Opening this archive bag, which is full of traces of time, there is a stack of thick documents bound together.
A yellowed and old portrait is pasted on the front page of the document. Juanxiu's handwriting records the detailed personal information of the file's owner, Bai Heqing.
This information is roughly the same as what Karasumaying found on the Internet before, but there is also a lot of information that cannot be found on the Internet.
Shirakawa Kiyoshi was born in Tokyo during the war years. His family conditions were very poor. He did not have any brothers or sisters in the family. His parents died of illness one after another when he was young.
In order to earn enough living expenses and tuition fees for himself, Shirakawa Kiyoshi worked part-time as an assistant in many detective agencies in Tokyo at that time.
After graduating from high school, Bai Heqing enrolled in a special international university.
The reason why it is called special is because although this university has an international name, it was actually created by some "upper-class people" in Tokyo at that time. It was a special school specifically for "children of the upper class."
Although this university had been closed more than 20 years ago, at that time, no matter how you looked at it, it was not something that Bai Heqing, who came from a poor family, could enroll in.
After graduating from college, Bai Heqing entered the police academy directly.
It is worth mentioning that the record of this section in the file is that Bai Heqing did not pass any test and directly entered the police academy as a special recruit, which is an extremely rare exception.
After graduating from the police academy, Bai Heqing entered the Metropolitan Police Department with the title of Inspector General.
Starting from this page, a large number of cases that he handled or led during his lifetime began to appear on Bai Heqing's personal files. Although the descriptions were brief, at least the time, results and general process of the cases were recorded.
Among them, Karasumaying was surprised to find that the types of cases Bai Heqing had handled were not completely fixed. He had handled cases as large as investigating serial murderers and as small as catching roadside thieves, but generally he had handled cases involving murder or robbery. This type of serious forcible crime case is the main one.
What surprised Karasuma Ying even more was that Bai Heqing only stayed in the position of inspection director for a year before he jumped two levels and was directly promoted to the police department.
Also in the year when Bai Heqing became a member of the police force, he had a record of going abroad once. The other country was the United Kingdom. The record on the file was to investigate an international case involving the two countries.
This is also Bai Heqing's only recorded trip abroad in this file.
Starting from this year, Shirakawa Kiyoshi officially started his unprecedented and probably unprecedented rapid promotion journey in the Japanese police circles.
Only three years after joining the police department, Bai Heqing was promoted to police inspector; only three years later, he was promoted from police inspector to police chief; and in the next four years, he was promoted from police chief to police chief.
This year, Bai Heqing was only thirty-four years old.
At an extremely young age, he officially entered the senior ranks of the police this year, and this was also the highest police rank he had ever achieved during his lifetime.
Because just two years after he was promoted to chief of police, the Changchun cruise ship bombing occurred. According to the records in this file, Shirakawa Kiyoshi himself also died in the bombing that shocked Japan.
Just like his legendary promotion speed, Bai Heqing's posthumous police rank after his death in the line of duty is also very unique.
According to Japanese police practice, police officers who die in the line of duty are usually promoted two levels in a row, but Shirakawa Kiyo was only promoted one level.
After Bai Heqing died in the line of duty, the police at that time only posthumously awarded him the title of Police Inspector. .
In addition to this legendary promotion speed, Karasumaying also noticed in the file records that Shirakawa Kiyoshi maintained a considerable attendance rate throughout his career.
Even though his position continued to rise in the later period, the number of cases Bai Heqing handled did not drop significantly compared to the early stage of his career.
This doesn't make sense.
Under normal circumstances, Bai Heqing at that time should no longer have to go on duty all day long, because that was what middle- and lower-level police officers did.
Is this because Shirakawa Kiyo particularly enjoys the pleasure of solving crimes? Or is there some other reason?
At this point, Karasumaying has roughly read the file.
Although there is a lot of content in the file, there is actually nothing special recorded in it. What is recorded are all cases from Bai Heqing's career when he was serving in the Metropolitan Police Department.
Thirty years ago, before Bai Heqing was promoted to police chief, the files had very detailed records of the cases he had handled, with no omissions of time, place or result, and even a brief description of the case process.
After he was promoted to police chief, the police officer who compiled his file seemed to have changed. Although there was still a time, place and result, the description of the case process was gone.
Although most of the contents of this file were useless, Karasumaying still found some doubts in it.
The most suspicious thing is Shirakawa Qing's bizarre promotion speed.
Less than fifteen years after joining the Metropolitan Police Department, he was directly promoted to the position of chief inspector. Even Karasuma Ying, who did not know much about the history of the Japanese police, knew that this promotion speed must be record-breaking.
But for this point, there is no explanation on Bai Heqing's files.
In addition, it was the special university that Shirakawa Qing attended when he was young. How did a person from a poor family get into that university?
Karasumaying always feels that Bai Heqing's file has probably been modified by someone, and there must be something missing in it.
Of course, in addition to the above doubts, this file also answered a doubt in her mind.
When Kogoro Mouri mentioned Officer Shirakawa, he also mentioned the bombing of the Changchun cruise ship that led to his death in the line of duty.
According to Kogoro Mori, the police were not able to catch the mastermind of the bombing on the spot.
But later, when he sneaked into Japan again and tried to plan a terrorist attack again, the police finally arrested him with the help of a foreign woman.
For unknown reasons, the police seemed to have deliberately concealed the identity of the person and only reported that a foreign woman assisted the police in arresting the prisoner.
Therefore, police officers like Mouri Kogoro, who were still middle and lower class at the time, actually still don’t know the specific identity information of the foreign woman.
But in Bai Heqing's file, the name of this foreign woman appeared.
Akai Marie.
But there is only one name.
According to Mouri Kogoro, this person suddenly appeared twenty years ago. After helping the police investigate and arrest the mastermind who planned the Changchun explosion, he disappeared completely.
After that, there were no similar rumors about foreign women in the entire Japanese police and detective circles.
It was as if she appeared specifically to capture that person...
Karasumaying vaguely felt that this person named Akai Mari might have some kind of relationship with Shirakawa Kiyoshi.
is a possible direction of investigation.
"Have you finished reading?" Miwako Sato glanced at Karasuma Ying from the driver's seat next to her.
"Um……"
Nodding, Karasumaying sealed the file and put it back in the armrest box.
"What do you think?" Sato Miwako asked with a smile.
"...It's very legendary." After thinking for a while, Karasumaying replied.
"Yeah, I was shocked when I first saw it. Officer Shirakawa's career is just like the protagonist in those movies." Miwako Sato sighed.
Also working in the Metropolitan Police Department, Miwako Sato had never heard of Officer Shirakawa's name.
When encountering some very complex cases, whether from her late father or from other seniors in the Metropolitan Police Department, she would occasionally hear words like "It would be great if Officer Shirakawa was still around."
However, every time when Sato Miwako wanted to ask more questions, they seemed to be worried about something. They only told her that she was a very outstanding senior in the police circles. As for more, they didn't say a word. Kenti...
"Does Officer Sato know anything about Officer Shirakawa?" Karasuma Ying suddenly asked.
There was really too little useful information in this file. Apart from leaving the name Akai Marie for her, it only added to her doubts.
"I don't understand."
Sato Miwako shook her head, "After all, he was a senior who died in the line of duty when I was eight years old. How could I understand, but..."
Speaking of this, Sato Miwako changed the subject and said with some uncertainty:
"One time when we were having a celebration banquet, I heard the drunk Officer Memu mention something accidentally..."
"What?"
"Officer Baihe seemed to be the chosen candidate for the next police chief."
"Huh? Unofficial decision?" Karasuma Ying was stunned when she heard this.
Police Chief, the highest police rank in Japan, can this position still be reserved?
However, if this statement is true, it can indeed explain Bai Heqing's bizarre job promotion speed...
"Um."
Sato Miwako nodded and continued: "Of course, I'm not sure about this, after all, this is just what Officer Megure said while drunk, and it's hard to determine whether it's true or false.
I remember that the person who held the position of Police Director at that time was Mr. Hatoyama... Then it seems that more than ten years ago, Mr. Hatoyama was transferred to the Chief of the Police Department, and the position of Police Director was replaced by the current Hakuba. Police Superintendent.
If Officer Megure’s statement is correct and Officer Shirakawa was not killed in the bombing twenty years ago, then he should be the police chief now..."
"Officer Baihe...is there someone above?" Karasumaying asked.
This can be easily guessed from what Miwako Sato said.
The record-breaking promotion speed, the once-preferred candidate for police director... If it weren't for someone above, there would be no way to explain all of this.
"It should be, but I don't know who it is." Miwako Sato replied.
The story of Officer Baihe is really too long. For such a past-tense figure, most people in the police community today have only heard of it. In fact, very few people really know about it, and most of them have not become high-level police officers. , that is, has retired or died in the line of duty.
For middle- and lower-class police officers like them, it is indeed difficult to find out about his past.
"It was such a complicated past..." Karasumaying turned to look out the window and sighed softly.
"What's wrong? You look sad?" Miwako Sato glanced at her and asked with a smile.
"It's nothing, I just suddenly felt that there are so many secrets in this world."
"A secret? Detectives should all like these things, right?"
"Well, if it was a real detective, he would probably like it very much..."
In this way, the two of them chatted all the way to the police station. After taking notes on today's case, Karasuma Ying was sent back to the Mori Detective Agency by Sato Miwako.
Tokyo has been very lively recently. After sending Karasuma Ying off, Sato Miwako rushed to the Mihua International Hospital without stopping, while Karasuma Ying walked to the office alone.
"Sister Ying, are you back? Have you finished the transcript?"
As soon as she opened the door and took off her coat, Mao Lilan in the kitchen heard the sound, turned around and stuck her head out, and asked with a smile.
"Well, are you cooking?"
Putting aside the messy thoughts in her mind for the time being, Karasuma Ying also smiled and nodded, and walked straight towards the kitchen.
In the office, Mouri Kogoro was still sitting behind his desk watching Ms. Yoko's program, while Conan was sitting on the sofa with a heavy bag on his head and a solemn expression, lowering his head in thought, and didn't even notice Wu. The appearance of Maruying.
You don't need to guess to know that he is still thinking about the Onymar who last appeared this morning.
Karasuma Ying is actually a little curious about this, if she thought that Onymar was just a murderer with a pure hobby of performance art.
Ever since Onymar snatched the picture album this morning, she had vaguely realized that there might be some special secrets hidden behind Onymar...
If she had time later, she would try to investigate... Even though she said that, Karasumaying always felt that she would definitely be involved in the end.
After all, the file she had high hopes for could not completely answer her doubts. Although she caught the name of Akai Marie, it was just a name. In fact, she had no idea where to start now. Start investigating.
As for asking family members for help?
Karasumaying didn't even think about this. Even if those Riddlers did speak, they would probably be deceiving her...
"By the way, Sister Ying, you have a courier. I brought it up for you when I went upstairs. It's on the table over there." In the kitchen, Mao Lilan suddenly said.
"My delivery?"
Karasumaying was a little surprised. She turned around and saw a package sealed in a small paper box on the table next to her.
"Well, it's still anonymous." Mao Lilan replied.
"anonymous?"
Karasuma Ying frowned when she heard this. She took the switchblade beside her and carefully opened the outer paper box, and then... she saw a stack of banknotes neatly placed inside.
【EUR? 】
Karasuma Ying looked confused.
The number of this stack of euros is not large. It is estimated that there are tens of thousands...
So, why would anyone send her this?
By the way, can this thing really be delivered by express delivery?
Just when Karasumaying was confused, she saw a note sandwiched in a cardboard box.
This is a folded piece of paper with a series of special combinations of dots and lines arranged on it, like Morse code.
Suddenly realizing something, Karasumaying carefully looked at the combination of dots and lines, her eyes gradually becoming serious.
According to the interpretation method given to her by her sister when she was a child, she deciphered the content on the paper, which was a place name.
Kingdom of Andrew.
The next chapter will be later (﹃)
(End of chapter)
