PDLP Chapter 95 Pei Nuo: You make me look so silly.
Chapter 95 Pei Nuo: You make me look so silly.
——10 days later——
"What are you thinking? Why did you buy lilies here?!"
"Aren't you annoying? It's just buying flowers, what difference does it make what you buy? Don't you think so, Longze?"
—This is a conversation that Ran Mouri overheard while pushing Conan back to the ward.
At this moment, Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama are having a heated discussion about lilies in Conan's hospital room, with a bewildered Osamu Byakuya standing between them.
"Please, its flower language is beheading, which is a very bad omen! You should know that too, right, Ryuzawa?" Toyama Kazuha was not to be outdone and interrupted Bai Yexiu before he could answer.
—Let's rewind to half an hour ago—
Heiji Hattori squatted at the entrance of a flower shop, looking at the various flowers in front of him, caught in a dilemma.
"Kudo is in the hospital, what flowers should I choose..." Hattori Heiji muttered to himself, but then, a familiar figure flashed in his peripheral vision—it was Ryuzawa!
"Hey! Ryuzawa! Over here—" Hattori Heiji stood up and waved and shouted to Byakuya Osamu, who was 10 meters away.
Bai Yexiu greeted him with a smile: "It's Hattori..."
It just so happens that he was also on his way to buy flowers to "visit" Conan.
He received a message from his superiors this morning: starting today, Pei Nuo will officially take over Shirley's research, and the research will no longer be suspended.
In the period following Sherry's rebellion and escape, the research group she was in charge of was in turmoil. Some people at the top were eyeing her and wanted to put their own researchers in her place, so it would have been unwise to reveal everything at that time.
Now that the research team has stabilized, it's time to collect data on the free-range experimental subjects. It just so happens that Conan will be back to normal for a while.
To him, Conan was merely an experimental subject who still had value and could be used, and was being left to his own devices.
"Is Hattori unsure what flowers to choose? I think those white lilies would be nice..."
"It looks pretty good. Anyway, I don't know what flowers to send, so I'll just go with these!"
After helping Hattori Heiji choose flowers, she went to the hospital with him.
—Let's go back to the present—
“Even the younger Ryuzawa is more sensible than you. He didn’t buy lilies. What about you?” Toyama Kazue poked Heiji’s chest in the abdomen.
"That bouquet of flowers was clearly..."
But before Hattori Heiji could finish speaking, he noticed Mouri Ran and her group at the door.
"Huh? It's Hattori and Kazuha. What brings you here?" the Maori man exclaimed in surprise.
"Oh dear, I heard that this kid was hospitalized, so I took a plane after school and rushed over, and brought this kid along too!" Hattori Heiji said, putting his arm around Byakuya Shu's shoulder.
Conan looked at the energetic Hattori Heiji in front of him and couldn't help but smile wryly—
Heiji Hattori's school uniform is black, but he's holding a white lily in his hand: black clothes and white flowers, making him look like he's attending a funeral.
Conan's somewhat helpless expression was noticed by Bai Yexiu—he had deliberately chosen the flower in the first place.
Since all lab mice will eventually be euthanized, offering condolences in advance to express one's "apology" is not entirely unreasonable.
……
Pei Nuo had just arrived at Shirley's lab when she received an email from Bai Yexiu.
[Aptx4869 has a chance to revert the ingested living organism to its juvenile form, while retaining its memories and intelligence.]
(Image) (Image)
——Cointreau]
In addition to the email, a detailed document report was also sent.
Pei Nuo was so shocked that she almost dropped her phone.
He had just changed shifts! And he received such an explosive message, sent by his friend who was also a member of the action team.
Pei Nuo immediately clicked on the two pictures—the first one looked like a high school student, who Pei Nuo vaguely remembered, as if he had seen him in some newspaper.
The second picture shows a primary school student. Although he is wearing glasses, Pei Nuo, as a researcher, can still see that the boy's facial features are somewhat similar to those of the high school student in the previous picture.
Pei Nuo narrowed his delicate peach blossom eyes and then dialed someone's number—he remembered that there was a strange person in Shirley's research group who had a particular fondness for lab rats.
The organization usually throws away any mice that are worn out or about to die, but this strange person always volunteers to take them all back and raise them until they're plump and healthy. Sometimes, when the resources department runs out of adult mice, they'll ask this person for some.
Before Shirley resisted and ran away, she asked for some white mice. Now that the lab is abandoned, the leftover mice are usually taken by that person. Perhaps those mice can help him prove something…
After explaining the basic situation to the person, the person quickly arrived at the research lab with the white mice he had taken with him earlier.
"Brother Pei Nuo, it's me!" A kind-looking young man pushed open the door, carrying a large box in both hands.
Before Pei Nuo could speak, the door behind the young man was pushed open again. This time, it was Gin who came in.
"Gin? How is it you?" Pei Nuo asked in confusion.
"You should have received the email by now." Gin closed the door and pulled up a chair to sit down.
Pei Nuo gave the young man beside her a wink, and the young man immediately understood, obediently opening the box and taking out the small acrylic cage inside.
There were four small cages in total. As the young man picked them up, he started rambling, "After Shirley was taken away last time, I took the mice with me. Strangely, besides the six mice that had already died, I also saw these baby mice. I can't help it, they're just too cute. I really can't resist these furry little creatures. These tiny mice are so much cuter than the adult mice. With them, I feel like my adult mice aren't cute anymore. You have no idea how nice these little things feel to touch. They're so cute running around. These furry little cuties are simply angels in my life...%@＃*＆～￥＊…"
"Get to the point." Gin frowned.
The young man gave an awkward laugh: "Ah... I mean, I find it quite strange. The Resources Department never provides young mice to the research group, and the research group doesn't use young mice either, because that would cause some deviations in the experiment."
Pei Nuo picked up one of the boxes of mice and examined it closely. The mice in the box were much smaller than the normal adult mice provided by the research team. Pei Nuo had conducted experiments on thousands of mice, so he could spot these differences at a glance.
"You can go now. I might need to use these lab mice," Pei Nuo waved to the young man.
The young man turned back for one last, reluctant look at the four lively baby white mice, his voice pitiful: "Brother Pei Nuo, you must give my little darlings back to me! I really want to raise them, at least give me a chance to raise them before you kill them..."
"Stop talking nonsense." Gin pointed a gun at them impatiently.
"Yes, yes, I'll leave right away..." Upon seeing the gun, the young man fled the research lab as if he were running away.
“I’m sorry, there are probably a lot of strange people like this in the research group. I didn’t mean to offend anyone.” Pei Nuo shook his head as he looked at the closed door. “But as you can see, the resource department never provides juvenile mice. The only possibility now is that these mice were juveniles that were adults. Shirley is hiding something from us.”
"Heh." Gin chuckled softly.
He finally understood what all those words Pisko had been saying intermittently before meant.
“And now, it seems your action team has something to do. You didn’t expect this, did you? The so-called poison the organization provided to the action team is actually a half-finished product of aptx4869, not a completely lethal poison. It seems you’ve missed quite a few fish.” Pei Nuo said, turning around and operating the computer to bring up a list.
"These are all people who have taken that so-called poison. The list shows them as dead. It's hard not to believe that Shirley changed the list."
As Pei Nuo was speaking, she suddenly looked at Gin with a somewhat displeased expression: "Hey, no, why haven't you said anything for so long? It makes me look so dull. Why don't I see you being as aloof as when you were arguing with Jun Du?"
"..."