Chapter 337: A fickle woman
If there is a problem, it must be solved.
So Vermouth pondered for a moment, used the same trick again, found the number without any remarks, and dialed it.
There were "beep" and "beep" sounds coming from the mobile phone receiver.
A few seconds later, the phone was picked up and a little boy's voice came from the other end.
The voice had a childish tone, but the tone was completely like that of an adult.
Conan asked suspiciously through the receiver: "Why did you suddenly call my number? What happened?"
Conan remembered that Jiang Xia seldom called him on his own initiative - after all, "Edogawa Conan" was an elementary school student who needed a guardian to look after him. Even if Jiang Xia wanted to take him out to solve a case, he had to first go to find Maori Ran or Maori Kogoro to transfer.
What is even more worrying is that Jiang Xia actually called Kudo Shinichi's number - usually Conan would touch the wrong phone in a trance and accidentally dial "Kudo Shinichi"'s number, but Jiang Xia has never made a wrong call, so what happened today?
Could it be that Jiang Xia was dealing with a difficult commission and in his busy schedule didn't see the number clearly and just dialed it at random?
——As a senior member of the Brain Supplement Association, Conan instantly had a thrilling image of T flashing through his mind, and he was eager to join.
…
While Conan was wondering, on the other end of the phone.
Vermouth was stunned at first, and then she felt like a bolt of lightning struck her heart.
——This is the voice of cool guy when he was a child!
If you want to learn to fake voice and imitate sounds accurately, you need a lot of talent.
Vermouth is obviously a genius in this regard. She is very sensitive to people's voices - nearly ten years ago, she was a good friend of "Sharon Wynyard" and Kudo Yukiko. At that time, Vermouth had seen the young version of Kudo Shinichi and naturally heard his voice.
In an instant, the fragments of information that Vermouth had came together like pieces of a puzzle.
As someone who knows the true effect of APTX4869, she instantly formed a guess in her mind.
——Cool guy is still alive, he just became smaller!
…
"……Hello?"
On the other end of the phone, Conan hadn't heard a response for too long, and his voice became noticeably more alert. It seemed that he had begun to doubt whether the person holding the phone was Jiang Xia.
Vermouth was interrupted by his voice and came back to her senses from her surprise and astonishment.
Then she suddenly became playful and changed her voice to Mao Lilan's, saying sweetly: "'This number'? So you have another number, why didn't you tell me?"
Several thousand meters away.
Conan stopped suddenly.
After a moment of silence, a layer of cold sweat slowly broke out on his back, and he blurted out: "Who are you?!"
——Xiaolan used Jiang Xia's cell phone to call "Kudo Shinichi". It was Conan who answered the phone, but she didn't ask any questions at all. Instead, she jokingly talked about the other number... This is totally unlike her character, and it's not the reaction she would make at all!
And didn't Xiaolan go to a concert? But now, the background sound on the other end of the phone was so quiet.
Countless thoughts flashed through Conan's mind, and he instantly came to a conclusion that made him shudder.
——The person who was talking to him was not Ran Mouri at all, he was just imitating her voice!
…
While asking, Conan took out another mobile phone belonging to "Conan" and tentatively sent a message to Suzuki Sonoko, asking about the situation - he remembered that the two best friends went to a concert together today.
On the opposite side, Vermouth looked at her phone and raised her eyebrows in slight surprise.
She thought that by contacting cool guy with Angel's voice on Uzo's phone, she could see the ups and downs of the friendship between the kids...but she was exposed after just one sentence.
Vermouth sighed helplessly and hung up the phone.
She reviewed the two calls she had just made and quickly sorted out her thoughts.
——Cool guy is still alive, but he was shrunk by APTX4869. Uzo knew this, but still protected him, allowing this detective who should have been "dead" to move around him.
"The attempt to silence a witness failed" and "the target of silence not only survived but also underwent abnormal changes" are two completely different matters.
The former can also be seen as Usa feeling that "even if Kudo Shinichi is alive, he cannot fight against the organization on his own", so he thinks of the old friendship and leaves the cool guy alone.
But now, in the latter situation, it is really surprising that Uzo did this.
Vermouth: "..." Any member who is loyal to the organization should not hide such an important thing... This "good seedling" that Gin is optimistic about is indeed very watery in some aspects. Tsk, poor Gin.
But, speaking of this, is the relationship between childhood friends really that strong? I never thought that the relationship between cool guy and Jiang Xia was that good before. I always felt that there were some changes that she didn't understand.
Vermouth vaguely found a new direction for investigation.
Before, she said that she had investigated Uzo, but in fact, all her energy was focused on the missing Kudo Shinichi, and her understanding of "Jiang Xia Tongzhi" was all incidental.
And now... Vermouth thought secretly that it was time to adjust the center of gravity.
She deleted the two call records, walked out of the cleaning room, pried open the door next door, glanced at Wu Zuo who was sleeping soundly on the bed, threw her phone into the room, and left briskly.
The parent ghosts, clinging tightly to Jiang Xia's legs, looked up at her leaving back and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
…
As the elevator went down, Vermouth was getting farther and farther away from Jiang Xia and his ghost.
Slowly, her frown that had relaxed began to furrow again.
Vermouth: “…” She was really drunk - even if Uzo seemed to have a good relationship with Cool Guy and Angel, how could this be a reason to let him stay with them?
Uzo is a man who has fallen into darkness, and judging from the information provided by Gin and Vodka, his spiritual world is also different from that of ordinary people.
Perhaps Usa's refusal to report Kudo Shinichi had nothing to do with friendship, but he simply thought that the "adult becoming small" thing was very interesting, so he wanted to keep Kudo Shinichi nearby and observe him more. Or maybe the fact of "doing some small things in private without telling the organization" itself could bring Usa a pleasant stimulation.
——Otherwise, how do you explain that Jiang Xia had a mediocre relationship with Kudo Shinichi when they were young, but after Kudo Shinichi became a child, Usa was willing to provide him with shelter?
What if, to Uzo, Cool Guy is just a rare toy? Then, once the existence of the toy is exposed and endangers Uzo himself, he might destroy the body first to protect himself, achieving the ending he has repeatedly emphasized before: "Kudo is dead"!
Vermouth thought of this terrible consequence, and then thought about what she had just done: using Uzo's phone to call Mouri Ran and Kudo Shinichi, and using their voices to tease and test them respectively.
...Doesn't this perfectly trigger the "condition for silencing" that she had imagined!
A layer of cold sweat silently broke out on Vermouth's back, and she was angry at her own stupid behavior. How dare she treat Uzo as a harmless ordinary high school student? ... He was obviously a person that even Gin occasionally felt a headache for!
The elevator dinged and stopped on the first floor.
The door opened with a bang, but under the shocked gaze of the front desk girl, Vermouth did not walk out.
She gritted her teeth, suddenly raised her hand and tapped the button, pressing the floor where Jiang Xia's room was.
——We cannot leave such a huge hidden danger.
While Uzo is still drunk, go back and kill him.
…Although the fact that “Usa only treats Kudo Shinichi as a toy” and “Usa treats Kudo Shinichi as a buddy” are just her speculations, and she can’t tell which one is more correct. But she doesn’t want to gamble with Angel and Cool Guy’s lives.
Although she felt a little sorry for Jiang Xia, she also had things she had to protect.
The elevator door closed and started moving upward again.
Vermouth pinched her forehead hard, trying to make her gaze firm.
"..." She actually hesitated when she thought about killing Wu Zuo... He was just a member of the organization she had just met. It had been too long since she had any serious contact with the organization, and she was so soft-hearted.
(End of this chapter)
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