Edogawa Conan almost subconsciously began to think about how to save himself.

He has encountered many life-threatening moments, and he has long passed the time when he would be at a loss. It is not that he has never experienced situations more dangerous than the current one. Almost as soon as he realized that he was in danger, he was thinking about ways to escape.

After confirming that all the electronic equipment on his body had been taken away, he calmed down and observed the coffin itself.

A coffin is basically the size of an average adult. After a child of his size is laid down, there is about 520 liters of air left.

Calculated based on the oxygen content of 21 in the air, there are approximately 110 liters of oxygen.

A person consumes about 550 liters of oxygen every day. Even if he is a child, he cannot save much, and the consumption is only about 530 liters.

In other words, if he does not move and just lies in the coffin, the oxygen content in the coffin will be enough for him to breathe for at least 5 hours.

However, if the oxygen content in the air is lower than 12, people will have difficulty breathing, which is a very unfavorable state for self-rescue.

In other words, his time is only more than 2 hours at most, and no more than 3 hours.

enough.

He remembered that the place where he was in trouble was at a remote construction site. Although bulldozers were already stationed on the construction site, the construction should still take a few days, and the construction site should be deserted now.

He tentatively shouted twice at the top of his lungs, but the child's voice was already soft, and he was buried underground, so no one could hear him on the deserted construction site.

He didn't panic, turned on the watch-shaped flashlight, and began to observe the sealing condition around the coffin.

Just like the rough wooden boards on all sides, the sealing of the coffin is also very crude, and traces of soil seepage can even be seen in some corners.

He looked around for a while and found that compared to a "coffin", this was actually more like a "box" temporarily assembled from four wooden boards.

There are no traces of nail fixation at the seams of the upper cover, which means the cover is not sealed.

He stretched out his hand and pushed, and it was slightly loosened, but with the child's size and strength, he couldn't push it.

His first reaction was to use a football to push up the lid, but he immediately rejected this idea.

——The football made by Dr. Ali is inflated with air and can only last for a few seconds. In this small and confined space, air is what he depends on for survival and cannot be wasted easily.

He reached out and touched the bow on his collar.

This time when he went out dressed as a girl, he did not forget to bring the bow with him, he just changed it into a pink spare bow.

There are many of these bows in Dr. Ali's house. Most of them are made into spare voice changers, but a few of them also have mechanisms in them.

It's not a mechanical mechanism, but hollowing out the inner core of the bow to make something like a small storage bag.

What is placed in those bows is a temporary antidote for aptx4869 specially made by Haiyuan.

He just took a bow to decorate out of habit today, but he didn't expect it to come in handy here.

The wooden boards of the coffin were loose, but the child was not strong enough to open it.

But if you are an adult and use your hands and feet to hold it up, you can hopefully open the top cover directly.

Although a lot of extra oxygen will be consumed during the process of taking the antidote to restore the body, it is still worth a try.

It was a waste of oxygen. He made a prompt decision, opened the hidden button of the bow, took out an antidote and put it to his mouth to swallow.

The antidote for dry throat stuck in the throat for a long time, then slowly slid into the esophagus and gradually entered the stomach.

He closed his eyes and waited for the medicine to take effect.

The moment he closed his eyes, darkness surrounded him from all sides. Perhaps because he had already thought about understanding the Dharma, his mind no longer thought as fast as before, and he had enough energy to think about other things.

As the effects of the medicine settled and exerted themselves in his body, he felt his heart beating rapidly, his body functions operating at a high load, and his whole body burned as hot as a high fever, almost melting his thoughts.

His thoughts were blurred, and he had no energy left to think about who the robber who buried him in the coffin was.

He heard a soft "clicking" sound in his bones. Under the influence of this antidote that violated the human body's functions, they were growing at a terrifying speed, returning to what they looked like when he was seventeen years old.

Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but reach out and hold his chest to ease the throbbing heartbeat.

"Don't press your chest when your heart hurts. It's a useless method. Try acupressure, it will be more effective."

In the severe pain, he heard a cold voice ringing in his ears.

The familiar voice made him suddenly open his eyes. In front of him was still darkness in the cramped space. He was shocked to realize that everything was just his imagination.

——The hallucination buried deep in the memory.

Ah, yes... those were the words that person reminded the old lady softly when the school organized voluntary work in a nursing home.

Later, there was a theft case of a lost wallet in the nursing home. He could tell at a glance that the caregiver who was taking care of the old woman was behind the scenes.

After finding out the situation, he immediately turned around and called the dean and all relevant personnel to expose the truth in public.

When he turned around, Kudo Shinichi saw the girl leaning against the door frame.

The setting sun cast a warm light on her profile, but it could not warm the cold expression on her face.

At that moment, he suddenly realized that the nickname "the unsmiling beauty" given to her by the boys in the class was very suitable.

Their focus may have been on "not smiling", but this was the first time he realized that she was beautiful.

The unsmiling beauty leaned against the door, looked at him with Ling eyes, and said lightly: "You want to expose that nurse in public?"

Kudo Shinichi was not surprised by her insight.

The other party is a young detective who is as famous as him. If he can't even see this, it would make him think that she is just trying to gain fame.

She glanced lightly and said two words: "Don't go."

Kudo Shinichi, who was still young and energetic, raised his eyebrows in disbelief: "Why?"

He really didn't understand at the time that the nature of a detective is to pursue the truth. He didn't have the virtue of keeping silent, and he was unwilling to be such a person.

"Kudo Shinichi," she just called his name in a cold voice, "are you a detective to pursue the truth, or for the sake of the victim?"

"Is there a difference? Isn't it the same thing to uncover the truth of the case and seek justice for the victims?"

She straightened up from the door frame: "This case is different. If you consider the victim, you shouldn't expose the truth in public."

Kudo Shinichi said nothing, but it was obvious that he was not convinced by her yet.

The young man is proud and arrogant, and has never encountered any setbacks in solving crimes or deciphering secrets.

No one has ever told him, "You're not doing it right" or "You shouldn't be like this", but his good upbringing makes him willing to wait patiently for what the other person will say next.

"The old lady treats that nurse as her own son. She has a bad heart and can't stand the stimulation. If you tell her directly, it will only worsen her condition."

Kudo Shinichi frowned. He felt that the "detective" in front of him was too weak.

"Just because of this, she has to keep a person with a criminal record by her side? This nurse can steal money today, but maybe he can attack the old woman tomorrow."

But the other party was not to be outdone and ignored his aggressiveness: "I didn't say not to expose the truth, I just said to whom and how to expose it should not be so blunt."

That was the first time that the concept of "truth disclosure method" appeared in Kudo Shinichi's memory.

"Now that you have found the evidence, let's go directly to the dean's office. You can hand the evidence to the dean and explain the whole story clearly, so that he can find a way to move the nurse away from the old lady."

Kudo Shinichi's eyebrows furrowed even more tightly: "You just said that this old woman treats the nurse as her son. If he is transferred without any reason, the old woman will definitely not be willing to do so."

"So, you come with me."

The girl took him to a remote area of ​​the nursing home and blocked the caregiver in a corner.

She got straight to the point and took pictures of the evidence: "We have found evidence that you have actually committed a crime and have given it to the dean for review. You now have two choices."

They were obviously just two boys and girls of fifteen or sixteen years old, but the other party was shocked by her aura and was stunned for a long time.

She did not wait for the other party's reaction, but just continued: "First, if you refuse to admit death and everything remains the same, then we and the dean will call the police to deal with it. The evidence is conclusive and you can't escape. Second...

"

She glanced at the other person's reaction and read the impulsive crime in the other person's trembling eyes before continuing.

"You put the stolen things back now, and the dean can forget about it, but you have to take the initiative to say goodbye to the old lady and leave her. You can no longer be her caregiver in the future. Where you will be transferred depends on the dean's arrangements."

"But if your hands and feet are still unclean at the next place, you have to think clearly before taking action. The dean knows your criminal record. If he discovers something similar, will he think of you first?"

He chose No. 2 without a doubt.

This small case seemed to have been settled, but Kudo Shinichi was quite critical of the way she handled it.

"Since he has committed a crime, he should bear the corresponding consequences. You should not let him get away with it."

"The amount of his theft did not meet the sentencing standard stipulated in the criminal law. Even if he called the police, only the auxiliary police of the jurisdiction would come, and he would be detained for a few days at most.

"Would you trade the other party's detention time of just a few days for the old woman's heart attack and her lying in the hospital for a year and a half?"

The other party just looked him straight in the eyes and asked this question calmly.

Kudo Shinichi couldn't say the word "change", but he still instinctively didn't want to agree with her values ​​of shielding criminals.

"This is not cover-up," the other party saw what he was thinking, "Kudo, you are pursuing the truth from the perspective of a detective, while I am seeking justice from the perspective of the victim.

"Unfortunately, our ideas are destined to be inconsistent, and I will not force you to accept my values. If you want to call the police and arrest the nurse now, I am also willing to respect your decision."

At the end of the day, Kudo Shinichi still didn't insist on calling the police because she said something at the end.

"Think about the ending of "Grange Manor". Kudo, your idol Sherlock Holmes is not a person who pursues 'absolute justice' to the extreme."

Kudo Shin suddenly wanted to retort: ​​"The situation is different."

She smiled: "Yes, so actually I prefer Poirot or Marple - I told you, I prefer Ellery Queen and Agatha Christie to Conan Doyle."
To be continued...