Chapter 1040 1048 [Go find the bomb quickly]
President Shiraki asked Ozaki Midori in a deep voice: "I heard that you received a boring threatening letter?"
Ozaki Sui nodded: "...Yes."
Okano Rika laughed and looked at Shiraki Daisuke: "Such a small thing actually reached you, you guys are taking it too seriously - I have said many times that someone was just jealous of my talent and achievements, so they sent that kind of thing."
"Yes, I think so too."
President Shiraki nodded in agreement and looked at Okano Rika: "It's good that you know it in your heart. Anyway, don't delay tonight's party because of such nonsense. I went to the trouble of inviting so many celebrities, not for you to stand them up."
"Do you even need to tell me that?" Okano Rika frowned. "This is a party held for me. I will definitely let it go on as usual."
The two hit it off and quickly reached a consensus.
…
President Shiraki seemed to have something else to do. After confirming Rika Okano's attitude towards the banquet, he did not stay long and left quickly.
Ozaki Sui breathed a sigh of relief and sat back on the sofa.
When she looked up, she saw three young men opposite her looking at the door. She introduced them in a low voice:
"That's Mr. Daisuke Shiraki. He's Ms. Okano's patron and has always praised her avant-garde art."
"Praise? Humph, he just thinks there is a business opportunity here." Okano Rika kicked the stool away, stood up, raised her middle finger towards the closed door, and cursed, "Thinking that a few stinky dollars can buy art, that face is really disgusting - my flowers are not blooming for him, flowers should only bloom as they please."
As she spoke, she stopped beside the coffee table, turned her wrist, and suddenly a flower branch appeared between her fingers.
The emerald green branches, with flower buds that had not yet bloomed, were handed to Jiang Xia.
Jiang Xia was startled and looked down at the flower. Conan and Suzuki Sonoko also looked over at the same time.
Under the gaze of the three people, the flower bud that was originally tightly closed suddenly blossomed, and the tender and bright petals stretched out one by one.
"Wow!" Suzuki Sonoko's eyes lit up.
A second later, he suddenly felt something was wrong: "...Huh?"
Okano Rika smiled at her and reached out to pin the flower to Jiang Xia's collar: "Threat letters and the like don't matter at all. You can check if you want, but don't cause me any trouble."
After saying that, she looked at Ozaki Midori and said, "Go prepare the things for the performance."
“…Okay!” Ozaki Midori came to her senses and quickly got up and followed her.
The two people walked out one after the other, and the door of the lounge closed with a click.
“…”
Suzuki Sonoko looked at Jiang Xia with a sinister gaze, then looked at the flower. For a moment, she didn't know whether she should take out her mobile phone to take a picture as a souvenir, or condemn the hateful artist who touched her so casually.
However, before she could figure out what was going on, Jiang Xia had already raised his hand and took the flower down.
He found a wet wipe and wiped the part of his neck that had touched the flower branch. He then looked at the flower in his hand and sniffed it. "It smells like refrigerant."
"Hmm?" Conan suddenly thought of something, took the flower and studied it, then revealed an "I see" look, "The mechanism that controls the blooming of flowers should be the refrigerant - first use cold air to close the flowers, and then after a certain period of time, the petals will open again... Although the principle is not difficult, it is really amazing to come up with this idea."
Suzuki Sonoko gave his review a thumbs down.
Jiang Xia didn't seem to be very interested in finding out other people's magic secrets.
He quickly stood up like a decent man, patted his suit, and seemed to have already started working: "Let's go to the venue first."
Conan nodded, with the same idea:
Since the threat actor explicitly mentioned the "banquet" tonight, whether he shows up in person and kills people, or plants bombs or other killing devices at the venue, he will definitely leave traces at the venue.
Of course, the best outcome would be that the threatening letter was really just a prank, and no one would die at the dinner party.
Conan secretly prayed that the day would pass peacefully.
…
The three of them walked around the scene several times, but this kind of investigation was obviously completely different from the usual three-four-five choice reasoning.
Conan looked up at the people coming and going and felt that everyone was suspicious, but when he looked more closely, no one was that suspicious.
He finally sighed, retracted his gaze, walked to Jiang Xia's side, and tried to secretly flip through the reference book:
"Do you see anything?"
"Well..." Jiang Xia touched his chin, turned his head and looked to the side, his eyes solemn and thoughtful.
Conan was startled and immediately became alert. He turned his head quickly and looked in the direction Jiang Xia was looking.
I thought I would see a suspicious person with shifty eyes.
But it didn’t.
——At the end of the sight is a dining table, which is at the same height as an adult's waist and covered with a tablecloth that reaches the ground.
Just then, a lady passed by in her long skirt, and the breeze she created caused the tablecloth to sway slightly.
"It's not easy to catch a deliberately disguised suspect among so many people. Since there is no result in this regard, I think..."
Jiang Xia half-knelt down, leaned close to Conan's ear, and whispered: "Why don't we look for bombs or other lethal objects - I always feel that it is easy to hide things under the table."
Conan sensed a hidden meaning in the words.
He looked at the tablecloth-covered dining table, then looked at his own height, and finally met Jiang Xia's expectant eyes: "..."
"Haha, it seems that I didn't bring you here in vain today." Suzuki Sonoko also understood Jiang Xia's meaning, patted Conan on the forehead, and said in a deep voice, "Go, probe!"
Conan: “…”
He stared at the two old classmates who abused child labor in condemnation and didn't want to pay any attention to them.
However, as I thought about it, it seemed to make more and more sense - what if there really is a bomb hidden under the table?
Conan looked up and estimated the number of people in the banquet hall. Finally, while no one was paying attention, he took advantage of Jiang Xia and Suzuki Sonoko's cover and dived under the tablecloth.
…
After some investigation, unfortunately... no, fortunately, there was nothing strange hidden under the dining table.
Conan sighed and crawled out from under the table.
He was just about to tell Jiang Xia and Suzuki Sonoko about his achievements.
When I looked up, I saw a man who looked like a secretary standing next to the two classmates.
"You must be the famous detective, right?" The secretary pushed his glasses up and stared at Jiang Xia with shining eyes. "Well, I want to trouble you with something..."
When Jiang Xia heard this, he felt like he understood something - it seemed like he was here to ask for an autograph.
So he skillfully took out a signed business card and handed it over.
——Of course, the signature cannot be given for free.
At least you have to exchange it with the other person's business card.
(End of this chapter)
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