Chapter 3411 3423 [Full Moon Without Me? ]
Mao Lilan shook her head. "It clearly says 'Incompetent Detective Mao Li Kogoro' at the beginning. How could it be sent to the wrong person? - Even if there is someone with the same name, that person can't be a detective, and also can't be a very incompetent... ahem, always confused."
Maori Kogoro still felt something was wrong: "But I don't know any foreigners. He must have confused me with someone else. You can call Agasa and ask him. I remember that in the societies he attended, there were always a few weird foreigners."
"Okay." Mao Lilan hadn't seen any foreigners in the office recently, so she took out her cell phone and called Dr. Agasa.
After explaining the reason, there was silence on the other end of the phone.
After a while, Dr. Agasa's voice came from the receiver: "Sorry, Xiaolan, I have never heard of the name Vermouth."
"Is that so?" Mao Lilan was a little disappointed. She muttered doubtfully, "Then who could have sent it?"
Foreigners, foreigners...huh?
Suddenly, the image of a foreign woman with blonde hair, blue eyes and glasses appeared in Mao Lilan's mind.
——Teacher Judy.
...However, Teacher Judy is obviously more interested in young people and children, and she probably wouldn't send an invitation to a middle-aged man like my dad.
"Why not ask Jiang Xia?" Mao Lilan pondered secretly, "Jiang Xia must have come into contact with many clients, and he is a detective like my father. Maybe one of the foreigners was confused and accidentally sent the invitation letter that he wanted to send to Jiang Xia to my father?"
Just as I was thinking about it, the voice of Dr. Agasa sounded again on the other end of the phone.
The doctor asked tentatively, "Is your dad going to this Halloween party?"
"Of course I did!" Maori Kogoro was listening nearby and waved his fist. "If anyone dares to pick a fight, then we'll take it!"
"Is that so?" Dr. Agasa thought for a moment and then asked, "Then, Xiaolan, you're not going too, are you?"
"What am I going to do!" Mao Lilan shuddered. "This is Halloween, and the invitation says everyone should dress up as monsters and wear formal black suits or black dresses... I don't want to go on a ship full of monsters."
Dr. Agasa and Conan, who was eavesdropping quietly, breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this: That's good.
"Speaking of which..." Just as I was thinking, I heard Mao Lilan across from me walk a few steps away and whispered:
"I was wondering, if even a detective like my dad received this kind of invitation, would the organizers also send similar things to other detectives? -Have you seen the postman go to Jiangxia or Xinyi's house recently?"
Dr. Agasa quickly and quietly looked at Conan.
Conan also quickly gestured to him to keep quiet.
Dr. Agasa then understood: "No, I'll check their mailbox later. If I receive it, I'll let you know."
Mao Lilan responded, thought for a moment, and then instructed: "Please don't tell Conan about this. Every time that child goes to such a dangerous place, he likes to run around alone, and..."
...And the person who sent the letter was a foreigner, and Teacher Judy who was targeting Conan was also a foreigner. If there was any connection between them, it would be too dangerous for Conan to run onto the ship.
Dr. Agasa waited, but nothing came of it. Curious, he asked, "And what?"
Mao Lilan came back to her senses and quickly shook her head: "Nothing! I just remembered that he ran around and got into danger before."
Although Teacher Judy is very suspicious, no matter how suspicious she is, we cannot treat her as a pervert without evidence. Otherwise, once her reputation is tarnished, it will be difficult to clean it up.
After all, you still have to do your research first!
After hanging up the phone, Mao Lilan clenched her fists and suddenly realized something.
"The kids' tennis match and Halloween on this ship happen to be on the same day... Which one should I focus on first?"
"Think about it carefully. If I go to watch the tennis match during the day, if everything goes well, I can be back in the evening. Although I don't dare to get on the boat, I can keep an eye on Conan from under the boat to prevent him from getting on board as well."
"The timing is just right, but I might have been a little nervous on the way..."
After quickly planning the day's itinerary, Mao Lilan picked up her phone again and found Jiang Xia's number.
"I don't know if Jiang Xia has received the invitation, or..."
Knock knock.
Suddenly, there were two knocks on the door.
Maori Ran and Maori Kogoro were startled and looked towards the door at the same time. Maori Ran walked over in confusion, opened the door, and saw Jiang Xia outside.
"Wow!" Kogoro Mouri's eyes lit up and he made a surprised sound. He looked down and saw that Jiang Xia was holding a bag with Miss Yoko's new CD in it.
"Come in, come in." Maori Kogoro immediately acted like a good uncle next door. "Are you hungry? Eat something! Uh, but Xiaolan hasn't cooked yet, so I only have some edamame to go with the wine."
"Really?" Jiang Xia handed the things he brought to Maori Kogoro, then looked at the edamame on the table. Naturally, he found something else, "What is this?"
"It's an invitation." Mao Lilan put down her phone. She hadn't expected Jiang Xia to come by so coincidentally, so she didn't even need to call. She hurried to the table and explained the whole story to this reliable detective, hoping that Jiang Xia would be able to figure out what was going on once he had enough clues.
…
The other side.
At Dr. Agasa's house.
Conan was holding an identical invitation letter in his hand.
After Dr. Agasa hung up the phone, he suddenly remembered something and said to Conan: "What Xiaolan said makes sense. Since Kogoro and you both received invitations, did this Vermouth also send the same thing to Jiang Xia?"
Conan frowned. "I've been keeping an eye on the area today. No one has approached Jiang Xia's house. This invitation letter probably didn't reach him. Whether it's the Maori Detective Agency or this place, this Vermouth, they should all be targeting me."
Dr. Agasa scratched his head: "So who is Vermouth?"
"I don't know." Conan shrugged and looked at Huibara Ai who was sitting next to him. "Huibara should know the identity of the sender better than me. Like Gin and Vodka, Vermouth is also a kind of wine."
Huiyuan Ai shook her head: "I have never heard of this term, and I don't know much about wine."
Conan glanced at her and said, "This is a wine produced in Italy. Vermouth is its English pronunciation. In Tokyo, it is generally called...Berumotto, Vermouth."
"?!" Haibara Ai felt like she was hit by an ice hammer. Although she tried hard to restrain herself, she still trembled slightly.
"You've heard of it." Conan was not surprised at all. He exuded an eerie calmness that came after a heavy burden. "It seems that the sender of this letter is indeed from that dark organization."
(End of this chapter)
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