〔IV〕《The Balance of Themis》1989
This is a terrible crime scene. Several corpses were everywhere in a small hotel, some of their faces were smashed by bullets, and some of their bodies were penetrated by bullets. What is even more surprising and uneasy is that this tragedy that is comparable to the massacre occurred during the police's pursuit.
The incident starts with the Shi brothers who have committed several major robberies in recent years. The police have not been able to catch these two top criminals so far. Just last Saturday, while investigating and surveillance of a car thief named Jaguar, police accidentally discovered that he and his younger brother Katsushi Ishimoto's deputy, Morita. This is a very important clue. The superior immediately sent a senior police superintendent to deploy an operation and secretly monitor it, hoping to follow the clues to arrest the Shi brothers.
The other party’s den is in an old building, with winding corridors and few windows and many roads, which is simply the best place for criminals to hide. Several teams cooperated with the action, and a captain TT, who is agile but flamboyant in the north, was responsible for the responsibility of the captain TT. In the south, Captain Feng is rumored to be in conflict with TT. The few days of squatting were not in vain. Shimoto Katsu had already appeared with Jaguar and Sandbiao, and was probably preparing to do a vote. Information shows that my brother Ishimototian will also appear tomorrow, and the police plan to catch them all at once.
This year, Luo Xiaoming was still a rookie who had just graduated from the police academy and not long ago. He was guarding the takeaway deli restaurant in the north of the building with his captain TT and colleague Shapi, disguising himself as an employee of the store. They had nothing to do most of the time, so the two of them talked to TT who had just returned from the bathroom about his upcoming marriage.
Suddenly, the command center message came from the headphones, and Jaguar and Sangbiao walked towards them. The other party was here to buy lunch boxes. Luo Xiaoming's head was blank, fearing that he would be found with headphones hanging on his ears, so his hands were shaking when he served the dishes for the two of them. TT reacted quickly and taught him a lesson, "You guy, always listen to the radio when you work!", snatched the lunch box to serve the dishes and collect money. Not long after, news came from the command center that the other party had come out of the house, as if they were going to retreat to the north. I don’t know where the problem happened and the other party discovered it, so I can only take urgent action now. The order given above
is to wait for support, but the building is full of civilians, so TT decided to take the initiative to attack. He learned from the building administrator that there is only a hotel on the 9th floor that opens to do business, and the people inside are in danger. The three of them went all the way and fought with each other. TT hit Jaguar and Mourning, but Shapi was also shot. TT asked Luo Xiaoming to put down Shapi and cover him to attack, but the loyal Luo Xiaoming refused the order. Soon, the command center received a TT message, and the remaining criminal, Ishimoto Katsu, entered the hotel and was killing hostages. He could not wait for support and had to rush in immediately.
After several gunshots, everything returned to silence. None of the six people in the hotel survived, and Ishimoto Katsu was shot dead, and no one of the hostages was saved. And this is just the beginning of a storm.
A few days later, an inspector talked about this with Guan Zhenduo, who happened to be at the scene at the time, and said that there was a suspected internal ghost on the rise and that the internal investigation department had intervened. Because Jaguar and Sangbiao bought lunch boxes that day, they opened the mailbox before going upstairs and took some letters upstairs, and soon ran away. Police found a strange note at their desk with their code "Escape". If they are their accomplices, they can use pagers as usual. Therefore, the whistleblower may be the police's introvert, but he should not be the criminal's introvert, because the police have been waiting for a few days, so it was too late to notify him at this time. The above suspected that someone was deliberately sabotaging his colleagues, and Captain Feng, who was in conflict with TT, became the number one suspect. Because the criminal escaped, TT, who was impulsive, rushed up and died or injured, was considered successful.
In the face of this statement, Superintendent Guan did not agree with it. So he went to the forensic department to find the note at the scene and the three publicity pages that the criminal took from the mailbox. Then he went to the Ordnance Forensic Department and found that Shimoto Katsu alternately used AK47 and 67 pistol on the spot. In comparison, he found that Type 67 was the weapon of a lawyer's murder last year.In short, according to the evidence at the scene and the TT report, the situation at that time should be that Katsushi Ishimoto kicked the left and right, and first used Style 67 to kill the female public relations officer in Room 4, because her blood clotting was more obvious than that of other deceased. Then he used AK47 to shoot tenant No. 1 and the hotel owner, and then killed a pair of men and women in another room in Style 67, and finally grabbed the cleaner as cover. At this time, TT rushed in, and the two sides exchanged fire. Ishimotosaki injured TT and killed the cleaner. He was also shot dead by TT.
Before leaving the forensic department, Superintendent Guan copied the note and asked his subordinates to contact the phone company to ask for all the communication records of the hotel on the day of the incident. At this time, the news came, and the Internal Investigation Department came to its own conclusion that it was not Captain Feng but the Operation Commander who was suspended because the commander's ex-girlfriend was TT's fiancée. Superintendent Guan thought the commander was innocent and went to him. The other party said that he did think that his ex-girlfriend was the wrong choice to marry TT. Some people said that TT was very romantic and deceived his female colleague's relationship. He didn't want his ex-girlfriend to be injured. Superintendent Guan reassured him that things will be resolved before Monday and he will be reinstated.
The next day, Superintendent Guan met TT who was recuperating at home and went straight to the point of "Submit yourself, you are the mastermind!" Superintendent Guan explained that the note was definitely not obtained in the mailbox. One box of their lunch boxes had been opened and eaten for two bites, and there were only three promotional pages in the mailbox. Normal people would definitely look at it if they were bored when taking the elevator. If the note was inside, they would run away immediately without opening the lunch box, so the note should be at the bottom of the lunch box.
Superintendent Guan also found that the notes were torn off the record book in the deli. He had already brought the record book and could tell at a glance. He believes TT did this to cover up the murder, and one of the six dead people in the hotel was killed before the gunfight. The hotel's call record showed that five phone calls were made to the pager on Room 4 that day. The first four items were "Notify the owner to go to Room 4 of the hotel and discuss matters!" The last one was "If you don't have to wait for the consequences within ten minutes." Superintendent Guan speculated that the female PR in Room 4 had a close relationship with TT, but TT wanted to get married, and the other party asked him to negotiate and threatened to destroy his marriage. So TT used the Type 67 pistol that he had privately seized from a case, and went to Room 4 to kill the female public relations officer and took away the key. Finally, the keys and notes are stuffed into the bottom of the lunch box together, leading the criminal to the hotel. The criminal thought it was the news given by the boss! Of course, if the other party doesn't happen to buy a lunch box, he will have other ways to notify them to escape!
In short, the innocent victims in the hotel were killed by TT to cover up the crime. At that time, Shimoto Katsu arrested the cleaner. TT shot her with a 67-style shot with his left hand, and killed Shimoto Katsu with a police gun with his right hand, and then killed everyone in the hotel. He stuffed the gun back into Katsushi Ishimoto's hand and forged the scene. TT replied with a big smile on Superintendent Guan’s speculation because he knew there was no evidence on the other party.
Superintendent Guan is not an ordinary person. He said that he used the bullet of the Type 67 pistol to block the warhead that killed Shimoto Katsushiro, so that the scene would be inconsistent with the TT's report, and the superiors would investigate other possibilities, and TT would be suspected of investigating. This was Superintendent Guan’s last move, and he persuaded TT to surrender. However, he was wrong and received news on Monday that TT committed suicide by swallowing the gun.
In fact, the transfer of the warhead was just a bluff of Superintendent Guan. I didn’t expect TT to be so ruthless and exchanged his life for spiritual victory.
The police decided not to disclose the truth of the matter and pushed everything to Shimoto Katsushi. TT committed suicide because "the inability to save the hostages caused the depression and attack." Superintendent Guan was very dissatisfied with this. In his heart, the police were swords, not Libras, and judging the blame was the court's responsibility. All they did was to send the prisoners to Libra, without the right to decide what "righteousness" was. Therefore, he bet with the police that he would seize the opportunity of Ishimoto-tian within a month to exchange for the police to make everything public and allow everyone to undergo a fair trial.
The end of this incident was when he remembered Luo Xiaoming who disobeyed the orders of his superiors in the action. He believed that people who could still think independently in crisis had great potential, and it should be very good to be placed in the Criminal Department.
