Coroner Ke Xue

The scream came from afar.

Judging from the timbre, the person who screamed was Suzuki Sonoko, whom Lin Xinyi had just met not long ago.

"Something happened to Miss Sonoko!"

"There is indeed something fishy about this villa party!"

Lin Xinyi's heart sank.

He subconsciously stood up and left, but suddenly stopped, turned around and picked up Hui Yuan Ai from the bed.

He didn't know what kind of monsters were hiding in this villa, so he felt uneasy leaving Xiao Ai alone in the room.

Just like that, Lin Xinyi ran with Hui Yuan Ai in his arms and followed the sound to the other end of the villa.

At this time, Mao Lilan, Conan, Belmode and others also heard the sound and rushed over, gathering at the door of the guest room where the cry for help had just been heard.

I tried pushing the door, but it was locked from the inside and couldn't be opened.

"Garden, garden!"

Mao Lilan shouted nervously at the door.

There was still no response from the door.

She couldn't wait any longer, so she flew up anxiously and kicked the door open.

The door was violently opened, and what appeared in front of everyone were two women lying in the middle of the room:

Koko Yonehara, and Sonoko Suzuki.

They both fell to the floor in a daze.

There was a wound on Yonehara Koko's forehead, and there was a shallow mark on Suzuki Sonoko's neck.

At a glance, there was no third person in the room.

But the window in the room opened outward, letting the cold wind outside the window rush in.

"Teacher Yonehara and Miss Suzuki are breathing steadily, nothing serious happened."

Lin Xinyi quickly checked the physical condition of Yonehara Koko and Suzuki Sonoko.

After confirming that they were in no serious condition and were only in a mild coma, he breathed a sigh of relief:

"The murderer may have given up the attack after hearing someone being attracted by her screams after attacking Ms. Sonoko, and escaped through the window of the room."

"I'm here to watch."

"Miss Maori, you go chase me now!"

Lin Xinyi made a decisive decision.

He is a doctor and happens to be responsible for taking care of the injured Mihara Koko and Suzuki Sonoko.

Mao Lilan has top combat power and is more suitable for hunting down the murderer.

Although Mao Lilan was instinctively worried about the situation of Teacher Yonehara and Suzuki Sonoko, she also knew that the situation was urgent and the pursuit of the murderer could not be delayed for a second.

"Well, I'm going to chase you now!"

With a look on her face, she transformed from a weak little girl into a wild female warrior. She jumped up in a short skirt and chased him out through the window.

Belmod was concerned, so he held the window railing with one hand and turned over lightly.

After leaving the job of chasing the murderer to them, Lin Xinyi felt at ease and stayed to observe the injuries of Mr. Yonehara and Suzuki Sonoko, as well as the situation at the attack site.

"Their injuries are not too serious. Miss Sonoko's neck was only scratched."

"How could you pass out so easily?"

Lin Xinyi frowned slightly:

With such doubts, a towel abandoned by the murderer at the scene quickly caught his attention.

This towel was casually thrown in the hands of the unconscious teacher Yonehara, looking a little suspicious.

Lin Xinyi put on the gloves he carried with him, picked up the towel, and gently fanned the smell from the towel to the tip of his nose:

There is a faint pungent sweet scent.

Squat down again and try to smell the ground:

There is also a faint pungent sweetness lingering low on the ground.

"Is it ether?"

The smell of ether is very special. The density of vapor is much higher than that of air. After evaporating, it will settle to a lower place.

Through these characteristics, Lin Xinyi initially determined that the chemical substance contaminated on the towel was ether.

"Did the murderer use a towel soaked in ether to cover the victims' mouths and noses from behind, causing them to be anesthetized by ether and pass out on the spot?"

He couldn't help but be a little surprised: "This"

This is almost impossible in reality.

Because ether has an obvious pungent smell, if someone wants to attack the target from behind with a towel stained with this stuff, the target will smell it from a few meters away before they can get close.

As long as the sense of smell is normal and the reaction is timely, it will be difficult to be attacked by this thing.

Even if the sneak attack is successful, because of the pungent smell, most people will subconsciously hold their breath after covering their mouth and nose with a towel stained with ether.

Ether itself is extremely volatile.

As long as you hold your breath for 1 or 2 minutes, the ether on the towel will evaporate to a large extent, and the efficacy of the medicine will be greatly reduced.

If the murderer has the ability to maintain a stalemate with the target for a long time, the target will be unable to escape from the restraints for several minutes until he can no longer hold his breath, loosen his mouth and nose, and inhale the ether on the towel.

Then why use ether?

With this skill, an ordinary towel can cover someone until they are suffocated and unconscious.

In addition to these reasons, the most important thing is that the effects of anesthetics, including ether, are not as overbearing as ordinary people imagine.

Even desflurane, the fastest-acting drug, takes more than ten seconds to work.

Even if you are really numb, if you don't continue to take the drug and ensure that the concentration is greater than a certain threshold, you will wake up soon.

There are indeed drugs that can knock someone down in a matter of seconds.

But those are basically highly toxic substances.

It doesn't stun people, it poisons them to the point of death.

"If the murderer used some highly toxic drugs, Mr. Yonehara and Ms. Suzuki should be in a state of death now, and their vital signs cannot be so stable."

"That doesn't make sense at all."

With doubts, Lin Xinyi carefully checked both sides of their cheeks.

Immediately afterwards, he gently pinched open the jaws of Yonehara Koko and Suzuki Sonoko, opened their mouths, and used a flashlight to carefully observe the conditions inside their mouths.

"There were no covering marks on their mouths and noses, and there was no obvious peeling off of the skin on the tips of their noses or lips, which are easily injured after being covered by the murderer."

"The oral mucosa and lip mucosa show no signs of damage and bleeding after being squeezed."

"This shows that their struggle should be short."

"I didn't even resist. In a short period of time, I was knocked unconscious by the drugs on the towel."

"Does ether really have this effect?"

"No, not just ether"

"Except in TV dramas, where else in the world can there be such an anesthetic that can make you faint as soon as you cover it?"

Lin Xinyi murmured to himself in disbelief.

And just when he was wondering whether he had made a mistake in judgment, the sweet-smelling chemical was not ether, but some kind of powerful narcotic drug that did not exist in reality.

His scientific advisor, the genius scientific girl Haibara Ai, said seriously in his ear:

"Of course."

"Ether is one of them."

"Lin, why have you forgotten such basic medical knowledge?"

Hui Yuan Ai couldn't help but feel a little helpless in her voice.

There was a hint of doting in that cold and doting tone, as if he was a domineering president favoring the silly and sweet heroine:

"It seems I really have to find time to give you extra lessons, idiot."

Lin Xinyi: "."

He was speechless for a moment and didn't know what to say.

But Miss Haibara is not a joker.

She wouldn't bother her boyfriend with such boring jokes when he was working on a case.

That is to say

What Hui Yuan Ai said is true. In this world, ether can really make people dizzy as soon as it touches it.

"Okay." Lin Xinyi's mouth twitched slightly.

He reluctantly accepted this fact:

This may be the same as APTX4869, which can rejuvenate people. It is a unique physiological and medical miracle in this world.

Moreover, judging from the current situation, Yonehara Koko and Suzuki Sonoko do seem to be stunned by ether.

Thinking of this, Lin Xinyi had no choice but to move them to a place with fresh air according to the method of dealing with normal ether poisoning to ensure that they could breathe smoothly.

However, the breathing of Mihara Koko and Suzuki Sonoko was relatively stable, and they did not need his help in artificial respiration.

"Bring the medical kit over and bandage the wound on Yonehara-sensei's head."

"As long as they wake up on their own, they should be fine."

Because I really can’t understand the strange medicinal properties of ether in this world.

So Lin Xinyi felt a little worried and rechecked the vital signs of Sonoko Suzuki and Koko Yonehara.

After confirming several times that they were fine and should be able to wake up on their own, he reluctantly put aside his worries and turned his attention to the investigation of the case.

What first caught Lin Shinichi's attention was the backs of Suzuki Sonoko and Yonehara Koko's hands.

There is a message deliberately left by the murderer on it.

After committing the crime, the murderer seemed to have used something like lipstick to write a big red character on the back of their hands.

What is written on Yonehara Koko's hand is: "な"

What is written on Suzuki Sonoko's hand is: "こ"

"なこ, nako"

"Naizi?"

"Could it be that what the murderer left behind was a personal name?"

Lin Xinyi vaguely understood the message left by the murderer.

But he still couldn't figure out the other person's intention behind leaving these two words.

What kind of secret is hidden behind this information that seems to be a person's name.

Lin Xinyi could only temporarily put aside these doubts and prepare to conduct a further detailed investigation of the guest room that was the scene of the attack.

At this time, male teachers Shimoda and Sakai, and female teacher Minori Nakamura, three of Teacher Yonehara's colleagues at Aidedo Elementary School, had also heard the news and rushed to the scene from all over the villa.

Even, it didn't take long.

Mao Lilan and Belmode, who had just climbed out of the window to chase the murderer, also circled half a circle outside the villa, came in through the front door of the villa, and returned here with solemn expressions.

Suddenly, everyone attending the villa party gathered here.

"Miss Maori, Chris, you are back so quickly."

Lin Xinyi frowned slightly, his eyes slightly solemn.

He had a bad premonition:

"Is it because I lost track of the murderer, or..."

"It's because the murderer is in this villa!"

Mao Lilan gave an earth-shattering answer.

Everyone's expression changed slightly, especially those who had never seen the big world, Shimoda, Sakai, and Nakamura, the three ordinary elementary school teachers.

Before they could recover from the shock of their colleague being attacked, they were frightened and uneasy by Mao Lilan's words again.

And Mao Lilan just continued:

"We didn't catch the murderer, we didn't even see the other party's shadow."

"But it had just snowed heavily on the mountain. After the murderer escaped through the window and escaped outside the house, he would inevitably leave footprints on the snow."

"Miss Chris and I checked:"

"There is only one set of footprints on the snow outside the window, obviously left by the murderer."

"And the set of footprints circled half a circle around the villa, but finally disappeared at the front door of the villa."

"In other words, after committing the crime, the murderer climbed out of the window, walked around half a circle, and then escaped back to the villa through the front door."

"Now he is in this villa, even..."

Mao Lilan's eyes passed across the faces of everyone present.

Her expression quietly turned serious:

"Right among us!"

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