Kui Kui said calmly, "I think Higashino is lying."
“I think so too,” Xia Tian and Xiao Bai answered at the same time again.
Xiao Bai glared at Xia Tian and said in a muffled voice, "You copycat!"
That self-righteous demeanor completely oblivious to the fact that he was a cat, while Xia Tian was the human.
Upon hearing this, Kui Kui couldn't help but smile.
Summer naturally couldn't hear Xiaobai's complaints, and only thought that Kuikui was happy because he recognized her.
As he drove alongside Li Qizheng, he said, "Uncle Xia is a businessman. He may not have many other skills, but he's quite good at reading people."
"Although Higashino Yoshi's reaction was quick and he gave a reasonable explanation, his micro-expressions and micro-movements still betrayed him."
"Moreover, I asked the project manager and found that it was Higashino Yoshi himself who suggested destroying the dolls."
"Therefore, I suspect that he knew there was something wrong with these dolls and deliberately wanted to destroy them, rather than being unaware of it."
Xiaobai added, "Kui, I smell a fishy stench on that guy, like the smell of rotting meat."
"A cat's intuition is very accurate; that guy is definitely not a good person! You need to be careful."
Kui Kui nodded.
The group quickly arrived at Higashino Yoshi's house.
Higashino Yoshi lives in an old-style public housing complex.
He walked through a long, dimly lit corridor and stopped in front of a green iron door.
The iron gate was covered in rust, with green, yellow and black stains mixed together.
Inside the iron gate was a deep red wooden door.
Much of the paint on the wooden door has peeled off, leaving crisscrossing cracks.
Higashino Yoshi took out his key and opened the doors one by one.
The rusty iron gate made a screeching sound, just as the wooden door was pushed open a crack.
Little White's fur suddenly stood on end.
It immediately realized what the fishy smell on Higashino Yoshi was.
It spoke up to warn, "Aoi, it's the smell of a corpse! That guy smells like a corpse, and it's in this house too!"
Higashino Yoshi had already gone in first.
"Dad, we have a guest." He called out, but no one answered.
The room is small, with the kitchen, living room, and bedroom connected from top to bottom in a long, narrow shape.
Therefore, the living room has no windows, so the lighting is very poor and it is quite dark.
Higashino Yoshi turned on the light, gestured "please" to the sofa, and gave a slightly embarrassed smile.
"Chairman Xia, Miss Xia, General Manager Li, your home is rather simple, please make yourselves at home."
“My dad has hearing problems, he probably didn’t hear me. I’ll go to the inner room and call him.”
When Xia Tian tried to sit down, Kui Kui stopped her.
She shook her head slightly, gesturing for him to stand back.
He then followed Higashino Yoshi into the bedroom.
The bedroom wasn't large, but the afternoon sunlight shone brightly on the magenta curtains.
It contrasted sharply with the scenery outside the window.
Outside the window was a wall, with withered ivy hanging on it.
There's nothing to see.
An elderly man was sitting in a wheelchair by the window.
I don't know if she was looking at the ivy, the wall, or if she had already fallen asleep.
Kuikui knew that person was dead.
It wasn't just because of Xiaobai's reminder, but also because she saw an elderly person in the corner wearing the same clothes as the person in the wheelchair.
The old man's hair was very sparse, with a few strands hanging down on his head, and his face was grayish-white.
He stared at Higashino Yoshi with a gloomy gaze.
Higashino Yoshi seemed unaware that his father had passed away. He stepped forward and gently patted the old man on the shoulder.
The old man naturally did not react.
Higashino Yoshitsu circled around to his father, Higashino Tomohisa, his face filled with panic as he cried out, "Dad! Dad, what's wrong? Dad, wake up!"
Xia Tian and Li Qizheng heard his voice and walked in one after the other.
What happened?
Higashino Yoshi raised his head, tears streaming down his face, and said, "My dad... my dad is dead."
Li Qizheng took out his phone and said, "I'll call 120 right now!"
After hanging up the phone, he rolled up his sleeves and said, "I've learned some first aid. Let me do it. Maybe there's still hope!"
Kui Kui grabbed his arm. "Can't you smell it?"
Li Qizheng was taken aback. Because the window was wide open, he hadn't noticed anything unusual when he came in.
Now that I'm a little closer to Tomohisa Higashino, and thanks to Kaiki's reminder...
He took a closer sniff and immediately detected a faint foul odor.
He frowned, took two steps back, and nodded slightly to Kui Kui in thanks.
He also comforted Higashino Yoshimichi, saying, "Higashino, please accept my condolences."
Higashino Yoshi thanked him softly, then burst into tears.
"Dad, why did you just leave like that! If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have argued with you!"
"You were perfectly fine when I left! It's all my fault. If I had gone home last night, maybe you wouldn't have left!"
People in their thirties are crying their eyes out.
If Kui Kui hadn't known he was lying, he would have thought he was genuinely repentant, just like Uncle Youcai back then.
She stood in front of Xia Tian and said coldly, "Dongye Ji, stop lying."
Higashino Yoshi stopped crying, and he looked up blankly, asking, "Miss Xia, what lie did I tell?"
“You say you had a fight with your father, and I believe you. But he had been dead for some time when you left.”
A freshly dead body will not emit a foul odor.
Three to six hours after death, putrefactive bacteria multiply and grow in the intestines, producing putrefactive gases and releasing a putrefactive odor known as cadaveric odor.
At this time, it was summer, and the summer in Zhonghai City was both humid and hot.
In such an environment, the body decomposes the fastest.
Since Xiaobai smelled the scent on Higashino Yoshi, he must have been with the corpse for at least three hours.
Higashino Yoshi was taken aback for a moment, then stood up and shouted angrily, "Miss Xia, even if you are Chairman Xia's daughter, you can't wrong someone like this!"
Kui Kui said coldly, "When we first met, I could smell a strange stench on you."
"This smell is exactly the same as the smell emanating from your father's corpse."
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