Conan: Rice Flower Spring

Chapter 54 51. See Shirley Again
When it was time to get off work in the evening, Lin Longma and Jintian were both sitting quietly in the office, which was rare.

The magical transformations they had witnessed indirectly during the day were still too exciting for them.

Many things are like this. If you don't see them with your own eyes, you will never feel the shock of them - although through Shirley's analysis, Hayashi Ryoma has guessed to a certain extent that Kudo Shinichi will become smaller.

But when they really faced each other, both Lin Longma and Kaneda had a lot to say.

But he couldn't say it.

In the organization, Lin Longma was in a very cautious state, if not treading on thin ice. The lives and property of so many members of the Ishigaki Society rested on Lin Longma's shoulders, so he had no choice but to be cautious.

"Okay, let's just leave it at that. Anyway, there will be no Kudo Shinichi after today."

It was Lin Longma who spoke first.

Since Kudo Shinichi somehow managed to change himself back to normal and appeared in public, don't blame Gin for coming to your door.

No matter how shocking it is from big to small or from small to big, when a person dies, everything is gone.

Maybe we can ask Shirley to ask Gin for some of Kudo Shinichi's body tissue and see what new things we can research?
Even if we put aside the issue of rejuvenation, Kudo Shinichi is one of the rare lucky people who survived after taking aptx-4869.

Maybe we can come up with something amazing through reverse research?

Lin Longma's thoughts were wandering when suddenly the cell phone on his desk vibrated.

Gin? What's going on?
Lin Longma looked at the caller ID on his phone and found that it was Gin calling, which made him a little puzzled.

"What is it, Gin?"

"Are you making fun of me?" Gin asked coldly?
"What's wrong with you? Why would I entertain you when I have nothing to do?" Lin Longma didn't react for a moment and just felt that Gin's call was inexplicable.

"There is no Kudo Shinichi in the Tsujimura residence."

"Impossible." Lin Longma denied it immediately: "Could it be that your people went too late and caused them to run away?"

"There happened to be two outside members nearby. They were near Tsujimura's house within five minutes after you called me.

One was guarding the front door, and the other was watching the back door. There was no Kudo Shinichi at all. "

"What about the Tsujimura residence? Have you been inside to take a look?"

"It took Vodka and I about 20 minutes to get there. I checked the villa from inside to outside, and no one was there."

"How can a living person disappear out of thin air?" Lin Longma sneered, "Shall we meet?"

"Okay, come over to the research base we visited last time."

After Lin Longma put down the phone, he called Jintian over and said, "Ask Bai Shi to prepare the car, and we will go to the research base we visited last time.

Gin did not find Kudo Shinichi at Tsujimura's house."

"Huh? That kid ran away?" Kaneda was very surprised. Logically speaking, Gin had only failed with Akai Shuichi, and had never made a mistake with anyone else.

Now he has failed twice in a row with a high school student named Kudo Shinichi? Is this reasonable?
"It's hard to say. Let's go and meet Gin first." Lin Longma had a vague guess in his mind.

Although there was a gap of about 5-8 minutes between Hayashi Ryoma's departure and the arrival of the outer members of the executive department to follow up, he did not think that Kudo Shinichi would leave during this time period.

Hayashi Ryoma left just when the reasoning was completed. Since Kudo Shinichi decided to show up in public, both Mori Ran who was waiting to reminisce with him and Hattori Heiji who wanted to challenge him would delay him for some time.

If he still had some brains, he would ask Inspector Megure of the Metropolitan Police Department not to tell anyone about the case he solved today. These people and these things alone delayed Conan for at least ten minutes. Especially when childhood friends met and disappeared for such a long time, how could they only say a few words?
So Lin Longma’s guess is - since Kudo Shinichi can transform into Edogawa Conan, he can also transform back today.

Then why can't Kudo Shinichi change into Edogawa Conan again?
Judging from Kudo Shinichi's performance, whether he grows bigger or smaller should be uncontrollable, so after Hayashi Ryoma left, Kudo Shinichi shrank again?

"Brother, the car is ready."

"Okay, let's go."
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The scientific research base is still the one that is tight on the outside but disguised as a pharmaceutical company on the inside.

Because Lin Longma had been here twice before, or because Gin had called in advance, Lin Longma's Maybach drove straight in and stopped in front of the main gate of the base.

Jintian opened the car door for Lin Longma, and then followed Lin Longma into the stronghold.

After walking through the lobby of the base and through the long corridor, Lin Longma got into the internal elevator. After pressing the button for the highest floor, the elevator slowly went up.

When the elevator reached the 7th floor, it suddenly slowed down and then the elevator door slowly opened.

Lin Longma looked at the person outside the elevator door in surprise: "Director Shirley?"

"President Lin?" Shirley was also surprised. She didn't expect to see Shirley again in the base.

"Are you going upstairs to look for Gin?" Lin Longma looked at the pile of things that looked like information that Shirley was holding.

"Well, the interim research results of the new drug. What about you?"

"I came to talk to Gin about something." Lin Longma replied and was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "Director Shirley, do you have time later?"

".have."

"Then let's talk?"

"Okay." Shirley looked at Lin Longma deeply, waited for the elevator door to open again, and walked out of the elevator first.

Shirley did not deliberately slow down to wait for Lin Longma, and Lin Longma did not deliberately speed up to chase Shirley.

In short, when Lin Longma was about to reach the door of Gin's office, Shirley had already left Gin's office.

"I'll wait for you at the place where we first met." After saying this, Shirley walked away quickly, as if there was something dirty behind her.

After watching Shirley leave, Lin Longma turned around and looked at the door of Gin's office.

Hmm. So it turns out that the dirty thing is you, Gin.

Speaking of which, Lin Longma is quite speechless. No matter what, Shirley is an important cadre who masters core research and development capabilities.

Lin Longma also realized that the organization prepared the gin and rum dumplings purely out of jealousy for the Research Department.

Is Gin really not afraid of angering Shirley and causing her to slack off? Who will accept Shirley's research or will Rum do the experiment?
Are there any normal people in this huge organization?

Lin Longma knocked on the door twice, then pushed it open and walked into Gin's office.

"Tell me, what happened? Was it really not your two useless subordinates who accidentally let the person slip through?"

Lin Longma walked into the office, sat down opposite Gin and asked directly.

(End of this chapter)