At night, under the street lights, two people, one large and one small, stared at each other face to face.
Even though Kuroki Jin looked at his sunny smile, his heart was already beating non-stop, and it was jumping up and down erratically.
Kuroki Jin suddenly remembered the first time he stabbed a knife into the heart of the person who wanted to kill him in the middle of the night. At that time, he stared blankly at the blood on his hand and sat on the ground with the same mood.
Nervous, uneasy, and at a loss...but eager for the next moment to come and bring him the answer.
Within ten minutes of that time, someone from the Logistics Department came to recover the body and turned a blind eye to his murderous behavior.
But this time, the answer seemed to come out in the next second.
"It's an idiot."
"...Eh?"
Haiyuan Ai turned around and continued walking forward. Kuromu Ren was stunned for a long time and didn't understand what the answer meant. He scratched his head and followed Haiyuan Ai with a puzzled expression.
Naturally, he couldn't see it either. Hui Yuan Ai, who was walking in front with his head down, raised the corners of his mouth like him and smiled softly.
On the same night, the progress on the other side was not as quiet as they were here.
Since Mouri Kogoro accepted Conan's explanation for attacking those around him, he began to recall who the next candidate would be based on the clues they found.
Conan discovered that during the three attacks, a white paper folded object was left at the scene. The first time was a folded paper dagger, the second time was a paper flower, and the third time it looked like an infinity symbol, but it was actually a sword.
handle.
These three patterns are exactly the same as the ones on the playing cards from K to J.
Therefore, Conan deduced that the criminals committed their crimes in the reverse order of the playing cards. The first one was Memu Shisan, who had Shisan in his name; the second Fei Yingli was because her surname was Fei, which also means queen, that is.
Q, and Dr. A Li’s real name is Dr. A Li, and when the word “shi” is broken down, it means eleven.
Then the next prisoner is the one with a cross in his name.
Mouri Kogoro immediately thought of his mother in the nightclub, Ms. Towako Sang.
With the police and children, the group stayed in the nightclub for half the night, and nothing happened until they were sent to the room.
Several people could only summarize this situation as the prisoner also went to sleep.
In addition to Maori who continued to sit guard without believing in evil, Memu suggested that Officer Shiratori take Xiaolan and Conan back to rest first. Conan also felt that this was too inefficient, so he and Xiaolan sat in Officer Shiratori's car.<
/p>
In the car, they heard Shiratori picking up Kuroki Jin’s phone call.
"Let's not talk about ten. If it is the number two, there is a ready candidate here."
Kuroki Jin’s name [Jin] contains the number two.
"There are three, too." Shiratori answered Conan's words. Seeing the surprised expressions on the two people in the back row, Shiratori smiled and said, "My full name is Shiratori Rensaburo."
"In that case, I also know who Yi is." Xiaolan didn't know what she was thinking of, her eyebrows were crooked.
"Is it Brother Shinichi?" Conan opened his eyes and looked cute.
"Conan..." Xiaolan was a little embarrassed after being exposed about the person she was thinking about. She changed the subject: "By the way, Officer Shiratori, why did Murakami's father-in-law come to take revenge on my father?"
Shiratiao was slightly startled when he heard this. He thought about it and said, "I hadn't joined the job at that time, so I only heard my seniors mention it."
At that time, Kogoro Mori was still working as a police officer. During the arrest and interrogation of Murakami, the prisoner asked to go to the bathroom, so Mori and Megure took the opportunity to come out and have a rest.
Just then, Feiyingli and Xiaolan came over to deliver clothes and dinner to Uncle Maori who was working overtime, but they were hijacked by Murakami, who attacked the police and snatched the pistol. At this critical moment, Maori Kogoro shot the gangster without hesitation.
, but hit Fei Yingli, who was a hostage.
In the middle of Shiratori's words, Xiaolan seemed to have a memory suddenly activated. She suddenly recalled this scene that she had long forgotten, or that she subconsciously did not want to remember. In the memory, her mother was hit and fell to the ground.
The scene overlapped with the scene of slamming the door and never coming back, causing Xiaolan's expression to darken instantly.
"Xiaolan..." Conan looked at Mao Lilan with some worry, and the latter pursed his lips slightly and smiled as if to comfort him.
The atmosphere in the car gradually became dull. Shiratiao realized that he might have said something he shouldn't have said, and drove the car solemnly, not knowing how to ease the atmosphere.
At this moment, Conan pointed out the window with sharp eyes: "Are those Mr. Kuroki and Haibara?"
"Eh?" Xiaolan was also attracted to her attention. Shiratori subconsciously slowed down so that she could see clearly the backs of the two people who were gradually approaching.
"It's true." Haiyuan Ai's brown hair was very conspicuous under the street lights at night. Shiratiao parked the car next to the two of them, rolled down the window, stretched out his head and said: "Get in the car, I'll take you
Go back."
It's better to sit in a car than to walk. Kuroki Jin went to open the passenger door, while Haibara Ai got into the car from Conan's side.
"Why are you two here?" Conan asked in a low voice.
"I'll take her home." Heimuren, with his sharp ears, heard and answered quickly.
"You're not..." Conan was about to say something when he received Hui Yuan Ai's sharp gaze and immediately swallowed what he had not finished.
Xiaolan took the opportunity to ask: "Xiao Ai, how is Dr. Ali's injury?"
"I have been staying with my mother in the afternoon, and the doctor and my mother are not in the same hospital, so we haven't had time yet..."
Before Mao Lilan finished speaking, she heard a violent cough from in front of her.
"What's wrong, Mr. Kuroki? Do you have a cold?"
Kuroki Ren smiled awkwardly: "No..."
The corners of Hui Yuan Ai's mouth twitched slightly, and she suddenly felt much better when she recalled someone's rumor that someone had said that she was visiting the concubine's lawyer and stopped by to see the doctor.
"Doctor, there's nothing wrong." She simply answered Mao Lilan's question. She felt that Kuroki Ren was quite concerned about this case, so she subconsciously asked him:
"What about you? Is there any progress in the case?"
Speaking of this, Mao Lilan's expression was dark, but she quickly concealed it and smiled slightly: "Dad is still protecting Miss Towako... Oh, yes, we speculate that the criminals attacked in the reverse order of the playing cards..." Mao Lilan roughly described their progress throughout the afternoon, and Conan added content from time to time. Soon Kuroki Ren got the latest progress of the case.
"That means the next person should be the number ten?"
"Does Mr. Kuroki know anyone?" Conan asked quickly.
"I don't, but Detective Maori may have someone he knows."
"???"
"Tsuji Hiroki, a golfer, and the Mori detective often meet him on the golf course on weekends."
The people present quickly thought about how Tsuji Hiroki's name was written, and they were deeply confused after suddenly realizing it.
It was Conan who asked first: "How do you know the people around Uncle Maori so well?"