Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 277 Doubt

Conan, who originally thought that his identity would be exposed in advance because his mini-phone was taken away by Xiaolan, was in a panic, but he never expected that the other party would let him go at the last moment.

Listening to the faint voice of the doctor calling "Shinichi" from the earphones, Conan quickly hung up the phone with a heart that almost jumped out of his throat. With the mood of surviving the disaster, Conan quickly apologized to Xiaolan and returned. Room.

At the same time, Dr. Ali on the other end of the phone first heard Xiaolan's voice, and then found that the call had ended abruptly. He knew that Conan had probably been caught by Xiaolan, and couldn't help but feel a cold sweat for the other party.

Just when Dr. Ali put down the phone with a helpless mood, a cup of steaming coffee was placed on the desk in front of him. Fushae, who was wearing a nightgown, said with affectionate concern: "Doctor, Be careful not to work too hard, and remember to rest as early as possible.”

"Ah, thank you Fusae, I will go to rest when I'm done." Feeling the warmth coming from the coffee cup, Dr. Agasa responded with a grateful look.

"Well, sitting for a long time in the winter is not good for the joints, so you have to pay attention." Seeing Dr. Ali admitting her attitude, Fusae nodded and asked curiously, "By the way, you just shouted into the phone 'Shinichi', who is that?"

"Shinichi...is the son of the Kudo family next door to us. He is a high school detective. He has been running cases outside recently." When the other party asked about this, Dr. Agasa quickly explained, "He encountered some problems today. He needed my help to look up information, so he called me.”

"No wonder you went out in this cold weather. It turned out that you went to the house next door to get information." After listening to Dr. Agasa's explanation, Fusae was still a little confused, "I remember you said that the Kudo couple next door have been They are all abroad, there should be no one at home, how did you get in?"

"This is because I have a good relationship with their family. In order to prevent forgetting the key and being unable to enter the door sometimes, I put a spare key with me." In order to prevent the other party from misunderstanding, Dr. Ali hurriedly explained .

"I see, I see that doctor, you have a very good relationship with the kid named Shinichi." After hearing this, Fusae looked at the doctor and smiled knowingly, "I hope Shinichi-kun can solve the problem as soon as possible with your help." Case, I really want to meet him."

"Hmm, I think Shinichi will be able to do it soon..." The doctor scratched his head in embarrassment and agreed, while silently hoping in his heart that Conan could turn back into a high school student and return to a normal life soon.

However, just when Dr. Agasa and Fu Sae sent blessings to Kudo Shinichi, Conan encountered a second murder.

Just when Conan was about to follow Xiaolan back to the room, Minori Nakamura's penetrating scream came from the second floor again.

Realizing that something bad had happened, Conan hurriedly ran up the stairs to the second floor and shouted loudly to Xiaolan: "Sister Xiaolan, just stay there and don't leave. I'll come as soon as I go!"

Hearing Conan's command-like tone, a strong sense of disobedience filled Xiaolan's heart, so she did not stay where she was, but followed him upstairs, and soon came to three teachers Outside the door of the room where he is.

"Teacher Nakamura, what happened?!" Xiaolan asked while looking in the direction of the other person's finger. She saw Shimoda Kohei's body lying on the bed in a strange posture with his head on the ground, and his dead face looked straight. He stared in the direction of the door.Seeing Conan heading straight for the body, Xiaolan had no choice but to hold back the fear in her heart and rushed into the room. She grabbed the other person's arm and dissuaded him: "Conan, go back to your room and stay there. It's very dangerous here." , is not a place where children should come!”

But at this time, Conan was unwilling to listen. In order to find clues as soon as possible, Conan had to explain to Xiaolan anxiously: "Sister Xiaolan, look at Teacher Shimoda's neck. There are the same strangulation marks as Sister Sonoko's, and the window is also It’s locked, so the prisoner is probably still on the second floor!”

"Now we must find the murder weapon immediately and lock down the murderer, otherwise more people may be killed!" The anxious Conan did not forget to use Mouri Kogoro as a cover after explaining, "I think Uncle Kogoro is in trouble. I will do this as soon as possible when a case like this comes up.”

Recalling the memories of going to crime scenes with her father many times in the past, Xiaolan couldn't remember whether her father handled it this way, but she still nodded in agreement with Conan's statement and helped to find the murder weapon together.

Since Conan had been sitting at the stairs on the first floor before this, the prisoner could only be one of the three teachers who were on the second floor. Therefore, Xiaolan, at Conan's suggestion, sought the consent of the three people and searched again. However, no murder weapon similar to a hemp rope was found in their luggage.

Just when the two were at a loss what to do, Sentoshi suddenly came up from the stairs, raised the possibility that the murder weapon was probably still on the prisoner, and suggested that the three of them be searched again.

In order to clear away the suspicion, although the three of them were a little dissatisfied with the other party's attitude of being an outsider dictating what to do, they still approved the proposal and very cooperatively asked Xiaolan and Sentoshi to help each other enter the room and search themselves.

"Teacher Yonehara, I haven't seen you for several years, but your hair is still so beautiful. It seems that you have taken good care of it." During the search, Xiaolan inadvertently stroked Yonehara's hair and said with some envy.

Seeing Xiaolan mention her hair, Yonehara Koko's body stiffened slightly, and then she responded with a smile: "After all, hair is a woman's most important accessory, so it must be taken good care of. When you grow up, Xiaolan, A few will make you understand.”

"Well, I understand..." After hearing Yonehara Koko's explanation, the light in Xiaolan's eyes dimmed for a moment, but she soon smiled and said, "Okay, since I didn't find anything strange, then Let’s go out and tell everyone.”

After confirming that none of the three people had anything similar to a murder weapon, Conan had self-doubt for a moment, and desperately thought about where he had made the omission.

Xiaolan looked at Minori Nakamura, who was the first person to discover the crime scene, and asked: "Teacher Nakamura, how did you find out that Teacher Shimoda was killed?"

"That's because I heard the alarm on Shimoda-sensei's cell phone next door and it never stopped, so I felt strange and came over to see what was going on. I didn't expect that as soon as I opened the door, I saw Shimoda-sensei..." Minori Nakamura heard the truth. replied.

At this time, Sentoshi on the side suddenly intervened in the topic and came to a conclusion that made everyone's hair stand on end: "So, if the kid didn't lie, then the prisoner probably used some method to sneak it in without him noticing. He left the second floor, but no matter what, the murderer must still be in this villa!"

(End of this chapter)