Conan: The Mechanic

About an hour later, in the car on the way home.

"What did they do to you?" Sitting in the back row of the Beetle, Chiba asked as she looked at Haibara Ai lying on her lap. "I seem to have seen something about a craniotomy on the preparatory documents that Kyousuke Kazuto gave me before...Is it used?"

"Well, it's not actually a complete craniotomy. It's just a few holes in my skull, and then dripping a little bit in there. At least that's how I understand it." Haibara Ai's expression was a little uncomfortable. He turned slightly on Chiba's thigh. "Do you...have a cushion or something? I think...it would be best if you had a pillow to lean on."

"Ah?" Qianyu was a little unclear, but she still picked up a small pillow from the seat and placed it at the base of her thighs. Together with her legs, they formed a support point for Haibara Ai that could stabilize her head. . But at this moment, he suddenly realized why Haibara Ai seemed a little embarrassed before. "Hey...you didn't just now..."

"Yeah, so boys shouldn't use lap pillows or the like, the back of the head is very embarrassing!" Haiyuan gave him a white look and complained like this. "But... I think you seem to be exaggerating your calmness... You don't know what to do? If there is such a risk, I will go back and inspect the goods!"

"I have a strong ability to control my body, don't..." When she said this, Qian Yu seemed to have thought of something, and abruptly ended her previous words. "Also, the company is committed to providing sincere buyers with a complete pre-sale inspection service. Does the customer plan to test drive a or two before hitting the road?"

"I said you two..." At this moment, Dr. A Li's helpless voice came from the front row of the car. "Although I know you two haven't seen each other for a long time, but... take care of my mood?"

"Ah..." Qian Yu's face blushed, and Haibara Ai buried her face in the pillow. "By the way, Doctor, are you... divorced, or have you been single? I don't seem to have heard you talk about your family?"

"Ah... let's just say it's single," Dr. A Li said after hesitating for a moment. "Well, it's technically like this, plus both parents have passed away, so..."

"If this goes on, what do you do with your inheritance, Doctor, do you plan to spend it all before you die?" Haibara complained bitterly. "But people die and the money is not spent and the money is spent without people dying. Both are very painful things!"

"This kind of thing, let's go with the fate. If it really doesn't work, you can donate it after death." Dr. Li didn't care much about it. "But it may be too early to discuss this. I should have another twenty or thirty years left, so don't worry too much for the time being!"

……

At the same time, the Rice Flower Central Hospital and the Metropolitan Police Department's forensic center.

"This person, why are you so nervous, is it yours?" Ying asked, looking at the marks on her cervical spine. "If it's just a normal thing, Gregory will rarely come here to personally intervene in the rough work of forensics, right?"

"Well, he's someone we know... a guy who is good at shooting." Fujiwara nodded. "That's why you're so nervous—you see Gregory, when did you get so focused?"

"By the way, look at his C1 and C2 cervical vertebrae, I just felt something was wrong... Isn't it a bit strange that there are similar fractures here?"

"Huh?" Fujiwara frowned slightly and quickly looked over there. "C1 and C2? Fractures? Did you read it wrong? A fracture in this area is basically equivalent to paralysis of all muscles below C2... Or is this the cause of death? Our deceased had his cervical vertebrae broken, causing him paralyzed muscles below the neck and eventually died of suffocation from lung strikes?"

"It should be like this. I don't think there is any other fatal injury, right?" Ying pouted. "Didn't we just reluctantly identify that he died of blood loss because we couldn't find a fatal wound? Maybe this is the real fatal wound."

"No, but the problem is that the relevant tests are still very supportive of dying from trauma and bleeding. You see the new test results. I think the content of this test is a bit complicated in various senses." Saying this, Fujiwara Handed a report in his hand to Yingying. "Seriously, it's scary."

"There are rat bite marks on the ribs of the corpse?" Seeing this, Ying pouted in dissatisfaction. "Really, wasn't this body found in the park, there were a few mice and..."

When Yingying saw the conclusion on the report, she closed her mouth, and after thinking for a while, she asked in a somewhat confused tone. "Wait a minute, what's up with this so-called 'heterogeneous rodent gnawing trace'?"

"Can't you understand Japanese?" Fujiwara shrugged. "Obviously, if some of these mice had bite marks from rats in the park, there was another group of more concentrated bite marks that were thought to be from another type of rat, and not the one that the park included~www .readwn.com~ Are you talking about the gnawing sample of No. 3 rat?" Hotaru had probably realized this from the following clauses, and naturally followed Fujiwara's description. But almost at the same time, she showed a rather surprised expression. "Wait a minute, the immunohistochemical tests show... fibrin coagulation and fresh intraosseous deposits? In other words, all but gnaw sample #3 are postmortem, but here's premortem? These mice? The victim was alive when it was eaten? Raw?"

"Yes, that's it." Fujiwara nodded, apparently having digested the surprise when he first heard the news. "There is no doubt that no matter who was the murderer, he must have poured a large number of rats into the victim's body, and let these rats devour the murderer from the inside for extremely painful torture."

"This... this is too scary," Ying pursed her lips. "But...why use mice to kill people? Isn't this kind of efficiency too bad? I may prefer a method of killing with one knife, or castration is also fine, why should these mice be allowed to play freely?"

Just as they were chatting here, there was a knock on the door - obviously not from Gregory, because although he hadn't been away from here for a long time, he never knocked on the door when he came back, and the other staff had already get off work.

"Please come in."

Following Fujiwara's greeting, Matsumoto Kiyotaka walked in.

"You guys, are you still busy with this corpse?" Looking at the corpse, Matsumoto Kiyoshi nodded. "Well... Come on, get this case out as soon as possible, and urge Gregory by the way."

After speaking, he left again, leaving only Fujiwara and Hotaru looking at each other.