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Chapter 28 Chapter Fourteen

Broken Cliff 松本清张 2839Words 2018-03-15
After the yachts participating in the competition set off from the oil pot, they gradually dispersed when they reached the sea of ​​Miura Misaki, and then they could not see each other's sails.That's what the people in the yacht club say.Therefore, the Sea Bird driven by Shibamura and Ueda was obviously caught in the racing yachts seen by the fishing boats, and circled the island for half a circle. "Dongjun, it seems that there is more and more hopelessness." After the local criminal police returned, Jindai said. "Oops." East Criminal Police said, frowning. "However, looking at your face, it doesn't seem too bad."

"You don't have a pessimistic expression either!" "Well, that is to say, neither you nor I have been disappointed." "Yes, I'm not disappointed, I'm still confident. What about you, Mr. Kojiro?" "Well, let's try again anyway. Shibamura should have a loophole. Although all the information we have collected is unfavorable, I feel more and more that there should be a problem." "Yes, it seems to be seamless, but there are still flaws. All fiction must have flaws. We must find out the flaws." Instead, the eyes of the two lit up.They had to be at the airport twenty minutes before to catch the 3:30 plane, but they left the hotel just after one.First go to the General Administration to thank the director, and then take the car to the airport.The road passed the lava field again.

"No matter how you look at this kind of scenery, it feels very rough and desolate. Other places are full of emerald green mountains and blue seas. Only here is a large piece of dark brown lava, which looks like hell." "And it extends all the way to the sea, so this feeling is even stronger. There is indeed a kind of eerie feeling." After passing Sandhama, which has an open-air bath, you will arrive at the airport. Jindai and Dong walked directly to the front of the counter. "Excuse me, among the passengers flying from here to Haneda on the 16th, is there anyone who bought a one-way ticket?" After proving his identity, Jindai asked.

The answer of the service staff after investigation was: "Among the forty passengers, only five bought one-way tickets. Almost all the passengers from Tokyo bought return tickets, and the islanders and passengers who went to Tokyo also bought return tickets at the same time. , very few people buy one-way tickets." When we further investigated the five passengers who only bought one-way tickets from the island to Haneda, it was found that four of them were locals with clear identities.The other one is from Tokyo, called "Yasuo Tanaka", aged 27 years old. "What kind of person is this?"

"Please wait a moment." The information registered in buying the ticket is: I live at No. △△ Higashi Nakano, Nakano District, my occupation is a grocer, and my liaison office is my wife’s name. "This is a ticket registered at the traffic commune in Ikebukuro." The waiter explained. "Do you remember what this person looks like?" "Ah, I don't remember. Because 20 minutes before takeoff, the guests came all at once. It was extremely busy. The plane only stayed for half an hour." The person called "Yasuo Tanaka" exchanged the ticket for a registration voucher while he was in a hurry, right?

"There are many people in Tokyo who buy one-way tickets and fly back to Haneda from the island. They take a boat when they come here, and then take a plane when they go back. There are changes in this kind of tour." The airport attendant seemed to be saying it defensively because he wasn't paying attention to the man. "Yasuo Tanaka may be Shibamura. It's a pity that the airport attendants don't remember his face, but they are about the same age." Leaving the counter and sitting behind a chair in the waiting room, the East Criminal Police said. "Well, the only one whose identity cannot be confirmed now is this person. I think I have to go to the traffic commune in Ikebukuro and ask the person who handles the ticket." Komyo opened the collar of his shirt and said.

The plane flew over the sea lined with small islands and returned to Haneda. After returning to the Metropolitan Police Department to report, it immediately rushed to Ikebukuro.Fortunately, we arrived five minutes before the traffic commune closed. "Yasuo Tanaka" did come here on August 14th to book an air ticket, two days earlier than August 16th. The person in charge of the reservation said: "I don't remember the appearance anymore, because there were a lot of guests that day, and that person was wearing dark sunglasses." Both Jindai and Dong said many characteristics of Shibamura to remind each other's memory, but the person in charge scratched his head and replied:

"It doesn't look like that, but I don't remember what it looks like..." When registering the ticket, the name Yasuo Tanaka, as well as the address and liaison office were filled in very smoothly. "Did that guest write it himself?" Kamyo asked. The person in charge took a look. "Huh? These are my characters. Ah, I remembered, the guest's right index finger and middle finger were bandaged and injured, so he couldn't hold a pen, so he asked me to write for him. He said, I wrote... oh, everything I filled out the form for him, but I don’t remember his appearance.” The person in charge tilted his head again, and said strangely.

After walking out of the traffic commune, East Criminal Police said: "It's strange to hide your handwriting, and you wear dark sunglasses to prevent people from seeing your face, and your age is a few years younger. But Yasuo Tanaka must be Shibamura." "I think so too." The two went to Nakano, and with the assistance of the traffic police, they searched for "East Nakano △△, grocer, Yasuo Tanaka".As expected, there was no house number with this number, and there was no grocer named Tanaka nearby. The two went into a nearby shop to drink beer. The weather in Tokyo was sweltering. After sitting down in a corner with no customers, Jindai said:

"However, even if Yasuo Tanaka is Shibamura, why he was able to return to the oil pot on the Sea Bird at 1:30 p.m. on the 17th? This is still a mystery." "Well, I've been thinking about this too, how about I express my imagination?" Dong said shyly, "Shibamura changed planes from Haneda to Kyoto, and that night he went to the roof of the hotel and took the His wife Miyako was taken away, but Shinkichi Sone didn't find out. Miyako's body was found near Shinkichi Sone's house in Tokyo. The mystery of how to transport it, let's not talk about it here, let's consider Shibamura first. He wanted to drive the sea bird back to the oil pot , only take a flight from Itami Airport in Kyoto to Haneda that night, or take an early flight to Haneda the next morning. At that time, the Seabird should be sailing in the direction of the oil pot, and Ueda Goro was the only person on board. However, To get back to the sailing ship, Shibamura had to be hoisted from the helicopter."

"Helicopter?" "That is to say, after Shibamura returned to Haneda, he immediately got on the pre-booked helicopter and let the helicopter take him back to the yacht at sea." Shinji nodded with a smile. "Fun to imagine, but lacking in reality." "Honestly, I think so myself." "Isn't it? If you take a helicopter, the news of returning to the Seabird will be leaked. You can't completely shut up the mouths of the helicopter pilot and the company staff. Besides, if the helicopter flies low on the ship, the people on other yachts will also You will see, and the ruse will be exposed." ——Having said that, the two of them were still not discouraged the next day. Even though they didn't get any clues in Miyake Island, they believed more and more that Shibamura appeared at the Kyoto Hotel where they were watching the big characters being lit at around 8:00 p.m. on the 16th. Roof, forcibly took Miyako away. They assumed that Shibamura took a 3:30 flight from Miyakejima, and investigated the timing of the flight from Haneda to Itami for his connecting flight.There is a flight at 5:00 p.m., which arrives at Itami Airport at 5:45 p.m., and then takes a taxi from the Meishin Expressway to the hotel in Kyoto. It takes about an hour. Then, 6:50 p.m. Entering the entrance of the hotel, it coincides with the time to watch the ignition of the big characters. Shibamura went to the roof and found Miyako in the dark. From the features behind Miyako, it must not be difficult to recognize her.Shibamura patted his wife on the shoulder, and Miyako looked back, as if seeing a ghost, she was so frightened that she couldn't even breathe. Shibamura silently urged her to leave, Sone Shinkichi's back was right in front of her eyes, but she couldn't say a word to him.Like a frog attacked by a snake, she followed her husband downstairs. In order to prevent her husband from catching the fact that she had committed adultery with Shinkichi Sone, she didn't even dare to take the suitcase left in the hotel room. That night, Shibamura took his wife back to Tokyo. Miyako probably looked pale and followed her husband as if exhausted.From the timetable, there was a flight from Itami to Haneda at 9:00 p.m., and there was another flight 40 minutes later. Anyway, Shibamura took his wife and took one of the flights back to Haneda. At this time, Shibamura's heart may be filled with the pleasure of revenge on his wife. After getting off the plane in Haneda, and taking a taxi into Tokyo, Miyako was always trembling in front of her husband, right?No matter what actions her husband took, there was no doubt that she was in a semi-absence state while being frightened.The husband didn't speak, presumably because he had discovered the relationship between her and Sone Shinkichi. It is wise for Shibamura not to mention a word about the relationship between his wife and Shinkichi Sone, because once he said it, Miyako would never obey him. Why did Shibamura, who was supposed to be sailing the sea on a yacht, suddenly appear on the roof of a hotel in Kyoto?Maybe Shibamura said to Miyako at first that there was a problem in the middle of the yacht race and it was temporarily canceled, so I came to Kyoto immediately to find you. Fortunately, I found you on this roof. I have something to do in Tokyo, let’s go back to Tokyo together.However, after returning to Tokyo, Shibamura said he knew everything by not saying a word.Miyako was only nervous and trembling. ——So far, Komyo and Tou have the same idea.
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