Conan: The Mechanic

"You are finally back," said a middle-aged man who looked about fifty years old with a disheveled and unshaven beard, and even yawned halfway through. "yawn--"

"This is Mr. Furumura, who is now in charge of sales." Hoijima introduced.

"Ah, you brought the child back to yawn—" Gucun yawned again.

"Why are you so sleepy?" Hojima was a little strange. "I think you looked like this when I saw you in the morning..."

"There's no way," Furusura rubbed his eyes. "After all, I played mahjong all night yesterday..."

"Uh..." Qian Yu's mouth twitched.

This is really a talent. . . All night on weekdays, and still so nonchalantly sleepy during work hours. . .

"Where's the sloppy guy?" Ai Haibara said softly in English. "It smells like a defeated dog from head to toe."

"Yes." Qianyu nodded.

"Children, come with me." Hojima opened a door and called Chiba and the others to enter.

Behind the door is an equally cluttered bedroom—the same clutter because the living room they were in was actually just as cluttered.

"If you both sleep sideways..." Hoijima thought about it and said. "Six people should barely be able to sleep..."

"What about you, brother?" Ayumi asked.

"I can just sleep on a sofa like Mr. Furumura outside." Hojima shrugged.

"Another day of work today, hard work!" Mr. Furusura's enthusiastic voice suddenly came from the living room. "Come on tonight, then, the result of Tongma will be brought later!"

"?" Furusura's rather strange way of speaking caught Chiba's attention, and he saw Furusura sitting on the sofa with a camera pointed at him.

"That guy is just obsessed with keeping a diary with a camera recently." Hojima explained with a smile when he saw Chiba's movements. "Okay, go to bed, little guys, I'll get you a quilt."

. . .

Under the night, the starlight shines through the window and reflects on Qianyu's face

At this moment, Qian Yu suddenly opened her eyes and sat up as if she was awakened. "!!!"

Haibara Ai, who was tiptoeing towards the door, probably going to the bathroom, instantly looked like a kitten that was so frightened that she didn't relax until she looked back and saw that it was Chiba.

"Huh..." Qianyu sighed and tapped her forehead.

The reason he was woken up was because he had given instructions to the auxiliary unit before he fell asleep. Once someone walked within four meters (basically equivalent to walking into this room), the auxiliary unit would activate a warning and stimulate Chiba's nervous system.

Qianyu has now been dissipated from all sleepiness by the auxiliary unit, and has no idea of ​​sleeping again, so he turned off the hearing-related alert system - otherwise, even the sound of his own people walking on the floor may stimulate his nerves again.

Lying on the bed again, Qianyu calmed down again and quietly looked at the starry sky outside the window.

Wait a moment. . . Qianyu suddenly sat up again, climbed out of bed, and walked to the window.

This apartment building is diagonally opposite the Dongdu Development Office, so theoretically it can be seen from here. . .

Chiyu's face turned gloomy for a moment.

The black Chevrolet moved a distance from the main entrance of the Dongdu Development Institute and parked in the parking space opposite the main entrance of the apartment building.

Qianyu took out her mobile phone and prepared to call the police.

But if I'm on the phone here, I'll wake those guys up, so. . .

Chiba planned to go to the house with the small sign of the storage room that she had seen before to make a phone call.

. . .

In the storage room, Haibara Ai was leaning against the window, calmly watching Qianyu put down her phone with a gloomy face.

"The Metropolitan Police Department didn't dispatch police, did it?" Haibara asked sadly.

"Yes," Qianyu nodded. "They say it's just me thinking too much, and it's probably just a coincidence... Wait a minute—"

"Why are you here?" Qian Yu put down her phone and asked in confusion. "I wanted to ask this question when I first came in. I thought you were going to the bathroom..."

"Just thinking about something," Haibara Ai shrugged. "Can't sleep at night, then come out to relax."

"Well..." Qianyu said after hesitating for a moment. "It's 10:30 and I won't be able to fall asleep even if I go back - would you mind chatting with me?"

At this moment, Qianyu felt a little feverish on her face.

"..." Haibara Ai was obviously a little stunned by Chiba's attitude - if it were an ordinary Chiba, he would never take the initiative to chat with him when there was nothing important.

However, this was exactly what she wanted.

"These people this time, shouldn't they be from the organization?" Haibara asked.

"At least I don't think he's someone from the organization." Qianyu shook her head. "At least the operatives that Hoshino brought to the training ground in Tokyo are all uniformly yellow-skinned. I guess even to ensure concealment, they will not send white people to follow us in Japan."

"You mean, they are—" Haiyuan Ai nodded and continued to ask.

"I guess it's the FBI," Chiba leaned against the wall of the storage room. "They're the only ones who will send white people - NATO countries certainly don't do that on U.S. private land, and Russia seems to have just negotiated a big deal with the organization (author: the US nuclear deployment network). map, after the skyscraper incident, Russia also bought this thing.), so they will not do anything to us. And the relationship between the FBI and the organization is not good, and there is enough energy in Japan, only they have the leisure to do this kind of thing.”

"In other words, are we being targeted as the remnants of the organization?" Haibara Ai frowned. "No, we are more likely to be treated as..."

"I'm considered a member of the organization..." Chiba tapped her forehead with her index finger. "After all, they probably saw that I have a good relationship with Hoshino Kaede..."

"I was chased by the organization as an FBI spy, and chased by the FBI as a member of the organization," Haibara Ai laughed at herself. "This is really..."

"It won't last long," a wry smile appeared on Qianyu's face for a moment and then disappeared~www.readwn.com~, replaced by a determined expression. "Trust me, I'll take care of it all - no matter what."

At this moment, an untimely voice suddenly sounded.

"Ah!!!!" The man's screams caused shock expressions on the faces of Chiba and Haibara Ai.

"FBI?" Ai Haibara asked in surprise. "They attacked directly?"

"Shh!" Qianyu's expression was solemn, and she quickly walked to Haibara Ai.

"Huh?" Haibara Ai was startled by Qianyu who suddenly walked in front of her.

"It should be possible to turn over here—" Chiyu pushed the window and found that the window could be fully opened, but at this moment, Mr. Hojima's voice came.

"Mr. Komura, what's wrong with you? Mr. Komura?"

"?" Chiyu looked in the direction of the storage room door with a strange expression.

Not quite right. . . If Mr. Furumura was killed by one blow, why did Mr. Hojima not die?

Qianyu tiptoed to the door and gently pushed the latch.

At this moment, the light outside the door was turned on, and the scene outside the door was cast in through the frosted part of the door of the storage room - the degree of frosting was obviously not high, so Chiba could still see a person standing - from the clothes. The color looks like it should be Mr. Hojima.

Besides that, no one else—if it was really the FBI, since they killed an ancient village, they would never mind killing everyone here again, so. . .

"Have you encountered a murder case again?" Qianyu and Haibara Ai exchanged helpless glances, opened the door, and walked out.

Right in front of them, Mr. Furucura had a fruit knife stuck in his chest, which was dead.

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