The commission was received just after the mobile phone was updated. Shiraishi had not had time to buy a new mobile phone - of course, even if he was given time, he would probably choose to wait.
In short, in order to inform Kaho Ri of his new name, Shiraishi, who did not have a mobile phone, had no choice but to find a phone booth on the street.
After asking her to go to Aido City Hotel as soon as possible, Shiraishi put down the receiver and glanced at Conan who was waiting next to him.
This kid is actually of no use anymore. He kind of wants to send him home now, but looking at Conan's energetic look, it will definitely take a lot of effort to trick him away. Comparing the two... Forget it, I think
Just follow.
There is no obstruction around this phone booth, so Conan can hear Shiraishi's words without eavesdropping.
Judging from the conversation, he guessed that Shiraishi called the client. He thought he should call the police next, but after Shiraishi hung up the phone, he walked out of the phone booth.
"Aren't you going to call the police?" Conan was confused at first, but as soon as he said the words, he suddenly thought of the man in black who had left before, and asked again, "The black cat has already arrived at that hotel?... You have already guessed the location? Then
Why did he ask me to help solve the mystery?"
There are so many questions...
Fortunately, Shiraishi's ability to make up lies is not weak. He shook his head and said modestly:
"Reasoning and solving puzzles are not my areas of expertise. I had not been able to decipher the code at that time. The idea that Mr. Shinname was in the hotel was just the result of my analysis and speculation from other aspects."
While taking people to find a taxi on the street - the fare will be reimbursed by Shinmei Xiangbaoli - he briefly talked about the information provided by Miss Shinmei when entrusting her, and then he grasped the beginning and end and made up the middle:
"Although I accepted her commission, my opinion is the same as that of other detectives - this is not like a kidnapping case. The kidnapper's motives and operating principles are too strange. No matter which angle you make assumptions about, it is very contradictory.
"Considering that many well-known writers have some quirks, and after adding Mr. Shinmy's psychological factors into the premise, I finally came to a feasible conclusion - he may have kidnapped himself and left those codes in the article
, the purpose is to test his own daughter, or to challenge detectives across the country."
"...That's it!" Conan's eyes lit up when he heard this.
When he was deciphering the code, he discovered that in order to hide the information, some of the words in the book were very blunt and even looked like clerical errors.
Since the kidnapping target is a mystery novelist, allowing the new name Rentaro to send text messages to the outside world is a very dangerous act in itself.
Even if the murderer did this for some unavoidable reason, he would definitely check the manuscript before sending it out, so the code of the new name Rentaro was transmitted completely and flawlessly, which itself is not very logical.
.
Before even starting to solve the puzzle, he had uncovered so many details from other seemingly unrelated things, and even guessed that his new name, Rentaro, was in the hotel... As expected, it was him.
After he graduates, why not study criminal psychology? Conan began to think about his future life plans.
It's not very close to the Aido City Hotel.
Shiraishi found the taxi pick-up point. When the door popped open, he turned around and saw that there were two people walking towards the road dozens of meters away, pretending to be casual.
It was a middle-aged man with sharp eyes, and... Edogawa Fumiyo.
Shiraishi once looked at her once through the glass of the cafe, but at that time, he happened to be wearing a mask because of the kitchen exhaust gas created by the butterfly ninja, and he didn't know if Kudo Yukiko could recognize him.
So Shiraishi smiled and nodded to them. This could be regarded as a friendly greeting between passers-by who had met once before, or it could be understood as a successful smile after kidnapping someone else's son.
It was not good to keep the taxi waiting for a long time. When Conan got into the car, Shiraishi pushed him on the shoulder and got in the car himself. The taxi drove away quickly.
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"It's too much, it's too much! My Shinichi..." The moment Shiraishi reached out and touched Conan, Kudo Yukiko's nails dug deeply into the sleeves of her husband's windbreaker.
Kudo Yusaku's expression remained unchanged, and he hissed in pain:
"...Don't worry, the situation is probably not that serious yet. The members of the black organization probably don't know that Shinichi has become smaller. Even if they unfortunately find out, they will not use a taxi to kidnap someone.
"And don't you think my son's reaction was too calm? He actually followed the car so honestly. I always felt that things might be different from what we just thought."
"Maybe that man had a gun hidden in his sleeve and was pointing it at Shinichi's back, so Shinichi became honest! And it was you who asked me to pay attention to the equipment the doctor gave him before, so I deliberately ignored him when he had nothing.
We kidnapped him when we took him away, he is just an ordinary kid now!"
No matter what she thought, Kudo Yukiko felt that it would not work: "It's all your bad idea, hurry up and find a solution!"
"Okay, okay..." I was the one who refused to bring the props, but it was you who proposed the kidnapping of my son. Yusaku Kudo thought this secretly in his mind, but in the end he didn't dare to say it out loud.
After the two of them murmured, Dr. Ali ran out of the alley leading to the Internet cafe holding the disguise props he had just taken off: "Wait for me! This costume of mine is too inconvenient to move...
...Huh? What's wrong? The atmosphere is so weird."
"..."
…
Niina Kahori was obviously a model client, and he was meticulous about Shiraishi's requests and complied with them all.
In addition to carrying her mobile phone with her, she was also ready to leave at any time, so after receiving the call, she quickly rushed to the place and was standing on the street waiting anxiously.
Baishi got out of the car and waved to her, then pointed to the tall building in front of him: "Your father should be here, let's go up and have a look."
"Okay, thank you!" Niina Kaori raised her hand and pressed the corners of her eyes, clearing up her expression.
She didn't expect that the results would come out so soon. While she was excited, she could not help but feel doubtful in her heart. Was her father...really locked up in the hotel?
In her opinion, the hotel is not a very good place to hide people. It will cause a lot of unnecessary expenses for the kidnappers, and if the waiters clean the room or deliver meals, the secret can easily be exposed.
But since I entrusted Shiraishi, I should trust him first no matter what... While waiting for the elevator, Niina Kahori lowered his head and clasped his hands in silent prayer.
Before entering the elevator, Shiraishi was worried that it was the kind of elevator that could only be used after swiping the room card. If so, he would have to go out and get a room on the same floor.
However, maybe it's because technology hasn't developed to that stage yet, or maybe it's another feature of the detective world. After entering the elevator and pressing the floor button, the elevator quickly starts going up.
Conan looked at the constantly changing numbers and recovered from Shiraishi's "reasoning", suddenly feeling that this was a bit reckless.
He glanced at Niina Kahori, who obviously had no fighting ability, then looked at the ordinary cotton slippers under his feet, and asked Shiraishi in a low voice: "Is it really okay? At least a few security guards should be asked to follow."
You didn't ask until you were already on the elevator... Shiraishi glanced at the number at the top of the elevator, and explained casually with a pleasant look: "This hotel is the third target I selected for exploration. Black..."
When it came to his vest, Shiraishi hesitated between "black tie" and "black cat", but found that he couldn't name either one.
Originally, he thought black tie was okay, but after the mask was added with the function of turning into a black cat, every time black tie was mentioned, a Q version walking on the street with short legs would appear in Shiraishi's mind.
Tie, very dramatic.
At this time, children only take the multiple-choice questions, and mature adults skip them directly.
So after a slight pause, Shiraishi continued naturally: "He has already come to see it, and there was a mark he left at the door just now. There is no problem here."
"Oh..." Conan also felt relieved.
Regardless of personality, if we only look at the practicality of saving people, both Shiraishi and Black Cat are quite reliable, but he noticed Shiraishi's pause just now.
This change of personal pronouns in the middle shows that "Black x" is Shiraishi's common name for black cats, but after saying it out of habit just now, Shiraishi realized that the name was not suitable for others to hear, so he changed his name.
It can be seen that "Black
The conclusion is... black cats also have "black" in their names?
Conan silently wrote down this important information, thinking that he could ask the doctor to follow this clue to investigate again. The purpose of this investigation was different from the past. It was not to suspect that the other party had committed a crime, but simply to be curious about unknown things.
Amidst Conan's rapid thinking and Shinname Kahori's silent prayers, the elevator stopped on the 24th floor.
Before the door was fully opened, Niina Kahori had already ran out quickly. She rushed towards the room No. 2407 that Shiraishi told her and knocked on it several times.
The wait for the door to open was extremely long.
Niina Kahori held the wooden door with both hands, so nervous that she could only feel her own heartbeat. After an unknown amount of time, she finally heard the door lock click.
The door slid inward, and a woman with white hair saw her through the crack in the door. She was very surprised: "Xiang Baori?"
"...Mom!" Seeing her living mother, Niina Kaho's heart finally settled.
She rushed forward, wanting to hug the person who had been "missing" for two months, but because she was so excited, she almost hit the door frame into her mother's face when she rushed forward.
Shiraishi stretched out his hand and grabbed the door frame.
He was taller than Xin Ming and his daughter. When he looked over their heads and looked into the room, Shiraishi saw a slightly fat old man lying on the clean bed.
The man moved very slowly and looked very weak, but he was still conscious. He was trying to turn his head and look in the direction where Shinname Kahori's voice came from.
He first met Shiraishi's gaze, and then quickly passed by the "reader who had seen through his subtle design" whom he had been looking forward to so much, and looked at his daughter.
The moment Shiraishi's turbid eyes reflected the figure of Niina Kahori, Shiraishi saw the corners of his wrinkled lips curl up and smiled unconsciously.
The light screen popped up quietly and flashed around in front of Baishi's eyes.
Shiraishi lowered his eyes and looked at the task bar, and saw that the scrolling countdown bar had stopped, and there were three more words next to the task title, "Completed."
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"It's really self-directed and self-acted..." The two light bulbs didn't stand at the door of the room for too long. After hearing the truth from Mrs. Niina, Conan followed Shiraishi and left with satisfaction.