After only a moment, the middle-parted man lay on the ground holding his throat, and there was no more sound.
After a brief period of sluggishness, a suspicion emerged in the minds of all the guests - food poisoning!
"Hey, everyone, stop eating! Put the things back quickly..."
"Yes, yes, let's go quickly!"
Emotions shook off the initial panic.
Seeing that many guests were about to leave, Conan quickly shouted "Don't move", then glanced at everyone one by one and said seriously:
"If anyone leaves the scene without permission, I will report it to the police later!"
As he spoke, he came to squat next to the middle-parted man. After first confirming that the man had no signs of life, he then judged from the faint smell of almonds in the air that the cause of death was the consumption of some kind of cyanide poison.
Hearing this, Haiyuan Ai immediately raised his head and looked at a certain organization cadre with questioning eyes, and was quickly tapped on the forehead by the latter.
Do you have that much free time? Kill just one person?
Ye Geng handed over a shopping bag full of coffee, "Take it, I'll go take a look."
"Oh..." Hui Yuan Ai took it and quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
…
Before sitting down at the table, most of the guests left their seats because of the previous chaos.
The owner of the sushi restaurant hurried back to the operation room under Conan's instruction and stopped the conveyor belt.
Ye Gengyi took advantage of the 2 or 3 minutes to observe the scene.
First of all, the man with the middle parting is undoubtedly dead. There are no strange marks on his exposed skin or clothes. Before the police conduct a comprehensive inspection of the body, they can find out from the fingertips of the man's left hand. Based on the few grains of rice stained on it and the empty plates on the long table in front of the table, it was concluded that he had put the poison into his mouth on his own.
In order to bring down this sushi restaurant, he would sacrifice his life?
The thought flashed by, and Ye Gengyi put it behind him without hesitation.
If the previous arrogance was staged, people with such scheming methods should be smarter...at least they shouldn't mix cyanide poison into sushi and eat it.
So the ones who did it were most likely the sushi restaurant owner, the 'flounder' man sitting next to him, and the fat woman in the corner?
I didn’t expect that I would encounter this classic case of choosing one of three when I went out for lunch. It was enough...
Ye Gengyi closed his eyes and thought deeply for a moment, and did not expand the scope of suspicion for the time being.
Coincidentally, apart from the three people he thought of before, they were the only seven people sitting at the counter eating sushi.
…
Because the 'Tornado Sword' sushi restaurant happened to be on the shopping street, Megure Shisan, who couldn't settle down for lunch, arrived at the scene in less than 10 minutes.
"Brother Gengyi, are you the only ones here?" He looked around, as if looking for a certain figure.
"Oh, after the incident on the highway, Mr. Maoli went to the temple to pray to God and worship Buddha. I have been leading the class for the past two days." Ye Gengyi said casually.
Ah, this... brother Gengyi actually vomited it up in advance... Mumu Shisan's expression froze, and he coughed twice to relieve the embarrassment: "Ahem... Brother Gengyi, let's talk about the situation at the scene first. Bar."
"Um……"
Ye Geng nodded, switching topics quite freely, pointing to an open driver's license on the table and said:
"The name of the deceased was Tatuma Ryuzo. According to the information that can be searched on the Internet, he was a food connoisseur with a reputation for making harsh comments. He had appeared in many food magazines and had a certain number of loyal fans. The specific situation requires you from the police department. To verify..."
He paused and continued:
"It is preliminarily concluded that the cause of his death was ingestion of poisons such as cyanide. The process and method are currently unknown. However, no one has left the scene after the incident. We only need to wait for the inspection report of the forensic department to find out the truth. It’s clear.”
Mumu Shisan lowered his voice, "So...you didn't see anyone acting unusually?"
"No." Ye Gengyi shook his head.
The deceased suddenly became aggressive when he went out to buy coffee. When the deceased fell to the ground and died of poisoning, several people had already paid and were ready to leave.
…
As time goes by.
The news that my wife had died of cyanide was quickly brewing in the sushi restaurant.
Many guests also turned from whispers at the beginning to complaints. They all said that this matter had nothing to do with them and hoped that they could be let out of here.
Mumu Shisan could only try his best to appease everyone's emotions.
Because once poison residue is detected outside the body of the deceased, everyone present must be searched.
Another 5 or 6 minutes passed.
The forensic officer finally finished checking all the tableware on the table.
And on the bottom edge of a plate in front of the deceased's table, the same poison ingredients as those in the food residues in the stomach were detected.
Mumu Shisan looked serious:
"I see, as long as the murderer pretends to take the plate of sushi and deliberately puts poison on the edge of the plate, but does not take it off and leaves the plate on the rolling belt, the poisoned plate will keep turning like this. In front of the victim."
"Yes," Takagi Wataru said: "As long as the victim takes away this plate, the poison will definitely get on his fingertips, and then he can eat it along with the sushi."
"Understood, now that we have found evidence of poisoning, let's start searching! If you guessed correctly, the murderer should have a container containing poison, or a handkerchief stained with poison, or something like that..."
Megure Thirteen waved his hand, "First of all, let's check the guests sitting in the same row as the deceased and the chef responsible for making this row of sushi!"
The group of people had no choice but to look at each other, but still followed the police's instructions and walked towards the rest room of the sushi restaurant in order.
Ye Gengyi was drinking coffee from the side.
When Mumu Shisan saw this, he felt entangled in his heart. He was silent for a moment, until he saw Dr. Ali consciously walking into the room over there, he came over and whispered:
"Ahem... Brother Gengyi, I don't mean to doubt you, but everyone is watching, why don't you go in and cooperate?"
"Police department, you are worrying too much. I left the store to buy coffee. The victim was still alive at that time, and I did not approach the table when he died. Everyone can prove this."
Since there is an alibi, there is no motive for the murder. Ye Gengyi naturally showed the proper attitude, so as not to be regarded as an alternative suspect every time he encountered a similar situation in the future, and let the police investigators touch him from top to bottom.
"Well, that's fine. Anyway, we can quickly find the items containing the poison."
Hearing this, Mu Mu Shisan no longer forced himself.
