"Dear Officer Uehara, hello.

"Congratulations on successfully passing the test and winning your qualification to participate in this game. Truth be told, I appreciate your performance, and I remember your swiftness and rational judgment vividly.

"So, I'm looking forward to seeing you before this game is over, and I hope you don't disappoint me.

"PS: The game starts now."

The calm tone, the face of the ancient well without waves. The man who looked down at the fax in his hand read the words on it at a very slow pace, and there were many police officers who had heard the news around him.

The naked provocation jumped on the page, causing the police to be extremely angry.

"That's enough, don't hang around yet, let's get to work."

Seeing that Katsumi Uehara didn't say a word after reading the contents of the fax, Miwako Sato, who knew this man's temperament, couldn't help but dispel the inner and outer three layers of the human wall.

Chiba Kazushi, who also noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with Uehara's state of Katsumi, frowned: "Uehara, you ......"

"I'm fine, it's just that I suddenly want to take this bastard to the interrogation room and ravage it." The five fingers of his right hand, which had grasped the fax tightly, slowly loosened, and Katsumi Uehara raised his eyes and smiled, fixing the paper on the blackboard.

"I'll check this fax."

The upright young man Wataru Takagi was also choked by this pure face-jumping crime notice letter, took out his mobile phone to take pictures of the information displayed on the fax machine, and then hurriedly walked out of the office area of the third department with a black face.

Chiba and Shin, who also didn't look very good on their faces, gritted their teeth: "I'll go and monitor the situation over there." ”

The monitoring of the Takasugi Group building and the monitoring of the intersection leading to the place where the body was found at the time of the serial murder may not have yielded much success, but it is indeed one of the several types of investigation methods that the police can use at present.

After watching the two leave, Miwako Sato leaned on the desk, raised her right hand and put it on Katsumi Uehara's shoulder and patted it: "Don't worry, we'll catch him." ”

"That's not what I'm thinking."

Katsumi Uehara shook his head, his gaze firmly locked on the blackboard full of case analysis: "Don't you think it's strange, Sato." ”

"You mean this fax?" Leaning on the corner of the desk, Miwako Sato, with her arms crossed over her chest, raised her eyes and fell on the fax posted on the blackboard: "It's really strange, the prisoner seems to have suddenly become high-profile." ”

The serial murder case at the beginning was extremely low-key, and he didn't even dare to fart in the face of police investigation, but he just maintained the progress of one corpse a day and constantly stimulated the nerves of the police personnel led by Shiratori Renzaburo;

But after the serial murder case, the prisoner, who had been silent for a few days, suddenly became high-profile. Not only did he dare to send people to swagger and appear on the police investigation route, but now he even dared to fax the extremely ridiculous crime notice letter directly to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Judging from the current series of performances, it is clear that the prisoner is not a mentally disordered madman. The only explanation is that he had done all the arrangements in the quiet of a few days, and would be confident that we would walk every step of the way he wanted......"

Muttering about the results after thinking, Miwako Sato's eyes fell on the photos of the seven deceased in the serial murder case, her brows furrowed, as if she had thought of something, and suddenly turned her head to look at Katsumi Uehara beside her-

The latter took the fax from the blackboard and raised it at her, "If that's the case, if the game is to go the way he wants, then the prisoner needs an NPC to guide us to the next step." ”

"That fitness instructor you caught at the Takasugi Foundation."

"That's right."

The two looked at each other, then immediately got up and walked to the interrogation room where the fitness trainer was.

"Huh? What about people? ”

Not long after, at the door of the office area, Mori Kogoro pushed the door with the client who had just arrived at the Metropolitan Police Department. As soon as he raised his eyes, the figures of Katsumi Uehara and the others all disappeared, leaving only a blackboard with a tree-like analysis map of the case standing alone in front of Miwako Sato's desk.

Beside Maori Kogoro, a woman in a dark blue trench coat was also puzzled: "Maori detective, is it true that you said that the police changed people to investigate the case of my husband's death in a car accident?" ”

"Yes, Mrs. Miyazawa. For now, it is likely that your husband's death is related to a horrific serial murder. However, please keep this matter secret for the time being, the police have been blocking the news about the serial murder case, in order to avoid causing panic in public opinion. ”

As a former criminal police officer, Kogoro Mori naturally knows exactly what the police are trying to stop the news of the serial killings for.

"Serial murders?"

Yuka Miyazawa frowned, her eyes followed the direction of Mori Kogoro's gaze, and the blackboard with her husband's photo came into view for a moment.

Next to the photo of her husband, Nobu Miyazawa, there are photos of nine people — seven of them with death written below, nothing written under the eighth, and "arrested" written under the ninth.

"Coach Kirino?" Seeing the photo of the man who was arrested, the woman named Yuka Miyazawa showed a little surprise between her eyebrows.

Hearing this, Maori Kogoro was stunned: "Mrs. Miyazawa, do you know him?" ”

…………………………………………

"No, I don't know, I don't even know who he is!"

In the interrogation room, the man who had been in a state of silence since his arrest finally spoke in the face of the two policemen who had come in again in the face of the two policemen who had entered the police again, especially after seeing the fax in their hands.

And this opening is so excited that it is almost a broken voice: "I don't know anything, really, you believe me, I really don't know anything!"

"The guy kidnapped my wife and daughter, left a letter in my house for me to follow what it said, and he also called and said that if he called the police, he would kill my wife and daughter, I had no choice!

"If you go to my house now, you should still be able to find the letter that the guy left for me, right in the bedside table in my bedroom! I'm not lying! Believe me, you believe me! ”

Katsumi Uehara, who slapped the fax on the table, pressed his hands into the void a few times, signaling the man not to be excited and calm: "OK, don't get excited, I believe in you, Mr. Kirino." But I need to know if the prisoner has ever given you anything, such as what he said to the police or what he asked the police to do. ”

"Yes! Yes! The guy told me on the phone to tell me to wait until the police received his faxes, otherwise he would kill my wife and daughter. ”

The man nodded busily: "He said he would make those who deserve it pay the price of blood!" ”