i'm not a detective

Chapter 128 How can people ignore death?
Ruojiang Meijizi, 39 years old, unmarried but has a cohabiting boyfriend, rents in a mid-range apartment building.

After notifying Eri Nakano, Takeshi Qihara immediately went to check Mikiko Wakae's apartment, and found in a blink of an eye... a whole box of various clothes and strange toys.

Of course, this is not the point. It has nothing to do with the case. The point is that Wakae Mikiko’s home also has a lot of self-defense props for women, and like the other female victim, Ayaka Kikumoto, most of them were purchased several years ago. .

It's just that her cohabiting boyfriend couldn't explain why she bought so many self-defense props. They were not together at that time.

In addition, Wakae Mikiko is an ordinary woman, with an ordinary job, and a life... If XP is not considered, life is also ordinary.

"So, Manager Ruojiang and Ms. Juyuan are a little afraid of the dark and walking at night?" Qing Jian Liuli looked at several bottles of unused pepper spray and said hesitantly, "Because they bought these self-defense items, so Have an intersection?"

These people can't hit eight poles in life and work, and it seems that there is only this explanation!

Qiyuan Wu ignored her, looked up at the ceiling and thought for a while, then pondered: "Even so, how did the murderer know about them? The police have carefully analyzed their files, and they are not involved in the case, nor have they been witnesses. I didn't mention how the murderer found them one by one..."

The donkey's lips were wrong with the horse's mouth, Qing Jian Liuli asked strangely: "What are you talking about?"

Qi Yuanwu got up and went out, Qing saw Liuli was even more strange, "Where are you going?"

"Go to the TV station."

"Why are you going to the TV station?"

"Go and see first!"

Takeshi Qihara just had a guess at the moment, and he didn't understand it himself. He couldn't explain it to Kiyomi Ruri. He quickly contacted Hirano Local TV Station through Nakano Eri, found the person in charge of the news department, and asked directly: " Are there any archives of TV news from six or seven years ago? Are there any images of violent attacks in the news?"

The person in charge of the news department of the TV station replied inexplicably: "Well, it's hard to say. If ordinary news would be washed out, only special materials would be kept in the archives, but six or seven years ago..."

When he said this, he hesitated slightly, and said uncertainly, "It's been too long, I can't remember clearly, but I seem to have a case like this, when a group of people went to take pictures of a ramen shop to try, it was unintentional. I ran into a violent injury case, and I edited and played it when I came back.”

Takeshi Qihara immediately asked: "Is the video tape still preserved?"

"It's possible. It's a relatively rare material, and it should be preserved." The head of the news department led them to the archives room. At the same time, he was not lacking in news sensitivity, and he tentatively asked, "Is it evidence? related to the case?"

Qiyuan Wu said casually: "An old case, that news may become supplementary evidence."

"Really?" The person in charge of the news department was dubious, and asked again, "Is there any progress in the serial bombing?"

"no idea."

The two were chatting, Qing Jian Liuli followed behind, and the three of them quickly arrived at the archives room of the TV station.

It is called an archive room, but it is actually just a few warehouses rebuilt from the basement, and there are not many materials preserved. After all, the Japanese TV industry is a bit strange. Local TV stations are only responsible for producing local news, weather programs and crudely produced small local variety shows. All programs depend on buying broadcasting rights from big TV.

The person in charge of the news department and the archivist rummaged through it for a while, and quickly found a dusty video tape, wiped it and stuffed it into the video recorder to see if it was right.

This is unprocessed raw material. At the beginning of the video, it was introducing a newly opened ramen shop. It was suspected that it was making a soft advertisement for a variety show. Soon someone shouted "Look at it" at the door, and then the camera shook and pointed at the ramen shop. On the opposite sidewalk, a man is waving a bat and chasing several people...

As soon as the picture came here, Wu Qiyuan shrank his pupils, stretched out his hand and took out the video tape, and said with a smile: "Thank you, this is the evidence I am looking for, I will send you a receipt, and the police station will borrow it first. "

The person in charge of the news department disappeared before seeing the figure clearly. He felt a little wrong in his heart, and said hesitantly, "Take it away directly? To prevent the loss of the material, how about we rip a disc first?"

If Takeshi Qiyuan disagreed, then to be more cautious, he had to request formal procedures, so as to take a good look at what the hell was in this video tape.

"That's no problem." Takeshi Qiyuan agreed at once, with an indifferent attitude, handed over the video tape, and wrote a receipt to the person in charge, and asked them to go to the police station to collect it, and there is a dubber in the archives room , Just like ripping a tape, the administrator directly copied a disk—very fast, that is, the head writes data on the magnetic stripe.

The person in charge of the news department was relieved, and after politely seeing off Takeshi Qihara and Qingjian Liuli, he came back to watch the video and was about to find out what news there was, but found that the administrator was looking confused, and the picture on the TV was a popular TV show. hot drama.

He asked strangely: "Where's the videotape that was ripped just now? Replace it with that one."

The administrator pointed to the TV, also with a strange expression on his face: "This is it, but...did I take it by mistake just now? Obviously he handed it to me, why did I re-record the TV series I just watched?"

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"Run!" Qiyuan Takeshi ran away as soon as he left the sight of the head of the news department.

Seeing Liuli instinctively, Qing began to run after him, her long hair was flying in confusion, and she was super confused: "What happened, why did we run?"

Qi Yuanwu fled quickly, and said while running: "If you don't run, they will definitely settle accounts with us. This video tape cannot fall into their hands, at least not now, so run quickly."

Seeing that Liuli couldn't understand the situation anymore, she followed him all the way out of the TV station and got into a taxi, and then said angrily: "What's going on, I'm your assistant, you should tell me the truth!"

Takeshi Qiyuan threw the video tape into her hand, and said with a smile: "Then I'll give it to you. Ninety-nine percent of the content in it is the criminal's motive for committing the crime. Those people on the TV station are desperate for ratings. This video tape will be discovered by them." It is closely related to the serial bombings, and they will immediately use it to broadcast exclusive news, and it is impossible to give it to us so easily."

Qing Jian Liuli was taken aback: "Is this the criminal's motive?"

Qiyuan Takeshi nodded and said: "It should be. I saw the No.1 victim Makoto Kamura inside, and the other victims are probably also there. If the people from the TV station take a second look, they will most likely recognize it."

"What the hell is going on here?" Qing Jian Liuli looked at the video tape in her hand in surprise. She did not expect the connection between the victims. It turned out that the victims of the same violent incident appeared in the same video tape and went to bed together. News from six or seven years ago.

"Let's see and talk!" Qiyuan Wu had already guessed what was going on, and sighed, "It's probably not a good thing."

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The two quickly fled to the police station, found Eri Nakano, briefly explained the situation, and started watching the video together.

The picture continues, a man who seems to be in a very abnormal mental state is screaming and chasing a group of people with a bat in his hand, and a young girl wearing a blue scarf is walking towards him, flipping through a book while walking, looking up in surprise , but was instantly overturned by No.1 victim Makoto Kamura.

The shooting distance was too far, so no sound was collected, but the blue scarf girl let out a cry of pain after falling down, her foot seemed to be twisted a bit, but Kamura Makoto ignored her at all, threw off the sleeve that was held by her, and still buried her head run forward.

The girl with the blue scarf seemed to have seen the situation clearly now, and she seemed to be frightened, and she got up and wanted to escape.At this time, the No. 2 victim, Ayaka Kikumoto, who looked like a college student at the time, rushed past her in panic.

Immediately behind her, the No.3 victim Wakae Mikiko also ran here, her high heels seemed to be broken, and she fell to the ground, almost hitting the blue scarf girl.

At this time, the blue scarf girl got up and was about to run away, but she didn't run away directly. She stretched out her hand and dragged Wakae Mikiko up, helping her to escape together. The words were slow, but the picture was actually very fast. At this time, there was another young man in a panic. He rushed over and knocked the blue scarf girl sideways again. At the same time, he also lost his speed, and changed direction after swearing.

The scene was a bit chaotic, Ruojiang Meijizi couldn't run away, she shook off the blue scarf girl's hand, turned around and rushed into the telephone booth on the side of the road, holding the door tightly.

At this time, the man who seemed to be mentally abnormal finally caught up and gave the blue scarf girl a stick with a wave of his hand.The girl with the blue scarf was in pain, and quickly fled into the phone booth, but at this time there were already three people in the phone booth.

The very old-fashioned phone booth looks like a small house. Although it is made of transparent plastic glass, it is the kind with glue in the middle of the double layer, and there is a circle of red iron railings outside to protect it from smashing.

Kikumoto Ayaka huddled in a corner of the phone booth and wept. The young man and Wakae Mikiko watched the "mental illness" catch up, and they tightened the door even more desperately. From the screen, the girl in the blue scarf was begging them to open the door, but the two Everyone didn't intend to open it, and even yelled at Kikumoto Ayaka, telling her to come over and hold the door together.

Kikumoto Ayaka seemed to have been frightened, and tremblingly went to help, but outside the door, "mentally ill" swung a bat and hit the blue scarf girl several times, causing her blood to splash all over the blue scarf. After smashing the phone booth a few times, he was attracted by others and chased after him.

The whole process took less than a minute. The distance and the fact that the cameraman didn't focus well made the picture a little blurry. If it wasn't for "preconceived ideas", the first three victims might not have been recognized at a glance.

At the end of the screen, the three people in the phone booth saw that "mentally ill" had left, opened the door and fled, and no one cared about the girl in the blue scarf on the ground... Or should I say the brown scarf, the blue scarf was soaked in blood and turned brown .

After this scene was played, Qingjian Liuli and Nakano Eri lost their voices for a moment, while Nanahara Takeshi said calmly: "This is the connection between the three victims."

Eri Nakano adjusted his glasses subconsciously, recovered, got up silently, and went to check the previous files to see what the actual situation of the case was.

Qing Jian Liuli also came to his senses, and said hesitantly: "Ms. Juyuan and store manager Ruojiang... It is because of this incident that they have psychological shadows. They bought a lot of self-defense products for fear of being attacked again. Did you slow down?"

Qi Yuanwu said softly: "Yes."

Qing Jian Liuli said again in a daze: "Then how did you guess that there would be news? It's been so long, and it's so short, I don't have any impression." Indeed, she has no impression. She rarely reads the news, and even if she does, she does. The national news of NHK has hardly seen the rubbish programs of local stations.

Qi Yuanwu said softly: "It's a guess. They have encountered violent attacks and have psychological shadows, but they were not actually harmed, otherwise their family members would not be completely unaware, so I suspect that there is a real victim. Moreover, there may be other secrets in the case, which is why they kept silent. Now it is the victim or her family members who are retaliating.

However, all the victims did not know each other and had no contact with each other. The police have no record of their involvement or testimony. It is lucky that such a disgraceful incident is not recognized and died, and it is even less likely for them to take the initiative to speak out. How the murderer finds them all is a problem.

So I guess someone may have photographed or recorded them unintentionally. The murderer found them slowly by comparing their height, shape and appearance. Turn over the old case. "

Qing Jian Liuli nodded, expressing her understanding, and whispered: "If this is the case, the murderer deliberately tied bombs to their backs, gave them scissors, and let them go to ask for help... because they want these three people to feel that feeling too. Sister Blue Scarf's...despair?"

Takeshi Qiyuan turned off the small TV and sighed, "Maybe!"

"But they aren't murderers, are they?" Qing saw that Liuli's mind was a little confused, "Although I don't know what's going on with that blue scarf sister, but...they shouldn't be murderers, right? Why did you kill them and still be so cruel? "

Qiyuan Wu thought for a while, touched his chin and asked, "Isn't that really counting?"

Seeing that Liuli stopped talking, she was not sure whether it would count or not. She didn't feel the excitement of unraveling the mystery at the moment, but felt that the scene just now made her feel a little disgusted.

People, how can they refuse to save them?
(End of this chapter)