Conan: About the fact that I have a black brother

Police cars with flashing red and blue lights surrounded the institute's gate.

Standing in front of the heavy iron gate, Lin Xiaochen put his fingers on the tip of his nose to hide his yawn.

The new medicine seemed to contain a sleeping pill, and he always felt sleepy.

"Lin, go in." Officer Yamabuki pulled Lin Xiaochen and said, "Do you want to go wash your face?"

Lin Xiaochen raised his eyes and smiled at him before following the main group: "No, I'm fine."

"This is the underground safe that was stolen. Most of our valuable medicines are stored here. Only the boss and the security office have the key to the safe. We count the medicines regularly." The head of the research institute explained to Ginzo Nakamori.

"When was the latest inventory?" Nakamori Ginzo looked at the empty freezer.

"We started counting at 8am yesterday and finished at 12am. At that time, all the medicines were complete. This morning at 7am, the project Mr. Saito was in charge of required special medicines, and when we sent someone to open the safe, we found that the medicines were stolen."

Lin Xiaochen instinctively looked at his watch. It was now ten o'clock in the afternoon.

"Why didn't you call the police earlier?" Nakamori Ginzo was puzzled. "We didn't receive the report until nine o'clock. What were you doing in the two hours in between?"

"We originally planned to check the surveillance to see if we could find the mole," said the person in charge, "because most of our drugs are kept confidential, and the boss doesn't want them exposed to the public. But, unfortunately, we didn't find any suspects in the surveillance, because no one entered the safe between 12 o'clock yesterday and 7 o'clock this morning."

The medicine disappeared out of thin air?

The police officers present frowned, obviously not accepting this explanation.

Lin Xiaochen looked at the other freezers that were still locked and asked, "Didn't you count the goods again? What if something else is missing?"

"We've counted and found that only this freezer was stolen," said the person in charge.

"What was the stolen potion?"

"Bovine serum."

Lin Xiaochen didn’t know much about laboratory matters, but he always felt that this was not a rare thing.

"For safety reasons, please open the other cabinets and hand them over to the police for inspection." Nakamori Ginzo saw Lin Xiaochen walk to a freezer and squat down, "We need to verify your statement."

"This... is not very convenient. After all, we have strict requirements for the storage of medicines. Opening the freezer and changing the temperature easily may cause the medicine to become inactivated, so--" The person in charge seemed very embarrassed.

Nakamori Ginzo was not satisfied: "How can we investigate if you don't cooperate?"

"Please understand. I have contacted my boss. If he says it's okay, I'm sorry."

Nakamori Ginzo frowned: "What the hell?"

"It doesn't really matter whether we open it or not, right?" Lin Xiaochen held a freezer with one hand, "because it has already been opened."

"What!" The person in charge hurried over to check, and sure enough, the freezer that should have been locked opened with a single pull.

The person in charge fell to the ground with a pale face. The police officer near the freezer could clearly see that there was a naked body in the freezer, with some clothes and scattered yellow liquid around the body.

"This is going to be troublesome." Nakamori Ginzo couldn't help but take a deep breath and ordered the police officer, "Call the Investigation Section and ask them to send someone over."

Someone has already died, so this matter is no longer within the scope of Investigation Section 2's responsibility.

Investigation of the first and third departments of violence.

When Inspector Megure and his men arrived quickly, the safe had been surrounded by yellow and black security tape and the body had been removed from the freezer.

Yi Dahang was accompanied by a strange police officer and a woman who could be called a police beauty.

Yi Dahang saw Lin Xiaochen and greeted him: "Haya?"

"Squad leader." Lin Xiaochen responded, and he took out his police notes, "Officer Nakamori asked me to hand over the details of the case. Someone will be needed to check the body later." His eyes fell on the two people behind Ida Hang, and the meaning was obvious, he was asking who would go.

"Officer Sato will be in charge of the body." Date Kou turned sideways and looked at Sato Miwako, "Is that okay?"

Miwako Sato nodded and walked towards the body bag.

Yi Dahang noticed Lin Xiaochen's puzzled gaze and explained, "This is Gao Mu. He just came up from the cross-training assignment and is not familiar with the environment yet. I will take care of him first. Gao Mu, this is Lin, my classmate."

"Hello, senior, I am Takagi Wataru!" Takagi Wataru bowed to Lin Xiaochen.

It had been a long time since I last saw such an energetic and motivated police officer. Lin Xiaochen was not used to it for a moment and quickly helped him up: "No need to be like this, just call me the same way you call squad leader."

"Okay, Brother Lin, you can just call me Gao Mu. Please give me your guidance!"

"No need for honorifics..." Lin Xiaochen looked at Yi Dahang. He never liked such overly formal greetings.

Receiving Lin Xiaochen's eye signal, Ida Hang patted Gao Mushi's shoulder and said, "Okay, Gao Mu, Haya won't be used to you being like this, so just listen to him."

"Private Marseille——"

"I told you not to do this." Lin Xiaochen sighed helplessly, "Okay, hurry up and take out your notebook. There's a lot of information. Listen carefully."

"Yes!"

"Today, at 9:07 am on July 16, we received a report from Shengji Research Institute that an experimental drug was missing. Because of its high value, we quickly dispatched the police. At 9:45, the Second Investigation Team arrived. At 10:15, we found the body hidden in the freezer. The time of death was between July 15 and July 16."

"The person in charge said that the warehouse was counted from 8 to 12 yesterday, and the drugs were intact and not missing. The bovine serum was found missing around 7 this morning, but the surveillance footage showed no records of outsiders entering or leaving. There are only two keys to the safe, one in the hands of the institute's boss and one in the security room. Three of the five security guards on duty in the security room yesterday did not have alibis."

"There is no entry and exit record in the security room. How the deceased entered and why he fell into the locked freezer remains to be verified. Now we only know that the deceased is named Shibuya Taro and is a clerk at a nearby convenience store."

Lin Xiaochen finished speaking in one breath, but Gao Mushi's pen never stopped.

Yi Dahang asked: "Have you checked the surveillance?"

"We checked all the surveillance cameras in the institute except the boss's office, and we haven't found any problems yet." Lin Xiaochen explained, "The office is always locked, and we haven't entered yet."