Conan, I'm an actor

"The work she does is far more dangerous than that of soldiers on the battlefield. Don't worry, the knife work this time is mostly in safe areas, at least it won't incapacitate her. At most she'll be bedridden for a few months, and after she recovers, she'll have no problem beating you up."

When Curaçao is mentioned, the new city gets a headache.

He and Narumi had already agreed to remove all the bullets from the woman's body. However, this decision was strongly opposed by the awakened Curaçao, because some of the bullets were in tricky locations, and removing them might impair her mobility. In the end, the two doctors had no choice but to respect the patient's decision. After much deliberation, they decided to remove only 11 bullets that they were confident they could remove.

At this moment, Dolphin 202 has been moored in its berth, and specialized machinery will be used to maintain the submarine.

Meanwhile, New Town Private Hospital

Several police cars were parked at the front and back entrances of the hospital, effectively sealing it off. Fortunately, the security guards at the entrance were quite responsible and did not allow them to rush in immediately.

"Inspector Nakamori, we've found the car. There's blood on the back seat." A police officer ran over quickly, head down, holding a photo in his hand.

"The Metropolitan Police Department's Second Investigation Division received a report that Phantom Thief Kid was shot and then picked up by someone. The car that took him is parked in your hospital's underground parking lot. I'm going to conduct a search of the hospital now," Inspector Nakamori said sternly.

"This inspector is really joking. There are only a few hospitals that can treat gunshot wounds, and our small hospital isn't one of them," Cheng Shi said with a big smile as he hurried downstairs.

"Are you sure there are no gunshot wound patients?" Inspector Nakamori narrowed his eyes. "What if we force our way in and search?"

"Then please have Inspector Nakamori show the search warrant."

"The search warrant is still pending; let us in to search first."

"Sorry, no search warrant, you can't come in." Narumi straightened his clothes and raised his hand.

The next second, more than a dozen security personnel appeared behind him, completely blocking the hospital entrance. They were carrying riot shields, wearing special helmets, and covered in pepper spray.

Inspector Nakamori was also a bit of a headache looking at this situation. He was sure that if his men dared to force their way in, they would definitely be met with pepper spray.

“I’ve already invited some media friends over, they should be here soon. These reporters are very mobile,” Narumi said with a smile. “Please follow the rules, Inspector Nakamori. By the way, let me remind Inspector Nakamori of something: this is a private hospital and a high-end nursing home. The elderly people here are all highly respected figures in the political and business world. Even if you do search, please remember to be discreet.”

Inspector Nakamori looked at Narumi in front of him, then at the security personnel behind him, gritted his teeth, and returned to his police car to inquire about the progress of the search warrant application.

Just then, Aquawit walked up to Narumi from behind and whispered, "It will take another half hour. Can we stall for another half hour?"

"I'll try my best," Cheng Shi said with a dark face. "Oh, and go upstairs to the operating room and have them turn off the lights by the door."

"what?"

“If they’re going to search, they’ll definitely head straight for the operating room,” Narumi said with a dark face. “As for the person, tell that doctor that he’s hiding in Morofushi’s ward; he knows that.”

Aquavit nodded. "Try to hold him off. That kid isn't one of us special agents. We don't even need anesthesia for those kinds of gunshot wounds."

Chengshi rolled her eyes and said helplessly, "You don't know anything."

The bullet didn't hit Kaito Kuroba directly; his glider shield cushioned the impact, reducing its force. However, this caused the bullet to veer erratically, making the damage after entering his body more difficult to manage.

"Officer Nakamori, is it really alright to drag this out like this?" an officer asked worriedly. "What if Kaito Kid gets away?"

“In this situation, dragging it out is to our advantage,” Inspector Nakamori said, looking at the security guard standing at the hospital entrance. “If Phantom Thief Kid really has been shot, then the situation…”

"Officer, the car in the underground parking lot caught fire. Have we had time to collect any evidence yet?" An officer rushed over, looking somewhat flustered.

"What did you say!" Nakamori jumped out of the car and ran straight towards the underground parking lot.

As soon as he arrived at the parking lot entrance, he smelled something burning. He walked quickly inside for a few minutes and saw a vehicle that had been burned. There were still powder residues from fire extinguishers on the surface of the vehicle.

"What on earth happened? Can anyone tell me what happened?!" Nakamori slammed his fist into the car. The next second, his hand recoiled as if he'd been electrocuted, the spot where it had touched already burning red.

"This must have been an accident," a police officer said with some helplessness. "We were all next to the car at the time, and the fire started very quickly. We... well, we did our best."

As Officer Nakamori listened to the officer's words, he felt a wave of dizziness. He had finally managed to collect the DNA of the Phantom Thief Kid, but this unexpected turn of events had occurred.

"Where did the fire start?!" Nakamori said with a dark face. "Get the fire department to come and check it out, to see if it was an accident! I don't believe there are such coincidences in the world!"

In the monitoring room

"What happened? How could the car spontaneously combust?" Aquawit felt his back was soaked with sweat. The car's spontaneous combustion was too bizarre. If he had been in the car, he would have been burned alive.

"Karen, did you do this?" Narumi seemed to know some inside information and dialed Karen's number directly.

“There was blood in the car. Through DNA comparison, that guy could be found on Kaito Kuroba, so I activated the safety device in the car.”

“The vehicles used in operations will all be modified. If there are any traces on the vehicle that cannot be destroyed in time, as long as the vehicle is still in a place with a signal, Miss Karen can activate the vehicle’s safety device,” Narumi said in a low voice. “This includes blowing up the vehicle or burning it to the ground.”

"This……"

“There’s no need to hide it; this is actually a way to deal with traitors,” Karen said. “I can monitor all the members’ communications devices here. If they are suspected of betrayal, I will lock the car doors. Whether I give them a quick death or burn them alive depends on the severity of the situation.”

Aquawit shuddered. Luckily, he had been determined to follow New Town to the bitter end; otherwise, it wouldn't just be the car burning now, but also himself inside it.

"The search warrant from the Second Investigation Division has been issued, and they'll be at the hospital in fifteen minutes. Do you need me to hold them off for a few minutes?" Karen asked.

"Stop? How do you stop them?" Aquawit looked completely bewildered.

"Just blow out the tires. The surgery is complete. Now all that's left is cleaning up the operating room." Cheng Shi looked at the surveillance video. "Don't let anyone die. I don't want to be working overtime in the middle of the night."

Thirty minutes later, a police car with its bumper removed and a spare tire installed arrived at the hospital entrance, and an officer handed the search warrant to Inspector Nakamori.

Inspector Nakamori quickly entered the hospital and began searching, screening all the medical staff and ordinary patients. The screening method was very simple: he simply peeled off their skin and looked at their wounds.

After three or four hours of this ordeal, amidst the patients' curses, Officer Nakamori concluded the initial screening.

"Is there anywhere else we haven't searched?" Inspector Nakamori asked the officer beside him.

“The top two floors have bodyguards at the entrance,” the officer said in a low voice. “We’ve already investigated; the top two floors are occupied by important figures, and we don’t dare to go in and search.”

Nakamori's face twitched slightly. He was reckless, not stupid. Offending any one of those big shots could mean losing his job. But he was unwilling to give up so easily, so he could only leave a team of men as security guards to check the identities of people entering and leaving the hospital.

After the main group left, Narumi made an excuse to leave and took Aquawit with her to the underground ward.

"By the way, Dr. Chengshi, those people have been guarding the door the whole time. This isn't a solution. He's cured, so we'll have to send him out eventually, won't we?" Aquawit asked, somewhat troubled.

"Tomorrow, I'll have Mr. Shinjo disguise himself as Kaito Kuroba and come for his medical appointment. Oh, and I also need to contact his butler." Narumi quickly came up with a solution.

Chapter 316 The train is about to depart

One day later, in the basement of the private hospital

Kaito Kuroba opened his eyes somewhat dazedly. If he remembered correctly, he had been shot in the back and then rescued. Just as he was about to check where he was, he saw a familiar face, and the hairs on the back of his neck instantly stood on end—it was his own face.

"Oh, you're awake. The surgery is over, and I've taken over your body," Shinjo said with a smile.

"Am I dead?" Kaito Kuroba immediately reached out and touched his chest. He finally breathed a sigh of relief after feeling his own body.

"You even learned disguise techniques from your father, yet you can't even tell a disguise from someone else's?" Xincheng touched his face, revealing his true appearance.

"Uncle, it's you." Kaito breathed a sigh of relief. "I thought it was someone else."

Although he and Xincheng didn't have much interaction, he knew that the uncle wasn't a bad person; otherwise, he wouldn't have reminded him a couple of days ago that this theft was a trap.

"Haven't you learned your lesson from the last flight?" Xincheng asked with a smile. "Last time you were ripped off by a fake, and this time you've been ripped off again. Are you a fake collector's expert?"

"Hiss..." Kaito tried to sit up, but the sharp pain in his back forced him to remain in bed. Even so, he didn't give up on defending himself. "That gem was in a glass case. By the time I realized it was a fake, it was too late. By the way, old man, were those guys involved in the attack on me?"

“It’s not a big deal, but they’re also a criminal gang, rats making fakes and selling them on the black market to make a profit.” Shinjo placed a gemstone in a box to the side. “The real one is over here.”

"How did you get that?" Kaito's eyes widened instantly.

“If the real one wasn’t in my hands, how would I know that the gem was a fake?” Shinjo took off his white gloves. “You don’t really think I can predict the future, do you?”

“This…” Kaito scratched his head awkwardly. For a moment, he really thought that this guy named Shinjo in front of him could predict the future.

"So, what do you want from me?" Kaito said, somewhat helplessly. "Is there anything I can help you with?"

"Aren't you going to mention payment?" Xincheng asked with a smile. "Knowing it was a trap and still walking into it, it's obvious you don't want to accept my favor."

"Didn't you save me?" Kaito said somewhat helplessly. "I'll pay you whatever the medical expenses are."

"No need." Shinjo simply placed a file on his bedside table. "Take a look at this when you have time. It's information about the Suzuki Express train."

"The Suzuki Express? The Suzuki Group's train?" Kaito immediately thought of his old nemesis, the old man named Suzuki Jirokichi.

“It’s their train.” Shinjo shrugged helplessly. “Our people will be on that train, and they might encounter some danger. I need you to use magician’s techniques to fake their death and help them escape.”

The Suzuki Express case was originally planned by Gin, but after Gin fled, the plan came to nothing.

Rum somehow found the plan and restarted it as soon as he arrived in Japan. If the moles planted in the station hadn't been reactivated, we might have fallen victim to it this time.

After reading through the entire plan, Kaito Kuroba fell into deep thought. He really wanted to help Shinjo, but certain things mentioned in the plan made him uneasy. An entire train carload of explosives—enough to send the whole train flying.

"Just one question: how accurate is this intelligence?" Kaito Kuroba waved the document in his hand.

"So you're agreeing to join this plan?" Shinjo asked, squinting his eyes.

"I suppose I can be considered a passionate high school student," Kaito Kuroba said, looking at Shinjo in front of him. "If I didn't know, that would be one thing, but now that I do, I can't just watch an entire trainload of people die without doing anything."

“If I had known, I wouldn’t have gone through all that trouble. I could have just brought you here by kidnapping.” Xincheng pulled up a chair next to him. “This is the initial plan. I don’t know if the plan has been modified since then. But don’t worry too much, they don’t have that many explosives.”

"Not that many explosives? How do you know?" Kaito Kuroba immediately became interested.

“Because I raided their hometown, and I sealed up that batch of explosives.” Xincheng shrugged. “They don’t have the capability to obtain a large quantity of trinitrotoluene in a short period of time, bypassing the authorities.”

If it were Gin, there might be a slight possibility, but with Rum, who has no foundation whatsoever, there is absolutely no possibility.

As for changing the plan, Rum is currently in the hospital with police following him 24 hours a day, making communication impossible, let alone changing the plan. Based on his understanding of those guys, they will ultimately choose to carry out the plan as it is, taking as many explosives as possible.

"What are you planning to do?" Kaito asked, looking at the man in front of him.

“I will proactively sell them some trinitrotoluene. We’ll tamper with these explosives a bit, and we can guarantee that they’ll be under our watch the whole time. Before the train departs, all the explosives will be defused.” Xin Cheng tapped his knuckles on the table. “In addition, we will have people lying in wait on the train. If there really is an assassin, we will shoot and kill him immediately.”

He preferred taking the initiative to passive defense. For this operation, to be on the safe side, almost all of Rum's men would be on the train to ensure the mission's success; these were his targets.

Kaito flipped through the documents for the Suzuki Express train, pulling out a file. "Why is this case included in this mission plan? Could it be that it's also part of the plan?"

“Before making a plan, you have to take into account all the factors that could affect its implementation.” Xincheng stretched his neck. “I just felt that someone might take revenge, so I investigated this case as well.”

"smoothly?"

“Retrieve the data from the database, then analyze it on the computer. The AI ​​will provide the most likely possibilities.” Shinjo shrugged. “It might be similar to a detective’s reasoning, except that a detective’s reasoning is singular, while the AI ​​can calculate several possible conclusions. After that, supplement the relevant evidence, and the one with the most complete evidence and the clearest chain of evidence will be the truth of the case.”

Kaito opened his mouth, completely taken aback that the truth behind the case he was handling was derived by computer. Although he wanted to criticize the guy's method as too casual, upon reflection, it seemed like a valid approach to investigation, at least the result was correct. It was much better than some detectives who became famous through guesswork and torture.

While he was considering the feasibility of his plan, Ran also received an invitation from Sonoko Suzuki.

"We need to leave Tokyo," Ran said hesitantly.

If she remembered correctly, Mr. Shinjo's protection area seemed to be limited to the Tokyo metropolitan area. She hadn't been that concerned about it before, but after seeing the files at the Metropolitan Police Department today—that their target was Conan—she was starting to have second thoughts.

“If you want to go, then go ahead.” Kogoro Mouri opened a can of beer. “The Suzuki family’s security is pretty good, and with you and me, protecting that kid shouldn’t be too much of a problem.”

"But……"

“I’ll handle things at the new town. Besides, we can’t stay hidden in the Tokyo metropolitan area forever,” Kogoro Mouri said confidently. “I’ll have him accompany us in the car.”

"Won't it be too much trouble?" Xiaolan knew her father was unreliable, so she asked another question.