I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

"Well... I can't say I haven't been there before. I've made plans with her a few times before, but you know, once I encounter a case here, I can't leave, and this is not something I can control, so..."

"So you stand Xiaolan up every time?"

Serabelle completed the part he was embarrassed to say.

However, Conan refuted it the next second.

"No way! It was only two or three times. The rest of the time, I was just late at best!"

"I was late because of a case...how long will I be late?"

"About... two or three hours."

Then what’s the difference between you and someone who has been stood up?

Serabelle complained in her heart.

And you have to know that the opponent is the champion of the Kanto High School Karate Competition. You are really brave to dare to play like this when the difference in fighting power between the two sides is so huge.

Oh no, I should say that the only reason your head hasn't been twisted off by the Inch Power of Kaitian Ling is that Xiaolan has a very good temper.

Serabelle glanced at the man in front of her, who looked as if he was regretting his decision and wanted to reform himself into a new person, then she looked away and slowly exhaled.

"If you really want to come tomorrow, just ask for leave from school. You've already learned everything that is taught in school anyway."

"I do want to..."

Conan sighed towards the road and held up his cheek as if he had a toothache.

"But you also know that in school, whether it's elementary school or high school, parents have to call teachers to ask for leave. As for Uncle Maori... um."

A bit difficult?

Serabelle suddenly recalled the scolding that Aunt Eri gave to Kogoro Mouri in the ward last night.

"By the way, how was Uncle Maori's condition after he returned yesterday? Is he still normal? Did he not give up on himself?"

"Don't worry, not at all."

Conan kept humming.

"Maybe the scolding from my aunt really worked. After my uncle and I went back yesterday, he not only washed the dishes honestly, but also took out the beer bottles and kitchen waste along with the cigarette ashes himself. He also swept and mopped the office. He didn't even play mahjong at night. He took a shower and went to bed before midnight. He was so normal that it was a little unbelievable to me."

"Isn't that great?"

"Ahaha, sorry, I just feel horrified, thank you."

"……All right."

The two chatted on the side of the road for a while. After a while, Conan took out his cell phone to check the time.

"Okay, it's about time for me to go back."

"Oh, I'm going back too."

When boys say goodbye to each other, there never needs to be many reluctant scenes. Just a simple "I'm going back home", and the other party replies "Okay, see you later", which is enough.

However, just as Conan turned 90 degrees with his back to Serabelle and was about to walk towards the nearby bus stop, the phone rang.

It was Serabelle's cell phone ringing.

The boy took out his cell phone, looked at the caller ID, and then answered the call.

"Hello? Inspector Megure?"

Upon hearing this name, Conan, who had not even turned his head back the previous second, immediately stopped and turned to look.

The voice of Inspector Megure was then heard from Serabel's phone.

"Ah, it's me, brother Sera, are you free now? I'm still in the hospital. Regarding the attack on Officer Sato... I have some details I want to tell you."

Unlike the serious but energetic voice he was familiar with in the past, the voice of Inspector Megure on the phone now clearly revealed a sense of fatigue and mental struggle.

Oh wow.

Serabelle did not answer immediately, but just replied calmly.

"From your tone, Inspector, this doesn't sound like information that you would casually disclose to outsiders?"

"Originally... yes."

Inspector Megure sighed on the phone.

"But no matter what, I watched Xiaolan grow up. I have been married for so many years and have no children. Xiaolan is like half a daughter to me. If it is for her, I don't mind being fired."

"Got it. I'll come over now."

After saying the last sentence, Serabelle hung up the phone and prepared to leave.

But Conan called him from behind.

"Wait a minute, did Inspector Megure say something?"

"……Yes."

Serabelle turned around and said.

"Inspector Megure said he wanted to tell me some inside information about the attack that happened last night, and asked me to go to the hospital now."

"Inside story? Tell...'you'?"

Conan didn't quite understand.

No matter how stupid and ignorant a high school student he is, he knows that things like this that are classified as internal information cannot be made public easily. But now Inspector Megure chooses to tell him all of it?

"Remember Aunt Eri's speculation last night?"

Serabelle shrugged.

"Death with the police manual in hand means that the culprit is most likely a member of the police force, or even a senior member of the police force. If it is done by a senior member of the police force, then no matter how hard Inspector Megure and his team try to investigate, there will be no results. For details, please refer to the "internal investigation" process in the British civil service system."

Literally internal investigation, translated as nothing happened.

But the criminal's intention to kill Xiaolan will not be forgotten along with the internal investigation process.

"So, got it?"

"……Understood."

"Want to come together?"

"Let's go together."

Beika Town is only a ten-minute drive from the city center, and Beika Hospital is located at the junction of Beika Town and the city center.

Five minutes waiting for the bus, five minutes on the bus.

Ten minutes later, Serabell and Conan, who got off the bus, arrived at the main gate of Beika Hospital.

Going forward is the familiar outpatient building, and the inpatient building is located on the left side of the outpatient building.

It was evening now, and people were still coming in and out of the hospital.

The two of them walked through the crowd and arrived at the main entrance of the outpatient department. Just as they were about to turn left and walk towards the inpatient building, a figure in a white coat walked out from the side of the outpatient building.

"Eh? Weren't you two friends from yesterday, Ms. Maori?"

Ok?

A familiar voice came from behind, and Serabelle and Conan turned around at the same time.

It turned out to be Doctor Feng Hu.

He seemed to have just finished his work and was about to go to the cafeteria to eat. When he saw the two of them, he quickened his pace and ran down the stairs to say hello.

"I found out today that Miss Maori was discharged from the hospital and I thought you guys wouldn't come. By the way, how is Miss Maori doing now? Has she recovered any memory?"

"Well, not yet."

Serabell put her hands in her pockets and was too lazy to talk, so Conan was forced to work.

"But Sister Xiaolan said she had some impression of Dorobiga Amusement Park. We plan to take her there tomorrow to see if we can remember anything."

"Oh? Is that so?"

Fudo Kyosuke nodded thoughtfully.

Chapter 539 How can we check everything? What if we find out something?

After saying goodbye to Dr. Fudo and arriving at the inpatient department, Serabelle and Conan followed the address on the text message sent by Inspector Megure to the corridor outside the intensive care unit.

Because it is an intensive care unit and most people cannot afford to stay there, there are not many people on the floor. The only people coming and going are doctors, nurses, caregivers and other staff. It is much quieter than ordinary floors.

Inspector Megure was sitting on a bench outside one of the wards, his elbows resting on his knees and his head lowered, not knowing whether he was dozing off or thinking about something.

"Inspector Megure..."

Conan called quietly.

"Ok?"

As if reacting to someone calling his name, Inspector Megure, who had his head lowered the previous second, moved slightly and raised his head. After a brief pause, he slowly stood up and looked around. He scanned the surroundings and found that Serabell and Conan had come to him.

"Ah, brother Sera, and... Conan, you're here too."

Inspector Megure was not in good spirits. There were slightly dark circles under his round hat and fine bloodshot in the whites of his eyes. It was obvious that he had not slept the whole night before. He was just outside the ward door accompanying Officer Sato.

"Officer Sato hasn't regained consciousness yet?" Conan asked kindly.

"not yet."

Inspector Megure just shook his head and didn't want to talk more. He stood up on his knees and said.

"Okay, let's talk somewhere else. If anything happens here, the hospital will call me immediately."

"it is good."

So the three of them went to the conference room on the side of the doctor's office on the general inpatient floor downstairs.

Inspector Megure was the last one to enter the conference room. He immediately closed the door after entering, and after making sure it was locked and could not be easily opened from the outside, he sat down at the conference table. He took out a few photos from the inner pocket of his coat and pushed a stack of photos in front of Serabelle.

"This is?"

Serabelle spread out the photos and glanced at them roughly, and immediately showed a puzzled expression.

Because he is not even a human being in any of the photos.

but……

His eyes stayed on one of the photos, which showed a thin man in his early thirties with a gunshot wound to the chest, lying in a parking lot with a police manual in his hand.

This scene is similar to what Aunt Yingli described at that time.

"This is Ichiro Shibayo, one of our colleagues from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department." Inspector Megure said solemnly, "About two days ago, he was found shot dead in the underground garage of his neighborhood. Before he died, he was holding his police manual in his hand."

"Then this person must be... "

Serabelle turned to another photo, which showed a burly man who was shot dead in front of a telephone booth. He looked a bit like Inspector Otaki of the Osaka Police Station, and his hand was on his chest before he died.

"Yes, this is Officer Narasawa." Inspector Megure nodded, "I'm sure you guys have seen the details in the previous news, Sera."

"To understand what happened this time, we have to start with the relationship between the two of them and Officer Sato. In fact, the three of them were once under Officer Tomonari's command."

As Inspector Megure spoke, he picked out a photo of a middle-aged man in his fifties who had longer eyebrows than average, a slightly pointed chin, and a face that looked a bit like a goblin.

"He is Officer Youcheng."

"Two years ago in the summer, they jointly investigated a case in which Dr. Nino Yasushi, a surgeon at the First Department of Surgery at the University of Tokyo Hospital, committed suicide at home."

The fourth photo shows a man with slicked-back hair, wearing a suit and glasses, and smiling rather sinisterly, giving off the feeling of a gentlemanly villain.

"At the time, Dr. Ninobo was embroiled in a legal dispute after being sued by the patient's family for mistakes during surgery. When he was found, he had already died in the living room of his home due to excessive bleeding from a laceration of the right carotid artery. There was a bottle of opened red wine on the dining table next to him, a scalpel was still in the body's hand, and a suicide note of repentance was left in the typewriter at home."

"For the above reasons, Officer Youcheng at the time classified the case as suicide."

"But the first person to discover the body was the deceased's sister, Ms. Nino Tamaki, who lived in the next town. She claimed that her brother had always been a scumbag and would never care about the patient's life or death, let alone commit suicide to apologize for the failure of the operation."

"In other words, the deceased's sister believes that her brother Niinobo did not commit suicide but was murdered?" Serabel understood.

"That's it."

Inspector Megure sighed softly.

"But at that time, the police had already determined it was suicide and closed the case, so they couldn't continue to investigate and help. In the summer of the same year, Officer Tomonari, who was originally in charge of this and that, died during an arrest mission due to a heart attack during an ambush in the hot weather. He didn't receive timely medical treatment, so the matter was temporarily unresolved. It was only these two days that I learned that Officer Sato, Officer Shibayo, who had passed away earlier, and Officer Narasawa had recently started privately investigating the case again."

"That means someone might want to stop the investigation of this matter."