“The pulse has stopped and there is a taste like almonds in the mouth, which may be cyanide poisoning.
Mr. Somei, there is no need to call an ambulance, just call the police. "
In the living room, Karasumaying took back the hand that was pressing on the side of the middle-aged man's neck on the ground, stood up and said.
"Okay, okay!" After being stunned for a moment, Somei Shogo quickly took out his phone.
"Um, is that the police? There was a murder here. Yes, someone died. The address is..."
"Is it suicide?" Terumi Hoshino stepped forward and looked at Karasumaying and asked.
In order not to spoil the scene, she pressed out the cigarette in her hand before she entered the living room.
Without answering her immediately, Karasumaying walked to the dining table in the living room, looked at the overturned coffee cup on the table, and frowned slightly.
The cup was knocked over on the plate, leaving traces of solidified brown coffee on the table and then along the other side of the table and onto the floor.
It can only be inferred from this scene that the producer should have been sitting at the dining table at the time. He first drank the poisonous coffee, and then the poison became poisonous. As a result, the coffee cup in his hand fell back to the table, swallowing all the unfinished coffee in it. Spread out.
With this thought in mind, Karasumaying wrapped her hands in white cloth and picked up the coffee cup together with the plate.
If her guess is correct, on the tabletop under the plate, there should be "semi-circular marks" left by the coffee solidifying along the bottom of the plate.
well?
Why?
On the table below the plate, there were no "semi-circular coffee solidification marks" as Karasumaying expected, only very weird "two traces that looked like thin lines."
It's like when the coffee was spilled, there happened to be two slender objects placed here.
There was also no trace of coffee contamination on the bottom of the plate.
This is illogical.
If the plate was really placed here when the coffee was spilled, there would be traces of coffee contamination on the bottom.
In other words, when the coffee cup was knocked over, the plate... wasn't actually here?
The two strange slender marks on the table should actually be the marks left on the side and handle of the coffee cup after the coffee solidified.
After a cup is knocked over, the sides and handles of the cup that are in close contact with the table can indeed leave such marks.
It is further deduced from this that before she entered this living room, someone should have tampered with the crime scene here.
The door of the room was locked with an anti-theft chain, and the floor-to-ceiling windows were also locked from the inside... Considering these two points, there is currently only one person who has the conditions to tamper with the crime scene.
Karasumaying looked back at Shogo Somei, who was still on the phone with the police, and narrowed her eyes slightly.
"I think the possibility of homicide should be higher." Putting the coffee cup back to its original place, she answered Hoshino Terumi's question.
She walked to the other side of the dining table and observed the chair opposite.
After the coffee cup was poured, the remaining coffee in the cup flowed along the tabletop, almost all to the sides of the chair, and then flowed little by little along the two cylindrical chair legs to the ground, and finally between the chair legs and the ground. The contact points left two circular coffee marks printed by the chair legs.
【wrong! 】
The two coffee marks next to the chair legs are wrong!
The distance between the marks was too far, completely exceeding the maximum distance between the two chair legs.
However, there are indeed marks on the chair legs where coffee has flowed. The two marks on the ground should be where the coffee flowed...
Suddenly, Karasumaying thought of a possibility.
This chair has been moved!
And it was at the very moment when the producer just got mad!
In this chair at that time, there was another person sitting!
After the producer was poisoned, the coffee cup was knocked over, and the coffee spilled along the table and onto the mysterious person and the chair who were sitting in this chair at the time.
At this time, some of the coffee had already flowed down the chair legs, forming traces on the ground.
Then, the mysterious man stood up and left, the chair was moved, and the remaining coffee on the chair flowed down the moved chair legs, eventually forming a second trace on the ground!
This means that from the time the producer was poisoned to the time Karasuma Ying entered the living room, two people actually appeared and moved through the crime scene.
The first one is the mysterious man suspected of being the murderer who was present when the producer was poisoned.
The second one was Somei Shogo, who had entered the room just a few minutes ago and used a plate to cover up the traces of coffee on the table.
Why? Is Mr. Somei going to do this?
What was he trying to cover up?
"..."
"Sister Karasuma! Why are you here?!"
Not long after, Officer Memu, an old acquaintance who received the report, arrived here.
"Huh? Well, it's because of some very complicated reasons..." Karasuma Ying said a little embarrassed.
She doesn’t know why, but she always feels like she and Officer Megure often meet at such murder scenes recently...
It's really embarrassing.
"You..." Officer Megure looked at her and said sadly: "Sure enough, you have become the number two Maori brother..."
"well?"
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Has the murderer been found?"
"The murderer? Didn't Mr. Producer commit suicide?" Shogo Somei asked quickly.
"Ah? This... turned out to be a suicide?" Officer Megure looked at Karasuma Ying.
I was so decisive that I subconsciously thought he had killed her.
"No, it should be his death." Karasuma Ying replied, with a slightly stern look in her eyes.
This murder case was a bit complicated. First, the producer was poisoned. After locking the door from the inside, the murderer used incredible means to quietly leave the crime scene.
Later, Shogo Somei rushed into the room first, covering up and destroying clues at the crime scene for unknown reasons.
Are the murderer and Shogo Somei the same person?
If so, how on earth did he complete the layout of this secret room?
If not, then why would he destroy clues at the crime scene?
Covering up?
"Officer, the time of death of the deceased has come out."
At this moment, a police officer walked into the room and said to Officer Megure:
"Preliminary guess is that it should be around 6:30 this afternoon."
[Is it half past six...]
It usually takes about an hour for the coffee to solidify. In other words, the plate holding the coffee cup was not put there until after 7:30 at the earliest.
This time basically coincides with the time Somei Shogo entered the living room.
Can be matched.
"Xiaoying, the curtains here are wet."
Hoshino Terumi walked to the floor-to-ceiling window at some point. She reached out and touched the rain-wet curtains, then turned back and said to Karasumaying.
"What?"
Hearing this, Karasuma Ying quickly stepped forward and opened the curtains.
At this time, it was still raining outside, and even through a layer of glass, the patter of rain could be vaguely heard.
However, she had observed it since entering the living room. The floor-to-ceiling windows were obviously always closed. Why were the curtains in the room wet?
Suddenly a possibility occurred to me.
Karasumaying quickly turned around and scanned the entire scene again.
Somei Shogo's soaked shoulders, the overturned coffee cup, the moved plates, the strange coffee solidification marks under the chair, the equally soaked curtains...
There were also two pieces of cake that she had always ignored, which were cut and placed on the same plate on the table.
No, there should be other things. Where are they hidden?
Her eyes swept back and forth across the room, and finally, on the coffee table in the corner, Karasuma Ying noticed a pen holder filled with pens.
The shape of this pen holder is very strange. It has a handle that is exactly the same as the overturned coffee cup on the dining table.
Called a pen holder, it looks more like a cup for drinking water.
Looking at this special pen holder, Karasuma Ying lowered her eyes. She still needed to confirm one last thing.
"Sister Huimei, can you call the front desk staff of the TV station for me?"
