Soul Chuan Ke Xue: I call gin and wine my wife

At night, strange noises were heard in every building in the quarantine area.

Conan, who had been pretending to be asleep since the day, also quietly got up at this time. He carefully avoided those adults who looked difficult to deal with and slipped under a window on the first floor of the old house where Dr. Shinde was.

He barked three times like a puppy, and the people inside finally opened the window.

An adult's arm reached out, picked up Conan, and carried him directly into the room.

The window was quickly closed and locked to prevent anyone from outside from peeping, and Dr. Shindou also pulled the curtains.

"You came at the perfect time. I just came back from patrolling the building next door."

Dr. Shinchu took off his white coat and changed into his regular clothes.

Conan asked, "With the patient in such a mess, do you still dare to go on ward rounds, Shinide-nii?"

"Yes, because there will be administrators with batons as followers. And they are not fools. There are not many doctors in the quarantine area. If you attack a doctor, that person will definitely be besieged by others."

Dr. Shinchu took off his glasses, searched through boxes and cabinets for a long time before finding a glasses cloth, then he let out a long sigh.

"I thought even this kind of thing was stolen."

Conan said nothing, but just stared at him as he finished wiping his glasses. Then he asked in confusion: "Doctor Shinide, is the old employee who guarded the old factory really dead?"

"Yes. When this place became a quarantine area, he was responsible for cleaning rooms and removing garbage. Not long after, he was infected with the virus and died."

Perhaps understanding Conan's worry, Dr. Shinde comforted him: "But don't worry, I spent some time with him when I came here, and I have a general idea of ​​the situation here."

After saying this, Dr. Shinde seemed to take something out of the drawer and put it on him, then left the room with Conan.

Unlike the chaotic building where patients live, the building where doctors live is very quiet.

Conan and Shinde walked in the flickering light and soon arrived at the stairs.

An unexpected scene appeared.

Conan was surprised and said, "This is already the first floor, but there are steps going down on this side of the escape staircase. Is there a basement underneath?"

He turned on the flashlight function on his watch and illuminated the end of the stairs clearly.

As Shinchu walked downstairs with him, he explained, "I heard that the discarded materials from the pharmaceutical factory were temporarily stored in the basement. But no one has been here for a long time. I don't know if the door can still be opened."

The light shone on the door lock, which was a very old-fashioned padlock that was covered with rust.

Conan was like a skilled locksmith. He bit his watch in his mouth and took out a palm-sized box from his pocket, which contained tools that could be used for lock picking.

When Dr. Shinde saw it, he bent his knees and squatted down in amazement.

"Great, Conan, you're still the same as before, always doing things that surprise me."

Conan was so focused on unlocking the lock that his mouth was occupied that he had no time to reply.

After about two minutes, Conan was sweating profusely as he pried the lock. Finally, he heard a click and one of the rings of the padlock popped out of the lock.

"Thanks to that thief, I never thought that one day I would do the same thing as him..."

Doctor Shinde asked curiously: "Thief? Who is it? So Conan, do you have such a friend?"

"No, it's hard to explain right away." Conan pulled open the door of the basement with force and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He smiled at Dr. Shinide and said, "Can you go in first? Shinide-san, I'm a little scared."

"Um... OK."

Due to years of disrepair, the light in the basement is broken.

Conan held up his watch and hesitated to go in. Instead, he stood at the door and sniffed the air, reminding: "Brother Shinde, the basement has not been ventilated for a long time. Be careful of lack of oxygen when you go in."

"Well, so I brought this." Dr. Shinde took out the lighter in his hand and lit it in the basement.

Although the flame of the lighter flickered a few times, it did not go out.

"Let's go."

As expected, there were a lot of discarded equipment piled up in the basement, and the gap between the trash cans was only wide enough for two people to walk side by side, so Conan held Dr. Shinichi's hand tightly and walked close to him.

"By the way, Niide-nii-san, why did that old employee mention the basement to you?"

"He was a very wise old man. He probably had anticipated that the quarantine zone would fall into the chaos it is today. So because I often took care of him, he told me this place and told me that I could come here to hide when I got into trouble."

Dr. Xinchu looked around from time to time, frowning and appearing very alert.

"But I've never been here, so I'm not sure if there is really a door on the other side of the basement that leads to the isolation area opposite."

They walked for a long time, until the light from Conan's watch dimmed a little, and finally they saw the door on the steps in front.

When he got closer, Conan felt a chill and quickly ran up and put his face against it.

"It's windy! This door should be open to the outside."

Dr. Shinde pointed at the door lock and said in surprise: "Look, Conan, the door lock here is embedded."

Conan said excitedly: "That's great! We can just use a crowbar to pry it open!"

"A crowbar?"

"That's it!" Conan grinned and showed a long iron stick he had picked up on the way here. The head of the stick was flat enough to fit into the crack of the door.

Dr. Shinide stared at Conan through the light from his watch.

He said meaningfully: "You really can't be underestimated, Conan."