Chapter 3
Poisoning, murder and framing others was already a pretty heinous case. The police in the coffee shop were busy again.
Kudo Shinichi is checking the evidence.
He was holding a stack of photos in his hand, and a police officer immediately explained that these were photos that the deceased had fought over with two suspects at the same table before he was poisoned.
Kudo Shinichi immediately asked: "Did the deceased take the poison while playing with the two suspects?"
"No, it is said that after the fun, they gave the photo to Miss Eguchi. The deceased was suddenly poisoned while the three of them were drinking coffee and chatting."
The police's explanation made Kudo Shinichi frown again. The clue was broken again. He felt that he was only one step away from the truth, but he could not find the crucial clue.
Xingchuan and Ming looked at the countdown. There were only 37 minutes left before the car accident. If they didn't hurry up, they would fail. If they couldn't get their current identity, they would lose the chance to enter the comic world.
At this time, there are only two ways: solving the case on the spot or using skills.
If you want to use your skills, you have to pester Kudo Shinichi to gain good ratings, which will delay the time to solve the case and cause the mission to fail.
If you focus on solving the case without paying attention to the good reviews, and you are not sure if you can reach the accident scene before the accident happens, the mission will also fail.
Just when Xingchuan and Ming were about to be unable to suppress their anxiety, their eyes swept across the coffee table and their eyes suddenly froze.
There was a small amount of floating matter on the deceased's half-full cup of coffee, and the coffee on the seat next to him was also half-full, with some sticky traces of liquid shaking remaining on the wall of the cup.
Recalling the information about how to brew this kind of coffee in the memory of his ID card, and combining it with the hundreds of episodes of scientific baptism he had undergone in his previous life, Xingchuan and Ming suddenly figured out a lot of things.
I never thought that after coming to the Conan world, I, who had never been a detective, would learn how to reason.
He then took another big step and came to Kudo Shinichi's side, lowering his voice and speaking seriously. His serious expression made Kudo Shinichi listen attentively:
"Kudo, I do have some unique tips on brewing coffee, and I am quite experienced. The cup of signature coffee the deceased drank today is a new homemade product in our store. Both the ingredients and the techniques used are not available elsewhere."
Kudo Shinichi was so confused when he heard this, he thought that this senior had discovered some new clues, but he didn't expect that he was actually advertising and promoting the coffee shop?
Does this guy know that this is the crime scene and they are currently solving the case?
Do I look like I'd be interested in, and want to take a sip of, the coffee that poisoned the victim?
He was about to say no when he heard Xingchuan and Ming continue:
"Do you remember what I said before about the 'wrong time'? I actually found two things wrong at the time, but Miss Eguchi changed the subject and I forgot to tell you about the second one."
Kudo Shinichi thought to himself, "Didn't you forget to say that because you were eager to get rid of your identity as a suspect?" But he immediately asked:
"What else did you find out?" He thought of the previous advertising campaign by Xingchuan and Ming, and his eyes lit up. "Is there something wrong with the deceased's coffee?"
Xingchuan and Ming looked at him approvingly and said affirmatively:
"That's right. The signature coffee that the deceased ordered at the time required sugar. Although our store has always used special block sugar, it dissolves very quickly. But I just found that there was a little floating material in the deceased's coffee. That was the sugar that had not yet dissolved. And it dissolved very slowly."
Kudo Shinichi immediately understood what he meant: "After you served the deceased's coffee, someone added sugar to it, and it was a different kind of sugar than the one you use in your store?"
He thought quickly: "But the deceased knew the sweetness of the coffee he ordered. If it suddenly became sweeter, wouldn't he notice something was wrong? How could the murderer guarantee that he would drink the strange-tasting coffee?"
Hoshikawa and Akira's gaze shifted from the coffee cup to the three people who had drunk the coffee, one of whom was now a corpse.
The other two did not seem sad about it. Ryo Nagata looked a little impatient, while Reiko Eguchi kept rubbing her gloved hands and seemed a little absent-minded.
Hoshikawa Kazuaki took another look at Eguchi Reiko's gloves, then said meaningfully:
"This is my third discovery. Miss Eguchi was sitting next to the deceased. I remember that she ordered the same signature coffee as the deceased, but she specifically asked for no sugar."
He saw Kudo Shinichi looking in the direction of his gaze, and apparently noticed the lady's gloves that Ms. Eguchi had been wearing, and then he showed a thoughtful expression, so he continued:
"This kind of sugar actually contains some oil in it. It won't be obvious at first, but as the coffee decreases, a layer of oil film will slowly form on the edge of the cup. If you shake the cup, it will leave traces... It looks like Miss Eguchi's coffee cup, which was supposed to be without sugar!"
Kudo Shinichi's eyes lit up and he immediately ran towards the coffee table. After confirming the condition of the coffee cups used by the deceased and the suspect, he immediately ran to the bar to check the order record.
Hoshikawa and Akiza immediately looked at the popularity value and countdown at the edge of their field of vision. When they found that the popularity value had risen to 78, they actually felt flattered.
So the fastest way to get good reviews is to provide clues to the protagonist to help solve the case?
But when he looked at the countdown and saw only 29 minutes left, he suddenly felt a little panicky.
Although the murderer's modus operandi has been uncovered, it takes time to find evidence and make inferences. In addition, there may be traffic jams on the way there at any time... Is there really enough time?
He gritted his teeth and decided that this was the only way.
He simply clicked on the blank page of the comic book.
He silently said "use comic space" in his mind, and saw the popularity score of 78 dropped to 58 in an instant. The world then stopped. The sudden extreme silence made Xingchuan and Ming's ears feel strangely swollen.
As far as the eye can see, the entire cafe and all the people and objects in it are shrouded in strange fluctuations, changing from reality to illusion, from three-dimensional to flat, as if the whole world is engraved on a piece of drawing paper.
Everything in sight turned into a huge, colorful comic book, with only the comic book and Hoshikawa Kazuaki's existence outside the drawing paper remaining real.
Shock!
It is not real, but it is also extremely real.
Is this what the comic book world is really like?
Seeing this strange change for the first time, Xingchuan and Ming also took a breath of cold air. But when he noticed in his peripheral vision that the popularity value had dropped from 58 to 57 because of his procrastination, he suddenly woke up, quickly picked up the brush provided by the comic book, and began to draw comics in the blank space.
Thanks to his experience as a social animal in his previous life, he has honed his skills as a good painter under the pressure of his boss. His greatest advantage is his speed, which is exactly what Xingchuan and Ming need most at this moment.
Using comic books to change the plot and reset fate is the only skill of Xingchuan and Ming.
He can choose to directly draw the result he wants, or draw the necessary process one by one. As long as he pays all the good reviews, the comic book will make his comics come true.
But there are differences among them.
If the process you draw is what you want, it means that you need to draw a lot of details, and maybe even draw several pictures in a row, so you need to stay in this comic space for a long time.
The time you stay here costs a lot of points, and the final result is random.
If you want to save a little and only draw one result, then the process in between is random, and even he himself does not know what will happen. But the advantage is that it costs less and the result can be achieved.
Finally, if you want to push the comics to become reality, you need to pay all the remaining goodwill. The more goodwill you have, the smoother the realization process will be.
In this case, under the current circumstances, Xingchuan and Ming will definitely choose to only care about the result.
He wrote quickly, and soon the figure of Date Kou appeared on the blank comic page. He was standing on the edge of an empty road, and his colleague and junior Takagi Wataru was standing beside him and talking to him.
But Ida Kou looked to the other side and saw a curly-haired boy wearing an apron walking towards him. Upon closer inspection, he could vaguely make out the words "Café Polo" on the apron.
Finally, the painting was finished, and the rating had dropped to 43. The moment he stopped writing, the 43 points instantly returned to zero.
At the same time, this newly released comic also leaped out of the comic book, like a drop of water merging into the sea, blending into the huge comic previously formed by the real world and disappearing.
As the two-dimensional effect unique to the comic space gradually faded, after a period of fluctuations, the colorful huge comic was quickly pulled out and reorganized, returning to a three-dimensional real world.
Time finally continued to flow, and the busy and noisy sounds once again filled their eardrums. The contrast between the before and after made Xingchuan and Ming feel uncomfortable for a while.
No one noticed anything unusual.
There were still 29 minutes left in the countdown, and Xingchuan and Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Since the plot has been changed and the outcome has been determined, I will definitely be able to arrive in time before the car accident happens.
Then let yourself feel how the predetermined fate driven by the final 43 points of good reviews actually happened.
The nerves that had been tense all the time suddenly relaxed, and for a moment, Xingchuan and Ming even felt a little dizzy.
He calmed himself down and watched as Kudo Shinichi found the evidence he wanted from the bar counter. He then went to Inspector Megure and muttered something to himself, looking confident and high-spirited.
It is obvious that this still young detective has successfully solved the case.
He couldn't help but admire this passion and persistence in pursuing the truth.
At this time, Kudo Shinichi also noticed the gazes of Hoshikawa and Akira. He turned around, winked at Hoshikawa and Akira, and pointed in the direction of the two suspects. He folded his hands and smiled mysteriously.
Xingchuan and Ming looked confused. What did this mean? Was he hinting that he already knew the identity and method of the murderer? If so, the case would be solved quickly.
Xingchuan Heming relaxed, but then he couldn't help but feel a little curious. He wanted to see how the reset fate would achieve the result set in the comic.
Then he saw Inspector Megure whispering something to his men beside him, and then the policeman walked straight towards Hoshikawa and Ming.
"Mr. Hoshikawa Kazuaki, you are suspected of poisoning the victim, Shunsuke Kamii, so please come with me."
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