There is no use in thinking like this, so Ichijo asked Natsume Mika to go back to participate in the competition.

Then, a group of criminal policemen in suits ran in from the gate in a hurry. The movement along the way attracted the attention of everyone on the first floor of the building.

Ichijo Kaoru noticed at a glance the figure of a middle-aged detective holding a notebook and questioning passers-by behind the police team. That was an acquaintance of his from the police academy.

"Officer Katsuragi, long time no see." Ichijo walked up quickly and said hello.

"Ichijo? Why are you here?" The detective named Katsuragi turned around and was quite surprised. When he saw Ichijo Kaoru and Higashino Ryusuke and his party following behind him, he said with a faint smile, "However, it looks like you

Aren’t you here to handle a case?!”

"Yeah, but that's not important. Officer Katsuragi, what happened here? I heard that the president of Yichuan Company was originally supposed to give a speech before the game, but he has not appeared until the game started."

"Your senses are still as sharp as ever." Katsuragi's expression became serious and he flipped through the small notebook in his hand. "That's right, when we received the report, it was that President Yikawa Joichi suddenly disappeared before his speech. What happened?

After investigation, I speculated that this was probably a retaliatory crime, because during this period, Yichuan Company was resented by many people due to a large number of forced layoffs, and some people said that there were many suspicious figures wandering around the company."

"What, layoffs?!" The person who made such an incredible voice was Junichi Choono, who looked at Officer Katsuragi with a strange expression.

Gui Mu looked at Choye, who had permed blond hair and looked like a gangster, and felt a little unhappy. But he didn't say anything, but asked strangely to Ichijo: "Ichijo, what's going on with this person?"

"That's right." Ichijo Kaoru replied: "His name is Chouno Junichi. He just came to the Yikawa Company for an interview today and passed."

"Is that so...wait a minute, is there any recruitment advertisement at Aikawa Company? Why didn't I hear any news in Makuhari?" Katsuragi's doubts have not been dispelled.

Die Ye didn't say anything, but immediately took out the neatly folded recruitment advertisement from his bag and showed it to Gui Mu.

"Sure enough." Gui Mu looked at the advertising flyer in his hand in disbelief, then looked at Die Ye seriously and asked, "Mr. Die Ye, where did you receive this advertisement?"

"It's in Saitama."

“It’s quite far from Makuhari!”

Fifth generation puzzled: "This is too strange. A company that is laying off a large number of employees, why is it recruiting new employees? And it is still in another place, as if it is to deliberately hide something."

"It seems that things are definitely not as simple as they appear on the surface..." After Higashino Ryusuke finished saying this, his heart was throbbing for no reason. The figure of Gohara Tadashi was inexplicably thought of in his mind, and then he saw it in his hallucination.

A man dressed as a cleaner escorted two figures in suits and leather shoes and secretly escaped to the rooftop...

He suddenly woke up from these images.

Strange, is it the lion causing trouble again? But something is wrong, this feels so wrong!

Ryusuke recalled that yesterday, although he received the message transmitted to him by the lion grunge while tracking Rose Girl, before that, he seemed to have a premonition that such a thing was going to happen. What on earth...

Before he could continue to think about it, or to verify his previous conjecture, a woman wearing a professional suit came out of the elevator and found the place.

"Officer Guimu." Her eyes were very anxious, but she still maintained her professionalism and asked politely: "How is the investigation of the case?"

"I'm sorry, Miss Aso." Katsuragi bowed to her cautiously and said, "We haven't found out who the murderer is yet, but what is certain is that the murderer and the hostages are currently inside the Ant River Building."

After finally sending the woman away, Gui Mu sighed, shook his head and said, "These political people are really difficult to deal with."

Kaoru Ichijo asked: "Officer Katsuragi, is there any other hidden secret in the case?"

"Instructor Firefly is right, you really have a keen sense of smell like a police dog." Gui Mu smiled and explained with emotion: "The person just now was the secretary of Mr. Gohara..."

"It is reported that when President Aikawa disappeared, he was negotiating something with Tadaki Gohara, a new member candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party. However, the current situation is that he also disappeared together with President Aikawa.

"

Gohara Tadhin!

Suddenly hearing the familiar name, both Kaoru Ichijo and Yusuke Godai opened their eyes wide, but Ryusuke Higashino thought that this was indeed the case.

Only Chouno Junichi looked at this side blankly, then looked over there, and had no reaction at all to the name Gohara Tadashi. However, people like him who had been "dying to death" had no influence on society and on the other side.

The government has long been indifferent to matters.

Higashino Ryusuke frowned, the matter became serious when it came to Gohara Tadashi.

It is still not possible to rule out the possibility that Gohara Tadaki is the lion Gurungi. If the lion is behind the scenes, then the operation of Yichuan Company to lay off employees and then recruit people has an explanation. But I don’t know what the lion is planning.

Already.

In the official novel, the original lion Gurungi borrowed the identity of Tadanobu Gohara to sit in the position of Deputy Minister of National Affairs and Communications, and used his position to collude with a company called "Shengtoku Pharmaceuticals" to launch a

'Leonil', an organic supplement drink that is popular in Japan, has a remarkable function of relaxing facial muscles, which makes people smile. Both children and adults drink it.

But that drink contains certain special ingredients that accumulate in the human brain. When the number of people who drink it reaches a certain level, Lion Grunge can control that ingredient to turn into a deadly poison.

Although the lion Gurungi was finally stopped in the novel, the number of targets he wanted to kill at the beginning was 1.66 million!

However, this plan can be said to have taken the Lion 13 years to complete. It has been less than a year since Gurungi recovered. The Lion should not be as exaggerated as in the novel, but it is not ruled out that he will use something similar.

means.

Ryusuke Higashino thought again about the business scope of Yichuan Company, which was a daily necessities company. He couldn't help stroking his forehead and guessing, would the Lions choose to tamper with daily necessities this time?

"Officer Guimu!" ​​A voice called from upstairs.

Then, a young criminal policeman ran down from upstairs and said breathlessly: "Officer Guimu, there is something new about the case. Under the surveillance of the warehouse manager, we discovered that a male cleaner was missing in President Yichuan's house.
Chapter completed!