All the questions that can be asked have already been asked.

Although it didn't quite match Conan's original intention, in another way, he felt that he had gained a lot.

After separating from Shiraishi, Conan returned to Mori Kogoro's hospital room.

Yesterday, the speed was not fast, the uncle was not seriously injured, and he was not in a critical care ward.

The other patients in the same room were not in danger of life, and the atmosphere in the ward was barely harmonious.

There were several beds in the room, but only three of them were occupied.

Mori Kogoro was lying on the bed closest to the door, and on his right hand side was a cheerful old man who accidentally twisted his waist and loved to pull others to chat.

Further on, on the hospital bed, a dull middle-aged man, according to the gossip elderly, was hospitalized because he had been burned in a car accident a week earlier.

The old man turned his back and hammered himself on the waist, looking at Mao Lilan and Conan with envy, feeling that this patient had both children and was very filial.

As he complains to Mori Kogoro that no one is coming to see him, a middle-aged social animal wearing glasses walks in.

This is exactly the old man's only child.

He looked very haggard, and when he entered the door, he didn't say anything, but went straight to the old man and sat down, poured him warm water, and made him drink his medicine.

The old man took the water cup and the medicine, and laughed twice: "The stinky boy knows me quite well, I really haven't taken the medicine today." ”

Conan glanced at the pill box and recognized it as a medicine for diabetes.

The old man didn't blame his son for his bad face, he knew that his son had been under a lot of pressure recently.

Conan habitually eavesdropped on the conversation between father and son, and soon learned that Yoshio Sekiguchi, the old man's son, actually had a daughter who was in elementary school, but today, his daughter went to the pool with her friends and did not come to visit.

The old man was a little regretful, but when he thought that it was the nature of children to be playful, he was reluctant to force his son to call his granddaughter over, and talked about work again.

Yoshio Sekiguchi works at a bank, and last week, someone robbed their bank, and the robbers have not been caught so far.

The old man complained about the low efficiency of the police, and suddenly, he remembered the Maori Kogoro who had been bragging with him all morning on the hospital bed next door, and introduced to his son with a smile:

"By the way, you can ask this Mr. Maori, he is a good detective, although his reputation is not too well-known, but he has also solved a few unsolved cases, maybe he will have eyebrows."

Yoshio Sekiguchi originally only looked haggard, but after hearing the word "detective", his expression completely collapsed, and he laughed twice reluctantly:

"I was hiding under the counter, I didn't see any clues, and it was useless to look for detectives...... By the way, Dad, I'll buy something for you, what are you missing? ”

"Nothing is missing! You just need to come and see me a few more times. The old man sighed.

Conan stared at Yoshio Sekiguchi's back as he left the room, pushing his glasses, and a reflection flashed through the lenses.

After turning around, and before the sharp smile on her lips lasted long, Conan saw Maolilan suddenly get up, she walked quickly to the window, pushed it open, and looked out.

“…… Sister Xiaolan? Conan was stunned.

Mao Lilan looked at it for a long time before retracting his gaze and wondering, "I seem to have seen a cat slip through the window just now......"

"Cats? This is the third floor, and you see pigeons or sparrows. Maori Kogoro raised the half-peeled apple in his hand, "Come back and help me finish peeling, it's inconvenient for me to peel while I'm lying down." ”

"Okay." Mori Lan looked out a few more times, but still found nothing, so she closed the window again, returned to Mori Kogoro's bedside, and picked up a paring knife.

……

As soon as Yoshio Sekiguchi left the door of the ward, he was met by a team of police officers at the door.

When the police officer who led the team saw him, he asked about the condition of the middle-aged man who had been burned, especially if anyone had come to visit him.

Although the officers did not say the reason for the question, Yoshio Sekiguchi knew that the middle-aged man with burns in the ward was one of the gangsters who robbed his bank.

The police did not alarm the middle-aged man, and wanted to lure his accomplices to visit him, and then catch them all.

Yoshio Sekiguchi finished answering the officers' questions and left quickly.

This morning, after receiving a call from the "hospital staff", he took his daughter to visit his father.

But as soon as they arrived, the father and daughter were surrounded by several big men - these were the robbers who had robbed the bank that day.

The robbers are somehow very well informed, and they came to the hospital today, not to visit their accomplices who failed to escape, but to kill people.

For a variety of reasons, Yoshio Sekiguchi became their chosen tool.

Yoshio Sekiguchi has lived so much in obedience to the law, and he has never dared to run a red light no matter how small he crosses the road, and now he is suddenly going to commit murder under the noses of the police and a detective, just thinking about it makes his legs weak with fright.

But the daughter was taken away by one of the female robbers, and if he didn't kill himself, the robbers would kill his daughter...... This made Yoshio Sekiguchi unable to refuse.

After checking the condition of the ward and leaving the ward, Yoshio Sekiguchi came to the emergency passage as the big men had said.

Due to being too anxious when pushing the door, he stumbled under his feet, and the whole person hurriedly threw himself on the door.

The door was slammed into the wall by him, and just as the gap between the door and the wall quickly narrowed, and before it was about to close, a black shadow whizzed out of it, turned its head and glanced at him coldly, and disappeared after a few clicks down the stairs.

"......" Yoshio Sekiguchi was startled by this black shadow, and after realizing that it was just an ordinary stray cat, he slowly came back to his senses.

He clutched his pounding heart and took a few deep breaths.

A minute or two later, a tall Mediterranean man with a paper bag walked up to him.

The robber opened the paper bag, took out a box of puffs and handed it to him.

The packaging of the puff box is not transparent, and when you pick it up, it is not at all the weight that a soft puff should have.

Sekiguchi's palms were in a cold sweat, and he almost couldn't hold the box, he knew that there was actually a gun in it.

"We will take care of the police affairs, as for the people in the same ward, your father should have already drunk the sleeping pills you put and will not get in the way, and the detective will leave the ward immediately and go to the hall to watch the idol show."

Speaking of this, the robber looked at his expression, and after seeing Yoshio Sekiguchi's face full of "I don't want to do it", he sneered:

"We've arranged it so well, you only need to shoot that fool once, and you can easily save your daughter, what do you have to hesitate about such a lucrative matter?"

This was so angry that Yoshio was eager to fight with him.

But looking at the other party's knotted muscles, and then thinking about his daughter who didn't know where he was taken, he finally grabbed the "puff" in his hand.

The robber smiled smugly and tapped his watch: "Give you 13 minutes to adjust your expression and mentality, and start on time on the hour." Of course, you can also refuse, so you can sit in the hospital room and admire the appearance of your daughter falling from the roof, hahaha. ”

He laughed as he pushed open the door to the stairwell and walked away quickly.

As soon as the robber's figure disappeared, Yoshio Sekiguchi sat down on the steps and hugged his head in despair.

After a moment of silence, remembering the request of "adjusting his mentality", he took out his wallet and opened it, staring at the group photo of a family of three in the transparent mezzanine, especially the innocent daughter in the middle.

However, not to mention the courage to kill people from it, the more he looked at it, the more he wanted to hug his head and cry.

Just when Yoshio Sekiguchi finally couldn't help but turn his head and was about to press the corner of his eye, he suddenly felt that the environment was not quite right.

In the afterglow, behind him......

Something seems to be there?

Yoshio Sekiguchi froze, and when he turned around, he saw a cat and a fox standing side by side on the steps behind him, looking at his wallet with their necks extended...... in the photo.

“……”

Yoshio Sekiguchi blinked in confusion.

Stray cats are forgotten, why are there foxes here?

Is this a hospital or a zoo? Or are you too nervous and hallucinating!?

Yoshio Sekiguchi pressed his temples dreamily, closed his eyes nervously and took a few deep breaths.

When I opened my eyes again, the steps behind me were empty.

He breathed a sigh of relief: "Sure enough, it's a hallucination......"