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The first target of the investigation team was the "Kyoto-style Teppanyaki Restaurant" 150 meters away from the street corner. The second "container", the little girl whose head was crushed, jumped out of the second-floor window of the Teppanyaki restaurant. Victoria thought that since they didn't have any clues at the moment, they might as well trace back the route these containers took to get out, and maybe they could find some valuable clues.

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

The first floor of the building is a chain brand izakaya. When you lift the door curtain, you will see a narrow corridor leading directly to the bar, and the two sides of the corridor are divided into several small private rooms.

An agent holding a shield entered the corridor first. His boots stepped on the tatami woven with synthetic fibers. As soon as he stepped on it, sticky blood plasma was squeezed out from the gaps between the vines - it was obvious that a massacre had taken place here not long ago.

However, this did not surprise everyone. They had already smelled a strong smell of blood at the door of the pub, and the tatami on the floor had been stained dark brown because of absorbing so much blood.

"The only problem is that there are no bodies." Ke Lan muttered to himself. This scene reminded him of the mining base that was attacked by monsters on the back of Leviathan. There, the place was also in a mess and not a single body was found. It was not until later that they learned that those bodies were used as nutrients for Leviathan's resurrection.

The leading agent pushed open the doors of the boxes on both sides. Ke Lan noticed that there were some unfinished yakitori and sashimi on the table in the box, and even half a cup of wine remained in the glass next to it.

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

"There was no fight in the box. All the blood flowed from the innermost part." Victoria's judgment was basically consistent with Ke Lan's idea. Moreover, judging from the neatly arranged tableware, the guests should have left the box calmly... But the key to the problem lies in what happened after they left the box.

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

"The axe was taken away. Could it be that someone resisted?" said Major Ashkani.

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

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

The agent in front took out a glow stick, lit it up and threw it in. Suddenly, the whole hall was shrouded in the faint fluorescent light emitted by the glow stick.

"No bodies were found. The same was true for the dining table, bar, cooking area, and kitchen." The leading agent reported.

Ke Lan followed Victoria into the lobby and saw that the tatami on the floor of the lobby was also soaked with blood. However, unlike the private rooms, the walls and tables and chairs here were also stained with large patches of blood. Unfinished food and bowls and chopsticks were scattered on the floor, and the ingredients on the barbecue grill had turned into black charcoal.

Ke Lan bent down and picked up a shoe from the ground. It was a pair of high-heeled women's shoes, size 36. The surface material was a high-grade artificial leather with rhinestones embedded in the upper for decoration. However, the heel was broken and the leather surface at the toe had severe scratches.

Ke Lan still remembered that the sign hanging outside the izakaya said that customers needed to take off their shoes before entering the store, and the shoe cabinet at the door was specifically used to store customers' shoes. But now this high-heeled shoe appeared in the lobby, which made Ke Lan feel a little strange.

These are obviously not the shoes for izakaya staff. The staff here either go barefoot or wear tabi similar to socks. High heels like these that can easily damage tatami mats are absolutely not allowed to be worn in the store.

Then the shoe could only have come from an outsider, and she had entered the pub after the power outage occurred.

As for the worn toes and broken heels, it shows that the owner of the shoes was in a panic at the time... or perhaps, he was forcibly brought into this pub.

"That's not right... Why is the situation of the owner of the shoes so different from that of the guest in the box?"

Ke Lan seemed to remember something, and suddenly patted Victoria's shoulder and said, "Come with me, there is a clue in the box that we just missed!"

"What clues?" Victoria showed a hint of doubt in her eyes, but she still followed Ke Lan into the nearest box.

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

"What's wrong with this food? Is there something wrong?" Victoria picked up a piece of sashimi from the plate and examined it carefully. "Do you want me to ask someone to test this food?"

"No, there's no need to test it." Ke Lan also picked up a piece of sashimi and tore it gently, revealing the delicate meat fibers. "These are all real fish meat, although I can only recognize tuna among the three kinds of meat -"

"The other two kinds of meat are sea bream and yellowtail, both of which are the most suitable materials for making sashimi." Victoria added, "What's wrong, is there any problem with this?"

"Of course there is a problem, a big problem..." Ke Lan was still holding the piece of tuna sashimi in her hand. "I don't know much about the salary and benefits of the Security Bureau, but do you think that ordinary residents of East District 9 can afford to eat this kind of food?"

Ke Lan put the plate down and continued, "Let alone ordinary residents of the East 9th District, even senior staff of the Arasaka Group would not be paid enough to consume this level of sashimi... Especially these rare fish from the old era. There are not many of them on the Ark, and the meat from each one is auctioned by the gram."