Conan: The Mechanic

A few minutes later, the security guard cleared the crowd, while Chiba and Conan took advantage of their small stature to get through the gap between the people and get to the place closest to Oto.

The deceased was fixed on the seat by the restraint device of the game console, his arms changed to normal posture, palms up, and his head was sweating. The exact cause of death is unknown, there is no obvious trauma on the body, and it appears to have died from non-physical factors.

Pathological death? Toxic death?

At this moment, a familiar voice came from not far away.

"The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a criminal case, please keep your distance!"

The one who led the team to investigate the case was Officer Mumu.

"The deceased, Mr. Kengo Oto, is 21 years old and unemployed. Most people say that he has a bad character and often hangs here."

"In other words, does he make a lot of enemies here?" Officer Mumu pondered.

"In addition, according to the investigation results, the deceased Kengo Oto died suddenly in the game."

"Is this true?" Officer Meguro looked at the transcript presented by Officer Takagi and asked in surprise. "Did the deceased die suddenly in the game?"

"Yes," Takagi nodded. "Everyone said he died suddenly in a fierce confrontation with another Mr. Shimizu Takaho."

"Zhishui high security?" Officer Mumu asked. "where is he?"

"I'm here," the man in the dark suit walked out. "He did die suddenly in the game. Originally I was at a disadvantage because of a mistake, but he suddenly stopped moving, and I found a chance to beat him. Waiting for his supporters to see why he didn't attack It was only then that I found out that something had happened to him.”

"By the way, why does this person dress like this?" Officer Meguro suddenly looked at the restraint device of the game console on Oto's body and said. "How do you look like you're shooting a sci-fi movie?"

"Because this is the latest somatosensory fighting game, these parts are needed to feedback the somatosensory sensation after being hit..." Shisui Koho explained. "After being punched, the device in the corresponding part will transmit the feeling of being hit to the player."

"Huh?" Officer Mumu was surprised. "Could it be that he was beaten to death because of the severity of the blow?"

"No, no!" Shisui Kobao said quickly. "The blow of this is quite formalized, at best, it is equivalent to flicking the forehead with a finger."

At this moment, Officer Mumu's phone rang.

"It looks like the results of the mobile autopsy car downstairs came out," Officer Mumu said after glancing at the sender. "Well... no poison was found after the simple toxicology test, and the heart autopsy showed the symptoms of wavy shape of myocardial fibers. It is suspected that the deceased died of a heart attack."

. . . Milk tea shop.

"..." Hui Yuan was sipping a cup of milk tea, but saw a little brother in the uniform of a milk tea shop walking over with a small bottle tightly wrapped in a red ribbon. "?"

"Just now, a lady asked me to give you this small bottle," the little brother half-kneeled in front of Hui Yuanai and said pleasantly. "She told me to give you this bottle of wine."

"Who gave it to me?" Hui Yuanai took the small wine bottle and wondered.

"She just said, I hope you have a good day." The little brother shook his head, said softly, and then walked into the men's bathroom of the milk tea shop.

Hai Yuanai raised her eyebrows, took off the red ribbon on the small wine bottle, and then—

Haibara Ai's eyes stopped on the red ribbon, originally intending to identify the type of wine from its appearance. "!!"

Haibara Ai's pupils shrank suddenly, she immediately got up and looked in the direction of the men's bathroom.

"Is something wrong, Haibara-san?" Mitsuhiko asked curiously.

"..." Haibara Ai looked at Mitsuhiko after hesitating for a moment, but said anyway. "Mitsuhiko-kun, help me go to the men's bathroom and call out the waiter brother just now."

"Okay." Mitsuhiko nodded, walked over to the bathroom, passed a young man and walked into the bathroom.

Twenty seconds later, Mitsuhiko walked out with a blank face holding a milk tea shop uniform. "Haihara-san..."

"What's the matter?" Haibara Ai walked quickly to Mitsuhiko and asked. "What about people?"

"There's no one inside," Mitsuhiko explained blankly. "Only this uniform."

"..." Hai Yuanai's face was a little pale. "Got it..." Then, she quickly walked out of the milk tea shop, leaving Mitsuhiko, who was still confused, behind.

Fujiwara took a sip of milk tea and quietly watched Haibara Ai leave.

"?" At this moment, Qianyu casually glanced outside the game hall, only to find that Haibara Ai was walking out of the milk tea shop in a panic.

"Haihara?" Conan also looked here, confused.

"I'll go take a look." Qian Yu left the sentence and walked out of the game hall in a hurry.

. . .

"What's going on?" Qianyu quickly caught up with Haibara Ai and asked anxiously. "Why are you so flustered?"

When Haibara Ai turned around, Chiba's brows furrowed.

He read panic on Hai Yuanai's face.

"What's wrong?" Qianyu asked again. "Did something happen?"

His eyes fell on the small wine bottle and red ribbon on Haibara Ai's hands.

There was a paragraph written on the red ribbon. Although the backside of the text was turned down because of Haibara Ai's posture of holding the red ribbon, Chiba was still able to distinguish a part of the content that was not covered by Haibara Ai's hand.

There are two types of font sizes for the content that is not covered, one is the same font size used for sentences, and the other is a larger font size with only one word written.

"Vermouth," Chiba read out the word. "Be-ru-mo-tto..."

Ai Haibara's body trembled.

"Is this Belmod the one I know?" Qianyu said solemnly.

"..." Hai Yuanai's face became even paler.

"Come home with me," Chiyu said. "Go back and talk."

"It's too dangerous," Huihara shook his head sadly. "It will hurt you."

"It'll be fine."

"That's Belmod!" Haibara Ai finished speaking, UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com was about to turn around and leave again, but the next moment she had a look of astonishment on her face.

Chiba's hands were on Haibara Ai's shoulders, restraining Haibara so that she couldn't turn around and leave, her eyes staring at Haibara Ai. "I have enough ability to protect you, even if confronting her and her subordinates may not have an advantage, I can at least guarantee that you - you and me - are not in any danger to life. I have this confidence, do you have confidence in me? ?"

Haiyuan sadly looked at Qianyu with an extremely determined expression, her eyes turning a little red. Then, she suddenly threw herself into Chiyu's arms.

"Thank you..." Haibara Ai's voice was already mixed with crying. "Thank you..."

"I'm here," Qianyu's expression softened, she hugged Haibara Ai and said softly. "I will and can always protect you."

————The dividing line of the author's words

Vermouth is Vermouth, and absinthe is Absinthe. Absinthe is a mistranslation of Vermouth by the translation team. Although both are based on absinthe related substances, they are two completely different alcohols. (In fact, absinthe bans were issued in Europe and the United States in 1910 and later, and the ban was not lifted until the 1980s and 1990s—the United States has not lifted the ban. But in 1994, there was no ban at all. The way to restore absinthe to its 1910 peak—until only one French distillery managed to do it around 2010.)

The translation of Vermouth in this article is uniformly set as vermouth instead of absinthe, and the transliteration is fine and it is still Belmod.

In addition, I will explain the cause of Oto's death in the next chapter (please allow my handicap to use this thing to make up the number of characters =, =)