Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"finally…"

After going up level by level, at the end, the four of them finally saw the signboard of the telecommunications company when the elevator opened.

"I said... Mr. Old Man." Hugging each other, the two brothers covered their mouths and made vomiting sounds from time to time: "We have just eaten. It is really disgusting that the elevator stops once on each floor and then goes up."

Putting his hands in his pockets, Toru Amuro glanced at Yuji and Shinichi, then his mouth twitched and he looked at Vermod.

"There will be a fierce battle later to break through from this company's guardian, so be careful and protect yourselves."

"Hey! Are the three people over there here to handle telecommunications business?"

The old man sitting at the front desk of the telecommunications company kept waving in the direction of the elevator. He found it inconvenient to talk while sitting and stood up holding on to the table: "Please don't occupy the elevator. This will cause trouble to other people, especially the person with a weak body." Fatty, did you vomit in the elevator?"

"Three people?"

Yuji wiped his mouth with his sleeve: "Isn't it good for the old man's eyes? Dr. Agasa still thinks I am my mother even if I don't wear glasses."

"Ah! It turns out there are four people." The old man at the front desk took out a pair of reading glasses from a black glasses case and put them on. After squinting, he could see that the fat man was two people hugging each other, or two girls.

"The telecommunications company is here to serve you. What business do you want to handle?"

The old man picked up a brochure from the desk at the front desk and placed it in front of the man (Belmode) who seemed to be the talker of the family: "The charges are different in different places, and the charges in central London will be particularly high."

"This is understandable."

After blinking at Yuji and Shinichi, Belmod simply took the booklet and started reading.

"I'm so sorry. We want to go to the bathroom. Where is it?" Yuji first apologized for vomiting in the elevator, and then dragged Shinichi along to tell him his plan.

"Ah! For the bathroom, just turn left from here and go straight. When you reach the end, turn right again."

The old man hung his name "Sipi" around his neck, then extended his palm to Belmod and pointed behind him: "Sir, let's go to the consultation room behind to discuss it in detail."

"Eh?!"

Only then did she realize that the entire company was silent. Chris turned to look at Toru Amuro: "Are you the only one in this company now?"

(Are you mistaken? It seems that this company is not the front station of MI[-]! In any case, there is only one person staying here, and he is an old man!)
(I don’t know, I find it strange too.)
"Are your eyes uncomfortable?"

Because the organization's blink communication method was not Morse code, Old Xipi couldn't understand it, but based on his experience, he could tell that it was a fixed and encrypted communication method, which also made him nervous.

[Finally...after so many years, has another enemy come to your door? 】

But in order to convey the news of the child's death to Johnny and let him enter the headquarters again, after he entered the building, his companions tacitly agreed to go out to carry out their daily patrol plan, and they would not be back for another three to ten minutes.

"If you want to make a plan, it's not good if you don't have the execution workers and layout designers around. Unfortunately, they are all working on projects outside. I'll give them a call and ask them to come back."

Old Xipi reached out to grab the old-fashioned landline phone on the desk at the front desk. The moment he picked up the phone, he suddenly felt a cold cylindrical object being pressed against the back of his head.

"If you call all your companions back, we will be in trouble."

The old man disguised as Toru Amuro suddenly straightened up, pressed Xipi's hand on the front desk, then took out a syringe from his pocket and plunged it into his neck.

"Excuse me, how do we enter the headquarters of MI[-]?"

Lao Xipi's eyes were red, but his face turned pale. He felt that he had the desire to answer the other party, so he gritted his teeth.

"It's so powerful. I remember when you tried the half-pipe on me, I couldn't hold it any longer." Shinichi thought of that time with Itakura Taku, when Yuji pretended to be Machiko and gave himself a half-pipe, but he couldn't control it. .

"No, the injection I gave you that time was actually from glucose. You are much weaker than this old gentleman, okay?" Yuji rolled his eyes and ignored his brother's embarrassment.

[Xiao Ai is so kind. She should know that I use glucose, but she didn’t laugh at Shinichi about it. 】

"Another shot!"

Sensing something was wrong with the microphone, Bermod took out another syringe from Toru Amuro's arms and pointed it at Xipi's neck.

"The microphone should be connected as soon as he lifts it up. His companion is already rushing back."

After the second injection, she saw that the old man's face turned from pale to red. Chris knew that it was about the same, so she put her hand on the front desk and picked up the things on it one by one.

"The red card swiping machine, the pupils of his eyes changed when you picked it up." Shinichi groped back and forth on the old man's body while observing his face, but until he went through the whole body, his expression did not change again. Changed.

"Are you stupid? Since there is a flaw, don't tell it. He is prepared now, and the same method will be useless."

Yuji put his index and middle fingers on Mr. Sippi's neck, and followed Shinichi's order to touch the old man's things one by one. He noticed that his heartbeat accelerated when he swept his work ID card with his hand, so he removed the card from his neck. Picked it off.

"Let me see."

He took his work ID card out of its cover and swiped it on the card slot. Hearing the obvious noise from the elevator behind him and the despair on the old man's face, Toru Amuro injected him with an anesthetic and put the old man down on the ground.

"If it hadn't been for the two injections of emesis and his old age, I'm afraid it wouldn't have been so smooth."

"Success?" Shinichi frowned: "I thought this was troublesome enough."

"It shows that your opponent still needs to be strengthened."

The elevator door opened, and they saw an interior that was completely different from before. The four people walked into the elevator and pressed the button that "leads to MI[-]."

"How can those prisoners who kill for strange reasons compare with these well-trained agents?"

Belmode leaned in the elevator and started blocking the camera again according to the method just now.

"Most of these public agents have gone through specialized training. Like that old man, the medicine they used for training was far inferior to what it is now. If he was a young man, I'm afraid our medicine would require at least three injections."

Belmode was imparting his experience to the teenagers. It wasn't until Kudo Shinichi listened with interest that he noticed that his expression suddenly became strange.

"What's wrong? Shinko?"

"Don't call me Xinzi!"

After hesitating for a moment, Shinichi explained: "Why should I... learn how to deal with state agents? Aren't you my enemies?!"

"this…"

Chris looked at the more than 20 white spots on the wall inside the elevator box and turned her head away silently.

"Ah, hey, hey..."

[Old lady, stop being so cute! 】(End of this chapter)