A while later, Kazuma drove his crepe caravan and followed Shiratori's car to the mouth of the Edo River.
The guarding patrolman wanted to drive away when he saw the car with the horse, but was stopped loudly by the detective Iida who was on the scene.
Iida: "This is the car of the new ace detective of our Metropolitan Police Department, remember it."
He Ma: "For a moment, I couldn't tell whether you were burying me or praising me."
Asano, who was in the co-pilot position, said, "It must be a compliment, don't think everyone is so bad."
Detective Shiratori, who got out of the car first, had already crossed the blockade and walked onto the bridge at the pier while he was talking nonsense to Ma.
The pier at the mouth of the Edogawa River is usually used by public agencies such as the marine police. It seems that the corpses were recovered and returned to the port directly.
Kazuma immediately got out of the car and followed in the footsteps of Shiratori and Asakura.
As soon as he boarded the marine police boat, Kazuma saw the dead body on the deck.
The forensics department of the nearby police station has arrived first and is examining the body.
He Ma looked at the two men carefully, and found that their feet were tied with stones, and their hands were cut behind their backs, which may also be tied.
The faces of the two bear the obvious characteristics of drowning and suffocating people, and their expressions reveal despair and fear.
The white bird detective said: "As soon as the hands and feet were tied and the stones were thrown into the water, it was very urgent."
Asakura asked in surprise, "Are you in a hurry?"
Hema nodded: "It's very urgent. Jidao is a group of idiots who will pursue a sense of ritual. Under normal circumstances, Shen Jiang will seal people in iron buckets with cement first."
"Hey, is it really like this?" Asano exclaimed, "I thought it was made up by Jidao Movie."
"Many people involved in the Yakuza films already have a Yakuza background, like Ken Takakura, who is a good buddy of the Kanto Yakuza leader."
"Eh?"
"That's why the weekly Fangchun reported on Takakura Ken's gossip, and then the editor-in-chief was invited by Yakuza to drink tea." Kazuma hurriedly told the anecdote he heard from Takashi Hanabou. As for the truth and falsehood, I don't bother to care about it. Anyway, Takashi Hanabha has made rumors with Ma for "military expenses", which is called courtesy.
At this time, the white bird criminal police asked the people in the forensics department: "The cause of death is suffocation?"
"Yes, there was a lot of water in the lungs, and then he died of suffocation. There are traces of rope fraying on his hands and feet. It seems that he has struggled very hard."
He Ma: "They killed people in the street with a pistol in the morning, and they were thrown into the water in the afternoon... wait a minute, they will sink to the bottom of the water, how did they find the bodies?"
The witness immediately replied: "It seems that the rope tied was too long, and then it hit the bottom of the marine police boat."
"This silencer has done a terrible job." Asano muttered.
Shaking his head with the horse: "I always feel that something is wrong. After the two people silenced, they didn't go forward to make up the knife. They just flipped over her body in a hurry and ran away. Then the two people were killed so quickly, it was almost like It's like rushing."
Shiratori nodded: "Yes, I'm in a hurry. And I don't think it's a Jidao thing."
He Ma: "Did it sink in Tokyo Bay because there was no cement?"
"Yes. We have just caught people. We should check the identities of these two people. If we use the channel of Lesson 4, we can quickly prove whether they are local extreme people."
"But there's no way to check on the Fuqing Gang and the Zhenquan Club?" He Ma asked.
"Yes." Shiratori detective looked helpless, "Zhenquan Club will at least go to the countryside to do as the Romans do. Refer to the organizational form of our Japanese yakuza. The history of Fuqing Gang is longer than the history of Japanese yakuza. Their tradition is from the party. handed down from time to time.”
Asano tugged on Kazuma's sleeve and asked, "What is the party?"
"You can think of it as a grassroots social organization spontaneously organized by the Chinese people in the late Qing Dynasty. In the last hundred years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the grassroots had completely lost popular support, so residents organized themselves to protect local interests." He Ma Jie said.
Asano praised: "As expected of a student of Dongda University, I know so much. So, we don't know the organizational structure of the Fuqing Gang at all?"
Detective Shiratori nodded.
Asano immediately complained: "This is the work of your team, isn't it a serious dereliction of duty if you don't even know the organizational structure?"
Kazuma tapped Asano's head: "How do you talk to Senior?"
Policeman Shiratori waved his hand: "No, he's right. Over the years we've encountered the Fuqing Gang, and we've been hanging around in various ways. There are still many people who think that it's not safe to just sit and watch them and Zhenquan suffer. Lost business."
Asakura interjected: "If I were sent to investigate the Fuqing gang, I would also work as a foreign worker. Such a vicious organization would take an AK to fight fire in the streets. I only have a revolver. I won't provoke them."
Asano looked contemptuous: "You are in the professional group, and I understand that you are more reluctant to save your life. Our non-professional group is only a police department at the end. If you die, you may be able to make great achievements if you work hard."
Kazuma noticed that Shiratori's expression was a little stiff when he heard "there will be only one police department in the end".
Shiratori detective, is still the police department.
Kazuma stabbed Asano's waist hard.
Asano quickly covered his mouth.
The white bird detective said: "Don't worry, what you said is the truth. Where is the marine police officer who found the body?"
"Here." Detective Iida hurriedly said, "But we have asked him, and there is nothing worth noting."
Shiratori nodded: "There is nothing worth noting. Then let's visit the store near the place where the body was dumped. Maybe some store remembers the person who dumped the body."
Asakura sighed: "It's visiting again, why do I feel that the criminal police are visiting most of the time?"
Asano smiled and said: "We solved the case yesterday. The scene where the police department confronted the criminal suspect was very similar to the scene in a criminal investigation drama. The police department also stole the lines of Detective Iida and told Miranda's warning again." !"
Asakura sighed: "It's great. I've been working for more than a month, and I've been doing visits all day long. I thought that there would often be exciting cases in the fourth class, but I was almost bored to death this month. The key is that we have visited so many, but the results are all useless.”
He Ma laughed and said: "Ninety-nine percent of the work of the criminal police is useless work. Our job is to ensure that this useless work is really useless work."
Asano: "Ah, you said another cool thing in the police department, I want to write it down, and use it to educate the younger generation when I become a veteran detective."
White Bird Detective: "Okay, let's go to visit. At least visiting is much more interesting than dealing with paperwork."
After the words fell, several people agreed unanimously: "That's true."
**
Next, there are two groups of people with the horse and the white bird, and one group is responsible for one side of the river bank.
Since this case is not his responsibility, Detective Iita got off work after handing over the case.
The road where the corpses were dumped was quite busy, and after nightfall, there were many office workers who came to drink.
He and Ma asked several stores, but there was no clue.
Asano complained loudly: "If you think about it carefully, this is not a remote river section. It's unbelievable to throw two living people into the water and drown in broad daylight. What's even more unbelievable is that no one saw any suspicious persons. Supplement from the police department, don’t you think this is abnormal
"Could the murderer be a kappa? He pulled two people into the water and then moved in the water, which makes sense!"
He Ma: "Kappa no longer exists."
Asano suddenly frowned: "Wait a minute, there is something wrong with the police department's supplementary words, you use the perfect tense, the subtext existed before!"
Kazuma: "I mean, people knew little about aquatic species in the past, so the legend of Kappa was born. But modern science has thoroughly studied the waters near Edo, so there is no Kappa legend. soil."
After talking with the horse, I thought, damn it, why should I volunteer to help the fox eliminate the weirdness.
Asano frowned: "Then what do you think is going on? The autopsy also said that both of them had struggled fiercely, so it must have caused a lot of trouble, right? It's unreasonable for such a bustling river section."
"It is possible that the two of them were drowned in other places, and then they were moved here to be thrown down." He gestured with the horse, "If they are tied to the bottom of the boat, move here and release the rope from the boat. People definitely won't notice."
"Tied to the bottom of the boat, it makes sense, but shouldn't there be a trace of being tied on that body?"
He Ma: "You can also put stones on the boat, and then drag the two of you along the waterway. When you get here, just push the stones tied with ropes into the water."
"The scars on the feet were not only caused by the struggle in the water, but also the pull injuries left during the dragging process."
He Ma nodded: "It makes sense, the autopsy report should come out when we go back."
At this time, someone suddenly called Kazuma: "Kiryu!"
Hema took a closer look and found that it was Daimon Goro, the teacher of the Kendo Club in high school, who was sitting next to a cart vendor by the river.
This kind of trolley vendor recognizes whether the door is opened by seeing whether the noren curtain is hung.
Now the stalls have no noren curtains, apparently not yet open for business, but Daimon Goro is already seated.
Looking carefully at the meatballs and side dishes placed in front of him, it seems that Daimon Goro is very familiar with the owner, so he entertained him even without opening the door.
He Ma: "Hello, teacher."
Asano was startled: "This is a professor from the University of Tokyo? Why does it look like an uncle fishing?"
Daimon Goro laughed loudly: "I am often taken as a fisherman! But, I am indeed a teacher, even though I am a physical education teacher."
"Tokyo University also has a physical education department? No, it's a high school teacher, right?" Asano patted Hema, "Please explain clearly, the police department will make up."
Daimon Goro raised his eyebrows: "The police department... You actually entered the police station?"
"I was in the newspaper a few days ago, don't you know?" Kazuma asked with a smile, "I cracked a robbery case of 300 million yen."
"Really? I don't usually read anything with text at all, you know. Since you were admitted to Dongdae I moved out of the office, and no one usually chats with me. Boss, this is the student I told you about, have a cup."
The boss immediately took out a new beer mug and placed it next to Daimon Goro.
He Ma: "Sorry, I'm on duty."
"Still on duty at this time? The police are working so hard. So what is the case?" Daimon Goro asked drunkenly, obviously having drunk a lot.
"Sorry, I can't disclose the facts of the case to unrelated people." He Ma said apologetically, "When I have a chance in the future, I will invite you to drink, teacher."
Daimon Goro sighed: "Well, that's the only way to go. Come on, Tokyo Guardian."
Speaking of Damon Goro, he saluted Kazuma crookedly.
He returned the salute to the horse and was about to say goodbye when he suddenly thought of his mission, took out the photos of the three deceased and asked the stall owner, "Have you seen these three people?"
The stall owner is an old man, although he is old, but he looks very energetic, his eyes are bright, he put on reading glasses, carefully looked at the three photos handed over by Ma, and shook his head after a while: "I'm sure I haven't seen these three people .”
He Ma: "I haven't seen it before, so what time did you come to set up the stall today?"
"It's already four o'clock in the afternoon, and I'm making preparations for the opening of the store."
"Then didn't you see any suspicious boats on the river? Did you see any boats throwing things into the river?"
The stall owner shook his head: "No."
He Ma bowed to the stall owner: "That's it, thank you. Then I'll go first, teacher, please drink well."
Daimon Goro waved his hand.
and the horse turned away.
Asano hurriedly followed his footsteps.
After the two left, the stall owner suddenly said, "You are indeed a talented person."
"He is determined to become the police chief. When he said this, it was said that he had just dismantled the entire Jidao team by himself."
The stall owner was speechless: "Single-handed dismantling the group? People who can do this kind of thing are all dragons among men."
"That's it." Daimon Goro said proudly, "He said just now that the 300 million yen robbery case was solved. I remember it was a super unsolved case, right? It's really amazing."
The stall owner shook his head: "Not only. I read the newspapers. He also solved a murder case yesterday. I'm afraid it will be difficult for the criminals in Tokyo."
"That's it." Daimon Goro smiled, drank the beer in the glass in one gulp, and filled it up for himself.
**
After the visit, Kazuma led Asano and Shiratori to meet on the bridge across the river.
"No one has seen it at all. I think it may have been committed with a boat. The tied stones were placed on the boat and dragged over like this."
Policeman Shiratori nodded: "Drowning in another place, and then dragging the corpse over, there is such a possibility. As long as the wound on the corpse shows the damage caused by dragging, it can prove this point. If this is the case, then What we did tonight was pure futility.
"Tomorrow, let's investigate the boat that sailed on the river today. But I guess, this boat should be a legal boat with a normal sailing plan on file."
Asakura sighed, "Isn't this road completely impassable?"
He Ma: "Unless we happen to find witnesses who saw them throwing things into the water. But there won't be such a coincidence."
"Let's go back to the Metropolitan Police Department first, look at the compiled reports, and then go have dinner with Jinshan." Shiratori said and looked at his watch, "It's about this time, I'm afraid Jinshan has been drinking at your house for three days. Patrol."
He Ma smiled wryly: "My sister will entertain him."
**
After returning to the Metropolitan Police Department, forensic officer Kimura was already waiting for Kazuma and the others.
"The wound examination you requested by radio, I did, and it is true that both of the leg wounds have peeling skin, which was probably pulled off when they were dragged in the water.
"In addition, the results of the fingerprint comparison of these two people came out, which is very interesting. They were once arrested for black households and illegal workers, and then ran away from the shelter before being deported to their Vietnamese origin."
He Ma frowned: "Vietnamese? Fortunately, they were drowned. They will be dumped in the bushes, and they may not be found for several years."
Everyone looked at Kazuma together, Asakura asked hesitantly: "Is this a burden? Should we laugh?"
He Ma: "Yes."
Asakura let out an awkward yet polite laugh.
He Ma continued: "By the way, there is also a saying that the Vietnamese drowned, because Charlie can't swim."
Asano: "What the hell?"
"Charlie is the name of the US military for the Viet Cong. The US military used Charlie as a combat name in the war, and then the battle failed and suffered heavy casualties."
In fact, the U.S. military will use it twice again in the future, once in Somalia, which resulted in the famous "Black Hawk Falling", once in Afghanistan, and that time also failed, and several SEALs died.
Asano looked at Kazuma: "This kind of burden to explain will not be funny to anyone except college students."
Asakura: "I'm also a college student, so I don't think it's funny either."
"You are a student at an ordinary university, but those at Dongdae University may find it funny."
At this time, Shiratori, who had been frowning and thinking, finally said, "What's going on here? How could it be Vietnamese? I don't understand this development at all."
After speaking, he raised his head, looked at He Ma, reached out and patted He Ma's shoulder: "It's up to you, ace detective."
He Ma: "Don't, don't put pressure on me. Even if you can solve the puzzle, you might not be able to solve it after you put pressure on me."