Conan: The winery killer has a soft spot for Huiyuan

The old man was so angry that he couldn't help laughing.

Lin Jianhe stared at the rabbit pen in Huiyuan's hand and blinked thoughtfully, then clapped his fists as if he had suddenly realized something, "I understand!"

——What do you understand?

Huiyuan was slightly startled, just opened his mouth, and before he could ask, he saw this man swept all the ballpoint pens with small animal features around him into the handbasket like a whirlwind. Then he walked to the cashier with a new bag in his arms.

"I want all of these!"

In one go, smoothly and fluently.

"Wait..."

Ai Huiyuan was stunned, then clenched her fists, looking really angry, "...this idiot."

The cashier looked at the basket full of ballpoint pens and the valuable schoolbag in surprise. The person standing in front of her looked like an elementary school student, and there was no sign of her parents following her.

Even though she was a professional who had received professional training before taking up the job, the cashier sister hesitated at this time.

"This...all these are packed up, right? Your parents..."

The cashier had just said half of her words when she saw Lin Jianhe take out a wallet from the broken schoolbag, and then took out a stack of 10,000 yuan bills from it, "Use these to pay the bill."

Just as she was about to put the money on the cashier counter, someone grabbed her collar from behind. Huiyuan walked up, took the basket of ballpoint pens off the counter, and put the two rabbit pens in her hand on it, "Sorry, only these."

She glanced at Lin Jianhe, who looked confused, and she returned the ballpoint pens to their original positions.

Lin Jianhe scratched her cheek with her fingers in confusion, "...Doesn't she like it?"

When she found Huiyuan with her schoolbag and ballpoint pen after paying the bill, the ballpoint pen had returned to its original position.

"Xiao Ai..."

For some reason, she felt that Huiyuan didn't want to talk to her. Lin Jianhe was about to call Huiyuan who was about to leave the store, but suddenly, the ceiling lights in the store went out suddenly. With the commotion of the crowd, the lights came on again in just a moment.

"Why is there a power outage in the store?" Lin Jianhe muttered, jogging a few steps to keep up with Huiyuan Ai's pace.

"Ai, what are we going to eat tonight?"

"Carrots."

The girl answered without thinking.

"No way..." Lin Jianhe's mouth twitched. This was the third time she had eaten carrots in less than a week.

Lin Jianhe and Huiyuan Ai walked out of the store, and then saw many people gathered around the elevator leading to the second floor.

They squeezed through the crowd and couldn't help but widen their eyes. I saw a middle-aged man leaning against the escalator on the second floor, holding a file bag in his hand, with a deep red in front of him, and his eyes were open. The moving escalator made the lifeless body shake rhythmically, and it looked extremely weird and terrifying.

Officer Megure and Officer Takagi stood in the cordon, and there were Xiaolan, Conan and the other four. Lin Jianhe stood outside the cordon and waved to Conan, "Hey, what's going on?"

Conan saw the two people and walked forward thoughtfully. He told them the current situation. The only thing we know now is that the four symbols [cross, triangle, circle, square] were drawn in blood on the file bag held by the deceased, which was the death message left by the deceased.

"Would X mean that?" At this time, Xiaolan suddenly said.

The three people's attention was drawn to it, and they saw Teacher Judy and Sonoko couldn't help laughing, "It can't be that meaning."

At this time, Officer Takagi suddenly thought of something, "Is the X you are talking about the meaning that is often left at the end of the letter?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Sonoko nodded.

Obviously, the three of them have matched the code again, but Xiaolan is still confused. Her intuition tells her that the meaning of X is very important, but if she really thinks about it, she really can't guess what X represents.

As for Conan and Lin Jianhe here, they became more curious after hearing what Officer Takagi said.

"Hey, Huiyuan, what does X mean, you know it, right!" Conan was obviously swallowed up by curiosity, so much so that he forgot the case at the moment.

Huiyuan Ai looked to the side, "Well..."

Looking at her like this, Conan felt a headache and rubbed his hair frantically.

Seeing that the detective's brain was overloaded, Lin Jianhe laughed dryly: "Xiao Ai, let's go back..."

She glanced at Teacher Judy in the distance. Sure enough, this person still made her feel uncomfortable.

Teacher Judy's gaze

fell on the trio in the distance, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

The two were walking on the way home. There were fewer pedestrians on the road at this time. After walking to No. 2 Street in Beika Town, there were only Lin Jianhe and Huiyuan Ai on the whole road.

Lin Jianhe held her schoolbag and looked at the road very attentively. She didn't know what she was thinking about, so she didn't even notice that Huiyuan stopped in front of her.

"What are you thinking about?"

"Ah..." Lin Jianhe came back to her senses and said subconsciously: "I'm thinking about what 'X' means."

Then, she said her analysis while walking, "Look, Xiaolan said that X is a very cute symbol. But looking at the reactions of Sonoko and Teacher Judy, it seems that it's more than that."

"And Officer Takagi said that he would write X as a suffix at the end of the letter, which means that X is a greeting..."

"Greeting... What exactly is the greeting?" Lin Jianhe thought for a long time and couldn't figure it out.

"......"

"Idiot," Huiyuan sighed inaudibly, "X means..." She paused, stepped forward, and kissed the man on the cheek.

Feeling the fleeting softness on his cheek, Lin Jianhe froze for a moment, and then his face suddenly flushed.

Huiyuan's expression did not change much. He stretched out a finger and poked Lin Jianhe's cheek calmly, "Do you understand now? The meaning of X."

Lin Jianhe only felt dizzy, his face seemed to be boiling, and he nodded woodenly in response to Huiyuan's question.

At night, after dinner, Lin Jianhe washed and bathed early and climbed into bed. Two rabbit ballpoint pens were quietly placed on the desk in the room. Lin Jianhe pulled the quilt over his nose and confidently typed a line of words on the sending interface named [Edogawa].

[Edogawa, I know what X means. 】

Conan lay in bed, looking at the text message from Xiaolan with three "X"s at the end, and then saw the message from Lin Jianhe. He was overwhelmed at the moment, as if the whole world had figured out the meaning of X, but he was the only one who was kept in the dark.

[Tell me what it means! ]

Lin Jianhe typed another line of words.

[It should mean a greeting. ]

After typing this line of words, she felt that it was not quite appropriate, so she sent another one.

[It feels like a French kiss. ]

"Huh?" Conan looked at the message sent by this person and was even more confused.

Late at night, in the top-floor apartment building, the room was dim, and a woman with golden wavy hair was sitting at the desk in a burgundy silk pajamas, her slender legs crossed, her toes tapping on the ground.

On the wall facing the woman, there were several photos posted. On one of the photos of the brown-haired girl, a big cross was drawn with a red marker.

She held a photo and a dart in her hand. The girl was wearing a white shirt and a tactical vest. She had long silver wavy hair and her peach blossom eyes were full of coldness. The sharp gaze was like a silver scimitar that could take someone's life effortlessly at any time.

Suddenly, the dart in the woman's hand cut through the air and pierced straight into the photo with the cross drawn on it.

"...Famas, she will definitely betray you."