Chapter 5: The Cuckoo Occupies the Magpie's Nest (Edited) "For the welfare of all mankind...

30 years ago.

White Dove Pharmaceuticals.

A girl in a sweater and a high-waisted skirt walked through the door.

Her black hair was combed high, and she wore thin silver-rimmed glasses on her nose. The inorganic cold reflections on the lenses weakened the gentleness brought by her warm eyes. Combined with her overly fair skin, slightly raised eyebrows, and dark red lipstick that seemed to be a sign of keeping strangers away and subtly aggressive, the girl had a temperament mixed with intellect and mystery.

She walked to the back of the building with ease, used her ID card to open the door, and then walked around to an elevator.

The number of staff members around her gradually decreased, and here, only a few people were left.

The elevator seemed to have not been used for a long time and was making an ominous creaking sound.

There was no light in the elevator. As the elevator went down, the light coming in from the floors flickered and shone into the cramped space.

The girl took out a badge from somewhere, hung it around her neck, and adjusted her collar.

Another ray of light shone in, illuminating the breastplate.

It only says:

『Name: Lin Xi』

Job Number: 004753

『Department: Clinical Medicine Trial Department』

The elevator continued to go down. After an unknown amount of time, the surroundings gradually became brighter and the speed of descent gradually slowed down.

"Researcher Lin, welcome to the Clinical Medicine Trial Department."

Following the announcement from the electronic female voice, the girl stepped out of the elevator.

Lin Xi didn't feel anything special when he traveled back to thirty years ago.

The environment just feels more desolate and run-down than it did in the early 2000s. People on the street are also dressed in more old-fashioned and conservative clothes.

The Baijiu Pharmaceutical where she works now is a building built in the 1970s in a relatively prosperous area.

It can be considered a high-rise building.

The system's navigation led all the way here - the basement of Baijiu Pharmaceutical Company.

I guess Gin should be here.

The underground layer is completely different from the surface layer of Baijiu Pharmaceutical.

The company above ground is just a disguised shell, and its real base is underground.

Unlike the seemingly dilapidated elevator, the basement was spacious and bright, with various instruments beeping and researchers in white coats bustling about. Iris and voiceprint verifications, high-tech electronic announcements, fully automatic doors, and various intelligent devices...

Everywhere he looked was filled with a sense of technology, even more advanced than the modern research institute that Lin Xi had imagined.

After entering the copy, Lin Xi did not rush to follow the navigation to get here, but first learned about the information of Baijiu Pharmaceutical Company through various channels.

First of all, this is a large company with headquarters in Japan, and the place where Lin Xi is now is the headquarters of Baijiu Pharmaceutical.

Secondly, Baijiu Pharmaceutical has a good reputation among the general public. This is mainly due to Baijiu's efforts to provide free childhood vaccinations and to encourage other pharmaceutical companies to use disposable syringes when administering vaccines, significantly reducing the risk of children contracting diseases such as hepatitis C and meningitis.

In addition, Baijiu Pharmaceutical collaborates with major medical universities and some university medical schools in Japan to provide financial subsidies for high-achieving students from poor families to attend university. They even sign pre-training contracts with exceptionally talented students, allowing them to join the company upon graduation and become a new force in the company's scientific research. Even the company's slogan is "For the benefit of all mankind."

Finally, the largest shareholder behind Baijiu Pharmaceutical is Wuwan Group.

Of course, there are other groups, such as the Hyuga Group, the Oda Group, etc. These groups are family groups named after surnames, and the family residences are all in Kyoto, so the headquarters of Hakuba Pharmaceutical Company is located in Kyoto instead of the more prosperous and modern Tokyo.

The reason why Lin Xi paid special attention to the Wuhuan Group was because of this strange form.

Wuhuan, which means crow, is similar to Baijiu, which means white bird, but opposite in meaning.

Another point is that the identity assigned to oneself by the "special identity card" is closely related to the Karasuma Group.

Lin Xi found a report in a recent Kyoto newspaper with the title "Returned young scholar officially joined Baijiu Pharmaceutical Company, injecting new vitality into Japan's pharmaceutical industry."

And in the detailed report below, Lin Xi found his name.

"At the gracious invitation of Karasuma Ren'ya, head of the Karasuma family, Researcher Lin Xilin, who has achieved remarkable success in the fields of medicine and chemistry at a young age, has officially joined Hakuto Pharmaceuticals today..."

"...According to the company's public statement, Researcher Lin is responsible for managing the drug research and development department at Baijiu Company. His specific duties are confidential and are still being kept secret..."

The newspaper included a photo of an old man shaking hands with himself along with the report.

It was very interesting. The system had been surprisingly sophisticated when it came to creating her identity, even going so far as to generate a photo of her shaking hands with the head of the Karasuma family, without her having to do anything herself.

In other words, at least this Uramaru Renye was someone who *originally knew* Lin Xi.

The original acquaintance was a system preset, so Lin Xi didn't need to travel back further to create the acquaintance with Uramaru Renya.

This was different from Gin's situation. She had just said one sentence to Gin, and to fulfill her sentence, the system opened two copies in a row.

It seems that only very important plot characters like Gin need to travel back to the past to create memories, while ordinary NPCs like Karasuma Renya do not have this treatment.

After choosing to use the identity card, the system not only supplemented her identity background very well, but also upgraded her skills.

Medicine has been upgraded to Lv2, and Toxicology has also been upgraded to Lv1. These two skills are related skills, and Toxicology can only be upgraded after Medicine reaches Lv2.

At this level, although it is impossible to achieve what the report says, "having achieved outstanding achievements in medicine and chemistry at such a young age", at least he can understand medical terms and data reports in related fields.

After making all the preparations, Lin Xi followed the navigation and came here.

This should be the secret research and development base established by the organization underground in Baiji Pharmaceutical Company.

The colleagues passing by all looked very busy, rushing back and forth with documents in their hands, but when they saw Lin Xi, they would still smile and greet her.

The system's navigation has not yet ended. On the floor, a dark blue arrow points directly to the depths of the research institute.

Before she could get deeper, she was stopped by a researcher who rushed over.

"Teacher, you are finally here!"

Lin Xi looked up at him.

The chest tag showed his name as Yusuke Morishita.

His facial muscles were tense, and his lower eyelids twitched unnaturally—these were the muscle stiffness and involuntary movements of anxiety caused by intense stress. But upon seeing Lin Xi, his shoulder muscles almost immediately relaxed and sank, and he breathed a sigh of relief—a typical stress-relieving reaction. His gaze lingered on Lin Xi slightly longer than a normal social gaze… Lin Xi discerned a look of confirmation and dependence.

It seemed that something difficult and thorny had happened to him recently. He felt relieved after seeing Lin Xi, which meant that he believed Lin Xi could handle the matter.

Therefore, what happened was not completely out of control, but more likely an emergency that has been temporarily brought under control.

Besides, he also knew Lin Xi… Just now, he didn't address her as "Researcher Lin" or "Sir," but as the more casual "Teacher." She'd better not act too amateurish, so as not to arouse suspicion.

"What's the situation now?" Lin Xi took the report in his hand, flipped through it calmly, and walked inside.

"Number three showed a severe rejection reaction, numbers one, two and four showed no reaction, and number zero... number zero is still the same," the researcher adjusted his eyes and showed a somewhat uneasy expression when he said this.

"His physical condition has improved again. Today, he took advantage of our inattention to violently untie the restraints and attempted to attack the nurses around him. We had no choice but to inject him with muscle relaxants..."

Lin Xi glanced at him calmly upon hearing this. Feeling the pressure, the researcher quickly replied, "We'll stop using Silver Bullet on him after that!"

Silver Bullet.

Silver Bullet.

A special weapon in Western legend that can kill vampires and werewolves.

Lin Xi closed the report in his hand.

The name sounds strange, but it is actually the proper name of a medicine.

It seems that this is the project she is responsible for.

Such a huge research institute was built so deep underground, concealing its existence from the public. Excellent researchers were hired with huge sums of money, and human experiments were carried out to study strange drugs...

Whether it is Baijiu Pharmaceutical itself or the Wuhuan family who specially hired her, there is a sense of weirdness.

I'm afraid they're all related to the organization. In his previous life, Lin Xi had never paid much attention to the plot of Detective Conan, and his understanding of the plot was only vague, relying entirely on hearsay.

But an organization that could have defeated the FBI, CIA, and Japanese public security, and developed a drug that could shrink people... must have existed for quite a long time.

Even Gin appeared thirty years ago, so the organization must have existed even earlier.

After reading the report from the researcher, Lin Xi confirmed another thing.

The Zero the researcher mentioned is Gin.

It is impossible for such a coincidence to happen in the world that a second silver-haired person would appear in this underground research institute that never sees the sun.

Although it is a black and white photo, the boy wearing white clothes and tightly bound by restraints... is undoubtedly Gin.

"Take me to see him." Lin Xi said, "No. 0 must not be in any harm, understand?"

The project team had been injecting Silver Bullet into human test subjects. Lin Xi hadn't figured out what effect they were trying to achieve, but judging by the results, every time someone was injected with the drug, they either had no reaction or experienced lethal rejection, with the exception of Subject Zero.

He was the only experimental subject who survived the injection of Silver Bullet and whose body functions were completely changed.

Hmm, for some reason I have a sense of déjà vu of the protagonist's script.

The researcher responded and led the way.

Room Zero is at the very end of the corridor.

The experimental subject's room was the same as the monitoring room in a mental hospital, with a layer of iron railings and a layer of reinforced glass walls. It faced the corridor and could be seen at a glance, with no privacy at all.

There were no sharp objects in the room, and the walls stained with an unknown liquid looked terrifying and cold under the light.

Lin Xi just felt a little disgusted.

She attributed the strange feeling of nausea to the indelible mess left on the walls by the subjects, and the discomfort she felt from looking directly at the scene of a humanitarian crisis: human experiments on minors.

She opened the door.