Be the god of death in the world of famous detectives

Chapter 85
That weird letter was quickly forgotten by Mori Kogoro, and he was busy with all kinds of trivial tasks of looking for cats, dogs, and mistresses...

Until three days later, a phone call came home suddenly.

Bai Shu happened to be sitting next to the phone, picked it up, and heard a man on the opposite side lower his voice, and said mysteriously, "There are two days before the full moon night, and the investigation fee of 50 has been transferred to your account. Please come here."

As soon as he uttered the first syllable, Bai Shu reacted super quickly and pressed the recording button, then listened quietly to the other party without saying a word.

When normal people call strangers, even if they don't report their family name, they will at least say "Hello" as the opening remark. Few people come up and say a bunch of unclear information.

But Aso did just that.

All he knows about Mori Kogoro comes from the reports in the newspapers that one suspicious case after another has been solved.

From those reports, he knew that this was a famous detective who was good at reasoning, and he knew about his strange quirks in reasoning, but he knew nothing about his character.

Therefore, in order to make Mori Kogoro willing to come to investigate the case, Aso not only paid a lot of money, but also deliberately used the collage letter and this phone call to confuse his client's identity, so as to attract the other party's attention.

A famous detective who loves to solve mysteries will definitely be invited to the appointment.He thought with confidence.

However, after this carefully conceived line was finished, Aso waited with bated breath for a long time, but the other party remained silent, more silent than him, and even more confusing.

This eerie silence made Aso couldn't help but check the phone... Yes, it's connected!

Could it be that the phone is broken?

Aso was stunned for two seconds, forgetting to maintain the mysterious image for a moment, subconsciously shook the receiver, and said half to himself, "Hello? Hello? Can you hear me?"

As a result, this time, the voice just fell, and the other party actually spoke, and he said in an uncomfortable and calm tone, "I heard it. I heard it. That's the end of the story? I'm still waiting for you to introduce yourself."

"?", in a normal script, shouldn't you ask who I am in doubt, and then I say "I am Keiji Aso from Tsukage Island", echoing the previous letter, adding mystery?

But what is going on with this calm tone!Can you follow the routine!

Aso wanted to flip the table, but the voice of "Maori Detective" was younger than expected, and it sounded rather lazy. At first glance, he couldn't tell whether he was interested in the case.

It seems that this is not the type who will be easily attracted by mysterious events. Isn't it better to use normal routines to get in touch...

The long and slender index finger unconsciously circled the spiral telephone wire twice, pulling it back and forth until the fingertips were a little numb, and he finally finished struggling, and changed his tone to a more formal one, "Hello, Maori Detective, I'm Keiji Aso from Tsukage Island, this time I want to ask you to come to our island to investigate the case. I don't want to explain the details of the case, but you will know when you come here."

"Okay, let's do this first." After hearing that the scheduled lines had been finished smoothly, Bai Shu didn't waste any more time, and hung up the phone quickly.

He yelled at Kogoro Mori, who was dozing off at his desk, "Mr. Mori, I have a business call. The commission fee is 50. It is said that it has already been transferred to your account."

"!", the word 50 is like a needle, Kogoro Mori rubbed it and was poked up, picked up his coat and rushed out the door like a gust of wind, the action was so quick and decisive, Bai Shu didn't find it Interruption time.

After a while, he got up speechlessly, went to the window and looked, and saw Mori Kogoro going straight to the convenience store on the corner of the street, probably looking for an ATM there to check the balance in the card.

...Come on, this is normal Mori Kogoro.

……

Aso didn't lie, he really transferred the money.

This can be seen from the state of Mori Kogoro entering the door in a daze. This is completely the vertigo brought about by happiness.

His state finally gave Bai Shu enough time to introduce the situation, "The client's call just now, would you like to listen to it, I recorded it."

"Listen!" Mouri Kogoro nodded again and again, without using Bai Shu, he ran over and turned on the playback.

He is not the kind of person who takes money and does nothing, and after walking all the way back, he is also a little sober at this time: a lot of money means that this case is not easy, if the risk is too high... then we still have to find a way to dismiss it.

After listening to the recording, Mori Kogoro stroked his chin and pondered for a while, "I think I've heard of Tsukagejima and Aso Keiji somewhere."

Conan had been observing secretly for a long time, and when he heard this, he ran back to the room, found the letter, and handed it to Kogoro Mori, "It must be related to the letter I sent earlier!"

"This..." Seeing this strange collage letter, Mori Kogoro always had an impression.

Now that the client had called in person and the money had arrived, he finally believed that this was not a prank by a brat.

"Then... go?"

It doesn't seem like a too dangerous case, and the person who called, the wording behind it is quite polite...

After all, 50 is not a small amount, and the balance in Kogoro Mori's heart gradually tilted to one side in a slow but steady trend.

……

Moon Shadow Island is an isolated island surrounded by the sea. It is so small that when you stand on the deck of a ship and look at it from a distance, you may suspect that if a wave passes by, this small island will be submerged in the sea.

But after setting foot on the island, I realized what it means that although the sparrow is small and complete, if you don’t look at the vast sea around it, this place is like an ordinary small town, with all kinds of buildings, roads, and facilities.

Because the letters and calls did not say what specific case to investigate, the first step after coming here is of course to find the client who claims to be Keiji Aso.

Mori Kogoro looked at the map of the port, and led a group of people to the villager's office on Moon Shadow Island.

I thought it would be easy to find someone because there were so few people on the island, but unfortunately, the person who received them was an intern employee who had just arrived on the island for a few days and whom no one knew very well.

After patiently waiting for the intern staff to check the list of villagers, the other party told them sorry that there was no such person.

"What? Did you use a fake name?" Mouri Kogoro frowned. After being a detective for so long, there are indeed many clients who pretend to be mysterious... This group of people really deserves to be beaten. Can't you?
The security guard in the lobby has been paying attention to these outsiders. He felt that the atmosphere was not very pleasant at the moment, so he immediately came over. With the attitude of taking care of his new colleagues, he asked the sweaty employee who was stared at, " Any questions?"

(End of this chapter)