Mao Lilan frowned slightly: "Miss Masami Hirota who came here to find her father, no matter how many times I called, I could never contact her."
"Ah! That's the one I found from far away in Yamagata Prefecture!" Mouri Kogoro remembered.
For him, this was just one of the many commissions he had received, and it had been successfully resolved, so he didn't take it to heart.
"I was very concerned about her situation after meeting her father, so I wanted to call and ask her." Xiaolan held up a piece of paper with a phone number written on it and handed it to Mouri Kogoro. "Dad, is this the phone number?"
Wrong?"
"She wrote this herself, so there should be nothing wrong. Because she always calls, and I never take the initiative to call, so..." Mouri Kogoro pondered.
"Have you not returned to your hometown yet?" Xiaolan always felt a little uneasy.
"Maybe she's still staying in her father's apartment!" Kogoro put forward a conjecture.
"Otherwise, that father may have escaped again!" Conan said another possibility with a childlike expression.
"It's possible that the gentleman was quite shocked when he saw his daughter." Mouri Kogoro touched his chin.
"Hey! Stop joking!"
Hearing what the two said, Xiaolan's uneasiness became more intense. She sympathized with Hirota Masami's experience and didn't want anything bad to happen to her.
Because Xiaolan herself lives with her father. If her father suddenly disappears one day, she will be close to collapse.
"I...I have a very bad feeling..." She became increasingly unbearable and rushed outside.
"I want to go check out that apartment!"
…
"What?"
"Dead...dead?"
The Maori father, daughter and Conan were all shocked.
"Yes. I found him hanging in his room in the evening, which caused a big commotion!" The landlord looked frustrated, as if he was troubled by the fact that his house had become a haunted house and could not be rented out.
"Then what happened to that man's daughter!" Mouri Kogoro took a step closer and shouted angrily.
"Female... daughter?"
"Miss Masami Hirota who came to Tokyo to find him!"
The landlord suddenly seemed to want to understand something and said suddenly: "Ah! So that person ran away from home!"
"I asked him why he was so weird. He paid one year's rent in one lump sum and moved in without asking any questions. Moreover, all the rent was paid in new currency. I said there must be something hidden..."
"Wait a minute, if you said your daughter is here too, then she was probably killed somewhere..."
"What do you mean? Didn't Mr. Hirota commit suicide?" A bead of sweat appeared on Mouri Kogoro's cheek.
The landlord shook his head: "No, I heard from the detective that Mr. Hirota was killed."
"What?!"
…
Inside the police station.
"Yes, it was indeed a homicide. After the murderer strangled the deceased, he hung him from the ceiling."
"Although there are no clues about the murderer yet, judging from the strangulation marks on the body of the deceased, the murderer should be a tall man."
The Megure Police Department looked at the angry Kogoro Mori and told him the circumstances of Hirota Kenzo's death.
He added: "Although we did not see the daughter you mentioned, we found this thing at the scene..."
With that said, he handed a pair of glasses to Mouri Kogoro's hands.
"These, aren't these the glasses of Miss Masami?" Mouri Kogoro looked at them for a moment and immediately recognized that these glasses with thick and round lenses were exactly what Miss Hirota Masami was wearing before.
"Could it be that Miss Yami..."
"Yes." The Mu Mu Police Department looked solemn, "Although the body has not been found, it may be somewhere..."
After hearing such bad news from the Megure Police Department, Mouri Kogoro walked out of the police station in a daze.
In the courtyard, a figure wearing sunglasses and a trench coat watched all this silently.
…
Maori Detective Agency.
Conan panted and opened the door of the office. His head, the back of his neck, and his clothes were all covered in sweat.
Just now, he remembered that he had pasted a positioning sticker on Masami Hirota's watch.
So, with the help of the tracking glasses invented by the doctor, he chased Pachinko alone in a pinball shop.
But just when he was about to find his target, the tracking glasses fell off the chain at a critical moment, and the battery was insufficient and could not continue to work.
After being kicked out by the waiter at the pachinko parlor, he had no choice but to return to the Mori Detective Agency dejectedly.
He bumped into Akira Hirota in the pachinko parlor. At this time, he had not realized that the target he was tracking was the watch of that tall and sinister man.
As soon as Conan entered the door, he saw his sister Xiaolan standing in front of the window, looking motionless out of the window, like a sculpture.
"What's wrong with Sister Xiaolan?" he asked Mouri Kogoro quietly.
"She has been like this since she came back." Kogoro glanced at his daughter.
Xiaolan stared blankly at the familiar scenery outside the window, feeling indescribably uncomfortable in her heart.
She could never imagine that the filial Miss Masami Hirota might have been killed or kidnapped by bad guys.
Suddenly, she saw a rather suspicious figure.
It was a man wearing a high-collar windbreaker and sunglasses, covering himself tightly.
The man was tall and seemed to be exuding the aura of "I'm suspicious" all over his body, and he was walking towards the stairs downstairs of her house.
It looks like he is coming to visit the Mori Detective Agency.
But under such a suspicious appearance, Xiaolan subconsciously felt that the other party might have evil intentions.
"Dad! It seems like someone is coming." She whispered to Kogoro warily.
Within a few seconds, there was a knock on the door.
Mouri Kogoro stood up and opened the door, and what he saw was a tall man in sunglasses and a trench coat who didn't look like a good guy.
"You...you were...at Mr. Hirota's apartment before!"
Mouri Kogoro suddenly remembered where he had seen this capable guy. Based on what the Megure Police Department had told him before, the person who killed Hirota Kenzo was a tall man, and he instantly assumed an aggressive posture.
Xiaolan also walked over. If this person made any rash move, she could guarantee that her kick would hit his face in the next second.
"Eh? Teacher Yuan?"
At this time, Conan's voice sounded from behind him, making both father and daughter stunned at the same time.
Then, they saw the corners of the man's mouth raised and he took off his sunglasses. It turned out to be Yuan Huaiyu, whom they had dealt with several times before.