Chapter 192 160. A fruitful on-site survey (please ask for monthly tickets)
On the right side of the living room is the kitchen of the villa. Because of the ceramic tiles everywhere, it has been spared. There is a refrigerator and a vegetable sink here. , range hood, gas stove.
Li Ming stepped forward, stretched out his finger and lightly traced it. He glanced at his fingertips and raised his eyebrows, then turned to look at Saito.
“Has the crime scene been cleaned up?”
“No, because this is the scene of a major accident, and the deceased is still an important person, so the colleagues who came here to investigate previously Except for his own work, nothing else has been touched." Saito stood aside with his hands behind his back, and immediately approached Li Ming when he asked him.
Li Ming looked thoughtful, nodded slightly, and then did not respond or follow up.
After looking at it casually for a while, Li Dang saw that the owner of the villa had very high hygiene standards. Even the filter in the vegetable sink was cleaned very clean.
Interesting.
On the left side of the living room are stairs, bathroom and a study room.
This is the area hardest hit by the fire. Just like a normal study room, there are desks and bookshelves, but almost all the books on the bookshelves have been burned beyond recognition.
Li Deng covered his mouth and nose to avoid the embers floating in the air. After passing the bookshelf, he picked up the burned pages on the ground. The words on them were difficult to distinguish because they were charred, but some words could still be seen——
「ClusterIntelligence」, 「Feromoni」, 「Formiche」.
Although these words are composed of English letters, they are not the English words and phrases that Li Ming is familiar with. They may be from other languages.
And just when Li Ming was pondering and recalling whether there were other languages that also had English letters, there was a commotion outside the villa, and there were vaguely familiar roars and curses, and then a figure appeared. He squeezed in through the door frame, and could vaguely see his right hand that was stretched out but was blocked.
“Coming?”
Li Ming snorted and looked at the visitor and the closed door behind him.
"Li Ming, you are really good at it. I am still wondering who is preventing the relatives of the deceased from entering the crime scene." Yuan Qingyu gathered her clothes, with a confused look on her face with some praise. meaning.
"I am completely consistent with the position I expressed. Before the case was investigated clearly, Taro Yamashiro was a hypocrite and the biggest suspect." Li Ming held his hands and said calmly, "Since he You can see the clues in his words, why he hesitated when talking about what to do after the phone call. "
"This is also a doubt. In fact, the biggest reason is to avenge personal revenge, right?" Yuan Qingyu asked. He raised his eyebrows.
"If there is no such thing, the suspect is not allowed to enter the scene and is not allowed to join the investigation team. This has always been the rule."
Regarding the so-called public revenge, Li Dang still adhered to the principle of avoiding talking about it, and then he continued to turn back to the shredded pages and pondered.
Yuan Qingyu chuckled lightly. He already knew the motive of the young man in front of him. He did not intend to pursue it. Instead, he followed the progress of the investigation and looked at the scraps of paper with Li Ming. .
“Isn’t this Italian?”
Yuan Qingyu was almost surprised when she saw the familiar words.
“I’m a Latin student. For convenience, I also learned some similar languages, so Italian is included.” Seeing Li Min’s surprised expression, Yuan Qingyu quickly explained, “But I I’m not very good at learning, so I can only roughly understand the meaning, but I still understand the meaning of this kind of word accurately.”
"But... the meanings of these words seem to be related to ants." Yuan Qingyu said thoughtfully, "If the three phrases or words are understood in sequence, they are cluster intelligence, pheromones, and ants."
“Ant? Expert Shanbai still has this habit?"
Li Ming sneered, but in order to collect more clues to reconstruct the case, he put these pages intact into the sealed bag. Give it to Saito and ask him to help keep it.
A large hole was burned through the ceiling of the study room, and there were many glass fragments under the hole.
Li Dang knelt down and looked at the glass fragments carefully, but found something unexpected among them——
It's some black rice husk-like debris.
"Rice husk? Could it be that the fire started in this fire case?"
Li Ming squinted his eyes and muttered to himself, and then when he got closer to the ground, he smelled There was a burning smell.
The smell was like a fire in a wig shop, and the disgust was beyond words.
While walking along this directional smell, I found that this smell and this trace mixed with rice husks extended all the way to the bathroom and were completely missing.
The ceiling at the top of the bathroom has also been blown out, water seeps from the broken pipes, and some pungent odor can be smelled.
Li Deng covered his covered mouth and nose with his hands, and quickly retreated to the door, looking at Saito: "Have the people from Kesouyan come?"
Ke Souyan, the Scientific Investigation Research Institute, is an affiliated agency of each county police headquarters. Its main task is to identify evidence at crime scenes.
“They’re here, do you need me to call them?”
Saito put his hands behind his back and looked respectful. Li Ming couldn’t help laughing when he saw him like this. He waved casually and stood back in the bathroom. At the door, he looked at the bathroom scene in front of him with a solemn expression.
"Huh? Let me tell you, after experiencing this white dream... Li Ming, will you consider taking the police exam?" Yuan Qingyu came up.
“How do you say it?”
“I see that you are very skilled in surveying the scene and calling colleagues to help. Although it was the identity given to you by Bai Meng, it seems that you have fully adapted to it. ." Yuan Qingyu paused, "If you are a private detective to receive more commissions, you might as well take the police exam."
"No need, this is the first step to realize your wish. "Li Dang waved his hand in disgust.
While the two were communicating and discussing, Saito led a woman in a white coat to the scene amid the sound of opening the door mixed with angry curses.
"Li Ming, this is Okamoto Koumie from the Science Research Institute." Saito introduced the two to each other, "Ms. Okamoto, this is Li Ming, the detective who is solely responsible for Mr. Yamashiro's fire incident."
< br>"I have long heard that the criminal policeman responsible for the fire case She is extremely young, and she is really like this when I see her today." Okamoto was wearing a mask and couldn't see her expression clearly, but there was a hint of joking in his voice, "Then what's the matter with Mr. Li Ming calling me? I just heard Saito? The uncle said. "
" The discovery site, which is the bathroom in front of us, had a pungent smell and some white traces." Li Ming ignored Okamoto's teasing and told his discovery in a matter-of-fact manner, "So I still hope. Ms. Okamoto, can you help? We took it to Kesouyan for the test results."
"It's a piece of cake."
Okamoto made an "OK" gesture with his hand and took it from the tool box he carried. Take out professional sampling items and enter the bathroom.
When Okamoto started taking samples, Li Ming, Yuan Qingyu, and Saito Sobayashi were not idle. They almost turned the bathroom upside down to find more clues to restore the case.
Although this approach was a bit confusing, they finally found a small piece of the puzzle, which was the black particles located in the bathroom sewer.
"What is this?" Yuan Qingyu asked with some confusion.
"Ant." Li Ming borrowed tweezers from Okamoto, picked up a small piece, and placed it in the sunlight shining directly from the hole in the ceiling to examine it. After a while, he came to the conclusion, "Why? Are there ants here too?”
He felt vaguely that something was wrong.
But I couldn't tell what was wrong. I just felt that the ants were an important part of the whole case.
But...
What ants can cause fires?
Let’s talk about why there are ants at the fire scene.
After all the investigations in the bathroom were completed, Li Ming and others left the bathroom, together with Okamoto.
Going up the stairs, they saw a messy scene. The partitions between the walls were blown open, and various glass fragments were scattered on the ground.
On the right side of the stairs is a single bedroom. The nameplate on the door reveals that this is the room of the maid Bai Chuan. If there was no fire, the inside of the room would be an ordinary girl's room.
Shirakawa is a domestic worker hired by the Kojima family to take care of the elderly Yamashiro and his wife.
There is a small blackboard above the desk in Shirakawa's room, and some notes are left on it. The contents on it are:
"X month 2: Madam is sick again Yes, it may be a little serious this time. Let’s contact Dr. Hashimoto to take a look tomorrow.”
"X month 3: Great, this time it's just a minor cold. Dr. Hashimoto suggested that the wife should pay more attention to ventilation and give some advice to the husband in the afternoon."
"X month 4: The husband has a little attitude It’s strange. I don’t know if it’s a work problem. I’d better be careful not to provoke him recently.”
“X month 5th: My husband asked me to contact him. Pest control company, did he find cockroaches in the villa? Oops, it’s not my fault, right?”
“Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to be my problem. It really scares me. I happen to have more free time today, so why not just go to the city to do some shopping and just relax.”
“Hashimoto?”
Li Ming raised his eyebrows and looked at Saito Sobayashi who was waiting for orders. Just a look and a confused word made the slightly older police officer know the young man's intention. He nodded slightly and left immediately.
Leaving Miss Shirakawa's room, you can see the place where the explosion occurred above the bathroom -
Mr. Yamashiro's private laboratory.
As soon as they entered the laboratory, Li Ming and others could smell a faint pungent smell, which was basically the same as the smell they smelled in the bathroom before.
There are two fume hoods and two explosion-proof cabinets in the laboratory.
Although the original appearance of the two fume hoods can still be seen, the interior has been burnt black, the ventilation ducts above have been burned to pieces, and the wooden parts at the bottom of the two fume hoods have been burned through, and they are only supported by a few metal frames. The support appeared to be shaky, many reagent bottles inside had been burned and cracked, and many glass shards were scattered on the ground in front of the fume hood.
Among the glass fragments, Li Yan found a small fragment that did not belong to it. It looked like a corner of a square box.
Combined with the clues I saw before, it is logical to deduce that this box may be a kind of breeding box.
Shan Baimeng is really breeding ants?
Is the fire really related to ants?
There is a burnt black shape mark circled with chalk on the floor of the laboratory. From the small sign erected at the site, it can be seen that this is the place where Mr. Yamashiro Yume died.
The corpses had been transported away without exception, but Li Dao saw some white powder around the black marks. When he squatted down and looked carefully, he smelled some faint sour smell.
"Ms. Okamoto, please excuse me."
Li Ming's eyes indicated that he was followed by a slightly respectful request. After all, he had seen so many things with unknown ingredients at the scene. After I got out, I asked Miss Okamoto for help many times.
If he speaks rudely to her now, I'm afraid there will be no chance of asking her for help in the future. Although Li Ming can use his position to order or force her to do it, it will not last long after all.
"Mr. Li Ming always thinks of me whenever he has dirty work, just because I am a researcher?" Okamoto said angrily, but his men had already started collecting the white powder quickly.
"After all, you are the most professional here, and those who are capable work harder, that's the reason." Li Ming smiled apologetically, "Don't worry, Miss Okamoto, I will definitely treat you to dinner after the matter is over. Yes, thank you for your kindness.”
“It’s settled, I’m going to the most upscale restaurant.”
Although Okamoto is wearing a mask, he can still watch. The corners of her mouth were rising crazily.
The exchange between the two people gradually eased the solemn atmosphere at the scene. Minamoto Seitama and Saito also looked happy. They looked like real colleagues... but there seemed to be some inappropriate things mixed in. The "thing" that appears.
Li Ming looked to the other side. Although the two explosion-proof cabinets were also burned black, they were the best-preserved items in this room.
When you open the cabinet door, you can see that it is full of reagent bottles, arranged from bottom to top. Solid reagents, liquid reagents, ordinary solvents and acid reagents are all neatly placed separately. It can be seen that The owner of this laboratory is rigorous.
But...
Generally speaking, explosion-proof cabinets are equipped with flammable and explosive reagents, and acid liquid is not usually placed in it, because the acid liquid is both It is neither flammable nor explosive.
Why does Shanbai put the acid reagent in it?
Behind the laboratory is a room that was completely blown apart.
This compartment has only one door connected to the laboratory, and the interior is filled with traces of scorch. After entering it, Li Ming smelled some rosin.
There is only one glass cabinet in this mysterious room, but it is completely broken. The glass cabinet is filled with burnt wood chips and exudes a faint scent of pine.
Because of his previous experience as a premise, Li Min deliberately paid attention to the debris. Sure enough, he found a burnt oxygenator among the debris.
The oxygenator is usually a machine that fills the fish with oxygen in the fish tank. After thinking of the fragments of the previous breeding tank, Li Ming came up with a new idea——
Could it be that Shan Bai raised some fish and used ants as food for the fish? But ants are smarter, so he studied the habits of some ants and used them as traps.
This explanation seems to make sense.
But it only makes sense. If you think about the case more deeply, it doesn't seem to make much sense.
There is a large hole in the floor between the glass box and the door, through which you can see the study below the villa.
Exiting the mysterious compartment and passing through the door of the laboratory, there is an ordinary bathroom on the right, and directly in front is the master bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Shanbai.
On the charred bed, a human figure circled in white chalk can be seen. Obviously, the last deceased person is Mrs. Shanbai.
On the left side of the bed, there is an iron filing cabinet and a computer desk. The filing cabinet and the computer on the table have been burned and deformed, but the text inside the cabinet looks a little scorched. Very intact.
Out of a hunch, Li Dang always felt that there were important clues hidden in these texts.
In line with the principle of exploring the truth, Li Min opened these files without mercy. At the same time, he ordered Yuan Qingyu to open the computer to see if there were any clues in it that could be comparable to the diary.
Unexpectedly, the content in the document was exactly the detailed information that Li Dang asked Yamashiro Taro about Tallin Thiazole. It can be said that it was found without any effort, and it took no effort at all.
The content of the document mainly describes the specific effects and synthesis methods of Tallinthiazole. The drug can promote the secretion of neurotransmitters in the body and improve the patient's memory ability. There is some evidence that the drug can further promote the growth of nerve synapses. , forming a new neural bridge, which may greatly improve the recipient's intelligence level.
The synthesis method described in it made Li Ming a little puzzled. For a layman like him, these professional terms were like a wordless heavenly book.
"Talinthiazole? Is this the drug that Yamashiromu has been researching for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease?" After collecting all the white powders, Okamoto took them up with interest and mouthed What else are you chewing?
Li Ming raised his eyebrows: "Why, does Miss Okamoto understand these professional terms? Can you explain them to me?"
"No, no, no, you misunderstood. , I majored in chemistry in college and know nothing about medicine. I’m just curious about what drugs that can treat Alzheimer’s disease look like.” Okamoto continued chewing, “After all, you know this is comparable to a terminal disease. Disease.”
"But I remember that the chemistry major also has pharmaceutical aspects, right?" Yuan Qingyu said faintly at this time, "I also wanted to apply for the chemistry major, so I was a little interested in this aspect."
"If you If you're interested, you can do it. I'm in a hurry to get off work."
Okamoto spread his hands with an indifferent expression.
“I don’t have much interest in the drug Tallinthiazole. This should be considered a secret for Yamashiro’s studio. I think it is best for you to leave it directly to Yamashiro Taro himself. This can also be regarded as a legacy of his father.”
"I'm afraid it won't work for the time being, because Taro himself has been included in the ranks of suspects. If you just hand over this kind of secret to him, wouldn't you be slapping yourself in the face?" Starting today, five thousand words per day, and then the book review area Restriction, I also turned it off
(End of this chapter)