Chapter 3427 3439 [True Body]
After waiting for a few minutes, Suzuki Sonoko couldn't wait any longer.
She walked into the bathroom and looked at the cubicle doors lined up in a row: "Xiao Lan?"
No one answered, some of the cubicle doors were closed and some were open, and there was dead silence.
Suzuki Sonoko felt even more nervous. She walked over and pushed open the closed doors one by one, but the doors were always closed and there was no sign of anyone inside.
"She's not here?" Suzuki Sonoko was stunned. She turned around and went out, took out her cell phone and dialed Ran Mouri's number.
The ringtone rang, but no one answered. So Suzuki Sonoko asked the old lady behind the counter, "Have you seen where my friend has gone?"
The old lady was dozing off in her recliner when she suddenly heard a sound beside her ear. She started, rubbed her eyes, and sat up: "I wasn't paying attention."
At this moment, because no one answered the call, the phone was automatically hung up with a beep.
"!" Suzuki Sonoko panicked even more. She looked at the empty table and murmured, "Could something have happened..."
Just as she was thinking about it, her cell phone buzzed and she received a text message.
Suzuki Sonoko quickly lowered her head and saw that the sender was Ran Mouri, who had disappeared somewhere unknown.
She clicked on the message and saw that it said:
[Yuanzi, I just saw a celebrity player passing by. I want to go to the players' lounge with him to get an autographed photo. The lounge is a bit noisy, so you might not be able to hear the ringtone. If you have anything to say, don't call me, text me instead.]
Suzuki Sonoko: “…”
It turned out that he was going to chase stars, which scared her!
"But this is normal." Suzuki Sonoko nodded, her heart relieved. "Just now, there were so many tennis stars at the venue next door, and Xiaolan was so listless when asking for autographs that I thought something had happened to her... It seems she was too tired on the way here, and only came to her senses after resting in the cafe for a while."
"Haha, that's more like Xiaolan! But, Xiaolan was so anxious that she left without even sending me a message... What kind of celebrity is that over there? Could it be one of her favorite celebrities?"
Thinking of this, Suzuki Sonoko suddenly became more curious about the tennis court than the late sender.
She put down her phone and turned to walk towards the venue.
…
On the other side, in a nearby factory.
After sending the message, the man who had knocked Mao Lilan unconscious handed his phone to the man with glasses beside him: "If the other party calls or messages again, just reply casually and perfunctorily, and delay the time until night - I have to leave quickly."
The man with glasses nodded and took the phone, looking a little puzzled. "They really haven't called again... How do you know you can fool them like this?"
The man who knocked her out looked at Ran Mao Li who was sleeping on the ground. "She had a signature pad in her bag. She and another girl had asked Ma Yuan and the others to sign it before. I remember the girl's name was 'Sonoko'. It happened to be the same name on the caller ID, so I sent a message to try it out. It seems that my guess was right."
"'Yuanzi'..." the bespectacled man sighed again, "No wonder they were so interested in Yuanzi's lost phone. It turns out they have the same name. Oh, this girl is so unlucky. If she hadn't come just now, she wouldn't have been involved in all this trouble."
"It doesn't matter. Everything will be over soon." The man with the knocking stick looked towards the tennis court, his eyes becoming dark. "I'll leave this to you. I'm leaving now."
The man with glasses and the hedgehog-haired guy nodded vigorously, then watched their companion leave as if they were looking at a hero.
…
Tokyo.
Jiang Xia returned home and opened the door.
After a long journey on the road, it is now dusk and it is almost time to set off for the port to prepare to board the Halloween cruise.
At the same time, at the Kudo residence nearby.
Several figures gathered here, without turning on the lights, discussing something furtively in low voices.
Suddenly noticing the movement outside, one of them came to the window, took a peek outside, and then exclaimed in surprise: "Little Jiangxia is back!"
"Keep your voice down!" Conan was startled and quickly pulled Kudo Yukiko back from the window. "What if Jiang Xia sees us and comes over to get involved?"
"I saw it, so I saw it." Kudo Yukiko muttered guiltily, then cleared her throat and said seriously, "Okay! Sit down quickly, I'll put on your makeup."
Beside him, Hattori Heiji yawned: "Such a big thing, and you only told me a day in advance. I rushed over without even finishing my homework..."
Conan was speechless at these two people who were not in tune with him: "Now is not the time to worry about whether there is homework or not."
"Don't be nervous." Hattori Heiji noticed that this mini detective was slightly different from the usual ones. "You refused to explain in detail on the phone, so now you can tell me, right? What exactly do you want me to do for you?"
Conan said with a serious expression: "Just yesterday, I received an invitation letter with 'Kudo Shinichi' written on the envelope and 'Conan' written on the heading.
"The sender calls herself Vermouth. She wants me to take the invitation tonight, board the Halloween cruise, and solve the mystery there. Judging from her wording, she plans to stage a murder there to threaten... or lure me over."
Hattori Heiji's breathing stopped when he heard this, and he couldn't help but raise his voice: "In other words, the fact that you shrunk has been exposed!? - Why didn't you tell me earlier! Then I could bring some people from Osaka, or let my dad contact the people in Tokyo to prevent them from capturing you for experiments. But..."
After a while of getting anxious, Hattori Heiji finally realized that something was wrong. He stared at Conan suspiciously: "Why haven't you been caught yet? And you used the word 'she', how do you know Vermouth is a woman?"
"What do you mean I haven't been caught yet? Can you say something auspicious?" Conan sighed: "Let me be frank. I have probably guessed Vermouth's identity. She is from our school..."
Hattori Heiji guessed based on the key words: "Teacher Judy?"
Conan: "Dr. Shinde."
"Ah?" Hattori Heiji was stunned, "But isn't he a man?"
Conan sorted out his recent gains and added a little inspiration: "This involves her other identity - Vermouth is likely to be able to change her appearance, and her true identity should be the foreign female star who disappeared recently, Chrissie Wynyard. At the same time, she is also her mother, Sharon Wynyard."
"..." Hearing this, Hattori Heiji's brain seemed to be working at full speed. As a brilliant detective, he hadn't experienced this kind of CPU burnout in a long time.
(End of this chapter)
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