"Why are you panic?! These are just the little devil's guesses!"
Mouri Kogoro first comforted Mao Lilan, and then waved his hand carelessly and said: "I must say it was Heiji and the others. They were too engrossed in chatting with Mr. Kusukawa and accidentally forgot the time."
"I think it's unlikely! If Heiji-nii is the only one, then it's possible that he was too selfless talking to Mr. Kusukawa."
Conan shook his head and said, "But Sister Ye is not that interested in detective matters, so it's impossible to lose track of time with Brother Heiji, right?"
Hearing what Conan said, Mao Lilan's heart lifted again, and she quickly said to Maori Kogoro: "Dad, why don't you call the people at Abedo Detective Agency and ask?"
"There's really nothing I can do against you! Then just give me a call and ask."
Although Mouri Kogoro didn't think that Hattori Heiji and the others would really encounter any danger, seeing that his precious daughter was so worried, he still called the Acupido Detective Agency.
"Hello, this is Aidedo Detective Agency."
As the call was dialed, a middle-aged man's voice soon came from the phone. Mouri Kogoro quickly introduced himself: "Hello, I am Moori Kogoro."
Although colleagues are enemies, Mouri Kogoro's work scope is mainly in Mihua Town, and rarely involves the scope of Aipado Town.
Therefore, Moori Kogoro has a pretty good relationship with the Aideto Detective Agency, and the two parties occasionally exchange some intelligence information.
"It turns out to be Mr. Mori! What can I do for you?"
Mouri Kogoro said straight to the point: "I would like to find Detective Kusukawa. Is he in your detective agency?"
"Are you talking about Kusukawa? He hasn't come to the detective agency these days, but he told me that he was investigating a big case recently, so I think he should be working on the case somewhere?"
"Big case?"
After hearing this, Mouri Kogoro thought of Hattori Heiji and the others who were suddenly unable to contact him, and his expression suddenly became serious: "Can you help me contact Kusukawa now? I have something very important to see him for."
"I'm afraid this won't work. Every time Nanchuan goes out to handle a case, he will cut off contact with the outside world. Even I can't contact him."
"That's it! Then forget it."
Mouri Kogoro thought for a while and said: "By the way, there is one more thing I want to ask you. Is there a pair of male and female high school students who will go to your detective agency to find Kusukawa today? The male high school student among them has skin.
Very dark.”
"Yes, the two of them came at 10:30 in the morning. After I told them that Nanchuan was not here, they asked me for the address of Nanchuan's house, and then they left."
"I see, can you please tell me the address of Nanchuan's house? I want to visit you personally."
"Of course, his home is in the 4th-chome of Cupido Town..."
"Okay, I understand, thank you! Excuse me."
After Mouri Kogoro hung up the phone, he said with a solemn expression: "Perhaps Heiji and the others are really in trouble? I think we should go to Kusukawa's house in person!"…
"Yeah! I'm going to call Uncle Long Yi and drive us to Cupido Town."
After Suzuki Seimei finished speaking, he took Mouri Kogoro and the others in a nanny car and rushed towards the 4th-chome of Cupido Town.
"Master, we are here."
Because Aipado Town is right next to Mihua Town, it only took less than half an hour for Inoue Ryuichi to drive to the apartment where Detective Kusukawa lived - Aurihatoso!
"Let me take a look, Nanchuan... I found him. He lives in Room 202!"
Mouri Kogoro got out of the car first, checked the mailbox in the apartment lobby, and soon found Detective Kusukawa's residence.
When Suzuki Seimei and the others came to the door of Room 202, they saw that the door was closed tightly, and there was a note stuck on the door. The content of the note read:
"I should be back before noon. If there is a registered letter, please send it to the landlord for safekeeping."
Looking at the content on the note, Mouri Kogoro couldn't help but frown and said: "It's strange, it's already two o'clock in the afternoon, why hasn't that guy Kusukawa come back yet? Then where did Heiji and the others go?
"
"Wait a minute! This door doesn't seem to be locked?"
Suzuki Seimei suddenly walked to the door, tried to pull the door handle, opened the door and walked in.
"This is……"
Conan's attention instantly fell on the position of the door lock. He saw the subtle scratches around the door lock and showed a thoughtful expression: "These are the traces left by picking the lock. Has anyone ever picked the lock and broken in?"
Have you ever entered this room?"
Based on Hattori Heiji's character, they would definitely not do such a thing as breaking the lock, so someone else must have broken open the door.
And Heiji and the others were most likely involved in some trouble because they discovered some clues.
"Qingming, Conan, please wait a moment..."
Seeing Suzuki Seimei and Conan, two lawless gangsters, break into someone's home, Mao Lilan couldn't help but have a headache, but she still followed them in.
After Mouri Kogoro walked into the room, he looked around and couldn't help complaining: "There seems to be no trace of being turned over in the room. Could it be that Kusukawa guy forgot to lock the door?"
"Sister Xiaolan, look! There seems to be any strange marks on the table?"
Suzuki Seimei and the others looked in the direction of Conan's hand and saw a square pattern the size of a sticky note on the computer table not far away, surrounded by scratches left by pencils.
"This kind of scratch is... it is indeed this kind of note paper, and the size is exactly the same."
Seeing this, Mouri Kogoro picked up the note paper on the computer desk, made a gesture at the blank group table, and said with a sudden look on his face: "So that's it! Using the principle of pen pressure, rub the paper with the pencil to make it stay on the next page.
The writing on the piece of paper emerged."
"Tear!"
After Mouri Kogoro finished speaking, he directly tore off the note paper at the top of the note pad, then picked up the pencil on the side and rubbed it on the blank note paper.
"Shashasha..."
As the black pencil filled the entire note, some remaining writing on it also appeared.
Although most of the handwriting is no longer legible, you can still vaguely see the five characters "Xianqiao Town" and "Ito".
Mouri Kogoro said: "If I guessed correctly, that little devil Heiji probably found that the door of Mr. Kusukawa's house was unlocked and was worried that something might happen to him, so he used this method to find him.