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"I guess the bomb should be in carriage number seven. Those two people mentioned that smoking is not allowed in the carriage and that you can overlook the beautiful scenery!"

In Carriage No. 9, Noel and Conan gathered together to analyze the current situation:

"And you just happened to remember that I was also on the second floor, so you came to find me?" Noel asked. After all, according to the original plot, Conan should have gone to the staff to tell them about the bomb by himself, and then was ruthlessly driven out.

"Yes, after all, Brother Kong, you will definitely help, right!" Conan immediately said obediently, feeling guilty under Noel's suspicious eyes.

"The bomb is timed, right?" Noel rolled his eyes in his heart. He asked the question even though he knew the plot of the original novel.

"Yes, the explosion time is 3:10." Conan said immediately.

"There's still half an hour left. We need to find the exact location of the bomb before then, and we need to call the police in advance." Noel checked the time on his phone, took out his phone, and quickly sent a text message to the police. Even if the other party might not believe it, they should still make some preparations. (You can use text messages to call the police.)

"Brother Kong, please add that it was Kudo... Brother Kudo who said that." Conan hesitated for a moment, but said in a firm tone.

After all, the safety of the passengers in the car is the most important thing now.

"Kudo?" Noel added the text message that Kudo Shinichi found it as Conan said, and pretended not to understand and said, "Kudo Shinichi? You have a good relationship with him."

"Uh..." Conan thought for a moment and reluctantly explained: "I have some blood relationship with Kudo brother."

"So that's why you look so alike, and you're also good at reasoning..." As Conan's eyes became more and more terrified and even a little desperate, Noel said thoughtfully:

"So he was imitating his familiar brother. Can even a genius behave like this?"

Conan heaved a sigh of relief, and then he heard the other person say, "My brother is like this, too."

Is it Hikaru Natsukawa again? Conan couldn't help but think that it seemed that because his brother was a genius, Hikaru Natsukawa was very receptive to children with high IQ and maturity. Also, he didn't know if it was his own illusion.

I always feel that Xiachuan Kong's tone is like showing off his younger brother?

But Conan was a little depressed about this. After all, as a fake elementary school student who was actually a high school student, being compared with junior high school students was still a bit awkward. He really couldn't think that he was pretending to be too good and that made Natsukawa Sora think that there was nothing wrong with him. He could only say that in the other party's eyes, his observation and reasoning abilities were similar to his younger brother?

This realization made Conan very curious about Natsukawa Mitsuru. Recalling their first meeting, he could only feel that the other party was very mature, but he didn't know anything specific.

How about we visit the Xiachuan family some other day?

Noel didn't know that his unconscious behavior of showing off Xiaoguang attracted the attention of the protagonist, paving the way for the next "Death is in my house". At this time, he was still thinking about how to destroy the plot this time to test the bottom line of the world.

"Then let's go to carriage number seven and see if we can find the exact location of the bomb."

"Um."

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Carriage No. 7 was not far from Carriage No. 9, and neither of them cared about other people's strange looks. They quickly looked at each person one by one and confirmed that there were four people carrying black briefcases.

There is a bomb in the black briefcase. This clue is too detailed. Noel found that he couldn't help complaining today. After all, although he hated the killer in his heart, he had always been precise and efficient and made a lot of low-level mistakes. This weird and absurd feeling made him feel in an indescribable complex mood.

There are four people with black briefcases in carriage No. 7. The first one looks like a very capable office man, the second one is a smart and capable woman, the third one is a burly old man, and the fourth one looks a bit like a gangster...

Who could it be? Conan pondered for a while, and just as he was about to ask questions one by one, he suddenly heard Xia Chuankong's voice:

"That woman, her makeup is a bit strange."

"Makeup?" This rarely touches on Conan's blind spot.

"Usually, such a sophisticated strong woman would always carry makeup tools to tidy up her appearance, but her lipstick has faded. Did she not touch up her makeup after dinner?"

"No touch-up on your makeup?" Conan looked at the strong woman's bright red lipstick and expressed doubt about what Natsukawa Sora said.

"I studied fine arts." Xia Chuankong said lightly. He was not talking nonsense. If the color of the lady's lipstick was not deliberately applied lightly, it would definitely have been rubbed off. After all, looking at the red suit she was wearing, a darker lipstick would have been more in line with the look.

Of course, this little thing cannot directly determine that there is something wrong with this woman, but it is enough to let the young detective investigate it first.

"Okay, I'll go ask first," Conan replied helplessly, but he couldn't help but complain: "Studying art also requires this?"

"I can tell the difference between lipstick shades." Noel said lightly, but Conan was instantly in awe. Although Xiaolan didn't wear makeup, he had the good fortune to accompany his mother to buy cosmetics, and distinguishing between the various shades of red that had only slight differences was like a hellish reasoning problem.

Conan adjusted his state and walked to the side of the strong woman in the red suit, while Noel subconsciously shrank into the corner and waited. After all, with his 1.84-meter height, trying to get people to talk would only make them more cautious.

Noel had just decided what he wanted to change in the plot, which was the explosion of the bomb.

In the original novel, Conan determined the exact location of the bomb at the last second, then kicked it into the sea. The bomb exploded in mid-air and no one was killed.

Now, there are still 20 minutes left before the explosion, and the police have been called in the name of Kudo Shinichi. Although the police are a bit slow, it shouldn't be a problem for them to arrive in 20 minutes... probably.

That is to say, there is a possibility that the bomb can be defused before it explodes.

Noel was calculating in his mind, and by the way, if the police did not arrive on time, Noel would naturally have a plan B, which was to use this opportunity to test his survival BUFF again.

The last bomb that had to explode in the plot was the one with Kenji, but it was offset. But we cannot rule out the possibility that it was because the time gap with the main storyline was too far. Moreover, although Kenji Hagiwara is quite popular, he does not have much role in the main storyline after all. Maybe he is just a minor character in the eyes of the world.

So what if he could get this bomb that exploded in the original book? This guess made Noel excited, but he quickly restrained himself and thought of Xiaoguang, so he quickly took out his mobile phone to prepare the "backup plan."

"Brother Kong, it's her."

Just as Noel finished editing the last mobile phone instruction, Conan came running over breathlessly, then whispered in Noel's ear, for which Noel even squatted down.

"She said she saw Mount Fuji, but she couldn't see it from where she was, unless she went to the dining car and subconsciously wanted to hide it."

"I even specifically asked her if she had been to the dining car, and she directly denied it." She also took another look at the lipstick, but didn't find anything wrong with it.

Conan added silently in his heart.

"OK, then..."

Noel flexed his wrist and said, "Let's just go for it."

Under Conan's shocked eyes, Noel walked over.

"Wait, you—"

"Hello, miss," Noel smiled shyly, his 1.84-meter height making him look harmless.

"What's wrong?"

Apparently, Noel's looks made this strong woman nervous about her size, but not overly wary.

"I want to ask about your lipstick shade..."

Is this a way to pick up girls? It's too low-level, Conan who was hiding nearby couldn't help but complain. He thought that Natsukawa Sora was a bit sinister, but was he really natural?

"Why are you asking this?" The woman immediately became alert upon hearing this, and even couldn't help but hold her bag. It was obvious that this inexplicable conversation made her suspicious.

"I...the girl I like, I feel like she would like this color." Noel smiled shyly, and his grey-green eyes softened instantly with a hint of tenderness, like a clumsy boy who has fallen in love. Although he is very shy, he still musters up the courage to talk to a stranger for the girl he likes.

"Girl, this color is probably not suitable." The woman believed what he said and relaxed her tone a little. She said, "If you are not very old, light pink will be more suitable."

"She mentioned before that she wanted to be more mature and not always treated as a little girl," Noel said with a nostalgic look, "Although I don't quite understand it, but I found out that dark lipstick would be more suitable for a more mature look..."

"You haven't confessed to her yet?" The woman couldn't help but laugh when she heard that, no longer doubting the identity of the man in front of her, "She said she wanted to be more mature, but she didn't mean for you to give her a dark lipstick..."

"Huh?" Noel looked puzzled and confused.

"Obviously she is hinting at you to confess your feelings..." The woman couldn't help but sound disappointed. Seeing that the slow-thinking man in front of her had finally opened his mouth, her hand holding the briefcase had already loosened.

Noel coughed twice, suggesting Conan to move faster, but he found that the other party was a little slow.

You're not proactive in solving the case and finding the bomb this time?

Conan, from the beginning, looked confused, like a novice who had fallen into a high-end game, and he completely understood how the conversation between the two was established.

Why did he want to confess his love instead of lipstick? It doesn't make sense!