"So, Detective Akechi, regarding what happened twenty years ago, do you want to know the follow-up now?" By the time it was close to noon, except for still feeling a little weak, Gao Yuan was basically healthy and saw Lai Yuan. Mitarai Munexuo visiting him.
Faced with such a frank inquiry, Gao Yuan didn't say much and just nodded.
Immediately, Mitarai Munexu took out a document and placed it in front of Gao Yuan——
"Last night, when talking about what happened after Xiaocai ran away from home, I talked about an incident that happened at Muroran Port twenty years ago, right? And the turning point of the matter was at that time..." He seemed a little helpless. Yes, Mitarai Munexu explained: "At that time, we investigated that Xiaocai had applied for an overseas visa and was going to take a passenger ship to the United States at Muroran Port. So, after getting this news, while the passenger ship had not yet After setting sail, under the arrangement of my brother, I drove to Muroran to look for Xiaocai's whereabouts. However, no one expected that at that time, a huge typhoon hit Muroran, and my car happened to be in It anchored halfway and couldn't get to Muroran Port in time." Speaking of this, Mitarai Munexu paused for a moment, and then sighed: "Originally, because of the typhoon, the passenger ship couldn't have been there at that time anyway. I was out at sea, so when I was stuck on the road, I didn’t feel much urgency about the vehicle breaking down. Anyway, I felt that Xiao Cai’s trip would definitely be postponed because of the typhoon. Therefore. , then when I can’t get in touch with the outside world, I can only be trapped in the car without doing anything.
"It wasn't until the next day, after the impact of the typhoon diminished, that I finally met other passers-by, and then I took their cars to the city, and then I contacted my brother. , and it was at that time that I learned that an explosion occurred at Muroran Port just last night..." And just when he heard this, Gao Yuan had already opened the file handed over by Mitarai Soxu. , what I saw above were all kinds of clippings from newspapers, news about the tragic explosion of Muroran Port twenty years ago——
"On the night of the typhoon, an explosion occurred in the waiting hall of Muroran Port... It is reported that after the police arrived at the scene, it was confirmed that there were dozens of victims at the scene, and their identities have yet to be determined..."
"Currently, the police have blocked the Muroran Port Terminal..."
"The cause of the explosion has not yet been identified, and the police have not announced the details of the explosion yet..." Gao Yuan roughly read the news content in order, and only saw the news above. At the beginning, he was still reporting on the explosion in the waiting hall. People died, but later on, as the police became more involved, less and less information was reported. Basically, the identity of the deceased, the cause of the explosion and other details were reported within a few days of the incident. , have not been disclosed to the outside world.
Instead, it was about four or five days before I saw the list of missing persons announced by the police on the news.
And among them,
The name "Mitarashi Aya" was prominently on the list. Of course, under Gao Yuan's deliberate search, in this list, there are things like
"Nagase Ringo" or
The name "Hanada Xiaozhi" did not appear among them. In this regard, when Mitarai Munexu saw that Gao Yuan had climbed to that list, Mitarai Munexu continued: "Yes, because this incident is too involved, the media's reporting on this incident has been restricted. , so the specific details of the incident were not disclosed in the newspaper..." Helplessly, Mitarai Zongxu closed his eyes, seeming to recall the solemn atmosphere inside the Mitarai family when he saw the list of missing persons. Let yourself remember it fresh——
"As you can see, although the cause of the incident was not reported in detail in the news, in fact, the police interviewed those passengers who had to check in at nearby hotels because of delays caused by the typhoon. , we still found out that the people who stayed in the waiting hall of Muroran Port that night were also the passengers who were stranded at the port because of the typhoon." Mitarai Munexuo continued to explain: "Because the weather forecast at that time was very dangerous for the typhoon to land. The time prediction was wrong, which led all the passengers on the passenger ship to think that the ship could leave the port on time and avoid the typhoon. Because of this, all the passengers arrived near Muroran Port, but unexpectedly encountered When there was a typhoon, everyone had to stay near the port. As a result, the hotel rooms near the port were quickly filled with people. As a result, those passengers who did not stay in the hotel could only stay in the waiting hall of the port. ..." Listening to Mitarai Munexu's story silently, Gao Yuan understood that this was what he had heard from Nakagawa Mome through Akechi Kengo's vigilance.
The "tragic incident twenty years ago" - but what I know are the details of the incident that happened in the ship hall at that time...
"In other words, there was no check-in record for Ms. Cai among the passengers who stayed at the hotel at that time, so Ms. Cai, who was determined to board the ship to go abroad, was identified as one of the possible victims of the explosion in the waiting hall?" Like through As Mitarai Munexu analyzed and the news in his hand, Gao Yuan actually roughly understood what was going on and asked Mitarai Munexu.
"Absolutely, that's it." Nodding, Mitarai Munexuu responded, then his expression changed, and he said in an extremely serious tone: "However, we didn't know the more specific situation until the police came to the door later - —
"It turns out that according to a detailed investigation by the police, all the passengers who died in the waiting hall, including the staff of the waiting hall, had been killed with sharp weapons long before the explosion, and some of them were even cut off. The murderer's method is extremely vicious!"——
"Sure enough..." Hearing this, Gao Yuan nodded silently in his heart - this was indeed consistent with what he knew.
So, Gao Yuan thoughtfully began to ask: "The police came to the door? Is it because they found something at the scene? Or is it a routine inquiry to the family members based on the list of missing persons?"
"Both." Nodding, Mitarai Munexuu responded: "At that time, the police found a pair of severed limbs of a young woman at the scene, and searched the scene but could not find where the body was... And based on the list of missing persons, it is inferred that these limbs are most likely...belonging to Xiaocai..." - At that time, the young woman whose limbs were severed, according to what she knew, should have been twenty years ago. the one
"Louis," whose stage name is
"Nagase Ringo", real name
"Hanada Kochi", the dying actress who was pregnant with Mr. Nishikawa Tejo's illegitimate daughter... And after her limbs were cut off, she was the one who rushed to the scene later.
"Cointreau" was rescued by Taro Asami, but the severed limb... Because the gender and age of the limb were calculated, the police connected it with Aya Mitarai who was on the missing list?
"Back then, 'DNA' testing was not as common as it is now. Because the gender, age, and even blood type of the amputated limbs could all be matched, so at that time, we really thought that Xiaocai was buried in that tragedy. Hit..." While Gao Yuan was thinking, Mitarai Munexu said helplessly...
