Chapter 2401 2413 [Jiang Xia, go fight Wu Zuo]

"Once the matter of Vermouth is resolved, I will ask Jiang Xia if he is willing to leave." Akai Shuichi began to look forward to the next stage of work. "If he is not willing... then we may have a powerful comrade in dealing with Uzo."

With the friendly help of a detective, the two FBI agents successfully got rid of the suspicion.

Everyone's eyes were focused on the four acquaintances of the deceased.

Jiang Xia also looked at the three hospital staff members and a senior high school student, and his eyes swept over them. "This method does not require an accomplice. The nurse and the security guard could see each other while distributing the drinks, so they did not have the opportunity to open the lids of the cups and add ice cubes to the drinks. Therefore, the only people who had time to commit the crime were the clerk and Ms. Ninagawa."

Inspector Megure was very relieved after eliminating 4 of the 6 suspicious persons in the blink of an eye. He looked at the detective brother with satisfaction and asked, "What next?"

Jiang Xia never disappoints: "As a coffee seller, it's not difficult for Ninagawa-senpai to tamper with the ice. But this time, in order to talk to the deceased, she arbitrarily replaced all the coffee in the deceased's order with Coke, hoping that the other party would return the drink... If she was the murderer, she wouldn't have to do such a troublesome thing and make her plan go awry."

"In other words, the real murderer is..."

The police turned their heads and looked at the short-haired female clerk who bought drinks for her colleagues.

The short-haired woman staggered back a step, sweating profusely. She opened her mouth to refute, but didn't know where to start.

Jiang Xia looked at her: "After you buy the drink, just walk to the long table next to you where the creamer and syrup are placed, then you can quietly open the lid of the cup and add the poisoned ice cubes you prepared in advance into the drink - there are many people buying coffee, and there must be many people at the counter doing the same thing, so your action of opening the cup will not seem abrupt at all, nor will it leave much impression on others.

"You originally wanted to add milk and sugar to cover up the strangeness of the ice cubes after putting the poisoned ice cubes in. However, when you hurriedly threw in the ice cubes, you found that the two cups of iced coffee you ordered were replaced by iced cola by the salesperson.

"You can't get the ice back out in public, so you have to wait until the show starts before returning to your seat. That way, even if your target realizes that the drink is wrong, he or she won't have time to return to the counter to change it."

"I see." After hearing this, the police officer who was about to get off work immediately realized which of these would be important evidence. His eyes lit up, "You said before that the murderer didn't have time to dispose of the physical evidence. Does that mean she didn't have time to throw away the container of poisoned ice?"

Jiang Xia nodded and looked at the "Doctor Xinchu" who appeared out of nowhere: "Just now, Doctor Xinchu said he wanted to go to the bathroom, so I asked him to help look around there - did you find anything?"

After wandering around for quite a while and still not finding the strange male substitute, "Dr. Shinichi" could only pinch his nose and rummage through the trash can after receiving a text message from Uzo: "..."

Vermouth walked forward, took out a palm-sized purse, and handed it to Jiang Xia with a smile - it was time to let this child feel the smell of the trash can.

However, unlike what she imagined, Jiang Xia did not forcibly take the item that had been in the trash can in order to maintain his detective image. He just looked at it from a distance and then raised his hand towards the police.

The next moment, the young policeman ran out holding the evidence bag and took the purse from Vermouth.

Vermouth: "..."

Jiang Xia nodded slightly at her and said leisurely: "This sealed purse with plastic leather and metal buckle has good heat preservation properties. As long as a small piece of dry ice is stuffed in it, the poison ice carefully made by the murderer can be preserved.

"After the murderer put the ice cubes, she gave the four drinks to her companions and went to the bathroom alone. There, she could easily deal with the tiny bit of dry ice and then threw the wallet into the trash can."

"Oh!" Judy suddenly covered her lips in surprise and looked at "Dr. Xinchu" with a complicated look, "You went into the women's restroom?"

Vermouth, who was already in a bad mood, said: "..."

Although Judy hated the murderer of her father, she remembered that she was playing the role of a passionate foreign teacher who liked the "new doctor". She laughed and swallowed the words "You are very skilled" in her heart, and praised him instead: "You really sacrificed a lot to solve this case - you are really a hero!"

"Dr. Shinchu" suddenly laughed: "Thank goodness the women's restroom was always empty, so I was able to go in and look for something."

When Suzuki Sonoko heard this, she suddenly remembered something. She scratched her head and looked at Judy in confusion: "When I called you just now, didn't you say you were in the bathroom?"

Judy: “…”

Jiang Xia did not interrupt the friendly exchange between the teacher and the students. She politely stopped talking and waited for them to say more.

However, the good times did not last long. Soon, a voice came from the side, breaking the fragrant atmosphere.

The short-haired female clerk took a deep breath and looked at Jiang Xia: "As expected of a famous detective in Tokyo, you can connect everything so quickly and make up a seemingly reasonable cause and effect."

Miwako Sato listened to the voice and smelled a hint of sarcasm: "'Seemingly' reasonable?"

The short-haired female clerk nodded and said, "Don't forget, I ordered exactly the same drink as Kohei, and I wasn't there when the drinks were distributed. If it's true as you said, I put poisonous ice cubes in the drinks, how can I ensure that Kohei gets the poisoned one?

"So the truth is, there was no such thing as poisonous ice cubes, and Kohei died by taking poison himself.

"As for the purse...it was indeed mine, but I accidentally dropped it on the floor when I went to the bathroom. I'm a bit of a germaphobe and thought the bathroom floor was dirty, so I just threw it away."

"You...!" Teacher Judy was full of indignation. "How could you even come up with such a sophistry? Are you worthy of this school doctor who specializes in going into the girls' bathroom to rummage through trash cans? Look into his eyes before you speak!"

"Oh... calm down, calm down." Inspector Megure didn't expect that this suspicious teacher Judy would suddenly become so righteous, but when he thought of the usual state of the suspects fighting against each other, he suddenly felt that this was very reasonable.

But no matter how you look at it, this matter is indeed troublesome - the potassium cyanide was sealed inside the ice, and since even the victim's drink cup could not detect the poison, the inside of the purse must be even cleaner, so this physical evidence is indeed not solid enough.

But it's not a big problem.

Inspector Megure turned around decisively: "Brother Jiang Xia, look..."

(End of this chapter)