Detective Conan: Knifeman? I'm a good citizen of Beihua

The ruins of Mingde Hospital in the United States.

Mingde Hospital, one of the most famous psychiatric hospitals in the United States, has become the first choice for high-class wealthy people because of its high-quality medical services and excellent medical team.

However, due to a sudden fire, Mingde Hospital was reduced to ruins overnight and became a horrific site that everyone avoided talking about.

As time passed, this place was covered with weeds and spider webs, and even the charred marks on the walls from the fire had become blurred, degenerating into mottled black fragments.

The scarred buildings are filled with desolation and gloom, and the ruins seem to be sealing a terrible story.

The young man in motorcycle clothes jumped off the motorcycle, took off the black helmet on his head, looked up at the building in front of him, with an obscure expression on his face.

It was already dusk, and the sun had already set halfway. The remaining afterglow fell on the side of the building, casting a red and black glow, as if the fire a few years ago had never disappeared and was still burning, burning this unknown and mysterious past.

Even the knee-high weeds were ignited by the "sparks". Under the red afterglow and blown gently by the wind, the surging "flame" instantly rushed towards the face, carrying a hint of the chill of hell.

The system took a breath and said, "Host, this looks terrifying."

Bai Chuanqiu casually hung his helmet on his motorcycle and walked slowly across the weeds towards the main gate of Mingde Hospital. "What's so scary about this? Ordinary people wouldn't dare come here. This environment is perfect for disposing of corpses."

System: "Ahh, that's even more terrifying!"

Baichuan Qiu took two steps at a time and sprinted forward, flipping over the shaky and rusty iron gate and landing steadily on the ground of Mingde Hospital.

"Everyone is dead, what's there to be afraid of?"

System: "Ah, this is different. What if the bad guys haven't gone far..."

Baichuan Qiu: "...System, I find that you are gradually forgetting what system you are."

How can a criminal system be so cowardly?

System: “Hmm~”

Baichuan Qiu: "..."

Baichuan Qiu was too lazy to pay attention to this intermittent system and turned around to continue walking inside.

This place has been abandoned for a long time, with wild grass growing wildly and no trace of the ground visible at all. When Baichuanqiu stepped on it, it felt like he was stepping on a soft carpet, which was inexplicably funny.

The main entrance to the building was completely deformed, its two high and low door frames hanging loosely in their original positions, as if they would fall down at any moment. Bai Chuanqiu pushed, but found that the door was almost welded shut, completely unable to budge.

There was only a gap half a palm's width that allowed one to peek inside.

Baichuan Qiu waved away the spider webs in the crack of the door and took a peek inside. All he saw was furniture piled up randomly, many of which were charred black, obviously the remains of a fire.

"Host, the second window next to it is ajar and should be able to be opened." The system reminded.

Baichuan Qiu turned around and climbed in through the window.

As soon as he landed, he stepped on a syringe.

Baichuan Qiu lowered his eyes.

The system was surprised: "Eh? Host, there are so many needles here."

There were needles scattered not only on the window but also on the floor of the corridor over there.

Bai Chuanqiu frowned: "It must have been left by a drug addict nearby."

Judging from the amount of dust on the syringe, it must have been many years.

This situation is not uncommon in the United States.

The system was horrified: "Then host, you must be careful where you step!"

"fine."

Shirakawa Akane was wearing motorcycle boots with very thick soles and was not worried about the needles.

After walking around this corridor full of needles, Baichuanqiu finally found a relatively clean map guide.

Archives Room 4-1

The archive room is the first one on the fourth floor.

Baichuan Qiu determined the location on the map and quickly followed the instructions to find the archives room of Mingde Hospital.

Unsurprisingly, the burn marks here are the most severe.

Almost everywhere in sight was charred, even the walls were cracked and deformed, and the things that were originally there turned into a black mass, making it difficult to distinguish their original appearance.

Not to mention paper files, even people here would turn into black and gray.

Even so, Baichuanqiu took a walk around here and found some clues.

"The fire started from here." Baichuanqiu said, pointing to a location.

System: "Huh? Why?"

"There's an obvious carbonization pit here, and the remaining bookshelves have collapsed in the opposite direction."

Baichuan Qiu pointed at a piece of black vertical charcoal and said.

In a fire, objects usually collapse in the direction of the fire's spread. However, there are vertical black charcoal blocks with long intervals on both sides of this carbonization pit, indicating that they are all falling in the opposite direction of the fire's starting point.

system:"?"

Wait, how on earth did the host figure out from that black mass that it was a bookshelf?!

Bai Chuanqiu didn't explain, but continued to walk around the room a few times, then said firmly: "The arsonist had a clear goal, which was to destroy a certain file. According to the clues we have collected so far, it should be the original owner who did it."

The original owner acted decisively and seemed determined to destroy everything here.

Now that I think about it, it was probably to go back to Sakura to take the exam.

After all, a mentally ill person cannot take part in formal national examinations.

Especially since the original owner had such a bizarre past.

The system was silent for a long time, then said with a hint of emotion, "It seems the fire was set late at night. Judging from the size and scale of this hospital, there must be at least two or three hundred people."

Most of them were mentally ill. How many people could have escaped at that time?

"As expected of a born bad boy." The system concluded.

Baichuan Qiu shrugged, not commenting on what the system said.

Because for him, arson and killing are indeed the simplest and most direct ways to destroy everything in the past.

The fire would devour everything mercilessly - including the bodies.

If he were the original owner, he would do the same.

At the same time, this scene reminded Baichuan Qiu of the first time he escaped from a criminal group.

At that time, in order to cover up the truth that he had killed the crime boss, he burned the entire crime park to ashes.

Oh yes, and by the way, they also burned the harmful opium poppy and let the whole group inhale it until they vomited.

Moreover, after the poisonous smoke knocked these people down, Baichuan Qiu was kind enough to wait for the smoke to dissipate before calling an ambulance for those half-dead idiots.

Well, how can someone who kills a bad guy not be considered a good person?

Baichuan Qiu blinked, then chuckled.

Shirakawa Akane...was born a bad guy?

Not bad.