Coroner Coroner

"How could you faint 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 by the unconscious Yonehara-sensei, looking suspicious.

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

There is a light pungent sweet fragrance.

Squat down again and try to sniff the ground:

There is also a faint pungent sweet smell lingering in the lower part of the ground.

"Is it ether?"

Ether has a special smell, and its vapor density is much higher than that of air, and it will settle to a lower place after volatilization.

Based on these characteristics, Lin Xinyi preliminarily judged that the chemical substance contaminated on the towel was ether.

"Could it be that the murderer used a towel soaked in ether to cover the victim's mouth and nose from behind, making them anesthetized with ether and unconscious on the spot?"

He couldn't help being 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 thing, they will be smelled by the target within a few meters before they can get close.

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

Even if the sneak attack is successful, it is also because of this pungent smell that 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 be volatilized, and the efficacy of the medicine will be greatly reduced.

If the murderer has this ability, he can stand in a stalemate with the target for a long time, making the target unable to break free from the bondage for several minutes, until he is unable to continue holding 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 a person until they are suffocated and unconscious.

In addition to these reasons, anesthetics including ether are not as magical as ordinary people imagine.

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

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

Drugs do exist that can knock someone down in seconds.

But those are basically highly toxic substances.

That's not to make people stunned, but to poison people so that they almost die.

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

"That doesn't make sense at all..."

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

Immediately afterwards, he gently pinched the jaws of Akiko Yonehara and Sonoko Suzuki, opened their mouths, and with a flashlight on, carefully observed the conditions inside their mouths.

"Both of them did not leave marks on their mouths and noses, nor did they show any obvious peeling of the skin on the tip of their noses and lips, which are easily injured after being covered by the murderer."

"The oral mucosa, lip mucosa, and there are no signs of damage and bleeding after being squeezed."

"This shows that the process of their struggle should be very short."

"I didn't even resist much, and I was stunned by the medicine stained on the towel in a short time."

"Ether really has this effect?"

"No, not just ether..."

"Apart from TV dramas, where in the world is there such an anesthetic that can make you faint when you cover it?"

Lin Xinyi muttered to himself in disbelief.

And just when he guessed whether he had made a mistake in his judgment, the chemical substance with a sweet fragrance was not ether, but some kind of powerful anesthetic that did not exist in reality...

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

"Of course there is."

"Ether is one of them."

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

There was a little helplessness in Hui Yuanai's voice.

That high-cold, doting tone seemed to be pampering the domineering president of the silly, sweet heroine:

"It seems that I really have to find time to make up for you, idiot."

Lin Xinyi: "..."

He was at a loss for words for a while, and didn't know what to say.

Hearing such unscientific words from a great scientist is like hearing the president of the United States call on everyone to inject disinfectant, it is so absurd that it is unbelievable.

But Miss Haibara is not a joker.

She would not use such a boring joke to mess with her boyfriend when he was handling a case.

That is to say...

What Hui Yuanai said is true, in this world, ether can really make people dizzy when touched.

"Okay..." The corner of Lin Xinyi's mouth twitched slightly.

He reluctantly accepts this fact:

Like APTX4869, which can rejuvenate people, this may be a unique physiological and medical miracle in this world.

Moreover, judging from the current situation, Yonehara Akiko and Suzuki Sonoko did 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 normal method of dealing with ether poisoning, so as to ensure that they could breathe smoothly.

And Akoko Yonehara and Sonoko Suzuki were already breathing relatively steadily, so there was no need for him to help with artificial respiration.

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

"Then just wait for them to wake up by themselves, and they should be fine."

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

So Hayashi Shinichi re-examined the vital signs of Suzuki Sonoko and Yonehara Akoko with a little worry.

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

The first thing that caught Lin Xinyi's attention was the backs of Suzuki Sonoko and Yonehara Akoko's hands.

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

After the murderer committed the crimes of Akiko Yonehara and Sonoko Suzuki, he seemed to have used something like lipstick, and wrote a big red character on the backs of their hands.

Yonehara Akiko wrote on her hand: "な"

Sonoko Suzuki wrote on her hand: "こ"

"Nako, nako..."

"Naizi?"

"What the murderer left behind is a personal name?"

Lin Xinyi faintly understood the message left by the murderer.

But he still couldn't figure out the intention of the other party leaving these two words.

What kind of secrets are hidden behind this suspected name message.

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

At this time, the male teachers Shimoda, Sakai, and the female teacher Nakamura Misato, the three colleagues of Mr. Yonehara at Kubado Elementary School, had also rushed to the scene from various places in the villa after hearing the news.

Even, not long after...

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

All of a sudden, everyone who participated in this villa party gathered here.

"Miss Maury, Chris, you guys are back so soon..."

Lin Xinyi frowned slightly, and his eyes were slightly dignified.

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 a shocking answer.

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

Before they recovered from the shock of their colleagues being attacked, they were startled by Mao Lilan's words again.

And Mao Lilan just continued:

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

"But there has just been heavy snowfall on the mountain, and after the murderer escaped through the window, he will inevitably leave footprints on the snow."

"I checked with Miss Chrissy:"

"On the snow outside the window, there is one and only a string of footprints, obviously left by the murderer."

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

"That is to say, after committing the crime, the murderer turned out the window, circled half a circle, and fled back to the villa through the front door."

"Now he's in this villa, even..."

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

Her expression quietly became serious: