Conan: I am definitely not a kid

Chapter 57 The identity of the informant is revealed
  After Ronald left, the management of the ship's staff was indeed not as good as before. Mori Yuro successfully contacted Scotland, and the two parties exchanged information during the few hours of disconnection.

"The accompanying doctor on the ship and people from the Yoshikai Association came to examine the chef's body, but no clear conclusion was drawn. They also checked the stored food, but nothing was found."

Scotland had obviously figured out the situation in the past few hours. He dismissed the guards in a methodical manner and led Mori Yuro to find the chef's body in an air-conditioned room.

The chef's eyes were wide open, his mouth and nose were covered with solidified blood stains, his face maintained a ferocious expression, his collar was pulled out of shape, and there were traces of scratching on his neck.

Scotland added the situation at the scene when the body was found: "The place where he was killed was the chef's own lounge. The door was closed at the time, and the chef should have been lying on the sofa."

"His poisoning process was very rapid. No one heard any calls for help, but he struggled and rolled from the sofa to the carpet. He only crawled more than one meter and stopped moving."

Ley asked: "How long after death was the body found?"

"It was originally planned that the chef would personally handle a batch of ingredients in the afternoon, and the rest time was only half an hour, so the time would not be too long. But I was not able to get close to the body, so it was not easy to judge the specific time of death."

When Mori Yura saw the chef's dead state, her face began to turn ugly. After she finished checking the chef's body, she had no time to explain anything to Scotland and Rai, and immediately forced the call to the person who was supposed to participate in the island expo. Mobile, bourbon-based wireless communications not suitable for communication.

But the situation was urgent, and Mori Yura really couldn't take care of that much.

"Bourbon, the informant used gas poison developed by the organization, don't get close to Yajikai!"

Scotland couldn't help but change his expression.

Bourbon did not immediately respond to Moriyuro's communication, but he could hear what he was explaining to others over there, indicating that he was at least fine for now.

By the time Bourbon found an excuse to get rid of the surrounding Island Expo members and hid in a less crowded place to talk to Mori Yuro, Mori Yuro had already evacuated from the room where the corpse was placed with two bottles of whiskey.

Bourbon sounded terrible: "What's with the poison?"

Mori Yuro lowered his voice while moving and introduced: "It is a poison developed by the organization. It is stored at low temperature in the laboratory and turns into a gas state at room temperature. It enters the human body along the respiratory system and attacks the heart and lung organs immediately. If it is inhaled, At higher concentrations, heart function will be directly destroyed by the drug, and in 90 percent of cases it will cause death within seconds."

"Even if the concentration is diluted, this drug will not become non-toxic, but it will not damage the human body as quickly. The cause of death of the deceased will change from heart damage to pulmonary symptoms."

Bourbon sounded like he was about to explode: "We are still on the ship, why don't the organization use this drug without telling us in advance?!"

"I only confirmed it after seeing the condition of the chef's body. I will convey your words to Rum." Mori Yuro asked, "Have you kept a distance from Yayoshikai's territory?"

"It's late." Bourbon said viciously, "I just came out from the Yaji Club's room after interrogating their members."

Mori Yura, who was moving, and Rai, who turned around, exchanged glances.

Scotland restrained his worries and anger, not daring to let the other two find out.

"Don't worry, it won't kill you immediately, but you can still be saved." Mori Yura comforted, "This poison is well developed, and the organization has stored antidote."

Bourbon took a deep breath, knowing that the most important thing now was to figure out the situation and return to shore for treatment as soon as possible.

He briefly explained in the communication how Yoshihide would discover the captain's cabin.

Mori Yuro and the other three turned a corner and arrived at the control room. As expected, they found that the staff member who was supposed to be here was dead.

Scotland quickly stepped forward to check: "The ventilation ducts in the cab are closed, the ventilation ducts in some rooms on the fourth floor are closed, and the ducts in the chef's lounge are open."

Mori Yuro quickly made a judgment: "When the cab door was just opened, the person closest to him inhaled a high concentration of poisonous gas, which quickly became poisonous within a few seconds, but now the sealing of the cab has been broken, and then If someone goes in, at least they won’t die immediately.” But it’s hard to say whether they will inhale low-concentration toxins, leading to chronic poisoning.

There was no similar situation when the chef's body was discovered, because the murderer opened the ventilation plug in the lounge shortly after the poisoning, allowing the concentration of poisonous gas to drop.

Ley said: "The purpose of reopening the ventilation ducts in the chef's lounge is not to let others notice that gas poison is used, and to let the person who opened the cab door die is probably to scare others and delay the speed of adjusting the direction to return. , prolonging the onset of poisoning in chronically poisoned people.”

Mori Yura: "It may be that he has no chance to open the valve again. Poisoning the chef and the cab can be done with a simple delay device, but the vigilance of the Yayoshikai leader is not so low. The line The person must be someone who can get close to the chef even after discovering his death and alerting Kobu Shouhiko. In this case, he will not have another chance to come to the control room."

Scotland added: "His identity should be that he had the opportunity to get close to the other party only when Komu Shoyan was on guard against being poisoned. The death of the chef was to arouse Komu Shoyan's suspicion and vigilance, giving him the opportunity to take action."

This was the most reasonable motive he could think of for killing the chef.

At this point, the entire process of the informant's murder has been basically clear.

First, the chef was poisoned. The identity of the victim and the method of poisoning made Kotake Shouhiko worry about being poisoned, giving the informant the opportunity to get close to Kotake Shouhiko and take the opportunity to poison him.

After confirming the success of the ancient military commander Yan, the informant continued to attack other senior officials of the Yajihui, and used gas poisons in the cab that had been arranged in advance to prevent the people of the Yajihui from entering and preventing them from returning as soon as possible. It may kill more Yakikai cadres who are chronically poisoned.

Then the identity of this person...
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  House Jihui.

After a round of transfers, their manpower was further reduced, but at this time not only the bedridden leader, but also several cadres and trusted backbone personnel gradually showed symptoms of poisoning.

It’s really adding insult to injury.

Nishizono could no longer stay in the leader's room. Komu Shouhiko coughed while watching the doctor who once again replaced him with antipyretic patches and handed him a few pills.

The doctor explained: "I don't know the specific working principle of the poison, so I can only relieve the cough and reduce the fever first."

Ancient military commander Yan took the pills but didn't take them.

He looked at the doctor with tired eyes and whispered hoarsely: "You don't seem to be affected at all..."

The doctor paused and explained in a low voice: "I am not a field worker. I only touched the instruments and medicine boxes I brought. I have no way of contacting the poison."

Ancient military commander Yan also thought so, so he never doubted him.

But as more and more people in Wuji showed signs of poisoning, doctors who had no vision became somewhat prominent.

Besides...

The ancient military general Yan asked sharply: "What do you have in your pocket?"

The doctor's action of putting his hands in his pockets aroused his alertness.

This action would not be out of the ordinary for others, but the doctor has always been cautious in front of leaders and cadres, and suddenly doing this went against his behavioral characteristics.

The doctor paused, and finally took out the contents of his pocket under the gaze of Gu Wujunyan——

It was an empty glass bottle that had been opened.

(End of this chapter)