Soon, the two of them drove to the hospital. Sakuragi Yukari was absent-minded along the way, but seeing Shizuku by her side, she was somewhat relieved. The two hurriedly got out of the car and entered the hospital. After asking the nurse about the situation, they learned that Sakuragi Yukari's mother had just finished surgery and had been sent to the intensive care unit.
So the two of them hurriedly took the elevator and went to the ICU.
"bite."
The elevator door slowly opened, and then a young and beautiful nurse came in. She glanced at Sakuragi Yukari and Shizuku, nodded to them, and Shizuku nodded in response. Then the elevator door closed and began to slowly rise.
This is a very old elevator, and you can even see rust all around. The elevator itself is also shaky, and it makes people feel uneasy to stand in it. At this moment, Sakuragi Yukari clenched his hands, lowered his head and stared at the ground, and for a moment he didn't know what he was thinking.
At the same time, Shizuku suddenly caught a faint sound coming from above her head. It was as if something was gradually breaking apart, making a crackling sound... Not good!
Thinking of this, Shizuku rushed to the front and punched the emergency button, and the elevator stopped instantly.
"Hey? What are you doing?"
Seeing Shizuku suddenly stop the elevator, the nurse was also shocked and asked hurriedly. At the same time, the elevator that was originally stopped in the air suddenly sank down!
"boom!!"
"ah--!!!"
The sudden tilt and vibration caused the nurse and Sakuragi Yukari to fall to the ground with screams. They grabbed the elevator handrails beside them in horror and looked up at the top of their heads anxiously.
"The elevator is about to fall, let's get out of here immediately!"
“But, but…”
Looking at the closed elevator door, the nurse and Sakuragi Yukari didn't know what to do for a moment. However, Shizuku didn't hesitate, grabbed a person with one hand, and then slammed forward against the elevator door!
“Boom!!!”
With a dull crash, the heavy elevator door was knocked out by Shizuku, and she herself flew out of the elevator holding the nurse and Sakuragi Yukari, and fell heavily to the ground. Almost at the moment when the three of them landed, the elevator behind them fell directly down with a "whoosh" sound, and fell to the ground with a loud bang.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
"The elevator is falling!"
"Hey, is the person inside injured?!"
At this moment, the doctors, nurses and patients who heard the loud noise also gathered around. Some of them saw Shizuku, Sakuragi Yukari and the nurses fallen in the corridor and rushed to them.
"Hey, are you guys okay?"
"I'm fine."
Facing the newcomer, Shizuku shook her head, then looked at the two people beside her, and the nurse shook her head.
"I'm fine too."
Only Sakuragi Yukari looked pale and trembling all over.
“Curse, it’s a curse, it’s a curse ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”
At this moment, she finally couldn't bear it anymore and screamed, holding her head.
What followed was almost complete chaos.
People sent the nearly frantic Sakuragi Yukari to the ward, and then gave her an injection of sedatives to make the originally emotional Sakuragi Yukari fall into a deep sleep. Shizuku sat in front of the bed and accompanied her silently, while thinking about the process of "scanning and anti-virus".
Unlike Fujioka Misaki, Sakuragi Yukari was attacked by antivirus twice in a row, which may be related to their own nature. At that time, Fujioka Misaki was actually dead, and then she was revived by Shizuku with holy light. Maybe because of this, the world will did not attack Fujioka Misaki again, but because Sakuragi Yukari rescued her, the system antivirus failed, so it repeated the operation once... I just don't know if it's only this time, or it will continue...
"I'm so sorry, can I bother you for a moment?"
Just as Shizuku was thinking, there was a voice at the door. Shizuku turned around and saw two policemen standing there. After seeing Shizuku's appearance clearly, they seemed to gasp at the same time, and then they walked in.
"We are police officers from the Criminal Division of the Yamiyama Police Station. If you don't mind, can I ask you a few questions about the incident that happened before?"
"Of course."
Shizuku nodded, not really caring. In Conan's world, Fang Zheng had cooperated with the Japanese police many times, so changing the world made no difference to him.
"Then I would like to ask, I learned from Ms. Mizuno before that you seemed to have noticed something before the elevator accident?"
"Mizuno?"
"Oh, that's the nurse who was in the elevator with you guys."
“It was her.”
Hearing this, Shizuku nodded.
"Yes, I heard a creaking sound coming from above the elevator, which made me worried. Plus, the elevator looked very old, so I pressed the emergency brake button just in case."
"I see. But I never knew you could break through the elevator door..."
"The situation was very urgent at the time. I could only try my best. It was better than falling down and dying."
Facing the police's probing, Shizuku answered with a smile.
"Indeed."
In response to Shizuku's answer, the policeman nodded without any suspicion.
"But I heard from the onlookers that the girl next to you was shouting some curse or something..."
"That was just something I said out of excitement."
Shizuku shook her head.
"In fact, we came to the hospital today because not long ago, Sakuragi's mother was in a car accident and is currently being rescued. She was already extremely worried, and when she encountered something like this, it was inevitable that she would be a little emotional."
The police then asked Shizuku a few more questions and then left. No one died in this accident, and it was probably simply due to mechanical aging. Of course, generally speaking, even if the elevator machinery is aging, the safety device will not fail, but this is not a problem that Shizuku needs to consider.
Shortly after the police left, a nurse came in. It was the nurse who had taken the elevator with Shizuku and the others.
"Thank you so much."
After seeing Shizuku, the nurse immediately smiled and bowed respectfully to Shizuku.
"Thank you for saving me. To be honest, I didn't expect that you look so slender but are so strong."
"That was just a life-and-death situation. If I were asked to do it again, I wouldn't be able to do it."
"But if it weren't for you, I might have died... huhuhu."
At this point, the nurse chuckled and then looked at Shizuku.
"By the way, I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Mizuno Sanae, and as you can see, I'm a nurse."
"My name is Kasugano Shizuku, this is Sakuragi Yukari, and we are students of Yomi Kita Junior High School."
"Well, you can tell by looking at the school uniform. My brother also goes to that school. If I remember correctly, he seems to be in Class 3, Grade 3..."
"Really..."
Hearing this, Shizuku raised her eyebrows.
She remembered clearly that the intelligence materials stated that the curse would affect the students of Class 3, Grade 3, teachers and their relatives, strictly speaking, blood relatives within two generations...
In other words, this accident was not directed at Sakuragi Yukari, but at this nurse?
Yuka Sakuragi didn't wake up until dusk. She was very depressed and looked weak. Ms. Mizuno also informed them of her mother's condition. She said that although the operation was successful, Yuka Sakuragi's mother was seriously injured and whether she could survive would depend on the next few days. This also hurt Yuka Sakuragi very much.
After that, she also held Shizuku's arm tightly and didn't want to leave her. It's no wonder that, first knowing that her mother was accidentally injured, and then she almost died twice in a row, for Sakuragi Yukari, who knew about the "Curse of Class 3, Grade 3", she is now on the verge of a mental breakdown.
So Shizuku had no choice but to spend the night with her in the ward.
Of course, the two of them slept in the same bed.
By the way, Sakuragi Yukari hugged Shizuku very tightly, which allowed Shizuku to enjoy the comfort of having her warmth and softness in her arms.
The next day, Izumi Akasawa and squad leader Tomohiko Kazami also came to the hospital. This time, they were accompanied by another girl wearing glasses, Sugiura Takako. Unlike the quiet, weak and introverted Sakuragi Yukari, she looked very sharp and quite aggressive. If you were to say, she should give people the feeling of a very capable female employee.
Akasawa Izumi and others also learned from Shizuku what happened yesterday, which made them suddenly nervous.
"I thought this would be a year without it... or maybe Yukari just had an accident... but if it happened twice in one day, I can't say that anymore."
"And we can't be sure whether the second accident was directed at Sakuragi-san."
"What do you mean, Kasugano-san?"
"The nurse who took the elevator with us yesterday was named Mizuno Sanae. According to her, her brother seems to be from the third grade class three as well."
"Is that so?"
Hearing this, Akazawa Izumi's expression became even more serious. She frowned, thought for a long time, and then seemed to have made a decision, looked at Shizuku and spoke.
"Kasugano-san, if possible, I hope you can join the countermeasures team and assist us. Would you be willing to do so?"
As she spoke, Akasawa Izumi stretched out her hand to Shizuku, and looking at Akasawa Izumi's right hand, Shizuku smiled slightly and stretched out her hand to hold it.
"sure."
Then she gave her answer.
Next, everyone held their first meeting immediately.
"As it stands now, it's probably been confirmed that Yukali's accident wasn't an accident. We have to find a way."
Akasawa Izumi still maintained her strong attitude, while Sugiura Takako frowned and raised her glasses.
"Do you have any ideas?"
"...If it really doesn't work, I think... maybe we need to classify that person as 'non-existent'..."
Hearing Sugiura Takako's question, Akasawa Izumi hesitated for a moment and then gave an answer.
However, at this moment, Shizuku expressed her objection.
"I object, in fact, I think it's moot."
"Why?"
Hearing Shizuku's words, the three of them were stunned.
"No point?"
"Yes, the ritual has been destroyed. I know what you were thinking. You wanted to treat that girl... Mizaki Mei as someone who didn't exist, and keep the number of students in Class 3, Grade 3 fixed to avoid the curse. But this ritual itself requires everyone to work together, and now Sakakibara Tsuneichi has broken the ritual. He acknowledged the existence of Mizaki Mei. Although I don't understand why you didn't tell him about the situation, I think it's too late now."
“Woo…”
Hearing this, Akasawa Izumi clenched her teeth.
"If only I hadn't asked for leave that day..."
Sugiura Takako and the others raised their glasses again and stared at Shizuku.
"Then why do you think it's pointless to add additional countermeasures?"
"Because even if we don't acknowledge their existence, they will acknowledge each other's existence."
Shizuku shook her head.
"It's like light. If all of us redirect the light, we can naturally hide something we want to hide in the darkness. But if two people reflect each other, then no matter how much we redirect our gaze, it will be useless. We are just deceiving ourselves."
"What should we do then?"
Hearing this, Tomohiko Kazami became excited.
"Is there nothing we can do?"
"I do have an idea."
Shizuku waved her hand, signaling the three to stay calm.
"If this is successful, then maybe we can solve this problem once and for all."
At this point, Shizuku turned her head and looked out the window. This was something Shizuku had suddenly thought of last night when Sakuragi Yukari fell asleep in her arms.
Ultimately, this series of events is caused by the system wanting to clear files that should not exist.
Because of the incident more than 20 years ago, the properties of the folder "Class 3, Grade 3" had been distorted, so that every year, a "dead person" would return here and sneak in as a living person. The reason why the Tiandao system caused accidents again and again was to find this non-compliant file and delete it.
But it has never been found.
In a sense, this is very much like a cultivator going through a tribulation. In order to prevent themselves from being struck by thunder, they prepare a bunch of substitutes to lure the thunder to strike them, while they themselves hide and wait for the tribulation to end.
And Shizuku's solution is simple.
That is to let the dead person who infiltrated Class 3 of Grade 3 this year be killed by an accident created by Heaven.
In this way, the Tiandao system completed its task, and the distorted parts of the folder of Class Three, Grade Three would be completely eliminated.
Although Shizuku could do it herself, she couldn't do it because even if she found the deceased and killed him, the Tiandao system still hadn't completed its task and would still scan and disinfect.
Therefore, the Tiandao system must complete this task in order to break this cycle.
The first thing to do now is to find the deceased.