Conan's Corpse Picker

But the "Maorilan" who called him just now didn't mention asking him to go to a specific place at all, as if he just wanted to know the situation of Kudo Shinichi and had no further plans.

Conan gradually became suspicious.

……

The skateboard passed through the streets at high speed, and finally stopped next to Dr. Ali's house.

Conan observed secretly first, and didn't feel that there was any problem with the doctor's house, so he carefully trot in with his skateboard in his arms.

Afterwards, he locked the door and looked at the old man who had just been blown out of a stylish afro at the experimental table: "Doctor, have you ever received a strange call from Jiang Xia?"

Dr. Ali was accidentally bombed just now, and now his mind is buzzing, and he couldn't hear what Conan was saying at all.

Instead, in the kitchen, a head with short, soft brown-red hair poked out.

Hui Yuanai frowned and looked at Conan: "Why do you ask that?"

Dr. A Li rubbed his ears, vaguely heard what Hui Yuanai said, and he also turned to Conan: "What did you just say?"

"It's like this, I received a strange call this afternoon..."

Conan tried his best to restore what happened just now, and added his own speculation.

While speaking, he was constantly sorting out in his mind:

Speaking of this kind of very scary prank without obvious malice, the first thing Conan thinks of is actually his mother—the Yukiko Kudo who will always be the only one no matter how old he is, his mental age and appearance.

After all, Yukiko Kudo has a criminal record.

And she does have the ability to do so.

First of all, Kudo Yukiko knew about "Kudo Shinichi getting smaller" and had enough information to scare Conan.

In addition, she can also easily borrow Jiang Xia's phone number, and even ask Jiang Xia not to speak until Conan is frightened enough, and cooperate with the acting-although Jiang Xia sometimes gives people a feeling of inaccessibility for no reason, but he rarely Refuse other people's requests, not to mention that Yukiko Kudo is so good at acting like a baby, and will make some excuses while acting like a baby, such as "give my son a little experience", "he will be mentally prepared for similar things next time", etc. If it is... If she is the "behind the scenes" this time, it is actually very reasonable for things to turn out like this...

Of course, in Conan's view, this is also the best result.After all, her mother would not harm him, nor would she harm Jiang Xia.

However, after calling Yusaku Kudo with hope and trying it out, Conan showed disappointment.

——Yusaku Kudo and Yukiko Kudo are still in the United States.

According to Conan's understanding of Kudo Yusaku, his father is more honest in this regard. If the prank is exposed, he will not lie about his neck, so this should be the truth.

And speaking of it, the mysterious man on the other side of the phone was very good at imitating voices. If it weren't for the flaws in the content of his words, Conan would even think that it was the real Mao Lilan and couldn't see through it.

Relatively speaking, Kudo Yukiko's ability to imitate voices is actually not that strong.

… After comprehensively analyzing all kinds of information and excluding this possibility, Conan looked at Dr. Ali again:

"Have you ever given Jiang Xia a voice changer? Or... have you sold it to anyone else?"

Although Dr. Ali always complains that he is poor, he often has a temperament that regards money as dung.When he gave the bowknot voice changer to Conan, he thought that Conan could use Kogoro Mori's voice to reason, make Kogoro Mori a famous detective, and then come into contact with cases related to the organization.

Therefore, Dr. Ali thought very far-sightedly that if his voice changer became widely circulated, then this double-reed-like method of solving crimes would obviously be easy to pass through, so he did not put the bowknot voice changer on sale, let alone measure it. Produce.

"I haven't sold it. I have always kept it secret. Although you didn't have many opportunities to reason before, I actually always believed that there would be a suitable opportunity--you see, my 'Double Spring Project' was not a good idea for the new monk case a few days ago. It came in handy."

Dr. A Li couldn't help boasting about his foresight at first, and at the same time touched his generous chin, trying to recall:

"I did give Jiang Xia one, but he said it wasn't easy to use. He could only call out a few specific voices, and couldn't imitate human voices at will. I changed it a few times, but the effect was poor, so I kept throwing it here... This actually needs to be combined with an appropriate false voice." Dr. A Li muttered, always regretting that his creation failed to achieve the expected effect.

"Really..." Conan frowned and thought for a moment, then, just to be on the safe side, he looked at Haibara Ai who had already walked out of the kitchen and was listening silently at this time, "Is there anyone in the organization who is good at changing voices? Or a similar machine? "

Chapter 343 Shameless Detective

Hui Yuanai was silent for a while.

This question did remind her of some rumors, such as a witch with a thousand faces who is good at disguise and cross-dressing in the organization... But as far as she knows, she is a real member of the organization with a ruthless heart.

If Kudo Shinichi's identity has been exposed to such people, these people in the doctor's family must have been packed and escorted back to the organization because they had too much contact with Conan long before Conan came back, and they were even beaten to death on the spot.

In addition, when she was cooking just now, a paper airplane flew in from the window and hit her on the head.

Although I didn't see who threw it, after unfolding it, Jiang Xia's handwriting was on the paper plane.

Jiang Xia said that a new member of the organization came nearby and was searching for her, telling her not to go out as much as possible, and not to contact him these days.

At the end, I also boldly wrote the sentence "Burn after reading".

Although Hui Yuanai felt that this behavior was a bit old-fashioned, after hesitating for a moment, she obediently put the paper on the fire and burned it.

In fact, she originally wanted to use a paper shredder, but after careful calculation, it is indeed as Jiang Xia said, burning it is the safest... After the burning, Hui Yuanai smashed the paper ashes and flushed them into the sewer.

When Conan described the details to them just now, Hui Yuanai thought of Jiang Xia's paper airplane.

Although I don't know exactly what happened, but at least in terms of time, Jiang Xia passed the note after he "lost contact", so he should be safe now.

But Haibara Ai didn't tell Conan about it.

——If Jiang Xia wants Conan to know, she will definitely tell him directly, or ask her to convey it.But now, since this matter was not mentioned in the note at all, it probably meant "don't worry about Conan".

Conan saw that after he asked the question, Hui Yuanai lost his mind for a while, and then said uncertainly: "Maybe."

...An answer is the same as no answer.

Conan failed to get any useful clues and looked away from her in disappointment.

In addition, start from the perspective of "disguised voice".Conan also thought of the Kaitou Kidd who is said to be good at sneaking in disguise.

But Kidd has no need or motivation to do this kind of thing—Jiang Xia has only dealt with him a few times, so he won't be kidnapped because of this...Moreover, unless Suzuki Sonoko's family is asked to help out with treasures and provocations, in a short time, Conan didn't know where to contact this strange thief, and naturally he couldn't find out.

And that kidnapper might not be someone he had met at all, but a complete stranger.

In the end, Conan could only temporarily give up starting from the perspective of "false voice" and began to list other possibilities.

Hui Yuan Ai was sitting beside him paddling silently, while Dr. Ali was thinking seriously. He followed Conan's idea of ​​"someone is playing a prank" and put forward his own idea:

"Could it be that Xiaolan and Jiang Xia are working together to tease you, or Xiaolan found a clue from Jiang Xia and thought you were Kudo Shinichi, so she asked Jiang Xia to confirm it for her?—" Hearing that Kudo Shinichi used Jiang Xia's The mobile phone called her' this matter was told by Xiaolan and Yuanzi, whether it actually happened or not, you can't be sure, the only clue you can actually see is "hearing Xiaolan call Jiang Xia on her mobile phone." You're just."

Conan was taken aback by these words, and shivered subtly.

He quickly forced himself to calm down: "No, if this is really the case, the door of your house must have been demolished by now..." Conan couldn't help but look back at the locked door.

Hui Yuanai also glanced over and took a sip of tea calmly: "No. Before that, I will open the door for her."

Conan: "..."

In this world, there is no place for him anymore, and even the warm haven of the doctor's house has been taken over by the terrifying woman in black...

Fortunately, the terrible future speculated by the doctor is just out of thin air. Conan denied weakly:

"Jiang Xia will not be so careless. And even if he really exposed that 'Conan is Kudo Shinichi', Xiaolan will not use Jiang Xia's mobile phone to prove it, which will make him feel guilty of betraying his companions, Xiaolan Will definitely come to me directly..."

Conan was silent while talking.

He thought about his life for two seconds, and then in order to protect his fragile heart and maintain his desire to find the missing Jiang Xia, he gave up this reasoning method of trying to figure out people's hearts, but began to present the facts:

"Cough...the main reason is that they are not in the same place at all today - when 'Mao Lilan' from Jiangxia called, I didn't hear any sound that should be in the concert venue, but when I contacted Xiaolan through Yuanzi , They obviously have some noisy background sounds, so it should be true to go to the concert. And Jiang Xia has a commission this afternoon..."

...Wait, entrust?

Conan's eyes lit up, and he stood up abruptly, feeling that he had grasped a new direction of investigation.He took out his phone and began to rummage through a large list of contacts.

Hui Yuanai looked at him suspiciously: "...what's the matter?"

"As long as you know Jiang Xia's specific commission and client this afternoon, you may be able to guess his current location and situation." Conan quickly found the number he was looking for, and pressed it:

"Sudden disappearance before and after processing the commission, even if the client is not the mastermind, he must know some information, such as Jiang Xia's whereabouts after processing the commission... Hello? Brother Amuro, I am Conan~ Well, yes, brother Jiang Xia's neighbor. "

Hui Yuanai was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized who Conan was asking about Jiang Xia's commission.

Her pupils shrank slightly, and she also stood up abruptly——Jiang Xia told her before that Toru Amuro was a member of the organization, and Conan actually asked him. Wouldn't this really delay Jiang Xia's plan? !

But the phone has been connected, Hui Yuan Ai can't make a sound to remind him, he can only stare at Conan with gloomy eyes, which makes this famous detective with a dark identity a little bit of a sense of crisis, so as not to lose another wave of horses after he just lost his horse, not only I gave it away for nothing, and I also paid a lot of people.

...Speaking of which, the last time I met Toru Amuro, didn't Kudo always call him "Uncle Amuro" eccentrically, why now he suddenly became an older brother when he asked for help... Tsk, shameless detective.

……

Of course, Conan didn't dare to disclose the relevant information of "Kudo Shinichi", not only to protect himself, but also to protect the audience - he has been nagging the doctor for a long time, and now he also feels that the truth of becoming smaller is an invitation to death, who knows Whoever it is will be on the organization's kill list.

So he only asked about the commission Jiang Xia received today.

But no matter how cautious he was in his words, a neighbor suddenly came to ask about Jiang Xia's work, which seemed strange to Amuroto.

Chapter 344 Gin's rebound technique

In addition, Toru Amuro didn't know what commission Jiang Xia had accepted, so he couldn't answer Conan's question.

So his attention was naturally focused on digging out the loopholes in Conan's words:

"You don't ask Jiang Xia because you can't contact him?

"He's almost an adult, he only accepted the commission in the afternoon, and at night you thought he was out of touch, and started looking for someone... What happened in the middle?

"Also, where did you hear that he had a commission in the afternoon? He told others on purpose. Did you hear it?"

If the answer to the last question is yes, it means that Jiang Xia is aware of the danger of today's commission, so she left clues to someone she trusts in advance... In other words, why didn't you come to him?How can he be more reliable than Jiang Xia's high school classmates? Could it be that Jiang Xia thinks he is too busy?

"..." Conan was hit head-on by a series of questions, and suddenly understood why the people he questioned in the past gradually became less friendly.

He hesitated.I remembered that I had reported Toru Amuro to the Megure Police Department for carrying a gun with him.After that, the Megure Police Department did not take any other actions, which means that the police did not find out that there was a problem with Toru Amuro, and the boss of this detective agency was barely credible.

And there are no other clues.

Conan then decided to reveal a little detail: "Brother Jiang Xia's classmate invited him to go to the concert together this afternoon, but Brother Jiang Xia said he had a commission today and refused. I heard this news by accident at that time. Then today evening……"

He briefly described what had just happened.

Of course, I omitted all the content related to Kudo Shinichi, and only said that I heard another person's voice on the phone call from Jiang Xia, and that person could not have appeared next to Jiang Xia at that time.

Toru Amuro listened silently, and couldn't help but glanced at the receiver on the way. The more he listened, the more he felt that something was wrong with the kid named Conan.

Even though he is only a first-grade elementary school student, his words are fluent and logical.And it seems that he himself discovered the anomaly today, not someone else told him - if it was another child, he might be easily fooled by the voice-changing person, and he would not think of someone pretending to be on the other side of the phone.

However, when talking about first-grade children, another figure uncontrollably appeared in Toru Amuro's mind.

——That was another little boy he had met in the Izu Princess Hotel.

Although the kid wrapped in a scarf was not as long-winded as Conan, he knew how to touch porcelain, was good at calculating, and was very accurate in giving needles. Moreover, Toru Amuro was confused by his appearance at the time, and was careless for a moment, and he was really tricked... In contrast, Toru Amuro suppressed the weirdness in his heart immediately.

Perhaps he has been away from childhood for too long, and lacks a correct understanding of the children of today... The flowers of the motherland are really growing stronger, but the direction of growth is worrying.Especially the little boy who loves needles.

Toru Amuro lost his mind for a while, and his thoughts quickly returned to the right track.