Chapter 36 Section VI

The press conference held in the afternoon can be regarded as a rare event recently. It goes without saying that reporters from various newspapers came to the scene one after another, and even photographers from all TV stations came to "support", and the small auditorium was overcrowded. As the person in charge of investigating the case, Totsukawa introduced the entire process of the case investigation to reporters.From the discovery of Takada Hiroshi’s notebook, which died in an accident, to Kamei pretending to be Takada, hoping to lure the gang of five into the urn; 100 million yuan in cash; Although the gangster was followed up and traced, the female suspect fled without a trace after poisoning four accomplices.

All justifications are no longer needed. "Or it can be said that the gangsters are one step ahead of us." The Totsukawa Police Department frankly admitted that the police were incompetent. "So, is there nothing the police can do now?" the reporter asked with a bit of malice. "Of course we will not be discouraged. The problem is that we don't know the name of the female suspect, nor her appearance, so we don't know what to do?" "So the police have failed completely?" "Get close to this state." "I'm afraid that from the beginning of the confrontation, you danced to each other's beat, right?"

Even a young reporter who had just debuted raised such a blunt question, which caused a lot of laughter. "Well, let's put it this way, now that I think about it." "Don't you think you're playing funny characters? The bandits must be laughing at you?" "It did. Looking back now, we feel ashamed." "Why did a veteran in the battlefield like the Totsugawa Police Department fall into the trap of gangsters so easily this time?" The reporter chased after him. The Totsukawa Police Department said with a wry smile: "Isn't it said in the art of war that those who conspire are easy to be conspired by others. We thought we had the upper hand, and eagerly wanted to trick the other party into our trap. Unexpectedly, we fell into the other party's scheme. Now regret it It's too late!"

"Does this mean that the opponent's chess is superior?" "Yes, I've admitted that up front, at least so far." "So, have you determined the strategy for solving the case in the future?" "Under consideration." Totsukawa Police Department replied in a firm tone. Next, reporters rushed to criticize the incompetence of the police.By the time the press conference ended, both Totsukawa and Kamei were exhausted. In order to ease their emotions, the two walked into a nearby tea shop for a cup of coffee. Facing the relentless questioning of the reporters, Kamei felt very angry: "Bastards!... These reporters are too much. Do you think you are the uncrowned king, can you do whatever you want? Hmph! If you have the ability to catch a Show me the criminal!?"

"Don't be so annoyed. It can be said that it is the bounden duty of a reporter to get to the bottom of it and find out the truth." The Totsugawa Police Department comforted Kamei with a wry smile, "Besides, newspapers are the public tools of society. Who taught us to eat public food and be supervised by public opinion? Of course." "Supervise! Supervise? You won't be able to humiliate the police in public!?" "Don't take it so seriously. Actually, this press conference will be good for us too." "is that true?" "of course it's true."

"What's so good about it?" Kamei showed a puzzled look. "I don't want to recall, so I have to recall—under the urging of the reporter, I revisited the whole process of the incident." The Tojinchuan Police Department said. "Isn't there something new to discover?" "Didn't a young reporter mock us for dancing to each other's beat from the beginning of the confrontation?" "Yeah, since I played the fake Takata, everything is under the control of the other party." "My current thinking is that maybe earlier than that, we have been deceived by those gangsters." Totsukawa Police Department said while stirring coffee.

"Earlier than when I played fake Takata?" "Yeah. I didn't expect us to be driven so thoroughly!" "The police department has already explained this point. The main reason is that we are eager to deceive the other party, thinking that the initiative is in our hands. It seems that we are too careless." "That is certainly the reason for being fooled, but I think the more important thing is that from the very beginning of the incident, we were caught by the bait thrown by the other party-the concept that a living person cannot be deceived by a dead person is preconceived. The biggest reason we failed."

"What? You say the dead lie to the living?!" "That's right. It's the body in the white Porsche sports car that fell off the cliff in Nishi-Izu." The Totsukawa Police Department said with confidence. "Are you saying that the dead man was a counterfeit?" "The dead man was a dead man, of course. But that was a bait the criminals put on our police." "but--" "Using corpses as bait is really an ingenious trick!" Totsukawa Police Department looked at Kamei who hadn't fully understood, and said with a smile.