Chapter 2402-2414 [New Enemy]
The reliable detective did not disappoint him: "It is actually very simple to let the deceased drink a poisoned drink - just put a poisoned ice cube in each of the two drinks. In this way, the probability of the deceased choosing the poisoned drink is 100%."
"I see!" Inspector Megure said with understanding, but soon he felt like something was wrong.
After hesitating for a moment, the police chief leaned close to Jiang Xia and whispered to him, "But I remember that the clerk drank all her drinks, and there was no trace of poison left in her cup..."
Jiang Xia: "The murderer only needed to finish her Coke before the ice melted. Then she could just pretend that she also liked to chew ice cubes, and then she could open the lid of the cup and pour the unmelted ice cubes into her mouth without any sense of incongruity.
"This is something that many people would do, and it wouldn't arouse suspicion. Then she could pretend to cough, spit the ice cubes into her palm very naturally, and then hide the ice cubes somewhere else."
"Hide somewhere else?" Inspector Megure felt something was wrong when he heard this. "Today's weather isn't too cold. After such a long time, the ice must have melted. If this is the case..."
Jiang Xia shook his head and reached into his wallet to search.
After a moment, he paused slightly, raised his head and looked at Hattori Heiji.
Hattori Heiji: "...?"
Jiang Xia pointed to his wallet and said, "You should have some rusty coins. Take them out and try."
Hattori Heiji looked suspicious: "Why don't you try?"
Jiang Xia showed him her shiny change and said, "My coins are very smooth. The rusty ones have been used up long ago."
Hattori Heiji: "..."
Damn it! He is a famous detective in Kansai, but now he has become the assistant of a Tokyo detective.
However, thinking of Kudo Shinichi's strange situation and the members of the organization who were eyeing him covetously, the black-skinned detective realized that now was not the time for internal fighting. He hesitated and reached into his pocket to see if there was anything Jiang Xia wanted.
At this time, someone next to him said, "I have it."
Shuichi Akai expressed his friendliness at the right moment. He took out a slightly rusty coin and handed it over.
"!" Hattori Heiji remembered what Conan said, "The Black Organization seems to be very interested in Jiang Xia", and he immediately became alert. He moved between the two of them and snatched the coin, not letting Akai Shuichi do this favor, "Give it to me, thank you for your hard work."
Then he turned and, with a flick of his gloved fingers, dropped the coin into the hood behind the clerk.
Female clerk: “?!”
Before she could come to her senses, Hattori Heiji pulled up her hat again and took out the coin.
Unlike the slightly dirty appearance just now, the coin now becomes shiny and looks brand new.
"Look." Hattori Heiji held the coin and showed it to the police. "After the ice melted in her hood, it dissolved into the cyanide inside. The water mixed with hydride caused the coin to undergo a redox reaction. As long as we check her hood, we will definitely find enough cyanide to kill her."
"He hid in his hood." Inspector Megure didn't expect the murderer to be so skilled and daring... But! The detective brothers are obviously better.
He asked happily: "How did you know she hid the ice in that place?"
Jiang Xia looked at the murderer and said, "Your seat is right at the outermost edge of the auditorium, very close to the beverage stand. And Miss Ninagawa is very concerned about her ex-fiancé, so I think she will look at you frequently.
"If you drop the ice cubes on the ground at this time, she will easily see it, so you have to use actions such as yawning and adjusting your collar to cover up your behavior of hiding the ice cubes.
"Also, it's drizzling outside right now. In this situation, many people would choose to pull up their hoods to cover themselves when they go out. But when you went out to help Officer Gao Mu identify the location of the deceased's vehicle, you just walked out."
"So that's how it is." The female clerk sighed and smiled bitterly, "Yes, it is..."
"Who says that the detection of cyanide in the hood means that you are the murderer?" Suddenly, a voice came from the side, interrupting her confession.
Everyone was startled and looked in the direction of the voice, and then were surprised to find that it was the taciturn painter who spoke.
The painter looked at the female clerk, then at Akai Shuichi, and suddenly smiled sinisterly.
He imitated Jiang Xia's tone and said, "Some people like to get caught in the rain, and won't use a hood to protect themselves even if their clothes have one, so it's understandable that they don't wear a hood on rainy days.
"So is there a possibility that there was no potassium cyanide in her hood at all, only some rain water that fell on her when she went out just now? And the reason why the coin was able to undergo a redox reaction was because someone coated one side of it with enough cyanide.
"There was cyanide on one side of the coin, and the other side remained rusty. After it entered the hood, the cyanide on it quickly dissolved in the rain, removing the rust on the other side, making it look like the hood was originally filled with poison - someone wanted to use this method to frame the murder crime on the lady."
Next to her, the short-haired female clerk didn't expect this to happen. She was stunned for a moment, and her originally weak knees suddenly regained strength and supported her body again.
Inspector Megure couldn't help but stroke his chin: "..." What's going on? It actually sounded like it made sense.
Jiang Xia: “…” I didn’t expect that this talented painter would hold a grudge. He was obviously resentful of Shuichi Akai for giving his precious sketchbook to the police as physical evidence… But unfortunately, there were still too many loopholes, not enough to send an FBI agent to have a talk with the police.
Sure enough, Akai Shuichi blocked this path with one sentence: "I didn't touch their drink cups."
“…”
Since the last time the painter met Jiang Xia, he has been studying the resume of this famous detective. He knows that this man's reasoning is probably correct, but he still mutters with the simple intention of making things difficult for the tall man:
"Who knows if you wiped off the fingerprints in the dark? You were sitting next to the deceased, and the coffee was placed very close to him. Even if you made any small movements, it would be difficult for others to notice."
Akai Shuichi glanced at this Uzo minion and felt the undisguised malice coming from him.
Shuichi Akai: "..." Although he did not kill anyone and had a clear conscience, he did not want to dwell on this topic - to be honest, the recent frequent accidents made him dare not be careless, so before coming here, he covered his fingerprints with special paint, and did not want to leave his information anywhere.
Therefore, if the police follow the point of "whether there are his fingerprints on the drink cup", they will probably find his abnormality immediately...
(End of this chapter)
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