Chapter 2420 2432 [Weak and helpless Huiyuan Ai]
Kudo Shinichi understood something, he looked down at Tatsumi Sakurako and asked softly: "Do you often do this behind other people's backs?"
Mumu Police Department: "..."
…Enough, we are solving a case, not making a weird movie!! If we continue like this, our police force will be complained about!
He was about to rush up to stop this Kudo brother who had developed a strange habit of solving cases during his trip, but at this moment, a sharp chill quietly brushed across the back of his neck.
"?!" Inspector Megure was startled and turned around suddenly, almost wanting to take the explosion-proof shield to block it.
But when he looked carefully, he found that there was no danger or enemy behind him, only another familiar child.
"Ran?" Inspector Megure breathed a sigh of relief and went to greet her. "You're here too. Where's your dad? Didn't he come out for a walk?"
Mao Lilan smiled and nodded at him: "My dad is at home. I just came here to eat today. I heard some noise here, so I came over to take a look."
"Oh." Inspector Megure still felt a chill on his back for some reason, but looking at the gentle and lovely high school girl in front of him, he was at a loss for a moment.
And Mao Lilan had already turned her head and looked at Kudo Shinichi who was standing at the elevator door.
Kudo Shinichi's mind was full of solving the case, and he was still looking at Tatsumi Sakurako: "Oh, there is one more thing. Your pearl earrings match the pearl necklace that Mr. Ohba gave you very well. Could it be that these earrings were also a gift from that gentleman?"
"Haha, you guessed wrong. I bought this on the way here." Tatsumi Sakurako laughed, "Mr. Ohba would give me the same pearl necklace. I can only say that we are in sync."
She was just about to tease the detective who guessed wrong, but at this moment, Tatsumi Sakurako's eyes paused and fell on a female high school student who appeared out of nowhere.
Tatsumi Sakurako: “…” I don’t know why, but I always feel like I should leave quickly.
Thinking of this, the president's daughter followed her inner instinct, picked up her skirt, and ran away in small steps.
Kudo Shinichi looked at her back, turned around with satisfaction, and said to Jiangxia and Inspector Megure: "I understand now, the murderer of this murder must be... Xiaolan?!"
He recalled his actions belatedly, his face turned pale: "You, why are you here!"
Mao Lilan took a step forward, smiled and raised her hand.
Next to her, Haibara Ai silently covered her eyes and moved to hide behind Jiang Xia.
…
"You solve the case first. I have to go home and do my homework."
After a while, Mao Lilan walked to Jiang Xia's side under the horrified gaze of the police. She hesitated for a moment and whispered, "That was a wrong example just now. You are a serious detective. Don't let that guy lead you astray."
Jiang Xia looked at the cracked floor and the neighbor with stars in his eyes in the middle of the floor, and nodded slowly: "... Don't worry, I know."
After giving her instructions, Mao Lilan walked away with her feet stomping on the ground.
Jiang Xia lowered her head and vaguely saw that a few more tiles had broken as she passed by.
Huiyuan Ai was also looking at those innocent tiles. After she finished, she looked up at Jiang Xia. The two looked at each other in silence for a while. Huiyuan Ai felt that she should say something here: "...Ms. Maori is right."
Jiang Xia: “…Yeah.”
At this moment, a figure came back, reached out from behind, and easily picked up Haibara Ai.
Huibara Ai suddenly flew into the air again: "?!"
"Why did you come here too?" Mao Lilan touched the head of the fake elementary school student with pity, and whispered, "That bastard actually did such a shameless thing in front of a child... You must learn from this and don't become that kind of adult when you grow up. Even if you want to be a detective, you must choose the right role model - Jiang Xia is a good example."
As she said this, she hugged Huihara Ai and said hello to Jiang Xia: "It's getting late. I'll take the child home to sleep first. You should also go to bed early."
"???"
Haibara Ai stretched out her hand towards Jiang Xia and signaled with her eyes: I am not Conan, and I don’t want to stay overnight at Mori’s house. Find a way to keep me here!
Jiang Xia looked down at the reflective glasses on her nose and the little hand she stretched out to him, then raised his hand and clapped his hands with hers: "Go ahead."
Huiyuan Ai: “…”
Mao Lilan nodded at him, turned around and left, picking up the child who was nominally staying at their house.
While they were out, several company members took advantage of the situation and sneaked into the cordon.
"Hey, why is there a person lying here?" Several company members who had hurried over to watch the show were startled. They looked down at Kudo Shinichi, took a closer look, and found that this was a living person, not the second murder victim. So they quickly forgot about this strange person lying on the floor.
The onlookers looked towards the scene and accidentally saw Jiang Xia. They recognized him as a famous detective, so they asked curiously, "I heard that Minister Ohba was taken away for investigation. Could he be the murderer?"
Jiang Xia picked up Kudo Shinichi and placed him against the wall to prevent this precious classmate from being stepped on, and then answered a few questions from the crowd: "It's just a suspicion at the moment, but it seems that there is no gunpowder reaction detected on his body. Do you have any clues about him?"
Minister Ohba's popularity didn't seem very good. Instead of defending him, the onlookers enthusiastically discussed: "The reason why the smoke reaction couldn't be detected was probably because he changed his clothes. I remember that when he appeared at the commemorative reception just now, he was wearing a mascot doll suit. When he entered the locker room and put on the doll suit, didn't he have the opportunity to change out of his original clothes?"
"Is there such a thing?" Inspector Megure didn't expect that Jiang Xia's casual question would actually reveal a key clue. He quickly asked, "Tell me in detail."
Member of the melon-eating club: "Our cocktail party tonight is nominally for the anniversary, but in fact the main purpose is to announce our company's new mascot - and the person in charge of wearing the doll suit at the cocktail party is Manager Ohba."
Inspector Megure felt that he understood: "That is to say, as long as he prepared a set of identical clothes in advance, he could use the excuse of changing into a doll costume and put on another set of clothes without gunpowder in the locker room to evade our gunpowder inspection... No wonder that guy was so confident just now!"
Another male member scratched his head when he heard this: "But the mascot costume is difficult to wear. When Mr. Ohba put it on, he was not alone. I and several other male colleagues were there to help. I didn't see that he prepared another set of clothes at that time."
Jiang Xia looked at his watch and said, "Anyway, take us over to take a look at the doll costume first. Maybe we can find some useful clues from it."
(End of this chapter)
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