Ke Xue: The thief Cao is actually myself

Chapter 377: A little trick for self-destruction every day! (Monthly ticket requested!)
"You kid, you only know some nonsense."

Seeing Conan like this, Kogoro Mouri curled his lips with some disgust.

"But it seems like I've seen someone similar somewhere before."

If he remembered correctly, he should have seen this kind of guy who could tell the other person's occupation at a glance, and even guess what kind of underwear the other person was wearing today.

But where had he seen her before? And who was she?
Touching his chin, Maori Kogoro suddenly fell into deep thought...

Wait, in my impression, doesn’t that arrogant high school detective who steals my business always know what other people do for a living at a glance?
It’s as if the people standing in front of him are transparent, which is very uncomfortable!
Although the kid in front of him is just an elementary school student, his ability in this area is almost exactly the same as the other party. It is no exaggeration to say that they were carved from the same mold.

Moreover, if you think about it carefully, not only is this little brat able to recognize other people's information at a glance very similar to that cocky high school detective, but he also looks very similar to the other!
It feels like a smaller version of the other person!
Although it is normal for relatives to look alike, it is unbelievable to think that they look this much alike.

Could it be that people who are related to that cocky high school detective all look like him and have the same abilities? Or is this kid who claims to be the relative of that cocky high school detective actually the detective himself?

Although such speculation sounded incredible, for some reason, his intuition told him that this was the truth of the matter!

So, is the little brat who lives in his house really the high school detective who ruined his plans several times, causing him to have no business for a long time and almost starving to death?

Thinking of this, Maori Kogoro calmly looked at Conan beside him...

"Ugh! Ehhhhhhh!"

In Mouri Kogoro's sight, as if to verify his guess, or perhaps out of detective intuition, Conan noticed that there was something wrong with Mouri Kogoro's gaze, so he suddenly opened a box on the table and began to check.

It would have been fine if he hadn't opened it, but once he opened it, a funny doll suddenly popped out, scaring him to death.

It turns out this is a joke box, not a toy box.

Seeing his performance clearly, Kogoro Mori couldn't help but hold his forehead.

What? Isn't this just a little brat?

He actually thought that this brat was the cocky detective Shinichi Kudo. He really has lost his mind!
Thinking of this, he decided not to waste his energy on the other party and instead turned his attention back to the client.

Noticing his gaze, Client Ogawa took out an envelope from his pocket and handed it to Maori Kogoro while saying, "Mr. Maori, please take a look, this is what I received today.

Kogoro Mouri took the envelope casually, looked at the surface of the envelope carefully, and after finding that there was nothing wrong with it, he opened the envelope.

There was nothing wrong with the envelope except for the very thick banknotes worth 20 million as the client said, and the intoxicating smell of ink from the banknotes, which made a private detective like him, who was so poor that he almost had to eat dirt, couldn't help but be tempted.

After looking for a long time, Maori Kogoro couldn't find anything wrong, so he had to give up. "Except for the money, there doesn't seem to be anything else strange!"

"Mr. Ogawa, what do you think is strange?"

As a private detective, he didn't find anything, probably because he didn't collect enough information.

But it doesn't matter if the information collected is not enough, he can ask Mr. Ogawa, the client.

He believed that as long as he could collect enough useful information from Mr. Ogawa, he would be able to uncover the answers behind all these questions and understand the reason behind why the sender sent toys and money to Mr. Ogawa every once in a while.

"some!"

After hearing this, Client Ogawa had no intention of hiding anything and quickly expressed what he felt was strange.

"Normally, the other party would send a bigger package with toys and money inside, but today..."

He couldn't think too much about the other party's strange behavior.

Moreover, the amount of money the other party sent today was really huge, so huge that it made him feel very uneasy.

He was a little worried that the other party was planning to do something bad to him and his family.

As for the money sent by the other party, it might be the life-saving money for their family!

"That's it!"

Kogoro Maori frowned slightly.

It is usually sent together with the toys, and it comes in a large package.

Today, only a small envelope was used, but the amount of money inside was dozens of times more than before!
Such things and such operations are indeed a bit strange.

No wonder Mr. Ogawa came to him for help.

Because, this kind of thing, let alone happening to Mr. Ogawa, even if it happened to a great detective like him, he would not be able to help but grumble in his heart!

Thinking of this, Kogoro Mouri looked at the envelope in his hand again.

He felt that he might have missed some important clues.

It would not matter if he did not check it, but once he checked it, he made a new discovery, "Hey, what is this? A letter?"

In the stack of banknotes, there was a piece of paper with words faintly written on it.

It looks like a letter.

"What does this letter mean?"

After carefully reading the words written on the paper several times, Kogoro Mori still felt that he didn't quite understand them.

In fact, not to mention him, even the client Xiaochuan was a little confused: "I don't quite understand this letter!"

If he could guess what the sender meant, he would not have come to ask Kogoro Mouri for help.

In fact, if the amount of money sent this time was not so huge, and he had not figured out what the sender wanted to do after reading it for a long time, he would not have thought of asking for help from Mouri Kogoro, the great detective who has been in the limelight recently.

After thinking for a long time and still unable to figure out the reason, Kogoro Mouri took a deep breath, put all the money and the letter in his hand on the coffee table, and then reached into the inside pocket of his shirt.

After thinking for so long and still having no ideas, he decided to smoke a cigarette to relax.

However, although he did not find anything, Conan, who had looked at the envelope like him and then carefully looked at all the toys on the coffee table, made a new discovery.

After looking up and down the shell of a toy on the coffee table again, Conan pretended to be curious and said, "Uncle, why is there no stripes on this toy?" "Eh? No stripes!"

Kogoro Mouri was about to light a cigarette, but when he heard Conan's curious voice, he immediately stopped lighting the cigarette and looked over with a puzzled look.

If there are no stripes, then there are no stripes. Is this some weird place?
As if he knew what he was thinking, Conan reminded him again, "But it's on top of that!"

After saying that, Conan pointed his finger at the cigarette box that Kogoro Mouri had just taken out of his shirt pocket.

On it, there are clearly stripes.

"Uh? It's a barcode!"

After looking at the stripes on the cigarette and then at the toy without stripes that Conan was pointing at, Kogoro Mouri's pupils suddenly shrank, and then he raised his hand and reached for the toy on the coffee table.

Picking up a toy at random, Kogoro Mouri looked at it, and then he was surprised to find that not only the toy Conan had pointed out before, but also the toy he was holding now, had no barcode.

He picked up another toy, but no matter how much he looked at the toy in his hand, he couldn't find any barcode. "It's really strange! There should be something on it, but it's not here!"

Generally speaking, toys like this should have stripes on them.

——Barcode, also known as barcode, is a graphic identifier that arranges multiple black bars and spaces of varying widths according to certain coding rules to express a set of information. Common barcodes are parallel line patterns composed of black bars (referred to as bars) and white bars (referred to as spaces) with very different reflectivity.

Barcodes can mark a lot of information such as the country of origin, manufacturer, product name, production date, book classification number, mail origin and end points, category, date, etc., and are therefore widely used in many fields such as commodity circulation, library management, postal management, and banking systems.

However, the batch of toys sent by the unknown sender did not have a single barcode, which was obviously not normal.

"Also, these toys have long been discontinued and are no longer available in stores today!"

Seeing that he finally discovered the problem, Conan nodded secretly, and then continued to point it out calmly, "Also, look, there are scratches on these toys."

As he spoke, Conan looked extremely serious.

He was not only guiding Kogoro Mori to think in certain directions, but he was also using this method to organize his own thoughts.

It seemed that Conan's words had triggered the memory of Client Ogawa, and he finally thought of something important, "In that case, indeed, when these toys were sent over, they had scratches on them, and some were even broken!"

Maori Kogoro pondered for a moment, "In other words, the sender deliberately gave you old toys or toys that he had bought in the past, and then sent them to you one after another along with a large sum of money?"

"This should be."

Client Ogawa nodded heavily, "But why did this happen, Mr. Maori!"

Hearing Ogawa's question, Maori Kogoro touched his chin, closed his eyes, and thought carefully. After a while, he suddenly opened his eyes and had an idea, "Maybe... maybe someone is playing a prank!"

So many things were sent in batches, but no harm was caused to Mr. Ogawa. It was obvious that this was a prank.

The more he thought about it, the more Maori Kogoro felt that his guess was very likely, "Hmm... Hmm! It can't be wrong!"

If possible, he also hopes that there is someone who can play a prank on him like this!
That way, he won't be short of money.

It’s a pity that he doesn’t have the good luck of Mr. Ogawa in front of him.

"Prank? Who could it be?" Client Ogawa was a little bit unbelieving.

There shouldn't be anyone around him who likes to play this kind of prank, nor does he know anyone like this, right?

Listening to the conversation between the two and looking at the toys on the coffee table, Conan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Considering all the current conditions, he felt that the truth of the matter was definitely not what Kogoro Mori judged.

"No, if this is a prank, it's too complicated. It's impossible to send a huge amount of money for no reason!"

Would someone really spend tens of millions of dollars on a prank? That's too much, isn't it? It's not like they have too much money to spend!
"And what on earth does that letter mean?!"

If it was just a prank, there is no need to send so much money, let alone send such a letter.

In other words, the sender who kept sending toys and money to Mr. Ogawa was definitely not playing a prank, but had his own deeper meaning.

It’s just that these people don’t know it yet.

Well, the problem is coming.

Why did the sender do this? It can't be that he really has money to spend, so he just found someone to "give alms" to, right?

Thinking of this, Conan couldn't help but fall into deep thought again...

While he was thinking seriously, Client Ogawa had already believed what Kogoro Mori said.

"Your reasoning ability is really amazing, really amazing! Mr. Maori!"

Looking at Kogoro Mouri, who was full of confidence and leaning on the sofa with his arms around his chest, Client Ogawa was filled with excitement and admiration.

He is worthy of being called the Great Maori Detective!
The problem that had been bothering him for a long time was solved so quickly.

It seems that this time, he made the right move by coming to find the other party.

Although deep down in his heart, he felt that something was wrong, he didn't think much about it.

Because, at this moment, his heart was already filled with the joy of finally solving the mystery that had troubled him for so long.

"Where? Nothing! Hahahahahahahaha!"

Hearing the praise from Mr. Ogawa, Kogoro Mori smiled reservedly.

As expected of him, he solved another big case easily!

I'm afraid even a high school detective wouldn't be able to match this quick and accurate method of solving cases, right?
Thinking of this, Maori Kogoro couldn't help but laugh triumphantly at the excitement in his heart...

(End of this chapter)