Chapter 3092 3104 [Legends All Over the Land]
Just as he was thinking worriedly, suddenly, a figure jumped out of his mind and Conan's eyes lit up.
"Oh, right, Hattori!" The fake elementary school student slapped his palm. "Although he is slightly inferior to me, Hattori is also a smart detective after all. And he is far away in Osaka. From the perspective of an outsider, he may be able to give some good suggestions."
"I'll go hang out with him when I have time, or ask him to come over to my place... It's not that I want to compete with him in solving cases to regain my confidence, but some things are inconvenient to talk about over the phone, and it's safer to communicate face to face."
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In any case, since they were unable to meet Mr. Yamaguchi, whom they wanted to visit, they had no choice but to leave the hospital and return empty-handed.
This place was not far from Beika Town, and the sunshine was nice, so they simply did not take the bus, but walked back on foot, just as if it were a stroll.
On the way, Maori Kogoro looked at the familiar neighborhood nearby and suddenly felt nostalgic: "Speaking of which, when I was young, I also rented a shabby apartment like Mr. Yamaguchi - those days were really nostalgic."
Mao Lilan grasped another key point and was horrified: "The place where you live is also haunted?"
"Of course not, I just said they are equally broken." Maori Kogoro looked at the roadside and tried to recall:
"That apartment should be nearby. I remember that it was so run-down that it stood out from the crowd in the residential area at that time, but it dared to be named 'Bright Apartment' - in fact, it should be called Hell Apartment, because every time I went out and came in, I felt that it would collapse and send all the residents straight to the underworld, but it actually held on until I moved out and graduated."
Conan looked at this cheerful old man, speechless: "..." You felt like the house was going to collapse, and you didn't run away? He is indeed a man who has made friends with a serial killer and still thinks that his vision of making friends is flawless...
Kogoro Mouri was unable to detect the slander coming from the fake elementary school student, but he suddenly wanted to punch Conan.
Conan's hair stood on end as well. He raised his head and then stared at the front in a daze. At the end of his sight, there stood a spacious and neat apartment. On its door hung a few large golden characters, "Guangming Apartment".
Jiang Xia was also looking at the building. He poked Maori Kogoro next to him and motioned him to look: "Uncle Maori, is this the apartment you were talking about?"
Maori Kogoro, who was still looking around for memories, had actually seen the glittering building a long time ago, but he just ignored it subconsciously. Now that Jiang Xia mentioned it again, he looked over again: "No, that shabby house is not so imposing...?"
Before he finished speaking, he looked at the sign of "Guangming Apartment" and was suddenly stunned.
——Thinking carefully, except for the shabbyness of the apartment, which did not match my impression, the rest of the geographical location, floor space, surrounding environment... all seemed to be exactly the same as the house in my memory.
...This building was rebuilt? ?
"Hmm? Maori?"
A surprised voice came from behind. Jiang Xia turned around and saw an elderly grandmother carrying a bag of fruit and looking up at Maori Kogoro.
Maori Kogoro turned around and recognized her at a glance: "Landlady! After all these years, you haven't changed at all."
The old lady laughed, revealing her toothless gums: "You have changed a lot. You even have children now, and so many of them."
"…No." Kogoro Mouri singled out Mouri Ran and said, "This is the only one I have as my daughter." - The other two are other people's children.
"Hmm?" The old lady took a closer look. When she saw Jiang Xia's face clearly, she blurted out, "You are Long Ping's child, right? You look exactly like him."
Conan: "..." Why are you blushing when you mentioned Jiang Xia's father? Didn't that charming uncle let you go too?
The old lady didn't notice the pupil's strange look. She stroked her face like a young woman and fell into sad memories: "My son had a good relationship with him back then, but unfortunately, in the blink of an eye, both of them are gone... Oh, let's not talk about this. Now that you are here, come in and sit down. I just brought some fruit from the garage."
"Let me help you carry it." Maori Kogoro took the heavy bag from the old lady. "Why did you suddenly want to take the fruit? Do you have guests in your apartment?"
The old lady laughed, put her hands behind her back and led them into the house, saying, "A new tenant has moved in. I saw that he was injured, so I planned to send him some fruit to comfort him and give him a warm shower."
"Is there any injury?" Conan was startled, and blurted out intuitively, "Is your new tenant's last name 'Yamaguchi'?"
"Yes." The landlady was a little surprised. "How did you know?"
Conan: "..." He just made a random guess, but he actually got it right?!
"Why is that suspicious guy here?" A primary school student detective was shocked. At the same time, he felt a chill creeping up his heart.
"Did he predict our actions, or did he guess that we would go to the hospital to visit him and walk home after the visit failed, so he cleverly guided us from the public place of the hospital to the private apartment where he lived in this way?"
"If that's true, doesn't it mean that 'Mr. Yamaguchi' knows Uncle Maori's past address and knows that Jiang Xia's father has some relationship with the landlord? ... Could it be that the organization has conducted a detailed investigation of all the circumstances surrounding Uncle Maori and Jiang Xia?!"
There must be a motive for investigating such a thing... Could it be that the organization discovered something unusual about "Conan" and started to dig deep to find the truth?
This flash of thought made Conan's heart almost jump out of his throat.
But soon, looking at the peaceful and harmonious streets, the fake elementary school student took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.
"No, the situation is not that dire. If it were, I would have been captured by them long ago, and I would not be able to stroll leisurely on the street like I am now."
He touched his chin and said, "Maybe that guy just wanted to get closer to Jiang Xia, but he instinctively avoided places like hospitals where there were a lot of people and eyes, so he changed the venue to a private residence where it would be easier to establish a relationship?... In short, we must not give ourselves away because of panic, and we must observe calmly first."
When the guilty high school detective was brainstorming.
Next to him, Kogoro Mouri was quite happy: he didn't expect that he had achieved his goal of visiting by accident - the flowers he bought when going to the hospital were also put to use. Fortunately, he didn't throw them away just now, so they don't have to be wasted.
(End of this chapter)
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