Chapter 676 Standard Procedure
——Just now, after Hozumi asked Jiangxia and the others to leave a message for the guests at the Akagi Hotel, she stayed there, waiting for the clients to meet up on the mountain.
He rested for a while on the way, and when he had recovered his strength, he was bored, so he strolled back from the filming location to the tree with the old handkerchief tied to it, wondering why the guests were looking for this tree.
Then I happened to see a few peripheral members of the organization that Toru Amuro had brought with him.
Before, Amuro Toru discovered that there were bones hidden under the tree, so he transferred people over and asked them to hide nearby and wait for evidence that Watanuki Tatsuzo hid the bodies of the organization's cadres - this is probably the handle that Watanuki Tatsuzo was caught by Epimetheus, and it is also the reason why he leaked the secret to the other party in this transaction. With this, he can almost report to the organization.
After the peripheral members arrived nearby, they discussed for a while under a tree, installed some equipment, and then each found a place to hide.
Hozumi didn't know what was going on. She just looked at those people from afar and thought they looked fierce and not friendly, so she didn't dare to get close.
He hid behind a thick tree and watched for a while, and finally pretended that he was just a passing tourist and returned to the place where he had made an appointment with Tatsuzo Watanuki.
At the same time, he was moved and noticed something was wrong - this customer was very generous and seemed to be obsessed with the tree. But at the same time, the customer had not contacted him actively and his whereabouts were a bit secretive. Plus what happened just now...
It seems that the guests are interested in more than just the tree and the old red handkerchief on it.
But there is another hidden story.
...For example, what kind of treasure is buried there, and both forces are looking for it? He has heard a lot about treasures hidden in the mountains. The group of people just now might be installing detection equipment.
Thinking of this, Hozumi's eyes lit up slightly.
It just so happened that he was short of money recently, and wondered if he could force the guest to join him. After all, if there was really a treasure hidden under the tree, then the little guide fee he received would be too meager. This was not the same price as "finding a tree that could inspire a screenwriter".
Hozumi has been in the crew for many years and has seen a lot of dramas. She also has some experience on how to be a qualified riddler.
After simply sorting out his thoughts, he looked at Watanuki Tatsuzo who was walking towards him and smiled mysteriously: "I found the tree."
"Really?!" Tatsuzo Watanuki had a simple smile and a surprised tone.
He was just about to say something, to test the waters and see if Hozumi had noticed anything wrong with the tree.
Before he could say anything, Hozumi changed the subject, with a threatening tone as if she had caught something on him: "Tsk tsk, there must be something incredible hidden in there, I saw..."
Hozumi thought that he saw someone wandering around there, and that person must be the customer's competitor. Without him, a local, leading the way, the customer would never be able to catch up and dig, and would then raise the price.
As a result, I had just started to say it when I felt a sudden chill in my abdomen.
This was followed by a sharp pain.
"You know too much."
Watanuki Tatsuzo, with gray hair, changed his previous kindly old man look, looked at him coldly, and then pulled out the short knife that was stabbed in Hozumi's body.
Hozumi: “…” Wait, this is totally different from what we agreed on…
All the strength in his body seemed to flow away from the wound, and Hozumi fell down in a pile of dead leaves. His trembling lips moved, and he didn't know whether to shout "Help!" or "I don't know anything"... The dim light disappeared from his eyes, and at the last moment of his life, Hozumi's mind suddenly moved, and he used all his strength to grab the book that he had dropped on the ground.
…
Amuro Toru was hiding behind a tree with Jiang Xia, observing from the dark.
According to Toru Amuro's idea, the normal process is that the two people will have a brief conversation and then walk together to the place where the bones are hidden. This process will be recorded by cameras hidden near the burial site and members outside the organization, and will become ironclad evidence of the target's infighting in the same group five years ago, and then dig out evidence that he was caught by another organization.
However, as the mountain breeze brought the sound of Hozumi and Watanuki Tatsuzo's conversation, Amuro Toru gradually felt that something was not right.
As soon as this thought flashed through my mind, I heard a scream under the maple tree - Watanuki Tatsuzo suddenly drew his sword and pierced Hozumi through with one blow.
Toru Amuro: "..."
He actually wanted to save Hozumi, an innocent passerby. After all, Tatsuzo Watanuki's past had little to do with the organization, so there was no need to strictly follow the principle of confidentiality and kill all those who knew about it.
But I didn’t expect... it happened too quickly, the threats and the silencing came too quickly.
There were not only Jiang Xia around, but also some other peripheral members of the organization. Amuro Toru sighed inwardly, maintaining the emotion that Bo Ben should have, turning a blind eye to the passing of a life, continuing to watch indifferently, pretending that he had not thought of first aid and helping to call an ambulance.
After killing the man, Watanuki Tatsuzo snorted coldly, but he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
He also knew that his behavior of "spending a lot of money to hire someone to find an old tree with a red handkerchief tied to it" was a little strange. But if he spent less money, the TV station probably wouldn't send someone to help him find a tree. And if he spent more money, it would arouse the vigilance of some suspicious people, just like now.
The worst-case scenario that Watanuki Tatsuzo had prepared before was that Hozumi would call the police immediately after finding the maple tree and digging it out of curiosity. That would be a big trouble.
Fortunately, this stupid man did not do so, but chose the method of "threat"... The three men, including Watanuki Tatsuya, straightened their collars in a proper manner, left the body there and prepared to let their younger brothers deal with it at night, while they began to wander around nearby.
——Since Hozumi discovered the secret of the bones, it means he must have dug up the soil.
In other words, he didn't need this stupid person to lead the way. He just needed to walk around the area and see which tree had been turned over, and he could easily find the target.
A minute passed.
Five minutes passed.
Half an hour passed.
Watanuki Tatsuzo looked at dozens or hundreds of trees around him but found nothing.
As the sky darkened, he kicked the tree trunk next to him in frustration. The branches and leaves rustled, and voices could be heard from the camping area in the distance. Watanuki Tatsuzo glanced over there, but without staying any longer, he angrily dropped the body and quickly walked back to the hotel.
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“…”
After waiting for a while and seeing that he had indeed left, Toru Amuro and Jiang Xia walked out from behind the rock where they were hiding.
When Toru Amuro walked to Hozumi's side and squatted down to check his vital signs, Jiang Xia glanced at the new Shikigami who passed by him quietly, chased after Watanuki Tatsuzo, and was about to cling to the murderer's legs.
Then he withdrew his attention, turned around and looked at the body on the ground, thought for a while and said: "I thought Watanuki Tatsuzo had already obtained the detailed address from Mr. Hozumi, but now it seems that he didn't. He actually dared to kill someone like this..."
(End of this chapter)
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