Chapter 303 Conan: This is completely different from what was promised!
The woman said a few meaningless words and canceled her reserved dining car seat.
Conan looked at the woman's graceful back and felt a vague sense of familiarity, so he quickly took two bites of the food on the plate that was obviously inferior to Matsumoto Ryohei's cooking.
"Sister Xiaolan, I'm full!"
"I'm going to play somewhere else first!"
Without waiting for Mao Lilan's answer, Conan jumped out of his seat and rushed in the direction where the woman left.
"Conan! It's really..."
Just as Mao Lilan put down the knife and fork in his hand and was about to chase him out, Mao Li Kogoro on the opposite side said indifferently: "The train is only such a big place anyway, so just let that kid do whatever he wants..."
Mao Lilan thought about it carefully, and that was true.
Moreover, Conan's personality is not that of a naughty child, which is quite reassuring to her.
...
Conan quickly caught up with the woman and struck up a conversation with a childish face: "Auntie?"
Conan's first greeting triggered this woman's taboo keyword.
The woman squatted down, raised a finger and said solemnly to Conan: "You should call a woman like me sister, not aunt..."
"Understood? Conan?"
The woman raised her hand and pinched Conan's cheek, not treating herself as an outsider at all.
And she is indeed not an outsider.
Just now, when he was carefully observing his walking posture as a "stalking idiot" in the corridor, Conan could vaguely guess who this person was.
"Ha ha..."
"It's really you..."
Conan laughed awkwardly, put his hands in his pockets, and said with a nonchalant expression, "If it were someone else, that would be a different story, but don't think that you can deceive your son just by changing your lipstick and hairstyle."
"Ah?" Kudo Yukiko stood up and held up her cute bangs with her fingers, "But it took me a lot of effort just to do this hair~"
Conan showed his half-moon eyes and asked helplessly: "Tell me, what is the purpose of you taking such pains to sneak into this train?"
Kudo Yukiko glanced at the carriage corridor warily, took Conan into her compartment, and then slowly explained the reason for her appearance here.
"It's because I saw a news report about Japan in Los Angeles. The report said that the robber in the gem store left a strange message and then ran away without stealing anything."
"Yusaku thinks this incident is very strange. It is exactly the same as the plot of his unpublished mystery novel 10 years ago about being robbed by bank robbers. The only difference is that in that novel, an ancient art exhibition hall was robbed."
Conan frowned and continued to ask: "What happened after that? What else did dad say?"
Kudo Yukiko said seriously: "Of course, call the jewelry store immediately and ask the jewelry store owner if he has any plans to take a train for a long-distance tunnel trip in the near future."
"Because the curator of the art museum in the novel was shot dead by gangsters on the train..."
"I didn't expect that the owner of this jewelry store really planned to take the Beidou Star train in 6 days."
Conan held his chin and paced back and forth in the box, thinking about the ins and outs of all this.
No wonder the sentence "This is fundamentally different from what I said" sounded familiar to me just now. It turned out that I had seen it in my father's novel.
"So the author who wrote this article specifically to cause trouble for people is the man in the corridor with the newspaper covering his face, right?"
Kudo Yukiko waved her hand, "Where are you talking about? Yusaku is not on this train at all."
"Ah?" Conan looked surprised, so what happened to the man who had been secretly monitoring the corridor?
"We didn't know which train the jewelry store owner was going to take, so Yusaku and I took two separate trains."
Conan showed his half-moon eyes in disgust, as if he had been matched with a "pig teammate" during a random dungeon match.
"What about the novel? Did you bring it?"
Kudo Yukiko shook her head, "No."
"What about the methods and the murderer? Do you remember them?"
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Kudo Yukiko shook her head again, "I don't remember..."
Conan has been frustrated continuously, as if he finally had a reference answer to the case this time, and the result says [Answer: Omitted].
It’s so real!
No! It’s the scum of the world!
There was no other way, Conan could only rely on his memory to try to recall it, and finally came up with some details.
"I remember there is a description in the novel about when the case happened. It happened when the train passed through the tunnel, right?"
"Based on the time and the length of the tunnel, only four o'clock in the morning when the train passes through the Seikan Tunnel is the most likely time for the murderer to strike."
"There are still almost nine hours until four o'clock in the morning. Let's first investigate and see if there are any enemies of the jewelry store owner on the train..."
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In the following time, Conan transformed into the Little Prince of Questions and asked questions around the jewelry store owner.
Thanks to the blessing of the "Answer All Questions" buff, Conan also summarized some suspicious candidates.
First of all, there was the mayor of Shizui City who had a tit-for-tat confrontation with the jewelry store owner in the dining car. Because of the mayoral election, he and the jewelry store owner were real competitors.
Secondly, the owner of the jewelry store's employee, Kagosori, also had motives. After all, the boss always spoke to him in a arrogant tone, so it was inevitable that there was some greater friction behind the scenes.
Finally, there was the jewelry store robber who was stopped from robbing by the jewelry store owner.
If the robber was also on this train, then he is the most likely potential murderer.
As for the choice of the robber, Conan felt that the man who had been covering his head with a newspaper in the train corridor was the most suspicious.
But when Conan was about to explore this man's true nature, he could no longer be seen in the train corridor.
...
Time passed by, and by the time he was about to enter the Seikan Tunnel at four o'clock in the morning, Conan was still not sure who the murderer was who wanted to kill the jewelry store owner.
Conan, who lied about going to the bathroom, sneaked back to the dining car and happened to see the owner of the jewelry store sitting alone at the table with a cigar in his mouth.
Behind him, a masked man in a dark gray trench coat quietly approached and took out a pistol from his pocket without saying a word.
Conan, who happened to see this scene, and Kudo Yukiko on the other side of the dining car immediately spoke to remind him.
"careful!"
However, the sound was not as fast as the bullet after all, and a living life disappeared in front of Conan's eyes in an instant.
——The gunshots and screams were drowned out by the rumbling noise in the tunnel——
——The man quickly ran towards the dark train corridor like a hungry beast——
——But, within a few minutes, the man disappeared——
——Only the noisy melody played by the wind and the sound of the train at this time——
With his father's voice recalling in his ears, Conan began to predict the murderer's next move through the memory of the novel.
He wants to escape into the lightless train corridor!
At this time, Conan happened to be standing in the direction where the murderer was going to escape. So without saying a word, Conan opened the cap of the watch-shaped anesthesia needle and began to aim.
Then, just when Conan was waiting for the murderer to get closer so that he could aim more accurately, something unexpected happened.
The several passengers surrounding the dining car did not panic or scream at all, but all rushed towards the murderer regardless of their own safety.
The murderer looked around in surprise, and before he could react, he was subdued by the passengers in the dining car in a collective way.
At this time, a voice sounded from another section of the carriage.
"Kaitou Kidd killed someone!"
"Catch Kaitou Kidd! Don't let him escape!"
Conan was surprised to see the person appearing in the opposite car, it was actually Officer Nakamori!
Conan: This is completely different from what was promised!