APTX4869 Research Materials

When should we begin our investigation?

After discussing some details about the commission, Fujino asked Minami Takayama with a puzzled look.

"No need to rush."

Fujino slowly stood up from the sofa. "You don't need to worry about the investigation, Miss Takayama."

As he spoke, a deep light seemed to flicker in his slightly narrowed eyes. "In less than two weeks, I will find that sasaeng fan without anyone knowing and take care of him."

"Take care of it..."

Minami Takayama swallowed hard. "Six hundred thousand yen? That can't be right, can it?"

What are you thinking about?

Fujino chuckled lightly, "The solution I'm referring to is simply to stop them from doing anything outrageous through legal means. If necessary, I will also call the police in my own name, and it will absolutely not involve the client in the slightest."

"That's good."

Minami Takayama couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

She thought the detective was going to kill someone because of the 600,000 yuan.

At the same time, Yoko Okino also breathed a sigh of relief.

I guess she had the same thought.

It was late at night.

After discussing the details of the commission with Minami Takayama and receiving a commission fee of 60,000 yen, Fujino left the concert backstage.

On his way home, he even put on Assassin's Robe and transformed into Batman to punish the criminals in Mihua.

After punishing the criminals, he returned home.

At night, the Fujino family.

"Has it already grown to 25%?"

As soon as he got home, Fujino went to the bathroom, stood in front of the bathtub, looked at Akemi Miyano in the clear water, and murmured something.

At this time, Akemi Miyano's soul lotus root had grown to 25%. Originally only the size of a palm, the soul lotus root had now grown into a child the size of Conan.

What were originally the seedlings on top have now become rhizomes.

Those roots grow from the top of the lotus root and float to the surface of the water.

At the top of the stem, the lotus flower was already showing signs of budding.

The childlike face of the lotus root was no different from that of an ordinary person, its limbs were gradually growing, and its body was beginning to have basic details.

Looking at the increasingly mature Soul Lotus root, Fujino couldn't help but have a strange expression.

Just as he had predicted, the Soul Lotus root did indeed grow gradually.

Judging from the fact that 25% of them have reached the level of a normal seven-year-old child.

When you reach 100%, you'll probably return to the normal physique of someone in their twenties.

"It seems that it won't be long before the Soul Lotus can be used by me."

Fujino murmured something, then washed up in the shower next to him before returning to his bedroom and falling asleep.

The next day, November 23, in Shizuoka Prefecture.

Fujino, driving Bat Motorcycle disguised as a pendant using Kamen Rider, followed a white wolf on a highway in Shizuoka Prefecture.

A sharp, cold wind blew past him, but thanks to the excellent windproof properties of the Assassin's Robe, the wind did not penetrate his clothes at all.

This time, his destination was the home of Professor Masaki Hirota of Nanyo University in Shizuoka Prefecture.

As for why we traveled such a long distance... it was all because of the research data on aptx4869.

He only remembered it this morning.

If he remembered correctly, some time ago, Akemi Miyano had given Shiho Miyano several magnetic disks containing photos from her travels a few years earlier.

After Shiho Miyano finished looking at the floppy disks, she mailed them back to Akemi Miyano then returned them to her university professor, Masaki Hirota.

Of course, these are not important.

Importantly, among the returned disks was a disk containing research data on the drug aptx4869, which was accidentally included by Shiho Miyano!

That disk contained not only research data, but also a lot of information about code-named personnel within the Alcohol Company, as well as information about some investors.

Although it contains the Dark Duke virus, it will automatically destroy itself when used on computers other than those belonging to the Alcohol Company.

But something is better than nothing. Perhaps, much later, we'll figure out a way to decipher it...

"Is this Masaki Hirota's house?"

Following the white wolf's guidance, Fujino arrived at a two-story house.

After glancing at the house number [Hirota], confirming that this was indeed the Masaki Hirota home, [the person in question]...

He then activated his Detective Enhancement, grabbed the wall, and leaped into the Hirota family's yard.

He sneaked into the house and, with his enhanced perception, searched the room. He quickly found many disks next to the computer in what appeared to be a study.

"That should be all, right?"

Fujino examined the blue hard drive in his hand, his eyes slightly narrowed, and then plugged it into the computer one by one, trying it out.

Several disks, mostly containing content about outings and trips.

There is only one disk, which is encrypted, and after entering any password, a strange file pops up.

"It seems this is the one."

Fujino pulled out the disk, examined it carefully, and then put all the disks into the system's Pocket Dimension.

With the disk found, the purpose of this trip to Shizuoka can be considered achieved.

Before leaving the Hirota family, Fujino did not forget to rummage around and stage a burglary before leaving with more than 500,000 yen.

Just as Fujino was about to ride his motorcycle back to Tokyo and passed through a snowy mountain area, a System Task notification suddenly rang in his ears. "A new job mission has been detected. Please check it."

Doctor Profession's Duty: Rescue a Man in Distress

Mission objective: Rescue the man trapped in the avalanche.

Mission Reward: 500,000 yen, 50 Doctor Proficiency Points

"Avalanche?"

Fujino frowned as he looked at the job quests that appeared on the system interface.

After looking around, he soon spotted a snow-capped mountain nearby.

"Where's the avalanche? Is this damn system malfunctioning?"

No sooner had Fujino finished speaking than a rumbling sound came from the snow-capped mountains not far away.

"There really was an avalanche?"

Fujino stared at the snow-capped mountaintop, which was visibly collapsing, and couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his mouth.

After thinking for a moment, he turned the motorcycle around and rushed towards the avalanche.

Money doesn't matter. The main thing is that Mr. Teng is a very good person. He is always ready to help those in need and speak out when he sees injustice.

Yes, it's definitely not for money or to become more skilled at getting things for free.

The mountain road was a pale white after the avalanche. Fujino, dressed in Assassin's Robe, walked on the snow, seemingly blending into the surrounding snow.

Soon, following the system's guidance, he arrived at a forest buried under thick snow.

Is this the place?

Fujino arrived at a large tree with half of its trunk exposed. Looking at the red dot indicator at his feet, he took out his Wooden Sword and began to dig.

Soon, Fujino dug out the person he was supposed to save on this medical mission.

It was a man wearing a dark blue cotton-padded jacket. Blood was flowing from his left eye, and his left leg was also twisted from the impact with the tree.

Fujino dug it out of the snowdrift and pulled it aside.

"I wonder if there's anything that can confirm their identity."

With a sense of doubt, Fujino unzipped the man's cotton-padded coat, and a police officer's ID fell out of his inner pocket.

"Police?"

Fujino picked up the police ID, flipped it open, and exclaimed in surprise upon seeing the name on it, "Kansuke Yamato?"