Chapter Four Hundred and Ninety Nine - Two-Way Investigation
Jiroki Suzuki sat in his office, answering the phone with a serious expression.
"The situation is still getting worse," the doctor said. "Haihara Ai, whose symptoms have stabilized, has relapsed, and the condition of several other patients is getting worse."
"Will the situation get worse?" asked Suzuki Jiroki. "If the problem continues to worsen, will it affect our entire observation plan?"
"It's not just a matter of observation plan now," the doctor immediately exposes Jiroki Suzuki's fantasy. "If the situation continues to develop like this, we may not be able to arrive in Guam healthily and then get the patient to be treated."
Now it is nearly 300 kilometers away from Guam, and it will take at least two hours to land in Guam and put down the patient. But in the past hour, more than five passengers have been infected. (Not only Yuanzi and Xiaolan, but also one man, three women, and four employees on the boat have also been infected)
"..." Suzuki Jiroki's brow locked. "How could this happen..."
Obviously, as long as this observation is completed, he and the Suzuki Consortium will always leave a strong mark in the astronomy community, but why did such a troublesome thing happen now? Are those red Siamese cat bastards really not causing him a lot of trouble?
...
In the living cabin of the female staff, Kogoro Mouri was sitting on a bed wearing a mask, looking at a female employee sitting on the bed directly opposite.
There are four female employees in this cabin. Except for the one directly opposite Kogoro Mouri, the other three have developed infection symptoms and have been quarantined.
So, the question now is this - what qualities does this only surviving person have that make everyone else infected and she doesn't?
"When did the first infected person appear?" Kogoro Mouri asked with a notebook.
"About fifty minutes ago," the female employee replied after looking at the wall clock in the cabin. "We were chatting, but her face suddenly looked ugly. Then she grabbed a plastic bag from the table next to her and ran out, then vomited out from outside the cabin."
"Did you spit it out outside the cabin?" Kogoro Mouri confirmed. "You've spitted it in the bag and didn't spit it on the ground?"
"It's clean outside," the female employee nodded. "So she must have vomited all in the bag."
"Who did you contact her at that time?" Kogoro Mouri asked again. "Is it the only one you didn't contact her?"
"I was the only one who touched her," the female employee denied Kogoro Mouri's idea. "Neither of them touched her."
"Is that true?" Kogoro Mouri raised his eyebrows. "When did they have symptoms? What are the symptoms?"
"About thirty-five minutes ago," the female employee replied after thinking about it. "They found that they had a rash on their bodies during that time period and started coughing. I felt something was wrong at the time, so I quickly called the doctor and confirmed that this was indeed the disease of the bacteria."
"Indeed?" Kogoro Mori's pen stopped and his eyes turned to the female employee's eyes. "Did you guess that was a symptom of bacteria?"
"I read the news," the female employee nodded. "Because I have paid special attention, I know what the specific symptoms of the bacteria will be. And because I know that some passengers have symptoms of the bacteria, I saw that they also had similar symptoms and started to pay attention to whether it was possible that they were infected."
"That's right," Kogoro Mouri said without comment. "Which passenger's condition?"
"Miss Maori Ran." The female employee replied. "Uh... we are service staff after all, so it's not surprising that we know which passenger is in a condition? After all, Miss Maori Ran fell ill in a public area."
"Don't be too nervous, you know this is normal." Kogoro Mouri said lightly. "I'm just a detective, not a policeman, so there's no need to be so reserved."
"I should be fine now," the female employee smiled. "After all, I'm not infected yet, so I'm not so nervous."
"..." Kogoro Mouri raised his eyebrows but said nothing. "Well, calmness is a very precious quality, it's best to keep it in the future."
...
After walking out of the cabin, Kogoro Mori put away the notebook and pen in his hand, and his expression seemed a little subtle.
This woman just now...isn't it? The female employees he had investigated before were basically completely panicked, but this employee was actually quite calm, and compared with those employees before, he was a completely outstanding presence."
[Wait for a moment...] Kogoro Mouri's eyelids suddenly twitched. [If I remember correctly...]
Turning around and looking at the door where he had just walked out, Kogoro Mouri showed a very delicate expression.
This idea is really weird, but...it seems to be able to explain what happened? But this is too strange, right? And there is no way to explain the problem of No. 0...
The confused expression reappeared on Kogoro Mouri's face.
...
Meanwhile, Honda's cabin.
"..." Conan wore a mask and looked around the cabin set.
Now, the patients on the airship can be divided into two different epidermal symptoms based on the two different epidermal symptoms of blood stasis and rash. Among them, the originator of the blood stasis disease group is Honda. So, where does Honda's symptoms come from?
Conan didn't even look at the container test tube itself - the symptoms of blood stasis are not like those recognized by those from the National Tokyo Microbial Research Center, so it is likely that at least it has nothing to do with the tube in the Honda cabin - that tube may even be an empty tube.
The key is to monitor Honda's personal information and judge his own condition from the objects he has left in this cabin.
According to the situation he has mastered, the doctor seems to have not had the opportunity to communicate with Honda to confirm its medical history. So now you must take a look at Honda's bag and confirm what medicines are inside, so as to determine Honda's physical condition through this.
After searching in Honda's bag, Conan did not find any valuable medicines—nothing but common sleeping pills and blood pressure pills. These medicines may have side effects, but even among rare complications, they do not have the characteristics that match Honda's current symptoms.
But at this moment...
"???" Conan widened his eyes and looked at the receipt in his hand. "This..."
Chapter completed!