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"Is there any news about him yet?" Conan, who had just finished school and was still carrying his schoolbag, asked the tall man in front of him with a serious face.
"No, it's been almost half a month and the phone can't be reached." Kenji Hagiwara frowned and replied helplessly.
"Is that really the case..." Conan sighed and added: "Xiao Guang only said that Kong Ge was busy, and he was picked up by his family two days ago."
"Relatives?" Hagiwara Kenji looked puzzled when he heard this.
"Earlier, Kong seemed to have discovered that he had a brother," Conan said helplessly, "Kong seemed to be unable to accept this, but Xiaoguang said that he was a very good person. If it were anyone else, I might think I was fooled, but Xiaoguang has a very mature personality and is not the type to be easily fooled."
The image of Hikaru Natsukawa appeared in Kenji Hagiwara's mind, a person who looked very similar to his own generation. He then glanced at Conan, the former high school detective.
"What's wrong?" Conan asked, feeling Hagiwara Kenji's gaze.
"Just thinking, when he suddenly disappeared before, did he also say he was working?"
"He would say he was working or collecting materials, so I specifically asked editor Saito, and he said that Kong Ge directly sent updates for three months and would not contact him at all on normal days."
"Has he anticipated this?" Hagiwara Kenji lowered his head and thought, "But first, tell me, which comic book is Sora's?"
"Traveler..." Conan said with a little surprise, then showed dead fish eyes and said directly: "So Brother Kong didn't tell you?"
Conan is now wondering how much truth there is in the beautiful memories between him and Sora that Officer Hagiwara said. How come he doesn't even know Sora's pen name...
"I've seen this before," Hagiwara Kenji said with a somewhat painful expression as if he had thought of something, "More than that, Jinpei-chan really likes it."
I recalled that I was dragged by Matsuda Jinpei to watch the movie at night, but I was too sleepy and dazed to realize the danger of the plot. When I suddenly understood the truth, I was so scared that I became alert. I even stayed up all night and went to work the next day with dark circles under my eyes.
The familiar ringing tone of the phone brought Hagiwara Kenji back from his dark past. He quickly answered the call and asked:
"Hey, Jinpei-chan, Conan and I are at Beihua Road... Is he back?!" Hagiwara Kenji turned around and looked at Conan. They both nodded at the same time. Hagiwara Kenji responded, "Jinpei-chan, wait for us to come over soon."
The two of them, one big and one small, quickly stopped a taxi. Under the shocked look of the driver, Hagiwara Kenji opened the driveway and said, "I'm sorry, I need to borrow your car for something urgent. I'll pay the rental price. Here are my IDs. Don't worry, I'm not a bad guy."
The elderly driver seemed to recognize Kenji Hagihara and said as if he had suddenly realized something: "It's okay, Officer Hagihara, just use it. It's important to catch the criminal!" As he said that, he threw the key to Kenji Hagihara with an excited look.
"Uh...thank you." Although he was misunderstood, Kenji Hagiwara did not have time to say more. He turned around, got into the car and started it skillfully. Conan in the back quickly climbed into the passenger seat and carefully fastened his seat belt.
This is Officer Hagiwara's car. Even if you are not speeding, it is extremely dangerous!!!
In just less than ten minutes, the car reached the destination as quickly as possible without speeding or running red lights.
Matsuda Jinpei was standing not far from Natsukawa's house. He looked calmly at the car coming from afar and stopped in front of him. He glanced at his watch and said:
"Nine minutes. Looks like we don't have to listen to the Ministry of Transport's complaints anymore."
"After all, this wasn't a mission, so I followed the traffic rules," Hagiwara Kenji said as he got out of the car. "Thank you for your hard work, Zhenping."
"So... Officer Hagiwara, you've been following me the whole time... Uh," Conan hesitated and tried to change the words, but he heard Matsuda Jinpei snort in disdain:
"He comes here whenever he has time. This time he came to exchange information with you, so he asked me to come and take a look for him."
"I'm just concerned about Sora-chan," Hagiwara Kenji said frankly, not thinking there was anything wrong with that. "After all, that guy has been missing for so long, it's very worrying. You're also concerned about Jinpei-chan, aren't you?"
Matsuda Jinpei calmly got straight to the point: "I just wanted to make sure his car had indeed returned, but he probably didn't notice me since we were so far away. Should I just go in and ask?"
"If Kong Ge is really in the organization during this period as we speculated, what should we say?" Conan pondered, trying not to consider why they were behaving so like thieves now.
"Just act on the situation," Hagiwara Kenji made a quick decision, but after looking at Conan, he said firmly, "Conan, knock on the door first. Xiaokong likes children. You ask him some questions and send us a message if you find out what's going on. Then Xiaozhenping and I will pretend to come to visit. It will look more natural if we stagger the time."
"Is it necessary to go to such trouble?" Conan complained.
"The main reason is that the two of us police officers came here as soon as he came back. I was afraid that Xiao Kong would misunderstand. Before that, he looked like he was unhappy with me." Hagiwara Kenji scratched his head guiltily, his tone sounding a little aggrieved.
"Okay..." Conan did not have time to complain about the other party's accurate self-awareness. Now he really wanted to see the person quickly, so he took the initiative to knock on the door.
"Kong, it's me, Conan, are you back?"
"Conan," the door opened gently. Noel, who was wearing a light blue home suit, slowly pushed the door open. Looking at the detective in a small suit standing at the door with a bright smile, he teased, "You're here just after I got back?"
"Hahaha, I usually come over to take a look. Today I saw the car and thought you should be back, Kong." Conan held his head and said guiltily, trying to express his longing, "Kong, why haven't you been home for so long? Everyone misses you."
"It's cold outside, come in first." Noel sighed at the detective, then shouted to the back: "Aren't the two officers coming in together?"
"Hahaha, Xiaokong was discovered by you," Hagiwara Kenji awkwardly walked out from behind the fence, holding Matsuda Jinpei, whose face had turned dark, in his hand, "What a coincidence, we just happened to pass by."
In the living room, Noel sat opposite the two police officers. Conan sat on one side. Seeing the awkward atmosphere, he took the lead and said cautiously, "Brother Kong, how have you been during this time..."
"Yeah, I'm going to work." Noel was sitting on the sofa drinking water and answered calmly. However, Conan noticed that the other party just took a sip and put down the cup. That's right, if Xiaoguang was not here, Brother Kong would not even have orange tea.
"I want to ask..." Conan racked his brains to find a suitable beginning to the main plot, but to no avail, so he simply asked directly: "Brother Kong, do you know that organization, the one wearing black clothes, whose code names are all wine names?"
"I know." Noel nodded and replied calmly, "How much have you found out?"
He looked up at the two police officers opposite him who were obviously with the detective, and had some guesses.
"I found out a lot," Conan didn't expect the other party to be so direct, and his momentum weakened a bit. He didn't know where to start, so he asked: "Brother Kong, you know my identity, right?"
"Kudo Shinichi?" Noel looked at the nervous detective and said with a hint of smile, "It's too obvious after all. It's hard to pretend not to know."
"Is there..." Conan touched his nose awkwardly and said guiltily: "It's not that obvious."
Thinking of the other party's identity, Conan comforted himself that it would be strange if he didn't know the other party's intelligence was so powerful. He adjusted his mentality and continued: "We investigated some of their members, and also discovered your relationship with them, Brother Kong."
"More than I thought," Noel was stunned for a moment. He looked up at the two police officers behind him and saw that they looked serious. He asked, "You all know about it too?"
The two police officers nodded. Matsuda Jinpei had a sullen look on his face, and Hagiwara Kenji had not interrupted them for some reason. The two of them sat opposite each other and maintained their police aura.
Noel glanced at the two men, then retracted his gaze to continue looking at the detective and asked, "Xiao Guang, did you take him away?"
"Xiao Guang?" Conan was also stunned and asked in confusion: "Didn't Xiao Guang get taken away by your relatives? Didn't you know?"
"So it's not you?" Noel was also stunned, then he took out his phone and read the text message, muttering: "Relatives...it's him, almost."
"I'm sorry I haven't checked my phone much lately. I thought he would be with you guys." Noel put his phone in his pocket, then stood up and asked, "Leaving now?"
"Wait, Brother Kong, where are we going?" Conan couldn't keep up with the train of thought for a moment.
Noel, still standing, turned to look at the two policemen sitting opposite him and asked, "Aren't you here to arrest me?"
"Xiaokong, are you so self-conscious?" Hagiwara Kenji, who had been silent until now, finally couldn't help laughing. He looked at the confused man and asked with a smile: "If I take out the handcuffs now, will you let me handcuff you obediently?"
The answer was the arm that the other party stretched out to him. Hagiwara Kenji suddenly raised his head and met a pair of light gray-green eyes. He heard the boy he had known for a long time whispered, "Is that so?"
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