After the group wear, I became the group darling of the big guys

Chapter 208 Clues

"Long time no see, Shikanoin." After Kurono Reiko left, Kujo Sara nodded to Shikanoin Heizo, and a rare smile appeared on her serious face.

"Hmm." Shikanoin Heizo smiled and pointed to the seat opposite him: "Sit down first. I'll introduce the clues of the case to you."

The three of them sat down opposite Shikanoin Heizo. Lisa held her chin with one hand. She was not wearing her iconic clothes, but she still gave people a sense of older sister: "Little cutie, we have never doubted your detective talent. I think it's completely fine to hand the whole case over to him. What do you think, Qin?"

Qin shook her head helplessly: "Even if Mr. Shikanoin's detective skills are enough to catch the criminal, this is not a reason for us to be lazy, Lisa."

"Well, the hardworking Captain Qin is going to take on the heavy responsibility, so I should be a little more serious too." Lisa blinked and smiled, elegantly and gently.

"The first death in this case was in the elevator of the central shopping mall." Heizo Kanouin picked up a piece of paper in front of him and pushed it between the three people. On it was the autopsy report, the testimony of eyewitnesses, and the on-site exploration report.

"The iron sheet above the elevator was missing, and the surveillance cameras were working all the time, so no one was found entering. The deceased was hung on the steel frame above the elevator, and his face was covered with poisonous paint like a clown. After applying the paint, the criminal cut the deceased's face again, along the corner of the mouth and upwards, forming a weird smile."

"The surveillance has been replaced." Kujo Sara narrowed his eyes for a moment and suddenly said.

Shikanoin Heizo nodded: "That's right. Although there was nothing special on the screen when we arrived at the monitoring room, after technical restoration, we were able to find that a small part of the surveillance was replaced."

"Then - those pigments, my dear, have you found the production place and the merchant of those pigments?"

"Unfortunately, no. There is no paint on the market that is similar to the paint on the deceased's face. The preliminary judgment is that the prisoner mixed it himself."

"I mixed it myself... If you want to mix the paint yourself, you can only use flowers and other common materials that are not toxic. But you just said that those paints are toxic?"

Heizo Kanouin nodded and pushed the test report over. "Yes, and it is quite toxic. The report from the laboratory is that this is a new type of poison, or in other words, poison gas. The test results show that this poison gas will make people fall into a frenzy of fear, and they will madly attack everyone around them until the person corroded by the poison gas dies."

"That sounds pretty scary." Lisa straightened up and squinted her eyes. "But I still have a question, little cutie."

"Please speak." Shikanoin Heizo made a gesture of invitation.

"New poison gas, new pigment, these don't appear suddenly. Is the Metropolitan Police Department hiding something else?"

Qin pondered for a moment and looked at Shikanoin Heizo: "I think so too. There are nearly a thousand kinds of pigments on the market. It is basically impossible to match them completely in a short period of time. If no one guides, it can only be caused by long-term resentment towards the deceased. What about the deceased's interpersonal relationships?"

"Unfortunately, the deceased was an only child. Her parents died three years ago. She had no enemies or rivals. The deceased herself was very kind in interpersonal relationships. Except for a few mean people who had some complaints about her, she had no other enemies. She was a very ordinary person." She didn't even have the courage to make enemies with others.

To say it is normal is actually cowardly. In today's society, everyone will have a few people they are dissatisfied with or rivals.

But such a person really shouldn't have such crazy enemies.

"Don't think too much about it." Shikanoin Heizo interrupted them, "The criminal commits crimes completely randomly. He will harm whoever he likes. The elderly, children, young people, women, teenagers, there are victims of all ages."

In many subsequent cases, the victims died in various ways, the only thing in common was that they all had clown makeup on their faces.

"As for what Captain Qin said at the beginning about someone helping us, I wonder if you have heard about the cruise ship Ningning boarded not long ago?"

Qin responded, "Are you talking about the one at the jewelry exhibition? Something happened on it?"

"Sure enough, they hid it from you." Shikanoin Heizo raised his eyebrows knowingly, "A real clown appeared on the ship. He used a completely different new type of poison gas. He was crazy and smart. He killed two ordinary people and two police officers on the cruise ship, and made hundreds of tourists laugh wildly."

"Although the poison gas was inexplicably solved in the end, the Metropolitan Police Department decided to name this gas "Laughing Gas" because of its effectiveness."

"It was solved inexplicably... Was it Mr. Baishu from Liyue?" Kujo Sara said, "I remember he went to that cruise ship at that time."

"Hmm." Shikanoin Heizo nodded. "Real or fake clown, the chief didn't want you to know about this, but Miss Kurono said you were sent by the public security department. Regardless of whether the public security department has told you these details in detail, you will eventually find out during the investigation. Instead of letting you find it by yourselves, it is better to be open and honest and tell you everything."

"Then why didn't the police notify us first?" Qin frowned slightly.

"It's simple. I'm just testing whether you are qualified to know about this." Shikanoin Heizo shrugged nonchalantly, "And your invigilator is me."

"The influence of the Joker on the public security is huge. Although many people in the public security have arrested extremely vicious criminals, it is still a unique case of someone as crazy as the Joker. People who have faced the Joker's madness took a long time to recover. As for you, as the most promising new generation in the public security, they will of course want to see if you can maintain mental stability afterwards."

"Why tell us now?" Qin raised her eyes and looked at the handsome young detective opposite her.

"Because I trust you." Shikanoin Heizo smiled, "Spirit, ideals, consciousness, I trust your perseverance, and I trust that you will not let me down."

That is a tenacity that has been tempered through thousands of trials. Even if a struggle fails, one will still firmly walk on the path of one's choice, upholding the justice that one knows and protects.

People like this, Shikanoin Heizou would not believe that they would be defeated by a mere clown.

"Let's look for other information." Kujo Sara stood up quickly, walked to the bookshelf and started flipping through the books.

Shikanoin Heizo laid his face on the ground and looked at the three people. The sunlight cast golden light on him. The young man looked towards the setting sun and smiled with an ambiguous smile.

When the "God" high above relaxes for a moment, don't blame the ants who are waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.