Conan's First Love is a Profiler

Chapter 182 The Disappearing Corpse (Rewards and More)

9 month 19 day.

"The design selection for the Kaizhou Stadium will be entrusted to Seiji Umihara."

Kaihara Seiji was stunned.

The people around him were also a little surprised, "He has only been in the company for four years, right?"

"It's okay. I won't interfere with you too much. Use your young mind and go for it."

Seiji Kaihara, who was pulled onto the stage, was somewhat delighted, but more than that, he could not hide his inner excitement.

"Please take good care of me!"

After the meeting, Katagiri Izumi quietly pulled him aside and said, "You have to be careful. Mr. Jinian has already made many people collapse."

"Eh?"

"He is well-known for harassing his subordinates in power."

9 month 25 day.

"Did you draw this design carefully?"

"Yes."

“Are you at the elementary school level?”

Ji Nian Shuimu tore up the drawing, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it on the table.

"Sorry, please give me another chance."

"waste!"

9 month 27 day.

"You are such a hopeless case. Please don't embarrass me."

10 month 8 day.

"With such a bad design, do you think you can win?"

10 month 14 day.

"If you work overtime until nine o'clock, you will be fired. You should obey the company's rules!"

10 month 22 day.

"You haven't gone home yet? Your work efficiency is so poor! You're always so slow!"

10 month 24 day.

"I had high hopes for Kaihara, and it was such a bad decision. You should apologize to the executive director and say, 'I'm really sorry that I don't have talent.'"

It's all my fault that I don't have talent. It's me who don't have talent.
His eyes looked somewhat empty, as if he was a walking corpse. He kept repeating the name "Jinian" in his mouth and returned home like a zombie.

He turned a deaf ear to his mother's smiling "Welcome home".

Listening to her son's mumbling, Umihara Shizuka walked to her husband and whispered, "Seiji is at the company and seems to have some interpersonal relationship problems. You should go talk to him."

"Seiji is already an adult, so don't interfere with him too much."

After finishing the food on his plate, Kaihara Yusuke put on his coat, picked up his handbag, and said to his wife, "I'm going out. I won't be back today."

10 month 25 day.

Shizuka prepared breakfast and placed it on the table.

She called downstairs, "Seiji, it's already 6:45. If you don't get up, you're going to be late."

"Seiji?"

A person is considered dead the moment his heart stops beating.

Until a body is found, death cannot be medically recognized.

So, when the one we love disappears, we can only wait forever.
Around 2 p.m. on Saturday, a woman called police.

She said that when she went to her boyfriend's house, the scene at home was like something out of a sci-fi movie.

The local police rushed to the scene and found a lot of blood and torn clothes in the room. In the bathroom, there were blood-stained towels and an electric saw.

There was a knife stuck in the pillow, presumably the murder weapon.

However, the victim's body was not found, no eyewitness testimony was collected, and there was not even any sign of a car being used to transport the body.

The owner of the room is Jinian Shuimu, an employee of Mensong Construction.

During the on-site investigation, he suddenly returned home and was then called to the police station for questioning.

"The suspect denies it? Isn't it your job to make him tell the truth?"

"Of course." Gao Mu smiled awkwardly, "But the higher-ups suddenly intervened in the case. They said that they hadn't found the body and the suspect wouldn't turn himself in, so they released him."

Qinghai Chuantang paused.

"Officer Takagi, please don't tell me he is the son of some politician."

In fact, she actually guessed it right.

That man is the eldest son of House of Representatives member Jinnian Ciji, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and has a close relationship with the current Director-General.

After thinking for a while, Qinghai Chuantang finally decided to take on this difficult matter.

He also said: "Officer Takagi, remember to issue more invoices this time."

Thus, Gao Mu went on the road of false accounting and never returned.
The massive amount of blood in the room, estimated at three liters, was lethal.

The clothes were embroidered with the Romanization of Kaihara Seiji's name, but he had disappeared two days ago. His family also asked the police to find his whereabouts.

Skin tissue was collected from the clothing left at the scene, but not found on the saw or knife.

The identification report showed that the DNA of the two matched.

10 month 28 day.

Qinghai Chuantang and Conan came to the apartment where Jinian Shuimu lived.

He was preparing to move, and many things in the house were moved to the truck.

"What's going on this time? You don't have any evidence, so you have no choice but to let me go. Legally, I have no obligation to assist you."

After observing the surroundings, Qinghai Chuantang walked up to him and said, "Mr. Shuimu, you are actually innocent, right? We are here to prove your innocence."

Regarding Conan, Qinghai Chuantang still used the same excuse as before.

In fact, from the very beginning, when the other party introduced himself like this, Conan felt something was wrong.

Now that I hear it again, I feel that something is wrong, but I can't tell what it is.

In short, there was only one thought in my mind: Sister Xiaotang, let’s duel!

"Could it be that you are the ones my father found?"

Jinian Shuimu showed a happy expression, stood up from the chair, smiled and patted her shoulder and said: "Please, I really admire the police."

Conan blinked, looked at him and said, "Mr. Mizuki, are you planning to move?"

"There's no way I can not move, right? My house has been messed up like this." Ji Nian Shuimu's tone sounded a little helpless.

"After identification, the blood found at the scene belonged to Mr. Kaihara Seiji. Where were you at the time?"

"I just went out for a walk."

"So what is your relationship with Mr. Seiji?"

Ji Nian Shuimu laughed, put his phone in his trouser pocket, sat on the bed and said, "I'm from the sales department, and he's from the design department. We just worked on a project together, and we have no other interactions."

"I understand. After all, given the current situation, it's normal for others to doubt me, but this really has nothing to do with me."

Qinghai Chuantang nodded, and then asked, "Where is the woman who called the police?"

"She was just a stupid woman. She said she wanted to come to my house, so I told her where the spare key was. She came over excitedly, but she ended up calling the police without any explanation."

"Where did you put your keys?"

"The mailbox downstairs was seen by someone after all." Jinian Shuimu looked a little distressed. "Recently, I always felt like someone was following me."

On October 10, Jinian Shuimu received a text message from Kaihara Seiji:

Director Shuimu, I want to tell you about power harassment. If you have any objections, come to the company immediately.

"He misunderstood. I treated him very well." Ji Nian Shuimu defended himself.

When I arrived at Mensong Construction Company, I got an answer from my colleagues that was the opposite of what I had heard in the text message from Seiji Kaihara.

Staff A: During the last competition, Mizuki strongly promoted Seiji.

Staff B: He is a reliable senior. He is very nice to Seiji and always greets him warmly.

The answers given by others were similar.

"They are all lying." Conan said in the corridor.

"Yes, they are hiding the fact of power harassment."

Although he was sure of his intuition, Conan still had doubts: "It wasn't them who did it, so why did they hide it for Mr. Mizuki?"

Qinghai Chuantang chuckled: "Because I am in the organization, I can't help but protect the organization."

"and you."

Conan was stunned for a moment, and when he was about to ask something, someone suddenly called them from behind.

The two turned around and looked at the person who came.

"I'm Katagiri from the design department. Seiji hasn't come to work. Did something happen?"

"Is there anything you're concerned about?"

Katagiri Izumi turned around and took a look. After confirming that no one else noticed, he whispered, "Don't tell me it was me."

"Don't worry, we won't tell anyone."

In fact, Yoshitsugu Mizuki's power harassment was so excessive that he felt it was only a matter of time before Kaihara Seiji left.

If he is just acting like a leader, that is not uncommon.

But Yoshitsugu Mizuki always said that he was looking forward to Kaihara Seiji's performance, praised him, and then gave him the task without providing him with the necessary help.

If Kaihara Seiji failed, Yoshitsugu Mizuki would scold him harshly.

Such a blow was indeed too heavy for Seiji Kaihara.

"So Seiji lost his confidence and became depressed."

"It seems like you understand Seiji's thoughts very well."

Katagiri Izumi pondered for a moment and said, "Jinian's father is powerful in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, so the minister turned a blind eye to him."

At night, Jinian Shuimu was attacked and beaten with a baseball bat and sent to the hospital.

Unfortunately, the bullet didn't hit any vital parts and he was successfully rescued.

Because we couldn't see the criminal's face clearly, we didn't know who did it.

Jinian Shuimu was lying on the hospital bed with his head and neck wrapped in gauze, looking very seriously ill.

"The criminal, is it Umihara Seiji?"

He wanted to nod in response, but found that he couldn't do it at all, so he had to force out two words from his mouth: "Yes."

"I didn't even see his face, why do you think it was him?"

"cell phone."

In the text message interface, Seiji Kaihara sent a new message.

A recording and a text saying "If you want to delete this recording, come here at 11pm."

"You are so incompetent, just quit your job! Go home and take a bath with your mother!" The recording was filled with words that were unbearable to hear.

"He hates me. I was so good to him, but he hated me for his blood. He also did it to frame me. He is still alive, and he is seeking revenge on me."

10 month 29 day.

The Internet is flooded with news related to the two key figures in this case.

"The big devil of power harassment in a black-hearted large construction company", "The new designer has been missing for a week", "The criminal of power harassment is the son of a big-name congressman".
Comments on shady companies, revenge killings by the undead, walking corpses, and the real-life version of The Walking Dead are being updated in real time, and the popularity is continuing to grow, reaching number one on the website's hot search list.

Yoshino Mizuki's father had a hard time getting the police to not make the news public, but since Kaihara Seiji's mother had spoken out, it was too late for him to do anything.

“I believe he is still alive.”

In the video, Shizuka, who was being interviewed, wore a pair of oval glasses and looked very haggard.

As for whether Seiji Kaihara is really still alive, we will know if we go and confirm it.

So, when the one we love disappears, we can only wait forever.
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