Ke Xue: The thief Cao is actually myself

Chapter 379 Mao Lilan's suspicion! (Seeking monthly ticket!)
"How is it, Mr. Maori Kogoro?"

Soon, they arrived at the archives department. After getting the key from the archivist with whom they got along well, Mr. Ogawa brought Kogoro Mori and Conan into the archives room.

Under the command of Mr. Ogawa, several people acted separately and quickly took out all the patient records that Mr. Ogawa had seen since he arrived at the Beika General Hospital, and placed them on the table.

Looking at the medical records piled on the table in the middle of the archive room, and Maori Kogoro who was quickly flipping through a pile of medical records, Mr. Ogawa held his hands in front of him very respectfully and asked, "This is the medical record of all the patients I have come into contact with in the past three years. I wonder, Mr. Maori Kogoro, have you found any clues?"

Hearing this, Maori Kogoro, who was sitting on a stool and flipping through various medical records trying to find useful clues, pondered for a moment and put down the last medical record in his hand. "Well, I just took a look, and I think the person who wants to buy the painting should not be in it."

Because he flipped through the pages so quickly, it didn't take him too long to finish reading all the medical records on the table.

However, even though he flipped through the pages very quickly, it didn't mean he didn't read them carefully.

On the contrary, he looked very carefully.

Unfortunately, although he had successfully reviewed the medical records of all the patients that Mr. Ogawa had come into contact with in the past three years and carefully searched for clues, he could not find any information related to the unknown sender.

"Really? Then why don't you go over and take a look at the painting, Mr. Maori?"

Mr. Ogawa was not too disappointed when he learned that Kogoro Mori did not find anything.

After all, if clues were so easy to find, he wouldn't have gone without any results for so long, and he wouldn't have come all the way to seek help from the great detective Kogoro Mori.

Moreover, they now have more than one clue. Since the clue of looking at the medical records is temporarily useless, let's look at another one first.
Maybe they can find some information about the unknown sender from another clue!
Thinking of this, Mr. Ogawa decisively invited Kogoro Mori to see the painting worth 2000 million that had been passed down in his family.

"Yeah, that's right!"

Kogoro Maori nodded slightly, then put the last patient's medical record back on the table and stood up.

Mr. Ogawa and Maori Kogoro walked together and said, "Then please follow me. Because the painting is very popular among the patients, I hung it in the patient lounge."

"Oh I got it."

As soon as these words were spoken, Kogoro Maori couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth slightly.

Just because the patients like it, you hang a painting worth more than 20 million yuan in the patient's lounge?

He didn't know whether to say that Mr. Ogawa was too nice or too generous!

However, just as he reached the door, Kogoro Mori suddenly discovered that something was wrong.

He looked at Mr. Ogawa who was leading the way in front of him, and then looked around himself.

Well, nothing seems to be wrong!

Wait...that's not right. Where is that little brat?

At this time, he finally discovered why he felt something was wrong.

This was not only because a certain little kid who always liked to join in the fun did not speak when he was looking through the medical records just now, but also because this time, they were going to a new place to look for clues, and the other party did not even follow!
This is really, totally inconsistent with the other person's character!
Thinking of this, he turned his head and looked at Conan who was still standing there, and asked doubtfully: "Conan, aren't you going to go and see?"

Hearing Maori Kogoro's question, Conan, who had been looking down and didn't know what he was thinking, raised his head with a smile and said to Maori Kogoro: "Uncle, I won't go for now, I'll just wait for you here!"

Maori Kogoro looked at him deeply, with a meaningful expression on his face, "Oh? Really? Then you can stay here, but don't touch the things here!"

"Ok!"

Conan nodded very obediently and agreed...

……

Seeing that Kogoro Mouri and Mr. Ogawa had completely disappeared, Conan's expression changed. Then, after closing the door, he came to the table in the middle of the archive room and looked through the pile of medical records on the table.

Kogoro Mori and Mr. Ogawa were both there before, so it was inappropriate for him to look through the medical records in front of them.

After all, it would be easy for the two of them to think that I was making trouble and give me a scolding.

But now, neither Kogoro Mori nor Mr. Ogawa is here, so next, it's time for high school detective Shinichi Kudo to show his skills.

In fact, this is also the reason why he did not follow Kogoro Mori when he followed Mr. Ogawa to see the painting worth more than 20 million hanging in the patient lounge.

Because he wanted to take advantage of the time when the two of them went to see the painting to collect the information he wanted from this pile of medical records.

As for the painting worth more than 20 million, it would not be too late to see it after he finished reading all these medical records.

Moreover, if he was not mistaken, the reason why the unknown sender sent 20 million to Mr. Ogawa this time was probably not to buy a painting!

In other words, it is very likely that even if Kogoro Mori and others turned the painting upside down, they would not be able to find any useful clues.

Because the real clue is not in that painting.

On the contrary, the real clue is in this pile of medical records!

He was so focused on checking the medical records that he didn't know that at this moment, a pretty figure suddenly appeared at the door of the archive room.

She was a black-haired girl with fair skin, delicate features, a pair of beautiful lavender eyes, bangs in the front of her hair, and a protruding mark on her forehead.

It was Mao Lilan.

After looking around and making sure that no one noticed her actions, Mao Lilan took a deep breath, gently turned the doorknob, opened the door, and then carefully looked into the archive room through the gap in the door.

It would have been fine if she hadn't looked at it, but when she did, Mao Lilan was shocked. It turned out that in the archive room, Conan's small body was sitting steadily on the stool that Mao Li Kogoro had just left. Then, as if he had maxed out his speed, he used his Phantom Invincible Hand to quickly flip through the medical records of all the patients that Mr. Ogawa had taken in over the past three years since he came to Beihua General Hospital. His little face was full of seriousness and solemnity.

"Conan, this is weird, too weird. He's just an elementary school student, but his actions are so weird."

Looking at Conan who was frantically flipping through the patient's medical records in the archives room, Mao Li Ran found it more and more strange.

Originally, she just felt unwell today and felt nauseous from time to time. She wanted to go to the hospital for a check-up to see if she was accidentally pregnant. However, she never expected that she would see her father and a particularly naughty little kid who lived in her house in this hospital. She wondered what they were doing here, so out of curiosity, she secretly followed them.

"correct!"

Ran Mouri suddenly remembered how Conan behaved in the cases he encountered after coming to her house.

——During the kidnapping of the chairman's daughter, Conan once touched the dog in the family yard and said to everyone present: "You mean this dog! If it sees an outsider, it will bark no matter who it is, right?"

In the celebrity murder case, Conan also held a lime-colored Statue of Liberty, looked at Ikezawa Yuko, and said meaningfully: "Sister, although you have never been here, you still know where the lighter is?"

……

The words of a certain elementary school student at that time were still ringing in her ears, and the other party's actions were still fresh in her memory. In Mao Lilan's heart, the more she recalled everything that had happened before, the more she felt that Conan's behavior at that time was not like the behavior of a child, and those words did not seem to be said unintentionally, but rather seemed to be deliberately guiding others...

Such a familiar operation made her subconsciously think of someone.

"It's almost like Shinichi is giving me hints."

Thinking of her childhood sweetheart who had not been online for a long time, Mao Lilan's pupils suddenly shrank.

"Ah! By the way, Conan showed up on the same day that Kudo Shinichi disappeared! This is definitely not a coincidence!"

Thinking of Conan's resemblance to her childhood sweetheart, Mao Lilan suddenly had a bold idea in her mind: "Could it be? Could it be that this child is Shinichi?"

Although the idea was a little unbelievable, the familiar operation and the extremely similar appearance, which could even be said to be a smaller version of her childhood sweetheart, made it impossible for her to think so.

After thinking for a while, Mao Lilan quietly widened the gap in the door, then tiptoed carefully and walked inside.

No matter whether Conan is that guy Shinichi or not, she must figure this out today!
Thinking like this, when Conan was concentrating on reading the patient's medical records, Mao Lilan quietly walked behind him, and then suddenly spoke and greeted him: "Conan!"

"Forehead!"

Mouri Ran's sudden voice startled Conan, who had just put down a medical record and was about to relax a little before continuing.

He subconsciously turned his head and saw a familiar figure standing behind him with his hands on his hips.

"How can you peek into someone's medical records here? This is very private and important. You absolutely cannot do this."

"It turned out to be you, Sister Xiaolan. You scared me to death!"

Conan felt a little relieved when he saw that the person coming was his childhood sweetheart.

God knows how nervous and frightened he was when he suddenly heard the voice behind him just now.

He almost thought that Kogoro Mori and others had finished viewing the painting worth more than 20 million and returned the same way, and then caught him in the act of stealing the medical records.

After all this time, it turned out to be his childhood sweetheart!

It really scared him!
No, why would his Xiaolan come here?

"Wait... Sister Xiaolan, why are you here too?"

If he remembered correctly, wasn't his childhood sweetheart living with that big lawyer?
Why are you coming to Mihua General Hospital today?

Could it be that the other person is sick? Or is he here to visit a friend?
Also, how would he explain to the other party that he was not actually peeking at other people's medical records, and why he had such an extraordinary speed of flipping through them?
"I'm here to visit a friend!"

Ran Mouri looked at Conan with a smile, who breathed a sigh of relief. There was a gleam in her beautiful eyes that Conan could not understand.

"But you, have you found any new clues?"

Hearing this, Conan didn't think much about it and answered subconsciously, "Yeah! A little bit, Mr. Ogawa once said that the sender would send flowers to the hospital once a year. So I think the sender should be a patient in this hospital, and something happened in this hospital before."

"Uh-huh……"

Ran Mouri bent down and looked at the medical record in Conan's hand, listening meaningfully as Conan told her about his discoveries.

She didn't know if it was because of her preconceived notion, but she felt more and more that Conan in front of her looked more like her childhood sweetheart.

In particular, for her, the sense of déjà vu in this situation was too strong and too familiar!

Because, before her childhood sweetheart disappeared, that is, when the famous high school detective Kudo Shinichi was still active, when he explained to her where the clues to the case were obtained, Conan looked like this now.

Familiar operations, similar faces, and now this explanation method that gives a strong sense of déjà vu, at this moment, Mao Lilan is even more certain of the guess in her heart.

Conan did not expect that his childhood sweetheart would set a trap for him. As usual, he continued to explain, "There is also... money and toys, and flowers. This kind of thing started two years ago, so I first checked the patients that Dr. Ogawa saw when he first arrived at the Beika General Hospital three years ago."

As he spoke, Conan looked seriously as he flipped through the medical records of the patients that Dr. Ogawa had seen when he had just arrived at the Beika General Hospital three years ago. While flipping through the records, he did not forget to explain to Mouri Ran who was standing beside him, fearing that his childhood sweetheart would not understand.

"There are eight people who were related to February 2th. Some of them had successful surgeries, while others were hospitalized and later discharged..."

(End of this chapter)