Chapter 564 - Suspicion of Poisoning

"What's going on?" Chiba frowned, then turned to Dr. Asasa, who was also already surprised. "Isn't this room next door to you, didn't you hear it?"

"We didn't hear anything," Dr. Asa shook his head. "Maybe it's because the doors and walls are so well insulated?"

"Leave this alone," Conan's gaze focused on a chair not far away. "Anyway, there's a VCR on it?"

In the direction Conan was pointing, a video recorder with the monitor turned on was lying silently, the camera pointed at the chair.

"......" Qian Yu cautiously approached the side of the video recorder's display, and then looked at the display. Looks like it's still working, do you want me to stop? ”

"Is it still running?" Conan sounded quite excited. "Stop the tape and we'll see if there's anything likely to be on the tape."

"Hmm-" After thinking for a moment, Chiba fixed the camera with the sleeve of his clothes, then pressed the button to stop recording with his fingernails, and then took a book from Conan, who was quick to react next to him, and pushed the VCR down on the large book with a hard cover. This way, they will be able to use this camera without destroying any potential fingerprint clues on it. "Play from the beginning, huh?"

Approximately thirty seconds later, the group stood in front of the VCR that had been placed on the bed, staring intently at the footage that had just been adjusted to the beginning of the video by Dr. Asasa.

There is only one person on the screen, that is, Takashi Harawaki, who has just died, and he is holding a glass of water, as if he is hesitating about something.

"......" Qianyu's gaze locked on the water cup that seemed to contain some colorless transparent liquid, and after a few seconds, he looked at the bottom not far away with a suspicious expression - a plastic cup was lying there, and this cup was probably the one he saw in the video.

Turning his head again, Takashi Harawaki had already completed his mental struggle, and everyone saw the footage of him resolutely throwing a small pill into the water cup, and then drinking the liquid in one gulp. It didn't take long for his face to start contorting, and after a few screams, he threw the cup in his hand on the ground, and then staggered to the VCR on this side, and finally fell to the ground less than a meter away from the VCR, and the fingertips of his outstretched hand just knocked the VCR over, making the VCR look like it was when they saw it. And then there was silence.

"I don't think there's anything in between," Conan said, looking at the recording time displayed on the video recorder. "We need to adjust to the end to hear us."

As Conan believes, it was about fifty minutes after Harawaki Takashi had taken the poison that the sound of the door opening appeared, followed by the voices of Kyoko Ejiri and the others.

The group watched the entire video in silence.

"This ......," Dr. Asasa broke the silence. Did he commit suicide by taking poison? ”

"Possibly," Conan said cautiously as he approached Takashi Harawaki's body. "He smells of almonds on him, and I'm personally leaning towards cyanide poisoning – by the way, we should leave the windows open."

At this moment, Chiba suddenly looked in the direction of the doorβ€”and it was only then that these people realized that the people who had been told by Kyoko Ejiri to recycle the cameras to decide which extras to admit had returned.

"What's going on?" The purple-haired woman closest to them looked at Takashi Harawaki who had fallen to the ground with a surprised expression. "Kyoko, what the hell is going on?"

"Harawaki seems to have committed suicide," Kyoko Ejiri replied. "According to the imps, it may have been cyanide poisoning and committing suicide."

"What?" The purple-haired woman was stunned. "How could it be ......?"

"Ria Kawabata?" At this moment, Conan's self-talk stood out in the brief silence.

"Little ghost, you actually know my name?" Ria Kawabata raised an eyebrow. "You saw me from a suspense drama?"

"Hmm!" Conan nodded vigorously.

"That's good, little ghost," Kawabata Riea nodded rather in surprise. "I've been watching these things at such a young age."

"Anyway, call the police first," Dr. Asasa said. "Although it should have been a suicide, it is still necessary to call the police."

"I'm going to get those guys here first," Kawabata Ria looked at Takashi Harawaki again. "Really, obviously filming a movie, how could this guy think of such a thing as suicide?"

"By the way, if the producer Takashi Harawaki dies, will the movie continue to be filmed?" Mitsuhiko asked suddenly.

"Maybe it will, after all, I've seen the finished version of the script, which means that this movie can be successfully made even without him, it's just that it may not be to his taste." Ria Kawabata waved her hand as she walked out the door. "However, my agent will probably strongly oppose my participation, and even if I want to continue filming, it will take a lot of words to do it - if the media reveals that I was questioned by the police, even if it can be clarified later that it was only because of Hara's death, I will face a lot of trouble."

……

In the middle of the night, in the room where Chiba and Gray Plains mourned, the windows that had been broken by zombies had been sealed by them by pressing the curtains with heavy objects.

"What's wrong?" Gray Plains whispered.

"Huh?" Qian Yu's slightly confused voice sounded. "Haven't you slept yet? It's half past eleven now! ”

"Didn't you sleep too?" Gray Yuan asked rhetorically. "I slept a little too much today, and when I woke up just now, I found that I couldn't sleep well, and then I found that you were breathing so fast, so I asked you." (Breathing is slower than at rest)

"I'm thinking about time," Chiba rolled over and turned her body towards Gray Plains. "The start point of the video is about 50 minutes before we come in, which means that it was about 20 minutes before Kyoko Ejiri pulled us back into the room, and about 15 minutes before the zombie wave broke out. Do you remember how painful Takashi Harawaki was in the video? If it really came to that point, I could hardly imagine that Conan, who lived next door to them, would have heard nothing. ”

"Are you suspecting there's something wrong with that video?" Gray Plains asked. "For example, you actually moved here after killing people in other rooms?"

"In that case, you may need to listen to the entire audio in its entirety to confirm it," Qian Yu said helplessly. "Anyway, I think it's a little weird."

Just then, the sound of sirens was heard in the distance.