After she became the daughter of a vicious warlord, she cleaned herself up

Chapter 249 Looking for a Scapegoat

Jiang Shiyuan parked the car and walked quickly upstairs, but he felt like a heavy stone was pressing on his heart.

Takahashi Yui's suspicion is like a sword of Damocles hanging over his head, which may fall at any time.

After she went up to the third floor, she threw the small note she had written in advance on the ground and kicked it with her leather shoes, kicking it into the crack of Fang Lansheng's door.

On the note, written in the code word agreed upon by the Lantern Bearers group was: The traitor has been eliminated.

It was late at night and Jiang Shiyuan was lying in bed, tossing and turning.

Her mind raced, thinking of all the possibilities.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through her mind - the medicine room!

The drug room of the laboratory department stores various medicines, including some highly toxic substances.

If we can start from the drug room, perhaps we can find a breakthrough to clear ourselves of suspicion.

The next morning, Jiang Shiyuan went to the archives room of the Special High Section in the name of assisting in the investigation.

She flipped through thick files, carefully searching for records related to the case.

"What are you looking for?" Takahashi Yui appeared behind her at some point and asked softly.

"I'm looking through some of the interrogation records to see if I can find some details that were overlooked."

Jiang Shiyuan said without turning his head and continued to flip through the files in his hand.

Takahashi Yui walked up to her and looked at her focused expression, feeling an inexplicable emotion in his heart.

"Ayako, have you made any significant discoveries?"

"not yet."

Jiang Shiyuan closed the file and rubbed his sore eyes.

"I did find one thing odd, though."

"Oh? Where?" Takahashi Yui immediately became interested.

"Administrative records of the medicine room."

Jiang Shiyuan pointed to a document and said, "Look here, the records of some highly toxic drugs entering and leaving the warehouse are not clear, and there are some problems with the recent inventory records."

Takahashi Yui took the document and looked at it carefully.

As Jiang Shiyuan said, there were loopholes in the management records of the pharmacy, and the quantities of some highly toxic drugs did not match.

Takahashi Yui frowned. "The management of the pharmacy has always been strict. How could such a problem occur?"

"I don't know either." Jiang Shiyuan shook his head, "But my intuition tells me that maybe the poison came from the medicine room."

"You mean... someone took advantage of his position to steal poison from the pharmacy?" Takahashi Yui's face became serious.

"We can't rule out this possibility." Jiang Shiyuan said in a deep voice, "Moreover, I suspect this person may be the traitor we are looking for."

Jiang Shiyuan took a deep breath and placed several experimental reports on "glycoside plant toxins" in front of Takahashi Youi.

"Youyi, look at these." She pointed to the data in the report. "These are some studies done by the laboratory department before, about the extraction and detection of glycoside plant toxins."

Takahashi Yui took the report, frowned slightly, and read it carefully.

“What do these data show?”

Jiang Shiyuan pointed to one of the data and said, "You see, under certain conditions, some common cleaning agents combined with plant toxins containing 'alkaloids' will produce similar chemical reactions."

"That is to say, the 'glycoside plant' toxin reaction detected on site may be a false positive caused by the detergent."

She paused and continued, "I suspect someone has taken advantage of this to mislead the direction of our investigation."

Takahashi Yui's eyes became sharp, "You mean, someone deliberately used cleaning agents to cover up the real method of poisoning?"

"Well, this possibility cannot be ruled out." Jiang Shiyuan nodded, "Besides, don't you think there is something wrong with the management records of the pharmacy room?"

"The quantities of those highly toxic drugs simply don't match."

Takahashi Yui fell silent and began to carefully recall the recent records of medicines entering and leaving the pharmacy.

However, he is currently only acting as the head of Section 1, and the regular reports of the original drug administrator were all directly to Minamizō Yunko.

The situation in the class is now in chaos, and Nanzō Yunko is missing, so it is not ruled out that someone is taking advantage of the situation.

Takahashi Yui frowned and asked, "Drug manager... has there been any abnormal behavior recently?"

Jiang Shiyuan shrugged slightly, "Well... we still need to investigate."

"But I did hear Director Yamaguchi mention before that the drug manager and the arrested underground party member seemed to have some personal grudges."

A cold light flashed in Takahashi Yui's eyes behind the lenses, "Personal grudge?"

"Yes." Jiang Shiyuan lowered his voice, "It is said that during the previous interrogation, the drug manager, at the instruction of Section Chief Nan Zao, was preparing to use truth serum on that underground party member."

"As a result, due to the lack of practical experience of the drug administrator, before the injection could be given, the underground party member bit his arm and tore off a piece of flesh..."

Upon hearing this, Takahashi Yui frowned even more tightly.

"If this is the case, then the drug administrator may indeed take advantage of the opportunity to settle personal grudges."

"I want to investigate the medicine room and the medicine manager immediately to see if I can find some important clues."

Jiang Shiyuan volunteered, "Youyi, can I go with you?"

"After all, I am also a PhD in chemical pharmaceuticals, so I should be able to help."

Takahashi Yui nodded immediately, "Well, it would be great if you could go with me!"

The two men came to the pharmacy room, and the person in charge of managing the medicines was a middle-aged man in his forties named Kenjiro Sato.

Seeing Takahashi Yui and Jiang Shiyuan coming in, he quickly stood up and saluted.

Both of them noticed at this time that his left forearm was wrapped in thick gauze, probably caused by being bitten by the deceased.

"Sato-kun, is there anything unusual with the medicines in the pharmacy recently?" Takahashi Yui asked straight to the point.

Sato Kenjiro replied respectfully: "Sir, everything is normal."

Upon hearing this, Takahashi Yui's tone suddenly became stern.

"But why did I hear that the records of some drugs coming in and going out are not clear?"

Sato Kenjiro had beads of sweat on his forehead and stammered, "This... This may be because I've been busy with work recently and have been a little careless."

"Negligence?" Takahashi Yui sneered, "Sato-kun, do you know what the consequences of your negligence will be?"

"Section Chief Takahashi, I..."

Kenjiro Sato's face turned pale and he felt very guilty, feeling that he might not be able to escape this time.

Jiang Shiyuan quietly observed his reaction from the side, and couldn't help but sigh at his own luck.

It seems like there’s really something wrong with this Sato Kenjiro!

"I... I don't know." Sato Kenjiro said, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Sato-kun, you'd better tell the truth, otherwise..." Takahashi Yui's voice was cold, without a trace of emotion.

Sato Kenjiro fell to his knees and said, "Section Chief Takahashi, I'm just an ordinary administrator. I really don't know anything!"

Jiang Shiyuan stepped forward at this time, ready to trick him and take the initiative to guide the direction of things.

"Tsk, an ordinary administrator?"

"Kenjiro Sato, you are really good at pretending!"

"Do you think no one knows what you did?"