Hattori Heiji remembered that he had chatted with Conan not long ago. How long had it been?
Could it be that time secretly fast-forwarded a few months without me noticing?
Just as I was thinking about where to start the question, there were two beeps from the receiver and the phone was hung up.
"..."
Hattori Heiji was silent for a moment, opened the website, and started to book tickets. He felt that he should ask clearly in person.
…
Conan is more accustomed to making plans by himself and fighting mysteries by himself. But this situation is different after all. In matters related to the organization, a slight mistake can be fatal, and the scope of the impact is far beyond just himself.
So although he was not satisfied with this puppet-like situation, he still decided to listen to opinions with an open mind. Of course, the premise was that the plan given by Black Cat was indeed reliable.
Conan hung up the phone, thought for a moment, turned his head and found the doctor sitting at the table, staring at the peach he had just put down.
"How's it going?" Conan also leaned close to look at it together, and then looked expectantly at the doctor, the omnipotent scientist, "Have you discovered anything?"
"..." Dr. Ali has been looking at it carefully for a long time. He even briefly tested it with an instrument just now, but he didn't see anything abnormal.
When asked by Conan at this moment, he could only touch the back of his head and tell the truth: "I think it looks like a peach."
"How is that possible? Black Cat gave this to me specially." Conan didn't believe it.
He looked at it for a while and suddenly thought of a trick - he could ask Bai Shi.
It's not that I don't want to think for myself, it's mainly because my brain circuits and those of the black cat are not compatible, and there is only one "peach". It would be bad if I and the doctor touch it rashly and damage some structure inside.
Conan took out his cell phone.
As soon as I pressed the button to turn on the screen, the "Low battery automatic shutdown" prompt popped up, which was very embarrassing.
Conan usually charges his mobile phone at night, but today suddenly something happened with Taku Itakura and the black organization, and he couldn't care about it for the moment.
So he had no choice but to pick up the receiver of the landline phone, but at this time, Haihara Ai walked out of the bathroom wearing pajamas and a towel on his head.
She glanced at Conan, obviously wondering why he came here so late at night, but she didn't ask further.
At this time, Conan realized how beautiful her non-nosy character was.
It seems that Haihara Ai has never seen the black cat so far, and the black cat also said that there is no need to mention these things to her.
And if she wanted to ask Shiraishi Momoko, it was impossible to avoid the black cat. If Haibara Ai heard something unusual and saw Shiraishi's number on the phone's display, she might have to ask...
…
Thinking of this, Conan suddenly didn't dare to make calls in the living room anymore. He borrowed the doctor's mobile phone and found an excuse to sneak outside.
Haiyuan Ai glanced at his mysterious back and withdrew her gaze without any desire to explore.
She suddenly had a good idea while taking a bath just now, and now she is eager to write it down so that she can improve her new patent.
Haiyuan Ai typed a few lines into the computer, and after writing the general idea, he planned to dry his hair first.
When she got up, she saw the doctor's strange behavior. Looking over, she saw the peach placed directly on the table.
Haiyuan sighed: "Why put it on the experimental table? This has already been washed, and it needs to be washed again..."
The day before yesterday happened to be the season for peach production, so Haihara Ai bought a bag and put it away.
She was not idle enough to remember carefully what each peach looked like. When she saw an extra peach on the table, she thought it was her own peach.
So she picked up the peach that had slipped in from the outside and prepared to wash it again.
"Wait! This..." Dr. Ali often listened to Conan complain about the black cat. He was worried that if Haibara Ai messed with the props of that "cruel, suspected wanted criminal, and still undercover in the organization", he would be arrested in the middle of the night.
Put a sack on.
But he was also afraid that the black cat would suddenly emerge and he would be wrapped in a sack. After hesitating for a moment, he had to find an excuse: "Let's eat this tomorrow. It's a bit late now."
"It's easy to spoil after washing. Now the ripeness is just right. It will be overripe tomorrow." Hui Yuan Ai didn't stop even when she was talking to him. She walked to the kitchen and rinsed the peaches with water, and was anxiously surrounding her behind her.
In the voice of the doctor's "Farewell!", he placed the peach on the chopping board and chopped it into pieces.
The world is quiet.
Haiyuan Ai continued to cut a few more times, threw the peach core aside, cut the peach into even small pieces, and finally inserted a toothpick into it.
For the sake of the doctor's health, Haihara Ai never lets him eat anything too sweet, greasy, or salty at night... In short, it's best not to eat anything at all.
The doctor's screams were also interpreted by her as a BGM called "The Greedy Old Man Doesn't Want to See Others Eating in Front of Him." Anyway, this is not the first time that the Doctor has been so childish.
It’s impossible not to eat without eating. Leaving peaches for a long time will affect the taste, and it can urge the doctor to exercise - don’t you want to eat snacks? You can. Exercise to lose weight first.
Hui Yuan Ai bypassed the petrified doctor and walked back to the computer with the bowl in hand.
I saw Conan, who had not made the call, returned to the experimental table and was looking around anxiously for something.
Conan was usually surprised. Haiyuan Ai ignored him and originally planned to go around him, but Conan accidentally raised his head and glanced at her, and then froze.
After being stunned for two seconds, Conan stared at the bowl and said in shock: "Is this the peach I just put on the table? Did you eat it?!"
"...Yes." Haiyuan Ai was confused and looked down at the bowl. What's wrong with the peach? It's delicious, there are no bug eyes, and it's not bad...
Conan rushed over, grabbed her shoulders and shook her: "Spit it out!"
"???"
Five minutes later, Haihara Ai cut a new peach and stood next to the doctor and Conan with a bowl in hand, watching them observe a moment of silence over a bowl of peach meat and a peach stone that Conan had just dug out of a garbage bag.
She looked at it for a while, didn't understand it, and walked away inexplicably.
…
Shiraishi's operation of stealing information went smoothly, and he rushed home overnight.
I originally planned to take a day off to relax, but unexpectedly when I was about to have something to eat after noon, I met Conan wandering at his door as soon as he went out.
Seeing him come out, Conan breathed a sigh of relief and asked him in a low voice: "Do you know what 'peach' means?"
Yesterday, due to Hui Yuan Ai's sudden intervention, the originally intact peach was torn into pieces.
Conan and the doctor were depressed for a moment, but soon regained their optimism. At this point, it was time to make a detailed appraisal of the "peach", which would be more useful than just staring at it in a daze.
However, after various identifications, there is always only one conclusion.
——This is indeed an ordinary peach.
The peach core is also very complete, with nothing hidden inside, and there is no APTX4869 antidote like Conan imagined.