"Xiao Xun!"
In the bathroom, Kaoru Kusano was lying on the edge of the bathtub, blood slowly dripping down the bathtub to the floor, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
Karasuma Ying quickly stepped forward. She first reached out and pressed the side of Kaoru Kusano's neck, then brushed aside Kaoru Kusano's messy hair and confirmed the location of her wound.
"The wound is on the neck, and there is still a pulse. If you send her to the hospital immediately, you may be able to save her. Mr. Kenzaki, I now need to help Ms. Kaoru bandage temporarily to stop the bleeding."
"Oh, oh! Okay! Then, we should take Xiaoxun out of the bathtub first..."
Kenzaki Xiu nodded, then looked around in the bathroom, and found a large bath towel in a hurry.
Seeing his appearance, Karasumaying was stunned again.
"What happened?!"
At this moment, everyone in the living room heard the sound and rushed over.
"Xiao Xun!"
Maxiong Atsushi, who was originally walking at the back, saw the situation in the bathroom, suddenly shouted and rushed forward, jumped directly into the bathtub and picked up the unconscious Kaoru Kusano.
"Xiao Xun, how are you?!"
Kenzaki Shu who was on the side couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this scene.
"Don't touch her neck!"
After speaking out to stop Ma Xiong's excessive behavior, Karasumaying turned to look at Okino Yoko and said:
"Ms. Yoko, please notify the police immediately."
"good."
Immediately, Wu Wanying took out her mobile phone and dialed the hospital's number.
"..."
"Well, then I'll confirm it again."
Not long after, Officer Megure, an old acquaintance, brought Takagi Wataru to the apartment.
He looked at the notebook in his hand and repeated what everyone had described before.
"So, tonight you all decided to take turns going to the bathroom to change into the clothes you were wearing just now in order to celebrate the engagement of Miss Kusano and at the same time give her a surprise, right?
The order of changing clothes is Ms. Okino, Ms. Takeno, and Ms. Hoshino. After you changed your clothes, your manager, Mr. Maxiong, went to the bathroom to call Ms. Kusano. Since he didn't get a response, he changed to his fiancé, Mr. Kensaki.
When you opened the bathroom door, you found that Ms. Kusano had passed out unconscious by the bathtub. The whole process was like this, right? "
"Yes." Kenzaki Xiu nodded.
"Um……"
Officer Megure nodded, and then looked at Karasumaying aside with a sad expression.
"Sister Karasuma, you have indeed become just like Brother Moori..."
"Huh?" Karasuma Ying was a little confused.
what's the situation? Why do you say this suddenly?
But obviously, Officer Megure didn't want to answer her doubts.
He looked at everyone again and asked: "So, where is Miss Kusano whose throat was cut by the murderer now?"
"He was sent to the hospital just now. Mr. Ma Xiong also went with him. The situation is not clear yet..." Yoko Okino replied.
"Then let me check the hospital's phone number and call him to ask."
Hoshino Terumi said, walking towards the living room, behind her, Yue Yexue also followed.
"I'm there too. My dad is also being treated for diabetes in that hospital. I know their phone number."
"good."
Watching the two people walking away, Officer Megure quietly approached Karasumaying and asked:
"Sister Karasuma, is the murderer one of them?"
Since becoming Mouri Kogoro's assistant, Karasuma Ying has also solved many cases that have been difficult for the police.
So after going back and forth, she became acquaintances with Officer Memu and others.
"not sure for now."
Karasumaying shook her head slightly and pointed to the blood stains on the floor extending from the bathroom to the door of the apartment, as well as the pile of blood-stained raincoats and gloves she had just found outside the door.
"The murderer could also be someone from outside."
"Outside?"
Karasumaying walked to the door of the apartment, squatted down, and picked up the raincoat with her gloved hands.
There was a lot of blood on the raincoat, and inside it was a pair of gloves full of holes, a handkerchief with a faint lipstick mark, and a bottle of used anesthetic.
From these few things alone, Karasumaying was able to roughly restore the scene of Miss Kusano's attack.
The murderer wore a raincoat and gloves, stunned Miss Kusano with a handkerchief dyed with anesthetic, and then slit her throat.
But... where is the murder weapon?
She couldn't figure out why the murderer only took away the murder weapon since he had thrown away everything like his raincoat and anesthetics.
Also, these bloodstains on the ground...
Karasumaying turned around and looked at the blood dripping all the way on the floor, frowning slightly.
"These bloodstains are so neat."
"What?" Officer Megure looked at her doubtfully.
"Under normal circumstances, if the murderer left the apartment wearing this raincoat, then the blood stains on the ground should have some traces of being stepped on by the murderer. It is impossible not to have none at all."
"What does Xiaoying mean?" Okino Yoko seemed to have guessed something and looked at Karasuma Ying in disbelief.
Looking directly into her eyes, Karasumaying said slowly without changing her tone:
"Preliminary speculation is that the blood stains on the ground and the raincoat placed outside the door were deliberately forged by the murderer in order to mislead us into thinking that the murderer was someone outside the apartment.
Therefore, I think there are currently two possibilities for the murderer. First, the murderer is still hiding somewhere in this apartment, and second..."
"Second, the murderer is among us, is that what you mean, little sister?"
At this moment, Hoshino Terumi, who had finished the phone call, came over from the living room. She looked at Karasumaying and picked up what Karasumaying had not finished.
"Yeah." Karasuma Ying nodded.
"Then, isn't that the murderer..." Yoko Okino raised her hand to cover her mouth. The situation she least wanted to see happened.
"If the murderer is really among us, it can only be one of the four of you, Miss Yoko, Miss Takeno, Miss Hoshino, and Mr. Makuma, who is not here now.
Because at that time, except for Mr. Kenzaki and me, the four of you had acted alone. "
Karasumaying stated this possibility very directly.
"So, the first thing we need to do now is to find the missing murder weapon."
Hoshino Terumi spoke again. She looked at Officer Megure and said in her low and cold voice:
“A knife that has seen blood, no matter how clean it is, can detect hemoglobin, and the murderer cannot be hidden.
If it is found indoors or in one of our wallets, it means that the murderer is indeed among us.
But if it is not found, it means that the murderer should be someone outside. After all, I don’t think the murderer would deliberately hide the murder weapon and then escape. "
"Um, ah, yes...Takagi, do as she says."
Looking at Hoshino Terumi who calmly analyzed all this, Officer Megure and Officer Takagi were stunned for a moment, and then nodded quickly.
Especially Officer Megure, the way he looked at Hoshino Terumi was different.
Could this old girl also...
"Ms. Hoshino, you know these things very well..." Thinking of this, Officer Megure couldn't help but say.
"It's just that I was influenced by someone when I was young, so I'm a little interested in criminal investigation..."
Hoshino Terumi lit a cigarette for her own, her tone ambiguous.
"Okay, officer, you should have brought the female police officer here, right? The body search will start with me."
