Chapter 272: I don’t know about the missing engineer. The boss didn’t tell me.
Shinichi Kudo downstairs sneezed twice in a row.
Mao Lilan asked with concern: "Are you okay? Do you have a cold?"
Kudo Shinichi touched his nose and said, "No."
Strange, is there someone secretly plotting against him?
"I'm glad you didn't catch a cold. I'm telling you, even if you're busy outside, you still have to take good care of yourself, so you don't get sick and no one knows!"
"I understand..."
"You... you don't know how worried I am about you." Mao Lilan's eyes reddened as she spoke. "Even though you call me every day, I never see you in person. I'm always afraid you're in trouble, so I can't show up."
"But, but... I was thinking, no matter what happens to you, a phone call every day is always good. At least it can make me feel a little more at ease..."
Kudo Shinichi pursed his lips and grabbed Mao Lilan's shoulders: "Don't worry, I'm fine. I'll call you every day, and look, I'm here fine, right?"
He was a little too close. The redness around Mao Lilan's eyes spread to her entire face.
Seeing her blushing, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help blushing as well and quickly let go of her hand.
The two of them turned their heads away at the same time and looked at the ground.
Really, really, why is this guy blushing all of a sudden!
It makes his movements seem strange!
"You--" He was about to say something when he suddenly felt a familiar pain in his heart.
This feeling...how could it be?
He couldn't help but bend down, but quickly forced himself to stand up straight.
Fortunately, Xiaolan was facing away from him at the moment, he thought, so she couldn't see his movements.
"——I'm going to the bathroom!" He shouted, and quickly slipped away, leaving Xiaolan behind, confused and shouting: "Shinichi!"
...Huihara said that the short-acting medicine lasts for 72 hours.
But it has only been three hours since he took the medicine, why is his body starting to hurt again?
Is it going to change back?
Kudo Shinichi ran to the bathroom stall, locked the door, leaned against the wooden board of the stall, and gasped for breath.
The pain in his heart was sometimes strong and sometimes weak, tormenting Kudo Shinichi so much that he was stuck in the middle and held on to the door handle in vain to endure it.
But at this moment, a sound came from outside the door, which made him even more afraid to speak.
“…It’s done.”
It's a young male voice, calm and mellow.
"Well, the shop owner doesn't know anything. Itakura Taku can't get far. Unless he uses a fake identity, if he enters or leaves the airport, the alarm will be connected to our side."
...Itakura Taku?
Does this person know Itakura Taku?
No, he came to this store just like them, to ask the store owner about Itakura Taku?
"However, I did find something quite interesting... Do you know Kudo Shinichi?"
When he heard his own name, Kudo Shinichi's breathing stopped for a moment.
"You don't know them? Well, that's not surprising... After all, you're like that, never remembering the names of the dead. But that's not a good habit to get into. Not remembering the names of people you've disposed of can lead to trouble, Gin."
Kudo Shinichi's body completely froze.
Gin?
No, it’s someone from that organization!
Oh no, they noticed me.
To find a way to escape...
"Let me remind you who he is: a seventeen-year-old high school detective, the unlucky guy you killed with APTX4869, the Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era, Ran Mouri's childhood sweetheart, and the elementary school detective whose body shrank after taking APTX4869, but whose mind remains sharp—Edogawa Conan."
The male voice gradually changed from a mellow and gentle voice to a clear female voice, and the footsteps also stopped at the cubicle where Kudo Shinichi was.
"Aren't you coming out yet, Conan-kun?" A familiar voice with a smile sounded outside the door.
Kudo Shinichi's stiff body gradually warmed up, and his almost stopped heart resumed beating.
He was a little sad and angry, and said through gritted teeth: "Sister Lin!"
"This is the men's room!"
…
"So, you rushed into the bathroom just now not because you had diarrhea, but because of heart pain." Haibara Ai asked seriously.
They were currently standing on the street not far from the arcade.
The summer wind was very hot, blowing through Kudo Shinichi's sweaty hair, making him breathe a sigh of relief.
"That's right, I thought I was going to shrink again." He murmured with lingering fear, "Sister Lin is really too much! I was really scared to death!"
"Exercise your heart," Lin Xi said with a smile, "so that when you really face the members of the organization, you won't be so scared that you can't even walk."
"How could I be that weak!" Kudo Shinichi retorted, "I just felt unwell! Uh, but, Sister Lin, were you using a voice changer just now?"
Like his bow tie voice changer or something?
"No." The same mellow male voice as before came out from Lin Xi's throat, "Just a little vocal technique."
"Wow." Kudo Shinichi exclaimed.
Onomatopoeia!
What he needs a voice changer to do, Sister Lin can do with her own voice.
If such techniques were used to commit crimes, many people would surely fall victim.
Fortunately, Sister Lin is not a bad person.
After knowing that Haibara Ai had already revealed their plan and Lin Xi had agreed to participate, Kudo Shinichi felt more at ease facing Lin Xi.
In the past, he had been plotting things about the organization without telling Lin Xi and Huiyuan, which always gave him the illusion that he was leading her sister astray without Lin Xi's knowledge.
But now that Lin Xi knows everything and has joined them, Kudo Shinichi feels that they are all one of them now.
There is no difference between you and me among our own people.
"It must be a side effect of the drug, or maybe the drug is simply unstable." Huiyuan Ai thought for a moment, "I'll go back and study it further..."
Kudo Shinichi nodded.
"While you were reminiscing about the past with your girlfriend, I went to ask the store owner about Itakura Taku." Lin Xi said.
She ignored Kudo Shinichi's retort, "She's not my girlfriend," and continued, "The boss said Itakura Taku has a habit of cutting off all contact with the outside world after receiving a big job, locking himself in his room, and concentrating on his work."
The blush on Kudo Shinichi's face had not yet faded. Seeing Lin Xi talking about business, he also became serious: "This matter was also mentioned by Itakura Taku's friend Mr. Soma."
"The boss also mentioned that Itakura Taku has a villa in Nagano Prefecture."
Kudo Shinichi was stunned: "Will he be in that villa?"
"Who knows?" Lin Xi said, "But even if we can't find him in person, we'll definitely find other clues in the villa where he lived."
Kudo Shinichi nodded: "Where is the exact location of the villa?"
Lin Xi shrugged: "I don't know, the boss didn't say."
Kudo Shinichi has a headache.
Nagano Prefecture is not small, and there are so many villa areas... If we look for them one by one, not to mention the feasibility, we won’t know what to do by the time we find one.
Lin Xi leisurely watched Kudo Shinichi's gloomy face for a while, then smiled: "Although the boss didn't say it, I have already found out where it is."
"Huh?"
"Just some little hacking skills." Lin Xi handed him the touch-screen phone.
The screen displayed a bird's-eye view of the map.
The place where Itakura Taku is located has been marked with a box.
"Wow." Kudo Shinichi exclaimed again.
Last time in the forest, Sister Lin demonstrated her excellent hacking skills and showed him the surveillance footage of Kiichiro Numabuchi jumping out of the car and escaping directly on her mobile phone.
Now we can directly find Itakura Taku's address.
I guess it was also found through the household registration information in the citizen system?
He said it again: Fortunately, Sister Lin is not a bad person.
Otherwise, with so many abilities, Kudo Shinichi doubts whether the Japanese police can catch the criminal Lin Xi.
"Then let's set off now!" he said with high morale.
As a result, after he shouted, no one paid any attention to him.
Lin Xi looked at him with a smile, and Huihara Ai simply put on a speechless expression.
Dr. Agasa scratched his head: "Shinichi... didn't you realize you forgot something?"
"Huh?"
"Miss Lan is still waiting for you in the arcade," Lin Xi said. "Did you forget about your girlfriend once you solved the case? No wonder you haven't been able to woo Miss Lan in 17 years."
Kudo Shinichi's face turned red again.
Huiyuan Ai added mercilessly: "You can't stay with her for a long time in this image now. If you don't seize the time now to be with her... I think Miss Lan should focus on others and stop worrying."
"I think the new doctor is pretty good."
Now, even Lin Xi's eyes became subtle.
"What nonsense! I haven't forgotten that girl." He ran into the arcade. "I'm going to say goodbye to her."
"Ah." Lin Xi shook her head. "Young people are full of energy. Dr. Agasa, I'll send you the address now. Please take Ai and Conan to the villa first."
"As for me, I'll take Miss Lan home first and then I'll be there."
…
Nagano Prefecture.
When Lin Xi, who had changed into a tight-fitting outfit, drove to the gate of the villa, Dr. Agasa and his companions had just arrived.
"Sister Lin, why are you so fast?"
"Because I was speeding," she said calmly. "Since you didn't seem to be planning on eating lunch, I brought you some dry food."
Ordinary sandwiches were wrapped in oil paper and handed to everyone.
The one given to Haibara Ai was her favorite peanut butter and blueberry jam sandwich.
Kudo Shinichi looked speechlessly at Lin Xi, who had made a light statement about speeding.
Although speeding in Japan is not a big deal as long as you don't get caught, you are taking it for granted!
...Well, the sandwiches made by Sister Lin are really delicious.
"We just rang the doorbell," he said vaguely, "and no one answered. I don't think Itakura Taku is here."
Lin Xi put the sun hat she brought on Huihara Ai's head, casting a cool shadow on her head.
"Come in after you finish eating," she said. "The old-fashioned way."
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