Chapter 499 - Two-Way Investigation
Jiroyoshi Suzuki sat in his office and answered the phone with a solemn face.
"It's getting worse," the doctor said. "The symptoms that had stabilized have also relapsed, and the condition of several other patients is also deteriorating."
"Will it get worse?" Jiroyoshi Suzuki asked. "If the problem continues to worsen, will it affect our entire observation program?"
"It's not just a matter of the observation program now," the doctor immediately punctured Suzuki's illusions. "If this continues, we may not all be able to arrive in Guam healthy and then have patients treated."
Guam is now nearly 300 kilometers away, and it will take at least more than two hours to land and drop off the patient in Guam. But in the past hour or so, more than five passengers have been infected. (Not only Yuan Zi and Xiaolan, but also a man, three women, and four employees on the ship were also infected)
"......," Jiroji Suzuki's brow locked. How can this be......"
Obviously, as long as this observation can be completed, then he and the Suzuki Foundation will always leave a strong mark on the astronomical world, but why did such a troublesome thing happen now? Are those red Siamese bastards really not going to give him a lot of trouble?
……
In the living compartment of the female staff, Kogoro Mori wears a mask and sits on a bunk and looks at a female employee sitting on the bed directly opposite.
There were a total of four female employees in this cabin, and except for the one directly opposite Kogoro Mori, the other three had already developed symptoms of infection and were quarantined.
So, the question now is this—what is it about the only survivor that makes everyone else infected and she doesn't?
"When did the first infected person appear?" Kogoro Maori asked, holding a notebook.
"About fifty minutes ago," the female employee replied after glancing at the wall clock in the cabin. "We were talking, but her face suddenly turned ugly, and she grabbed a plastic bag from the table next to her, ran out, and threw up outside the cabin."
"Spit out outside the cabin, did you?" Mori Kogoro confirmed. "Are you sure you spit in the bag, not on the ground?"
"It's clean outside," the female employee nodded. "So she must have vomited all in the bag."
"Did any of you contact her then?" Mori Kogoro asked again. "Are you the only one who hasn't touched her?"
"I was the only one who touched her," the female employee dismissed Kogoro Mori's idea. "Neither of them touched her."
"Is that so?" Kogoro Maori raised an eyebrow. "That'...... When did the two of them develop symptoms? What are the symptoms? ”
"About thirty-five minutes ago," the female employee replied after a moment's thought. "The two of them noticed a rash on their bodies at that time, and then they started coughing as well. I felt bad at the time, so I quickly called the doctor and confirmed that it was indeed the disease of the bacteria. ”
"Indeed?" Kogoro Mori's pen stopped, and his gaze turned to the eyes of the female employee. "Did you guess it was a symptom of bacteria?"
"I watched the news," the female employee nodded. "Because I have paid special attention to it, I know what the specific symptoms of bacteria will look like. And because I knew that some passengers had symptoms of the bacteria, I saw that they also had similar symptoms, and I began to pay attention to whether it was possible that they were infected. ”
"That's right," Mori Kogoro said noncommittally. "Which passenger's condition is it?"
"Miss Maolilan." The female employee replied. "Uh...... After all, we're service personnel, so it's not surprising to know which passenger is in trouble, right? After all, Miss Maolilan did fall ill in a public area. ”
"Don't be too nervous, you know this is normal." Mori Kogoro 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 haven't been infected yet, so I'm not nervous enough yet."
"......" Mori Kogoro raised an eyebrow, but didn't say anything. Well, calmness is a valuable quality, and yes, it's best to keep it up in the future. ”
……
After walking out of the cabin, Kogoro Mori put away the notebook and pen in his hand, and his expression was a little subtle.
This woman just now...... Isn't it ordinary? The female employees he had investigated before were basically completely panicked, but this employee was actually quite calm, and compared to the previous ones, he was completely out of the crowd. ”
【Wait a minute......】Mori Kogoro's eyelids suddenly jumped. [If I'm not mistaken......]
Turning to look at the door he had just walked out of, Mori Kogoro showed a rather subtle expression.
The idea is really weird, but ...... Does it seem to explain what the hell is going on? But that's weird, isn't it? And in this case, there is no way to explain the problem of number 0......
A look of confusion reappeared on Kogoro Maori's face.
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At the same time, the cabin of the Honda.
Conan, the "......", was wearing a mask and looked around the set of the cabin.
At present, the patients on the airship can probably be divided into two different disease groups according to the two different epidermal symptoms of bruising points and rashes - among them, the initiator of the bruising point group is Honda, so where do Honda's symptoms come from?
Conan didn't even look at the tube itself - the bruising spot symptoms didn't look like the ones at the National Tokyo Microbiology Research Center approved of at all, so it most likely had nothing to do with the tube in Honda's cabin - it might even be an empty tube.
The key is to monitor Honda's personal information and judge his condition from the objects he now leaves in this cabin.
According to the condition he has mastered, it seems that the doctor has not had the opportunity to communicate with Honda and confirm his medical history, so now he must take a look at Honda's bag to confirm what drugs are in it, and determine Honda's physical condition through this.
After rummaging through Honda's bag, Conan didn't find any valuable medicines - nothing more than the usual types of sleeping pills and blood pressure pills, which may have side effects, but none of the rare complications are consistent with Honda's current symptoms.
But at this moment......
“???” Conan's eyes widened as he looked at the receipt in his hand. "This ......"
Wait a minute, if that's the case...... Honda's symptoms can be fully explained???