At noon, Qin Zhibo took a taxi to Boston Airport alone.
In the duty-free shop near the airport, Qin Zhibo bought some small gifts and brought them to people who knew he was going to the United States when he returned.
Because I asked about the "spaghetti monster with green ears" before, at least Conan, Dr. Agasa, and Ai Haibara knew that he was going to the United States.
It’s hard to count the three little ones.
There were mostly children and few adults. Qin Zhibo was too lazy to choose gifts one by one and just bought a lot of American chocolate candies that could just fill his suitcase.
Half an hour later, Mr. Clock brought Qin Zhibo’s suitcase that he had stored in the Arkham Hotel so that Qin Zhibo could use the passport inside to buy a ticket back to Japan.
Before boarding the plane, Mr. Clock once again told Qin Zhibo to just stay in Japan with peace of mind. Arkham will notify him when the time is right.
In fact, after his trip to the United States, Qin Zhibo also had some opinions on Mr. Clock.
Strictly speaking, I am not friends with Mr. Clock now, but a pure cooperative relationship.
In the interpersonal network, Mr. Clock's name is indeed in the cooperation zone and has never moved to the friend zone, even for a moment.
In essence, Mi-GO has no empathy for humans, just like the Deep Ones.
Qin Zhibo and this alien creature can work together entirely out of common interests.
Although Qin Zhibo himself has had the urge to kill Mi-Go several times, and even tricked Mr. Clock once due to "accidental errors", Qin Zhibo is a shameless species with double standards.
I can bear with you, but you cannot bear with me.
The most important thing is that Qin Zhibo feels that Mr. Clock, as a highly intelligent alien creature who is good at taking advantage of humans, can actually be aware of his inner thoughts.
As for why both sides did not put their respective ideas into action, there is only one reason.
The time has not come yet
…
After a 15-hour flight, the Boeing 747 finally landed at Tokyo Haneda Airport.
After coming out of the airport lobby, Qin Zhibo couldn't wait to take a taxi back to his detective agency.
At this time, there happened to be a taxi transporting passengers to the entrance of the airport. Qin Zhibo also wanted to go directly and wait for the taxi to get off, and then get in the taxi himself, so that there would be a seamless connection.
But when the taxi door opened, Qin Zhibo was stunned by the person getting out of the car.
The person who opened the door and got out of the car happened to be Dr. Ali, and Ai Haihara was sitting inside.
Both sides looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a while.
"Mr. Qin, have you just come back from the United States?"
"Um"
Qin Zhibo nodded, looked at the backpack behind Dr. Ali and the suitcase in his hand, and knew that at the invitation of Yusaku Kudo, the senior programmer was going to the United States to fix bugs.
However, Qin Zhibo still pretended not to know and asked again, letting Dr. Ali say that he was going to the United States.
"I don't know how long my trip will take. Although Yuzu said everything has been arranged over there in the United States, I'm worried about Xiao Ai being at home by herself."
As Dr. Ali was talking, an idea suddenly came to his mind, and he looked at Qin Zhibo with bling-bling eyes.
"That's right! Now that Mr. Qin is back, why not let Xiao Ai live with you?"
As soon as Dr. A Li's idea was proposed, it was opposed by Qin Zhibo and Haihara Ai.
"no!"
"Dah-"
The two people's simultaneous opposition made Dr. Ali who proposed the idea a little confused.
Is this idea of mine so bad?
In fact, Qin Zhibo refused Hui Yuan Ai's stay mainly because he might come into contact with black organizations in the future. If Hui Yuan Ai was allowed to live in his office, there would definitely be a lot of inconvenience.
But of course Qin Zhibo couldn't say that and used other explanations.
"Actually, my house is quite small. I only have the office floor on the second floor. I only have one bedroom and one toilet, and there is no kitchen."
"This child lives at my place. There is no place to do homework, and he can only eat takeout. It will definitely be inconvenient."
After hearing Qin Zhibo's explanation, Dr. A Li was a little surprised, while Huihara Ai was a little relieved. It turned out that he was not disliked.
"I thought your detective agency was the same as Mr. Mori's house, and the third floor was also your own."
"How is it possible? I'm trying to save money." The truth finally came out of Qin Zhibo's mouth.
"Oh" Dr. Ali looked at Haibara Ai with some pity, "It seems that you can only be alone, Xiao Ai."
However, Hui Yuan Ai crossed his arms and said lightly, "It's good to live in a big house by myself."
Qin Zhibo on the side looked at Hui Yuan Ai, whose expression seemed calm, but his body movements had betrayed her deeply.
From a psychological point of view, folding arms around the chest is a self-protective action. It builds a barrier in front of the body, which actually shows that there is no sense of security in the heart.
It's so pitiful
"Well, Dr. Chengshi's house is quite big. How about I ask her to take you in?"
Qin Zhibo bent down slightly and looked at Hui Yuan Ai, which surprised Hui Yuan Ai.
Three seconds later, Hui Yuan Ai nodded weakly.
…
Taking a car with Haihara Ai to Chengshi Hospital, Qin Zhibo told Aso his thoughts.
"Xiao Ai, do you want to stay here? Welcome! Welcome!"
Aso took the initiative to pull the shy Haihara Ai to his side, and asked Qin Zhibo about going to the United States.
Under Dr. Ali's "broadcast", Chengshi also learned about Qin Zhibo's trip to the United States.
"It's nothing big. I just went back to visit my relatives. Here, this is your gift."
"Come on, you're welcome, hold out your hand."
Qin Zhibo grabbed two handfuls of chocolate candies from the suitcase, one each for Aso Minori and Haibara Ai.
At this moment, Cheng Shi and Haiyuan Ai felt that Qin Zhibo was like the head of the household who opened the door and used candies on the children on Halloween night.
After Qin Zhibo leaves.
"Are these for you to eat?"
Cheng Shiqian gave way to the children next to him.
"Thanks."
Haibara Ai, who didn't want to act too adult, accepted the gift.
After leaving Chengshi Hospital, Qin Zhibo went straight to his detective agency, took out the key and opened the door that had been closed for a long time.
The office remains as it was before, with no thieves or a beautiful "snail girl" appearing.
After all, according to this world's time, I have only been away for less than a week. What big things can happen within a week?
Qin Zhibo first put his suitcase aside, took out the newspapers from the newspaper box at the door and began to read them carefully.
It doesn't matter at this point, Qin Zhibo was immediately stunned after watching it.
Consecutive murders of criminal policemen, murders in mansions under water, murders in nostalgic hotels, gem thefts from the "Red Hair Club", Matsue Tamazou murders, murders by robbers in disguise, shrine thefts, horrific snowy night murders