Chapter 17381738 [Just Bourbon...]
Conan and Yoko Kinoshita were lying in front of a one-way mirror, concentrating on looking at the suspect in the interrogation room.
Jiang Xia stood nearby, feeling a little bored.
He thought of the live broadcast opening video that Vodka had just edited, and since he had nothing else to do, he decided to send a message to his colleagues to keep in touch:
[By the way, do you know who the lucky mascot was who was wearing a doll costume, shaking hands and hugging Ms. Yoko at the beginning of the live broadcast yesterday, and who was always available for photos and autographs?]
On the other side, in the black vehicle.
Vodka glanced down at the email and sneered.
Oh, you think you can stir up my emotions and anger like this? I...
Damn, I’m kind of angry!
Vodka: “…” Damn Uzo, I hope this guy gets poisoned to death by the sudden poison when he takes the snacks handed over by the suspect.
…By the way, who is that mascot?
If we can’t deal with Uzo, can we deal with that guy?
Just as I was thinking about it with a fierce look in my eyes, Jiang Xia's next email came:
[It's Bourbon. These days, whenever he wants, he can come to Ms. Yoko to work with him. If anyone else applied for the mascot position, they would get the same treatment now. What a pity.]
Vodka: “…”
Oh, stupid Uzo, did you think he would be fooled by provoking him like this? Going to broadcast such a dangerous thing live, except for Bourbon who was calculated, other cadres would be stupid to do it.
Vodka: "..." But Bourbon can do it, so why can't I? I'm just wearing a mask and saying a few stupid words to show my support...
No, no, no! You’d be a fool to fall for such an obvious temptation and conspiracy!
Vodka's thoughts went through many swings in a short period of time, and finally stabilized: "Conspiracy, it's all Uzo's conspiracy!"
…
After Jiang Xia sent the email, he didn't receive a reply and immediately felt a little sorry.
But after the fluctuations just now, the vodka should have had some ice cream effect.
I'll find an excuse to go take a look around Gin's car soon, and I should be able to find the murderous ball that fell from the car.
While Jiang Xia was squeezing ice cream remotely, Officer Takagi finally found the equipment and began to replay yesterday's live broadcast.
Although the focus of the live broadcast was on the host and Jiang Xia, after entering the coffee shop, as a quarrel suddenly broke out at a table, the cameraman instinctively turned the camera over there.
Soon, everyone saw on the screen that there were two middle-aged men wearing glasses arguing fiercely across the dining table.
"Yes, it is indeed the deceased and the suspect." Sato Miwako checked carefully and suddenly saw a scene, "Pause!"
As the video paused, the two cups on the quarrelers' table were enlarged and circled by the technicians.
They were two thermos cups, very close to each other. They were actually the same model and looked exactly the same.
The scene continues, and when they learn that a live broadcast is going on, they ask people to stop arguing. Hashizume Akira picks up the thermos and stuffs it into his bag, then leaves angrily.
Behind him, the deceased stared at the remaining thermos cup, his expression changed several times, and finally he lowered his head, picked up the remaining cup, and hurried away.
Everyone's eyes fell on his face.
Miwako Sato hesitated: "Why do I feel that... when Hashizume Akira left, he seemed to have deliberately taken the dead person's cup by mistake?" She looked at Jiang Xia for confirmation.
"It does seem like it was intentional." Jiang Xia nodded. "Although the two thermos cups were close to each other, they couldn't have been placed in the same position. And when Hashizume Akira left, he actually took the cup that was a little further away from him. Judging from the position, it looks more like the deceased's thermos cup."
Kinoshita Yoko always thought that the two people had strange expressions when they left: "Did they see that there was a camera filming and feel embarrassed to continue arguing, so they didn't care about the problem of taking the wrong cup, and just wanted to get out of the camera as soon as possible and exchange it later?"
"It could be another situation." Officer Takagi suddenly had some guesses, and pounded his fist on his palm. "I remember that the deceased was poisoned by the coffee in the thermos. Maybe yesterday, before the two people met in the restaurant, Hashizume Akira poisoned his thermos, and then when he left, he deliberately took the wrong cup and left his cup of poisoned coffee to the deceased. When the deceased walked under the bridge, he drank his poisoned coffee and was poisoned to death!"
Jiang Xia pointed to another scene in the video: "The deceased looked at the thermos cup with such a strange expression. He must have noticed that the two people took the wrong cup. But he still drank the poison. There must be another hidden story behind this."
Officer Takagi was quite optimistic: "No matter what, this is also a breakthrough. If Inspector Megure seizes this opportunity to question us..."
…
Unfortunately, however, Inspector Megure failed to meet his expectations.
Instead, it was Hashizume Akira who, relying on the skills he had developed as a reporter, managed to get the time of death from the police in a roundabout way.
Then he leaned back in his chair with a relaxed look: "Humph, I told you that you arrested the wrong person, but you still refuse to admit it - I have an alibi for this period of time."
"Alibi?" Sato Miwako frowned and ran over to listen.
Yoko Kinoshita stayed where she was, with a strange expression on her face.
Jiang Xia looked at her: "What's wrong?"
Kinoshita Yoko looked around and found that no one was eavesdropping, so she moved closer and whispered to Jiang Xia, "According to the collection of your cases I collected, those who have the strongest alibis are very likely to be the real culprits in the case! It seems that there is a clue to this case. I hope it can be solved soon, and then we can go to your school to shoot together."
Jiang Xia: “…” Don’t you know a little too much?
But never mind, it's not a big deal. He nodded and casually agreed: "I want to go to school early, too."
That being said, Jiang Xia was not really enthusiastic about Teitan Middle School. In his impression, there were few murders in the school. The occasional cases were mostly caused by ghosts.
Compared to this, he felt that the journey to school was more exciting.
Hashizume Akira was unaware of the detective's feelings and was still arguing with the police: "Didn't that guy die between 7 and 9 last night? From 6pm to this morning, I have been waiting for dirt on a target. That guy is suspected of cheating on me, and I have been waiting for him at the bottom of his building for several days."
"…Words are not enough, what evidence do you have?"
"Doesn't the video I took count as evidence?" Hashizume Akira snorted coldly, "Let me go home and I'll copy what I took over."
…
Not long after, the video was played in the police station.
The time of shooting is recorded in the lower right corner of the video. And at about 7 o'clock last night, a courier happened to go to the target's apartment to deliver a package, and was also captured on camera.
(End of this chapter)
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