Chapter 275 Twenty Villains

Perhaps because the case involves this area with complicated factions, the person sent by the police headquarters to investigate is Takeda, a rare and just police officer in Hakata, who is known to Matsuda and his acquaintance.

Akae Nazuki also had some impression of this police officer. He had met Takeda and his partner several times when he came to Hakata for undercover investigation a few years ago, so he specifically asked Matsuda to report the case using that kind of rhetoric.

After all, to put it bluntly, these "clean stream" police officers are destined to be excluded in the headquarters. The more dangerous and unsuccessful the case is, the more likely it is that it will be pushed to them.

However, the information provided by Officer Takeda shocked several people who originally thought this was just an ordinary homicide, including Akae Nazuki himself.

"This is information that should not be leaked..." Officer Takeda looked like he had a headache. He wiped the cold sweat that had just appeared after talking to Akae Nazuki. After hesitating for a few seconds, he spoke very straightforwardly, "In fact, including today's case, there have been four murders in Hakata District within a month, all of which used similar methods."

In addition to being shocked by the news, Furiya Rei secretly looked at Akae Nayue with a more inquiring look in his eyes: Officer Takeda had no intention of telling them a word when he first arrived. What did Akae say to him that made him change his mind so quickly?

However, Akae Nazuki, who was being stared at by him, skillfully ignored his gaze, so Furuya Rei had no choice but to retract his scattered thoughts and focus on the case in front of him.

"All the deceased were blond-haired mixed-race males, just like this deceased. They all died from a single gunshot wound to the right eye."

"From a professional perspective, the murderer is likely a professional killer who deliberately selected his targets," Officer Takeda sighed, "but that's the problem."

"What Hakata lacks the least is professional assassins."

Therefore, the police could not accurately locate the identity of the real murderer in a short period of time. Judging from the cases Takeda himself had encountered, whether the victims were killed by professional killers hired by the real murderer or the serial killer himself was a professional killer, it was difficult to find any trace of him.

But he also found it very strange at first. Generally speaking, the purpose of hiring a professional killer is either revenge or to silence someone. However, the four deaths as of today have no connection in identity and their past lives also have no overlap... This has led to the case's progress being delayed.

Well, here, the killers alone account for 3% of the city’s population. Too many people die every day. This is what makes Takeda feel most helpless.

"Did the first three victims have a history of drug abuse?" the teenager suddenly asked.

"Huh...? I don't remember having that." Takeda was stunned.

"The biggest characteristic of serial killers is 'fixedness'." Furuya Rei grasped the details that flashed through his mind, "Their motives, killing patterns, and killing targets basically do not change easily, because they actually have a fixed 'ideal goal' in their hearts..."

"But the person who died tonight had dyed blond hair, right?" Ida Hang also understood. "And the fact that he took drugs alone distinguishes him from the other three people who died."

Takeda understood what they were trying to say, and his expression revealed a hint of appreciation: "You mean to say that this is most likely not done by the previous murderer, but a copycat crime, right?"

Takeda actually thought of this, but he didn't say it and tacitly acknowledged that this was the fourth case because -

"...Are you planning to use this method to force out the serial killer?" As he said this, Furuya Rei's brows wrinkled tightly.

If you do this, new victims will appear!

"What happens next has nothing to do with you." When Takeda looked up, he saw something that changed his attitude of allowing them to know important information. He changed his expression and asked everyone to leave the crime scene. "Well, I will send someone to pick you up at your hotel tomorrow for the more important transcripts. People who are not involved should leave first."

It was not until they were driven out and stood at the door of Adam Club that Furuya Rei and Date Kou cast a look at Hagiwara and the other man that said, "You call this being nice?"

"Just throw it away after it's been completely used up." Matsuda Jinpei gave Furuya Rei a mocking look. The latter gritted his teeth, resisted the urge to wrestle with his friend in public, snorted coldly and turned his head away.

Having just learned the whole story from his phone, Morobushi Kagemitsu walked out of the club holding Kuroba Kaito's hand. He instinctively said to his young friend, "Zero is great too. He noticed the strangeness right away."

Fūya Rei was silent.

No, that's not right. The first person to discover it should have been Akae Nazuki, especially since Officer Takeda deliberately omitted the difference between the first three victims and this one, and they were misled by that and thought that this was the fourth victim in the serial murder case.

It was not until Akae Nayue hinted at the difference between the deceased and the previous three victims that he and the squad leader got rid of the influence and thought in that direction... Although Furuya Rei was confident that he would find the problem if he thought about it carefully for a while, he was not the one who thought of it at that moment.

"Are we going back to the hotel?" The child's questioning voice awakened Rei Furuya who was immersed in his thoughts.

"Go back." Chijiang Nayue looked at the time, "You should go to bed, otherwise you won't grow taller."

Kuroba Kaito protested: "I will definitely grow to 1.8 meters by the time I'm in high school!"

Knowing that this kid was only 174cm tall in his second year of high school, the evil adult just looked at the top of his head in an unfathomable way and ruthlessly suppressed his protest: "If you don't sleep, you will have a sashimi dinner for lunch tomorrow."

"......!!!" Hei Yu Kaidou was shocked when his weakness was discovered. He didn't even have time to think about why Chi Jiang Na Yue knew that his weakness was fish. He immediately looked at the boy pitifully and said, "Let's go back to sleep right away, Brother Na Yue!"

Feeling satisfied, Chi Jiang Na Yue turned to the others who were going back to the hotel with him and leisurely dropped a "bomb".

"They probably already have a suspect, a serial killer." He said briefly, "There are at least three suspects, and the police have also arranged surveillance personnel around them. After the news is released, they will try to capture the criminal as soon as possible."

This kind of method would definitely not be acceptable in other cities, but this is Hakata, so...

On the way back, the other five people were still thinking about the case and what Chijiang Nayue said. Only Chijiang Nayue's mind was on his mobile phone, waiting for a message.

Finally, when they returned to the hotel, Sharon's message came.

[You guessed it right. Rum did contact me recently. He said that he had a promising newcomer and even prepared a code name. He was just waiting for that newcomer to complete a mission. However, Rum did not say what the mission was.]

Chi Jiang Na Yue stopped at the door of her room, with one hand she pushed the child into bed, and with the other hand she typed: [What is the prepared code? ]

After a few seconds of typing above the chat window, the message was sent.

[I remember it was called 'Binga'. ]

…

Matsuda Jinpei was just about to go back to his room to wait for the other two to come over and check answers, but when he looked up, he saw Akae Nazuki standing motionless at the door of the next room, with his head down, wondering what he was thinking.

He felt something was a little strange, and the next second, he heard a familiar voice saying inexplicably: "...Matsuda-kun, what if I say now that I am the murderer?"

The veins on Matsuda Jinpei's forehead jumped. He instantly recalled the words in that memory fragment in which the man said that he was the murderer. He was immediately furious and sneered and said perfunctorily: "Oh, is that so? Then please go to bed quickly, murderer. You have to get up early tomorrow to take a statement. Or you can choose to surrender yourself and tell the police how you managed to kill people in Tokyo when the victims died before."

All of Chi Jiang Na Yue's thoughts were washed away by these words, and he almost laughed out loud.

Don't be so decisive. Although he is not the murderer now, you can't be sure about that in the future.

After all, he didn't say who the murderer was.

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In the room at the other end, the three people who had already obtained the memories of 'before time went back', after sorting it out a little, began to prepare to simply exchange the information they currently knew.

Hagiwara Kenji looked a little heavy-hearted, but fortunately the buffer period allowed him to calmly say the following sentence: "Shall I tell you about my dream first?"

"...Xiao Zhenping." His fingers clenched into fists. "I dreamed of your death, and also the scene where I strangled Xiao Nayue to death."

"......?" Before Matsuda Jinpei said anything, Date Kou looked over in surprise and said, "Wait a minute, you didn't mention this before, Hagiwara."

"I'm sorry, squad leader, I--"

"No, what I mean is," Idahang touched the back of his head and smiled bitterly, "Your story is probably not true, because I am the one who killed him."

"I remember when I was driving to arrest him, he suddenly rushed out from the front." His voice was low, "And then..."

Hagiwara Kenji was completely confused. He waved his hands subconsciously: "No, you must have remembered it wrongly, right? I remember it very clearly. The feeling in my dream at that time was also very real. It was indeed me who killed him."

"No, no, no, you must have remembered it wrong. Because of Natalie's incident at that time, there was no way I could have remembered his face wrong. I also knew very well who I hit." Yida Hang said with great certainty.

There was one person present who began to feel like he didn't fit in. Jinpei Matsuda sat there in a daze, his face full of question marks.

"...I'm going to call the police. You guys are so scary, Captain Hagi!"

Jinpei Matsuda interrupted the two people's discussion about "Who killed Akae Nazuki?", rubbed his hair, and told them his part of the information in an annoyed manner.

"Anyway, unlike Hagi, I dreamed about Hagi's death, and he held a gun and told me that he killed you - don't look at me like that, even if I didn't recognize him at that time, I didn't believe it at all." He waved his hand.

"Then he and I had an argument over something and had a fight in the warehouse. It turned out that there was a bomb there and the door was locked... I only remember that the little bastard knocked me out here, and I don't know what happened after that, but I guess we died together."

Matsuda Jinpei thought about it and emphasized again: "I died with him."

In other words, he was the only one among the three people present who did not kill Chi Jiang Na Yue.

A suspicious silence fell in the room.