Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World

Mao Lilan called Kudo Yuki and said, "Sister Yuki, could you please come to my mother's law firm? She fell ill while working.

Please ask Sister Xue to take her to Beihu Central Hospital. My father's phone is turned off and I can't contact him for the time being. Conan said Sister Xue is nearby. I'm a little anxious and can only trouble you first. "

Kudo Yuki listened to the voice on the phone: "Xiaolan, don't worry, I'm indeed nearby, I'll be there in about 3 minutes, wait a moment, I'll go drive."

Kudo Yuki hung up the phone, drove to the law firm, and sent Maori Kisaki Eri to the car: "Please hold on a little longer, we will be at the hospital soon."

When they arrived at the hospital, Kudo Yuki got out of the car and helped support Kisaki Eri, while Mouri Ran went to handle the hospitalization procedures, and Conan followed behind.

In the hospital, Maoriki Eri was sent from the operating room to the ward. Not long after, Maori Kogoro rushed to Haido Central Hospital and shouted loudly in the hospital: "Eri! Eri!"

He rushed into the hospital ward, and Mao Li Feiyingli looked at him calmly: "What are you making a fuss about."

Maori Kogoro asked: "Aren't you going to have surgery?"

Maori Kisaki Eri replied speechlessly: "It's just appendicitis, and the operation was already over, and the anesthesia has worn off. I just woke up."

Maori Kogoro helplessly held his forehead with his hand: "What? It turns out it's just appendicitis."

Maori Kisaki Eri and Maori Ran both glared at Maori Kogoro, and Maori Ran angrily asked: "Why don't you take it seriously? Where did you go after turning off your phone? What were you doing?"

Maori Kisaki Eri replied unhappily: "Anyway, they're either going to bet on horses, play mahjong, or play ping-pong."

Just as Conan was about to speak, Kudo Yuki interrupted him and said, "Xiaolan, since your father is here, I'll leave first."

Mao Lilan's expression softened: "Sister Xue, let me take you there."

Kudo Yuki shook her head: "Just enjoy your family reminiscing about the past. I won't bother you any more."

Less than a minute after Kudo Yuki walked out of the ward, she heard Maori Kisaki Eri's roar: "Get out, you two-faced detective!"

With a bang, the door of the ward closed. Kudo Yuki turned around and saw Conan: "Conan, are you kicked out too?"

Conan spread his hands and shook his head helplessly: "Yeah, I was kicked out."

Amuro Toru walked over here and said, "Isn't this Mr. Maori? Is Mr. Maori feeling unwell?"

Maori Kogoro replied: "No, I came to see my wife."

Shu Shu poked his little head out of Kudo Yuki's bag to watch the show. Just as Kudo Yuki was about to leave, he noticed that Conan was staring at Amuro Toru, as if he was trying to find some clues.

Kudo Yuki withdrew her gaze. There was nothing for her to do here. She turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by Amuro Toru. He smiled and looked at Kudo Yuki: "Xiaoxue, wait here for me. I have something to tell you."

Kudo Yuki glanced at Amuro Toru and joked, "Okay, I'll be a invisible person for now." Kudo Yuki stood aside and watched, without saying a word.

Toru Amuro looked at Conan and Maori Kogoro with a worried look on his face: "I heard that someone I know was hospitalized, so I came to visit him. But he seemed to have been discharged from the hospital without me noticing when."

Amuro Toru walked a few steps towards Conan, stopped, leaned down to look at him, and began to test: "I heard from the nurses that you, Conan, have been to this hospital before. Do you know him? He is a man named Kusuda Rikumichi."

Conan pretended not to know him: "Who is that? I don't know."

Amuro Toru laughed and joked: "To be honest, I lent money to that man, hoping that he could pay me back. Do you really not know who he is?"

Conan shook his head and looked at Amuro Toru. Amuro Toru raised the corner of his mouth and whispered softly: "You are really amazing."

After Amuro Toru stood up, he chatted with Maori Kogoro casually for a few words, and his eyes seemed to casually glance at Conan, then he bent down and said to Conan with a smile: "Conan, you will become a great detective in the future."

At this moment, a little boy's voice suddenly came from the side: "3, 2, 1, zero."

When Toru Amuro heard the word "zero", his body trembled slightly and he was stunned for a second. He subconsciously turned his head and looked at the little boy who was talking. He saw the little boy walking into the elevator with his family.

"What's wrong with you?" Kogoro Mouri noticed that Toru Amuro was acting abnormally and asked with concern.

Amuro Toru's expression quickly returned to normal. He smiled and said, "No, because my nickname is also Zero, and I thought someone called me that."

Maori Kogoro continued to ask: "Why is it Zero? I remember your name, it should be Toru."

Amuro Toru explained: "Because the transparent Toru means there is nothing. That's why they call me Zero. Anyway, that's the nickname they gave me when I was a child. Sometimes it doesn't make sense."

Conan has been closely observing Amuro Toru's reaction, and he keenly captured the subtle changes in Amuro Toru when he heard "zero". This made him more certain that the word "zero" must be related to Amuro Toru's true identity.

Conan secretly speculated: "This may be the clue to find out his true identity." He decided to continue to investigate and find more information related to "zero".

Kudo Yuki looked at Conan thinking and gave Conan a loud slap on the forehead. Conan covered his forehead with both hands and looked at Kudo Yuki with accusing eyes: "Sister Yuki, what are you doing?"

Kudo Yuki pointed at Amuro Toru and Maori Kogoro who were almost walking away and said, "If you don't come back to your senses, you'll be left behind. Hurry up and catch up."

Conan ran a few steps and caught up. Kudo Yuki was walking slowly. The next moment, he heard several women screaming. The four of them ran over. Amuro Toru knocked on the door and asked, "Excuse me, what happened?" No one responded. Amuro Toru opened the door and saw a woman lying on the ground.

Conan called the police directly, and within a few minutes, the police car arrived at the scene of the crime and began to investigate.

Inspector Megure listened to the investigator's report: "The victim is Ms. Suto Reina, 42 years old, who lives in Haido Town. She came to the hospital today to visit her high school classmate, Ms. Kosaka Juri.

That’s why she and two of her classmates came to Beihu Central Hospital to visit the patient. It seems that only Ms. Xudong arrived at the hospital before the other two friends. ”

The reporter nodded and replied, "According to our investigation, the victim drank a cup of poisoned tea in the hospital's tea room after visiting Ms. Kosaka Juri, which led to her death from poisoning."

Officer Megure asked in confusion: "It is said that the cause of death was suffocation caused by poisons such as cyanide, but why are they still drinking tea in the hospital?"

The reporter looked at the notes in his hand and answered, "Because Miss Kosaka, who is hospitalized, likes to drink tea, whenever the four of us get together, we drink tea like we are having a tea party."

Officer Megure turned to look at the three suspects and asked, "Those three people knew that there would be an opportunity today to make the victim drink the deadly poison, right?"

The reporter echoed, "Yes, Officer Megure. These three suspects knew that the victim would come to the hospital to visit Ms. Kosaka Juri today, and they also knew that the victim liked to drink tea. Therefore, they all had the opportunity to poison the tea."

Conan picked up the victim's phone with white gloves and observed it carefully. Suddenly, he found something strange: "Oh, this is really strange. There are many photos of them stored in the phone that fell here, but the deceased aunt in the photo is holding chopsticks with her right hand."

Officer Megure took the phone, looked at it for a while, and asked in confusion: "Is there anything strange about this? Usually people use their right hand to hold chopsticks."

Conan explained: "But if you look at the broken cup on the floor, you will find it if you look closely. Because the right edge of the cup handle is stained with lipstick. If so, it means that she drank from the cup with her left hand."

Inspector Megure looked at Conan and nodded in agreement: "That's true."

Maori Kogoro touched his chin with his hand and asked, "Why did the victim hold it with his left hand?"

Amuro Toru explained: "It must be because her right hand was busy holding something at the time. For example, she was looking at photos or other information on her phone."

Everyone was looking at Amuro Toru, who paused and continued to analyze: "When everyone is concentrating, they will naturally neglect other things. Even if the position of the cup or the direction of the handle is changed, they will pick it up without noticing. As long as the criminal uses this natural reaction, he will have a chance to make the victim drink the poison."

After saying that, Toru Amuro winked at Yuki Kudo, who pretended not to see it and said, "According to your idea, you can secretly swap your cup with the victim's. It's much easier to put poison in your own cup and then swap it with the victim's cup than to poison the victim's cup when he's not paying attention."

Amuro Toru saw Kudo Yuki pretending not to see anything, with a barely perceptible smile on her face, and thought to himself: "She's quite a tsundere."

Amuro Toru continued to explain: "Because everyone's teacups don't seem to have cups and plates prepared to place them. So it's easier to change the position of the teacups."

Kudo Yuki held her forehead helplessly, walked to the tea set, pointed at the tea in the cups and murmured: "The colors of these three cups of tea are different. The color of the tea in the victim's cup is also different."

The three suspects at the door of the ward looked at what Kudo Yuki was doing, and Beppu Kagetsu hurriedly asked, "How could we secretly replace the teacup?"

Kosaka Juri also agreed: "And only her teacup has a lemon slice."

Maori Kogoro murmured: "If the criminal poisoned the tea, then there should be a container or bag containing the poison. As long as we thoroughly investigate this ward, we should be able to find clues."

Inspector Megure agreed: "And it is possible that the criminal is still carrying the container with him."

Inspector Megure looked at the three suspects and separated them for questioning and body searches.

Kosaka Juri sighed softly and began to recount the whole incident: "I made the tea that everyone drank. Although they came to visit the patient, they are guests after all. However, although it is said to be making tea, I only put the tea bag into the teapot and then added hot water."

Officer Megure looked at Kousaka Juri and asked, "Were you the only one who touched the teacup at that time?"

Kousaka Juri shook her head and replied, "No, officer. The teacups we used were taken from the shelf by Happo and Beppu."

Officer Megure nodded, showing his understanding: "Even if the victim's teacup is stained with everyone's fingerprints, it is normal."

At this time, the person taking the statement raised a question: "Why are there so many different kinds of tea? People usually only drink the same kind of tea."

Kosaka Juri smiled and explained, "Everyone knows that I like herbal tea very much, so when they come to visit me, they always bring me some tea. Happo also brought some tea today. I thought this was a rare opportunity, so I tried different teas to compare them."

Kosaka Juri paused and continued, "I added the hot water in front of everyone. And before Sutou fell, she had already drunk nearly half of the cup of tea in her hand. Also, if I secretly switched the poisoned cup with hers as I just said, I would have been discovered immediately."

Officer Megure asked in confusion: "Why do you say that?"

Kosaka Juri explained seriously: "At that time, I was drinking a kind of herbal tea made from blue butterfly beans. Even if I wanted to switch, it would be discovered quickly. And Sudong, she was drinking a kind of red roselle tea."

Amuro Toru asked curiously: "Do you know what kind of tea the other two people drank at that time?"

Kosaka Juri nodded and replied, "Happo drinks brown peppermint herbal tea, and Beppu drinks yellow chamomile herbal tea."

Then, Inspector Megure rested his chin on his hand, pretending to think silently, and summoned Happo Tokieda to ask questions.

Happo Tokieda replied, "I was drinking mint at the time. I thought it was green tea, but it turned out to be brown. I was a little surprised because normally people would say mint is green. At that time, only Juri, who knew a lot about tea, chuckled."

Amuro Toru asked: "So, are all the teas you drink chosen by you?"

Happo Tokiji nodded and answered, "Yes, they are all on the table, and we can choose what we like to drink. After drinking, we wipe the teacup with tissue paper and drink the next kind of tea. Only Juri has been drinking a blue tea before we came to see her. She said it is good for the body, but it is very bitter, so she doesn't recommend it for us."

Officer Megure then asked, "I would also like to ask where the four of you are sitting."

Happo Tokiji rested his chin on one hand and answered, "Counting clockwise, it's me, Lingcai, Huayue, and Juri. Because at that time, Huayue and I were looking at the photos on Lingcai's phone from both sides of Lingcai."

Kudo Yuki asked, "Did anyone ask to see those photos?"

Happo Tokiji replied in a somewhat depressed tone, "It was Huayue. It seems that he had let Juri look at those photos before. He also said that he would let everyone look at the photos together when we went to visit the patient.

However, Lingcai didn't want to let go of her phone at that time, so she asked me and Huayue to watch from both sides. She has always been like this, always likes to monopolize one person, is self-centered and fickle, and her current husband is actually my ex-boyfriend, she is basically stealing other people's husbands. "

To be continued...