Chapter 19: Onmyoji Shirley
When he met Lin Xinyi, Mao Lilan's eyes were significantly surprised.
And the inseparable boy next to her, Detective Kudo Shinichi, was much more excited: "Mr. Lin Shinichi, I didn't expect us to meet again so soon!" β
"yes, that's a coincidence." Lin Xinyi smiled naturally.
For newcomers, Kudo Shinichi and Moriran are real acquaintances.
It is also very fate to meet twice a day, morning and evening.
"Thatβ" After a brief moment of surprise, Maoriran seemed to suddenly think of something.
Her big eyes soon revealed a worry that could not be hidden, and her tone became extremely tactful:
"Mr. Lin Xinyi, are you okay?"
"Uh..."Lin Xinyi was a little helpless.
Hearing Morilan's cautious tone like a nurse comforting a terminally ill patient, he knew that Kudo must have told the kind-natured girl about "his" suicide attempt.
Look at the worried look in her eyes right now...
It's like worrying that you will run onto the road and crash into a car in the next second.
"Don't worry, it's all over."
Lin Xinyi explained vaguely.
"Oh," Maoriran relieved slightly.
Then, she noticed Lin Xinyi's side, the always silent Miyano Shiho:
"This is... Mr. Lin Xinyi's girlfriend? β
Her eyes were full of curiosity, with such a beautiful girlfriend, why couldn't she think of suicide?
And Miyano Shiho's eyes also flashed with surprise, she looked at Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan, and then at Lin Shinichi:
Lin Xinyi, this guy...
How would you even make friends with such an ordinary student?
As an organization that is deeply immersed in darkness, is it still carefully managing the identity of a normal person in the outside world?
What a surprise... It seems that I knew too little about this lifeless looking guy before.
Lin Xinyi didn't notice Miyano's strange gaze, he just explained seriously:
"Girlfriend? No, no, no..."
"Her name is Shiho Miyano."
"I... I'm her bodyguard. β
"Bodyguards?" This time it was Kudo Shinichi's turn to be surprised: "Is Mr. Lin's job a bodyguard?" Probably not..."
"According to my reasoning, you should be a doctor with a professional background."
"This..."Lin Xinyi didn't know how to answer.
However, Miyano Shiho glanced at Kudo with some concern:
She knew that Kudo's reasoning was actually accurate.
When Lin Xinyi was spying on her as a classmate at Columbia University, she majored in clinical medicine.
Although the two rarely communicated during college, Miyano Shiho also vaguely knew that Lin Xinyi's professional grades were actually good.
"I didn't expect to guess wrong..."
"It shouldn't be... How can a bodyguard know so much medical knowledge? β
"Did you go to medicine and then switch to security?"
"But compared with income and future, no matter how you look at it, the doctor is better than the bodyguard..."
Shinichi Kudo was tangled in deep thought.
"Haha, Shinichi finally guessed wrong."
Mao Lilan smiled jokingly from the side.
"Uh..." Kudo Shinichi scratched his head in embarrassment, and finally had to accept the fact that he had misjudged.
Then, he kept for a moment, subconsciously setting his eyes on Miyano Shiho beside Lin Xinyi.
The "detective mode" of dedication is back in motion.
It seems that he has accidentally made a mistake once, and he wants to get back from this unknown lady.
And that's exactly what happened.
Observing Shiho Miyano up and down, but in just a few seconds, the corners of Kudo Shinichi's mouth appeared with that confident smile:
"Mr. Lin's profession is surprising."
"But I shouldn't be wrong about the identity of this Miss Miyano."
"Oh." Shiho Miyano replied lukewarmly.
Hearing that the detective deliberately sold Guanzi, she didn't show the kind of curiosity that ordinary people should have at all.
"Uh..."
Kudo Shinichi felt a little cold, so he said directly:
"I noticed that there were faint ring-shaped strangulation marks on both of Miyano's wrists on both hands."
"Come closer, and you can smell alcohol from her."
"The strangulation marks on her wrists suggest that she may have been wearing the same sterile latex gloves used in the lab until recently, and the smell of alcohol indicates that she has been exposed to 70% medical alcohol used to sterilize test benches."
"So I'm guessing that Miss Miyano should work in a drug lab somewhere."
"Oh?"
"How can you be sure it's a drug lab?"
"Gloves and alcohol can be used not only by researchers, but also by doctors and medical examiners."
"It's possible even for the waiters, who often wear gloves and disinfect the tables with alcohol."
Lin Xinyi answered the phone at the right time and questioned it.
He was still very interested in the detective's reasoning.
"That's because I also noticed Miss Miyano's pants."
Shinichi Kudo continued methodically:
"Miss Miyano will probably change the white coat that the researcher wears when she gets off work, but most of the time she won't change her pants."
"And on the dark pants that Miss Miyano was wearing, it was obvious that a few short strands of white animal hair were sticking to them."
"This must have been accidentally glued to the guinea pig by Miss Miyano."
"I guess Miss Miyano must have done an experiment with guinea pigs not long ago, right?"
Halfway through speaking, Kudo Shinichi deliberately stopped to observe Shiho Miyano's expression.
In fact, he was not entirely sure that the white animal hair came from the guinea pig.
In the face of this kind of unstable situation, he usually makes a "tactical pause" when expounding his reasoning, and confirms his guess by observing the changes in the opponent's micro-expressions.
And this little trick is now working again:
When talking about the guinea pig, although his expression changed slightly, Shiho Miyano frowned slightly.
Shiho Miyano knew that Shinichi Kudo had almost guessed right this time.
She did come into contact with a guinea pig not long ago, but not in an experiment, but in between work, she brushed a handful of mouse fur in her spare time.
There's no entertainment in living in the lab, and the mice are her pets.
She even named a few guinea mice with good looks and cute appearances in her heart.
When animal testing is needed, leave these relatively cute pets and let the ugly mice with no name die first.
Of course, all of this was done by Shiho Miyano without the other researchers.
Lin Xinyi didn't know about it.
Miss Miyano wouldn't let this guy she didn't like very much see the childish appearance of secretly teasing small animals.
It's kind of her little secret.
And now, a high school student who likes to play detective games is impolitely speculating about her secret β and worse, he's still speculating about her identity that shouldn't be known.
Therefore, Shiho Miyano frowned slightly, looking a little resistant.
But Kudo Shinichi saw the reaction he wanted from such a change in expression.
He knew that his reasoning was in the right direction, so he continued to elaborate:
"Mice are mostly used for drug trials, or for medical teaching."
"And there are no universities around here, and Miss Miyano's glove marks that haven't had time to disappear indicate that she has just finished work."
"So, I'm assuming that she's a researcher at a pharmaceutical company nine times out of ten."
"By the way, I remember that not far from here, there seems to be a 'Eight Hundred Biomedicine', right?"
"Miss Miyano, do you work for that company?"
After saying this, he also habitually showed a confident smile.
According to the convention, ordinary people will instinctively exclaim and praise when he says his profession so accurately.
And this is also the time that Kudo Shinichi enjoys the most.
But this time, he didn't notice at all...
After he casually guessed the name of "Eight Hundred Biomedicine", Miss Miyano's expression had become a little cold.
And when Shinichi Kudo finished speaking his reasoning and smiled confidently...
The atmosphere at the scene has become a little cold.
Facing his smile, Shiho Miyano showed mockery at the corner of his mouth very uncooperatively:
"Do you like to play detective games?"
"Uhβ" Kudo Shinichi's smile froze on his face.
He didn't wait for the imaginary admiration, but heard a smell of "yin and yang weirdness":
"Then you must know the famous quote written by Agatha Christie:"
"Curiosity killed the cat."
Shiho Miyano read out a sentence in English coldly, and in his voice was a coldness that rejected people thousands of miles away:
"The Great Detective."
"If you ask someone about it, you'll kill yourself."