Conan's other me

Chapter 42 When the treasure hunt is in progress

a few days later.

"Doctor, it's time for your car to be replaced!"

In Dr. Ari's Beetle car, Kojima Motota, who can only sit in the passenger seat because of his size, expressed his opinion, "I can't sit in it at all!"

"You really don't know how to be polite at all." Conan's mouth twitched, and he complained in his heart.

But at the next moment, he was a little surprised that Mitsuhiko also helped out.

The only one in the trio who didn't comment was Ayumi who was sitting in the back row.

At this moment, Ayumi is sitting on the left with Fengyuan by the window, and on the right is Conan with a helpless face, looking left and right for a while.

The jealousy in the car seemed to be materializing.

These elementary school students are almost as good as Conan in this respect.

Looking at the scenery outside the window, Fengyuan sighed.

In fact, Dr. Ali had plans to change the car recently, and he recently made a small fortune by inventing it.

The problem is, Dr. Ali also wants to change to a new car in the shape of a Beetle.

But that would be inconvenient to travel with young children.

So the doctor, who has always liked this group of children, has been struggling until now.

Fortunately, Fengyuan helped him change the subject: "Okay, it's coming soon. As long as you can find the treasure, the doctor will have money to change the car."

The car will have to be replaced sooner or later.

Feng Yuan also planned to pay for it himself.

Although the money left by Kudo Yusaku and his wife is said to be used to track down the black organization, it is natural to take part of it to facilitate travel.

Moreover, he recently used Dr. Ali's account to make a fortune in the capital market, which is considered to have his own small treasury.

Dr. Ali followed Fengyuan's words and agreed.

After all, they were just elementary school students, and Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko soon started discussing the treasure.

Just like talking about lottery tickets, there is always talk about how to spend them.

Part of it will be given to Dr. A Li to change his car, another part will be used as funds for the activities of the Detective Boys, and the rest...

The trio started fantasizing.

Conan, caught between Ayumi and Mitsuhiko, is full of desire to complain.

He could tell at a glance that this was just an activity created by Dr. A Li. Of course, treasures and the like were impossible. It would be nice to have a few toys.

Moreover, most of them were puzzles that he could solve even with his glasses.

I don't know how Fengyuan can bear it...

Huh?
and many more…

Conan glanced at Fengyuan and became serious.

If it was just the doctor's idea, then he could just watch the elementary school kids play...but...

What if that guy from Maplebara got involved?

Fengyuan, who noticed his gaze, looked at Conan, who was getting serious all the time, inexplicably.

……

"Wow! What a big house! Is this really the doctor's uncle's villa?"

On a clearing in the woods, there is an old two-story villa.

The doctor took out the key and opened the door, and replied, "That's right! My uncle's name is Agasa Risuke, and he is a well-known rich man in this area. He died after hiding a huge amount of property 50 years ago."

"Of course I came here to look for it," Dr. Ali continued, "but I couldn't find it. So this time, I ask your young detective team to help me look for it."

The trio happily followed Dr. Ali into the house, and Conan fell behind. They came to Fengyuan, who always liked to walk at the back, and tentatively said: "Hey, Fengyuan, you must have hidden the so-called treasure, right?"

"No."

"Don't try to lie to me. You didn't even look at the setting when you came in. You must have been here with the Doctor."

"Oh... I have been here before," Fengyuan explained, "but it was the doctor who hid the things, and I didn't do anything."

This is the truth.

A few days ago, the doctor took him to hide toys together, and he just recovered from the cold not long ago, so he didn't have much interest in participating.

However, he found strange patterns on some things in the house, something like graphical reasoning... Of course, he didn't have much interest.

Conan naturally didn't believe it.

Counting that he has been "deceived" by Fengyuan several times, this time he will not be fooled again.

Just when the Ayumi trio greeted the two of them, Conan walked over and carefully looked at the surrounding layout.

When passing by Dr. Ari, Conan noticed a painting on the wall.

The man in the painting is probably Dr. Ali's uncle, and the fireplace in the background is exactly the same as the one in the room.

Dr. A Li's uncle is indeed a rich man who can find a painter to paint for himself in his home.

Conan thought so, and then noticed the footprints on the ground.

Since this house has not been lived in for a long time, the ground is very dusty, so there will be fairly clear footprints in some places.

The most obvious ones are the footprints of Ayumi and others who just ran past, but there are also footprints that clearly belong to adults.

Glancing at Fengyuan, who had joined the trio to start the treasure hunt, he complained secretly, and Conan looked at the doctor's shoes again.

"What's the matter, Conan?" asked the Doctor.

Speaking of it, the doctor seems to have not called me Shinichi for a while... Thinking in his heart, Conan said: "Doctor, your deception is too obvious, and you can see it at a glance."

"What kind of blindfold?" Dr. A Li looked puzzled. Has he ever used such a thing? "

"These footprints," Conan reasoned, "your footprints went directly to the room over there-the one over there is the footprint of Fengyuan, right?" He pointed to the place the trio hadn't been to, "I've been going around in this room... I guess you left these footprints on purpose, but in fact it was just a trick to deceive me..."

"You're thinking too much," the trio began to rummage through boxes and cabinets, and Fengyuan, who didn't want to join forces, walked back, "I just walked around a few times while waiting for the doctor to hide things."

"Besides, why didn't you say that footprint?" Feng Yuan pointed to the nearby ground.

Those are the footprints of adults.

But not Dr. Ali's.

Conan's face changed slightly, and his expression became serious.

Earlier, he was full of thoughts about exposing the doctor and Fengyuan's tricks, and the first thing he saw was the doctor's footprints, so he preconceived that the adult's footprints belonged to the doctor.

but…

"Is this really not what you two deliberately set up?"

"No." Fengyuan shook his head, "The doctor and I didn't have this when we came last time."

This meant that someone had entered the room after he and the doctor left last time.

According to Dr. A Li, no one has lived in this house for decades, and it will be demolished soon, so several people became a little more vigilant.

Conan thought for a while, as if he had thought of something, and asked Fengyuan: "Fengyuan, when did you find these footprints?"

"When I first came in."

Fengyuan was puzzled, wondering what this question had to do with the person who came in.

Conan looked weird.

"So... have you called the police?"

(End of this chapter)