Chapter 237 Why do souls hate the police when they return home?
Faced with the double attack of gentleness and handsomeness, Ayumi Yoshida, who already has the potential to be obsessed with looks at a young age, blushed and almost forgot the pain.
She whispered, "Thank you, Dr. Arata."
Shinide Tomoaki smiled at her soothingly, "It might hurt a little, just bear with it."
Then they used the mineral water that everyone carried with them to clean the little girl's knees, and took out an iodine-containing cotton swab - a special cotton swab with a hollow tube filled with liquid medicine, which can be soaked in liquid by breaking one end - to disinfect her knees, and then took out a bandage to carefully bandage her.
After finishing all this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Alright, that's it. When we get back, we'll go to the infirmary and get some proper treatment. It will heal quickly and there won't be any scars left."
Ayumi smiled broadly: "Thank you, Dr. Arata!"
Judy: "Does Dr. Shinde always carry these things with him? That's so thoughtful, band-aids and the like..."
Dr. Shinde smiled and nodded. "After all, high school students are at their most active and vulnerable, with lots of little fights and bumps. I encountered these kinds of emergencies on campus from time to time, so it was only natural that I carried these things with me."
He stood up from the ground. Everyone then noticed that when he was cleaning Ayumi's wound, he had knelt on one knee because squatting was not convenient for the operation. Now one knee of his pants was covered with dust.
Xiaolan quickly took out a tissue: "Oh, Dr. Shinde, your knee!"
"It's okay, it's okay..." Dr. Akaide waved his hand to indicate that he was fine while wiping the dust off his pants with a tissue. "Dr. Agasa, why don't you take Ayumi back with you? It's almost time for lunch. There's a village not far from where we parked. I think we can buy fresh food and water there."
Dr. Agasa nodded, "What about you, Dr. Shinde?"
Dr. Arata: "As for me...didn't Mitsuhiko just say he wanted to catch fireflies? Mr. Morimoto, Ms. Judy, I'm not very tired yet. Do you want to explore the location of the nearby stream first?"
Seeing the two nod, Dr. Shinde smiled and turned to look at Huibara Ai: "By the way, wait for Miss Lin for a moment. Huibara, do you want to join us?"
Haibara Ai hesitated for a moment and nodded.
Judy watched this scene thoughtfully.
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Lin Xi and Conan walked out of the cave.
"Are you hungry?" Lin Xi asked, "It's already noon. You must have used up a lot of energy climbing up and down just now. Tell me if you're hungry. I brought some dry food, so you can have some."
"Hmm..." Conan rubbed his stomach. He felt that he was not hungry originally, but after Lin Xi said that, he felt a little hungry.
Lin Xi handed him a piece of wrapped ham toast.
"Almost there. We should have a signal here by now." She pulled out her flip phone. "Let me check the latest wanted list first."
"Okay." Conan ate a sandwich while carrying a plastic bag containing the skull and clothes - the plastic bag was also kindly provided by Lin Xi to prevent the criminal from returning to the cave to destroy the evidence.
Sister Lin is so reliable. I feel like I don't have to do anything on this investigation. I can just follow her around. There's even something delicious to eat.
I don’t know what Lin Xi did on his phone, but after a while he found the wanted criminal who met the requirements, enlarged his photo and held it in front of Conan.
"Kiichirō Numabuchi. Male, age unknown, estimated to be between 30 and 40. Previously arrested for two violent murders, he escaped from a vehicle while being transported on July 13th. He then killed a police officer pursuing him in Gunma Prefecture... He is currently hiding in Gunma Prefecture. A police notice states that anyone who can provide information about him will receive a reward of between 100,000 and 200,000 yen."
"Before escaping, the prisoner was wearing prison uniform. His hair was slightly longer than his shoulders, his eyebrows were sparse, his eye sockets were deep, his cheeks were thin, and he was hunched over. He was between 1.7 and 1.75 meters tall. 'If any residents see someone who looks like a fugitive, please keep your distance and call the police. Do not confront them rashly. This person is extremely dangerous!' - This was the last line of the warning."
Conan looked closely.
The man in the photo had a thin face, sinister eyes, and was wearing prison clothes and handcuffs. Looking at his malicious eyes, Conan couldn't help but feel a surge of disgust in his heart.
"The announcement was issued at dawn on the 14th, and Kiichiro Numabuchi escaped in the evening of the 13th. The announcement didn't specify how he escaped, but..." Lin Xi pressed a few buttons on her phone, "I retrieved the surveillance footage from the Gunma Prefecture highway and found a video. Don't ask me how I retrieved it. I have my own way, just like you have your own unique way of making Uncle Maori sleep soundly. See for yourself."
Conan was choking on the question he hadn't asked yet, feeling very depressed. He took Lin Xi's phone and started watching the video.
The video's pixels are not high and the shooting point is relatively far from the ground, so Conan can only see the general flow of events.
The escort vehicle was speeding along the highway when it reached a bend. As it turned, it suddenly slowed down, swaying and seemingly experiencing an internal conflict.
Soon, the conflict escalated. Conan guessed that the car was in chaos and the driver was also affected. The car stopped uncontrollably and the glass of the car door was shattered from the inside. Then there were one, two, and three dull collisions, like a beast hitting a cage door.
The escort convoy wasn't just one vehicle. Behind this vehicle, there was an accompanying police car, which also stopped after noticing the unusual situation. The officers in the car got out and warily pointed their guns at the escort vehicle.
A final dull sound was heard, and the car door finally couldn't bear the weight and was forced open.
Several policemen nervously surrounded the car, ready to shoot if anything went wrong.
Unexpectedly, a black shadow suddenly jumped out of the car. He moved as agile as a black panther and with a crazy force, he did not retreat but advanced, approaching the policemen.
The one who retreated became the police.
It turned out that the black shadow was Kiichiro Numabuchi, but he was not alone - he actually used the handcuffs as a rope, strangled the neck of the policeman driving the escort vehicle, and violently lifted him in front of him, facing the policemen's guns.
Faced with this situation, the police did not dare to shoot, but just shouted loudly and made gestures - there was no sound from the surveillance camera. Conan guessed that they were persuading Kiichiro Numabuchi to let go of the unlucky policeman.
But the frantic Kiichiro Numabuchi paid them no attention. He shoved the policeman he was holding hostage forward, throwing him into the midst of the officers with their guns raised. Then, without even looking back, he jumped over the highway guardrail and leaped into the forest.
Conan: ...?
Wait, is this still a human?
He was handcuffed the whole time!
The handcuffs in his hands transformed from instruments of torture to weapons... He used brute force to force open the door of the sturdy escort vehicle, even having enough strength to hold someone hostage... And finally, he actually jumped from such a high place...
This guy's physical fitness is too scary, it's like he's taken drugs.
"It's scary, isn't it?" Lin Xi said slowly, speaking from the side, "There are even more interesting things."
"This person's identity wasn't in the police's citizen database. He mentioned the name 'Numabuchi Kiichirō' himself during questioning after being apprehended. The police searched the citizen database for this name and discovered that such a person actually existed. But guess what? This person, 'Numabuchi Kiichirō,' had died four years earlier."
"However, it's a coincidence that 'Numabuchi Kiichirō' is registered in Gunma Prefecture. Xiao Ke, do you think this person could be the owner of that prison uniform?"
Conan nodded. "Just hand the clothes over to the police and do a DNA test. After 2002, the Japanese police have been storing the DNA of citizens with criminal records. Regardless of whether this Kiichiro Numabuchi is the real Kiichiro Numabuchi, he must have left a DNA record with the police."
"Let's call the police next—let's say we found the cave and the prison uniforms, and we think something's wrong... What's wrong, Sister Lin? Why are you looking at me like that?"
Lin Xi chuckled: "Xiao Ke, don't you know you have to do your own things? Are you used to asking Xiao Lan to call the police every time, so you subconsciously order others around?"
"No." Conan pointed at himself innocently, "I'm just a seven-year-old child. What do you expect me to do?"
Lin Xi:?
She hit Conan on the head with a slap, and the force was seven times that of Kogoro Mori.
"I don't like policemen," she said angrily, "except for the handsome ones. Forget it this time, but don't ask me to call the police next time."
"Why!" Conan covered his head and shouted, "Sister Lin has no sense at all and even bullies children!"
"...Do you want me to put another symmetrical bag on your head?"
Under pressure, Conan sniffed and promised Lin Xi that he would call the police himself next time.
Why does Sister Lin hate the police?
He rubbed the bump on his head and his mind wandered to other things.
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Located in a village in Zhinu Mountain.
After asking the villagers, Dr. Agasa and Xiaolan took Ayumi Yoshida to the village clinic.
After applying antibiotics and re-bandaging the wound, Dr. Agasa asked the village about food.
"Excuse me, are there any restaurants or shops in the village where we can buy food and water?" he asked. "We came here for an outing in the mountains, and the food we brought with us is a little low, so we wanted to replenish our supplies in the village."
"Oh no." The village doctor, a middle-aged man, shook his head and sighed, "If you had come a few days earlier, we would have sold you food. But now, it's probably no longer possible."
"Huh? Why?"
"Because, a nasty thief has appeared in our village." The doctor said this with some indignation. "Not only did he steal the chickens and sheep raised by the villagers, he also killed the guard dog! This thief has stolen so much that he has almost taken away all our poultry! In this situation, old man, even if we wanted to sell you food, we dare not give you what we have left."
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