Conan’s Corpse Picker

"Once the matter of Vermouth is resolved, I will ask Jiang Xia if he is willing to leave." Akai Shuichi began to look forward to the next stage of work, "If he is not willing... then we may have a powerful comrade in dealing with Uzo."

With the friendly assistance of a detective, the two FBI agents successfully got rid of the suspicion.

Everyone's eyes were focused on the four acquaintances of the deceased.

Jiang Xia also looked at the three hospital staff members and a senior high school student, and his eyes swept over them: "This method does not require an accomplice. The nurse and the security guard could see each other while distributing the drinks, and there was indeed no opportunity to open the cup lid to add ice cubes to the drinks. So the only people who had time to commit the crime were the clerk and Ms. Ninagawa."

Inspector Megure was very comfortable and looked at the detective brother with relief: "Then what?"

Jiang Xia never disappoints: "As a coffee seller, it is not difficult for Senior Ninagawa to tamper with the ice cubes. But this time, in order to talk to the deceased, she arbitrarily replaced all the coffee in the deceased's order with Coke, hoping that the other party would return the drinks... If the murderer was her, she would not have to do such a troublesome thing and make her plan complicated."

"In other words, the real murderer is..."

The police turned their heads and looked at the short-haired female clerk who bought drinks for her colleagues.

The short-haired woman staggered back a step, sweating profusely. She opened her mouth to refute, but didn't know where to start.

Jiang Xia looked at her: "After you buy the drink, just walk to the long table next to it with creamer and syrup, and you can quietly open the cup lid and add the poisoned ice cubes you prepared in advance to the drink - there are many people buying coffee, and there must be many people at the counter doing the same thing, so your action of opening the cup will not seem abrupt at all, nor will it leave too much impression on people.

"You originally wanted to add milk and sugar after putting the poisoned ice cubes in to cover up the strangeness of the ice cubes. However, when you hurriedly threw in the ice cubes, you found that the two cups of iced coffee you ordered were replaced by iced cola by the salesperson.

"You can't get the ice out in public, so you have to dawdle until the show starts before returning to your seat. This way, even if your target finds out that the drink is wrong, he won't have time to go back to the counter to change it."

"I see." The police officer who was about to get off work heard this and immediately realized which of these would be important evidence. His eyes lit up, "You said before that the murderer didn't have time to dispose of the physical evidence. Does that mean she didn't have time to throw away the container of poisoned ice?"

Jiang Xia nodded and looked at "Doctor Shinde" who appeared out of nowhere: "Just now, Doctor Shinde said he was going to the bathroom, so I asked him to help look around there - did you find anything?"

"Doctor Shinde", who walked around for most of the time but couldn't find the strange stand-in male protagonist, could only pinch his nose and go to the trash can after receiving Uzo's text message: "..."

Belmode stepped forward, took out a palm-sized purse, and handed it to Jiang Xia with a smile - it's time to let this child feel the smell of the trash can too.

However, unlike what she imagined, Jiang Xia did not forcibly take the thing that had been in the trash can in order to maintain the detective's image. He just looked at it from a distance, and then raised his hand towards the police.

The next moment, the young police officer ran out with the evidence bag and took the purse from Belmode.

Belmode: "..."

Jiang Xia nodded slightly at her and said leisurely: "This sealed shrink purse with plastic skin and metal buckle has good heat preservation. As long as a small piece of dry ice is stuffed in it, the poisoned ice cubes carefully made by the murderer can be preserved.

"After the murderer put the ice cubes, he gave the four drinks to his companions and went to the bathroom alone. There, she could easily deal with the tiny dry ice and then throw the wallet into the trash can. "

"Oh!" Judy suddenly covered her lips in surprise and looked at "Dr. Xinchu" with a complicated look, "You went into the women's restroom? "

Vermouth, who was already in a bad mood, said: "..."

Although Judy hated the murderer of her father, she remembered that she was playing the role of a passionate foreign teacher who liked "Dr. Shinde". She laughed and swallowed the words "You are very skilled" in her heart, and praised: "You really sacrificed a lot to solve this case - you are really a hero!"

"Dr. Shinde" suddenly laughed: "Thanks to the fact that no one was in the women's restroom, I was able to go in and find something."

Suzuki Sonoko heard this and suddenly remembered something. She scratched her head and looked at Judy in confusion: "When I called you just now, didn't you say you were in the restroom? ”

Judy: “…”

Jiang Xia did not interrupt the friendly exchange between the teacher and the students. She stopped talking politely and waited for them to say more.

However, the good times did not last long. Soon, a voice came from the side, breaking the fragrant atmosphere.

The short-haired female clerk took a deep breath and looked at Jiang Xia: "As expected of a famous detective in Tokyo, you can connect everything so quickly and make up a seemingly reasonable cause and effect."

Sato Miwako listened to the voice and smelled a hint of yin and yang: "'Seemingly' reasonable?"

The short-haired female clerk nodded: "Don't forget, I ordered exactly the same drink as Kohei, and I was not present when the drinks were distributed. If it is true as you said, I put poisonous ice cubes in the drink, then how can I ensure that Kohei drinks the poisonous one?

"So the truth is, there is no so-called poisonous ice cubes at all, Kohei died of poisoning himself.

"As for the purse...it is indeed my thing, but when I went to the bathroom, I accidentally dropped it on the ground. I have a little bit of cleanliness and think the bathroom floor is very dirty, so I just threw it away."

"You...!" Teacher Judy looked indignant, "You can even say such a sophistry, are you worthy of this school doctor who specializes in going into the women's bathroom to search the trash can? Look into his eyes before you speak!"

"Ah...calm down, calm down." Inspector Megure did not expect that this suspicious teacher Judy would suddenly be so righteous, but when he thought of the usual state of suspects fighting each other, he suddenly felt that this was very reasonable.

But no matter what, this matter is indeed troublesome - potassium cyanide was sealed inside the ice. Since even the drink cup of the deceased could not detect the poison, the purse must be cleaner. This physical evidence is indeed not solid enough.

However, it is not a big problem.

Inspector Megure turned around decisively: "Brother Jiang Xia, look..."