While Tang Cheng and Wang Liang were sitting in the coffee shop and chatting in low voices, Hongkou District was completely sealed off. A large number of military police troops appeared at various street corners in Hongkou District. Whether they were Japanese expatriates living in Hongkou District, People from other countries must undergo the most severe interrogation by the military police. The izakaya that Tangcheng had turned into a killing field was surrounded by military police troops. All the people entering and leaving the place were powerful figures from the Shanghai Military Police Headquarters and the Special Higher Education Course.
"Oshima-kun, I've seen the scene, what do you think?" Lieutenant Colonel Takahashi, who was dressed in military uniform, stood in front of the izakaya. The Oshima Ueno he asked was a trace expert from the Shanghai Special High School, following him Kazuo Takahashi, a squadron leader in the military police force, was a middle school classmate. More than 50 corpses were brought out of an izakaya. This was undoubtedly a big event, especially among these corpses were several people known to Kazuo Takahashi.
When asked by Kazuo Takahashi, Oshima Ueno paused for a moment, then stretched out his hand to adjust the glasses on the bridge of his nose out of habit, and then spoke. "Judging from the situation at the scene, all the victims on the second floor were shot at close range. According to the analysis of the warheads we found at the scene, the murderer should have used a Mauser ****, which the Chinese call a shell gun. . And the murderer’s marksmanship was very good. Few of the corpses on the second floor were shot twice in the body, almost all of them were killed with one shot.”
Kazuo Takahashi nodded slightly when he heard this. Killing him with one shot undoubtedly shows that the murderer's marksmanship is very good. It also proves that the murderer is very conceited, and he is so conceited that he doesn't need to shoot again. "As for the corpses downstairs, they were killed by intensive gunfire. Most of the corpses had more than three bullet holes. My judgment is that the weapon used by the murderer on the first floor should be a German MP18***. This kind of There are a lot of German-style bombs in China, and the warheads we found downstairs also proved to be 9mm pistol bullets."
"So, according to your inference, Oshima-kun, the murderer should be no less than two people?" Kazuo Takahashi doesn't care about what weapon the murderer used. He just cares about what clues are available at the moment. If he can If you find favorable clues before the senior management becomes angry, you may face less trouble.
As a high school classmate and good friend, Oshima Ueno naturally would not hide anything from Kazuo Takahashi, and immediately shook his head. "No, the murderer is not two people. I am sure of this. After receiving the report from the patrol last night, I led people into the scene. Based on the analysis of the number of warheads we found at the scene, the murderer fired at least more than 130 bullets in this izakaya. Fire bullets. Among the 130 rounds, 24 were Mauser pistol bullets, and the rest were all 9mm pistol bullets."
"After that, we reenacted the scene according to the traces, and found that if the murderers were two people, shooting from upstairs and downstairs at the same time, they would never be able to reach the scene. Especially we found an interesting situation on the second floor. The people who died on the second floor had hardly moved, which means that when they were shot by the murderer, they were completely unprepared."
What Oshima Ueno just said was a doubt that he couldn't figure out. No matter how fast the murderer moved, it would be impossible to carry out continuous shootings from house to house on the second floor without alarming people. After all, Mauser The gunfire when the pistol is fired is not small. Oshima Ueno's doubts also infected Takahashi Kazuo. Like Oshima Ueno, Takahashi Kazuo also had a puzzled face, and he was secretly thinking about how the murderer did it.
"Maybe the murderer has a way to block the sound of gunshots... I heard those guys who returned from studying in Germany say that the Germans are already developing weapons specially equipped for agents and spies." Kazuo Takahashi suddenly remembered what he had heard A rumor came to him. If the person standing next to him at this moment was not his old classmate and friend Oshima Ueno, he would definitely not tell this rumor. After all, the news has not been confirmed yet.
"****?" Oshima Ueno, who was helpless, seemed to suddenly become enlightened, "By the way, the murderer must have a way to block the sound of the gunfire, otherwise he would never be able to kill the second-floor Masaru in such a short time. Everyone in the room, unless the number of murderers is the same as the number of private rooms on the second floor, they all acted together!" Oshima Ueno said this through gritted teeth, but Takahashi Kazuo knew that his old man The friend must have calculated the number of murderers, otherwise he would not have said that the murderers blocked the sound of gunshots.
According to the conclusion reached by Oshima Ueno and others after investigating the scene, the murderer first shot and killed the guests in the private room on the second floor, and then intensively shot the individual guests in the lobby on the first floor. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with what Oshima Ueno said just now. . Just a few breaths later, Oshima Ueno's expression changed again, because he suddenly realized that his speculation just now did not seem to be quite right. "No, if the murderers were able to block the sound of gunfire, then why didn't they block the sound of gunfire when they fired intensively at the individual travelers in the lobby on the first floor? The patrol team who reported the situation clearly stated that they arrived here after hearing the sound of gunfire. Come."
Just when Oshima Ueno was deep in thought, a Japanese plainclothes member of the Special High School suddenly came out of the izakaya, "Section Chief, we have a new discovery here!" The whisper of the plainclothes team member awakened Oshima Ueno, and he immediately and Kazuo Takahashi followed the plainclothes member into the izakaya and went up the stairs to the second floor. "Section Chief, come and see." The plainclothes team member who led the way took Oshima Ueno and Takahashi Kazuo directly into the private room on the second floor opposite the door of the izakaya.
"According to your previous order, section chief, several of us repeatedly deduced the murderer's actions here, and the final result was the same. The murderer must have acted on the second floor first, and then attacked the individual guests in the lobby on the first floor. . But in our deduction just now, Mr. Ogura made a new discovery." The Yi Yiyi plainclothes leader who led the way did not mean to take over everything. Instead, after introducing the situation, he gave the next opportunity to make a statement to Mr. That companion named Isamu Ogura.
Ogura Isamu was also a plainclothes team member under Oshima Ueno's tree. When he saw Oshima Ueno, the section chief, looking at him intently, he couldn't help but cough lightly first, and then said what he wanted first. "Section Chief, there are six private rooms on the second floor of this izakaya. We only counted the number of corpses in the private rooms on the second floor, but we did not pay attention to the connection between these corpses." Isamu Ogura said about this connection. During the lyrics, both Oshima Ueno and Takahashi Kazuo were obviously stunned, thinking about the connection between the corpses, what the hell is this?
Ogura Isamu, who had been secretly paying attention to his boss's expression and reaction, immediately explained, "Section Chief, what I mean is that people who come to the izakaya are usually not alone. I clearly remember that when we arrived When the scene was being investigated here, there were different numbers of corpses in the private rooms upstairs. People who came to a place like this would never be in the same private room with strangers, but there were three corpses in this private room. , but he is an officer of the military police force, the proprietress of a tavern, and a grain merchant."
"Get to the point!" It seemed that Ogura Isamu had said too many digressions. Oshima Ueno's face immediately showed impatience, and he couldn't help scolding him.
"Section Chief, what I'm talking about next is the key point. The appearance of the izakaya proprietress in this private room can be interpreted as her sending a familiar guest upstairs. I do know this military police officer. His name is Masaki Okawa is a lieutenant in the military police force. This person has no special hobbies. His only shortcoming is a bad temper, and he is very disdainful of the fact that some officers in the army secretly do business in partnership with businessmen. "
"How can an officer who despises businessmen be in the same private room as a two-room businessman?" Seeing Oshima Ueno beginning to show impatience, Ogura Isamu had to speed up his speech and said in a hurry Come up with the answer. "I saw the corpses in several other private rooms, and in the private room at the entrance of the stairs, I found an officer from the same hometown as Masaki Okawa who also served in the military police force. But in that private room, the other corpses were all dead. It is affiliated with the Naval Command.”
When Ogura Yong said that the body of a military police officer appeared in the private room where naval officers gathered, Takahashi Kazuo immediately reacted. He already understood what Ogura Isamu wanted to express. The relationship between the Gendarmerie and the Navy has always been tense, especially after the Gendarmerie detained two officers of the Navy who were drunk on the street last month. Several fights have broken out between the Gendarmerie and the Navy. For some reason, there will never be any gendarmerie officers in the gathering place of naval headquarters officers.
Oshima Ueno also reacted later, then looked at Ogura Yuu and said, "You mean, the bodies in these private rooms have been moved? And that was before we came here?" Oshima Ueno said Immediately ordered to check the information of all the corpses at the scene. Although the IDs of all the corpses at the scene were missing, with the strong cooperation of the military police and the Navy Command, in just one hour, all the more than 50 corpses in the izakaya were checked Show your identity.
According to the relationship between the corpses, Oshima Ueno and the others rearranged the corpses in the private room on the second floor. As a result, they found that the private room opposite the izakaya was vacant. "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible, how could it be like this?" After all the bowls and chopsticks in the private room on the second floor were redistributed according to the number of people, there was only one pair of bowls and chopsticks in this private room. This result made Oshima Ueno His expression changed drastically.
Ogura Yong's discovery was indeed sharp. After everyone restored the scene, all signs showed that the murderer who had appeared in the izakaya seemed to be just one person. One person killed an entire izakaya. This result also made Kazuo Takahashi unbelievable. Even the most powerful veteran in the Japanese army would not be able to do such a thing alone!
