Chapter 17: Encounters in the Sky (3)
There's one more shift tonight
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Under the bright sun again, the breeze caressed the face and looked warmer and clearer. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
He looked at the girl in front of the window who didn't say a word, and finally asked the doubts in his heart:
"Who are you?"
The girl seemed to smile, but the charm outlined at the corners of her mouth was still so blurry in the light.
"Who am I? Hehe... Have you forgotten me? ”
The girl's slender palm gently rubbed his face, and the familiar warmth and softness made him look even more trance-like.
"You once told me that you will always guard me for the rest of your life, not let me be hurt, and not let me feel sad..."
"But... Have you forgotten me now? ”
"My dearest... Yang..."
Yang? How do I have another name?
He felt more and more confused, but his body instinctively took a step forward, opening his arms to hug the girl in front of him tightly.
There is no warm body, and there is no familiar body fragrance.
The beautiful shadow suddenly became fragmented, scattered into pink petals, and fluttered in the air.
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"Hitomi-chan... Hitomi-chan, wake up. ”
Hitomi woke up from that similar dream again, and when she opened her eyes, the corners of her eyes were still a little moist.
He found himself leaning on Yoko's shoulder, and Yoko was looking at him shyly, and a little farther away, in the small space in front of him, there were several people standing, Yamao, Akai Shuichi, Judy and others were all discussing something with serious faces.
"I seem to have slept too deeply... Did something happen? Hitomi rubbed her drowsy head and asked Yoko softly.
The shy blush faded, and Yoko said a little nervously, "Well... There's an uncle in front of me who seems... It's like dead. ”
"What?!"
Hitomi suddenly lost her sleepiness, and hurriedly jumped out of her seat to take a look, but her arm was grabbed by Yoko.
Yoko put her finger to her mouth and made a "shhhh ”
"Murder..."Hitomi scratched her head helplessly, how could you still encounter such a thing on a plane.
Hitomi noticed a screen at the front of the cabin, which displayed the information "5:30 Tokyo time, 20:30 New York time" and "30 minutes to arrive at New York JFK Airport".
"It's almost there," Hitomi thought silently, and then looked at Shuichi Akai and the others.
Since the incident occurred in the first class, it is estimated that it is worried about causing unnecessary panic to other passengers, so the first class and economy class have been separated by the staff with a curtain. Akai Shuichi and Judy are obviously not revealing their identities and are being interrogated by air security personnel, along with the old American man who gave Hitomi a seat, Yoko's bodyguard Yamao, and a middle-aged woman with tears on her face.
These people were all passengers sitting in the front row of the first class cabin.
At this time, Yama Xiong looked very excited, and shouted at the security personnel: "Why don't you ask the others, why do you have to ask a few of us!" ”
The security guard was very young, and it was obviously the first time he had encountered such a thing, and he motioned to Yama Yu to be quiet with a panicked face, and said apologetically: "There is really no way, because I sit in the middle of the first class cabin, which is behind this gentleman" and pointed to Akai Shuichi: "I didn't notice that there were passengers coming to the front all night, and only a few of you were able to commit the crime..."
Yamao sneered, pointed at Shuichi Akai and said, "Committing a crime? Hehe, you really treat us like criminals! So are you sure this kid is telling the truth? What if the deceased was not poisoned? ”
"Uncle, this gentleman must have been poisoned."
"What?"
Yamao looked down and saw the annoying little boy looking at him with a smile and a simple and cute look.
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Ryuji Yamamoto. Male, 42 years old, native of Japan.
Coincidentally, the identity of Ryuji Yamamoto is the executive of the airline that Hitomi is flying in now.
This time, because the company rewarded two tickets, Yamamoto decided to take his new wife to the United States for a vacation. But I didn't expect to lose my life before I even set foot on American soil.
The body was found by an old American man who had previously given up his seat to Hitomi, a tourist who called himself Will, who had come to Japan for the first time and was now flying back to New York.
Will heard the radio saying that he was forty minutes away from his destination, and wanted to go to the bathroom before getting off the plane, but when he passed by Yamamoto in the front aisle seat, he found that he was not in the right state, and on closer inspection, he was dead.
At this time, Mrs. Yamamoto, who was sleeping against the window, Mariko Yamamoto, actually found out that her husband was no longer breathing at this time.
Under the investigation of Akai Shuichi, it was found that the deceased died of cyanide ~ chemical ~ potassium poisoning, and traces of cyanide ~ chemical ~ potassium were found on the deceased's hands and uneaten sushi. So the biggest suspect has become Mariko Yamamoto, who is sitting next to Mr. Yamamoto.
Hitomi silently gathered all the information while trying to check Yamamoto's body, and he noticed that there was something wrong with the corpse's palm, but before he could get closer, he was picked up by Yamao and thrown on the chair next to him.
"You nasty little imp, do you have nothing to do? Did you know that you were destroying a crime scene? ”
"Oh?" Xiao Hitomi tidied up the folds that were caught by Yamao, signaled Yoko, who was faintly about to run away, to reassure, and then looked at Yamao and smiled: "It seems that my uncle also thinks that Mr. Yamamoto died of poisoning?" ”
It's strange, it's obviously a murder incident, but Xiao Hitomi didn't have a trace of nervousness in his heart, but was vaguely excited, as if he had often dealt with this kind of thing before, and he seemed natural and skillful.
He suddenly thought a little depressedly: "Could it be that my parents like to let their children appear in a big ~perverted~ pervert with all kinds of corpses and bloody scenes?" ”
Yama Xiong laughed angrily at Hitomi's words: "Of course I know that the deceased died of poisoning, but why can't it be suicide?" Also, why didn't the deceased make a sound when he found out that he was poisoned? ”
Xiao Tong paused, and then said quietly: "Do you know what cyanide ~ chemical ~ potassium poisoning is like?" ”
Yamao said angrily: "How do I know what it tastes like!" ”
"As long as a little bit of cyanide ~ ~ potassium powder visible to the naked eye can cause sudden death. When the deceased is acutely poisoned, he will have symptoms of respiratory failure, transient coma and general paralysis. And even if the deceased was still conscious and wanted to call for help..."
Even if he wanted to call for help, because he was in a descending flight state, the roar of the plane's engine muffled his faint cry for help, so no one else noticed anything unusual. Right, Hitomi-chan? ”
It was Judy who spoke, and she looked at Hitomi with a doting face, feeling that this younger brother who picked up halfway was really amazing!
"Eun, that's it!" Hitomi nodded and continued: "And just now Grandpa Will said that he found that Mr. Yamamoto was a little abnormal, I think, the abnormality that Grandpa Will was referring to should be that Mr. Yamamoto's muscles have shown an unreasonable relaxation state, right?" ”
In the surprised eyes of everyone, as well as Yoko's amazed and adoring gaze, Hitomi smiled a little embarrassedly: "I'm just talking about it casually, as for why I know so much, I don't know... Hey..."
Judy couldn't help but step forward and touch Hitomi's head, and said with some surprise: "I really doubt what kind of family you grew up in, why do you know so much... Are your parents police officers? I'm going to take you with me when I solve the case? ”
The American old man Will's eyes flashed a hint of strangeness, and then he said slowly: "That's right, Mr. Yamamoto's posture was so strange at that time that he almost collapsed on the chair, so I was curious to see what was going on." ”
"Wow! The old man is amazing! Hitomi pretended to be very excited and exclaimed, but her eyes stared at Will's eyes: "I didn't expect Grandpa Will, who came to Japan for the first time, to speak Japanese so proficiently!" ”
"Aha~" Will hurriedly shook his hand: "My wife is Japanese, and I learned Japanese from her, but she never returned to her hometown after she got married, and now that she has passed away, I want to go to her hometown to have a look..."
As he spoke, a line of tears flowed from Old Will's cloudy eyes, and Judy kindly handed over the tissue, and at the same time glanced at the little pupil with a reproachful look.
Will slowly wiped away his tears with trembling hands, fully interpreting the sadness of the old widow, but behind the palms that everyone could not see, a glint flashed in his eyes:
"This little imp is really interesting, the game is getting more and more fun..."