Kuroba Kaito sniffed the room, and suddenly his face twitched and his expression became frightened.
"yue~"
"It smells fishy!"
With Conan's "police dog" attribute, he naturally smelled the fishy smell floating in the room earlier.
But he didn't expect that Kuroba Kaito's reaction would be so big.
"Hey, are you okay?"
Kuroba Kaito turned his back and covered his mouth and nose, and waved his hand back, "No, it's okay... I just hate the smell..."
Because he ate fish when he was a child and had fish bones stuck in his throat, Kuroba Kaito is still very afraid of fish.
Whether it is freshwater fish or sea fish, even the fishy smell will cause Kuroba Kaito's body to suffer great pain.
However, Conan didn't pay too much attention to this, and he didn't notice this weakness of Kuroba Kaito.
After all, some people just hate the smell of fish, and that's normal.
"Then I'll go in by myself. You can wait outside."
Kuroba Kaito gestured "OK" to Conan, turned around and opened the door, leaving only a crack in the door.
The curtains in the room were closed, and the black curtains did not allow light to pass through, making the room very dark.
Conan did not turn on the light, but borrowed the light of a watch-shaped flashlight to search for the source of the fishy smell in the room.
In fact, it is not difficult to find. This apartment has a living room and one bathroom. The kitchen is an open kitchen, and the bar is both a place for eating and cooking.
There is a table in the corner by the window with a laptop on the table.
There is a mat on the floor in the middle, and the quilts are folded neatly. It looks like a place where you usually sleep.
The whole room is very simple, without any furnishings, and it can be seen that it is just a temporary residence.
Conan went around to the kitchen first, opened the door of the small refrigerator, and was immediately shocked by the scene in front of him.
Each layer of the small refrigerator was filled with black plastic bags, and there seemed to be something solid inside the plastic bags.
Conan took out a plastic bag, opened it, and found frozen fish inside.
The fish species is rainbow trout.
Conan tied the plastic bag and took out another bag. When he unzipped it, there were frozen cod pieces inside.
The next bag is frozen eel.
It turns out that the fishy smell comes from here...
I can't tell that she loves fish so much.
Conan didn't bother to take out the frozen goods from the refrigerator one by one to check, and stuffed them all back into their original state.
Then, he went straight to the desk and opened his laptop.
There is no password set for the computer, and it will go directly to the desktop when it is turned on.
However, Conan searched it for a while and found nothing useful.
The browser is in incognito mode and the file manager is blank.
It seems that he is very vigilant and cleans his computer every day...
Conan shut down the computer, jumped down from the chair, and looked around the room.
Judging from the condition of the room, Rumi Wakasa must have been temporarily involved because the room was not ready to leave.
Other than that, there's not much else to discover.
After drawing a conclusion in his mind, Conan turned around and was about to leave.
But when I walked towards the entrance, I saw the toilet with the door closed.
Conan: "..."
Now that you're all here, let's go in and take a look.
Conan raised his hand to grab the door handle and pushed it in gently. A strong and pungent fish smell instantly hit his nostrils.
"Um……"
Conan frowned slightly and had to cover his nose with his hands.
The fishy smell actually comes from here...
With the help of the light of the watch, Conan glanced around and found nothing that smelled bad.
The toilet and sink are very clean without any dirt.
So, Conan turned the light source to the bathtub at the innermost side of the toilet.
The milky white bathtub reflects a rounded halo under the light of the flashlight.
As Conan got closer step by step, the fishy smell became stronger and stronger and pungent.
Until he walked to the bathtub, stood on tiptoes, and shined the light of the flashlight into the bathtub.
The rippling water surface reflects the light source, producing water ripples that are almost like broken lines.
And deep in the water ripples, an octopus between dark blue and dark green sank and squirmed at the bottom of the bathtub.
"drink!"
Conan's eyes widened in surprise, astonished by this eight-clawed "monster".
The stretched tentacles of this octopus are about 50cm in diameter, and the slender tentacles are spread out with wing membranes, like an umbrella that can be freely retracted in the water.
Just looking at the octopus swimming alone in the dark water, Conan couldn't help but feel that this scene was a bit creepy.
Conan shuddered, stopped looking at the octopus, and instead looked at the dagger aside.
On the platform next to the bathtub, there was a bloody dagger.
Conan picked up the dagger and sniffed it.
He originally thought it was the knife Wakasa Rumi used to cut fish to facilitate feeding the octopus, but there was no fishy smell on the dagger.
Instead, there is a faint rusty smell.
This is……
Suddenly, a tentacle came out of the bathtub and wrapped around Conan's neck with lightning speed.
Before he could react, Conan felt a cold, wet feeling on his neck.
"Uh-!"
Conan groaned and subconsciously grabbed the tentacles on his neck with both hands.
However, the tentacle was getting tighter and tighter, and its strength was surprisingly strong. In just a few seconds, it would strangle him and make him unable to breathe.
Boom.
Conan fell to the ground, struggling painfully and pulling out his hands randomly.
But the densely packed suction cups on the tentacles had clung tightly to his neck and even started to wrap around his hands.
After a while, a purple halo appeared on her young face.
Just when Conan's consciousness was dying, a familiar voice echoed in his ears.
"Hello!"
"Hello!"
"Kudo...what are you doing!"
"Kudo! Wake up!"
Kuroba Kaito forcefully pushed Conan's hands away from his neck, and the latter's eyes became clearer.
"I, I am..."
"Huh...what are you doing?"
Kuroba Kaito breathed a sigh of relief, but in order to prevent Conan from doing something stupid again, he still held on to his wrist tightly.
"I..." Conan's eyes were stunned for a while, and he said calmly: "There is an octopus wrapped around my neck..."
"octopus?"
"Where did the octopus come from?"
Hearing what Kuroba Kaito said, Conan got up from the ground in a daze, ran to the bathtub and stood on tiptoe.
I saw that the water inside was crystal clear and there was not even a single obvious impurity, let alone an octopus.
Kuroba Kaito also came over, "Look, there's no octopus here?"
Conan touched his neck in surprise. Apart from some warmth and pain, there was no cold or wet feeling.
There was no water stain on the edge of the bathtub or on the floor.
How is this possible?
Conan looked around in surprise. This place was the same as what he had seen before, except that the octopus in the bathtub was missing.
"Are you hallucinating because of the fishy smell here?"
Kuroba Kaito looked down at Conan and complained.
But the next second, the sense of crisis in his brain was lifted, and he suddenly became aware of the strong fishy smell here.
"not good!"
"I'm going to vomit! I have to get out quickly!"
"You should come out quickly!"
Worried that Conan would do something stupid again, Kuroba Kaito forcibly dragged Conan out of the apartment.
The two stood in the corridor of the apartment, Kuroba Kaito breathing heavily.
"Hey, what were you doing just now? Why are you choking yourself?"
Conan's eyes widened and he stared at Kuroba Kaito in disbelief.
"What you see is me pinching myself?"
"Yeah." Kuroba Kaito nodded affirmatively.
"I...I don't know either..."
Conan raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead. He could not explain all these strange phenomena now.
However, judging from the search results in the apartment, Rumi Wakasa should also be involved in organizing the arrest of Ai Haibara.
Maybe she was also captured by the organization...
He wanted to report this latest situation to Qin Zhibo immediately.
…
Kona International Airport, Big Island of Hawaii, United States.
As soon as Qin Zhibo left the airport, he received a call from Conan.
After learning about Conan's judgment, Qin Zhibo did not agree immediately, but felt something was strange.
Logically speaking, Wakasa Rumi should not know the true identity of Haibara Ai.
Therefore, even if someone from the organization kidnaps Haihara Ai, she will most likely handle it according to the idea of an ordinary kidnapping case.
In addition, Wakasa Rumi's identity is quite special. In order not to reveal his true identity, it is the wisest choice to call the police anonymously.
And now that she has disappeared again, was she taken away by the organization?
Qin Zhibo doesn't think so.
But for a moment, Qin Zhibo couldn't figure out what this woman was thinking.
Even Luc Villiers of Nine Angels said that Asaka has been missing for many years and he doesn't know what her purpose is now.
Maybe it's revenge for Amanda?
"I understand, please don't move for the time being until reliable information comes back from the organization."
Qin Zhibo has already told Bourbon and Geer about Hui Yuan Ai. If relevant information can be found, they will inform them immediately.
"Yeah." Conan responded in a low voice.
"Is there anything else?"
"……there is none left."
Conan thought for a while, but still didn't tell Qin Zhibo about the hallucination he had just in the toilet of Wakasa Rumi's house.
After all, even Kuroba Kaito, who hates fish, was not affected in any way. It should just be a problem of him not having a rest.
"Then let's do this for now and wait until I get back."
After hanging up the phone, Qin Zhibo rented an off-road vehicle from a car rental agency outside the airport and drove straight to the south of the Big Island of Hawaii along the coastline.
Based on the photo on the postcard that said "Go home soon", Qin Zhibo had found out that the location where the photo was taken was the Green Sand Beach at South Point on the Big Island of Hawaii.
The Big Island of Hawaii is the largest island in the entire Hawaiian Islands, and South Point Green Sand Beach is the southernmost beach on the island.
This beach has matcha green sand and is one of the four largest green beaches in the world.
However, since there are no other special attractions in this place and there are no tourist facilities in the surrounding area, most people do not regard it as a tourist destination, but as one of the scenery they enjoy along the way.
…
In the dark night, Qin Zhibo drove an off-road vehicle alone on the road.
A pair of car lights illuminated the dim road ahead, and the faint rumbling sound of a volcano could be heard outside the car window.
The Big Island of Hawaii is home to Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, as well as Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, so it's not surprising to hear sounds like this occasionally on the road.
After driving for about an hour, Qin Zhibo turned south from the Ring Road, drove through the bumpy gravel road, and finally arrived at Nanjiao Beach.
But when Qin Zhibo got out of the car and took a look, the scene in front of him couldn't help but disappoint him.
Below the cliff is the legendary green beach, which is just a black beach at night.
Looking further into the distance is the boundless South Pacific.
There is no moon today, and the entire sea exudes a dark aura like the abyss of hell.
A gust of sea breeze blew by, blowing up the hem of the windbreaker worn by Qin Zhibo on the edge of the cliff.
Due to [Bottled Fear], he now has almost no fear of sea water.
But facing this boundless "black sea", I can't help but feel the chill of facing the unknown and mysteries in my heart.
In that sea...
There may be great terror.
Qin Zhibo got back into the car, turned around and drove back.
There is nothing at South Point Beach.
There are not many tourists in this place in normal times, and there are neither shops nor accommodation on the beach.
Although the photos used as postcards promote a pure and natural beauty, they don't seem to have much other meaning.
Could it be that the postcard was just randomly chosen by the sender?
Right now, Qin Zhibo can only go back to Kona and find a place to stay.
Wait until tomorrow to study the family location of the original owner of the body...
Driving on the road, Qin Zhibo felt a little hungry.
I just had a meal before getting off the plane tonight. I was so busy that it was already almost 11pm, and I was so hungry that I felt so hungry.
Qin Zhibo still remembers that on the way here, less than 10 kilometers away from Nanjiao Beach, there was a parking lot next to the roadside and a small shop next to the parking lot.
You can go to the store first to buy some food to fill your stomach.
After making up his mind, Qin Zhibo gave up the shortcut and drove to the parking lot according to the instructions of the [navigator].
After a while, the parking lot is in front of you.
There were no lights in the parking lot near midnight, but you could vaguely see that there were only two cars parked, an off-road vehicle and a van.
The store next to the parking lot has dim lights on at the door. There is no sign at the door, but a light sign hangs out a sign that it is open 24 hours a day.
Qin Zhibo parked his car in front of the store, got off the car, and walked straight into the store.
Bell~~
The doorbell made a crisp sound as the door was pushed open.
There are also dim lights inside the store.
Although the lighting conditions are not sufficient, the layout of the entire store is more lifelike.
Personal clothes were piled haphazardly by the window, as well as a round table and a chair with a teapot and teacups on them.
Only a counter less than two meters long in the middle is the business area.
Qin Zhibo walked to the counter, took a look at the snack display under the counter glass, and then pressed the call bell on the counter twice.
Ding, ding——
"Coming..."
A man's unhurried voice came from the curtain behind the counter.
Wow...it's the sound of pouring water.
A few seconds later, a man opened the door curtain and walked out while wiping his hands with a towel.
When he saw the man's somewhat familiar face, Qin Zhibo was stunned for a moment.
This is……
He raised his eyes and saw the incredible name appearing on it.