbers for 20 million won. After the Totsugawa Police Department returned to the office, they immediately called Kamei.

After hearing the arrangement of the filing cabinets, Kamei said happily, "There really is a hidden room!" "The owner of this game shop compressed the general manager's office by two meters to create a hidden room. You only need to mention the number of file cabinets, and the group will be convinced." Totsukawa Police Department said. "Yes. If you just blindly emphasize the existence of a hidden room without giving specific evidence, those people may not believe it. Those people are extremely vigilant, like a frightened bird. As long as they have any doubts, they will immediately stop and run away. It is quite convincing to point out to them that Kondo, a former employee of the tax office, went to the general manager's office to investigate and discovered the existence of a hidden room based on the number of filing cabinets lined up on the wall. Must have a floor plan of the store."

Kamei's tone became reassuring and confident. As far as Kamei was concerned, he finally had the capital to deal with that group of people. Besides, the Nishimoto detective, at dusk, finally successfully screened out the most suspected person from the four TASHIROs holding two driver's licenses. "It's hard to find this man." Nishimoto said excitedly, and handed Totsukawa a note, writing: Tashiro Yuichiro, 37 years old, Room 306, Taishido Apartment, Setagaya District, Tokyo. "The property has been investigated but is unoccupied and the whereabouts of the tenants are unknown."

"Is there any reason to suspect that this is Yuichiro Tashiro?" Totsugawa Police Department asked.This is a major event for a member of the vicious gang that has robbed a huge sum of 350 million yen and killed two people, so we have to take a cautious attitude. "I selected them using the elimination method. After a detailed investigation of the four TASHIROs, I found that the other three were regular bus and taxi drivers. When the robbery of 350 million yuan occurred, they all had alibi ’” Sibbon replied. "The one left behind is this Yuichiro Tashiro?" "Yes. Of course, it cannot be concluded that he is the criminal, but at least there is a strong suspicion."

"Have you learned anything about this man so far?" "His original place is Fukushima City. I asked the police station there. It is said that his mother, younger brother, and sister-in-law are still living in Fukushima. But the family regards Tashiro's situation, where does he live? What is his occupation? I don’t know at all. This is all we know so far, and we are continuing to investigate.” Nishimoto replied. The survey of speed skaters seems to be more difficult.Because of the large number of people, it is necessary to follow up and investigate one by one, which takes a lot of time. But by November 2, the scope of the investigation had narrowed to five people. After that, it was a Japanese holiday for three consecutive days, but for Totsukawa and the others, of course, there was no blessing to rest. As the date of the group's action approached, the tension in the investigation headquarters became more and more intense. Nishimoto and his colleague Shimizu Detective continue to track down the missing Tashiro Yuichiro. Tashiro disappeared from his residence in Setagaya Ward at the end of May last year. Fortunately, the manager of the apartment at that time was still there. Because he had received two driver's licenses, the police also got his photo. Holding photos in hand, Nishimoto and Shimizu asked the apartment manager and residents about Tashiro Yuichiro's situation. According to the manager's reply, Tashiro Yuichiro lived in the apartment for about a year, and he lived with a woman who seemed to be his wife. However, his mother, younger brother, and sister-in-law who live in Fukushima don't know about his marriage at all, and maybe they live together. "Do you know what he does?" Nishimoto asked the administrator. "After I moved to the apartment, I seemed to be doing nothing for about two months. After that, I seemed to be working as a car salesman. He even sold me, but I couldn't afford it anymore." The administrator laughed. "Well, do you know where he has his business?" "It seems to be the Setagaya Sales Office of N Motor Company." As soon as the administrator finished speaking, Nishimoto and Shimizu bid farewell to the administrator and went straight to the Setagaya Sales Office. The sales office manager named Mimura still remembers Tashiro's incident. "He has been working here for about seven months. He holds two kinds of driver's licenses. He has excellent driving skills and is quite familiar with the structure of cars." "How is your work performance?" "Better than the average person. In fact, as long as he works harder, he can become the best employee in the whole company. It's a pity that when he was about to motivate him, he suddenly resigned." "What is the reason for resigning?" "It was completely sudden, and there was no reason for his resignation at all. As mentioned earlier, his work performance is decent, and as for his income, he has never heard any complaints." "What month is the date of resignation?" "At the end of February this year," replied the manager. (Resigned at the end of February, did you rob the cash truck with Takata in April?) While thinking, Nishimoto asked the manager, "Do you remember anything else that happened around the time he resigned?" "Oh! This... Maybe it was a coincidence. On the day Tashiro resigned, another colleague resigned at the same time." "who?" "It's a man named Chuanbei Cao. This is an elusive person with mediocre performance. I don't think it's a pity that he is leaving." As the manager said, he found Chuanbeicao's resume from the filing cabinet and showed it to Nishimoto. Age thirty.Judging from the posted photo, it has a long face, wearing glasses, and a nervous face. He dropped out of the third grade in the English Department of W University and worked in many companies. The manager also introduced Nishimoto to another car salesman who was familiar with Kawakita and Tashiro. It was a forty-two-year-old man named Akagi.He exhaled exaggeratedly, and recalled: "Chuanbei is a guy with a deep city, usually gloomy, and rarely talks. We all respect him at a distance. Only Tashiro, for some reason, gets along very well with him." "The two resigned together, do you think it was a pre-discussed decision?" "This, I think it's probably Kawakita who lured Tashiro to go with him." "Why do you think so?" "Although Kawakita is taciturn, when he opens his mouth, he always says that the current job is boring, and boasts that he can find a faster way to make a lot of money. So I say that Tashiro is mostly tempted by him to resign." As Akagi said, he continued to puff on his cigarette.After a while, a cigarette turned to ashes, and another was lit. "The words Chuanbei said are yin and yang, elusive, and I always feel that something is wrong." Akagi added. Nishimoto wondered, could this Chuanbei be the man in Takada's notebook who "proclaims himself a literary youth"? "Do you two like to drink?" Qing Shui asked. The relationship between Tashiro and Kawakita is already clear.The question now is to try to find out when and where these two people met the other three people and the head of Takata? "I haven't had a drink with the two of them, but these two seem to be very good in the glass. Especially the guy in Chuanbei, it is said that he was hospitalized for half a year because of excessive drinking and damaged his liver." "Do you know which bar they often drink at?" "Well, as I said before, I never went to drink with them." Akagi shook his head. Next, Nishimoto and Shimizu visited the current address written on Kawakita's resume. This is a rental apartment close to the third section of Yotsuya. Needless to say, Chuanbei has already moved away, and his whereabouts are nowhere to be seen. "It just disappeared suddenly. The luggage was not taken away! There is no way, but to treat it as a big garbage and let the cleaning company dispose of it." The administrator said. The room didn't look dirty, as if it was still inhabited.When Nishimoto asked if anyone had come to him after Chuanbei left, the administrator brought a business card from his hut and handed it to him. "I've seen this person many times. The last time I came here, Chuanbei had disappeared. She threw down a business card and said that if she met Mr. Chuanbei, she would call her," the administrator said. The business card reads: Since the phone number was also printed on the business card, Nishimoto borrowed the phone from the administrator's room to make an appointment with the owner of the card.