Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven

At 9:24 am on June 28, Masahiro Mioka arrived at Hamamatsu Station on the "Echo".The way he got out of the car was later considered "suspicious behavior" by the police. He rushed out of the car in a panic, pushed the passengers near the door, jumped off the platform, rushed to the ticket gate, and dropped his golf bag on the luggage rack.A passenger found the ball bag and knocked on the window to get his attention, but he left without looking back. Those golf clubs are high-end goods produced by American manufacturers.That set of clubs that everyone envied was also the pride of Mioka, but he actually forgot them in the car and left with only a shabby suitcase beside him.

At the ticket gate, he also tried his best to push away the people in front, trying to get out quickly.And he hasn't given the ticket to the station staff yet. "Hey! Uncle!" The young employee stared at Wei Gang and shouted loudly.Hearing the shout behind him, he seemed to feel the pursuers behind him, and his whole body trembled.Later, he realized that it was the employee who asked him for the ticket, so he walked back, took out the ticket and handed it to him, but his face was pale, and he watched the crowd coming out of the ticket gate very vigilantly. He got into the first taxi waiting in front of the station.

"Go to Hucui Pavilion in Guanshan Temple." "Okay." The driver pushed the meter hard. The car was speeding along the driveway, the road was glowing white under the sun, and even the clouds were about to be melted by the light.The air conditioner in the car is quite cool. "Guest, are you hot?" The driver looked at Mioka through the rearview mirror and asked, "... If you feel hot, can I turn down the air conditioner?" Mioka in the mirror was sweating profusely. The guests were silent, but the driver turned down the air conditioner anyway.Mioka turned his head, as if to check whether there was any vehicle following him.

"Driver," asked the guest, "did you know I'd come down that Echo?" " The driver didn't understand what the guest was asking at all. "Ah? What do you mean by that?" "Oh, just to ask you, do you know that I will take that bus to Hamamatsu Station?" "I don't know," the driver shook his head, "I've never heard of it." "Really..." He was silent for a moment, then continued to ask, "Did you wait in front of the station long ago, expecting me to come out of the ticket gate?" "Ah? Early?...No, we taxis are all queuing up in front of the station, and it happens to be my turn to be the first one in line, and then you get on the bus. How could I wait for you on purpose? It's just a coincidence La."

"Coincidence? Really a coincidence?" The guest asked inexplicably. The driver has always remembered the conversation.Not only that…… The guest suddenly asked to get off.The car only traveled four kilometers. "Aren't you going to Guanshan Temple?" The driver looked back at the guest with an inexplicable face. "I suddenly thought of something to do, so let's stop here." It's really strange that a guest who was going to Kanzanji Hot Spring suddenly thought of "something to do".Distraughtly, the guest unloaded the suitcase, paid the fare and left.

The driver turned around and was about to turn back to the station.I saw the fat guest standing by the side of the road carrying a suitcase.The driver stared in the rearview mirror for a moment and saw that he had reached out to hail another passing taxi. The driver was puzzled: how could he meet such a strange guest?Isn't he going to Guanshan Temple?Why do you want to change cars here? After changing taxis, Ajika let out a long breath. Making up your mind to change a car is the right thing to do.He felt an invisible net surrounding him.Don't take the taxi waiting in front of the station lightly.The other party seems to know when he will arrive.

No, the socks that I left in the hotel room appeared on the luggage rack, and they were still wrapped with the posters on the Kuramayama tram.The other party knew that Ajika was in this car.As long as the arrangements are made properly, it is entirely possible for "he" to let Mioka take the taxi he arranged. Among the passengers who got on the train from Kyoto Station, someone tried to hurt himself.When Mioka set off from K Hotel, "he" started to follow, but Mioka didn't notice the following vehicle. The paper used to wrap the socks is a poster hanging on the Kuramayama tram.This is a warning from the other party: I know you went to your hotel by tram!And the socks in the paper bag are the evidence that you have been to room 208 of the hotel.

Who did the good thing? When Mioka went to the bathroom, he saw the faces of all the passengers in the car.Of course, there was no one he knew, and no one acted suspiciously.Everyone sat in their seats, no one sneaked up to a golf bag to stuff something under it... Sitting next to Mioka was a woman in a sleeveless shirt who got into the car alone.She didn't take off her sunglasses and dozed off with her head propped up.Could it be that an invisible enemy is hiding in the next car?Now that I think about it, the guests in other cars will also go to the dining car through this car where Mioka is.The enemy might be among the ordinary passengers, and when Mioka went to the bathroom, he secretly stuffed the paper bag with socks on the luggage rack...

The hot sun shone down on the road.Looking around is full of lush mulberry fields. "This is Mikatahara. Takeda Shingen and Tokugawa Ieyasu fought a battle here." The taxi driver introduced. There are many trucks on the road, and they are all big trucks, almost as big as a railway freight car.There are also some cement mixer trucks, with a huge cannonball-shaped mixer on the yellow body. The cement mixer truck drove to the construction site.Mioka suddenly remembered the budget for the Jinling Lake road project that Dashi had introduced to him before.At that time, he didn't know that he would encounter so many things in Kyoto...

"Cement concrete paving, starting from a thickness of 15cm: 13.20m of coarse aggregate and crushed stone is equal to 22440kg..." Mioka muttered. The driver slowed down and looked at Mioka through the rearview mirror—the guest was silently reciting some unknown numbers, which made the driver very worried.There was a dazed expression on the plump cheeks in the rearview mirror, motionless. "Guest?" the driver asked back. "..." "Did you just say something?" Only then did Mioka come back to his senses: "Oh, it's nothing." The hilly area full of mulberry fields has gone away, and through the left window, I can vaguely see the north shore of Lake Hamana.The summer sun shines on the blue lake.

"We'll be at Hucui Pavilion soon." The driver seemed to be comforting the passengers. "Hucui Pavilion? Where is Hucui Pavilion?" the guest asked casually. The driver was taken aback, stepped on the brake and asked, "Guest, didn't you say you want to go to the Hucui Pavilion in Guanshan Temple?" "Ah, really..." The guest nodded weakly, "...Did I say that? Then send me there quickly. By the way, someone is still waiting for me..." The driver stepped on the accelerator again.The passenger didn't look normal... The driver suddenly remembered that he once had a colleague who was strangled to death by a mental patient in the back seat. Hucui Pavilion is located deep in the lake, surrounded by mountains.The small carriages of the cable car go up and down. The waiter comes to the door to greet you.The driver took the fare and counted it carefully.Seeing the waiter take the suitcase, he whispered a few words to the waiter.The waiter immediately glanced at Wei Gang. "I'm Mioka from Sunstar Construction, Mr. Oishi should have arrived, right?" "Yes, he has been waiting for a long time." The head waiter called the room. The waiter led Mioka through the corridor between the front desk and the lobby.The hotel has just sent away a group of guests, most of the rooms are being cleaned, and the sound of the vacuum cleaner can be heard endlessly.In the dark corridor, waiters in uniforms with their hair tied up in cloth strips walked back and forth, feeling quite lonely. Across the corridor, a middle-aged man in a neat white summer suit walked quickly and stopped five or six steps away from Mioka. "Ah, executive!" The person who came was the Minister of Road Construction, Kenkichi Oishi. "Good morning!" Dashi bowed deeply. "Morning, when did you come?" Mioka showed a relieved look. "I arrived an hour ago, thank you for your hard work! The room is ready. You must be exhausted, why don't you go to the room to rest first..." He also wanted to say: "We'll discuss it later..." But halfway through the conversation, he raised his head, looked at Wei Gang with wide eyes and said, "Oh, why are you sweating profusely!" Indeed, Ajika's sweat was already dripping down his chin. "Really!" The waiter beside him also took a look at Wei Gang. "It must be too hot outside! Look at your head is full of sweat... why don't you take a bath first?" Dashi hurriedly turned to the waiter and ordered, "You go to prepare the bathroom immediately." "it is good." "There should be a bathroom in the room?" "Yes, our hotel also has a large public bath." "No, just use the ones in the room." "Okay." The waiter walked towards the room first. "Professor, take a shower first, and then go to my room? I have ordered them to prepare some simple river fish dishes, let's talk while eating." Dashi's long cheeks moved closer to Mioka. "Ok……" "Executive... Where's your golf bag?" Dashi found that the waiter only had a suitcase in his hand. "Ah... yes..." "Hey?" "Looks like I forgot it in the car..." "Huh? Forgot it in the car?" "Seems……" Oishi was confused by Mioka's absent-minded answer.He looked up at Mioka's expression again... "Then let me go and ask. If it's the Shinkansen, I should be able to contact the captain directly! It's the echo number that arrived at Hamamatsu Station at 9:24," right?Do you remember the car number in the green car? " "It seems to be car No. 12..." "What seat number is it?" "I don't remember this..." "Then I'll go to the front desk right now." Dashi looked at his watch and walked quickly towards the front desk. The waiter took Mioka to a room with a view of the lake across the courtyard, and the view was good.As soon as the waiter entered the room, he ran into the adjoining bathroom to clean it up.Soon there was the sound of running water from the faucet. Ajika took off his shirt and pants, and stood in the room in his underwear, looking out at the lake.There are several boats on the lake.Ajika's panties were soaked with sweat. "The bathroom is ready, but the hot water is still running..." The waiter wiped his hands and returned to the room. So Mioka walked out of the room and opened the bathroom door. The hot spring water in the faucet was flowing continuously, almost overflowing from the bathtub, and the whole room was full of fog.Ajika stared blankly at everything in front of him, as if it was the bathtub in the love hotel of Kifune... Ajika dashed down the corridor in his soaked underwear. Oishi, who was resting in his room, was notified by the waiter and hurried to the corridor, only to find Mioka in his underwear wandering in the corridor. "Executive, what's the matter with you?" He approached Mioka and grabbed his arm.I saw that his underwear had already been soaked with sweat... "The bathroom in that room is not good..." Mioka's eyes were blurred, as if he was talking in his sleep. "Oh? Is there something wrong?" "No...it just won't work." "Why don't you come to my room to wash?" "No! I don't like a room with a bathroom, but it's just not possible." Seeing that Mioka's face was pale, Oishi said, "Is that so...then why don't we go to the big public bath?" Ajika finally nodded. "Then I'll ask the waiter to take you there. Your clothes are all soaked, let them wash it for you, and prepare a set of clean clothes?" "Ok……" "I'll wait in the room for you to finish washing... Ah, manager, and that golf bag, it's in the No. 12 car of the Echo. I've already contacted the captain just now and asked them to deliver the golf bag Go to the Lost and Found Office at Tokyo Station.I will call the head office and ask them to send someone to pick it up. " According to Oishi's observation, Mioka was expressionless at the time.His proudest American golf club was not lost, but he did not look relieved or pleased. Mioka followed Oishi back to the room to get a change of clothes.He just opened the zipper of the suitcase when he suddenly remembered something and quickly closed the zipper again. "Oshi, I'm sorry, can you go out for a while?" He turned around and ordered. "Oh..." Dashi obediently went to the corridor. Afterwards, Oishi Kenkichi, Minister of Road Construction of Japan Star Construction, faced police inquiries and recalled: "I think there must be something in the suitcase that I can't see. Of course, it should not be related to crimes, after all. Everyone always has something that they don't want others to see..." In the suitcase, there are socks wrapped with a poster of Kuramayama Tram, which is the pair of socks that Mioka left in Room 208, Hongyezhuang, Kibune.Ajika worried that the socks would be seen by Oishi. This "gift" was stuffed by someone under Mioka's suitcase, which was placed on the luggage rack of the "Echo".It must be dealt with as soon as possible.At that time, the train was about to arrive at Hamamatsu Station, so he hurriedly stuffed the socks into the suitcase, but when he got off the train, he found that there was nowhere to throw them.Mioka thought to himself, before returning to Tokyo, he must dispose of the socks. After Mioka went to the large public bath downstairs, Oishi returned to his room, asked the waiter to bring beer and river fish dishes, and waited for Mioka's arrival. Thirty minutes later, Mioka walked into Oishi's room with a tired face. "Professor, you look very tired. Come here, let's have a drink to cheer you up! Drinking cold beer is very comfortable." Dashi held up the beer that the waiter had poured for him.Mioka, who is not good at drinking, also raised his glass. "Would you like to sleep for a while after eating? That way you won't be so tired. Take a good rest today. Tonight I'll ask two girls to come and sing a ditty or something... I said you guys It's a hot spring hotel, so there must be some geisha?" Dashi asked the waiter beside him. "Yes, there are probably more than fifty people." "Geiisha? No, no!" Ajika was taken aback, shaking his head non-stop.Oishi also accompanied Mioka to Karino Onsen, feeling very surprised. "Then let's talk about it later, anyway, there is still some time in the evening." Dashi looked at his watch.It was just after eleven o'clock.With a wink, he told the waiter to leave the room. "Executive, you called me from Kyoto this morning..." Dashi said slowly. "Oh, sorry for waking you up early in the morning. Your wife must have been shocked too, right?" Wei Gang apologized according to common sense. "No, no, my wife also said that it is an honor to receive a call from the executive early in the morning." "The problem is the time to call..." "You can call at any time, whether it's midnight or early morning... By the way, what do you want to talk to me about?" "Hmm..." Ajika didn't know where to start, his mind was in chaos. Outside the window came the bell of the cable car departure and the announcement of the sightseeing introduction. Afterwards, Oishi Kenkichi described the conversation in this way: "Mioka's manager seemed to be a little uneasy. He even called my home from the K Hotel in Kyoto at five o'clock in the morning that day, which is also very abnormal. The content of the phone call was not like the usual words of Wei Gang's executives. It was really strange. He asked me if any suspicious people came to him when he was on a business trip, and said that he had fallen into someone else's trap. At that time, I thought , Mr. Mioka must have panicked, so I made an appointment with him at the Lake Green Pavilion in Kanzan Temple. It was Mr. Mioka who said that it is best to go to Hamamatsu between Tokyo and Kyoto, and then I said I would go I had been to the hotel in Kanzanji, so Mr. Mioka decided to meet there. It seems that he has never been to Kanzanji. "I went to Hucui Pavilion before him and waited for him in the hotel. When he arrived at the hotel, he didn't have a golf bag in his hand. I asked him what was going on. He said he forgot his golf bag in the Shinkansen car. Yes. It was a high-end cue handmade by some company in the United States. He is usually a treasure. If it were someone else, he would be in a hurry, but there was no response from Mioka's manager at that time. "Then I asked him, Specialist, you said on the phone this morning that you fell into someone else's trap, so what's going on?" Wei Gang said that he didn't have conclusive evidence, but he just felt that someone Set him up.When he called in the morning, he was still quite excited, but after arriving at the hotel, he became cautious and his speech was a little slurred.Then I asked him, is that trap a trap in the industry?Or some other trap? "He didn't answer either, and remained silent. So I said, executive, under your leadership, our Rixing Construction has developed very well and has taken on many major projects. You like the phrase "you chase after me" very much. In four words, other construction companies may not understand our attitude of actively grabbing projects, which means that our company has many enemies. Could the trap you mentioned be related to this?"" However, Ajika did not answer Oishi's question.He can't answer... One reason why it is difficult to answer is that he himself does not know the identity of the enemy.What's more, he ran to meet Kim Mi at the lover's hotel in Guizhou, but unexpectedly bumped into the body of Miyoko Sawada. He couldn't easily tell Oishi about this now, even if Oishi was his confidant, he didn't have the courage to say so.After all, his motivation for going to the hotel was... Shame made him swallow the words. But the trap was clear—before you knew it, a poster of the Kuramayama Tram wrapped in socks was stuffed under the suitcase.But he couldn't tell Dashi about it. "You said on the phone this morning that at yesterday's golf club, Mr. Sueyoshi from Jiadong Construction also joined the Nanyuan Club. Did Mr. Jushi personally approve his membership?" Dashi asked. "There is absolutely no loophole in Sueji. He tried desperately to ask me to introduce him to join the club, but he secretly wrote a letter to ask Mr. Jushi. He has been running around with the teacher on the golf course, with a smug look on his face, which is really amazing. People are in trouble." Mioka replied. "Their Jiadong construction style is quite similar to ours, and they have climbed up all the way. Now they have made countless enemies, and they will definitely cause even bigger disturbances in the future. They must not be taken lightly. But why would a teacher who is so cautious about new members so easily How about recruiting the disgusting Mokichi into the Nanyuan Club? How much money did he give the teacher?" "Mr. Jushi is not someone who can be persuaded by money, and the Nanyuan Society is not established by those who are willing to pay. He is very cautious when selecting people. After all, if the outside world knows the existence of the Nanyuan Society, and the teacher Relevant provincial officials, especially senior officials and retired officials of the Ministry of Finance will be in trouble. Once the incident is revealed, Jushi’s contacts will be wiped out.” "Ah, there is another matter! Why is Master Jushi so close to the senior bureaucrats and retired bureaucrats of the Ministry of Finance? Didn't you say that you have solved this secret this morning?" "In the golf club, I happened to meet a man who knew Mr. Jushi during World War II. He is a Chinese entrepreneur in Singapore." Gishido Akira, who served as an army administrator in Malay, specially selected those non-commissioned officers who graduated from Tokyo Imperial University, and loved them in every possible way.Now they have all become senior bureaucrats, or retired bureaucrats, this is the secret of Jushi's connections.These potential stocks were picked really accurately. "Oishi..." After finishing the above, Mioka stared at Dashi and said slowly, "...I already know this information, and I am going to conduct a detailed follow-up investigation on Jushi's contacts, and corruption will definitely be found Evidence of bribery. At that time, the student non-commissioned officer, the director of the provincial department, or a graduate of Dongda University with similar experiences. Of course, these people will slowly climb up, and have served as section chiefs and accounting officers. It is estimated that they are I started accepting bribes when I was an accounting officer. I want to check them out one by one, and then find out which officials from the Ministry of Finance who graduated from the University of Tokyo and stayed in Malaysia in each dam project. Wait for me to check Now that you know it, go to a showdown with Jushi Tangming. Who told him to make it difficult for us..." "Just now you said that you were trapped by someone, could it be Mr. Jushi who..." "It should be, but it's not aimed at me personally, it's a conspiracy aimed at our Sunstar construction." "Could it be that a certain company asked Mr. Jushi to secretly set us up?" "That's it. There must be other companies who are jealous of our good performance, take us as a thorn in the side, and want to pull us down. First of all, they focused on me as a professional, because I am the representative of Rixing Construction. They can't do it all at once. sex brought down our entire company, just created an incident, trying to get my representative involved, so that the company's image will be ruined by them. That guy is backed by Mr. Jushi, I have already guessed who it is .” "Who? Who is it?" "I can't say it yet. I know in my heart, please give me some more time..." "..." "However, what I can say is that the director of the Route Working Group of the Political Affairs Review Committee of the ruling party was a major army commander called during World War II. He should have served as an adjutant of the garrison troops in Malay." "Huh? Could it be Takao Yuji, a member of the Senate?" "He also graduated from Tokyo Imperial University. He used to be a bureaucrat from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but now he has turned into a politician and became a member of the Senate. What I said just now is his origin. I once participated in the meeting of Representative Takao because of the great power. A party hosted by the support club, the membership fee is really high... At that banquet, Councilor Takao also talked about his experience when he was an adjutant in Malay to cheer up the fun. I just remembered it now. I think it is this Major Takao who connects the non-commissioned officer of the University of Tokyo and the magistrate of Jushi. Otherwise, why would the governor somehow take care of the students who graduated from the University of Tokyo? Someone must be a matchmaker, and that person is Major Takao. Yes For the student non-commissioned officers of the University of Tokyo, he is their senior and their boss. The Sizheng and the adjutant of the garrison troops had a working relationship and knew each other. The relationship between Representative Takao and Mr. Jushi is also very close. And he is also the director of the Route Working Group of the Government Affairs Review Committee, that is the big name behind the Ministry of Construction!" "I really opened my eyes..." Oishi was amazed by Mioka's endless imagination. "Not only that, but I also thought of something just now. You also know that on June 10, the body of a man named Kosuke Yanagihara was found on the roof of the Marunouchi Shenbang Building where the Jushi Office is located? The newspapers also reported it wildly It's been a while." "I just read the newspaper and knew that someone died, but I don't remember the name of that person. It seems that the police haven't caught the prisoner yet..." "Kosuke Yanagihara called himself Mitsumaro Yanagihara", saying that he was the chief executive officer of the Gifu Takao Club of Takao Yuuji's support club, and he also had two criminal records of fraud.Before he was killed, he defrauded a huge sum of money from a certain company in the name of Takao Senator, and was hunted down by the police.But I always feel that this money will flow into the pocket of Representative Takao.MPs are animals that love money.Of course he wouldn't order his subordinates to scam money, but if Liu Yuan insisted that he would not cause trouble for the councilor, then the councilor would definitely think that the money was for nothing.Moreover, Liu Yuan Kosuke escaped, and no one knew his whereabouts.After that, it suddenly became a corpse and appeared on the roof of Shenbang Building where Jushi's office is located.too terrifying. " "I saw that the executive was very tired, and I repeatedly suggested that he take a rest in the room. He was almost talking nonsense at the time..." Oishi, however, did not disclose to the police what Mioka had told him about Koshidoaki.If so, Rixing Construction may never be able to receive government projects again. Seeing Mioka sleeping in the room, Oishi Kenkichi hailed a taxi and rushed to Shizuoka City. "The executive has already taken a nap, so I don't need to talk with him. I will use this time to go to Shizuoka City and visit those who usually do business with our company. This includes the Civil Engineering Department of the Civil Engineering Department of the County Hall, the Municipal Civil Engineering Division of the Ministry of Civil Engineering, Ministry of Construction, Central District Regional Construction Bureau Shizuoka National Highway Engineering Office, and members of the prefectural assembly who have been taking care of us. People in our line of work always go around to say hello. Of course, I was really just that day I just said hello", but each meeting took 20 to 30 minutes, and it took three hours to run around.On the way back, I took the express train that departed at 4:20 p.m., arrived in Hamamatsu an hour later, and then took a taxi back to the lake green pavilion in Kanzan Temple, probably after 6 p.m.As soon as I entered the room, a waiter with a pale face came to report..." Just after five o'clock, Ajika Masahiro woke up.He had barely slept last night at his hotel in Kyoto, and what happened next on the Shinkansen Echo added to his exhaustion.After talking with Dashi, his body and mind fell apart like a rotten rope.As soon as his head touched the pillow, he immediately snored loudly. A few hours later, he woke up.It was unknown whether it was the sound of music from the loudspeaker at the cable car station that woke him up, or the setting sun leaking through the gaps in the curtains that woke him up.Mioka raised his head, stretched his neck, and found a folded newspaper beside his pillow.It seems that the waiter brought it in on tiptoe while he was sleeping. Looking at the name of the paper, he realized that it was a local evening paper.He sat up and immediately turned to the social page. A hotel in the northern suburbs of Kyoto found the body of a young woman who was strangled to death. Ajika felt as if he had been stabbed.He went to the closet and with trembling fingers took out the glasses from his coat pocket.At first, his sight couldn't find the focus at all, and it was hard for him to read the words on the newspaper clearly. At around 1:40 am on the 28th, a strangled female body was found in Room 208 of the Momijisou Hotel in Kurama-Kifune-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto.When the staff walked through the door, they found steam wafting from under the door.The front desk called the room, but no one answered, so the staff used the spare key to open the door and walked into the room. They found a young female body in the six-fold Japanese-style room under the bed. She was about 27 or 28 years old and was strangled to death.The employees immediately called the police to the local police station.After investigation by the police station, it was found that the time of the woman's death was after nine o'clock the night before.The woman's handbag was left in the room, and there was an invoice from Marunouchi Bookstore in Tokyo, payable to "Ms. Miyoko Sawada", which the police guessed was the name of the deceased.This afternoon, the corpse will be dissected in the forensic science classroom of XX University. The front desk of the hotel said that the victim came to the hotel alone at around 8:20 the night before, saying that someone would come to her later, and the staff took her to room 208.About an hour later, at around nine o'clock, a man in his fifties came to the hotel and said, "My companion should have come." So the front desk staff took him to Room 208.An hour and forty minutes later, the employee walked into the room and found that the man had disappeared, and the bathrobe he had worn had been thrown on the floor.Police officers at the police station believed that he climbed out of the glass window, ran along the corridor to the back garden, climbed over the fence, and escaped along the path.Police have taken fingerprints from glass windows and walls, as well as footprints on the ground.The police determined that he was an important insider in the case and are searching for his whereabouts. The hotel employee said that when he saw the steam in the door, he knew that the people in the room had not turned off the hot water tap. He hurriedly asked the front desk to call to remind him, but no one answered, so he opened the door with the spare key and entered the room.The tiled floor in the bathroom was filled with hot water from the bathtub and the room was filled with steam.The employee turned off the faucet, went to the bedroom with six stacks, and found that among the two quilts, there was a female corpse in one of the quilts. She was a customer who came to the store after eight o'clock.The later man took off his bathrobe and fled.The police speculated that after he and the woman took a bath together, he committed the attack while the two got into bed and forgot to turn off the bathroom faucet.Thanks to his negligence, the staff were able to discover the body early on. That was indeed Miyoko Sawada.Exactly.The side face seen under the blanket under the dim light is not Mioka's illusion. Who was the murderer? No, there's no time to think about that right now.According to the newspaper, the Hongyezhuang Hotel employee's work certificate stated that the hot water faucet in Room 208 was not turned off.The employee must have been the sullen man in the bow tie who was hiding behind the front desk that night.The guy said the tile floor in the bathroom was full of hot water from the tub overflowing, so he went and turned off the tap. Weird!Didn't I turn off the tap already? Ajika thought with the last brain cells left. I have turned off the tap.I still remember wading into the bathroom with the hem of my yukata in hand. The employee said he used a spare key to gain access to room 208 around 1:40 a.m.In other words, four hours behind me.But...he did the same thing as me... Mioka felt his ears ringing. I did turn off the tap.But the staff said the tap was still on - that is, someone turned it on after I left. Could it be that someone has been hiding in the room, watching me enter the room, and watching me run away?If this is the case, it must be the murderer who killed Miyoko Sawada.The murderer knows I'll be in the room later... The mystery of the socks on the luggage rack of carriage No. 12 of the "Echo" has finally been solved.That's what I landed in that room.The only person who can get the pair of socks is the person who stayed in the room after I left. Mioka trembled all over. The murderer was lurking in Room 208, keeping an eye on me. I don't know where the murderer is hiding.In the darkness, with his eyes shining, he watched my every move with bated breath. He didn't kill me himself?No no, kill me, all plans go to waste.The other party's purpose is to make me bear the blame for killing Miyoko Sawada, not to take my life. Why don't you just go to the police station and tell everything honestly?The newspaper said that the police believed that the escaped middle-aged man was an "important insider" of the case. But how can I justify myself to the police? I said to the front desk staff: "My companion should have arrived." I didn't give my name, and I didn't say Kim Mi's name, thinking he would understand.And the employee with the bow tie said, "Yes, she's here," and took me to the eighth room on the right at the end of the corridor, room 208.The door was not locked. There was the sound of water in the bathroom.I change into my hotel yukata.But Jin Mi was not in the bathroom.I walked into the six-fold bedroom and saw that a quilt was bulging. "Hey, Jin Mi, what's the matter with you?" I leaned closer to the pillow and asked. "And then? Then what happened?" The search officer would definitely ask. "I thought it was Jin Mi, so I opened the quilt, but I didn't expect that it was someone else, a dead person... I was almost scared to death, so I ran away..." "Isn't it? Did you get into the bed and hug her?" Did I actually hold her?Now that I think about it, I did.I didn't crouch next to the pillow and keep talking to her or poke her face.Because I thought it was Jin Mi, I might get under the covers, put my arms around her shoulders, and hug her.Her body was warm and her hair was wet.I got water on my hands, maybe that's evidence that I held her.No, it must be like that.I thought Kim Mi was mad at me for being late, and kept fighting without saying a word.That's why I put my arms around her and asked her, "What's the matter with you?" If this is the case, other people should leave corresponding traces when they find Miyoko Sawada's body.No, the corpse certainly didn't look like a person lying alone in bed. "No, I didn't hug her." Even with such an answer, the police officer would definitely shake his head and deny it. "Don't lie. The bathrobe worn by the victim in the quilt is all messed up, but she didn't sleep in the mess. There must be a man hugging her, so the clothes on the lower body are so messed up." "But……" "Did you change into a hotel bathrobe in Room 208?" "yes." "And you showered with her, didn't you?" "No!" "But the hot water faucet was not turned off. It must have been forgot to turn it off when you two left the bathroom." "No! As I said just now, the bathroom faucet was still on when I entered the room, and I went into the bathroom and turned it off!" "You said you turned off the tap, so why did the staff notice the steam in Room 208?" "Someone must have turned on the faucet after I left! He has been hiding in the house, and after I escaped, he took the opportunity to turn on the faucet..." "Don't be dying. You want to cover up your crime, so you made up a person who doesn't exist? Do you know Miyoko Sawada?" "Acquaintance is acquaintance, but we are only a working relationship, not a personal relationship." "You must have been dating secretly without telling others, otherwise how could she ask you to go to that hotel while you were playing golf in Kyoto?" "What's the matter! I went to see Jin Mi, a geisha I met in Karino Onsen. That hotel was also called by Jin Mi to let me go, so I thought the person in the bed was Jin Mi..." How did this make Mioka muster up the courage to go to the police station to confess the above-mentioned crime? Wei Gang was already old, and he couldn't bear to surrender himself.During the trip, I had a one-night stand with a hot spring geisha, and the two met again in Kyoto.Excitedly ran to the lover's hotel to have a look, and what was waiting for him was the body of Miyoko Sawada. “泽田美代子好像是丸内一家事务所的秘书，她的老板叫巨势堂明。你和那个泽田美代子是什么时候勾搭上的？” 况且事情牵涉到巨势堂明和泽田美代子，他就更不能说了，否则只会自取灭亡，甚至会殃及日星建设。 不能去报警。即使他说了实话，警方也不会相信他。即便他们能够查清真相，那也需要等待很长时间。一个不凑巧，还会闹上法庭，打半天官司才能证明自己的清白。在此期间，他会成为媒体关注的焦点，被冠以“嫌疑人”的屈辱名号，身败名裂。被公司开除，妻离子散，昏天黑地、如同地狱般的日子，想想都觉得可怕。 味冈看见报纸上的“指纹”二字，浑身起了鸡皮疙瘩。 玻璃窗上、墙上、门上、桌上、浴室门上、纸门上、柱子上、被子上……那房间里到处都留有自己的指纹。 逃到半路，他才想起指纹的事情，差点折回去把指纹擦干净。当时他太过害怕，没敢回去。果不其然，指纹的事情上报了。 然而，房里虽然有指纹，可警方却查不出可疑男子的身份。因为他们只能对照指纹资料册上的指纹。味冈没有前科，指纹自然没有登记在案，目前还没有危险。 可是…… 湖翠阁的这间房间，不就成了“指纹资料册”了吗？ 这间房间的格子门上、纸门上、桌上、茶杯上、屏风上、午睡时枕的枕头上，都是自己的指纹。刚才拿起的那张晚报上也有…… 警方一旦追查到这儿，就会发现这间房间里的指纹，与京都贵船的情人酒店里的完全一致。 味冈跳了起来。他脱下身上的浴衣（啊！这也是旅馆的浴衣！），揉作一团，抓在手中，把他能想到的地方擦了个遍。他身上只穿了一条短裤。桌上的茶杯、小桌、屏风……所有东西都被味冈仔细擦了一遍。 擦过一圈之后，他总觉得还漏了些什么。只要鉴识课的白粉扫出一个指纹来，他就完蛋了…… 于是味冈又擦了起来。这一次，他扩大了范围。强烈的摩擦令浴衣嘎吱作响。 擦完了，他还是觉得不安心。 Third time.擦的范围比前两次更广。 他又担心起榻榻米来。坐过的地方、手撑过的地方、睡过的地方、手指可能碰过的地方……他都用揉作一团的浴衣来回地擦。味冈的身体开始冒汗。他瞪大双眼来回扫视，总觉得房间里还留着自己的指纹。一丝担忧掠过心头。他又开始擦了起来，仔细地、仔细地擦。一个角落也不能落下。 走进房间的服务员，见味冈正全神贯注地做着大扫除，吓得脸色大变，呆若木鸡……