Chapter 238: Returning Home "Using mice for experiments all the time will get tiresome,...
Dr. Agasa: “…”
Actually, he's still quite young, not much different in age from the doctor...
Wow, his hair is just a little thinner!
He laughed dryly a few times and didn't explain: "There was actually a thief? Did you call the police later?"
"Of course we did," the doctor shook his head. "The police came too. But they actually suspected us of lying, saying the thief didn't exist—they said no one could move three sheep in one night unless they had three heads and six arms like Superman! And even if they could steal, they wouldn't have anywhere to put them... unless they had Doraemon's dimensional pocket! Even more outrageous, that police officer, a people's police officer with the obligation to protect citizens' property, actually believed in those supernatural theories. He said if what we said was true, then the thief was a monster. Only monsters have such a huge appetite, able to eat so many animals! He even advised us to offer the remaining livestock to the monster, lest it get too hungry and eat us too!"
"I'm so pissed! It's the 21st century, and how can people still be so superstitious? How did someone like that get to be a police officer? And a police captain at that! We who live in the mountains aren't as superstitious as him!"
The man grew angrier as he spoke.
"Ahahaha..." Dr. Agasa wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Um, the inspector you're talking about is..."
Could it be that he is thinking of someone...
The doctor drank some cold water to calm down the anger in his heart.
"That guy's called Yamamura So. When you see him, you'll know that the Japanese police are doomed!"
Dr. Agasa: ...
It really is a village exercise.
Shinichi had solved several cases in Nagano Prefecture before, and when he came back he complained to him that although this policeman was kind-hearted, he was very unreliable.
As a result, not much time has passed, and it seems that the other party was promoted to police captain because of the cases that Shinichi helped solve?
Dr. Agasa strangely empathized with the doctor for a moment, and felt with him that the future of the Japanese police was in jeopardy.
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"The map shows that the stream is located nearby." Zhu Fujing pointed at the map.
Judy: "Mr. Morimoto is so thoughtful, he even prepared a map... Oh my god, I'm the only woman among you, but I'm so much rougher than you. I'm so ashamed. You're worthy of being a Japanese man!"
Her Japanese accent is terrible.
Zhu Fushigiri smiled sheepishly. "Thank you for your compliment, Teacher Judy. It's just that Miss Lin mentioned this mountain to me before and asked if I wanted to go with her... After I agreed, I went to a bookstore and bought a detailed map of Gunma Prefecture."
They walked forward and found a flowing spring in the shade of a tree.
The flashing spots of light playfully danced on the water and stones, like constantly swimming fish.
"Found it." Dr. Akai was in a good mood. "Miss Huibara, would you like me to take a couple of photos for you? The scenery here is surprisingly nice."
Haibara Ai nodded, handed the camera around her neck to Aida Tomoaki, and walked over holding the empty glass jar.
She stood by the stream, looking at the clear flowing water. She felt that this kind of flowing water was very suitable for taking off shoes, stepping into the water barefoot, and feeling the coolness of the cold water.
She turned around and glanced at the people not far away.
There was one thing she didn't tell Edogawa.
This morning, she felt the familiar fear again, but she quickly suppressed it, no longer as fierce and overwhelming as before.
But she was certain she was right. Yes, there were organized people among the group that came for the outing today.
Excluding Dr. Agasa, the children, and Officer Judy and Morey Gaunt who I had met before...
The only one left is this new doctor.
Today, Haibara Ai was also secretly observing him and confirmed that this new doctor cared a lot about Lin Xi.
What do the organizers want to do? Looking for Sister Lin for team building?
But he didn't know that his identity had been exposed. The person next to him was Teacher Judy. Others didn't know who she was, but Haibara Ai knew her - an FBI investigator, with a higher position than that man Akai Shuichi.
Ai Haibara couldn't think of any other possibility other than the exposure of Tomoaki Aida's identity, which would allow the FBI's ace agent to disguise himself as a high school English teacher with poor Japanese.
In this situation, you are still leaning towards Sister Lin. Are you trying to expose Sister Lin?
But Haibara Ai knew that Sister Lin had many secrets just like her... She kept those secrets from herself and certainly didn't want others to know them.
If she were suspected by the FBI, they would follow her like a fly, which would be very annoying.
So, can this Shinde Tomoaki stay away from Sister Lin?
Ai Haibara thought and kicked a stone.
Suddenly, she heard some noise and looked up.
A dark shadow flashed through the woods.
Haibara Ai:!
Is there some wild beast?
She held the glass bottle close to her, ready to smash it at any time and use the sharp fragments as a weapon to protect herself.
The shadow flashed again, and this time, Haibara Ai finally saw clearly what it was.
Not a beast, but a human.
The man was dressed in rags, had a sinister face, disheveled hair, hunched waist, and holding a dead chicken in his hand. He looked no different from a wild beast.
This is……
Haibara Ai's pupils shrank.
Numagachi Kiichiro.
How come he is here?
She remembered that she had clearly let him go...how could he appear here?
This is terrible. There are people from the organization behind him. If Numabuchi Kiichiro is discovered by them, he will definitely be captured...
She had to get rid of him before he became suspicious!
"Who are you?" she cried. "Can't you find your way?"
"This is the way up the mountain. If you want to go down the mountain, you have to go to the back!"
The shadow hesitated, but did not move.
He stared at Haibara Ai again and again, his eyes full of hesitation. He had no intention of hurting her, but he also had no intention of leaving.
Haibara Ai was secretly anxious.
The three people behind him also noticed something was wrong, and three pairs of vigilant eyes looked over.
"Xiao Ai, come back soon." Zhu Fu Jingguang shouted and took two steps forward.
He saw clearly what the black shadow was holding in his hands behind his back - a rusty kitchen knife. Combined with his unusual appearance and the dead chicken in his hands, Zhu Fu Jingguang felt uneasy.
Miss Lin is fine, but why is her sister also so "ghost-attracting"?
Haibara Ai gritted her teeth, pretended not to react, and walked towards the black shadow.
"Hold me." She said softly.
Although she spoke quietly, she knew that Kiichiro Numabuchi could hear it.
As she got closer, she noticed more clearly the various details about Kiichiro Numabuchi - a hunched back, scars on his face, knife marks on his skinny arms exposed outside his clothes, sunken eye sockets, and bloodshot eyes.
He actually looked even more listless than when he was in the lab.
Ai Haibara couldn't help but recall the scene when she first met Kiichiro Numabuchi.
The organization is a huge machine, in which each member has his or her own responsibilities. There are intelligence centers like rum, execution procedures like gin, many members engaged in research, and peripheral members who are used as consumables.
Kiichiro Numabuchi is one of the outer members.
He was unlucky. After several consecutive failures in field missions, he was sent to the laboratory where Shiho Miyano was.
Madera, that scary man, smiled brightly as she ordered her men to put Kiichiro Numabuchi, who was tied tightly with restraints, into her laboratory.
"Shirley, you'd get tired of using mice all the time, wouldn't you? I brought you some new supplies, so don't be too grateful."
She lowered her head and responded calmly.
In fact, the nails have already left deep marks on the palm.
At that time, Punch had been missing for nearly five years. Although she got a code name by developing new drugs for the organization, she was still not good enough in front of a veteran like Madera.
After hearing that she intentionally or unintentionally resisted human experiments and was unwilling to continue the research on the APTX series of drugs, Madeira deliberately dumped Kiichiro Numabuchi on her, putting pressure on her through this behavior.
She used the excuse that human experiments were inefficient and too costly, but the man saw through her excuse immediately and didn't give her a chance to refuse.
That day she walked into the laboratory numbly, gave the man an injection of muscle relaxant, and after the drug took effect, she untied his restraints and gag.
Surprisingly, muscle relaxants had little effect on him - Kiichiro Numabuchi was highly resistant to drugs, and even when given a dose of relaxant that would have paralyzed an ordinary person, he was still able to move normally.
What was even more surprising was that even though he was able to move normally, and even though there were only two of them in the room, Kiichiro Numabuchi still didn't show any aggression.
A thirty-year-old man, with considerable strength, could only curl himself up, tremble and cry.
Tears slid down his face, disappeared between his thin, dry palms, and finally wet the man's sleeves.
Miyano Shiho just watched the scene in silence.
Madeira was right. Among adult males with a fast metabolism, high resistance, strong recovery ability, and no aggressiveness, there is no one more suitable for human experiments than Kiichiro Numabuchi.
But she could never put a person on a cold operating table and treat him like a guinea pig.
So, after she could no longer see her sister and Miyano Shiho's last concern for the organization disappeared, Miyano Shiho made a very bold decision.
——She let Kiichirō Numabuchi run away.
Although Kiichiro Numabuchi was very well-behaved and followed her instructions to escape successfully, Shiho Miyano herself was suspected.
This was also one of the direct reasons why she was eventually imprisoned in the gas chamber.
Huiyuan Ai exhaled lightly and continued, "Be obedient, Ichiro."
The shadow was completely stunned.
The next second, as if it was muscle memory, he threw away the dead chicken and hugged the girl.
"Putting a weapon on my neck is called hostage-taking." Taking advantage of the close distance, she lowered her voice.
After not seeing each other for a long time, Kiichiro Numabuchi is still very obedient.
He lifted the little girl up and placed the rusty kitchen knife against her neck.
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