Chapter 27: The scene at the winery, Officer Morobushi... so familiar...
Hearing the voice of 'Officer Morobushi', Scotland instinctively wanted to lower his head to hide the strange expression that might appear on his face.
Then he thought about the organization members sitting opposite him, and if he lowered his head suddenly, it would attract Lei's attention. He suppressed the impulse and let his suddenly contracted pupils be exposed to the two people opposite him.
Shuichi Akai immediately noticed the change in Scotland's eyes and silently mouthed "What's wrong?" to him.
Scotland's movements paused slightly, and before attracting more attention, he calmly shook his head and said in a voice that only they could hear: "I just thought that there are police officers on the scene, and if a body search is necessary..."
He paused at the right moment.
His eyes shifted downwards subtly, pointing to the guns on their waists—or rather, the guns tucked under their clothes.
Each of them was carrying a firearm to a greater or lesser extent, and would be immediately exposed once their clothes were lifted.
Fushimi Kyoki, chewing on a wooden stick, offered his opinion: "If it's just carbon monoxide poisoning, there's no need for a body search, right?"
"If it's really just 'carbon poisoning'." Amuro Toru repeated meaningfully, and words like 'death' could be faintly heard among the noisy voices.
Eh?
The investigation not far from the players is still going on. Someone suddenly faints, and people gradually realize the lack of air circulation in the enclosed space and quickly open the doors and windows.
The owner of the yakitori restaurant wiped his sweat and ran over to answer. Since it was summer, the air conditioner in the store was kept on all day, and in order to ensure the room temperature in the store, they chose to close the doors and windows.
After inspection by the store clerk, it was found that the exhaust equipment above the grill in the store was blocked by foreign objects such as plastic at some point. The transparent material was easily overlooked, which led to carbon monoxide poisoning among the customers.
Zhu Fu Gaoming did not make a judgment immediately, but carefully examined the victim's condition again. It only took a few minutes from the time he fell unconscious to the time he convulsed and lost vital signs.
"Although adult men have greater lung capacity than women and would experience hypoxia more quickly under the same circumstances..." Zhufu Gaoming half-crouched beside the victim's body, "the other men in the store only experienced varying degrees of drowsiness and difficulty breathing."
Those sharp eyes glanced at the nervous store manager: "Normally, barbecue restaurants should be equipped with carbon monoxide detectors, which will trigger an alarm once the value exceeds a certain level."
The shop owner was stunned for a moment: "Yes, it's like this..."
I quickly asked the clerk to take down the detector hanging on the wall. The battery was almost out. Fortunately, after replacing the battery, it only showed that the carbon monoxide concentration was slightly above the standard.
Excluding environmental factors, the results seem to point to poisoning.
Dangerous. Add up the equipment on your body and you can open a whiskey set of armory. Dangerous.
"Hmm..." The player, who hadn't felt the slightest sense of danger, suggested excitedly, "If the situation truly reaches a point of no return, we can have Lei shoot and lure the police away, and then we can slip away."
"...Are you serious?" Amuro Toru couldn't hold back his smile. If he made such a big fuss, Gin would definitely confront him and ask if he was crazy. "But..."
He paused.
It would be very interesting to see the organization's lesser-known codename members, especially Lei, who had an inexplicable aura that he disliked, running away in a panic.
"I agree." He expressed his opinion without minding the hassle.
Akai Shuichi calmly responded without showing any weakness, "In my opinion, Bourbon, you are also a good candidate to attract attention. You have a great advantage in terms of appearance."
The two looked at each other, then turned away silently at the same time.
Although the atmosphere between the two was full of gunpowder and looked like it could explode at any time, no one took any action.
They had no communication with the victim and were just passers-by who happened to go to the same store, which can directly rule out the possibility of a murder of passion or revenge.
He was not around the deceased during the incident and did not have a motive for passion killing.
Any detective or police officer with a certain level of reasoning ability would not suspect them.
The only thing that will happen is that because you can see the entire incident from your position, you will be asked to recall what happened at that time.
Zhu Fu Gaoming first looked in their direction from a distance to confirm whether the angle was sufficient to observe the position of the deceased and his group. He took off his gloves and walked over slowly.
The Scottish man's Adam's apple moved, and the frequency of his heartbeat almost overlapped with Zhu Fu Gaoming's footsteps. The dull heartbeat became the only sound in his ears for a while.
Zhu Fu Gaoming stopped at a suitable distance, and swept his upturned eyes over. When his gaze saw Scotland's face clearly, there was no pause. He passed by it as if it were a stranger, and nodded politely.
Zhu Fujingguang, an undercover public security officer who infiltrated the organization under a false identity, felt relieved.
Brother Gao Ming...
Ever since hearing the word "Zhu Fu", Amuro Toru, who had been nervous for his friend, also relaxed a little silently.
Zhu Fu Gaoming clearly stated his purpose, hoping they could recall as many clues as possible: "This is related to the case, I'm sorry to bother you."
"...My pleasure to help." Amuro Toru said with a smile.
Players listened to them talking about "potassium cyanide" and "murder of passion" in clear logic and in a few words, they sorted out the entire case. Faced with the evidence, the suspect, who was holding on, cried and confessed the crime of applying potassium cyanide on his hands and smearing it into the victim's bowl during a dinner party.
Fushimi Kyoki was listening with great interest when the suspect suddenly turned his face towards her - or to be precise, towards her hand?
"I was going to paint my nails with potassium cyanide, but that would have been too conspicuous."
Hmm... I feel like I'm being subtly scanned!
Go to jail!
The body search crisis was resolved, and players finally understood why [Love Winery] had the label "Puzzle Solving".
Because of his sitting position, Fushimi Kyoji could easily see Lei sitting opposite him. He had been looking at Zhu Fu Gaoming since the beginning, with unconscious thought in his eyes.
The player half-lay on the table, stretching out her arms with all her might, her fingertips barely touching the edge of the man's shirt. Lei immediately returned her gaze, his deep green eyes fixed on her face, a look of scrutiny flashing through them like an illusion. In the end, he simply shook his head slightly, "No, nothing."
"Hmm..." The player changed direction, pressed his face on his arm, and stared at Zhu Fu Gaoming's profile in a trance.
Amuro Toru heard her voice, turned sideways and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I always feel..."
"Um?"
Fushimi Kyoji held up his face and said vaguely, "Officer Morifushi feels very familiar to me. I feel like I've been there somewhere..."
Perhaps because he heard his name from someone else's mouth, Zhu Fu Gaoming's eyes moved slightly.
At the same time, both breathing rates slowed down unconsciously.
Judging from the facial contours, Zhufu Jingguang and Zhufu Gaoming have very similar facial shapes.
Before joining the organization, Zhu Fujingguang specially grew a beard to groom himself, and deliberately created a gloomy temperament, which made it difficult for people to associate him with other people.
But naturally upturned eyes cannot be changed.
Zhu Fu Jingguang felt that the cloth on his back was wet and stuck tightly to his skin. His eyes were uncontrollably focused on the other person's expression, not missing any change.
"ah!"
She seemed to finally remember and let out a short scream, which immediately made Amuro Toru and Scotland feel their hearts sink.
Fushimi Kyoji flipped through the [Intelligence Push] records and found the name on it: "He's the famous detective in Nagano, Morifushi Takaaki!"
Scotland didn't know how to respond, and said with mixed feelings, "...I see."
Akai Shuichi glanced back and forth, and said in an unfathomable voice with no discernible emotion: "Really?"
hateful……
Lei must have noticed something.
What's worse is that there is a code member who is closely related to Gin and will soon be named after the wine...
Amuro Toru raised his eyes calmly.
Beneath the smile on the surface, his mysterious and deep purple-gray eyes held a cold indifference, completely taking in Lei and the slender figure. He rubbed the rough calluses of the gun with his fingertips, suppressing the fluctuating emotions in his heart.
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