Coroner Ke Xue

Nakamura Minori looked quite flustered.

It was difficult for others to tell whether she was panicking because she was suddenly accused of being the murderer, or whether she was panicking about the upcoming body search.

But no matter what, at Lin Xinyi's request, Nakamura Minori still cooperated with the inspection with an ugly face.

She first turned out the pockets of her pants, and then the pockets of her down jacket.

Then he took off his down jacket, revealing the shirt underneath which had no room to hide the bottle.

Nothing was found.

"Look. Where did I get the medicine bottle on me?"

"You'd better look elsewhere!"

"If you find it, just use the fingerprints and skin scraps on it to clear my suspicion!"

Nakamura Minori's face was livid, and he was mumbling, trying to put the down jacket he had taken off back on again.

And just then.

"etc!"

Lin Xin saw something with a keen eye:

"There seems to be a hole in the lining of your down jacket?"

"Wha, what?" Nakamura Minoru's face froze: "Where is it?"

She subconsciously spread out the lining of her down jacket and looked down:

There really is a hole.

The down inside was exposed.

It's not just the white down that's exposed.

There is also a rather conspicuous end of a nylon rope.

"rope?!"

Everyone's expressions changed slightly.

This is even more true for Minori Nakamura himself:

"How come there is a nylon rope hidden in my down jacket?!"

She exclaimed in shock, her face becoming a bit paler.

Everyone present, including her, could instantly connect the "rope" with the attack:

"Miss Suzuki's neck was strangled with a rope, but no rope left by the murderer was found at the scene."

"In other words, that rope may still be hidden on the 'murderer'?"

Everyone looked at Minori Nakamura with strange eyes:

Who would carry a rope with them when they have nothing to do?

Moreover, it was deliberately hidden in the holes in the lining of the down jacket?

"no no"

Minori Nakamura was so panicked that he could not speak coherently:

"I didn't put this rope in there at all."

"Someone must be setting me up!"

"Yes, it was at the ski resort."

She was stunned for a long time, and then she reacted hysterically:

“I once took off my down jacket when I was in the ski resort lounge!”

"It must have been at that time that someone secretly hid the rope in while I wasn't paying attention, trying to frame me!"

As he said that, there was no trace of color on Nakamura Minori's face.

She subconsciously wanted to reach out and pull the rope out of the lining of the down jacket.

"do not move!"

Lin Xinyi frowned and stopped her in time:

"Don't touch that rope."

"If what you say is true, this rope was framed by someone."

"Then you should have never touched this rope, and there will be no traces of your skin left on the rope."

"But if you reach out and touch it now, many things will be unclear."

"This" Nakamura Minori froze there, her arms shaking violently in tension.

After being stunned for a while, she finally stopped, and honestly let Lin Xinyi take the down jacket from her hand.

"Evidence bag."

Lin Xinyi asked Mao Lilan to get a plastic evidence bag that he carried with him.

Then he carefully pulled the rope out of the lining of the down jacket with gloved hands and put it into the evidence bag.

As soon as the rope was pulled out of the radish and mud was pulled out, another small bottle rolled out of it.

This is a small dark brown reagent bottle. It is empty inside, as if it has been poured clean.

"Reagent bottle?"

The atmosphere suddenly became even weirder.

Nakamura Minori's face turned green, and he became even more horrified and speechless.

"The rope, the reagent bottle, these are all on you."

"You look so much like a murderer, Ms. Minori Nakamura."

Lin Xinyi looked over with bright eyes.

"I, I'm not" Nakamura Minori seemed to be scared to death.

She couldn't even communicate normally and could only repeat the following words: "I'm not, I'm not a murderer!"

"Whether he is the murderer or not, the evidence will tell us the answer."

"Please calm down."

"I will not use the reason of 'looking like' to judge someone as a murderer."

Lin Xinyi's tone was very calm.

He raised the small reagent bottle, looked at the light cast on the ceiling, and observed the marks on the bottle.

Using this transmitted light observation method, he could easily see several nearly complete fingerprint marks on the smooth surface of the glass bottle.

"There are fingerprints left by the suspected murderer on the reagent bottle."

"And if the rope was the murder weapon, the murderer used the rope to squeeze Miss Sonoko's neck."

"The above should also be able to check out the skin flakes on Miss Sonoko and the murderer himself."

"This will make it easier to handle."

"As long as these physical evidence are sent to the Science Research Institute for identification afterwards, we can determine whether Ms. Nakamura is the murderer."

Lin Xinyi always left room for words this time.

It is not as aggressive as when handling cases in the past, in order to break through the murderer's psychological defense.

Because he instinctively felt something was wrong.

These key pieces of evidence are all too simple.

In fact, he never thought at the beginning that the murderer would actually hide these important physical evidence on his body and asked for a body search, which was just a routine out of caution.

Unexpectedly, he actually found such important evidence from Ms. Nakamura's clothes.

The rope and the reagent bottle were enough evidence for him to close the case directly.

Of course, the strange thing is the strange thing.

Lin Xinyi could not deny the possibility that the murderer was too panicked and nervous when escaping and had no time to safely handle the physical evidence, so he hid the evidence on his body.

Or maybe the murderer felt that the most dangerous place was the safest, so he hid the physical evidence in the lining of his down jacket.

These speculations are very likely.

All in all, Minori Nakamura is still the biggest suspect.

"So I don't judge easily."

"Let the evidence speak for itself. This is my working principle."

Lin Shinichi said to Nakamura Minori in a warning and comforting manner:

"Now that the physical evidence is here, there are even clear fingerprints on the reagent bottle."

"Then you will naturally have the answer to whether you are the murderer or not."

"Okay, okay!" Minori Nakamura responded calmly: "Then check it now."

"There's no way the fingerprints on the bottle are mine!"

"We can't check it yet."

"We have to wait until the snow on the road is cleared tomorrow and we send the physical evidence to the Metropolitan Police Department for evaluation before we can get the answer."

Lin Xinyi came back to the ski resort directly from a business trip in Osaka this time. He did not bring a survey box with him and lacked the equipment to completely extract fingerprints.

Moreover, even if he had the equipment, he did not have the ability to identify fingerprints on the spot.

He is a forensic scientist and a half-baked fingerprint examiner, not a fingerprint examiner. This is not his specialty.

"Please be patient while we watch."

"Everything will be answered when we get to the Metropolitan Police Department tomorrow."

Lin Xinyi expressed his attitude reasonably.

As the number one suspect, Minori Nakamura must remain under close supervision until he is handed over to the Metropolitan Police Department tomorrow.

If the fingerprints were not hers and there were no skin scraps from her or Suzuki Sonoko on the rope, she would naturally be cleared of suspicion.

This is the most appropriate approach.

But Minori Nakamura was still a little uneasy.

I don't know whether he was afraid that his crime would be exposed like this, or whether he was afraid that he would be mistakenly accused of being a murderer by the Metropolitan Police Department.

Her expression was still so nervous and flustered:

"Yeah, right."

"Are Yonehara-sensei and Suzuki-san awake?"

"As long as they wake up and tell who the murderer is, they can prove my innocence!"

Nakamura Minori's voice trembled as she tried to confront the two victims, seemingly eager to prove her innocence.

Her behavior certainly didn't look like a murderer.

But Lin Xinyi is a forensic doctor, not a micro-expression expert.

No one knows whether the other person's eagerness to prove himself is staged.

In this way, everyone waited for a while with caution and suspicion towards Nakamura Minori.

The stunned Yonehara-sensei and Suzuki Sonoko finally woke up.

The one who woke up first was Suzuki Sonoko.

She opened her eyes drowsily, and then like a spring, she bounced up from the sofa:

"Help, help -"

"Mr. Yonehara was killed!!"

"Calm down, Miss Sonoko."

Lin Xinyi stabilized the frightened Miss Suzuki in time:

"Miss Yonehara is fine, she just passed out like you."

"Now you can relax and then help us recall what happened at that time?"

"oh oh"

Suzuki Sonoko breathed a long sigh of relief.

After confirming that Teacher Mihara was fine and she was safe, she said in shock:

"As soon as I entered the room, I saw Teacher Yonehara lying on the ground unconscious, as if he was dead."

"Then I screamed for help, but unexpectedly, someone suddenly appeared from behind me and covered my nose with a towel."

"Then...then I passed out."

Suzuki Sonoko said with lingering fear.

"In other words, you didn't see what the murderer looked like?"

"No."

"Okay." Lin Xinyi sighed softly and turned his gaze to the side, Teacher Mihara, who seemed to be about to wake up.

He was waiting to ask her about the situation.

Teacher Yonehara opened her eyes drowsily.

Now there was no need for Lin Xin to ask questions. Nakamura Minori couldn't wait to step forward and asked hurriedly:

"Yonehara! Yonehara!"

"Did you see who the murderer was?"

"Well" Mihara Koko rubbed her head, as if she hadn't recovered from her coma.

Nakamura Minori asked excitedly, and then she answered in a confused manner:

"No, no. I was attacked from behind. I didn't see what the murderer looked like."

"This" Nakamura Minori stood there with a stiff expression.

She seemed to be frightened and was completely confused. She stood frozen for a long time before saying in a daze:

"None of them said I was the murderer."

"This, this should prove something, right?"

"No, this can't prove anything." Lin Xinyi shook his head helplessly: "Neither Teacher Yonehara nor Miss Sonoko know who the murderer is."

"The murderer also knew that the two of them didn't see him at all, so the murderer was not afraid of the victim's testimony at all."

"And you eagerly asked to confront Mr. Yonehara and Miss Sonoko in front of others to show that you have no guilt in your heart."

"Although this is also a normal reaction after being wronged."

"But I'm sorry, objectively speaking."

"Ms. Nakamura, this only makes you look more suspicious."

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