Chapter 18 Chapter Nine of Futaba

After leaving the student dormitory where Mariko had lived for six years, Kosuke Wakisaka and I headed for Sapporo.It is said that Ujiie Mariko is currently living in Sapporo, so she should choose to fly to Chitose when returning to Hokkaido from Tokyo.I called Afeng to ask, and Afeng said that Mariko of Uji's family hadn't confirmed the return time yet, so I told him that I would arrive in Sapporo tonight. After entering National Highway No. 5 from Hakodate and driving north for a while, Kosuke Wakisaka said: "Hakodate University of Science is nearby, do you want to visit?" Hakodate University of Science is the school where Ujiie Kiyoshi teaches. Shi Jiaqing should not be at the school, but maybe some clues can be found."

"Okay, go try your luck." "Got it." Kosuke Wakisaka turned the steering wheel. Hakodate University of Science is located on a hillside that has been developed and prepared. The first thing that catches the eye is a red brick clock tower, and the school wall is also red brick. I can't help but think of the student dormitory that I just left. The building is relatively new, and the seemingly brick exterior walls are only pasted with red brick pattern tiles. It looks new and bright, but it always feels a bit cheap. We parked the car in the large parking lot on campus, and the two of them looked at the colorfully designed and unstyled campus map board. Kosuke Wakisaka said that Ujiie Kiyoshi should be a professor in the Biology Department of the Faculty of Science.

After confirming the location of the school building, we headed towards the Faculty of Science building.There are students in twos and threes on the campus. I can’t tell if this school has started summer vacation. Four male students walked towards me, all of them looked sleepy and listless. When they passed by, they stared at me intently. I looked back and looked away immediately. "Young girls should be rare animals for them." Kosuke Wakisaka said with a smile: "After all, this is a science university, and most of them are male students." "No wonder I always feel that the whole school stinks."

We found the building of the Faculty of Science, but we didn’t know where the rest room of Shi’s house was, so we had to look around on the polished oil-plastic floor corridor. Suddenly, a door opened next to it, and a short man in overalls came out. As soon as the man saw us, he immediately showed alert eyes, and the lenses of his glasses were shining. "What can I do?" the man asked. "We're looking for Professor Ujiie," said Wakisaka Kosuke. "Teacher Shi's family is on vacation today." Sure enough, he didn't come to school. "Can I trouble you to contact him for us? He doesn't seem to be at home either."

"Uh," the man pushed his glasses, "May I ask who you two are?" "She's Professor Uji's daughter," Kosuke Wakisaka put his hand on my shoulder, "and I'm her friend." "You belong to the teacher..." The man blinked and looked at me, "Please wait a moment." He walked closer to the door. "It's okay for you to talk nonsense again, right?" "Don't worry, if you don't deceive them like this, you will be in big trouble." Not long after the door opened, the short man came out with a middle-aged man. This pale-skinned middle-aged man was slender and gentle, and he smiled when he saw me.

"Hi, hello, I'm Yamamoto." "what?" "Don't you remember me? The last time we met, you were still a middle school student. Oh, what a girl's 18th change." This Mr. Yamamoto said a series of cannonballs, then looked at Wakisaka Kosuke , hesitated for a moment, then turned to me and said, "Isn't Teacher Shi's home?" "It seems to have gone out." "Well," he scratched his thin chin with his thin fingers, "he only said that he was going to travel and would ask for leave for a while, and he would leave a message on the answering machine if there was something urgent. He didn't mention the trip to you ?"

I couldn't help but "uh". "She doesn't live with Professor Ujiie now." Kosuke Wakisaka quickly explained to me that Yamamoto nodded and showed "Who are you?" expression. "So... hasn't my father come to school lately?" I got a little tongue-tied when I said the word "father". "Yeah, I haven't been here for a few days." "Ah, Mr. Yamamoto..." The little man who was silent at the side said cautiously: "It seems Mr. Shijia came to school yesterday." "Huh?" Yamamoto's eyes widened, "What time was it yesterday?"

"It seems to be evening." "Why do you say it seems?" "Uh, I heard a student talking this morning. He said that he saw Mr. Shi's family come out of the medicine room yesterday evening, so I always thought that Mr. Shi's family had come back..." "Strange, why didn't anyone inform me? You go to the teacher's rest room to have a look, ah, and the medicine room too. Really, why didn't you tell me about this kind of thing earlier?" Yamamoto's eyes clearly showed dissatisfaction Yue, that short man should be an assistant, I saw him jogging away quickly.

Yamamoto still turned to me with a resentful look on his face and said, "Anyway, I haven't seen Mr. Uji's family these days." "I understand." I said. "Mr. Yamamoto," Kosuke Wakisaka asked, "Are you a colleague in the same laboratory as Ujiie-sensei?" "Our research directions are different, but Teacher Shijia is an authority on genetics after all. He gave me a lot of advice in reading clubs and other aspects." "Ms. Shi's family is from Beidou Medical University, right? Does he still have contact with Beidou?" "Recently, Beidou Medical University has called him several times, but I don't know the details."

"Do you know Professor Fujimura from Hokuto Medical University?" "Mr. Fujimura? Of course we know each other. He and Mr. Ujijia once worked in the same laboratory, and both of them have achieved impressive achievements in the field of biological replication." "Replicating creatures?" I asked. "Yes, this is one of the most cutting-edge studies in the field of genetics." Yamamoto's eyes shone brightly. "Has Mr. Ujika mentioned Hokuto Medical University recently?" Kosuke Wakisaka interrupted his interest and asked. "I don't have any impression of this." Yamamoto said, and then he tried to fight back, "Excuse me... what is your relationship with Mr. Uji's family?" The smile on his face was obviously forced.

"I don't have anything to do with Mrs. Uji's right now. I only have a relationship with her. As for the relationship between me and her, it's up to you to imagine." Kosuke Wakisaka said without changing his face, but I was sweating coldly. Yamamoto didn't know what he had imagined, and he said, "I see, you came here to see Mr. Shijia specially for this purpose, but why did you mention Beidou Medical University?" "Because my brother works as a research assistant over there." "Ah, so that's the case." Yamamoto seemed to let go of his guard a little bit. At this moment, the assistant came back anxiously, and he said a few words in Shan Ben's ear, Shan Ben's face changed drastically and he said, "Are you sure?" "I'm pretty sure. Just checked yesterday." "Understood, I'll go right away." Then Yamamoto looked at me solemnly and said, "I have something to deal with, so I'll take my leave first." "Ah, yes. Thank you very much." "By the way," he said, "We will also find a way to contact Teacher Shi's family. If you contact him first, can you let us know?" "Okay." That's all I could answer. "Excuse me, what happened?" Kosuke Wakisaka asked Yamamoto. "It's nothing, it's about our research room. I'll take my leave first." After speaking, Yamamoto walked away quickly. The closer he got to the stairs at the end of the corridor, the faster his pace became, and he almost ran up the stairs in the end. Kosuke Wakisaka poked me on the shoulder, "Do you want to go up and have a look?" "Yeah." I nodded. We followed Yamamoto up the stairs, stood in the corridor and took a look. One of the doors was open, and the door sign said "Pharmaceutical Room". We were about to walk to the door with light steps, when someone rushed out from inside. It was the assistant who had been running around busy since just now, and he stopped immediately when he saw us. Wakisaka Kosuke raised his index finger to his lips, and beckoned at him with the other hand.The assistant looked at a loss, and walked towards us while paying attention to the movement behind him. Kosuke Wakisaka grabbed his arm and pulled him to the dark place of the stairs. "Can you tell us what happened?" "This... well, this is troublesome." The assistant scratched his head. "Is it related to Teacher Shi's family?" "No, this is not yet certain." "But something happened in the pharmacy room, right?" "Well, yes." The assistant looked back frequently. If the boss found out that he was fishing here, he would definitely be scolded. Maybe he wanted to get rid of Wakisaka Kosuke's entanglement earlier. The assistant licked his lips and whispered: "The nitrous is gone." "Nitrate??" The assistant nodded slightly, "There is a shortage of nitroglycerin in the storage cabinet." "are you sure?" "It can't be wrong, because nitroglycerin is a drug that must be strictly controlled. Have you finished asking? I still have something urgent." As soon as Dosuke Wakisaka let go, the assistant fled downstairs. Kosuke Wakisaka and I looked at each other. "Isn't nitroglycerin explosives?" I said. "The general perception is that it is explosives. In fact, this thing can also be used to treat heart disease. But why did the Shi family take this kind of thing...? Does he have a bad heart?" At this time, there was a sound in the corridor, and Kosuke Wakisaka and I hurried downstairs. Leaving Hakodate University of Science, we headed straight towards Sapporo, along the forest-lined National Highway No. 5, all the way north to Onuma Park, and occasionally saw the railroad tracks of the Hakodate Main Line through the gaps in the trees. There is another branch line leading to the sandy plains. Near the intersection of these two routes, the national road we are driving begins to approach the coast. This coast is Uchiura Bay. We continue to drive forward along the arc-shaped road. As far as the eye can see is the coastline. "I really don't understand." I looked at the vast pasture on the left and said, "For the treatment of Junsaku Ihara's disease or for some reason, those people in Fujimura at Hokuto Medical University wanted my body; Kiyoshi Ujiie was theirs. The accomplice of the family, the daughter of the Shi family is likely to be a twin with me, and has the same body as me. If that is the case, why do they still look for me? Isn’t it enough to just use the body of Juzi from the Shi family?” "Maybe the family didn't let Fujimura and the others know that they have a daughter." "Why did he do this? And why did he make Juzi of the Shijia his daughter?" "I'm afraid only I know." The car was moving forward steadily at a certain speed. The scenery of the sea on the right and the grassland on the left remained unchanged. Occasionally, a few cows could be seen on the pasture, with black and white stripes on their bodies, but each one had different stripes. Each has its own personality. "Hey, what is a replicant?" "what?" "Didn't Yamamoto just say that Fujimura has made great achievements in the field of cloning creatures?" "Oh……" "The word replicating organisms seems to be heard a lot, what is the correct meaning?" "Who knows. Why are you asking this all of a sudden?" "It's nothing, just ask casually." I shook my head. When we were approaching Changwanbu, there were many restaurants with eye-catching decorations on the side of the road. We picked one of them and had something to eat. I called Afeng by the way. "It's just in time for you to call." A Feng said excitedly: "Miss Juzi of the Shijia contacted me. She took the plane at six o'clock tonight and arrived in Chitose at about... seven thirty." "You told her we'd pick her up?" "Yes, she said she would wait in the arrival hall of the airport." "Is it the arrival hall? I see." "Uh, Futaba." Afeng said hesitantly, "Be careful." "Well, thank you for your concern." Walking out of the phone booth, I told Kosuke Wakisaka the news. "Okay, there should be enough time to rush there now. Let's go straight to the airport when I make a call back to the company." I watched Kosuke Wakisaka walk into the telephone booth, and turned to look at the other end of the slightly curved road.In a few hours, I will meet her.