"Miwako, get up, get up. Uehara-kun is about to drive over, why are you still lying in bed? Seriously."
Early in the morning in Tokyo, Sato's house has a lot of money.
Sato's mother, who came back from outside with a vegetable basket, saw the uneaten breakfast in the kitchen. After changing her slippers at the entrance, she couldn't help but walk up to the second floor and knocked on her daughter's closed door.
"Um...Okay, Mom, please stop knocking. I'll get up right away, right away..."
In the bedroom, Miwako Sato, who had no image of a goddess, was sleepy-eyed. She struggled to get out of the bed with her right hand and grabbed the mobile phone placed on the bedside——
I looked at the time, 7:11.
"Aha..."
Scratching her messy short hair and wearing blue and white plaid pajamas, Miwako Sato couldn't help but yawned several times in a row. She got up and checked her mailbox first.
After confirming that there was no emergency, we started cleaning up those advertising spam emails.
"Mom, is your wake-up call too early?"
"It's still early? Uehara-kun has to pick you up from get off work every day these days. You can't make people wait any longer, you know? You'd rather get up early, finish your meal and wait -"
"I went to brush my teeth, Mom."
"Hey, you kid, you don't listen to what mom says, do you? Let me tell you, you are quite old now. Most of mom's college classmates have become grandmothers, but you are the only one who still stays at home every day... "
The bathroom door was ajar, and my mother was nagging as always.
Miwako Sato quickly became energetic after brushing her teeth and washing her face, taking advantage of the beauty of God's food. She simply applied some cream and turned a deaf ear.
Sato's mother, who had been nagging a lot, could only sigh helplessly when she saw this: "You, you must learn to seize the opportunities in front of you. Don't wait until you lose it and regret it later."
Sato Miwako, who was changing clothes, felt very melancholy when she heard this: "Mom, you should play less mahjong with Uehara in the future."
If the beating continued, she would wonder if her mother would one day tie her up with a rope while she was sleeping and send her to someone else's door.
"That won't work. I've never met a partner with skills as good as Uehara-kun's. Let me tell you, I asked him to teach me several moves a few days ago. These days, he has dominated the entire mahjong hall. ”
"..."
Despite her mother's bragging and nagging, she responded word by word. After breakfast, Miwako Sato immediately jumped up as if there was a spring in her butt when she heard the sound of a car horn coming from downstairs outside. : "Mom, I went to work."
A beautiful middle-aged woman in a kimono stood by the window, watching with a smile on her face as her daughter ran downstairs, walked out of the house, and got into the magenta Mitsubishi EVO.
"Auntie, good morning."
Katsuki Uehara, wearing a British green suit, leaned against his car, raised his head and said hello to the woman upstairs with a smile.
"Good morning Uehara-kun, drive slowly on the road and pay attention to safety."
"no problem."
Sitting in the passenger seat, Sato Miwako has completely given up on treatment. She should not be able to shake this deep friendship for a while.
"Did you really earn your tuition to attend Keio by playing mahjong and poker?"
After Katsumi Uehara returned to the car after greeting his mother, Miwako Sato, who was sending an email to Chiba and Takagi, glanced at him.
"you guess?"
"I do not guess you guess guess?"
"It's boring." Uehara Katsuki curled his lips, closed the car door and turned the key: "Have you notified Takagi and the others?"
"They've just finished the notification. They should have gone directly to Sayuri Matsumoto now. What about you, have the autopsy results been out?"
"The preliminary results are out. Narumi sent me an email. Oh, by the way, take a look at this." As he was talking, Uehara Katsumi, who was about to step on the accelerator, took a document bag from the back seat of the car and handed it to him. Arrive in front of your partner.
"What's this?"
"A clue I found last night, the seventh victim in the serial murder case - that is, the truck driver may allow us to catch the murderer."
"Suzuki Freight Company...list of ingredients and raw materials?"
"Yes, I won't go back to the Metropolitan Police Department with you after I get the autopsy results later. I need to go to Suzuki to confirm whether my idea is correct.
"If the number is correct, then there is a high possibility that the murderer took advantage of his job as a truck driver to hide the bomb in the refrigerator where the ingredients were stored in the restaurant without being discovered. The murder should be classified as murder and silence. "
Uehara Katsumi, who drove straight to Mihua Central Hospital, briefly explained his conjecture last night.
If the cargo list finally found at Suzuki Freight can match the packaging bags picked up at the explosion site, then this conjecture is very likely.
This is undoubtedly a direction worth digging into, at least at this time when there is nothing to be done about the serial murder case.
"Indeed, I hope the autopsy can also give us good news."
Looking through the comparative information and inferred handwriting that Katsuki Uehara made last night, Miwako Sato couldn't help but glance at his eyes.
……………………………………………………
"In fact, I don't know if these results are good news."
Fifteen minutes later, Aso's office, Miwa Central Hospital.
Aso Minoru, who was wearing a white coat, raised the papers in his hand and handed them to the man and woman in front of him: "Judging from the autopsy results, the arms and hands of the seven deceased people all had varying degrees of bruises. This shows that They all resisted to varying degrees during their lives, but were eventually tied up;
"Among them, the first deceased - that is, the doctor from the Department of Neurology at Mihua Central Hospital, had a wound on the inside of his cheek, which shows that he had been severely slapped before his death. Among the seven deceased, He’s the only one where this exists.”
Following Aso Minoru's words, Uehara Katsumi and Sato Miwako, who opened the image and text files in their hands, couldn't help but be stunned: "Slap?"
"That's right."
Aso nodded and pointed at the paper in the hands of the two men: "In addition, the preliminary toxin test showed that the blood alcohol concentration of the deceased was 0.2; moreover, I also found a small amount of moxa in the bodies of the seven deceased. Germany and America exist, and the inspection results are on page seven.”
"Adme?"
Miwako Sato hurriedly turned to the seventh page and frowned: "What is that?"
"It's an amphetamine drug. Some models use it to help lose weight." Katsuki Uehara looked at the report in his hand and replied without looking up.
"...?"
"...?"
"What's wrong? Why are you two looking at me like this?" Katsuki Uehara looked up and suddenly found that Miwako Sato and Minoru Aso were looking at him, a little strange: "Did I say something wrong?"
Aso glanced at his friend strangely: "In fact, the correct use of Admeta is to treat patients with ADHD, and it is not an unwise choice to use drugs like amphetamines to help lose weight."
Uehara Katsuki immediately made a zipper gesture: "Pretend I didn't say anything."
"But in this case, do these seven deceased people all have ADHD? The murderer specifically targeted people with ADHD?" Sato Miwako looked at the examination report and was very puzzled.
Aso shrugged: "Not necessarily. If amphetamine drugs are taken for a long time and overdosed, the human body is very likely to become addictive, so it will be strictly controlled."
"..."
"It seems that our seven deceased were not good people in the eyes of their relatives and friends." Katsuki Uehara's eyelids twitched, and his eyes fell on the description of the ingredients of Admeta and the blood alcohol content value on the autopsy report.
"My suggestion is that you'd better check the first deceased. As a neurologist, he had access to such drugs. Moreover, ADHD is also within the treatment scope of neurology."
After completing the autopsy results, Aso pointed to the last page of the report: "In addition, I made a simple reconstruction of the murder weapon based on the traces of fatal injuries on the seven deceased people——
"At present, it can be preliminarily concluded that the murder weapon is an extremely narrow tetrahedron, thin at the top and thicker towards the bottom. In addition, there are many glass fragments in the wound of the deceased that are difficult to detect with the naked eye, as if they were inserted along with the murder weapon. Taken into the body.”
The two people who turned to the last page glanced at the soul painting that looked like a squashed Tokyo Tower and looked at each other. Seeing this, Aso couldn't help but coughed in embarrassment: "Ahem, in short, this is the result of the examination."
"I understand. Thank you for your help, Dr. Aso. The police will deposit the reward into the bank account you provided." Miwako Sato solemnly thanked her after closing the report.
"You're welcome, the police and citizens are cooperating." Glancing at Katsuki Uehara, who was smiling, Aso emphasized the last half of the sentence very hard.
"Good brother, I'll invite you to go fishing on Yueying Island next time."
"roll."
Aso Minoru couldn't help but laugh and curse.
Seeing that Katsumi Uehara had such a good relationship with this man, Miwako Sato was a little curious at first, until she received a call——
"Hello? I'm Sato."
"Sato, something happened."
Matsumoto Sayuri's house in Mihua Town.
Chiba and Shin, who were in the living room, squatted down with their general belly straightened out and picked up a metal card among the broken glass on the floor. They suppressed the shock in their hearts and their voices trembled.
"What? What happened Chiba?"
"Sayuri Matsumoto was kidnapped by the prisoner, and he left a card. However, compared with before, the content on the metal card is no longer the four letters "NEXT", but changed to text."
"Word?"
"right."
Chiba Kazuno swallowed hard and read the message on the card word for word——
"The ferocious beasts' eyes were red with hunger in the cheers, and the sad warriors swung their deadly spears at their companions in despair;
"Bright fireworks cheered the victors, while the lives in the cage shrank in a corner and shivered.
“Time passes and years change;
"The messenger chosen by God listened to the devout prayers and witnessed the absurd epic once again being staged in this tragic and sinful world.
“When the blood accompanies the salute to awaken the dead gods, the punishment has already begun;
"I am the messenger of God.
"May God have mercy on the world, Amen."
