Chapter 2745 2757 [Letter from Sadako] Asking for monthly votes ()
Mao Lilan, who was cleaning the table, heard this and suddenly realized: "So that's how it is, he is worthy of it."
"..." This was not what Conan wanted to say, but he couldn't come up with anything at the moment, so he could only rely on his feelings and say, "Don't you think this is... a little strange?"
"Are you trying to say this is a sting operation?" Mao Lilan suddenly understood. She laughed, "You are still young and don't understand this. In fact, when Shinichi solves a case, he will deliberately say something to provoke the criminal to take certain actions, so that he can be captured faster. This is also a necessary skill for detectives, just like ripening an abscess and then cleaning it out thoroughly."
"?" Conan retorted, "How could I..."
He suddenly stopped talking halfway through his words: He seemed to have actually done something similar.
And there are quite a few.
"... Am I being hypocritical?" After a moment of silence, Conan reflected in his heart, "That's right, we can't go to Yoshinoya every day. If one day we don't make it in time and Mrs. Yoshino is unfortunately killed, the situation will be irreversible."
"From this perspective, Jiang Xia's behavior is no different from the way he beat up those prisoners before. It's just a kind of kindness with a bit of violence. Maybe I'm overthinking it..."
…
Although the case of Mrs. Yoshino was just an ordinary one among countless cases, not only Conan, but others also kept thinking about it for some unknown reason.
On the second day of class, Mao Lilan held her chin and stared at the illustrations in the textbook: "..." I don't know why, but I always feel that the tall man who asked Jiang Xia for a commission a few days ago looks a little familiar. Especially when he turned around and left...
"Where have I seen him before?" Mao Lilan sighed, poking the blank space in the corner of the textbook with the tip of her pen, and kept muttering to herself, "And every time I think about it, I feel heavy and depressed in my heart. Could it be that... I am allergic to people with this physique?"
Next to her, Suzuki Sonoko glanced over here and began to sweat profusely.
After a moment, thinking about the iron-clad friendship between their besties since childhood, she couldn't help but whispered, "Xiao Lan, Xiao Lan!"
Mao Lilan was concentrating in a daze and did not react at all.
Suzuki Sonoko looked at the approaching teacher, hardened her heart, and poked him with her hand.
Mao Lilan came back to her senses: "Sonoko? What's wrong?"
"What's wrong?" A bright color suddenly caught her sight. Judy had walked down from the podium without her knowing. She leaned over in front of Mao Lilan and said with a smile in that strange Japanese accent, "I should be the one to ask this question - Xiaolan, are you listening to my lecture?"
"?!" Mao Lilan was completely awake and nodded guiltily, "I, I...I listened."
"Really?" Judy raised her hand and pointed the chalk in her hand in the direction of the blackboard, where a huge "X" was drawn. "Then tell me, what does this symbol mean?"
Mao Lilan: "Is it a wrong number, or... is it a capital X?"
There was a burst of sympathetic laughter in the class. At the next table, Suzuki Sonoko covered her face, unable to bear the sight.
She was just about to explain the meaning of the symbols to her distracted best friend when suddenly, the bell for the end of get out of class rang.
"Oh, it's time to end the get out of class." Judy looked at the watch and smiled at Mao Lilan, "Then please guess the meaning of 'X' - before the next class, you must think of the correct answer. This is a cute meaning that all girls should know."
What does cute mean?
Mao Lilan nodded blankly: "Okay."
…
After another math class, it was soon time to go home.
Mao Lilan's thoughts were forcibly pulled back by an "X". As a good student, she had to stop thinking about the strange tall man and began to seriously guess what Teacher Judy meant by "X".
"Sonoko." After thinking for a while and not coming up with anything, Mao Lilan began to seek help from outsiders. She asked stealthily, "Did you listen to the class before?"
"Of course I did." Suzuki Sonoko puffed out her chest proudly, and before Mao Lilan could speak, she spoke first, "But I won't tell you! - You look quite cute when you're thinking seriously, I want to watch you for a while longer!"
Mao Lilan: “…” You are really my best friend.
It was still early, so the two planned to go somewhere else for a walk as usual.
As soon as she walked out of a street, Suzuki Sonoko looked in a direction with a sense of something, and then her eyes lit up. She waved to a bookstore in front of her: "Jiang Xia!"
Jiang Xia turned around and saw an elementary school student in front of him who was concentrating on browsing a mystery magazine.
Conan was interrupted: "..."
…
"The magazines at the detective agency are a bit out of date, and the boss was too lazy to order new ones, so I decided to come over and buy some myself."
Jiang Xia was in a good mood as he met these three classmates who symbolized good luck. He glanced at Mao Lilan and asked, "What are you worried about?"
Mao Lilan nodded, and she looked at the detective who always knew a lot: "Do you know what the capital 'X' means?"
"'X'?" Conan asked curiously, "Why do you ask this suddenly?"
Mao Lilan: "This is what teacher Judy mentioned during class chat. She also said that it has a cute meaning that every girl should know."
Conan touched his chin and started brainstorming: "In addition to common letters, one of the most common uses of X is to refer to an unknown number. It can also refer to something unknown, unclear, or uncertain. In addition, there are x-rays. Some places will also post an 'X' to indicate that minors are prohibited from entering..."
Jiang Xia couldn't listen any longer: "Is this cute?"
Conan: “…” Well, these meanings are indeed not very cute.
"Speaking of which..."
Conan suddenly remembered something: when his mother Kudo Yukiko wrote to him, she would occasionally write "XXX to Shinichi" and said that it meant "啾啾啾".
"Does it mean kissing? And the kind of kiss on the cheek?" Conan guessed secretly, "It doesn't make sense. Would the teacher teach this kind of thing in class? Maybe I'm wrong..."
Next to him, Jiang Xia took out his cell phone.
The FBI has created an interesting puzzle. It would be a shame if it wasn’t sent to more people. To deal with a riddler, you need to use another riddler.
With this in mind, he randomly picked a lucky person from the contact list:
[to Curacao
Long time no see, what are you busy with recently?
XXX]
…
A city far away.
Curacao, who had just finished a busy day, felt his pocket vibrate and took out his cell phone to take a look.
When she saw the sender clearly, she trembled all over, and shredded the email at a speed that was unimaginable for ordinary people, and put the phone back in her pocket as it was.
Unfortunately, although she wanted to pretend nothing happened, her excellent intelligence gathering ability hurt her a lot at this moment - those few lines of words appeared clearly in her mind, clearer than on the screen.
(End of this chapter)
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