With a fleeting inspiration, Conan rushed towards the dining table.
But before it touched the table, the piece of paper that had been torn into a "convex" shape had been gently picked up by Haiyuan Ai, and he threw it away.
Haiyuan Ai looked at the two small dots on the left side of "brother", close to the edge of the paper, and thought thoughtfully: "These two dots are very similar to the 'キ'' that was not torn cleanly."
According to the habit of children calling people, if Mamoru calls Uemura Naoki "Naoki-nii", it would just be "Naoki-nii".
"You want to say...this is a branch written to Uemura?" Akagi Quantum felt increasingly confused.
Until now, she still hasn't figured out why an acquaintance committed the crime.
And she is not the same as Haiyuan Ai.
——According to experience, Haibara Ai feels that the inference Shiraishi said in an affirmative sentence is basically the truth.
So she directly used "an acquaintance committed the crime" as the premise of her reasoning. However, after all, Akagi Quantum and Shiraishi had little contact, and she was still struggling with the reasoning process, so it seemed a few beats slower.
Haiyuan Ai looked at the note with her chin in her hands, and suddenly felt that solving the case was actually a bit interesting. She could find more gems to play with in the future:
"The note must be left for you. Didn't you say that the child would say something before going out? He doesn't seem to be very old. Does he have a mobile phone? Or does he write a note?"
"If you don't have a mobile phone, you will leave us a note." Akagi Quantum replied calmly.
Although I think it is a bit strange for a child to call another child "child", the aura of this little sister is not quite right. Quantum Akagi is sitting next to her, restrained, and feels that even if she suddenly calls him "child", it seems that it is not completely impossible.
accept.
"That's easy." Hui Yuan Ai raised his hand, gesticulated with his slender fingertips in front of the note, and said thoughtfully:
"This note was obviously torn by hands into this strange shape. Maybe it didn't mean this originally, but
‘[Brother Naoki] took me to dinner,
Let [Xiao Mamoru, who is about to starve to death, come back to life]’
And so on...Children often learn some strange words from books."
After all, it was his first time to reason, and his round sentences were a bit unreasonable. As Haihara Ai spoke, he subconsciously looked at Shiraishi and asked for the opinions of professionals.
Shiraishi nodded under her gaze, then put his phone on the table, with a game promotional picture on the screen.
He said: "I saw a similar packaging box in Mamoru's room."
Conan came over to take a look and suddenly had an idea:
"My classmate also played this game. Players can name the characters they control. Children don't think much and sometimes they can't think of a name, so they name the characters after themselves.
"In other words, the original words in this 'letter for help' may be 'I'm going to ask Brother Naoki to help Xiaoshou come back to life' - Xiaoshou does not refer to himself, but to the character in the game!"
Akagi Quantum listened hard for a long time, and finally understood what they were saying after a few beats.
She looked at Shiraishi in shock: "You mean... Uemura deceived Mamoru?"
The other three people at the table nodded at the same time.
Quantum Akagi looked at this and that, and his first reaction was "Should I go back to elementary school again?"
Then I was convinced, "No, it's not my problem, it must be that this detective is too good at teaching children."
…
ten minutes later.
Uemura Naoki was sitting on the tatami, with a heavy plaster on his right leg, watching TV with complex and gloomy eyes.
Akagi Mamoru sat next to him, holding a game console in his hand and clicking it beeping. Occasionally, he raised his head and glanced at his brother who made frequent mistakes on the TV. He sighed in a mature manner, and then continued to indulge in the game.
The Akagi hero on TV looked ugly, but because of his messy performance, others didn't notice anything unusual - at this time, if he laughed heartily, it would be really weird.
Hero Akagi was extremely depressed thinking about his missing brother.
A teammate happened to pass the ball over, and he kicked it absentmindedly. A few seconds later, there was a sudden wave of cheers from the stands.
Hero Akagi was startled and looked at the situation blankly, and then he was shocked to find that the goal he had not even aimed at had actually been kicked in.
His teammates were flushed with excitement, but his face suddenly turned white as if a layer of paint had been applied on it.
Uemura Naoki had just finished beating Mamoru Akagi, and when he looked up and saw this scene, he suddenly became angry.
He threw the game console back to the child, turned around and found the phone, and was about to make another threatening call when there was a sudden knock on the door.
Naoki Uemura was startled, thinking that Hero Akagi was on the court now and couldn't answer the phone, so he decided to go and see what was going on on the other side of the door first.
He looked out of the peephole and saw no one.
However, just when he was confused, there were a few more "dong dong dong" sounds, and the sound was clear. It was definitely his door ringing, not his neighbor's.
In an instant, all the hairs on Uemura Naoki's body stood up. However, due to frequent contact with Akagi Mamoru, he reacted faster than others and immediately realized something.
Uemura Naoki carefully hung up the door chain, opened the door a crack, and peeked out from the crack, and sure enough, he saw two very short children.
The little boy among them held up his wrist and played with the electronic watch.
Uemura Naoki was about to ask them something, but before he could speak, his forehead felt cold. Before he could recover, he fainted in confusion.
Shiraishi came out from the side and held the door at the moment Naoki Uemura threw himself into the street to prevent it from being pressed shut.
Then he pushed the door to a suitable angle, reached in, and took off the door chain.
The door chains of some apartments are actually just decorations, especially the chain-type ones, which can be opened effortlessly from the outside. Their only function is probably to give people some psychological sustenance.
After unlocking the door chain, Shiraishi used some more force and pushed open the door together with Uemura Naoki behind it.
Haibara Ai rarely saw Shiraishi doing physical work other than washing dishes, so she subconsciously followed him around, as if she wanted to help him.
But before she could figure out where to start, the door had been successfully pushed open to a certain angle.
Fortunately, the people I found were not very fat.
Several people slipped into the house through the crack in the door. As soon as they stepped into the entrance hall, they saw a child sticking his head out in confusion in the living room.
——Akagi Mamoru heard something wrong just now, put down his game console and came out to check the situation. He looked at Uemura Naoki who was lying beside the door, and then at Akagi Quantum, and was stunned for a moment.
Before he could figure out the situation, Quantum Akagi had already pounced on him and hugged him.
The duration of Conan's anesthesia needles fluctuates.
Not long after, Naoki Uemura, who was dragged to the living room by friendship, woke up.
He looked at Akagi Quantum, and immediately guessed that the matter had been exposed, and felt very unwilling to do so.
But when he looked up, he saw a strange man standing next to the grocery basket in his house, his hand seemingly absentmindedly resting on a baseball bat.