Chapter 42: There is a Moonlighting Veterinarian Here

The movie continued to play.

Haibara Ai did not forget to remind the three children, "You must not talk about how that movie theater is run. If someone else beats you to it and uses this method, this movie theater might never become lively again."

"I got it!"

"Don't worry, we won't tell anyone!"

Genta and Mitsuhiko promised.

Ayumi also nodded and said, "I won't tell the others either."

After the three children turned their attention back to the movie again, Haibara Ai whispered to Tsuzaki, "Aren't you afraid that this movie theater will use your method to run the business, but refuse your investment?"

"It's just a movie theater," Chi Feichi was still watching the screen, "Even if it's profitable, it won't make much."

Haibara Ai frowned, "But you came up with this method..."

Chi Feichi explained, "I just wanted to test my adaptability. Putting myself in the owner's shoes and thinking about it, I came up with this solution."

Haibara Ai: "..."

She didn't even mind that Chi Feichi kept her photo to play a prank on her, and she had worried herself sick for Chi Feichi, only for Chi Feichi to have a completely cold and indifferent attitude of 'these are all trivial matters'?

So annoying!

"However, not being able to invest is indeed a bit of a loss. Earn whatever you can, every bit counts," Chi Feichi said. "Ai will definitely be great at managing a household in the future."

Haibara Ai had black lines on her forehead, "Are you trying to say I'm a nag?"

Chi Feichi: "Thank you."

Haibara Ai was stunned for a moment, the aura around her instantly dissipated, and she silently turned her head to look at the screen.

A little after five in the afternoon, the group left the movie theater. On the way, they stopped by Chi Feichi's apartment to pick up Hachiya, and then headed to Professor Agasa's house.

Conan had a helpless expression on his face as he played video games with the three children.

There was no help for it. Bamboo rats were delicious, but it was better not to let children see the process of slaughtering them. He was just responsible for distracting the three children while Chi Feichi dealt with the bamboo rat...

Professor Agasa followed Chi Feichi, "Do you need help?"

Haibara Ai glanced at Professor Agasa; counting on Professor Agasa was worse than counting on herself, "I'll help instead."

Chi Feichi thought for a moment, "Do you have an electric grid?"

"Oh? Do you need an electric grid to kill bamboo rats?" Professor Agasa asked in surprise, recalling, "I don't think I have one, but I have tools here, I can make one, it's very simple..."

"If there's no electric grid, a syringe will do," Chi Feichi picked up Hachiya and placed her next to the chopping board, "I mainly want to demonstrate it to Hachiya. Yesterday I demonstrated the drowning slaughter method, which is putting the bamboo rats in a cage and submerging them in water to drown them. Today I want to demonstrate a different method."

Hachiya looked bewildered: "..."

No, no, no, actually she didn't want to watch the demonstration at all!

She looked up and met Chi Feichi's cold and calm gaze.

Alright, she wanted to watch, as long as she didn't have to be the one demonstrated on...

Professor Agasa also broke into a sweat. Demonstrating how to kill bamboo rats to a snake... He thought this train of thought was quite unique!

"I remember there are syringes in the Professor's laboratory," Haibara Ai asked, "Is a syringe all we need?"

Professor Agasa: "..."

Things like syringes definitely weren't there; they were obviously for the white mice in Haibara's laboratory!

"If we have succinylcholine chloride..." Chi Feichi avoided the bamboo rat's teeth and pulled one out, "The dosage is 1 milligram per kilogram of body weight. Prepare 3 milligrams. If we don't have it, just the syringe will do."

"We have succinylcholine chloride, I'll go get it." Haibara Ai turned and walked to her laboratory.

Professor Agasa sweatdropped, wondering why cooking felt so much like entering a laboratory. "This succinylcholine chloride..."

"It's also known as the skeletal muscle relaxant suxamethonium," Chi Feichi explained, "The bamboo rat dies painlessly and without struggling, which won't cause any damage to the fur, and the drug residue in the body after death is non-toxic and doesn't affect consumption."

"I-I see!" Professor Agasa wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Haibara Ai quickly came back with a syringe, "I've already drawn the succinylcholine chloride, 3 milligrams."

Conan had just used the excuse of going to the bathroom to temporarily escape the pain of babysitting playing games, and as he passed by on his way back, he saw this scene: "..."

What were these three people trying to do?

"Drug-induced lethal slaughter method," Chi Feichi took the syringe, decisively gave the bamboo rat an injection, and then tossed the bamboo rat into the vegetable washing sink, "It's very simple."

Professor Agasa glanced at the motionless bamboo rat. True to description, it was painless and struggled-free, and it died way too fast...

Haibara Ai even analyzed it seriously, "It's about the same as sudden death in humans."

"Right," Chi Feichi said to Hachiya again, "Next is the cervical spine fracture slaughter method. Watch closely, it will be useful for you."

Hachiya stared with her snake eyes, indicating that she was watching very carefully.

Chi Feichi picked up another bamboo rat, pulled its head back toward its spine, and then pushed it forward.

Crack.

A crisp sound of a bone breaking.

Professional technique, the bamboo rat died very peacefully.

Chi Feichi threw this bamboo rat into the washing sink as well, "Also very simple."

"It seems Mr. Chi studied veterinary medicine?" Professor Agasa couldn't help asking.

Wasn't veterinary medicine supposed to teach you how to diagnose animal diseases and treat animals?

Did he have a misunderstanding of veterinary medicine?

"Yes," Chi Feichi turned his head, "What's wrong?"

"Uh, nothing, Mr. Chi really knows a lot about animals!" Professor Agasa nodded, and seeing Chi Feichi turn back to clean the two bamboo rats, he cast a sympathetic look at Hachiya.

Hachiya felt Professor Agasa's gaze and felt a little touched inside. It wasn't easy; finally, someone considered her feelings...

Professor Agasa was thinking: It's a good thing this snake doesn't know anything, otherwise, stuck with such an owner who watched animal slaughter methods every day, this snake would go crazy.

"White mice also have a cervical dislocation method, it seems the methods for rodents are all about the same," Haibara Ai was relatively calm, equating the bamboo rats in her mind to white mice, with the only difference being that one was experimental material and the other was ingredients. "Can you give me a little bit of the raw bamboo rat meat?"

Chi Feichi agreed, "Of course, but what do you want it for?"

"I want to analyze the components in the bamboo rat meat," Haibara Ai said with great interest, "Maybe I can extract some biochemical drug components."

"You can extract it, and I'll give you the other parts as well," Chi Feichi kept his head down while cleaning the bamboo rat, "Go get the containers, I'll help you cut it up."

Haibara Ai trotted back to her laboratory and brought back quite a few sterilized glass jars, "I don't have a suitable sample box, will these do?"

"Whatever you find convenient," Chi Feichi expertly dissected the skinned bamboo rat, placing the brain, liver, fat, and other parts into containers one by one, "I heard that linolenic acid, hepatocyte growth-promoting factor, cartilage anti-cancer active factor, and other chemical drug components can be extracted, but I haven't tested or extracted them myself."

Haibara Ai looked like a child waiting for candy, waiting seriously and obediently on the side, "I'll give it a try, I can tell you when there are results."

Professor Agasa watched for a while, and silently crept over to the television to watch the kids play games.

He always felt out of place with those two over there...

"Hachiya?" Mitsuhiko saw Hachiya slithering over. Having seen her often, he wasn't afraid anymore. He hesitated, didn't dare to reach out and touch her, and put the game controller in his hand on the ground, "Do you want to play?"

Conan, who was battling Mitsuhiko's game console, said, "Mitsuhiko, a snake won't understand..."

Hachiya slithered over, propped up her forebody to stare at the TV screen, wrapped her tail around the game controller's joystick, and then slapped her tail back and forth on the buttons: wrap, slap, slap, wrap, wrap, slap.

Scaring the life out of a snake, she had to play games to vent her stress~

In the game, Conan's controlled character GG!

"All right," Genta stepped forward to take the game controller from Conan's hand, "Next it's my turn to play with Hachiya!"

Mitsuhiko also smiled and said, "Conan, you actually lost to Hachiya at video games. You must practice hard in the future, otherwise you'll shame our Junior Detective League!"

Conan looked dizzy as he turned his head to look at the figure cooking over there. Chi Feichi, the snake you raised has turned into a spirit!

By dinnertime, Hachiya had already achieved a five-game winning streak.

After Conan, Mitsuhiko, Genta, and Ayumi suffered consecutive defeats in a round-robin battle, they even dragged Haibara Ai in to play a couple of rounds against Hachiya.

Consequently, the topic of conversation at the dinner table became...

Mitsuhiko: "Hachiya is amazing!"

Genta: "No way, I can't admit defeat, let's eat and then go!"

Mitsuhiko: "But Hachiya broke all your records and exceeded them by a lot, you know..."

Genta: "The one with the lowest record must be Conan, he was the first one to be surpassed!"

Conan, who had been shot while lying down: "..."

Mitsuhiko: "Well... We can try another game, but no matter what game Conan plays, it won't work."

Conan, who was once again hit while lying down: "..."

Hey, hey, that's about enough...

Chi Feichi noticed that Ayumi wasn't joining the discussion and seemed to have low energy, so he put down his chopsticks and asked, "Does Ayumi feel unwell?"

"Yeah..." Ayumi herself was confused, "I feel like I don't have much energy, my throat hurts a little bit, and I don't really want to eat anything."

The others stopped making noise as well.

Mitsuhiko guessed, "Could it be that she played too much today and got tired?"

Chi Feichi subconsciously looked at Hachiya, who was curled up on the sofa watching TV. But that couldn't be right—if she had been bitten by Hachiya, she wouldn't just feel weak; she wouldn't be able to move at all. "Professor Agasa, do you have a thermometer?"

"I'll go get it." Haibara Ai trotted back toward her laboratory again.

"Is there a flashlight?" Chi Feichi asked again.

Conan turned on the light on his wristwatch and handed it over, "Would this work?"

"It works." Chi Feichi took the watch, stood up, walked over, and squatted down in front of Ayumi's chair, "Ayumi, open your mouth, say 'ah'..."

Ayumi understood and opened her mouth just like going to see a doctor, "Ah—"

"Mr. Chi, you studied veterinary medicine, right..." Professor Agasa still felt something was strange.

"Yes, but I can still see inflamed tonsils," Chi Feichi checked using the watch's light, "The palatine arches show diffuse congestion, and yellow-white cheese-like spotty exudates are visible in the crypts. Tonsillitis, it should be a cold with a fever."

"Chi-brother even helped fix Hattori-brother's dislocated bone last time, he's even better than the doctors at the hospital!" Conan also spoke up for Chi Feichi. Ever since Hattori Heiji was easily treated last time, he felt that Chi Feichi was also quite skilled at treating human illnesses.

Professor Agasa had nothing to say and silently glanced at Chi Feichi.

There was a veterinarian here who neglected his proper job!