Someone died.

After receiving the report, Watanabe immediately took Nakamura, a newcomer who had just graduated from the police academy and was admitted to the Metropolitan Police Department and joined the mobile search team, to change his destination and go to the scene. Nakamura drove, and Watanabe sat in the co-pilot and looked out the window, all his ears were Nakamura's excited analysis voice.

"Watanabe-san, the location of the crime is in Itabashi Honcho, Itabashi District. Information received from the police officer indicated that the deceased was a middle-aged man living alone and that the death was peculiar, but the details were unclear. At two o'clock in the middle of the night, if he kills, where will the murderer leave? There are not many monitoring and control in Banqiao District, only where there is a lot of traffic, if you are familiar with this area, it is easy to find the monitoring blind spot to escape. Nakamura said, "But it's more important to have to arrive at the scene to be sure." If it's suicide, I can't rule it out·······"

Nakamura guessed a lot and set different assumptions just from the simple alarm data, which was very positive. Oh, not seemingly, but really, very positively.

Watanabe, who was sitting next to him, moved, raised his hand to look at his watch, and after two and five in the morning, he said a halt.

A child who has just graduated from a police academy is like this, and he is more excited to meet a murder than a dog with meat buns. It's also normal, Nakamura has been coming to the mobile search team for almost a month, and basically dealing with traffic collisions, neighborhood complaints, peach love triangles, sending old people with Heimer's disease home, and looking for cats and dogs.

Of course, there are big cases in Tokyo, but this has little to do with mobile search teams. At most, they went to the scene with a police handbook to record the case, and temporarily protected the scene to calm the crowd before the search bureau arrived. There is also the right to do basic surveys, but it always seems a bit nosy.

The Mobile Search Unit and the Search Division are two concepts that are accepted by everyone, and only police officers with excellent performance will be transferred to the Search Division, and Nakamura's goal is this. However, Watanabe didn't have much desire for this, and he was originally transferred from the Fourth Department of Violent Crime in the Search Section to the Mobile Search Team. The police rank has not changed, and he is still the Minister of Inspection. Now they are the captain of the sixth team of the third search team.

However, from the Search Bureau to the Mobile Search Team, the rank of the police has not changed, and the status is much lower. What's more, Watanabe had every chance to be promoted to the police department before, and according to his current age, it is not impossible to become a police department.

However, an incident happened ten years ago that made him lose the heart to continue to improve, and then he came to the mobile search team, and it was not bad to be a squad leader honestly and do something practical and useful to the people.

At this moment, he looked at Nakamura, who was very excited, but he didn't pour cold water, newcomers, he always had to be excited, normal. From this point of view, Watanabe is a good leader, at least there is no bad problem that discourages people's enthusiasm.

After Nakamura finished speaking, he finally asked, "What do you think of Watanabe-san?" ”

"What do you think?" Watanabe retracted his gaze to look at him, "Let's see at the scene." ”

After saying that, Watanabe put the warning light on the roof of the car, and the two headed to their destination with a whistling sound. I don't know how many people who are sleeping lightly are woken up along the way.

Arrive at a one-house building area located in Itabashi Honmachi, Itabashi Ward, far from the main road. Nakamura parked his car in front of the house with Sato's business card written on it, and looked left and right for the person who called the police. Soon, a man in a trench coat and cotton slippers appeared in the next house.

Watanabe walked over with Nakamura and took out his police ID: "Hello, we are police officers of the 3rd Search Team. I'm Watanabe, and this is Nakamura. ”

"You're finally here." The man said, "The person is in the room, and the scene is really ·······"

"You called the police, right? Inoue-san? Watanabe asked, taking the initiative with a simple sentence.

"Yes, I'm Inoue."

"Inoue-san, you and Sato-san are neighbors. You called the police and said Sato-san was killed? ”

"Yes." Inoue said, "I'm watching TV at home late because I've been suffering from insomnia lately, and I heard a lot of yelling just now, and it's miserable, and I shudder when I think about it now." Then I saw something happen to Sato-san. ”

He continued: "I don't know the specific situation, Watanabe Crime, Nakamura Crime, you come to my house, from the second floor can see some of the opposite situation. ”

"Hmm." Watanabe nodded and looked back at Nakamura, "Nakamura, you investigate the Sato residence." Let's see if there's anyone first, I'll go next door and take a look. Stay safe. ”

"Got Watanabe-san." Nakamura back.

Inoue opens the door, and Watanabe enters his house to see the layout of the room. Two families and one family are built next to each other.

Inoue said to Watanabe, looking still frightened: "I was watching TV on the first floor, and when I heard the sound, I immediately went to the second floor, and I could see the situation opposite through the bedroom window. I saw Sato-san, Sato-san's head, from his body········ Dropped. Then, the neck spurted blood, which was terrifying. ”

"I immediately called the police, I was afraid that the murderer was nearby, so I didn't go down to meet you criminals, I'm very sorry."

"These are all trivial matters, and Inoue-san's personal safety is also something we need to protect." Watanabe replied.

During the conversation, the two went up to the second floor, and Inoue stood at the door of the bedroom room and didn't dare to go in: "Criminal, I—I won't look at it." ”

"Hmm." Watanabe understood, pushed the door in, and soon noticed the window that Inoue was talking about that could see the situation in the next room. He was ready to enter the door and glance next door.

However, everything works fine.

After experiencing Inoue's foreshadowing, Watanabe is fully convinced that he has encountered a difficult case - Inoue's reaction cannot be faked, Watanabe, as a veteran police officer, is sure.

But everything works fine.

The opposite window and door were closed, and there was no trace of blood spattered, and there was nothing out of the ordinary. Even on winter nights, the warm yellow lamps fill the room.

The lights were on on the second floor, only the lights were on on the second floor, but there was no one, but the quilt on the bed was messy. Everything shows that there should be someone, but there is no Buddha-figure.

Watanabe folded his arms in his hands, his brows furrowed.

Seeing that there was no movement in the room, Inoue, who was full of curiosity, couldn't help but walk in lightly, half-squinting his eyes: "Watanabe Criminal, how is the situation?" ”

Watanabe came back to his senses and asked, "Inoue-san, are you sure?" The tragedy next door. ”

"Of course!" Inoue couldn't stand Watanabe's skeptical tone, and suddenly looked next door with wide eyes, "I'm ······ with my own eyes"

Before he finished speaking, he was stunned when he saw the quiet appearance of the next door, and then leaned forward with his hands on the edge of the window: "Impossible, I obviously saw it." How come the corpses, and the overwhelming amount of blood, are all gone? ”

Watanabe observes Inoue's performance and believes his words in his heart, but the reality is in front of him.

Watanabe thought for a moment and said, "Please wait, we have to continue to understand the situation." ”