Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 325 Maori's "Illusion"

"Mr. Maori, you've been a great detective for too long, aren't you a little too nervous? I've already said it's just an illusion. The room you mentioned in the opposite building is actually an inspection room. There's no one there at night. Didn't you see it the other day?"

In Maori's ward, another doctor said sarcastically at this time.

"But... I still feel..." Mao Li obviously didn't quite accept this statement.

"It's just that Mr. Mao Li has a lot of face. He has called the police four times and the police officers didn't complain much. Hahaha..."

The doctor was sarcastic, as if he was sure that Maori Kogoro just had mental problems, and he even laughed at him...

"Dr. Eto, that's enough. I'll explain the precautions to Detective Mori later." After Shirai came in, he stopped Eto from laughing.

"I see, I see. Dr. Shirai is really a good doctor who cares about his patients..." Eto said to Shirai with a hint of sarcasm.

Shirai showed a look of resentment when he heard this, and then Eto immediately changed his expression to a cynical one. He put his arm around Shirai's neck and said, "Detective Mori, if I get killed one day, it must be this guy who did it."

"Dr. Eto, you..." Shirai panicked when he heard that.

"Hahaha, it's just a joke, don't be so nervous." Jiang Teng said, then turned around and walked out.

But at the door...

When Jiang Teng saw Shiraishi, he was so scared that he instinctively took two steps back and then walked around him.

"What's wrong with this guy?" Shiraishi frowned and looked at Eto's back, and asked Shirai.

"Dr. Eto's surgical skills are excellent, but his personality is a bit eccentric, hehe..." Shirai defended him.

But look at Maori, especially Conan who is slightly taller than the bed in front of Maori's bed...

Although this is not Mihua, Bai Shi still feels that this kind of person will not live long!
"Ah! Officer Shiraishi, you're here too." Xiaolan saw Shiraishi coming to visit her father and hurriedly greeted him.

"Well, Detective Maori has helped our Beika Police Department solve many cases. This time he was injured while chasing the criminal, so of course I have to come." Shiraishi said as he put down the fruit basket.

Shirai was also staring at the fruit basket at this time, but didn't dare to say anything.

Where did the fruit basket come from?
Shiraishi just found out that Maori was injured, so of course he didn't bring his fruit basket, but...

Atsumori Takami was discharged from the hospital today. Kanzaki sent a fruit basket to Shirai, the nominal attending physician, and then... he was requisitioned by Shiraishi!
"Thank you for your concern." Xiaolan said politely.

Shiraishi changed the subject and said, "By the way, Detective Maori, what did you mean by 'murder'?"

"I really saw it last night... someone was committing a crime in the room opposite!" When Mao Li saw Shiraishi asking, he immediately pointed outside the window and said with confidence.

Upon hearing this, Bai Shi looked in the direction he pointed.

"Dad..." At this time, Xiaolan called Maori Kogoro a little embarrassedly - because in the past few nights, every time Kogoro had "hallucinations", Xiaolan would be tossed over, and she also watched the so-called "scene" with the patrolmen, so she was very convinced that this was an hallucination. Seeing that Director Shiraishi cared so much, she felt a little embarrassed.

"Officer Shiraishi, it's probably because Dad has been too tired lately." Xiaolan explained to Shiraishi embarrassedly.

Well, it is normal to say “too tired”. After all, there are more than twenty murders in a month. The American soldiers who go to the Middle East to rob are not so shocked. It is not surprising to have PTSD!
"Xiao Lan! I...ah." Maori was helpless. He wanted to be tough but the facts were right in front of him.

"From what you said just now...more than once?" Bai Shi didn't care about Xiaolan's apology.

"Well, that was the third time last night," Maori said listlessly.

"It's the fourth time..." Xiaolan corrected.

gross profit:……

Mao Li was even less motivated now! He really had trouble sleeping and eating these days.

After all, for four consecutive nights, he saw a murder happening in the building opposite, but when he ran over with his crutches, he found nothing... This really troubled Mao Li, and he even had some self-doubt for a while.

"This is the jurisdiction of the Fuji Police Station, right?" Shiraishi confirmed.

"Yes, patrol officers from Fuji Police Station also came to check on the room over the past four days, but there was no one in the room." Xiaolan nodded.

False alarm calls were made for four consecutive days, and they were all reports of "homicide cases".

If it weren't for Maori Kogoro's special situation, if it were someone else, they would definitely be taught a lesson, but...

As for what Kogoro Mouri said, everyone just assumed that he was really sick, or that he was sick from helping the police solve the case, so there was nothing to say.

But even so...

Shiraishi estimated that after four nights of this, the Fuji Police Department should have become slack.

"One, two, three... It's the room without curtains, right?" Bai Shi pointed at the window to confirm.

"That's right! Every time..." Maori nodded confidently.

"Then...why not record it?" Bai Shi asked back.

gross profit:!!!
"Ah! Yes! I will record it tonight..." Maori suddenly acted as if he suddenly realized something.

Shiraishi:……

It seems... Maori simply didn't think of it before.

"Isn't that the inpatient building opposite?" Shiraishi confirmed with Shirai.

Shirai shook his head when he heard that, "No, the room Detective Mori mentioned is also an inspection room."

"Aren't the curtains in this ward drawn at night?" Bai Shi asked puzzledly.

It's normal that there are no curtains in the examination room, but...

Why didn't the curtains in Maori's ward be drawn at night? Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to see the other side.

Maori's right foot is in a cast now. It's impossible that he got up in the middle of the night and opened the curtains to take a look, right?
"Hehe, because I'm a detective, I have to strictly follow my schedule even if I'm injured, so I don't draw the curtains and I have to get up as early as possible in the morning..." Maori said confidently at this time.

but……

Shiraishi could hear it, of course. Xiaolan muttered quietly beside him, "It was obviously to watch the Marseille..."

"What time did you always go when you witnessed a murder?" Bai Shi asked again.

"The first two times were at 1:30, and these two times were at 11:30." Mao Li still remembered this.

"Huh? You remember it so clearly? And... at this time, Detective Maori, you are still awake?" Hearing this, Shiraishi felt more and more that something was wrong.

"Well, because..." Maori said, looking at Dr. Shirai.

Seeing this, Dr. Shirai said at the right time: "Because Detective Maori has to take medicine at night, he set the alarm... After he had hallucinations two days ago, I asked Detective Maori to move the medication time forward two hours, but..." Shirai shook his head and said this - Maori still had hallucinations even though the alarm was set for the first half of the night!

At this time, Bai Shi was already suspicious...

If it was not an illusion but man-made, then the person who caused it must have controlled the time when Kogoro Mori witnessed it!
After all, if it was only once, it might be that Maori accidentally saw it during some "murder rehearsal", but he saw it for four consecutive days, which must be a planned one, so he needs to control the time...

As for “repeating the crime scene all night until Maori called the police”?
Obviously impossible...

Although patients would rest at night in the inpatient building, the inpatient department of Dongdi Hospital was so large, how could there not be an inpatient or family member who came out to "look at the moon" all night?

If we really keep doing this all night long, it’s sure that more than just Maori will see it!
In this case, we need to be able to control Mao Li's waking time...

And now it seems that the time to take medicine is controlled by Doctor Shirai - OK, do you people with the surname Shirai have a conflict with me? Every time I meet you people with the surname Shirai, I have to find something to do with me!
Of course, Shiraishi hadn't said anything at this time, because it wasn't necessarily Shirai who was causing trouble.

There is an "alarm clock" in the ward. Shirai has told the time for taking medicine, but things like adjusting the clock are done by the nurse on duty.

Even if you are not a medical staff member in charge of Maori, you may be able to use this time as long as you see the record in the medical record.

"Detective Maori, what exactly did you see? Is it a room with the lights on?" Shiraishi confirmed with Maori.

"The lights were on, but I couldn't see clearly. I could only see the outline of a figure. It looked like someone was committing a crime with a knife..." Maori recalled.

"Can only see the outline of a shadow?" Shiraishi looked at the room opposite in confusion, and then asked, "Where in the room was the person that Detective Maori saw?"

"What position?" Maori still didn't understand what Shiraishi meant.

"Is it at the examination table, or near the door, or where the portrait is hung..." Bai Shi gave examples one by one.

"Ah, it should be in front of the window, because I only saw half of the shadow." Maori answered after understanding.

Conan, who had been silent, couldn't help but ask, "Officer Shiraishi, did you check the room opposite just now?"

"Huh? No, but I can see it clearly from here." Bai Shi said as a matter of course.

Except for the fact that he couldn't see a part near the door due to the angle, even though the hospital's buildings were quite far apart and separated the campus, Shiraishi began to have a clear view of the layout of the examination room opposite.

Conan: ...

Shiraishi touched the curtains in the ward and asked Shirai, "Doctor Shirai, are all the curtains in the hospital like this?"

"Eh? This... should be it." Shirai is not from the logistics department, but he has the impression that the curtains everywhere are the same.

Bai Shi nodded, but was also confused - if there was really someone inside and the light was on, how come only the outline of a shadow could be seen? Could it be through the curtains?

But if it was through the curtains, the curtains in this hospital were very thick, not gauze curtains, so how could one be seen through a person's shadow? Even if the lights were on, at most one could see a faint glow.

"Dad must be under too much pressure, so he made a mistake... I'm sorry for causing trouble for everyone." Xiaolan continued to apologize.

"Then... Detective Maori, you should also get more rest." Shiraishi said, comforting Maori.

And just then...

"Ah! Toilet, toilet! I need to go to the toilet." Conan shouted immediately.

Xiaolan:......

"Conan..." Xiaolan wanted to stop him in a low voice embarrassedly.

But Bai Shi took the initiative to say: "It's okay, I'll take him there... It's not convenient for you either."

"Well... I'm really sorry." Xiaolan was a little embarrassed.

"It's okay, Dr. Shirai...where is the urology department? Don't delay the child." Shiraishi turned his head and asked.

Conan: ...

"I can just go to the bathroom! I just drank too much Coke!" Conan said immediately.

……

Coming out of the ward, Conan immediately asked stealthily: "The news said... the assassination of the head of Aomori, is it related to them?"

Shiraishi was a little surprised when he heard this - he originally thought that he just wanted to talk about what happened to Kogoro Mori.

Unexpectedly...

"Huh? Has it been on the news?" Bai Shi was a little surprised.

But it makes sense when you think about it. After all, the person who died was the chief of the local county police department. The impact is extremely bad. If the results are not announced as soon as possible, it will only further expand public opinion.

Therefore, the story of "Director Mihua who passed by solved the case overnight" was also widely reported, and it became the best propaganda point to cover up the death of the director...

However, the news definitely did not write about the "mysterious organization" or anything like that, nor did it mention the specific case, let alone say that there were still killers who had not been caught. It only said that Shiraishi had seen through the murderer's tricks and arrested the local police officers who were corrupt and committed crimes.

"You are really sensitive to the Black Organization..." Bai Shi said in amazement.

Shiraishi immediately asked back, "Then why didn't you react in advance when you were knocked unconscious by Gin's huge stick?"

Conan: ...

Conan gritted his teeth when he heard this - why are you bringing up such a topic?
However, Conan didn't have time to complain at this time, and said in a deep voice: "It's really them? What's their purpose?"

Of course, Bai Shi couldn't reveal more to him...

The reason why he did not hide the fact that this matter was related to the Black Organization was because Shiraishi wanted to take the opportunity to educate him!

"I don't know, but... you've seen the news, right? The murderer caught was the local criminal minister." Shiraishi said as a matter of course.

Conan paused when he heard this, and vaguely understood what Shiraishi meant.

"Even if a local commander discovers their secret, he will be assassinated by his top general... This is the Black Organization." Shiraishi said in a declarative tone.

Seeing Conan remained silent, Shiraishi said calmly: "Even if you are still that high school detective, what can you do now? Even I am only investigating cautiously... If you get impatient now, you may be able to escape because you are 'an elementary school student', but you will definitely implicate others around you."

Shiraishi took the opportunity to warn Conan - Conan now, because he doesn't know enough about the "Black Organization", he is still very radical, and even doubts whether he will fight back with a baseball bat if Gin appears in front of him...

After Conan heard this, he stood there without saying anything. However, after Shiraishi took a few steps, he found that he had caught up with him again...

"Hmm?" Bai Shi frowned.

"You want to check out the room in the building across the street, right? I want to go too!"

(End of this chapter)