After that, a few days passed in a blink of an eye.
The day before Kamiizumi Shogang's funeral ceremony, Aramaki and his partner visited Kazuma who was staying at the hotel.
He left his partner in the hotel lobby and came in by himself, took off the windbreaker and handed it to Yuzao. As soon as he sat down, he said straight to the point: "We found this in the tunnel."
After speaking, put an envelope on the table.
When He Ma saw the word "confidential" on the envelope, he immediately took it over and opened it to read—everyone has made up their minds to put the confidential information in front of you, and don't read it for nothing.
When the envelope was opened, a stack of photos fell out, which seemed to be forensic photos taken during the on-site investigation.
Kazuma immediately noticed a Jomon-period pottery doll in one of the photos.
He directly picked out that one: "Where did you find this?"
"On Akira Tosai's car, it's placed above the dashboard, next to the car perfume, what's wrong?"
Kazuma did not answer, but continued to ask: "Have you investigated the impressions of other people related to Akira Tosai? His relatives, friends, company subordinates, and other people who may ride in his car have seen this. Terracotta figurines?"
Araki frowned: "No... because no one thinks this will be the key. After all, Akira Tosai was reselling fake antiques before entering the Kyushu branch... In addition, this thing has also been investigated by the forensics department. Ordinary doll."
Kazuma looked up at Tamamo who was listening.
Tamamo: "This thing can be used as a medium."
"What kind of medium?" Araki asked.
Yuzao smiled: "Psychic medium. The forensics department must have been lazy and didn't do a luminol test on this thing."
Another name for luminol reagent is luminol, which will react with substances in blood residues to form fluorescent substances, which will be very obvious when illuminated with a special lamp. It is an important means for finding residual blood in modern forensic science.
Aramaki laughed dumbly: "There was no trace of a fight at the scene, and the police dogs didn't smell any blood. Who would think of doing a luminol test on this doll alone in this situation! The forensics department can think of giving the car door handle and the like It’s good to test where it’s easy to bleed.”
He Ma responded, "Indeed."
Aramaki sighed: "So, are you sure you can find the blood?"
Yuzao nodded: "Unless it has been taken and disposed of again. If it is too late to be disposed of on the day of discovery, blood should be detected."
Aramaki pressed his forehead: "That's over, these things are not considered as key evidence, after careful inspection and taking photos for the bottom, they have been returned to Akira Tosai's family."
He Ma: "Don't be discouraged. If this thing is a medium, it must have been put in the car before the incident. And because there are closed-circuit televisions on both sides of the tunnel, there is a risk of recycling on the spot. The recyclers may be photographed by closed-circuit televisions. Just throw it on the spot."
Yuzao nodded: "After all, there were no traces of fighting at the scene, and no one would be so free to test this doll."
The next three were silent for a while.
Arakawa broke the silence first: "So, what kind of medium is this thing? What the hell is psychic? Tell me something I can write in the report."
"Then I'm afraid you will be disappointed." He Ma replied simply.
"It can't be written in the report..." Huang Juan raised his forehead, "doesn't that mean that there is no progress? Or, are you sure to make this matter come to light in the field of urban legend and supernatural?"
Without waiting for Kazuma to answer, Yuzao said directly: "I don't have that kind of confidence. The guy who did this will probably hide and recover his strength. It may be faster for you to investigate the origin of this doll."
Aramaki: "Then what if someone else has made a string and insisted that this doll will always be there?"
He Ma: "Then you have caught a big fish."
Arakime was stunned for a moment, and then his expression suddenly brightened: "That's right, most people would not say with certainty that there is this doll, but it would be strange if everyone who asked the question insisted that there must be this thing."
Araki picked up the photo and glanced at it, becoming uncertain again: "Eh... But this doll looks so unique, maybe everyone who has seen it is really impressed. Anyway, let me investigate .”
Hema looked up at Yuzao: "Well, does it have to be this thing? Or as long as there is that guy's blood?"
"It has to be something related to that guy. I bet the pottery doll that you returned to Tosai Akira's family is the real thing. Even if you can't test the blood, you can still find something wrong if you go to Tanshishishi."
Huang Juan was stunned: "Even the forensic department of the Metropolitan Police Department with the most advanced equipment does not have the equipment for carbon test XIV. It is useless to say these things, because no one realizes that this thing will be the key evidence, so it It has been returned to Akira Tosai's family. It must be an ordinary pottery doll if it comes back again.
"But we can investigate who came into contact with Akira Tosai's family during this time.
"Hey, you said that if you provide something that can be written in the report, you can mobilize the power of the police. Psychic... Gan, it is impossible to give me manpower for this reason."
He Ma suggested with a serious face: "But you can try to talk to the CIA. Just tell them that the gentlemen of the Freemasonry may be interested in this."
Aramaki looked at Kazuma with complicated eyes, and didn't speak for a long time.
So He Ma shrugged: "Of course, there should be some gentlemen on the KGB side who are interested in this, but I don't know what their higher-level organization is called."
As soon as he finished speaking with Ma, the phone rang.
The hotel phone is not the same as the classic phone in Hema's house that needs to be dialed. It is a very fashionable push-button phone, and there is an extension in the bedroom.
He Ma directly picked up the handset of the host in the living room: "Hello?"
The voice of the hotel switchboard came from the phone: "You have a long-distance call from Tokyo."
"Come here."
"OK."
Then there was a beeping sound during the call transfer, and it was connected after only one and a half beeps.
"I heard that you just mentioned our name." The other side said.
He Ma frowned. The security manpower dispatch company of the Nanjo Foundation should have checked the entire suite before moving in with Ma. In theory, there should be no bugs here.
So Kazuma immediately took out a pen and wrote the first three katakana of the phrase bug on the table.
Aramaki understood at a glance, and immediately began to check the things on his body.
The phone said: "Don't look for it, you will never find all the bugs. We have been watching you."
He Ma asked back: "I don't know if I should speak English or Russian to you?"
"It doesn't matter, I am proficient in the languages of all major countries, depending on your convenience."
Hema: "Does the front wheel turn and the back wheel turns Smecta?"
"Korean is not included in this list." The other person said calmly.
He Ma: "Actually, except for the word Smecta, everything else is in Chinese. You're not as good as you say."
The other side was silent.
"In our opinion, China is not a major country." The other party replied after a brief silence.
He Ma sneered: "Then your organization has a bad judgment on the international situation."
"In our view, the eastern powers will disintegrate within thirty years at the most."
He Ma: "Too many, I think it only takes ten years."
The other side fell into silence again, and asked in a half-smile tone after a while: "Even if the Soviet Union just held the Western 81 this year?"
"Don't talk about West 81, when the Soviet Union just defeated Germany, and let the Stalin 3 tank pass through the Brandenburg Gate under the nose of General Eisenhower, the arrow-shaped front armor of this steel beast scared the generals of the West into cold sweat.
"Didn't the Soviet Union look more invincible at that time
"Didn't Mr. George Kennan send that famous long telegram under the circumstances?"
George Kennan's "Long Telegram" is generally called the "Long Telegram" in the international political circles, because it laid the foundation for the United States' containment strategy against the Soviet Union.
He Ma brought this up at this time, not simply digressing.
In fact, when I asked the horse "Do you speak Russian or English", the topic was already taken aside.
The person on the other side of the phone said at first, "We predicted the end of the Soviet Union", first to show that he was a Freemason instead of the KGB, and second, to respond to Kazuma's ridicule that "you are not good as a secret organization".
The subtext there is obvious: "The Soviet Union, which has just held the Western 81 exercise and scared many Western countries, we can calmly predict that it will be over within 20 years. You see, our organization is awesome."
He Ma's response is tantamount to saying: "Mr. George Kennan predicted the end of the Soviet Union thirty years ago. Please save me, brother."
The level of the person over the phone is not low, so he must understand.
So he was silent again.
Hema originally wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and then say something like "but your victory is only temporary", "history will not end" and so on.
But he changed his mind - what if the United States warns my motherland because of this
It is better to let the Americans believe that their victory is the final victory and that history will end.
Come on, Mr. Fukuyama.
At this time, Hema suddenly became worried for no reason: What if there is no Fushan in this time and space? Without Fukuyama, perhaps Westerners would not have believed so much in the theory of China's collapse.
Oops, this is not possible, just now I am also a Japanese in name, if there is no Fukuyama to fool the Americans, then I can only fool the Americans.
He Ma was very worried at this time, he probably won't get the hidden script, right
Forty years later, looking at the rotten America, I drank face to face with a golden retriever lion king who likes big red ties on the beach in Florida, with Shaxian snacks as the side dish
No, no, even if there is no Fukuyama, there will be someone else.
It's just that the matter of China's rise is still hidden in the bottom of my heart, and it's better not to talk nonsense.
In the past, He Ma didn't think that the words of a Shengdou Xiaomin would have any impact, but now, the guy on the phone can install a bug on a Japanese policeman, and when he hears the name of the Freemasonry, he immediately calls to warn him .
Maybe this guy... just maybe, after all, it is also possible that he planned to deter him from the beginning.
This guy may not have low authority, he is a big boss.
You can't tell him that China will rise, maybe he will be heard.
I just retorted because the other party said "China is not a major country", and now I have to make a patch.
Therefore, taking advantage of the silence on the other side, He Ma said, "It seems that we have reached a consensus. However, Mr. George Kennan also said, 'Whether the Soviet Union can gain an advantage depends on the unity and unity displayed by the Western world. The degree of firmness and courage', the Western world is not at the point where it can belittle a country with a population of one billion, right?"
The other person finally spoke up: "Indeed. My statement was very careless. But it has nothing to do with the purpose of my call today."
"Then tell me why you're here."
"Mr. Kiryu is so smart, I don't think there is such a need. Just now you showed your Chinese proficiency, I believe you must have heard a Chinese proverb: He who knows the current affairs is a brilliant man."
The other party's last sentence was in Chinese, and it was very authentic.
There was a cold sweat behind He Ma, but he was not afraid at all, and praised: "That's right, I didn't even notice that the speaker had changed. I also have a sentence in Chinese for you: If you do unrighteous deeds, you will die yourself. "
This time, the other person responded immediately: "Isn't it more appropriate to say this to the Soviet Union?"
"Indeed, after all, the United States has learned a lesson in Vietnam." He Ma also immediately shot back.
There was an obvious pause on the other side, but compared to the previous one, this one took only a second to adjust and responded: "In short, I wish you a happy holiday."
After speaking, I hung up the phone.
He Ma said to the already busy phone: "I also wish you smooth work and good health."
He believed that the other party had a way to hear.
After speaking, he let out a sigh of relief with the horse, and then looked at Tamamo.
Damn, I just seemed to mock the secret organization hidden behind the world!
So welfare technology was cultivated by Freemasons
At the same time, it also got KGB technology
Is this a trick set by the Americans for the KGB
Or is it that KGB also pretends to be confused because they want to experiment with their own technology in Japan
If Welfare Technology is an organization secretly supported by Freemasonry, Aichuan Faron still has to apply to become a religious legal person
According to the legend, the Freemasonry should be a secret society established by the Templars using the wealth they obtained after they found King Solomon's treasure.
Kazuma looked at Yuzao, and these thoughts flashed through his mind quickly.
With a complicated expression on his face, he put down the phone receiver.
At this time, Araki finally found the bug.
It's the pen in his bag.
"You bastards," he cursed after removing the battery from the bug, "this pen belongs to my grandma! It's a fake from Japan, what do you mean by giving me a real Parker pen?" ?”
Japan produced a lot of "parallel imports" when it first started post-war recovery.
At the beginning, if you don’t have your own independent brand and want to increase sales, you basically have to go this way.
Kazuma looked at the angry Huangjuan and said, "What's your dissatisfaction for exchanging fake products for real ones?"
"It was given to me by my grandma, even if it's a fake, it's more precious than the real one!"
"Then you can treat it as your grandma's spirit, and replace the fake with the real one for you." He Ma said.
Araki curled his lips: "When I think of them throwing away my grandma's belongings casually, I don't feel happy."
"No, starting today, your grandma will give you a real parka."
While talking to the horse, Honami led a few people in and re-examined Aramaki's belongings with an instrument.
While complaining cursingly, Aramaki stood up and opened his arms for Honami's inspection.
After confirming that there were no radio waves coming from his body, he immediately changed his expression and his tone of voice seamlessly switched: "CIA?"
"Masonic."
Kazuma's response made Araki frowned: "What the hell? Isn't that a charity?"
"Obviously not."
"Damn it, so after you tell me that ghosts and psychics are true, you want to tell me that Freemasonry is also true?"
He Ma shrugged: "I also want to tell you that the fate of France is ruled by a club. They hold a dinner every month. The chats of the big shots at the dinner will determine the direction of France."
It sounds like He Ma is just talking nonsense right now.
So Araki just echoed, "Coincidentally, I also know that major events in Japan are decided at the kiosk."
And Ma ha laughed.
Aramaki laughed too.
Suddenly he put away his smile and asked seriously: "Be serious, to be honest, is that the CIA?"
Well, Arakawa-san doesn't believe in the Freemasonry.
Hema imagined it: he was suddenly told that the world was ruled by the Templars for no reason, and he would feel that the other party was joking.
After thinking about it, he said something that sounded more real: "The one on the phone is the CIA's higher-level organization, maybe the President's Security Advisor, or something else."
Huang Juan was stunned: "So behind the well-being technology is the Yankee, which is complicated."
He Ma: "You'd better not report it to the higher authorities, and investigate it in private."
"That's the only way to go." Arakimaki sighed, "It's up to you. I will provide intelligence support, but don't call my office, call my home."
He Ma nodded: "Understood."
"Protect yourself...Although I want to say this, but considering your force, I'm still worried about myself." After finishing speaking, Huang Juan stood up, "I'm leaving first. I won't come tomorrow for Mr. Shangquan's ceremony .After all, I am not his apprentice."
"Then I won't give it away." He Ma also stood up and stretched out his hand.
The two shook hands silently and looked at each other firmly.
"Don't die." He Ma said suddenly.
"You too." Aramaki smiled, let go of his hand and picked up the bag, took the windbreaker brought by Yuzao and put it on, tightened the collar of the windbreaker, and strode away.
Afterword to Volume 5 (End of this volume)
According to the outline, there should be a funeral ceremony by Masao Umizumi in this volume, but after I finished the last chapter, I found that the meaning of the funeral ceremony in the novel structure no longer exists, and the last chapter is the most suitable epilogue.
Therefore, it is more appropriate to move the funeral ceremony to the beginning of the next volume and present it in the form of an interlude.
This kind of small adjustment is quite common in the writing of this book.
I have an outline for this book, and many people don't believe me when I say so. My regular readers know that I start writing books as soon as I have a cool idea, and I rely on talent and inspiration to maintain it.
Therefore, the previous books were often written and cut without inspiration.
But this book really has an outline, and it's a very detailed outline. As soon as most of the main characters appear on the stage, the fate behind them is written down in the form of foreshadowing.
The most obvious one is Baifeng Yuyinqingliu. The first big plot on the stage is a martial arts drama, and then in the form of "drama within a drama", I went through all the main plots of Baifeng later. If you don't believe me, go to the third volume 050 It starts with about ten chapters.
After the plot of Baifeng Yuyin finished and she became Baifeng Qingliu, I laid the groundwork for her fate, but this time it was more hidden. Everyone is welcome to find and interpret by themselves.
The same is true for Yuzao. Before her name came out, she planted a foreshadowing hinting that she is not a human, but a monster.
In doing so, in addition to proving that I have an outline, there is another purpose, which is to give some rewards to readers who do not skip reading.
Speaking of this volume, this volume is actually the volume that most resembles an online article in this book.
Because when writing this volume, from mid-December to the end of February this year, for a full three months, I ran out of inspiration and basically squeezed toothpaste according to the outline.
So the plot during this period looks most like a web novel. Because when I designed the outline, I basically followed the general logic of web articles.
The things that come out when I write are not like web articles, because I often fill in some branches and leaves that pop up suddenly after the inspiration bursts.
For example, the role of Amao was not included in the initial outline. When the inspiration burst out and the writing was brilliant, I changed the outline together.
Later, I arranged a whole volume of stories for this white knight. I have already thought of the name of that volume, which is called Black and White.
White, corresponding to the pure white legal knight, the spokesperson of procedural justice, black—damn it, I really want to spoil you!
Off topic, let’s talk about the exhaustion of inspiration in the past three months.
Readers who have read along the way have also discovered that this volume as a whole is in a state of no meat to eat and no taste to discard.
No meat is because there is no inspiration, the talent cannot bloom, and it is dry. It is interesting because the outline is written when there is inspiration, and some inspiration remains.
Originally, this book did not have this volume, and the functionality of this volume should be realized in the previous volume.
If you go back and read it, the fourth volume is over with more than 60 chapters, which is 40 or 50 chapters less than the previous chapters. I also said the epilogue of the fourth volume. At that time, I decided to end that volume because the structure looked too perfect. I didn’t want to destroy it, so I made the rest of the content into a separate volume.
There are two main goals in this volume. The first one is to officially introduce the background of spiritual energy exhaustion and the light of technology replacing the grace of God.
In fact, I have been making similar settings for a long time. I wrote "221 B Oak Street", the background is London in the 19th century, and this book can actually be regarded as a world view.
But later, in order to publish it in a magazine, the names of real places such as London were changed, and the country was also emptied.
I was planning to publish this article on "Kyushu Fantasy". At that time, the editor-in-chief of Kyushu Fantasy, Atun, liked "Oak Street". Unfortunately, I was a nobody in the physical magazine industry at that time, and the novella with a length of 30,000 words was really hard to get. layout.
Physical magazines are like this, divided into layouts based on seniority.
In the end, Aqin thought of a way and stuffed my 6,000-word short story "Notes on Raising a Nine-Tailed Fox" into the magazine, trying to gradually support me from a newcomer. It's a pity that I have too little experience in writing short stories, and that 6,000-word short story was scolded miserably.
Then there is no more. I played the role of Adou who didn't get up once. Until Atun left the position of editor-in-chief of Kyushu Fantasy, I didn't write short stories that could reach the level of the first publication, and I was really not good at writing stories with less than 20,000 words.
At that time, the illustrations of "221 B Oak Street" were all drawn, and they were drawn by Mrs. R, a big hand in China. Now his old man has tens of thousands of pictures per picture, and it was several thousand at that time. That was 11 years... ten years ago .
Let Vera post the picture I gave to Oak Street in the comment section.
Later, "Oak Street" was published in a magazine. It was 13 years ago, and it was published in a light novel magazine founded by my friend.
Originally, I planned to write a series of steampunk detective stories in this magazine.
It's a pity that the magazine published three issues, and Ma Boyong's "Chifeng Old Talk" appeared in the third issue, and then the magazine was hung up.
.
There was only a sample issue of that issue and it was not printed.
And it's not because the magazine is not easy to sell, it's actually very easy to sell. However, the BL magazine "Pineapple Chronicles" published by the same company was investigated because of a coquettish operation by the rotten female editors. Anime, Absolute Territory, Oriental Quarterly, and of course Pineapple Chronicle itself.
Not only that, this incident also caused the relevant departments to discover the phenomenon that animation magazines were published as supplements under other magazines, so they cut all the animation magazines with one knife. Only the dynamic new forces survived, because the dynamic new forces used the edition number of audio-visual publishing at that time, and the magazine was nominally a companion booklet for the published DVD.
By the way, the follow-up to that incident was that the publication of magazines was regulated by the state, and supplementary publications were strictly prohibited, so even "Kyushu Fantasy", which was affiliated with the dinosaur magazine of the Institute of Paleontology at that time, was also killed.
There is a feeling of fate.
Oh, by the way, the petty bourgeoisie magazine that Guo exported was also killed at the time, called "Island" or something.
This power, I used to believe in science until...
Auspicious royal immunity, home safe.
Now seeing "Lord of the Mysteries", on the one hand, I think this book is amazing, on the other hand, I regret it. I was too weak in 2011. If I had the strength I have now, I should be able to compete in Kyushu Fantasy. Let's continue writing steampunk detective stories.
By the way, I really hate the system of ranking seniority and scrambling for pages in physical magazines. Since then, I have devoted myself to mixing online articles, and whoever likes to write physical articles will write them.
Off topic off topic.
The first goal of this volume, the fifth volume, is to introduce the big background. That's why this volume is called Shanhai, which means to describe to you the world where the story takes place.
The second goal is to click on the foreshadowing laid down in the first volume, which is the foreshadowing of Shiratori killing Tsuda.
This is to prepare for entering the Metropolitan Police Department. According to the plan, the seventh volume is called Sakurada Gate. You can understand from the name of the volume. If you want to be a criminal policeman, the nickname of the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters building is Sakurada Gate. The next volume, Volume 6, will be stuffed into the remaining three years of university, mainly the stories of Mikako and Honami.
So, this volume ends here, see you in the next volume at 23:59.