Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 197 The Bloody Izakaya
……

The first exploration target of the investigation team was the "Kyoto-style Teppanyaki restaurant" 150 meters away from the street—the second "container" just now, that is, the little girl whose head was crushed, came from The window on the second floor of the teppanyaki restaurant jumped out.Victoria thinks that since they don't have any clues at the moment, they might as well follow the route from which these containers rushed out, maybe they can find some valuable clues.

This is a three-storey Japanese-style building. The main body of the building is constructed of a polymer imitating solid wood. Under the eaves are red lanterns that use electricity as lighting energy and imitation solid wood with the name of the store and special dishes. The signboard, next to the shoe cabinet, stands a statue of a geisha wearing a kimono and combing a traditional Japanese bun, but this is actually a cleverly disguised surveillance device. The camera lens is embedded in the hollowed out eyes of the statue. In the middle, and at the neck of the statue, there are also mechanical joints that can be used to adjust the angle.

The first floor of the building is an izakaya of a chain brand. When the curtain is opened, there is a narrow corridor leading directly to the bar. The two sides of the corridor are divided into several small boxes.

An agent with a shield was the first to enter the corridor. His boots stepped on the tatami mats woven with artificial fibers. As soon as he stepped on them, thick blood was squeezed out from the gaps in the rattan—— Apparently, there had been a massacre here not long ago.

However, this did not surprise everyone. They could already smell a strong smell of blood at the entrance of the izakaya, and the tatami mats on the floor were also stained dark brown due to the blood.

"It's just that the only problem is that there are no corpses." Ke Lan murmured silently. This scene reminded him of the mining base that was attacked by monsters on Leviathan's back. Half of the corpses, they didn't know until later that those corpses were used as nourishment for Leviathan's resurrection.

The leading agent pushed open the box doors on both sides. Ke Lan noticed that on the table in the box, there were still uneaten roasted birds and sashimi, and there was even a small half of the cup on the side. Remnants of liquor.

Only the tatami at the entrance of the box was stained with blood, while the area near the inside was relatively clean. As for the walls and furniture, there were no signs of damage.

"There was no fight in the box, and the blood flowed from the innermost part." Victoria's judgment was basically the same as Ke Lan's, and, judging from the neatly arranged tableware, those guests should be in a calm situation They left the box... But the crux of the problem is what happened after they left the box.

"Sir, look at this!" An agent suddenly pointed to the fire box embedded in the corridor wall, and saw that the glass on the front of the box had been smashed, but the fire hose and fire extinguisher inside were still in place. Only the fire ax on the shelf was missing.

"The ax was taken away, did someone resist?" Major Ashkani said.

But Victoria just nodded and signaled the team to continue to move forward.

At the end of the corridor was the lobby and cooking area of ​​the izakaya, but it was pitch black at the moment, only the strong smell of blood was still wafting from it.

The agent at the front took out a lighting stick, lit it and threw it in. Immediately, the entire lobby was shrouded in the faint fluorescence emitted by the lighting stick.

"No body was found, and the dining table, bar, cooking area, and back kitchen are all the same." The leading agent reported.

Ke Lan followed Victoria into the lobby, and saw that the tatami mats on the floor in the lobby were also full of blood, but unlike the box, the walls, tables and chairs here were also stained with blood. The unfinished food and bowls and chopsticks were scattered on the ground, and the ingredients on the grill were turned into black coke.

Ke Lan bent down and picked up a shoe from the ground. It was a high-heeled women's shoe, size 36. The surface material was a kind of high-grade artificial leather, and there were rhinestones embedded on the upper for decoration, but the heel But it was broken, and the leather surface at the toe also had serious scratch marks.

Ke Lan still remembers that the signboard hanging outside the izakaya said that customers need to take off their shoes before entering the store, and the shoe cabinet at the door is specially used to store the shoes taken off by customers, but now this Only high heels appeared in the lobby, which made Ke Lan feel a little strange.

These are obviously not the shoes of the staff of the izakaya. The staff here are either barefoot or wear a kind of foot bag similar to socks. High-heeled shoes like this are easy to damage the tatami, and they are absolutely not allowed to wear them in the store. of.

Then this shoe can only come from an outsider, and she only walked into this izakaya after the power outage accident.

As for the frayed toe and the broken heel, it shows that the owner of the shoe was in a state of panic at the time... Or, he was forcibly brought into this izakaya.

"No...why is the situation of the owner of the shoes completely opposite to that of the guests in the box?"

As if remembering something, Ke Lan suddenly patted Victoria on the shoulder and said, "Come with me, we just missed a clue in the box!"

"What clue?" There was a trace of doubt in Victoria's eyes, but she followed Ke Lan into the nearest box.

"These foods..." Ke Lan picked up the plate from the table in the box and handed it to Victoria.

"What's wrong with these foods? Is there a problem?" Victoria picked up a piece of sashimi from the plate and observed it carefully, "Do you mean that you want me to ask someone to test these foods?"

"No, there's no need for testing at all." Ke Lan also picked up a piece of raw fish sashimi and tore it lightly, revealing all the tender meat fibers. Only recognizable as tuna—”

"The other two meats are sea bream and yellowtail, both of which are the most suitable materials for sashimi." Victoria added, "What's the matter, is there any problem?"

"Of course there is a problem, it's a big problem..." Ke Lan still held the piece of tuna sashimi in his hand, "I don't know the salary of the Security Bureau, but do you think ordinary residents in the East Ninth District can eat worthy of such a thing?"

Ke Lan put down the plate and continued: "Let's not talk about the ordinary residents of the East Ninth District, even the senior staff of the Arasaka consortium, the salary is definitely not enough for him to spend this level of sashimi... especially this kind of sashimi. The rare fishes of the old era were not raised on the ark, and the meat of each fish was auctioned in terms of grams."

(End of this chapter)