Two people also appeared last year and the year before?
After Aragaki Satoru and Morita Taku were stunned for a moment, they put their heads together at the same time.
"Still can't see clearly...what do you think?" Morita Taku turned around and asked.
Charlie's current favorable impression of Higashinohara is still at the level of being greedy for profit, and she subconsciously wants to undermine him, "I can't see clearly either... Who can see clearly if he's so confused?"
At this time, Aragaki rubbed his chin, stared at the picture and slowly said, "I didn't notice it just now, but if I look carefully... I feel that their outlines are somewhat similar."
"When the boss said that, I think it's quite similar." Xia Li nodded immediately.
She is still in her internship and must seize every opportunity to perform.
But to be honest, the video recording is from the northwest corner of the intersection. Coupled with the impact of the shooting distance and outdoor weather, the overall picture quality is very rough and blurry.
When I just looked through the video, everyone was focused on the person marked by a red circle in the picture who was about to commit suicide, so naturally it was difficult to notice other people around him.
But Taku Morita, who was from the Second Investigation Division, was slightly startled, but then shook his head, "Even if that is the case, for most office workers in New Tokyo, their daily routes rarely change.
Photographing the same two people at an intersection doesn't mean anything..."
Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, Higashinohara, who had been staring at the auto-playing car video recorder, suddenly spoke again.
"No, not just two.
It’s seven people.”
Higashinohara paused and said, "Although these seven people do not appear at the same time in the surveillance videos of these accidents, at least three or more people will appear in each accident."
"At most once...all seven appear."
A faint light flashed in his pupils, like a pixel-level resolution, and he stretched out his hand to point out all seven people without any mistakes.
The situation was like a certain "Super Brain" variety show in the previous life of Aquamarine. The contestants were asked to find out the tens of thousands of Rubik's Cube walls from two densely packed walls with tens of thousands of small color blocks stacked like TV screens.
One-tenth of the difference is the same.
Someone decrypted that the contestants used parallel cross-eyes to overlap the two walls visually, and the different places would flash in order to successfully complete the task.
What Higashinohara wanted to do was to find the same point in the blurry image quality, but he was not that complicated. He directly opened the first sight of [Nine Eyes and Six Paths], which can even see through the energy construction of the spell.
Finding the same passers-by is easier than imagined.
...
seven people?
Morita Taku was stunned for a moment.
But then, following the direction of Higashinohara's finger, he shifted his attention from the person who committed suicide in the video to the other passers-by around him.
Counting silently in my heart.
The surprise on his face also increased.
Finally, I saw the surveillance of the latest suicide case at the Kurebetsu intersection two days ago. When all seven passers-by appeared on both sides of the intersection, they watched silently as the smiling woman walked onto the track.
..
The next second,
The tram roared past.
In an instant, as if he was electrocuted, Morita Taku's whole body felt like his scalp was numb!
call-!
"They...they..."
Morita Taku pointed at the screen and was speechless.
Next to him, Aragaki Satoru also spoke.
"These passers-by appear at different times. They appear in the morning, noon and evening. They are not affected by the weather at all, even... rain or shine. They don't look like passers-by, but more like..."
Higashinohara was silent for a moment, then added, "A witness to a certain ceremony."
After the words fell, the car fell into silence.
A smile appeared on Aragaki Satoru's face, "Haha, I didn't expect it to be really tricky. It's amazing, Higashino-kun, that you can even discover this."
Morita Takuya was surprised. He had heard from Aragaki Satoru that Higashinohara was a first-year student at Takehara Minami Private Academy. He seemed to have a gray normal speed ability with talent sequence 98.
I didn't expect that my observation skills are so good.
That is really a personal talent.
Aragaki Satoru clicked his tongue and said thoughtfully, "Now that it is most likely not a suicide, judging from this situation, the case will probably be transferred to the third investigation team, right?"
The Third Investigation Team is New Tokyo's agency specifically responsible for handling cases involving third-category ability users. Although it is affiliated with the Metropolitan Police Department, its internal positions and police ranks are actually parallel to several departments of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Morita Taku nodded, "Yes, at present, it is most likely that people with mental abilities committed the crime. It still seems to be organized and premeditated, but... what are their motives and purposes?"
People with mental abilities are not mentally ill.
At least most of them are normal people. In a big city like New Tokyo, which has a relatively large number of ability users, the control of ability users is very strict. In addition, the thirteen divisions of the Third Investigation Team are in charge of the New Tokyo Police Department.
In the TVB, very few people with abilities would take risks to harm ordinary people.
A witness to the ceremony?
Aragaki Satoru thought about these words, his eyes couldn't help but narrowed slightly, as if he remembered something.
After pondering for a moment, he patted Morita Taku on the shoulder, "Okay Taku, now take the video to the person in charge of the Investigation Section 1 and ask them to transfer the case to the Third Investigation Team, which happens to be given to us as well.
Buy some time."
Morita Taku immediately thought of something when he heard this, and immediately warned, "You just said that the crime may involve people with abilities and that it will be handed over to the third investigation team. Don't mess around."
Aragaki Satoru had already opened the passenger door, pushed the person out and said, "Don't worry, don't worry! Master, I never mess around, don't you know this?"
Morita Taku was speechless.
I know it so well that I can’t rest assured.
However, he knew Satoru Aragaki's character, otherwise he would not have resigned from the Metropolitan Police Department that year, so he could only run back quickly and hope that the truth could be found out quickly after the case was handed over to the third team.
...
After getting back on the road, Aragaki Satoru did not drive home, but headed west in the opposite direction.
"Should we... continue the investigation?" Higashinohara in the back seat couldn't help but ask.
Aragaki Satoru said with a smile while driving, "Of course, you and Xia Li are both capable people. I originally thought that hiring you would be overkill if it was an ordinary case, but now I don't have to worry about that, haha.
..Is Charlie-chan confident?"
Xia Li has been struggling in New Tokyo for so long and has been severely beaten by society. She is no longer the simple country girl in Okinawa County. After hearing this, she immediately patted the tablet on her chest and said, "Report to the boss! I am very confident! I will definitely do it."
Be good!"
"Hahaha! You are indeed full of youth!" Aragaki Satoru said with a smile, "The same must be true for Higashino-kun. I feel relieved when I see you are so confident."
etc!
I have a lot of confidence!
Although he could barely tell that the same passerby appeared at the accident scene in the intersection surveillance video.
But most of those people's faces were blurry, and it would take a lot of effort for the Metropolitan Police Department's search and research team to use facial recognition for comparison, let alone find a needle in a haystack in a metropolis like Neo-Tokyo with a population of tens of millions.
Aragaki Satoru is very optimistic.
The car drove the two of them westward, and soon they entered the center of Shinjuku City - Kabukicho was ahead of them, but it was still daytime and there was no scene of neon lights shining brightly all night long.
Charlie leaned against the car window and looked at the rows of ramen shops, barbecue restaurants and izakayas on the street with her big round eyes. She secretly took a sip of saliva and turned around with a smile that almost bloomed on her face.
"Ah! Boss...is dinner ready so soon?"
Dinner is ready?
Higashinohara, who had nothing to do along the way, once again entered the mind of the character image of Masaru Kusao in the "Guilty Manual" and was performing "intracranial sword practice". Hearing Xia Li's words, he lowered his head and glanced at his watch.
It's only around nine o'clock...
You just finished your breakfast and you want to start dinner again?
I don’t have time to complain about this Tianhu girl.
After these two days of hard training, Higashinohara Kodachi's two-sword swordsmanship has been upgraded to the elementary level (4/10). I believe that it won't be long before he can break through to the intermediate level of swordsmanship. I don't know what will happen when I use those secret skills and mysteries.
Such changes.
Speaking of which, Higashinohara doesn't seem to be very fast, but compared to those swordsmen who have been practicing hard regardless of the severe cold and heat since childhood, his improvement speed is simply like a heifer riding a rocket.
"Haha, it's still early for dinner, but I know there is a good ramen shop here."
Aragaki Satoru, who was driving in the front, laughed optimistically and said, "After finishing the work, I will invite everyone to have a team building to celebrate and commemorate the first operation of our Aragaki Detective Agency. Charlie-chan can eat it!"
"Great!"
Charlie immediately stamped her little feet excitedly. This was the first time someone invited her to eat!
The boss is such a nice person!
As expected, Sister Aragaki introduced herself to a good job, and she almost didn’t want to go back to her hometown!
...
Entering Kabukicho Ichiban Street, Aragaki Satoru found a street parking lot and parked his buns, then asked the two of them to follow him, muttering that the parking charges here were too high.
Unexpectedly, after walking a few steps, Aragaki Satoru's cell phone rang in his coat pocket. He took it out and saw that it was a call from his apprentice Morita Taku who had just separated at the entrance of the Metropolitan Police Department in the morning, so he pressed the answer button without thinking.
"Hey! Uh-huh...huh? Is that so..."
After a while, Aragaki Satoru hung up the phone, but his face looked a little ugly.
"What's wrong, boss?"
Charlie approached carefully and asked.
Isn’t it because you don’t want to invite me to dinner?
Aragaki Satoru opened his mouth and sighed, "I just received a call. The case of classmate Shikame's mother was investigated as a suicide and closed at noon today. It's still a step too late. Even if we find evidence, we can only
Assisted Shikume-san in appealing."
After speaking, he frowned slightly and said with some confusion, "Logically speaking, it shouldn't be done. This kind of case is usually limited to three months to be concluded. Could it be that there have been too many cases piled up in the Search Class one recently?"
Aragaki Satoru was a little puzzled, but he thought that Morita Taku had already submitted the file to Mai Aragaki, the liaison officer of the 13th Division of the 3rd Investigation Team responsible for the third category of emergencies in the city.
He immediately took out his mobile phone and made a call, explaining the current situation to his daughter Mai Aragaki.
Mai Aragaki was at the scene last night and heard the complete commission of Shikame Ryoka. She admired the petite girl with a round face and timidity for having the courage to find a detective for her mother's death, so she opened the file on the spot and said that even if the case was closed
The 13th Division will also conduct a thorough investigation.
Higashinohara was silent for a moment.
In the First Investigation Section, Shikame Ryoka just commissioned the detective agency to find out the truth yesterday. Today they just got the file and they closed the case so coincidentally but quickly... These made him smell something unusual.
"Let's go, let's go!"
Aragaki Satoru had already put away his mobile phone and walked into the door of a bar called [Beautiful Wine Abyss] on the street.
Higashinohara and Charlie next to him looked at each other.
The latter tilted his head, and he was probably still holding a grudge. He smiled without bothering to explain anything, and walked in. Charlie quickly followed after seeing this.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Higashinohara entered the door, he met a woman wearing heavy makeup, holding a women's cigarette in her mouth, and walking slowly from the direction of the bar booths that had not officially opened at noon.
The other party's eyes suddenly lit up when he saw Higashinohara, and he said lazily with a smile, "Hey, hey, hey! This is not a place where minors can come, no matter how handsome you are!"
"But there is wine at my sister's house. If you really want to drink, why not tonight..."
Unexpectedly, as soon as she finished speaking, Aragaki Satoru's lazy voice came from the bar.
He sat on a high stool and picked up a bottle of wine from nowhere, mixed himself a glass of blue flame, and said with a smile, "Hey, hey, hey, Miss Snake Ghoul, he is a high school student, your family
Why don’t you invite me if you have good wine?”
Snake Nagisa's body stiffened, and she turned to look at Satoru Aragaki, who was sitting there with a smile on her face and toasting to her, "Why are you here? You are not a policeman now. Don't forget to pay when you drink.
"
"Wow! So the boss doesn't pay for drinking?" Charlie tilted her head and whispered in a low voice, her ears under the hoodie on her head twitching, and her tone was actually a bit admiring.
Higashinohara glanced at her with a slight twitch in his mouth.
MDZZ...
"Of course I have to pay!"
Aragaki Satoru swung the glass twice, raised it, drank it down, and asked straight to the point, "I'll stop chatting. You should still remember...the organization called [Funeral Society] a few years ago, right?"
