All subsequent chaos has nothing to do with Shiraishi.
After he got home, he rested comfortably for a long time. He had nothing to do in the evening, so he changed into his cat form and walked around upstairs as usual, hoping to eavesdrop on any tasks that required him to appear.
The Maori family's house has three floors, with the detective office on the second floor and their residence on the third floor.
Usually after business hours, their activity location will be moved from the second floor to the third floor.
But today Kogoro Mouri was fascinated by watching TV. Shiraishi originally wanted to go to the third floor. When he passed the door on the second floor, he found light coming from the crack of the cat door. He pushed the door panel and went in to take a look. He found that this family was indeed
Haven't returned home yet.
As soon as the door panel moved, Mao Lilan looked over keenly and was very surprised when she saw the cat: "Xiao Hei! I haven't seen you for several days."
She took a sip of water, swallowed the two pills she had poured before, then put down the water glass and ran over to rub two handfuls of cats, and then immediately ran to prepare cat snacks.
After she left, Shiraishi jumped on the table and glanced at the medicine bottle next to the water glass.
People in this world rarely get sick, and getting sick basically indicates that something will happen, especially the people around Conan...
Conan's powers of observation are not weak either. He has now almost regarded the cat as a human being. When he saw the cat observing the medicine bottle, he took the initiative to explain: "Xiaolan had a fever yesterday."
When the cat heard this, he looked back at him.
Conan thought to himself that this cat was quite conscientious: "Don't worry, she's almost recovered. She was very ill, but she recovered quickly."
I feel very sick and still have a fever...
While waiting for snacks, Shiraishi lay on the table and reminisced, wondering if Mao Lilan had already remembered Akai Shuichi.
Before Kudo Shinichi became a child, he once went to New York with Mao Lilan.
At that time, the two of them first encountered a murder case, and then met Belmode who was disguised as a serial murderer.
At that time, Belmod failed to assassinate Shuichi Akai, escaped with injuries, and almost fell downstairs to death when confronting Mao Lilan. Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi, who followed closely, grabbed her. From then on, Belmode began
Extremely friendly to both of them.
Before meeting Bellmode, Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan had briefly separated for a while. Mao Lilan met Akai Shuichi alone. He was walking with a colleague wearing a vest with the word "FBI" printed on it.
After rescuing Belmode, Mao Lilan fainted from a fever and completely forgot about the bad things that happened during this trip to New York.
Now that she has burned it again, the memory has probably been unlocked, but...
Shiraishi looked at Conan next to him, who looked innocent and showed no sense of crisis, and felt that Mao Lilan hadn't told him about meeting "Akai Shinji" yet.
Think about it, this trip to New York is both a murder and an encounter with a serial murderer. In Mao Lilan's opinion, it is definitely not suitable to tell a child, even if the child sees not only 1,000 but also 800 corpses in a year.
…
Mao Lilan quickly prepared the cat snacks and brought them over. She washed her hands carefully and washed away the food residue on her hands. Then she sat on the sofa expectantly and reservedly, preparing to wait for the cat to finish eating, then hug it and spend the night with it.
But the quiet and peaceful cat-loving night she imagined did not exist.
As soon as the cat walked over and stared at the snacks, there was a burst of chaotic footsteps and voices at the door. When the footsteps came closer, someone could be heard saying: "Hey, this store is really still open.
Door! Good luck."
Then there was a knock on the door.
Few detective agencies are open 24 hours a day, and usually they are already off work at this time.
Mouri Kogoro was so obsessed with TV today that he forgot to go upstairs and put up the out of business sign.
The TV show had just arrived at a wonderful place, and Mouri Kogoro was originally very unhappy and wanted to see him off.
But think about the recent rare commissions, and then think about your own savings balance...
He reluctantly swallowed the rejection of "I'm already off work", glanced at the TV with nostalgia for the last time, and got up to pick up the guests.
…
There are three clients in total this time, all middle-aged uncles.
When Shiraishi looked up at the number of people, he felt that he smelled the smell of a case. Instead of calling him a client, he might as well have changed his name to a suspect.
The three of them have visited several detective agencies today, but no one has made any progress yet.
In line with the principle of casting a wide net, they passed by Mouri Kogoro's downstairs and found that the lights were on on the second floor, so they came up again.
The three of them wanted to commission a search for a system engineer named "Taku Itakura".
Itakura Taku is a genius, but he is a genius with bad habits - he always disappears when he is about to deliver the work.
When dealing with patients with this kind of late-stage procrastination, it is impossible not to rush them. People who work with him have developed the habit of looking for him everywhere when the time comes.
The search this time was even more intensive than before because Taku Itakura not only disappeared, but he also arrogantly sent a video to Party A.
In the video, Taku Itakura was sitting in a hotel room and said even more embarrassing words in a very rude tone:
"Oh, it's so tiring to make three games at the same time... My heart has not been very good recently, so I thought of slowly designing away from the office. You just have to wait patiently."
Click, the video ends.
"Listen, are these human words?" One of the more irritable clients slammed his fist on the table. "When we went to ask, all he told everyone was, 'I don't have a job at hand right now.
, Keep it on me!’…This is simply a scam!”
Mao Lilan's focus was misplaced.
She glanced at the high-hairline programmer in the video and was a little excited: "Is he related to Itakura Studio, which often appears in film production lists and is responsible for special visual effects? I seem to have seen it at a film exhibition
Pass his photo!”
Kogoro Mouri doesn't pay much attention to movies.
However, as a former criminal police officer and detective, he immediately thought: "Since he is a celebrity, could he have been kidnapped? Didn't you say that this video was sent a week ago? During this period, there has been no trace of him.
news?"
"Never did, and his phone couldn't be reached either."
"But speaking of being kidnapped...it's really possible." Uncle Zhongfen touched his chin, thoughtfully:
"Two years ago, when I went to Itakura Studio, I saw a very tall, suspiciously tall man with a mustache, dressed in black, and speaking with a Kansai accent. When I was leaving, I vaguely heard him talking to me.
Itakura Taku said, "You are useless!" His tone was... quite scary, so I was deeply impressed.
"Later I met him again at a press conference in Manten, and he was arguing with Taku Itakura again."
"Oh, that person." Uncle Mediterranean was still frowning in thought, but now when he remembered who Uncle Zhongfen was referring to, he relaxed and waved his hand in disapproval:
"It can't be the person he kidnapped - you left too early on the day of the Mantiantian press conference. Maybe you didn't know that the big man was killed by the bomb. I heard that the murderer's target was not him originally. Tsk, tsk, what bad luck."
When Conan heard this, his eyes widened suddenly, and he subconsciously glanced at the black cat. As far as he knew, this was the person present who had the closest relationship with the black organization.
However, the cat did not look at him like a qualified little friend, but looked at the middle-parted uncle with a somewhat strange look.
When Uncle Zhongfen heard the news that the strong man in black was dead, he smiled unnaturally: "That's right, I'm overthinking it." He originally wanted to use the suspicious man in black to divert the attention of the police and detectives...