"So, Detective Akechi, do you want to know the follow-up to what happened twenty years ago now?"
When it was close to noon, Gao Yuan, who was basically healthy except for still feeling a little weak, saw Mitarai Munexuo who came to visit him.
Faced with such a frank inquiry from the other party, Gao Yuan didn't say much and just nodded.
Immediately, Mitarai Zongxu took out a file 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..."
Seeming a little helpless, Mitarai Munexu explained:
"At that time, we investigated that Xiaocai had applied for a visa to go abroad and was going to take a passenger ship to the United States at Muroran Port. So, after getting this news, before the passenger ship had sailed, I went to the United States under the arrangement of my brother.
Next, I was going to drive to Muroran to look for Xiaocai's whereabouts. However, no one expected that at that time, a huge typhoon hit Muran, but my car broke down halfway and I was unable to catch up in time.
To Muroran Port."
Speaking of this, Mitarai Munexu paused for a moment, and then sighed:
"Originally, due to the typhoon, it was impossible for the passenger ship to go out to sea at that time, so when I was trapped on the road, I didn't feel much urgency about the vehicle breaking down. Anyway, I felt
Xiaocai's trip will definitely be postponed because of the typhoon. Therefore, when I can't contact 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 at that time, I learned that there was an explosion in Muroran Port just last night..."
And just when he heard this, Gao Yuan had already opened the file handed over by Mitarai Zongxu. What he saw on it were various clippings from newspapers, about the affairs of the chamber twenty years ago.
News about the Langang explosion tragedy——
"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..."
In order, Gao Yuan roughly read these news contents, and only saw the above news. At the beginning, it was still reporting the death of people in the explosion in the waiting hall, but later on, when the police became more and more involved, the report
Instead, less and less information came out. Basically, the identity of the deceased, the cause of the explosion, and other details were not disclosed in subsequent reports within a few days of the incident.
Instead, it was about four or five days before I saw the list of missing persons announced by the police on the news.
Among them, the name "Mitarashi Aya" stands out.
Of course, due to Gao Yuan's deliberate search, names such as "Nagase Ringo" or "Hanada Kochi" did not appear on this list.
In this regard, when Mitarai Munexu saw that Gao Yuan had reached the list, Mitarai Munexu continued:
"Yes, because this incident is too involved, the media's coverage of this incident has been restricted, so the specific details of the incident were not disclosed in the newspapers..."
Helplessly, Mitarai Munexu closed his eyes, seeming to recall that time. When he saw the list of missing persons, the solemn atmosphere inside Mitarai's house was still fresh in his memory——
"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 due to the typhoon.
, we still found out that the people who stayed in the waiting hall of Muroran Port that night were also passengers who were stranded at the port due to the typhoon."
Mitarai Munexuo continued to explain:
"Because the weather forecast at that time misjudged the landing time of the typhoon, all the passengers on the passenger ship thought that the ship could leave the port on time and avoid the typhoon. Because of this, all the passengers were in the room at that time.
However, a typhoon unexpectedly encountered a typhoon near Lan Port, so 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,
I can only stay in the waiting hall of the port..."
Listening silently to Mitarai Munexu's narration, Gao Yuan understood that this was the incident about the "tragedy of twenty years ago" that he heard from Nakagawa Moemi through Akechi Kengo Alert -
However, what he knew were the details of what 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?"
As if analyzed by Mitarai Munexu and the news in his hand, Gao Yuan actually roughly understood what was going on and asked Mitarai Munexu.
"That's about it."
Nodding, Mitarashi Munexu responded, then his expression changed, and he said solemnly and extremely seriously:
“However, we didn’t know the more specific situation until the police came to our 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.
He was killed with four limbs, and the murderer’s method can be described as extremely vicious!”
--"really……"
Hearing this, Gao Yuan nodded silently in his heart——
This is indeed consistent with what I know.
Therefore, Gao Yuan thoughtfully began to ask:
"The police came to the door? Was it because they found something at the scene? Or was it a routine inquiry to the family members based on the list of missing persons?"
"Both."
Nodding, Mitarai Munexu 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 was inferred that these limbs were probably...
...belongs to Xiaocai..."
——At that time, according to what I knew, the young woman whose limbs were cut off should be the "Louis" from twenty years ago, whose stage name was "Nagase Ringo" and whose real name was "Hanada Kochi"
Yes, the actress who is pregnant with Mr. Nishikawa's illegitimate daughter...
After her limbs were severed, she was rescued by "Jinteau" Asami Taro who arrived at the scene later, but the severed limbs...
Because the gender and age of the limbs were calculated, did the police connect it with Aya Mitarai who was on the missing list?
"Back then, 'DNA' testing was not as common as it is now. Because the examination of the amputated limbs, gender, age, and even blood type could all be matched, so at that time, we really thought that Xiao Cai was buried in that tragedy.
Already..."
While Gao Yuan was thinking, Mitarai Munexu said helplessly...