Chapter 26 third chapter
After hearing the doorbell, he gradually became conscious.
Headache and feeling unwell.Turning on the phone next to the pillow, I realized that it was already seven o'clock in the morning on the 4th.
Kayako got out of bed, feeling cold and shivering.She stood by the window and drew the curtains to the left and right, and wiped the blurred windows.The doctor's shoeprints from yesterday evening were still clearly printed on the snow in the yard, but there were no other traces.Somebody come to visit.
The doorbell still rings, as if calling for the owner of the trail.
"Miss Noriko Kasaka, are you home? I'm a policeman."
There was a lot of shouting outside.Policemen?What are the police here for.
The doorbell rang desperately as if it would never stop, and it seemed that the owner had no intention of answering the door.
There was no way, Jia Yezi picked up the clothes on the bedside table and hurriedly changed them.
Pushing open the door of the ward, Kayako walked through a corridor covered with tiles, and came out of the reception room with long chairs and ornamental plants.Behind the entrance of the glass door stood a man in his fifties.On the snow behind the man, there were clearly the footprints of the doctor yesterday and the footprints that looked like the man had walked when he came.
The entrance was unlocked, and Kayako opened the door.
"Is it Miss Kasaka Noriko?" the man asked.He is slender and thin, with many silver strands already mixed into his short-cropped hair.
"Ah, no. I'm just a temporary resident here."
"Is Miss Kasaka Noriko there?"
"Actually, I just woke up, and I haven't seen Miss Kasaka today... Well, do the police want to ask something?"
"About 20 minutes ago, there was an anonymous call, claiming that Ms. Kasaka Noriko was killed here."
"—killed?"
"I really care, please let me investigate."
The police officer took off his shoes and walked into the entrance while talking about his routine.
Kayako felt uneasy in her heart.Is it a prank call?But what if I really can't see Miss Kazaka?
The police officer walked forward while looking around sharply, and Yezi followed tremblingly behind him.Whether she was shaking so badly was due to the cold or restlessness, she didn't know.
Noriko Kasaka was not found in the registration office or the examination room.The criminal police continued to look into Kayako's ward, but of course they did not find the female doctor.
There are other doors in the corridor in front of the ward.The police officer stepped forward and opened it, and found that there was a wooden corridor in front of it, as if someone had lived there.
The police officer and Kayako walked up the wooden floor corridor together. On the left was the toilet and bathroom, and the door on the right was open. It looked like a dining room and kitchen.
Then, on the ground here, Noriko Kasaka fell on her back.She was still wearing the light yellow sweater, but the left breast was dyed bright red, and there was a kitchen knife sticking out of it.
Kayako let out a groan.No one could have expected this to happen!
The police officer's expression changed, and he hurriedly used his mobile phone to contact the police station.Before the search team arrived, the police officer named Mukai asked Jia Yezi about the details of staying here temporarily.Kayako explained the details of the past few days one by one, including the incident of attempting suicide in the nearby woods, the incident of being rescued by a female doctor, and the incident of being woken up by the doorbell this morning... About twenty minutes later, several police cars came.The car door opened, and the criminal police swarmed down, and the scene immediately became a riot. When the search began, Kayako waited quietly in the back of the police car, while the young policeman in the driver's seat peeked at her through the rearview mirror. About an hour later, police officer Mukai came over, opened the car door and sat down beside Kiyako. The police officer didn't say a word at first, but just when Kiyako was about to lose patience, the police officer spoke. "You fell asleep right after dinner last night, didn't you? Remember when?" "When Ms. Kasaka delivered the dinner, it was after six o'clock in the afternoon, so I must have fallen asleep after six o'clock." "The inferred time of the victim's death is around seven o'clock in the afternoon. That is to say, the murderer came to the hospital and killed the victim after you fell asleep. The victim first fainted due to a blunt instrument blow to the head, Then he was stabbed in the left chest with a kitchen knife and died on the spot." When the savior was killed, Kayako was asleep and did not help at all.This powerlessness made Kayako bite her lip tightly. "By the way, did the victim go out to buy milk at five o'clock yesterday afternoon?" "Well, because I'm going to make a cream stew for dinner, I went out to buy milk." "We have already inquired about the news from the nearby supermarket and obtained the testimony of the clerk. The victim did come to the store to buy milk after five o'clock yesterday afternoon. However, there is something strange in this way." "What strange place?" "The weather forecast shows that yesterday in this area, it snowed until four o'clock in the afternoon, and then at five o'clock, the victim went to a nearby supermarket to buy milk, so shoe prints were left around the hospital. It is also worth mentioning What is surprising is that there are no other traces around the hospital except for the two lines of footprints of the victim." "No other traces..." "That's right. There is no trace of the prisoner coming in or out. Under such an environment, how can we not leave a trace—but from another perspective, if the prisoner came to this hospital and killed the victim, if he stayed If you don’t go here, maybe there will be no traces left, are you right?” The other party seemed to be implying something.Jia Yezi was stunned, and the police were suspecting that she was the murderer of Noriko Kasaka. "Can't the prisoner walk back and forth on Dr. Kasaka's shoe print? If it can overlap Dr. Kasaka's shoe print seamlessly..." Kayako said while thinking hard. "We have also seriously considered this possibility. However, after a detailed analysis of the footprints, we have denied this possibility. If it is a double trampled footprint, the remaining traces should be detected." "Then maybe, it snowed again last night, and then erased the shoe prints of the prisoner and Dr. Kasaka, right? The prisoner put on the same type of boots as Dr. Kasaka's after that, and forged the shoe prints again, right?" .” "This is also impossible. According to the forecast of the weather station, it snowed in this area from ten o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, and there was no snowfall after that. It is impossible to erase the victim's footprints after five o'clock yesterday of." "Use the method of artificial snowfall to erase the footprints..." "If you want artificial snowfall, you must use a snowfall machine. Unfortunately, there is no trace of such a machine on the nearby snow." Mukai said in a mocking tone while looking at Kayako's face. "That is to say, no matter how you think about it, there is only one result—you killed the victim." —You still have the blood of the murderer on your body! This voice suddenly rang in Kayako's mind. Was... did I kill it?Did I kill Noriko Kasaka and then completely forget about it?
"Did this person do it!" Voices came inadvertently from the side of the police car. At a glance, a woman in her thirties was staring at Kayako across the window.The same small and slender figure is similar to Noriko Kasaka. "Hey, who is this person?" Mukai glanced at the face outside the window in annoyance, and asked the detective following her. "She is the victim's younger sister, Yoko Kuwata. She hung up on the phone to the victim thirty minutes ago, and the investigators told her what happened, so they rushed to the scene..." "Did you kill my sister?!" Yoko Kuwata still bit Kiyako, and Kiyako felt a sharp pain in her chest. "Come on, I can't say that this person killed me at the moment, can I?" A man around forty years old standing next to Yoko persuaded him so. "Are you again?" "I'm Yoko's husband, Takeshi Sangta." Hearing the question, the man replied immediately. "However, I heard from the criminal police that there are only footprints left by my sister when she went shopping last night on the snow around the hospital, isn't it? There are no footprints of the criminal. In this way, I have to suspect that this woman did it. Sister She kindly rescued this woman who wanted to commit suicide, but in the end, En avenged her and killed her!" "But does this person have a motive?" the husband pointed it out. "My sister must have blamed this woman for committing suicide, and then they quarreled, and this woman gave her sister..." "—Did you call the victim thirty minutes ago because of something important?" Mukai asked, interrupting Yoko Kuwata's speech in time. "Uncle passed away yesterday, I want to inform her." "—uncle died?" "Uncle who lives alone in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture. Because my relationship with my sister and I are relatively estranged, no one knows the news. I only found out about it this morning when I read the newspaper." "You know from the newspapers? Only well-known people publish obituaries in newspapers." "My uncle's name is Kasakami. Five years ago, he was well-known for his large-scale real estate business in the Northeast. Yesterday evening, an acquaintance of my uncle visited the house and found my uncle drowned in the pool in the courtyard. The time of death It seems that it came at noon yesterday, maybe it was because I was too old, and I accidentally slipped into the pool while walking in the yard. I read the newspaper this morning and wanted to hang up the phone to inform my sister, but it turned out that a man I didn’t know answered I found out it was the police afterward—and informed my sister that she had been killed. So I rushed over here in a hurry. By the way, the suicide attempt woman who was saved by my sister was also in the house when her sister was killed. Here, there are no footprints of the prisoner on the surrounding snow, no matter how you think about it, the prisoner can only be this woman..." "Just hand over the search to the police." Mukai interrupted Yoko for the second time, and gave the order to the detective who followed her to "take them with me".After that, Yoko didn't speak again, and followed her husband and the accompanying criminal police silently. "Can you cooperate with me?" Mukai asked Kayako, and Kayako had no choice but to nod.Mukai said "let's go" to the criminal policeman in the driver's seat, and the police car drove away. In a town where no one can rely on, Jia Yezi was forced to be escorted to the police station on suspicion of murder, and Jia Yezi felt a strong sense of loneliness. "Well, can I make a phone call?" Kayako asked. "Call? To whom, a lawyer?" "No, just friends." "Then please go ahead. You are not under arrest yet, so you can still make free calls." Mukai said so lightly, but he has been closely monitoring Kayako's every move.Kayako called Akiho. "Ah, Kayako? Where are you now?" The friend's lively voice sounded. "It's still in Moonfield Town." "Come back soon, I've been waiting." "Actually, I might not be able to go back..." Jia Yezi told about the murder of the female doctor who helped her.There were no footprints of prisoners around the hospital, so I was suspected, and I was also told about being asked to go with the police. "Kiyako is a prisoner? Are these policemen out of their minds?" "But since there is no trace of the criminal, it is impossible to think that I did it. Besides, maybe it was really me who did it, and then I forgot about it..." "What nonsense are you talking about! You will never do such a thing! I understand, let's go to your side now, you wait for me." "Ah, are you coming now?" "In your current situation, you probably surrendered yourself in a daze when you were questioned by the police. I'll take the Shinkansen right now!" "But it's so far away..." "You, you never worry about yourself when you are in danger. You can go to the police station in the afternoon. Before that, you will stand up for me no matter what, and you must not give up on yourself, do you understand?" "Hmm, ummm." "It's not all for you. cheer me up! Hang up." The phone hangs up.There is still one person in this world who can unconditionally believe that he is innocent.Tears welled up in Kayako's eyes.
The police officer's expression changed, and he hurriedly used his mobile phone to contact the police station.Before the search team arrived, the police officer named Mukai asked Jia Yezi about the details of staying here temporarily.Kayako explained the details of the past few days one by one, including the incident of attempting suicide in the nearby woods, the incident of being rescued by a female doctor, and the incident of being woken up by the doorbell this morning... About twenty minutes later, several police cars came.The car door opened, and the criminal police swarmed down, and the scene immediately became a riot. When the search began, Kayako waited quietly in the back of the police car, while the young policeman in the driver's seat peeked at her through the rearview mirror. About an hour later, police officer Mukai came over, opened the car door and sat down beside Kiyako. The police officer didn't say a word at first, but just when Kiyako was about to lose patience, the police officer spoke. "You fell asleep right after dinner last night, didn't you? Remember when?" "When Ms. Kasaka delivered the dinner, it was after six o'clock in the afternoon, so I must have fallen asleep after six o'clock." "The inferred time of the victim's death is around seven o'clock in the afternoon. That is to say, the murderer came to the hospital and killed the victim after you fell asleep. The victim first fainted due to a blunt instrument blow to the head, Then he was stabbed in the left chest with a kitchen knife and died on the spot." When the savior was killed, Kayako was asleep and did not help at all.This powerlessness made Kayako bite her lip tightly. "By the way, did the victim go out to buy milk at five o'clock yesterday afternoon?" "Well, because I'm going to make a cream stew for dinner, I went out to buy milk." "We have already inquired about the news from the nearby supermarket and obtained the testimony of the clerk. The victim did come to the store to buy milk after five o'clock yesterday afternoon. However, there is something strange in this way." "What strange place?" "The weather forecast shows that yesterday in this area, it snowed until four o'clock in the afternoon, and then at five o'clock, the victim went to a nearby supermarket to buy milk, so shoe prints were left around the hospital. It is also worth mentioning What is surprising is that there are no other traces around the hospital except for the two lines of footprints of the victim." "No other traces..." "That's right. There is no trace of the prisoner coming in or out. Under such an environment, how can we not leave a trace—but from another perspective, if the prisoner came to this hospital and killed the victim, if he stayed If you don’t go here, maybe there will be no traces left, are you right?” The other party seemed to be implying something.Jia Yezi was stunned, and the police were suspecting that she was the murderer of Noriko Kasaka. "Can't the prisoner walk back and forth on Dr. Kasaka's shoe print? If it can overlap Dr. Kasaka's shoe print seamlessly..." Kayako said while thinking hard. "We have also seriously considered this possibility. However, after a detailed analysis of the footprints, we have denied this possibility. If it is a double trampled footprint, the remaining traces should be detected." "Then maybe, it snowed again last night, and then erased the shoe prints of the prisoner and Dr. Kasaka, right? The prisoner put on the same type of boots as Dr. Kasaka's after that, and forged the shoe prints again, right?" .” "This is also impossible. According to the forecast of the weather station, it snowed in this area from ten o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, and there was no snowfall after that. It is impossible to erase the victim's footprints after five o'clock yesterday of." "Use the method of artificial snowfall to erase the footprints..." "If you want artificial snowfall, you must use a snowfall machine. Unfortunately, there is no trace of such a machine on the nearby snow." Mukai said in a mocking tone while looking at Kayako's face. "That is to say, no matter how you think about it, there is only one result—you killed the victim." —You still have the blood of the murderer on your body! This voice suddenly rang in Kayako's mind. Was... did I kill it?Did I kill Noriko Kasaka and then completely forget about it?
"Did this person do it!" Voices came inadvertently from the side of the police car. At a glance, a woman in her thirties was staring at Kayako across the window.The same small and slender figure is similar to Noriko Kasaka. "Hey, who is this person?" Mukai glanced at the face outside the window in annoyance, and asked the detective following her. "She is the victim's younger sister, Yoko Kuwata. She hung up on the phone to the victim thirty minutes ago, and the investigators told her what happened, so they rushed to the scene..." "Did you kill my sister?!" Yoko Kuwata still bit Kiyako, and Kiyako felt a sharp pain in her chest. "Come on, I can't say that this person killed me at the moment, can I?" A man around forty years old standing next to Yoko persuaded him so. "Are you again?" "I'm Yoko's husband, Takeshi Sangta." Hearing the question, the man replied immediately. "However, I heard from the criminal police that there are only footprints left by my sister when she went shopping last night on the snow around the hospital, isn't it? There are no footprints of the criminal. In this way, I have to suspect that this woman did it. Sister She kindly rescued this woman who wanted to commit suicide, but in the end, En avenged her and killed her!" "But does this person have a motive?" the husband pointed it out. "My sister must have blamed this woman for committing suicide, and then they quarreled, and this woman gave her sister..." "—Did you call the victim thirty minutes ago because of something important?" Mukai asked, interrupting Yoko Kuwata's speech in time. "Uncle passed away yesterday, I want to inform her." "—uncle died?" "Uncle who lives alone in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture. Because my relationship with my sister and I are relatively estranged, no one knows the news. I only found out about it this morning when I read the newspaper." "You know from the newspapers? Only well-known people publish obituaries in newspapers." "My uncle's name is Kasakami. Five years ago, he was well-known for his large-scale real estate business in the Northeast. Yesterday evening, an acquaintance of my uncle visited the house and found my uncle drowned in the pool in the courtyard. The time of death It seems that it came at noon yesterday, maybe it was because I was too old, and I accidentally slipped into the pool while walking in the yard. I read the newspaper this morning and wanted to hang up the phone to inform my sister, but it turned out that a man I didn’t know answered I found out it was the police afterward—and informed my sister that she had been killed. So I rushed over here in a hurry. By the way, the suicide attempt woman who was saved by my sister was also in the house when her sister was killed. Here, there are no footprints of the prisoner on the surrounding snow, no matter how you think about it, the prisoner can only be this woman..." "Just hand over the search to the police." Mukai interrupted Yoko for the second time, and gave the order to the detective who followed her to "take them with me".After that, Yoko didn't speak again, and followed her husband and the accompanying criminal police silently. "Can you cooperate with me?" Mukai asked Kayako, and Kayako had no choice but to nod.Mukai said "let's go" to the criminal policeman in the driver's seat, and the police car drove away. In a town where no one can rely on, Jia Yezi was forced to be escorted to the police station on suspicion of murder, and Jia Yezi felt a strong sense of loneliness. "Well, can I make a phone call?" Kayako asked. "Call? To whom, a lawyer?" "No, just friends." "Then please go ahead. You are not under arrest yet, so you can still make free calls." Mukai said so lightly, but he has been closely monitoring Kayako's every move.Kayako called Akiho. "Ah, Kayako? Where are you now?" The friend's lively voice sounded. "It's still in Moonfield Town." "Come back soon, I've been waiting." "Actually, I might not be able to go back..." Jia Yezi told about the murder of the female doctor who helped her.There were no footprints of prisoners around the hospital, so I was suspected, and I was also told about being asked to go with the police. "Kiyako is a prisoner? Are these policemen out of their minds?" "But since there is no trace of the criminal, it is impossible to think that I did it. Besides, maybe it was really me who did it, and then I forgot about it..." "What nonsense are you talking about! You will never do such a thing! I understand, let's go to your side now, you wait for me." "Ah, are you coming now?" "In your current situation, you probably surrendered yourself in a daze when you were questioned by the police. I'll take the Shinkansen right now!" "But it's so far away..." "You, you never worry about yourself when you are in danger. You can go to the police station in the afternoon. Before that, you will stand up for me no matter what, and you must not give up on yourself, do you understand?" "Hmm, ummm." "It's not all for you. cheer me up! Hang up." The phone hangs up.There is still one person in this world who can unconditionally believe that he is innocent.Tears welled up in Kayako's eyes.