Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"It's been a while since I've been here."

Standing by the London Bridge, Mr. English looked at the post office in the south and took out an old and yellowed work ID card from his pocket, which read Telecommunications Bureau Field Worker.

"I haven't installed telephone lines for people for a long time. I heard they don't use them anymore."

Wearing smart suits, the four of them walked into the elevator of the office building and pressed 20.

"MI[-]...in such a conspicuous place?" Tadashi Kashimura noticed through the elevator glass that Big Ben and the London Eye could be seen from here, and blinked: "The scenery where you work is not bad."

Realizing that both Kudo and his wife were looking at him with speechless eyes, the genius dad spread his hands and asked, "What are you doing? Why do you have such strange expressions?"

"Why didn't I know you talked so much before?" Kudo Yusaku looked around at his friends.

"What's wrong? You guys don't say anything. What's wrong with me being so active and lively? If a team is full of sullen people, how can we continue the mission?"

"Hey, kid." English finally couldn't listen anymore. He turned around and raised his palms, making a push-forward gesture to signal Tadashi Kashimura to stay away from him.

"First of all, we are just here to do things, not as a team. Secondly, generally speaking, we call such people a hindrance."

The elevator door opened slowly, and the four people walked out. At first glance, they saw the green front desk, with an old man dozing behind him.

"Please turn left for telecommunications services, and turn right if you want to use the toilet." Without opening his eyes, the old man just said casually and continued to sleep.

"Hey, old Xipi, do you dare to open your eyes?" Mr. English clicked on the front desk and looked at the old man with a joking expression.

"You...Old Johnny! Why are you here?"

Lao Xipi stood up directly and realized that his reaction was a bit too big. After looking around, he whispered: "Is there something wrong with your retirement life?"

"No, I just...miss the old days. Speaking of which, I brought you a gift."

English took out a paper bag from his suit jacket and placed it on the front desk. With trembling hands, he took out a bottle of gin and quickly stuffed it into Old Xipi's arms when no one was around.

"He pretends to be so good. If I didn't know better, I would have thought he was an old man who had suffered a stroke."

He leaned into his friend's ear, and as soon as Kashimura Tadabin finished speaking, Kudo Yusaku elbowed him in the stomach.

"You think so too, right? Yukiko, I think his acting skills are much better than yours..."

There was another tap on the stomach, and the genius dad knelt down.

"Hey, that gentleman over there, please control your dog and don't spit on the ground!"

Old Xipi was obviously much older than England, and his eyes and ears were not very good. When he saw something less than his waist height next to Kudo Yusaku's legs coughing on the ground, he thought it was a pet dog.

"Okay, Xipi, if you don't want to tell me, just let me go in and see for myself."

Lao Xipi looked bitter. After thinking for a while, he agreed.He took out a work card from his pocket, picked up the one on the left side of the red and blue card swiping machines on the front desk, pulled on it, and there was a ding-dong sound, and the elevator behind Kudo Yusaku and the others reopened.

"Let's go."

After patting the shoulders of Mr. and Mrs. Kudo, Mr. English paused, bent down, and patted Kashimura Tadahina on the shoulder.

"You too, Mr. Doggy." The elevator door closed again. This time the elevator interior was very different from before. There was only one button on the control panel, which said "Go to MI[-]"

"So that's it. There are two elevator boxes in an elevator shaft. Only when the gentleman with bad eyesight swipes his card will the elevator box be activated."

Tadaki Kashimura felt that he was falling, and looked back at Mr. English: "If my guess is correct, this elevator box should usually be on standby underground. If the card is swiped, the normally used elevator box will rise directly to the rooftop, and then Display failure."

"You guessed it right. I asked Shinichi and Yuji about this question. They could only answer it when they were eight and six years old." Yusaku Kudo adjusted his glasses and reached out to pat his friend's shoulder: "You are better than them." I was a lot smarter then.”

"Are you praising me or hurting me?"

Ignoring him, Kudo Yusaku looked at English: "Teacher, is Mr. Sippi..."

"That's right, he had something to tell me, and he was worried that I wouldn't be able to accept it, so he asked me to see it myself..." The old man held the elevator box: "If I guessed correctly, something happened to her...

"she…?"

Kudo Yukiko became interested: "Who is it?"

"Although Teacher used to be responsible for inspecting newcomers, and everyone would call him Teacher, he only really accepted two disciples. One was me, and the other was my senior sister whom I had never met before."

Kudo Yusaku noticed the change in his wife's attitude and continued: "But after my senior sister left the army, she went to the United States to perform missions and rarely came back."

"She called me once to tell me that her husband had offended someone, and then there was no news from her. I didn't know she had returned to the UK until two years ago."

"But, isn't that just a student, why..."

Kudo Yukiko couldn't quite understand why she couldn't accept it.

Leaning to the side, Kudo Yusaku whispered in his wife's ear: "Actually, her mother was the teacher's childhood sweetheart, and when she passed away, she also asked the teacher to take care of her eldest daughter."

"Her younger daughter was said to be in a relationship with a biologist at the time. She probably had no chance of being with agents or terrorist organizations in her life, so she entrusted her eldest daughter, who wanted to join MI[-], to the teacher."

"How do you know so much? Did you have thoughts about that senior sister before?" Kudo Yukiko snorted, holding her chest.

When her husband came to the UK, the two of them were just seniors and schoolgirls at Didan High School, and they were not even close to dating.

"This brat, after completing a mission with me, he took a bottle of wine to celebrate."

Mr. English gently kicked the student with his toe: "You actually came up with such a method to collect information. You are so evil that you have black water in your stomach. I hope my two disciples are not like you."

Laughing sheepishly, Kudo Yusaku patted his head: "So from then on, the teacher never drank with me again, and also kicked me into non-staff and was not allowed to enter the MI[-] system. .”

"You were too impulsive at that time and always liked to come up with some crooked methods. You are not suitable for our profession."

Thinking of the second child in the family, Kudo Yusaku nodded, and now he understood the teacher's thoughts at that time.

The elevator stopped steadily, and as the door opened, what appeared in front of Kudo Yukiko and Kashimura Tadahina was a pure cement underground parking lot, but it was closed on all sides.

Inglis took the watch off his wrist, then turned it upside down to open the bottom of the watch and took out an electronic chip from inside.He led the three people to a fire pillar, swiped the chip on it, and a stone wall slowly opened.

"Let's go." (End of this chapter)