Conan also walked to the table, raised his head obediently and asked Chi Feichi, "Brother Chi, did Uncle Kogoro contact you last night? Do you know where he went?"
"Isn't the teacher busy with entrusted work?" Chi Feichi took out his mobile phone from his pocket and flipped through the email he received yesterday morning. After clicking on the email, he put the phone on the table, "This is what he sent yesterday morning.
My email."
Mao Lilan leaned in front of the phone, looked at the email content on the phone, and read out softly, "I recently had a commission..."
[I have a commission recently and may be quite busy. Xiaolan, please take care of it! ——Moori Kogoro]
Conan climbed on the chair next to him, looked at the content of the email, and asked, "Brother Chi, has uncle ever sent you this kind of email before? Just like this, he said that he was very busy at work and asked you to take care of Sister Xiaolan..."
"In the past, when the teacher received the commissioned work, he would occasionally send me emails, saying that he wanted to invite me for a drink after the commissioned work was over," Chi Feichi reached out and picked up the phone, "As for asking me to help take care of Xiaolan,
This is the first time he has mentioned this kind of thing."
"Did you reply to uncle yesterday morning?" Conan asked, "Did uncle send you any other emails?"
"After I replied 'Ok', he didn't send me any more emails," Chi Feichi said.
"Xiaolan, did Mr. Mori tell you about the entrustment?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki asked proactively.
"He said," Mao Lilan nodded, recalling, "He told me the night before yesterday that he had received a commission. Yesterday morning, before I met you and Sonoko downstairs of Mao Li Detective Office, he
He also told me that he was going to meet with his client..."
"Miss Ran," Azusa Enomoto approached a few people and asked nervously in a low voice, "What happened to Mr. Mori?"
"No, it's nothing...it's just that he didn't go home last night and couldn't get through on his cell phone. I thought he might have been drinking all night and his cell phone was out of battery. I was thinking about how to find him," Mao Lilan
He smiled at Azusa Enomoto and was comforted by the possibility he imagined. He sat down opposite Nanatsuki Koshizui, cheered up, turned to Conan and smiled, "Conan, let's have something to eat at Café Poirot first.
, maybe dad will come back after we finish breakfast!"
"Okay!" Conan didn't want Mao Lilan to worry, so he responded to Mao Lilan with a smile, but he was still a little concerned about the email that Mao Li Kogoro sent to Chi Feichi.
Uncle said that he was busy with work and asked Brother Chi to look after Xiaolan. At first glance, there was nothing wrong with this content, but Xiaolan was not a primary school student and had long been accustomed to being at home when his uncle went out. He could take care of himself. Uncle needed to send a special message.
Please send me the mail to Brother Chi?
It's really strange.
…
Until Mao Lilan and Conan finished breakfast, Mao Li Kogoro still didn't go home, and his cell phone still couldn't get through.
Chi Feichi and Koshizu Nanatsuki saw that something was wrong and returned to the Maori Detective Agency with Mao Lilan.
When Maori Lan called someone he knew and asked if he had seen Maori Kogoro, Chi Feichi also called his friend who often drank with Maori Kogoro, the proprietress of the izakaya that Maori Kogoro often went to, Koshizu Nanchi.
Tsuki also called and asked other detectives he knew.
The three of them asked everyone they could think of, but no one knew where Mouri Kogoro had gone.
Mao Lilan called Mao Li Kogoro again, but found that the call still couldn't be reached, and murmured worriedly, "What the hell is going on..."
"Xiaolan, don't worry," Koshizui Nanatsuki guided him in a soft voice, "Think about it again, has Mr. Mori told you anything else about the commission he received this time? For example, this time
The entrustment may require him to travel far away, or it may be inconvenient for him to contact you during work, or other suggestive words..."
"He didn't tell me that he was going to travel far away, or that it was inconvenient to contact me during work," Mao Lilan recalled seriously, "but when it came to entrusting work, before I went out yesterday morning, his reaction was a bit strange. In the past, he would
After the client made an appointment to meet, he asked me to urge him to get ready. But yesterday morning, when I got up, he got up by himself, took the initiative to change clothes, shaved, and was not like the procrastinating before seeing the client.
La, and when I went out..."
Yesterday morning, Maori Ran, Koshimizu Nanatsuki, and Suzuki Sonoko made an appointment to meet downstairs at the Maori Detective Office and were going to go shopping in Akihabara.
When Mao Lilan went out, Mao Li Kogoro was still in the office on the second floor and told Mao Lilan, "Go home early in the evening and don't stay out too late."
These are common words that old fathers tell their daughters.
Mao Lilan knew that Maori Kogoro was going to see the client, so she asked Maori Kogoro if he would go home for dinner in the evening.
At that time, Kogoro Mori replied: We are not sure yet.
"I know that my father likes to drink after work, and I wanted to persuade him to go home early at night, but before I could say anything, he said to himself, 'But I will definitely come back,'" Mao Lilan said with worry in her eyes.
"That's what he said twice, and he told me not to worry... His expression was very serious at the time. When I was about to ask more questions, Yuanzi came to see me on the second floor. Dad said that he was going out too.
His expression seemed to be the same as usual, so I followed Yuanzi downstairs."
Koshimizu Nanatsuki also recalled, "When we were taking a taxi downstairs, Mr. Mori also came downstairs, right? He looked at us, and then walked away towards the intersection..."
Mao Lilan nodded worriedly, "Yes."
"When uncle sent the email to Brother Chi, it was 9:11 in the morning," Conan frowned. "Uncle should have sent the email to Brother Chi on the way to see the client..."
"By the way!" Mao Lilan said hurriedly, "I called Officer Memu just now. Officer Memu said that he didn't know where my father was and could ask the police officers to help me look for him. After that, he was like my father.
He said something very strange. He said, "Don't worry, he will definitely come back." Officer Megure's tone was also strange, but he quickly said that he had something else to do and hung up the phone. I couldn't
Ask him why he said that."
"You will definitely come back?" Nanatsuki Koshizui touched his chin with his right hand, his expression became solemn, "Mr. Mori and Officer Megure both said so, and Mr. Mori also asked Mr. Chi to look after you..."
"Well..." Conan interrupted Koshizui Nanatsuki's words, put on an innocent expression, looked up at Mao Lilan, Koshizui Nanatsuki said, "Since we don't have a clue, then Brother Chi and I should go out and look for it.
Let's look for it, maybe uncle drank too much in a certain izakaya last night and passed out on the roadside without waking up. Brother Chi knows the places where uncle often goes to drink, so we can look for them one by one!"
Mao Lilan said quickly, "I'll go too!"
"No," Conan said in a cute voice, "What if uncle comes back by himself or calls after we all go out? Sister Xiaolan and Sister Nanatsuki should stay at home and wait for news. Brother Chi and I will go outside to look for you.
That’s it!”
Koshimizu Nanatsuki was worried that Mao Lilan would not be safe alone, so he did not object to Conan taking him out of the action team. He just looked at Conan speechlessly and spoke with a hint of warning, "If you have gained something, please tell me in time.
!”
"We will tell you," Chi Feichi took the initiative to give Koshizui Nanatsuki a positive answer, looking at Koshimi Nanatsuki's eyes calm and serious, "If you receive a call from the teacher here, or think of something, don't
Forgot to contact us in time.”
"I will!"
Koshizui Nanatsuki also became serious, nodded, and Mao Lilan watched Chi Feichi and Conan go out, swallowing the words 'pay attention to safety'.
Mao Lilan: "..."
I don’t know if it’s her imagination, but Nanatsuki-san, Fei-chi’s expressions are weird when they talk to Conan, they all seem...serious?
…
downstairs.
Conan looked back at the stairs behind him to confirm that Mao Lilan had not followed, then lowered his voice and spoke to Chi Feichi, "Brother Chi, have you thought of it too?"
"The commission that Teacher Maoli mentioned may have something to do with the police. At least Officer Mu Mu is an insider," Chi Feichi whispered, "And that 'commission' is very dangerous. Before Xiaolan went out yesterday morning, Teacher Maoli said it twice in a row.
Saying 'I will definitely come back' should be to cheer him up, because he may not be sure that he will be able to come back."
"Yes," Conan affirmed, with a heavy heart, "That's why he sent you that email when he was on the road. If he finally came back safely, the email was just a gossip during his commission, but if
He can't come back safely. Just like what he said in the email, he hopes you can take more care of Sister Xiaolan... No matter what, we must get our uncle back!"
Chi Feichi did not declare his determination with Conan, but asked proactively, "What did you take from the teacher's desk just now?"
"The pad and pencil that uncle used to use when working." Conan took out a pad and a pencil from his arms. While walking with Chi Fei in the direction of Seven Detectives' Office, Conan lowered his head and tapped the pencil with his head.
Lightly scribbling on the first page of the label, "This note pad is placed directly opposite the office chair and next to the landline phone. There are some unclear writing marks on it. I think my uncle might have used it before he left.
For this note pad, if this is the case, we only need to lightly smear the surface of the first label paper with a pencil, and we will be able to see what words uncle has written on the note pad before... appear!"
After Conan had painted the first page of the label book with a pencil, a few lines of writing emerged:
【April 25
10 O'Clock
Moore Hotel
Open-air cafe]
Conan read the text and handed the note pad to Chi Feichi, "Brother Chi, let's go here first!"