Sato and Takagi, both dressed in civilian clothes, nodded at Mori Kogoro, looked at Mori Lan, who was infusion on the hospital bed in the room, and asked with concern, "Is Miss Mori better?" ”

"Thank you, Officer Sato, I'm about to be discharged. Would you like to come in and have some water? Moriran spread the novel on his lap and greeted the two men outside the door.

Sato, Takagi and Maori Kogoro also came in, Conan on the side was very clever and poured three glasses of water, handed them to the three of them, and then looked up curiously at the two people who were wearing civilian clothes, but still equipped with guns behind their waists, and asked a little tentatively.

"Officer Sato, Officer Takagi, are you here for the high-ranking officer who lives in the hospital?"

"That's right." Miwako Sato took a sip of water, then took the glass in her hand and nodded to Conan.

"That senior official is an official of the Ministry of Finance, and he has been facing intimidation and threats to his life when he openly proposed in parliament a plan to ban private pharmaceutical companies and adopt a state-controlled company, which has been opposed by many private entrepreneurs and other party henchmen."

"Until a few days ago, he was almost shot dead at home, injured and hospitalized, and we were ordered to go to civilian clothes to protect him." Takagi added.

"But I see that high-ranking official seems to be surrounded by many fierce and vicious bodyguards, and they have always looked down on the police, how can they let you interfere?" Maori Kogoro's voice was buzzing, with dissatisfaction with the prejudice of high-ranking officials, and his expression was a little puzzled.

"Uh...... This is because ......" Wataru Takagi looked a little embarrassed, looked at Miwako Sato's face, and after getting her nod, he hurriedly stepped forward to close the hospital bed, and carefully listened to the movement outside for a while, before he said mysteriously and softly.

"Because our police department received a provocative letter this morning, saying that a bomb had been planted in the hospital and threatening to take the minister's life at half past ten."

"For the safety of the minister and the people, we have more than a dozen police officers in plainclothes in the hospital, and there is also a single-handedness team on standby, but the bomb found in the end is fake, a toy!" Miwa Sato's eyebrows furrowed, and with the anger of being played, she angrily hammered her palm.

"Provocation letter?"

"Bombs?"

Several children exclaimed in surprise, with both curiosity and horror in their eyes, and kept looking out the door, but soon covered their mouths with their hands, with a sense of surprise that they had discovered the secret.

Conan took out his phone and glanced at the time, it was exactly half past nine, and it was half past ten in an hour, could this provocative letter be true?

Gray Yuan Wai hid behind Conan with an ugly face, and asked softly, "Could it be them?" ”

"Okay, you children don't run around with the hospital, and go back quickly after visiting the patients." Miwako Sato drank the water from the water cup and looked at the children with some seriousness.

"Uh...... We'll be right away, right, Conan? We're going to Shiba Park to see the book launch. Yuantai was a little afraid of the fierce Officer Sato, and hurriedly pulled Conan, who was still thinking, out quickly.

"Sister Xiaolan, we'll come to see you next time!" Ayumi also hurriedly followed, with anticipation on her face, waved her hand at Mao Lilan, and ran out.

……

Shiba Park, backstage of the book launch.

"I'm sorry, I accidentally got the book wet, I'm going to wipe it clean." Akira Shinhara looked at the several freshly signed books on the table that were wet with some chagrin, his expression was full of apologies, and he looked a little helpless holding the teacup.

Since there is still half an hour before the press conference, the front press conference venue is very busy, and there are only three people in the background at this time, he, a ponytail girl with a little immature appearance and baby fat, and a middle-aged man who has been fishing and smoking, looking a little depressed, should be a team leader.

"It's okay, Mr. Shinhara, it's not your fault, I'll just clean it up." Listening to Akira Shinhara's words, the girl Inoue Qing hurriedly shook her head, saying that it didn't matter, especially when she saw his eyes full of guilt, she suddenly felt more pity for him.

Shinhara Akira avoided the hand that reached out for help, and said in a low voice, "I'll clean it up myself, these books shouldn't be needed, I'll take them to the back utility room first." ”

"How can you bother cute girls with all this rough work?" Akira Shinhara stacked the novels one by one, and then hugged them vigorously, the books were almost right at his eyes, and he needed to turn his head sideways to see the road.

Akira Shinhara held a stack of books and walked towards the utility room with Inoue Qing exclaiming.

"Mr. Shinhara, this is too heavy, you still have to speak on stage today, I'll call someone to help you." Inoue Qing stomped his feet a little embarrassed, looked at the middle-aged man who had nothing to do with him and was still smoking, and looked a little hesitant, but he still mustered up the courage to run over and asked carefully.

"Team Leader Yamamoto, can you help Mr. Shinhara move the book?"

The man named Yamamoto half-tilted his head to look at Inoue Qing from top to bottom, took a deep puff of cigarette again, spit on Inoue Qing's face, and looked at Shinhara Akira who moved the book with some mockery, "It's just a little white face, and you want to instruct me to do things by writing a few books that don't go into the stream?" ”

Inoue Qing's face was slightly red, with anger, his eyes quickly filled with water, and he said in a loud voice, "Mr. Shinhara's book is not out of the flow!" You've gone too far! ”

Turning around and running to Akira Shinhara's side, Inoue Qing looked apologetic and whispered comfortingly to him, "Mr. Yamamoto used to be the third-in-command in the club, but with the change of readers' tastes, he couldn't keep up with the market, so he retreated." And I heard that he was the one who rejected your manuscript in the first place, but fortunately, the president has a good eye ......"

Akira Shinhara squinted at the provocative Yamamoto, smiled at Inoue Qing soothingly, saying that it was okay, and suddenly remembered that he did seem to have such an experience when he first submitted the article, but he didn't expect this Mr. Yamamoto to still be an "enemy".

After stacking the books in the utility room, Akira Shinhara glanced at the things in the utility room, most of them were wood and the like, and there were some stationery, probably because there were too many flammable materials, and a fire alarm was installed on the roof, as long as the fire changed drastically, it would alarm and sprinkle water to extinguish the fire.

When he came out, Shinhara Akira rubbed his somewhat sore arm, and saw Yamamoto standing in front of him at some point, with a mocking face, staring at his hand with a pair of eyes that seemed to be nothing, and asked, "Can you still hold the pen for a while?" It simply made Inoue Qing on the side angry.

Akira Shinhara shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and smiled kindly and decently, "Then it should really be troublesome, after all, there are thousands of books, Mr. Yamamoto has never seen such a scene before, right?" ”

Looking at Yamamoto's annoyed look, Akira Shinhara moved his shoulders as he passed by and inadvertently bumped into him, leaving with a smile on the corner of his mouth and a provocation.

Not long after returning to the backstage, the fire alarm in the utility room suddenly went off, alarming the people in front of the venue and even the president.

When the smoke cleared, everyone saw a pile of fine novels on the ground burned beyond recognition, and the source of the fire was a cigarette.

It is a cigarette from Mr. Yamamoto.

"Nope! Not me! Yamamoto looked at the president's angry eyes and hurriedly denied it, but with Inoue's assistance, coupled with the "grudge" between his previous actions and Akira Shinhara, the people on the scene didn't trust him, thinking that he was taking revenge on Akira Shinhara and was quibbling.

Akira Shinhara in the crowd lowered his head slightly, as if he was sad about this, but there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.

I'm sorry, Mr. Yamamoto.

Just in case, I'm going to have to dispose of the empty books that might smell of bomb smoke, who told you to bump into them?

At the same time, a man dressed as a secretary ran over and shouted, "It's almost ten o'clock, everyone get ready!" ”

Akira Shinhara looked at his watch, the second hand was walking step by step and regularly, and there was a "hum" sound, ten o'clock.

At that moment, a loud explosion was heard from the side of Tokyo Tower.