Chapter 129 I dare not open my eyes, I hope it is my hallucination
The students at the Jujutsu High School were not the only ones who had been worried about paperwork recently.
"Several fish have taken the bait at the zoo," Cheng Xiaoyu said to Heiyu Daoyi. "I can keep an eye on things over there. Combined with the intelligence I've pried out from their second-in-command and other members, and the intelligence you've gathered over the years, I'll be able to get it to them soon."
Kuroba Daoyi: "Are you too busy? I can help."
With such a huge amount of computing power and in such a short time, could Ghost really manage all the steps of casting the net, catching fish, interrogating, compiling intelligence statistics, and gathering evidence all by himself?"
"I'm definitely going to be overwhelmed!" Cheng Xiaoyu said, "But you can't help me with that. You're a magician, not a detective. Do you think you can torture or compile intelligence? If you really want to help me, find a way to communicate with your brother so I can borrow their detective resources to help."
If he were to ask the Kudo family...especially Kudo Shinichi's deductive ability for help, then he would definitely be able to guess the Kuroba family's secret identity.
Although she had long known that Kudo Yusaku and Kuroba Toichi had the idea of letting the children reveal their relationship, since it involved secret identities, Cheng Xiaoyu would definitely not go beyond them to expose their identities.
That's why Cheng Xiaoyu came over to urge Hei Yu Daoyi to stop acting, and quickly told her to go to Kudo's house next door to borrow someone to get off work early. Hello, I'm fine, everyone is fine.
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Besides, it's almost New Year for you guys, so this is a good opportunity to take your relatives with you."
"You make a lot of sense."
Hei Yu Daoyi thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case. He was not the type to procrastinate, so he called Kudo Yusaku directly to explain the situation, and made an appointment with Kudo Yusaku on the spot to visit relatives at Hei Yu's house the next night.
Of course, although it was a visit to allow the two younger generations to recognize each other, it was mainly for him, Kudo Yusaku and Ghost to discuss the specific actions to denounce the zoo.
Simply put, the adults discussed important matters and let the two children play by themselves.
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Then I will send a bottle of aging potion to Kudo Yusaku and let Edogawa Conan temporarily restore his identity as Kudo Shinichi."
Otherwise, according to Edogawa Conan's personality, he would probably have to take the semi-finished antidote before coming over.
Even with the brewery's research data, it is only a matter of time before a complete antidote for APTX4869 is developed. There are also semi-finished drugs that can temporarily allow "Kudo Shinichi" to appear, but the feeling of changing bodies is really unpleasant.
Even so, in the eyes of Conan Edogawa, this discomfort is nothing compared to being able to transform back into "Kudo Shinichi". He can even ask Haibara Ai for the antidote so that he can use his passport to travel abroad with the Mori family.
It is precisely because of his chaotic personality that Haibara Ai restricts his use of the antidote.
Cheng Xiaoyu has a painless aging potion, so there is no need to let the child suffer.
Number 2333 reminded: "But I remember that when you made the ten-year-long ageing potion, you ran out of flavorful ingredients, so you added a large amount of Coptis chinensis and Sophora flavescens instead."
"...Young people are at a good age to endure hardships," Cheng Xiaoyu said. "At worst, I can send him some dried tangerine peel."
No. 233: [You ran out of the sweet and sour dried tangerine peel strips last time and haven't had any restock. Now all you have is the bitter dried tangerine peel for soaking in water.]
"...It doesn't matter. Kudo Shinji has done little this year, so this little bitter medicine is no problem for him. I believe he can even get through it with white sugar mixed with aged vinegar."
......
The next day, Conan Edogawa was told that he had to stay overnight at Kudo's house to discuss important matters. As soon as he entered the house, he saw his biological mother handing him an orange liquid in a small plastic bottle.
Yukiko's smile was gentle and bright. "It's New Year's, Shinichi. So you have to come with us to meet our relatives later. This is the age-changing potion we asked the ghost for. It will allow you to act as Kudo Shinichi until eight o'clock tomorrow morning, and the transformation process won't make you as uncomfortable as the antidote to drug A."
Originally, when he heard about visiting relatives, Edogawa Conan was not interested.
He thinks he can visit relatives at any time, why must he wait until the Chinese New Year?
But when he heard that he could experience the aging potion that the ghost had mentioned before, he suddenly felt that visiting relatives during the New Year was also a good tradition, and visiting relatives was so great.
So after Edogawa Conan changed into Kudo Shinichi's clothes, he couldn't wait to take the bottle of potion that looked like orange juice, without noticing the deep smile in his mother's eyes.
Conan Edogawa leaned over the bottle and sniffed it, but didn't smell anything. He had thought the potion, which looked like orange juice, would be sweet, but as the potion flowed over his tongue, he began to think of powerful music, as if a man was dancing to the music in front of a microphone. At this moment, Conan Edogawa's mind only had four big words -
You. Have. Been. Cheated!
It tasted even more bitter than the concentrated bitter melon essence produced by squeezing the juice of eight hundred bitter melons and mixing it with super-strong black coffee. It was like a flowing curse. Wherever it flowed, the disastrous taste would spread rapidly throughout the mouth like a plague.
It seemed to have some kind of aftertaste, but unfortunately Edogawa Conan was unable to experience the other flavors, because its bitterness quickly occupied his entire brain, leaving no chance for other flavors to emerge.
Conan Edogawa thought that everything would be fine if he swallowed it, but when he actually did it, he found that he had been deceived again.
When this "flowing curse" flows into the esophagus, it disappears midway.
To be more precise, it transformed into a gas, which carried with it an undeniable, not intense but long-lasting, deep smell, like water torture, that lingered in his heart and lungs, then pumped through his blood vessels into his internal organs...
Although Kudo Shinichi knew that there were no odor-sensing cells or taste buds in the cardiovascular system, these were already medicines produced by the magic system, so there was no need to worry about whether this feeling was reasonable or not.
The ghost did not lie. Although the potion tasted like a curse, the aging process it brought did not cause any pain like bones melting and stretching.
The transformation of the body has ended, but the torture in Kudo Shinichi's mouth continues. The remaining taste is like a wandering Dementor sucking Kudo Shinichi's soul.
In order to save his soul, Kudo Shinichi rushed to the kitchen, trying to find some sugar to cleanse his soul. If he didn't have any, he could just rinse his mouth with water or even rinse it dry!
No one knows a son better than his mother. As soon as Yukiko saw Kudo Shinichi's first article, she knew what he was going to do and quickly stuffed something into her son's mouth.
Kudo Shinichi took a bite subconsciously, and the sour taste and extreme sweetness exploded in his mouth.
In the past, this smell would have made Kudo Shinichi run to the kitchen and bathroom to find mouthwash, but now, this intense smell was like a brave man descending from the sky, who knocked down with one punch the executioner who was inflicting a long curse like waterboarding on his tongue, and rescued Kudo Shinichi from this literal torture.
Kudo Shinichi gratefully crushed and swallowed the object in his mouth: "Mom, what did you give me to eat?"
"It's a peeled lemon wedge and instant sugar cubes in the coffee. Ghost said that sweet and sour things can quickly drive away the bitter taste in the mouth."
Yukiko said with a smile.
"Oh, Shinichi, your expression just now was so cute. It reminded me of when you were a kid and you insisted on trying your dad's black coffee. You were like that back then too. It was so bitter that your face scrunched up and you kept asking for a cup of water. It was only when your dad stuffed a sugar cube into your mouth that you finally came to your senses."
Kudo Shinichi complained: "Mom, you knew this thing was so bitter, why didn't you tell me from the beginning?"
Yukiko: "After I tell you, you'll be mentally prepared and won't drink so much at first. That way, you'll have to drink longer and suffer more."
Kudo Shinichi, as described by his own mother: ...
Kudo Shinichi sighed: "Now I just hope that things will go smoothly when I visit relatives later, otherwise it will be unfair for me to suffer this taste disaster."
Yukiko smiled and said, "Don't worry about that."
......
"Dad, where are we going?" Kudo Shinichi noticed that the route they were taking was different from what he remembered. "Grandma and Grandpa and Grandma are coming to Tokyo?"
Kudo Yusaku: "The people we have here today are relatives you haven't met before. They've been abroad for work since you were very young. They were engaged in work that required confidentiality, and they just returned because their work is coming to an end. It's been over twenty years since I last saw him."
Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but become curious: "Is it a relative from my grandmother's side, or a relative from my grandparents' side?"
Kudo Yusaku: "They are relatives on your grandmother's side."
After all, I am your grandmother’s son just like your father.
"Haven't seen you for over 20 years," "Grandma's relatives," "He"...
These adjectives automatically made the image of a middle-aged man appear in Kudo Shinichi's mind.
Shinichi Kudo watched the car drive into the road with a sign for "Ekoda".
This distant relative actually lives in Jianggutian, a 20-minute drive from Mika?
Kudo Shinichi thought.
Living so close to each other, it seems that the two families may visit each other in the future.
The Kudo family's car finally stopped in front of a villa with a sign with the surname "Hei Yu".
"Shinichi, you and your mother go knock on the door first. I'll find a parking space."
"Okay." Kudo Shinichi wanted to get all the gifts from the trunk, but just as he picked up a bag, Yukiko stopped him, "Oh, I'll do it. Shinichi, just go and knock on the door."
Kudo Shinichi felt a little strange: "Isn't it okay for you to knock on the door while I'm carrying a gift?"
I remember there was red wine in it, quite strong.
Yukiko displayed the ability of a legendary actor to improvise a script on the spot: "Of course it's different. They've seen me but not you. What's more, they have a child about your age at home who always praises me for being good-looking, so I have to let them see that my son is also good-looking."
No wonder I took him so long to dress up just now...
Kudo Shinichi had no choice but to pick up the heaviest packages in the gift bag, tidy up his clothes, and ring the doorbell of that house.
“Ding Dong.”
“Here I come!”
There was a sound of footsteps coming from far away, and at the same time, there was also a very young male voice.
The most important thing is that Kudo Shinichi felt that this voice was very familiar. He must have heard it somewhere, but before he remembered, the door was opened.
A boy who looked almost exactly like him, with only the hairstyle being the difference, appeared in front of Kudo Shinichi. He seemed to be frozen the moment he opened the door.
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