The time-engraved bag was opened, revealing a thick pile of bound papers.

On the front page of the document is a yellowed and old portrait, and Juanxiu's handwriting details the detailed personal information of Bai Heqing, the owner of the file.

These materials are roughly the same as what Karasuma Ying has found on the Internet before, but there is also a lot of information that cannot be found on the Internet.

Kiyoshi Shirakawa was born in Tokyo during the war years to a poor family with no siblings and his parents died of illness when he was young.

In order to earn enough for himself to live and tuition, Shirakawa Kiyoshi worked part-time as an assistant in many detective agencies in Tokyo at the time before he became an adult.

After graduating from high school, Shirakawa Kiyoshi enrolled in a special international university.

The reason why it is special is that although this university is known as an international university, it was actually a special school for the "upper-class children" of Tokyo at that time.

Although the university had closed more than 20 years ago, at the time, no matter how you look at it, it was not something that Bai Heqing, who was from a poor family, could enter.

And after graduating from university, Bai Heqing directly entered the police academy.

It is worth mentioning that the record of this paragraph in the archives is that Bai Heqing did not go through any tests, and directly enrolled in the police academy as a special recruit, which is an extremely rare exception.

After graduating from the police academy, Bai Heqing entered the Metropolitan Police Department with the rank of chief of inspection.

From this page onwards, a large number of cases that he had handled or led during his lifetime began to appear in Bai Heqing's personal files, and although the descriptions were very brief, at least the time, results, and general course of the cases were recorded.

Among them, Karasuma Ying was surprised to find that the types of cases that Shirakawa Kiyoshi has handled are not completely fixed, from investigating serial murderers to catching thieves on the side of the road, but in general, they are still mainly forcible crimes of a serious nature such as homicide or robbery.

What surprised Karasuma Ying even more was that Shirakawa Kiyoshi only stayed in the position of the head of the inspection department for a year, and then jumped two levels and was directly promoted to the police department.

It was also in the year that Shirakawa Kiyoshi became a police department, and he had a record of going abroad, the other country's country was the United Kingdom, and the record in the file was to investigate an international case involving two countries.

This is also the only time Bai Heqing has a record of going abroad recorded in this file.

Since this year, Shirakawa Kiyoshi has officially started his unprecedented journey of promotion in the Japanese police industry, and it is likely that there will be no one who will come after.

After only three years of becoming a police department, Bai Heqing was promoted to become a police officer; In just three years, he was promoted from a police officer to a police officer; Over the next four years, he was promoted from police chief to police inspector.

This year, Bai Heqing was only thirty-four years old.

At an extremely young age, he officially stepped into the top of the police force in this year, and this is also the highest rank he has ever achieved during his lifetime.

Because just two years after he was promoted to inspector of police, there was the explosion of the cruise ship Changchun, and in the records of this file, Shirakawa Kiyoshi himself was also killed in the bombing that shocked Japan.

Just like his legendary speed of promotion, Bai Heqing's posthumous posthumous award of police rank after his death is also very different.

According to the practice of the Japanese police circles, police officers who die in the line of duty are generally promoted two levels in a row, but Shirakawa Kiyoshi was only promoted by one level.

After Bai Heqing's death, the police at that time only posthumously awarded him the title of police inspector.

In addition to this legendary speed of promotion, Karasuma also noted in the records of the archives that Shirakawa Kiyoshi maintained a considerable attendance rate throughout his career.

Even with the continuous increase in his position in the later period, the number of cases handled by Bai Heqing has not decreased too significantly compared to the early stage of his career.

It doesn't make sense.

Under normal circumstances, Bai Heqing at that time should no longer need to run to work all day, because that is what middle and lower-level police officers do.

Is this because Bai Heqing himself especially enjoys the pleasure of solving the case? Or is there something else?

At this point, Karasuma Ying took a rough look at this file.

Although there are many contents in the file, there is actually nothing special recorded in it, and all the records are cases of Bai Heqing's career when he served in the Metropolitan Police Department.

Thirty years ago, before Bai Heqing was promoted to police officer, the records of the cases he handled were very detailed, the time and place of the results were not omitted, and there was even a brief description of the course of the case.

And after he was promoted to police officer, the police officer who compiled his file seemed to have changed, although there was still a time and place outcome, but the description of the course of the case was gone.

Although most of the contents of this file were useless, Karasuma Ying still found some doubts in it.

The most suspicious point is that Bai Heqing can be said to be a strange promotion speed.

It has been less than fifteen years since he entered the Metropolitan Police Department, and he was directly promoted to the position of inspector general, even Karasuma Ying, who does not know much about the history of the Japanese police industry, knows that this promotion speed must be record-breaking.

But for this point, Bai Heqing's file does not have any annotation to explain.

In addition, it is the special university that Bai Heqing entered when he was young, how did a person from a poor family get into that university?

Karasuma Ying always felt that it was very likely that Shirakawa Kiyoshi's file had been modified, and there must be something missing in it.

Of course, in addition to the above doubts, this file also answers a doubt in her heart.

When Mori Kogoro mentioned Officer Shirakawa, he also talked about the Changchun cruise ship bombing that led to his death.

According to Kogoro Mori, the police were not able to catch the mastermind of the bombing at the time.

Later, when he infiltrated Japan again and tried to plan another terrorist attack, the police finally arrested him with the help of a foreign woman.

For some unknown reason, the police seemed to have deliberately concealed the identity of the person at the time, merely reporting that a foreign woman had assisted the police in arresting the prisoner.

Therefore, police officers like Mori Kogoro, who were still in the middle and lower classes at the time, actually do not know the specific identity information of foreign women at the time.

But in this file of Bai Heqing, the name of this foreign woman appears.

Mary Akai.

But that's the only name.

According to Mori Kogoro, the man appeared out of nowhere two decades ago and disappeared after helping the police investigate and arrest the mastermind who planned the Changchun bombing.

Since then, there have been no rumors of similar foreign women in the entire Japanese police and detective circles.

It's as if she appeared specifically to capture that person......

Karasuma Ying vaguely felt that this person named Mary Akai was likely to have some kind of relationship with Shirakawa Kiyoshi.

is a possible direction of investigation.

"Done?" In the driver's seat next to her, Miwako Sato glanced at Kasuma Ying.

"Hmmm......"

Nodding, Karasuma Ying sealed the file and put it back in the armrest box.

"Do you feel anything?" Miwako Sato asked with a smile.

“…… It's legendary. After thinking about it for a moment, Karasuma replied.

"Yes, I was also shocked when I saw it for the first time, the career of this officer of the White River is like the protagonist of those." Miwako Sato sighed.

Also serving in the Metropolitan Police Department, Miwako Sato is not unheard of the name of this officer Shirakawa.

When encountering some very complicated cases, whether from her late father or from other Metropolitan Police Department seniors, she occasionally hears words like "If only Officer Shirakawa were still around."

However, every time Miwako Sato wanted to ask more, they seemed to be worried about something, and only told her that this was a very good senior in the police field in the past, and as for more, they refused to mention a word......

"Does Officer Sato know anything about Officer Shirakawa?" Karasuma Ying asked suddenly.

There was so little useful information in this file, and apart from leaving her the name Marie Akai behind, it only added to her doubts.

"I don't understand."

Miwako Sato shook her head, "After all, it's a senior who died when I was eight years old, how can I understand, it's just ......"

Speaking of this, Miwako Sato changed her words and said with some uncertainty:

"Once upon a time, when everyone was having a celebration party, I heard a drunken officer Twilight accidentally mention something......

"What?"

"Officer Shirakawa seemed to be the next superintendent of police who had been decided."

"Huh? Default? Karasuma Ying was stunned for a moment when she heard this.

Superintendent of Police, the highest rank in the Japanese police industry, can this position still be determined?

However, if this statement is true, it can indeed explain Bai Heqing's strange speed of promotion......

"Hmm."

Miwako Sato nodded and continued: "Of course, I'm not sure about this, after all, this is just what Officer Twilight said after he was drunk, and it's hard to determine whether it's true or not.

I remember that Mr. Hatoyama was the old man who held the position of police inspector at that time...... Then it seems that more than ten years ago, Mr. Hatoyama was transferred to the chief of the National Police Agency, and the position of police director was changed to the current Hakuba police director.

If Officer Twilight wasn't right and Officer Shirakawa hadn't been killed in the bombing twenty years ago, he would be the current Superintendent of Police......

"Officer Whiteriver...... Is there someone up there? Karasuma asked.

It's easy to guess this from Miwako Sato's words.

The record-breaking promotion speed was once the appointed candidate for the superintendent of police...... If it weren't for someone up there, it wouldn't have been possible to explain all of this.

"I guess so, but I don't know who it is." Miwako Sato replied.

The story of Officer Shirakawa is really too long, and most people in the police community today have only heard of such a figure in the past tense, and very few people really know about it, and most of them have either become high-level police officers, or have retired or died in the line of duty.

For a middle- and lower-level police officer like them, it is indeed difficult to inquire about his past.

"What a complicated past......" Karasuma Ying turned her head to look out the window and sighed softly.

"What's wrong? A sad expression? Miwako Sato looked at her and asked with a smile.

"It's nothing, it's just that I suddenly feel that the secret of this world ...... That's a lot. ”

"Secret? Detectives must love these things, right? ”

"Well, if it's a real detective, I'll like it......"

In this way, the two chatted all the way to the police station, and after making a transcript of today's case, Karasuma Ying was sent back to the Maori Detective Agency by Miwako Sato.

Tokyo has been very busy recently, and Miwako Sato rushed to Rice Flower International Hospital non-stop after sending Karasuma Ying, while Karasuma Ying walked to the office alone.

"Sister Ying, are you back? Is the transcript done? ”

As soon as he opened the door and took off his coat, Mao Lilan in the kitchen heard the voice, turned around and poked his head out, and asked with a smile.

"Well, are you cooking?"

Putting aside the cluttered thoughts in her mind for a moment, Karasuma nodded with a smile as well and walked straight to the kitchen.

In the office, Mori Kogoro was still sitting behind his desk watching Miss Yoko's show, while Conan was sitting on the sofa with a big bag on his head and looking down in contemplation, not even noticing Karasuma's appearance.

You don't have to guess to know that he's still thinking about the last O'Nimar to appear this morning.

Karasuma Ying was actually a little curious about this, if she thought that O'Nimar was just a murderer with a hobby of performance art.

Since O'Nimar snatched the album this morning, she has vaguely realized that behind O'Nimar, there may really be some special secrets......

If she had time later, she would try to investigate...... Even though she said that, Karasuma always felt that she would definitely be mixed in in the end.

After all, the file she had high hopes for did not fully answer the doubts in her heart, although she caught the name of Marie Akai, but this was only a name, in fact, she didn't know where to start the investigation now.

As for asking for help from your family?

Karasuma Ying didn't even think about this, even if those riddlers really spoke, they guessed that they would fool her words......

"By the way, Sister Ying, you have a courier, I helped you get it when I went upstairs before, and it's on the table over there." In the kitchen, Mao Lilan suddenly spoke.

"My courier?"

Karasuma Ying was a little surprised, she turned around and happened to see a package sealed in a small cardboard box on the table next to her.

"Well, it's still anonymous." Maoriran replied.

"Anonymous?"

Karasuma Ying frowned when she heard this, she took the switchblade on the side, carefully opened the outer carton, and then ...... I saw a neatly stacked stack of banknotes inside.

[Euros? 】

Karasuma Ying looked puzzled.

The number of these stacks of euros is not small, and it is roughly estimated that there should be tens of thousands......

So, why would anyone send her this thing?

By the way, can this thing really be delivered?

Just when Karasuma Ying was confused, she saw a note tucked into a cardboard box.

It is a folded slip of paper with dots and threads arranged in a special combination, like the Morse code.

Suddenly realizing something, Karasuma Ying looked carefully at the combination of dots and lines, and her gaze gradually became solemn.

According to the interpretation method given to her by her sister when she was a child, she deciphered the content on the paper, which was a place name.

Andrew Kingdom.

Next chapter a little later (『)

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