"But why is she sending me this?" Mori Kogoro flipped through the information and shook his head. "She's never approached me before for business-related issues, especially something that doesn't fit in with my profession — it's almost all purely defense material, and there's nothing for me to deduce." "Yes, generally speaking, this kind of thing should be a communication between fellow lawyers, and there is no need to send it to your uncle who is doing work outside." Conan also had such a confused expression.

"Well, is there a page missing from this dossier?" At this moment, Maolilan flipped through one of the confessions and suddenly made a strange noise. "You see, the fifty-five and sixty-three pages of this dossier are missing."

"Two pages missing?" Kogoro Maori glanced at her. "Prosecutor's Confession Investigation Volume I? Maybe I accidentally ordered the wrong page, you check it. ”

"Surely not," Maolilan shook his head like a rattle. "Of course I know that you may have this kind of problem, Dad, so I specially checked it, and these two pages are really missing!"

"Anyway, I seem to have found something similar on my side," Conan also realized that something was wrong, and flipped through the second volume of the prosecutor's confession investigation book in his hand. "Pages 5, 8, 12 and 16 are missing."

Just as they were talking, Conan suddenly received a text message on his phone.

[There's someone in a protective suit coming, I don't know what's going on.] - Chiba Tachibana

“？” Conan was slightly stunned, then immediately walked to the window and looked at the position of the main entrance downstairs.

Downstairs, at the main entrance of the hotel, two police cars and two buses were parked there, and directly ignoring the pointers of passers-by from time to time, there were two people standing at the door of the bus, wearing full protective clothing.

Fully enclosed protective clothing that can withstand all kinds of situations when the respiratory system is added.

But...... What happened?

At this moment, Qian Yu looked at the thing in his hand and looked at the gray plain mourning face with the same expression next to him. Beside the two of them, Dr. Asasa and the rest of the Junior Detectives were holding the same thing.

"Put on your mask and come with us to the hospital, understand?" In front of them, the man in the hazmat suit commanded like this.

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In such a somewhat silent atmosphere, Qian Yu and Gray Yuan Ai took each other's hands and sat on the seat of the bus - although Qian Yu is not an expert in this area, from the rather solemn expression of Gray Yuan Ai now, it is obvious that this is not a good situation.

Especially considering that those guys are wearing such bulky and laborious chemical protection suits......

[I suspect it's because I'm worried that we have a contagious disease] - Gray Plains Mourning

Such a text message came to Chiba's mind in the form of a text message.

[Do we have an infectious disease? - Chiba Tachibana

[They are worried that we have an infectious disease, and you can see that the high-fitting masks that we are wearing are clearly intended to block things like droplets and aerosols, whether they are something that we may inhale or that we may exhale.] - Gray Plains Mourning

[And that full-protection chemical protective suit, is it also prepared for this unknown risk?] If that's the case, can I understand that they may not yet know what the route of infection is for this underlying disease? - Chiba Tachibana

[You'd better pray so, because if that's not the case, it means that they know that only full protective clothing can protect against infectious diseases, and our current mask is useless] - Gray Plains Mourning

"......" Qian Yu frowned, looking at the girl beside him, and the other party was already looking at him, and just nodded lightly at this time.

"Ahem-" At this moment, the sound of a person's cough caught Chiha's attention.

If it was just the sound of coughing, he wouldn't care too much, but in this case, the auxiliary unit told him something interesting.

This guy and the other two guys were placed alone on the left rear side of the bus, while everyone else was placed further forward. As far as the sounds picked up by the auxiliary unit are concerned, the vast majority of coughing sounds do not come from the majority, but from the three individuals who are individually arranged at the back.

Going back further, it seems that the three men were deliberately arranged to board the bus at a gate that had never been opened before......

When Chiba turned his gaze to the others, he found that it was not only himself who had discovered this, but also the passengers sitting on his left side also looked at the person sitting at the end with rather uneasy expressions, forever letting some of their eyes escape the gaze of others.

The uneasy mood slowly permeated the whole car. And after the bus arrived at its destination, the riots among the passengers were even worse.

It was a hospital with a name they weren't familiar with, but they were greeted by a large number of medical staff dressed in full hazmat suits. There is no doubt that even if this hospital is not a specialized infectious disease prevention and treatment center, it is at least a specialty hospital that has invested heavily in this area.

"Okay, please don't panic, get out of the car in an orderly manner and be checked."

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At the same time, on the train from Tokyo to Kyoto.

"......" Gregory, who was sitting in an empty seat next to him, stared at the paper in his hand, thinking about what it was.

The patient, a 58-year-old man, was admitted to the hospital two weeks ago (21 July 1994) with a high fever, where he was diagnosed with bronchial infection and treated with antibiotics. After treatment failed, he was admitted to our hospital on July 29 with the following physical examination results:

[Body temperature 39.1 degrees Celsius.]

The heart is normal

Coarse breath sounds in both lungs

Chest X-ray irradiation showed a heterogeneous blurred shadow of 6 cm * 4 cm

CT scan of the chest shows inflammatory changes in the lobes of the lungs at the site of shadowing

Multiple sputum cultures without identifying the causative organism]

If that's all there is, then this incident is at best pneumonia of unknown cause, and Gregory will not make a trip for this reason at all.

But the problem is that health care workers are infected, which means that the pneumonia may be transmitted from person to person.

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This one...... It can be regarded as an idea that I came up with on the fly, because the Hakamata Yan case is actually unconditioned to unfold now, and what I want to express is not a foreshadowing that is being unveiled now.

Everyone knows about wearing masks, but I would like to remind everyone that washing hands is more critical. Washing your hands is even more important than wearing a mask, after all, as long as you don't get too close to other people these days, the threat of droplets (forget what this is and go back to see the lectures on related things in the shipwreck) is actually not that big, but if your mucous membranes touch something bad, then the joke is too big.