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Editor Toda was startled, turned around and found himself surrounded by a group of policemen. The fat police officer in the lead was staring at him, with a pair of small eyes full of condemnation and vigilance.
Editor Toda: “…”
...I almost forgot! What did I want to say just now?
He slapped his forehead, regained his thoughts, and asked awkwardly: "Um, what happened here?"
Jiang Xia held his business card and looked at it for a while: "Just this morning, we found out that Mrs. Haitang had unfortunately passed away."
Editor Toda was shocked: "How could this happen?! When I talked to her on the phone last night, she was clearly very energetic..."
"Last night?!" several policemen exclaimed.
Editor Toda was startled: "What, what happened?"
Suzuki Sonoko narrowed her eyes and looked at him suspiciously: "Last night was the critical time for the three of them to die. Why did you call them at that time?"
Editor Toda was even more horrified: "Three?! Are you saying that three people just died here??"
Suzuki Sonoko: “…”
...Oh no, I wanted to intimidate the suspect as coolly as Jiang Xia, but it seems that I sold the information instead.
Her face remained calm, but cold sweat began to appear on her forehead.
Vodka next to him showed satisfaction: "..." Very good, I hope Uzo's accomplices will continue to maintain this quality.
...However, we cannot rule out the possibility that this female high school student is secretly promoting Uzo's reputation in this way - if he has been killed, wouldn't it be a waste if he doesn't publicize it?
Vodka wanted to give himself a psychological advantage by reducing the number of enemies, but after eliminating so many enemies, his caution only made him feel stressed.
"Forget it, forget it." Vodka chose to endure it. "It's not a big problem. As long as I guard against everyone equally, I don't need to distinguish their ingredients anymore!"
Jiang Xia asked Editor Toda: "Did you talk to Mrs. Haitang on the phone last night?"
Editor Toda came back to his senses and said quickly, "Yes, she always goes to bed late, and her mind is more active at night, so we are used to contacting each other late at night."
Suzuki Sonoko glanced at them quietly, then looked at the policeman next to her, and found that no one was paying attention to her delivering the information, so she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
She secretly took notes in her mind: "..." Very good, I learned another trick from Jiang Xia: as long as the question is asked quickly enough, the other party will not have time to think! - Look, the police officers didn't even notice this problem, uh... But think about it carefully, they seem to have leaked information a lot.
This discovery relieved Suzuki Sonoko's stress suddenly. She sat back down and listened happily to the following conversation.
Editor Toda, under the watchful eyes of a group of policemen, recalled yesterday's events without missing a thing: "I wanted to discuss the new book with Ms. Haitang, so I called her twice.
"She didn't answer the first call, maybe she was taking a bath. So I called again at 12 o'clock after a while, and this time she answered.
"I asked her about the progress of her new book. I thought it would be as slow as before, so I tried to comfort her, but she..."
Editor Toda chose his words: "She was very excited and very happy. She laughed and said that an incredible masterpiece was about to be published and that she would leave a strong mark in the history of mystery novels."
As he was talking, the editor couldn't help but touch his arm: "Actually, it's a bit scary to hear her voice like that in the middle of the night. But there are many authors with quirks, so I didn't think much about it. I just made an appointment with her to come over today to talk in detail."
"Then I came as agreed, but..." Editor Toda turned back to look at the villa with lingering fear, "How come you said all three of them died?"
Jiang Xia: "It's still under investigation. But thanks to your testimony, the possibility of her committing suicide can be basically ruled out."
Sato Miwako's cell phone suddenly rang. She walked to the side and answered the call. After saying a few words, she walked back a little confused.
Inspector Megure: “What’s wrong?”
Sato Miwako adjusted herself to a position where she could see him and Jiang Xia at the same time, and said to them:
"The autopsy results are out. Mr. Haitang died of poisoning around 11:30 last night. According to the test, the sleeping pills he took contained toxic ingredients.
"Then at 1am, the assistant died. The inner wall of the cup that fell beside her was coated with a deadly poison.
"Then at 2 a.m., Ms. Haitang died in her study. The chocolate biscuit she ate was injected with poison. In addition, the same poison was detected in the syringe found in Mr. Haitang's bedroom."
"The chocolate biscuits are poisonous..." Conan couldn't help but stick his head out, "What about the other two chocolates thrown in the trash can? How are they?"
Miwako Sato showed a strange expression, as if she couldn't understand why this happened: "There was nothing wrong with the two pieces that were thrown away. They were just ordinary chocolate biscuits. In addition, we detected another poisonous biscuit in the box of chocolate biscuits on the desk."
Vodka listened to these numbers and realized something: there were two poisonous cookies in total, one was eaten by the female writer, and the other was still in the chocolate box. And there were two intact cookies thrown into the trash can... This means that the woman knew there were two poisonous cookies in the box and tried to avoid them, but failed.
"This woman is really daring. One tenth of the chocolates in the box were poisoned, yet she still dared to eat it."
Vodka was in mixed emotions. "If it were me, I would burn down the study that Uzo had touched, not to mention the box of chocolates!... No, arson is illegal, and it's easy to burn yourself to death, or accidentally ignite the explosives hidden nearby by other criminals and blow yourself up. Uh, it's better to do nothing and move away from Tokyo in anger."
Miwako Sato didn't know that there was an outlaw next to him who quietly walked onto the right path under the influence of the detective. She continued, "The only thing that can be confirmed now is that judging from the parts of their bodies that were stained with poison, the three victims should have died of homicide rather than suicide - otherwise they could have directly taken poison instead of using these troublesome and covert poisoning methods."
"And there's a bit of supporting evidence." Sato Miwako told the news she had just heard from the forensic police officer, "The poison that killed the three of them had different ingredients - three kinds of poison appeared here last night, so there may be at least three murderers."
(End of this chapter)
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