"This person... seems to be Police Officer Baihe..."
In the ward, Mouri Kogoro was stunned for a moment when he saw the photo in Karasumaying's hand, and said with some emotion.
【Shirakawa? ! 】
Hearing what Mouri Kogoro said, Karasuma Ying suddenly raised her head and looked at him in disbelief.
"Officer Shirakawa?"
Mao Lilan asked curiously after hearing this.
"Dad, do you know the person in this photo?"
When she picked up this photo before, Mao Lilan had already seen the content on it.
There was nothing special in the photo, it was just a full-body photo of a man wearing a police uniform, smiling, and looking very young.
The overall feeling is the same as the photo her father Kogoro Mouri took when he just graduated from the police academy.
"Well, we know each other..."
As if being brought back some kind of memory by this photo, Mouri Kogoro's expression suddenly became a little depressed.
He subconsciously took out a cigarette from his pocket and wanted to light it, but he immediately thought that this was a hospital, so he put it away again.
"Officer Baihe and I had a relationship once. It was when I first entered the police academy. In the first pistol shooting test, I achieved a score of hitting the bullseye with all 20 rounds.
I originally thought that this score should be the best in the history of the police academy, but my instructor at the time told me that there was another person who had the same score as me more than ten years ago. "
"Is this Officer Baihe?" Mao Lilan was very curious. She rarely heard her father tell stories about him in the police academy.
But speaking of it this way, it was more than ten years ago before my father entered the police academy...then Officer Baihe must be quite old now, right?
But among her father's friends from the Metropolitan Police Department, she had never heard of anyone named Shirakawa.
"It's him."
Mouri Kogoro nodded, "I remember correctly. More than ten years ago when I entered the police academy, Officer Shirakawa also scored all the marks in the first shooting test, hitting the bullseye.
I later asked the instructor to find out, in fact, in Officer Shirakawa's class, he not only had the best shooting results, but also other scores... he was a very good police officer. "
"Awesome! Then dad, why have I never heard you mention this police officer before? Has he retired?"
"Retirement..."
"dad?"
Mouri Kogoro lowered his head to open the lunch box, sat on a chair nearby, and was silent for a while. Then under Maori Lan's doubtful eyes, he said:
"He died in the line of duty, he died in the line of duty twenty years ago."
"well?!"
The one who made this sound of surprise was not Mao Lilan, but Karasuma Ying.
"Twenty years ago... Died in the line of duty?" The expression on Karasumaying's face was very surprising.
【How can this be? Twenty years ago? 】
"Well, it was the 'Changchun Cruise Ship Bombing' twenty years ago. A group of armed terrorists used bombs to hijack the Changchun cruise ship full of tourists because of some government issues. Officer Baihe was on the cruise ship at the time.
Although most of the tourists were rescued thanks to the cooperation between Baihe Police Officer and the police, there were still a small number of tourists who sank into the sea together with the Changchun due to the time bomb set by the criminal leader.
Among them, Officer Baihe, who was still on the Changchun at that time, was included. "
"Then, where is the body of police officer Baihe?" Karasumaying heard this and asked quickly:
"How did the police at that time confirm the death of Officer Baihe? Did they recover the body?"
"Um."
Mouri Kogoro nodded and admitted her guess.
"Afterwards, the police conducted a large-scale salvage operation on the Changchun cruise ship, and the body of Officer Baihe was found not far from the explosion.
The body was beyond recognition, and police speculated that Officer Shirakawa should have been near the bomb when the explosion occurred.
The police later determined that the body was that of Officer Baihe based on its size, clothing, identification documents, and blood type comparison. "
"Weren't there any DNA tests?" Karasumaying asked.
"Xiaoying, there was no DNA testing at that time. At most, we could only rely on blood type comparison to identify."
Mouri Kogoro explained, but Karasumaying still didn't give up. She was a little eager to find the loopholes in Moori Kogoro's words.
"What happened next? After the DNA testing technology came out, did the police try to find Officer Baihe's relatives? Did they go to them for verification?"
"Officer Baihe's parents are long gone."
Mouri Kogoro took a bite of his lunch box and explained patiently.
“Police Officer Shirakawa was born during Japan’s most depressed period, and his parents died one after another due to poverty when he was young.
During that period, Japan's society was extremely turbulent, and many people's household registration files were messed up. Even Officer Shirakawa's own household registration files were filled in by himself when he entered the police academy. He was not related by blood. Relatives. "
"Blood relatives?"
Karasuma Ying keenly captured the hidden information in Mouri Kogoro's words.
"Mr. Mori, what do you mean..."
"Okay, let's eat quickly. If we continue to ask questions, the food will get cold."
Mouri Kogoro shook his head. He did not answer Karasuma Ying and took several mouthfuls of the lunch box.
"It has long been a thing of the past, why do you still care about it? Oh, but... there is one thing that is quite ironic to say."
As if he suddenly remembered something, Mouri Kogoro put down his lunch box, smiled self-deprecatingly, and said:
"After the Changchun bombing, the armed criminal leader who was not arrested on the spot by the police quietly returned to Japan and planned to plan another terrorist attack.
It's a pity that this time, he bumped into a foreign woman. "
"Foreign woman?"
"Well, she is a very powerful foreign woman. It was she who noticed and prevented the terrorist attack in advance, and it was she who helped the police finally arrest the criminal leader."
"Then this foreign woman later..."
"I don't know, she disappeared after the police arrested the criminal leader, as if she appeared just to arrest that person...
It's so ironic that we actually needed the help of a foreigner to arrest the murderer who made the most dazzling star of the Japanese police fall... Okay, okay, let's not talk about it anymore. "
Putting down the cleaned lunch box, Mouri Kogoro waved his hands impatiently, stood up and walked out the door.
"Don't always ask if these are available. You two hurry up and eat. I'll go out and smoke a cigarette..."
With that said, Mouri Kogoro stood up and left. The moment he walked out of the room, he looked back at Karasuma Ying who was still staring at the photo.
【What a resemblance...】
He couldn't help but feel a little surprised, and he suddenly noticed it when he saw the photo.
[This kid looks so much like Officer Baihe...]
But how is this possible?
He knew very well that Officer Baihe died in the line of duty twenty years ago.
Xiaoying is too young to have anything to do with Officer Baihe...
Shaking his head, Mouri Kogoro didn't think any more.
