Chapter 3440 3452 [Vodka: I was sold?] Ask for monthly ticket ()
"I usually don't pay attention to people who look like passersby. Besides, I was waiting for my phone to be returned and then I could watch some melons..."
"Hmm?" Speaking of cell phones, Suzuki Sonoko's expression changed slightly, and she suddenly remembered something. "Oh right! On the way to the cafe to return the phone with Xiaolan, that phone received another text message."
"I remember it said something like, 'Yuanzi, if you can't come, go alone to burn incense on that person's death anniversary. Remember to place two sunflowers from the factory.'"
Suzuki Sonoko scratched her head: "At that time, I thought the 'that person' the other party was talking about was the ex-boyfriend of Miss Sonoko who has the same name as me, and I guessed a lot of love stories, but now looking back..." This sentence seems a bit creepy.
"A death anniversary?" Huiyuan Ai thought of the cases that Jiang Xia had been involved in, and a series of reasons naturally emerged in her mind. "A death anniversary means someone has died, and when someone dies, it means there may be others who want to avenge that person."
Suzuki Sonoko: “!!”
Sato Miwako suddenly thought of something: "It seems a bit strange for a man and a woman to suddenly mention a death anniversary when they're confessing their love. Could it be that the person who sent the message to the owner of the lost phone wasn't the man who wanted to confess his love, but the two men who were in the cafe with you, the kidnappers?"
Suzuki Sonoko hadn't thought about it that way before, but now that Sato Miwako mentioned it, the more she thought about it, the more it made sense: Right! The cafe was located in the suburbs, and it was next to the tennis courts - even the cafe employees had gone to the court to watch the excitement, but besides her and Xiaolan, why were there two men staying in the store?
...Unless they are waiting for someone, waiting for the "garden" where they can burn incense on the memorial day!
Officer Sato stroked his chin, trying to put these clues together: "Two kidnappers want to kill someone for revenge, and before they do it, they want to see 'Sonoko' who lost her phone, so they asked her to meet at a cafe.
"But that 'Yuanzi' lost her phone and didn't receive the message. Instead, you and Xiaolan went there. When you went to the bathroom, Xiaolan heard what the two of them were talking about. To keep it secret, they arrested her.
"And now, the kidnappers suddenly called the Metropolitan Police Department to demand a ransom because they are preparing to kill someone. To increase their chances of success, they plan to use the kidnapping case to attract our attention."
Suzuki Sonoko's face turned grim. "No wonder they kept delaying the transaction. It turns out they didn't intend to ask for money at all... But if that's the case, will they still let Xiaolan go?"
"Definitely." Officer Sato could only comfort her this way for now. "These murderers who are motivated by revenge usually have clear targets and won't kill innocent people indiscriminately."
Ai Huihara thought for a moment: "The second text message received on that phone mentioned 'sunflowers in the factory' - why not check the factories nearby and see which ones have had deaths? Hmm... it would be best if the cases were closed as suicide or accidents."
…
In an abandoned factory nearby.
Ran Mao Li sometimes lay on her side with her ear to the ground, and sometimes sat up in fear.
After repeating this several times, her expression changed slightly: It’s not an illusion, there seems to be something hidden underneath!
“Knock, knock, knock!”
“Knock! Knock! Knock!”
“Knock, knock, knock!”
The faint, yet extremely regular sound gave Ran Mouri, who was alone in the locker room, goosebumps all over her body.
"It should...it should be a mouse." Mao Lilan stared at the ground and tremblingly tried to comfort herself, "There are no ghosts in this world, so, so it must not be a ghost knocking on the door!"
"But why underground? Judging from the view outside the window, I should be on the first floor... in the basement. Yes, there must be a basement! It's not some earthbound spirit knocking on the floor below me."
"And compared to ghosts..."
Mao Lilan's stomach growled. She moved back, sat against the wall, and looked up at the window where the moonlight streamed in. "I should be more worried about those two, no, three kidnappers... What should I do now?"
A high school girl who was tragically kidnapped tried to ignore the strange tapping sounds coming from along the floor and fell into deep thought.
…
Tokyo, on a Halloween ship.
It was also a full moon, and some people were performing a kidnapping game under the moonlight, while others were waiting for the show to begin on a Halloween boat.
A "mummy" with a wrinkled face held the Sun card and checked the tarot cards in the hands of the other six people in front of him.
After looking around, the mummy heaved a sigh of relief: "Finally, all seven people are here!"
Maori Kogoro glanced over there upon hearing this, then turned back and muttered to Jiang Xia smugly, "They're really slow, unlike us, who gathered everyone in no time."
Jiang Xia nodded: "But after gathering together once, the mummies, werewolves, and green slime monsters seemed to have run away to other places."
"What?!" Kogoro Mouri withdrew his gaze from watching the excitement and looked around. Only then did he realize that there were only four of them here. The three annoying teammates were indeed nowhere to be seen.
He slammed the table in anger. "What a bunch of idiot teammates! If the game starts while they're running around, we'll miss out on the first-mover advantage!"
On the other side of Jiang Xia, Medusa put down her wine glass upon hearing this, smiled and said, "We can't start without everyone here anyway. We have nothing to do anyway, so let's go find them."
Jiang Xia seemed to agree with this suggestion very much. He stood up and said, "He disappeared suddenly at this time. He must have gone to the bathroom."
The invisible man didn't say anything, but turned and walked over there.
Soon, four people entered the corridor one after another and walked towards the toilet.
…
In the toilet.
Vodka stood in front of the broken mirror, carefully avoiding the scattered glass shards, then turned on the faucet and washed his hands.
He couldn't help wanting to go to the bathroom when he got nervous - when he thought that he was not only in the same team with Wu Zo, but also that one of Wu Zo's subordinates was eyeing him covetously, Vodka couldn't help but get nervous.
To be fair, standing next to Uzo made him uncomfortable, but being with Uzo's subordinates who were like death warriors was even more dangerous - it was like the difference between standing next to a cannonball shooter and standing in front of the cannon muzzle.
"Come to think of it, I was clearly investigating Vermouth, so why did I run into Uzo?" The more Vodka thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong:
"Is it that Uzo has also set his sights on Vermouth, or is it that that bastard woman who is trying to deflect the blame and send me to Uzo specifically to stop my investigation?"
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