Chapter 161 The Suspect Appears
Chapter 162 The Suspect Appears
After shaking off Conan, I returned to the villa I had just passed through. At this moment, there were only some servants busying around in the villa, and there was no surveillance equipment at all. When else would I come in to check the place out?
The villa is divided into two floors, the upper floor is the master bedroom, guest room and private exhibition room, and the lower floor is the reception room, restaurant and lobby. I searched all the rooms on the first floor with the limited time, but didn't find anything special. I wanted to take the opportunity to look at the rooms upstairs, but before I could leave the reception room, the back door of the villa was pushed open.

"Ah? Xiaoxun, why are you here? It's very rude to run around in someone else's house." Xiaolan noticed me pacing in the hall on the first floor, put her hands on her hips and frowned.

"Well... I just wanted to go to the bathroom, so I asked the waiter who was standing by the door, and then I came to the villa." I defended myself. "But you, Xiaolan, why are you all here? Aren't you attending a tea party outside?"

"Eh? Oh, we came in because Conan just answered Professor Moritani Teiji's question correctly, so Professor Moritani invited us to come in and visit his exhibition room." Xiaolan stretched out her hand and said to Moritani Teiji.

"Yes, let this little boy come too." Moriya Teiji took a puff of his pipe and said to me with a smile.

"Okay~ Thank you Professor Moriya." I responded with a smile. It was a good opportunity to go and see the exhibition room, so I didn't have to sneak in by myself. Following the footsteps of Teiji Moriya, we came to his exhibition room, where all his architectural works were displayed. From home villas to skyscrapers, and even bridges. As expected of a designer who returned from the UK, many excellent works recorded his great achievements one by one.

"Huh?" Conan suddenly asked in confusion while watching. He looked towards his position and saw him staring at a villa. "Sister Xiaolan, come and see if this is the one from a few days ago..."

"Eh? It really is. Isn't this Mr. Kurokawa's house?" Xiaolan looked closely.

"Kurokawa? By the way, I heard that Mr. Kurokawa was murdered. Is it true?" Moriya Teiji took over the topic.

"Eh? Well..." Xiaolan said with some regret.

"I see, what a pity." Moriya Teiji also sighed. "This house was actually designed by me shortly after graduation. The next few paintings were actually designed before I was 30 years old. Well... I was not mature enough when I was young. Please don't continue to look at it." Moriya Teiji waved his hand and smiled. As if to deliberately divert our attention, Moriya Teiji interrupted Xiaolan while she was still admiring the work.

"By the way, Ms. Xiaolan, are you familiar with Mr. Kudo?"

"Ah, yes, we grew up together. We went to the same elementary, middle, and high schools." Xiaolan said proudly. But she soon lost hope. "It's just that... we haven't seen each other for a long time."

"Oh?"

"No, but this Sunday is Shinichi... no, it's Kudo's birthday, so I made an appointment to go to the movies with him." As if to cheer herself up, Xiaolan explained to Moritani Teiji.

"Is that so? That's really exciting." Moriya Teiji also encouraged Xiaolan. "Then you must have bought the gift too, right?"

"Ah, not really. I was planning to buy it on Saturday. Because I like red as much as I do, and red is our lucky color in May, so I planned to buy him a red casual shirt." Xiaolan's cheeks flushed.

"Haha, this is really a nice gift. I think Kudo will be very happy too." Moriya Teiji responded with a smile.

On the other side, Conan already looked helpless, after all, he couldn't attend the date that day. This also made him very anxious, although he looked at me for help, but I could only shake my head, indicating that I could not help.

"Then please continue to enjoy it here." After a brief chat, Moriya Teiji continued to entertain us to appreciate his works. Xiaolan also turned her eyes back to the works on the wall. But just after looking at a painting, Xiaolan made a puzzled sound. "Huh? Isn't this building the Beika City Building?"

"Yes."

"We are going to the Beika Cinema there to watch a movie. Kudo and I have an appointment to meet in the lobby at 10 pm on May 3rd." As soon as Kudo was mentioned, Xiaolan became impatient and wanted to find topics about Kudo all the time.

"Haha, this building is my masterpiece. If a young couple wants to celebrate their birthday, there is absolutely no place more suitable than that."

"Ah, Kudo and I are not boyfriend and girlfriend. That... I..." After hearing what Moriya Teiji said, Xiaolan's face turned red again, and beside her, Conan had a helpless and bitter smile. When he looked at me hoping to get help again, he saw my solemn expression.

"Xun, what's wrong?" Conan asked immediately when he saw that I looked unhappy.

"...No, nothing, let's go."

"Eh?"

————The scent of orchids, the scent of lavender, the scent of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————

May 3rd, time came quickly. Xiaolan went out early because she had to choose a gift for Kudo with Sonoko. Not long after that, Conan and I went to the doctor's house together. After all, there were some things in the doctor's house that could be discussed freely.

Conan was lying on the doctor's sofa bed, flipping through Batman books and complaining about his date with Xiaolan in a dozen hours, while I was sitting at the table typing on my laptop.

"Xiaoxun, you have been sitting in front of the computer without moving since just now. What are you doing?" Dr. Agasa put down the soldering iron in his hand, took off his glasses and walked towards me. "Looking up some information." I didn't stop what I was doing, but just responded lightly.

"Data?" Dr. Agasa leaned forward to look at the screen. Pages of data on the computer screen were being refreshed at a rapid speed. "This... This is the income and expenditure flow of the Ministry of Finance of Japan?!" When the doctor saw the top title on my computer, he was so shocked that he almost dropped his glasses on the ground.

"What?!" Conan looked at me in surprise. "Why are you checking that? It's illegal."

"Look for intelligence on the organization." I said casually. "Investigate the income and expenditure of major Japanese chaebol companies and see if you can find some clues. If a good chaebol has an imbalance between income and expenditure, or a company in a very bad situation has a large amount of income, it may be a purse for the organization to move funds. Find these companies now and investigate them in depth, maybe you can find out something."

"Um... okay. Please." Although he knew that I was using illegal hacking methods, Conan also knew that I had no malicious intentions towards hacking the Japanese Ministry of Finance. However, he could not help much in investigating the organization, so he had to sit back on the bed and continue to worry about his date with Xiaolan in the evening.

[The day before yesterday, a large amount of explosives including HMX was stolen from the Toyo gunpowder depot. Although the police have dispatched hundreds of police officers to search, they have not yet found the whereabouts of the suspect.] Just as Conan was complaining, a piece of news on TV interrupted his complaints. [Last night, a fire broke out at the residence of Daizo Kurokawa in Hajidoda, causing several nearby houses to be tragically affected. Not only that, in recent days, arson incidents have occurred in various places in Japan. Due to the same method, the police believe that this is a series of arson incidents committed by the same criminal. . . ] Before Conan could calm down, the second piece of news also directly entered his eyes.

"Gunpowder has been stolen and fires are constantly happening. Things haven't been peaceful lately." The doctor made his comments to the TV.

Beep, beep. Beep, beep.

As soon as he finished speaking, a phone call came in. Conan turned off the sound of the TV and waited for the doctor's call, but was told that the call was for Kudo Shinichi.

"Moshi Moshi... yes... what?!" Conan's expression became serious before he could say a few words after answering the phone. Sensing that Conan's tone was wrong, I stopped the work in my hands and looked at him.

"I have no obligation to give you my phone number to a bad guy like you who stole gunpowder!" Conan deliberately raised his voice so that the doctor and I could hear it. Looking at Conan's eyes, I signaled him to turn on the speakerphone.

[Hehehe, so you want to cut off the only way to contact me?] Just after turning on the speakerphone, a disguised voice reached our ears.

"...Okay, I'll tell you." Conan said unwillingly and gave his phone number. At the same time, I also quickly tracked the location of the criminal through Conan's phone positioning.

[Very good, bring your cell phone to Tixiangjinchuan Green Park right now. I will show you something interesting.]

"Green Park?"

[If you don't hurry up, those kids are going to die.] After saying that, the criminal hung up the phone, not giving Conan even a second to delay.

"Xiao Xun, how is it?" Conan asked me anxiously.

"No, the time is too short, there is not enough time for reverse tracking." I frowned. After all, it was the doctor's computer. I just opened the reverse tracking system to locate Conan's phone, and before I had time to track it, the other party hung up the phone. I guess the other party also knew the time for phone tracking, so he hung up the phone after less than a minute.

"Well, I'll go over and take a look first, and you come find me later." Conan said, and ran out with his skateboard.

"No, I won't go."

"Eh?"

"The criminal specifically named Kudo Shinichi as the one looking for him, which proves that he is targeting you. This is your one-man show, so I won't participate. And..." As I said that, I picked up my cell phone, opened a text message I had just received, and handed it to Conan.

[Xiaoxun, I'm sorry, can you come to Mika Park? Sister Yuanzi wants to play with you. We'll wait for you at the cafe at the back door of the park. by Lan]

"I'm not good at guessing riddles, so I'll just be a hindrance if I go. I'll leave the criminal to you. As your partner, I believe in your detective ability."

"...good!"

"One more thing, Kudo." I suddenly said sternly. "Remember to come to the Beika City Building before 12 o'clock tonight."

"...Ah." Conan said solemnly. "I will definitely go!"

　It's the last day of July's outbreak. Overall, the rankings this month are pretty good. Maybe there will be some delays after becoming a VIP, but at least I can see the results. Thank you all for your support. Xiaofeng thanks you. I also want to tell you that there will be no updates in August and September because I'm going to study abroad. I won't be back until October, so please come back and read from October. Of course, I'll resume weekly updates. On the other hand, Angel is what I'm going to work hard on. After I come back in October, I'll do my best to finish Angel first. Of course... Updates are not guaranteed. After all, I'm a working dog now, and I can't decide my own time. Above, thank you all for your continued support.

　　
　
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