The thin middle-aged man's action really scared me. I immediately jumped up from the stool and shook off the hand of the middle-aged man in front of me. The amplitude of my action was a little too big, and it hit the table, causing the dishes and chopsticks on the table to jump a few times.
Looking at the middle-aged man more closely, he was completely lying on the table, his hands struggling as if trying to grab something, and all the dishes and chopsticks on the table fell to the ground. His face became redder and redder, and his lips became purpler and purpler. He looked like he was poisoned!
The noodle shop owner also noticed that something was not right and came over immediately to ask what happened. I saw that the middle-aged man's body was twitching continuously and the light in his eyes had faded. I hurriedly called 120 for an ambulance and told Officer Yang to come over as soon as possible.
As the middle-aged man's struggles became weaker and weaker, we could only worry. No one at the scene had any medical knowledge, and if this man was poisoned, we definitely couldn't give him artificial respiration, otherwise the person doing it would be in trouble.
The thin middle-aged man twitched on the ground for about a minute, and finally his body went limp, his legs kicked, his eyes wide open, and he was completely motionless. I reached out and touched his nose, only to find that he was dead.
Zhang Qishan, who was standing by, was already stunned by the shock, and I was wondering, how could such a strange thing happen to me while I was having a meal? What had I done to offend anyone
About five minutes later, I heard the sound of an ambulance coming from afar. Then, the ambulance stopped outside the door. Two doctors walked into the noodle shop with a stretcher, but found that the person was already dead. No amount of rescue could help. In the end, they could only sigh and shake their heads, waiting for the police to arrive.
Afterwards, Officer Yang's police car also stopped at the door of the noodle shop. Officer Yang rushed in with two people. He first looked at the dead body on the ground, and then said to me: "What's going on?"
I told Officer Yang the whole story. Officer Yang frowned and asked, "How come you have encountered such a strange thing?"
"I'm still depressed, Officer Yang. Anyway, this is how things are. I'll leave this to you. We won't get involved."
As I was about to leave with Zhang Qishan, Officer Yang grabbed me and looked at me with a weird smile and said, "Don't leave. Since you've come across this, I'll leave this matter to you. Haven't you been asking me for the case? This is a fresh case. Besides, no one can leave here until the cause of death is clear. You are the closest to the deceased, so you are also a suspect, hehe."
Although Officer Yang said so, I could see the words 'Don't even think about leaving until the case is solved' in his eyes. I had no choice but to go continue playing League of Legends with Zhang Qishan, but now it seems I have to stay here.
I took a quick look at the people in the noodle shop and found that none of the people who had been eating in the room since I came in had left. I guess they had just heard the conversation between me and Officer Yang, so no one dared to leave easily.
In my opinion, if the deceased really died of poisoning, there are only two ways that could have led to his poisoning. The first is in the toilet, because I know that this person went to the toilet once before we came in, so it is very likely that he was poisoned in the toilet.
The second is the bowl of noodles that has been knocked over on the ground. If there is poison in the noodles, it can be directly concluded that the owner of the noodle shop poisoned it, because from beginning to end, except for the deceased, only the owner had touched that bowl of noodles.
On the surface, it seems more likely that the noodles were poisoned directly, but if that's the case, then the owner of the noodle shop who poisoned them is a bit too stupid, right? It would be better to just chop them with a knife than to kill them so obviously, so I think the matter is probably not as simple as it seems on the surface.
The person brought by Officer Yang seemed to be a forensic doctor. He was examining the body of the deceased and the bowl of noodles spilled on the ground together with the doctor from 120. He then took a few photos and drew the outline of the deceased on the ground. The 120 people then left the noodle shop with the body.
The noodle shop owner was so frightened that his face turned pale. After all, such a thing happened in his territory, and he must be very nervous at this moment. The other diners all had impatient expressions on their faces. I guess they were like me, thinking that it was obviously none of my business, but I had to wait until now.
Soon, the police officer who looked like a forensic doctor got the result, that is, there was highly toxic potassium cyanide in the deceased's bowl of noodles, and the deceased must have died of potassium cyanide poisoning.
Speaking of potassium cyanide, I am quite familiar with it, because in the cartoon "Detective Conan", many people died of poisoning in this way. Now thinking back, the poisoning characteristics in the cartoon seem to be exactly the same as those of the deceased just now. Why didn't I react at the time
According to the description in the cartoon, this poison only requires a very small dose to kill a person, and it is lethal very quickly, seemingly within a few minutes.
When the noodle shop owner heard that the bowl of noodles was poisoned, he turned pale with fear and knelt on the ground, crying to Officer Yang: "Dear police officers, I really don't know anything. I'm just a small businessman. Business is not good now. I absolutely can't poison the noodles! You must make the decision for me!"
I wanted to laugh when I heard this. What does your bad business have to do with you putting poison in the noodles? Does your good business mean you can put poison in the noodles
The others pointed at the noodle shop owner and said, "It must be him. Who else could have poisoned the noodles? Don't hesitate any longer. Take him away and interrogate him. We are still waiting to go home."
Those who were eating were talking at once. Officer Yang frowned and turned to look at me, as if he wanted me to make a decision.
I stepped forward helplessly and said, "Okay, stop arguing. The boss shouldn't be the one who poisoned the noodles. Think about it, even if he wanted to poison, he wouldn't do it in his own noodle shop with such obvious means. Isn't this asking for trouble? And the boss can't be the only one who had access to the bowl of noodles and poisoned it. The deceased went to the toilet just now and put the bowl of noodles on the table. If what you said is true, wouldn't I, who was sitting at the same table, also have the possibility of poisoning it?"
After hearing what I said, the noodle shop owner immediately wiped away his tears and pointed at me and said, "This guy is right. It must be this guy who secretly poisoned the noodles while the man was in the toilet. Officers, you must make the decision for me."
After listening to what the noodle shop owner said, I glared at him angrily. I was trying to help you clear the name with good intentions, but you actually turned the tables on me and put the blame directly on me
Zhang Qishan next to me held his stomach and laughed, he must be blaming me for meddling in other people's business. The people eating around me also pointed their fingers at me and urged Officer Yang to arrest me quickly and let them go.
Amid the noisy accusations, it was useless for me to say anything. I simply ignored them and looked carefully at the crime scene, recalling in my mind everything that had happened since I entered the noodle shop, to see if I could find any clues.
"If it is a poison that can kill a person in a small dose, then it does not necessarily have to be put in the noodles. Maybe it was put somewhere else and the deceased accidentally swallowed it."
Thinking of this, I immediately walked through the crowd and headed towards the bathroom of the noodle shop. This noodle shop was small to begin with, and the bathroom was also pitifully small, probably only a little over one square meter, with a toilet and a washbasin, and the hygiene was very poor. I endured the unpleasant stench and searched the bathroom carefully, but did not find anything that the deceased could touch alone.
I found nothing, so I had to leave the bathroom and returned to the place where I had been eating noodles. I stared at the bowl of noodles that had been spilled on the ground in a daze. At this time, the noise was getting louder and louder, and even Officer Yang couldn't hold it anymore. Officer Yang whispered to me, "How is it, did you find anything? If not, I will arrest you."
I shook my head and said, "Not yet. Just hold on for now. Give me some time to sort out my thoughts."
Officer Yang rolled his eyes at me and continued to maintain order at the scene, but at this moment, my eyes suddenly locked onto something on the ground. Suddenly, my eyes lit up and I understood instantly how the deceased had been poisoned.
"But if that's the case, how could the murderer be sure that the poison would be taken by the deceased? Or was the murderer's target random from the beginning?"
Just when I couldn't figure out what was happening, when I stood up, my legs were suddenly hit by the narrow table again. At that moment, all the scenes from the time I walked into the noodle shop until now seemed to be replayed in my mind, and I finally couldn't help laughing, because I realized that the murderer's method was so simple!
Officer Yang seemed to have completely lost control of the situation. In the end, he had no choice but to block the exit with the two police officers next to him and said, "Okay, now everyone follow me to the police station to make a statement. After the statement is made, you can leave."
Although we still had to go to the police station, since we could go home, no one present had any complaints. But at this moment, I stood up and turned to Officer Yang and said, "There's no need to go to the trouble of taking a statement. I already know who the murderer is!"