Tokyo: Rabbit Police and Her Evil Partner

Chapter 33 Fresh Corpse
Yuan Yuzi thought, this is terrible, why did Fushimi play the murderer? If she caught Fushimi, wouldn't that cause him to fail?
Then she changed her mind and felt that this was a good opportunity to prove herself! She had been teased by her classmate Fushimi in the painting class before, and she had never had a chance to get back at him. Now she could finally have a fair fight!
With so many instructors watching over him, Fushimi-san will definitely not be able to play any more tricks. It's time for him to see how powerful the future famous detective and police officer is!
In this way, Fushimi-san will definitely fall under the charm of reasoning, turn over a new leaf and walk on the right path, begging to be her partner for free - it is really too alien for partners to pay hiring fees to each other!

If Fushimi fails this year, he can wait until next year to take the make-up exam! By then, she will be a senior in the class, and maybe she can submit an application to transfer Fushimi over...

The image of Fushimi Shika standing at attention and saluting her respectfully appeared in Gen Yuzi's mind.

At this moment, Instructor Bai Tian called the roll one by one, and the 52 students got off the car one by one. The students whose names were called got into the corresponding numbered cars. The initial location of each group was different, distributed in caves, cemeteries, or dense forests.

Yuan Yuzi was assigned to Team 7, with Hidetake, Yoshimura Yu and a girl with pigtails as teammates, led by Instructor Shirata. Each person only had two liters of water, a signal gun, a map and a compass.

The car drove along the mountain road and into the dense forest. Twenty minutes later, a warning sign with the words "No Entry" blocked the path.

Instructor Bai Tian signaled everyone to get off the bus. He pulled open the mottled and rusty barbed wire. Vines rustled down, the grass and trees were overgrown, and the road had come to an end.

"The next step is walking," Instructor Shirata clapped his hands, took out a writing clipboard and a pen from his arms, and announced, "The test begins."

"Eh? Is it starting now?" the girl with pigtails asked, "Are there no instructions?"

Instructor Bai Tian did not respond. He stood next to the warning sign, looking down and writing something on the folder board, apparently giving them a grade.

Yoshimura Yu clapped his hands to attract the attention of the others. He said that since he was the squad leader and had more experience in organizing and leading, he would lead the search this time, and the others had no objection.

"In fact, the mission instructions are very clear. Please take a look at the map in your hands," Yoshimura Yu glanced at Instructor Shirata and said, "The map circles the "suspicious area" that needs to be searched, as well as the "sighting location" where the murderer was last seen."

The girl with pigtails suddenly realized that there were two areas marked with red and green circles on the map, and she thought that this must be their destination.

"The murderer is likely to start moving at the same time as us, which means we have to get closer to the 'sighting location' as quickly as possible. Otherwise, the search area will expand exponentially as time goes by."

After saying that, Yoshimura Yu glanced at the instructor again and said, "Do you understand everything? If you don't have any other questions, let's go."

Yuan Yuzi wondered why the monitor kept glancing at the instructor. She turned around and saw Instructor Shirata writing furiously on a folder, probably recording the monitor's excellent performance.

I see! If you want to get a high score, you have to perform well in front of the instructor!
In the group of four, only the girl with pigtails hadn't looked at the map. Yoshimura Yu said a lot, but it was all nonsense. Yuan Yuzi secretly regretted that if she had known earlier, she would have told her teammates in advance. Maybe Instructor Shirata would have rewarded her for it.

The four men crossed the barbed wire fence, stepped on knee-high weeds, and walked into the dense forest.

The "suspicious area" that needed to be searched was not far away, only two hundred meters away. The range was not large either, and the four of them walked around and soon found the "body" lying in the grass.

The girl with pigtails screamed and her face turned pale.

Yuan Yuzi looked closely and found that the corpse was not a mannequin, but a corpse that had died not long ago. His face suddenly changed.

Yoshimura Yu and Hidenori couldn't pretend to be calm. They took a step back, covered their noses, hesitated for a long time, and didn't dare to move forward. The corpse is the embodiment of death, which can arouse the instinctive fear of living things.

"Could it be that a murder really happened here?" The girl with pigtails had legs shaking like sieves and her voice was out of tune.

Just as everyone was panicking, Instructor Bai Tian started to explain: "This is a body borrowed from the county hospital morgue. The family members have signed a donation agreement and informed consent form."

As a police officer, even the lowest-level patrolman will often come into contact with corpses. Instead of letting these students embarrass themselves by going to the crime scene after graduation, it is better to give them a shot of prevention during the graduation exam.

Yuan Yuzi took a deep breath, and the scene of stepping into the auditorium emerged in her mind - the two familiar corpses leaning on the stage, as quiet as the corpse in front of her.

'There's nothing to be afraid of,' she said to herself.

At the same time, Yoshimura Yu nudged his teammate with his elbow and said, "Hideki, go investigate the scene."

Xiu pointed at his nose and whispered, "Why me?"

"This is a chance for you to show off. Don't you want to get a high score?" Yoshimura Yu came closer and whispered, "Are you going to let those two girls go? You should be a little gentleman!"

Xiu Ze was not stupid, and asked back: "Then why don't you show it..."

The two were arguing in a low voice about who should examine the body, but then they saw Yuan Yuzi step forward, put on white gloves neatly, and squatted down next to the body.

"Don't move!" Yoshimura Yu advised: "What if you destroy the scene? Let the boys do this dirty work..."

Yuan Yuzi ignored him and once again entered the flow state, constantly checking with her hands while speaking very quickly:

"The deceased was a male. There were two cigarette butts nearby, water stains on his chest, no obvious blood on his body, and bruises on his neck. It is preliminarily inferred that he died of mechanical asphyxiation. There was half a pack of cigarettes, a metal lighter, and a wallet in his pocket, all of which could be used for fingerprint extraction. There were horse racing tickets and 26,000 yen in change in his wallet. The deceased wore a watch on his left hand, and his dominant hand was his right hand..."

Yoshimura Yu couldn't help but interrupt, "Some people wear watches on their dominant hand! What's the point of making such blind inferences? Don't make things worse, let's investigate first..."

"That's true, but the deceased's shoelaces were tied with his right hand, so my reasoning is correct."

Yuan Yuzi paused, and without looking up, she said, "Didn't you say that we should get closer to the scene as soon as possible? This means that we can't waste too much time at the crime scene."

Before the others could react, Yuan Yuzi stood up, clasped his hands together, and bowed slightly to the corpse.

"Mr. Natsume, please rest in peace."

(End of this chapter)