Chapter 172: The Young Treasure Hunt Team Discrepancies
Seeing this, Amuro Toru approached and said, "Ms. Azusa, I just saw in the kitchen that they seem to have the ingredients for the strawberry mousse. Go heat up the milk first, and I'll make the cake."
The mousse has been frozen in the refrigerator. You just need to assemble it with the cake base, squeeze cream on the top and decorate it with cut strawberries.
Azusa Enomoto nodded gratefully.
The new waiter is really reliable.
Lin Xi raised her eyebrows and looked at Amuro Toru's back as he went to the kitchen.
Ha, so that's why he said he was busy and couldn't make it back for lunch?
Applying for a job as a cafe waiter?
The organization is really full of talented people.
In the service industry, you can always see the busy figures of the organization's members.
She pulled a few children to sit down.
They are regular customers of Poirot Café. Every time the children get out of school, when she goes to pick up Xiao Ai, she will pick up the other children as well.
It's on the way anyway.
Then I would pass by the Poirot Café and sometimes order a small dessert - just a little, as an appetizer, which would not affect my normal diet.
Thanks to Xiao Ai's introduction and her own friendly nature, she'd already become familiar with the children. Now, they all called her Sister Lin, and sometimes even asked Lin Xi to participate in their Junior Detective Team's adventures and puzzle-solving activities.
For example, this one now.
"Sister Lin, look at this! What does 'oro' even mean?"
Yuantai held up a piece of paper and showed Lin Xi the pattern drawn on it.
Lin Xi kept smiling.
My child, even though the person before you is the organization's boss, AKA Lin Xi, she knows nothing about decryption.
People like her who only think about eating only know that Oreo is Oreo.
There are two real detectives in this room, why not ask them?
"Where did you pick it up?" she asked.
Haibara Ai drank the hot milk that Enomoto Azusa brought over and said, "Didn't the school organize a tour to the art museum today? Kojima-san found it at the door."
"Well, who is so uncivilized as to litter?" Lin Xi supported his chin with his hand.
Yoshida Ayumi: "No, this isn't trash, Sister Lin. This must be—"
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya & Genta Kojima: "——Treasure Map!"
Lin Xi: ...
"Conan, what do you think?" She turned her head to look at Conan who was thinking about something.
Conan: "I—"
"Ahem!" The trio immediately grabbed Lin Xi, "Conan, don't look at it yet!"
"That's right! We have more than just Conan in our Junior Detective League. Don't always rely on Conan to solve the mystery alone!"
Conan's mouth twitched.
Come on, he didn't want to do it! But when the answer came to his lips, he couldn't help but say it!
After this, these guys wouldn't let him look at the puzzles anymore, saying they didn't want to rely on him and that he had to solve them on his own...
Really, if that’s the case, why do you come to ask Sister Lin?
"You can't do that." A gentle voice interrupted the trio's chatter. Lin Xi raised a finger and shook it, "Only when the five of us work together can we form a complete Junior Detective Team."
"You guys must have heard the story of a stick and a bundle of sticks, right?"
"I know!" Mitsuhiko raised his hand. "A single stick breaks easily, but a bundle of sticks won't. This story tells us that only by uniting together can we possess unbreakable strength..."
"Yes." Lin Xi said with a smile, "Besides, each of us has shortcomings and strengths."
"Perhaps, Conan-kun's strength is decoding—" She stood up, picked up Conan, and shook him: "But Conan-kun's weaknesses are also obvious. Look, his arms and legs are thin. If you run into a bad guy on the way to decoding, he'll be knocked down with one punch."
Conan expressed his dissatisfaction.
How many villains can defeat the football transformed by Dr. Agasa?
But he remained silent and continued to listen to Lin Xi speak.
"That's when he needs his companions—the rest of the Junior Detectives—to help him." Lin Xi put Conan down. "Look, you all said this is a treasure map. There might be treasure hunters nearby, and criminal gangs might be looking for the treasure, too."
"Maybe those people dropped this treasure map on purpose, just to get you, the Junior Detective Team, to help them find the real treasure. Thank you, Brother Tou."
Lin Xi took the small cake handed to her by Amuro Toru and deliberately ignored the fact that his face darkened instantly when he heard the title "Brother Toru".
"No way..." Yoshida Ayumi murmured, "How could a bad adult pin their hopes on a child?"
"Yeah, how could that be?" Lin Xi glanced out the window nonchalantly.
After reflection, Genta Kojima and Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya handed the paper they had been holding tightly to Conan, asking him to help decipher it.
But Conan's mind wasn't on the puzzle.
"Mr. Amuro, why are you here?..."
He looked at the blond waiter with half-moon eyes.
"There's no other way. The economy is down, and I can't support myself with just the detective agency." Amuro Toru said with a smile, "I have to find a side job. Are you guys playing puzzle games?"
"I guess so..." Conan showed the paper with the secret code to Amuro Toru, "This paper is full of patterns and only has one word, but what this 'oro' is, we don't know yet."
"It doesn't seem to be English, nor French."
"It's not Spanish or Russian." Haibara Ai, who was sitting quietly, spoke.
"Oh, that one, I know." Amuro Toru said, "It means 'gold'. It's Italian."
Conan:?
Could this really be a treasure map?
Lin Xi raised an eyebrow: "Wow. You detectives really do know everything."
Amuro Toru: “I just happen to know this word.”
Ayumi moved next to Ai and asked her quietly, "Lin Jiejie, Edogawa-san, Huiyuan-san, and that waiter brother, did they know each other from the beginning?"
"Not cooked." Haibara Ai calmly took a piece of cake.
"Alright." Lin Xi wiped his mouth. "Since you all want to go treasure hunting so badly and have replenished your energy, let's finish the cake and milk and then set off."
"The first pattern on the paper looks a lot like Tokyo Tower. Why not start there?"
"Mr. Amuro, if you don't have any other plans, why don't we go together?"
.
Toru Amuro accepted Lin Xi's invitation.
However, as he watched Lin Xi smilingly letting the children run around freely in the street, dragging him behind to watch the show, he couldn't help but question:
"You're not going with them?"
Lin Xi: "Let the kids play by themselves...adults, don't get involved. I pulled you out because I was worried I'd be bored by myself."
Toru Amuro:......
"Actually, you should know, right? I'm usually very busy." He rubbed his forehead.
Lin Xi: "Are you so busy that you're applying for a job as a waiter in a coffee shop?"
Toru Amuro:.
He didn't expect to meet Lin Xi while applying for the job.
He calculated the time. When Lin Xi came to Poirot, he should have finished the interview and left, but today Lin Xi came back half an hour earlier than usual and bumped into him.
Is it because Teitan Elementary School organized a visit to the art museum that the school ended earlier than usual?
Seeing his speechless look, Lin Xi smiled and said, "I was just kidding. I know you're busy."
"After all, Bourbon must have a lot to do, right?"
Amuro Toru's eyes gradually became dangerous: "I told you last time, don't mention that name outside..."
"Okay." Lin Xi nodded obediently.
But Toru Amuro knew this guy's character. He looked obedient on the surface, but he would never listen.
He sighed, "How was your trip to America?"
Lin Xi thought for a moment and said, "I went to the amusement park, the movie theater, and went shopping... I also encountered one, oh no, three homicides."
Toru Amuro:?
He asked in disbelief, "You've only been there for less than a week, and you've already encountered three murders?"
"To be precise, it was a copycat murder and a serial killer case," Lin Xi said seriously. "I participated in it as a victim and was even imprisoned... Fortunately, I escaped in the end, and the case has been solved."
Amuro Toru was even more shocked: "Which murderer is so unlucky as to choose you as his target?"
Lin Xi:?
"He's a pervert who likes to kill pretty girls." Lin Xi emphasized the word "pretty". "I was just passing by."
Toru Amuro:?
Was it intentional, accidental, or was it intentional and accidental?
"Excuse me, what happened to the murderer?"
Lin Xi: "...killed by a bomb."
She turned her face away, not wanting to look at the "as expected" expression on Amuro Toru's face.
She coughed twice. "Besides the bad things, there were also some very lucky things! I met a new friend, and he gave me a super cute kitten..."
Amuro Toru: "...That cat can't be a white cat."
Lin Xi: "How did you know? It's snow-white and very cute. The man said that his company had a job transfer and needed training, so he couldn't keep the cat anymore, so he gave it to me."
Toru Amuro: "Coconut?"
Lin Xi was startled: "How did you know?"
Amuro Toru expressionless: "Okay, I think I know who your new friend is."
No wonder he seemed to have disappeared and there was no news at all. It turned out that he had run away to the United States.
You suddenly came back these few days. Are you done with your business trip?
This guy Punch...
She invited him to lunch today but he didn't go. Would that guy be so petty as to secretly take revenge on him?
Why……
In fact, his main purpose in applying for the waiter position at Poirot Café was to investigate Lin Xi.
A female artist with amnesia, rich, and connected to members of an organization... She has many secrets, and these secrets attract all those who pursue the truth like flames.
Lin Xi: "You know him? That's great, he's getting transferred to Japan. Let's have dinner together then."
Amuro Toru sneered: "Let's talk about it later."
He just turned down that guy's lunch invitation this afternoon.
But, "he"? Did Punch disguise himself as a man to approach Lin Xi? What a bad taste...
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