Chapter 2388 2400 [James's Dark Day]
The phone rang for a long time before it was connected. A weak voice came from the other end: "Hello? This is James. How are you guys doing?"
Akai Shuichi was silent for a moment because of the other party's rare state. Then he realized belatedly: Today's plan, not only did he and Judy have an accident, I'm afraid even James's side is not smooth sailing.
This immediately attracted Shuichi Akai's attention: there must be clues behind the anomaly.
He walked to the corner, away from the crowd, and lowered his voice: "What happened on your side? I remember that according to the original plan, Mao Lilan shouldn't have come back so soon - is it possible that when you wanted to delay her, you were delayed by other things?"
"..." James' voice froze for a few seconds before he spoke in a vicissitudes of life, "Not really, it's just a small accident."
Akai Shuichi frowned and asked, "What exactly was the accident?"
James wiped his face vigorously: "…Does this matter?"
Akai Shuichi couldn't help but check his phone: "Need I say this? Of course it's important. Have you forgotten the most common method used by 'that person'? - What happened to you today?"
“…”
There was another long silence.
This time, after a full half minute, the old man on the other end of the phone spoke in a dry voice: "I, I wanted to pretend that I couldn't walk on the way to buy more time. But who knew that the child, seeing that the hospital was almost there, actually picked me up and rushed across the road."
"There are cars everywhere and pedestrians everywhere on the road... Can you understand the feeling of a mature and steady old gentleman being carried across the road by a girl who is less than 18 years old? Can you understand the torment of having everyone's eyes on you?"
Akai Shuichi: "..."
The FBI boss' voice was filled with pain: "At this point, I wanted to give up and keep her, but when I got to the hospital, the doctors and nurses looked at me with strange eyes... If I continue to pester her, I will probably be sent to the police station after you, and I will be charged with the most unbearable crime."
Shuichi Akai: “…” Well, the situation is not what he imagined.
...However, there have been many murders around Mao Lilan, and she may also be one of the targets of Uzo's "care". Whether what happened to James today was an "accident" or inevitable remains to be discussed.
Thinking of this, Shuichi Akai sorted out his thoughts and planned to ask in detail.
However, before he could open his mouth, there was a click, and the boss on the other end, who was always gentle and waited for others to hang up first, actually hung up the phone on his own initiative.
Akai Shuichi: "..."
Forget it. The scene described in that description is indeed a bit heavy for someone like James. I'd better wait until we meet to ask in detail. I hope that my calm and rational attitude can help the boss get rid of the shame.
Speaking of which, according to James' habit, when he is under pressure, he seems to like to brew a pot of mellow coffee, then sit on the balcony and look into the distance and think quietly. But if I am not mistaken, the coffee that the old gentleman likes...
Shuichi Akai's eyes moved and fell on the beverage stand in the distance.
——On the stall made up of several long tables, many instruments were placed side by side, and next to those ordinary juicers, there was a coffee machine with a very different style quietly placed there, with a faint familiar aroma wafting from the pot.
Shuichi Akai looked at the machine and was silent for a moment: Forget it, James is old after all, so it’s better not to tell him the news for now. Let’s wait until he calms down a little.
As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, Shuichi Akai looked at the corpse on the ground and the paper cup that fell next to the corpse, and suddenly remembered another thing.
Shuichi Akai: “…” If I’m not mistaken, the paper cup the deceased was holding… should be the cup used by the stall to hold iced coffee.
And this person happened to die of poisoning, so what about the person who provided the coffee, and the person who set up the stall...
A certain FBI ace took a deep breath and clenched his phone in silence.
…
Jiang Xia was leisurely taking a statement in the police station when suddenly, the phone on Inspector Megure's desk rang.
"Hello, who is this?" Inspector Megure answered the phone calmly, "It's me, Megure."
After a few seconds, his expression twitched slightly and he looked towards Jiang Xia.
Jiang Xia responded with a puzzled look: "?"
"..." Inspector Megure hung up the phone and sighed, "Something happened at Teitan Middle School."
Jiang Xia blinked slowly: "..." If something happened, it happened. It wasn't me who did it, so why are you sighing at me?
…
No matter what, since something has happened, of course we have to go and check out the situation.
Jiang Xia stood up without any surprise and quickly went to his school with the police.
The forensic officers worked skillfully, and soon the preliminary situation was summarized to Jiang... and to Inspector Megure.
"The deceased, Kohei Kamata, was 27 years old and worked at the Beihua General Hospital. He was a full-fledged doctor with a professional qualification certificate."
Inspector Megure glanced through the report and handed it to Jiang Xia.
Then he looked at the female nurse beside him: "Are you the witness closest to the deceased? What was the situation here at the time?"
The fashionable nurse was terrified. She turned her eyes away from the body and thought hard, "At that time... at that time he suddenly fell to the ground. I thought he was unwell at first, but when I squatted down and touched him, I found that he was dead."
Inspector Megure glanced at the paper cup next to the deceased and suspected that the unfortunate man had died of poisoning: "Did he drink the drink first and then suddenly fall to the ground?"
"Well..." The nurse shook her head in embarrassment, "I was watching the play and didn't look around much, so I'm not sure."
Inspector Megure nodded: "Did you notice anything unusual at the time? Any details will do."
When the female nurse mentioned this, she suddenly thought of something.
She turned her head to look at Shuichi Akai, but was so scared by the tall man that she immediately retracted her sight - for some reason, she always felt that this guy was particularly scary, as if he was more dangerous than the knife-wielding robber she had accidentally encountered while walking at night before. She didn't know where this outlaw had jumped out from.
This made her a little afraid to speak out, but soon, some brave and enthusiastic people spoke up for her.
"When the deceased fell, one hand tightly grasped the man's trouser leg!" A student pushed his glasses and pointed at Akai Shuichi, unafraid of power. "I suspect he poisoned him, so the deceased desperately left us a death message before he died!"
Akai Shuichi: "..."
(End of this chapter)
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