first suspect.

"I received a text message." Suzuki's tone and expression remained calm, "The address here is written in the text message and there is still time."

Short message?

My expression also became serious, and I asked him, "Can you let me see that text message?"

Suzuki took out his mobile phone from his pocket and handed it to me according to his words. I took it and saw the text message he said asking him to come here. There was only a short sentence in the text message.

[At seven o'clock tonight, in the fifth compartment of the restroom on the second floor of the Four Seasons Pavilion, there is a gift for the reunion of an old friend that I carefully prepared for Mr. Suzuki, please don't let him down~]

This is a death notice issued in the tone of a girl giving a gift.

I handed the phone back to Suzuki and walked past him to crouch in front of the body, trying to see what clues I could find without spoiling the scene.

The corpse looked horrific because the victim's eyelids and eyelids had been cut off, and the protruding half of the eyeball was exposed to the air.Probably due to the victim's painful struggle before death, the exposed half of the eyeball was covered with bloodshot eyes, and the pupils that had been dilated for a long time seemed to be still looking at someone.

My gaze rested for a moment on the dead man's eyes, and then moved down to the dead man's mouth.

The deceased’s mouth was open as if he wanted to say something before he died. I turned on the flashlight of the mobile phone and looked carefully, only to find that there was only half of the tongue in the deceased’s mouth, but the wound on the tongue didn’t look very new, it should be in the dead. His tongue had been cut out a few days ago.

"From the outside, there is no fatal injury, but what do you think is the cause of death of the deceased?" Just as I was checking carefully, Dazai, Ranpo kid, and Nakajima boy also arrived at the scene.

Dazai walked behind me and bent down to observe the corpse. It can be said that a hairy head protruded from my right shoulder, his voice was soft and erratic, and a few curls of black hair fell on my shoulder.

"It's useless for you to ask me if it's not an external fatal injury. As a non-professional, I only know the smell of bitter almonds." I habitually pushed his head back, and noticed that Luanbu kid was striding over, consciously Stand up and make way for the world's number one detective.

When there is a murder, of course it is the occasion of a famous detective.

No matter how meticulously the murderer who sent the message to Suzuki has reached the point of calculation, I think he must have never expected that there would be a bug-level famous detective at the scene, who would be able to point out the murderer's whereabouts just by looking at the scene.

"The nearby police station is quite close, and the police should be here soon." I stood up and glanced at the door. As I said this, an old acquaintance of the police station, Officer Jipu, came in from outside.

"It's already here." Officer Jipu replied, and after raising his eyes to see the people inside, he stopped, his face twitched faintly, and the nasolabial folds on his face seemed to deepen, "How did you three get together?"

"what?"

"Edogawa, Wanshiwu, and Iotao, ah no, Suzuki brat." Officer Minura sighed, "Although I said that I would come to Edogawa if I ran into a difficult case, I didn't expect that I wouldn't be here for a few hours. It will come true."

"Don't worry, I will remember the good deal!" Luan Bu, who was observing the corpse, waved his hand without looking back.

"Thank you very much." Police officer Jipu turned his gaze around the corpse and landed on Suzuki who was quietly standing aside, "According to eyewitnesses, Suzuki was standing in front of the corpse when she found the crime scene." , what's going on here? Suzuki, don't you..."

Then I remembered that when Suzuki came to Wanshiwu, it was recommended by police officer Jipu, and they must have known each other.

However, Suzuki's past was also mentioned in the resume he handed over at the beginning. Judging from the current reaction of Police Officer Minura, might he think that Suzuki did the same thing as before?

"Someone sent a text message to Xiaoyi, asking him to come to the scene at the time of the incident." I motioned Suzuki to show the text message to Police Officer Jipu, "It takes a lot of preparations to create such a sensitive murderer on time. Someone must have moved their hands and feet, maybe you can try to check to see if you can find something. Also, when the power went out, someone went up and down the stairs. The victim's weight will go up and down the stairs heavier than other people. I haven't heard such a heavy Footsteps, he may have arrived at the Four Seasons Pavilion before the power outage, so we can check from the surveillance on the first floor whether he came alone or with someone else."

I said everything I noticed.

——Although Bug Detective Ranbu kids don’t need to find clues for reasoning, but I still like to play exploration, reasoning and decryption games, and I still habitually find out all the clues I can see first.

But I said these mainly to get rid of Suzuki's suspicion with the police officer Minura first. Text messages alone may not be so convincing, so just follow what I said and check Suzuki's recent whereabouts a little bit, and they will Knowing that he has never been to the Four Seasons Pavilion at all, he has no chance to prepare for this case.

Police Officer Minura breathed a sigh of relief, "It seems that the murderer wanted to take revenge on Suzuki, maybe it was before...Suzuki, do you have a clue?"

Suzuki's focused eyes fell on the corpse, as if confirming something, but there was a hint of doubt under the calm expression, he nodded and shook his head

"No, what do you mean by nodding and shaking your head?"

Suzuki let out a "huh", then turned to look at Police Officer Jipu without speaking, his eyes were natural.

"You kid..."

"Yoxi! I see." Ranbu raised his hand with his back to us, then turned around and took out his glasses and put them on.

"The murderer is not at the scene. He is in a hospital two streets away from here." He glanced at Suzuki, and said firmly to Police Officer Jipu, "Mochizuki's employees know who the murderer is, and they can catch the murderer by taking him there."

Suzuki, who was named, turned his head and met Luanbu's eyes a little too late, and didn't know what kind of brainwave communication they had reached. Suzuki, who was still a little uncertain just now, nodded and said, "I see."

Police Officer Jipu showed that half-headache-half-relieved expression again, "Okay, then kid Suzuki will go with us first and catch the murderer, I will leave someone here to deal with it, and Edogawa will need to talk about it when the time comes." Do your reasoning."

"Really, I have to explain such a simple case, and the detective is not a kindergarten teacher." Ranbu took off his glasses and muttered.

"Yes, I know that the case is something that the famous detective Mr. Edogawa can see through at a glance, but you see, most people in the world are not as smart as you. If you don't tell us, we can't even record the case. You don’t even know what to write on the paper, do you?” Police Officer Jipu unknowingly used the tone of coaxing a three-year-old child.

"Then, then there's nothing I can do." Luanbu, who was indeed coaxed, raised his head triumphantly, "I'll try to explain it to the idiot!"

After coaxing the Ranpo kid, Officer Jipu was about to call on Suzuki to catch the murderer as Ranpo said, when a little policeman hurried in, "Officer, there is another victim outside!"

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Taki: Who is the cutest kid in the world?

Zai [bouncing and raising hands]: Me, me, it's me!

Taki: No, it's random steps!

Thanks to the little angels who threw mines: 1 car wheel and [-] Shang Xian;

Thanks to the little angels of the irrigation nutrient solution: 10 bottles of Pei Xingzhi and Xuanyue; 8 bottles of Xi; 7 bottles of Snow Clover;

No.90

This is the current situation.

Just as we were reasoning and analyzing the case at the first crime scene, the police officers brought by Police Officer Minura who were maintaining order outside and preventing the diners from leaving discovered the second victim at the scene. A case that can be ended by finding the murderer suddenly becomes complicated.

The diners who did not see the scene of the crime could have been quietly discussing and waiting, but when the second victim appeared among them, this silence was suddenly broken.

Everyone became uneasy.

Unlike the tragic scene when the first victim was found, the second victim was found completely silently.

The little policeman who was in charge of maintaining order noticed that other diners would more or less look up at the door of the bathroom. Only that person sat there motionless with his head lowered, feeling that something was wrong and went to check, only to find that this person had passed away. stopped breathing.

The second victim seemed to be asleep, leaning on the back of the chair with his eyes closed and his head bowed, his expression frozen in a state of transition between surprise and struggle.

The cause of death was a tiny needle stuck in the back of the neck of the deceased. It was said that the needle contained a neurotoxin that could kill a person with a single drop.

Compared with the ubiquitous common people who commit crimes with bitter almond-flavored cyanide/chemical/chemicals, this kind of neurotoxin that is hard to get when you hear it, I think it probably has something to do with the underworld. It is difficult for ordinary people to find channels to get this kind of neurotoxin. Things—but there are exceptions to everything, and this possibility cannot be completely ruled out.

"When was the second victim's death time?" Police officer Jipu, whose expression had relaxed a lot after Luanbu deduced the murderer, frowned when he saw the second victim, probably thinking of me I went almost everywhere.

"I remember that this gentleman was still eating well before the trip..." A diner who was originally sitting not far from the second victim said, with obvious panic and fear on his face.

"That's the time of the trip, hard

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