Chapter 57: Claiming the Body

"Mr. Chiba, madam, after coming in with me for a while, you just need to confirm with me whether the deceased is Chiba Ryoma!"

Aizawa stood at the door of the morgue and said to the old couple with some embarrassment. Bringing relatives to identify the corpse or something, but it's the job that makes Aizawa feel the most headache!

As the door to the morgue was slowly pushed open, the staff inside poked their heads out and nodded to Aizawa. Aizawa then turned to the old couple behind him and said:

"Please come in with me!"

With Xiang Ze's permission, the three of them walked into the morgue, and at this moment, on a cold iron bed in the center of the room, a corpse was lying there quietly. The top of the corpse was covered with a white sheet, and this oppressive atmosphere was almost unbearable for the Chiba couple.

After Aizawa brought the Chiba couple to the side of the corpse, he first stood with his hands folded to express his respect for the deceased. After the salute, Aizawa slowly walked to the position of the head of the corpse, grabbed the two corners of the cloth sheet covering the corpse with both hands, and then asked the Chiba couple:

"It's ready!"

The Chiba couple looked at Aizawa a little bewildered, and then nodded hesitantly. Aizawa nodded in response after getting the other party's authorization again, and then he gently lifted the cloth sheet, allowing the deceased's face to appear in front of the Chiba couple.

Mrs. Chiba looked at Ryojin lying there with some surprise, she raised her trembling hand and pointed at Ryojin's body, and then looked at Aizawa again, with a somewhat reluctant smile on her face, but tears couldn't help but roll down the slightly wrinkled corners of her eyes.

"Is it enough?" Aizawa avoided Mrs. Chiba's gaze with some reluctance. Then he slowly covered the sheet back again. There was silence in the morgue at this moment. Despite the same grief and indignation, Mr. Chiba held his wife in his arms and gave his wife one last support. Mrs. Chiba, on the other hand, tried her best to cover her mouth and control her crying voice with all her might.

"Mr. Chiba, may I ask ......?"

"Hey, this is Inuko Ryojin, we're ...... We couldn't be more sure......!"

Without waiting for Mr. Chiba to answer the question raised by Aizawa, the other party's emotions could no longer be held. The two poor old men hugged each other and wept bitterly.

Seeing this, the staff at the scene and Aizawa hurriedly helped the victim's relatives out. Until this time, Chiba Ryozhen's death was recognized by his family.

"Please pay your respects, please rest assured, we will not let go of the murderer!"

Aizawa looked at the victim with some shame, and then bowed deeply to the two. At this moment, Mrs. Chiba, who was grief-stricken just now because of Ryozhen's death, suddenly complained to him with some anger after hearing Aizawa's words:

"It's all your fault for the police, if only I had honestly let the other party take the ransom, my children wouldn't have left us at such a young age......"

"What are you talking about, Mr. Police has worked hard!"

Perhaps thinking that what his wife said was really excessive, Mr. Chiba hurriedly reprimanded his wife's rude remarks just now. But hearing Mr. Chiba's words, Aizawa felt even more ashamed!

"I'm so sorry!"

Aizawa said, his head lowered, and at this moment, the guilt in his heart made him feel shameless to face the victim's relatives.

Aizawa is not the only one who feels guilty. At this moment, the Shenmu Police Department, which was silently injecting all this at the end of the corridor, also bowed deeply and apologized silently to the victim's relatives. Even Lin Xiuyi, who was with the Shenmu Police Department, and several colleagues who accompanied him, all fell into deep self-blame for the victim's relatives.

Comforted by an accompanying female police officer, the two poor old men slowly left the cold corpse room with grief-stricken hearts. It wasn't until the couple walked away that everyone slowly straightened up.

"Seniors don't need to blame themselves, there are many things, not seniors can decide!"

As soon as Lin Xiu saw Shenmu's somewhat lonely expression, he couldn't bear to lean up and explain to the other party.

"Xiu Yijun, don't comfort me anymore! I won't shirk my responsibility for this incident no matter what!"

"But ......"

"Okay, I understand your good intentions, but I can't continue to work on this case, so I can only ask you to work hard with my share. If I were to retire in humiliation, I would never agree with it......"

The Shenmu Police Department was unwilling to entrust Lin Xiuyi. Then he turned around and bowed deeply to Lin Xiuyi.

"Please, the dignity of the entire Seven Series, this time I will ask you to cultivate Yijun!"

Seeing this situation, Lin Xiuyi also hurriedly returned the salute to the other party:

"Hey...... I will definitely try not to disappoint my seniors!"

……

When the Shenmu Police Department and Lin Xiuyi said goodbye to each other, Lin Xiuyi looked at Shenmu's slightly heavy back, and couldn't help but feel a trace of sadness in his heart. At this time, the Shenmu Police Department is very similar to the Kuwashima Police Department back then. As a cadre of the Metropolitan Police Department, you must have the consciousness to sacrifice for the organization at any time. When the entire Metropolitan Police Department is plunged into a sea of public opinion, there is nothing more satisfying for the people to resign the police officer who led the case. And a police department like the Shenmu Police Department, which is not an elite bureaucrat, no matter how many difficult cases it cracks, in the eyes of its superiors, it is just fulfilling its due duties. After all, in a place like Raid Yi, cracking a case is really a common thing.

"Police, are we going to visit Officer Tanaka now?"

"Oh, Hanagata, let's go!"

Lin Xiu whispered yes, and then walked in the direction of the morgue. Behind him, those subordinates who were still following the Shenmu Police Department a few days ago continued to search the case under the leadership of Lin Xiuyi at this time. At this moment, there was an extremely strong contrast between Lin Xiuyi, who was followed by everyone, and the Shenmu Police Department, who was alone.

In the empty corridor, the echo of the sound of leather shoes on the floor makes this most quiet place in the Metropolitan Police Department seem worthy of its name. And Chiyo Tanaka, who heard the footsteps, also walked out of the office at this time, and greeted the visit of the search class with a smile.

"Chiyo-san meets again, the autopsy is over!"

"Hey, there's something strange to report to you!"

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