Ke Xue: This police officer is too martial

Chapter 62: Confidence is a taboo
After Inspector Megure finished speaking, the police officers present immediately fell into deep thought.

Two seconds later, Minister Odagiri turned his head and looked at Makino: "Inspector Makino, what do you think?"

Upon hearing this, the eyes of all the police officers present immediately focused on Makino.

Most of the police officers present had witnessed Inspector Makino's powerful crime-solving skills and abilities.

——【Task triggered, event level: A+.】

Makino ignored the voice in his head and stood up to ask Inspector Megure, "Inspector Megure, have you found the source of the cyanide?"

"Not yet. We are investigating the food in the homes of the three victims."

Hearing this, Makino felt something was wrong.

Cyanide is highly toxic. If cyanide was on food, the three victims would have died on the spot while eating.

The second victim, Miyazaki Hayori, died of poisoning when she walked into a convenience store.

According to Inspector Megure, Miyazaki Sawari did not have any food on her.

Eating cyanide can also "delay" death...

After thinking for a while, Makino continued to ask: "What else do these three victims have in common? For example, do they have any similar diseases?"

Upon hearing this, Inspector Megure's eyes widened immediately: "Yes! The first and third victims seem to have caught a cold!"

Hearing this, Makino immediately frowned and said, "First check the cold medicines in their home, especially the ones in capsule form!"

Hearing this, the other police officers present also understood what Makino meant, and the scene immediately became a little noisy.

If Inspector Makino's guess is correct, then cyanide should be in the cold medicine!

But if that's the case...

Thinking of this, the police officers present all showed panic on their faces.

As if to prove Makino's guess, at this moment, a member of the Forensic Department suddenly ran into the meeting room.

They found several cold capsules filled with cyanide in the bottle of cold medicine in the home of the first victim, Yuki Nakamura.

This capsule is made of gelatin material and will melt in about 5-15 minutes after entering the human body.

This undoubtedly confirmed Makino's guess.

Seeing this, Minister Odagiri coughed heavily and looked at the middle-aged police officer beside him: "Call the media and prepare to issue an emergency statement! Even if it will cause panic, the public must be informed of the current situation!!"

"Yes!" The counselor Uno Tadayoshi beside him immediately stood up and nodded, then ran out of the meeting room.

After finishing speaking, Minister Odagiri immediately looked at Makino and Manager Matsumoto: "Establish an investigation headquarters, let the pharmaceutical company check and urgently recall the problematic cold medicine, and let all police stations in Tokyo cooperate with our actions!"

"Yes!" Makino and Matsumoto stood up and said.

……

After the meeting, Manager Matsumoto and Inspector Megure immediately began giving orders to their subordinates.

Makino sat there with his hands folded and his eyes closed.

This serial poisoning case has some similarities with general serial murder cases.

For example, the criminal is likely to be a gloomy guy, and he must have suffered sudden stress recently...

But this case lacks an extremely important clue - the motive for the crime.

Generally speaking, most of these random poisoning criminals follow a fixed crime pattern.

The poisoning was obviously intended to take revenge on society and establish one's own prestige.

But more importantly, it is to achieve the prisoner's "purpose".

Generally speaking, prisoners know that their actions will cause a "disturbance".

Therefore, there is a high probability that this type of criminal will, like the bomber, issue a "crime notice" in advance and put forward their own demands and goals.

However, this time the criminal skipped this step and directly started "random killing", which is obviously not in line with common sense.

Going to great lengths to poison someone, but to no avail?

If it is a serial murder case, it is possible, after all, the criminal may be mentally retarded or extremely insane.

But serial poisoning is unlikely, because the criminal who can commit such a crime has a sufficient IQ and a very rational brain. Makino believes that if the motive for the crime can be found, the criminal may be able to be directly identified.

But the problem now is that not only is there no motive in this case, there is also no so-called crime scene.

……

That afternoon.

With the cooperation of major pharmaceutical companies and local police stations, the police found three bottles of cold medicine filled with cyanide in two pharmacies and a convenience store in Beika Town.

Although these bottles of cold medicine come from different manufacturers, they are all capsule cold medicines without "sealing films".

Unfortunately, all three stores are located in sparsely populated streets, and two of the pharmacies do not have surveillance cameras.

Local police officers immediately began investigating convenience stores with surveillance cameras.

The problem is, this convenience store was having a discount sale on cosmetics a few days ago.

At the time, items such as medicines and cosmetics were placed on makeshift shelves outside the store.

Therefore, the police did not find any suspicious person who stole the drugs from the surveillance video in the store, and the clues they had finally found were lost again.

Inside the meeting room of the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division.

Based on the three locations where the poison was found, Makino determined the approximate area where the criminal lived by drawing circles on the map.

But other than that, there are no other clues.

According to investigations, the pharmaceutical companies where the criminals put poison had no employees who had recently resigned, nor had they received any "threatening letters."

Makino determined that the criminal's motive was not a grudge against a specific pharmaceutical company or drug store or convenience store, but something else.

At this moment, Inspector Megure received a call from Kogoro Mori.

His client died of poisoning near Jufukuji Temple in Beika-cho 4-chome.

After listening to Inspector Megure's explanation, Makino looked down at the map and a light flashed in his eyes.

The next moment, he decided to lead the team to the scene in person.

……

half an hour ago.

Nishida family.

Kogoro Mouri and Conan listened attentively to the client Arishi Nishida's narration.

According to the client, he could see suspicious figures in his yard from the window every night recently.

But when he ran out to look, there was no one in the yard.

His wife didn't believe what he said and said it was just hallucination caused by his fever.

In order to prove that this was not an illusion, Arishi Nishida invited Kogoro Mori to help investigate.

After explaining to Kogoro Mori, Arishi Nishida prepared to go back to his room to rest as he was still a little dizzy.

At this moment, Conan saw Nishida Yuzhi take a bottle of cold medicine from the cupboard, and immediately remembered the news in the morning, and hurriedly stopped him and said: "Uncle Nishida! That bottle of cold medicine may be poisonous, don't take it!"

Nishida Yuzhi turned his head and glanced at Conan, then laughed and said, "Are you talking about the news this morning? Don't worry, I've been taking this bottle of medicine for a long time, and nothing happened~"

After saying that, Nishida Arishi drank a cold medicine in front of Conan and Mouri Kogoro.

"Look, nothing happened~"

Conan: "..."

Maori Kogoro:"……"

Seeing the panic expressions on the two people's faces, Nishida Arishi laughed a few times, turned and walked into the bedroom.

Conan looked at Maori Kogoro beside him: "Uncle, what if that bottle of medicine..."

Maori Kogoro frowned first, then shook his head and said, "Since he has been eating for several days, he should be fine..."

(End of this chapter)