The winter morning is covered with a thin layer of mist, making people feel the cold as soon as they go out.
The car's yellow-red fog lights flickered in and out of the pure white, like a burning fireball, moving slowly but firmly through the intersection of the street.
Aipado Central Hospital's underground parking lot.
A blond young man wearing a hospital gown and a medical bandage on his head was shivering against the moist cold wind blowing from all directions.
"The Middle Way..."
Waited for another seven or eight minutes.
Wearing a peaked cap, with his entire face almost wrapped in a scarf, Hondo Eiyu quietly walked in while carrying a few bags of sumptuous breakfast, taking advantage of the fog.
Afterwards, the two came to the power distribution room next to the safety stairs and prepared to temporarily borrow the tables, chairs and benches left by the staff here.
The blond young man took out a steaming bun, took a bite, and asked vaguely:
"Yingyou, I'm very happy that you can come to the hospital to celebrate the New Year with me, but... is it necessary to be so mysterious?"
"There's nothing I can do. If the hospital finds out that I'm living in your ward as a non-attendant, I'll definitely be kicked out."
Our friend Yingyou smiled naively, "Besides, my mother passed away, my father is abroad, and my sister's whereabouts are unknown. I happened to meet you in the hospital. I really don't want to spend the New Year alone."
"Ahem..."
A sense of oppression called 'morality' came over him. The blond young man choked and said quickly: "Don't worry, Yingyou. I will definitely keep your affairs in the hospital a secret!"
"Thanks ~ Zhongdao."
Our hall Yingyou thanked her sincerely, and unconsciously looked towards the top of the safety stairs outside the door. After a moment, he suppressed the restlessness in his heart.
You can’t go wrong…
In the latter half of the night yesterday, when I secretly went to the toilet, I heard the sound of the button coming from outside the door.
Buzz, buzz...
"ah?!"
At this moment, the cell phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated, which brought Hondo Yingyou back from his thoughts. At the same time, he was so shocked that he almost threw the bun away.
In Nakamichi's face, he said, "Can this guy still do it?"
Hondo Yingyou took out his cell phone in a panic.
...Oops, I didn't turn off the phone because I was worried that someone might need to contact me about something when I went out to buy breakfast.
He secretly said something careless and was about to hang up the phone, pretending that he accidentally pressed the wrong button.
After seeing the number on the screen, I was slightly startled...
[Mori Detective Agency. 】
Our hall Yingyou hesitated for a moment and then picked up.
"Ah, great, got through...Classmate Yingyou, this is Mao Lilan." Mao Lilan's voice came from the receiver.
"Well, Mori-san..."
Head Yingyou smiled sheepishly at Nakamichi, stood up and left the power distribution room: "What's the matter?"
Mao Lilan said: "I just wanted to ask if you have time in the past two days. Let's discuss when to go to school."
"Huh? Going to school?" Our hall Yingyou was startled, "Isn't it already winter vacation?"
"Have you forgotten?" Mao Lilan reminded: "It's the New Year's outlook that I said before the holiday. Yuanzi is the contact person for this event. She told me last night that the landline number you left in the class handbook has always been I can’t even get through.”
"Ah, this..." Our hall Yingyou sweated and could only say with a smile: "Because I haven't been at home these two days."
"Ah?" Mao Lilan guessed: "You won't leave Japan, right?"
"No, I'm at Aido Central Hospital...ah, no..."
After Hondo Eiyu finished speaking, he quickly corrected himself, "It's... it's near Aido Central Hospital..."
"Acupo?" Mao Lilan obviously couldn't understand.
"me……"
This is a dilemma for Yingyou. He wants to hang up the phone directly after saying a few casual words, but he also feels that doing so will arouse the other party's suspicion.
At this moment, from the corner of his eye, he happened to catch a glimpse of the power distribution room. Nakamichi poked his head out with a puzzled face, as if he wanted to check the situation. He could only walk a few steps towards the parking lot. step.
After such a delay, Mao Lilan clearly noticed something was wrong on the other end of the phone: "Student Yingyou, are you okay?"
"It's okay, I'm fine."
Hondo Yingyou took a deep breath, and in order to prevent the improvised lie from being exposed, he decided to tell some of the facts and said: "I found my father's colleague here, maybe he is also looking for the whereabouts of my sister."
"Eh? That's it! If I can find my sister, that will be the best gift in the New Year."
Mao Lilan breathed a sigh of relief, but was still a little wary and said: "By the way... Yingyou, you must pay attention to your safety and don't be deceived. If you need help, just call."
"Don't worry, I won't make a mistake."
Speaking of this, Hondo Yingyou still explained with confidence: "After my father went to work abroad, he would still call back occasionally. I was particularly impressed by the sound of the buttons when they sent emails, which was just like the sound of 'Seven Children'." The tune of the nursery rhyme is exactly the same.”
"Seven children?" Mao Lilan was stunned... It seems that Conan also mentioned this nursery rhyme some time ago.
What happened?
She didn't have time to think deeply.
I heard Hondo Eiyu continue to say: "Because I had never heard this sound before when I lived with my father in Osaka, so I asked specifically when I was on the phone that time. My father said that he was talking to me on the phone. While exchanging emails with the boss... you can’t go wrong.”
"That's good." Mao Lilan was happy for the other party, "See you later."
"See you later."
Bentang Yingyou said "hmm" and hung up the phone. After thinking for a moment, he still didn't turn off the phone, but muted the phone's incoming calls and messages.
As everyone knows, at the same moment, a Trojan command that had already been injected was directly activated after reaching the triggering conditions, encrypting the previous call content in text format and passing it out.
Alas...it finally came out.
Although telling Maori classmates about his investigation process is to some extent a protective measure, but...next time, he must not be so careless next time.
Here, Hondo Yingyou was still feeling annoyed about his lack of experience. He shook his head and sighed softly, and was about to go back to the power distribution room. Suddenly, a head with a bandage on his head and a weird smile popped out from the corner of the stairs.
Nakamichi had a gossipy look on his face: "Hey, Yingyou, is the person you're calling on the phone classmate Maori?"
"Yeah, ask me about my New Year's outlook."
Hondo Yingyou said, and suddenly asked as if he remembered something: "By the way, Moori-san and the others won't come directly to visit you in the hospital, right?"
"It shouldn't be possible, right? After all, they came to the hospital to visit me once after I fell on my head playing football and was hospitalized more than a month ago..."
Zhongdao was startled, then stopped suddenly and stared at our hall Yingyou, "Hey! Yingyou, don't change the subject!"
"What?" This hall Yingyou was confused.
"That's Mori-san."
Zhongdao asked: "If we were just talking about New Year's prospects, why did you come here and make a secret phone call? You didn't want me to hear... Hey, right?"
His expression suddenly became very wonderful, "Could you be..."
"What's wrong with me?"
Hondo Yingyou didn't understand it at first, but after Zhongdao kept winking, he immediately realized it and said with a red face, "No! Not at all!"
"Really?"
Nakamichi came over and bumped Eiyu Hondo with his elbow, "Moori-san is very popular in our entire school. If a certain guy wasn't so outstanding, I'm afraid she would receive a lot of gifts every day. Love letter, so you don’t have to be embarrassed even if you like her."
"Um?"
Our hall Yingyou glanced sideways slightly, "The guy you are talking about is..."
"Of course Kudo Shinichi!"
The middle way of showing hands:
"That guy who is super good at football, he and his classmate Maori are childhood sweethearts, and that's not all. He is still just a high school student, but he has already begun to cooperate with the police in investigating various criminal cases. Although he has kept a low profile recently, but what you said ...There is no way he can be his opponent.”
"Kudo...Shinichi."
Our hall Yingyou murmured the name in a low voice and asked with unclear meaning: "It seems that I haven't seen him since I transferred here..."
"Probably they are investigating something big again."
Nakamichi also looked like he was hearing what he heard, and whispered: "Some people actually rumored that he was dead some time ago, but it turned out that he didn't suddenly appear during the school festival, although there were several Kudos who also appeared at the time..."
"Several?" A trace of curiosity flashed in Hondo Eyou's eyes, "What is that? Do you mean there are several Kudo Shinichi?"
"Well, it seems to be a special program from the drama club. It's a pity that you couldn't see it at that time." Zhongdao paused, with a serious expression on his face: "But... because during the performance of the program, the stage A fatal incident also occurred, and the police do not allow us to publicize the details, so please don’t tell anyone else."
"Uh-huh, I won't go around talking nonsense. Please hurry up and talk about the middle way." Yingyou, the head of the hall, hurriedly asked.
"Ahem, it starts with a scream after the stage lights go out..."
Zhongdao cleared his throat and spoke softly.
