Chapter 236: Returning Home Mr. Amuro and I have always felt that you are...
"Xiao Ke, come and look here." Lin Xi turned around and called Conan.
"This is!" The light bulb above Conan's head lit up, "This is the prison uniform worn by prisoners in prison!"
"That's right—hey, no touching!" Lin Xi used the tip of her umbrella to push Conan's hand away. "It's filthy, don't touch it without gloves."
"I understand..."
Conan went to the side and found a branch in a bad mood, and imitated Lin Xi by poking the clothes on the ground with the tip of the branch.
"You've almost finished observing the entire cave, right? We have a few questions now." Lin Xi gracefully tapped the ground with her umbrella. "The first question is, who is the owner of the prison uniform? Is it someone hiding here, or a victim?"
"Second question, whose blood was spilled on the road? Come on, Xiao Ke, answer my question and let me see your reasoning."
Conan: “……?”
"Let me answer?" He pointed at himself. "Is this true?"
Is this really a question an adult would ask a seven-year-old to answer?
"What's wrong, Xiao Ke? Are you shy?" Lin Xi smiled. "Mr. Amuro and I have always thought you were very smart, very smart. You don't look like an ordinary child."
"Although not as smart as Ai, she's still pretty smart."
"Such a simple question should be easy for you to answer, right?"
Conan was startled.
What, Toru Amuro also thinks he is smart?
Rather than a compliment, this is more like a death spell.
"Ahaha, Mr. Amuro, do you know I got a perfect score on my math test?" He decisively played dumb. "Ran-san also praised me for being smart."
"Stop playing dumb." Lin Xi ruthlessly exposed him, "You only scored 90 points on your math test, not even as high as Ayumi did."
"I'm talking about the part where you don't act like a child... You don't think you're doing a good job pretending, do you?" She squatted down and looked Conan in the eye. "Every time you act like a child, your performance is always so exaggerated."
Conan's smile became forced: "Hey, Sister Lin, I don't understand what you mean..."
"That is, if you act dumb in front of me, I will tell Xiaolan that you like her." Lin Xi said, "Do you think she will still take a bath with you in the future?"
Conan: ? ?!
How did Sister Lin know that Xiaolan would drag him to take a bath together?!
His face flushed. "I don't like her! I don't really want to take a bath with her! Sister Lin, don't talk nonsense!"
Lin Xi pointed to the clothes on the ground: "Answer my question, and I won't say anything."
Conan squatted on the ground with a wronged look on his face. "...The prison uniform belongs to the murderer hiding here. Because, although this prison uniform looks dirty, stained with dust and blood, the clothes have no creases from being folded many times, and the material is not yellowed. This shows that the clothes were not manufactured long ago and have not been worn for a long time."
"So, the owner of the prison uniform didn't escape after being in prison, but rather escaped during the process of being transported. This explains why the uniform, although dirty, doesn't show many signs of use. The burnt metal bars also support this point - prisoners in prison don't wear handcuffs like this; they are only handcuffed during arrest and transportation."
"Judging from the degree of oxidation of the bloodstains on the prisoner's uniform, it must have been less than a week since it was taken off and left there. The bloodstains on the road are still fresh and were not left at the same time as the bloodstains on the prisoner's uniform, and most likely not by the same person."
"Just now, we found a lot of bones next to the extinguished fire. Although there's a human skull among them, there are no other bones to match. Most of them are animal bones. If left to decay naturally, it would take at least two years for an adult's body to decompose to nothing but bones, even if the surrounding environment is moist and the body is buried in the ground. It definitely didn't decay naturally. Plus, the other bones of the deceased are not here, so I don't think this is the primary scene of death."
"These animal bones suggest that the murderer is now isolated from society, relying on primitive hunting to survive. This may be because he is wanted by the police and dares not show himself in public. I think the deceased was killed by the murderer outside. The murderer did not want others to discover his identity, so he chopped off his head, burned it, and roasted it... just like those animals."
"Given that we only saw one human footprint on the road... and the bloodstains started appearing in the grass some distance from the main road, I believe the bloodstains did not belong to a human but to an animal."
After he finished speaking, Lin Xi clapped his hands and praised him, "That's amazing. You're worthy of being a little detective."
"Sister Lin," Conan remained squatting, "Do you really think I..."
Too smart, doesn't it act like a child?
It's no wonder he was worried. The suggestiveness of Lin Xi's words just now was so strong that she almost said directly, "Stop pretending. I can see that you are not a child anymore."
After admiring his tangled expression for a while, Lin Xi patted his head and said, "Okay, don't think about it. No matter who you are, as long as you don't want to act as your former identity, I will only treat you as Edogawa Conan."
Conan suddenly raised his head: "Sister Lin! You already know that I——"
"——Please." Lin Xi said lightly, "What kind of parents would name their child Edogawa Conan? And send such a young child to someone else's home for foster care? And this child is so mature and smart?"
"When I was your age, I was still playing in the mud. Even if I were interested in detective novels, I wouldn't be like you, not afraid of corpses and death at all."
"Furthermore, Mr. Maori's poor performance suddenly improved as soon as you appeared... and the nickname 'Sleeping Kogoro' spread. You really are not being low-key at all when hiding your identity."
"It's okay, Xiao Ke, I'm not interested in your past. Just don't disturb the peaceful life of Xiao Ai and me, and everything will be fine."
Edogawa Conan sighed.
Disturb Huiyuan's peaceful life? Her identity is destined to be inseparable from the Black Organization.
Moreover, he is determined to overthrow the organization and become Kudo Shinichi again. He cannot guarantee that Sister Lin and Xiao Ai will not be implicated in the process.
But he did have a lot of flaws, which Sister Lin had seen, and Amuro Toru must have seen as well... After all, was it really because of Sister Lin that he applied for the waiter position at Poirot Café?
Thinking of this, Conan felt a chill in his heart.
Fortunately, Sister Lin just felt that she was more than an ordinary seven-year-old child, and the identity of "Edogawa Conan" was also fake, but she didn't know that she was Shinichi Kudo after she became smaller.
But then again - Sister Lin herself is not an ordinary female college student!
Conan cast a suspicious look at Lin Xi, who was directing him to hold up the flashlight and take pictures with his flip phone.
He knew that Sister Lin's physical skills were not weak, and there was a special practice room in the apartment where she trained every day.
He remained calm even when faced with the dead body's skeleton. If it were anyone else, they would have screamed loudly.
He's also very observant. How could anyone be so observant as to associate Maori-san's fame with him? He's clearly just a child, even attending school and taking exams diligently.
The principle that legendary cases attract detectives also applies to relationships between people: ever since he became a small child, he has been surrounded by extraordinary people.
"OK. The photos are done." Lin Xi put the phone back into his pocket. "What should we do next, little detective? I'll listen to you."
Conan came back to his senses: "Ah, let's find a place with a signal to call the police, and by the way, look for people who have recently escaped from prison and are wanted."
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On the other side, in the forest.
A mantis and a beetle have been placed in Ayumi and Genta's glass jars.
A stick insect has also been placed in Haibara Ai's jar.
Only Mitsuhiko's jar was still empty.
"Mitsuhiko, why don't you want that grasshopper?" Ayumi asked curiously, "Is it really okay to just give it to Conan?"
Mitsuhiko just caught a grasshopper, but he said he didn't want it, took the empty bottle that Professor Agasa was carrying, and said he would give the grasshopper to Conan, who didn't come to catch insects.
"Well, it's okay. It's almost time for lunch, and I'm afraid Conan won't be back yet, so I won't be able to catch any bugs. As for me, I still want a firefly..."
"As for fireflies, we have to look for them near water. These bioluminescent creatures prefer warm, humid, and watery environments, and are more common in bushes and near streams," Dr. Agasa said. "Also, fireflies hide among rocks and mud in the water during the day and only come out at night. Mitsuhiko, how about we go back and look for them near the stream at night?"
"Well, okay." Mitsuhiko replied, "Because my target is so special, I'm sorry to bother you all to accompany me tonight."
"Mitsuhiko, what are you talking about!" Ayumi turned around and glared at him, "We are friends, how can friends say trouble...ah!"
Her shoes hit the raised stones on the ground and she fell forward.
"Be careful!" Haibara Ai quickly reached out her hand, but it was too late.
When everyone helped Ayumi up from the ground, her knees were already purple-red from obvious abrasions.
"Oh." Dr. Agasa was startled. "Let's go back to the car! There's a medical kit in the car. Let's treat Ayumi first."
"Doctor." A gentle voice came from nearby. It was Dr. Akai who was walking over. "What happened?"
"Ah, Dr. Arata, Ayumi accidentally fell..."
"I happen to have a first aid bandage with me, please let me do it." Dr. Shinde squatted down gently and examined the little girl's knee.
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